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Organizations likely don’t see One Today as all that helpful in terms of raising any sort of significant funds – the app, live since April and more broadly launched this July, ahead of Google’s “official” announcement today, has somewhere between 10,000 and 50,000 downloads, according to Google Play. The app even goes so far as to limit those who want to give more than $1, explaining via its FAQ: “Individually, you can only donate $1 per project per day. However, if you want to donate more, you can challenge your friends to match your donations.” By challenge, they mean post to social media and spread the word.
In addition, Google charges a 1.9 percent payment processing fee, meaning that a nonprofit gets $9.81 for every $10 donated.
In other words, this isn’t really a big money-raising app, it’s a social promotion tool for non-profits. The real trick here is that, as noted above, One Today allows users to share their donations across email and social media channels like Google+ and Twitter, where users can offer to match their friends’ donations up to a certain limit. This gives non-profits a way to market themselves across social media, without having to create then manage campaigns more directly. Essentially, they can take 10 minutes to apply for a listing on One Today, and then raise awareness about who they are and what they do with folks who will do the tweeting for them.
Longer-term, it’s probably optimistic to think that a majority of people would get into a habit around the daily giving of a dollar a day, but that’s the marketing technique popularized by Sally Struthers and the Christian Children’s Fund (“for the price of just a cup of coffee a day, you can save a life.”). Of course, the charity she spoke for didn’t get users to commit only a dollar, it broke down the annual donation into what sounded like a manageable amount for the purpose of a soundbite.
That being said, One Today certainly serves as useful tool to learn more about the kind of non-profits and charities that are out there and in need of help. But if you really want to do some good in the world, feel free to whip out your checkbook and write a big one to folks like Pencils of Promise, WWF, DirectRelief, Unicef and others. Then feel free to tweet about it after, if you want.
LG has started sending out press invites for the G6 unveiling to take place on February 26, ahead of MWC 2017.
LG G6 will succeed the G5, which was unveiled at MWC 2016.
LG has started sending out press invites for the G6 unveiling to take place on February 26, a day ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The invite shows fireworks at night sky over a lake, along with the caption: “See More, Play More”.
LG reportedly told ZDNet the invite has a 18:9 ratio, basically the screen ratio of the G6. LG Display, the company’s display arm, announced earlier this month the G6 will have a 5.7-inch 1440 x 2880 Quad HD+ LCD panel. The screen will be the first of its kind to come with an ultra wide 18:9 ratio and has a 541 ppi, making it super sharp and delivering “immersive viewing experience”.
It looks like the G6 will be unlike its predecessor and may not have a modular design. A report from South Korea’s Electronics Times claims LG is doing away with its modular approach for the G6. The Wall Street Journal also reported the company will be “scaling back the molecularity” for the G6.
There have been reports suggesting the G6 to be waterproof. Based on several leaks, the highly anticipated smartphone might come with a Snapdragon 835 processor, 4GB RAM, 128GB of internal storage, dual rear cameras, and a big battery. LG recently published a video titled “a wish list for the ideal smartphone”where LG referred to one major feature of the smartphone “capture it all once”. This could be a hint at the Iris scanner on the front side of the phone.
LG G6 will succeed the G5, which was unveiled at MWC 2016. The company failed to create any magic with the G5; the device was the first smartphone adopting the modular design in true sense. It featured a range of accessories (or “LG Friends”) and a removable battery; however, LG’s experiment misfired owing to mixed reviews and more importantly, the unavailability of the G5’s modules.
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Panasonic have just announced their yearly earnings, and they aren't very good at all: a record $9.7 billion net loss for 2011. Not good at all. Incoming president, Kazuhiro Tsuga's first job it seems is to turn around the company's TV division.
Panasonic have hefty investments in both plasma and LCD manufacturing, which resulted in the losses. Panasonic expects a better year for 2012, where they predict they'll actually sell less, with numbers deflating from 17.3 million last year, to 15.5 million.
Large screen OLED HDTV production is something both LG and Samsung are smashing into right now, with Panasonic set to follow. Outgoing president, Fumio Ohtsubo mentioned they would look for a partner there. Hopefully 2012 is a better year for Panasonic!
John W Campbell is a name that any SF fan should remember. He is widely considered one of the giants of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. While he is not a famous author, he was the editor in chief of Analog SF Magazine. He held this post from late 1937 until his death in 1971.
Today’s free eBook was only recently uploaded to the Internet Archive, and the original paper copy came from my personal library. It’s a collection of the editorials that Campbell wrote in most of the issues of Analog. But it’s not a complete set, just the ones that were selected by Harry Harrison.
This book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding that period of SF history, and even the history of the US. It is also a fascinating read simply because Campbell is an excellent writer.
The eBook is available as a PDF of scanned pages as well as Epub, Kindle, and other text files that had been converted from the scanned pages.
So, 1983 was the last time that Brighton & Hove Albion took on Aston Villa in the league; however the last occasion when the two teams met was in the Midlands in the FA Cup in 2010.
It’s a day I remember very well indeed. A chilly afternoon in January but it’s not just about the weather. Ultimately the Seagulls were beaten that day by three goals to two but showed huge courage and were still in the game after Tommy Elphick had pulled a goal back for them.
It looks as if Elphick will not start against Chris Hughton’s team tonight but he is a player and a character that the club can be very proud of.
He made nearly 200 appearances in white and blue (and other colours!) scoring nine goals, but it is Elphick the person that shines through.
The Albion are enjoying success right now but it was not always that way. It was the central defender from Woodingdean who was often wheeled out after defeats to face the media.
Honest, articulate and determined, he has always spoken well and I’m delighted that he has continued his career, after a bad injury, at both Bournemouth and Villa.
He was also thrust in front of the camera lens during the move to Falmer and explained what it meant to local people in this new stadium.
Tommy has dipped his toe in the water when it comes to punditry already and after appearing on TV, I can certainly see him enjoying a fruitful career in the studio if he decides to go down that route after he retires (plenty of time before that, though!).
The defender also has a keen interest in racing and can sometimes be seen at some racecourses across Sussex and the rest of the country during the year.
He has never offered me a winning tip yet but I look forward to shaking his hand on his return to the south coast.
Once again, we have seen a few headlines in the press this week about footballers’ off-the-field antics but Elphick is one of the good guys. A leader and a gentleman.
Tonight should be a cracker but here’s a note for the diary. The last game of the season pits the Seagulls once again against Villa in the midlands. It could be a day to remember for both teams.
What Happened to Harvard Squash?
Plenty of people remember Jack Barnaby, and his Harry Parker-like (crew, anyone?) dominance in the world of college squash. Harvard was the New York Yankees of the hardball game: omnipotent, talented jerks. "They'd send 20 people out to a road match," recalls Trinity College coach Paul Assaiante, "win all 90 games and make you feel bad about having even shown up at all."
Then came Assaiante's incredible 202-victory run at Trinity, and the two schools had a healthy rivalry. Now Princeton, Yale, Penn, Cornell and Rochester can beat Harvard on any given day. Wait a minute—Rochester? Cornell? Suddenly Harvard is losing to schools that its nose-in-the-air-players couldn't find on a map. When I told my friend, Boston Globe sportswriter and perfervid Harvard alum John Powers, that the Crimson lost to Cornell this year, his reaction was swift and immediate: "Cornell! In my day, we sent the second team up there to play them."
The heat is on. The squash world, which resembles nothing so much a small cocktail party where everyone has just returned from a fabulous, exotic destination (New Zealand!), is abuzz about the fate of "Baj," Satinder Bajwa, the 53 year-old Harvard coach who will be starting his eleventh season this fall. This past season's record, 7-6 overall, was particularly unimpressive and ended with a 9-0 shellacking by Trinity. We are hearing the drumbeat of hooves from Harvard's moneyed, entitled alumni. Baj is said to be on a very short leash, and successors' names are already being bruited.
Baj has heard the hoofbeats, too. "It's only natural," he said during an hour long chat at the Barnaby Courts. "If Trinity didn't win for the next five years, their coach would be in trouble, too. We're going through a very competitive time and we're trying to find our feet. Our women's team narrowly missed the championship this year, and I have no doubt that the men will be back at that level very soon. This challenge is nourishing to me."
Harvard has fallen badly behind in recruiting, which makes no sense, because a Harvard diploma still counts for plenty. Baj says in any given year there are only three to five must-have players ascending from the American prep school system, and no one school gets them all. Now the playing field is worldwide, and coaches like Assaiante, who started assembling his Model U.N. at Trinity over a decade ago, Scotland-born champion Martin Heath at Rochester, and former New Zealand champions Mark and Julee Devoy at Cornell are proving adept at luring talent to their schools. One of Baj's rivals says he is a good on-court coach, but clearly not sharp at the recruiting game.
Baj says he is traveling a lot more than he used to, and working deeper into the complex process of admitting foreign students to Harvard. As one example, he explains that he has to get 11th graders or 16 year olds overseas focused on taking the SAT test, something they might not have taken as seriously in the past. "It's an important part of the admissions puzzle that they have to start thinking about early."
I've never had a problem with Baj, but my experience is not universal. One coach told me that Baj went out of his way to piss off Trinity at a famous 2005 confrontation on the Harvard courts. That's not how I remember it. I heard Baj's "welcoming" speech to Assaiante's team and it wasn't bulletin board material. (The man retailing the anti-Baj anecdote hadn't heard the speech, just the legend.) Yes, it was a little condescending maybe, but I chalked some of that up to cross-cultural riptides—Baj was educated in the U.K.—and some to Harvard being Harvard.
Whatever the case, Baj asked me to call Assaiante, who confirms that the two men have buried the hatchet. "I decided to make my peace with Baj," Assaiainte says." Over the last year or 18 months he and I have been operating with a different level of mutual respect." Squash trivia mavens know that both Assaiante and Baj coached at West Point, albeit at different times.
For understandable reasons, Baj wants to emphasize the future, pointing out that it takes only two recruiting classes to turn a squash team into a champion, or, in Harvard's case, back into a champion. "It's a new decade for me and we are going to be doing new things," he told me. "There is light at the end of the tunnel."
"I could have been without a job," Wakefield said of the uncertain period between Lovely's departure and the appointment decision. "I don't have to worry about that; now I can get back to work."
Wakefield said he plans to run for the position in the August primary and the November general elections. "If I win that, the term will carry through 2004," he said. Unabashed about his qualifications, Wakefield said, "I really feel it was a good choice naturally. I'll take the opportunity to say I've done a good job. I feel I'm fair. I have the ability to deal with the public and the deputies, interdepartmental problems, mediation and I'm familiar with budget and grant work." He continued, "The citizens of Crawford County are paramount. I have great compassion for my job and the public I represent. I take pride in my job and I want everybody who works with me to take pride in their jobs as well."
A Vietnam veteran with 23 years of total law enforcement experience, Wakefield graduated from Central Michigan University's Law Enforcement Executive Leadership Institute and the Undersheriff School of the Michigan Sheriff's Association. He also has a supervisory certificate from the Michigan State Police and an Eastern Michigan University Incident Command Certificate. He has been with the Crawford County Sheriff Dept. for 14 years.
The Military Tribunal issued on Thursday arrest warrants against 17 Lebanese on charges of belonging to the Islamic State extremist group.
Judge Fadi Sawan issued the warrants against the suspects, six of whom are in custody.
The charges include belonging to the IS for the aim of carrying out terrorist activity, fighting the army in the northern city of Tripoli, murdering and the attempted murder of soldiers, and trying to travel to Syria through Tripoli Port to fight alongside the IS in the neighboring country.
They are also accused of creating sectarian incitement.
If convicted, the suspects could face the death penalty.
Sawan has since referred their case to the permanent military court.
Send them directly to Hell where they belong.
still whining? HA is a resistance, your da3eshits are terrorists. get over it.
lol calling me a "kuffar"? That's amusing! And shows what i already knew: you're a takfiri, just like da3eshits.
As for your silly comparison it's not even worth an answer, every sane person can see that HA and da3esh are worlds appart, in thoughts and deeds. It's only you who can't see it because you're too biased takfiri fanboy.
Back to you baseless accusation eh? What a waste of time & oxygen you are.
superb counter argument and comeback, flamethrower. you should do more of these one-liners and show us your blazing intellect more often.
HA Jihadists think they are different from IS Jihadists, or they would like the rest of us to believe so - howe lame.
For every Sunni Jihadist (IS) caught there are 100 not caught. And for every Sunni Jihadist (IS) caught there are 1000 Shiite Jihadist (HA) roaming our streets with impunity. The LAF will have a rough road ahead if they were to eradicate both groups.
UNITED NATIONS (REUTERS) - Russia told Britain at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday (April 5) that "you're playing with fire and you'll be sorry" over its accusations that Moscow was to blame for poisoning a former Russian spy and his daughter.
It was the second showdown between Russia and Britain at the world body since the March 4 nerve agent attack on Mr Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in an English town. Russia, which requested Thursday's council meeting, denies any involvement.
He suggested that anyone who watched television crime shows like Britain's Midsomer Murders would know "hundreds of clever ways to kill someone" to illustrate the "risky and dangerous"nature of the method Britain says was used to target Mr Skripal.
British police believe a nerve agent was left on the front door of the Salisbury home where Mr Skripal lived after he was freed in a spy swap. He was a military intelligence colonel who betrayed dozens of Russian agents to Britain's MI6 spy service.
"We believe that the UK's actions stand up to any scrutiny," British UN Ambassador Karen Pierce told the Security Council. "We have nothing to hide... but I do fear that Russia might have something to fear."
At the global chemical weapons watchdog on Wednesday, Russia called for a joint inquiry into the poisoning of the Skripals, but lost a vote on the measure.
"Allowing Russian scientists into an investigation where they are the most likely perpetrators of the crime in Salisbury would be like Scotland Yard inviting in Professor Moriarty," Ms Pierce told reporters earlier on Thursday, citing a character from "Sherlock Holmes".
At the end of the council meeting, Mr Nebenzia read a passage from the novel "Alice in Wonderland" about a trial where the Queen demands the sentence first and the verdict afterward.
"Does that remind you of anything?" he added.
Ms Pierce responded: "There is another very good quote from Alice in Wonderland which is: 'sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast', so I think that's the quote the suits my Russian colleague best."
A state ranger on gull patrol at the Wachusett Reservoir accidentally injured his hand when a weapon malfunctioned.
A state police spokesman said Monday the incident, which was reported to Clinton police at 5:06 p.m. Saturday as an accidental shooting, is still under investigation.
The rangers, part of the state Department of Watershed Protection, routinely use such tactics as firing blanks to scare gulls away from the reservoir as a method of decreasing contamination from their droppings. The reservoir is the public drinking water supply for Clinton and most of metropolitan Boston. The water is filtered, and chlorine is added.
The spokesman said two rangers were in a boat on the reservoir when a gun apparently misfired, and a ranger suffered a hand injury. An ambulance was called, according to the Clinton police log. The ranger�s name was not released.
Threatened with a lawsuit, selectmen and other town officials agreed to grant a 60-day temporary liquor license to the Polish American Veterans club, provided conditions spelled out by the building inspector and fire chief are followed.
As part of the agreement, the club will be allowed to hold scheduled New Year�s Eve and Super Bowl parties, as long as firefighter details are hired at the club at 292 Green St.
Police are investigating a man�s claim that he was jumped and stabbed by a group of men.
Sgt. Glenn C. Fossa said police were called to the emergency room at UMass Memorial � HealthAlliance Leominster Hospital last week to speak to a man being treated for stab wounds. The man told police he had been jumped by four to six males after leaving a party on Walnut Street and was robbed of his wallet and cellular phone. The man told police he would not be able to identify the men even if they were taken into custody, Sgt. Fossa said. The alleged assault occurred about 5:30 a.m., according to the man, who had wounds to his arms and had a small puncture wound in his upper left chest, police said.
Nearly 40 nonprofit leaders turned out to share their ideas on how to improve the quality of life in the greater Gardner region, according to information from the Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts, the primary sponsor of the forum. One of four regional meetings, it was held at the Levi Heywood Memorial Library.
According to foundation President Phil Grzewinski, the six-year-old entity, which has approximately $16 million in assets, will gather input from all of the forums and share it with its board and the attendees.
�The purpose of these forums is to spark creative ideas to improve the quality of life,� he said.
Not only did nonprofit leaders get to express their opinions, but Maxyne Schneider from the Gardner-based House of Peace and Education received a $2,500 �Managing for Excellence Award� from the foundation.
Mr. Grzewinski said the purpose of the award is to promote capacity building for organizations that have taken advantage of the Nonprofit Institute at Mount Wachusett Community College, which was created in 2003 after a similar series of forums.
The Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts serves the charitable interest of donors in the region.
The technology bond request by the Quabbin Regional School District will go to a vote in town.
�I think it�s a wonderful project, but we can�t afford it tacked on to our school assessment,� said Selectman Kristie Casey.
Selectmen decided to hold the election for the technology bond at the same time as the state primaries. Voters will have to sign in twice to vote in both elections. If the technology bond is turned down at the election, the vote will have to be confirmed at a special town meeting Feb. 12.
The principal amount for the technology bond would be $1,588,000 split between all of the district towns. The bond would finance technology infrastructure, improvements and hardware for the school district. Ms. Casey said the way the bond is structured, the member towns will not have to pay until two years into the program.
Selectmen also decided to rebid in the spring or summer the needed work on the back-up boiler at the Center School. The original bids came in over the $20,000 approved by taxpayers.
The back-up boiler can be used if needed, but because of leaks, a maintenance person has to be there to mop up the water.
�We will hold the 20K already approved by voters for the boiler, then go out for two bids, one to repair the current boiler and the other to replace the whole thing. Then at town meeting in June we will ask townspeople to authorize the difference,� Ms. Casey said.
Selectmen will also ask the school district to come up with an emergency plan if the new boiler breaks down and the back-up boiler needs to be used.
The Massachusetts Municipal Association has announced that the town won second place in the statewide 2007 annual town report contest.
�We all sat down with Dunn & Co. in early January to develop and design an annual report that would be distinctive to Lancaster. I�m very excited and pleased at the outcome,� said Town Administrator Orlando Pacheco. He especially credited the dedication of Town Clerk Sue Thompson.
Each city and town in Massachusetts is required to publish an annual town report for residents.
The association solicited entries from the 351 cities and towns and received 70 entries in the summer. They were judged by Charles Lyons, a former selectman from Arlington, and Michael O�Sullivan, a former appropriations committee member from Lexington, according to Jackie LeGrand, a Massachusetts Municipal Association legislative division assistant.
The entries were categorized by population, and Lancaster won second place in the second division.
The search for a new superintendent of schools has gone public. Residents are being asked to fill out a survey, a one-page document asking what the public believes are important qualities in a new superintendent.
The survey has been divided into two main categories. The first section asks what three issues are considered most important for a new superintendent to address. There are 10 areas from which to choose; they range from the candidate�s abilities related to collective bargaining and staff relations to adequacy of facility management and professional development.
The second part of the survey provides 20 descriptions from which survey takers are asked to select the five they believe are most important. Strong budget skills, works well with the School Committee, the ability to develop and meet district goals and honesty and trustworthiness are among the choices.

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