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Just over a year ago Econsultancy and Marketing Week published a Modern Marketing Manifesto, an attempt to try and capture what should constitute marketing as we move further into the 21st century.
But only one of our twelve manifesto points, which we called 'Character', really addressed how we should work as marketers.
Not what the tools of marketing are but the skill set practitioners need to operate and work day to day.
As we struggle with the speed of change, the fragmentation of media, the demand for new skills, our attempts to create integrated marketing technology ecosystems and the 24/7 expectations of our customers, we have to create marketing operations and processes that can support all this.
As Ruth Mortimer wrote when introducing Marketing Week's Vision 100 list of future marketers:
It is becoming abundantly clear that marketing is such a rapidly evolving discipline that those who can't adapt will be left behind. Vision, translated into adaptability, is the currency that brands now desire above all others.
Agility and responsiveness to change will determine our ability to survive as marketers.
Cancer Research's agile marketing masterclass
I was impressed by the success Cancer Research UK achieved recently with #nomakeupselfie.
This was not a campaign it came up with, nor was it the only cancer charity to do well out of the initiative but it did manage to raise over £8m in six days from something that was unplanned and welled up out of social media.
The concept began with posts by women wearing no makeup, who nominated their friends to do the same, to raise awareness of breast cancer. Celebrities and brands like Virgin Atlantic got involved and it mushroomed.
What impresses me most about Cancer Research UK's reaction, apart from its deft handling of something that could risk looking like hijacking a meme to make money, was how quickly it did things.
- The team spotted the trend out of hours because it had the monitoring technology and team rota in place.
- It set up a text donation mechanic within a day because it saw the mobile opportunity.
- It started bidding on paid search to drive more traffic when its search data showed the charity the opportunity.
- It had the governance processes in place such that decisions could be made quickly.
- It rapidly brought the full power of all its social channels to bear.
The charity's tech systems and working practices coped well. It had, to a large degree, planned for the unplanned and been responsive and agile.
Would your marketing operation have fared as well?
Agile and technology
A key element of the manifesto is Technology. We know that marketing and technology are becoming closer and need to work together if businesses are to transform and the modern marketing we espouse is to be a reality.
As it happens the world of technology, specifically software development, has faced exactly the same challenges that we face in marketing in dealing with change and in being able to reprioritise and redeploy resources more quickly and effectively.
The response is called 'Agile software development'. I urge you to learn about it because I see no reason why it should not be applied to the way we need to work in marketing.
Indeed, I believe it should be applied to all areas of the business.
Just two examples from the world of agile software development: stand-up meetings and Kanban boards.
Stand-up meetings are daily meetings of the team where everyone has to stand up, to help keep the meeting short, and say what they did yesterday and what they are doing today.
It fosters accountability, transparency, and identifies blockages in productivity.
Kanban is a just-in-time business process originally from Japan and Kanban boards visualise workflow so you can see what is coming up, what is in progress, and what is done.
Cards, or sticky notes, can be moved to rapidly reprioritise work. Can you honestly say that you can see at a glance what your marketing team is working on, what they are doing next, and how work has been prioritised?
To thrive and to work more closely with the technology team, why not try running your marketing 'agile style'?
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I wholeheartedly agree with this article and the concept of Agile Marketing. It's a method that I've been using throughout my career, Kanban is completely underrated, especially for those outside of a project delivery process.
Agile is much more than just being ready to respond to the next big thing, or tweeting on the go, it's about your day-to-day management and workflows. I love it, personally.
I watched eConsultancy's CEO, Ashley Friedlein speak about Agile Marketing at the Adobe Summit this month and so much of what he spoke about rang true. It was a relief that our practices are being validated by people as senior as Ashley.
The company I work for, Valtech, wrote a book on Agile Marketing in 2012 with Adobe, "coining" the term on publication. While it may be a blatant plug, it would be worth reading in conjunction with the above article. http://www.valtech.co.uk/downloadfile/308/81 It's free!
Agile business is certainly a mindset that many companies are starting to incorporate. Some do it better than others but I think that is because it can be so case by case depending on your corporate culture.


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The artist recently took a moment to answer some of life's most—and possibly least—pressing questions.
What's your most vivid memory from childhood?
Receiving a metal motorboat made out of military meal cans, bought on a street somewhere in Korea; a gift from my father, returning from that war.
If you could ask one question to every person on Earth, what would it be?
Is joyfulness unbecoming?
What is your favorite film scene?
The cock crashing through the windowpane in Tarkovsky's The Mirror.
What's the last (or favorite) book you read?
On Bullfighting by A. L. Kennedy
If you could have any job/career, what would you choose?
Temporarily, I'd like to be a neuroscientist, studying fear.
What's your favorite place to people-watch?
The Medina Market in Accra, Ghana.
What are you obsessing about these days?
That we have only one president at a time.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
At the moment, I need a haircut.

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Gifts from Friends
I have a good friend who I have know for a long time who is moving out of state. To save moving costs, she decided to get rid of some of her things, and invited me to come over and see if there was anything I wanted to needed. Included in the group were a set of dinner plates that I absolutely loved, so she gave those to me, as well as a new cover for my couch, storage containers, some lovely glass bowls, stuff of the pantry, and two lovely green tomatoes someone had given her.
It's so unusual to be able to get green tomatoes, and when she asked me if I wanted them, I jumped for joy. I even had some left over bacon for them, and bacon fat that I had saved in the refrigerator. No, I don't save bacon fat just for green tomatoes, it's also great for flavoring home fries, and making mire poix. Yes, you can buy bacon flavoring, but it's usually salt with some flavoring in it – there's nothing like the real thing.
Recipe: Fried Green Tomatoes with Bacon
Summary: Make these in the spring with green tomatoes are available
- 4 small green tomatoes
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup flour
- 2 cups corn meal
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
- 2 tablespoons bacon fat
- 2 tablespoons mild vegetable oil
- 4 strips cooked bacon
- Good mayonnaise for garnish
- If do not already have left over bacon on hand, then cook about 6 slices of bacon until crisp, and reserve the fat and at least 2 strips of bacon. Eat the others!
- Slice the tomatoes in 1/4 inch slices and set aside. Sprinkle the salt on the tomatoes and let them rest while you get everything else ready.
- Have ready three shallow bowls, a cake rack, and a baking sheet with sides. Put the cake rack on the baking sheet and have it close to you.
- Mix the cornmeal, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, cayenne, and dry mustard together.
- Dredge each tomato slice in the flour, shake off excess and put on the cake rack.
- When you have finished dredging all the slices, take each one and dip it in the egg, then dredge it in the cornmeal mixture. Set aside on the cake rack.
- Have a thick bottom frying on the stove on medium heat. An iron skillet is the best choice. Move the baking sheet to a clear area on top of your stove.
- Put the bacon fat and oil into the pan and heat until the mixture starts to bubble, but not burn.
- Carefully place about 4 slices of tomato in the hot fat. Turn when you see the edge start to brown, about 3 minutes. Turn and cook on the other side, about 2 minutes, then remove to the cake rack to drain. Prepare the remaining slices the same way.
- To plate, make sure each serving has a tomato top and bottom, and two to three slices. Crumble the bacon over the slices, and drizzle mayonnaise over all.
Quick notes
A good iron skillet is a good idea for this recipe.
You can make this completely vegetarian if you fry the tomatoes in vegetable oil. You could make it vegan by using yogurt instead of egg.
Preparation time: 15 minute(s)
Cooking time: 15 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 4
Culinary tradition: USA (Southern)
Calories: 710
Fat: 28 grams
Protein: 24 grams
My rating
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Recipe by Adrienne Boswell.
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Wandy Rodriguez was scratched from his next scheduled start with what the Astros referred to Sunday as a mild case of shoulder tendinitis.
Rodriguez, who was to start Tuesday, went to trainer Nate Lucero with some soreness, and he will get treatment this week. He last pitched on Thursday against the Nationals, going his prescribed four innings.
"There's no sense pushing him, so we'll move it back and get him some treatment," general manager Ed Wade said. "We don't think it's anything of alarm."
While his place in the rotation had not been announced, he was slated for a start on opening weekend in Philadelphia, most likely in Game 2 on April 2, but that is up in the air if his tendinitis persists.
What was supposed to be a five-inning start on Tuesday will be filled by committee. Aneury Rodriguez remains a possibility as he was held to one inning in Sunday's split-squad game against Atlanta.
Rodriguez signed a three-year contract for at least $34 million guaranteed, encompassing what would have been his final arbitration year and first two of free agency with an option for 2014.
Untouchable tandem
Brad Mills won't stray from the most effective battery he had last season, committing to keeping Brett Myers and Humberto Quintero a tandem regardless of who the Astros' other catcher is.
"Myers did such a great job with Quintero last year, so that would be a definite," Mills said. "You can't argue with what Brett did last year, and it even picked up when we made the move with Q and Brett. I know he feels comfortable with it, and there's no reason to change it no matter who the other guy is."
While there is a confounding variable with Quintero's starts with Myers skewed late in the season, there was a noticeable difference across the statistical line. Myers had a 2.68 ERA in 17 games with Quintero, 3.08 in nine with Kevin Cash (now gone), 3.82 in five with J.R. Towles and 5.40 in three with Jason Castro, who is likely out for the year.


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Album: Toxicity
Released: September 4, 2001
Labels: Columbia
System of a Down, sometimes shortened to System and abbreviated as SOAD, is an Armenian-American heavy metal band from Glendale, California, formed in 1994. The band currently consists of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards), Daron Malakian (vocals, guitar), Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals) and John Dolmayan (drums).
The band achieved commercial success with the release of five studio albums, three of which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. System of a Down has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, and their song "B.Y.O.B." won the Best Hard Rock Performance of 2006. The group briefly disbanded in August 2006 and reunited in November 2010, embarking on a tour for the following three years. System of a Down has sold over 40 million records worldwide.
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Metallica's Kirk Hammett and Lars Ulrich are both hardcore System Of A Down fans. In Rolling Stone's 'Best Albums and Songs of the 2000s', Ulrich named "Toxicity" the second-best album of the decade and "Toxicity" and "B.Y.O.B." on the best songs list. Hammett named System's "Mesmerize" the second-best album of the decade and "Violent Pornography" the 16th-best song. At a November 2003 concert promoting "Steal This Album!", Hammett even joined SOAD onstage to play "Aerials," Toxicity's poignant centerpiece
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A tax break for executive stock options has saved 280 of the largest corporations an estimated $27.3 billion over the last three years, according to a new report.
The report, by the advocacy group Citizens for Tax Justice, found that in 2012 alone, the tax break cut income taxes at the Fortune 500 by $11.2 billion. Just 25 companies received more than half of the total excess stock option tax benefits that went to Fortune 500 corporations over the past three years.
Apple received 12 percent of the total excess stock option tax benefits during this period, garnering $3.2 billion in stock option tax breaks over the past three years. Over the past three years, Apple slashed its federal and state income taxes by 20 percent using this single tax break.
In 2012, Facebook wiped out its entire U.S. income tax liability by using excess stock option tax breaks. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil collectively enjoyed 10 percent of the total.
Corporate tax breaks have been provoking an increasing amount of controversy, with a committee in the British House of Commons publishing a report last Friday criticizing the Big Four accounting firms for encouraging clients to avoid taxes (see U.K. Parliament Blasts Accounting Firms' Role in Tax Avoidance).
In February, the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released a study pointing to wide disparities in the low tax rates paid by many multinational corporations compared to the taxes paid by individuals and small businesses (see OECD Calls for Curbs on Tax Avoidance by Multinationals).
Last week, at the Taxand Global Conference in New York, a high-ranking Treasury Department official discussed the growing controversy in the United Kingdom and other European countries over accusations of tax avoidance by Starbucks, Google, Amazon and other U.S.-based multinationals. Starbucks recently agreed to pay about 10 million pounds (or about $16 million) a year in taxes after coming under criticism for paying little in taxes last year, despite earning 398 million pounds in sales from its 700-plus stores in the U.K. The company only paid about 8.6 million pounds (or about $13.8 million) for the 14 years it has been doing business in the U.K. In part, Starbucks was able to lower its tax bill by shifting royalty payments to a unit in the Netherlands, The New York Times reported.
At the Taxand conference, Robert Stack, deputy secretary for international tax policy in the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy, noted, "Starbucks is a complicated question." He pointed out that U.K. Secretary of Business Vince Cable had looked into the matter and found that Starbucks wasn't making a large profit in the U.K.
However, Stack later acknowledged that it was important for the tax authorities to create regulations that can be fairly implemented. "I think that the onus is on us to write the rules that companies can live by and then companies can apply them," he said.
Earlier this month, another Treasury Department official addressed the subject of base erosion and profit shifting, also known as BEPS, at a KPMG-sponsored lecture on tax planning for U.S. inbound investment at the New York University School of Law. Danielle Rolfes, international tax counsel at the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy, pointed out that U.S.-based multinational corporations are not the only ones involved in BEPS. The OECD is engaged in a BEPS project in which the Treasury is involved, but Rolfes warned that it is important that the project not run afoul of "scope creep."
BEPS refers to the practice of multinational corporations shifting income to low- or no-tax jurisdictions. "From a U.S. perspective, a goal of BEPS is not to increase source-based taxation," she said. "There has been rhetoric from some suggesting that one easy way to resolve BEPS in this mobile economy is just to increase source-based taxation around the world. We don't think that's a principles-based approach, and most of the mechanisms imposed are actually doing that."
Rolfes noted that President Obama has proposed a framework for addressing the problem, as has House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich. She warned that governments are determined to make progress on the problem, and companies should not expect to see all of these tax breaks preserved.
"It is not helpful to have folks say that this aspect of the status quo is working, and frankly we don't have time for those meetings at this point," she said.
"Is BEPS really relevant to inbound [transactions]? We think it is relevant to inbound in the United States because we do think that foreign-based multinationals are stripping out of the United States, most simply through interest stripping, but I also suspect that some of the other pressure areas are very relevant to the United States," she added. "I will note that if you read foreign press stories, you would not get that impression. I have read stories in the German press indicating that it is a U.S. problem, and German companies do not engage in BEPS, that they can't. We have been very focused and I can assure you the [U.S.] government has been very focused in all of the fora in which we are engaged, including the OECD. This focus on U.S.-based multinationals is false, and it's not helping, and it won't help us achieve collective action on these things where we agree that collective action is needed.
"Similarly, we think that moralizing about BEPS is not helpful," Rolfes added. "The pressure areas that we've identified and the kinds of planning techniques that we've identified that cause BEPS are typically normal tax planning techniques that are perfectly legal. So it's the government's responsibility to set the laws and I think we can ask our companies to follow the laws. And there's been some notion of moralizing about companies paying their fair share, and I think that kind of skirts the responsibility to enact laws that ensure companies pay their fair share. Companies obviously have responsibilities to shareholders. But some of the moralizing has been downright funny."


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Celebrating the treasure trove that is Wellcome Collection, this beautifully illustrated souvenir guide traces the history of Henry Wellcome's collections and explores key themes in medicine, art and life from antiquity to the present day. The book features more than 200 images, as well as compelling commentary from Marek Kohn, "one of the best science writers we have" (Andrew Brown, the 'Guardian').
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from Wikipedia
Intrinsic Value
is an ethical and philosophic property.
It is the ethical or philosophic value that an object has "in itself" or "for its own sake", as an intrinsic property.
An object with intrinsic value may be regarded as an end or (in Kantian terminology) end-in-itself.
It is contrasted with instrumental value (or extrinsic value), the value of which depends on how much it
generates intrinsic value.
For an eudaemonist, happiness (human flourishing) has intrinsic value, while having a family may not have intrinsic
value, yet be instrumental, since it generates happiness.
Intrinsic value is a term employed in
axiology, the study of quality or value.
Axiology is the philosophical study of value.
It is either the collective term for ethics and aesthetics—philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions
of worth—or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics.
The term was first used by Paul Lapie, in 1902, and Eduard von Hartmann, in 1908.
Axiology studies mainly two kinds of values: ethics and aesthetics.
Ethics investigates the concepts of "right" and "good" in individual and social conduct.
Aesthetics studies the concepts of "beauty" and "harmony."
Formal axiology, the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor, is exemplified by
Robert S. Hartman's Science of Value.
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Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.
The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition or a joke)
or a physical object (such as an invention, a literary work or a painting).
Scholarly interest in creativity involves many definitions and concepts pertaining to a number of disciplines: psychology,
cognitive science, education, philosophy (particularly philosophy of science), technology, theology, sociology,
linguistics, business studies, songwriting, and economics, covering the relations between creativity and general
intelligence, mental and neurological processes, personality type and creative ability, creativity and mental health;
the potential for fostering creativity through education and training, especially as augmented by technology; and the
application of creative resources to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning.
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The Relationship Between Spirituality and Artistic Expression: Cultivating the Capacity for Imagining
By Christine Valters Paintner, Ph.D.
The heart of human identity is the capacity and desire for birthing. To be is to become
creative and bring forth the beautiful. John O'Donohue
In this article I explore the relationship between spirituality, creativity, and the arts, and
show that cultivating the arts as a spiritual practice is a path to freeing our imaginations
and developing valuable skills for vital living in the world.
Aesthetics, or the philosophy of art, is the study of beauty and taste.
It is about interpreting works of art and art movements or theories.
The term aesthetic is also used to designate a particular style, for example the "chess aesthetics", or the
"Japanese aesthetic".
As well as being applied to art, aesthetics can also be applied to cultural objects.
Aesthetic design principles include ornamentation, edge delineation, texture, flow, solemnity, symmetry, color,
granularity, the interaction of sunlight and shadows, transcendence, and harmony.
The word aesthetic is also an adjective and adverb relating to cosmetology and medicine, as in aesthetic
Also spelt æsthetics and esthetics, the word is derived from the Ancient Greek (aisthetikos, meaning
"esthetic, sensitive, sentient, pertaining to sense perception"), which in turn was derived from (aisthanomai,
meaning "I perceive, feel, sense").
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Artistic Expression
Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts – artworks,
expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.
In their most general form these activities include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the
history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art.
The oldest form of art are visual arts, which include creation of images or objects in fields including
sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.
Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however, like the decorative arts, it involves the creation of
objects where the practical considerations of use are essential—in a way that they usually are not in a painting, for
Music, theatre, film, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature and other media such as interactive media,
are included in a broader definition of art or the arts.
Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences.
In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and
distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative or applied arts.
Art may be characterized in terms of mimesis (its representation of reality), expression, communication of emotion, or
other qualities.
During the Romantic period, art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and
Though the definition of what constitutes art is disputed and has changed over time, general descriptions mention an idea
of imaginative or technical skill stemming from human agency and creation.
The nature of art, and related concepts such as creativity and interpretation, are explored in a branch of
philosophy known as aesthetics.
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Causality (also referred to as causation, or cause and effect) is the agency or efficacy that connects
one process (the cause) with another (the effect), where the first is understood to be partly responsible for the
and the second is dependent on the first.
In general, a process has many causes, which are said to be causal factors for it, and all lie in its past.
An effect can in turn be a cause of many other effects, which all lie in its future.
Causality is an abstraction that indicates how the world progresses, so basic a concept that it is more apt
as an explanation of other concepts of progression than as something to be explained by others more basic.
The concept is like those of agency and efficacy.
For this reason, a leap of intuition may be needed to grasp it.
Accordingly, causality is built into the conceptual structure of ordinary language.
In Aristotelian philosophy, the word 'cause' is also used to mean 'explanation' or 'answer to a why
question', including Aristotle's material, formal, efficient, and final "causes"; then the "cause" is the explanans
for the explanandum.
In this case, failure to recognize that different kinds of "cause" are being considered can lead to futile
Of Aristotle's four explanatory modes, the one nearest to the concerns of the present article is the
"efficient" one.
The topic remains a staple in contemporary philosophy.
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. estimated daily unique view(which is maybe the most important factor). Estimated daily unique visitors count is trying to be estimated with several sources like Alexa, Compete, Google Ad Planner etc... It is not %100 correct but with our tests it is very proximate for most of the websites. Unique user count is a common way of measuring the popularity of a website and is often used by potential advertisers or investors.
. appraisal daily pageview,
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. alexa rank. Alexa is one of the most common website tracker. It measures sites traffic and compares all other websites traffic. It helps webmasters and advertisers to see the true marketing potential of website. Unfortunately it doesn't give always correct values because of manipulations. But it is still the most trustable tracker. And without alexa rank values it is hard to estimate a domain worth.
. domain google pagerank. Google pagerank is one of the most determining factor for a website quality today. And getting a high PR value is not an easy task. It requires lots of quality work. So Google pagerank value is an important factor for site price worth calculation. PageRank affects the number of pages of a website that get indexed by Google. So basically if you want more visitors with getting more pages indexed you have to increase PageRank.
. search engines google,yahoo and bing index status. The more pages that search engines index, the better. Search engines access websites to crawl site content and index some of the pages to their databases. They may be don't index all the pages you have, mostly index pages with quality and unique content. So Indexing is one of the hardest factor if you have a big website, so we believe that search engine visibility is very important calculating the website value. If you have lots of pages indexed means that your website has a lot possibility visited by my more visitors.
. domain age(which is important ranking factor for search engines). Domain age is an important SEO factor for search engines rankings because search engines use it for calculation trust and authority. Another thing is that spammers register and drop domains quickly, so spamming sites usually have newly registered domain names. But indexing of the site is more important from domain age.
. social media visibility, share count of your site on social media shows that your website has quality content(facebook, twitter, google+),
. backlink count(backlinks mean that links count that point to your website from other websites and it's like a popularity rating for your website. google,yahoo,bing,alexa and total external backlink count. Low but quality backlinks are better than high but poor quality backlinks. So this value has a lower impact in our site price calculation algorithm. Backlinks are very related with Google pagerank so we believe that PR value is more important from backlink count.)
We use public traffic ranking data, search engine stats, social engagement data, ad revenue estimates and other criteria to estimate the value of any website.
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While we realize that no online website value calculator | estimator | checker (or even human) can with 100% accuracy estimate your website value without having access to your site logs, analytics and true ad revenue data, we have created a valuation algorithm that we feel is fairly accurate for the majority of websites on the internet.
Our website value calculator does not calculate the business value behind the domain. Example, if you have an ecommerce site with $10M in sales, our algorithm would have no way of knowing that.
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We use the following data as input to a fairly complex algorithm to reasonably calculate the value of a website:
. Alexa Rank
. Estimated number of yearly visitors
. Estimated Ad Revenue (real or potential)
. Search Engine Stats (Google, Yahoo and Bing)
. Backlinks (Google and Alexa)
. Moz Domain and Page Authority Score
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There are several factors that determine the website valuation price. These include age of the website, domain authority, SEO analysis, traffic Rank, social media interaction, website content and many other factors. These factors are considered when calculating the estimate of how much the website is worth. The website calculator tool provides a value of what it thinks the site is worth on the open market, and gives you an estimated website appraisal.
How do you increase your website worth? We get this question all the time. Of course you have to increase your site revenue but you can also do other things to help improve your website value. If you look at your site details on our website you will notice that we look at several important details such as Website Speed, Bounce Rate, Domain Authority, Hosting, and Social Media influence. Your website has to load fast in today's internet and that starts from your hosting provider. We have analyzed hundreds of hosting companies and we have compiled a list of the Best Hosting sites to help you choose the right host. You can check your website speed score on our details page and see if your site loads fast. Your goal should be to have your site load at least at 80/100 range. You also have to contact your hosting company and see what kind of hosting plan you have. Are you on a shared host? Are you limited in bandwidth? These factors can slow down your website and affect your SEO rankings. Google values sites that load fast so that users can get a pleasant experience.
One of the biggest misconceptions about technology is that it stands in the way of happiness.
Most of us enjoy the benefits bestowed by ubiquitous connectivity, stay attached to loved ones far away via
social media, and avail of
time management/shared workspace/presentation apps that help us shine in our
professional and personal lives.
Yet, did you know that technology can also make us happier by enhancing our spirituality?
Spirituality is a wider concept than religion, since it can be deeply personal and encompass anything
that makes us feel like part of the greater life force that unites all sentient things.
It is only in the past decade that a plethora of studies have been carried out into the
link between spirituality and mental wellbeing,
with findings almost universally showing that people who make time for
spiritual pursuits, are, indeed, happier.
Some studies have looked into organized religion (finding that the sense of community it provides can
help buffer life's vicissitudes) while others focus just on spirituality.
All conclude that the biggest obstacles we have to face are carried with greater ease when we feel that our
lives have meaning and purpose.
These days, being more spiritual is as much about attending a religious service, as it is about doing
yoga or mindfulness meditation – two spiritual pursuits which studies have shown boost our mental health in
powerful ways, by reducing levels of stress hormone, cortisol, and increasing vitality and positive mood.
Others enjoy more esoteric arts such as
tarot reading which can improve mental health by helping us
rely on intuition, and using symbols to help us connect with, analyze, and organize our thoughts and emotions.
Some practices
work more directly on energy, such as Reiki, which uses the hands to help unblock energy to
enhance our health.
Being as busy as we are, it helps to have aids that can lead us into 'higher ground' more quickly.
Some of the most popular aids we can avail of include:
We have mentioned just a few ways that technology can help lead us into the calm, happy state in which
spirituality can play an important role, but there are many more ways you can use technology to enhance
Whether you use apps and devices to stay fit, keep up with friends or enjoy a
yoga session in your own backyard,
make sure they enable you to be a happier person whose life has richer meaning.
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Lord Addington: My Lords, I wish to speak to the amendment which stands in the name of my noble friend Lady Robson. Unfortunately my noble friend is not able to be present due to ill health. I offer, too, the apologies of my noble friend Lord Tope who is unable to be present due to important business meetings.
The amendment effectively states that members of the board should have a working knowledge of their subject. In many other fields I have sought to argue that one should have expertise on a subject because one is then able to respond to information given. One may well miss the issues upon which advice is needed because one cannot spot them. The position is that simple. If one knows one's subject well, one is able to call for more advice where it is required.
The amendment does not state that we should not be able to call for advice from others outside the health authority. It merely provides that those members of the authority should know where to start looking for such advice. I fully support the amendment.
Lord Elton: My Lords, I have a certain sense of déjo vu. I have lost count over the years of the Bills on which I have assisted which create some body with statutory powers. We go into almost a ritual dance about who shall be members of that body. We start by listing all the people who should be members. We then come to the conclusion that the number of members is finite; and we remember that some desirable people will not be members of the body. We remind ourselves of the old rule, expressio unius, exclusio alterius, which means that if you name six people who ought to be members of the body, the suggestion is that the other 83 people ought not to be on it. Remembering that, we decide not to have names. We then normally go back to the original position: that the body shall be described by its functions and not by its components.
The noble Baroness has put forward an ingenious half-way house. I ask the Government to consider the amendment with a little care. Although she has done a great deal to avoid offending sensibilities such as those I have already described, she has made it justiciable. It seems to me that if her amendment were put on the face of the Bill, it would be open to anyone who wished to impede progress, or who was hostile to the general principle of the health authorities, to go to court and argue that the requirements had not been fulfilled. As to whether or not the requirements were fulfilled would take a great deal of argument. There seems merit in ensuring that such a body is composed in a way which enables it to fulfil its function properly. I should have thought that the way to achieve that is to give an undertaking from the Dispatch Box in a speech during which my noble friend courteously dismisses the amendment, and the noble Baroness opposite courteously accepts that assurance.
Baroness Cumberlege: My Lords, for my part I shall take that good advice. However, saving my noble friend's sorry sense of déjo vu, we feel that professional membership is an important issue and one on which feelings run high.
As I said during Committee stage, I agree that professionals including GPs, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, art therapists and psychotherapists, psychologists, dieticians, health visitors, midwives, optometrists, radiographers, scientists, biochemists, geneticists, researchers, paramedics, chiropodists and podiatrists, to name but a few, have a vital contribution to make to the decisions of health authorities. I am sure that many health authorities will have members with professional experience, whether in primary care, in the acute sector, or in community care. Everyone who is suitably qualified will be welcome to apply for appointment, provided there is no conflict of interest.
However, professional input and advice are much broader than the relatively narrow professional contribution which one or two members can provide. My list illustrates the point of how difficult it is when so many professionals are involved in a single service. Of course, on a personal basis, such members can bring extremely valuable qualities; but we feel that that is no substitute for broader professional involvement.
The draft guidelines, Professional Involvement in Health Authority Work, referred to by the noble Baroness, were circulated widely to the professions and the NHS. They show other ways in which health authorities will be expected to involve professionals. For example, some authorities have already established multi-disciplinary teams with responsibility for reviewing, planning and purchasing certain services. Others have commissioned reviews of priority services such as mental health from teams involving professionals from both primary and secondary care. Of course, all health authorities will employ professionalsnurses, for example, in senior positionswho will ensure that health authority work is informed by professional views, without necessarily being members of the health authority.
There are many other ways for professionals to be involved. The guidelines talk in detail of how professional involvement can be made effective without being prescriptive on the arrangements health authorities should put in place. So health authorities can adapt the suggested models to suit their individual needs.
As the noble Baroness, Lady Jay, said, the Government made clear how seriously they take the issue by tabling an amendment in another place. The amendment adds force to the draft guidelines by requiring health authorities to make arrangements to ensure that nursing and other professional advice is available to them. It leaves in no doubt the importance of professional involvement. My honourable friend the Minister for Health made clear in another place that any authority that did not seek professional advice or did not listen to it when it was volunteered would not be complying with its statutory duty.
In conclusion, we do not believe that the amendment is necessary. I am fully confident that the close monitoring of professional involvement planned by the regional offices will ensure that health authorities involve professionals across the range of their work. I hope that the noble Baroness will feel able to withdraw the amendment.
Baroness Jay of Paddington: My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply and particularly for her emphasis once again that the Government and the National Health Service Executive appreciate the importance of professional involvement in health authorities. I am glad that they are prepared to be firm in their monitoring of that involvement, as is seen in the guidelines.
I am not sure that my Latin is quite up to translating it precisely, but I am also grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Elton, for giving me the instant phrase for the discussions which we had at such great length in Committee. I wish that he had been here to interject the phrase.
However, I am still anxious about the point. The draft guidelines from the Department of Health describe the professional involvement as seen by the department as essential, with which I agree. If it is intended to encompass the many functions of the health authoritiesas I hope the brief list which I gave from the draft guidelines suggeststhat cannot necessarily be accomplished simply by relying on advice. Unfortunately, the noble Baroness, Lady Gardner of Parkes, is not in her place. She said in Committee that there is a great difference between being consulted and being a member of an executive board.
For those reasons and since I, like the Minister, feel that it is absolutely essential that professional guidance be involved in health authority work in the future, I feel that I must test the opinion of the House. I commend the amendment.
On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 2) shall be agreed to?
Their Lordships divided: Contents, 78; Not-Contents, 118.
Resolved in the negative, and amendment disagreed to accordingly.
4.12 p.m.
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Evaluations of Country Strategies - An Overview of Experiences and a Proposal for Shaping Future Country Programme Evaluations
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The study summarises experiences from country strategy or country programme evaluations. It looks at the possibility of applying such experiences on Swedish development cooperation in the light of recent changes in aid ideology and practice and discusses what alternatives there are for overall assessment of aid effectiveness. Obviously many organisations find it worthwhile to carry out country programme evaluations but ambitions about causes and effects are kept at a modest level. A question raised in the study is why the recipient countries so far show little interest in such evaluations which could help them to make strategic decisions about development assistance and about comparative advantages for different forms for transfer of resources.


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Amazon Crash Lesson: Innovate but Verify
While the federal government continues its efforts to expand into cloud and innovative technologies, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) crash of last week reminds us of the need to "innovate but verify" as we move to the next realm of technologies.
Today, Amazon issued a 5,700 word explanation of went wrong. The verdict -- the crash was "caused by several root causes interacting with one another." In other words, things didn't work right. A quick lowdown in twitter-esque wording of what happened on April 21:
- Amazon tries to upgrade capacity in northern Virginia regional network storage, traffic rerouted
- Oops. Goes to backup instead of main network
- Too much traffic, causes clogging and cutoff
- Amazon fixes but storage area tries to back up data
- "Re-mirroring storm" equals dreaded computer "hourglass of doom," we all know
- Chaos spreads
- Affected users get 10 free days
Amazon is now assessing the EC2 structure, saying "this event has taught us that we must make further investments" to realize a better design goal.
In the end, sometimes a crash means having to say you're sorry. The lesson for the government: Innovation demands that "new" technology be tested and verified to truly be cutting edge and a trusted tool in government-citizen interactions.


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Jeff Austin & Friends Adds Another Date to Colorado Run
Jeff Austin in the moment. Photo by Chris Paul
Yonder Mountain String Band mandolin player Jeff Austin has confirmed another solo show. Austin will perform at Rollinsville, CO's The Trackside Tavern at The Stage Stop on March 14. The incarnation of Jeff Austin & Friends for this show will feature Eric Thorin, Danny Barnes and Wayne Gottstine.
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Saturday, March 29, 2003
pizza crisis
it's true -- my flour order from king arthur has been mysteriously delayed. normally, you order on monday, it arrives friday. no sweat.
but without flour, the sunday pizza tradition here at bccy seems imperiled. will ups come through this afternoon?
mr. right gazes at the sidewalk anxiously. . .
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Friday, March 28, 2003
roastin' n grindin'!
and today finds a nice plain-english overview of coffee roasting.
but i think the article of the day is this one on the ritual of the morning espresso, kindly sent along by a bccy regular. however, i am going to disagree with it in an important respect: grinding your fresh beans is crucial for the perfect cup.
while as the author says, the italians do have grinding to science, pre-ground coffee is stale by the time you buy it from the store and make a cup the next day. real snobs argue that coffee begins to noticeably lose some of its delicious aroma as little as 4 minutes after grinding.
grinding your own isn't difficult; all it takes is a quality grinder and a little practice. you don't have to freak out and buy a mazzer, as i have done (altho' i highly recommend the mazzer mini!); there are more affordable grinders that will do.
but if nothing else, do try the article's recipe for chocolate-covered espresso beans. . .
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Thursday, March 27, 2003
chocolate fish, human swimming
an amusing article in the new york times on the intricacies of molding chocolate for easter. the writer discovers that it's not really as easy as jacques torres makes it look!
but at least the author meets (log your own bad selves in: use bccy1 in both fields) the important category of so-called decorators or confectioners chocolate.
and since swimming's the theme, we can't overlook olympic athlete ian thorpe, an australian who's determined to take a world championship prize. again. to help him do so, he's added yoga to his training routine.
the article quotes the australian team's coach: "it's very easy when you're at that level to sit back and, the next thing you know, the rest of the world is passing you by. they're trying to do things to take his swimming to a new level."
ok, swimfans. i guess we'll see if yoga takes thorpe over the top at the world contest in barcelona in july. . . .
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Wednesday, March 26, 2003
buy shoes, get lattes
so-called "affiliate" credit cards have long been a factor in the u.s.a. get a special card with a logo for some cause or organization and get a donation to the charity based on what you charge, or for airline affiliate cards, get frequent flier miles.
with this in mind, starbucks is beginning an affiliate card all its own. "in addition to allowing customers to charge purchases as usual, customers will receive a rebate based on their monthly spending -- which is automatically credited to their card for buying lattes, coffee beans and other products at starbucks stores."
this is a stroke of brilliance, much better than their current pre-paid card system, i think.
on another note, anti-yoga articles like this mystify me. the author clearly confuses yoga with hinduism; she does not see -- and her yoga instructor didn't seem to mention -- that any connection you may feel with any divinity while doing yoga is a personal connection with your own "still small voice" inside. whoever (or not) that may be for you.
if the author had just found yoga boring, hey, that's different. . .i mean, the yoga teacher isn't forcing durga or anything upon you. to feel, as the author does, that touching your toes and doing basically some push-ups is leading her to worship the sun seems rather to me like saying, "well, if i pray with a string of beads, i must be catholic."
when in fact several religions use beads as part of the personal prayer ritual. it's not the beads per se that make you one religion or another, but what or to whom you're praying. . .how you've directed yourself, not the outward form alone. . .
this continual confusion of yoga with hinduism is becoming a problem, i think. many under-educated yoga teachers mistakenly foster this association. we can't deny that yoga came to us in the west from an indian cultural context. but that doesn't mean it is inseparable from that context. yoga really is for everyone.
i wish more yoga authorities would speak clearly about yoga's pre-hindu roots, as professor of indology georg feuerstein has done. yoga is merely a means to consolidate your own authentic harmony, whatever that may be.
for the christian, that could be the experience of jesus. indeed, christian yoga is still a popular topic on amazon (here and here).
clearly yoga and christianity are not in some kind of struggle or opposition. for, as any student of st. theresa of avila, hildegard von bingen, or other classic christian mystic will tell you, the experiences of christian mysticism and those often attributed to yoga are often in alignment.
as st. theresa said: "christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours; yours are the eyes through which christ's compassion looks out on the world, yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good and yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now."
if you are christian, it seems to me that a meditative yoga practice would only serve to intensify your personal emotional experience of st. theresa's insight.
likewise, hildegard wrote: "the body is the garment of the soul and it is the soul which gives life to the voice. that's why the body must raise its voice in harmony with the soul for the praise of god . . . . for all the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that god sent into the human body."
thus a breath-focused yoga practice, with chanting and poses performed as moving meditation, would seem truly in the spirit of both these christian women. . .
but hey, even if buddha, oshun, or planck's constant speak more clearly to your heart, there's still a yoga practice you can create for your own benefit. . .
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Tuesday, March 25, 2003
creamy goodness, or climbing everest with pranayama
the slitti 62% lattenero arrived today. . .and it is a marvel of a dark milk chocolate, something rare here in these united states!
i had feared it would be similar to the flyer chocolate i've mentioned before. . but no. the slitti has an intense semi-sweet chocolate flavor reminiscient of say a 58%, but with an ultra-creamy mouthfeel really not so far from valrhona's le lacte, tho' of course the slitti has its own unique flavor. you could live on this stuff.
even tho' the milk seems to cut down on the dark chocolate intensity, i think this lattenero's an amazing milk chocolate. and i dislike milk chocolate a lot. . .the bar qualities are fine -- nice finish, clean break, loud snap, no grittiness, a light and dreamy aroma. just all good.
the downside is that the packaging might expose the bar to too much light, and it's hard to re-seal securely. so i'm sorry to say you have to eat the whole thing at one sitting. you and someone you really like.
long-time readers know that all kinds of pro players -- even in such interesting sports as snooker and poker -- are into yoga. now comes news that a daredevil irishman seeking to climb the difficult north side of everest without oxygen has turned to yoga as well.
he says he intends to use yogic breathing (pranayama) and concentration to aid him in this dangerous quest. (remember, people die attempting everest.) "ive been training flat out, practicing deep breathing and yoga, terrence bannon says. "there is a real psychological element to it and you have to be prepared for it.
it's clear that bannon is one intense guy. all you can do is wish his expedition, which leaves in april, good luck. personally, i was skeptical that pranayama was going to be much help when it comes to such endeavors.
however, a noted yoga teacher told me that similar things have been done before -- he noted that several deep-diving records have been set (and here with picture of pipin ferraras in my favorite yoga pose, astavakrasana, or folded in 8 places) without oxygen.
the divers intensely practice yogic breathing as part of the training. it seems all so-called free-divers practice pranayama and yoga seriously.
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Monday, March 24, 2003
lemme briefly deviate -- sort of -- to the subject of pasta. long-time readers know i ordered an attachment for my much-beloved kitchen aid stand mixer to roll out and cut pasta. and they might remember that there's a small problem with those metal flakes. . .
anyway, today i ordered from king arthur flour two interesting pasta item in my quest to finally banish those darn metal flakes and get going on the object of this quest, spinach cannelloni.
first, i decided to try their pasta blend flour instead of just using the durum flour or my italian 00 flour. and second -- although i may regret this -- on the advice of a person with much pasta experience, i also ordered their all-natural spinach essence. since as this expert said, "the spinach will drive you to suicide."
ok! that's a piece of advice i'll try to profit from. hopefully there'll be time next weekend to crank through the metal flakes and get this long-delayed pasta project re-started. i hope to attempt spinach cannelloni with a ricotta-swiss-chard filling flecked with prosciutto. . .
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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: BATH HOUSE SOUTH EAST OF BRADSHAW HOUSE
List entry Number: 1107874
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District: Cheshire East
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Congleton
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SJ 86 SE (South Side) Cole Hill Bank
Bath House south-east SP/676 of Bradshaw House
2. Bath House circa 1820 with minor late C19 addition. Red brick in English Garden Wall Bond with pyramid hipped slate roof. 2 storeys, 1-bay, square plan. On the east side two stone steps lead down to the bath chamber entrance door. This is oak boarded with three ogee moulded bands, hung on strap hinges to a heavy beaded oak frame. There is a gauged skewback arch over the door and a flush sash window with exposed weight boxes and glazing bars at first floor level. The south side is fronted by a flight of five stone steps and a quarter space landing with plain metal balustrade and segmental handrail. This leads to a room above the bath which has the remains of a boarded and part glazed door hung to a heavy oak frame with skewback gauged arch above. A small opening, with splayed stone reveals, below the landing looks into the bath chamber. At the RH (east) side of the steps there is an added porch-like structure with flat stone slab roof and small side window with stone sill and stop chamfered stone lintel. The west elevation has a chimney breast taking up one-third of its width and projecting one brick. There is a sash at first floor level in the north side. The roof is of large slates with hip tiles, there is a raised lead covered vent at the apex and there was formely a cast iron gutter on drive-in-stays with shaped brackets. Interior: A 3 metre square bath of dressed stone flanked south and east by narrow areas of natural stone paving. Six stone steps lead down to the bottom of the bath. The floor above had chamfered oak beams and oak joists with the remains of a lath and plaster ceiling. At first floor level the fireplaces opening in the chimney breast is blocked. There is a torus moulded skirting; dado rail and the remains of wall plaster. The roof is supported by a single King Post truss, without struts, which takes the hip rafters. There are purlins, oak rafters and ceiling joists and the remains of a plastered ceiling.
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Adorable yet acerbic paper goods.
Nowvember is handmade on my sofa, my kitchen table, my cluttered desk, and any other horizontal surface I can find. I package orders before I leave for work in the morning, and often embroider until the wee hours after I come home at night. My designs are generally born out of anything that makes me chuckle, though I have a special fondness for pairing acerbic humor with adorable kitties and unicorns.
I've been making my own stationery since I first heard of "pen pals," and this shop is the natural evolution of a lifelong love of paper goods. My processes are self-taught and, I'll admit, a little antiquated. I hand-cut all of my stickers and appliques and embroider all of my cards and notebooks by hand. My poor boyfriend is always trying to teach me to use Photoshop. Also, he always has bits of embroidery floss in his beard. Somebody should give him a medal.
You can read more about me and the stuff I make here:
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Born and raised in the Great American Midwest, I made my way to Portland, Oregon nearly a decade ago with two pieces of furniture and my entire lifelong collection of stickers, postcards, and fancy envelopes.
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Everything here is handmade by Lisa Riddle (that's me) with piercing devotion in my pet and smoke (and fun) free home. I can be reached here through Etsy, or e-mailed at lriddle880 [!at] yahoo.com with any questions or special requests.
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Our resale store is a wonderful way to shop for new and gently used items while supporting the Humane Society of Monroe County. Our store features household items, collectibles, furniture, books, sports and leisure, jewelry, kid stuff, pet items and so much more! We also have many new items and logo wear!
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You can now raise funds for the Humane Society of Monroe County just by using your Kroger Plus Card when you shop at Kroger. Just click on the Kroger card above, click the "sign in/register" hyperlink in the upper right hand side of the screen, then click "sign up today" on the right side of your screen. You will need the number on the back of your Kroger card to sign up. Once you have signed up, you then can search the Humane Society of Monroe County as your chosen designated charity.
Our address will show as P.O. Box 1457, Monroe, Mich. Now, every time you shop, you will be helping us earn a donation at no extra cost to you! Note: Registration has to be by the internet. You can no longer scan our barcode at the registers or service desk.
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CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court sentenced a police officer to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for torturing an ultraconservative Muslim to death, a rare lengthy prison term for a policeman convicted of abuse.
The Criminal Court in Alexandria found Osama el-Kounayassi guilty of using torture to extract confessions from el-Sayed Belal, a member of the Salafi trend in the port city whom police accused of involvement in a suicide bombing at a Coptic Christian church over two years ago.
He is the second officer in the same case to receive a 15-year sentence. El-Kounayassi had previously been convicted in absentia, but then won a retrial.
Torture was a key grievance in the popular revolt that ousted Egypt's longtime authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak. But even after the uprising, most torture cases end up with the police either being acquitted or receiving light sentences
The case of Belal, a bearded young man, was one of two extreme cases of brutality that galvanized public anger shortly before the revolution.
The first one was the death of Khaled Said, also from Alexandria, who was beaten to death by two police officers in June 2010. His name became a rallying call for the uprising. "We are all Khaled Said" was the name of the Facebook group that helped organize the early protests.
The brutal death of Said, a 28-year-old middle class small businessman, particularly alarmed many Egyptians who viewed torture victims as political activists or people with a criminal background. The circumstances behind his killing are not fully clear.
But rights organizations say that the Islamist groups to which Belal belonged, as well as families whom the police considered habitual criminals, often bore the brunt of abuses during the Mubarak era by police who were under pressure to produce suspects for high-profile cases.
Belal was arrested along with other suspects in the aftermath of the bombing on Jan. 1, 2011, when at least 21 worshippers were killed while leaving a New Year's Eve mass in Alexandria.
Ahmed el-Mashaly, a Salafi lawyer who says he was arrested and tortured alongside Belal, said that el-Kounayassi told the suspects, "You will carry this case, either dead or alive."
The detainees were known to the notorious State Security investigations department — disbanded after the revolution— as they had been arrested several times during the last decade over their links to other Salafis who joined or tried to join the insurgency in Iraq.
"We were the usual suspects. We were the easiest scapegoats and if any disaster happens, eyes immediately fall on us," he said over the phone from Alexandria.
"For 40 days, we were subjected to long sessions of torture. Several officers, not one, took turns in electrocuting, beating, hanging us like sheep as though we were being roasted, blindfolded and handcuffed all the time," el-Mashaly said.
One day, Belal was brought back to the cell after a full day of torture, el-Mashaly said. "The moment he sat, he fell on the ground and I heard the rattle of death," he said.
El-Kounayassi's lawyer, Anis al-Manawi, argued during the case that the witness accounts contradicted each other. He said his client was not guilty.
El-Mashaly said there is still a strong possibility that el-Kounayassi and his fellow officer could overturn their cases on appeal. He said accused police's colleagues and prosecutors often do a sloppy job investigating such cases, leaving many loopholes.
Karim Ennarah, a researcher on police reform at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, agreed it was likely that the verdict would be overturned on appeal. But he said it still gave a strong message that police can be held accountable for their acts.
"Whatever happens next, whether the verdict will be overturned or not... the verdict can remake the relationship between the judiciary and the police and (establish) that police officers can be imprisoned," he said.
Meanwhile, a Cairo court continued its inquiry into another case involving the security forces — the discovery of shredded documents in State Security's headquarters when it was stormed by protesters during the 2011 uprising.
Egypt's Defense Minister and army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi gave testimony in the case, according to a lawyer who provided details of the closed proceedings. El-Sissi's statement did not shed light on the shredding of the documents but it was a rare case of a top army officer being summoned for an inquiry.
The lawyer spoke anonymously as he was not authorized to discuss briefings.