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|Web address
|Type of site
|Blog hosting (the name also refers to the eponymous blogging software)
|Available in
|32 languages
|Content license
|LiveJournal, Inc. (San Francisco,United States)[2][3] / SUP Media
(100% shares; Moscow, Russia)
|Created by
|Brad Fitzpatrick
|Alexa rank
|135 (April 2014)[4]
|Current status
LiveJournal (LJ), or Zhivoy Zhurnal (Живой Журнал) / ZheZhe (ЖЖ) in Russia,[5] is a social networking service where Internetusers can keep a blog, journal or diary,[6] and is also the name of the free and open source[7] server software which runs the LiveJournal website and online community. A wide variety of political pundits also use the service for political commentary, particularly in Russia,[5] where it partners with the online newspaper Gazeta.ru. As with many other social networks, a wide variety of public figures use the network.
LiveJournal was started on April 15, 1999 by American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities.[8] In January 2005, blogging software company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated LiveJournal, from Fitzpatrick. Six Apart sold LiveJournal to Russian media company SUP Media in 2007, but continued to develop the site by the San Francisco-based company LiveJournal, Inc.[9] In January 2009 LiveJournal laid off some employees and moved product development and design functions to Russia.[10][11]
- 1 Features
- 2 Community
- 3 Content
- 4 Notable LiveJournals and users
- 5 History
- 6 Controversies and criticism
- 7 Legal cases and censorship
- 8 Other sites running the LiveJournal engine
- 9 See also
- 10 References
- 11 External links
The unit of social networking on LiveJournal is quaternary (with four possible states of connection between one user and another). Two users can have no relationship, they can list each other as friends mutually, or either can "friend" the other without reciprocation. On LiveJournal, "friend" is also used as a verb to describe listing someone as a friend.
The term "friend" on LiveJournal is mostly a technical term; however, because the term "friend" is emotionally loaded for many people, there have been discussions in such LiveJournal communities as lj_dev[12] and lj_biz,[13] as well as suggestions[14] about whether the term should be used in this way; this conflict is discussed in greater detail below.
A user's list of friends (friends list, often shortened to flist) will often include several communities and RSS feeds in addition to individual users. Generally, "friending" allows the friends of a user to read protected entries and causes the friends' entries to appear on the user's "friends page." Friends can also be grouped together in "friends groups," allowing for more complex behavior in both of these features.
- Features common to all accounts
- Each journal entry has its own web page, which includes the comments left by other users. In addition, each user has a journal page, which shows all of his or her most recent journal entries, along with links to the comment pages.
- The most distinctive feature of LiveJournal is the "friends list," which gives the site a strong social aspect in addition to the blog services. The friends list provides varioussyndication and privacy services as described below. Each user has a friends page, which collects the most recent journal entries of the people on his or her friends list.
- LiveJournal allows users to customize their accounts in several ways. The S2 programming language allows journal templates to be modified by members. Users may upload graphical avatars, or "userpics," which appear next to the username in prominent areas as it would on an Internet forum. Paid account holders are given full access to S2 management and more userpics, as well as other features.
- Each user also has a "User Info" page, which contains a variety of data including contact information, a biography, images (linked from off-site sources) and lists of friends, interests, communities and even schools which the user has attended in the past or is currently attending.
- Currently LiveJournal has five account levels: basic (comprising approximately 95% of the network); plus (sponsored with more advertising); "early adopters" who were registered prior to 14 September 2000;[15] paid and permanent. Permanent accounts are normally not available to the "average user;" there have been occasional sale days or special offers, but such sales are not guaranteed in the future. Prior to March 12, 2008, "basic" accounts were ad-free; in August, 2008, LiveJournal resumed new basic account creation but changed that account level to display ads to non-logged-in readers.[16] Basic users also see advertising, but not on other "basic" journals.
- Paid account features
- Sending Text Messages[17] – users can receive text messages sent via LiveJournal without sharing their phone number. If the text messaging feature is set up, anyone (or any authorized user) can use LiveJournal to send text messages to the cellular phone by following a link on your User Info page.
- "To-do list" feature[18] – LiveJournal offers "to-do list" for managing users goals and aims. Users can have 150 to-do list items. Each to-do list item must have a subject, priority, details and descriptions, status, percent done, due date and categories field.
- "Express Lane"[19] – users with paid accounts have access to express lanes, that make pages load faster. When logged into your Paid or Permanent Account during times of heavy site load, your requests for LiveJournal pages are sent to the web servers before other users' requests.
- "Voice Post"[20] – members with paid accounts can call from any phone to a specific number, record the audio and upload it directly to their journal.
- "Extra storage space"[21] – implies that users can store more Scrapbook photos and voice posts. Photos and voice posts that have been uploaded there are very easy to include in the log entry.
User interaction[edit]
Currently, LiveJournal in the United States has 10 million monthly uniques, 30 million monthly visitors, and 170 million pageviews.[22] As with most weblogs, people can comment on each other's journal entries and create a message board-style thread of comments – each comment can be replied to individually, starting a new thread. All users, including non-paying users, can set various options for comments: they can instruct the software to only accept comments from those on their friends list or block anonymous comments (meaning only LiveJournal users can comment on their posts). They can also screen various types of comments before they are displayed, or disable commenting entirely. Users can also have replies sent directly to their registered e-mail address.
In addition, LiveJournal acts as host to group journals, dubbed "communities" (frequently abbreviated as comms). Anyone who joins a community can make posts to it as they would on a regular journal; communities also have "maintainers", ordinary users who run the community and oversee membership and moderation.
LiveJournal Community[edit]
LiveJournal community is a collective blog in which different users can post messages. Users who are interested in a particular subject can find or create a community for this subject. All the users of the communities are divided into:
- Owners[23] who are supervising the community and capable to use all administrative functions that are available for managing the community.
- Maintainers[24] usually use their own user accounts to supervise a community, control its settings and Community Info, perform some administrative functions.
- Moderators[25] can approve or reject messages left by participants, add existing records label or tags, approve requests to join a community, hide and freeze comments.
- Members[26] can see the community's members-only entries. For Communities with fewer than 500 members, the entire Members list will be displayed on a Community Info page.
- Watchers[27] can assign permissions, allow entry into the community, delete posts (messages) or hide comments on posts.
Some areas of LiveJournal rely heavily on user contributions and volunteer efforts.[28] In particular, the LiveJournal Support area is run almost entirely by unpaid volunteers. Similarly, the website is translated into other languages by volunteers, although this effort is running down due to a perceived lack of involvement from the LiveJournal administration.
The development of the LiveJournal software has seen extensive volunteer involvement in the past. In February and March 2003, there was even an effort, nicknamed the Bazaar, to boost volunteer performance by offering money in return for "wanted" enhancements or improvements.[29] The Bazaar was intended to follow a regular monthly pay-out scheme, but it ended up paying out only once, after which it was neglected without a word from the management until about one year later when it was shut down.
Nowadays, voluntary contributions to the software are considered for inclusion less and less as the company has acquired more and more paid employees who focus on the organization's commercial interests. This has led to the formation of several forks, many of which introduce new features that users would like to see at LiveJournal, especially features that are brought up repeatedly in LiveJournal's own suggestions journal.[30]
In some cases legal and administrative concerns have led LiveJournal to prohibit some people from volunteering.
As of November 2012, 39,663,771 accounts exist on LiveJournal, with 1,790,795 listed as "active in some way."[31] Of those users who provided their date of birth, the majority were in the 17–25 age group, with an exceptionally large group of 32-year-olds. Among the users specifying their gender in their profile, 45% of those accounts identified as male, and 55% as female. 20% of accounts did not specify a gender.[32]
LiveJournal is most popular in English-speaking countries (although there is a language selection feature), and the United States has by far the most LiveJournal users among users who choose to list a location. There is also a sizable Russian contingent. LiveJournal is the largest online community on the Runet, with about 45% of all entries in the Russian blogosphere.[33] According to Alexa Internet 50% of LiveJournal's audience is located in Russia.[4]
Mascot: Frank the Goat[edit]
Frank the Goat is LiveJournal's mascot. During the early years of the site, Frank was treated like an actual living being by much of the LiveJournal userbase, and his brief "biography" as well as his "journal" reflect this.[34][35]
Sometimes, callers to LiveJournal's Voice Post service are informed "Frank the Goat appreciates your call." This occurs randomly.[36]
A weekly comic about Frank, written and drawn by cartoonist Ryan Estrada, is updated every Thursday on the "Frank: The Comic Strip" community on LiveJournal. As of July 2009 the community has roughly 8,000 members, and is watched by more than 7,000 LiveJournal users.[37]
Beginning at the end of January 2010, LiveJournal's weekly news posts included references to Frank's life,[38] becoming works of short fiction at the end of February.[39] These pieces are often tied to weekly virtual gift promotions, where commenters that meet a certain criterion will receive a free v-gift sent by Frank.
LiveJournal provides an option intended to reduce the chances of search engines indexing a journal; however, the only way to make it completely impossible for such indexing to occur is to set the entry security to "friends only" or higher when first posting the entry. If an entry is first posted publicly, and then edited to reflect a higher security level, it may have already been indexed by a search engine in the time between the security edit. The popular "friends only" security option,[40] which has since been adopted by Xanga andMySpace, hides a post from the general public so that only those on the user's friends list can read it. Some users keep all their posts friends-only (except for a single post explaining that the journal is friends-only). Still, such features as tags and userpics cannot be hidden. LiveJournal also allows users to create custom user groups within their group of friends to further restrict who can read any particular post, and to allow easy reading of subsets of a user's friends list.
LiveJournal additionally has a "private" security option which allows users to make a post that only the poster can read, thus making their LiveJournal a private diary rather than a blog. It is also possible to choose a default security setting for one's journal, so that all entries are posted at that security level by default even if one forgets to alter the security setting at the time of posting.
Users may restrict who can comment on their posts in addition to who has the ability to read their posts. Comments on a given entry may be allowed from anyone who can read the entry or restricted. Commenting may be restricted by disabling commenting altogether or by screening comments.[41] Screened comments are visible only to the original posters until the journal owner approves the comment. These restrictions can be applied to just anonymous users, users who aren't listed as a friend, or everyone. The IP address of commenters can be logged as well if the journal owner wishes to enable it.
An option allows users to hide their 'friend of' list from public view, but leaves the list visible to the user. In this case, only the friends list is shown. When 'friend of' is allowed, journal accounts who have friended the user and who are also friended are listed in neither 'friend of' nor 'friend', but rather a third category, 'mutual friends'. This was eventually made a separate option, like the 'friend of' list, and reworded so that the lists would have to be selected to include them in a profile, rather than to select an option to remove them.
LiveJournal lists that users can hide communities from their profile page by not friending them (friended communities are 'watched') and by either banning the community from posting in their journal (which has no effect since they cannot anyway, but does remove them from the 'member of' list) or by removing the 'friend of' list, which removes the 'member of' list in addition to the 'friend of' list.
LiveJournal allows paid account users to change privacy settings on past entries in bulk. Basic and plus accounts do not have an official web-based method, and normally must manually change such settings one by one; some third party clients, such as Livejournal Visibility Changer,[42] provide this functionality for non-Paid users.
Communities can also be private, with moderated or closed membership, when community holders give users different level of access to the content, based on the information about the user.[43]
Adult content[edit]
While LiveJournal permits adult-oriented content, it is a user's responsibility to mark content as inappropriate for minors. There are two types of adult content:[44]
- Adult concepts: This rating applies to content that is not explicitly graphic, but may contain things that are of a mature nature and could be inappropriate for anyone under the age of 14 years old.
- Explicit adult: This rating applies to graphic and explicit content (depicting nudity, sexuality, violence in images and language) that is appropriate only for adults, and is not suitable for viewers under the age of 18 years old.
It is important to note that in speaking of adult material, it does not convey in any way that this content is considered obscene, in the legal definition of the term. Such content should be marked in order to be shown only to users whose birth dates on their user information page indicate that they are over the age of 18. At the same time the user itself can set own preferences in viewing adult content settings in order not to receive such materials. All users are defaulted to Moderate Filtering in the Safe Search Filter, but can change this option.
It is written in the LiveJournal rules that if the content is reported as being offensive or inappropriate, LiveJournal has the right to flag, restrict access, or delete it at any time without notice.[45]
Notable LiveJournals and users[edit]
Oh No They Didn't![edit]
Oh No They Didn't, also known as ONTD, is the most popular[46] community on LiveJournal, with over 100,000 members.[47][48] The community is centered around celebrity gossip, and most of its posts are taken and sourced from other gossip blogs.
In the end of January 2009, Oh No They Didn't! was the first LiveJournal to surpass 16,777,216 comments (224), effectively breaking LiveJournal's previously undocumented limit on comments.[49][50] This resulted in almost a week of downtime for the community, while LiveJournal worked to fix the issue.
In April 2010, the Oh No They Didn't community was moved to its own database cluster to improve site performance for all users, due to its size and the amount of traffic it was receiving.[51]
Founding and eventual sale to Six Apart[edit]
|This section requires expansionwith: LiveJournal's history prior to 2005. (May 2014)
LiveJournal's parent company, Danga Interactive, was initially formed and held entirely by Brad Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick sold the company to Six Apart in 2005. Rumors of the impending sale were first reported by Business 2.0 journalist Om Malik in January, 2005.[52] Fitzpatrick confirmed the sale, and insisted the site's core principles would not be discarded by the new ownership.[53]
In August 2007, Fitzpatrick left to work for Google.[54][55][56] He continued to serve on the Advisory Board of LiveJournal, Inc until it was retired in June 2010.[57][58]
Sale to SUP Media[edit]
LiveJournal became extremely popular in Russia. The Russian translation of LiveJournal – ЖЖ (ZheZhe, which stands for Живой Журнал) – has become a genericized trademark for blogging in Russia, and the community boasts something close to 700,000 Russian LiveJournals, perhaps 300,000 of them active.[59]
Six Apart licenced the Livejournal brand to the Russian company SUP Media in August 2006.[59] The deal was brokered with the assistance of founder Brad Fitzpatrick. However, expatriated Russians have expressed concerns, citing links between the company and state security. Some have also worried that SUP's purchasing of the community was less to make a profit and more to curtail or even dissolve the strong independent Russian blogging community, silencing dissent the government found inconvenient.[59] These concerns started with the licensing deal, and have grown with the announcement of the sale.
LiveJournal was sold to SUP Media in December 2007.[60][61]
Anton Nosik, an advisor to SUP Media, has not reacted favourably to criticism by site users. In an interview given in March 2008, he accused LiveJournal users of "trying to scare and blackmail us, threatening to destroy our business," and stated that a large class of users have as their only purpose bringing harm to LiveJournal and its owners; "their goal is to criticize, destabilize and ruin our reputation." In the interview, he predicted that his likely reaction to such pressure would be to retaliate against the users rather than bowing to their pressure.[62]
Launch of LiveJournal Inc[edit]
Following SUP Media's acquisition of LiveJournal, SUP announced that the service would be run by LiveJournal Inc.; this newly launched company is based in San Francisco and continues to run the site under US law.
Global expansion[edit]
Following LiveJournal's acquisition SUP Media identified three international markets (Singapore, the UK and India) which it hoped to support the services growth and seed new communities. LiveJournal recently launched new communities in India and has undertaken a reach-out programme with bloggers in Singapore. On June 8, 2011, it was announced that[63] LiveJournal will launch local start-pages across South-East Asia and India catering to the large community the site has built here. It appointed local Singapore digital publisher Tickled Media to run the LiveJournal service in the region.
Controversies and criticism[edit]
Invite system[edit]
From September 2, 2001, until December 12, 2003, the growth of LiveJournal was checked by an "invite code" system. This curbing of membership was necessitated by a rate of growth faster than the server architecture could handle. New users were required to either obtain an invite code from an existing user or buy a paid account (which reverted to a free account at the expiration of the period of time paid for). The invite code system serendipitously reduced abuse on the site by deterring people from creating multiple throw-away accounts. The invite code system was lifted after a number of major improvements to the overall site architecture.
Elimination of the invite code system was met with mixed feelings and some opposition. LiveJournal's management pointed out that the invite code system was always intended to be temporary.[64]
The word "friend"[edit]
The dual usage of "friend" as those whose journals one reads, and those one trusts to read one's own journal, has been criticized for being at odds with everyday use of the term. The individual users on a user's friends list may contain a mixture of people met through real world friendships, online friendships and general interests, as well as courtesyfriendships where a user has "friended" someone who friended them. A friends list may represent something entirely unrelated to social relationships, such as a reading list, a collection or a puzzle.[65]
The difference between online and real-world friendships is sometimes a source of conflict, hurt feelings, and other misunderstandings. LiveJournal friendships are not necessarily mutual; any user can befriend or "defriend" any other user at any time.[66]
In the Russian LiveJournal community, the word френд ("friend", an English borrowing) is often used to describe this relationship instead of the native Russian word "друг" ("droog") that translates to "friend".
The Dreamwidth code fork of LiveJournal has split the 'friend' concept into its two component pieces of subscription and access.[67]
Abuse Prevention Team decisions[edit]
As LiveJournal has grown, it has had to deal with issues involving the content it hosts. Like most web logging hosts, it has adopted a basic Terms of Service.[68] The Terms of Service simultaneously expresses a desire for free speech by the users while outlining impermissible conduct such as spamming, copyright violation, harassment, etc. LiveJournal created an Abuse Prevention Team and processes to handle claims about violations of the Terms of Service, violations of copyright, violations of the law, and other issues. There is an ability for a user to report an entry as "spam", and it is a user's responsibility to separate spamming and bot activity from actual violations while reporting.[69]
If the Abuse Prevention Team determines that a violation has occurred, the user will be either required to remove the infringing material (as in the case of copyright violations);[68]the journal will be suspended until such time as the material can be removed (e.g., posting of home addresses or other various contact information of another); or, in cases of severe or multiple violations, the journal will be suspended (e.g., account hijacking, multiple instances of copyright violation, child pornography).[68] The offending user is notified by email of any journal suspension or, if any offending material must be removed, the user is given a deadline for its removal. When a journal is suspended, it effectively removes from sight everything the user has written on LiveJournal, including comments in other people's journals; however, the user is able to download the material while suspended. Those suspended users who have paid for LiveJournal's service do not have payments refunded.
A small controversy arose in November 2004 when a policy document used by the Abuse Prevention Team was leaked to a group of its critics before it was due to be released. The policy document has since been officially released.[70]
Another controversy arose when users complained after an unknown number of users were asked to remove default user pictures containing images of breast feeding that were considered inappropriate as they contained a view of nipples or areolae.[71] The incident attracted the attention of breast feeding advocacy groups such as Pro-Mom[72] who publicized the issue to gain larger media awareness. LiveJournal responded by changing the FAQ on appropriate content for default user pictures. The current FAQ 111 says that nudity is not appropriate in default user pictures; the original FAQ 111 said that graphic sexual content was not appropriate. Breastfeeding pictures were not restricted by the original FAQ, and the current FAQ reflects the fact that they are only restricted from use as a default user picture.[73] It should be noted that breastfeeding pictures are still allowed as user pictures that may be manually chosen while posting but may not be the default.
Account vulnerabilities[edit]
In January 2006 the site had to make emergency changes to the way the site hosts user accounts due to a web browser-side security vulnerability. The hacker group responsible was later identified as "Bantown". Approximately 900,000 accounts were at risk.[74]
LiveJournal and advertisements[edit]
In April 2006, LiveJournal announced[75] it was introducing a new user type that gave free users some of the features available to paid members in exchange for ad sponsorship. This user type was initially called Sponsored+, but was later renamed to Plus.
This announcement was met with a whirlwind of controversy. Between April 2004 and January 2005, one of LiveJournal's Social Contract promises stated the site would, "Stay advertisement free." The Social Contract went on to say, "It may be because it's one of our biggest pet peeves, or it may be because they don't garner a lot of money, but nonetheless, we promise to never offer advertising space in our service or on our pages."[76]
Another ad-related controversy occurred in June 2006, when ads for Kpremium began installing malware and triggering pop-up ads on Australian and Western European users' computers,[77] against the LiveJournal ad guidelines.[78] LiveJournal responded by removing the advertisement from the website and issuing an apology to its users.[77]
In March 2008, LiveJournal discontinued the ability for new users to select the "basic" level of journal, which allowed for a minimal set of features with no advertising at no cost.[16]However, in August of the same year, the company reversed the decision, reviving "basic" service as a manual, post-registration downgrade. However, the resumed basic service level is no longer ad-free: advertisements are displayed when readers who are not logged into livejournal view postings on a basic account.[79]
Advertisement in LiveJournal is based on the user's preferable categories, gender, age, location, interests, or a small portion of public page contents. Ads are targeted according to information about the author, the viewer, and LiveJournal's ad preferences as a whole. User can choose the preferences in his settings[80] among five or more categories of advertising. The categories are including Art & Humanities, Cars & Wheels, Books & Reading, Charities, Home & Hobbies, Housing, Internet & Media etc. It is not possible to completely remove the advertisement other than by changing the level of the account[81] (ссылка: ) and upgrade to a Paid Account.
Account suspension controversy[edit]
In May 2007, LiveJournal suspended approximately 500 accounts and communities, causing what news.com referred to as a "revolt" from "thousands of LiveJournal customers",[82]after a number of activist groups, including one named Warriors for Innocence, reported pedophilic material on its website.[82][83][84][unreliable source?][85][86]
According to Six Apart chairman and chief executive Barak Berkowitz, "We did a review of our policies related to how we review those sites, those journals, and came up with the fact that we actually did have a number of journals up that we didn't think met our policies and didn't think they were appropriate to have up".[82] In a subsequent posting to the LiveJournal news community,[87] he apologized, discussed some of the circumstances behind the suspensions, and indicated that the suspended journals would be reviewed and potentially brought back online. In particular, he noted that Livejournal's normal practice of reviewing suspensions and notifying suspended account holders had not been followed:
[T]hese journals were suspended for easily correctable problems […] [T]his was not communicated to the journal or community owners at all. [T]hese journals were taken down before review could be completed to avoid mistakes.
Most of the backlash was from fan fiction writers whose communities and personal journals were among those suspended, seemingly because they listed interests such as "incest" or "non-con" (short for non-consensual).[82] Although these communities did not necessarily encourage illegal behavior, it has been reported that there was no further investigation into the content of these journals.[88]
Beyond merely fan communities, many were initially upset that communities entirely unrelated to anything but the discussion, sometimes therapeutic and other times literary, of rape or child molestation were among those suspended.[82]
On May 31, 2007, Berkowitz released a statement to the LiveJournal news community[89] announcing that Six Apart was currently in the process of unsuspending about half of suspended journals. The journals being reinstated fell into fandom or fiction categories or were journals that were suspended for problems related only to the contents of their profiles. In an earlier interview with news.com,[82] he had stated that he would be "shocked" if "more than a dozen" journals would be reinstated.
On July 19, 2007, Abe Hassan at LiveJournal released a statement clarifying LiveJournal's suspension policies.[90] A further statement[91] was made on August 7, 2007.
Advisory Board election[edit]
As previously announced, SUP Media, the latest owners of LiveJournal, decided to create an Advisory Board to help it make decisions. The first members were distinguished people in the areas of law and technology, Danah Boyd, Esther Dyson, Lawrence Lessig, and the original LiveJournal founder, Brad Fitzpatrick. SUP announced two other members would be appointed from the LiveJournal userbase, one Russian and one English speaking.[92] The English speaking election was marred with accusations of ballot stuffing, conflicts of interest, and multiple death threats. The developer who wrote the poll software running the election called the ballot stuffing plausible.[93]
Distributed denial-of-service attacks[edit]
LiveJournal was the victim of several DDoS attacks in 2011. The first attack on March 30 took down the site for several hours. The attack is reported to be the largest DDoS attack against LiveJournal since the site's creation. A second attack continued through April 4 and 5, causing service disruption for some users.[94][95] A third attack in July caused the site to be unavailable for several hours at a time for a week.[96] On December 2, 2011 another attack was recorded, with LiveJournal's status blog acknowledging it as such. Of the attacks, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev commented in April 2011 that "what has occurred should be examined by LiveJournal's administration and law enforcement agencies."[97]
On Russia's election day in December, 2011, LiveJournal saw another attack.[98]
Legal cases and censorship[edit]
Lawsuits against bloggers[edit]
In 2007 Russian blogger Savva Terentyev was accused of fomenting social hatred to the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and sentenced to one year probation due to his comment in the blog of a local journalist.[99] Later another number of individuals were accused of calling for extremist activity, libel and incitement of interethnic hatred.[100]
LiveJournal blocking[edit]
China: In May 2007 the Chinese government began blocking access to LiveJournal, cutting off its citizens from the roughly 1.8 million blogs the service hosts.[101] According to SixApart, there were 8,692 self-reported Chinese bloggers on the site.[102]
Kazakhstan: In October 2010 LiveJournal was blocked in Kazakhstan. The reason for that was the court decision that some blogs contained extremism propaganda.[103]
Uzbekistan: In March 2012 Uzbekistan began blocking LiveJournal. Although the home page and many of the advertised articles remained accessible, blogs contributed by certain well-known authors couldn't be accessed from Uzbekistan.[104]
Other sites running the LiveJournal engine[edit]
The software running LiveJournal is open source and primarily written in Perl. Because of this, many other communities have been designed using the LiveJournal software. These sites have very similar features and formats to LiveJournal itself.[105] However, they often have different terms of service than LiveJournal's, making them attractive to users who have become disenchanted with LiveJournal's rules and wish to move their journals to other hosts.[82]
See also[edit]
- Comparison of sites using the LiveJournal codebase
- List of social networking websites
- Timeline of LiveJournal
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- Jump up^ "LiveJournal.com". Community.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "LiveJournal Statistics". Livejournal.com. Retrieved2010-05-02.
- Jump up^ "Statistics". LiveJournal. Retrieved November 16,2012.
- Jump up^ (Russian) Yandex researched Russian-language blogosphere – Yandex company news, September 26, 2006
- Jump up^ "About: Frank the Goat". LiveJournal.
- Jump up^ "User Profile: Frank the Goat". LiveJournal.
- Jump up^ "Brad Fitzpatrick Comments on Voice Post Easter Egg". News.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ Estrada, Ryan. "Frank: The Comic Strip". Community Info. LiveJournal.
- Jump up^ "LiveJournal Major Notes: Speedier servers, Haiti gift drive, Blurberati". News.livejournal.com. Retrieved2010-08-05.
- Jump up^ "LiveJournal Major Notes: Charitable vgifts, Balloon bouquet, Header contest". News.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
- Jump up^ "Display of Security Levels". Community.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
- Jump up^ "Journal Screening Settings". Community.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
- Jump up^ (Russian) http://jehy.ru/soft.en.html
- Jump up^ "Community Posting Access". Community.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
- Jump up^ "Adult Content". Community.livejournal.com. Retrieved2012-10-11.
- Jump up^ "LiveJournal Rules". Community.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
- Jump up^ "Livejournal Inc. – About Us", retrieved on 2009-02-27.
- Jump up^ "ohnotheydidnt – Community Profile", retrieved on 2009-02-27
- Jump up^ "Exact number of comments", retrieved on 2009-03-04.
- Jump up^ Livejournal responds: "Minor database maintenance – ONTD!!!1", 2009-01-28. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- Jump up^ Continually updated ONTD post detailing the issue: "It appears that ONTD has reached an undocumented limit – journals can only have approximately 16.7 million total comments made to them before running out of room in the database to store more comments.", 2009-01-28. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- Jump up^ "Website Performance – UPDATE". Community.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
- Jump up^ GigaOM: Six Apart to buy Live Journal [sic]
- Jump up^ "Confirmation of Sale in LiveJournal News". News.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "Brad Fitzpatrick: LiveJournal creator leaves as Six Apart fails to spin". Valleywag.com. 2007-08-06. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "CNews: Live Journal creator leaves for Google". Eng.cnews.ru. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "Brad Fitzpatrick". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "We have LiveJournal Advisory Board members to announce!". 2002-08-28. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "Our heartfelt thanks to the LiveJournal Advisory Board". 2010-06-23. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c Quinn Norton (2006-11-08). "Russia Growls at LiveJournal Deal". Wired.com. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal"(Press release). 2007-12-03. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
- Jump up^ Michael Arrington (2007-02-12). "Six Apart Sells LiveJournal To Russia's SUP". TechCrunch. Retrieved2010-09-28.
- Jump up^ "Избранное: Желающим предоставят пещеру". Izbrannoe.info. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "LiveJournal to launch South-East Asian country portals; appoints Singapore media partner". SUP Media. June 8, 2011.: "LiveJournal will launch local start pages in South-East Asia and India through a partnership with Singapore digital publishing house Tickled Media."
- Jump up^ "Post Announcing the End of Invite Codes". News.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ Fono, D. and K. Raynes-Goldie. "Hyperfriends and Beyond: Friendship and Social Norms on LiveJournal". Internet Research Annual Volume 4: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conference (2006).
- Jump up^ boyd, danah. "Friends, friendsters, and top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites". First Monday, vol. 12, no. 2 (December 2006).
- Jump up^ "If you're coming from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth: Terminology: Subscribe/Access". Dreamwidth.org. 2010-04-24. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c "LiveJournal Terms of Service". Livejournal.com. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "Spam". Community.livejournal.com. Retrieved2012-11-10.
- Jump up^ "LiveJournal Abuse Policies and Procedures". Livejournal.com. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ Response from Six Apart May. 24th, 2006 at 3:00 PM (2006-05-24). "Response from Six Apart on Breastfeeding Userpic Controversy". Community.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "Popular Blogging Site Restricts Use of Breastfeeding Photos". Promom.org. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ Haines, Lester (2006-06-01). "LiveJournal tells lactating mums to put 'em away". Theregister.co.uk. Retrieved2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ Krebs, Brian (January 20, 2006). "Account Hijackings Force LiveJournal Changes". Security Fix (The Washington Post). Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "news: Introducing a new account level". News.livejournal.com. 2006-04-18. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- Jump up^ LiveJournal Social Contract (old page, archived by the Internet Archive)
- ^ Jump up to:a b http://community.livejournal.com/lj_ads/4176.html
- Jump up^ "What are LiveJournal's guidelines on acceptable ads?". Livejournal.com. 2009-12-07. Retrieved2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "Basic Accounts Decision". Community.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "advertising". News.livejournal.com. Retrieved2012-11-18.
- Jump up^ "Introducing a new account level". News.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
- ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g McCullagh, Declan (May 30, 2007). "Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt". CNet News.com. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012.
- Jump up^ "Live Journal does a u-turn on online book burning". Theinquirer.net. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ Published 30 May 2007. "Six Apart Deletes 500 LiveJournals, Many Fannish". Firefox.org. Retrieved2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "Child Sex Crackdown Causes Problems For LiveJournal". Informationweek.com. Retrieved2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ Keith, Christie. "LiveJournal: The blogging platform that gay sex built". Afterelton.com. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "news: Well we really screwed this one up…". News.livejournal.com. 2007-05-31. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- Jump up^ "Apology for Mass Account Suspensions". News.livejournal.com. 2007-05-31. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- Jump up^ "news: Journals being restored". News.livejournal.com. 2007-05-31. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- Jump up^ Abe Hassan (burr86) wrote in lj_biz, 2007-07-19 22:03:00 (2007-07-19). "lj_biz: more clarifications". Community.livejournal.com. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- Jump up^ "lj_biz: Illegal and Harmful Content Policy Clarifications". Community.livejournal.com. 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- Jump up^ "LiveJournal User Election Opens Up Advisory Board to Bloggers". http://www.businesswire.com. Retrieved2008-05-29.
- Jump up^ "LiveJournal: Social network's advisory-board election sparks talk of death threats". valleywag.com. Retrieved2008-05-29.
- Jump up^ "DDoS Attack on LiveJournal". Global Voices, English. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
- Jump up^ Schuster, Simon (2011-04-07). "Why Have Hackers Hit Russia's Most Popular Blogging Service?". Time.
- Jump up^ "Hacker Attacks paralyze LiveJournal". The Moscow Times. 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
- Jump up^ Russian pres fumes at mystery DDoS hack. The Register. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
- Jump up^ Ioffe, Julia, "Russian Elections: Faking It", The New Yorker blogpost, December 5, 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
- Jump up^ "Bloggers: Savva Terentyev". Threatened Global Voices. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
- Jump up^ "Threats to Internet freedom in Russia, 2008–2011: An independent survey". RightsinRussia. Retrieved2012-11-10.
- Jump up^ "China Blocks LiveJournal". Wired.com. Retrieved2012-11-10.
- Jump up^ "China's Evil Censorship Continues: Bans LiveJournal". Mashable.com. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
- Jump up^ "Kazakhstan bans LiveJournal". Еру Voice of Russia. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
- Jump up^ "Freedom on the Net 2012 – Uzbekistan". RefWorld. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
- Jump up^ Nussbaum, Emily (January 11, 2004). "My so-called blog". New York Times.: "While the sites that are hosts to online journals may attract different crowds, their formats vary only slightly: a LiveJournal is a Blurty is a Xanga is a DeadJournal is a DiaryLand."
External links[edit]
- Official website
- LiveJournal code in a Subversion repository (GNU GPL licensed)
- LiveJournal Inc. Corporate site


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Nearly 400,000 people have called for the company - which manufactures a wide range of products, including the Head and Shoulders shampoo brand - to change its ways and take measures to stop the destruction of habitat that is home to the Sumatran tiger and the orangutan, amongst other species.
A series of protests across the world drew attention to P&G's bad practices, including at the company's headquarters in Cincinnati in the United States, a peaceful action for which Greenpeace US activists still face serious charges.
In response P&G have promised to take measures removing all deforestation from its palm oil supply chains by 2020. The policy goes beyond existing criteria from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and requires the company's suppliers to guarantee there will be no conversion of peatland, that the rights of local communities will be respected and that high carbon and high conservation value areas will be protected.
"Hundreds of thousands of people across the planet have called on P&G to get rid of palm oil that is leaving tigers and orangutans homeless," says Areeba Hamid, a forest campaigner with Greenpeace International. "Their commitment today is another step towards responsible supply chains and ending deforestation in the world's rainforests."
"But the policy is not perfect. It leaves suppliers six more years to clear forests. With global warming and rapid biodiversity loss, we urge P&G to take action against suppliers, such as Musim Mas and KLK that have been identified to be clearing forests and peatlands."
"Also for P&G to guarantee that all its products are completely free from forest destruction, it would need to implement a similar No Deforestation commitment across forest commodities such as wood pulp."
A Greenpeace study released in February 2014 highlighted serious violations committed by a number of P&G's known suppliers and the subsequent public outcry saw more than 400,000 people email the company's CEO demanding change.
The announcement follows a number of other high-profile palm oil traders and consumers, including L'Oreal, Colgate-Palmolive, Wilmar and GAR, who have all committed to No Deforestation in their supply chains.
This indicates a real and significant change in attitude within an industry that has been linked to widespread deforestation, the removal of livelihoods from local communities and the destruction of the habitat of endangered species and valuable biodiversity.
"P&G's policy is testimony to the transformation that the palm oil industry is currently undergoing: from consumers demanding deforestation free products, to traders and producers such as Wilmar and GAR adopting No Deforestation policies: responsible palm oil is fast becoming the norm," says Areeba Hamid.
Notes to editors:
1) P&G's palm oil policy can be viewed here.
2) The findings of Greenpeace International's investigation, linking P&G to rainforest destruction are available here: http://bit.ly/1dwm2i0
3) A briefer on the HCS methodology can be found here.
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Crouchley, R and Ganjali, M (2002) The common structure of several recent statistical models for dropout in repeated continuous responses. Statistical Modelling: An International Journal, 2 (1). pp. 39-62. ISSN 1471-082X
Izadi, H and Johnes, G and Oskrochi, G and Crouchley, R (2002) Stochastic frontier estimation of a CES cost function: the case of higher education in Britain. Economics of Education Review, 21 (1). pp. 63-72. ISSN 0272-7757


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Valve Tries To Charge People Based On How Likable They Are: Trolls Pay Full Price
from the perhaps-we-should-try-that deptWe've talked plenty of times about unique business models and experiments by Valve Software. it's latest experiment sounds particularly interesting, if perhaps difficult to pull off well. It appears that the company wants to try to charge jerks more -- but let likable people play free (story found via Slashdot). The specifics are a bit vague, but the plan is for the game DOTA 2. Valve's Gabe Newell has hinted at this:
"The issue that we're struggling with quite a bit is something I've kind of talked about before, which is how do you properly value people's contributions to a community?" he said, reflecting on a discussion he had with Develop last year.And the latest news is that they are going beyond this crazy idea into seeing what's actually possible:
Last year Newell told Develop that "the games industry has this broken model, which is one price for everyone. That's actually a bug, and it's something that we want to solve through our philosophy of how we create entertainment products".
"An example is – and this is something as an industry we should be doing better – is charging customers based on how much fun they are to play with.
"So, in practice, a really likable person in our community should get Dota 2 for free, because of past behaviour in Team Fortress 2. Now, a real jerk that annoys everyone, they can still play, but a game is full price and they have to pay an extra hundred dollars if they want voice."
"We're trying to figure out ways so that people who are more valuable to everybody else [are] recognized and accommodated. We all know people where if they're playing we want to play, and there are other people where if they're playing we would [rather] be on the other side of the planet.I'm curious as to how exactly this would work. I think there are lots of community-based properties would love to be able to charge trolls more. However, this could be really, really difficult to work in practice, and create some problems, depending on what the overall goals are. It would be nice, of course, if you could come up with a perfect system to get rid of trolls, but distinguishing true trolls can often be much more difficult in practice than in theory.
"It's just a question of coming up with mechanisms that recognize and reward people who are doing things that are valuable to other groups of people."
Filed Under: dota 2, experiments, gabe newell, pricing, trolls
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Hay Day Hack – Unlimited Diamonds, Coins, Vouchers and XP Hack
Game cheats are very common these days to ensure that you don't ran out of cash or other items that are important to gamers. Look nowhere else and check out our Hay Day hack tool! This is the ultimate tool that you need to generating items that you need without spending anything. Download the hack tool now or you'll lose your chance to get the items you need for the game. This tool is only available to a limited number of people.
If you've tried Farmville in Facebook, you will also love Hay Day because it is all about farming. The only drawback of the game is that you have limited resources. You need plenty of diamonds and coins/cash to go up every level. The most amazing things about this Hay Day hacker is that it offers anti ban support, proxy support, and it comes with a very simple user interface. If you are using an iPod, iPhone, or iPad, this hack tool will surely work for you. In an instant, you can get the needed coins or diamonds as you play the game.
With a click of the button, you can download this Hay Day cheats hack tool and do all the farming that you want to do. After the download, you need to run the file as administrator. You must be logged on to Facebook to be able to claim the items. You need to enter the number of coins or diamonds that you want. There is a button that says 'apply' and you must click it to start generating the items you've specified. Processing usually takes one to several minutes. To claim the items, you have to refresh or reload the game. Farming is an exciting game, and you will have a great time with friends and family with the Hay Day game.
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text: This fluorescent work light uses a single 13 watt fluorescent bulb rated at 10,000 hours of use. The amount of light produced is similar to that of a 75 watt incandescent bulb but with a daylight color to it. The electronic ballast provides instant, no-flicker cold weather starts. The handle has an angled ergonomic shape making it easy to hold and use. Built into the handle is a single 12 amp grounded Single Outlet making it possible to power another tool or device directly from the handle. For hands-free use, this product has dual swivel hooks...one mount at the top and the other low down on the body. This unit has a rocker style switch and has a 6 foot 16/3 SJT cord.


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What's up with climate change? Has it stopped yet, as some newspapers suggested?
Nope, sorry. It's still galloping ahead. And next week we'll hear exactly how fast, and what it will mean for our possible futures, as the world's leading climate scientists issue their latest comprehensive assessment on what's happening to our atmosphere, oceans, glaciers and so on, due to our continued fossil fuel addiction.
It's been six years since the last assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). What can we expect this time?
It is no secret that despite previous stark warnings, the global emissions causing climate change continued to go up, not down. We've also learned that some parts of our climate system seem to be much more sensitive to warming than we thought, like the Arctic sea ice that has been disappearing before our eyes. So the new report is likely to make grim reading.
Will it be any different this time around then, in terms of action? Will Governments take notice?
The world is a very different place now. More and more people around the globe are experiencing climate-fuelled extreme weather events, such as deadly heat waves and devastating floods. As personal experience of the trauma of such events becomes more common, interest in understanding the effect of warming on extreme weather grows.
At the same time solutions have become more tangible. Since the last IPCC report, renewable energy has made a true breakthrough globally. It's bigger, it's cheaper, it's growing fast and it's challenging fossil fuels. There's now ten times more solar photovoltaic, six times more concentrating solar thermal power and three times more wind power capacity in the world than in 2007. Prices have come down remarkably.
Wind Energy Farm in Colorado © Greenpeace / Robert Meyers
Last year over half of all new installed electric capacity worldwide was from renewable sources. Compared to conventional energy, the shares still remain modest, but the transition has truly started and some countries are already well on the way towards energy systems powered by solar, wind and other renewables. By 2050, renewable energy could meet almost all of the world's energy needs, if the right policies are put in place, and if energy efficiency becomes a priority. Technology will no longer be a problem.
What of the fossil fuel industry, which has not only increased its activities and its emissions but has also funded disinformation campaigns about climate science in order to sow doubt and delay action?
The construction costs for conventional fossil fuel generation are increasing, whereas renewables are becoming more competitive in a growing number of markets, even without subsidies. Perhaps surprisingly, mighty coal has started to crumble due to air pollution regulations, lower demand projections, renewable energy uptake, worsening water constraints and growth of local anti-coal movements, among other things. These drivers are all reducing the attractiveness and competitiveness of coal. Among the most recent blows to coal's future prospects were the decisions by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank to stop almost all lending to coal projects.
China's recent decision to ban new coal power plants in three major industrial regions and to peak and decline their coal use by 2017 is especially promising: a major policy shift. Beijing's "airpocalypse" – an exceptionally serious air pollution episode last January – created a tipping point for a political awakening that's been building since 2011, with citizens demanding clean air.
Fossil fuels are yesterday's energy. Of the 111 coal-plant proposals in Europe in 2008, only two materialised. Many more have closed or were shelved – and more will before 2015, as a new directive limiting air pollutants kicks in. Some market analysts suggest we are seeing the beginning of the end of coal.
And it's not just coal. Analysts at investment bank Citi argue that oil demand could reach a tipping point much earlier than the market expects, and could peak by 2020. If demand falls, expensive carbon – like Canada's tar sands and Arctic oil drilling – could become unprofitable. That's an inconvenient projection for major oil companies.
So yes, it is different now. It is clearer than ever that we have some fundamental choices ahead of us about the kind of world we want to live in and the future we want to bequeath to our children. And while future prognoses look grim, there's also new hope, in a way that didn't exist in 2007.
Whilst they failed to deliver the global deal we were hoping for, world governments have agreed to keep global average temperature rise below 2 degrees C. To achieve this, emissions will need to stop growing well before 2020 and then rapidly decline towards zero in the coming decades.
It's a tall order but the solution is within our grasp.
The right kind of future is absolutely possible. We must demand that our governments act now, and act swiftly, to speed up the clean energy transition and refuse to allow the fossil fuel industry to derail their efforts.
The IPCC will release the first chapter of its report: the Physical Scientific Basis, on 27 September in Stockholm. The next three chapters will be released next year. Greenpeace experts Stephanie Tunmore, Kaisa Kosonen and Martina Krüger are at the spot at the IPCC report approval meeting (23-26 September) in Stockholm. You can follow them on Twitter @kaisakosonen and @MartinaKrueger.
Stephanie is a climate campaigner at Greenpeace International.
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The AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population was founded in 2001. Since that moment I have seen it as a moral imperative to continue the work I've b...
The AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population was founded in 2001. Since that moment I have seen it as a moral imperative to continue the work I've been doing for many years now: getting the message out and explaining to as many people as possible that human overpopulation of the Earth is occurring on our watch, that it poses profound existential risks for future human well being, life as we know it and environmental health, and that robust action is required starting here, starting now to honestly acknowledge, humanely address and eventually overcome.
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climate change...global warming, or global heating how Rex, the reptile likes to call it - there was just a call for action by GREENPEACE, voice of ou...
climate change...global warming, or global heating how Rex, the reptile likes to call it - there was just a call for action by GREENPEACE, voice of our fragile earth!
I do believe to be an excellent WARLORD OF THE RAINBOW...when finally CEO of Greenpeace International ONE major focus of campaigning will be GREENWASHING.
One of the first campaigns, sorry, it is kind of a private battle...:
There was ships worth about 2-3 Billion Dollars financed in the name of climate-protection. One of the bigger financial scandals in German history with courtcases about 2.2 Billion taking place right at the moment...frauds are funny persons - don't guess, climate was not protected at all!
Skysails has never been anything else than a PR-tool to finance cheap, chinese ships...try to imagine!!!
By the way, I have been warning about it since 2005...and fighting against it.
Sun Wu, godfather of the Rainbow Warrior III
PS: my ROADMAP for a reanimation of Greenpeace, the voice of our fragile earth
1.) attack the USA (Rainbow Warrior / Statue of Liberty - New York; Esperanza / Golden Gate Bridge - San Fransisco; Arctic Sunrise / New Orleans (if still available)
2.) attack BP (for being second biggest shareholder of Rosneft and providing the know how for Rosneft's Arctic-plans - and for the massive use of corexit 9527 in the gulf of mexico.
BP can be attacked in democratic surrounding, other than Gazprom...(but noone was listening to me - lets see what happens :)
3.) ARTIVISM - an alliance of the warriors of the rainbow and music (anonimously!)...
...and light
4.)it is time to announce the second ER - after Greenpeace has announce the Energy Revolution as one of the first parties around (although Greenpeace never really seem to have understood the role Big Energy is playing up till today)...
...I do believe it would be time to announce the ECONOMIC REVOLUTION!
Therefor I would like Greenpeace to offer a home to the best economic brains of alternative nature.
PPS: just imagine, TORD GUSTAVSEN LIVE FROM THE ARCTIC
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Nimble Well collects the things you need to create the event you imagined.
From ballrooms and lofts to rural barns and secret gardens, the collection is versatile to accommodate weddings of all styles and sizes.
We bring the flair to support the menu for pop-up dinners, farm dinners, restaurant and at-home celebrations.
If you need your guests to have an indelible experience, raid the collection to find the elements you cannot find elsewhere.


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Marketing Traditional Candles in Not-So-Traditional Venues
Some candle makers create candles that are truly unique and so different, that they can command a higher price and sell them successfully through smaller venues. Other candle makers are successful by creating economies of volume and distribute their candles through large distribution networks. Others find a niche and successfully create candles that may only be desired by members of that niche. No matter how you are currently selling your candles, there is always that question in the back of your mind, "Who else would want to buy one of my candles?"Read More


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Lyrics:First verseWhile tonight I sit reflecting over mem'ries of the past, My thoughts turn to the Lousiana Shore; There my heart first found its happiness and may it ever last, Oh, that little girl I'll love forever more. When e'er I think of angels then I seem to see her face, There never beat a heart so fond and true; And when I left the sunny South, right there I left my heart, She's the sunlight of my life my Creole Sue. ChorusMy Creole Sue, How I love you, I love you still, And always will, I sigh for you, I do, I do And my thoughts are all of you my Creole Sue.Second verseThrough life's journey I have never seen a face to me so fair, I've never heard a voice that sound so sweet; And I oft' think of the moonlight nights that I spent with her there. For with her my happiness was quite complete. A memory still haunts me and no matter where I roam, Her words will linger in my ear through life; One night she whispered softly, "Oh, I love you, yes I do, And I promise you some day to be your wife."
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After some IRC discussion, we three decided to co-op this theme idea, and will all submit our own stuff and mortal combat it out later
Michael's proposals
Initial idea. Cross between neon colors and cyberpunk society. Think Blade Runner or Johnny Mnemonic. Inspired in contrast to Gears/Steampunk theme proposal
Mairin's proposals
Slogan: Fedora. Lighting the Way.
Neon and sulphur are both elements of the periodic table. That's the name link. Neon is also element #10 in the periodic table. It seems a relevant subject for Fedora 10.
Light Painting Experiment
Walking Towards The Light City Scene
Media:Artwork_F10Themes_Neon_city-scene-photo-manip-2.xcf Gimp XCF Source (note images used in this image were taken by Máirín and are Creative Commons Attribution 3.0)
Cartoony Neon City
Ian's proposals
Ryan's proposals
just an initial concept playing around in inkscape to achieve a neon effect. --RyanLerch


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Do not attempt to complete an eMPN before you have been notified by the Office of Student Financial Aid that an eMPN is available.
The electronic MPN (eMPN) for the Federal PLUS (Parent) Loan is a promissory note signed over the Web. eMPN can be used to make one or more loans for one or more academic years (up to 10 years). Before filling out the eMPN at the Direct Loan Promissory Note Web site, you will need to collect some basic information in advance.
You must complete the eMPN all in one sitting - you cannot save your work and return to complete it at a later time. The worksheet can help you do this.
Please keep the worksheet for your records. Do not send the worksheet to Marquette University.
The Office of Student Financial Aid provides undergraduate and graduate students with resources about types of financial aid and student employment.
FAFSA School Code: 003863
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BC: We Love You. Merry Christmas. 2013
1: "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." FREDERICK KEONIG
11: "Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
16: "Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are." DESMOND TUTU


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Ark: Survival Evolved Taming Calculator
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A castoroid will collect wood from trees if it's on wandering.
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Kyphoplasty is a procedure used to treat fractures or breaks in the vertebrae. The vertebrae are the bones in your back that are stacked on top of each other to make your spine. Your spine supports your weight, allows you to move, and protects your spinal cord and the nerves.
Kyphoplasty is often discussed along with another procedure called vertebroplasty. First the doctor inflates small balloon-like devices into the broken bone to make space. This is kyphoplasty. With vertebroplasty, the balloons are removed and the doctor injects a cement-like material into the fractured vertebra to make it more stable.
You may need a kyphoplasty if you have certain types of fractures, or broken areas, in the vertebrae. In most cases, osteoporosis — or thinning of the bones — is the cause of these fractures. The vertebrae can also be broken or fractured in accidents or from cancer. The fractures cause the bones to collapse or become compressed. The fractures can cause pain, nerve damage, or lead to a hunched-over posture (called kyphosis).
Kyphoplasty may make the bone a little taller to help make up for the height it loses when it's compressed. The procedure often also relieves pain.
Usually doctors perform kyphoplasty only after trying other treatments. These may include wearing a back brace, limiting activity, or taking pain medicine.
The risks involved in kyphoplasty include:
The amount of radiation used during the X-ray procedures is considered minimal, and the risks related to radiation exposure are very low. But if you are pregnant or suspect that you might be, tell your healthcare provider.
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The doctor will put a needle through your skin and back muscles and into the spinal bone (the vertebra). The balloon(s) will be put in through the needle and inflated. This opens a space for the thick, paste-like cement and may help the bone regain its normal size and shape. Next, your doctor will deflate the balloon and quickly inject the cement mixture into the bone. While this is done, X-ray images are checked to help ensure that the cement goes into the right place. The doctor will then remove the needle. You will not need stitches in your back.
The entire procedure will probably take less than an hour. If the doctor needs to treat more than one vertebra, the procedure may take longer. You will spend time in a recovery room after the surgery. You will probably lie flat on your back for about an hour while the cement hardens. You may be able to go home the same day, but your doctor might want you to stay overnight.
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Mine would have to be either the Head IG Prestige Pro. This racquet does it all. Hits flat well. Spins the ball well. Stable, the right weight for me. Plenty of plow, control on the drives. Great serving racquet, nice cuts on the volleys.
The only thing that happened on my demo is the clear bumper guard came off on one of my backhand slices. I don't know if the material is not as strong as the standard black ones of last year and the years before. But I've never had it peel apart from the center of the top like that.
My close second is the Tecnifibre 325 VO2 max. I'd need a touch of lead so it would plow as well. The volleys all have to be sheared with back spin more than the Prestige Pro. Hitting them flat does launch them more, with a faster rebound angle. But everything else is great.
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No, different. Spaghetti strings were something that a stringer could do to any frame. Basically twisting strings around all the mains.
I would love to try a Blackburn too, but this is not the same thing as a spaghetti racquet. Also, I've always wondered what happens if one face of strings starts to lose tension faster than the other...
Im thinking of getting this "Wilson Cierzo Two BLX2" tennis racket for my brother as his 2012 birthday gift, he's been talking about this for a while :)
Anyone have other recommendation thats comparable to this ?
Not many racquets with those specs. Head makes one called Ti.S6. Weed makes a 125 sq. in. But the Wilson Cierzo replaced that Sledgehammer series.
The one I am waiting patiently for is the Volkl Organix 10 Mid :)
I need to find a replacement for my Volkl C10 Pro Tours, they are getting old and hard to find. :)
Ah, I did demo the Organix 10 MP. A very nice playing racquet, much more muted and subtle compared to the predecessor Powerbridge 10 MP. You're waiting for the mid version, the successor to the Powerbridge 10 mid. When is that supposed to come out?
I'd love to see a reintroduction of the 2008 version of the Babolat Pure Storm Tour. Static weight is 0.3 ounces lighter than the current version, which I can appreciate. I play with these in stock form. I have three of these left but the frames are getting old and beat up. Does anyone here have recommendations for something similar?
Technical Specifications
Length 27 inches 69 centimeters
Head Size 98 square inches 632 square centimeters
Weight 11.8 ounces 335 grams
Balance Point 12.75 inches
32 centimeters 6pts Head Light
Construction 21 mm Straight Beam
Composition Graphite Carbon Xtreme
String Pattern 16 Mains / 20 Crosses
Flex Rating (Babolat / DRC) 63
Swing Weight (Babolat / DRC) 333
The old Tecnifibre 320 was 16x20, 98 sq in., close to the same weight but was stiff feeling with the Texalium.
I would say for that same plushy feel, the Volkl Organix 10 MP comes really close. It may not be 16x20, but gets plenty of spin.
the Weight between babolats is usually "0.7 oz/or grams" difference from the number they say it is. you have to find the fine print to see the disclaimer on each racquet.
im sure you will be able to find the exact same one that you like eric. even in the newer versions. but my experience with babolat is they never match.
QC on balance and overall weight is usually pretty low in that regard for either Head or Wilson.
This one isn't exactly new for 2012, been around for a few years actually. Hit with the babolat pure storm tour earlier today. I had all the touch i needed in a very nicely balanced racquet for anything your heart desires on a tennis court. Nice weight and some just beautifully controlled deep shots. Racquet does everything well and while it is meant to be low power, it was not a problem for me to generate pace and heavy balls for bonus. Sweet stick is all I can say. I didn't think Babolat did much with this racquest in a few years other then paint jobs. I didn't play with the 2008 mentioned above but this 2012 was a pleasure and seriously thinking of switching to it.
Pure Storm Tour is a very good racquet. I would just lead it up a little more for more heft. But I can see why Sampras liked them. He, of course, blacked them out and leaded them up and made the Wilson diehards cringe.
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