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I have sent 2 emails both have been completely ignored.
Have also called when they said the payment has been 'authorised' but yet nothing is showing. Quite frankly I don't believe them. In my experience once I get a returns received email from a company the refund notice from Paypal arrives shortly afterwards.
They say because they have a business account so a refund can arrive at 'any time' – well I have a business Paypal account and any refunds I have to send are immediate.
Plus – I HAVE NOTHING TO RETURN IN THE FIRST PLACE! The delay for a refund should be zero. They never even had the item in first place.
If I sold something and realised shortly after I didn't have the item in stock I'd be spending a refund asap – it's embarrassing and unprofessional so it's the least you can do.
Remember – Hard To Find Records = Ignorant and the worst customer service (if you call non existent customer service, service at all) EVER!**
I don't know whats up with my luck but basically, I've been having some crapola experiences online recently! Without a doubt it's put me off online shopping, at least from places that don't have 'real' stores too…
Anyway directed by Mr C, I went to a store I had never heard of before called Hard To Find Records to buy a microphone for Saturday when I will be doing some filming.
The site looks very professional, so I didn't think I had anything to worry about. The microphone was out of stock on some other sites but since htfr.com had it in, I didn't worry and paid for it via Paypal.
After the bank holiday weekend I got an email confirming that the order at 10.45. At 16.57 they emailed me again and lo and behold – they didn't have it in stock. A quick phone call confirmed that they they would be out of stock 'for weeks'.
So I ask for a refund – after all my Paypal refund is immediate so why can't they refund right away? I know it can be done right there and then if they want to. No, says the nonchalant man, who makes me feel like I did something wrong, it will take 5 days for a refund (I know it is literally as easy someone pressing 2 buttons).
So now I am out of pocket and mic-less. And why should I have to wait almost a week for money to be returned to me – money which shouldn't have been taken in the first place because the item was not in stock.
Guess what – my microphone (by Rode if you are interested) is still showing as in stock as I write this so more innocent mugs will part with their cash whilst Hard To Find Records ignore the very basic fundamental of running an online business – stock levels.
When will companies stop pretending they have something that they don't?!
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GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations investigators said on Monday that Syrian leaders they had identified as suspected war criminals should face the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The investigators urged the U.N. Security Council to "act urgently to ensure accountability" for violations, including murder and torture, committed by both sides in an uprising and civil war that has killed about 70,000 people since March 2011.
"Now really it's time ... We have a permanent court, the International Criminal Court, who would be ready to take this case," Carla del Ponte, a former ICC chief prosecutor who joined the U.N. team in September, told a news briefing in Geneva.
But because Syria is not party to the Rome Statute that established the ICC, the only way the court can investigate the situation is if it receives a referral from the Security Council. Russia, Assad's long-standing ally and a permanent veto-wielding member of the council, has opposed such a move.
"We cannot decide. But we pressure the international community to decide because it's time to act," del Ponte said.
Brazilian expert Paulo Pinheiro, who leads the U.N. inquiry set up in 2011, said: "We are in very close dialogue with all the five permanent members and with all the members of the Security Council, but we don't have the key that will open the path to cooperation inside the Security Council."
His team of some two dozen experts is tracing the chain of command in Syria to establish criminal responsibility and build a case for eventual prosecution.
"Of course we were able to identify high-level perpetrators," del Ponte said, adding that these were people "in command responsibility...deciding, organizing, planning and aiding and abetting the commission of crimes".
She said it was urgent for the Hague-based war crimes tribunal to take up cases of "very high officials", but did not identify them, in line with the inquiry's practice.
"We have crimes committed against children, rape and sexual violence. We have grave concerns. That is also one reason why an international body of justice must act because it is terrible."
Del Ponte, who tried former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on war crimes charges, said the ICC prosecutor would need to deepen the investigation on Syria before an indictment could be prepared.
Karen Koning AbuZayd, an American member of the U.N. team, told Reuters it had information pointing to "people who have given instructions and are responsible for government policy, people who are in the leadership of the military, for example".
The inquiry's third roster of suspects, building on lists drawn up in the past year, remains secret. It will be entrusted to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay upon expiry of its mandate at the end of March, the report said.
Pillay, a former ICC judge, said on Saturday Assad should be investigated for war crimes, and called for outside action on Syria, including possible military intervention.
Pinheiro said the investigators would not speak publicly about "numbers, names or levels" of suspects.
The investigators' latest report, covering the six months to mid-January, was based on 445 interviews conducted abroad with victims and witnesses, as they have not been allowed into Syria.
"We identified seven massacres during the period, five on the government side, two on the armed opponents' side. We need to enter the sites to be able to confirm elements of proof that we have," del Ponte said.
The U.N. report said the ICC was the appropriate institution for the fight against impunity in Syria. "As an established, broadly supported structure, it could immediately initiate investigations against authors of serious crimes in Syria."
Government forces have carried out shelling and air strikes across Syria including Aleppo, Damascus, Deraa, Homs and Idlib, the 131-page report said, citing corroborating satellite images.
"Government forces and affiliated militias have committed extra-judicial executions, breaching international human rights law. This conduct also constitutes the war crime of murder. Where murder was committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population, with knowledge of that attack, it is a crime against humanity," the report said.
Those forces have targeted bakery queues and funeral processions to spread "terror among the civilian population".
Rebels fighting to topple Assad have also committed war crimes including murder, torture, hostage-taking and using children under age 15 in hostilities, the U.N. report said.
"They continue to endanger the civilian population by positioning military objectives inside civilian areas" and rebel snipers had caused "considerable civilian casualties", it said.
George Sabra, a vice president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, asked about the U.N. report, told Reuters at a conference in Stockholm: "We condemn all kind of crimes, regardless who did it.
"We can't ignore that some mistakes have been made and maybe still happen right now. But nobody also can ignore that the most criminal file is that of the regime."
(This story has been corrected to fix name of Milosevic tribunal in 11th paragraph)
Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; additional reporting by Anna Ringstrom in Stockholm; Editing by Mark Heinrich

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…and I'm sick of it!
First, two years ago, my friend Katherine up and moved to Sweden. Now my friend Jen is moving to Germany – later this week! What's going on? They both have positively revolting reasons for moving to the other side of the world: Jen's going to get her Master's degree (gag), and Katherine moved because of love (barf).
One by one, my friends are abandoning me. Just so they can be happier and lead more fulfilling lives. Well, fuck 'em. I hope they choke on a meatball (in Katherine's case) or a bratwurst (in Jen's case) and then have horrible hospital experiences because Sweden and Germany have terrible, appalling universal health care systems, according to conservatives.
OK, two things: 1) I'm totally kidding. 2) Did I just get political?
Anyhoo, tonight I hung out with Jen for the last time in a long while (which bummed me out). Some of you long-time readers have heard me talk about Jen before: She appeared in my very first post (about going to Magic Mountain), and has appeared many times since, during sad times and happier ones. I've known Jen since college, and she's been a great friend that whole time, and I will miss having her so close.
I picked Jen up tonight (since she sold her car yesterday), and she came bearing gifts! Jumper cables, a roll of bubble wrap, and a pomegranate from the tree in her courtyard:
Although I've had pomegranate juice and pomegranate-flavored foods, I've never had an actual pomegranate in my house before, mainly because I'm not a fan of pomegranate seeds. I'm not exactly sure what I'll do with this sucker, but it might be destined for my juicer.
Jen and I headed out for dinner, and we ended up at Phil's Diner, a little restaurant in our neighborhood that's both new and very old. The restaurant, which is inside a dining car, dates back to 1926, and served North Hollywood for decades and decades, in a few different locations. Then, 12 years ago, it closed, until an enterprising couple bought it, restored it, and opened it up again in a new location about six months ago.
Here's the exterior (my camera didn't capture their neon sign):
And the interior, which was beautifully restored:
That's Jen and I way in the back (our server, Malissa, who's one of the owners, took the photo), and another patron sitting at the counter (we got there late, after the dinner crowd, which is why it's so empty). The first thing I noticed when we walked in is that place would have been really uncomfortable for me when I was at my heaviest. I probably wouldn't have fit at the counter (those chairs are bolted to the floor), and while the little tables on the right had stools, there just wasn't a lot of room. But none of that is an issue now!
Phil's Diner gets MAJOR bonus points for having Etch-A-Sketches lying around for patrons to play with:
I talked with Malissa about healthy menu options, and took her suggestion and ordered the Tuna Salad:
Malissa described the tuna as not being "wet" – meaning it's not loaded with mayo, and I had them hold the oil and vinegar that normally comes on the greens:
It was delicious. The tuna was very flavorful – I really liked the pumpkin seeds in it, and the lemon-lime dijon dressing was great. A 7-screen movie theater is under construction right next door, and I look forward, in the future, and enjoying dinner and a movie all on the same block!
Here's the Etch-A-Sketch doodle I made in honor of Jen's impending departure to Germany:
It was pretty late by the time I dropped Jen off, but not too late to exercise. I've done three great weightlifting-based workouts in a row, so it was time for some cardio. Due to the late hour, I thought a run would be best. I threw on some workout clothes before dropping Jen off, and went for a run in her neighborhood, for a change of pace. She lives close to Toluca Lake, a very affluent and fancy part of town that's been home, at some point or another, to all sorts of famous people: Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, and Amelia Earhart all called it home, as have Miley Cyrus (and her family), the Jonas Brothers, Jason Priestley, Steve Carell and Eric McCormack. It's a beautiful part of town to run in, because of the lovely (and large) houses. Here's my route:
I ran for 45 minutes, and went 4.2 miles, which means I averaged a speed of 5.6 mph. Not my fastest run, but still pretty good, especially considering it was at the end of a long day and it was kinda chilly outside. Check out my Running Chart to see how this run compares to my other runs.
When I got home after the run, my workout wasn't over. I still had my burpees to do. It's Day 2, which means 16 burpees, and the lesson I learned today is that burpees after 45 minutes of running is exhausting! I'm doing them first next time. Definitely.
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As the size and sponsorship of the global surveillance network TrapWire continues to be revealed, the "hacktivist" group Anonymous is calling on those alarmed by the multinational monitoring apparatus to unite August 18 in concerted opposition. "As we learn about TrapWire and similar systems in the surveillance industry, it becomes more apparent that we must, at all costs, shut this system down and render it useless," spokesmen for Anonymous wrote in a press release.
Despite the purported power of the surveillance system, Anonymous recommends opponents protest peacefully. "An omniscient AI [Artificial Intelligence] electronic brain able to monitor us through the thick web of CCTV cameras, as well as online social media feeds is monstrous and Orwellian in its implications and possibilities. Anonymous will now put forth a call to arms. We will see to it that this evil and invasive system ceases to function, and the right to privacy is upheld," the statement continues.
As we reported earlier this week, TrapWire is a massive and technologically advanced surveillance system that has the capacity to keep nearly the entire population of this country under the watchful eye of government 24 hours a day. Using this network of cameras and other surveillance tools, the federal government is rapidly constructing an impenetrable, inescapable theater of surveillance, most of which is going unnoticed by Americans and unreported by the mainstream media.
Unlike other elements of the central government's cybersurveillance program, word about TrapWire was not leaked by Obama administration insiders. The details of this nearly unbelievable surveillance scheme were made public by WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group founded by Julian Assange.
The TrapWire story percolated from the millions of e-mails from the Austin, Texas-based private intelligence-gathering firm Stratfor, published this year by WikiLeaks. Covering correspondence from mid-2004 to 2011, these documents expose Stratfor's "web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods."
This coterie of Stratfor co-conspirators are apparently angry about the leaks, considering that the WikiLeaks servers have been under near-constant Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks since the TrapWire revelations began attracting notice of alternative journalists. Some outlets report that the cyberattacks are being carried out by agents of the American intelligence community determined to prevent the full depth of this scandal from being explored by reporters.
Exactly what is TrapWire? According to one description of the program, from Russia Today:
Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.
Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence.
Again, remember this is not the plot of some futuristic dystopian movie; this is the situation under which we are living today.
Although many of the details remain undisclosed, it is known that the infrastructure of TrapWire was designed and deployed by Abraxas, an intelligence contractor based in Northern Virginia headed and run by dozens of former American surveillance officers. As one article described it: "The employee roster at Abraxas reads like a who's who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and the corporation's ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented."
Just how expansive is the TrapWire network believed to be? An article published by transparency advocacy group Public Intelligence claims that Stratfor emails suggest
that TrapWire is in use by the U.S. Secret Service, the British security service MI5, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as well as counterterrorism divisions in both the Los Angeles and New York Police Department and the LA fusion center. The emails also suggest that TrapWire is in use at military bases around the country. A July 2011 email from Burton to others at Stratfor describes how the U.S. Army, Marine Corps and Pentagon have all begun using TrapWire and are "on the system now." Burton described the Navy as the "next on the list."
On Tuesday, ITPro cited another Stratfor e-mail reported to confirm the U.K.'s participation in the surveillance program. The article claims:
Emails released by WikiLeaks appear to show the UK Government and London's Metropolitan Police Service (Met) are involved in controversial surveillance network, TrapWire.
One email in a set stolen from global intelligence firm Stratfor by hactivists Anonymous and leaked via WikiLeaks states:
"We have an agreement in principle with Abraxas (TrapWire) to provide 'streaming sitreps' to their clients via their desktop/homepage by the end of July. Their clients include Scotland Yard, #10 Downing, the White House, and many MNC's (multinational corporations).
In what may be evidence of the determination of TrapWire's developers' zeal to shove stories about the system down the memory hole, articles published by the Sydney Morning Herald laying out Australia's use of the surveillance scheme were scrubbed from the site Wednesday without explanation.
Although the establishment's "newspaper of record the New York Times dismisses the claims made by the TrapWire revelations as "wildly exaggerated," accounts multiply of the depth of the program and the efforts to scuttle the story by the U.S. government and defense contractors hired by it to construct and manage TrapWire.


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Hippy Wenge
- Size: 150mm
- Handmade by Artisans in Vakay workshop, in Sfax.
- 18k Gold Vakay logo
- Wenge wood
- Carl Zeiss Sun Lenses, 100% UVA/UVB protection with an inside anti-reflective coating
- Gold color spring hinges
- Handmade case
Because we seek perfection
Each pair of glasses requires hours of handmade work the first phase of wood selection, until released with handcrafted hostler. Handmade wooden eyewear is a process that needs time and precision, we do this with great love and attention.
Each model of the VAKAY collection has its own character trait, because of its shape, its curves, its colors, its prints, even its combination of materials.
Gold logo
Inspired from the Berber alphabet. Each logo on Vakay eyewear arms is an artwork of a finest jewelry craftsman in the old Medina of Sfax. Made in 18k Gold.
To create a distinguished product, we take great care in choosing the best materials. We put a great effort in the selection of wood species.
We use gold color spring hinges for ultimate comfort and elegant design. In fact, spring hinges offer wider range to accommodate and bend.
Carl Zeiss Sun Lenses
We believe that every special pair of our handmade sunglasses should be equipped with a high quality standards of sun lenses. For this reason we have chosen Carl Zeiss lenses with multilayer treatment. They out up to 100% of UVA and UVB radiation, their high-performance lens coatings make our glasses extremely durable against scratches or adhesive dirt.
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We work closely with local suppliers for a continuous development of the production process, seeking unequaled comfort and durability. It's also done for our handmade case, that we have developed with a local supplier openeing for him new range of products. And making our case completely unique, you will never see the same case anywhere else.


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happy birthday hanh hope u like it im practicing my japanese language feliz cumpleanos :D hehe
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NEW YORK (AP) Left-hander Pedro Feliciano is returning to the New York Mets, who also settled their salary arbitration case with first baseman Ike Davis.
The Mets said Monday that Feliciano had agreed to a minor league contract after two injury-plagued seasons across town with the Yankees. The 36-year-old never pitched in a game for the Yankees, spending two years on the disabled list because of a torn capsule in his left shoulder after signing an $8 million contract.
Feliciano had surgery Sept. 8, 2011, and made 10 injury rehabilitation appearances in the minors last year. He has a 1.23 ERA in seven games with Leones de Ponce of the Puerto Rican Winter League.
If added to the 40-man roster, Feliciano would get a $1 million, one-year contract.
Eligible for arbitration for the first time, Davis gets $3,125,000, six times the $506,690 he earned last year when he hit .227 with 32 homers and 90 RBIs. He had asked for $3.7 million when players and teams swapped figures last week and had been offered $2,825,000.
The Mets announced the agreement Saturday.
Second baseman Daniel Murphy is the only Mets player remaining in arbitration. He asked for a raise from $512,196 to $3.4 million. The team offered $2.55 million.
Without an agreement, a hearing would be held next month.


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What is Home Care?
The Home Care program was established in 1974 to help people live at home, remaining independent for as long as possible, thereby avoiding or delaying the need for individuals to go into long term care facilities.
The mandate of the program is to provide effective, reliable and responsive community health care services to support independent living, develop appropriate care options with clients and/or family and facilitate admission into long term care facilities when living in the community is no longer possible.
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Nuqul Tissue belongs to Jordan's leading industrial conglomerate, Nuqul Group. Established in 1952, Nuqul Group brings together 30 regional and global companies,more than 5,100 employees and exports its products to over 45 exports markets worldwide.
With a total capacity double that of its closest rival, technology that knows no compromise, virgin raw material and relevant strategy to ensure alignment, Nuqul Tissue manages Nuqul Group's four paper mills Al-Sindian PM1-


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Santa Cruz Factory Demo
Visit our headquarters in Santa Cruz, California and demo a current model right off the factory floor.
Can't make it to the factory? We also run a Demo Tour schedule throughout the year.
Factory Demo Overview
- Book a reservation for a demo using the schedule at the bottom of this page.
- Factory demos are $40 USD per rider (cash or credit card). The proceeds go to support trail building and trail maintenance efforts in the area.
- Bring your helmet, pedals, and bike shoes. Need pedals? When you reserve ahead of time can provide a pair for your demo.
- Show up for your reservation, meet with the demo staff to have the bike set up, and then ride!
Under the age of 18? A parent or guardian will need to fill out a waiver at the time of demo.
Questions? Call us at (831) 576-2848 or email us at factorydemo [at] santacruzbicycles.com.
How to Make a Reservation
- Scroll down, find the bike model you want to demo, click the red "BOOK" button.
- Available booking times show up in RED with a time.
- Only seeing gray boxes? Unfortunately, that means that all the times for that day are booked for that bike.
- The booking time you select is for your reservation check-in and for setting up your bike. This usually lasts 30 minutes.
- After setup, the demo bike is yours for up to 4 hours.
- Be sure to complete payment before you arrive. You will not have an active reservation until you have completed payment.
Weather cancellation. We love our local trails and riding community and reserve the right to cancel demo reservations due to inclement weather and/or adverse trail conditions.
What to Expect the Day of the Ride
- Arrive at your scheduled reservation time. See our location at 2841 Mission Street in Santa Cruz on Google Maps.
- You'll need to leave your ID at the Factory while you ride.
- Local trail riding is available at Wilder State Park. You can access these trails by pedaling right from the factory showroom.
- Demo bikes are not to be taken to the Soquel Demonstration Forest.
- Car: There's a large parking lot directly across the street from the showroom on Mission. Park anywhere you like and then cruise across the street to the Factory.
- Bike: There's a small common area and bench in front of the showroom doors. You can lock your bike up here or if you're more comfortable (or bikepacking) we can stash your bike in the Factory while you ride.
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What's for dinner? How about this Thai lamb and noodle stir-fry flavored with sesame and mint!
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Yield: 4 x approx. 2 cup servings
Combine lamb strips with sesame oil, canola oil, garlic, and chili.
Heat wok or frying pan on high (no need to add any extra oil). Stir-fry seasoned lamb strips in two batches, cooking for 1 to 2 minutes, allowing pan to reheat between each batch. Remove all meat and set aside.
Add onion, pepper, spring onions, and bean sprouts to the pan along with a sprinkling of water. Cook stirring constantly for 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from pan.
Heat noodles in pan, stirring constantly. Add fish sauce and brown sugar; toss well. Return lamb, cooked vegetables, and mint. Heat and toss thoroughly.
If desired, garnish with chopped, roasted peanuts (preferably unsalted).
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Valparaiso University women's basketball coach Keith Freeman has announced the Crusaders' 2009-2010 schedule which includes many as seven games against teams that were in the NCAA Tournament this past year as well as three other games against teams from major conferences.
This year's schedule is highlighted by road games to Sweet Sixteen participant Pittsburgh on December 8 and Notre Dame, another NCAA Tournament team on December 12. The Crusaders will head to the San Diego Surf 'n Slam December 28 and 30 to face marquee teams Auburn, Wake Forest, and San Diego State as well. A trip to NCAA second round participant Ball State is also on the docket during non-conference play (November 24).
Valpo's home schedule features visits to the Athletics-Recreation Center by Colorado State on November 22, Central Michigan (December 5), and UAB from Conference USA on December 19.
The Crusaders open the regular season on Saturday, November 14 hosting Indiana Tech and also travel to ChicagoState before hosting Colorado State. Valpo opens its 18-game Horizon League schedule at home against UIC on January 2 while also closing the regular season on March 6 at UIC.
The Horizon League Tournament will then take place the following week with the league champion earning the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
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When Rick Schwartz made those comments on what would be his last post for awhile, he finally had validation of what he he had been saying all along, that only 1% of the industry or its players were actually in the business of domaining, while the others were in a casino playing a game called 'domaining." He argued that when Internet Traffic would separate the potent traffic from the garbage traffic, it would finally become clear- Domains have crossed the Rubicon. The 1% of the cream that rose to the top have now to do unto themselves what they give others the power to do: Rebrand. They are no longer domainers, they are brand builders. The #1 reason end users buy domains is to brand something new or fix a brand that's broken. Sale after sale for the highest return after return that we examined beneath the headlines on the DNS homepage ticker, prove the reason to buy is that simple.
In promoting the value of domains, we've talked about something called the radio test. I've been taking that to the next level with something I call the SIRI test. Ask SIRI for TUMLBR and see what she says? Could that be why they bellied up to the bar and went for Tumbler? Why Box.net suddenly had to be rebranded Box.com? Or why Meet.ME was worth $450K to MeetMe.com? Why when you ask SIRI for "New York Plumbers" she's not going to send you to a site named NYPlumbers? Could that have driven the mid-figure DNS sale of NewYorkPlumbers.com to NYPlumbers.com? Or driving another mid-five figure DNS November sale, East Rest is a luxury bedding product sold by direct response TV ads. The call-to-action had been MyEasyRest.com. They spent mid figures to upgrade to EasyRest.com. Smart. I reckon there are thousands of other sales made simply to truncate the name and drop the "my."
The only reason it got registered to begin with is because when they went to Network Solutions to register EasyRest.com, they got a message that it was taken and a suggestion they register the MY alternative. The end user never was informed that there is an aftermarket where it still may be possible to own the exact one they want.
See a pattern here?
When you see a sign on a retail store that says Kids Dept. you hear "Kids Department" and that's what SIRI hears too. And SIRI is just the beginning of an entire sea change in how people surf, connect, and consume information. And from all the Google complaints, I'd have to assume 50% of the brands out there will not be conducive to voice search
Meanwhile in almost every case of an end-user sale, domainers claim they never had to show stats and no one cared about the traffic. People wonder why P&G buys all those domains and doesn't use them-- what a waste! It's because P&G doesn't sell toothpaste they formulate toothpaste wrapped under various brands and sell it through various channels of distribution.
According to the Wall Street Journal, "Tooth Paste is the biggest and steady traffic generator for supermarkets. Where else can you buy a $3 product and get $75 cash back without a fee? And find other items you need all in one stop. Today, toothpaste commands some of the strongest brand loyalty in stores. The application for a domain name is in solving the problem of loyal or in educating the value of brand-specific benefits."
As an example, Crest hit the market in 1955 and in 1960 became the first fluoride toothpaste to gain the American Dental Association's "seal of acceptance." Toothpaste was elevated from cosmetic to therapeutic status, and sales of Crest nearly tripled within the next two years. The 1980s brought tartar-control formulas, raising consumer expectations of what toothpaste could do. Ever since, companies have brought out benefits and ingredients, in search of the next game-changing upgrade.
Each new benefit is a chance for toothpaste makers to push prices upward and drive sales. With some 93% of U.S. adults using toothpaste, according to Mintel, there's little room to recruit new users. A domain promoted on or in the packing that can lead to a page raising consumer expectations of what toothpaste could do, is the one which will be sought.
Brands don't need traffic but they need a way to create a deeper relationship with the traffic they already have to keep it loyal.
btw, There was another reason for Box.net to Box.com. dotCOM is essential branding for Cloud Software. It's why Force.com, Cloud.com, DataCenters.com, Team.com and others acquired by readers of this blog, create perception of Internet based- whereas names like SAP, Oracle and BMC are turn offs to companies associated with all the last generations hassle and expense and inflexibility of CRM Software.


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This is one of my original drawings by looking at a reference picture without any tool aids or scaling. Since this tutorial is about "How to Draw a Woman," I thought Katherine Pierce with her sassy and womanly ways would be the perfect picture. Nina Dobrev brilliantly plays this vixen vampire in "The Vampire Diaries," and she was a rival to Elena Gilbert, her doppelganger, for the love of Stefan. I have added a couple of tips on drawing a woman's body. I hope you will enjoy this tutorial. Please fav, show your love, and comment. Thank you all. Peace and love to you.
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text: Square Enix's upcoming Vita game puts players in command of a dethroned King of Hell who's commanding a 100-goblin attack squad to get his crown back. This latest video from the strategy game shows that you needn't go it alone. ACoH will support up to four ad-hoc players and you can see what it looks like when multiple nether-generals go at the game's big bosses. Army Corps of Hell will be there on the PlayStation's launch day in two short weeks.


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text: Don't be surprised if your dentist realizes how stressed you are before you do. The habit of grinding your teeth (called bruxism) is a big way that tension manifests itself, and recent studies show that more and more people are doing it, says Barbara J. Steinberg, DDS, clinical professor of surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine. Your dentist should be able to see unusual signs of wear on your teeth, but symptoms include frequent earaches or headaches, a sore jaw, facial pain and toothaches. Grinding can cause permanent tooth damage, so you should address the problem as soon as you can. Anything you can do to relieve stress should help, but if you grind your teeth while sleeping, your dentist may recommend wearing a night guard (to prevent teeth from rubbing against each other). Applying a warm compress to the jaw can help reduce pain by relaxing the muscles.