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7 Steps To Building Your Online Identity

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New Statesman - There’s more to the Facebook generation than the odd poke

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Egyptian Entrepreneurs learn at USAID event

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Social Media Guru, Shama Kabani on Day 2 in Egypt

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Don't Be Fooled-Still A Recession ~N ~You Need God!

Starvation! Working or not-inflation-recession... calls for a sacred moment with Jesus... more

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Gay Girl in Damascus is a 40-year-old married man living in Edinburgh

So the joke is on all of us. The now infamous blogger 'A Gay Girl In Damascus', a.k.a. Amina Abdallah Arraf al-Omari, a 25-year-old half-Syrian half-American lesbian living in Damascus who was "abducted" last week was in fact a 40-year-old American Middle East activist called Tom MacMaster who is studying at Edinburgh University. MacMaster started writing the popular blog in February this year and due to the recent unrest in Syria it was followed intensely by news agencies and activists around the world.
However, last week he posted that "Amina" had been abducted by armed men not to be seen or heard of since. That last post caused worldwide concern and received a lot of media attention leading to "Amina's photo" being plastered on every news website (including Current.com) as a genuine news story.
The real woman, whose picture MacMaster had used as the profile pic of his fictional "Amina" character spotted her picture in the news and came forward saying her identity had ben stolen and that she worried for her safety. The woman in question was Jelena Lecic, a Croatian woman living in London who had nothing to do with Syria. In an interview with the BBC MacMaster defended his actions saying: "I really felt a number of years ago, in discussions on Middle East issues in the US, often when I presented real facts and opinions, the immediate reaction to someone with my name was: 'Why are you anti-American? Why are you anti-Jewish?' So I invented a name to talk under that would keep the focus on the actual issue."MacMaster said he had wanted people to listen to the facts without paying attention to "the man behind the curtain", claiming that the success of the blog took him by surprise.He said: "From the beginning I never expected it to get anywhere near the attention it has."I thought when I was starting I would be read by four, five, maybe as many as 10 people."MacMaster told the BBC that he accepted the concerns that he may have made it harder for bloggers within Syria, and that he had backed up government claims there were no problems in the country and that it was all "foreign lies".He said: "However, the reality is that I have been in contact with a lot of people inside Syria and I have been following things very closely."He said the most important thing was to "get the information out" and added: "People should stop focussing on the hoaxer and really be focussing on the most important people, the real people who are suffering in Syria."
You can read Tom MacMaster's full apology here.So the joke is on all of us. The now infamous blogger 'A Gay Girl In... more

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'Gay Girl In Damascus': Missing Or Mythical?

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The Rise And Fall of Britain Richest Slavery Dynasty Featured By DJ Mona-Lisa

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How An Occupational Therapist Salary Differs By Location

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10 Ways to Make Money Off Your Blog

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The Mansion, The Country: A Story of Cuba

She has a five-bedroom house that is falling to pieces. She got it in the seventies when the family for whom she worked as a maid went into exile. At first she went through all the rooms each day, the interior patio, caressed the marble banister of the stairs to the second floor, played at filling the basins of the three bathrooms just to be reminded that this neoclassical mansion was now hers. The joy lasted for a while, until the first bulbs burned out, the paint started to peel, and weeds grew in the garden. She got a job cleaning a school, but not even six salaries for such a job would have been enough to maintain the ancient splendor of this house that seemed increasingly larger and more inhospitable.

Thousands of times, the woman in this story thought of selling the house inherited from her former employers, but she would not do anything outside the law. For decades in Cuba a market in housing was prohibited and it was only possible to exchange properties through a concept popularly known as a “swap.” Dozens of decrees, restrictions and limitations also arose, to regulate and control this activity, making moving an ordeal. An all-powerful Housing Institute oversaw the completion of a string of absurd conditions. With so many requirements, the procedures were strung out over more than a year, such that before families could go live in their new homes they were exhausted from filling out forms, hiring lawyers and bribing inspectors.

Such anxieties raised hopes that the Sixth Communist Party Congress would raise the flag for real estate. When, in the final report, it said that the purchase and sale of homes would be accepted and all that remained was to legally implement it, hundreds of thousands of Cubans breathed a sigh of relief. The lady with the mansion, at the moment it was announced, was sitting in front of her television avoiding a drip falling from the ceiling right in the middle of the living room. She looked around at the columns with decorated capitals, the huge mahogany doors, and the marble staircase from which the banister had been torn out and sold. Finally she could hang a sign on the fence, “For Sale: Five-bedroom house in urgent need of repairs. Wish to buy a one-bedroom apartment in some other neighborhood.”She has a five-bedroom house that is falling to pieces. She got it in the seventies... more

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Bloggers Join The Labor Parade - International Day Of Spring And Labor, May 1

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Hell Is For Real: A Teen's Astounding Story Of His Trip To the Abyss

It's been over twenty years and I'm finally ready to talk about it. I tried writing about it before but I started to cry. A few years after it happened, just thinking about it would give me nervous shakes. Now I'm mostly okay, as long as I don't dwell on it too long.

I'm talking about the time I almost killed three people: myself, my best friend Zack (not his real name) and a complete stranger.

I was just a teen, a new driver, and I loved speed. I turned down a country road and said to Zack something like, "Full throttle!" He reached back for his seat belt and clicked it in. I dropped the pedal. We shot up a hill going- oh, I don't know. Maybe seventy mph? Eighty? It didn't matter. It was an empty country road, right?

Wrong.

Being an inexperienced driver, I didn't know to slow at the crest of a hill because you can't see what's on the other side. So we soared over a ridge to find an eighteen-wheeler turning around below us. Essentially, a giant wall had appeared in the road blocking both lanes.

I stood on the brake with both feet. The tires screamed, and the car locked up. I had no control and it didn't really matter. There was no time. The last thing I saw was a guy waving his arms. He had been standing in the road, directing the truck. He dove out of our path, Hollywood-style, and we went into the rig's massive back tire going fast. Had we instead gone under the truck, I suspect Zack and I would have been decapitated.

To this very day, I always smile when ads try to wow me by bragging how well a car goes from zero to sixty. So what? I don't think you can truly respect a vehicle's power until you go from sixty to zero. Sometimes I wish that would be a requirement for new drivers. Instead of trying to scare teens away from reckless driving by showing them gory post-accident pictures, make them sit in an simulator and hurl them against a wall like a crash test dummy. Make them experience the terrifying power of machines colliding.

Concludes at the link: http://tinyurl.com/6drfhk8It's been over twenty years and I'm finally ready to talk about it. I tried... more

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The Golden Era -Artcell

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Cincinnati Chronicle- Double Rainbow over the city

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"Family Man": A reflection on the early days, when morals meant more than money to Copyright Troll John Steele(includes his own words)

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"Massive" Fracking Blowout spill in PA. (Updated) Daily Kos

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50 Best Blogs for Veterinary Students

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