KONY 2012: Is the Viral Campaign a Scam?

KONY 2012, a documentary produced by non-profit Invisible Children, has gone viral in the past couple days, receiving millions of views on YouTube and Vimeo.

The video has also, however, begun to receive significant backlash from organizations and publications questioning the authenticity of Invisible Children. Many of the negative critiques have been targeted at Invisible Children's practices as an organization, not whether Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, is a war criminal.

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Visible Children, a Tumblr dedicated to evaluating the legitimacy of the KONY 2012 campaign, raised some points Wednesday morning which have resurfaced in numerous publications.

"Invisible Children has been condemned time and time again. As a registered not-for-profit, its finances are public. Last year, the organization spent $8,676,614. Only 32% went to direct services (page 6), with much of the rest going to staff salaries, travel and transport, and film production. This is far from ideal, and Charity Navigator rates their accountability 2/4 stars because they haven't had their finances externally audited. But it goes way deeper than that."

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You can evaluate Invisible Children's 2011 budget, which is public online, for yourself: $1,074,273 was allocated to travel and $1,724,993 was allocated to staff compensation.

Invisible Children replied to the criticism in a blog post overnight Thursday, iterating its "three prong" approach to tackling the LRA: documenting crimes, channeling advocacy into energy and operating programs on the ground.

"In response to this explosion of interest about the Kony 2012 film, there have been hundreds of thousands of comments in support of the arrest of Joseph Kony and the work of Invisible Children. However, there have also been a few pieces written that are putting out false or mis-leading information about these efforts."

Some Reddit users have been very involved in the discussion of the 30-minute documentary, raising similar questions and pointing out Invisible Children's lack of compliance with the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance.

"While participation in the Alliance?s charity review efforts is voluntary, the Alliance believes that failure to participate may demonstrate a lack of commitment to transparency," states the organization's evaluation.

Others across the Twittersphere have accused KONY 2012 of promoting slacktivism -- the idea that sharing, liking or retweeting will solve a problem -- across the social web. Slacktivism was even turned into the college student and Wonka memes.

I, for one, can't remember the last time so many of my Facebook friends shared the same link (upwards of 20 were showing on my news feed all day Wednesday). Facebook events for KONY 2012 tours sprung up as well.

As with all charitable giving, individual research is necessary to evaluate one's level of comfort with an organization. Read through what Visible Children, Invisible Children and others have written if you're interested in taking a stance on the campaign, which has undoubtedly gone viral.

If you, like many others, shared the film, how much did you research the organization before sharing its compelling film? Do you think KONY 2012 is promoting slacktivism? Sound off in the comments.

This story originally published on Mashable here.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kony-2012-viral-campaign-scam-094450230.html

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Apple's is making iPad?offer that's hard to refuse

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Wilson Rothman

When the iPhone launched in 2007, it was celebrated as a vision but derided as a luxury. Two years later, everybody and their mom had one. When the iPad launched, buyers -- softened by the love they had for their smartphone -- were more eager to accept the pitch, but it was expensive and its point was questionable. With Apple's Wednesday press announcement, the iPad is closer to the "everybody and their mom" phase than ever before. ?

With the "new iPad," Apple makes a dual proposition that consumers will find harder than ever to resist.?

First, you get, yes, a new iPad. Its screen makes it easier to enjoy both plain old black-and-white text and thrilling 1080p video action. It has a 5-megapixel camera, a dramatic increase in quality over the previous model. It also gets a quad-core processor and 4G LTE connectivity. While many (most?) people won't take advantage of those last two, they round out the complete list of advantages that makers of competing Android tablets can no longer claim to have over the iPad.

Related story: The iPad at 2: "Huge impact" on our lives

I played with the new iPad, and could write all the reviews of it right now: "The best iPad yet. If you were holding out, now's the time to buy it." That's because the only criticism of past iPads that doesn't go away with the new model is that its super shiny screen still can't be seen easily in sunlight -- and this doesn't seem to concern Apple's designers.

But that's not all. No, for people who value saving money over scoring the latest and greatest toys, the amazingly competent iPad 2 is still available, in its baseline Wi-Fi and 3G configurations, for $100 less than before. In other words, $200 may get you a Kindle Fire, but $400 will get you an iPad.

That $100 price drop could go a long way, according to my friend Ross Rubin, principal analyst at NPD Connected Intelligence, who was also at the Apple launch event.?

"Mainstream acceptance tends to be driven more by price," he says.

Still, Rubin explained to me, the evolution of the new iPad helps fill in the bigger picture. It strengthens the argument that these tablets really are capable of replacing computers.

"The increase in horsepower and the examples of sophistication in the new [iWork and iLife] apps show the iPad is becoming a stronger contender to being a primary computing device for more customers."

While there are plenty of people who want -- and can afford -- a tablet just for gaming, viewing, browsing and reading, the larger market has to weigh purchasing this or a real live "computer," such as a laptop. Microsoft is launching Windows 8 this fall with the iPad in its crosshairs: Windows is for real computing, goes the thinking, while iPads are for media consumption.

"This sets the stage for Apple to compete against Windows on tablets. Productivity is Microsoft's core legacy and strength," says Rubin.

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal, but that doesn't grant us privileged access to Microsoft products, nor does it influence our opinion of them.)

What is at stake isn't just the fledgling tablet business but the next phase of personal computing itself. In terms of market share (but not necessarily profits), Apple lost the first personal computing war to Microsoft, and is losing the smartphone war to Google's Android platform. The new product lineup represents Apple's moves against those enemies, while the company still has the upper hand.?

In fact, "with its new model and lower pricing on the popular iPad 2 model, Apple Inc. is poised to retake some of the media tablet market share lost to Android competitors in the fourth quarter of 2011," research firm IHS said Wednesday. Apple's global media tablet shipments for this year 2012 will be 61 percent, up from 57 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011.

"Microsoft is attacking Apple from above and Android is attacking from below, and Apple has pushed back against both with today's announcements," says Rubin.

Other stories related to Wednesday's iPad launch:

- Apple announces a new iPad and Apple TV
- iPhoto app finally comes to iPad
- iPad 2 starting price drops to $399
- iPad 2 trade-in prices between $180-$280
- Post Steve Jobs, Tim Cook moves forward with Apple's new iPad
- New Apple TV unveiled: 1080p, improved interface and more?

Wilson Rothman is the Technology & Science editor at msnbc.com, and is happy to respond to questions and comments on Twitter at @wjrothman. You can also join our conversation on Facebook.

Source: http://www.gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/technology/gadgetbox/ipad-ready-masses-357391

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Hints of Higgs multiply at US lab

7 March 2012 Last updated at 04:00 ET By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News

Scientists from the US Tevatron accelerator say they have spotted possible hints of the Higgs boson at a mass similar to that seen at the LHC.

The findings add weight to the idea that the Higgs - purported to give all other particles their mass - exists near a mass of 125 gigaelectronvolts.

However, the new data are not themselves sufficiently statistically assured to rate the find a "discovery".

The results will be presented at the Moriond physics conference in Italy.

The Tevatron was for two decades the world's premier particle accelerator, but was shut down in 2011 after negotiations to extend funding failed.

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Statistics of a 'discovery'

• Particle physics has an accepted definition for a "discovery": a five-sigma level of certainty
• The number of standard deviations, or sigmas, is a measure of how unlikely it is that an experimental result is simply down to chance rather than a real effect
• Similarly, tossing a coin and getting a number of heads in a row may just be chance, rather than a sign of a "loaded" coin
• The "three sigma" level represents about the same likelihood as tossing more than eight heads in a row
• Five sigma, on the other hand, would correspond to tossing more than 20 in a row
• With independent confirmation by other experiments, five-sigma findings become accepted discoveries

However, like all particle-smashers, the Tevatron created a tremendous amount of data that remained to be analysed.

The latest data hint at the existence of a particle between 115 and 135 gigaelectronvolts (GeV; this is between about 120 and 140 times as heavy as the protons found in every atom) with a certainty of about 2.2 sigma.

That means that there is about a one in 36 chance that the anomaly they see is the result of happenstance - far less assured than the "five sigma" threshold that physicists use to demarcate a formal discovery.

However, what makes the find more compelling is that the Large Hadron Collider has found a suggestive "bump" in its data at about the same mass, despite being a radically different experiment.

The LHC collides protons together, while the Tevatron used protons and their antimatter counterpart, antiprotons.

Both experiments hunt for the Higgs by looking at what those high-energy particles decay into.

At the Tevatron, the data are from the production of bottom quarks and their counterparts bottom antiquarks, whereas at the LHC the primary search is for the production of the light particles known as photons.

"It's a different accelerator, different detectors and a different decay channel," said Rob Roser, spokesman for CDF, one of the two main Tevatron detectors.

Continue reading the main story

What is an electronvolt?

• Charged particles tend to speed up in an electric field, defined as an electric potential - or voltage - spread over a distance
• One electronvolt (eV) is the energy gained by a single electron as it accelerates through a potential of one volt
• It is a convenient unit of measure for particle accelerators, which speed particles up through much higher electric potentials
• But because of the equivalence of mass and energy laid out in E=MC2, physicists also speak of the mass of particles in electronvolts

"It adds to the picture, and it's starting to make a compelling case," he told BBC News. "But we can't make quite as bold a statement as we would like.

"I just wish either one of us just had more data right now. It's frustrating."

The two main detectors at the LHC, CMS and Atlas, will also present results at the meeting on Wednesday, and could add further evidence to the debate.

Tony Weidberg, a University of Oxford physicist who works at the LHC's Atlas detector, said that the Tevatron results were consistent with the idea of a comparatively "light" Higgs boson.

The data also exclude its presence at the heavier masses of 147-179 GeV, also completely consistent with what the LHC has found.

"It's interesting because it's another little hint," Dr Weidberg told BBC News. "It makes it a little bit more likely that we're going to end the year with a discovery rather than an exclusion.

"The proof of the pudding will be in the LHC data that we'll get this year, by the end of the year we'll have moved away from hints to either discovery or exclusion - and either of those results is exciting to me."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-17269647

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6 Fitness And Health Strategies To Handle Soreness From Exercise ...

How are you affected any time you consider exercise is planning to make you feel fantastic, however you wind up feeling worse than ever before immediately after beginning a fitness software? You find yourself quitting because you imagine it?s not at all price every one of the aggrevation. The simple truth is, if you want your entire body to look and feel great, you are going to invest some time getting sore at first. It took a very long time to build up all that extra extra fat, and it?ll not come off without a fight!

If you start a weight-loss and workout system being aware of you will have to endure some suffering from the very beginning, odds are great that you will never only be able to prepare on your own far better, nevertheless, you will also carry on to achievements. In case you anticipate, program, and consider the proper measures, it is possible to lessen your soreness.

Fitness and health Recommendations #1: Anticipate, To handle Soreness From Exercising

It?s only natural to receive energized on the initial day of training. Visions person flexing people muscle tissue on the beach are likely dancing in mind. This can be fantastic, but maintain head in the game and out of the clouds. You?re not gonna get this way tomorrow or the next day. Lifting an excessive amount of or running too quickly could conclusion up delaying your system while you recover if it is not going to melt off get you started all with each other. Don?t start too fast. Upcoming day, press somewhat more durable. Following day, somewhat more challenging nevertheless. Easing in to a program is the greatest method to anticipate soreness and get continuous progress.

Conditioning Suggestions #2: Embrace The pain sensation, To deal with Soreness From Physical exercise

A little soreness suggests you?ve embarked on something which is good for you. Though it?s always bothersome, know that it truly is temporary and that it becomes an important move down the highway to your health purpose. Consider it as hurting in the great way. A great way, even. After you function by the anguish, you are going to become fitter than before.

Conditioning Strategies #3: Consume Proper Nutrition, To manage Soreness From Workout

Greater you exercise, the greater you have to eat. The greater you take in, the much less sore you are going to grow to be. A lot of people believe that because you are burning energy with exercise, you can eat as much junk as you wish. Not true in order to stay wholesome. Why? Because junk will not gasoline muscle tissue adequately. This is especially true should you are dieting. In case you are taking in donuts enjoying, swap into a soy based protein shake. Your diet is often very important.

I became a continual asthmatic my well being and that i can?t exercise. I might have granted something for your chance to be sore from physical exercise! It wasn?t till I started to vary my eating routine for that superior that my body system started functioning properly. People today said I could hardly ever work out but luckily, I didnrrrt acquire their tale. I can not pressure this enough. The higher your gas choices, the higher your body will perform. It?s just like an automobile.

Conditioning Strategies #4: Stretch, To cope with Soreness From Work out

Stretching your muscles previously and immediately after you?re working out might help accelerate your time to recover and eliminate the chance of damaging one?s body. Easy actions and stretches equally in the evening in advance of bed and first thing within the early morning helps your blood circulate far better and it?ll boost your time to recover. Whenever a friend of mine ran track in secondary school, his staff stretched before and after just about every practice. As part of his five year operating occupation, he previously small soreness with no accidents.

Physical Fitness Strategies #5: Ice Parts of your muscles, To deal with Soreness From Exercise

Almost nothing circulates blood all-around like ice. If you?ve ever viewed a locker job interview following a sporting celebration, you almost certainly recognized that many of the athletes were icing parts of their entire body. That is because it is just a terrific recovery assist. Just about all injuries heal faster when ice is used. And soreness is simply a tear inside your muscle mass tissue. They?re required to acheive stronger, and they can heal a lot quicker should you ice them.

Health and fitness Recommendations #6: Exercising, To Deal With Soreness From Exercising

What can you indicate, Exercise? Is that this not the method that you got soreness to start with? Indeed! But here is the trick. Far more exercise is the very last thing you?re feeling like performing when you find yourself sore but training promotes circulation. Staying sedentary if you are sore is worse than working out, providing you be sure you not exercise too challenging. It is just a great justification to become a bit energetic, since you are doing what is known as a ?recovery work out.?

Utilize ways over when starting a training system to lose weight naturally or perhaps get much healthier. You will see that recovering from soreness just isn?t as significantly an obstacle to beat, but alternatively a part from the wellness approach for which you could be prepared. Nothing in life comes uncomplicated. It took you a long time to gain all that pounds and this will not are removed simply using a magic tablet or even the most recent conditioning gadget. Learn to overcome tiny obstacles a day at a time in order to not only lose fat, however, you will keep it off once and for all.

Bill Winch is a Exclusive Wellness Mentor whose mission is teaching and coaching other people who are experiencing receiving wholesome, shedding pounds safely and keeping it off once and for all. He could be a former Secondary school and College Enterprise Educator and Counselor, and mentors from his home business office in Rochester, NY. In case you are interested in obtaining his Cost-free Report ?9 Weight-loss Myths Exposed? take a look at his web-site by clicking on Totally free REPORT or by calling him instantly at (585) 271-3767 for any free of charge wellness consultation.

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3 Tips For Getting More Business Exposure Through Social ...

The way we network on the Internet has changed drastically. Social networking is gaining momentum because people are looking out to interact with each, share, discuss, etc. Businesses can benefit from this because now there are even more ways to get in touch with their target audiences. There are more communication channels today than there were before, which means you?ve got a better chance of increasing your reach as a business on the Web. If you want to succeed at social media networking, use the following tips and you?ll succeed in no time.

Firstly, you need to give something if you expect to get anything. You?re not just networking and negotiating, but you?re rather helping people and you?re showing them that you really care about them. All Internet marketing pros, bloggers and online business people of all kinds know that this is one of the main rules when networking online. You need to practice a lot of gratitude to win your customers. It takes a bit of effort but in the long run, you?ll see that the results are no less than great. You will find that your customers and prospects trust you more, and your business will earn even more business than before.

Secondly, you must be credible when networking on social websites. People are aware of the online scams floating around so you have to prove that you are honest. This helps to foster trust and build up the relationship as time goes by. If you feel that a mistake has been made, say it. People want to do business with someone that is real and not phoney.

Thirdly, you have to honest in all of your dealings. Clients want to be aware of what is occurring on the inside. They want you to be crystal clear about your rules and policies. There should never be anything to hide because you want your customers to trust you and your business to succeed. This will not happen until you are honest with your clients and potential customers. If you do not like something in particular, state it. Be honest with your customers and show them what you really think and they will appreciate you for it.

In closing, the 3 tips above will show you that using social networking is a great way to expand your business. You will reach out to your customers effectively, and your reach will expand too. But if you hope to succeed over time, and you want your business to go far, you need to make sure you keep learning the latest techniques that will take you far in this business.

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Ideas for going on staycations in 2012

When a country (or in this case the best part of a planet) goes into recession, people?s behaviour, and more specifically the way they consume, changes. One such change which has come about, since the banking collapse a few years ago, is a huge rise in the sales of lunch boxes and thermos flasks, which seems to suggest that people are eating packed lunches more and more. Another key change is the fact that people are staying in the UK for their holidays.

These holidays at home are known colloquially as ?staycations?, and last year the amount of people embarking on them shot up. There are many reasons why this is the case. Clearly people are looking to save their hard earned cash in these desperate times, so just travelling a few cities away helps with this. Also, however, since the boom in international tourism, people have noticed how many great and beautiful places there are nearby which they can visit.

Clearly, one of the places to be in the UK in 2012 is London, especially during the time of the Olympic Games. Even if you haven?t got any tickets to events, there are going to be so many other events and nights put on in celebration, and there will be plenty of bars and squares from which you can see it on a screen. The atmosphere and excitement in London is going to be tangible.

The queen? diamond jubilee is another key 2012 event. During the bank holidays marking this event there will be countless street parties and other kinds of celebrations all across the nations, just like during the Royal Wedding last year. This would be an excellent time to take a holiday in the UK.

A phenomenon called ?glamping? has been taking over recently, and combines glamour with camping. Big tents and huts are set up for tourists in beautiful locations in the English countryside, meaning you can enjoy the stunning scenery without all the mess and cramped conditions of camping.

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Source: http://www.timeshareresorts.co/travel-and-leisure/ideas-for-going-on-staycations-in-2012/

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