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Jovit Baldivino Carrie Semi-Finals May 01, 2010 Pilipinas Got Talent

willowdan — Sun, 02 May 2010 13:14:35 +0000

Stunning performance by our very own, Jovit Badovino. This is a continues manifestation of pure talent from a humble and lowly person destined to stardom, comparable to Manny Pacquiao.

In this life-changing “abundance” program, bestselling author, self-made multimillionaire and The Secret co-star Dr. Joe Vitale shows you how to tap into the awesome force of the Law of Attraction, and focus it like a laser for one purpose — attracting more money into your life.

Without you …

willowdan — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:02:56 +0000

This is magic, I just felt it is one of the best messages I ever read. A reminder for you, yes, you who is reading this …

Without you ...

Earth Day: Give Earth a Hand

willowdan — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:53:43 +0000

It’s Earth Day and I’m hoping you’ll celebrate by watching our new Earth Day video and inviting those in your life to join Greenpeace with you.

Our planet is facing bigger challenges than ever before. Our ancient forests are being chopped down and our oceans recklessly fished out and polluted at a breathtaking pace. Whaling, toxic pollution, dirty coal, dangerous nuclear energy and genetically engineered crops threaten the quality and even sustainability of lives around the planet. Catastrophic climate change looms as governments and industry spend time and resources in hopes of increasing their profits while avoiding the changes necessary to curb carbon emissions.

Over the years, we’ve had a positive impact around the world by bearing witness and convincing politicians and industry to change many harmful practices. We have managed to protect enormous swaths of land, push through major environmental laws and sometimes even inspire business, government and science to put the good of the planet before financial gain.

But if you think the power of Greenpeace is in our ships, our peaceful direct actions or our solutions-based campaigning - think again: it’s you.

The Earth needs more people like you who care about environmental issues, more people who will use their voices to defend it - and more people who will take action to protect it. You can help the Earth today by helping build the movement to save it.

A green and peaceful future is possible - please join us in making it happen. The Earth needs our attention not just on Earth Day, but every day.

Together, we can help conserve and protect our water resources.

Best wishes,
Kumi Naidoo
Executive Director, Greenpeace International

P.S. Please consider going directly to YouTube to “favourite” the video and leave a comment. You can also promote it on your Facebook/Twitter accounts or grab the embed code and paste on your blog.

Soloist Performs Beyoncé and Lady Gaga on Four iPhones

willowdan — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:27:35 +0000

A girl going by the YouTube handle Applegirl002 has performed accurate covers of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” and Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable” solo using four iPhones. They set up the phones in her living room, pointed a video camera at the rig, and performed.

For “Irreplaceable,” (currently at 885,920 views) they used two iPhones, but they started the four-phone “Poker Face” video (1,167,000 views) by demonstrating which apps they was using and how they was using them to put together the composition. One iPhone — the one oriented like a microphone — was jogging the I Am T-Pain [iTunes link] Auto-Tune app. One were jogging the BeatMaker [iTunes link] looping app an the other was jogging an unspecified analog synthesizer app.

There’s been other musical iPhone performances historically, often using Smule’s Ocarina app — for example, the Stanford iPhone orchestra. This girl has made herself a YouTube star within a couple weeks, though. Her performances are already among the most popular iPhone music videos. Don’t be surprised if they puts out another one for her fans soon.

“Irreplaceable”

“Poker Face”

Google Android-Powered Robot [VIDEO]

willowdan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:34:26 +0000

With $30, an Android tool, & a tiny creativity the pair could generate the cellbots which method commands by telnet on PCs. The bots can move around in specified directions thanks to the built-in compass functionally on positive Android phones.

Enterprising hobbyists Tim Heath & Ryan Hickman have created cellbots — with names like Tankbot & Truckbot — that are basically robots powered by Android devices.

While actual robot activity is minimal, the focus of the project was to utilize Android phones as the brains of the robots. The pair hope to expand robot functionality & make the most of Android’s program. Wired speculates that:

“This means they could utilize every hardware & program component of an Android phone, programming the bot to keep away from obstacles, recognize faces & voices, pinpoint its location & go places.”

Heath & Hickman have documented the entire project on their cellbots web-site, which means that with the right know-how you could generate your own Android-powered robot.

Watch a video of the robots with Android intelligence below:

Razor-Sharp Techniques for Twitter Marketing

willowdan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:19:15 +0000

It’s fabulous to think that only 2 years ago, this word was unknown and didn’t mean anything to most people.

Now Twitter has become one of the center-pieces of marketers than know how to handle social media, and require to make it a powerful piece of their marketing puzzle.

As general concept, you require finally both free and paid marketing on your arsenal, that is how you can take huge action and get huge results, but this is for another broader topic.

In this editorial you’ll learn how to automate your twitter marketing by quitely putting your acount to work, and deliver hundreds of followers per day, but simultaneously by keeping your account tidy and compliant to Twitter-rules so that you don’t get banned!

1. Think it like going to a party….

You would not say to somebody you meet at a party…” hey how are you? Here’s my business card, hope to see you in my store!” Probably not…. and you need to think of your account as a magazine or radio station as well… bottom line, you NEED to offer lovely content of REAL value for your followers. Mix it up, don’t blast out ads only.

The biggest thing you will do when you automate your twitter promotion is schedulingall your tweets…. you don’t need to be on there all day, you have other things to do.

2. The power of scheduling and forget… go about your day with your tweets being posted.

3. How to Follow people every day in a smart way

I suggest 10-12 tweets per day, a lovely mix of value for your followers (quotes, articles and free reports) and tweets with your business link. a 3-4 to 1 ratio is lovely… where the 1 is a tweet with your personal link

Here’s what is safe to do so you won’t get banned from Twitter: add 100-150 people a day until you get to 500 followers… than start adding 200-300 a day.. when you are around 1000, you can add 400-500/day.

The best way is to pick 1 or 2 people that relate to your business, and follow their followers.

4. Tidy it up

VERY IMPORTANT, when you get over 2000 followers: you cannot follow a quantity of people that is higher than 10% over your followers…. Example: if you have 2000 followers, you can be following over 2200 people.

Every morning, you ought to UNfollow people that are not following you back. There is no point in giving them a few days to do it. Tidy it up every day.

My first software suggestion is Hummingbird 2,a wonderful software that will automate many cool functions for you. You can google it. This is a ONE TIME fee. This can do all of the above and more for you.

The other is SocialOomph … cute name I know, this one offers a lot for free…. for all the other bells and whistles you will have to pay a small mothly fee.

I really hope this will help you get started in your Social Media adventures, to market in the best way possible, which is giving before receiving.

ClixSense Advertising Program Review

willowdan — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:04:08 +0000

ClixSense lets you earn up to $5.00 for every 30 seconds you view other advertisers web-sites. Unlike a lot of networks they don’t charge you anything to get started and you can signup for free with them. If you are interested in promotion with them they charge as small as one penny per targeted visitor to your web-site.

The ClixSense Domain was registered in December of 2006. This MLM Promotion company gives you a chance to earn extra income by referring others in to their network. You ultimately get paid by viewing their advertisers web pages. Each ad you must view is 30 seconds long. The company pays you one time per month as a result of your efforts.

ClixSense is not an autosurf by it is most technical definition. Autosurfs tend to load their adverts directly in to the browser and the view doesn’t necessarily must see the ad. With this program it is great for the advertisers, since each ad has to be viewed for 30 seconds and the member has to be alert to be able to click on the next ad.
Of coursework ClixSense does have a Premium Account upgrade option available to its members. Premium members will be able to view more ads than free members can. This gives Premium Members the chance to earn lots more funds than free members. And paying advertisers have the option to only show ads to Premium Members since they would display their paid ads to customers which have proven buying power.

I can vouch for the fact that ClixSense gets a whole lot of traffic. As of the time of this review, they are in the top 4000 web-sites on Alexa which does say a lot. They even let you list your ebay auction with them to improve the chance of selling your ebay items. This company can send the funds you earned with them straight in to your paypal account. They currently pay commissions on 5 levels.

You only require to earn $10.00 before ClixSense will cut you a check. However if you require to set the amount higher, say $25.00 or $100.00 you will be allowed to do that through your back office. be aware that if you are not using a standard browser that you may not be able to view the timer frame at the top of the screen. So it is preferred you use either MSIE or Firefox when viewing your ads. Finally the company only allows one account for every household. But if you have a relative at another physical address this is all right.

Here is my own link, http://bit.ly/myclixs

iPad - Best Way To Experience The Web

willowdan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:27:57 +0000

Wi-Fi models shipping in late March.
3G models shipping in April.

With All I Am by Hillsong

willowdan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:12:47 +0000

To recognize that the Lord Jesus is that stronger person to whom we can rely, brings us to our knees, to worship Him and give gratitude, abundant praises. The song is quite encouraging, please play it and be blessed.

Haiti pier opens, road laid into Port-au-Prince

willowdan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:01:38 +0000

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — The U.S. price tag for relief in Haiti has hit $170 million, the federal government announced Thursday as ton after ton of relief supplies headed into the island nation through a crucial reopened pier.

The vast majority of the committed federal aid — $140 million — is from the U.S. Agency for International Development under the State Department, according to the Office of Management and Budget.

And the need within Haiti — still reeling from last week’s devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake — only grows by the minute. After days of being closed to much needed food and supplies, the south pier at Port-au-Prince was channeling aid into the leveled capital city. The supplies were brought into Port-au-Prince on trucks traveling on a repaired gravel road leading from the port.

Sidewalks were crowded with street vendors and kiosks and many small food stores were open. Dozens of stalls at a dusty market sold fruits and vegetables along a pocked and rut-filled dirt side street. A smaller market on a street corner saw some business.

However, the longest and most visible lines in Haiti’s capital were not for food, water or gas — they were for money. Earthquake survivors need cash and are waiting hours outside wire transfer businesses, including Western Union, that are starting to reopen. Banks remained shut.

“I have not eaten for two days,” said 32-year-old Anderson Bellegarde, who waited more than six hours outside a money-wiring branch. “I’m only drinking water.”

Meanwhile, a Dutch Navy ship, the Pelikaan, was docked at the city’s south pier Thursday, unloading 90 tons of humanitarian aid. Two other ships had previously offloaded containers.

The reopened pier is older and smaller than the north pier, which was rendered unusable by the January 12 earthquake. The south pier was damaged, but Haiti port authorities and the U.S. military were able to put it back in adequate shape. Workers also repaired the road leading into the city and laid gravel on it.

By the numbers: The U.S. military’s response to Haiti quake

Here’s a look at the U.S. military response to the earthquake in Haiti, based on figures the military released Thursday:

Troops:

– The U.S. military has 13,121 troops in and around Haiti: 2,676 on the ground in Haiti and another 10,445 off shore. (The numbers fluctuate because many Marines spend time in Haiti during the day but sleep on ships off shore at night.)

– More U.S. troops are scheduled to arrive in Haiti by this weekend, bringing the total number of U.S. personnel on the ground there to about 4,600.

Aid delivered so far:

– More than $100 million worth of aid has been delivered, including:

– 22,000 pounds of medical supplies

– More than 700,000 meals

– 1.4 million bottles of water

By Air

– About 120-140 flights a day are landing in Haiti

– 840 flights have landed since the earthquake

– 1,400 flights are on a waiting list to fly to Haiti

– The military has 63 helicopters in or near Haiti

– The military is flying into the main airport at Port-au-Prince as well as airports in Jacmel, Haiti, and two cities in the neighboring Dominican Republic.

By Sea:

– The U.S. military has 20 ships in Port-au-Prince, ranging from aircraft carriers and floating medical hospitals to ships meant to help clear the port.

– The Navy has set up a logistics field at its base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to support bigger ships in the region.

Unloading of aid, however, was a slow process. The road allows only for one-way traffic, meaning a truck drives to the end of the pier, is loaded with supplies, and then drives out. Also, because of concerns about overloading the pier, only one truck is allowed on it at a time.

Repairs on the pier continue, said U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Mark Gibbs. “We’re working on it. We’ve got a long ways to go. … If we lose this pier, that’s it. We can’t bring in anything.”

However, the reopening of the pier and the repairing of the road represented a major development in efforts to get aid to earthquake victims, in that ships can carry much more cargo than air airplanes.

Authorities hope to get two-way traffic going on the pier by Friday, which would speed up the process.

A 5.9-magnitude aftershock Wednesday stopped efforts at the pier for about three hours. U.S. Navy divers had to go back in the water and reassess the pier’s structural integrity, officials said. There was no immediate word if two less intense aftershocks Thursday, measured at magnitude 4.9 and 4.8, also caused a delay.

Lt. Gen. Douglas Fraser of U.S. Southern Command announced the pier’s reopening on Thursday in Washington. Officials hope to move about 150 containers of aid Thursday and 250 on Friday. They want to increase that to 800 containers a day.

The reopening comes as U.S. officials have been stung by criticism of aid efforts in recent days.

Some of that criticism has been leveled by aid groups such as Doctors Without Borders, who blamed five victims’ deaths on delays, saying several flights carrying medical supplies had been diverted from the Port-au-Prince airport into the neighboring Dominican Republic.

Working under adverse conditions with limited supplies, medical teams have been forced to improvise.

Renzo Fricke, field coordinator for Doctors Without Borders told CNN this week that staffers had to buy a saw in the market so surgeons could do amputations. A CNN crew loaned a medic a pocket knife for another operation.

Lacking rubbing alcohol, doctors have used vodka to sterilize equipment and instruments. Surgical patients are being given over-the-counter pain medicine because doctors lack any stronger medication. One nurse used a string of Christmas lights as a makeshift extension cord. A belt was used as a tourniquet, and when that broke, a garden hose.

Canadian troops, meanwhile, were working to open an airport in Jacmel on Thursday, another step that could speed delivery of relief supplies.

And U.S. Southern Command, through its component Air Force South, conducted an air drop of food and water over Mirebalais, Haiti, on Thursday. Mirebalais is 25 miles northeast of Port-au-Prince. A C-17 delivered water bottles and 17,200 meals ready to eat, the military said in a statement.

Troops secured an area in which to drop the supplies and, once the supplies were on the ground, the military, the U.S. Agency for International Development and other personnel distributed them, the statement said. Nepalese troops also assisted, the Air Force said. Thursday’s air drop was the second since the quake; the first was Monday.

Fraser said Thursday that 120 to 140 flights a day are coming into the single-runway Port-au-Prince airport, compared with 25 per day just after the quake struck last week. More than 840 have landed since the airport was reopened, but there is a waiting list of 1,400 to come in, he said.

A senior administration official acknowledged that not all aid, particularly medical supplies, is getting through fast enough but said that in recent days, at least half of the flights entering Haiti are carrying humanitarian supplies. Most of the other 50 percent of flights, including those of the U.S. military and foreign governments, are still carrying some kind of aid.

“Of course I’m not satisfied with getting material and personnel in for everyone who needs it,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said earlier Wednesday. “Realistically, I am aware of the difficulties that this terrible natural disaster has posed.”

The senior administration official said that more than 300 aid distribution sites are up and running. Fraser said more than 700,000 meals and 1.4 million bottles of water have been delivered, along with 22,000 pounds of medical supplies.

About 13,100 U.S. troops are in and around Haiti, nearly 2,700 on the ground and another 10,400 off shore. Many Marines spend time in Haiti during the day but sleep on ships at night. More U.S. troops are scheduled to arrive by this weekend, bringing the total to about 4,600 troops on the ground.

At least 72,000 people — including dozens of U.N. staff members — have been confirmed dead in the earthquake, according to the country’s prime minister.

International aid contributions have totaled hundreds of millions of dollars, but relief agencies working in Haiti say transportation bottlenecks and poor communications have slowed the delivery of food, water and medicine to survivors.

On Wednesday, U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Rajiv Shah ordered more medicine and other supplies to be sent within the next 24 hours, the administration official said.

Lt. Gen. P.K. Keen, the head of the U.S. military task force in Haiti, said any aircraft identified as carrying medical supplies would have priority for landing. They are turned away only “if there’s no parking space on the ramp, and they don’t have sufficient fuel to hold in their holding pattern,” he said.

Another senior U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Wednesday that the priorities for aid flights are set “by the government of Haiti first and then by the U.N. second.” But the number of flights that can land at Port-au-Prince is “a sheer issue of physics and geometry; you just can’t get them all in there.”

To improve the flow of air traffic, the U.S. military said Wednesday it had obtained landing rights at the Dominican Republic’s air base at San Isidro, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) east of Port-au-Prince.

The U.S. military has the ability to build dirt runways that rugged cargo planes such as the C-130 Hercules can use, but the equipment needed to build those is “always at a premium,” the senior official said.

The military has 63 helicopters in the region, Fraser said.

CNN’s Arthur Brice, Susan Candiotti, Jill Dougherty, Eric Marrapodi and Elise Labott contributed to this report.