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Apple’s Rumored iPhone 6S Event Will Be Sept. 9

The event is rumored to reveal a new iteration of the iPhone, a long-awaited updated to the Apple TV, and a slew of other software updates for the Apple Watch and iOS.

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List of Top 10 Schools

Top 10 Schools in the US. Want to know where you went? Click Away

Stanford

Farmers

All State

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Arizona Iced Tea Pops Open a Can-Do Spirit

Arizona Beverage is expanding output and adding products, hoping to regain lost ground during years of ownership litigation.

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Publishing

Stewey Griffin is Rad

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WAYS TO PROMOTE HEARTS ON FIRE:

💖🔥 Start a street team! If you know Cimorelli fans in your area, band together and promo the mixtape in your city/town! Recruit people to help you promote our shows, and our mixtape - a group of people in one area together will get so much promotion done 😎

💖🔥 Send the link to your friends & family!! Make sure you tell them what song you think they’d like! This is the best kind of promo you could do 😊

💖🔥 If you have a tumblr, make the mixtape the music that plays on yours

💖🔥 Post videos of you listening to any of the mixtape songs on your snapchat story with the title as the caption

💖🔥 Burn the mixtape on CD’s and pass them out at school, give them to your friends, put them in mailboxes, wherever! Haha

💖🔥 Tweet the lyrics to any of the songs, make a certain line from them your bio, post pictures of select lyrics, etc.

💖🔥 Put the link in your social media bios!

💖🔥 If any of your friends would relate to one of the songs, send it to them! Like, if they’re telling you about someone they like, send them I Like It! If they ended a relationship with someone, send them Move On or Before Octobers Gone or A Lot Like Love. If they are struggling with self esteem, tell them about Good Enough. Etc.

💖🔥 Find people on Twitter asking for new music, and send them the link!

💖🔥 Print out one of the posters attached, cut in between the words on the bottom of the page to make tabs for people to take, and hang them around your town or school (if it’s allowed)!

💖🔥 If you’re on a sports team, tell everyone on the team about the mixtape or pass out CD’s at practice

💖🔥 Try to get a note or article about our mixtape in your school newspaper

💖🔥 Print out flyers and put them on your own & other people’s lockers at school! Tell your friends to do it too, bring them the flyer to school :)

💖🔥 Search for people on Twitter who would relate to our songs (someone going through a breakup, feeling insecure, having a crush on someone, etc.) and send them the link. Search lyrics from popular breakup songs and reply to them! E.g “all that I know is I don’t know how to be something you miss”

💖🔥 If you’re with your friend in the car, play some of the songs!

💖🔥 Make the mixtape photo your profile picture on different social medias, or add the transparent hearts on fire attached over your picture. (See example)

💖🔥 Set one of the songs as your ringtone or alarm!

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See Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar recreate famous Cruel Intentions kiss

Cruel Intentions fans could not have been more excited to see pictures of these three ladies together again.

Yes, we’re talking the amazing original cast of Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair.

And then, Sarah and Selma went one step further and posted of a photo of THAT kiss from Cruel Intentions.

Both stars posted the snap on their Instagram accounts, with Selma writing: “Back with my girl @sarahmgellar. Still my favorite kiss. #bittersweetsymphony.”

Sarah posted pics of the three them together too.

She wrote: “Oh it’s happening!!! #CruelIntentions …..the later years. @reesewitherspoon @therealselmablair #CruelIntentions.”

The movie, released in 1999, became a teen cult hit. In 2000, Sarah and Selma won the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss.

Now, if they could just decide to do a reunion movie with the original cast…

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Así se ve Paulina Porizkova, 50, en bikini

While I’ve been busy crying about turning 28 this month, classic Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issuecovergirl Paulina Porizkova has been spending her time showing off her flawless 50-year-old bod on the Internets.

The Czech-born beaut, who first covered the beach babe tome at age 18 in 1984 (and again in ‘85), celebrated the big five-oh in April—but you’d never guess it from the looks of the photo sheposted to Twitter Tuesday. Featuring a bikini-clad Porizkova getting her Vitamin D fix in some crystal-clear Florida water, the snap included the hashtag “#fiftynomakeup.” Yep, as if life weren’t already unfair enough, she’s allegedly not wearing a lick of face paint. Damn you and your perfect face, Porizkova!

Ever the modest model, Porizkova later tweeted back to an admirer who’d remarked on her agelessness that she’s “only not aged when laying down.” Pssh, whatever. Something tells us that, if we could somehow be guaranteed to look that incredible in 32 years’ time, closing in on 30 wouldn’t seem so scary.

Feel free to send your secrets this way, PP :)

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These are the best photos of the Day: May 20th

These photos are going to change the way you look at these monuments.

Starwars photo 1

Here you see the makeup being done. 

Cherry Blossom event in DC

They were gifted by Tokyo

Great Silhoutte

Nice summer evenings

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Toy Story: Another Fad or Future of Videogames?

The biggest thing in videogames today? Tiny figurines that sit on a shelf.

Take Camo, a half-plant and half-dragon fire breather. Or the villainous Sheep Creep, imprisoned for leading a sheep rebellion. They’re part of a growing genre called “toys to life,” which uses a form of wireless technology to transport physical toys inside videogames.

It sounds whimsical, but the money is real. In pairing geek-culture passion for collectible figurines with videogames, Activision Blizzard Inc., Walt Disney Co. and Nintendo Co.have raked in billions of dollars in sales since the genre took off in the past few years.

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Examples of (1) a raw image and (2) an engaging filter that adds contrast and warmth,and (3) a less-engaging filter, which introduces artifacts and adds a cooler temperature.Photos: CC-BY-ND ayman on Flickr  

By Saeideh Bakhshi and David A. Shamma

Filters: Practically every modern camera-phone app offers them, from Flickr to Instagram to the iOS built-in camera. You can snap a photo and with a tap make it look reddish, or black and white, or faded and aged. It is now commonplace to capture a photo and edit it on the same device, then instantly share that photo with family, friends, or the world. But despite their present-day ubiquity, filters should not be taken for granted; they affect how people engage with photos in significant ways.

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Landscapes

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Flickr’s best from “The Commons”

Speechless

Do not have any words to describe this

Want to be ther!

Forever :)

Guiding Rays

to the Jungle!!

Let’s go!

Beyond the horizon

The River and The Town

The River and The Town

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Belgian Watchdog Raps Facebook for Treating Personal Data ‘With Contempt’

BRUSSELS—Belgium’s privacy watchdog ripped into Facebook Inc. for treating the personal data of Internet users “with contempt” and failing to cooperate with its inquiries, stoking a dispute between the company and European regulators that could result in heavy fines and orders to change its business practices.

The Belgian report, which was released Friday, is part of a broader effort by privacy regulators in several European countries to examine new privacy policies Facebook implemented this year for use of data from its services, which include Instagram and WhatsApp, to target advertising. The review is being led by authorities in the Netherlands and includes watchdogs in France, Spain and Germany.

Belgium’s Privacy Commission, in its 28-page report, said Facebook processes the personal data of its members as well as other Internet users “in secret,” without asking for consent or adequately explaining how the data would be used.

“The way in which [Facebook] is contemptuous of the private lives of its members and of all Internet users demands action,” said Willem Debeuckelaere, the commission’s president.

“It’s make or break time” for Facebook, he said.

While it has no sanctioning powers, the regulator at some point could send the dossier to the Belgian prosecutor’s office, which would decide whether to take up the case.

At issue is how Facebook tracks Internet users on external websites through the use of “like” and “share” buttons, gleaning data that could be used for targeted advertising, for instance.

The Belgian regulator said the way Facebook uses these so-called social plug-ins is “intrusive.” The company is “in a unique position, since it can easily link its users’ surfing behavior to their real identity, social network interactions and sensitive data such as medical information and religious, sexual and political preferences,” the report said.

Facebook says it only has to answer to the regulator in Ireland, home to its European headquarters. “The applicability of the [Belgian regulator’s] efforts is unclear,” a spokeswoman for the California-based company said. “But we will of course review the recommendations when we receive them with our European regulator, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.”

But the Belgian regulator argues that the existence of a Facebook office in Belgium, and the fact that ultimate decisions on the company’s privacy policy are made at its headquarters in the U.S., means the local regulator has jurisdiction.

“There is not a shadow of doubt on the applicability of the Belgian privacy legislation,” the report said.

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Snapchat and Periscope: A Grown-Up’s Guide

GREETINGS, FELLOW adult! We’re here to discuss the latest development in social media: broadcasting your life. (If you’re a teenager and still reading, please go LOL in that corner with the beanbag chairs.)

Whoa, hold on, isn’t this already happening, you ask? Don’t the huevos rancheros that I posted to Instagram count as self-broadcasting? Or what about this selfie of my daughter and me on Facebook? Or my quip about the #snowpocalypse on Twitter?

None of that has changed. Except now, with apps like Periscope and Meerkat, both of which launched in March, you can do much the same thing with live video from your smartphone. It’s like video chatting on Skype, except that you’re broadcasting one-way to anyone who feels like tuning in. And those viewers can write questions and comments that appear on the screen in real time. If Twitter gave everyone a megaphone, these apps give you a camera crew.

We’re also seeing a similar idea with Snapchat. Yes, that Snapchat—the app once notorious for sexting because it lets users send self-destructing photos and videos. A feature called Stories assembles the snippets that you’ve taken over the past 24-hours to create a montage of your day. It can be an artful undertaking. Which means that even you, human over the age of 25, can join Snapchat now without feeling like a chaperone at a One Direction concert.

One big difference between these apps and Instagram and Facebook is that, by default, everything you post disappears. Periscope and Meerkat broadcasts are intended to be live events; each element of a Snapchat Story expires after 24 hours. Although you can set the apps to save your videos (and, on Periscope, have them viewable for 24 hours), that’s not the point.

I’m too old for this. Can’t I just ignore it all?

I understand your skepticism. The friends I coerced to join these networks over the past few weeks so I could research this article had an equally allergic reaction. Sure, you can dismiss these social networks as yet another sign that we’re all turning into narcissists, but there’s something about the immediacy of these broadcasts that makes them feel more like real life than the shots you carefully curate for Facebook. You might not feel comfortable taking a selfie that’ll live forever on your Instagram feed, but you may feel differently about turning the camera toward yourself with these apps, simply because whatever you share disappears.

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FaceBook launches a new system

Facebook FB +0.62% will host articles from nine media organizations on its mobile app starting Wednesday as part of an experiment that offers attractive terms for publishers, but also risks deepening their reliance on the social network for traffic.

The New York Times NYT 0.00%, National Geographic, BuzzFeed, NBC News, The Atlantic, The Guardian, BBC News, Spiegel and Bild are Facebook’s initial partners in the program, dubbed Instant Articles. Talks between Facebook and publishers began last year with some, including The Wall Street Journal, adopting a more cautious approach.

Facebook said it will allow it will allow publishers to sell ads in their articles and keep all of the revenue, an arrangement earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal. Publishers can sell excess ad inventory through Facebook’s advertising network and keep 70% of the revenue.

Instant Articles will let publishers “deliver fast, interactive articles while maintaining control of their content and business models,” said Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, in a blog post.

Facebook has about double the user engagement of other social networks, Barclays BARC.LN +1.09% analysts said in a note Tuesday. Late last year, Facebook eclipsed Google as the leading referrer of traffic to news sites. Some sites say Facebook accounts for as much as 70% of their traffic.

Many publishers hope Facebook can help them better tap into the fast-growing mobile advertising market. A recent Pew Research Center study found that 39 out of 50 news sites now have more traffic coming from mobile users than from desktop users.

Under the initiative Facebook will be able to load and display news articles ten times faster than the current norm. Web articles take an average of eight seconds to load on smart phones, making news one of the slowest aspects of the social network.

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