Heartbreaking Tribute To Four Boys Killed On Gaza Beach Created By Israeli Artist Amir Schiby

They will never play on the beach again.

As the Gaza conflict escalates, the world was shocked by the deaths of four young boys, who were killed on a Gaza beach by Israeli shells in front of a group of international journalists. They were all between the ages of nine and ten years old, and all belonged to the Bakr family.

Israeli artist Amir Schiby, known for his politically satirical collages, created an image of Ahed Atef Bakr, Zakaria Ahed Bakr, Mohamed Ramez Bakr, and Ismael Mohamed Bakr, to honor their tragically short lives. It depicts a lone soccer ball in the surf, with the shadows of playing children nearby. He wrote on Facebook that the image was created “as a tribute to *all* children living in war zones.”

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Ayman Mohyeldin, a journalist who reported on the attacks, tweeted earlier:

Schiby’s photo comes in the wake of dozens of wrenching images in the aftermath of the deaths of the Bakr boys. A picture of the father of one of the victims went viral on social media, as a gutting display of the human cost of the conflict.

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Schiby’s image of innocence and loss is striking a chord with many following the conflict. Gily Stein of Tel Aviv wrote, “Couldn’t watch the original picture cause they’re so horrifying, but this one carries as much emotional impact.”

h/t Linda Sarsour

UConn Settles Sexual Assault Lawsuit For $1.3 Million, But Won't Admit Guilt

The University of Connecticut will pay nearly $1.3 million to settle a lawsuit brought forward by five sexual assault victims, the school and the women’s attorney announced Friday, but it will not admit to wrongdoing in the cases.

The lawsuit, filed against UConn on Nov. 1 by high-profile attorney Gloria Allred and co-counsel Nina Pirrotti, came days after four of the women filed two federal complaints to the Department of Education. UConn was accused of mishandling rape cases and refusing to condemn or intervene on reported harassment of female students, in violation of the gender equity law Title IX.

UConn is one of 67 higher education institutions currently under review by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights due to its handling of sexual assault cases.

According to the terms of the settlement, plaintiffs Carolyn Luby, Kylie Angell, Rosemary Richi, Erica Daniels and Silvanna Monccia will not make any written or oral statements about UConn that disparages the university or encourages others to portray it in a negative light. Luby, Angell and Richi will also request the suspension of the two complaints they filed with the Education Department, and Daniels will join the request to suspend one of them.

UConn “categorically denies the lawsuit’s allegation” that the university demonstrated a “deliberate indifference” toward the women, a spokeswoman said Friday.

“All parties agreed that achieving closure on the past and moving forward is more important than battling for vindication in the courts,” UConn General Counsel Richard Orr said in a statement. “The settlement will allow the plaintiffs to move on with their lives, and will allow the University to focus on its mission, which includes serving our students the best we possibly can, each and every day.”

A joint statement released by the plaintiffs and UConn noted a trial would have meant years spent “fighting over the past rather than working on the future.”

Education Department spokeswoman Dorie Nolt said the Office for Civil Rights will continue to investigate “whether the university responded promptly and effectively to complaints and other information related to sexual violence and sexual harassment that may have subjected students to a sexually hostile environment.”

“As this is an open investigation, the office cannot provide any additional information,” Nolt said.

Following the complaint and lawsuit, UConn began reviewing steps it could take to improve its response to sexual assault and harassment on campus. It established a new assistant dean to support victims of crime, centralized its response to sexual violence, formed a special victims unit with campus police and enhanced educational programming on bystander intervention. UConn said Friday it further plans to “develop and refine” its sexual violence education and bystander training.

The terms of the settlement laid out how much money each plaintiff will receive:

  • Silvanna Monccia will receive $900,000, the bulk of the settlement. Monccia was a female hockey player who said she was raped by a male hockey player in 2011. According to the lawsuit, Monccia said the coach removed her from the hockey team after the assault, telling her she was not “stable enough” and would “bring the team down.”
  • Kylie Angell will receive $115,000. The student Angell said sexually assaulted her was expelled by the university, but he was then allowed back on campus and Angell was not notified about it. When she reported the assault to campus police, Angell says an officer commented, “women need to stop spreading their legs like peanut butter or rape is going to keep on happening ’til the cows come home.” UConn’s police department has said the officer in question does not remember ever making that statement.
  • Erica Daniels will receive $125,000, and Rosemary Richi will receive $60,000. Both Daniels and Richi said UConn dropped investigations into their sexual assaults due to lack of information, but the women insisted the school didn’t fully pursue witnesses and the evidence they presented.
  • Carolyn Luby will receive $25,000. She wrote an op-ed criticizing the new UConn logo for reinforcing rape culture, and was subsequently harassed online and on campus, even getting bashed by right-wing radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Luby said the university declined to intervene in the matter, and campus police simply told her to keep a low profile and wear a hat on campus. The university’s Friday statement notes that in response to the harassment, the school launched a Civility Task Force to assess the campus climate.

Two Japanese Schoolgirls Play Tag, Are Obviously Super Ninjas

A high-speed chase has never been this epic — especially when it involves two Japanese schoolgirls armed with nothing but ninja-like skills.

In this video — an advertisement for the Japanese soda brand, Suntory — these two have the chase of a lifetime. And the footage gets increasingly insane: what starts as classroom acrobatics ends in roof-jumping.

Even though it’s unclear until the end that the video is, in fact, an advertisement — at the last second, the duo pops open Suntory sodas — it doesn’t matter. The handheld-style shooting and the girls’ parkour-like stunts definitely win the day.

6 Funding Options for Young Businesses

A lot of budding entrepreneurs have asked us how they can raise capital for their new businesses. The answer is it’s extremely hard . Even if you are a tech startup with a hot idea and amazing growth potential, it’s still really hard to raise funds from investors who don’t know you when you don’t have much to show for your company. After all, eight out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months. Investors/lenders rarely fund companies at this stage — however, there are other options.

The following are six viable ways to fund young businesses. Keep in mind these options are still hard — they either require a lot of time investment or have very high cost. We recommend that you write up a solid business plan before you start fundraising. You might also want to consider the following options in tandem with 1) waiting for some time until you save up the capital or 2) starting small with minimal costs.

1. Savings and Home Equity

The easiest way to get capital for your business is your savings. There’s no documentation or application required. If you don’t have a lot of savings, you can borrow against your home equity (if you are a home owner), which typically costs about 4.5 percent with minimal documentation. Keep in mind your young business can be risky and you can lose your savings should the venture fail.

2. Friends and Family

If you have a good support network, you should consider borrowing from your friends and family. In fact, it’s the most popular funding option for startup businesses. If your business succeeds, your friends and family share your success. If it doesn’t work out, they will usually give you time to pay them back. It’s also typically a lot cheaper than using credit cards. Personally, if I need funding, I will try borrowing from friends and family before I go to any third party lenders/investors.

3. Credit Cards and Personal Loans

Credit card advances have the stigma of being extremely expensive. Unfortunately, in the business financing world, the cost of using credit cards is actually lower than lots of other options such as merchant cash advances or cash flow loans. Credit card APRs range from 10 percent to 30 percent, depending on your credit scores and purchase types. You can often get 0 percent introductory APR for the first 12 months.

If you have a strong relationship with a bank, you might be able to get a personal loan for your business. Especially if you can provide good collateral. We have seen quite a few business owners finance their commercial vehicles through a bank, although the financing is structured as a personal loan.

4. Kickstarter/IndieGoGo/GoFundMe

Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter/IndieGoGo/GoFundMe have become increasingly popular in the past couple of years. If you are good at marketing and can present your product/business in a way that resonates with people, this can be a very viable option. You do have to spend a lot of time and effort to develop a kick-ass campaign to make it successful. A side benefit is that you get to talk to your customers through the campaign and this will certainly help you understand your market.

5. SBIR

Small Business Innovation Research is a government sponsored program, in which a certain percentage of the research budgets of the 11 federal agencies are reserved for contracts or grants to small businesses. Approximately $2.5 billion is awarded through this program each year. SBIR phase one offers startup businesses up to $150K of grant money. The acceptance rate is fairly high: averaging around 16.7 percent. If your business is involved in any type of R&D, check out the SBIR website and see if you might qualify.

6. Kiva Zip and Microloans

Kiva Zip is awesome. It offers 0 percent interest rate business loans for entrepreneurs. It’s Kickstarter-style funding: the fund is crowdfunded from philanthropic minded lenders on Kiva Zip. You can get a $5,000 to $10,000 first loan through the platform after you find a trustee to endorse you. The trustee will walk you through the process, understand your personal and business financial situation and decide if they want to approve you on the platform. Once you are approved, they also help you develop a campaign and crowd fund on their website.

In addition, there are microfinance institutions around the country that will help you get a loan and provide you with technical assistance. You can see more details here. Among them, the ACCION network is one of the most prominent and allows online applications. The typical cost is 8.5 – 15 percent interest rate plus origination fee.


Fundraising for young businesses is a big challenge. I would like to close out with a great piece of advice I got from a successful entrepreneur:

Estimate the time and cost to get your business off the ground. Multiply the cost by 2 and the time by 3. Use those estimates to make sure you don’t run out of money or time.

Despite Insurgent Attacks, Republican Senatorial Committee On Record Fundraising Pace

WASHINGTON — The soft-spoken, mild-mannered Republican operative opened his mouth, and out came knives.

Rob Collins, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, sat at a long table with the heads of the other four Republican Party committees during a Wednesday press conference. All five committees have had to fight like hell over the past decade to remain as relevant as they were before new campaign finance laws led to an explosion of outside groups less hindered by restrictions on donations.

During the press conference, called largely to allow the committee heads to pound their chests about the fall campaign, Collins was asked about the influence of outside groups.

He criticized what he described as “the for-profit conservatives based here in Washington, D.C.” He didn’t name any groups, but everyone knew that chief among his adversaries was the Senate Conservatives Fund, a political action committee started by then-Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and now run by former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who lost a gubernatorial bid in November.

“We’re never going to get along with them,” Collins said. “It’s not consistent with their bottom line to get along with us.”

It was an insult aimed squarely at the SCF and its leadership, including executive director Matt Hoskins, a former DeMint staffer who was torched in very personal terms by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) in a Politico article this past January. Burr accused Hoskins of attacking Republicans, branding sitting GOP lawmakers as not conservative enough, because it was the best way for Hoskins to enrich himself.

As it turns out, though, the insurgent group’s bottom line is not the only thing profiting from attacks on the establishment.

Since the SCF launched a campaign last December to “defund” the NRSC, the senatorial committee has raised what it says is a record amount — $38.3 million through June. That’s a total of $34.3 million in 2014, plus the committee’s total of $4 million in December.

The 2014 haul is just $2 million short of the committee’s total for 2013. And it easily puts the committee on track to surpass what it raised in 2010 and 2012, the last two election years.

In both 2010 and 2012, the NRSC was hoping to take control of the Senate, just as it is now. The committee’s intake for 2010 was $64.2 million, while in 2012 it raised $64.9 million, according to the committee’s own numbers. This year, it’s projecting a sum of “approximately” $70 million.

Combined with 2013 fundraising, the committee is already at $70 million for the two-year cycle, having raised roughly $6 million in June. That still falls short of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which has raised $95.8 million in 2013 and 2014 so far.

The NRSC also raised the most money online of any day this year — in small-dollar donations — on June 25, the day after a runoff election between Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and tea party challenger Chris McDaniel. Cochran’s win provoked complaints from McDaniel supporters that black Democratic voters had turned out for Cochran en masse, leading to charges of voter fraud.

SCF gave $70,000 to a fund challenging the election results in Mississippi and launched a fundraising drive this week targeting what they have dubbed the “Shameful Seven,” a group of seven Republican senators who gave money to Cochran’s super PAC.

“Our fundraising has more than doubled since Mitch McConnell vowed to ‘crush’ conservatives everywhere,” Mary Vought, a spokeswoman for SCF, told The Huffington Post. “As long as the Republican establishment puts power over principle, our members will continue to fight to replace them with true conservatives.”

You Can Own This Fossilized Dino Poop, But You Have To Read This First

You might think you love dinosaur poop, but there’s nobody more excited about jurassic fecal matter than auctioneer I.M. Chait.

OK, the company might just be excited that they have six fossilized specimens that will go for $4,000-to-10,000 when they hit the auction block July 26, but just look at the descriptions they gave us for these photos. They’re a labor of love, like a vintner describing the steak au jus to be paired with a vintage cabernet:

COLLECTION OF 5 COPROLITES
Estimate at auction: $4,000-6,000

dino dung

Although it is often impossible to tell which species produced these fascinating petrified feces, it is supposed that the fine examples found in a small area of Washington State are from a Miocene turtle. It is also suggested that rather than being coprolites, they are in fact cololites, internal casts of the intestine. What is undeniable is their evocative and varied form, superbly demonstrated in this collection of five different examples, two of finely textured botryoidal form, one in rich rusty red, the other a dark purple-brown, attractively speckled in white; one from a creature apparently in need of a more fibrous diet, of unusually soft definition in warm orange-ochre; and two with deeply cracked surfaces exactly like dried excrement, in green-gray and burnt umber, 4 to 6 inches long.

Mmm. Warm orange-ochre.

ENORMOUS AND RARE COPROLITE
Estimate at auction: $8,000-10,000

poop

This truly spectacular specimen is possibly the longest example of coprolite – fossilized dinosaur feces – ever to be offered at auction. It boasts a wonderfully even, pale brown-yellow coloring and terrifically detailed texture to the heavily botryoidal surface across the whole of its immense length. The passer of this remarkable object is unknown, but it is nonetheless a highly evocative specimen of unprecedented size, presented in four sections, each with a heavy black marble custom base, an eye-watering 40 inches in length overall.

UNPRECEDENTED, 40-INCH DINOSAUR FECES WITH A BLACK MARBLE CUSTOM BASE. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.

Want a piece of the steamy action? You’ll have to head to I.M. Chait’s Beverly Hills location on July 26 at 1 p.m. PDT. Check out their press release for more info.

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Who Cares About the Price of Almond Milk?

As someone that works within the retail food sector, I am truly quite puzzled by the recent “news” pieces getting circulated regarding the price of almond milk. If you haven’t heard, the gist is that some people seem to be outraged that almond milk is cheaper to make yourself, because almond milk is basically a small amount of almonds blended with filtered water.

What I find astounding, is that people 1) didn’t already know this and 2) are shocked that it’s cheaper to make food at home. I don’t quite understand why almond milk is being targeted. Any food bought from the store is going to be cheaper to make at home.

An article on Mother Jones, claiming almond milk is a scam, points out that according to their calculations, there are about .39 cents of almonds in a $3.99 container of almond milk. Who cares? Almonds are just one ingredient and there are a lot of other costs that need to be considered before a product gets to a shelf.

Food manufacturers have packaging, labor, production, shipping, graphic design, marketing, etc. costs in addition to the cost of a single ingredient. The actual cost of producing the $3.99 container of almond milk is probably a lot higher than .39 cents.

After production, brokers typically sell the product to distributors, who in turn sell it to the retail outlet where the end consumers make their purchase. A markup and margin gets taken each step of the way. In other words, it’s pretty elementary thinking to assume that since the almonds cost .39 per container that the company is profiting to the tune of $3.60 per unit.

This is why I am puzzled and confused about how this piece even began circulating. Does the author not realize that all food in a grocery store is marked up to make a profit? Do they not understand there are more costs to bringing a product to market beyond the cost of a single ingredient? Is anyone shocked that it’s ultimately cheaper to make everything at home?

It really almost makes you wonder if this could be some sort of clever PR campaign by the dairy industry. Certainly, I’m not making any accusations, but it does all seem very curious indeed. Perhaps the idea that it’s more cost-effective to cook at home is a revolutionary idea for some people.

Either way, almond milk isn’t a scam and almond milk manufacturers aren’t doing anything that any other retail food product isn’t. There’s no secret scandal and no one is getting ripped off. You can go ahead and drink your almond milk without feeling as though you’re contributing to some sort of giant conspiracy.

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The 7 Completely Baffling Personalities of Tween Girls

By Abi for Scary Mommy

I have a tween. A girl — the most savage of all tweenkind. My goal is to survive. Not win, just survive. When she turned 11 I thought, “I will be able to handle this. She’s only ONE little girl.” Now that she’s on the brink of 12, I realize she is not only one little girl. She is actually seven multiple personalities ranging in age from 3 to 40…

1. The BFF Age: 35-40.

This woman goes with me to get manicures, chats over lattes at Starbucks (always my treat), and goes out of her way to listen to my problems and help in any way possible. The BFF doesn’t come around very often but when she does you can hear the angels singing from above.

2. The Sweetheart Age: 6.

This is the sweetest, dearest little girl you will ever meet. She loves to snuggle and give kisses. She will climb up on the couch next to you on any given night just to tell you how much she loves you. She comes around even less than the BFF.

3. The Devil’s Twin Age: Unknown.

This evil twin usually lurks around my house during late afternoon hours. She looks exactly like the BFF or the Sweetheart but when you speak to her burning acid shoots out of her mouth and does not stop until you flee the room, screaming profanities. Occasionally she rears her ugly head early in the morning, so beware.

4. The Einstein/Miss Independent Age: 11-20.

This girl knows everything and can do everything herself. Everything. The easiest way to identify her is by her language. She only speaks two words: “I know.”

5. The Mature One Age: 18-22.

This is a young woman who knows how to handle herself. She tackles every chore with maturity. She does things without being asked. She engages in conversation with adults in a way that makes you consider admitting you are her parent. Unfortunately, she does not come around very often.

6. The Baby Age: 3-5.

Often confused with the Drama Queen, this child believes every single, itty, bitty, teeny, weeny injury is a near-death experience. She once asked to go to the emergency room because she bent her hair.

7. The Drama Queen Age: 10-20.

This girl is very similar to the Baby. However, she does not need to be injured to believe the world is ending. She only needs to be breathing. No clean jeans to wear? End of world. Can’t find her hairbrush? End of world. It’s Tuesday and she wants it to be Wednesday? End of world. Please note, the Drama Queen can instantly transform into the Devil’s Twin without any warning or notice.

That is everybody living in my daughter’s body. At least for today. I will be sure to let you know if anyone new moves in when she reaches the ripe old age of 12.

This post originally appeared on Scary Mommy.

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Have the Neocons Learned Their Lesson?

Just over ten years ago, the United States was beginning what would be two lengthy military campaigns in the Middle East. On one hand, in Afghanistan, intelligence suggested that the Taliban had been supporting Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network, effectively abetting them in their attack on the World Trade Center. On the other hand, in Iraq, less-reliable intelligence suggested the presence of WMDs, and it was decided that while securing these weapons, the U.S. should depose the violent dictator who had ruled the country for decades, Saddam Hussein.

In both cases, eventually, neocons suggested that these campaigns were, more broadly, necessary evils in order to preserve democratic ideals and promote American interests abroad. There was an outpour of this type of justification as the death tolls and monetary costs continued to grow, and while popular support gradually waned, Americans begrudgingly accepted these justifications as truths.

Today, America watches as Iraq implodes, with the militant faction ISIS inching ever closer towards Baghdad as the government scrambles to establish a more inclusive parliament that represents the interests of the complex array of sects and ethnicities that make up the constituency.

And in Afghanistan, what appeared to be a promising democratic election threatened to erupt into chaos when the results were dismissed as illegitimate, and both leading candidates declared themselves the rightful winner. It appears that Secretary of State John Kerry has, for the time being, successfully ameliorated the tension, but a stable, legitimate government still seems a ways off.

These are just two examples of a broader failure in foreign policy: the popular neoconservative notion that America must project its hegemony on the rest of the world in an effort to promote American interests, even if those values must be projected by military force. Once the dominant thought process in American foreign policy, this paradigm has time and again proven not only to fail but, in its failure, to actually hurt American interests abroad. The Bush Doctrine of 2002, which justified the use of military force to protect America against terrorist threats at home and abroad, is retrospectively one of the most damaging doctrines to define a presidential administration in the last several decades. The overestimation of America’s ability to militarily intervene in other states, and the dangerous optimism about the effortlessness of transition from authoritarian regime to democracy, have done substantially more harm than good for the American people — especially in the past decade.

When looking at the initial goals of the invasion of Afghanistan, which were to fight the terrorist threat that had been overlooked to the point of producing the 9/11 attacks, the United States ultimately failed. Not only does al-Qaeda still exist, but offshoot terrorist cells have spread as far as Asia and throughout Africa. Admittedly, this is not necessarily the fault of the United States — by nature, terrorism is pervasive and transcends traditional state boundaries — but when looking at the specific goals of the Afghanistan invasion, it is easy to see they were not met.

In Iraq, by deposing Hussein, the U.S. simply created a vacuum of power that was only partially (and poorly, at that) filled by current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He has cracked down on Sunnis in Iraq, done a mediocre job fostering better relationships with the Kurds in the north, and, all the while, has been unable to successfully combat the growing threat of a Taliban insurgency. Now, another al-Qaeda affiliate, ISIS, has come across the Syrian border and threatens to destabilize Iraq even further. Unlike other terrorist organizations, ISIS has money and appears well-organized enough to inflict serious damage upon the Iraqi people. In sum, Iraq has become nothing but a breeding ground for terrorist activity, much the same as the Afghanistan the U.S. invaded in 2001 and sought to correct.

This is not to say that military action is a thing of the past, nor is it to say that the U.S. should not intervene militarily when necessary. Unfortunately, yet another failure of the neocon line of thought is that following the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the American public will not support more military action. This has stymied President Obama’s ability to intervene in dire situations, preventing him from providing airstrikes or other forms of support in the Syrian war, and providing some form of military support in Ukraine this past year when Russia seized Crimea. There has been the gradual evolution of an “all or nothing” mentality, which will not serve the U.S. moving forward.

Perhaps the only good example of American military support in the past decade is the involvement in the NATO campaign in Libya. Without putting any American troops on the ground, the U.S. provided the framework for a campaign that resulted in an end to the civil war and the death of the former dictator, Muammar al-Gaddafi. And yet, even still, Libya remains mired in conflict without a clear, stable government, three years after Gaddafi’s death.

The tragedy in Ukraine yesterday will serve as a test for the U.S. There will certainly be increased pressure on President Obama to provide some form of military support to quell the rising tide of violence that has been tolerated for too long at this point. Ukraine is likely unable to win the fight against the pro-Russian separatists on their own; however, too much military support from the U.S. will further harm the badly frayed relationship with Russia. Pragmatism, not neoconservatism, must prevail in this case.

Looking towards the future, U.S. foreign policy should not shy away from military force when it is necessary. There will undoubtedly come times when force is needed — if for no other reason than to reinforce our credibility to act diplomatically, with the threat of military force as a backup. However, neocons hopefully have learned from the mistakes of the past decade. Broad, military intervention is not the appropriate way to project influence or power in an international arena increasingly dictated by a globalized economy, the exponential and rapid evolution of technology, and a general connectedness that did not exist 20 or even 10 years ago. As political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote in his 2006 essay “After Neoconservatism”:

What is needed now are new ideas, neither neoconservative nor realist, for how America is to relate to the rest of the world — ideas that retain the neoconservative belief in the universality of human rights, but without its illusions about the efficacy of American power and hegemony to bring these ends about.

Without these new ideas, the U.S. is doomed to repeat its mistakes of the early 2000s for decades to come.

19 Heinous Acts That Prove Babies Are Masters Of Crime

These criminals are dangerous, unhinged and adorable.