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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday pardoned an Afghan woman serving a 12-year prison sentence for having sex out of wedlock after she was raped by a relative.
Karzai’s office said in a statement that the woman and her attacker have agreed to marry. That would reverse an earlier decision by the 19-year-old woman, who had previously refused a judge’s offer of freedom if she agreed to marry the rapist.

via washingtonpost.com
Despicable journalism that all headlines suggest Karzai simply pardoned the woman, because it is WRONG to imprison a …

It is a shame that a social media platform about making positive change went down like a lead balloon, especially when you had very clever people behind it.   Read  FB Co-Founder Sells Jumo for $0 and a Job
For me, Jumo always had a bit of a ghost town feeling about it and if you add that to the initial restrictions in updating a NGO profile, it didn’t encourage me (and many others)  to go out of my way to put my organisations content on the site or to use it.
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In last night’s D&AD Awards for design and advertising professionals and students Oxfam sponsored the student category. The winning film – “Help us End Oxfam” – was produced by students from the Miami Ad School in Madrid who also went on to collect the jury ‘Students of the Year’ award. Watch it here:
WATCH: It’s a Better Life Without Oxfam – Student Awards winner
In their statement the judges said the following about the winner:
“Their entry was selected by the jury for being a powerful piece of
communication that challenges the viewer to …

Kurt Michael Friese writes at Real Food for All about a proposed Iowa law that would make it “illegal to share, possesses or distribute images or video of animals taken at Iowa farms or animal facilities.”

About 300.000 + of you have seen the video of the news reader on the Fox News building in New York being hacked with messages not exactly of the type Fox usually fills the airways with. It’s shot in a shaky hand held spontaneous kind of way. The maker of the video seems as shocked as the viewer about what they are watching. Video after the jump.

In the pilot episode of Mad Men, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” we are introduced to a smoking Don Draper soliciting ideas from his focus group of one: a busboy, “Too old for his tight uniform.” The Old Gold smoking wise man takes issue with Draper’s dream of a world free of his chosen brand, but concedes he would still smoke saying, “I just love smoking.”
“I just love smoking. That’s very good,” Draper replies.
Later in the episode, we find our hero sitting across from Sterling Cooper’s research specialist who showrunner …

Finally, an Obama birth certificate mug ($15) or t-shirt ($25) can be yours. It only took three years to get the president to release the damn thing, but he (or his 2012 campaign staff) decided it’s time to go all in so that everyone will have a chance to see the evidence that Barrack is “Made in the USA.”