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The party looked down into the chasm as the remains of the falling tower echoed down below. Wounded, shocked and tired, they had to make haste and leave the scene. Up above they could hear the giants chanting of their victory and the freed souls of their brothers. As they fled, they could hear the remaining clerics behind them, probably just beginning to realize what had happened.
They traveled for the rest of the day until the snow began to get thinner, and the earth began to show underneath it. After a brief rest under a lone tree, they made their way to a cave nearby and made camp there. Gulthar and Angel stayed up talking about what had happened, while Ashio seemed distant and quickly lay down to sleep, although his breathing wasn't calm and even until much much later.
After another full day of travel they arrived at the bridge crossing a large river, and the gates of Crimmor beyond it. These were the borders of Amn. The outpost probably hadn't seen any traffic in a while, and the sleepy guards were rather surprised at the party's arrival from the mountains. However, after a brief questioning and some hushed conversation, the party was permitted to enter.
They arrived at Crimmor that evening, perhaps relieved to see civilization and feel warm air after the silent cold mountaintops, and chose to stay at a rather expensive inn.
The sound of conversation filled the common room, even at this time, deals were struck left and right, some in mild tones, some excited, the presence of people accented by the absence of a bard and an empty stage. The party discussed their "cover" story over dinner with Grippa, now trusted enough to know that the purpose of their visit is less than ordinary. As the evening turned into night, Grippa announced that he was leaving for Athkatla in the morning.
One of the young waiters then approached Angel and offered his services as a guide around town. He seemed excited to talk to Angel for some reason, and he was getting excited glances from his friends at the bar. Angel accepted the offer and told him to come back the following morning.
Before going upstairs to the rooms, Ashio asked to have a word with Grippa, which seemed to have had some effect on him, as he gave him nothing but cold glances after that, in addition to being distant and preoccupied.
In the morning Grippa set off on his way, followed by hearty goodbyes. Following Grippa's advice from the previous evening, Gulthar went to visit the local temple of Kelemvor. Angel met Ashram the waiter/guide outside his room and together they went to explore the local markets. Nocks joined them at first, but they soon got separated as Nocks decided to do some exploration of his own.
Angel's trip to the markets with Ashram led to a discovery and an unexpected purchase. It seemed he was receiving special treatment from pretty much everyone he met in Amn. People in the streets would stop and whisper, merchants would take out their finest wares and offer them at good prices. Out of curiosity, he began to haggle with a trader about the price of a statuette, and in the process discovered that his, and in fact the entire party's coming had been forseen by the local diviners, who seemed to be well respected in these parts. Having found this interesting piece of information, Angel requested that the statuette be delivered to the inn in which the party had been staying, and after a brief rest, made his way back to the inn, where Gulthar was having his lunch after coming back from the temple.
As he sat down to eat next to his companion, slightly distracted and without even a word of greeting, something happened within Angel's mind. His gaze turned blank and unfocused for longer than the usual few seconds. Gulthar, sitting across from him, stopped eating, with a large chicken leg still in his hand. As Angel's eyes began to change color rapidly, his face contorted as if in spasm into an expression of horror and pain, and he almost collapsed on the counter breathing heavily, catching himself just in time, but still spilling his drink and shattering the glass on the floor. Gulthar rushed to his aid, finally dropping the chicken leg, but Angel was faster – he jumped to his feet and edged backwards, knocking over his chair, extending his arms in front of him to push Gulthar away. Turning around, looking almost frightened he said, loud enough to turn the heads of the few patrons sitting in the room: "I do not want to talk to you right now". With that he left the room in a hurry, bumping into a few tables on his way out.
Gulthar understood that Angel's denied memories must have finally snapped into place. He ran out of the tavern and after Angel, who was walking misty-eyed, as if asleep, bumping into passers-by with no apology. Gulthar shouted his friends name as he tried to catch up with him on the busy streets of Crimmor. But Angel did not answer, nor did he turn around. When Gulthar finally came close, avoiding an encounter with a very angered fat lady whose basket's contents had just spilt all over the road, Angel turned around briskly and started walking backwards again. "I can't be around you now. You're an abomination! Leave me be". But Gulthar persisted and reached out to get hold of Angel's cloak. "Stay away!" the words were accompanied with Angel's sword pointed towards Gulthar's throat.
Knowing nothing of the commotion now beginning to take place several blocks away, Nocks was determined to understand the mysterious taboos of the local populace. Namely, their discomfort at the mention of magic (of which Grippa tried to explain to him as he told them the 'lay of the land' before they entered Crimmor). Seeing as, in his eyes, everything was somehow connecetd to magic, and the mention of magic was somehow unwelcome, it puzzled him how these people could talk to each other at all without being discomforted out of their wits. However, he soon discovered that in Amn, asking direct questions more oftrn than not, leads to direct actions. The owner of the third store he entered seemed to have less patience than the others (and more customers waiting) and after a short circular argument he promptly called the guards. Several minutes later, An innocent looking Nocks was taken outside by 5 burly guards, who accused him of "Disruption of Business".
Now, another thing Nocks did not know about Amn (though he learned quickly), was just how seriously it takes its' 'business', and naturally, its' disruption. He continued innocently asking the annoyed guards question after question. At first, the guards were resigned to take the 'halfling' to the guard station and throw him in prison (for to them he was either drunk or bespelled or just a half-wit or ill – all of which demanded that he be put away), but then one of them whispered something to another with an alarmed expression. After a brief hushed discussion among themselves, the course of action was changed, and Nocks was (so they told him) to be taken back to the inn in which he was staying with his companions, to be held there until they arrive. upon (more) questioning, one of the guards finally gave in and slowly (as if speaking to a slow child) explained to Nocks that his arrival was forseen by the diviners of Amn, who gave the directive to honor the visitors, but also be wary of them. Him not being thrown in a cell or worse was a result of the "honor" part.
But being as yet inexperienced in the various shapes and sizes of honor, he refused their offer of 'escorting' him to the inn, calmly stating he didn't want to go there at the moment. After a brief argument, in which Nocks, yet again, tried to understand the taboos of Amn, the guards decided they had no choice but to revert to their original plan and take him to the prison, answering his questions with annoyed silence and rolling their eyes the entire way.
Just a few blocks away, a small crowd was gathering to watch as a very frustrated Gulthar was trying to defend himself from Angel's sword, if possible without hurting him. Having insised on following him and trying to explain himself despite Angel's threats – he had finally provoked an open attack. Once again, however, our heroes were not familiarized enough with Amn's strict approach to such business disrupting activities. or perhaps they were, but Angel's mind seemed as far away as it could be from the patrolling guards running towards him when the rope tightened around his ankles.
The pair was carelesly thrown into the back of a carriage, where they experienced a very bumpy ride, full of heavy silence. Gulthar's desperate attempts for communication with Angel were met with complete obliviousness to his existence.
Meanwhile, Nocks and his 'escort' arrived at their destination. Before throwing him into his cell, and especially after his questionable (by Amnian standards) interest in magic, a routine magic detection spell was cast by one of the officers, to reveal any 'unlisenced' magic he might be carrying. The room filled with a brilliant violet light so bright some of the guards let out screams. In light of the special circumstances (literally), a command was given to strip Nocks of his belongings. When he realized what they were about to do, using their momentary blindness, he freed himself and shadow jumped to the nearest hiding place, not before slicing open the bag held by the guards containing his gloves. Unfortunately for him, As soon as he teleported, another guard pulled a wand, cuffing both his hands and legs. Finally, with three guards holding the now bound (and writhing in ways only he could) Nocks, they took off his ring, revealing his true form. Shocked, they dropped him to the floor, and began kicking the thing.
At this point, Angel and Gulthar, who were held in a cell nearby, finally put their problems aside and saw the scene of the helpless flesh golem, lying crippled on the floor, with three guards kicking him. Finding no other alternative, Angel quickly used his own teleportation abilities, and switched his body with Nocks'. No sooner than the transfer was complete, A boot cracked Angel's ribs, and another one hit his head, throwing him into unconsciousness.
A few seconds later, three mages wearing grey robes with cowles covering their entire bodies entered the room, while already in the process of casting an antimagic field. This, of course, completely and utterly immobilized Nocks. With no more then a second glance at the mass of tiny corpses lying, now no longer cuffed, on the floor. One of the mages threw a torch at him, saying "Sweep the remains after it burns down. I wish to study it".
The sickening smell of burning flesh filled the room. Gulthar, still lying bound in the same cell with Nocks, helplessly watched his companion scream in what probably was his first, and last, true understanding of pain and agony. In the last moments before he passed out, Gulthar saw the guards sweep Nocks' charred remains, and carry them from the room.
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Make way for the robots.
An artificial intelligence system has defeated knowledgeable Go player, cracking one among the long grand challenges within the field. what is a lot of, the new system, referred to as Alpha Go, defeated the human player by learning the sport from scratch victimization associate degree approach referred to as "deep learning," the researchers concerned say.
The beautiful defeat suggests that the new computing (AI) learning strategy might be a strong tool in alternative arenas, like analyzing reams of climate knowledge with no apparent structure or creating difficult medical diagnoses, the scientists aforesaid.
The researchers rumored on the new match-up on-line nowadays (Jan. 27) within the journal Nature. [Super-intelligent Machines: seven Robotic Futures]
Man versus machine
Ever since IBM's Deep Blue defeated Gary Weinstein in their picture match in 1997, AI researchers are quietly crafting robots which will master a lot of and a lot of human pastimes. In 2014, IBM's Watson defeated the Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings, and last year, a pc named Claudico — which will "bluff" through wide-awake No-Limit American state Hold 'em — gave human poker players a last their cash at a urban center casino.
However, Go was a way more durable nut to crack. The strategy game, that originated in China around a pair of,500 years past, depends on misleadingly easy rules. Players place white and black stones on an outsized gridded board so as to encircle most territory. Stones of 1 color which will bit alternative friendly stones area unit aforesaid to be alive, whereas those whose escape routes area unit discontinue area unit dead.
But behind the easy rules lies a game of unimaginable quality. the simplest players pay a lifespan to master the sport, learning to acknowledge sequences of moves like "the ladder," production methods for avoiding endless battles for territory referred to as "ko wars," associate degreed developing an uncanny ability to appear at the gameboard and understand in an immediate that items area unit alive, dead or in limbo.
"It's most likely the foremost complicated game devised by humans," study author Demis Hassabis, a scientist at Google DeepMind in London, aforesaid yesterday (Jan. 26) at group discussion. "It has ten to the facility one hundred seventy attainable board positions, that is bigger than the amount of atoms within the universe."
The key to the current quality is Go's "branching pattern," Hassabis aforesaid. every Go player has the choice of choosing from two hundred moves on every of his turns, compared to twenty attainable moves per flip in chess. additionally, there isn't any straightforward thanks to merely scrutinize the board and quantify however well a player is doing at any given time. (In distinction, folks will get a rough plan of UN agency is winning a game of chess just by assignment purpose values to every of the items still live or captured, Hassabis aforesaid.)
As a result, the simplest AI systems, like IBM's Deep Blue, have solely managed to defeat amateur human Go players. [10 Technologies which will remodel Your Life]
Deep learning
In the past, specialists have instructed AI systems specific sequences of moves or military science patterns. rather than this methodology, Hassabis and his colleagues trained the program, referred to as AlphaGo, victimisation no create mentally notions.
The program uses associate degree approach referred to as deep learning or deep neural networks, during which calculations occur across many hierarchically organized layers, and also the program feeds input from a lower level into every consecutive higher layer.
In essence, AlphaGo "watched" immeasurable Go games between humans to be told the foundations of play and basic strategy. the pc then vie immeasurable alternative games against itself to create new Go methods. On its own, AlphaGo graduated from mastering basic sequences of native moves to grasping larger military science patterns, the researchers aforesaid.
To accomplish this task, AlphaGo depends on 2 sets of neural networks — a price network, that basically appearance at the board positions and decides UN agency is winning and why, and a policy network, that chooses moves. Over time, the policy networks trained the worth networks to examine however the sport was progressing.
Unlike earlier strategies, that tried to calculate the advantages of each attainable move via brute force, the program considers solely the moves likeliest to win, the researchers aforesaid, that is associate degree approach smart human players use.
"Our search appearance ahead by taking part in the sport again and again over in its imagination," study author David Silver, a scientist at Google DeepMind UN agency helped build AlphaGo, aforesaid at the group discussion. "This makes AlphaGo search far more anthropomorphous than previous approaches."
Total human defeat
Learning from humans looks to be a winning strategy.
Alpha Go trounced rival AI systems concerning ninety nine.8 % of the time, and defeated the powerful European Go champion, Fan Hui, during a tournament, winning all 5 games. Against alternative AI systems, the program will run on a standard personal computer, although for the tournament against Hui, the team beefed up AlphaGo's process power, victimisation concerning one,200 central process units (CPUs) that break up the machine work.
And AlphaGo is not finished with humans nevertheless. it's set its sights on Lee Sedol, the world's best Go player, and a face-off is regular during a few months.
"You will consider him because the Roger Federer of the Go world," Hassabis aforesaid.
Many within the Go world were surprised by the defeat — and still control out hope for the mere mortal UN agency can face against Alpha Go in March.
"Alpha Go's strength is actually impressive! i used to be stunned enough once I detected Fan Hui lost, however it feels a lot of real to examine the sport records," Hajin Lee, the executive of the International Go Confederation, aforesaid during a statement. "My overall impression was that Alpha Go appeared stronger than Fan, however i could not tell by what proportion. I still doubt that it's robust enough to play the world's high professionals, however perhaps it becomes stronger once it faces a stronger opponent."


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guitar playing question
So my bandmate is teaching me how to play guitar, and my hand is very sore.
Anyway, the problem is, i'm having real trouble forming the chords because whenever i bend my little finger, my ring finger involuntarily bends at the same time and really gets in the way. is there any way to stop this happening? it's driving me crazy!
ring finger
sore hand.
its a goldmine of innuendo!
Cut off your ring finger.
(or just move it away from the neck).
Just realized
how totally non-helpful my post just was. Sorry.
i can't!
because whenever i try to make a minor chord with my index finger, middle finger and little finger, my ring finger decides to join in and ruins it all. the only solution i've found so far is to jam it under the neck with my right hand, but i need to find a better solution!
My one is
basically just to play the guitar how you want to and take it from there. Like I don't know how to play anything but basic standard chords on guitar but the great thing about that particular instrument is that you don't even really need to, its so much more freeform than that piano or that. Cos its so easy to tune, and plus you can do things like place the strings so they create drones and that.
I have a guitar question.
I cannot play guitar. at all. And I have tried many times.
If I bought guitar hero would I be able to do it or would it be the most frustrating thing in the world ever?
playing the guitar hero controller's much easier than playing a normal guitar, especially on the easy/normal difficulty levels.
you should try it, it's ace.
yeah i know
i was hoping for some good tips on how to flex them!
Play your guitar
It's just practice, innit.
Just keep practising.
And try not to use your other hand to tuck it under the neck or whatever. The muscles will get stronger the more you do it and it won't be a problem after a while.
Irritating answer, I know.
I also want to play guitar.
I constantly have made-up tunes floating around in my head, and it's frustrating not being able to express it.
Just learn C, G and F
And then you'll be able to play approximately 80% of all songs ever written.
I'm guessing G is the one causing most problems for Rockandrollmassacre. Having just tried it myself I can say that my fingers do that too. You just need to keep practising to the point where your ring finger doesn't touch any of the strings. Once you've got it you won't need to think of it any more. Maybe try moving the 2 independently without the guitar. Like I'm doing now. Don't do it in a room with other people because it looks weird.
Yeah, my Uncle told me that C F G thing when I was learning guitar. I still wonder if he's got a secret crack habit
I'm a bit confused
Playing G I either use my ring finger or else my ring and little finger both?
i was having trouble playing d minor
because my ring finger was insisting on staying on the top E string (on the second fret) as well as my index finger (on the first fret, which was supposed to be there), because my little finger was on the B string, if that makes sense....
you can also get rubbish little things from music shops that are meant to build up your finger muscles.. It really is practice though.
Don't worry about forming chords perfectly at first, just get used to the fretboard and it'll come.
Basically practice.
If you search online you can probably find exercises that'll help you get more used to the guitar.
But it does hurt at first - the more you do it the more you get used to the technique and the more your muscles get used to it too and then you find it much easier.
practice is the only way to do it.
keep forming them chords. eventually you'll get it.
Why are you learning guitar?
Its such a meat and potatoes instrument!


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Our Penny Auction Script System Specifications
Our Penny Auction Script has more features and functions than any of the existing similar script in the market. Furthermore, it is the only script that guarantees it works. Designed and developed by a leading U.S. software firm with a rating of a A+ by the Better Business Bureau, the following are features and function included in our Penny Auction Script. Please note that depending on your customization, your system may have more or less than what is listed here. See our Plug-in Module for more.
Design Versatility & Customizations
|Our Penny Auction Script comes along with pre-built templates that you can utilize. However, we are also highly specialized in design unique themes to fit your business needs. You can also easily integrate your own design if desired. We have many professionally designed templates that you can choose from.
Easy System Management
|You do not have to know a thing about web design or possess any computer technical skill in order to run, manage and update your own penny auction website. If you would like to try it out, contact us for a test drive today! Easy dashboard for site administrator.
Ease of Use for your customers
|Sign-Up – new customer sign-up is streamlined and the entire process can be less than a couple of minutes. Payment – offer your customers more than one way of paying for the bid package(s). Interactive – smart auto messaging is built in to keep your customers fully informed. Your Penny Auction Script is built with an easy dashboard for your customers.
System Security & Stability
|Your Penny Auction Script is designed and developed with security and stability in mind. At the heart of the penny auction is the timer that connects users' activities with the server and all the cron jobs that your server has to process must be stabilized and synchronized. Depending on the traffic your site generates, we will work with you to recommend the appropriate web hosting options.
Multi Levels Admin
|Not only are you a super admin, but you have the option to create more additional admin users and also the ability to set the level of access according to his or her responsibility. For an example, admin 1 can only create but can't delete but admin 2 can create, delete and run auction report.
Coupons &Special Sales Tools
|This feature allows you to promote your business and entice your potential customers to sign up for special deals or promotional coupons. Creating a coupon and applying it to your auction is as easy as A-B-C. You can create many types of coupons – coupon for cash discount, coupon for free shipping and coupon for free bids. See Penny Auction Script Specification for more details.
Sales & Members Reports
|Your penny auction software is equipped with easy-to-use sales report tools that you can use to generate critical sales reports such as auctions sold, bids sold, net profit or lost, et,.
Auction Clone Option
|Clone Option gives the website administrator the ability to quickly duplicate an auction based on an existing one with unique auction ID, he or she can also update any field if needed.
Hot List Auction
|Hot List allows your customers to create and easily manage his or her "hot" items without having to deal with all the items that are not of your customers' interest. Adding on or removing an item to a Hot List or Watch List just one click of the mouse.
Watch List Auction
|Watch List allows your customers to pick and choose which item to watch for and receive real-time status of those items. Talking about giving customer powerful tools and the convenience to do business with you!
Shipping Tracking Module
|For your customers, the system is smart enough to change from Bid It to Pay for It and from Pay for It to Track It depending on the actions that your customers have taken. Once the item is paid for by your customer, you can insert the tracking number so that your customer can easily track the order.
Auto Bid Option
|Auto Bid is like auto pilot for your auction activities. It allows your customers to set up the amount ($) and the number of bids he or she is willing to pay for the selected item and when the time comes for auctioning, it automatically bids for your customer without him or her being there.
Promotional Display Banner
|Have an item that needs to be sold quick? What about a special promotion or a discount offer to entice your customer to sign up? Putting up such a banner on your site is as easy as pie — No special software programmer or designer needed! All the tools you need are built in your Penny Auction Script.
|We currently have English, French, Chinese and Spanish. We are adding more popular languages to our library. These languages are professionally translated not using software to generate translation that sound foolish to the native reader. The default language is English. Each additional language can be plugged in per your request. See custom modules.
Block an IP Address
|This feature gives you complete control of whom you do not want to be able to access to your website. Unfortunately, there will be time that you need this feature. When you need it; it's there for you.
Buy It Now Option
|Buy it now option offers your customers the option to buy the product at the discounted price after the auction is ended. This gives you another way to make money and assure your customers that the money they spent on the bid is not lost. Our buy it now option is one of kind.
Search Engine Friendly (SEO) URLs
|Your penny auction website is built with friendly search engines and as an admin, you can optimize your site with your own keywords, meta tag and description.
Friend Referral
|Allowing your customers to send referrals to their friends to receive free bids to generate more traffic and business for your website.
|As a system admin, you can run many reports including Auction Sold, Buy Auction, Bid Used, Open Auction, Closed Auction, and Suspended Auction report and much, much more.
Data Export
|Not only you can run many business and activity reports but you can also do data export to excel or csv file for easily mailing and marketing purposes.
User Profiles Management
|The ability to run user reports and view your customer's bidding and purchasing activities is just within a few clicks of the mouse.
Reserved Auction
|Create an auction and then reserve it for only a certain class member. This encourages your customers to earn their ranking so that they can bid on more expensive items.
Additional features & functions that our PAS includes:
Beginner Auctions
|How about allowing your new customers to practice and understand how the penny auction works by allowing them to bid without spending any bid on the designated auction? This feature can be a very inviting feature for your new customers.
|Creating promotional coupons for your customers to drive more business is just as easy as 1-2-3. You can specify a percentage discount or a fixed amount of dollar as well as when it can be used and when it is expired.
|A quick dashboard to show your most important information when you first logged-in such as the current number of bidders online, the number of bids sold for today, the estimated profit and much, much more.
News Section
|Populate your site with the latest news. These news can be controlled and managed at ease in your backend CMS.
Analytics and Statistics:Multi-Level Auctions
|Google Analytics and other Cost-Profit report are integrated into your dashboard. These reports are crucial to your marketing strategy and implementation.Our Penny Auction Script doesn't just provide you type of auction but four levels of auctions – Regular, Gold, Silver and Platinum. Each level can be defined by you in term of requirements or conditions to be a member of such auction. You may not want someone who just signed up for a few free bids and ended up winning the most expensive item in the house. Reserving those expensive items for only a certain class of customers is what you may needed.
Advertising & Banners
|The best real-estate of your website is the multi-dynamic banner area. You can use this as a place to display your most important product or auction as well as using it as a paid bill board for others.
Winning Limit
|Winning limit is a function available to the System Administrator to set the condition of how many auctions a person can win per day or per month and the duration as to when the person can bid again. Once the limit is reached, the account is locked out until the next day or next number of days. An automated email will be sent the customer by the system to inform of such restriction. This is a good tool to use on expensive item(s) and it's a way of ensuring the fairness for customers. If your budget is tight and you are just starting out your penny auction website, then this module can be added later on.
Minimum Price
|Minimum price is a function available to the System Administrator to set the condition of the minimum price of a bid. This must be reached before it can be won by a bidder regardless of the preset timer that may have been expired. If this is the case, (the minimum price HAS NOT reached the thresh hold and the preset duration has expired), the system will automatically increase the time by using Extension Time or Recurring Time. If no one bid on the Extended Time, then the auction will closed and it declared NO WINNER and all bids placed by your customer(s) will be refunded. The refund ratio is controlled by you as the site admin. If it has reached the "minimum price", this condition is voided and the last per bid is the winner. This is the best tool to use to prevent potential big lost on expensive item for site owner and it also makes it fair for bidder(s) who participated in the auction.
Expedite Timer
|Expedite Timer is a function available to the System Administrator to set the condition of which allows and encourages customers to bid early and to not have to wait for the last minute to bid in order to win. Meaning, as long as it reaches the minimum price or the thresh hold price set by the Admin, the auction will be kicked into Expedite Timer and the last bidder will win regardless of how much time remains. The Expedite Timer is set by the System Admin and it is usually anywhere in 1 to 59 minutes. The Expedite Timer hides the actual timer so the customer does not know when it is going to end. This forces the customer to bid in order to win. This is a good tool to encourage your customers to bid early because the auctioned item can be gone anytime and in turn it helps you deliver more auctions.
Live Chat
|Live chat is an independent third party web based application that can be integrated with your website to allows the customer to chat with the site owner or staff online instantly. It is a perfect tool for online tech support and customer service driven.
Video Tutorial
|We can help you produce an online tutorial video for your site. Whether it is a training video for your customer or a powerful marketing message full of sight, sound and motion; we have the staff and the experience to deliver it on time and on budget.
Buy-it Now
|Allowing the customer to buy the item anytime during the bidding process at the retail price. This gives people an option to bid or to buy it straight out. This feature not only helps you generate more business, but it also adds legitimacy to your business.
Marketing Channels Report
|A summary and easy to understand report is available to the system administrator. You can view where users are coming from based on the incoming marketing channel that the user identified when registered.
Auto Bid
|This tool allows your customers to participate in auto bid (auto pilot) set by you, the Site Administrator. Three variable constraints or conditions included in the Auto Bid – Starting Price, Max Amount and Max Number of Bids. Starting Price is when the customer wants the Auto Bid to start, the Max Amount is the max amount of money the customer is willing to spend on the auction, and the Max Number of Bids is the max number of bids the customer is willing to spend on the auction. This is a very popular tool for many site owners. However, it is the most often misused tool where site owner created fictitious accounts and used the auto bid function to bid against other players. It has created a lot of mistrusts and controversies for the penny auction world. So if you bought it, use it ethically.
Buy Now Reward
|This tool allows your customers to use the bids that they have lost in the auction(s) that they did not win for the Buy Now product(s) at the discounted price. This feature also has option where instead of giving cash discount, you only give bid lost credit back to your customer. The ratio of credit is controlled by you as the site owner. This encourages your customers to bid since they know that if they do not win, their lost bids became Buy Now credit. To have this feature, you must have the Buy Now feature in order for it to work.
Multi-Levels Auction [4 Levels]
|This tool allows the Site Admin to set up more than one class of auction. There are Regular, Gold, Silver and Platinum. The requirement or qualification to be a Gold, Silver or Platinum member is set by the Site Admin. Such qualifications are based on the gross number of bids purchased. With this feature, it will prevent new users who may just have registered for the few free bids from winning big items that you as the Site Admin have set for only certain member.
Coupon System
|With this tool, you create promotional coupons to help you generate more business. Three different types of coupons that you can create – discount price for purchase, free bids and free shipping. The system gives you the flexibility to create the value based on fix amount or based on percentage value as well as expiration date ranges.
Reselling Store
|This tool gives your customers the option to resell the item that they have won but do not want it. Surprisingly enough, many customers bid hard to win an auction but when they have won it; many of them don't want it. This gives them the options resell it to others. A commission fee will be charged to the seller by the Site Owner and the number of days that can be posted is set by the Site Admin. If you are just starting out on your penny auction business, this module can be delayed for later on unless your budget has room for it.
Promotion Tools
|Allowing your customers to send referral request to their friends and in turn receive FREE credit for their sign-up or when they purchase the bid pack. This is a great tool to drive up membership registration and sales volume.
Twitter Feeds
|Integrating your penny auction website with your twitter account allows your followers to follow you and giving you their feedbacks to show on your website. You have control over the authorized contents or testimonials regarding this.
Video Feeds
|Integrating your penny auction website with a third party video service provider allows your customers to instantly record their video testimonial to publish on your penny auction website of which you have complete control of the video contents.
Affiliate Marketing
|After all said and done, the most important thing that you can do for your business is to bring customers to your website. That is easy said than done. We can help you with the Sales Affiliate Software. This third party web based application software is to be integrated with your penny auction website to help you create an army of salesmen who will send traffics and customers to your website. Why? Because they got paid for doing so. The software will handle all the registrations, sales reports, customer tracking and commission reports; and much much more. This tool has been proven as one of the most effective tools in running a successful penny auction business.
Seated Auction
|Seated Auction or Reserved Auction. This module is a great tool for high end or expensive items such as cars and houses. A Seated Auction contains a number of chairs or seats set out by the auctioneer(s). Each seat will have to be purchased by using existing bids or credits you have in your account or by cash (online credit card payment) depending on how the auction is set up by the auctioneer. Once the seats are filled as defined by auctioneer, the auction will start at the time defined and no one can join in this auction besides those who have the seat reserved. Each bid will increase the price of the item as defined by auctioneer BUT no additional cost to the bidder since you have already paid for the seat. The last person stands is the winner. If the seats are not filled at the deadline, then the auction will close and typically all the money will be refunded to those who have bought the seat(s). This feature is a great feature because it assured the profitability of the auctioneer and the bidders only have to compete with those who bought the seats.
FaceBook Connection
|FaceBook Connection is an API (script) provided by FaceBook to allow people to login to any website using FaceBook login credential once integrated. According to FaceBook and many other independent media research firms, FaceBook Connect API will help your website:1. Increased Registration – Data from Facebook states that sites that use Facebook Conect as an alternate to account registration have seen a 30-300% increase in registration on their sites. 2. Increased Site Traffic – After implementation, Facebook.com immediately begins sending web site traffic your way. Data from Facebook says that for each story published in Facebook, companies see roughly 3 clicks back to the site. Nearly half the stories in the News Stream get clicked on. This creates opportunities for the site to encourage more user actions – knowing that each one may result in 3 new visits to their site. 3. Increased Engagement – Facebook users are used to being social. They are an active group, participating, sharing, and generating more content. Sites with Facebook Connect see a 15-100% increase in reviews. Connected users create 15-60% more content than users who have not connected with Facebook Connect. 4. Improved User Experience – Facebook Connect offers users qualitative benefits too. No new site registration is required, simply login using your Facebook credentials. It also makes it easy to share with an existing network of friends or family by publishing activities to the Facebook Newsfeed, with only a couple clicks of the mouse. No typing or emailing required. Given the sheer size of Facebook's active user base, this type of integration with an individual's personal network could ultimately become the new "email a friend" feature found on websites worldwide. Cited Reference .
|Charity – With this module, your customer can choose to donate bid pack(s) or won item(s) to a charity organization(s) that you have in your listing. You can also select yourself as the charity organization. A donation report is also built into the CMS for your convenience. An e-mail of the donation receipt will be sent to the donor and the recipient. This module is only recommended for charity organizations that are recognized by law as well as those receiving such donation. We reserve the right to suspend your software licensing if it's determined that you deliberately abuse this module.
SM Messaging
|SMS Service – A third party service that can be integrated into your website to send text messages to your customers' mobile phone. You can use this service for important announcements to those who subscribe. This feature is crucial for high priced auctioned items of which customers need to be notified . Information in the texts include of: starting time and ending time as well as other important reminders. Please remember that no form of electronic communication (emails or sms) is guaranteed to deliver in all instances. This is because such transmission relies on several networks, hardware and software to deliver it over which we have no control.
Partnership Auction
|Partnership Auctioneers – With this module, you can post auctions not only on your site but also on those who register to be an Partner Auctioneer ( they can also put their auctions on your site). You, as the site owner, will make money on registration fee, on the bid packages sold and on items sold in addition to the high traffic that these Partner Auctioneers will bring to your site. This is the most complex and expensive module of all. It's only recommended if you have the appropriate financial and staffing resources to handle it.
Technical Support Software
|Technical Support – This module will allow your customers to submit technical support inquiries online and you to be able to delegate it to your staff to be able to track the status of it. Your customers can also track the status of their ticket by submitting the ticket number online. This is an independently hosted application that can be integrated with your penny auction site. This module is recommended if you anticipated a lot of technical support is needed and you want to reduce to operational cost of a live technical support person. Since this is an online web based application, you can outsourced the technical support to anywhere that is best served your needs.
Online Support Forum
|Online Forum – Unlike Technical Support, Online Forum is served as a library of knowledge and learning resources that you and your customers post via published articles and discussions. You, as the administrator of the forum do have complete control of its published content. You can create unlimited categories and posts. You also have the ability to dynamically assign users and access rights for registered users. This tool not only can help you divert some of the frequently asked questions and support issues to your customer's but it can also help you as one of your search engine optimization efforts because of its rich content.
E-Commerce Store
|E-commerce Store – Combining your penny auction website with an e-commerce store is one stone killing two birds strategy. Your customer now not only can bid your your site but also can shop for item(s) that may not be availabe in the auction store. This integrated e-commerce store is a complete online store with built in shopping cart, taxes and shipping cost calculations. It also equipped with many popular payment gateway such as PayPal, Authorized.net, and many others. Yes, you worked hard to bring a customer to your site. Why not offer him or her the opportunity to shop for items that you may not want to put on your penny auction site and vice versa?
Penny Auction Software
Customer or Player's Pannel including, but not limited to, the followings:
- Purchase Bids – member can quickly purchase and refill bids with our three easy steps.
- Purchase History – member can quickly view purchase history with detail such as date, description, amount, etc.
- My Information – member can enter and manage personal details.
- Change Password – member can change password.
- My Avatar – member can select favorite avatar among hundreds of pre-loaded.
- Refer Friends – member can refer friends for free bids
- Suggestions – member can send suggestion and request to system administrator
- Your Bids – a quick preview of your bid balance and history
- Active Auctions – listing all the active auctions
- Completed Auctions – listing of completed auctions
- Watch List – containing a list of all items member added to his or her own watch list
- My Auto Bids – containing a list of all items with auto bids created.
- Won Auctions – containing a list of all items member has won.
- Bidding History – containing a list of bidding history on both closed and open auctions.
- And much, much more!
Administrator Panel Settings including, but not limited to, the followings:
General Settings – On this page the site administrator can define fundamental settings including but not limited to:
- Site URL – domain of your website.
- Site Name – the business name for your website.
- Site Keywords – keywords for search engines to find your site.
- Site Description – description of your website for search engines.
- Site Google Analytic – enter your Google Analytic account to track your website's traffic.
- System Admin Email – an email that you system will use to send out all automated emails.
- Site Status – turn on and off your site.
- Maintenance Message – enter your "maintenance message" if you turned off your site.
- Free Bid(s) When Signed- Up – number of bids to give out to your new signed up user.
- Free Bid(s) When Referred – number of bids to give out people who referred others to your site.
- Referral Settings – set condition for receiving free bids.
- Bids Refund Bid Rate (percent) – set a ratio of refund on refunding bids.
- Reselling (percent) – set commission percentage for reselling store.
- Reward Ratio – set Buy Now reward ratio.
- Winning Limit – set a number of winning limit a user can have on each day, each week or each month.
- Won Auction Expiration – set how many days a "won auction" has to be claimed.
- Bid(s) Refund Expiration – set a number of days a refunded bid expired.
- Buy Now Reward Expiration – set a time limit on buy it now.
- Cash Back Ratio – set a cash back refund ratio.
- Link FacekBook – set facebook link.
- Link YouTube – set youtube link.
- Link Twitter – set twitter link.
- Using Free Bids Condition – set conditions on using free bids.
- Commerce Options – turn your your site to e-commerce only, bid only or both.
- SMS Settings – set conditions on receiving SMS.
- Communications Interface – you as a system admin will have the ability to control all the interface communication messages.
- Email Message Settings – you as a system admin can modify all the email communication messages.
- Payment Method Settings – setting what payment method you will use such as PayPal or Authorized.net for you site.
- Firewall Settings – set firewall to prevent unwanted users using your site.
- Manage Admin User List – as a system admin, you can add, update or delete admin users.
- Adding New Admin – add new admin user.
- User Management – view, update, delete, export, check status and suspend your users.
- Avatar Management – add, update and delete avatars.
- IP Address Management – view, add and banned your unwanted users based on IP.
- Country List Management – view, add, delete country list and all the cities within it.
- Auction Duration – Auction duration can be customized to your need.
Administrator Panel Preferences including, but not limited to, the followings:
- Article Management – system admin has complete control of all the articles.
- Banner Management – system admin can add new, delete & update banners.
- Dates Format – select different data format to fit customers.
- Default country – option to select a default country setting.
- Users Authentication – validating customers and with option to disabled or banned a customer.
- HTML meta Tags – option to enter keywords for search engines ranking.
- Set Level of Users – creating VIP classes or user groups.
Administrator Panel Users including, but not limited to, the followings:
- Free Bids – assign free bid for registration, referral, and special promotion
- User Management – complete management of user accounts and information
- Add, delete and update new admin user
- Acceptance Text – Allowing site admin to customize acceptance message for end users
- Avatars – update, add, delete avatars and settings
- Newsletter Submission – Who will get the newsletter, newsletter content
- IP Addresses – accepted and banned IP addresses
Administrator Panel Auctions including, but not limited to, the followings:
- Bid Increments – set bid increment each time a customer bids.
- Manage Packages – option to manage bid packages including adding new graphic design, description and price.
- Manage Banners – option to manage banner(s) including adding new banner, deleting or de-activating existing banners, etc.
- Add new auctions – administrator can add new, suspend or close an existing auction.
- View Open Auctions – view all open or active auctions
- View Closed Auctions – view all closed or suspended auctions
- Buy Bid History – run report of purchase history based on dates range.
- Pay Auction History – view history of payments
- Coupon – create promotional coupon and discount
- Report – run a variety of pre-built reports
- Auction Extension Settings – set timing extension
Contents For End Users Controlled By Site Administrator
- News Management – easily manage and update news
- About Us Page – easily manage and update about us page.
- How it works Page – easily manage and update existing how it works pages.
- Terms & Conditions Page – easily manage and update existing terms and conditions page.
- Privacy Policy- easily manage and update existing privacy policy page.
- FAQs Page- easily manage and update existing FAQs page.
- Customizable articles that the admin can add and publish.


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Demon talk show: I Possessed KILLERS and Murderers, Patrick 2
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Desteni Interdimensional Interview: How Demons drove People to kill - Patrick This is Patrick. I had the ability to, integrate and manifest 'me', within and as, a human being. Specifically, only males. I would have..and as I have explained, specifically search out and seek, A male, a man..who had these specific signature of, 'anger'. Which was, orange red and deep dark blue in 'color'. I would immediately, aligned myself. With the, anger - existing within and as the human being. It is a..relationship formed, between me, and the anger, existing within and as, the human being. Because the manifestation of me as who and what I was, as a demon, 'was anger', in it's very nature. anger..with the consciousness (smile), and awareness Me as the very manifestation of anger, of hatred of fury. Finding it's 'partner'..as the anger, existing within and as a human being. I would integrate manifest me, as the human being, and then I would.. Feed off of, this human being's anger, within and as himself. For me to be able to, continue my existence, as an interdimensional 'demon'. I would have the 'power', to direct a man, a human being.. To the point..of murdering, of killing..another human being. I would..take this anger, within and as the human being after I manifested and integrated me, within and as, the man. I would take the anger, within and as him (sip) drink it up within and as me. As the entirety of me. As though, this anger is the wood and I'm the fire..and I feed off of this anger. and I drink it 'all up', inside of me, within and as the man. When, the anger within and as this 'man' that I have - manifested me within and as When this anger would become, 'depleted'.. I would be able to 'literally', forced, direct and control this man that I have manifested 'me' within. To the point of, 'killing' another human being, 'Without the Man', even being aware. of my 'presence', within and as him. All the men, that I've possessed, had no awareness, of my 'presence'. I had 'complete directive control'..of the entirety of the being. Thinking, and believing that everything they had 'done', was them. That actually 'it was me' doing it through them. and this is what I did..to all men. I would integrate, manifest me (sip) drink up, all the anger, the fury the hatred within and as, the being's, this man. I would.. Take them to the 'point of' killing another human being, because it was in that 'moment of killing', where this, anger this hatred 'within and as', them became 'more and more and more' (sniff) Consuming them within and as the madness of this anger of this hatred which was, euphoria extasy to a demon. That 'moment of killing' was (ecstatic).. where I was 'alive', as a demon, that was possessing this man. and I would take 'one man', and do as many, 'killings' within this, man's one life as I possibly could. I possessed man, for as long, as I could, within one life. Sometimes, a year, sometimes a few months, sometimes 'seven years' sometimes eleven sometimes..twenty five. The amount of time I'd- would be able to spend, in one man's body. Taking control and power, directive principle of the entirety of them in their Lifes. In that I would destroy their lifes. I would take 'family men' transform them into murderers. I take men..who some would never have conceived, possible to kill another, and force them and direct them to 'a point' of killing another human being. Losing their families, their friends. I would even, sometimes when I'm done, within and as a man, I would either, kill, 'me'..within and as this human physical body as, of this being. and then hop to the next body. Or I would, go with this man to the point where, they would be captured by the law, when I would, experience me, in and as 'the man', being..electrocuted. I have been electrocuted (smile), couple of times. Within, and as a man, that I've possessed..very interesting death. Fascinating experience. and this is how I 'body uped', for centuries. Taking over..men's lifes, entirely and completely taking over themselves, without them even realizing it without them, even knowing of my presence within and as them. Destroying their lifes, taking them forcing them to a point of killing another human being. At that moment and point of killing is where that absolute (ecstatic) fire of life (enjoying) of a demon (relax) would be. I would be alive in that moment. Hatred anger, frustration, sadness sorrow, 'compounding' (esctatic) Thank you. this is Patrick.
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Alison Cushing (Herald , March 20) raises an important issue about the police and I consider their priorities are completely wrong. Surely the one thing the public expect of the police is that it is visible. My experience living in Eastbourne is policing is largely absent from the streets. I recently had a holiday in a seaside town in southern Spain, of comparable size to Eastbourne. In the busy town centre in a country whose economy has been hit harder than in the UK, I saw more policemen on the streets in a hour than I have in four years in Eastbourne. Surely a police presence is required to deter anti-social behaviour and other crime such as shop lifting, and to re-assure the public and shop owners? The Spanish have certainly got visible policing. In the UK we have no-one available; the thin blue line has got thinner, except if you are a lost seal where a posse of least 10 officers from Cheshire and Merseyside police turned up to help the RSPCA and fire service in a recent rescue.
Equally worrying is the propensity for the police to prosecute people for thought crime and expressing politically incorrect views that do not remotely incite hate or violence, warning children for so called "criminal damage" such as conkering or chalking pavements and charging those who defend their homes and property. The police have a perverted mind set where too often the victim is treated as a criminal and the criminal as a victim. They focus on easy targets and recently pursued journalists for having the temerity to expose wrongdoing in public office. The alleged offences in a recent case were payments to civil servants for information, no different to the police paying informants. Thankfully the jury in the trial of four Sun journalists found them not guilty and thereby helped protect one of this country's greatest institutions, a free press.
As a middle aged person my previous respect for the police as an institution has gone. I no longer trust their crime statistics and I abhor the propensity to issue cautions to violent criminals and the target culture of the police. Until they show they are on the side of the law-abiding majority, tackle real crime and the fear of crime such as burglary, shop lifting, violence, street robbery and anti-social behaviour, rather than prosecute non crimes, they are destined to remain out of touch. I do have sympathy for rank and file officers in Sussex who no doubt are trying to do an excellent job in difficult circumstances, but they are hamstrung by an inept leadership and their political masters, more concerned about budgets, targets, form filling and political correctness.
Mike Grant
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Quantum Gateway
Quantum Gateway is a merchant gateway solution that supports 3D Secure for Visa & MasterCard Transactions in WHMCS.
If you don't yet have an account, visit www.whmcs.com/partners/quantum-gateway/ for more information.
- You must use your Quantum gateway login id as your username
- If you don't have your RestrictKey, you can easily generate it by login into your Quantum Gateway merchant center and going to the Processing settings area. Scroll down until you see the "RestrictKey" area. Click the generate button, check the "Use restriction key" box, and finally click the UPDATE button. That is your new restriction key (Transaction Key).
Supported Features
|One Time
|3D Secure
|Credit Card
MD5 Hash Verification
The MD5 Hash in the Quantum Gateway module is used to prevent forged callback requests. To set this up in your Quantum Gateway Account:
- Navigate to Configuration > Processing Settings
- Scroll down to the MD5-Hash heading
- Enter a secret key value of your own choosing in the Hash Value field.
- Set the Include Response In Hash value to "No"
- Then enter the same value into your WHMCS installation Quantum Gateway config in Setup > Payments > Payment Gateways.
Quantum Vault Service
Supported Features
|One Time
|3D Secure
|Remote Update Card
|Remote Delete Card
The Vault Solution from Quantum Gateway enables you to accept credit cards through your site while completely avoiding the hassles of PCI compliance and here at WHMCS we were one of the first to offer this new service to Quantum users.
For more information visit the Quantum Vault page
How does it work?
- The customer leaves your site to perform 3D Secure authentication (exactly the same as they already do now) but the difference is they enter their card details once they've left your site aswell so that the card details never pass through your site
- The customer can still edit their card held on file at any time from the client area
- WHMCS can still request the card is rebilled whenever needed meaning fully automated recurring billing can continue as before and manual captures at any time are also still possible - it's just like you have the card details stored locally
Why does it avoid PCI compliance?
- No cardholder data ever touches or passes through your Network, Server or WHMCS System
- No cardholder data is ever retained or stored on your Network, Server or WHMCS system
You will find the module in the Setup > Payment Gateways area listed as Quantum Vault which you can activate and configure in the same way as the regular module.
For existing Quantum Gateway users, there is also a vault migration script available to transfer all your existing clients card details over to the vault automatically and remove them from your local database. It can be downloaded from https://www.whmcs.com/download/117/quantum-vault-migration-utility
Inside your Quantum Gateway account, you will need to configure and API Username, Key and Vault Key to use the Vault API, and in the Inline Frame API settings where it asks for various urls, you should leave all of those fields blank.
Contrary to what you might think, you should leave the "Disable Credit Card Storage" setting unticked in Setup > General Settings > Security as that will disable entry by a client.
Server Modules
cPanel/WHM - DirectAdmin - Plesk - Helm 3 - Helm 4 - Ensim - InterWorx - WebsitePanel - Cloudmin - VePortal
Lxadmin - Virtualmin Pro - XPanel - HyperVM - FluidVM - SolusVM - Cloudmin - WHMSonic - VPS.Net
CentovaCast - SCPanel - MediaCP - GameCP - TCAdmin - Reseller Central - Auto Release - Heart Internet
Registrar Modules
Enom - ResellerClub - Nominet - OpenSRS - ResellOne - OnlineNIC - PlanetDomain - Affordable Domains
TPP Wholesale - TPPInternet - Stargate - Namecheap - NetEarthOne - Bizcn - InternetBS - GMO Internet
12Register - Registercom - DotDNS - WebNIC - Dot.TK - HexoNet - Realtime Register - Registereu
RRPProxy - ResellerCamp - TransIP - Heart Internet - IPMirror - NetRegistry - OVH - VentraIP Wholesale
Email - 101Domain
Fraud Modules
MaxMind - VariLogiX FraudCall - Telesign
Gateway Modules
2CheckOut - AsiaPay - Auth.net Echeck - Authorize.net - Authorize.net CIM - Bank Transfer
BluePay - BluePay Echeck - BluePay Remote - Boleto - CamTech - CashU - CC Avenue - ChronoPay
Cyberbit - Direct Debit - EMatters - E-Path - eProcessingNetwork
eWAY Tokens - F2B - FastHosts - Finansbank - GarantiBank - Gate2Shop - LinkPoint
IMSP - Inpay - IP.Pay - Kuveytturk - Modulo Moip - Mail In Payment
Merchant Partners - Merchant Warrior - IDEALMollie - Moneris - Moneris Vault
Skrill 1-Tap - SlimPay - NaviGate - NETbilling - Netregistry Pay - NoChex - NTPNow
Offline Credit Card - Optimal Payments - PagSeguro - Payflow Pro - Pay Junction
Paymate AU and NZ - Payment Express - Paymex - PayPal - PayPal Express Checkout - PayPal Payments Pro
PayPoint.net (SecPay) - Payson - Payza - Planet Authorize - SagePay - ProtX VSP Form - PSIGate
Quantum Gateway - Quantum Vault - SagePay - SagePay Tokens - SecPay - SecurePay - SecurePay AU
Secure Trading - TrustCommerce - USA ePay - WorldPay - WorldPay Invisible


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Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses.
For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?
I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.
I do see myself going to LA. Not anytime soon.
I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed.
I like breaking the rules.
I quite enjoy science fiction.
I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.
I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.
I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.
I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.
I'm a perfume whore.
I'm determined to be a diva.
I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.
I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.
I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.
I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I would move to New York in a heartbeat.
It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.
It doesn't take much to make me happy.


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PSA_LEVEL-UP_QNR45. Amit walks from his home to a friend's place and returns on his bike immediately. He takes a total time of 7 hours 50 minutes. He would have taken 2 hours less if he had been riding on bike both ways. How much time would he take, if he walked both ways?
a) 590 minutes
b) 580 minutes
c) 560 minutes
d) 570 minutes
Let, H and F denote Amit's home and his friend's place respectively.
When Amit walks the journey H->F and rides bike while coming back (F->H), he takes 7 hours 50 minutes. —> Statement (i)
If he had covered both H->F and F->H on bike entirely, he would take 2 hours less or 5 hours 50 minutes.
Thus, you can say that on bike, any journey H->F or F->H would take half of 5 hours 50 minutes i.e. 2 hrs 55 minutes. —> Statement (ii)
From statements (i) and (ii), you can infer that
H->F or F->H on walk will take 7 hours 50 minutes minus 2 hrs 55 minutes or 4 hrs 55 minutes.
To walk both H->F AND F->H, Amit will take twice this time. Or 9 hrs 50 minutes≡ 9*60+50 mins=590 mins. Option a.
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I had slept like a baby, but the moment the alarm goes off and I open my eyes the heat press down on me like a smothering blanket and I'm up in a flash. Eager to be on the road before the scorching heat gets us, we quickly pack up the campsite and take a shower to freshen up. We leave Augrabies' gates just after 8am – the GPS's estimates 7.5 hours of driving lies ahead of us.
Pofadder is our first pit stop for the day – one of those towns which you might miss if you drive too fast. Next up is Springbok, a very popular stop-over apparently. It is hot and dusty and the garage's 2 pumps can hardly keep up with the line of cars waiting to refuel. When our FNB FuelRewards card is declined the mood is almost as stuffy as the weather, but we cool off with Red Bull and Coke and I take the wheel, and take the road towards the coast.
Garies holds another surprise for us. The only garage's bathroom is disgusting – a muddy mess covers the floor but when a girl needs to go… So we squeal and shiver and tip-toe over the floor and rush out before any infections can even realise they have potential victims. In the shop we look for ice and water to no prevail, and then the state of the bathroom is explained: Garies has no water. Not bottled, not frozen, and not in the toilets. We shake the Garies dust off our shoes as fast as we can and head for Bitterfontein, hoping for better.
Sure enough, just after 2pm we are able to get some ice and water. We use it to wash down our hot-dogs which I've made with sausage from last night's braai. I locate a mister under my seat which I also fill with the ice-cold water and keep Z awake behind the wheel with unannounced mists as we make our way towards Vanrhynsdorp.
We arrive in Lambertsbaai just about 4h30 pm, as the GPS had predicted, and we drive through the town to Malkoppan, our campsite for tonight. Our stand is huge and although there are no trees or shade in sight, the campsite is located behind a dune to help protect against the wind. With the tent pitched we wash off the day's travel and take the short drive to Muisbosskerm Open Air Restaurant, just across the road.
What an experience! Built right on the beach this is literally a "shelter" – a rugged construction of driftwood and grass, with tables and benches of all shapes and sizes created from any sort of material around the sides of the shelter. Right in the middle is a huge open fireplace and two large cement tables, where we are told, all the action happens. The "restaurant" is quite open and a chilly breeze enters from across the waves as the sun sets in a fiery orange glow.
We get a bright-green drink from the bar which is built from sea-shell-clad cement, and enjoy the sunset from our corner as the tables fill up. A huge bowl of fresh fruit decorates one of the big tables and we help ourselves to delicious peaches and grapes. As the last sunrays fade, lights are turned on and another appetizer laid out: corn on the cob, and Bokkoms. This is basically fish-biltong, a small fish which is salted and dried, and was just quickly heated up on the fires. It looks disgusting, but tastes delicious and is a delicacy well-known to the West Coast.
The atmosphere is relaxed and light-hearted laughter is heard from the folds of the shelter as the waves provide mood music for this unique meal. The main course is a feast of angelfish, snoek, hotnotsfish, yellowfish and others, with the best sweet potato I've ever taste, Paella, crispy potatoes, salads, chicken curry in a big black pot, and "Waterblommetjiebredie", also very traditional. The only cutlery is a cleaned mussel-clamp which does the job amazingly. I try to only taste a little bit of everything but still feel like I'm going to burst. On our way to throw away our plates we see they are cutting a steaming-hot freshly baked potbread – how can we resist? The slice of bread with melting butter and fresh jam is accompanied by a similarly steaming hot piece of battered hake. The meal is rounded off with a mug of proper filter coffee and Koeksisters. No one is in a rush to leave and the managers/owners join the guests at their tables, chatting away about the area and the restaurant. We reluctantly leave, urged by our sleepy bodies to get to bed after the two long days. The wind is quite busy and we put bricks on the tent-pegs to make sure they don't pull out during the night. Despite a tummy overloaded with delicious food, and the eerie sound of the wind around us, I drift off in a sound sleep.


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^ from: dressedtoat.wordpress.com - Nothing lasts forever, including heels to shoes.
So what happens when your favorite heels break? Well, you have some options:
• go to a shoe repair shop to have your shoes repaired
• if you are talented enough, repair them yourself
• just buy a new pair of shoes
We all are enticed by the appeal of high heels and stiletto-type heels. Despite their appeal, it can be heartbreaking to see your favorite pair of heels break. Certain heeled shoes can break. In my research of this topic, I've even seen pictures of low-heel and kitten-heel shoes have broken heels. Yes... even low-heeled shoes can have broken heels. I guess for some fashionable types, this may be all the reason to wear something like flat or wedge footwear. The chances of heels breaking on most flats and wedges are next to none!
One of my blogging friends had the unfortunate experience of broken heels. In a somewhat recent post, curvy petite fashion blogger Cassandra of "Style Cassentials" planned on wearing a fine pair of silvery pumps in an outfit post, but they broke on her. Needless to say, the replacement heels were not bad at all. You can read her post here: Wild Card Wednesday: Silver Stripes (Style Cassentials).
I hope no one has to experience having the heels of their shoes break. However, and unfortunately... this does happen. So please be careful when wearing certain heeled shoes. If the quality of the shoes are bad, it may be time for you to find a better pair of heeled shoes. Regardless, please take care as you're wearing heels.
This was a brief post in regards to fashion. If you want to start a discussion, here's a question:
Have you ever had the heels of your shoes broken? Did you try to get them repaired or buy a new pair of shoes instead?
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Khama Billiat dating dancer Beverly
By Trust Khosa
Since Monday (7.21pm) raunchy dancer, Beverly Sibanda had Warriors footballer Khama Billiat's image as her WhatsApp profile picture and a status reading "Zvamunoona mwana uyu takadanana…"
It now appears Bev is not only a darling to revellers but footie stars too. Ever since she burst onto the limelight two years ago, several celebrities have been linked to her and some of them have gone to the extent of showering her with gifts.
Bev has literally become a victim of stalking from footie stars and celebrities alike but this time around, it does not look like the footballer is doing the stalking.
Initially, names to be linked with her were largely youthful musicians although they all denied any romantic union arguing that they were 'just friends' with NO benefits with the raunchy dancer.
There are also music promoters (names provided) who allegedly stalked the Sexy Angels boss and made romantic advances towards her at least according to her camp. Footie stars plying their trade both locally and abroad have also shown interest and chased after the versatile dancer.
Dynamos goalie George Chigova and teammate Patrick Khumbula are reportedly after Bev, according moles. Chigova has been spotted several times offering Bev transport after gigs in a move many have speculated to be more than philanthropy.
Chigova however, distanced himself from any amorous intentions with Bev. He in fact REVEALED that his friend Khama is the one who at some time used his car to ferry Bev after shows. He also pointed out that Bev once used Khama Billiat's image as her WhatsApp profile picture.
"Yandinongoziva ndeye kuti profile picture ya Bev ina Khama. Those who think I am stalking Bev might have mistaken me because Khama was using my car," he said. On the other hand, Khumbula openly begged for a cosy 'Kodak moment' with Bev at Zoey's birthday party held at a local club.
In that instance, Bev said she in fact did not know that Khumbula was a footie star; she assumed it was just one of the fans. But the latest to have joined this bandwagon is Ajax Cape Town flying winger Billiat.
Bev's friends insist that Khama, who is bound for trial stint in Russia at Lokomotiv Moscow, is the latest to have won Bev's heart. The 22 year old dancer has gone to the extent of using Khama's portrait as her WhatsApp profile picture.
Together with Khama profile picture, Bev has a Whatsapp status that reads: "Zvamunoona mwana uyu takadanana tiri vaviri…singing…saka musarwadziwe moyo nerudo rwedu ndinaye."
Responding to the claim, Bev said: "I am not in love with Khama. He is just like my brother. I have known him for some time and FOR NOW that's our relationship. You can ask him if you want but I take him for my brother and I know the nature of our relationship."
Asked to explain the message she wrote on her WhatsApp, Bev said: "IT's just a catchy statement in one of Macheso's songs; I just fell in love with it".
Responding to her alleged affair with the Dynamos shot-stopper, who has been spotted on several occasions with Bev during and after her shows, she explained:
"I don't know that person otherwise munotondirambisa nemumwe ari serious. I am not in love with that Chigova guy. I don't even want to hear about him because angatondivharira zvinhu zvngu."
Bev's spirited denials pertaining to Chigova may be a clue that she does not want news of her alleged links with the shot stopper to go round, perhaps beyond the Limpopo? However, our impeccable sources said Khama was also head over heels in love with Bev.
"They have been in love for quite some time and everyone from Bev's camp knows that. As for Chigova, akatsvairwa even though akambodhonza hake. If you think I am lying you can ask any of Bev's girls and they will tell you that they are actually an item.
"Each time Khama comes for national duty or holidays, he makes sure that they spend quality time together. We all wish her the best in her newly found love with Khama," said our source who is part of Bev's inner circle.
Khama could not be reached for comments at the time of going to print. This is not the first time that Bev has been linked with celebrities.
At one point, she used to have Peter Moyo's image as her profile picture which fuelled rumours that they were an item. She also clashed with Utakataka Express Fan Monica "Sele" Chikasha after these rumours circulated. H Metro


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SMIC Raises Target for 2016 Sales
TAIPEI—Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China's largest foundry, today raised its aim for sales this year on unexpectedly strong demand.
Based on its expectations for robust demand and its recent acquisition of LFoundry in Italy, the Shanghai-based foundry boosted its annual revenue growth target to the mid-to-high 20% range this year. Three months ago, SMIC forecast a 20% increase in its 2016 sales from $2.24 billion in 2015. The company earlier this year targeted annual sales growth of 20% for the next three to four years.
Sales revenue in the second quarter this year reached a record high of $690.2 million, increasing 26.3% from the same period a year ago.
"We are guiding another strong quarter of growth in the third quarter," SMIC CEO Tzu-Yin Chiu said in a press statement to announce the company's second-quarter results in 2016. "We target continued growth in the fourth quarter, contrary to seasonality, and another record year for 2016."
Part of SMIC's stronger growth expectations come from its acquisition of LFoundry. In June, SMIC agreed to acquire a 70% stake in Avezzano, Italy-based LFoundry for about $55 million. The deal is SMIC's first expansion of manufacturing outside China. LFoundry specializes in analog products for automotive, security and industrial applications.
SMIC continues to attribute much of its sales growth to its location in China. The company noted that Chinese system houses are winning market share, the growth of local fabless companies is robust and SMIC is building its market position.
Chugging along
The company has kept its fabs running at close to full utilization while offering products made with mature technology. SMIC's second-quarter utilization was 98%, down about one percentage point from the first quarter this year. The company said utilization may slip as it ramps up new capacity in 2016.
SMIC's most advanced process technology is at the 28nm node, which its larger rivals put into commercial production more than three years ago. At this point, sales of chips made with SMIC's 28nm process have edged up to 0.6% of the company's overall revenue from 0.4% in the first quarter this year. The company's next most advanced node, 45nm/40nm, accounts for 23% of overall sales.
SMIC's largest competitors are years ahead with process technology. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) expects to see its first revenue from 10nm during the first quarter of 2017.
At the 7nm node, TSMC said its customers have aggressive product tape out plans in the first half of 2017 with volume production planned in early 2018.


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Meanwhile, last night the reviews started of all 50 machinima that was entered the competition. Pretty cool event with an awesome location, the comments are very helpful to machinimatographers and overall it's an epic feeling! :D The event is at the UWA-BOSL Grand Amphitheatre with The Spotlight Radio Show that broadcast the event live!
The second set of movies will start today at 12:00 SLT (Second Life Time = Pacific Time Zone. so 12:00 PDT) and will continue for several hours until all reviews are done.
I will be interviewed at 15:00 SLT, give or take, and Journey to the Top will be shown. So if you're in the area, be sure to drop by the UWA-BOSL Grand Amphitheatre in Second Life. You can also tune into The Spotlight Radio Show to listen and watch the live stream on website :D. (Check links below.)
So to make it easy for people that are to lazy to convert times, I did it for you :P
The Event Starts:
12:00 PST (San Francisco, USA Time Zone) - 21 May 2011
20:00 BST (London, UK Time Zone) - 21 May 2011
21:00 SAST (Cape Town, South Africa Time Zone) - 21 May 2011
03:00 WST (Perth, Australia Time Zone) - 22 May 2011
The time when I will be interviewed and Journey to the Top will be shown:
15:00 PST (San Francisco, USA Time Zone) - 21 May 2011
23:00 BST (London, UK Time Zone) - 21 May 2011
00:00 SAST (Cape Town, South Africa Time Zone) - 22 May 2011
06:00 WST (Perth, Australia Time Zone) - 22 May 2011
If you ever want to learn more about time zones or need to convert time fast, check out this website for any information concerning times and dates: http://www.timeanddate.com/
Links of information and SLurl of the location in Second Life:
UWA in Second Life main blog: http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/
Review Event - http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/2011/05/machinimuwa-iii-review-hosted-by_19.html
Full list of entries and Information: http://uwainsl.blogspot.com/2011/05/machinimuwa-iii-full-list-winners.html
The Spotlight Radio Show information: http://www.thespotlightradioshow.com/machinimuwajourneys/schedule
SLurl to the UWA-BOSL Grand Amphitheatre: http://slurl.com/secondlife/WASP%20Land/241/106/1645
Hope to see you there :D


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Royal fans are eager to know who will make it on to the guest list for the wedding of the year, and there's one name that seems a likely shoo-in for an invite, even if you've never heard of her.
As well as all the senior royals, there are some less well-known figures who are highly likely to attend, including Harry and William's low profile step-sister Laura Lopes, 40, the daughter of the Duchess of Cornwall, reports The Daily Mail.
Laura has already enjoyed a starring role in one royal wedding, albeit by proxy, as her daughter Eliza was a flower girl to William and Kate when they wed in 2011.
Although she stays out of the spotlight, the mother-of-three enjoys a warm relationship with her step-brothers, who both made a big effort to attend her wedding to former Calvin Klein underwear model Harry Lopes in 2006.
William and Kate jetted in from Mustique where they were holidaying, while Harry flew over from Cape Town where he was staying with his then-girlfriend Chelsy Davy.
She also shares a warm relationship with the Duchess of Cambridge, and she and her mother Camilla enjoyed a "girls' lunch" with Kate and her sister Pippa ahead of the royal wedding in 2011.
Harry comes from suitably aristocratic stock as both his grandfathers were barons, and he will one day inherit Gnaton Hall, near Plymouth and the 3,000-acre Skelpick estate in the Scottish Highlands.
A graduate in History of Art and Marketing from Oxford Brookes, Laura pursued a career in gallery management, as well as a stint as motoring correspondent for Tatler in 2001.
In 2005 she co-founded the Eleven Gallery in Belgravia with Charlie Phillips and prefers to concentrate on her career and motherhood than court the limelight.
As well as Eliza, now 10, Laura and Harry also share non-identical twin boys, Louis and Gus, eight, who could be lined up for page boy roles alongside Prince George.
Her desire for a more low key existence may have been fuelled by the experiences of her teenage years, when she and her older brother swamped by a deluge of paparazzi stalking the perimeter of their Wiltshire manor when their mother's affair with Prince Charles was revealed.
Given her close links to royalty, Laura's daughter Eliza could well be asked to reprise her role as bridesmaid at Harry and Meghan's nuptials. And at least this time round, it will be a less stressful experience for her mother.
"She is too young to understand really. But I am terrified she will get half-way down the aisle and then go, 'I need a poo'," her mother told The Telegraph, ahead of William and Kate's wedding.


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Don't trust cross-walks
We don't get a lunch break at work. We eat at our desks so that we only have to be here in the office for 8 hours. This means that one of us in the office usually takes 5-10 minutes to run to a nearby eating place and pick up food for the whole office and bring it back so that we can all eat nice fresh meals for lunch. Yesterday was my turn to pick it up. The Chinese restaurant we were ordering from can literly be seen from our office window and is only 30 feet away so I decided to walk over and get it. I walked to the restaurant with no problem. Picked up the food no problem and it started to rain as I was in the restaurant. No umbrella. Okay. So I'm waiting at the corner for the cross walk light to come on in the rain. It finally starts flashing green so I start across the street at the best jog that I can do considering I'm carrying 4 take out orders. The light then changes while I'm in the middle of the cross walk but I don't see this because since I wear glasses, I've got my head bent down to keep the rain off my glasses. I look up as I near the other side of the street to see a Jeep bearing down on me. Not a good sight. I had enough warning to slow down and try to stop so that the jeep could go by but I didn't get actually get stopped soon enough. The mirror of the jeep clipped me in the arm and rolled my body enough that my shoulder landed pretty good on the door of the jeep.
The poor man in the jeep started crying. I checked over his car to make sure that I hadn't done any damage to it. I rolled my shoulder and moved my arms to make sure I hadn't been damaged and then told the poor man not to worry about it and I finished the walk back to work.
I can honestly say that I will not be walking to pick up food anymore. I will use my car rather than walk across Peachtree St because Peachtree St does not have reliable cross walk signs!
I am fine. I'm a little sore on my shoulder today but there isn't any visible bruising. Just a few tight muscles.
I hate Atlanta traffic!


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How depression and anxiety needn't be lifelong afflictions
It's a common misconception that mental illness is something a sufferer has to endure permanently, but with appropriate professional treatment these debilitating conditions can be managed and ameliorated
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Are mental illnesses like depression and anxiety incurable and lifelong?
The short answer: No
For many people living with mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, it can be hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Indeed, this is one of the most common misperceptions about mental illness in general – that it is something the sufferer has to deal with for the rest of his life because it is incurable or untreatable.
Focus on Hong Kong students' mental health – call for more awareness and assistance
Thankfully, for those with a mental health condition, there is hope for healing. According to Dr Tommy Chan, registered clinical psychologist at Matilda Medical Centre in Hong Kong, which has clinics in Central, Tsim Sha Tsui and The Peak, as long as treatment is sought early enough and medical intervention takes place in time, it is reasonable to say that most mental health conditions are treatable or at least manageable in the long term.
Depression and anxiety are among the most prevalent mental disorders in Hong Kong, but Chan says that they tend to be underdiagnosed. "This may be due to a lack of access to the mental health system, a lack of knowledge about the conditions, misdiagnosis, or stigma surrounding these illnesses that prevents many people from getting help. As depression and anxiety often show up as fatigue or physical pain and discomfort, these conditions can also be hard to pinpoint."
Can low levels of vitamin D cause depression? Doctors not yet sure, but research shows a connection
People with depression tend to have mood disturbances, low energy levels and a lack of enthusiasm for life. They may also experience problems with concentration and memory and feel socially isolated, or "cut off" from others, including loved ones. In some cases, they may even have suicidal thoughts. On the other hand, people with anxiety experience a dysfunctional fear. Their obsessive thoughts may reach a point where the sufferers have trouble falling asleep or are unable to function normally on a day-to-day basis. To curb their anxious feelings, they may turn to alcohol or drugs.
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"Depression and anxiety usually occur together, so there will be overlapping symptoms," says Chan. "But the good news is that, whether the conditions are inherited or caused by external factors such as a divorce or a death in the family, they need not stay with the sufferer for life. They can be managed and definitely improved."
One of the keys to getting depression and anxiety – or any mental disorder – under control is early intervention and proper treatment. "First of all, there should not be any guilt or embarrassment associated with seeking help," Chan explains. "Once you have been diagnosed, it's important to make sure that you get the right kind of treatment. This may take the form of medication or psychotherapy, or a combination of the two.
"Medication is useful in some cases but it's not sustainable in the long term and there may be negative side effects. Cognitive behavioural therapy [CBT], a form of psychotherapy, can help the patient by changing the thoughts and behaviours that may be holding him back. According to the British Psychiatric Association, CBT is effective at bringing resolution to the issues that have caused the patient's depression or anxiety. It offers lasting results and minimises the likelihood of the symptoms recurring."
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It's also important for sufferers of mental illness to educate themselves on their condition, get support from their loved ones, and, most importantly, make the commitment to getting better. "You need to be interested in learning about your condition and also be open to receiving help if you want to move forward," says Chan. "Otherwise, you won't get the kind of treatment, care and support you need and deserve, and without these, your condition may worsen, even escalating to self-harming behaviour or suicide."
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Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, announced yesterday that he will be ending his Fox News show so that he can look into a 2016 presidential bid.
"I'm not going to make a decision about running until late in the spring of 2015, but the continued (political) chatter has put Fox News in a position that just isn't fair to them," Huckabee said.
Huckabee did not run in 2012 after briefly being a contender in 2008. Read more.
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