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Does Blizzard hate us?
I am finally logged in to the game and able to play as of late last night (16 days after purchasing it).
My theory is that there is some poor guy sitting in a server room somewhere, manually updating the problem database records one by one, and all the rest of the stuff they have us do is just to buy him time.
Here's my experience, although it probably won't help anyone.
1. I bought the collector's edition preorder, got it on launch day, yay!
2. Opened it, loved the smell of the new game, flipped through the art book while installing, etc. EXCITED! YAY!
3. Couldn't log in. Crud.
4. I found this thread on the forums. Tried resetting my password and changing my email, over a couple days. Didn't work.
5. Emailed support. They got back to me a couple days later telling me to change my password again. I did. Didn't work.
6. I created a new battle.net account with a different email address so I could at least use a trial key.
7. Emailed support back. After a day they got back to me and said to contact billing by phone or email. I opted for email.
8. Emailed billing and they got back to me the next day; said it must be done over the phone.
9. Phoned billing. After waiting on hold for about 50 minutes (expected wait time was 45 so not far off), I went through another password reset, and when that didn't work, he moved my game to my other new battle.net account. Still didn't work, so we reset the password and waited. Still didn't work. The rep gave me his personal email address and told me to download the game client and reinstall it and try again.
10. Uninstalled, downloaded, reinstalled. Still didn't work. Emailed rep.
11. Next day he got back to me saying to reset my password and wait 1/2 an hour then try again, assuring me that it work this time. It didn't. Emailed him back.
12. Waited 2 days. During this time I reset my password once or twice a day, waiting hours until trying to log in. Didn't work.
13. The rep got back to me and told me it was for sure fixed now but I had to uninstall, wipe any traces of SC2 off my system, then download from b.net and install again. BEFORE doing any of that time consuming process, I thought I would try logging in one more time. IT FREAKING WORKED.
That is why I think the reps are just running us around. They likely have no clue what is going on behind the scenes. They are just buying time for someone else to fix accounts. It sure would be nice if Blizzard told us what was ACTUALLY going on instead of just jerking us around (this problem affects at least hundreds of people) for a while until they finally randomly get us all fixed up.


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With a statement like that coming straight out of the mouth of Jesus himself, it would be very difficult for a Trinitarian to put forth his case, especially when the whole of the New Testament appears to back it up. The method they used, and still do to this day, was that Jesus is the Son of God, not God the Son. With such an argument, it would have been easy to convince an unsuspecting listener, especially by asking how Jesus could be one of the Godhead if for example, that God has given to Jesus the scroll which he was to pass to John (Revelation 1:1.) The two Witnesses then asked me whether these were two different entities rather than one God "talking to himself" and "giving the manuscript to himself" - as they make out as what we Trinitarians believe. Then came the issue which placed the final nail in the coffin of all orthodox churches that they, and they alone were the people of God's Name. That is, the name "Jehovah" which appears in Exodus 6:3, Psalm 83:18, and Isaiah 12:2, 26:4 in the King James Version of the Old Testament, a name by which they identify themselves.
But I was not an "unsuspecting listener". Instead I had a gut feeling that something was seriously wrong with their theology, but at the time I could not counteract, as not only was I without learning and experience, but I received no help or back-up from the Children of God movement, as theology was not their strong point, but rather rebellion against the churches instead. And looking at the psychological consequence of this viewpoint, if the Jesus Christ of the Watchtower Society was an individual created by God the Father, then he could not qualify as Saviour - no matter if he was the first to be created before everything else, before all other angels and before the entire Universe, or how high in status he was after his death - if Jesus was not God himself, how could he save?
And yet despite these doubts in my mind, the Watchtower theology appeared logical and solid, and impossible to contradict, for even verses that hint on the Triune being of God, such as John 8:58, they insist that he said, "Before Abraham was born, I have been" instead of "I am." Or John 5:30, where they say that his declaration that the Father and he were one in agreement, and not one in essence. Then the classic John 1:1 when they insist that the proper translation from the Greek is "...and the Word was a god", instead of "... and the Word was God." To the unsuspecting, these were fed into the mind, converting the "goat" into a "sheep" - that is to say, a Jehovah's Witness who is in line to be saved if he remains faithful to the organisation, never dissent, and certainly never question or have doubts about what is fed from "the Lord's Table" up there in Heaven, through the Society headquarters in New York, and through all their printed literature. The convert is then convinced that he has the truth, while everyone else is living a lie and will die eternally.
It was during those days that I began to ponder: How do I know that my faith is the right one? I began to imagine what the Last Judgement will be like. I have pictured in my mind the Great White Throne with Almighty God sitting on it. In front of him are all the religious believers - Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Roman Catholic, Lutherian, Pentecostals, Baptists, Mormons, Christian Scientists, Children of God, Pagans, Anglicans, Methodists, Jehovah's Witnesses - all arrayed in their groups - some large, others small, all waiting to find out from God which group had done his will and obeyed him. Then the Almighty would single out Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Watchtower Society, and all his followers, and grant them eternal life. They then are allowed into Heaven, much to the shocking horror of all the others with their founders and leaders, who are thrown out of his presence to be cast into Hell, and that despite the Watchtower Society repudiating Hell, and only 144,000 Witnesses will enter Heaven, the rest are to enjoy eternity on the new Earth, restored to the state of the original Garden of Eden, but even then, on the principle that they remain faithful.
Throughout my confusion I stood by the truth of the Trinity, even if I couldn't face up to a mature Witness (the young man's father), as I was still blind to the obvious - that any weakening of the Atonement achieved by Christ on the Cross renders their gospel as false. With Jesus Christ relegated to a created being, inferior to the Father, impaled on an upright pole (without the crossbar) and risen only as a spirit, and not physically, their religion is on the par with very other religion on the planet. For example, Muslims deny that it was Christ who died on the cross. Muhammad believed that it might have been Judas Iscariot instead, an idea upheld throught Islam. Both in Hinduism and Buddhism believe that Jesus was one of many good teachers who helped reform mankind, but certainly not atoned for their sin.
Paul wrote to the church in Corinth of what one could be called the plumbline to determine whether a gospel proclaimed is true or false. In 1 Corinthians 15:3-5, we read:
For what I have received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve.
Paul also emphasises that belief in the Resurrection is vital for salvation. Romans 10:9 reads:
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
This is a physical resurrection, that of the body, and not just a spiritual one as the Witnesses insist. The death by crucifixion and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ are a combined fact - they have ocurred before now, and are just as solid historically as the sun poured its light and heat on to our planet the day before yesterday. The facts cannot be changed. They are true regardless whether one believes or not. But by believing in the heart that Jesus rose physically from the dead result in complete acquittal from all sins commited - past, present, and future. No other religious founder or leader had ever enjoyed a physically resurrected body as Jesus. This goes to show that he is Lord indeed. But not Lord in a sense of an employer or an aristocrat, but Lord in the sense that he is truly God and truly man. No other religion can confess this. And even among Christian believers, the question of eternal acquittal can be so hard to swallow! That is why "Once Saved Always Saved" does not go down well with everyone who regularly attend church. Simply put, Eternal Security is just an acknowledgement that salvation as a whole is totally dependent on whether the death and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ is historically true. If true, you as a believer is saved eternally and can never be lost again. If not historically true, then you are as equally lost as that poor soul yonder who is serving life in prison for theft and multiple murder.
Believing that salvation can be lost by a sinning or faithless believer weakens the truth of the Gospel by adding human merit or even works to the Gospel, diluting it. In other words, the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ did not fully atone for one's sins, unless the sinner gives "a helping hand." All labels which claim to be Christian but believes that salvation can be lost insist that only one's past sins were forgiven at conversion, leaving "a clean slate" afterwards. The snag with that idea is that the moment a sin is committed, the slate is no longer clean, and the believer is subject to eternal judgement. As James wrote, that whoever keeps the whole Law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking the entire Law (James 2:10-11). Without eternal acquittal, it is impossible to keep the slate clean and then go to Heaven after death. Once saved always saved is essential for salvation.
That was the whole object of Paul's letter to the Galatians. In 1:6-10, Paul was so emphatic to drive his point home that not only did he repeat what he had already stated, but involved angels too - that if anyone preached a gospel contrary to the one he preached, let him be accursed! - Angels included. And what was this false gospel which infuriated the Apostle so severely? It was making physical circumcision mandatory for all believers, laying on them a heavy burden, as so well narrated in Galatians 5:1-6. Paul insisted that whoever advocates circumcision, or for that matter, observance of Jewish holidays, is compelled to observe the entire Law. If breached, then the advocate is subject to eternal judgement.
I can understand how those believers in Galatia fell for such ideas. In Genesis chapter 16, God himself institiuted circumcision to Abraham and all male members of his family, to be passed down to his decendants forever. According to verse 14, if anyone fails to be circumcised, he will be cut off from his people, that is eternally separated from God and his people by death. According to the Judaists who influenced the Galatian churches, this covenant is eternal and therefore cannot be broken. The logic of all this was that the power of the Atonement made by Christ would be nullified. Hence the curse. There seems to be little difference between circumcision needed in order to be saved, and "staying faithful and abstaining from sin" to stay saved, as both puts the believer under the slavery of the Law, according to the Apostle, as both require the need of works and human merit.
But the idea of eternal acquittal from the curse of sin is virtually unknown by all religions. No matter how committed a Muslim, or Buddhist, Hindu, Roman Catholic or Jehovah's Witness may be, none would believe in Once Saved Always Saved. And if Eternal Security is untrue, the power of the cross and resurrection of Christ is weakened, a tantamount of denying the Lord.
Yet a huge majority of religious people are devoted to their faith, giving all out commitment to their rituals and duties, with a hope that these will reconcile them to God or enter Nirvana. And each one thinks that he is in the right, and each one has a good case to argue. So how can someone like myself be so sure that I'm saved only through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ? How can I be so sure that Muhammad does not have a case in point, or Buddha, for that matter? Or supposing the Roman Catholic Church with its Papal system had been right all along? Does the Pope really stand as mediator between mankind and God? And does the Virgin Mary really have the same role in interceding for the sin of her followers? And there are many who were, and still are, devoted to her.
There is no love lost between the Vatican and the Watchtower Society, but each believe that they are true to the Bible, both believe that they are serving God, and both deny the truthfulness of Eternal Security of the Believer. So I can I be so sure in what I believe is from God himself?
That will be for the blog for next week.

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The Ondaatje prize can always be relied on to produce an eclectic shortlist and this year is no exception. The books in contention range from a memoir of an English country estate to a novel set in a Nigerian prison cell, via a study of an acre of land in North Yorkshire, a psycho-geographer's tour of Hackney in London, short tales of a wealthy Pakistani family, and a portrait of Jamaica.
Given the wide remit of the £10,000 prize, such diversity is unsurprising. The Royal Society of Literature awards it each year to a book "of the highest literary merit" that best evokes the spirit of place. Previous winners include Graham Robb's cultural history The Discovery of France, Adam Nicolson's family history of Sissinghurst, and Hisham Matar's Libyan-set debut novel, In the Country of Men.
The places featuring in this year's shortlist are brought to life in a range of genres. Madeleine Bunting's The Plot is a "biography of an English acre" that considers the plot of land on which her father built a chapel and produces a more general portrait of England and its land from her very specific example. Kachi A Ozumba also attempts to tell a bigger story through the use of detail in his debut novel, The Shadow of a Smile, in which the tale of a young man's life on the inside of a Nigerian prison cell reveals the corruption of an unscrupulous bureaucracy. Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, which has already won the $20,000 (£14,000) The Story prize, tells eight linked stories that centre around a feudal landowner in southern Pakistan.
Iain Sinclair makes the shortlist with his tour of the London borough that has been his home for the past 40 years, offering a scathing indictment of the 2012 Olympics project, and his usual encounters with fellow travellers and estate dwellers along the way.
An estate of a different kind altogether is the setting for William Fiennes's The Music Room, an account of a childhood growing up with a brother with epilepsy in an English country stately home. The Dead Yard by Ian Thomson builds a portrait of Jamaica through interviews with "gunmen and government officials, musicians and missionaries" to demonstrate that the island is more than "golden beaches and guns, guns, guns".
The Ondaatje judges, Steve Jones, Kathleen Jamie and Penelope Lively, described the shortlist as comprising "compelling, individual voices, taut narrative and impressive research in six remarkable books from across a complete range of genres". The winner will be announced on May 24 in London.


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By Ben Howling
Another incident has occurred which proves the only people who should have guns are the police, the military, and Blacks and Hispanics who need to defend themselves from overt racist acts. Maybe the LGBTQ community, too? I haven't really decided that one yet, because many in that community are white, and white people should not have guns. They just use them to kill innocent Blacks like Trayvon Martin, or the nine Blacks in Charleston a few weeks ago. And use them to protect their White Privilege. But I digress! Back to the story. This is from the New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Law enforcement officials say John Russell Houser is the lone gunman responsible for opening fire in a Lafayette movie theater, killing two people and injuring nine others Thursday night (July 23). He also fatally shot himself.
What we know so far about the shooter from authorities and witnesses:
• Identified as John Russell Houser. Went by "Rusty."
• 59-year-old man.
• He is from Phenix City, Ala., and has been staying in a Lafayette motel since early July. Described as a "drifter."
• He bought a ticket for the movie and watched 20 minutes before opening fire. He fired at least 13 times.
• He started the rampage by shooting the two people sitting in front of him. They have been identified as 33-year-old Jillian Johnson and 21-year-old Mayci Breaux.
• His actions seemed "random." Read the witness account here.
• "He wasn't saying anything" during the shooting.
• The gunman initially tried escaping by blending into the fleeing crowd, but turned back when he saw police heading inside from the parking lot.
• Officers tailing him back into the theater heard a single gunshot and found him dead inside.
• Authorities searched a motel room they believed he might have been staying in. They found wigs, glasses and disguises in the room.
• He was not wearing a disguise in the theater.
• Police believe the gunman fired shots only at the theater and had not waged an attack anywhere else beforehand.
• He was driving a blue Lincoln Continental. It was parked outside the theater by the exit door and police believe he had planned to escape after the shooting. Police saw something suspicious inside the car during their investigation. A bomb-sniffing dog "hit on three different locations" in the vehicle, "so out of an abundance of caution we brought in the bomb squad."
• He ran for a political office in Georgia but withdrew from the race after he was accused of stealing an opponent's yard signs.
• Tweeted support for the Westboro Baptist Church.
• Identified as a member of the Tea Party, according to his online postings.
There is more at the link, including information about his past mental problems. But that information is not needed, because one point above says it all:
• Identified as a member of the Tea Party, according to his online postings.
Need anyone say more? Obviously he had mental problems if he was a member of the Tea Party! This is the second person in a few weeks who has been driven crazy by right-wing rhetoric. First it was Dylann Roof, and now it is John Houser! I will be writing more about this as time goes by. But I am afraid, very afraid, that all the hostile and micro-agressive hate speech spewed by people like Rush Limbaugh and FOXNews has finally begin sending people over the edge!
Lock your doors!
Ben Howling
FootNote: The image is Richard Widmark from the 1950 noir film, No Way Out. This was Sidney Poiter's first film! The subject matter of the film relates to this article, as wiki notes:
No Way Out is a 1950 black-and-white American film noir[1] directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally and Sidney Poitier (in his feature film debut), who portrays a doctor tending to slum residents whose ethics are tested when confronted with racism, personified by Richard Widmark as the hateful robber Ray Biddle.[2]
My thanks (and kudos!) to Penelope Dreadful and Sacks Roamer, the Unknown Blogger, for choosing this image! I never heard of this film. But is is available on youtube in its entirety:


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Protests clashes at Hajin encounter site
Police said that protests erupted near the encounter site at Mir mohalla Hajin as youth pelted stones on army vehicle and other wings of security forces.
Latest reports from the area said that massive protests have erupted and security forces have pounded the area with teargas shells. clashes were going on till reports last reached here and the gunfight is going on.


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Gut Reaction
The intestine, as well as providing the wherewithal to digest food, is a dynamic immunological site—and indeed, is the largest in the body. The oral delivery of vaccines has the potential to provide an extremely effective means of immunizing against infection. However, to improve on the few currently successful oral vaccines, new approaches will be needed to deliver antigens selectively to the relevant intestine-situated immune cells. A distinct class of epithelial cells, called M cells, have been seen as ideal targets for some time, because they are specialists in the transfer of antigens from the lumen of the gut to the underlying mucosa. By attaching antigens to a monoclonal antibody that is able to latch selectively onto M cells, Nochi et al. achieved specific delivery to these cells. When compared with antigens that had been coupled to nonspecific immunoglobulin, oral administration of the antigen-conjugated monoclonal led to an increase in elicited antibodies and protection from a normally lethal bacterial challenge. The M-cell specificity of the monoclonal was due to a difference associated with a carbohydrate moiety present on epithelial cells, suggesting that looking for similar targets on human M cells might be beneficial in human vaccine development. — SJS
J. Exp. Med. 10.1084/jem.20070607 (2007).
Nothing to Sniff at...
In many animals, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) has been thought to be responsible for the generation of signals that inform the status of relationship among individuals. The similarity of MHC complexes, which is detectable by scent, were believed to be a means by which mice, and potentially other mammals, recognize and avoid breeding with close relatives. However, Cheetham et al. now find that female mice could not differentiate between individuals that differed solely on the basis of their MHC type. Instead, the mice showed preferences between a choice of half-sibling males on the basis of direct contact with another set of species-specific variable markers—their major urinary proteins. This suggests that the factors used by many animals to recognize specific individuals may not in fact be controlled by their MHC profile. — LMZ
Curr. Biol. 17, 1771 (2007).
Shining Light on Hydration
Proteins derive a substantial degree of their form and function from the presence or absence of water molecules swarming about the amino acids in various parts of the structure. The hydration process is highly dynamic, and ultrafast laser spectroscopy has recently proved useful in exploring the detailed interactions between protein and solvent. In this vein, Zhang et al. undertook a systematic study of water motion in distinct regions of the eight helices constituting the native conformation of apomyoglobin, as well as the molten globular form of the protein accessed at low pH. To introduce local probes, they prepared a series of mutants with tryptophan (Trp) residues substituted at 16 different sites; excitation with a femtosecond ultraviolet pulse then induced Trp fluorescence that varied with the hydration environment. Increased exposure to water led to a higher Stokes shift (i.e., longer wavelength emission), as well as a shorter fluorescence lifetime. In general, the emission decays were biexponential, with a fast time constant that ranged from ∼1 to 8 ps and a slow component ranging from ∼20 to 200 ps. The fast process could be attributed to short-range fluctuations of the hydrogen-bonded water network, and the slower process to more collective restructuring as exchange with bulk solvent starts to come into play. — JSY
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104, 18461 (2007).
Triangle Triumph
How does an extra proton latch onto an ethylene? If one thinks about the H2C=CH2 molecule grasping H+, the logical structure would seem to be a triangle with the proton shared between the two carbons, because that's where the electrons doing the grasping are already mostly confined. On the other hand, the same cation should result from stripping H− off ethane (H3C-CH3), and in that context it seems as though the extra H should stay on one carbon or the other, in a more classical bonding arrangement. Chemists have long puzzled over this question, and the highest-level quantum mechanical calculations favor the triangular H-sharing structure. However, direct experimental evidence has been elusive. Andrei et al. have now measured the vibrational spectrum of the C2H5+ cation in gas phase and confirmed the nonclassical geometry. The experiment relied on a highly sensitive technique in which an argon atom loosely bound to the cation is ejected (and the naked cation then mass-detected) by the energy dissipated when C-H bonds in the compound resonantly absorb infrared light. Spectral shifts of the primary bands relative to ethylene were relatively small (<50 cm−1). — JSY
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 10.1002/anie.200704163 (2007).
Tougher Liposomes
Although liposomes can be used for drug delivery, efforts continue toward improving both the stability of these spherical bilayer structures and the control over how they release their aqueous contents. Lee et al. describe a method to generate caged liposomes surrounded by a cholesterol-anchored polymer coating whose stability is pH dependent. Cholesterol-terminated poly(acrylic acid) was mixed with dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylcholine liposomes. After an overnight incubation period, these coated liposomes, which had a mean diameter of 90 nm, were cross-linked with 2,2′-(ethylenedioxy)-bis(ethylamine). The coated vesicles retained their spherical shape after freeze-drying and were resistant to leakage after 500 hours in bovine calf serum. However, the carboxylic acid cross-links helped facilitate release of the vesicles' content through compressive rupture after introduction into modestly acidic solutions (pH range of 4.0 to 5.5) over periods of 150 hours. This type of modified liposome has the potential to provide a stable, controllable drug-delivery vehicle. — PDS
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 10.1021/ja070748i (2007).
Another Case of Cellular Identity Theft
Solid tumors use a variety of crafty mechanisms to optimize their growth, invasion, and metastasis. One unusual mechanism that has attracted much recent interest is a form of cellular identity theft whereby tumor cells morph into a different cell type or induce surrounding normal cells to do so. The best characterized of these phenotypic changes is EMT, or "epithelial-mesenchymal transition," a process thought to endow tumor epithelial cells with migratory and invasive features and/or provide the tumor with a pool of activated fibroblasts that produce molecules required for metastasis. Zeisberg et al. describe a new variation on this theme. Using genetically marked transgenic mice, they show that proliferating endothelial cells (the cells that form the inner layer of blood vessels) can also morph into mesenchymal cells resembling activated fibroblasts and that the latter cells are present in at least two distinct tumor types in mice. This "endothelial-mesenchymal" transition is promoted by transforming growth factor-1β1, a cytokine that also promotes EMT and that is abundant in many tumors. The next question is whether and how these intriguing cells contribute to tumor progression. — PAK
Cancer Res. 67, 10123 (2007).
PINK Participates in Parkinson's Pathway
Mice expressing missense mutations in a serine protease known as HtrA2 (also called Omi) exhibit a neurodegenerative disease that shows similarities to Parkinson's disease in humans. Plun-Favreau et al. describe a connection between this protein and PINK1, a mitochondrial protein kinase that is mutated in certain forms of Parkinson's disease. HtrA2 functions to detect damaged or misfolded proteins caused by stress in the mitochondria. Misfolded proteins bind to a regulatory domain and activate the protease. HtrA2 may also be regulated by phosphorylation in response to the stress-activated p38 MAP (mitogen-activated protein) kinase pathway. Although PINK1 binds to HtrA2 and was required for p38-activated phosphorylation and activation of HtrA2, PINK appeared not to phosphorylate HtrA2 directly. Furthermore, phosphorylation of HtrA2 was increased in samples of brain from patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease—as might be expected if mitochondrial stress in the diseased cells caused activation of the p38 pathway and consequent phosphorylation and activation of HtrA2. — LBR
Nat. Cell Biol. 9, 1243 (2007).


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Chic Heart Shaped Glasses
The innocence of childhood brings brighter colors and shapes to your eyes that one tends to lose over time as we age. The eyes of a child are full of wonder and amazement. Everything is beautiful. Everything is huge. Everything is new. All of the things around you are exciting and magical.
Heart Glasses are usually a big seller for Valentine's day but nowadays It is very common to find heart glasses at novelty shops.
The actual vintage ones were made of horn! Genuine horn products and hold a much large value in dollars then the ones most people wear. The history of heart glasses goes a little something like this.
It was originally made in the 1960′s as part of a peace love type movement. It graduated into 1970′s culture with Disco styles in an anything goes type manner. The 1980′s came around and people wanted to reminisce of the 1960′s.
In the 1990′s they became sort of a novelty costume idea. In today's modern society they are being seen on the likes of Lindsay Lohan trying to be fab in a hotel room in LA!
We love heart-shaped sunglasses for summer. The trend is obviously nothing new, it's been an iconic youthful-yet-sexy staple ever since it made a splash in the 1962 film version of Nabokov's infamous novel "Lolita."
Heart-Shaped Glasses have had a serious resurgence this season. We spied them on no fewer than 5 A-listers including Lana Del Ray, Avril Lavigne, Drew Barrymore, Katy Perry and Ashley Tisdale.
Heart shaped sunglasses are cute and it will be fun to wear. Of course all children love to fashion with heart shaped sunglasses. Even elders too love these sunglasses because many will give retro and vintage look.
Many like pink color of sunglasses but there are other colors red, blue, black, white, yellow these too will give beautiful appearance to children as well as adults.
In party time you can present these sunglasses to every friend of you, they will have fun in wearing these glasses and love it your idea. These stylish and unique sunglasses will keep you looking cool on those warm and sunny days.
Fun and Funky Eyewear for the young at heart! They are glitzy and glamorous for a day or night of fun. Be the hit of the party or any special occasion with these hip and trendy styles. Whether you are looking for a pair a shades for the next cool costume party or just want them for some great fun, these are definitely the glasses for you.


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Tina Ranavat Says 'No More' to Child Marriage
Tina hails from Mayapur village in Ajmer district, Rajasthan. Like many young girls in that region, she fell prey to the illegal practice of child marriage when she was 12. Tina's in-laws always harassed her because she had studied until class 8 while her husband could hardly clear the 7th. They treated her as unfit for their family and taunted her constantly while Tina tried to keep them happy.
But the situation got worse with time. Tina was abused and sometimes beaten by her drunkard husband. Throughout this, she did not speak a single word about what she was going through to her parents, but remained keen on educating herself further. One day, Tina went to her parent's place to appear for her 12th class exam. Meanwhile, in Tina's absence, her husband got married a second time.
When Tina went back to her in-laws, she was shocked to hear the news and further blindsided when her in-laws threw her out of the house and told her to break relations with them. Tina and her parents found themselves helpless, but decided to go for a legal battle.
In 2013, Tina started working with Gramin Mahila Vikas Sanstha while her divorce case was pending in court. She was quite afraid to talk in front of judge during the trial. But her selection in CORO's QGLDP fellowship programme in 2016 changed a lot for her. She became bold enough to face the legal proceedings in the court and could confidently argue her side before the judge.
Rajasthan QGLDP Fellowship Training, May 2018. Photo Credit: Harlal Bairwa.
Tina took up the serious issue of child marriage during the fellowship, as she intimately knew the suffering this practice caused. She was the witness to how child marriage had devastated her life and continued to cause troubles in her sister's life too. In Tina's village, Mayapur, there were around 20 cases of women who had been married as children and, like Tina, had been abandoned to survive alone by the in-laws. Some of them were also single mothers. Tina took the cause of victims of child marriage in her village close to her heart.
Today, Tina guides these young women on how to create a good future for themselves. She advises them on re-marriage, livelihood opportunities and how to claim the constitutional rights guaranteed to them. Sometimes she approaches the in-laws of those girls who do not want to remarry and tries to find a compromise in the interest of the whole family. She has helped two girls to remarry and even stopped a child marriage of a school student by preparing him to oppose the archaic tradition himself. Tina finds great satisfaction in helping the victims of child marriage and creating awareness among the young and old of her village to prevent this unlawful and distressing practice.


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New York City is one of the world's busiest cities, making it a prime place to visit any time of year. The fall season is no different, with a vast variety of attractions and events that offer something for everyone. Whether you live in NYC full time, are visiting the area shortly or live just a short distance away, fall trips to NYC could be just what the doctor ordered.
Things to do in and around NYC in the fall include:
The New York Film Festival
Held annually by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the event features films from a number of the most popular film makers of our time including Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis. In it's 53rd year, the festival offers both full length films and shorts on a variety of subjects. The festival runs from September 25th through October 11th.
NYC Wine & Food Festival
The NYC Wine & Food Festival is a charitable event that helps to fund charities that address hunger in and around NYC. The festival includes offerings from a number of celebrity chefs, classes and food from some of the top restaurants in NYC. This year's festival runs from October 15th – October 18th.
In the fall, Broadway shows open providing an opportunity to catch some of the stages' newest offerings. Offerings range from the classics Jersey Boys and Phantom of the Opera, to new offerings to China Doll – a new play that features Al Pacino. With so many options for shows, you're sure to find something that appeals to your taste.
NYC is one of the greatest sports towns in the United States. With teams in every major sport, there are sporting events held throughout the fall. Baseball season runs through early October, but can go longer if the NYC teams make it to the playoffs. Football kicks off in early September, followed by basketball at the end of October. There are also a number of colleges and universities that also host collegiate sporting events.
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Variation in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus open reading frame 5 diagnostic sequencing
Amber M. Stricker, MS, DVM; Dale D. Polson, DVM, MS, PhD; Michael P. Murtaugh, PhD; Jane Christopher-Hennings, DVM, MS; Travis Clement, MS
Complete article is available online.
PDF version is available online.
Objective: To assess porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) open reading frame 5 (ORF5) sequencing variation, within and among state diagnostic laboratories, that may contribute to observed differences in sequence homology among isolates.
Materials and methods: PRRS virus-positive blood samples were collected from individual pigs on three different farms and submitted on three independent occasions to three diagnostic laboratories for PRRSV ORF5 nucleotide sequencing. The PRRSV isolates on each farm were genetically disparate. Vaccine viruses (Ingelvac PRRS MLV and Ingelvac PRRS ATP; Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc, St Joseph, Missouri) were submitted as positive controls.
Results: Full-length ORF5 sequences were obtained from all samples. Positive-control vaccine virus sequencing was precise and highly accurate, with all laboratories on all occasions obtaining nearly identical sequences. The analytical specificity of field PRRSV sequencing was robust, with a median variation among laboratories for the same farm sample, across all pigs and submission dates, of one base difference per 603-base sequence (0.2%). Seventy-five percent of sequences had fewer than six base differences, and the greatest difference was 2.2%. However, 16% of samples in one submission from one farm appeared to be misidentified in the reports of one laboratory.
Implications: Inter- and intra-laboratory ORF5 sequencing results are reproducible, reliable, and do not contribute significantly to estimated PRRSV diversity. Tracking errors may occur which can lead to confusion or inappropriate reaction by key decision makers. Submitters should retain aliquots of all samples to enable further investigation of a diagnostic error not related to the sequencing procedure.
Keywords: porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, sequence, dendrogram, variation, PRRS
Cite as: Stricker AM, Polson DD, Murtaugh MP, et al. Variation in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus open reading frame 5 diagnostic sequencing. J Swine Health Prod 2015;23(1):18-27.
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The announcement was made in his speech to the National Party conference in Wellington, where he and wife Bronagh received a rapturous welcome.
The spending on 14 projects identified would come from the so-called future investment fund – the proceeds of the partial sale of state-owned assets in the past term.
The five projects, already approved, and given the highest priority are:
* Kawarau Falls Bridge in Otago;
* Mingha Bluff to Rough Creek realignment in Canterbury;
* Akerama Curves realignment and passing lane in Northland;
* State Highway 35 Slow Vehicle Bays in Gisborne; and
* Normanby Overbridge realignment in Taranaki.
They were approved already but weren't due to begin until close to 2020. They will be given $80 million to have work begun next year.
Another six projects have been identified for an additional $115 million and for work to begin within three years, subject to usual approvals:
* Whirokino Trestle Bridge replacement, in Manawatu/ Wanganui;
* Motu Bridge replacement in Gisborne;
* Opawa and Wairau Bridge replacements in Marlborough;
* Taramakau road and rail bridge bridge on the West Coast;
* Loop Rd north to Smeatons Hill safety improvements in Northland; and
* Mt Messenger and Awakino Gorge corridor in Taranaki.
Another $12 million will be dedicated to investigate three projects in Nelson, Hawkes Bay and Bay of Plenty: a Port of Napier access package; Nelson southern link; and Rotorua eastern arterial.
Mr Key said the $212 million would be on top of $360 million already proposed for regional roads.
"Each project is important because it makes roads safer, helps the region be more productive or improves the way the roading network operates.
"Until today there was no guarantee these projects would be funded in the foreseeable future."
Mr Key began his speech by attacking Labour over its failure to support a law allowing fallen native timber after cyclone Ita to be harvested (though two South Island Labour MPs, Damien O'Connor and Rino Tirakatene, crossed the floor).
"We're a Government that's practical enough to know when a storm blows trees over, you can mill them and create jobs."
"Compare that with the Labour Party who'd leave all that dead wood lying around doing nothing. Mind you we shouldn't be surprised because that's what they do in their own caucus."
Labour leader David Cunliffe dismissed Mr Key's regional roading package, saying it wouldn't give the regions a "real future".
"It's less money than National has taken out of regional roading in the past, and really doesn't substitute for a proper strategy," Mr Cunliffe said today.
"I think it's about building a few roads, but it's not a regional development policy, so it would be nice if the regions had a real future."
The plan would not really help the regions, he said, adding that during its time in government, National had cut the regional roading budget from $330 million per year to $160m.
"So what they're putting back now is less than they took out."
Labour would "more than match" National's policy, he said.
"This is not really a regional development plan at all. It's just putting back a little bit of what they've already taken out of regional roads. It's frankly pretty disappointing."
Labour is "committed to a full regional development strategy", he said.
- By Audrey Young of NZ Herald


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Urgent Care Goes Online To Better Serve Community
Industry: Medical
Doctors Express Connecticut Uses the Internet to Improve Doctor-Patient Relations
Danbury, CT (PRUnderground) April 10th, 2014
The first Doctors Express Urgent Care Center in CT, Doctors Express of Danbury, opened its' doors to the public a year ago on March 23, 2013 and has been employing new media and creative online ways to improve patient doctor communications since the beginning. They are reaching out to the community in innovative and interactive ways.
Advances in apps and online awareness are opening the door to all kinds of possibilities for doctors and healthcare providers these days, and they are being applied in full force at Doctors Express. Awareness and information is key. Especially now with the sweeping changes in healthcare laws, outreach in the form of quick, targeted education and information is what people are hungry for, what they've become used to and what an Urgent Care Center should be delivering. Here is a sampling of how people are experiencing the upgraded services at Doctors Express:
- Real time community health alerts, such as flu warnings, or, like now, spring allergy information and help, communicated to the community via email blasts, e newsletters, and social media: Twitter, Google Plus and Facebook
- Youtube Doctors Express Medical Minute Video Series featuring local Doctors Express providers speaking on seasonal health issues, common ailments and preventative tactics folks can watch to self- manage their health issues between doctors appointments, and in some cases to prevent seeing a doctor
- Expanded website offerings, with healthcare education in the form of the Medical Minute videos and informational articles, the multitude of services offered such as employer services and an email and newsletter sign up are designed so that patients can not only get to know the urgent care center but can get useful information on the services prior to coming in. People often have questions about whether their ailment can be treated at an urgent care center. The websites are a one stop source for those questions. All the websites are available on mobile as well
- Specialized health education and services like camp and sports physicals, blood pressure screenings, flu shots, and more, again, via online newsletters, email blasts, Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter.
- On-line Check-in to help cut down further on visit times. 10 minutes or more can be spent on paperwork related to registration. Doctors Express has a goal of getting patients in and out in under an hour, and this can reduce that time even further.
Within this past year another Doctors Express has opened in Bridgeport, and two more are slated to open in the next few months, one in West Hartford and one in Stamford. All have jumped on the online bandwagon.
Tom Kelly, managing partner of Doctors Express Danbury and West Hartford said "The way that healthcare is being delivered today is changing. Although often- times doctor-patient time is shorter than it has been, we have the ability to interact with our patients through various mediums and share real time health updates, educational pieces and prevention advice. The online services we provide are efficient, portable and most of all effective. We want to encourage interaction and connection with our health care providers, in person in our urgent care centers as well as with these online tools."
Doctors Express Stamford owner Brad Radulovacki agrees. "If you are engaged with your healthcare providers, trust is formed and then a relationship. And that's how you stay current and connected. We want there to be a real back and forth with our patients".
Both Kelly, Radulovacki and Dr. Steven Heffer at newly opened Doctors Express Urgent Care of Bridgeport are excited to be exploring how these online ways of communicating will improve not just the efficiency of their urgent care center, but intensify their relationships with the community as a whole.
"The intention is not to replace personal interaction," says Dr. Heffer, "Quite the contrary. We are hoping to break down barriers and enhance the doctor-patient experience in ways not seen before while bringing significant efficiency and accessibility to the process. It's enhancement"
About Doctors Express of Danbury
Founded by an emergency room physician seeking a more efficient, affordable and personable system for urgent care patients, AFC/ Doctors Express walk-in medical centers are sweeping the country as the nation's largest urgent care franchise. AFC/Doctors Express provides state-of-the-art treatment for acute illness, trauma (including minor surgical procedures) and has on-site laboratory and digital x-ray service as well as medication dispensing. Pre-employment physicals, drug screening and treatment of work related injuries are also available to local employers. In 2013, American Family Care acquired Doctors Express, further expanding its reach and available services. By the end of 2013, AFC/DRX will operate more than 140 facilities in 26 states, providing care to more than a million patients. For more information visithttp://www.doctorsexpress.com


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Fiona and Emma from Elliott Wood recently met with Alex, who helps run the soup kitchen from across the road from the office, to find out if The Building Society members can do anything to support this worthwhile cause. They offer an incredible service, providing free hot meals and clothes to the homeless, elderly, lonely and poor in the area, and in addition to these 'essentials' they even have a counsellor on hand for emotional support. Alex advised that there are three key areas members can help:
- Volunteering
This is what they need most! They run the kitchen on a rota basis, with different volunteer groups and companies typically offering a morning per month to help prepare breakfast and lunch. Occasionally volunteers don't make their shifts, and in these instances urgent help might be required to ensure people can be fed.
- Donations
They have some items that they need more than others – they have lots of food provided by local restaurants but need things like sleeping bags, rucksacks, thermals, layers, and consumables such as razors. They keep an Amazon wishlist updated with the latest needs.
- Fundraising
The soup kitchen runs regular fundraising events, which The Building Society members are invited to attend. Further details will be shared when the next one is scheduled.
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Surgery in Cape Town has lost one of its most loyal servants. Harold Spilg had died peacefully on 19th June 2016 in Israel.
Harold, as he was known to everyone, was born in Lithuania in 1929. His family moved to South Africa and settled in Port Elizabeth. He matriculated from Grey High School in 1946 and thereafter completed a Diploma in Pharmacy in 1954. He was awarded the P.E. Technical College Medal for the best Pharmacy student.
He eventually moved to Cape Town where he practised as a pharmacist. He married Bertha Marcus. Frustrated as a pharmacist, he enrolled to study medicine at the University of Cape Town and graduated with an MBChB in 1960. He decided to specialize in General Surgery and became a Fellow of the College of Surgeons of South Africa in 1970.
Harold always had leanings towards "academia", and he undertook post graduate research between 1970 and 1972 in the JS Marais Laboratory at UCT under Professor John Terblanche, and at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded a ChM in 1972 from UCT for his thesis on Liver Perfusion/Preservation in Liver Transplantation.
He commenced private practice in Cape Town in 1972 and established a thriving practice. He was also appointed as a part-time Senior Specialist in Surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital.
In 1975 he was appointed as a part-time Senior Specialist in Surgery at the New Somerset Hospital where he continued to contribute for what seems like "forever". His participation on ward rounds and his support of junior registrars were legendary. He was also revered as a teacher of undergraduate medical students, and regularly acted as one of the senior examiners.
Harold provided an outstanding surgical service, both to the patients in his practice but also to the state patients at the Somerset Hospital. He was regarded as a "surgeon scientist" having published extensively on liver research in his early days. He was a great mentor and always willing to assist registrars at any time of day or night. It was therefore not surprising that he was awarded the Distinguished Surgeon Award from the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town in 2003.
Harold will be remembered for many things besides the surgery. His dress code was impeccable. He was also known for his running and was a regular participant in the Medical 10.
According to his daughter Denise Azriel, "Harold made aliyah to Israel in 2014 and became a new immigrant again. He adapted to this challenging way of life. He spent his last years enjoying the simple pleasures of life surrounded by his family".
Harold will be deeply missed by his numerous colleagues and friends.
Dr David Stein
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Global Company Survey: Women in Business and Management
Over the past five years, the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Bureau for Employer's Activities (ACT/EMP) has been working to support employer and business membership organizations (EBMOs) and their members on promoting gender diversity to realize better business outcomes. Our 2015 global publication, Women in Business and Management: Gaining Momentum brought gender diversity in large national firms and small and medium sized enterprises as well as in emerging in economies to the forefront. The report included results from 39 countries and over 1,300 companies that participated in the survey run together with EBMOs. This data went a long way to filling the current information gaps on women's leadership in the private sector. Based on this work ACT/EMP has also responded to calls from EBMOs for more tools and good practices to enhance their gender-related services to support the private sector in achieving better business outcomes.
To build on this work, ACT/EMP is launching a new global company survey. The results of this upcoming survey will not only bring opportunities and challenges to gender diversity further into focus but also track progress on the issue from the 2013 survey results. We hope to achieve a greater number of responses to ensure we have reliable data that can help inform our work and the work of EBMOs in the future. ACT/EMP would like to invite you and your members to participate in this survey.
In order to conduct this research, the ILO has partnered with Lightspeed Research, a global research services firm with significant experience in conducting online surveys. We aim to gather responses from over 10,000 firms across the global. To ensure the survey captures the views of your members, we would like to invite you to distribute the link below to your member companies and to encourage them to submit their responses through this survey. The survey is available in a number of different languages and also compatible with mobile devices. Your support for this survey will be invaluable in helping to reach our target and inform a robust research project that will serve businesses and their representative organizations across the globe.
This survey forms part of the abovementioned ongoing ILO research project and will culminate in a substantial report that will be publicly available in 2019.
We thank you for your time and contribution to this research.
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- Kim Kardashian West wore a vintage black Versace gown to the amfAR gala in New York City on Wednesday night.
- The unique dress featured thick tapered shoulder straps and a geometric plunging neckline.
- Kardashian West paired the gown with a pair of heels that featured thin, clear straps.
- Kourtney Kardashian also attended the event in a matching black vintage Versace gown.
- The two Kardashian sisters wore similar black dresses to a gala in early November 2018 as well.
A longtime fan of the "naked" dress trend, Kim Kardashian West has been wearing one sheer gown after another lately. The KKW Beauty founder opted for a different look Wednesday night, although her outfit was still daring as ever.
At the star-studded amfAR gala in New York City, the unofficial start of New York Fashion Week, Kardashian West turned heads in a vintage black Versace gown. The unique dress featured thick tapered shoulder straps and a geometric plunging neckline.
The reality TV star, who has a seemingly endless collection of vintage designer threads, kept the rest of her look simple. She paired the gown with a pair of heels that featured thin, clear straps and chose not to wear a necklace or bracelets.
Read more: Kim Kardashian wore a visible thong as part of her outfit, and it looks like she's bringing back a daring '90s trend
Kardashian West's sister, Kourtney, also attended the event in a matching vintage Versace gown. While the straps on both dresses looked similar, Kardashian's gown featured a higher inverted sweetheart neckline and a thigh-high slit.
Kardashian accessorizing with a pair of black pointy-toe heels and an emerald ring from Lorraine Schwartz.
The sisters' matching black dresses looked similar to ones they wore to the 2018 LACMA Art + Film gala in early November 2018.
That time, Kardashian West opted for a glossy black gown with a lace-up neckline while Kardashian wore a black dress with thin halter straps.
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- Kim Kardashian wore a Versace dress from the '90s that looks like one of Kendall Jenner's most daring outfits
- Kourtney Kardashian shared an intentionally distorted picture of her and Kim Kardashian after people accused her of editing the original
- Kim Kardashian West shared a rare throwback photo from 2 decades ago, and her outfit is giving us total '90s flashbacks
- Celebrities like Kim Kardashian are getting fake skin 'implants' that look straight out of a fantasy world. Here's the story behind them.


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2020 WI – 20 & 2.0 Mile Veterans Suicide Awareness March
November 9, 2019 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Event Description
The 2020 8th Annual Veteran Suicide Awareness Ruck March will be held on Saturday, November 14th along the Fox River trail through Green Bay, Allouez and De Pere. The Ruck is 20 miles to represent the number of Veterans reported by the VA who complete suicide every day. Last year, more than 1000 Veterans, active duty service members and civilians came together at the event to raise awareness and honor the lives and service of those who we have lost to this epidemic.
Many of the participants are civilians, active, non-active, and Veteran military personnel, however, all are encouraged to participate or attend to show their support. Though it's not a requirement, many of the participants will be carrying a rucksack or backpack that weighs 20 lbs. in remembrance of the 20 Veterans that complete suicide each and every day.
Money raised will assist us to help those who are suffering from mental illness and are considering such a tragic fate. Every Veteran deserves our help in overcoming such obstacles after serving our country and fighting for our freedoms. 4th H.O.O.A.H. WI will never turn a fellow service member, a Veteran of the U.S. Military away, but we need help and support to fulfill this promise. Thus, we are asking you to join us this Veterans Day weekend and help us bring awareness to veterans suicide by sponsoring 4th H.O.O.A.H. WI's 20 Mile Veteran Suicide Rucksack March.
This event is about joining together as a team to fight against Veteran suicide. There will be no prizes for finishing 1st, 2nd or 3rd. However, we will recognize those who go above and beyond in their fundraising efforts to better help 4th H.O.O.A.H. WI fight this fight against Veteran suicide. For those who go out and raise over $1,000 in pledges for the march they will be recognized before and after the completion of the march with a special award for their efforts.Register Now Volunteer Pledge Form Boot Campaign Event Details
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- Simply select the event name and your campaign fundraising goal and then "Submit."
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How to Develop the Mindset of a Successful Entrepreneur
We are back at it with another Bright Ideas Daily Nugget, and I am sharing my tools on how to develop the mindset of a successful entrepreneur.
Success is no accident, it is the result of hard word, learning from failure, persistence, and the right mindset. The secret is something we talk a lot about with my employees, this like an owner.
There is a massive difference between the mindset of a successful entrepreneur and a wanna-be. Wanna-be's never make the transition from thinking like an employee to thinking like an owner. It's not easy but I have three steps to help you get there:
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New Designer – Leonie Simpson
I first discovered Leonie Simpson back in mid 2010 whilst on a talent scout for a boutique market I was a part of. I instantly fell in love with the bold colours and strong features of her jewellery.
We are very excited to have Leonie's collection available in the emporium, and you will able to find some of her gorgeous necklaces as shown, plus brooches and earrings too!


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In a world of labels it's easy to forget who made sportsmen, pop singers and matinee idols into stars, superstars and megastars – the FANS. Every FAN has their own personal relationship with their hero – it's almost a Love Story. FAN is the story of Gaurav (Shah Rukh Khan) a young man, 20 something, whose world revolves around the mega movie star Aryan Khanna (Shah Rukh Khan) or God as he refers to him. From the by lanes of Delhi, young Gaurav embarks on a journey to the city of dreams, Mumbai, in order to wish his God on his birthday. After all, he is Aryan's biggest FAN and even has a striking resemblance to him – how difficult could it be for the world biggest FAN to get an audience with the world's biggest Star. When things don't go according to plan, Gaurav's love and passion for his God turns in to a dangerous obsession that crosses the fine line. In an edge of the seat thriller, FAN will peel away at both Gaurav and Aryan's personalities and characters as the two men discover …
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It's Here!! 2013 ICON Registration Officially Open
If you're an Informer user and you've attended one of our ICONs (Informer User Conference) before, or even if you haven't, it's time to get excited. Really. Excited.
This year's conference is scheduled to be held September 30 – October 2, 2013, at Myrtle Beach, SC (Yeah, the beach!!!). ICON is where users from higher education, insurance and other industries across the country gather to share ideas, participate in presentations and exchange best practices related to using Informer.
The Informer User Conference will include breakout sessions with members of the Informer product development team, panel discussions on best practices and methodologies, client-led presentations on real-world Informer use-cases, one-on-one product training, and networking with Informer users from other organizations. Conference attendees will have the exclusive opportunity to enhance their knowledge of Informer and learn about all of the new features, updates, and exciting developments that Entrinsik has planned for Informer.
See what users had to say about ICON 2012!
Sessions will be conducted by members of Informer's product development team including Brad Leupen, CTO, and Andrew Morovati, Informer Product Manager. The Informer User Conference will allow attendees to provide feedback to the entire Informer software team, as well as network with industry colleagues.
We are currently soliciting one-of-a-kind, awesome presentations by Informer users for the conference. The deadline for submissions is July 15th, 2013. To submit an abstract, email email@example.com.
Another reason to rejoice: We're also kicking off the annual Informer Business Intelligence (BI) Use Case Awards for best deployment scenarios that demonstrate the useful and creative ways in which Entrinsik customers are using Informer for analytics, business process improvements, and decision making.
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A breakdown of all the questions and answers from our Friday November 1st Twitter AMA, with Tael Founders Alexander Busarov and Yaroslav Belinskiy. This AMA coincided with the release of our Q3 Quarterly Review - if you haven't had a chance to read it yet, take a look to review our progress last quarter and preview what's coming up in Q4.
Twitter AMA Questions & Answers:
- Question: https://twitter.com/Crypto_Stud/status/1190090951957590016
"ETA for when you'll be adding more masternodes from the queue? And how many are you planning to add?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190270555234000897
"Sorry, we've been very busy with many other things (check out our Q3 recap 🙂 https://blog.taelpay.com/q3-quarterly-review)
We'll try to share the info soon after ironing out the details. Make sure to follow @taelpay on Twitter or Telegram Announcements (https://t.me/wabiico) to be notified."
- Question: https://twitter.com/One6tySwiftly/status/1190070878333276161
"Is there a way for US citizens to purchase Tael / Wabi?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190273101398855680
"Tael is available through host of different channels, including @bitladon, @easycryptonz, @coinmerce, @coinspotau, and, of course, @binance.
If these don't work, which ones would you suggest we approach to add Tael/$WABI?"
- Question: https://twitter.com/Sypher42/status/1189737114663043073
"if all humans died…would wabi try to work with ai to bring us back via cloning and internet memory reintegration?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190273656062013440
"This use case is not something we've focused on. But I'm sure some other project(s) are "already doing it"."
- Question: https://twitter.com/Sergeyb88894093/status/1189768601512894464
"Когда вы добавите возможность купить токен на других крупных биржах?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190273922488401921
"Очень активно работаем над этим!"
- Question: https://twitter.com/GtzMarian91/status/1190096148289200128
"When can we expect products with tael rfid in Europe?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190274853066043392
"Tael equipped products are already in Europe: those to be sold in the China market. As for the consumer-facing deployment, we see things developing not unlike digital payments, with things first happening in China & before deployment in the west. Our IOT angle will more likely be more appealing than anti-counterfeiting."
- Question: https://twitter.com/DarkCryptoLord/status/1190237548255182849
"Wen moon?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190275945900343296
- Question: https://twitter.com/Callum_McClure/status/1190240922052644864
"Will Tael protected @ledger become a reality one day"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190276214822277121
"Please, let @ledger know if you've had/seen issues with fake ledgers. We are open to protect their products."
- Question: https://twitter.com/apathetichodler/status/1190101517858041857
"So all China stores stocking Wakatsuru products will now have Tael labels on the bottles. This product partnership is your BD lead into these storeschains. Great!! Is onboarding these stores to accept Tael payment a bottlenecktime consuming. Is this model scalable?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190276813655666689
"We are not (yet) actively pursuing these stores to accept Tael. What you need to give merchants is not a Business Development push, but users. First question any merchant asks a payment system is "how many more users will it bring". Once we are over 1 million users, merchants will start queueing up to accept Tael. On top of that, we are working on several special cases where merchants will accept Taels even before we reach 1 million users. Let's wait for that one to become public."
- Question: https://twitter.com/i_m_akj/status/1190123195359064070
"Need more details on what has been achieved so far in partnership with Rakuten, Nestle and what more to expect down the line. Sales figures, revenue, prediction etc."
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190277489630703616
"I think quite a bit is covered in our Q3 recap :grinning: https://blog.taelpay.com/q3-quarterly-review
Specific sales figures on specific partners are unlikely to ever be available. I don't think you'll find it for publicly listed companies either."
- Question: https://twitter.com/mainor_nick/status/1190100268660203520
"How can I earn tael"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190278137633853440
"As a user (in China), you can buy Tael protected products and invite your friends to the ecosystem. Here is a QR code you can scan with WeChat to start!"
- Question: https://twitter.com/420_Bitcoin/status/1190116085925863424
"would you guys get into the marijuana industry to fight counterfeits? A company that does that's not blockchain is CannaVerify. Tobacco industry also"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190278633102823425
"The legal cannabis market globally is just over 10b USD. The markets we target are already over 100b USD. We've looked at tobacco market (and engaged with some of the biggest tobacco companies globally) but the market seems to be very complicated and progress is very slow. Plus I don't think we have any smokers of tobacco on the team, so people feel a bit less passionate about tobacco than baby food and diapers or alcohol. "
- Question: https://twitter.com/Callum_McClure/status/1190154368282025984
"with app, label tech and packaging advancement, is anything holding back mass adoption. Is there a growth limit that you would struggle with?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190279716286001152
"In order to achieve healthy growth, we need to ensure we have solid economics, good user experience & sustainable product development. This approach means it will take slightly longer to get to our first million but also means we can scale to dozens & hundreds of millions later."
- Question: https://twitter.com/Callum_McClure/status/1190156547831152641
"can you tell us more about embedded labels in packaging? Your japanese packaging company; are they spruiking Tael counterfeit protection to their clients?
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190280112488321029
"Embedded packaging is definitely the direction we are moving towards. It will likely start with Alcohol products, with the chips being embedded in the cap. A 'Smart Packaging Ecosystem' would be a good projection of our business strategy."
- Question: https://twitter.com/cfsuman/status/1190199190783029249
"At this time I think, Tael is in top 5 Blockchain project that actually helpful for social/earth/humans. But Tael is growing to small than it have possibilities.
So, what is your plan to expose Tael usefulness to big companies/even governments"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190280522322214913
"Growth is definitely picking up and we are working on accelerating that: http://adoption.taelpay.com
Our philosophy from the very start was concentrating on building fundamentals, both business & technological. Now this strong base is set and the results are starting to show. The growth will only accelerate from here and can get us much much further than typical crypto hype could ever have."
- Question: https://twitter.com/Sm0k3y1/status/1190114600550850560
"when can we expect to see tael enter the United States market?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190281138356412422
"US (& Korea) are at the top of the list of sourcing markets. We've had a lot of inquiries from US companies to sell their products through the Tael ecosystem but with the snowballing growth in Japan and Australia, we couldn't accommodate those requests properly yet. On top of that, there will be payment integrations with the US market but those will come in later."
- Question: https://twitter.com/apathetichodler/status/1189771338350641153
"Can will China Uses be able to buy Shijifen with fiat, to be used later for purchases? Is this legal in the china crypto rules. Is it desirable"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190282125389336577
"Users get Shijifen for free for their actions: buying products, introducing friends, authenticating products, etc. We don't exclude the possibility of adding gift cards or doing some form of to/from fiat conversion. These are things for a more distant future mainly due to business reasons, but also playing it safe with the regulations."
- Question: https://twitter.com/saz/status/1190170407531233280
"1. Will there be a promotion/ads for 11.11 in China? 2. KOL campaign in the shared marketing schedule spreadsheet was marked as YouTuber. Isn't YouTube banned in China and what KOL campaigns are planned for that market?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190282768820785153
"1. Yes, of course!
2. The google sheet detailed marketing in the crypto community. It went quite well, with Tael being covered by well known opinion leaders. KOL campaigns in China are running as we speak. Multiple KOLs are regularly promoting Tael protected products to their followers through multiple channels. I think you can see the results of it in the spike in users on the adoption page: http://adoption.taelpay.com"
- Question: https://twitter.com/apathetichodler/status/1190207647665905664
"I've been wondering about this - how will the supplychain scan a whole shipping container of X000 products. Q3recap= "dual-frequency labels which allow for bulk encodingreading in the supply chain" can you explain what this means in practice."
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190284249569488896
"NFC chips can be scanned with regular mobile phones only at <1 inch distance. UHF (ultra-high frequency) chips can be scanned at long distance (several meters) by special devices but can't be scanned by consumer phones. Dual-frequency labels (NFC+UHF) combines the best of both."
- Question: https://twitter.com/apathetichodler/status/1190211446321188865
"Will the oneway tael>shijifen system still be used, even though china regulations don't apply. Do these regulations improve the tokenomics?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190285200929902592
"It is unlikely that we'd have developed the mirror system were it not for the fresh regulations back in the day. However, I don't think that it would affect anything drastically, since our typical users (women with children in second and third-tier cities in China) are unlikely users of private keys, crypto exchanges, etc. Instead, they find the shijifen (and would have found ERC20 Tael) fun to use, because of the seamless integration in the ecosystem. Not because they could sell them on Binance."
- Question: https://twitter.com/Phoenix2506/status/1190268995141820416
"Hi! Nice work team! As a non wechat user I'd like to know what the cost of a product with Tael vs without Tael is? And second: what is the purpose of Masternodes and how are they rewarded?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190286370297630720
"The price of Tael protected products is normally a bit higher than on major platforms (like JD or Tmall) but not excessively higher. Consumers will gladly pay for the assurance Tael protection provides.
Regarding masternodes, this is a good breakdown: https://medium.com/@Taelpay/weekly-update-17-june-6th-57c138642505"
- Question: https://twitter.com/itZShaiQ/status/1190160548211462144
"Tael consumers are mostly based in china and it's surrounding areas , what you are doing to bring it other countries?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190286859181551618
"Our clients are already present in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. These are the manufacturers who want to access the China market. Building a consumer ecosystem is a very involved task & thus we are going to stick to the biggest consumer market in the world for now."
- Question: https://twitter.com/VictorBri2018/status/1190181762472775680
"Hello, Is there going to be a wallet or a way of staking for my wabi?"
Answer: https://twitter.com/Taelpay/status/1190288014167068672
"Staking for ERC20 tokens sounds strange & seems to be caused by a lack of usage of a token. We have growth and adoption plans, not staking plans. There is, however, a masternodes programme where masternode operators get rewarded in Taels, but that's not staking. 🙂"
Thank you, everyone, for participating. If you have any further questions, please bring them to the Binance AMA on the 29th! Alternatively, reach out via Telegram.


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Jeanne Miles, an American painter of luminous geometric abstractions, died last Friday at a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 90.
Ms. Miles was born in Baltimore and grew up in Washington. She was the first woman to enroll in the art school at George Washington University. In 1937, she was given a travel grant and, determined to use it for something exotic, went to Tahiti for a year to paint. She later studied in Paris at the Atelier Marcel Gromaire and the Grand Chaumiere. She left France after the start of World War II and came to New York, where she lived and worked in Greenwich Village for many years. She moved to Los Angeles two years ago.
Ms. Miles exhibited for many years with the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York during the gallery's heyday, from 1943 to 1959, and counted artists like Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Bradley Walker Tomlin among her friends. More recently, she had solo shows in Manhattan at the Marilyn Pearl Gallery in 1988 and at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in 1994.
The paintings in the Shapolsky show were modest in scale, based on circular and starlike patterns done in shades of rich jade green interspersed with passages of gold leaf. Although abstract, they suggested both illuminated manuscript pages and mandalas. The work reflected both the artist's long-standing interest in Asian art and thought, and her commitment to the spiritual implications of Western modernist art. ''The mandala form is universal and deeply fixed in our psyche,'' she said in an interview.
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She received grants from the Yaddo Art Colony and the McDowell Art Colony, an award from the American Institute of Arts and Letters in 1968, and two Mark Rothko awards, in 1970 and 1973. She taught at Oberlin College, Moravian College and Yale University.
Ms. Miles is survived by a daughter, the actress Joanna Miles; a grandson, Miles Brandman, and a sister, Kitty Daffron of Florida.


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