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Khaidi No 150 Pre Release Business Details: Here is the detailed report on the total worldwide pre release business of the upcoming tollywood movie Khaidi No 150 which stars Megastar Chiranjeevi and Kajal Agarwal in the lead roles. The movie which is gearing up for a release in the Sankranthi race on January 11th has done a superb pre release business. The pre release business of Khaidi No 150 has crossed Rs 100 Crores satellite rights. Khaidi No 150 is the third movie which has crossed Rs 100 Crores pre release business only after Baahubali: The Beginning and Sardaar Gabbar Singh. Scroll down to check out the total pre release business of Khaidi No 150 in detail.
Khaidi No 150 Total Pre Release Business Worldwide: Chiranjeevi
Distribution Rights:
- Nizam Area: Rs 23 Crores
- Ceeded Area: Rs 11.7 Crores
- Vizag Area: Rs 7.8 Crores
- East Area: Rs 5.4 Crores
- West Area: 4.6 Crores
- Krishna Area: Rs 4.6 Crores
- Guntur Area: Rs 6.4 Crores
- Nellore Area: Rs 3 Crores
Total AP+ Nizam Distribution Rights: Rs 66.5 Crores
Karnataka State Distribution Rights: Rs 8.5 Crores
Tamilnadu State Distribution Rights: Rs 1 Crore
ROI Distribution Rights: Rs 1 Crore
Overseas Distribution Rights: Rs 12 Crores
Total Worldwide Distribution Rights: Rs 89 Crores
Satellite Rights: Rs 13 Crores
Audio, Video, Digital and etc;: 1.5 Crores
Final Total Pre Release Business of Khaidi No 150: Rs 103.5 Crores
As this is the 150th movie for Megastar Chiranjeevi and is the comeback movie for him, there are a lot of expectations on this movie. Due to the high buzz on the movie, the pre release business of the movie is very good. The movie has to collect Rs 100 Crores worldwide share collection to make it a hit and more than that to make a super hit. It is expected that this movie has all the elements which can entertain the audience.
Directed by VV Vinayak, Khaidi No 150 is produced by Ram Charan under the banner of Konidela Productions. The pre release event of the movie is to be held on January 07th in Guntur. A theatrical trailer of the movie may be launched in the event. Stay tuned to ReviewRating for more Tollywood updates.


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Le Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:08:39 -0700, NoOp <firstname.lastname@example.com> a écrit : > On 03/31/2012 01:40 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: >> ... On the former OOo >> mailing list, users were quite used to CC OP when not subscribed IIRC > > Sorry, but you'd be wrong Hagar... the OOo list (user and discuss) is > full of worthless to-and-fro electrons about 'good ways' if any, to > reliably spot 'Moderated' posts. You should know that as you've posted > on the OOo list (and thanks for doing so) for a few years. Could it be > that you just popped in when a forum user needed added help? I may be wrong but my feeling was that in the end, the filter trick was quite used. And no, there was no preference about help given, I replied only for trivial questions that had already a good fix in the forum or the need of screenshots, especially for the spell check tutorial. > And there is the key... "(he has to register the forum whereas he was > expecting a direct answer from the list)". So after all the wasted time, > effort, patience of OOo responders attempting to sort out the > subscribe/unsubscribe issue, it still comes down to: it's perfectly OK > to have the requirement for posters to register (subscribe) to the > forum, but hey, anyone can post to the user lists without ever subscribing. That's a choice, that's all. We could have allowed guest posts in the forum, it would have been a real mess then, that's why it is not allowed. If you allow un-subscribed messages to the list, then be prepared to answer (and tag) them. Else, just make clear that's impossible. >> What would be the list then? A place for somehow advanced users only? > > What is the forum then: A place for advanced users only? Ah, good point, had never thought about that. Then, yes, we have made that choice. And the result is a quite nice place, without the noise we can find on a ML. Look at the topics, they are all linked to a relevant question. Plenty of them are duplicates of course but the reply is always neat: one post is enough to point to the relevant fix. If additional comments needed, others can contribute. But there are not tons of mail coming. >> But is it really the kind of support the community wants? Some > > Yes IMO. Why is it good for the gander but not the goose? Agreed. >> users don't want to use forums, does it means that they are on their >> own? You're dealing with a low level user base with OOo. The public > > No, idealy means that the "user" will need to do exactly the same as > when they wish to ask a question on your forum; subscribe/register > before doing so. If a 'user' doesn't wish to use forums, then they are > very welcome on the lists, providing that they understand what the list > is, and subscribe before posting. Agreed. I think that there should be a small wiki page explaining low level users what is a mailing list, that messages are public and indexed by search engines. Don't know if there is already something like that (similar to what can be found on netiquette). > Really? You started posting on the OOo list in 2009... the bulk of posts > you made start& continue with links/references to the forums. That is > quite OK& I very much appreciate your contribution& excellent advise. > However I'd have to look real hard to find any of your posts to an > 'unsubscribed' or 'Moderated' user on the OOo user list. > So in all fairness, I do not think that you've delt with the > 'unsubscribed' OOo list user supporters that became *highly frustrated* > with the subscribe/unsubscribe issue. Indeed, I've learned about the moderated header rather late. I remember from the date I set up filters in TB to have CC the OP when non subscribed. So I may have missed all of them before and also after the bug appeared (I discovered it only few days ago, as you may have noticed from my mail in another topic in this list). So I may have participated to frustration of non subscribed users. Since I rarely replied to the mailing list, I never questioned myself about the seemingly disappearance of the non subscribed users according to the TB filter. My bad. Hagar --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Zen Habits had a load of tips and motivation to help improve one's mindset. From cleaning to increasing the Warm Fuzzy quotient of the world, there is enough here to pull you out of your doldrums. Though there seems to be alot of information that is continously repeated, in slightly different contexts, The framing of a published and repackaged series of blog posts adjusts our orientation so this all makes sence.
The narration, though calm and soothing, orften seemed stilted. The narrator was far from conversational, often sounding like he was sight reading the matterial for the first time. Though the writing style of the author, often uses excessive 'and''s and 'or''s, the stilted nature of its delivery, made me wonder if the narrator was a cylon.
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This is kind of a "best of" compilation, supposedly. While it is hard to beat Fred Stella's most excellent voice, it is kind of repetitive and doesn't really go anywhere.
I'm not sure who the target audience is for Babauta, but my guess this is for executive types wearing suits and ties. Many of the suggestions in the book, I already do, so it wasn't a huge help. There were a couple of things to make you think, but after hearing how to organize an email inbox for the 3rd or 4th time, I gave up on the book.
My attraction to the book was the name (and the fair price). As other's have pointed out, Babauta's works have little to do with Zen. It is more of how to simplify, organize and manage time better.
I'm going to throw out a better book, which like Babauta and Zen, has really nothing to do with Buddhism: Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time. It is also read by Fred Stella, and offers a lot more practical insights than how to organize an email inbox.
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Teen Driving Facts and Stats
• Motor vehicle crashes are the No. 1 cause of death among teens in the U.S.
• The fatality rate for drivers age 16 to 19 is four times that of drivers age 25 to 69 years
• The crash fatality rate (crash fatalities/100,000 population) is highest for 16- to 17-year-olds within the first six months after getting their license — and remains high through age 24
• The top three predictors for fatality are non-use of seat belts, teen drivers and roads with speed limits of 45 mph or higher
• Approximately two-thirds of teen passenger deaths (ages 13 to 19) occur when other teenagers are driving
• In their first year on the road, teens are almost 10 times more likely to be in a crash
• 20 percent of 11th graders report being in a crash as a driver in the past year
• 25 percent of 9th graders report being in a crash as a passenger in their lifetimes
• Crash risk increases incrementally with each mile per hour over the speed limit
• Current data on crashes involving 16-year-old drivers shows that having multiple teenage passengers in the vehicle is twice as likely to cause a fatal crash as alcohol-impaired driving
• Crashes are more common among young drivers than any other age group. In the United States, 1 in 4 crash fatalities involve someone 16 to 24 years old, nearly twice as high as other age groups
Parental Influence
• 66 percent of teens say they care about their parents' opinion on cell phone use while driving
• 56 percent of teens rely on their parents to learn how to drive
• 90 percent of teens see passenger behavior that distracts the driver
• Nearly half of teens report seeing passengers encouraging drivers to speed at least sometimes
• Half of teen drivers report driving 10 miles per hour over the speed limit at least sometimes
Cell Phone Use
• Nine out of 10 teens reported it was common to see teens driving while talking on a cell phone
Seat Belt Use
• Teens have the lowest seat belt use rates of any age group, leading to deadly consequences
• Only 65 percent of teens consistently wear their seat belts as both a driver and passenger
• Six out of 10 drivers ages 16 to 20 who were killed in crashes were unrestrained
• Almost two out of three teens killed as occupants of motor vehicles are unrestrained
Substance Abuse
• Teens are actually less likely than adults to get behind the wheel after drinking, but when they do, their risk of crashing is far greater
• 53 percent of teens saw substance use behind the wheel at least sometimes
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Santuario di Picciano rankings
Difficulty ranking world: 7287 (all)
Ranking Italy: 2056 (all)
Ranking Apennines: 664(all)
Difficulty score: 37.34 what?
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The Santuario di Picciano is situated in Basilicata. This climb belongs to the Apennines.
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- Promote friendship and strong bilateral relations between The United States of America and Canada and to underscore the importance of such ties with our neighbors, our peoples and our countries.
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- Stage and organize annual events and functions throughout Canada (and the United States in the future) to celebrate our friendship, unity, brotherhood and togetherness, and to honor all veterans and uniformed public servants: military, police, security, fire fighters, EMS, pilots, flight attendants and others, and their families.
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We believe in peace, unity, mutual respect, cooperation and improving the quality of life. We get things started through our special events and rallys. We recognize and pay tribute to the people who risk their lives to save others in the course of their chosen profession. We are starting this simple organization so that our message will spread and give meaning to the sacrifice and honour of all veterans and public servants in such events as the September 11th attacks of 2001. We aim to improve and restore the quality of life for all. We must learn to see beauty and find joy through living the simple goal of living well together side by side.
Since the tragedy of September 11, 2001, increased cooperation between our two nations has become vitally important.
Historically, the open border between the USA and Canada has been maintained as a result of close cooperation, trust and mutual interest between the two countries, and was clearly described by Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, during his famous speech at Canada Club, in London, England, in 1939:
"That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an example to every Country and a pattern for the future of the World."
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JSRCC, Johnson and Wales Sign Agreement
Henrico Citizen Staff Reports 12/02/10
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College and Johnson and Wales University recently signed an agreement that provides guaranteed admission for Reynolds students who have obtained a Culinary Arts Associate of Science (AAS) degree. Reynolds students admitted through the agreement will enter Johnson and Wales with an advanced standing towards earning a Culinary Arts and Food Service Management Bachelor of Science degree.
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College's Culinary Arts program recently received reaffirmation with a full accreditation from the Accrediting Commission of the American Culinary Federation.
Interested students should contact the JSRCC Career, Employment & Transfer Center at 523-5970 or visit http://www.reynolds.edu/gtadmis for details.
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College's Culinary Arts program recently received reaffirmation with a full accreditation from the Accrediting Commission of the American Culinary Federation.
Interested students should contact the JSRCC Career, Employment & Transfer Center at 523-5970 or visit http://www.reynolds.edu/gtadmis for details.
Henrico promotional company changes name
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Henrico-based brand merchandising company NewClients, Inc. has changed its name to Boost Promotional Branding.
The company is one of the nation's largest in the branded merchandise industry. Founded in 1981, its serves more than 5,000 clients – including many Fortune 500 companies – nationwide. > Read more.
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Three Lidl shoppers will win trips to New York City to receive a first-look at the Esmara by Heidi Klum collection and attend an international runway event debuting the collection. The contest is open to residents of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina – the three states in which Lidl currently operates grocery stores. The chain opened two stores in Henrico County last month. > Read more.
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The Glen Allen Babe Ruth Baseball League 14-year-old all-star team advanced to the single-elimination round of the 14-year-old World Series, which the Glen Allen Youth Athletic Association is hosting at RF&P Stadium in Glen Allen. > Read more.
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The READ Center is a top-200 cause finalist in State Farm's Neighborhood Assist program, making it eligible to earn a $25,000 grant to support adult literacy in the Richmond region. The 40 organizations from across the nation with the most votes will win grants.
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Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL), has just relaunched Close-Up Renew as Close-Up Whitening. In order to establish the brand's credibility with the new relaunch, HLL has leveraged the power of a 'shade card' as a diagnostic tool. The relaunch idea is to introduce a mix capable of building a category.
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Meanwhile, to support the franchise, the company has also rolled out a Close-Up Whitening toothbrush priced at Rs 35 in a limited geography.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. - The Pepperdine men's volleyball team moved to 5-0 on the season after defeating UC San Diego, 3-0 (30-28, 30-19, 30-25), a Saturday Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) tilt at the RIMAC Arena in La Jolla, Calif.
The Waves (5-0 MPSF) were led in kills by Andy Hein's 15 and team-leading seven blocks. Jon Grobe and John Parfitt each finished the night with 12 kills. As a team, Pepperdine held a 12.0-4.0 advantage in blocks. Sophomore Jonathan Winder set the Waves to a .424 hitting percentage in the victory.
UC San Diego (0-6, 0-4 MPSF) was paced by Brenden Bowe's 10 kills as the Tritons were held to just .139 hitting.
Pepperdine fell behind early in game one, 3-1, before a 3-1 Wave run evened the score at 4-all. A service ace from Hein tied the score at 8-8 and the score would be locked at every point except 14 until 28-28. The Waves would score the final two points of the frame as a Bowe attack sailed long and Russ Hardy was blocked by Winder and Hein. Parfitt led all players with seven kills in the game, while Pepperdine hit .417 as a team.
With the score knotted at 9-9 in game two, Pepperdine would use a 5-0 run capped by a Paul Carroll kill to take control of the game and a 14-9 lead. With the score in the Waves' favor, 15-11, another Carroll kill sparked another 5-0 run by the visitors who would hold a nine point-20-11 lead after a Winder kill. Carroll would bring the game to an end with a kill and an ace on the final two points of the stanza.
UC San Diego jumped out on the Waves 6-2 in game three as Head Coach Marv Dunphy called his first timeout of the game. Pepperdine would get a block from Winder and Hulse to tie the score at 8-8. The Tritons would take a two-point, 14-12 lead before a Hein kill closed the gap to one. But the Waves would miss four consecutive serves which prevented them from ever gaining a lead. UCSD then used a 3-1 run to take a 21-17 lead. From that point Pepperdine would use a 13-4 run to close out the game and the match.
The Waves will return to action next weekend when they travel to Provo, Utah, for a pair of matches against No. 2-ranked BYU.
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Laneya Grace vs Jade Weber
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Laneya Grace vs Jade Weber
jade has interesting eyes
Tough choice, but I'll go for girl A
Definitely the one in the middle
It's a Dead Heat tie. It wouldn't be fair to chose one girl over the other
Gosh they look so young. How old are these two?
A is 12 - B is 11
They're both children.
I think Laneya
neither, they both look plastic and the 2nd one looks like a vampire.
I think the first one has a more natural beauty.
I think Photoshop wins this. Holy shit they are edited beyond belief.
They are so much photoshoped that they are mostly the same.
first , they both have pretty features but the first is not as extreme as the second.
they both look fake lol
Come on !! You can't compare them !!!
A is better. B looks like a HUSKY
Aren't they too young?
both stunning
Top I guess.
A for me stunning
Both are beautiful really beautiful
They are both heavily photoshopped but I think B has really striking eyes.
girl A
Again with the kids... this time photoshopped and one is a teenager?
What's up with that?
can we not do this anymore?
mildly obsessed psych!
They look no older than 14.
They both look very photoshopped, but the first one is way prettier
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Webinar: Growth Hormone Replacement: Not Just for Kids?
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Susan L Samson MD PhD FRCPC FACE
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Fellowship Program Director, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery
Medical Director, Pituitary Center at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
Baylor College of Medicine
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Date: Thursday, March 23, 2017
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Webinar Description
Learning Objectives: At the end of the session the learner will be able to:
- Discuss the testing approaches for confirmation of growth hormone deficiency in adult patients with pituitary disease
- Understand the far reaching effects of growth hormone throughout the body
- Describe the potential benefits and adverse effects of growth hormone replacement therapy in appropriate patients
Presenter Bio
Susan L. Samson MD PhD FRCPC FACE is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She is originally from Canada and completed her medical degree at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) and Internal Medicine training in her hometown of Calgary, Alberta. She moved to Baylor for Endocrinology fellowship training and then joined the faculty. She is the Medical Director of the Pituitary Center at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center where she is part of a multidisciplinary team – with Dr. Daniel Yoshor (Neurosurgery) and Dr. Mas Takashima (Otolaryngology)- who are committed to excellence in surgical and clinical outcomes for pituitary patients. She currently serves on the board of directors of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and is a member of the Neuroendocrine and Pituitary Scientific committee. She also is involved in training future endocrinologists as the Endocrinology fellowship program director. Dr. Samson has a basic science lab and has also been involved as a site principal investigator for pharmaceutical clinical trials of therapies for pituitary disorders. She has been awarded the Fulbright and Jaworski L.L.P. Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching and Evaluation as well as the Rising Star award at Baylor College of Medicine. Her major clinical interest is pituitary disorders including pituitary adenomas, hypopituitarism, Cushing's disease and Acromegaly.


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It's been an interesting time in Washington, and a grueling time if you are already sick to death—as many are—of hearing about politics. After following a deeply divisive and contentious election, the Trump administration has had an eventful few weeks following the Inauguration, with multiple executive orders, legal challenges, public protests, Twitter storms, and more.
Recently, I was contacted by a concerned reader who wrote me a wonderful letter about one of my past editorials. I had referred to President Trump simply as "Trump," and the writer expressed concern that perhaps Compliance Week was veering into the political space, or worse: it's editor in chief was going to get up on a political soapbox and stay there.
These are all valid concerns. I have been in been in business publishing for almost 24 years. In that time, if I have learned anything, it is that your readers really don't want to hear about your personal political views. The glory of business publishing is we are in a unique position to speak deeply about the issues, challenges, and opportunities that face a particular profession. Moreso than the mainstream media, which rarely has the bandwidth to get to know a focused professional group enough to cover their world regularly.
We will continue to cover the news from Washington, and from the Trump administration, to the extent that it affects the world of compliance. Whether one agrees with the administration or not, it has a clear legislative agenda that has very real implications for how compliance officers conduct the business of compliance, and that's worth covering.
To that end, we will be launching very shortly a new newsletter that will run on Thursdays, that covers specifically new regulatory compliance news coming out of Washington. From what we have seen so far this year, there will be no shortage of topics to address, especially as many of them involve legal disputes that will take months to resolve, as well as other legislative initiatives that will take even longer to implement. When the government moves slowly, the world gets ample opportunity to understand exactly what Washington is trying to achieve. We look forward to producing this newsletter and sending it your way. But more than that, we look forward to any comments you might have on how valuable you find this content. What we think is worth covering is important; what you think is worth covering is even more so.
So with that in mind, I wanted to turn to the topic of ethics in government. President Trump, and his administration, have been accused of numerous ethical conflicts of interest, many of which are ongoing. Some of them carry significant legal consequences, others are mere breaches of long-standing tradition. But all of them are, collectively, an issue for the administration. Now, President Trump is hardly the first sitting president to be hit with ethical red flags, nor will he be the last. The size of those flags, and the number of them, however, feels somewhat unprecedented, even when you adjust for political partisanship, division, and the sheer mean-spiritedness that has enveloped all of Washington and our body politic.
Still, ethical concerns have been raised, and by people whose own integrity writs serious consideration of the points they make. Why do I mention this? One of the things that struck me most when I spoke with members of the compliance community at Compliance Week 2016 and at many other professional gatherings throughout the year—as well as those industry leaders we interviewed as part of our 2016 Top Minds project—was how much compliance professionals view ethics and a culture of honest to be a central part of the evolution of compliance. Compliance is, and always must be, more than a simply checklist of items to do. It must be a way of thinking, a method of operating, a mentality of integrity. That is perhaps the very best way for organizations to ensure they do not run afoul of regulatory expectations, ensure that their organizations operate successfully and sustainably, and without ever making their partners and clients feel that they have been exploited or dealt with unfairly or dishonestly. Ethics underpins all of this. Ethics is that which can help there be fewer regulations, for when all can be trusted to behave honestly and honorably, there is less cause to bring the law into it.
Businesses understand this. Government, not always so much. But corporate compliance officers understand what's at stake when they behave ethically, and they appreciate better than most what it means when leaders of any kind of organization act without adhering to the best practices we would all demand of ourselves. We report on compliance failures and ethical conflicts in governments around the world because even if they do not directly impact how compliance officers do their jobs on a daily basis, they are matters compliance officers understand and appreciate perhaps more than anybody.
I would like to draw your attention to a poll we are running this week about how compliance officers view ethical failings in government. On one hand, this has no real direct impact on how compliance officers do their job. Isn't it just business as usual? On the other hand, tone from the top matters, especially from those who would create and enforce the rules by which we are expected to behave. Where do you land on this? How do you feel about the role of ethics in government? Does it matter to you? Does it feel like a direct correlation to how you perform your work? Is it just a distantly related distraction? Compliance Week wants to hear from you on this on our poll, through social media, directly in letters….however you wish to make your voice heard. What you say matters, especially because Compliance Week is always listening.


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Download Direct Sales Party Games
Direct sales party games can be the success or failure of your home party!
Sign up below for the Talking E-Book Powerful Direct Sales Party Games and read how to play the "World Tour" direct sales party game.
We have recently updated the book to include several online party games as well. (November 2014)
Share this page with your friends or link to it from your direct sales team training page. This is the exact link to share:
Direct Sales Party Games Must Be FUN!
FUN is the single most important thing for the success of your shows.
One easy way to determine the FUN level of your shows is to see how many shows you schedule at your shows…
No bookings? Playing games?
Better look at the FUN factor!
When people have FUN you will have a full calendar.
Games can be the answer to FUN or they can be considered a drudgery by the guests.
If you are playing show games, and having a hard time scheduling shows, then maybe you have to reconsider the effectiveness of the game.
The game must be worth your time and the guests' time too! Your show time is valuable!
At your home party your mission is to:
- Sell product
- Schedule shows
- Share the opportunity
- Provide value to the host
- Provide value to the participants (FUN)
You only have so much time to accomplish your mission so use it wisely.
FREE Party Games For Direct Sales
Download this FREE talking electronic book that includes the World Tour game found on this page, an audio recording and more games for both online and live parties.
Around The World Direct Sales Party Game
It is a great game to play at the end of the summer as people are returning from vacation.
Tell the host to tell the guests that we are taking a world tour at the show.
A few days before the show when you do your last call to the host ask her/him to call each guest to remind them of the show and also to bring a picture from their favorite trip or vacation.
A printed picture is more fun but I am sure you can come up with a variation using cell phone pictures.
Encourage them to bring pictures from all over the world. Tell her/him that you have some prizes to give out based on the friends' pictures and vacations.
This compels our host to actually make the last minute reminders and will increase your show attendance.
Creating a Buzz With Sales Game
Have the guests put their pictures on the table or pass them around.
This is fun in itself and will get people mingling and talking as the pictures begin to arrive. During the show ask questions about the pictures.
Did anyone bring a picture from Italy? Allow that guest to share briefly about the trip to Italy.
Mix in throughout your show questions about the world tour through pictures.
Guest can tally their own points to earn your prizes.
- Did you get the trip for FREE?
- Was the picture taken in the last 6 months?
- Are there mountains in the picture?
- Is there a lake in the picture?
- Is there an ocean in the picture?
- Was the picture taken on an island?
- Did you travel by airplane?
- Is there a landmark in the picture?
- Is this a business trip?
- Did you take your kids?
- Are there any people in the picture?
- Is someone waving "hi" in the picture?
- Is someone in the picture riding a horse, camel, or elephant?
- Is it in a foreign country?
- Is anyone kissing or hugging in the picture?
- Was the picture taken on your honeymoon?
- Did the person taking the picture accidentally get their finger(s) in front of the lens?
These are just sample questions.
Create questions of your own that lead into some of the information that you want to sprinkle into your shows.
The travel game is a terrific game to talk about the opportunity to create income with your company.
Before you think about which questions you are going to ask, decide what opportunity information you want to share, then as you ask the questions and receive the audience participation, sprinkle your opportunity information throughout the game.
Here are some sprinkles that you may make following certain questions:
- Is there a landmark in the picture?
When I was in France with XYZ Company, they took all of us to the Eiffel Tower
- Did you take your kids?
Our company provides two trip choices, one for consultants with kids and another for those who prefer to travel without kids.
- Did you get the trip for FREE?
Some people get a paid vacation, I get a paid-for vacation each year with XYZ Company.
- Was the picture taken on your honeymoon?
How would you like to take your husband on another honeymoon paid for with all your own money? The income you create with one show a week with MyFantasticCompany will easily buy a luxury vacation.
Around the World Game Creates Value
Guests may arrive at 6:00 and by 8:00 they are on the way home after experiencing the thrill of a tour of the around the world game and sharing everyone else's vacation.
This game gives you a vehicle to share your opportunity and gives the guests at the show value for their time.
Your guests WILL NOT allow you to bore them!!
Party games in direct sales are good when they increase the FUN factor, serve a purpose for your mission and provide value to the host.
This sounds like a great way for friends to catch up on their summers and get ready for the school season. I can't wait to use this idea during my back to school themed party with teachers. Thanks Deb!!
I am part of Phyllis O Neils team and heard her seminar about cancellations. Lots of great tips 🙂
Love the game ideas! Any natural and fun way to remind them of our hostess and consultant benefits is always a plus! Wonderful information, Deb!
This Around the World Game sounds like lots of fun! Thanks, Deb!
I'm thinking of changing my game each month to help with repeat bookings. Any comments on this?
Blessings All!
OMGOODNESS, this is one I've never played, but it will be now!! I absolutely LOVE it!!! 🙂
Thanks for another great idea Deb! I'm always looking for good games to play at my parties!
Thank you for all the creative game ideas. I like to have a variety of games so when I have some of the same guests at different parties, they don't get bored playing the same game again. Terry
I downloaded your e-games book, thank you so much for providing this. I try to play two games at each show and I have always tried to keep the presentation to just under an hour – so glad I am on the right track!


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Odd Microbe Survives Vast Dose of Radiation
By MALCOLM W. BROWNE
Published: November 28, 1995
NO ONE knows for sure whether any creature could maintain even a spark of life while drifting through the killing environment of interstellar space for thousands of years. But Government scientists report that the likeliest candidate now known would be Deinococcus radiodurans (literally, "terrible berry that withstands radiation"), an astoundingly hardy bacterium that seems able to repair damage to itself that would instantly destroy almost anything else.
In a brief paper published in the current issue of the journal Science, Dr. Kenneth W. Minton and an assistant, Dr. Michael J. Daly, both of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., report the startling results of exposing the bacterium to 15,000 grays (1.5 million rads) of ionizing radiation.
That dose is more than 3,000 times as great as the lethal dose for human beings, and it shatters the bacterium's chromosomes into hundreds of fragments. But, almost miraculously, the terrible berry repairs the vast damage to its DNA in a matter of hours, reassembling its own chromosomes just the way they were.
Dr. Minton said the mechanism was not completely understood, but it evidently depends on the fact that each bacterium contains several copies of its chromosomes and that some of the fragments of broken chromosomes can serve as bridges to reunite broken sections.
The organism, which is generally harmless to humans, has 4 to 10 chromosomes (depending on its stage of development), each containing some three million base pairs -- the letters of the chemical alphabet that spell the words of genes. When the chromosomes are smashed to pieces by radiation, pairs of surviving fragments look for "bridging" fragments to which they can temporarily attach themselves while reuniting their severed ends.
"We have proved during the last four years that this bridging, in fact, takes place," Dr. Minton said, although it is not clear how all the pieces in the puzzle correctly identify each other and recombine. "Now we are opening up the bacterium to look at its purified proteins and molecules to get a more detailed view of what happens."
The deeper mystery, Dr. Minton said, is why this bacterium's ability to repair radiation damage evolved in the first place.
"Such high radiation fluxes have never occurred in the natural world, even in the early days of Earth's formation," the scientists said in their report. "But another stress -- dehydration -- afflicts Deinococcus radiodurans and also causes massive DNA fragmentation," and so the "radiation resistance of the bacterium may be a serendipitous result of its ability to repair its DNA after severe dehydration."
To protect themselves from severe stresses, some bacteria form spores, armored capsules that are more or less immune to hostile environments. But Deinococcus radiodurans, which can survive much higher doses of radiation than even spores, does not form a protective armor; it survives extreme adversity by repairing itself.
Since 1908, when the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius proposed the "panspermia" theory -- that life originated on Earth with the arrival of spores that had drifted through space from some other planetary system -- scientists have thought about the problem. Although the intense heat generated by hitting the Earth's atmosphere would probably kill any spores or bacteria riding on chunks of rock or ice into the planet's gravitational field, some scientists still consider that space-traveling organisms might have a chance of surviving.
"Deinococcus radiodurans would be a good vector for panspermia," Dr. Minton said. "While drifting through interstellar space for many thousands of years, it might acquire a shell of interstellar crud that could protect it when it entered some planet's atmosphere."
Radiation-resistant bacteria were discovered in 1956 during experiments in which packaged food was sterilized using radiation instead of the usual heat treatment. Although gamma radiation from radioactive cobalt-60 killed most spoilage organisms, in rare cases some organisms survived, reproduced and spoiled the food. Among the scientists who began studying and classifying these strange bacteria were Dr. Robert G. E. Murray of the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Bevan E. B. Moseley of the University of Edinburgh, Dr. John Battista of Louisiana State University and Dr. Minton.
"The armed forces got interested in these bugs for a while," Dr. Minton said, "because people thought it would be wonderful if you could endow soldiers with natural protection against the radiation hazard of nuclear battlefields. But the armed forces lost interest after a few years."
One problem researchers have faced in studying these organisms is the rarity of radiation-resistant bacteria in nature. Although five distinct species of the genus are now known, Dr. Minton said, they have all been found in out-of-the-way places: in the feces of some elephants and South American llamas, in some samples of Swedish underwear, in Antarctic rocks and in water tanks used as shielding against lethal radiation from pieces of cobalt-60, among others.
Another class of bacteria, the thermophiles, are able to survive temperatures as high as a dozen or more degrees above the boiling point of water. This has led to a hypothesis that the heat-loving bacteria and the radiation-resistant bacteria may share kinship within a common phylum, even though the heat-resistant bacteria cannot stand high radiation doses, and the radiation-resistant bacteria cannot stand high temperatures. Dr. Carl R. Woese of the University of Illinois has detected similarities in the ribosomal RNA of the two types of organisms, suggesting that they may be related.
Might some kind of self-repair system be incorporated one day in the DNA of people, to cure or prevent diseases like cancer?
"That would be wonderful, wouldn't it?" Dr. Minton said.
"Why is it," he said, "that these Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria can swiftly repair their own DNA, while other bacteria, including the ubiquitous Escherichia coli -- not to mention higher organisms like mice and human beings -- have no such ability? It's a fair question. We have a lot to learn."


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Jorg Heymans wrote: > > Upayavira wrote: > >>> >>> I can see this being useful for first time cocooners. >>> >>> What if the cocoon build switches to maven (as rumoured a few times >>> already)? Can the tool be extended to handle this? Will you need >>> seperate logic to handle the 2.2 block configuration? >> >> >> >> If it can be done from Ant, it can be done with this tool. All it >> does is collects properties and delivers them to Ant. > > >>> Overall, IMO the potential effort of maintaining such a tool isn't >>> worth the benefit. >> >> >> >> Maybe. Which is why I was asking! >> >> The effort to maintain for 2.1 is pretty minimal - it would just be a >> single XSLT on gump.xml and a few jars in the repo. For 2.2, well, >> we'll need to see what that is before we can decide! > > > Well if it's no effort i don't see why it couldn't be added to the > next release as an experiment (pending license issues ofcourse). As > long as you make sure that the users know it's just a toy-experiment > and nothing more there should be no harm. > > > Actually, will/should Lepido provide anything like this? Any > Lepido'ers care to comment? Sorry for the late answer. The list is very busy lately and me too ;-) Yes, an installer, or more specifically a "new project wizard", is one the goals of Lepido. However, I may seem overkill for a newcomer that just wants to try out Cocoon to add another huge download to the alreay large Cocoon distro. So this effort is welcome. The licence problem seems to be a blocker though, since a graphical installer is supposed to make people's life easier, and having to download the installer libraries separately is definitely not easy! Sylvain -- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies http://apache.org/~sylvain http://anyware-tech.com Apache Software Foundation Member Research & Technology Director
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Everything that follows is perfectly obvious, but I can't stop thinking it.
It was a rainy afternoon. I went to the movies.
I saw a movie where more people were damaged than in all three hours of ''Titanic.''
These characters, too, were destroyed by a kind of iceberg -- make that a Konigsberg. The body count was endless. Love ended in catastrophe.
''Deconstructing Harry,'' the latest ''comedy'' of Woody Allen (nee Allen Konigsberg), is told from the point of view of a weaselly, overcivilized, undermoralized, terminally psychoanalyzed terminator.
Its concluding argument is that art extenuates morality, that ordinary ethical standards do not apply to people who produce extraordinary art.
It's an old argument. It helps, if you intend to make this argument, to produce extraordinary art. But this movie is not art. It is a clinical document, an anthology of unexamined prejudices, a tiresome Manhattan whine.Continue reading the main story
Mr. Allen at long last introduces a black character to his cloistered Gotham world. This exercise in the social extension of his imagination has produced an African-American hooker in pink vinyl hot pants. He asks her to hit him and tie him up. (Unfortunately, she unties him.)
Mr. Allen believes that this movie is an act of courage. Finally, he thinks, he has shown his warts. Hasn't he seen any of his other movies? Worse, his courage is the courage of a 62-year-old adolescent.
Consider his cheap anti-clericalism. There is the obligatory liberal poke at the Pope. ''Between air-conditioning and the Pope,'' Mr. Allen's alter ego, Harry Block, says, ''I'll take air-conditioning.''
But the rabbis get the worst of it. This is a movie in which Judaism is satirized by having Demi Moore utter a Hebrew blessing before a sex act.
If Mr. Allen is expecting some sort of fatwa, he is cruelly deceived. His problem with his tradition is just tiresome.
Mr. Allen's arrested adolescence (I wish somebody would arrest it) is best exemplified by his disgusting attitude toward women.
Actresses who have worked with him line up to testify that he likes women. Clearly, something has been lost in the editing room.
''To me,'' Harry Block says, ''the ideal thing is you pay them and they come over to the house and you don't have to discuss Proust or films.''
Mr. Allen wrongly assumes (a) that money relieves him of the obligation to discuss Proust and films; (b) that sex saddles him with the obligation to discuss Proust and films, and (c) that his views on Proust and films are remotely interesting.
Mr. Allen has not grasped that there is a statute of limitations on adolescence. I'm not sure precisely what it is, but I am sure that 62 is way past it. But here he is again, complaining and jump-cutting his way through ''The Catcher in the Rye Bread.''
We are instructed by Woody Allen's admirers that the better part of critical wisdom is to move beyond his creepy obsessions to a larger appreciation of his talent.
But his movies are about nothing except his creepy obsessions.
In film after film, he kisses babe after babe, and they get younger and younger. He has broken creative ground in Hollywood history. He has turned the movie itself into the casting couch.
His poor little soul is stuck on scenes of homely transgressions: betraying a wife with her sister, betraying a wife with her best friend, betraying a wife with her patient, flings with hot young Galateas and, of course, sex for money.
''Deconstructing Harry'' begins with a man making love with his sister-in-law in front of her blind grandmother. The ultimate thrill.
There are two ways to interpret this moral exhibitionism. The first is that Mr. Allen's famous years in therapy did no good. The second is that they assured him that he was fine, and even fascinating.
I know, I know. This movie is a fiction about a man who writes fiction. Mr. Allen is protesting that he is not Harry Block, that Harry Block is the sublime creation of his cultivated imagination. It's the old is-it-fact-or-is-it-fiction routine. This movie is an apologia or it is nothing. In fact, it is both.
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Qubool Hai 20th January written Episode: Siddiqui keeps asking the girl in the mental asylum, about his lost daughter and she gives vague statements. She is taken away by the nurses. Siddiqui comes back home with a broken heart. When Razia insists that they must do something against Asad and Zoya, Siddiqui says that there must be an end to their crime. He and Razia must face the punishment now. But Razia is not ready to surrender so easily.
Nazma and Dilshad talk with each other over phone. Dilshad tells Nazma that everything is fine in their house and Nazma hides Nikhat's misdeeds from Dilshad. Nazma is angry with Nikhat and avoids her strongly. Haider and Humeira come out of the forest and see the high road. Humeira says that after they have found the destination, she misses the journey a lot.
Asad, Zoya, Dilshad and Dadi make a new plan to befool Razia and make her confess the crime. Dilshad and Zoya will carry Asad in wheel chair, to make a pretention that they are taking Rashid to the lawyer for giving statement. Rashid will remain inside room with his mother.
According to the plan they take out Asad and Razia follows them. They leave Asad alone in the garden. Razia approaches him from behind with a sharp scythe. She comes close to Asad and reveals that she is well aware of their plan, she knows that it is Asad in wheel chair.
Rashid starts coughing and his mother goes to bring medicine for him. Siddqui enters his room and locks the door from inside. Rashid gives a frightened and abhorrent look towards him. Siddqui comes and sits in front of him to apologise. He admits the crimes he and Razia had done seventeen years ago. He says that they deserve punishment.


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One of the most important steps in blogging, after content creation, is marketing of the blog. Blog Marketing involves both SEO and Social Media Marketing, however, if you notice although content creation is a bit easy, marketing the content, and coming on top in the search engines is becoming more and more difficult.
The content quality of many blogs have gone up. However, the same blogs find it tough to feature on the top 10 page of Google, or even find it tough to be socially shared. The inference is that marketing a blog is becoming more and more difficult. As per analysis, there are 4 major factors which are making the marketing of a blog tougher.
1) Google Panda and Google Penguin - Never before was backlink or content monitored so closely as today. It is as if Google has placed security guards monitoring your blog. And the content length too is under the scanner. Both of these phenomenon have been observed after the introduction of Google Panda and Google Penguin. Google panda monitors content while Google penguin monitors backlinks.
These are both quality barometers, and any blog which fails these tests, will not get too much traffic from search engines and risks de indexing from search engines as well. Thus, modification in search engines is making it difficult to create average backlinks or to create short content posts. In fact, you have to proceed WITH caution while creating posts or backlinks.
2) Competition - Just like your blog, other bloggers are marketing also. Thus, overall the effect is that, in a niche there might be 5 bloggers, and all of them are blogging vigorously. The dfferentiation in this case is created by the content and the quality of the content. To ward off competition, you have to regularly create content which users like to share and which gives ample information to your readers so that even search engines rank it above others.
Thus, to beat competition, lot of time has to be spent on good content creation. Another problem is saturation. Take time management or exercise for example. There are so many blogs covering the same topic, that you have to find a really unique angle to be anywhere near the top.
3) Cost - If you really want to differentiate your blog, then you have to use paid software. Any of your competitors who has a subscription to one of the many online marketing companies, has a fair advantage to be the top of your niche. There are many giants of SEO and internet marketing like MOZ, Scribe, Ahrefs, Raven tools and others who give a tremendous advantage to the competitors using them. Furthermore, if the traffic of your site rises, then you have to use premium cache plugins, CDN's, high traffic servers and other such technology which subsequently increases the cost of running the blog.
4) The "Wow" factor - The marketing of a blog is even tougher because some bloggers, are naturally social in nature. These bloggers tend to use headlines and content which gets shared very easily. This is known as the WOW factor. Some bloggers are naturally endowed with it whereas others do not know the trick to get more social shares. Thus, these small things make a large difference in the marketing of a blog. The more the WOW factor in your blog, the more it will be shared. Social traffic is almost at par with search traffic nowadays.
Thus, because of the above 4 factors, marketing of a blog is becoming more and more difficult. You have to run various processes simultaneously, to ensure that your blog is at top. You have to create content, market the site, SEO the site and finally maintain the site from aspects of plagiarism, broken links etc. All of the steps above will give you a blog which is strong from the base up and has been marketed successfully in various niche's so as to get the right traffic to your blog.
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- Getting listed at the top in search engines is becoming more and more difficult.
- These 4 major factors contribute to marketing:
Google Penguin and Google Panda - Content is constantly being scanned and rescanned to ensure quality content is always met, and as Google changes its algorithm, your content either becomes relevant or irrelevant.
Competition - You may write well and so do many other blogs, be unique and different.
Cost - Many blogs may pay more and pay for services in order to understand and outrank their competition.
Wow Factor - While blogs are naturally social in nature, you must produce good headlines and content that keep visitors coming back and inspire them to share your content.


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1. Novel predictions ↑
Despite the fact that American physicist Hugh Everett's many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is the only realist interpretation of quantum mechanics, it will not be accepted by the scientific community until it has made a novel prediction that can be verified.
Quantum suicide is one way of doing this, if you believe you will become all of the observers present after a quantum interaction, and not just one. There would be no way to convince others, however, without them playing a game of their own.
1.1 Artificial intelligence ↑
British physicist David Deutsch suggested the first experimental test to falsify the wave function collapse approach in 1985[1a][2]. However, it is still not practical to implement, as it requires artificial intelligence (AI) and reversible nanoelectronics.
In Deutsch's thought experiment, an atom, which has a determinate spin state in one axis, 'left' for example, is passed through a Stern-Gerlach apparatus that has the possibility of measuring it in another axis, as either spin 'up' or spin 'down' in this case. This means that the atom is then in a superposition of 'up' and 'down' states from the perspective of an observer who has not yet become entangled with it.
This superposition travels to an AI's artificial 'sense organ'. Here it is provided with two options: it may be detected as either spin 'up' or spin 'down'. The AI's conscious mind then records the result.
The wave function collapse approach predicts that this will cause the atom to collapse into one determinate state, with either a determinate 'up' or 'down' (but not 'left' or 'right') spin. Everett's many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics predicts that the mind will branch into two, one mind will record up and one down (but neither will record 'left' or 'right').
The whole process is then reversed so that the atom emerges from the entrance to the Stern-Gerlach apparatus and the mind forgets which result it recorded. This process does not erase any of the AI's other memories however, including the memory that they did record the atom to be in a definite state.
If a 'left-right' detector was placed at the entrance of the Stern-Gerlach apparatus then the wave function collapse approach predicts that it will be detected as being in either a 'left' or 'right' state with equal probability. If Everett's many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct, then the atom will be in the same state that it was in before the measurement, it will still have a 'left' spin.
Deutsch stated that:
...this experiment allows the observer to 'feel' [themselves] split into two branches: The interference phenomenon seen by our observer at the end of the experiment requires the presence of both spin values, though [they] accurately remember having known at a previous time that only one of them was present. [They] must infer that there was more than one copy of [themselves] (and the atom) in existence at that time, and that these copies merged to form [their] present self[1b].
Russian-Israeli physicist Lev Vaidman described a similar experiment in 1998[3]. If a photon passes through a polariser that has the possibility of sending it in two different directions, towards detectors A or B, then experiments show that it will be detected at either one detector or the other, but not both. If we remove detector A then the photon is only detected at B half of the time. Vaidman suggested that we could falsify the wave function collapse approach by reversing the process, as Deutsch suggested, and observing how often the photon is 'recomposed'.
The wave function collapse approach predicts that a photon will only be detected at the source half the time, yet Everett's many worlds interpretation predicts that it will be detected every time because the photon arrives from both paths whether it was detected or not.
1.2 Cosmological observations ↑
There are also arguments in cosmology that could falsify the wave function collapse approach. In 1970, American physicist Bryce DeWitt showed that there would be a time before Everett's universal wave function had decohered and we may one day be able to find evidence of this[4].
In 2000, Canadian physicist Don Page suggested that Everett's many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics can be empirically verified because some cosmological observations are more probable given Everett's approach[5].
These experiments will not falsify the Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics because Bohm also suggested that there's no collapse of the wave function, and so the probabilities will be the same for this interpretation as for Everett's.
1.3 Gateway states ↑
Physicist Rainer Plaga devised an experiment to falsify the Bohm interpretation in 1997[6a]. Plaga argued that it should be possible to communicate with other parallel worlds if we could repeat Deutsch's experiment and isolate part of the apparatus so that it can be changed before it has completely decohered.
Plaga suggested that "a 'gateway state' between the parallel worlds"[6b] could be achieved by isolating a single ion. An observer can then divide, having set the apparatus to only excite the ion if they record a certain result. If the ion is excited and they do not record that result then they can assume that the atom was excited by their parallel-self. If the Bohm interpretation is correct, then parallel worlds do not exist and so we cannot communicate with them. This means that the ion will never be excited unless we observe the correct result.
Plaga stated that:
...inter-world communication on a time scale of minutes should be possible with state of the art quantum-optical equipment[6c].
2. Quantum computers ↑
All attempts to falsify the collapse and Bohm interpretations of quantum mechanics rely on the fact that we'll be able to develop artificial consciousness. This is based on a functional theory of the mind and the idea that we'll be able to develop large-scale quantum computers.
All computers can be described as Turing machines, a concept devised by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1936[7]. Moore's Law, devised by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965, states that the number of transistors on a microprocessor doubles every eighteen months[8]. If this process continues, then by 2030, the circuits on a microprocessor will be measured on an atomic scale.
Physicist Paul Benioff first considered a quantum Turing machine in 1981[9], and, in 1985, Deutsch showed how this could be done[10a].
A quantum computer is faster than a classical computer because a classical computer stores information in definite states, in terms of 1s or 0s. A quantum computer can store information in a superpositional state, and hence perform more than one calculation at once.
Deutsch argued that these calculations are most naturally understood as being computed in parallel worlds, and that this "places an intolerable strain on all interpretations of quantum theory other than Everett's". Other interpretations lead to the question of where the correct answer was computed[10b].
In 1999, physicists at IBM developed a 3-qubit quantum computer (where a qubit, or quantum bit, is a unit of quantum information). This was followed with a 5-qubit quantum computer the following year[11], and by 2001, they had developed a 7-qubit computer that could be used to calculate prime factors[12].
In 2007, Canadian company D-Wave Systems developed a 16-qubit quantum computer, which could solve Sudoku puzzles[13]. They developed a 512-qubit quantum computer in 2013, and a 1000-qubit quantum computer in 2015[14].
Large-scale quantum computers would allow any classical encryption to be broken almost instantly. As soon as one is built, no information on the internet will be safe, and in 2014, it was revealed that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has spent almost $80 million on research into quantum computing[15].
2.1 Artificial realities ↑
It's thought that quantum computers will be used to design others, and there's no known physical law preventing them from reaching the state where they can simulate conscious experiences. This leads back to the philosophical question of whether we could be living inside of a simulation.
In 2003, Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom suggested that if it's possible to simulate entire universes, then most advanced civilisations will probably come to build these simulation machines[16]. Bostrom predicted that one day everyone alive will exist inside of a simulation, making it almost certain that we are in one now.
Human consciousness is predicted to require about 1016 - 1017 (10-100 million, billion) operations per second and Bostrom predicted that it would take about 1033 - 1036 (1-1000 million, billion, billion, billion) operations per second in order to simulate our current experience of the universe.
In 1992, American engineer Kim Eric Drexler showed that a system the size of a sugar cube could perform 1021 (1000 billion, billion) operations per second[17], and, in 2001, computer scientist Robert Bradbury showed that a computer with a mass similar to that of a large planet could perform 1042 (a million, billion, billion, billion, billion) operations per second[18].
If we are living inside of a simulation like this, then we would not necessarily have a body on the outside, and other people would not necessarily be conscious, although it could be argued that it would not be possible for something to have a brain state that appears conscious if it is not. Dreams are a type of simulation and so we know this concept is possible.
Outside of the simulation, time might run faster, or slower, and we might not notice if the simulation was switched off for an extensive period. The simulation might be stored on different computers in different places, and we can have no idea of how safe they are. Even if we were to exit one simulation, we would have no way of knowing if that world was a simulation too, and so no way of ever knowing that any world is 'real'.
In 1986, American physicist Frank Tipler claimed that if the universe ends in a big crunch, then anything that managed to live inside the final singularity will continue to exist forever, from their perspective[19]. Tipler referred to this as the Omega Point. Inhabitants of the singularity would have enough energy to create an infinite amount of simulated worlds and may wish to live in one. Deutsch defended Tipler's Omega Point theory in his 1997 book The Fabric of Reality.
After the discovery of dark energy in 1998[20], Tipler extended his theory, arguing that the Omega Point could be created after the universe becomes a void, when all of the matter has decayed. However, this may not be necessary; assuming that Everett is correct, any worlds that do undergo a big crunch will be able to simulate any worlds that don't.
The main problem with Tipler's theory is that it relies on the idea that all theories of quantum gravity that do not allow singularities are false, including string theory.
Another problem with both Bostrom and Tipler's arguments is that they rely on the fact that we know what advanced civilisations are likely to do. If we could ask any of our ancestors what the 21st century is like, it's doubtful that many of their predictions would be correct. The further back we could go, the more likely it is that they would be wrong.
Bostrom and Tipler's ideas also suggest that the laws of physics would be similar on both sides of the simulation. This may be the case, but it's also possible that if we're in a simulation, then our knowledge of any external laws is severely limited.
If, for example, the characters inside of a simple platform game could become conscious, then they would have to obey the same laws of physics as their human creators, but they would not necessarily be able to derive them. There would be many more laws that they would discover first, those programmed into the game, and any experiments would be limited by these programs.


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Born in Dublin, Ireland, Sister Mary had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 63 years. She entered the congregation in 1947, and professed her first vows in 1950. She earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Eastern Oregon State College in La Grande in 1974. Although Sister Mary began her years in ministry in the Diocese of San Bernardino teaching at St Edward School in Corona (1950-'54), she ministered primarily in healthcare, first as a medical records librarian and later as a chaplain.
Sister Mary ministered for 22 years in the Diocese of Baker. She served at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Baker from 1954-'62 and again from 1963-'68. She worked at St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton (1974-'78, 1979-'81) and at St. Joseph Hospital in La Grande (1968-'71). In the Archdiocese of Portland, she ministered at Mercy Rehab and Care Center in Roseburg (1998-2003).
Sister Mary is survived by nieces and nephews and by her Franciscan family.
All services will be held in St. Ann Convent, 6602 S. Alaska Street, Tacoma. The vigil will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19. Mass of Christian Burial will be on Friday, Dec. 20, at 11:30 a.m. Donations in her name can be made to the Sisters of St. Francis Foundation, 609 S. Convent Road, Aston, PA 19014.


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May 8th, 2010 is the official date to celebrate the fifth anniversary of The Wine Century Club, an organization dedicated to seeking out and tasting as many different grape varietals as possible. Once you have tasted and documented 100 different varietals you apply to become a member of the club. Approximately one year ago I completed the first 100. The toughest part is keeping track, which is not all that tough with the spreadsheet the club provides. The funnest part is the seeking out and the tasting of the different varietals. Now I am working on my second 100 varietals. I have tasted #101, 102 and just this week, 103. Only 97 more to go before I become a Doppel member.
The Wine Century Club was started by Steve and Deborah DeLong of New York, creators of one of my favorite wine references – the Wine Grape Varietal Table – a beautiful poster done in the style of a periodic table listing 184 varietals organized by acid and body – two major factors in pairing wine with food. The Wine Century Club is an extension of their business of providing wine reference material, including maps of wine regions and tasting notebooks. Local clubs are popping up around the country and the globe. Currently, there are two century clubs in Washington – Inland Northwest Wine Century Club and Puget Sound Wine Century.
Blends count! The goal of tasting 100 varietals may sound daunting. The Club makes less so by accepting varietals in blends. The varietal does not have to be the only grape in the bottle. So a sip of Columbia Crest 2007 Two Vines Vineyard 10 qualifies you to mark off Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Sangiovese, Grenache and Mouvedre. Some varietals are very, very hard to find in any form except for blends. For example, Pinot Meunier, is rarely seen as a varietal bottling but is very important in the classic blend for Champagne. In Washington you can find it in Mountain Dome Winery's Cuvée Forté, a traditional sparkling wine. Read the labels, ask questions, search for tasting and winemaker notes on the web, sip and keep track on the spreadsheet.
It is easy to start in Washington. This state grows at least 30 different varietals according to the Washington Wine Growers Association. (Unofficial sources say the number is 80.) Just drinking Washington wine can get you well on your way to your membership. After marking off the big six – Cabernet, Merlot, Riesling, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir, all grown in Washington and other places in the world, seek out – Gewurztraminer, Chenin Blanc, Cuinoise, Viognier, Marsanne, Picopul, Pinot Gris, Mueller-Thurgau, Madeline Angevine, Siegerrebe, Rousanne, Muscat Ottonel, Orange Muscat, Black Muscat, Grenache, Zinfandel, Barbera, Petit Verdot, Nebbiolo, Mouverdre, Petit Syrah, Cabernet Franc, also all grown in Washington along with dozens more. Some are officially listed by the USDA, others are growing under the radar in vineyards or as agricultural research at places such as WSU's Mount Vernon Research Station. Besides reading backs of wine labels, talk to the winemakers and the grape growers. They know what's what and what's where.
Steve Snyder of Hollywood Hill Vineyards (co-founder of the Puget Sound Wine Century club with Shona Milne) grows 20 different varieties. Some are destined for bottling and some are experimental. To celebrate the 5th anniversary this weekend, he is opening up a bottle of his own Regent, a wine that he does not sell and is not on the official report. When he pours me a sip I can mark off #104. Happy Birthday Wine Century Club!
Note: on May 8th follow the official festivities on Twitter with hashtag #wine100.


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Would you rather have somebody that is dependent on you or somebody who works and can take care of herself?
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This choice between career woman or a house wife can differ on situation. If neither of us make a lot of money then definitely career woman. If I make a good amount to support us then I wouldn't have a problem with a house wife as long as she did work around the house. If she made more money than me then I wouldn't have a problem with being a house husband. Where she's out making the money and I'm home keeping everything clean, fixed, and ready for when she gets home from a long day at work. I've been in relationships where I have been in all three of these situations. I like being the house husband compared to working since it's less work, but at the same time I like going out and working and then when I get home come back to a place that is already cleaned where I didn't have to do the cleaning. So, I guess to answer your question. Both don't bother me as long as the choice that is made fits with the situation at hand.00|00|0