tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72687626743801142232024-02-08T08:26:08.783+05:30VignettyWide collection of interesting News | Re-writing the important News that should be get more Attention among readers.| Explore Everything| Tips and Tricks| Best| How to| Media| Latest Trends| Gadgets| Review| Social Media Trends| Viral| Top post| Pros and cons| Surveys| Products| Marketing| Movies| Music| Books| Google| Top Trending| Weird| Business| Startups| Health Tips| How does it work| Top ten| Ideas| Blogger| Travel| Leisure| Shopping|Vignettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17403582744789960976noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268762674380114223.post-12754636986800121032020-10-28T19:18:00.007+05:302020-10-28T20:11:53.425+05:30Build Better Websites & Funnels<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiliKpHEZyfzVN289kcPtvIrVkNsdupcPHkfq1t-AC1srF6uDjwVsgqniPbl-Jn4MgqFieZG2_5b4_3Y6fuC5uIFKMBMLZxWwx3sAxg5pMW9ImGIcsK_qTeZDHq_i7G-K8ELiYzf7HeQA/s1000/groovefunnels-logo-free.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiliKpHEZyfzVN289kcPtvIrVkNsdupcPHkfq1t-AC1srF6uDjwVsgqniPbl-Jn4MgqFieZG2_5b4_3Y6fuC5uIFKMBMLZxWwx3sAxg5pMW9ImGIcsK_qTeZDHq_i7G-K8ELiYzf7HeQA/s320/groovefunnels-logo-free.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this day and age, any business that wants to thrive must go online.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">With so many things going on around the world, and global changes that will forever impact the way people live and do business, going online is no longer just an option.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Not only to maintain their success, but even just to survive.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Sure, there are tools that are already available that any business can use to run their entire company and processes digitally.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">However, any minimum amount of research will tell you that most of these products are expensive, complicated and limited in customization.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">In other words, not very user-friendly, and definitely not suitable for all business owners, especially those who are less tech-savvy and might even be on a budget.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">I mean, who can afford to invest thousands of dollars a month into a bunch of complicated tools, and on top of that, hire employees to manage the systems, right?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Well, if this sounds familiar in any way, I have some good news for you.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">As an online marketer and blogger myself, I am always looking for new solutions for these everyday challenges we face as business owners.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Today, I am very excited to introduce you to my latest discovery.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XEeAA6-7zmH6Eja1j1G_4Q3mOxtvvHSpYFrNkjmruKE/edithttps://groovepages.groovesell.com/a/F1mFoTX2sEVq" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">GrooveFunnels</a><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"> is, by far, the best way I have found to be able to build websites, sales funnels and sell digital products online.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">The best part? It’s FREE.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">But the free value does not end there…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">You see, GrooveFunnels is not just a website and sales funnel builder.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">The co-founder of GrooveFunnels, Mike Filsaime, is actually a veteran in the Internet marketing space, and has put all his experience and expertise into one of the best suite of marketing tools I have ever seen.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">I’ve also signed myself up for an account (it’s free), and for the past few days, I’ve had the chance to play around with it.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">And you know what?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">I can definitely tell you that this 100% free tool is perfectly capable of running your entire business, maybe even better than some of the expensive complicated tools out there.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">I’m not exaggerating by any means…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">From what I’ve seen so far, GrooveFunnels includes everything that I need to run my online business, all for absolutely free.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Here’s just a quick list of what I’ve gathered so far:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; white-space: pre-wrap;"><li style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">FREE sales, page and funnel building platform</span></li><li style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Possible to build my own branded websites with full navigation</span></li><li style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Can integrate with my own custom domain name</span></li><li style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Able to sell my products with what they call a 1-click upsell</span></li><li style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Capability to integrate upsells, downsells, and order bumps</span></li><li style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding-left: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Even has a way to create my own powerful affiliate program for my products!</span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">And that’s just for starters, because there is so much more for me to explore!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">I’m not even joking when I say that I am planning to change my ENTIRE online business over to GrooveFunnels!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">I mean, why wouldn’t I?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">It’s FREE, and it’s probably the BEST suite of marketing tools I have ever seen in my life.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">By the way, there’s more…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">I didn’t even mention some of my favorite benefits of GrooveFunnels.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">As a member, I’ve also received a TON of community benefits.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">I’ve been able to join their private Facebook group, connect with marketing experts inside, get help with all my problems, access private training within their own academy, ask questions through their helpdesk, and meet other like-minded entrepreneurs just like me to make the best use of these tools.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">So, if you’re like me… Striving to grow your business, looking to learn more about marketing and getting to know some of the best in the industry at a more personal level, then you won’t want to miss out on this opportunity.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Sounds great, right?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">But you might be asking… what’s the catch?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">The catch is that GrooveFunnels is free, but for a limited time only.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">GrooveFunnels is in its pre-launch phase, which means that many of the products have still yet to fully launch.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">When they do, and as the products continue to get upgraded, GrooveFunnels may no longer be free anymore.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">This means that now is the time to sign up for your free account, which would also qualify you for the additional software upgrades that they make as time goes on.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Awesome deal, right?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">It’s called being at the right place, at the right time.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">And that’s where we’re at right now :)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; 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border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Do yourself a favor and </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XEeAA6-7zmH6Eja1j1G_4Q3mOxtvvHSpYFrNkjmruKE/edithttps://groovepages.groovesell.com/a/F1mFoTX2sEVq" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">sign up for your free GrooveFunnels account</a><span style="background-color: transparent; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"> right now, and I will see you inside of the Facebook group.</span></span></p>Vignettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17403582744789960976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268762674380114223.post-44100016571005027332020-10-26T13:54:00.011+05:302020-11-04T19:36:04.364+05:30The Best 3 Tricks to Make your Patio- Look Expensive<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRNYoWJwu1WFjbgJZqTHBURhHBec95smTKN2qq8sE6KTqBwwX8UoSrd6w89OuF_Pj3TK4lyZ_5omEfFr0ajOkskukf-ul2uks59a2rN9f2Z8-RbsVGOxVURxuP72f6aK-hX7hyphenhyphenonHqFzk/s1280/seating-1929000_1280.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRNYoWJwu1WFjbgJZqTHBURhHBec95smTKN2qq8sE6KTqBwwX8UoSrd6w89OuF_Pj3TK4lyZ_5omEfFr0ajOkskukf-ul2uks59a2rN9f2Z8-RbsVGOxVURxuP72f6aK-hX7hyphenhyphenonHqFzk/s320/seating-1929000_1280.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">Welcome to new post here that tips for 3 best tricks to make your patio look expensive and rich feel with minimalistic way. here are they</span><div><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span> <b>1</b> <b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Start Cleaning:</span> </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">choose the area that should be focused it could save your time and money. lawn and shrubs get trimmed, keep away the unnecessary objects or things from out of sight. Thus the way the patio area will get noticed and attracted.</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier;">2 </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Choose your own Theme or style:</span> </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Try to change the theme and style adequately it will yield good vibes among our frequent visitors or guests. personally we can get rid of laziness, stress and strengthen body and mind more stronger the way connect with nature and creativity thus the way you can enrich your Dopamine-the happiness chemical of your body will secrete automatically by completing a task. Add some succulents and other outdoor plants. if you are a good fragrance lover try some aroma emitting candles etc..</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier;">3 </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Furniture and accessories Matters:</span> </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">check the condition of existing things. start repairing or change now. if you want to continue with the same one clean adequately and change the position or direction. paint the Furniture with mild colors that sync with more objects of the patio outdoors cover them with attractive clothing materials.</span></b></p><p><br /></p><br /></div>Vignettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17403582744789960976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268762674380114223.post-25721520865784682222020-10-15T17:27:00.002+05:302020-10-15T20:29:04.233+05:30Apple Event in 51 seconds.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxO8yqP8u2bac7V-VSfF3fypOUfnq6ZRrTvtHBegiqKtdmvx-XDX89zoiubUShQM2CoX59ZwcgvEDIIyKw3RefM33dKcRVWOBQ9UQZpZJhZM7IuuMu_0wMPe5e1cLoQUJs5oUl7KaW7gA/s512/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxO8yqP8u2bac7V-VSfF3fypOUfnq6ZRrTvtHBegiqKtdmvx-XDX89zoiubUShQM2CoX59ZwcgvEDIIyKw3RefM33dKcRVWOBQ9UQZpZJhZM7IuuMu_0wMPe5e1cLoQUJs5oUl7KaW7gA/s320/unnamed.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">Apple's big launch is over, and we've now got the five new devices we expected. Firstly, we saw the Homepod mini, which is going to be $99 and coming mid-November to finally bring Apple into the smart home fully... if the plan works. more details at </span><span face="Open Sans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.techradar.com/in/news/iphone-12-live-blog">https://www.techradar.com/in/news/iphone-12-live-blog</a></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="255" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gz8vBoEFArA" width="307" youtube-src-id="Gz8vBoEFArA"></iframe> </div>Credit: Apple youtube techradar<br /> <p></p>Vignettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17403582744789960976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268762674380114223.post-52318343737689911552020-10-13T16:06:00.003+05:302020-11-03T16:51:32.618+05:30Affinity with Art |Ursula Corbero.<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCGu66QbF0qQqDk_6-5P_VSvwwmGj3yrcfVtbpL_6A0ZTQfao0OydW03GLsfc1qrN1my-Ym1AI0CfXiPiO2dJJReiU6ATGi8E_sFAki4AMvDEmUPZMfpcMRFWfXM-ADpFtL-6fwmDF6aM/s1080/vignettyblog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCGu66QbF0qQqDk_6-5P_VSvwwmGj3yrcfVtbpL_6A0ZTQfao0OydW03GLsfc1qrN1my-Ym1AI0CfXiPiO2dJJReiU6ATGi8E_sFAki4AMvDEmUPZMfpcMRFWfXM-ADpFtL-6fwmDF6aM/s320/vignettyblog.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2036" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZcuCVAcOJdtu1VHoqRl6F4hInGfAXgJJbUV5gvGG7N9OHxgV_LZf_eBPKy9wtT9XQlVPJmjqL2Mv6yozeidUz03BfRD3g2VelmHjVXSno1nFkpFqGA7ct9eKrOyIRShaz-ItPFBeqS9Q/s320/moneyheist5.jpg" /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZcuCVAcOJdtu1VHoqRl6F4hInGfAXgJJbUV5gvGG7N9OHxgV_LZf_eBPKy9wtT9XQlVPJmjqL2Mv6yozeidUz03BfRD3g2VelmHjVXSno1nFkpFqGA7ct9eKrOyIRShaz-ItPFBeqS9Q/s2036/moneyheist5.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ursula corbero- Netflix's sensational series's star Tokio a.k.a ursula instagramed a portait of "oh de laval" A well known artist of unitlondon diaspora- half thai half polish painter live and work in london.</span></a><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: georgia;">Ursula's instagram official page is overwhelmed by likes and comments of fans from all over the globe.</span></div>Vignettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17403582744789960976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268762674380114223.post-3471473292033640542015-09-05T18:46:00.000+05:302015-09-05T18:46:35.375+05:30WATCH: How Visual Effects Created 7 Amazing Scenes In 'Baahubali'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With the 3-hour visual treat, it is no surprise that SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus ‘Baahubali’, which was released this year, has amassed over Rs 600 crore at the worldwide Box Office.</div>
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Of course we know the scenic backgrounds in the movie were generated with the help of some amazing computer effects, but now we know that the techniques used are equally mesmerising.</div>
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READ: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.in/suprateek-chatterjee/baahubali-the-beginning-r_b_7767206.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #058b7b; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">'Baahubali: The Beginning' Is A Giddy Spectacle, If Somewhat Uneven</a></div>
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A video on Hyderabad-based graphics company Makuta VFX's channel on YouTube explains how some of the scenes from the film were conceptualized and shot.</div>
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Get ready to be amused.</div>
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The famous shot where Ramya Krishnan was shown carrying a baby in her palm through the heavy currents of a river, wasn't a baby, it was actually a bottle of water.</div>
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No waterfall, it was just a blue screen.</div>
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Prabhas hanging on the rocks with waterfalls in the backdrop, was stunning VFX. There was a crane to lift him up.</div>
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And this is how Prabahs crossed the deadly narrow passage.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a class="inlineshare" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Female-Viagra-has-Indian-men-in-thrall-Doctors/articleshow/48795664.cms#" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="inlineoriginal" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mumbai-based sexologist Dr Prakash Kothari is used to inquiries that range from the idiosyncratic to the idiotic. </span><span class="fb" data-inlineshare="fb" pg="articleshow#inlineshare_fb#48795664" style="background: url(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo/42545583.cms) -173px -68px transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px;"></span><span class="twitter" data-inlineshare="tw" pg="articleshow#inlineshare_tw#48795664" style="background: url(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo/42545583.cms) -192px -68px transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 20px;"></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Nowadays, he has been getting a lot of calls and emails that fall somewhere in between— from men who want to know the efficacy and availability of 'female Viagra.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">It's been a fortnight since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved flibanserin, the 'female libido enhancer' marketed under the brand name Addyi by Sprout Pharmaceuticals, and Indian sexologists' phones haven't stopped ringing. "Evidently more men than women are interested in the pill," says Dr Kothari.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Though Sprout is yet to make an application to the Indian drug control authorities to market the drug in the country, out of the first one lakh Google searches for 'Viagra for women,' the third largest number was from India (Australia and the US took the first two places). And sexologists say, going by the calls and mails that clog their phones, most of them would be married men.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Why are Indian men so curious about flibanserin, the first ever 'libido enhancing drug'? "Because they are lazy," says Chennai-based sexologist Dr Narayana Reddy. "Most of them who complain about their women being frigid don't do foreplay or just don't understand the woman enough."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><img src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo/48795680.cms" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; height: 434px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 630px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">In the case of Dr Kothari's patient Akash, this turned out to be true.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The sexologist asked him why he needed the pill, and pat came the reply: "My wife was not getting turned on when I tried to kiss her." Inquiries with his wife revealed something else. "His wife said Akash was not devoting enough time with her. And he didn't know she couldn't stand the smell of tobacco when he tried to kiss her," said Kothari.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Dr Reddy says a lot of pink pills - and the side effects that come with them - can be saved if men try harder to connect with the woman at an emotional level. "The magic word here is `talk', not `pill'. It will be October before flibanserin, the `female libido enhancer', reach es drug stores in the US, and it may take several more months to come to India since Sprout Pharmaceuticals is yet to make an application here, but sexologists and gynaecologists are flooded with inquiries. Experts say curiosity must be driving the initial enthusiasm, but caution should be the catchword.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Many doctors are wary of prescribing the drug because it was rejected by FDA twice for its side effects. They say the India government has to conduct trials for the drug to understand the required dosage and effectiveness on Indian women, like it did for sildanafil (Viagra) almost 17 years ago.While Viagra improves blood flow to genitals, Addyi plays with women's brain chemicals.And that, experts caution, doesn't work well for many women.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"I have seen around 50,000 cases of low sexual desire among women," says Mumbaibased sexologist Dr Prakash Kothari. "A majority of them suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder, depression or anxiety. Or they have some problems with some organs.The drug may not work on such people, and hence a thorough check-up is needed before flibanserin is prescribed."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Adds Chennai-based sexologist Dr Narayana Reddy: "Those who qualify for the drug are those with low sexual desire without any apparent physiological reason. A very small segment of people belong to this category ."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The history of the drug - being rejected twice by FDA - makes doctors wary . "There seems to be a lot of controversy around the pill," says Dr Manika Khanna, a senior doctor at New Delhi-based Gaudium IVF Centre. "If the FDA itself says there are sideeffects like nausea, drowsiness and low blood pressure, it should not be prescribed to anyone currently on anti-depressants, those suffering from vertigo, hypotension or any sort of brain problem," says Dr Reddy .</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">For those partying, this could be another dampener: Addyi should not be taken by people who drink. Many people who think of it as a female Viagra may not know these facts, say doctors. "It is important that a complete clinical history of the patient is taken before the drug is prescribed," says Dr Kothari.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Dr Khanna calls for trials in India. Bengaluru-based gynaecologist Dr Devika Gunasheela agrees. "Trials are compulsory for any new drug before being introduced into the Indian market. The Indian population is genetically very different from the Caucasian population, so our requirements and absorption levels are different. Many medicines react differently on Indians and Americans," she says.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">A senior officer at the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation told TOI that the company has not applied for permission to manufacture or distribute Addyi in India.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"When they apply, we will conduct trials. The only time we exempt a drug from clinical trials is during emergencies. Once we receive an application, we might take at least three months to complete the procedure," he said.</span><br />
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Coronary heart disease is UK's single biggest killer, causing one death every seven seconds, and exercise has long been seen as a way to reduce the risks by cutting obesity and diabetes. A new study presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress suggested that regular exercise can increase life span. A group of 69 healthy non-smokers, aged between 30 and 60, who did not take regular exercise were tested as part of the study at Saarland University in Germany .</div>
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“The first term is an acronym for `clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,' a description of the genetic basis of the method; Cas9 is the name of a protein that makes it work,“ explains Amy Maxmen in Wired. “Technical details aside, Crispr-Cas9 makes it easy , cheap, and fast to move genes around -any genes, in any living thing, from bacteria to people.“</div>
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In even simpler terms, the work being done on this technique lends credence to the basic premise of the Jurassic Park movies -that you can take a bunch of DNA from a limited source and combine it with others to bring a species back from extinction, or create various combinant, monster species, as was done in the latest instalment of the movie franchise. “Using the three-year-old technique, researchers have already reversed mutations that cause blindness, stopped cancer cells from multiplying, and made cells impervious to the virus that causes AIDS. Agronomists have rendered wheat invulnerable to killer fungi like powdery mildew, hinting at engineered staple crops that can feed a population of 9 billion on an ever-warmer planet. Bioengineers have used Crispr to alter the DNA of yeast so that it consumes plant matter and excretes ethanol, promis ing an end to reliance on petrochemicals,“ writes Maxmen, adding that two of the most powerful universities in the US -UC Berkeley and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard -are battling for the basic patent. As Maxmen puts it, “Depending on what kind of person you are, Crispr makes you see a gleaming world of the future, a Nobel medallion, or dollar signs.“</div>
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`Crispr' could at last allow genetics researchers to realise their wildest dreams -bespoke babies, invasive mutants, bioweapons. At the Harvard School of Public Health, a special set of mosquito larvae of the species Anopheles gambiae are having malaria-resistant gene drives inserted into their genomes using Crispr. Techniques to do this have existed for decades, but the thing with this particular technique is that it's incredibly fast. Compared to other methods like using TALENs and zinc-finger nucleases, this is “like trading in rusty scissors for a computer-controlled laser cutter.“ With less than $100, an ordinary arachnologist can snip the wing gene out of a spider embryo and see what happens when that spider matures. The writer says that academic and pharmaceutical company labs have begun to develop Crisprbased research tools, such as cancerous mice -perfect for testing new chemotherapies. A team at MIT, working with Zhang, used Crispr-Cas9 to create, in just weeks, mice that inevitably get liver cancer. That kind of thing used to take more than a year.</div>
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All this makes it terribly easy to alter the rules of the biological universe to create a new species or obliterate an existing one. But such tinkering has unexpected, far-reaching consequences on the ecosystem if new genes that wipe out malaria also make mosquitoes go extinct, what will bats eat? No one knows what the rules are or who will be the first to break them.</div>
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Vignettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17403582744789960976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7268762674380114223.post-91694558646055339752013-04-12T22:14:00.002+05:302013-04-12T22:14:36.922+05:30Shaped Like an Apple? Beware Kidney Disease<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Are apples bad for the kidneys? The answer is yes, if you're talking about an apple-shaped body in which fat is concentrated in the abdominal area.</div>
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Researchers in the Netherlands have found that excess abdominal or <a href="http://www.livescience.com/6492-belly-fat-linked-dementia.html" style="color: #00467f;">belly fat</a>— as seen in the so-called apple-shaped body, as opposed to the <a href="http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/1043-bmi-waist-circumference-equally-predict-heart-risks.html" style="color: #00467f;">pear-shaped body</a> where the fat is lower down on the hips and buttocks — can significantly raise the risk of kidney disease even among people with a modest-size belly and who are generally not overweight.</div>
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While the connection between obesity and <a href="http://www.livescience.com/22392-chronic-kidney-disease.html" style="color: #00467f;">kidney disease</a> has long been established, this latest study is the first to show how just a small increase in abdominal fat begins to strain the kidneys, reducing the blood flow to these organs and raising the local blood pressure within them. [</div>
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The study appears today (April 11) in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.<br />
The <a href="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/116-what-do-kidneys-do.html" style="color: #00467f;">kidneys are two bean-shaped organs</a>, just below the rib cage, that remove waste from the blood stream and send it out of the body as urine. People can function well with just one kidney. Nevertheless, chronic kidney disease is on the rise. More than 10 percent of American adults now have some form of kidney disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among diabetics, 35 percent have kidney disease.<br />
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Most forms of kidney disease have no cure, except through a kidney transplant from a healthy donor. Kidney disease is the eighth <a href="http://www.livescience.com/21213-leading-causes-of-death-in-the-u-s-since-1900-infographic.html" style="color: #00467f;">leading cause of death</a> in the United States, according to the CDC, and approximately 90,000 Americans are waiting for a transplant.<br />
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To further investigate the known connection between obesity and kidney disease, researchers led by Arjan Kwakernaak, a medical doctor and a Ph.D. candidate at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, analyzed kidney profiles and waist-to-hip ratios in 315 healthy individuals with an average body mass index (BMI) of about 25 kg/m2. The waist-to-hip ratio is a measure of central body fat distribution; and a BMI of 25 is considered the upper border or normal weight.<br />
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Even among healthy subjects, higher <a href="http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/3005-belly-fat-normal-weight-death-risk.html" style="color: #00467f;">waist-to-hip ratios</a> were directly associated with lower kidney function, lower kidney blood flow and higher blood pressure within the kidneys.<br />
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"We found that apple-shaped persons — even if totally healthy and with a normal blood pressure — have an elevated blood pressure in their kidneys," Kwakernaak said. "When they are also overweight or obese, this is even worse."<br />
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An apple-shaped body was associated with a twofold-increased risk of high renal blood pressure, seen in both men and women, Kwakernaak said.<br />
The researchers don't know why this is happening. The reason is not because fat is weighing down on kidneys, crushing them, Kwakernaak said. The researchers speculate that the cause might be from the fat triggering inflammation or insulin resistance, which can impede blood flow, or fat creating free radicals, which can damage the kidneys at a cellular level.<br />
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"Our study now provides a possible mechanism for this increased renal risk" seen in obesity, for further investigation, Kwakernaak told LiveScience.<br />
As for anyone with a pear-shaped body, you're not off the hook. Researchers at University of California Davis found that gluteal adipose tissue — that is, that <a href="http://www.livescience.com/6026-fat-butts-healthy.html" style="color: #00467f;">fat around the backside</a>, thought to be harmless, if not useful for sitting for long periods — secretes proteins associated with inflammation and insulin resistance, the latter being a precursor to diabetes. Their study was published last month in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.<br />
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No word yet, though, from researchers on the healthfulness of a starfruit-shaped body.<br />
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credit:<a href="http://livescience.com/">livescience.com</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has reportedly opened a school in Afghanistan through her newly-established foundation - The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">The 37-year-old has funded the girls educational establishment that caters to about 200 to 300 students. The school is located just outside Kabul and the actress hopes it will be the first of many schools she sets up.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">Jolie is also planning to fund more schools by selling her own self-designed accessories collection, the Style of Jolie, to retail stores for the first time with 100 percent profits going to her foundation. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">"Beyond enjoying the artistic satisfaction of designing these jewels, we are inspired by knowing that our work is also serving the mutual goal of providing for children in need," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Jolie as saying.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">The actress, who is also United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, is known for her charity work. Last year, Jolie was left in tears after visiting a Syrian refugee camp.</span><br />
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A team led by Weinfurter and Sebastian Nauerth at the Physics Faculty at LMU Munich, in collaboration with the German Center for Aeronautics and Space Research (DLR), has now succeeded in optically transmitting quantum information between a ground station and a plane in flight. This is the first time that quantum cryptography has been used for communication with a mobile transmitter.</div>
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The quantum channel was integrated into DLR's laser-based, wireless communications system, allowing DLR's expertise and experience with the system to be utilized in the realization of the experiment.</div>
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"This demonstrates that quantum cryptography can be implemented as an extension to existing systems," says LMU's Sebastian Nauerth. In the experiment, single photons were sent from the aircraft to the receiver on the ground. The challenge was to ensure that the photons could be precisely directed at the telescope on the ground in spite of the impact of mechanical vibrations and air turbulence. "With the aid of rapidly movable mirrors, a targeting precision of less than 3 m over a distance of 20 km was achieved," reports Florian Moll, project leader at the DLR's Institute for Communication and Navigation. With this level of accuracy, William Tell could have hit the apple on his son's head even from a distance of 500 m.</div>
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With respect to the rate of signal loss and the effects of air turbulence, the conditions encountered during the experiment were comparable to those expected for transmission via satellite. The same holds for the angular velocity of the aircraft. The success of the experiment therefore represents an important step towards secure satellite-based global communication.</div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;">Older adults with higher levels of blood omega-3 levels —fatty acids found almost exclusively in fish and seafood — are likely to lower their overall mortality risk by 27% and mortality risk from heart disease by about 35%, a new Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Washington study has found. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> It found older adults with highest blood levels of the fatty acids on an average lived 2.2 years longer than those with lower levels. Earlier studies have shown that consuming </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">baked or broiled fish reduced the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by almost five-fold. The latest results showed that people who did so at least once a week had better preservation of grey matter volume on MRI in brain areas at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> In MCI, memory loss is present, but to a lesser extent than in Alzheimer’s. People with MCI often go on to develop Alzheimer’s. Grey matter volume is crucial to brain health. When it remains higher, brain health is maintained. Decrease in grey matter volume indicate that brain cells </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">are shrinking. “Although eating fish has long been considered part of a healthy diet, few studies have assessed blood omega-3 levels and total deaths in older adults,” said lead author Dariush Mozaffarian. “Our findings support the importance of adequate blood omega-3 levels for cardiovascular health, and suggest that later in life these benefits could actually extend the years of remaining life.” <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> </span></span><br />
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He may be the most famous man who ever lived, but surprisingly little is known about his life.</div>
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This Sunday (March 31), more than 2 billion Christians will celebrate Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead. While there is no scientific way to know whether that supernatural event at the heart of Christianity actually happened, historians have established some facts about his life.</div>
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From his birth to his execution by the Romans, here are six facts about the <a href="http://www.livescience.com/3482-jesus-man.html" style="color: #00467f;">historical Jesus</a>.</div>
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<strong>1. His birth … in a manger?</strong><br />
Most historians believe <a href="http://www.livescience.com/3482-jesus-man.html" style="color: #00467f;">Jesus was a real man</a>. To test the veracity of biblical claims, historians typically compare Christian accounts of Jesus' life with historical ones recorded by Romans and Jews, most notably the historians Flavius Josephus and Cornelius Tacitus.<br />
And though a manger may or may not have figured prominently in the birth, scholars do agree that <a href="http://www.livescience.com/20987-jesus-birthplace-church-nativity.html" style="color: #00467f;">Jesus was born</a> between 2 B.C. and 7 B.C. as part of the peasant class in a small village called Nazareth in Galilee. Historians also back the claim that Joseph, Jesus' father, was a carpenter, meaning Jesus would have gone into the family profession as well.<br />
<strong>2. A mystical baptism</strong><br />
One of the pivotal moments in the New Testament is Jesus' baptism in the wilderness by a radical mystic named <a href="http://www.livescience.com/20975-bones-reliquary-john-baptist.html" style="color: #00467f;">John the Baptist</a>. Most historians believe this event actually occurred, and that Jesus experienced some sort of vision that led him to begin preaching. In the New Testament, Mark 1:10 (The New American Bible, Revised Edition) describes Jesus seeing "the heavens being torn open and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon him." Jesus is then tempted by Satan in the wilderness for 40 days, the passage continues.<br />
The Jewish historian Josephus mentions the mystical activities of John the Baptist, as well as his execution by King Herod.<br />
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<strong>3. Reformer</strong><br />
After his vision, Jesus began to preach that the Earth could be changed into a "Kingdom of God." Jesus' message of reform was deeply rooted in the Jewish tradition, and he likely never viewed himself as creating a new religion per se — just reforming the one he was born into, scholars say.<br />
<strong>4. A wise teacher</strong><br />
Josephus not only mentions Jesus, in one passage he also describes him as a wise man and a teacher. (The passage is controversial because many historians believe a Christian author later added in phrases such as "He was the messiah" to the text, leading a few scholars to doubt the authenticity of the passage as a whole). Most historians agree, however, that Jesus was viewed as a teacher and healer in Galilee and Judea.<br />
<strong>5. Timing of Jesus' crucifixion</strong><br />
Several sources mention Jesus' crucifixion at the hands of Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect. Christian Gospels say the skies darkened for hours after the crucifixion, which historians viewed either as a miracle or a portent of dark times to come. Using astronomy, later historians have used this mention to pinpoint the death of Christ. Some tie the crucifixion to a one-minute 59-second <a href="http://www.space.com/15584-solar-eclipses.html" style="color: #00467f;">total solar eclipse</a> that occurred in 29 C.E., whereas others say a second total eclipse, blocking the sun for four minutes and six seconds, in 33 C.E. marked Jesus' death. (C.E. stands for Common Era or Christian Era, and is an alternative name for anno Domini, or A.D.)<br />
Death by crucifixion was one of the goriest ends the Romans meted out, and it was typically reserved for slaves and those seen to be challenging Roman authority.<br />
<strong>6. Historical relics</strong><br />
The historical veracity of various physical relics, such as the crucifixion nails and crown of thorns Jesus wore on the cross, have decidedly less historical or scientific backing. Most scientific studies suggest that these relics originated long after Jesus died. But the most famous relic of Jesus, the <a href="http://www.livescience.com/28276-shroud-of-turin.html" style="color: #00467f;">shroud of Turin</a>, may be on more solid footing: Whereas some parts of the shroud date to A.D. 1260, other analyses have suggested that the shroud is about as old as Jesus.<br />
Another more recent finding, a scrap of papyrus from the early Christian era referring to Jesus' wife was unveiled last year, to much skepticism. Since then, evidence has come out to suggest the so-called <a href="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2959-gospel-jesus-wife-fake-forgery.html" style="color: #00467f;">Gospel of Jesus' Wife</a> is a forgery, though the jury may still be out on that relic.<br />
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"In short, we found that when <em>C. elegans</em> are fed diets of different types of bacteria, they respond by dramatically changing their gene expression program, leading to important changes in physiology," said Walhout. "Worms fed a natural diet of <em>Comamonas</em> bacteria have fewer offspring, live shorter and develop faster compared to worms fed the standard laboratory diet of <em>E. coli</em> bacteria."</div>
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Walhout and colleagues identified at least 87 changes in <em>C. elegans</em> gene expression between the two diets. Surprisingly, these changes were independent of the TOR and insulin signaling pathways, gene expression programs typically active in nutritional control. Instead, the changes occur, at least in part, in a regulator that controls molting, a gene program that determines development and growth in the worm. This connection provided one of the critical links between diet, gene expression and physiology detailed in "Diet-induced Development </div>
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Acceleration Independent of TOR and Insulin in <em>C. elegans</em>." "Importantly, these same regulators that are influenced by diet in the worms control circadian rhythm in humans," said Lesley MacNeil, PhD, a postdoctoral student in the Walhout Lab and first author on the paper. "We already know that circadian rhythms are affected by diet. This points to the real possibility that we can now use <em>C. elegans</em> to study the complex connections between diet, gene expression and physiology and their relation to human disease."</div>
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Strikingly, Walhout and colleagues observed that even when fed a small amount of the <em>Comamonas</em> bacteria in a diet otherwise composed of <em>E. coli</em> bacteria, <em>C. elegans</em> exhibited dramatic changes in gene expression and physiology. These results provide the tantalizing possibility that different diets are not "healthy" or "unhealthy" but that specific quantities of certain foods may be optimal under different conditions and for promoting different physiological outcomes.</div>
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"It's just as true that a small amount of a 'healthy' food in an otherwise unhealthy diet could elicit a beneficial change in gene expression that could have profound physiological effects," said Walhout.</div>
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Additional research by the Walhout Lab further explored the possibility of using <em>C. elegans</em> as a model system to answer complex questions about disease and dietary treatment in humans. Detailed in the "Integration of Metabolic and Gene Regulatory Networks Modulates the <em>C. elegans</em> Dietary Response," Walhout and colleagues found that disrupting gene expression involved with <em>C. elegans</em> metabolism lead to metabolic imbalances that interfered with the animal's dietary response; a result that may have a direct correlation to the treatment of a class of human genetic diseases.</div>
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"To better understand the molecular mechanisms by which diet effects gene expression in the worm, we performed complimentary genetic screens looking for genes that gave an abnormal response to diet," said Emma Watson, a doctoral student in the Walhout Lab and co-first author on the second<em>Cell</em> study together with Dr. MacNeil. "What we discovered was a large network of metabolic and regulator genes that can integrate internal cellular nutritional needs and imbalances with external availability," said Watson. "This information is then communicated to information processing genes in the worm to illicit the appropriate response in the animal."</div>
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These findings suggest the existence of a genetic regulatory network that facilitates rapid responses to internal physiological and external environmental cues in order to maintain a metabolic balance in the worm. Interestingly, a similar phenomenon is involved in mutations that lead to inborn metabolic diseases in humans; classes of genetic diseases resulting from defects in genes that code for enzymes which help convert nutrients into usable materials in the cell. These diseases are usually treated by dietary interventions designed to avoid build-up of toxins and to supplement patients with metabolites that may be depleted.</div>
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According to Dr. Walhout, it may be possible to use this genetic regulatory network in <em>C. elegans</em> to compare how certain dietary regimens can be used to mitigate these metabolic diseases. It may also be used to screen for drugs or other small molecules that can produce the same results as dietary treatments.</div>
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Though Walhout and colleagues started out asking a fundamental dietary question in the worm, what they got was an answer directly related to disease and treatment in humans, thus establishing <em>C. elegans</em> as a model system for elucidating the mechanisms for dietary responses, inborn metabolic diseases and the connections between them.</div>
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"It's very hard to answer questions about the complex interaction between diet, gene expression and physiology in humans for many reasons," said Walhout. "Now, we can use a very tractable system -- namely <em>C. elegans</em> -- to ask precise questions about which components in diet can effect gene expression and physiological traits and ultimately disease, in humans."</div>
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Diana said she had never heard of it and said she'd like to come," says Rocos.</div>
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The programming that the University of Sheffield team has developed to control the robots is deceptively simple. For example, if the robots are being asked to group together, each robot only needs to be able to work out if there is another robot in front of it. If there is, it turns on the spot; if there isn't, it moves in a wider circle until it finds one.</div>
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Dr Gross said: "We are developing Artificial Intelligence to control robots in a variety of ways. The key is to work out what is the minimum amount of information needed by the robot to accomplish its task. That's important because it means the robot may not need any memory, and possibly not even a processing unit, so this technology could work for nanoscale robots, for example in medical applications."</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Just about every night, after the 11 o'clock news and just before heading off to bed, I take a moment to walk outside and look up into the sky. If it's clear, there's always something worth seeing. Last Sunday, for example, I was greeted by the </span><a href="http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/The-Moon-Salutes-Jupiter-197761561.html" style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" target="new_window">close pairing of a crescent Moon and Jupiter</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">. Lovely, indeed!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5274ae; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">f it's clear on the night of Thursday, March 28th, I'll be on the lookout (and you should too) for a just-past-full Moon perched midway between the icy-white star Spica to its upper right and creamy-hued Saturn to its lower left. This grouping won't be particularly tight — Saturn and Spica are currently 17° apart, about twice the width of your fist at arm's length — but it will still look nice.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">This wide spacing actually helps you take in the trio. Ordinarily such a big, fat Moon would wash out anything in its vicinity. But Spica is no slouch: it's a 1st-magnitude blue giant. Saturn reaches opposition late next month, so it's already a half magnitude brighter than Spica. Look for the trio after 11 p.m., after they've had some time to clear the eastern horizon and are well up in the southeast.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">Were I on the other side of the world (say, in Mumbai, India), the Moon would appear dramatically close to Spica on the 28th and just 3° from Saturn the next night. In fact, the Moon actually </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">occults</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"> (covers up) Spica beginning around 13</span><sup style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; line-height: 19px;">h</sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"> Universal Time as seen from much of southeast Asia and northern Australia. Details are available </span><a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/bstar/0328zc1925.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" target="new_window">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;">For the rest of us, March 28th's celestial sandwich will simply be a nice moment to enjoy. Reflected sunlight takes about 1¼ seconds to reach us from the Moon's bleak, dusty surface. For Saturn, now just under 9 astronomical units (830 million miles) away, the travel time is 74 minutes. And the light from Spica, a star that shines 12,000 times brighter than our Sun, has been traveling about 260 years — since well before the American Revolution.</span><br />
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Hamsa is an exquisitely pleasing scent, carefully crafted with sacred oils from cultures and faiths around the world. The fragrance is packaged in a beautiful bottle adorned with the powerful and ancient symbol of the Hamsa, which provides protection from evil and promotes peace and prosperity. The combination of the positive powers of the sacred oils and the protection and good fortune from the Hamsa symbol make Hamsa Perfume more than just another fragrance.</div>
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Hamsa is an age old mystical symbol that is said to bring good luck and protection from evil. Hamsa is also becoming popular as a symbol of tolerance, peace and unity since it used by Muslims and Jews alike. Designer Celine Leora has combined notes of White Lotus, Frankincense, Black Currant and Coffee, creating a fragrance that represents Eastern, Western, and Middle Eastern culture and spiritualism. By wearing the fragrance one is protected when going out of the home, while the Hamsa symbol on the bottle protects the home and its occupants</div>
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<span style="color: #5d5d5d; line-height: 22.390625px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Designer Celine Leora has been fascinated and inspired by the power of the Hamsa amulet since her childhood in N. Africa. Called by different names: The hand of Fatima or the hand of Miriam possesses mystical powers to protect those who surround themselves with it. Celine Leora has carefully crafted a magnificent fragrance and a strikingly beautiful bottle that emits strength, positive energy and good fortune. Celine traces her own personal history through the mystique of the Hamsa. From her birth in Morocco, her childhood in the Middle East, to Paris, Switzerland and now in the United States, the Hamsa has always inspired and protected her throughout her journey through life. She shares this energy, strength and power with all, in this exotic fragrance and bottle. "I developed the Idea of using the Hamsa symbol on perfume bottles, so that the symbol and its power will always be present in the home. The perfume, or cologne, can carry a scent that reminds the wearer of their positive spiritual potential."</span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has teamed up with Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague for a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to highlight concerns over sexual violence.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">The two will visit a rescue camp for women north-west of Goma to raise awareness about warzone rape.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">"This visit is about hearing first hand from people who have endured rape and sexual violence during the conflict in the eastern DRC. We want justice for the victims and we want to know how the world can protect thousands of women, men and children at risk of rape in many other conflict zones. We want to persuade governments around the world to give this issue the attention it deserves," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Jolie as saying.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">"Unless the world acts, we will always be reacting to atrocities, treating survivors rather than preventing rape in the first place," added Jolie, who is a UN special envoy. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">Hague hopes to present his findings to the forthcoming Group of Eight summit in London. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">He is calling on the G8 leaders to agree that rape and sexual violence constitute breaches of the Geneva Conventions governing warfare. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">"More often than not the international community looks away, the perpetrators of these brutal crimes walk free and the cycle of injustice and conflict is repeated," he said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #5c5c5c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.71875px;">"It is time for real, meaningful action by the governments of the world to say that the use of rape as a weapon of war is unacceptable, to bring perpetrators to justice and to lift the stigma from survivors. 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(Reuters) - "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer brings her romantic futuristic thriller "The Host" to movie fans on Friday, trading the vampires and werewolves for aliens who invade planet Earth, taking over human bodies.</div>
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The film stars, Saoirse Ronan as Melanie Stryder, whose body is taken over by an alien soul called Wanda. Eventually the two-in-one female team work to save the human race from total annihilation.</div>
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Meyer, 39, who was raised Mormon and attends church regularly, talked with Reuters about "The Host," working as a producer on the project and how her life has changed since the first "Twilight" film came out in 2008.</div>
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Q: How did Saoirse Ronan play Melanie and Wanda in the same body?</div>
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A: They have conversations throughout the entire film, but (she plays) two different characters that have different chemistry with two different guys. She's one person, but emoting a separate person when she's with Jared and another when she's with Ian.</div>
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Q: How did things evolve for you that you are now producing your adaptations? It didn't start that way on "Twilight."</div>
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A: It's not normal for an author to be very involved. On "Twilight," I think they were nervous about me, but I totally behaved. I came on set, I was excited, so they didn't mind having me around. With each movie I was able to be more involved.</div>
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I worked really closely with ("The Twilight Saga: New Moon" Director) Chris Weitz, especially with the casting of the side characters. We saw eye to eye really well.</div>
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Q: Did the success of "Twilight" give you producing clout?</div>
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A: After "Twilight" did really well, I think my opinion had more weight. With "The Host," from the very beginning (producer) Nick Wechsler came to me and said, 'Let's do this together.' And he meant it. I was going over the (script) notes with Andrew and the actors would come to me and say, 'What do you think?' It was a nice group. All our opinions were valued by each of us.</div>
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Q: You live in Arizona, just north of Phoenix. Do you ever think you should move to Los Angeles and work full-time in Hollywood?</div>
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A: I would never come and live here. No offense to the people that do, but I can't imagine raising kids in this town. There are a lot of plastics, even kids getting plastic surgery. And the materialism - that overwhelming sense of what you look like being the most important thing, I think that would be really difficult to live with every day. It's hard enough to be here for a week at a time. Every day you start feeling less-than because everyone's so beautiful and polished.</div>
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Q: Your three sons range from ages 10 to 15. Do they think you're the coolest mom ever because you created "Twilight?"</div>
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A: I think it's a detriment for them. It's embarrassing to have your mom be that "Twilight" lady. They would all love it if nobody knew my name. (With my oldest), people tease him a little bit. I know a lot of girls talk to him who might not otherwise. My middle son (Seth), he has a fake name. For a while it was Bernard. 'He'd be like, Hi I'm Bernard.' He doesn't like the reaction when people say, 'Oh you're that kid.'</div>
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A: People let me make movies, which is kind of cool. That certainly wasn't something anyone was going to let me do before. I've grown a lot in my confidence and in my ability to do interviews. I don't freak out as much about all these people taking pictures. I do have to be away from my kids more than I'd like, but they're so cool and mellow about it.</div>
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A: I'll tell you a story that's in the first "Twilight" book, where a little piece of me sank through to the novel. When Bella sees Edward's piano for the first time, she (vows) if she ever had a windfall, she would want to get her mom a piano like that. Well I was able to get my mom a piano like that. It was really exciting to get to do that. (Editing By Jill Serjeant and Sandra Maler)</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong> -- In February, Esquire magazine published <a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a lengthy profile</a>of "The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden." The story did not identify the killer by his real name, referring to him only as "the Shooter."</div>
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The Shooter told Esquire that the night bin Laden was killed he had encountered al Qaeda's leader face-to-face in the top-floor bedroom of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where bin Laden had been hiding for more than five years.</div>
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The Shooter explained that when he found bin Laden in his bedroom the al Qaeda leader was standing up and had a gun "within reach" and it was only then that the Shooter fired the two shots into bin Laden's forehead that killed him. That account was in conflict with the account from another raid participant in a wildly successful book "No Easy Day."</div>
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Now, another member of the secretive SEAL Team 6, which executed the bin Laden raid, tells CNN the story of the Shooter as presented in Esquire is false. According to this serving SEAL Team 6 operator, the story is "complete B-S."</div>
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SEAL Team 6 operators are now in "serious lockdown" when it comes to "talking to anybody" about the bin Laden raid and say they have been frustrated to see what they consider to be the inaccurate story in Esquire receive considerable play without a response. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2013/02/17/rs-finding-bin-ladens-killer.cnn" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Phil Bronstein</a>, who wrote the 15,000-word piece about the Shooter for Esquire, was booked on CNN, Fox and many other TV networks after his story came out.</div>
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Twenty-three SEALs and their interpreter assaulted the bin Laden compound just after midnight on the morning of May 2, 2011. They shot and killed bin Laden's two bodyguards, one of bin Laden's sons and the wife of one of the bodyguards and they also wounded two other women.</div>
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The first three SEALs to make it to the top floor of bin Laden's compound where he was believed to be living were "the point man," "the Shooter" profiled by Esquire, and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2012/09/10/early-bissonnette-obl-death.cnn" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt Bissonette, the SEAL who wrote "No Easy Day"</a>under the pseudonym Mark Owen.</div>
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What actually happened the night of the raid, according to the SEAL Team 6 operator who I interviewed, is that the "point man" ran up the stairs to the top floor and shot bin Laden in the head when he saw what looked like bin Laden poking his head out his bedroom door. The shot gravely wounded al Qaeda's leader.</div>
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Having taken down bin Laden, the point man proceeded to rush two women he found in bin Laden's bedroom, gathering them in his arms to absorb the explosion in case they were wearing suicide vests, something that was a real concern of those who planned the raid.</div>
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Two more SEALs then entered bin Laden's bedroom and, seeing that al Qaeda's leader was lying mortally wounded on the floor, finished him off with shots to the chest.</div>
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This account of bin Laden's demise is considerably less heroic than how the Shooter is presented in Esquire, in which he says he shot bin Laden while he was standing up and only after he saw that al Qaeda's leader had a gun within reach.</div>
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The SEAL Team 6 operator who spoke to me says there is no way the Shooter could have seen a gun in bin Laden's reach because the two guns that were found in bin Laden's bedroom after al Qaeda's leader was killed were only found after a thorough search of the room and were sitting on a high shelf above the frame of the door that opened to bin Laden's bedroom.</div>
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The SEAL operator also points out there was a discussion before the raid in which the assault team was told "don't shoot the guy [bin Laden] in the face unless you have to" because the CIA would need to analyze good pictures of bin Laden's face for its facial recognition experts to work effectively. Yet the Shooter in the Esquire story says he shot bin Laden on purpose twice in the forehead.</div>
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A U.S. official familiar with the details of the raid said what the SEAL Team 6 operator told me about how Bin Laden was killed is in line with what happened, and that account "has it right in my view."</div>
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The SEAL Team 6 operator also tells CNN that the Shooter was "thrown off" of Red Squadron, the core of the SEAL Team 6 group that carried out the bin Laden raid, because he was bragging about his role in the raid in bars around Virginia Beach, Virginia, where SEAL Team 6 is based. In the Esquire article, the Shooter complains he is receiving no pension, since he left the military four years before the minimum 20 required to be eligible.</div>
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CNN spoke with Bronstein, the Esquire writer, who says he passed on CNN's written questions about the Shooter's role in the bin Laden raid to his story's main character. The Shooter has not responded to those questions and Bronstein declined to be interviewed on-the-record for this story.</div>
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Stephanie Tuck, a spokeswoman for Esquire, said via e-mail, "The Esquire article, 'The Shooter: The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden,' in the March 2013 issue, is based on information from numerous sources, including members of SEAL Team 6 and the Shooter himself, as well as detailed descriptions of mission debriefs. We stand by our story."</div>
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According to present and former members of SEAL Team 6, the "point man" who fired the shot that likely mortally wounded bin Laden will never "in a million years" speak publicly about his role in the raid. All laud the point man for his courageous decision to throw himself on the two women in bin Laden's room.</div>
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The new account of the night of the bin Laden raid provided by the serving SEAL Team 6 operator is essentially the same as in Bissonnette's "No Easy Day." Bissonnette says he was one of the first to run into bin Laden's bedroom and he saw that the point man's shots had mortally wounded bin Laden, and Bissonette then shot the dying al Qaeda leader as he <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">lay on the floor</i>.</div>
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Present and former members of SEAL Team 6 say they regard Bissonnette as more credible than the Shooter.</div>
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In <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/12/opinion/bergen-osama-bin-laden-shooter/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a previous CNN.com story</a> about the Esquire profile, I noted that I was the only outside observer allowed to tour bin Laden's Abbottabad compound before it was demolished in late February 2012.</div>
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During that tour I looked around the bedroom where bin Laden was killed. The Pakistani military officers who were guiding me pointed out a patch of dark, dried blood on the low ceiling of bin Laden's bedroom. This patch of congealed blood seems to be consistent with the Shooter's story that he fired two shots at the forehead of a "surprisingly tall terrorist" while he was standing up. At the time, the precise location of bin Laden when he was shot was not a matter of dispute.</div>
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But the blood patch could also be consistent with the account that it was the "point man" who first shot bin Laden. The point man is 5 feet 6 inches tall and was shooting upward at a tall man as he poked his head out of his bedroom.</div>
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The compound is, of course, now gone, so it is no longer possible to reconstruct what happened the night of the raid based on forensic evidence, although it is possible the Abbottabad Commission, a panel that was appointed by the Pakistani government to look into the raid, could shed some light on this question should its findings ever be publicly released.</div>
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Finally, by all accounts, it was a confusing situation the night of the bin Laden raid in Abbottabad. One of the SEAL team's helicopters had crashed and there was then a firefight with one of bin Laden bodyguards. All the electricity in the bin Laden compound and indeed the surrounding neighborhood was off on a moonless night and the SEALs were all wearing night vision goggles that allowed them only quite limited vision.</div>
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What seems incontrovertible is that the point man, the Shooter and Bissonnette were the first three SEALs to assault bin Laden's bedroom. But to determine exactly which of them killed bin Laden may never be possible.</div>
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What is certain is that it was a team effort.</div>
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Five days after the bin Laden raid, members of the SEAL team who killed al Qaeda's leader briefed President Obama. According to those in the room, the SEAL team commander explained to the president, "If you took one person out of the puzzle, we wouldn't have the competence to do the job we did; everybody's vital. It's not about the guy who pulled the trigger to kill bin Laden, it's about what we all did together."</div>
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A miniature version of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak now exists, though it works only in microwave light, and not visible light, so far.</div>
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Still, it's a nifty trick, and the physicists who've created the new cloak say it's a step closer to realizing the kind of<a href="http://www.livescience.com/11695-invisibility-cloak-hides-3-objects-naked-eye.html" style="color: #00467f;">invisibility cloak</a> that could hide a person in broad daylight.</div>
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The invention is made of a new kind of material called a metascreen, created from strips of copper tape attached to a flexible polycarbonate film. The copper strips are only 66 micrometers (66 millionths of a meter) thick, while the polycarbonate film is 100 micrometers thick, and the two are combined in a diagonal fishnet pattern.</div>
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The creation is a departure from previous <a href="http://www.livescience.com/12907-invisibility-cloaks-corner-bts-110217.html" style="color: #00467f;">attempts to create invisibility cloaks</a>, which have aimed to bend light rays around an object so that they don't scatter, or reflect off it, a technique that relies on so-called bulk metamaterials. Instead, the new cloak uses a technique called mantle cloaking to cancel out light waves that bounce off the shielded object so that none survive to reach an observer's eye. [<a href="http://www.technewsdaily.com/5048-scifi-predictions-countdown.html" style="color: #00467f;">10 Real-Life Sci-Fi Inventions</a>]<br />
"When the scattered fields from the cloak and the object interfere, they cancel each other out and the overall effect is transparency and invisibility at all angles of observation," study co-author Andrea Alu, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a statement.<br />
In lab tests, Alu and his colleagues successfully hid a 7-inch-long (18 centimeters) cylindrical rod from view in microwave light. They said the same technology should be able to cloak oddly shaped and asymmetrical objects, too.<br /><br />"The advantages of the mantle cloaking over existing techniques are its conformability, ease of manufacturing and improved bandwidth," Alu said. "We have shown that you don't need a bulk metamaterial to cancel the scattering from an object — a simple patterned surface that is conformal to the object may be sufficient and, in many regards, even better than a bulk metamaterial."<br />
In principle, the same kind of cloak could be used to <a href="http://www.livescience.com/15351-invisible-cloak-spectrum-light-hidden-metamaterials.html" style="color: #00467f;">hide objects in the visible range of light</a>, as well, though it may work only for teensy-tiny objects, at least at first.<br /><br />"In fact, metascreens are easier to realize at visible frequencies than bulk metamaterials and this concept could put us closer to a practical realization," Alu said. "However, the size of the objects that can be efficiently cloaked with this method scales with the wavelength of operation, so when applied to optical frequencies we may be able to efficiently stop the scattering of micrometer-sized objects."<br />
The invention isn't just a novelty to thrill Harry Potter fans and aspiring spies. The researchers say it could have practical applications down the line, such as in noninvasive sensing devices or in biomedical instruments. They described their device in a paper published in the March 26 issue of the New Journal of Physics.<br />
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Google’s online Android Market, now called Google Play, is huge with more than 200,000 apps for your Android mobile phone and tablets. A lot of these Android Apps are available as free downloads while the paid apps can cost anywhere between 99 ¢ and $200.</div>
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Amazon runs a parallel online store for Android Apps and one good thing about Amazon’s store is that it lets you test and test apps before you actually buy them.</div>
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Say you have found an interesting app in Google’s Android Market that you are quite willing to buy but as the app price is a bit on the expensive side, you would like to use the app and test the various features before loosening your purse strings.</div>
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Google doesn’t offer “try before you buy” apps but there’s an easy workaround that will help you test any paid app before buying it – you buy an app from the Android market, use it for about 10-12 minutes and then refund the app. The app will be uninstalled from your mobile phone and your account won’t be charged.</div>
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It take a few easy steps to refund an app to the Android Market:</div>
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Step 1: Visit the Google Android Market, either on your desktop or your mobile phone, and buy any of the ‘paid’ apps.</div>
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Step 2: The app is now installed on your mobile phone. Launch the app and you can test it for the next 10-12 minutes.</div>
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Step 3. Go back to the Android Market app on your mobile phone and under “My Apps,” tap the app name that you are trying to refund. Hit the “Refund” button and the app will automatically uninstall from your mobile phone.</div>
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Step 4. Once the App has been uninstalled, it may ask you to specify a reason for removing the app. You can check “I’d rather not say” here and the app amount will be refunded. You’ll also get an email from Google saying:</div>
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The refund process is quite easy and 10 minutes are often enough for you to get a good idea about an app. I tried this with at least two different paid apps and the whole thing worked without a hitch. There are however two things regarding Google’s <a href="http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?answer=134336" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">refund policy</a> that you should know:</div>
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1. You only have 15 minutes to return an app to the Android Market from the time of download after which the “refund” option will disappear from the app.</div>
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2. You can return an app only once; if you refund an app and purchase it again, you won’t be able to refund it to the Android Market.</div>
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