GlocalMe Celebrates Kickstarter Success with G1 Giveaway

With an amazing outpouring of support, our GlocalMe G2 Kickstarter was fully funded within 12 hours of going public. Ten short days later, we’ve reached our first stretch goal of $50,000! We would like to humbly thank all of our supporters.

To celebrate this fantastic accomplishment we are hosting a giveaway on Facebook starting on Monday, August 17-23, 2015.  You could win our grand-prize of a GlocalMe G1 Hotspot device with a €50 data credit or be the lucky second place winner and win a GlocalMe G1 Hotspot device with a €10 data credit.

For your chance to win, simply watch our Facebook page for an upcoming post then like it & share it with the hashtag #GlocalMe! We will select 2 people at random to win from those who participate in our contest.

It’s exciting to think about how much further the funding for this campaign could go! As promised once we reached $50,000, every G2 device will now come with a ready to use €10 data credit. We have also extended the $33/GB worldwide package provided on GlocalMe's website and App from 3 months to 6 months.

We are currently well on our way to smashing our second stretch goal of $100,000! With all the amazing support we’ve received so far that we know we will reach it and would like your input. Please visit our Facebook page to vote on what new feature you’d prefer. We will either put a cool logo on the back of the device as previously planned, or add additional 100MB (valid for 180 days) on each G2.

Thank you again, please share our Kickstarter with all your friends so we can make the most out of this campaign and give you the best possible features.

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Join the Photography Class at Mediative Hong Kong, Physiotherapy- Now Offered in Iso Fit Hong Kong. Find the perfect wedding reception at Hotel Royal Macau with your Augusta Jones Bridal Gown from Hitched Bridal Hong Kong

Mediative Hong Kong Offers a New Photography Program

Mediative’s photography program begins on the 2nd of September, with lessons on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Lessons start at 9am and run for 4 hours with a maximum class size of 4 students per workshop. Students will enjoy “hands on” learning, with the goal of understanding and managing basic technical aspects of photography along with our approach to creative process.

The program will cover:

·         Basic types of photography

·         Basics of composition

·         A general understanding of symbols & visual art

·         The basics of exposure and steps involved

·         Learning and understand camera modes- Manual & Semi-Manual(A,S,P,M)

·         The basics of lighting- how to best find  and use Natural Light & Flash

·         How to understand & manage “difficult” lighting conditions

·         Tips & easy secrets of getting great portraits & landscape shots

Our photographers are skilled, passionate professionals who would love to share their experience with you. Join our class for only 3000HKD- bookings must be confirmed & paid a minimum of 4 weeks before classes start. Lessons may also be given as a gift.

Contact the team now for consultation. Call Natalia Segura at mobile: +852 902 12 859 or send e-mail to segura@mediative.hk

Physiotherapy, Now Offered in Iso Fit Hong Kong

Physiotherapy at Physio Fit will also minimize risks of being injured the same way again in the future.

In Central, Hong Kong, the Iso Fit Hong Kong studio now offers Physiotherapy for individuals who rehabilitate and reeducate their bodies. The Iso Fit Hong Kong Physiotherapy center is called Physio Fit and is adjoined to the main studio. Focus is on Gyrotonic and Pilates-based exercises in combination with traditional Physiotherapy practices to treat various injuries and cases.

Treatments in the Physio Fit center in Hong Kong include specialties such as Pilates Exercise, Gyrotonic Exercise as well as more traditional techniques such as Manual Physiotherapeutic Interventions and Ultra Sound.

Contact ISO Fit Hong Kong  now and see how very well their classes “fit” your lifestyle! Get to try the new machines as well.

Hotel Royal Macau Accommodations, Conferences and Meeting Rooms

Every one of the 380 guest rooms in Hotel Royal Macau is fully furnished and classically decorated. Spanning 19 floors, our hotel offers lovely views of the garden of Vasco de Gama, Colina da Guia, Pearl River Estuary and the sparkling lights of the city skyline. Even our most affordable rooms, the Superior Rooms, are equipped with elegant features. All Superior Rooms feature a queen size bed or two twins, cable TV, internet access and a fully functional bathroom.

If you want even more quality from Hotel Royal Macau, then perhaps you would be interested in our Premier Suites. There are 15 suites in the hotel, each featuring a seating area with a sofa and an armchair in addition to the king-sized bed. Guests of the Premier Suite enjoy an LCD TV, marble bathroom with soaking tub, bathrobes and slippers, free local calls and two daily wake up calls. For important business or a special treat, our Premier Suites are the ultimate in lavish accommodation.

Why You Should See The Augusta Jones Collection At HITCHED! Bridal

More often than not, a lot of excited brides-to-be worry about their bridal gowns as soon as they get engaged. For good reason, actually. It’s not easy to find that one perfect wedding dress, after all! However, there’s one tried-and-tested way to keep stress and worries at bay. And that is to check out the Augusta Jones Collection available at HITCHED! Bridal Hong Kong.

Augusta Jones bridal dresses are extremely flattering and contemporary. The Ali dress, for instance, features clean lines, beautiful lace and even a satin belt with diamond brooch. This dress is for the bride who wants to keep things simple yet very classy and modern.

Scaling-up HIV testing is critical to end the AIDS epidemic in Asia-Pacific

There are over 10 different organizations that include sexually transmitted infection programs and HIV/AIDS programs as well as civil society and development groups that have come together to make sure that people with HIV are aware of their status and receive proper medical treatment. There was a very recent meeting which was headed by the World Health organization and the Joint United Nations program on HIV/AIDS in Manila.  

Antiretrovirals reduce the number of HIV related deaths as well as their transmission and there has been research done to prove this. The trick is catching the infection early or else the success rate is much lower. The WHO Regional Director for The Western Pacific said that it is absolutely essential to get treatment early and that it is equally important that there are an increasing number of different ways to catch the infection.

Gay men, transgenders, sex workers, and people who do drugs all have a high chance of getting HIV, these are also the people who usually lack the proper knowledge of the disease and proper treatment. The UN has called this an epidemic as in 2013 only 1/3 of at risk groups actually knew about their HIV positive status so they set a goal to get this all changed by 2013. The goal is to have 90 percent of people aware of their status, have them get treatment, and have viral overloads. This goal needs to be met.

Steve Krauss, the UNAIDS Director said that the very most important thing to stopping the AIDS epidemic is to test people and catch it early because it is spreading due to people not knowing their status. And when this happens it multiplies very quickly because of the diseases infectious nature.

They say that the approaches for testing need to be more diversified in terms of how often and where they are done.. The tests need to be done both at local clinics and at the bigger hospitals, it needs to be available everywhere. Another issue is that there needs to be more voluntary testing as opposed to mandatory because that scares people away. The populations that are most at risk would benefit from the local community based clinic testing because they often feel stigmatized by the larger facilities.

These more local based tests can actually be done by someone who is close to the worker or whomever is at risk and only takes one quick screening. If there is a positive result then a follow up test is done to confirm. Places like Cambodia have started to do this and it seems to be quite successful. The director of the program director for the STD facility says that it’s very important to bring the testing close to home. Everyone involved is working to make sure that these tests are made more readily available.

#Test4HIV is the name that the WHO is coming up with for their upcoming launch of the AIDS awareness campaign to increase testing. The campaign should be promoted on all possible social media to increase awareness.

HIV Advocates which is a global initiative that aims to share news, experiences, strategies and new tools that aim to energize human rights movements and communities fighting HIV/AIDS, is the answer. Supported by Levi Strauss Foundation and powered by B-Change Foundation,  HIV Advocates encourages existing and would-be activists to explore the power of social media and other Internet avenues to help spread the message across - that discrimination and stigma no longer have any place in society and that society should accept the LGBT community members as they are.

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HIV Advocates supports the Stories of Being Me from Be-App

The world is a very diverse place with people being different everywhere. People are like snowflakes, no two are the same, so much has been proven. People come in different shapes; fat, thin, round, stalky, you name it, and they come in different colors too!

In the past there has also been a very clear definition of male and female, as well as the fact that men are supposed to be with women and that’s that. However that is an old school way of thinking for people who are closed of mind and not open to diversity, those are people that just don’t understand.

History has been full of bigots and people who hate anyone that doesn’t qualify as a typical man or woman and doesn’t have  a straight sexual orientation. Anyone who hasn’t fit this classic description has been persecuted by governments, religion, and other people alike; they just haven’t had it easy. People did not want to believe that anything else could exist so they tried to hide it.

Now we for the most part recognize that genders are not that simple anymore and that sexual orientation isn’t so straightforward as we once tried to force people to believe it was. Humans can be born man, woman, a mix of the two, people can change sex, and people can have relations with their own sex or another and all of that is completely acceptable.

There are lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, hermaphrodites, asexual, queers, and pansexuals among other things still; unfortunately all of these differences are still not widely accepted by society. Our society as a whole has fought for black rights, native rights, and black rights and for the most part we have overcome those obstacles of exclusion, however that is not the case for the LGBT community.

This is why Be Being Me has created an online support app for any members of the LGBT community that comes in the form of a web series called Stories Of Being Me and the purpose of it is to share the stories of the LGBT community from people across Asia. This gives people the opportunity to hear the different stories of diverse people and give them a chance to relate and find help for the abuse and persecution they have suffered as well as find a way to overcome adversity

Stories Of Being Me will come out with a new episode every Thursday for at least 4 weeks. Besides this the website offers lots of educational material to help anybody in need. As well it offers a directory for any LGBT member to find a center or organization near them where they can go to for support. You can even directly connect with other to ask for advice and find support from people in your similar situation

If you’re a proud member of the LGBT community but are still finding it hard to overcome adversity and persecution due to simply being who you are then it’s time to go to Be Being Me and check out Stories Of Being Me and let us help you.

BE is a peer support web-app  for young people in Asia of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, including young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. BE is a service provided to the community by B-Change Foundation.

HIV Advocates which is a global initiative that aims to share news, experiences, strategies and new tools that aim to energize human rights movements and communities fighting HIV/AIDS, is the answer. Supported by Levi Strauss Foundation and powered by B-Change Foundation,  HIV Advocates encourages existing and would-be activists to explore the power of social media and other Internet avenues to help spread the message across - that discrimination and stigma no longer have any place in society and that society should accept the LGBT community members as they are.

Share your thoughts on the official HIV Advocates platform. Your voice counts!

Like HIVAdvocates on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HIVadvocates  

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