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No really, their heads don't fly off and there's no blood, but if the fight scene I'm playing through were in a movie, I'd be fixin to get killed by a holy hand grenade. It's like Bolt is a fist on an invisible arm, and he's punching people in the face constantly with his whole body. It's like when you make toys fight, and you just bang one into another in mid air constantly. Now a helicopter is attacking.
Dodging its Vulcan cannon is really easy. But as I run around avoiding it, I see the scene for what it is: A giant war helicopter firing Vulcan cannons at a puppy running for its life. Awesome! I immediately let myself get shot, imagining the puffs of hair, the blood, and the shreads of meat, but I just flinched because I have a magical shield of power. I am sure that if I let the chopper blast all the way through it, the black box of "You don't want to see this, try again!" would pop up. More vodka please.
Killed the chopper by catching its missile then throwing it back. Meh. But then I interrogated a henchman by hitting him in the head with a piano. Dick Cheney would love this game!
Now I'm in Mexico. I guess. I hate this game, but I love being a puppy. Just in general. I like running around, looking happy. I'm not being ironic. Now the game commands me to 'Jump'. How like life! I wish I could pee on things and fuck up some shoes.
So I just completely destroyed two bad guys, and now the game is like "Pretty good, but how well do you think you can handle….TWO MORE BAD GUYS!?"
I got Superbark! Wow, it blew away this huge door.
Heh, so I'm fighting a chopper and the game is like "Super bark missiles to turn them back at the chopper!" Well, I tried, and Bolt opened his mouth to bark, but a missile went right down his throat and killed his ass.
Okay, this time I did it. The little guy's bark really is worse than his bite! GUFFAW
Another thing about this game – not only do the bad guys get beat up by a little girl and a puppy, their only weapons so far are long purple nails. Rowr!
Okay, that's enough for you. But the sad life of a professional game reviewer continues. And remember: Be-awesome!
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1. Nestor | December 4th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
You could be digging ditches at 5 AM!
2. Seryoga | December 4th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Yeah, you pussy, stop complaining.
3. Baked Dr. Luny | December 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
All you have to do is sell your soul, it's a cheap and replenishable commodity.
4. Tim | December 4th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Great website, I love the look of your blog. Any ideas you have to improve my site?
5. Delfosse | December 5th, 2008 at 1:08 am
It's not "Montey Python", it's "Monty".
That being said, I realize I'm whiter and nerdier.
6. Chris C | December 5th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Good, but you need more serious commentary as opposed to just describing the crappy game.
You should do this with porn as well
7. Soloscarecrow | December 5th, 2008 at 4:08 am
I Spit On Your Grave.
8. wank | December 5th, 2008 at 5:56 am
wanna trade jobs, dude?
9. esch | December 5th, 2008 at 7:34 am
by the way is there a link to the actual review of the game, would be fun to compare the 8.5 score and high praises (parsed with some careful critisism) the game recieved with the secret loathing the reviewer actually felt about the game. Hidden deep inside his dark mind, far away from the disney corporation owned boss who needs certain games hyped through the roof for the continuing advertisment profits
btw you should check this site out for honest reviews, probably the author of this already knows about it and fantasises about doing something similar if he only could get through the censoring machine…
10. Scathing Review | December 5th, 2008 at 7:42 am
I liked it. It manages to be jocular without spitting the loathsome bucket of bile and self pity that oozes from this vomit puddle of privileged criticism masquerading as something other than a collection of hackneyed liberal arts degrees with a monolithic sense of entitlement and the fear of going home and running daddy's business. As for Gary, he isn't exactly gospel, the fat fucker.
This is the guys first article, be charitable.
11. abelincoln | December 5th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Hey Scathing Review, talking about bile…
12. Scathing Review | December 5th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Oops! I must have forgotten about irony. Good catch!
13. Hank | December 5th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Damn, it is I Spit On Your Grave. Next time less vodak, more fact checking! (although I think pissing on graves is funnier)
14. Soloscarecrow | December 5th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
/agreed that I Piss On Your Grave is funnier
15. esch | December 6th, 2008 at 8:39 am
what the fuck is he talking about me? Well it's good to know that not everyone reading this paper is an everyman and indeed some people are the kind of unhinged psychos you'd think the exile would attract. Keep working on your fucking Houllebeq diction or what the fuck ever you do and maybe someday you'll be clever enough to impress somebody. Here's a tip for free; go easy on the big words next time so you don't end up looking like the "hackeneyed liberal arts degrees" you're trying to insult. Jesus…
16. Scathing Review | December 7th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Esch, i was not talking to or about you. I liked your post and your link was very interesting – thank you.
I don't KNOW why you took offense, the chronological order of the postings must have given you just cause to assume I was for some reason attacking you. In any case, it's Michel Houellebecq and I am so very sorry I failed to impress you.
You do have my sincere apologies as well as my promise than if in the future I do happen to post after you, my post will be filled with flattering praise and warm serenity – so as not to endanger your jugular vein, and the distension thereof.
Scathingly Yours,
P.S. – Thank you for your wonderful tip. I am sure you will be kindly rewarded by those closer to you. Perhaps even someone with a degree in French Literature?
17. Palmer Eldritch | December 8th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Esch, wile it's not easy for me to put up with such fatheaded state-school grade abuse of language and image and McSweeneyeaque reek of townies' gentry, I did feel compelled to give Scathing Review's comment a second look because I was intrigued by his metaphor, broken though it was, and its gnarled contents.
I believe that in his misguided attempt to frame his argument in his imitation of the clipped diction of a clever detective, or possibly in the closest approximation to Mark Ames that his empathic engine could conceive, it's been left unclear what he was referring to, but I wanted to make sure you were aware that it wasn't without merit.
In order to appear jocular, we must admit that it is sometimes necessary to spit much bile and self-pity into a bucket, or to scoop up some vomit or something else equally loathsome in its place. Obviously, this review managed to be jocular without fulfilling this customary requirement.
Since privileged criticism can masquerade as many things, we cannot ignore the possibility that a puddle of vomit used to fill a bucket and reinforce the idea that one is jocular may be privileged criticism posing as something other than what it is, as it does when it appears in the guise of a disgust for the idea of returning home and running one's father's business.
Privileged criticism can also masquerade as some kind of hackneyed college degree, almost always in the liberal arts, and when it hides itself in the folds of the gay and multi-colored procession of liberal arts graduations and their processions down the street, which then after photo sessions often devolves into groups who get into rented limos, taxis and even, indeed, hackney coaches, in order to have lunch at some local restaurant, this gesture clearly indicates a monolithic sense of entitlement.
Those who involve themselves in the pursuit of liberal arts degrees are always at risk of becoming hackneyed in a more metaphorical sense, as they devolve into privileged critics who live away from their city of birth, feel as if they are monolithically entitled not to work for their family's business, families' businesseses, or families' business, or family's businesses, if such thing exists, and could very well someday to be forced to masquerade as a puddle of vomit or something else other than a nepotism-averse holder of a degree that will soon be as obsolete as the blunderbuss.
Those whose families have no businesses but pursue liberal arts degrees will likely feel monolithically entitled, regardless, to be perceived as jocular without throwing up into a bucket or indeed presenting any bucket or any loathesome substance of any kind.
It is this guy's first review, so let him go this time, but next time our man here with the dictionary can rightly expect proof positive of bile, vomit, self-pity, or something else loathesome if he wants us to think he is really a jocular guy.
18. George | December 9th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Little known fact: People's proclivity to rant is boring.
The more you know!


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Ten million pounds is to be invested over four years to improve care by growing the Scottish telehealthcare sector.
The project – jointly announced today by the Scottish Government and the Technology Strategy Board – will show how new technologies and innovative services can help improve the quality of life of, and support independent living for, older people and people living with long-term conditions.
The demonstration programme will involve at least 10,000 older people and people with disabilities.
In the first joint project between the Technology Strategy Board and the Scottish Government, the Scottish Assisted Living Demonstrator agreement was signed today by Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon and Iain Gray, Chief Executive of the Technology Strategy Board.
Ms Sturgeon said:
"Supporting people to live independently at home is a key priority for the Scottish Government. It is what older people have consistently said they want and we know it is generally better for people's health to remain at home wherever that's possible.
"Over the last four years, Scotland has made significant progress on developing and expanding new technologies to help people do just that – providing effective care and reassurance to many older people.
"Today's announcement demonstrates our commitment to build on this progress and to expand even further the role technology plays in supporting twenty-first century healthcare.
"The experiences from the Scottish Assisted Living Demonstrator will also be used to inform and provide invaluable opportunities for Scottish businesses in support of economic growth."
Iain Gray said:
"I am delighted that the Technology Strategy Board and the Scottish Government are to work together to establish an Assisted Living Demonstrator in Scotland. Scotland is a leader in the introduction of innovative technologies and services to enable independent living for older adults and people living with long-term conditions. This demonstrator programme, which will involve at least 10,000 users in Scotland, will be the first step towards the aspiration of providing assisted living services for millions of people across the UK.
The key objective behind the demonstrator is to help break the barrier between new healthcare technology and the implementation and use of the technology in the public sector, such as NHSScotland, the private sector, for example in housing and in the insurance sector and the third sector, including by charities and social enterprises. Other key agencies involved in the development of the demonstrator are NHS 24, Highlands & Island Enterprise and Scottish Enterprise.
The demonstrator will also show how cost savings could be made alongside the provision of improved health benefits for both public and private provision, while opening new markets in social innovation, service innovation and wellness.
The Scottish Assisted Living Demonstrator is likely to be the first of a number that will be established across the UK by the Technology Strategy Board under a programme named DALLAS – Demonstrators of Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale.
Further details of the Scottish Assisted Living Demonstrator programme, including the geographic focus, will be agreed in discussions between the Scottish Government, its agencies and the Technology Strategy Board.
For full press release including note to editors please follow this link
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Unfortunately, the Half-Blood Prince falls victim to the common pitfalls of so many movie-to-game tie-ins before it.
I'll admit it: I'm a Harry Potter fan. I've spent hours in line for midnight releases for both the books and the movies, surrounded by fellow nerds (excuse me -- "fans") with their glasses, wands and drawn-on lightning bolts shimmering across their foreheads. I've even got a mini-poster of the first film as well, which came with a complimentary golden snitch when I bought the DVD at Tower Records. All things considered, I like to think I'm a well-versed fan of the series. In fact, I blame Harry Potter for my long-standing insomnia, as every book kept me reading from ten at night until the crack of dawn. So, in that sense, I may even have reason to resent Harry Potter -- but I don't. However, what has given me a sense of resentment is the lack of a truly engaging Harry Potter game, and unfortunately, The Half-Blood Prince for the Nintendo Wii didn't do much to change that opinion.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is set during Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts. Things are not going well in the fight against Voldemort: Muggles are beginning to notice magical accidents, important mystical people are disappearing and Severus Snape has made an unbreakable vow to Narcissa Malfoy to protect her son Draco. At Hogwarts, Harry learns how to Apparate, gets a new Potions master in the form of Horace Slughorn (but at the expense of having Snape as his Defense Against the Dark Art teacher) and begins to have all new romantic feelings towards Ron's sister, Ginny. Along the way, Harry receives help in Potions class from a mysterious penman named the Half-Blood Prince, uncovers some history behind Lord Voldemort, Dumbledore and Snape, and prepares for his biggest battle yet against the dark forces of magic.
Needless to say, a lot of stuff happens in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but you'll be hard-pressed to discover any of that information in the actual game. The bulk of Half-Blood Prince merely skirts over most of the important events in the novel and film in favour of forcing you to play repetitious mini games over and over again. While the game explains some of the basic plot (with some mediocre to downright terrible cut scenes), I doubt anyone who hasn't read the books or viewed the upcoming film would have any clue as to what was happening or why. Which is an unfortunate (albeit typical) outcome of its movie tie-in roots.
Now, before I talk about the gameplay, I'll have to say that I haven't played any of the previous Harry Potter games, so I'm simply going off of what this new installation has to offer. The bulk of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince's gameplay is spent in four different categories: Quidditch, brewing potions, wizard dueling, and running your wizard butt to-and-fro across the castle. Now, while I didn't mind the last category, as you'll find the design of Hogwarts is absolutely gorgeous, the first three categories left something to be desired.
The game utilises the Wii Remote for all your Quidditch, Potions and duelling needs and while it's fairly well incorporated, it can be pretty touch and go with certain tasks. In Quidditch, you'll find that Harry is already set on a directed flight path through the stadium, leaving you to simply point the Wii mote left, right, up and down to make him fly through some star shapes which propel him to catch the snitch. While the animation and sound design is pretty good, the gameplay is dull, repetitive and not particularly hard, which left me feeling pretty bummed, as Quidditch seems like such a fertile ground for some intense sports gameplay.
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3rd International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT 06)
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The ICDCIT conference series since 2004 has established a prestigious international forum for exchanging ideas and results in the above areas and published proceedings as LNCS (vol. 3347 and vol. 3816) by Springer-Verlag. Technical papers describing original, unpublished results are solicited in the following areas but not limited to:
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Holy S***! Huck Gee's beloved Gold Life Series is making an epic comeback this weekend with a new line of production 4" vinyl figures by Mighty Jaxx!!! While not much is known about this series' first release, just look at these epic character designs. The first three figures in this exciting new series is the Soul Collector (featuring Huck's signature Skullhead design), Raku Day and Raku Night. All three figures go on sale at 10am EST on Saturday, September 3rd, at the Mighty Jaxx online store for $25 each.
The Blot still can't believe this is happening! It seems just like yesterday Kidrobot was releasing its Gold Life 3" Dunny Series and Huck was releasing a whole line of custom Gold Life 8" Dunnys. What other characters do you hope to see included in Mighty Jaxx's new Gold Life vinyl figure series by Huck Gee!?!


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My favourite use for this sauce is with pork chops and breakfast sausages.
Chili Sauce
22 cooking apples peeled and diced
1 4L basket of tomatoes peeled and diced (peel by cutting a shallow X in the bottom of the tomato and blanching in boiling water for 30 seconds first)
3-4 cooking onions diced
3 red peppers seeded and diced
3 green peppers seeded and diced
3 jalapeno peppers seeded and diced
1 1/2 bunch celery chopped
3 cups white vinegar
3 cups white sugar
3/4 cup of salt
8 Tablespoons pickling spice tied in cheese cloth
Combine all ingredients in a large pot and simmer for 2 hours once it has come to a boil.
I prepare my jars by washing them thoroughly and then boiling them for 5 minutes in the canning pot. I fill the jars with the sauce, pour boiling water over the lids to soften the gasket and then place them on the jars and lightly tighten the rings. I boil in the canning pot for 15 minutes and remove to cool on a towel. I re-tighten the rings once the jars have cooled overnight.
I got fourteen 500ml jars from this batch, it will do twelve jars easily with some left over for sampling.


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How a Facebook post could cost you your job
With growing digitization and evolvement of the social media, one needs to be very careful of his/her posts on Facebook if you really want your job to be secured.
New research by YouGov has found that almost one in five companies have turned down a candidate after seeing their online activity.
Most frequently checked networks were LinkedIn, which makes sense given its supposed to be a professional platform, and Facebook.
When asked what they were looking for, the most regular offenders were aggressive language and references to drug use.
Kids, this chart is your dictionary on what not to post:
In fact, why have a Facebook account anyway? It's just an advertising platform on which you can see photos of your mates having more fun than you are in your basement.


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I have a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy from Syracuse University. I currently teach as visiting faculty at Alliant International University in the Clinical Counseling Master's Program.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California (MHC #49616), and was previously licensed in Colorado. I am a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and am also an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Beginning in 2015, I am serving a two-year term as the President-Elect for the Association for Family Therapy of Northern California, the oldest family therapy organization in the world. I am also a member of the American Family Therapy Academy, an invitation-only professional association focused on systemic therapy and social justice.
I am a member of Bay Area Open Minds, a group of professionals and students who support sexual and gender diversity in our practices. I also belong to Division 44 of the American Psychological Association, and GAYLESTA, the LBGTQ Psychotherapy Association. I am also a member of the Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS).
I am listed with Kink Aware Professionals, Fat Friendly Professionals, and Poly Friendly Professionals. I am a supporter of Size Acceptance/Fat Acceptance and Health at Every Size. You can read my listing at Psychology Today if you prefer it to this website.
After a break of several years while teaching full-time, I returned to private practice in 2012. My primary focus is on helping couples and intimate partners have more satisfying, healthy romantic and sexual relationships, but I work with individuals and families as well. I work from a variety of family systems approaches, especially Emotionally Focused Therapy.
My most recent publication is an article in the journal Family Process, titled "Expanding the Therapy Paradigm with Queer Couples: A Relational Intersectional Lens" written with my friend and colleague Dr. Deb Coolhart. I've also written chapters in "Multicultural Couple Therapy" and "Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy." I also recently published a book review in the journal "Fat Studies."
You can also look at my profile on LinkedIn or follow me on Twitter or Facebook. You can send me email at drsaddison (at) gmail (dot) com.


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James and Kim Hodgson purchased the hotel in April 2015.
James is a Filey lad who went away to the bright lights and big city of London but never lost touch with Filey nor his passion for his hometown. During his youth, he was on the RNLI crew and whilst away at King's College London, he would come back to crew with local fisherman, James Wyvill, salmoning and potting.
James met Kim, an American living in Los Angeles, and introduced her to Filey. They were married and had their wedding reception at the White Lodge in 1994!
When the opportunity came to purchase the hotel in 2015, they were able to fulfil a dream of owning the place they have come to know so well over the years.
They have poured their heart and soul in to the hotel – embarking on a major refurbishment programme in late 2015 which has included the redecoration of bedrooms, restaurant, public areas, new roofs, new beer cellar, new kitchen and an addition of three holiday apartments to the portfolio of accommodation. The Reception, Bar were refurbished in January 2017, nearly completing their project of creating a special place for those who know about this secret gem on the Yorkshire Coast that is – Filey.


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EMI Reissues First 7 Queensryche Albums
By Sefany Jones, Contributing Editor
Monday, January 27, 2003 @ 4:02 PM
It all began with Queensryche's self-titled four-track EP, which was originally released on the band's own 206 Records in 1983. Sales of more than 60,000 copies led to a deal with EMI, who then re-released the EP later that year. In addition to fan favorites such as "Blinded" and "Queen of the Reich," the reissue features 50 extra minutes of bonus material pulled from 1985's "Live in Tokyo" video/laserdisc, including "Deliverance" and "Child of Fire." THE WARNING
Released in 1984, The Warning features the nine-minute epic "Roads To Madness" and "Take Hold of the Flame." A live version of that anthemic hit is included on the reissue, along with "Prophecy" and a live recording of "The Lady Wore Black" from a show at the Astoria Theatre in London in 1994. RAGE FOR ORDER
The reissue of the first Queensryche album to crack the top 50 of Billboard's Top 200 features live versions of "The Killing Words" (recorded in London in 1994) and "Walk in the Shadows" (from the "Jet City Woman" CD single). Also included is the 12" version of "Gonna Get Close To You" and a 1991 acoustic remix of "I Dream In Infra Red." OPERATION: MINDCRIME
A concept record/rock opera featuring orchestration by Oscar-nominated composer Michael Kamen (X-Men, Band of Brothers), this ambitious album spawned two MTV favorites, "Eyes of a Stranger" and "I Don't Believe In Love." The reissue includes live renditions of "The Mission" (recorded in 1990 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London) and "My Empty Room" (from "Bridge" CD single). EMPIRE
In 1990, Queensryche broke into the mainstream—and the top 10 of Billboard's Top 200—with this triple-platinum-selling disc. Empire yielded several smash hit singles, including the title track, "Best I Can," "Jet City Woman," "Another Rainy Night (Without You)" and "Silent Lucidity." The latter was the most successful of the bunch, a Grammy-nominated number one hit whose video earned the band the coveted MTV Viewers Choice Award. The reissue features the aforementioned tracks, along with "Last Time in Paris" (off the Ford Forlaine soundtrack), "Dirty Lil Secret" and Queensryche's stunning cover of the Simon & Garfunkel hit "Scarborough Fair." PROMISED LAND
Queensryche fans found salvation in Promised Land, the band's highest-charting album to date. Entering the Billboard Top 200 at number three, Promised Land spawned two hit singles—"I Am I" and "Bridge," both of which are included on the reissue along with five extra tracks: a studio and live version of the "Real World" (originally recorded for the Last Action Hero soundtrack), a full band version of "Someone Else," and "Damaged" (recorded live at the Astoria Theatre in 1994). HEAR IN THE NOW FRONTIER
The band's last album with founding guitarist Chris DeGarmo went platinum on the strength of hit single "Sign of the Times." The reissue features four bonus songs: "Chasing Blue Sky" (from the Greatest Hits CD), along with "The Killing Words," "I Will Remember" and "Silent Lucidity" (all from a 1992 performance on "MTV Unplugged"). The full track listings for all seven albums are as follows: HEAR IN THE NOW FRONTIER
1. Sign Of The Times
2. Cuckoo's Nest
3. Get A Life
4. The Voice Inside
5. Some People Fly
6. Saved
7. You
8. Hero
9. Miles Away
10. Reach
11. All I Want
12. Hit The Black
13. Anytime/Anywhere
14. Spool
15. Chasing Blue Sky (On Greatest Hits CD)
16. Silent Lucidity (MTV Unplugged) (From "Sign Of The Times" CD single) 4/27/92, New York, MTV Studios
17. The Killing Words (MTV Unplugged) (From "Sign Of The Times" CD single)
4/27/92, New York, MTV Studios
18. I Will Remember (MTV Unplugged) (From "The Sound Of Building Empires") 4/27/92, New York, MTV Studios
2. I Am I
3. Damaged
4. Out Of Mind
5. Bridge
6. Promised Land
7. Disconnected
8. Lady Jane
9. My Global Mind
10. One More Time
11. Someone Else?
12. Real World (Last Action Hero Soundtrack)
13. Someone Else? (w/full band) (On Greatest Hits CD)
14. Damaged (Live) (From "Bridge" CD single) London, UK, Astoria Theatre (special promo show)
15. Real World (Live) (From "Bridge" CD single) London, UK, Astoria Theatre (special promo show)
1. Best I Can
2. The Thin Line
3. Jet City Woman
4. Della Brown
5. Another Rainy Night (Without You)
6. Empire
7. Resistance
8. Silent Lucidity
9. Hand On Heart
10. One And Only
11. Anybody Listening?
12. Last Time In Paris (Ford Fairlane Soundtrack)
13. Scarborough Fair (CD single only track)
14. Dirty Lil Secret (CD Single only track)
1. I Remember Now
2. Anarchy-X
3. Revolution Calling
4. Operation: Mindcrime
5. Speak
6. Spreading The Disease
7. The Mission
8. Suite Sister Mary
9. The Needle Lies
10. Electric Requiem
11. Breaking The Silence
12. I Don't Believe In Love
13. Waiting For 22
14. My Empty Room
15. Eyes Of A Stranger
16. The Mission (Live) (From "Silent Lucidity II" CD single) November 14/15, 1990, Hammersmith Odeon, London, England
17. My Empty Room (Live) (From "Bridge" CD single) 10/20/94 London, UK, Astoria Theatre (special promo show)
1. Walk In The Shadows
2. I Dream In Infra Red
3. The Whisper
4. Gonna Get Close To You
5. The Killing Words
6. Surgical Strike
7. Neue Regel
8. Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion)
9. London
10. Screaming In Digital
11. I Will Remember
12. Gonna Get Close To You (12" Version) 5:40
13. The Killing Words (Live) (From "Bridge" CD single) 10/20/94 London, UK, Astoria Theatre (special promo show)
14. I Dream In Infra Red (1991 Acoustic Remix) 4:17 (From "Best I Can" CD single)
15. Walk In The Shadows (Live) (From "Jet City Woman" CD single)
1. Warning Tate
2. En Force
3. Deliverance
4. No Sanctuary
6. Take Hold Of Flame
7. Before The Storm
8. Child Of Fire
9. Roads To Madness
10. Prophecy (Produced during the "Warning" sessions)
11. The Lady Wore Black (Live) (From "Bridge" CD single) 10/20/94 London, UK, Astoria Theatre (special promo show)
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Immigration Advocates Warn Undocumented Are 'Fair Game' After Detention of Texas Child
By Jordan Ecker | Nov 02, 2017
The arrest of Rosa Maria Hernandez, an undocumented ten-year-old with cerebral palsy, by Customs and Border Protections, after she received emergency gallbladder surgery in a Texas hospital is a heinous example of the dark turn immigration enforcement has taken under Donald Trump.
Marissa Montes, an immigration attorney with the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic at the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles says that Rosa Maria's arrest sends the message to undocumented people that "anyone is fair game: Regardless of whether you have a criminal record, under the Trump administration, you are considered an enforcement priority."
The child is not the first undocumented person arrested at a hospital, or even at Driscoll's Children Hospital. Earlier this summer, Oscar and Irma Sanchez, the undocumented parents of an American-born infant were arrested at the same hospital as their child underwent surgery. Other undocumented people have been arrested at public facilities as ICE has stepped up its enforcement efforts, including a father who was dropping his daughter off at school and a woman who was detained after seeking a protective order from domestic abuse at a courthouse.
During the first three months of the Trump presidency, ICE arrested 20,000 undocumented people, a 30 percent increase over the same period in 2016. Revisions to Department of Homeland Security guidelines, made during Trump's first month in office, have produced the spike in arrests by expanding the categories of people considered a "priority for removal."
In the waning years of the Obama administration, undocumented people with criminal backgrounds who posed a threat to public safety were the focus of deportation efforts. The Trump DHS has moved to deport any undocumented person with any kind of record, including minor infractions.
These rule changes essentially make every undocumented person in the U.S. a deportation target, because they have all technically broken the law by crossing the border illegally. Rosa Maria's arrest was not a mistake: Under DHS rules, she is a priority for deportation.
Montes tells The American Prospect that under previous administrations—and even during Obama's first term, when total deportations peaked—ICE agents didn't make arrests in schools, hospitals, courts, or places of worship. This changed under Trump, despite pleas by local officials who say detaining undocumented people at courthouses created a chilling effect that has caused a drop in reports of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Ali Noorani, the executive director of the National Immigration Forum, argues that if DHS "is really interested in keeping the homeland secure, they should be spending every dollar available on public security threats."
During the early Obama years, more undocumented people were deported per year than under any other president in history. But in 2014, President Obama directed DHS to prioritize threats to public safety and deportations declined thereafter. The Trump administration has reversed that trend. Instead, ICE and CPB now spend their time prowling around courthouses and checking the documents of people in ambulances en route to hospitals. While Trump officials growl about the threat that undocumented people pose to public safety, they seem less interested in responding to real public safety issues, like the circumstances that allowed a gunman commit mayhem in Las Vegas, than they are in making all undocumented people fear for their own safety, and proving that no one—not even a ten-year-old girl with cerebral palsy needing emergency surgery—is out of the reach of immigration agents.
Big Banks Blame Automation as They Offshore American Jobs
By Jordan Ecker | Oct 19, 2017
When Capital One announced in August that they were laying off 400 call-center workers from a Rolling Meadows, Illinois, location, the company officials claimed that they were moving toward automation. "Call volumes continue to decrease as customers increasingly self-service through a mix of our digital tools and contact center calls," Sie Soheili, a Capital One spokesperson, told the Chicago Tribune. The Rolling Meadows layoffs follow the loss of 1,500 Capital One call-center jobs in Oregon and South Dakota in 2015. Yet last year, Capital One opened a new customer-service and technical-support office in the Philippines, creating 2,000 call-center jobs. Today, Capital One employs 4,800 call-center workers in a country that had no call centers at all just four years ago.
With 2.5 million people employed at call centers in the United States, employees in the sector face an existential crisis as companies close down one center after the other. While the corporate officials may say they are bowing to pressures from consumers, many of these companies decide to lay off American workers and hire less-expensive foreign workers in countries like the Philippines.
Wells Fargo, who earlier this week laid off hundreds of employees at a call center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, also has shifted jobs to the Philippines. The company has laid off hundreds of American call-center employees over the last decade, even as the company expands their call-center hiring in the Philippines (which assists U.S. customers).
Tim Sloan, the CEO of Wells Fargo, effectively admitted to offshoring jobs during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in early October. Senator Joe Donnelly, an Indiana Democrat, asked Sloan whether Wells Fargo "let people go in the states and then added people in the Philippines?" Sloan responded, "Senator, we did," before attempting to brush off the offshoring issue by claiming the call centers in the Philippines allowed Wells Fargo to provide 24/7 customer service. A smirking Donnelly replied that he knew many Americans who would be willing to work night shifts.
Call centers are at the front of a company, providing general customer service or technical support. They also serve as telemarketing hubs. Most sectors with large numbers of customers who require those services, from telecommunications and media to banking and financial services, use call centers. But the nature of the work means that it can be done from anywhere in the world, and companies pay Filipino and Indian employees much less than comparable American workers.
Offshoring call centers isn't just a threat to workers. This trend also presents a problem for American consumers. Poorly paid center employees in the Philippines and India have few opportunities for advancement. In that climate, it is easy to see why cybersecurity analysts say there is a risk of call-center workers committing identity theft. Despite this, almost all of the major banks in the United States, from Bank of America and Chase, to Capital One and Wells Fargo, operate call centers overseas.
Organized labor has been fighting corporate offshoring of call-center jobs for years. But with labor unions' power waning and corporations eager to reduce labor costs any way possible, that skirmish proved to be a tough one. Even so, the Communications Workers of America, which represents most unionized call-center workers, has had some success. In 2016, striking Verizon workers represented by the CWA stayed on the picket line until Verizon made wage concessions and promised that 1,300 new call-center jobs would be created in the United States. Shane Larson, a CWA spokesman, described the Verizon strike as a "huge win."
"We kept good jobs in the U.S. and brought back previously offshored jobs," he said. US Airways, also under pressure from CWA, closed the last of their Filipino call centers in 2011, a process that began in 2004 after a labor dispute.
Prodded by union activism, seven Senate Democrats, led by Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, introduced the U.S. Call Center Worker and Consumer Protection Act earlier this year, which would require overseas call-center employees to inform American callers and give those callers an option to speak with a U.S. call center if they'd prefer. It would make corporations that offshore call-center jobs ineligible for some federal grants and loans. Representatives Gene Greene, a Democrat from Texas, and David McKinley, a Republican from West Virginia, introduced a similar bill in the House. He said in a press release, "our number one priority in Congress is protecting and creating American jobs. Plain and simple, we should not be rewarding companies for moving jobs offshore."
Similar bills have been introduced in eight state legislatures, including Georgia and Alabama, where Republicans introduced the bills that echo President Trump's "America First" message: In the Peach State, the bill is called "The Georgia Jobs First Act of 2017."
Offshoring call centers is an easy way for corporations to cut labor costs. But with wage stagnation and growing income inequality, state and federal lawmakers need to decide whether corporations should be allowed to lay off American employees and then hire workers abroad for less money while enjoying lucrative government contracts and tax subsidies.
Democrats Ponder How to Revive Antitrust
By Jordan Ecker | Oct 11, 2017
With economic inequality soaring to heights not seen in the United States since the progressive era of the early 20th century, it makes sense that some issues on the policy agenda from that bygone age are re-emerging today. Among them: antitrust.
In recent years, the rise of corporate concentration, its negative effects on the broader economy, and the atrophy of antitrust enforcement have become the subject of increasing progressive concern. While some liberals argue that lax enforcement is the problem, a growing number contend that the statutes themselves, or at least the standards by which the consequences of concentration should be measured, need to be expanded.
On October 5, the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and members of the House Progressive Caucus jointly hosted a discussion of how best to revive a serious antitrust program, in which panelists offered divergent views of both the diagnosis and the cure. Diana Moss, president of the American Antitrust Institute, argued that the problem was the weak enforcement of existing law. She noted that the Federal Trade Commission has brought claims that a company has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act—the blockbuster 1890 law that made it illegal for any person to monopolize or attempt to monopolize part of the economy—fewer than ten times in the last 20 years, but that on paper, at least, existing antitrust law like the Sherman Act and the consumer-welfare standard for merger review are sufficient to address the problem of contemporary market consolidation, if regulators are given the incentives to enforce them.
Taking a different tack, Marshall Steinbaum, the director of research at the Roosevelt Institute, contended that the consumer-welfare standard, which sees costs to consumers as the primary measure of anti-competitive behavior, has been outmoded by contemporary practices. He illustrated this with the example of Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods: Amazon promised to cut consumer prices in the weeks before the deal, and in turn the FTC spent less than a month reviewing the merger for antitrust concerns. Just weeks after the acquisition, however, Amazon centralized decision-making about how local suppliers would be allowed to advertise their goods in-store, a decision that may make it difficult for small suppliers to gain a foothold in stores.
Two other panelists, Marcellus Andrews, an economist at Bucknell University, and Lina Khan, director of legal policy at Open Markets (the recently formed antitrust group that broke away from New America), both made clear the breadth of issues affected by antitrust laws. "It is difficult to overstate the effects of market concentration," said Khan, noting that concentrated supply chains in Puerto Rico meant that damage caused by Hurricanes Maria and Irma had caused a nationwide drug shortage. Andrews played out some of the implications of antitrust for racial justice, noting that the "monopoly premium," the additional cost of a good above the market price added on to it by a monopolizer, multiplied the impact of credit discrimination against minority communities.
Antitrust has gained more prominence since this summer, when Democrats made it a centerpiece of their "Better Deal" agenda. But coming up with specific policies to deal with the most pressing issues raised by economic concentration is no small challenge. Representative Keith Ellison, who took on role of host at the forum, also took time to plug his bill, the Independent Retrospective Merger Act, which would task the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the FTC with evaluating whether a merger hurt consumers or promoted anti-competitive behavior. Ellison's bill could help regulators respond to acquisitions like the one Amazon made, where arguably anti-competitive practices began only weeks after a merger.
Forums like these are signs that antitrust, the vogue of early 20th-century America, is back on the rise.
Latino Voting Rights Groups Gear Up for 2018
By Jordan Ecker | Oct 06, 2017
Encouraged by Donald Trump's poor approval ratings and an unproductive Congress, Democrats believe that they can make up some ground in the 2018 midterms. But if the party wants to make waves, they will need to get Latinos, one of their key voting blocs, to the polls. Nearly 70 percent of Latinos voted for Clinton in 2016, but Latino electoral power has been hamstrung by low voter turnout. In the 2014 midterms, only 27 percent of eligible Latino voters went to the polls, a record low.
Voting rights activists are working to shake up that dynamic. During Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15), three of the largest Latino civic engagement organizations, Voto Latino, iAmerica, and Mi Familia Vota launched the "Register, Ignite, Strive, and Engage" (RISE) voter registration campaign. The campaign aims to shift the heritage month's focus from cultural celebrations to political organizing.
Jessica Reeves, the chief operating officer of Voto Latino, points out that Latinos would suffer disproportionately under Republican proposals like repealing the Affordable Care Act. Prior to the passage of the ACA, 40 percent of working age Latinos were uninsured; by 2016, only 24 percent lacked insurance, a number that would certainly spike if the ACA went by the wayside.
Latinos have been one of President Trump have been favorite targets. His signature campaign promises included building a border wall and portraying Mexicans as criminals. ICE arrests of undocumented people, which have had a particularly devastating effect on Latino communities, have increased under Trump. The president has also promised to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program next year unless Congress passes a new version of the bill. Nearly 80 percent of DACA "total potentially eligible" youth are from Mexico or Central America, according to the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
RISE aims to use these issues as political organizing tools in Latino communities. The campaign has partnered with more than 200 local and national organizations, such as Planned Parenthood and the Environment Defense Fund, to help them engage with Latino voters on specific topics. The group is especially keen to get out the youth vote. Nearly one million Latinos turn 18 every year, but only 15.2 percent of millennial Latinos voted in the 2014 midterms. (Reeves notes that young Latinos are more likely to be key decision-makers in their households at earlier ages than their white peers, but are less likely than older Latinos to vote.) RISE has also been reaching out to LGBTQ people, Afro-Latinos, and indigenous communities that tend to be overlooked.
Many House and Senate races will be a tough slog. If Democrats hope to topple Republicans like Jeff Flake of Arizona and Dean Heller of Nevada, turning out Latinos voters who make up a large share of the electorate in those two states is critical.
Getting Latinos to the polls to big numbers in 2018 is one way to check Trump's bigotry. "Latinos have been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration," says Reeves and the RISE coalition intends to help "the community to come together."


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Two years after her shocking death, Whitney Houston is getting the Lifetime original movie treatment. The made-for-TV film, which is slated for 2015 world premiere, will be directed by Golden Globe Award-winning actress Angela Bassett.
According to a press release, Whitney Houston will chronicles "the headline-making relationship between the iconic singer, actress, producer, and model, and singer-songwriter Bobby Brown — from the time they first met at the very height of their celebrity, to their courtship and tumultuous marriage."
MUST READ: Meagan Good Explains Why She'd Play The Perfect Whitney Houston In A Biopic
Angela, who costarred with Whitney in 1995's Waiting to Exhale, said she is taking this project (her directorial debut!) very seriously. "I have such regard for both Whitney's and Bobby's amazing talents and accomplishments," she said. "I feel a responsibility in the telling of their story."
"Their humanity and bond fascinates us all," the 55-year-old actress continued. "I'm beyond excited to have this opportunity to go behind the camera and into their world."
MUST READ: Tika Sumpter Brings Arsenio Hall To Tears While Discussing Whitney Houston
The powerhouse vocalist died of an "accidental drowning" in 2012 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. She was 48 years old. Following her death, Lifetime aired a 14-episode realty show chronicling the lives of her family members, titled "The Houstons: On Our Own."
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It is a breakthrough electromedical nerve pain treatment proven to effectively alleviate the pain, tingling, burning, and numbness resulting from neuropathy and chronic nerve conditions. This nerve pain treatment can successfully help resolve neuropathy symptoms and nerve pain of varying intensities in different areas of the body. Neurogenx patients have improved sensation, range of motion, balance, and restful sleep as well as eliminated pain and numbness.
The nerve pain treatment is performed with a technologically advanced medical device called the Neurogenx 4000PRO: It is FDA-Cleared and patented as the only device of its kind. The Neurogenx treatment is unlike any other currently available. It is non-narcotic, non-surgical, and non-invasive. It uses a sophisticated electronic signal with a wide frequency band to successfully treat neuropathy symptoms at the cellular level. This helps restore function and feeling.
Results will vary but some patients feel a difference within the first couple of treatments. Studies have shown that this nerve pain treatment is up to 87% effective. In more than four out of five patients the Neurogenx treatment has helped with pain, numbness, burning, tingling and other symptoms associated with neuropathy.
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Imagine crispy puffs of quinoa and buckwheat, crunchy peanut butter, creamy tahini, a hint of sea salt and dark chocolate all rolled into one bar. It's the chocolate bar of my dreams. And now I can have it everyday because, really, it's not as unhealthy as you might think. Puffed quinoa and buckwheat are both nourishing seeds, which makes them gluten frees, and they are packed with protein and calcium. So we've got a chocolate bar that's both delicious and nutritious!
A little peanut butter and tahini are also great sources of protein and healthy fats, which will help keep you full for longer. These really are the chocolate bar you should be reaching for when the 3pm slump hits. That's exactly what I'm doing now, along with a big cup of tea. It's the perfect post tennis treat.
I also made these for my parents last weekend and they thoroughly enjoyed them. Especially my Dad. Now that the recipe is up, my mum might even make them for him!
Don't be shy with your pinch of sea salt as it really lifts these bars to the next level. Also, feel free to add whatever nuts or seeds you have on hand instead of the pistachios and almonds. Of course, these bars can also be made vegan by using an alternative sweeter such as rice malt syrup or maple syrup, however I truly love the taste of a beautiful floral honey.
Chewy chocolate bars
makes 16
- 1 1/2 C puffed quinoa
- 1 1/2 C puffed buckwheat
- 1/4 C flaked almonds
- 1/2 C pistachios, roughly chopped
- 1/4 C chia seeds
- 1/2 C honey
- 1/4 C natural peanut butter
- 1/4 hulled tahini
- 40g drak chocolate (70% cocoa solids minimum)
- Combine the puffed quinoa, puffed buckwheat and chia seeds in a large bowl. Set aside.
- In a heavy based pan, gently toast the almonds and pistachios over medium heat for about 5 minutes.
- Combine the honey, peanut butter and tahini in a small saucepan and stir over low heat until combined.
- Add the toasted nuts and tahini mixture to the puffs, quickly mix to combine.
- Press into a lined lamington tin (30 x 15 cm), you may need to wet your palms slightly to prevent the mixture sticking to you.
- Refrigerate for about 4 hours, or until set firmly.
- Remove from the fridge and slice into even sized bars. Gently melt the dark chocolate then use a small spoon to drizzle it over each bar. Pop them back into he fridge for the chocolate to set. Serve, or store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 week.


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Menkes disease [OMIM #309400] is characterized by mental retardation, hypotonia, seizures, failure to thrive, vascular tortuosity, wormian bones, metaphyseal spurring, bladder diverticulae, pectus excavatum, skin laxity. Occipital Horn syndrome (OHS) or X-linked Cutis Laxa [OMIM #304150] is characterized by bilateral occipital exostoses of the skull (occipital horns), long neck, high arched palate, long face, high forehead, skin and joint laxity, dysautonomia, bladder diverticula, inguinal hernias, vascular tortuosity, and normal or slightly delayed intelligence. Copper levels are decreased in individuals with this spectrum of copper metabolism impairment (<60µg/dL) and ceruloplasmin levels are also diminished (30-150mg/L). Sequence analysis of the coding region reveals >95% of mutations in males. Approximately 15% of mutations are deletions that may not be identified in a female carrier by sequencing. Recently, intragenic duplications of one or more exons of ATP7A have been reported in approximately 5% of patients with Menkes disease.
Deletions and/or duplications in the ATP7A gene as causative of Menkes disease have been reported.


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Durani Gilded Plague
Dodge: 4
Armor: 12
Hit Points: 90
Movement Abilities:
- Walk (2 AP): 2 mp, nimble
Attack Abilities:
- Contagion (2 AP): 75 acc, 20 dmg, 2 rng. The Target Golem is infected with a plague that causes 5 Damage every Round for 4 Rounds, not only to itself but also any allied Golems in its Region.
- Rend (1 AP): 65 acc, 33 dmg, Melee . The Gilded Plague rends its opponent with mighty talons.
Passive Abilities:
- Any roll of "doubles" against a member of the Gilded Band in Open Terrain automatically misses.
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Media release: Wednesday, 2 May 2018
'Alex', the world's first virtual assistant for intellectual property enquiries, was just one of the impressive winning entries in the National Archives of Australia's Digital Excellence Awards announced yesterday.
The Archives used the launch of Information Awareness Month to highlight and acknowledge Australian Government innovation in the management, use and reuse of digital information.
'Our annual awards recognise Commonwealth agencies that are leading the way in information management in the digital age,' Archives Director-General Mr David Fricker said.
'The list of 2018 winners demonstrates that digital innovation is changing the way government departments do business to better serve Australian citizens.'
IP Australia won the large agency category for 'Alex'. Alex was designed to manage IP Australia's significant volume of out-of-hours phone calls and now deals with 82 per cent of intellectual property enquiries for the agency.
The Central Land Council won the medium agency category award, impressing the judges with efforts to digitise over 130,000 documents in spite of cultural, technical and geographical challenges.
The Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care won the small agency category award for its consistent achievements, ranking in the top five compliant agencies and meeting the information management and digital targets set in the Digital Continuity 2020 Policy.
Ms Dinh Diep, Records and Information Administrator at the Australian Building and Construction Commission, was presented with the Individual Information Professional award for showing dedication to advancing information management and empowering others in the organisation to do the same.
Commendations were issued to the Parliamentary Budget Office, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Department of Veteran's Affairs, and the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care.
This year's awards attracted 13 applications from 11 agencies demonstrating their digital maturity. The awards were presented in front of representatives from Australian government agencies at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University.
Mr Fricker chaired the judging panel and was joined by Rosemary Huxtable, Secretary, Department of Finance; Pia Andrews, Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand Government; Gavin Slater, Chief Executive Officer, Digital Transformation Agency; Adrian Turner, Data61 Chief Executive Officer, CSIRO; Dr Stein Helgeby, Deputy Secretary, Department of Finance; and Matt Goonan, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Transformation Agency.


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Welfare, also known as TANF is a program that provides cash assistance to low income and needy families for a temporary time, or if needed for a long time. Welfare assistance will provide individuals with actual money to assist them in paying their bills, mortgage, or other small spending needs. Welfare is funded by the federal government and is run through state offices. In order to get welfare TANF benefits in North Carolina, follow these steps.
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Shadow banks collapsing soon
Shadow Banks Explained In This Criticl Article Worth Reading Twice
It sounds cool. But what does it mean?
Though economists struggle to define shadow banks in laymen terms, or explain why the public should care, it is actually really simple; it's just a disguised bank that dodges banking regulationsby dividing up its business model, and it's a problem because they're unregulated, huge, and if they fail we all fail -again. Through various loopholes, innovative business structures, and corporate partnerships, shadow banks have reinvented what it means to be a bank, and it's paid off.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, described shadow banking as -basically- multiple businesses that, "…collectively, [carried] out traditional banking functions–but do so outside…" of the traditional banking system; by partitioning a single bank into multiple businesses and then working in concert with one another, the shadow banking system can bypass rules and safeguards. And by doing so they've grown bigger than the traditional banking sector; which is the scary part.
Traditional banks have baseline regulations that help them stay within comfortable operating capacity. There are hard minimums of actual money traditional banks are required to have, that is directly related to the amount of loans they have given. They also are required to stay within certain parameters when issuing interest rates. And deposit accounts are insured, to increase public trust and avoid a bank run, and a system-wide fractional reserve default. These might sound complicated, however these are very simple regulations, that have very real benefits; that shadow banks don't have to comply with.
Economists often talk about all of this in very arduous terms, describing shadow banks as "banking intermediaries" that work in a "network" without "capital requirements", "float" and "leverage restrictions." The reality is, it's not as complicated as economists make it seem -or at least it can be explained in a far more accessible way. Shadow banks are generally a financial institutions that has disaggregated its business model. Itemizing every function of the bank as an individual business and placing each individual business under one umbrella corporation. So instead of a single bank, shadow banks are usually mega corporations that house compartmentalized baking entities within them, that collectively do the same thing, except without rules.
With a normal bank, deposits accounts aggregate into pools (with excess becoming capital reserves) and from the pools credit is created. This is classic fractional reserve banking model. Joe deposits $10 into a bank, and the bank loans Sue $100, with interests, but the bank has to make sure it always has 10% of money on hand for all of its loans, in the off-chance that Joe withdraws his $10, the bank usually has that covered by excess reserves or "float." This ability of banks to create large loans out of deposits that are fractional in value is at the heart of their business, it's their "credit creation" function. This ability for banks to create credit is great for economic stimulation, but it's also dangerous, because banks are on the hook for huge loans, with very little to back it up with, this "leverage" is a liability without a sustainable amount of capital.
Shadow banks don't have capital requirements, they can take very little capital and leverage it to infinity. So their balance sheets show massive liabilities. How does this happen? Post-mortgage crisis regulators have become dove-ish on regulating the financial sector, for a variety of reasons. The shadow banking sector acted as a catalysts to the mortgage crash, lending out millions of sub-prime mortgages through lending houses, that weren't deemed "banks." Those mortgages were sold in bundles to investment banks, and hedge funds, which are also not considered "banks."
Shadow banks have been left unregulated in the years following the crash, even though they caused it. Monetary policy and domestic policy have done their best to incentivize Wall Street and Big Banks, because the "capital markets" are seen as a driver of economic growth. As a result of dove-ish regulations shadow banks have exponentially grown, meanwhile normal banks continue to be regulated, which gives a huge advantage to the unregulated shadow banking sector. Meaning there are two parallel sectors of the economy, that functionally do the same thing, they're playing by two different sets of rules; and of the two of them, the one that has some basic limitations on how badly it can blow up in our faces is the one at a huge disadvantage. Which is a problem for obvious reasons.
https://criticl.me/ This website tells us why we face financial disaster this year, on a variety of topics by public intellectuals who cannot find an outlet for their research and insight.


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Believe it or not, each year lottery companies are left with millions of unclaimed prize money. They know a winning ticket has been sold yet no one comes to claim it or there is a winning combination and the winner just doesn't show up to collect his dues.
It happens a lot more than we would care to know and it is just one of those things in life. But how does it happen? There are many possible scenarios. Here is but one of them:
Ticket Forgotten
The player doesn't remember he bought a ticket and it lies there in his wallet or in some drawer. By the time he finds it by a sheer stroke of even more extra luck, he is defeated by the rules and finds out that the time window in which he was able to collect his winnings has closed a couple of months ago.
Most lotteries put a limit on the time they make the funds available to winners and gains have to be collected within the allotted time frames or be forfeited.
How to avoid this?
That is an easy one. Buy your lottery ticket online! If you do win, you will start receiving emails telling you that you won! It goes even further: the money will be credited to your online agency account to your name! Naturally, if you grab the main prize, the agency will not credit your account with 130+ million Euros, but they'll go to great lengths to get in touch with you.
Playing online has many more advantages, the most important one of them being that you will have more security.
- You can't lose your ticket.
- No one can steal your ticket from you.
- Someone will warn you if you won a large amount.
So there we have it, playing the lottery online is a vast improvement from a security point of view by any standard.
How to buy a lottery ticket online
Open your browser and visit thelotter.com where you register.
TheLotter is an official lottery agency and they represent many lottery organizations worldwide. You can buy Euromillions tickets or participate in the draws of official lotteries in countries such as Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Turkey, the US or even South-Africa!
You will see an astonishing array of lotteries from different countries you can choose to participate with. The more you play, the more discount the agency will offer, this way, you will get rewarded for your loyalty and custom by cheaper tickets.
Before I forget, you will get your first ticket free from the online agency when you purchase your first official lottery ticket, so take advantage.


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Little House Tutoring began with a passion for helping students succeed in school. It all started some years ago, when the daughter of one of our founders entered high school and was struggling to reach her potential. While her teachers did the best they could, they simply lacked the resources and experience to truly reach a student whose learning style was different from the norm. Feeling confident in her daughter's capabilities yet frustrated by her lack of success in school, the mother explored other alternatives. A program of targeted, specialized tutoring proved to be the answer.
Reflecting upon this experience with her daughter, the mother recognized the need for support: both for the students who need assistance with their learning and for their parents who so desperately seek that assistance. As a result, she co-founded Little House Tutoring along with her two daughters and her niece. Since opening its doors in 2000, the centre has emerged as one of Vancouver's leading tutoring and educational resource centres, having helped hundreds of students realize their educational potential.
Little House Locations
Meet the Founders
Meet the Tutors
Little House on MacKenzie is conveniently located in a store front location right on the corner of MacKenzie and 33rd. We also are located right in front of a major bus route.
There is plenty of free street parking in front of our centre and on the surrounding residential streets. We are also surrounded by coffee shops and a market for parents who would like to relax during there child's tutoring sessions or get some grocery shopping done. Balaclava park is also just a couple blocks away.
Jennifer McPherson - Co-Founder
From an early age, Jennifer has had a passion for working with children. After a dynamic career of owning her own restaurant and clothing store, and the most Important work of all, raising her family, Jennifer began to devote her ambitions and energy to education.
Diagnosed with dyslexia as an adult, Jennifer was aware early on that her oldest daughter Carrie was experiencing the same learning difficulties that she too had experienced as a child. Seeking out help for Carrie, Jennifer discovered the Orton Gillingham program. Soon, Jennifer became an Orton Gillingham Tutor and was working at Fraser Academy, where Carrie attended school.
Jennifer emerged from this experience to create Little House Tutoring with her daughters and her niece. Today she is the driving force behind a dedicated group of tutors and an ever growing army of students.
Carrie Paleologos - Partner & Co-Founder
Carrie has an innate understanding of her student's troubles, as she herself has struggled with dyslexia. Carrie attended Fraser Academy, a school devoted to helping children with learning differences and dyslexia.
After graduation, she trained and was certified as an Orton Gillingham Tutor. Along with her partners, Carrie has created and developed the "Little House Multi-sensory Program." This highly successful program was developed through more than a decade of experience working with children with learning difficulties.
In addition to Orton Gillingham, Carrie has training in several other multi-sensory programs. Carrie is Head of Little Learners, a Orton Gillingham based pre-school literacy program from 3-5 year olds.
Breanne McPherson - Partner & Co-Founder
Breanne McPherson is the co-founder of Little House Tutoring and Head of the Little House MacKenzie Street location. Born and raised in Vancouver BC, she has been tutoring kids of all ages for nearly two decades!
Breanne believes that every child deserves hope that their learning challenges will not define their achievements in life. She is proud to spearhead a business that makes a measurable difference in so many children's lives.
As both her mother and her sister have dyslexia, Breanne has always been in touch with the different ways that people learn. Although she witnessed her sister struggle in the conventional school system, she was thrilled to watch Carrie thrive after moving to Fraser Academy, which follows the Orton Gillingham approach.
In her own experiences with learning, there were always special teachers who made a positive impact on her, and some others who did not. She saw the difference a positive mentor could make in a kid's life and was inspired to become a peer tutor. Breanne also tutored a young girl with dyslexia every Saturday and was able to eventually teach her how to read. This was a pivotal moment for Breanne and she knew this was what she would do with her life.
At eighteen years of age, Breanne and her cousin Tess became the youngest people to ever take the Orton Gillingham course and become certified instructors. Little House Tutoring was born, and they set up shop in their parent's barn. Along with her partners, Breanne has created and developed the "Little House Multi-sensory Program," a highly successful program for addressing learning disabilities. Before they knew it, Little House had exceeded maximum capacity in the barn, and it was time to move to another location, the current home of Little House in Dunbar.
Breanne dreams of growing Little House Tutoring to reach many more kids in need, and to help them to succeed.
Tennessee Briand - Partner & Co-Founder
A passionate educator, Tennessee has worked with children for most of her adult life. In addition to her work with Little House, she has worked with Fraser Academy, Silbury School for Gifted Learners, as well as the Learning Disabilities Association in Surrey.
Tenessee believes that learning should be fun, and that Little House should be a place of warmth and comfort for all students. She wants every student to have a positive memory of his or her educational journey and each to feel special and important at Little House. She considers her day a success when she sees a child make a complete turnaround from being terrified of the challenges that another day could bring, to being excited about tomorrow and its possibilities.
One of Tenessee's strengths is in communicating with kids who have learning challenges and behavioural struggles--often a two way street. The behavioural struggles are a symptom of the extreme frustration the child is feeling toward learning. Tess encourages early intervention, and has a true gift for working through these troubles with her students. She works closely with the parents to help them understand what their children are going through.
For seven years Tennessee has worked alongside the Learning Disabilities Association, as well as The Unique Minds Foundation, facilitating tutoring for children who have been identified as "at risk" or low income. These children have been provided with a consistent and supportive learning environment, which targets their individual needs in a positive and nurturing atmosphere. Her work there has been acknowledged with an award for outstanding achievement.
Sarah Knowlden
Orton Gillingham Tutor
Sarah was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. Ever since she can remember she's always loved working with children.
By the age of 11 she knew she wanted to do something that involved teaching. At the age of 18 she started volunteering at Little House, and loved it! She then knew she wanted to further her education, so she could strengthen her role in the Little House team.
A year later, she completed the Orton Gillingham course at Fraser Academy. Now, 7 years later, she is one of the senior Orton Gillingham tutors at Little House. She is currently working towards her Early Childhood Education (ECE) degree.
Sarah says, "I love every minute of it!"
Camilla Pollock - Orton Gillingham Tutor & Certified Teacher
Camilla has a Bachelor of Education and a TESL Diploma from UBC. She is also a certified Orton Gillingham tutor.
Camilla has been teaching and working with children for 30 years. She spent 6 years overseas teaching ESL in Chile and Japan. One of her favorite experiences was teaching phonics in Japanese kindergartens.
In her spare time she enjoys gardening, scrap booking, reading and traveling with her family.
Preenan Peony - Math Tutor
Preenan has loved working with children since she was a teenager. She is currently completing her Masters in Educational Studies (under the faculty of Education) at UBC and has enjoyed being a part of the Little House team since 2015.
Preenan always had a natural inclination to teach, guide and academically support those younger than her. As a child, she has enjoyed helping out her cousins and friends with their homework and volunteered as a tutor in high school to help her juniors and peers with subjects they were struggling in. It is here where she started to discover how every individual had their particular needs and particular ways of learning the same subject material.
As she moved through university, she began to develop a deeper understanding of how individuals can reach their full potential if they are taught using methods that work best for them. Being a visual and tactile learner herself, she excelled in her courses by organizing information in tables and graphs and taking good notes to encode course material. Once again, she volunteered as a tutor during her 3rd and 4th year in university to help 1st and 2nd year students with their courses.
Preenan's interest in learning conditions and strategies lead her to pursue a Master's in Educational Studies at UBC. This has exposed her to an immense body of research along the lines of academic literacy and academic discourse socialization -that is, research that uncovers how children and young adults are socialized into academic ways of reading, writing, and speaking. She became particularly interested in the conditions under which the academic socialization process is rapid and successful and is currently conducting research on how nonnative speakers of English undergo academic socialization, what difficulties they encounter in the process, how they tackle the difficulties and the conditions under which the socialization process is most successful.
Preenan has continued to chase her passion for teaching and mentoring during her time at UBC. She has been appointed as a teaching assistant for several first and second year undergraduate courses at UBC in the first and second year of her masters program. Since 2015, she has also joined Little House as a tutor and has been working with kids between the ages of 4 and 16. She relishes in being able to teach the younger children to read and write, and the older ones to critically think about and approach problems in math, science and language arts in an optimal learning environment, tailor-made to fit her students' academic needs.
Teresa Jones
Orton Gillingham Tutor
Teresa has been teaching children and teenagers in individualized, multi-sensory teaching programs for over ten years, and she has enjoyed being part of the Little House team since 2011.
When she was 13 years old, Teresa became interested in working with children while spending her summers volunteering at summer camps for children with developmental disabilities.
Years later, as a parent navigating the school system with her two children, Teresa began to realize the importance of identifying and meeting the individual needs of each student and of tailoring the material to the child's learning styles and differences.
Through her own children and her students, Teresa has had first-hand experience with how children can potentially slip through the cracks of the educational system, whether public or private. She has also seen children who are disillusioned and refusing to go to school at age 6, become happy, successful members of the classroom after one-to-one teaching intervention.
Teresa is a certified Orton Gillingham Multi-Sensory tutor. She completed her practicum requirement through the Learning Disabilities Association of Vancouver. She has a degree in Communication Arts and is currently working on a second degree in Creative Writing, which, besides teaching, is her passion.
From teaching students as young as 3 or 4 to read, to teaching students with learning and temperament differences, to teaching high school students Liberal Arts, Calculus, and Sciences, Teresa enjoys the variety of students she has the opportunity to work with.
Dana Metcalfe
Schedulling & Management
Dana manages scheduling and reception at Little House. She keeps Little House running smoothly and will be able to answer any questions or concerns you may have.
Patricia McLean - Tutor
Patricia McLean's work with children over the past 30 years has encompassed everything from educator to entertainer and she is always finding new ways to encourage young minds. She has a degree in English from UBC as well as a Master's degree in Creative Writing with a thesis in children's literature.
Her greatest joy is introducing students to the magic of reading and helping them develop all their learning skills through a love of the written word. Patricia is the published author of two children's books, Keala Up a Tree and Keala and the Hawaiian Bird, and has spent time in schools, bookstores and libraries assisting with literacy and language programs.
A long-time resident of the Dunbar area where she raised her daughter, Patricia is excited to be a new part of the Little House team.
Emily Murphy - French Tutor
Emily grew up in Squamish, BC where she began tutoring in her teens. She has been studying French since she was 5 years old through BC's French Immersion program and eventually continued her secondary school studies in Besançon, France through a student exchange program, OSEF.
She is now living in Vancouver and completing a Bachelor of Arts with a major in French Education and a double minor in learning and developmental disabilities and sociology at Simon Fraser University. She has completed her Early Childhood Education Assistant certificate from Vancouver Community College.
She loves the challenge of finding the perfect methods and techniques for every individual that she works with and knows the importance of having a comfortable learning environment. Emily values making sincere connections with each of her students and providing continued support and encouragement to reach their full potential.
In her free time, she loves to travel, knit, solve puzzles, read and spend time with family and friends.


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A.C. Clark produced two important works on NT TC, the first being The Primitive Text of the Gospels and Acts (Oxford, 1914), and the second, his Critical Text of Acts (1933). Although his continued investigation resulted in modifications and additional details, his basic position remained committed.
Here are some exerpts from the first book (Primitive Text..):
...Whenever the readings of two MSS ...are compared, ...one of them does not contain passages which occur in the other. In all such cases there are two possible explanations, viz., that the words are spurious, ...inserted by an interpolater..., or that they are genuine, and have been accidentally omitted by the other [copy]. The hypothesis of accident [omission] is highly probable, when there is a reason which will account for the omission.One such reason is universally recognized, viz., homoeoteleuton. [h.t.] When a similar ending, or word occurs twice in the same sentence, a copyist [could have] easily passed from the first passage to the second, omitting the intermediate words. This saut du meme au meme ["jump from meme to meme"] is the most prolific cause of omissions.There is another reason which is not infrequently suggested by editors, viz., that the scribe has accidentally omitted a line, or several lines, of his model. When we have two MSS, one which is known to be a transcript of the other, we find actual instances of such omissions. In the vast majority of cases however, we have only the copy, not the [exemplar]. Since all scribes [copyists] are subject to the same errors, it is reasonable to suppose that omissions in a particular MS may represent a line or number of lines [skipped] in an ancestor... the problem is to find an objective criterion..to detect line-omissions....[groups of] short passages...doubted on the ground of their omission by a MS or family, frequently contain the same, or nearly the same number of letters. Longer passages in the same way [are] multiples of this unit. The natural inference is that the unit [and longer omissions] correspond to [physical] lines in [the layout of] an ancestor.Ancient Uncial MSS are written with few abbreviations and no space between words [with] the number of letters per line ...a more or less constant [average] quantity.It was also easy for a copyist to omit other divisions in his [exemplar], viz., a colum, page, or folio [folded sheet]. Since it is usual for MSS to have the same # of lines per page, it follows that the contents of columns, pages, & folios are similar [in size]....The chief result of my investigation has been to show the falsity of the principle brevior lectio potior ("prefer the shorter reading"). This was laid down by Griesbach as a canon of criticism in the words:"Brevior lectio, nisi testium vetustorum et gravium auctoritate penitus destituatur, praeferenda est verbosiori. Librari enim multo proniores ad addendum fuerunt quam ad omittendum.""The Shorter reading, unless the authority of the witnesses completely lacks a weight and age, is preferable to the verbose. Copyists were much more prone to add than to omit."
[But] this statement has no foundation in facts. I may also observe that it is not so easy to invent as it is to omit.
I had been brought up to look on the Revised Text as final, to smile at persons who maintained the authenticity of St. Mark 16:9-20 or St. John 7:53-8:11, and to suppose that the 'vagaries' of the 'Western text' were due to wholesale interpolation. The object which I had in view was merely to study the mutual relations of the oldest Greek Uncials, notably, the Vaticanus (B), Sinaiticus (Aleph), and Alexandrinus (A). I was however, soon dislodged from this arrogant attitude, and irresistibly driven to very different conclusions.
Nowhere is the falsity of the maxim 'Prefer the shorter reading' more evident than in the New Testament. The process [over time in copying] has been one of contraction, not expansion. The primitive text is the longest, not the shortest."
(- Clark, 1914, Preface, iii-vii)


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Video: Copa Libertadores
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May 15, 2009; 9:56 AM ET
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Is this the first or second leg?
Posted by: Juan-John | May 15, 2009 10:15 AM | Report abuse
Okay, so this seems to be the exception to the rule, but, why do so many south american fields seem to be in such rough shape? Is it altitude? Weather? I watched the Paulista championship at Corinthians, and even that had more bald spots than a George Costanza look-alike convention.
Posted by: JacobfromAtlanta-ish | May 15, 2009 10:19 AM | Report abuse
why do so many south american fields seem to be in such rough shape?
I noticed the same thing watching a CONMEBOL U-17 match. I think a lot of it has to do with the time of year - it's late fall in S. America, the fields are worn down and the grass is starting to go dormant. Plus, ITTET, I'd imagine a lot of clubs don't want to re-lay the whole pitch, just patch where they have to.
Posted by: schmuckatelli | May 15, 2009 10:24 AM | Report abuse
Must be all the aerial herbicide spraying they do down there.
Posted by: Godfather_of_Goals | May 15, 2009 10:49 AM | Report abuse
wow...pretty bad goalkeeping on that last goal
Posted by: bigbadbri | May 15, 2009 5:20 PM | Report abuse
Juan-John wrote:
Is this the first or second leg?
The first leg. Complete Copa Libertadores standings can be found at:
Posted by: reedd1 | May 15, 2009 5:23 PM | Report abuse
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How You May Get USA Green Card in 2018, To LIVE, WORK, STUDY, DO BUSINESS IN USA?
There are several different ways to get a green card but one of the first things that everyone has to do is make an application. There are several ways to make this application but they all must go through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
One of the best ways to make an application is through the Green Card Lottery if you know that you will be immigrating to the United States within the next three years. The reason this is so is that the Green Card Lottery usually is applied for about two years out.
A green card allows an individual to either work in the United States or become a permanent citizen. The Green Card Lottery automatically allows an individual to have permanent resident status. Once they receive this status it will take another five years to become a U.S. citizen in most cases.
This reason is one of the ways that people have found when they are seeking how to get a green card because the process takes less time. The names in the lottery are picked randomly by computer and once everything is in order the individual is able to come to the United States easily. There are 50,000 people who are chosen each year.
How To Get a Green Card Outside of the Lottery
An individual may have an employer that is able to sponsor them and bring them to the United States permanently. This would require the individual to have a skill that could be used in the U.S. and they may have to retrain in some areas. As an example, a doctor might be able to come to the U.S. but they would not be able to be a doctor immediately in the U.S. until they had other training.
An individual can also get a green card if they have a family member living in the United States. As an example, if you are the spouse of someone already living in the U.S. who is a citizen, they can help you immigrate to the United States if they also sign an Affidavit of Support saying that they can support you at 125% above the poverty line.
If you are already in the U.S. and visiting a family member when you decide that you want to immigrate instead, how to get a green card is also a lengthy process. You can make the application to immigrate with form I-485. You will process the information and give you a visa number. Once you have that number you apply again using the same form, and ask them to Adjust Status to a permanent resident.
When you have a family member who is willing to sponsor you this is the fastest way of how to get a green card if you are within the preferences that they have listed. Generally speaking, if you are a part of a family unit they will allow you to get a green card.
There are many documents that you will have to submit with the first application. Some of these documents include:
Biographic Data Sheet Form G-325A
Medical Examination Sheet Form I-693
2 colored photos that are taken within 30 days
Affidavit of Support (to be filled out by your sponsor) Form I-864
The Department of State implemented the electronic registration system beginning with DV-2005 in order to make the DV process more efficient and secure. The Department utilizes special technology and other means to identify those who commit fraud for the purposes of illegal immigration or those who submit multiple entries.
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