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Basel II is the second of the Basel Accords, (now extended and effectively superseded[clarification needed] by Basel III), which are recommendations on banking laws and regulations issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
Basel II, initially published in June 2004, was intended to create an international standard for banking regulators to control how much capital banks need to put aside to guard against the types of financial and operational risks banks (and the whole economy) face. One focus was to maintain sufficient consistency of regulations so that this does not become a source of competitive inequality amongst internationally active banks. Advocates of Basel II believed that such an international standard could help protect the international financial system from the types of problems that might arise should a major bank or a series of banks collapse. In theory, Basel II attempted to accomplish this by setting up risk and capital management requirements designed to ensure that a bank has adequate capital for the risk the bank exposes itself to through its lending and investment practices. Generally speaking, these rules mean that the greater risk to which the bank is exposed, the greater the amount of capital the bank needs to hold to safeguard its solvency and overall economic stability.
Politically, it was difficult to implement Basel II in the regulatory environment prior to 2008, and progress was generally slow until that year's major banking crisis caused mostly by credit default swaps, mortgage-backed security markets and similar derivatives. As Basel III was negotiated, this was top of mind, and accordingly much more stringent standards were contemplated, and quickly adopted in some key countries including the USA.
The final version aims at:
While the final accord has at large addressed the regulatory arbitrage issue, there are still areas where regulatory capital requirements will diverge from the economic capital.
Basel II uses a "three pillars" concept – (1) minimum capital requirements (addressing risk), (2) supervisory review and (3) market discipline.
The Basel I accord dealt with only parts of each of these pillars. For example: with respect to the first Basel II pillar, only one risk, credit risk, was dealt with in a simple manner while market risk was an afterthought; operational risk was not dealt with at all.
The first pillar deals with maintenance of regulatory capital calculated for three major components of risk that a bank faces: credit risk, operational risk, and market risk. Other risks are not considered fully quantifiable at this stage.
The credit risk component can be calculated in three different ways of varying degree of sophistication, namely standardized approach, Foundation IRB, Advanced IRB and General IB2 Restriction. IRB stands for "Internal Rating-Based Approach".
For operational risk, there are three different approaches – basic indicator approach or BIA, standardized approach or TSA, and the internal measurement approach (an advanced form of which is the advanced measurement approach or AMA).
For market risk the preferred approach is VaR (value at risk).
As the Basel II recommendations are phased in by the banking industry it will move from standardised requirements to more refined and specific requirements that have been developed for each risk category by each individual bank. The upside for banks that do develop their own be spoke risk measurement systems is that they will be rewarded with potentially lower risk capital requirements. In the future there will be closer links between the concepts of economic and regulatory capital.
This is a regulatory response to the first pillar, giving regulators better 'tools' over those previously available. It also provides a framework for dealing with systemic risk, pension risk, concentration risk, strategic risk, reputational risk, liquidity risk and legal risk, which the accord combines under the title of residual risk. Banks can review their risk management system.
It is the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP) that is the result of Pillar II of Basel II accords.
This pillar aims to complement the minimum capital requirements and supervisory review process by developing a set of disclosure requirements which will allow the market participants to gauge the capital adequacy of an institution.
Market discipline supplements regulation as sharing of information facilitates assessment of the bank by others, including investors, analysts, customers, other banks, and rating agencies, which leads to good corporate governance. The aim of Pillar 3 is to allow market discipline to operate by requiring institutions to disclose details on the scope of application, capital, risk exposures, risk assessment processes, and the capital adequacy of the institution. It must be consistent with how the senior management, including the board, assess and manage the risks of the institution.
When market participants have a sufficient understanding of a bank's activities and the controls it has in place to manage its exposures, they are better able to distinguish between banking organizations so that they can reward those that manage their risks prudently and penalize those that do not.
These disclosures are required to be made at least twice a year, except qualitative disclosures providing a summary of the general risk management objectives and policies which can be made annually. Institutions are also required to create a formal policy on what will be disclosed and controls around them along with the validation and frequency of these disclosures. In general, the disclosures under Pillar 3 apply to the top consolidated level of the banking group to which the Basel II framework applies.
On September 30, 2005, the four US Federal banking agencies (the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of Thrift Supervision) announced their revised plans for the U.S. implementation of the Basel II accord. This delays implementation of the accord for US banks by 12 months.[1]
On November 15, 2005, the committee released a revised version of the Accord, incorporating changes to the calculations for market risk and the treatment of double default effects. These changes had been flagged well in advance, as part of a paper released in July 2005.[2]
On July 4, 2006, the committee released a comprehensive version of the Accord, incorporating the June 2004 Basel II Framework, the elements of the 1988 Accord that were not revised during the Basel II process, the 1996 Amendment to the Capital Accord to Incorporate Market Risks, and the November 2005 paper on Basel II: International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: A Revised Framework. No new elements have been introduced in this compilation. This version is now the current version.[3]
On November 1, 2007, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (U.S. Department of the Treasury) approved a final rule implementing the advanced approaches of the Basel II Capital Accord. This rule establishes regulatory and supervisory expectations for credit risk, through the Internal Ratings Based Approach (IRB), and operational risk, through the Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA), and articulates enhanced standards for the supervisory review of capital adequacy and public disclosures for the largest U.S. banks.[4]
On July 16, 2008 the federal banking and thrift agencies (the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Office of Thrift Supervision) issued a final guidance outlining the supervisory review process for the banking institutions that are implementing the new advanced capital adequacy framework (known as Basel II). The final guidance, relating to the supervisory review, is aimed at helping banking institutions meet certain qualification requirements in the advanced approaches rule, which took effect on April 1, 2008.[5]
For public consultation, a series of proposals to enhance the Basel II framework was announced by the Basel Committee. It releases a consultative package that includes: the revisions to the Basel II market risk framework; the guidelines for computing capital for incremental risk in the trading book; and the proposed enhancements to the Basel II framework.[6]
A final package of measures to enhance the three pillars of the Basel II framework and to strengthen the 1996 rules governing trading book capital was issued by the newly expanded Basel Committee. These measures include the enhancements to the Basel II framework, the revisions to the Basel II market-risk framework and the guidelines for computing capital for incremental risk in the trading book.[7]
One of the most difficult aspects of implementing an international agreement is the need to accommodate differing cultures, varying structural models, complexities of public policy, and existing regulation. Banks' senior management will determine corporate strategy, as well as the country in which to base a particular type of business, based in part on how Basel II is ultimately interpreted by various countries' legislatures and regulators.[citation needed]
To assist banks operating with multiple reporting requirements for different regulators according to geographic location, there are several software applications available. These include capital calculation engines and extend to automated reporting solutions which include the reports required under COREP/FINREP.
For example, U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Sheila Bair explained in June 2007 the purpose of capital adequacy requirements for banks, such as the accord:
Regulators in most jurisdictions around the world plan to implement the new accord, but with widely varying timelines and use of the varying methodologies being restricted. The United States' various regulators have agreed on a final approach.[9] They have required the Internal Ratings-Based approach for the largest banks, and the standardized approach will be available for smaller banks.[10]
In India, Reserve Bank of India has implemented the Basel II standardized norms on 31 March 2009 and is moving to internal ratings in credit and AMA(Advanced Measurement Approach) norms for operational risks in banks.
Existing RBI norms for banks in India (as of September 2010): Common equity (incl of buffer): 3.6%(Buffer Basel 2 requirement requirements are zero.); Tier 1 requirement: 6%. Total Capital : 9% of risk weighted assets.
According to the draft guidelines published by RBI the capital ratios are set to become: Common Equity as 5% + 2.5% (Capital Conservation Buffer) + 0–2.5% (Counter Cyclical Buffer), 7% of Tier 1 capital and minimum capital adequacy ratio (excluding Capital Conservation Buffer) of 9% of Risk Weighted Assets. Thus the actual capital requirement is between 11 and 13.5% (including Capital Conservation Buffer and Counter Cyclical Buffer).[11]
In response to a questionnaire released by the Financial Stability Institute (FSI), 95 national regulators indicated they were to implement Basel II, in some form or another, by 2015.[12]
The European Union has already implemented the Accord via the EU Capital Requirements Directives and many European banks already report their capital adequacy ratios according to the new system. All the credit institutions adopted it by 2008-09.
Australia, through its Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, implemented the Basel II Framework on the 1st of January 2008.[13]
The role of Basel II, both before and after the global financial crisis, has been discussed widely. While some argue that the crisis demonstrated weaknesses in the framework,[14] others have criticized it for actually increasing the effect of the crisis.[15] In response to the financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published revised global standards, popularly known as Basel III.[16] The Committee claimed that the new standards would lead to a better quality of capital, increased coverage of risk for capital market activities and better liquidity standards among other benefits.
Nout Wellink, former Chairman of the BCBS, wrote an article in September 2009 outlining some of the strategic responses which the Committee should take as response to the crisis.[17] He proposed a stronger regulatory framework which comprises five key components: (a) better quality of regulatory capital, (b) better liquidity management and supervision, (c) better risk management and supervision including enhanced Pillar 2 guidelines, (d) enhanced Pillar 3 disclosures related to securitization, off-balance sheet exposures and trading activities which would promote transparency, and (e) cross-border supervisory cooperation. Given one of the major factors which drove the crisis was the evaporation of liquidity in the financial markets,[18] the BCBS also published principles for better liquidity management and supervision in September 2008.[19]
A recent OECD study[20] suggest that bank regulation based on the Basel accords encourage unconventional business practices and contributed to or even reinforced adverse systemic shocks that materialised during the financial crisis. According to the study, capital regulation based on risk-weighted assets encourages innovation designed to circumvent regulatory requirements and shifts banks' focus away from their core economic functions. Tighter capital requirements based on risk-weighted assets, introduced in the Basel III, may further contribute to these skewed incentives. New liquidity regulation, notwithstanding its good intentions, is another likely candidate to increase bank incentives to exploit regulation.
Think-tanks such as the World Pensions Council (WPC) have also argued that European legislators have pushed dogmatically and naively for the adoption of the Basel II recommendations, adopted in 2005, transposed in European Union law through the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), effective since 2008. In essence, they forced private banks, central banks, and bank regulators to rely more on assessments of credit risk by private rating agencies. Thus, part of the regulatory authority was abdicated in favor of private rating agencies.[21]
Long before the implementation of Basel II George W. Stroke and Martin H. Wiggers pointed out, that a global financial and economic crisis will come, because of its systemic dependencies on a few rating agencies.[22] After the breakout of the crisis Alan Greenspan agreed to this opinion in 2007.[23] At least the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report confirmed this point of view in 2011.[24][25]


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Hey there, i got some stuff i wanted to ask you after reading this. I didn't read through previous comments as this thread is HUGE. As a EUW player, where Ranged AD/Support/AP setup is very common in high elo, I was wondering why you have some ranged AD in an incredibly low tier 3. I'm guessing it's just not used very often in NA 3v3? I myself am currently 'only' at 1752, our 3rd player took a month break so we are currently stalled on this elo. A setup such as Alistar/Corki/Morgana is an insanely powerful one. Both lanes are nigh impossible to gank, especially since Alistar will provide ward coverage. Corki can farm freely because Alistar will deflect any ganks with his CC and corki's damage. And you can just push out the lane and go take all the jungle together if denying/killing the enemy solo is not an option. Ofcourse your support does need to pick up smite (or play nunu). Only a handful of AD is viable though; Corki, Ezreal, Vayne, Graves. Same for supports, only the high CC or aggressive supports are viable. The AP pick is unimportant as long as it is fairly safe from ganks and has some utility to offer Some other champions that i found highly misplaced were Anivia, Taric, Alistar and Leona. Anivia is an exceptional 3v3 AP because of the very narrow corridors in which most fights occur. Especially against a more melee orientated setup her wall can win the game easily. I wouldn't say Godtier but bottom tier 1 or tier 2 is definitly deserved. Her biggest weakness is imba early game setups that focus purely on ganking. If you can get past lv 6 however you will become very hard to gank and your zoning capabilities and damage lategame are especially strong in dragon control. She actually functions in a very similar way to Zyra, she has similar zoning control. Admittedly, you have to build around her a bit more than you have to with a flexible champion such as Gragas or Morg. She doesn't fare well at all in a Ranged AD setup, she's better with 2 bruisers protecting her. If you adapt your mana-usage you can easily manage a whole game with just RoA, though upgraded chalice is a nice later addition. As for the supports i just mentioned, i guess i already explained why i think they are misplaced. Do note that these are not always full-support. My team usually lets them take some farm too and they can easily go clear some jungle with smite alone if your AD is fairly safe. Especially Nunu with smite can basically go jungle, only supporting when there are no buffs to secure or when AD is struggling. Because of this you will both keep up in levels with the solo while all lane-farm goes to AD and supports gets some free cash too. I hope you can give me a detailed reply back. I will ofcourse keep playing my own style regardless of your opinion but i am truly interested in what you have to say about it. Agree with pretty much 95% of this tierlist though so sorry if I sound a bit whiny =p Good addition to the LoL Community *thumbs up*
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I will help my friend a bit, I hope. He's just the botlane. No clue about toplane! :P The thing that happens alot EUW is 2 top - usually ad carry + support or hard scaling bruiser + support. The support takes smite for dragon and buffs. Against the jungle thing, they usually push the lane really hard, so that the top laner cant really move away while they invade the jungle - either taking jungle creeps to cripple the jungler or catching the jungler himself. Toplaner cant really help (mana, health, losing alot exp, or still low level because he got zoned) Both botlaner should be same skill , so bot cant help either. Usually you can find a ward at wraiths/wolves buff, since jungler are very very vulnerable at that position. This leads into this situation - Either the jungler can make a play and snowball from it or he gets completly denied. (level 5 jungler while everyone level 8-10, really horrible :/) He cant move to ''your'' side of the jungle to gain exp there because of the top ward and you might even steal some of the creeps from his side, leading to a weak jungler. Lategame the AD comp is usually inferior, just because AD carrys counters bruisers so hard. So yeah...we saw it going both ways and usually jungler need to make plays to win. And I hope I made everything clearer...and not more confusing!
well i hope people are slowly realizing that dedicated jungling is outdated and really not that great. barely any champions can pull it off and if the person jungling is not exceptional at it, it can cost you games. the EU scene is a step ahead of us imo when it comes to having the support take smite but i think that right now 2 bruisers + AP support is pretty broken. you can do 1 AD carry + 1 bruiser + 1 support too, but it suffers the same viability issue that junglers have. i can only name 3 good AD carries in 3v3 right now.

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First elected in 2010, I have a track record of sponsoring legislation that solves 'real-life' problems, making me one of the most effective legislators at the Capitol. As your state legislator, I have worked to streamline government, improve the economy, encourage job creation, reform education and balance the state budget through responsible spending measures.
After graduating from Arizona State University with a degree in communication, I completed a master's degree in educational technology and have since received my doctorate degree in education leadership from Northern Arizona University.
Currently, I am a clinical associate professor. During my time at ASU, I helped organize the Office of Innovation and Partnerships in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, which created the education-entrepreneurship program and education reform initiatives. I was also a seventh grade teacher in the Paradise Valley Unified School district where I taught middle school English and social studies. Before teaching, I worked for several local companies like KOOL-FM, the Phoenix Suns, and Wallace Laboratories. Having worked for both small businesses and corporate employers, I understand the important role that companies of all sizes play in our economy. I hope to continue to serve as your state representative to help put Arizona on the "fast-track" to economic prosperity for the twenty-first century.
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Strasburg State Bank announced that the bank is making a $15,000 gift to the Linton Hospital Foundation Capital Campaign. Long Lake NW Refuge Complex celebrates 100th birthday of national refuge system. Mark and Irene Ahrens Fisher of Big Lake, Minn., buy Hot Spot Pizza from Kenny and Doris Jochim.
The Strasburg Farmers Elevator will be under new management as of April 1 when present manager Jim Ryckman will be replaced by veteran elevator manager Myron Flemmer. The First Annual John Deere Days and Grand Opening March 1 of Linton's newest farm machinery dealer, Sayler Implement, was held.
Linton City Council hears proposals for new fire, police alarm system. Robert Starr, Linton, ends affiliation with the Red Owl grocery system he managed since 1957. Warm weather starts Spring & Beaver Creek flowing this week.
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CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. -- By partnering with the fire departments in Elgin and Franklin Park, the Carpentersville Fire Department saved nearly $9,000 on new heart defibrillators that come with EKG monitors.
Besides giving an electric shock to the heart, these machines give the paramedics a "birds-eye view of what the heart is doing," Carpentersville Fire Chief John Schuldt said.
That will help paramedics notify doctors more quickly about a patient's heart before the patient even reaches the hospital.
"We can send it to the hospital, and the doctor can see exactly what the patient is doing," Schuldt said. "What the hospital uses in the hospital and the emergency room and the operating room, we are now bringing out to the field."
Carpentersville bought three of the machines at a total cost of $72,440.95, and they are scheduled to arrive in about a month, Schuldt said.
The cost savings was the result of a volume discount — thanks to the partnership with Elgin and Franklin Park.
Elgin ordered five of the same machines and two already are in service, Elgin Fire Chief John Fahy said.
They give a clearer image of heart activity, electronic reads of possible heart problems — the old ones were read manually — and detail the blood pressure and oxygen saturation levels.
The machines also let paramedics create electronic reports, Fahy said, whereas with the older machines they had to write their reports, Fahy said.
The machines also help paramedics quickly identify the problem and begin treatment on the scene before taking a patient to the hospital, Fahy said.
"We're in the business of delivering medical service to your house; a lot of times people think we're in the business of transporting you to the hospital," Fahy said.
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Carpentersville's machines will replace three others that are 10 years old and inside three ambulances.
Like Elgin has already done, Carpentersville officials will move the ones in the ambulances to three fire engines, turning them into "advanced life support engines," Schuldt said.
So if an ambulance was tied up and a fire engine responded to a call instead, the machines would give the engines same sort of lifesaving capabilities as the ambulances.
"It's just a tool in the paramedics' toolbox," Schuldt said.
The partnership with Carpentersville is the latest example of Elgin reaching out to its neighbors.
Elgin is also taking over dispatching services with South Elgin and its fire department is taking calls in unincorporated Kane County that East Dundee had been handling for years.
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5 WOW!!!jackthereverand | 16/10/2011 | See all jackthereverand's reviews (5)Recently purchased this for my 4 year old nephew, i am really pleased at how good this game really is. the playability is fantastic and the characters are really cool for kids. There are so many characters to get, it comes with 3 to start. you can purchase and amazing amount of other characters which are cheap which should make great birthday or christmas gifts.
5 skylandergoodnews | 24/10/2011 | See all goodnews's reviews (1)game very good but haveing trouble finding all the pieces .
5 FantasticJakkinu | 05/06/2012 | See all Jakkinu's reviews (1)This game is great I bought it for my 12 year old and I ended up playing with him all the time as it is adictive. The only thing I would change is that the portal would not be with batteries as they get drained very fast. Apart from that I reccomend it to everyone.
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Posted on 07 / 21 / 2014I am obsessed with any kind of treat, so finding somewhere the fully explores vegan ice cream including toppings/sauces etc definitely had to be done!
Before I start it's just worth mentioning that as a vegan and eco-warrior, I was seriously disappointed to be served my ice cream in a take-away bowl with a take-away spoon. How utterly unnecessary and disappointing. This is why they only get 2 cows from me, as our footprint is so damn important!
We were UK tourists so did not have a car- it is possible to reach by bus (it literally stops across the street, although i'm sorry I can't remember the number!) so if you allocate time, you can visit this place!
I picked something from the menu, and I did enjoy it! It was a bit...too indulgent (!) which is a lot for me to say that.
I think it's because since going vegan, I haven't binged on something so over the top sickly and sweet, you know??
Buy anyway, the ice cream itself was nice and I giggled like a kid about buying it, so that's what counts!
Oh and the juiceland place in the same room offers not only juices, but noodle/salad/ health boxes so you can technically go here for lunch and ice cream!
Updated from previous review on Monday July 21, 2014
Cons: using disaposable stuff- not cool!, out the main city


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You can take a look around the bakery site to see everything that WebMatrix has given you. In other articles on this site you'll explore how to customize the site. For now, let's add our AddThis button.
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You can configure your AddThis button right on the AddThis homepage. You can choose the AddThis display setting and if you want your button to use analytics. To get your button, click the "get your button" button.
If you haven't signed in yet, you will be prompted to sign in or create an AddThis account (if you do not already have one).
Once logged in you will be directed to a webpage with the code for your AddThis button.
Copy your AddThis button code. Yours should be similar to this:

  < script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username="></script>
Now let's add our AddThis button to your Bakery website.
Head back to WebMatrix. Open your Default.cshtml page. You may notice that this page does not contain all the code to make a valid HTML webpage (there is not , , or  tags). This is because the Bakery template uses a SiteLayout file to render the page. Your Default.cshtml file only contains the code the will be placed within the  tags. Using a SiteLayout file gives your site a consistent look and feel.
Let's add our AddThis button to our page. Directly under the
 tag with our site's header, add your AddThis button code we got from the AddThis website.
Run your Default page by clicking the run button on the menu ribbon. You should see your AddThis button under the page's heading.
Adding our AddThis button was that simple and quick! In addition to this add this button, we can also customize our button using the AddThis API. Below the box where we got our AddThis button code is a link to the API page.
You can click on this link or go here.
AddThis has numerous different ways to customize the AddThis button. You can simply customize what share options are displayed by adding some simple HTML code or you can write JavaScript to render the button. Whichever you choose, the AddThis website offers a great resource on customizing the AddThis button so you can display it on your webpage however you want.
Instead of showing numerous icons showing your users how they can share this page, you can add the "compact" button which shows up as a simple, plus sign icon. When users mouse over the icon, a little tool box will pop up with all the share options they have.
The compact button can be added with a few lines of code. Firstly, remove the AddThis button code that was generated for you from your Bakery website.
Now we need to add our button code. Add this code anywhere to your Default.cshtml page:
<div class="addthis_toolbox" addthis:url="<your site's url">

Now we need to add the JavaScript code that will make our button work. Part of this JavaScript code is part of the code that the AddThis site generated for you. Add this to your Default.cshtml:

Let's run our file to see how our compact button looks. Since I've added my button directly after the
 of our page, the button will appear directly under it.
Mousing over the icon will cause the AddThis toolbox popup to appear where users can decide how to share our page.
With our compact button added, we can configure it. AddThis offers numerous ways to configure this button we've added. This configuration options can be seen under UI Configuration Options here.
Say, for example, we want to exclude certain ways to share our page from the toolbox. We can quickly add this code in a few lines. Add this code:

This JavaScript code will exclude MySpace and Google as sharing options. Run your page and mouse over the AddThis icon to see these services excluded.
You may notice that there are numerous ways to share your page. Instead of excluding numerous services to allow your users to only share with certain services, you can use the compact services configuration instead. Let's do that now.
Instead of choosing which services to exclude, we can now define which services we want included. Replace:
services_exclude : "myspace, google"
services_compact: 'print, email, favorites, facebook'
Here we have said to include the services of print, email, favorites, and facebook. You can choose whatever services you want. A full list of services and this string names can be found here. This list can be used for services to be excluded as well.
Run your page. Mousing over the AddThis icon will show your toolbox with the services you choose to be included.
Other configuration options can be added just like this. The nice thing about the AddThis Client API page is that it provides the variable name, description, type and default value. This is a great way to help you get started further configuring your AddThis button.
This was just a quick introduction to get you started adding the AddThis button and customizing it. AddThis is easy and quick to add to your webpage. It also let's you easily customize the button so you can display it however you want on your webpage.
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Ken Levine Does Not Need Your Money. Play Waking Mars Instead.
I spent twelve-to-fifteen hours on Bioshock Infinite last week and, sad to say folks, it's a whole bunch of bullshit. It's generic, bang-bang-pow shoot shoot with an irritating, faux philosophical, pretentious abomination of a storyline which wants to be about seventy different things at once because it's a Ken Levine game and Ken Levine is our Orson Welles. Well. At least Levine is pretty.
Because I want to dance the Tarantella on Bioshock Infinite's fucking face because of how insulted I was by that game, I'm going to have to play it again–probably on easy mode and fuck the sidequests this time–and take copious notes. Having spent a week violently shooting hundreds of sane if ideologically-troubled people in the head, I kind of need a couple of days to lick my soul. IndieGameStand to the rescue; its current game is Waking Mars. I'm a sucker for shit with "Mars" in the title, particularly if it leads to Martians, and it's IndieGameStand so I could pay what I want, so I gave One American Dollar to the game.
And yes, there is much to Waking Mars that is a very specific taste. The entire presentation reminds me of one of those mid-90s edutainment adventure games that–I'll admit it, let's all admit it because we're smart people and we liked learning when we were kids, we don't have to get all obnoxious geek pride about it but come on–I fucking loved. The inclusion of an extremely irritating AI sidekick that even the characters think is annoying but don't realize is as annoying as it actually is–the multiculturalism of the cast (the main character is an Asian man, the support a black woman, both of which are astronauts on a mission to Mars and so with the capabilities that that implies, so wonderful to see a cast of non white dudes…and to not have the designers writing self-congratulatory essays about how edgy/superior they are for doing so like some Zinesters I know)–the digressions about geology (obviously one of the lessons this game is designed to teach)–in many ways it's a 2013 update of that sort of thing. The story takes a bit to get going–the intro sequence is a little long–and it's one of those which takes several thousand words more than necessary to say "Oh no! You're trapped in the Mars Cave with weird alien life forms! Learn about them and escape!" Thanks, Levine, for inspiring games to be long-winded. The map is kind of awful, and it doesn't need to be–it's just poorly-drawn, poorly-designed, and poorly-implemented, and therefore it's almost completely useless. I didn't find there were enough landmarks in the caves to be able to navigate, so it's a game that I'm lost in a lot. I don't mind getting lost in games–I prefer it to having a giant arrow show me exactly where to go–and the game isn't large or backtracky enough that I ever find it a problem.
But the main gimmick of the game–the ecology–is goddamn wonderful. Mars has life on it–Mars has fucking life on it!–and it's described as this weird version that's neither and/or both plant nor/and animal. They give off these "seeds", and you spend the initial stages finding places to plant them. And then you learn that certain seeds affect other life–they can eat it or it waters them. And then they add more life forms to the mix. And soon you're navigating an interconnected web of ecology. Everything has a very specific place in the ecosystem of the underground of Mars. It has a purpose–a main Thing It Does. But everything is affected by everything else–if it's as simple as getting wet causes an animal to freak out and shake off the water, or as elaborate as how, if that same animal eats, it immediately parthogenically reproduces. The game is spent planting seeds and nudging the behavior of life and figuring out which ecosystem is the right one to help you accomplish your goals.
And yes, the game is about whether or not it's right to fuck with an ecosystem in order to get your research done.
After Bioshock Infinite, I needed to play a game where the main verb was the opposite of "shoot"; and so, Waking Mars, whose main verb is "plant". For a hiatus between weeks spent killing things, I felt I wanted to spend some time growing things.
Waking Mars is available, at this moment, on IndieGameStand; as of 10 AM EST on April 1 there are 14 hours left in order to get it on their pricing plan. (IGS is a great site anyway and you should check it out periodically!) It is $10 on Steam ordinarily and very much worth that–and fuck's sake, it's an indie game on Steam, it'll go on sale and you know it. It did not cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make and it is not soulless.
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Kolkata: Ruling Trinamool Congress MLAs were involved in a fistfight with their Left Front counterparts inside the West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday. The shameful incident took place when the Left Front moved an adjournment motion over the state government's alleged failure to curb chit funds in the state.
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AV Services congratulates Adam Smale, winner of the most recent "Image of the Month" contest. Adam's photo was taken behind Lake Britian by a Canon Rebel T3i. You can see his winning photo and past winners here.
Adam wins a prize package worth $25 donated by The Westminster Titan Club.
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Kids who watch TV in their bedrooms are twice as likely to be overweight and have almost three times the risk of heart disease and diabetes as those who don't, according to US research.
Scientists from Pennington Biomedical Research Center in LA studied children aged five to 18 and found the ones with TVs in their rooms were up to 2.5 times more likely to have a higher fat mass and larger waist.
Those who watched TV for more than five hours a day had double the risk of fat surrounding their internal organs, which can cause disease.
"It's really troubling to see these kids with fat around their heart and liver," said study author Dr Amanda Staiano.
Previous studies have found a link between being overweight and more TV viewing, so this study sought to establish where the kids were adding fat and how their risk of heart disease and diabetes was affected.
They looked at 369 children and teens, measuring their height, weight, waist, blood pressure and fat deposits.
"We wanted to see a more precise relationship between TV and health," said Stainao.
Sixty-six percent of the participants had bedroom TVs and a third watched five or more hours of TV a day.
The study could not determine whether it was the TV in the bedroom or the long hours that caused the health problems, but the study has renewed calls for TVs to be banned in children's rooms.
Australian studies have found almost half of secondary school children have TVs in their bedrooms and a quarter of children aged five to 17 years old are obese.
Professor Boyd Swinburn, an obesity expert from Deakin University, told ninemsn that TV viewing has consistently been linked with childhood obesity.
"Kids who have TVs in their bedrooms are more likely to watch more TV," he said.
"The interesting thing is that TV viewing seems to work through both reducing physical activity and increasing food intake."
Professor Swinburn said parents ought to think twice before putting a TV in their child's bedroom.
"Parents need to be aware that putting a TV in a child's bedroom is setting them up for a higher risk of watching more TV and thus unhealthy weight gain."
The study was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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January 24th, 2013 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) Cigarettes, at one time prescribed by doctors in the Forties and Fifties as a "safe form to relax after a heavy day of work," has been linked to lung cancer, high blood pressure, emphysema and a cavalcade of illness. Now - and Oregon lawmaker wants to make cigarettes in his state "available only by prescription" - but there's a different kind of agenda at work here. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Rep. Mitch Greenlick, from Portland is sponsoring a bill that makes cigarettes a Schedule III controlled substance. The designation would make it illegal to possess or distribute cigarettes without a doctor's prescription.Offenders would face maximum punishments of one year in prison, a $6,250 fine or both. Other drugs and substances that fall under the designation of Schedule III controlled substances are ketamine, also known as "Special K," lysergic acid or LSD and anabolic steroids. "The State Board of Pharmacy may adopt rules placing requirements and limitations on the sale or transfer of products containing nicotine," the bill's text says. Few think the bill has a chance to win approval. "I think it's pretty crazy," Juan Silva of Salem says. "I don't see it going through. It's going to be something to watch for, but I don't think it'll pass." Another opinion is offered by Rick Cannon, also of Salem. "I hope it passes and I hope people actually think about it. You know there's less and less smokers everyday because they know how bad it is for them, so I just hope people wake up and realize how bad it actually is for them." Greenlick previously made headlines this week by suggesting a state committee look into the hiring procedure used by the University of Oregon when it named Mark Helfrich the new Ducks head coach. In related news: Oregon declined to follow the lead of other northwestern states Colorado and Washington by legalizing recreational marijuana use in the last election. Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) |


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As you probably know, Gmail has introduced a new way of organising your inbox by separating your emails out by category and putting them into separate tabs, eg Primary, Social and Promotions.
Now this can be useful in helping you to see the most important emails first but you could also miss out on other emails that come in.`
So watch the video below to find out how to use the new Gmail tabs to ensure that you see the emails that are important to you. Alternatively keep reading for a step by step guide.
Go to your Gmail inbox and click on the Promotions tab and check for new emails. If there's a message in there that you don't want to miss then select it and drag it to the Primary tab. From now on, any messages from that sender will arrive into the Primary inbox.
You can do the same for any messages that arrive into your other tabs such as Social.
All starred messages will automatically appear in the Primary tab.
If you want to revert back to the old inbox just click on the Settings icon and then Configure inbox. Now deselect all the tabs and you will now see the old inbox view.
So that's how to you set up and manage the new Gmail tab system.
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by Cora Currier ProPublica, Feb. 13, 2013
In one of President Barack Obama first acts in the White House, he ordered the closure of the CIA's so-called "black-site" prisons, where terror suspects had been held and, sometimes, tortured. The CIA says it is "out of the detention business," as John Brennan, Obama's pick to head the agency, recently put it.
But the CIA's prisons left some unfinished business. In 2009, ProPublica's Dafna Linzer listed more than thirty people who had been held in CIA prisons and were still missing.
Some of those prisoners have since resurfaced, but at least twenty are still unaccounted for.
Last week the Open Society Foundations' Justice Initiative released a report pulling together the most current information available on the fates of the prisoners. A few emerged from foreign prisons after the turmoil of the Arab Spring. One has died. (The report relied exclusively on media accounts and information previously gathered by human rights groups. The Open Society Foundations also donate to ProPublica.)
The report counts 136 prisoners who were either held in a CIA black site or subject to so-called extraordinary rendition, in which detainees were secretly shipped to other countries for interrogation.
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CAIRO — Washington's envoy on human rights cautioned Tuesday against the failure of Egypt's government to identify the perpetrators behind a growing number of gruesome attacks against female protesters, as nearly 1,000 women gathered in Cairo to denounce the recent sexual assaults.
Beating drums and blowing whistles, the women defied advice by some lawmakers that suggested their presence in Tahrir Square, the focal point of protests, was the reason for the mob attacks.
"A woman in the square is a revolution, but your words Afifi are shameful," read one banner in response to Adel Afifi, a member of the Islamist-dominated interim parliament, who said this week that women are subjecting themselves to attacks by mixing with men in unsafe places.
While sexual harassment of women has long been a problem in Egypt, dozens of violent attacks have been reported specifically in and around Tahrir Square since the fall of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak two years ago. Hundreds of unidentified men have taken part in attacks on women, ripping their clothes off, touching them and, in one case, raping a 19-year-old with a blade.
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A man accused of killing two Japanese visitors and injuring a dozen others after crashing his car and stabbing people in a major tourist district in Guam has been arrested and faces multiple charges, police said Wednesday.
Chad Ryan Desoto, 21, of Tamuning is accused of driving a Toyota Yaris onto a sidewalk and striking seven tourists Tuesday night at an upscale shopping area fronting the Outrigger Guam Resort in Tumon Bay, Guam police spokesman A.J. Balajadia said. Desoto continued driving on the sidewalk, crashing into the wall of a convenience store. He then left his car and started stabbing people, police said.
Desoto is charged with two counts of murder, 13 counts of attempted murder and 13 counts of aggravated assault, Balajadia said. No motive or other details on the investigation were released.
A Japanese Foreign Ministry official, who requested anonymity per ministry rules, said Wednesday that local police told the Japanese consulate 14 Japanese people were taken to the hospital, and two had died.
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CORSICANA, Texas (AP) — A 58-year-old Texas man walked free Monday after serving years for a crime he didn't commit — the repeated stabbing of a woman whose body was found on a dirt road in rural North Texas.
Randolph Arledge was sentenced to 99 years in prison in 1984 for killing Carolyn Armstrong. But a state district judge in Corsicana, about 50 miles southeast of Dallas, agreed with prosecutors and Arledge's attorneys that he could no longer be considered guilty after new DNA tests tied someone else to the crime.
Judge James Lagomarsino agreed to release Arledge on bond while the process of overturning his conviction is pending. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals must accept Lagomarsino's recommendation for the conviction to be formally overturned, a process that is considered a formality.
Arledge wore shackles around his wrists and ankles at the start of the hearing, but was later taken into a back room by two deputies to have them removed. When he returned, Arledge hugged his two children. His daughter was 4 years old and his son 7 when he was sent to prison.
"They suffered more than anybody," Arledge told reporters afterward. He gestured to his daughter, Randa Machelle Arledge. "She's always talking about, she wanted me to come pick her up from school. Now she's picking me up."
His children said they remained hopeful through the years, not doubting his innocence.
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Chicago (CNN) -- The teenager who police say shot and killed Chicago honor student Hadiya Pendleton was on probation for unlawful use of a firearm, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Monday night.
Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, were each charged with one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder, McCarthy told reporters. They were also charged with two counts of aggravated battery with a firearm.
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He and Ward thought they had spotted members of a rival gang at the park when police said Ward sneaked up on Hadiya and her friends and began shooting. Williams was the getaway driver, the superintendent said.
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The pope said he was resigning because he does not have the physical strength necessary to do the job.
"After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry," the pope said in a statement.
The pope took the helm in 2005, just when allegations that the church covered up sexual abuse by clerics were making waves in the U.S. and Ireland. Over the pope's next eight years on the job, sexual abuse allegations also surfaced in Germany, Norway and other European countries, and the ensuing crisis became one of the defining aspects of his tenure.
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Vibrantly coloured kikoys by kasuku and kangas have adorned generations of East Africans: for many centuries these prized textiles were a unit of currency, used by the peoples of the coast and interior. Now Kasuku is offering these versatile garments to people everywhere. Made in Africa for Africa they are already much sought after worldwide.
Striped woven kikoys were traditionally worn by Swahili sailors plying the Indian Ocean. The Swahili people continue to wear them for any occasion but now they are also worn by men and women all around Kenya and beyond. Though kikoys by kasuku are principally worn as a sarong, they can be used as scarves, pyjamas, for cheering up a room, or as a turban .... let your imagination run.
To keep in step with the fashion needs of today Kasuku have taken the traditional kikoy and added a brilliant range of colours. The specially woven fabric which is 100% mercerised cotton, brings a softness which will give you comfort on the beach, at home, anywhere.
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Kenneth Polite A Step Closer To Becoming U.S. Attorney
A New Orleans attorney is a step closer to becoming the next U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Kenneth Polite's nomination for U.S. attorney was approved by voice vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. The vote means the nomination goes to the full Senate for consideration.
Polite was nominated by President Obama after Sen. Mary Landrieu recommended him for the post.
Besides practicing law in New Orleans, Polite is a former New York City assistant U.S. attorney.


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Seems like just yesterday was Saturday! Just about time to start thinking about plans for this weekend. Is it too cold for kayaking? It was such a busy Summer, my poor little kayak has barely been in the water. Seems a shame! Can you 'yak in sweats?
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The PGA Tour has returned to Las Vegas, the city famous for all its bells and whistles. On the range this week at TPC Summerlin, however, it's a delivery of plain white golf ball boxes that will have all our Titleist tour pros talking.
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Enough of the build up, we'll let you in on the scoop: This week marks the beginning of the tour seeding and performance validation process for the new Pro V1 and Pro V1x prototype golf balls on the worldwide professional tours.
After months of extensive player testing, Fordie Pitts and Jeff Beyers from the Titleist Golf Ball R&D team will be on site, with white boxes under their arms, ready to help players continue the testing and fitting process.
It's an exciting time at Titleist, as performance validation from the best players in the world is one of the final checkpoints along the way to launching a new product in the market.
Fast Fact: It was around this time 12 years ago that the first Titleist Pro V1 golf ball debuted in Las Vegas. Since then, nearly 235,000 players have teed up Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls in competition across the worldwide professional tours, as compared to just under 45,000 for the nearest competitor.
Stay tuned to Team Titleist as we will continue to provide you with more details and inside-the-ropes updates as the tour seeding and performance validation process continues.
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Come on! Let us try some!
Rod S wrote on October 1, 2012 at 9:21PM
I pretty interested to know the changes I love the prov1X's right now. So I say send us some to so we can give you feedback to
AAron L wrote on October 1, 2012 at 9:43PM
I would only assume that the Team has cooked up something even more special going into 2013. Be on the look out for the new balls come late winter, be prepared to stock up....
Brian D wrote on October 1, 2012 at 9:55PM
Yes please I would absolutely love test a couple sleeves and help give some feedback for Titleist! I think it would be very cool to get someolfballs in the mail and try them out! Please consider it Titleist. Thanks, Devin
Devin F wrote on October 1, 2012 at 11:53PM
Titleist, sure wish were had the chance to "demo" this new prototype like we did for the last new ProV1 and ProV1x.......that was really cool. Maybe there is still time for us to do that...........??? Thanks!!
Bob N wrote on October 2, 2012 at 12:25AM
R&D balls would be awesome to try!!
Tom S. wrote on October 2, 2012 at 5:02AM
Hey, we'd all be happy to help too...!!!
Bill P wrote on October 2, 2012 at 11:58AM
Cant wait to try some of these
Keith L wrote on October 2, 2012 at 7:37PM
OK I'm ready to test....lol Well done!!
Deno wrote on October 3, 2012 at 11:05PM
Would love to get a few sleeves of the new ball to test and give feed back
Lefty FPL wrote on October 4, 2012 at 5:41PM
That is pretty exciting news. I love the ProV1x as it is, but a little upgrading is always welcome in my opinion.
Brian J wrote on October 5, 2012 at 10:27PM
i think that they should let most of the team titleist members try the new golf balls. Id like to try them out to see the changes in the feel of the golf ball
Will P wrote on October 8, 2012 at 9:20PM
I normally play the ProV1 but am starting to experiment with the ProV1x...have 6 dozen in my golf room.....would love to have the opportunity to try the new white boxes that are being sent out to Team Titleist members....maybe I will be one of the lucky ones.....no mail today.....so I guess I can keep my fingers crossed....I play 4-5 days a week and my Titleist normally will normally get me through three rounds.....great balls.....good distance and love the feel on the putting greens as it comes of my Newport Select (Scotty, of course 2012 model)....am a Titleist/FJ nut, equipment, accessories, and apparel.....ya know....it is hard to improve on perfection....
Chuck Z wrote on October 8, 2012 at 10:18PM
Just recieved a sleeve of R&D balls in the mail, Thanks Titleist, cant wait to get on the course and test these!!!!!!!
Dmoran31 wrote on October 9, 2012 at 3:29PM
TT....just finished a round with the new prototype.....completed my review. Titleist, this ball is a WINNER........I enjoyed the opportunity to be part of the eval process. I've played Titleist for years and will look for this new ball when it hits the market. Thanks for letting us test new products. Bob
Bob N wrote on October 9, 2012 at 5:28PM
Just tried the new prototype pro v1 in MN It was only 50 degrees when I tested them. Sweet. Great ball again. Soft feel with great distance for those conditions. Can't wait to try them when it is warmer.
Bill B wrote on October 10, 2012 at 9:51PM
Would love to try some of the new balls titleist.
Adam R
Adam R wrote on October 14, 2012 at 1:53AM
Well boys and girls I was lucky enough to be one of the choosen few to test the R&D little white box ball this weekend. All I can tell you is SHAZAM!!! The ball flies, stops and putts better than the preasent pro v and prov x. But mostly there is litle to no side spin so it's just point and shoot. I live in Colorado where the ball doesn't spin because of thin air and I was spinning this around the greens with approach shots and one hop stop pitch shots like I was using the old spin mill wedges. As you all know there were 2 types that went out, black numbers and red numbers. Mine are the red numbers, so take that in to account. What ever the color 6 birdies on a pleasent Sunday afternoon with three inside a foot, well you know___SAZAM!!!
brooks w wrote on November 5, 2012 at 10:28PM
can i get some?
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Another confession: I didn't want to like the dewy-eyed, flame-haired singer-songwriter-pianist when I heard her solo debut, 1992's Little Earthquakes. That breathy, tremulous soprano, the twinkly piano lines and frilly string arrangements, those cryptic yet confessional lyrics -- my intellect protested this precious intimacy. Her fans didn't thrill me either: Most of the ones I had met were either barefoot granola girls with hairy armpits or sexually ambiguous guys. Amos has been accused in the press of being melodramatic and opaque, written off as quirky and flaky because of her idiosyncratic style (not to mention the much ballyhooed business of thanking "fairies" in her liner notes). But her strange charm gradually won me over. A dynamic vocalist who makes up in emotion what she lacks in strength and range, Amos's complex metaphors began to make sense to me only after repeated listenings; the enticingly eccentric, almost outre melodies got under my skin. As a pianist of astounding talents, Amos can make the instrument sound menacing, tender, tentative, or fleeting. That emotional purity finally brought tears to my eyes.
Like many debuts, Little Earthquakes is steeped in vivid memories of adolescent achings. The urgent "Precious Things" and sympathetic "Girl" deal with being repressed and rejected as a less-than-beautiful young girl, while the ballads "Winter" and "Mother" are bittersweet odes to her parents that explore both their love and their shortcomings. It's clear Amos has come a long way from the timorous yet rebellious Methodist minister's daughter, and she chronicles those growing pains in songs like the hit single "Crucify" and "Silent All These Years," about discovering her poetic and musical voice. She also picks at the politics of love (a subject that gains momentum on her later records) in "China," "Leather," and "Tear in Your Hand." Then there's the song that catapults the listener to the most harrowing time in Amos's life -- "Me and a Gun," a painfully vivid a capella account of the rape she suffered several years ago and its aftermath. It is this song that established her as one of the foremost feminist songwriters of the Nineties. The album's only real drawback is that Amos buries her piano -- her strongest suit -- under standard pop/rock group arrangements; ironic, considering Amos's statement that it was her only means of expression for so many years.
Her 1994 album Under the Pink proved that she could streamline her sound and refine her lyrical prowess while continuing her evolution from repressed girl suffering the constraints of a strict religious upbringing to free-spirited woman and artist. Throughout the album she passes strong judgment on herself and the people in her life, teasing apart the misguided intentions of her friends, boyfriends, parents, and religious leaders. Amos has always written about characters who are obviously projections of herself at various times. In Under the Pink she takes that technique further with twelve narrative songs sharing the theme of betrayal among women. "Bells for Her," "The Wrong Band," "The Waitress," "Cornflake Girl," and "Yes, Anastasia" all present Amos as the betrayer or the betrayed, and plumb the nuances of jealousy and betrayal among sisters, friends, and co-workers. The young protagonists in "Pretty Good Year" and "Past the Mission" face coming-of-age experiences, turning points in their lives that cause a permanent loss of innocence; meanwhile Amos speaks in the first person in "Baker Baker" (about a defunct love affair) and "Icicle" (about her sexual awakening).
The album yielded Amos's most popular song to date, the controversial, feedback-loaded hit "God," an indictment of patriarchal religion that has become her trademark. Under the Pink also uses simplified arrangements, as her piano takes a more dominant position among acoustic and electric guitars, drums, bass, and strings.
Earlier this spring, Amos released Boys for Pele (the title of which can be interpreted as a call for human sacrifice to the Hawaiian goddess of fire and creation). The first album she has produced on her own (without the help of co-producer/former boyfriend Eric Rosse), it focuses almost exclusively on her relationships with men, including the Man Upstairs; she continues to tackle most of the major religions of the world (all of which just happen to be patriarchal). On the hit single "Caught a Lite Sneeze," Amos sings of reclaiming her inner goddess after a particularly draining breakup: "I need a big loan from the girl zone." On the delicate "Horses," the medieval "Blood Roses," the tender "Hey Jupiter," and the epic "Putting the Damage On," she struggles with the confusion and pain of love lost. Surprisingly, she even asks for divine help on "Mohammed, My Friend": "Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law." By the end of Boys, she is admiring a woman who killed the man that spurned her in "Twinkle."


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The two stars and two-time Academy nominee John Malkovich took to the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of romcom zombie film Warm Bodies.
The new romantic comedy gives zombie movies a new twist. The movie also surprisingly stars two-time Academy nominee John Malkovich.
Although Malkovich admits he isn't a fan of the zombie genre, he believes horror fans will enjoy it.
"In this there's quite of bit of play I think with the zombie genre, and quite a bit of movement in the characters which you wouldn't normally see," explained Malkovich.
The movie stars Nicholas Hoult as the main zombie who begins to fall in love.
He said: "It's about a zombie called R, my character, who has no memory of his living life but realizes there was something more to being human and wants to connect.
"One day captures Teresa Palmer's character Julie, and decides instead of eating her brains he is going to look after her and it kind of goes from there. It's kind of a romantic comedy with a zombie twist."
Director Jonathan Levine said he thought of the movie as regular men and women falling in love, rather than a zombie and a human. He remembered his past when he was in high school and felt like a zombie anytime he attempted to speak to a pretty girl. He could hardly get any words out.
Bombshell Teresa Palmer admits coming across a few guys who seemed like zombies when they spoke to her.
"Talking to boys, yes I was definitely, yes I've met a few zombies in my time that's for sure," said Palmer. "I've definitely dated a few.
"I think it's really interesting. The relationship between R and Julie in this film is very representative of how it feels when you first meet someone and you're falling in love, and it's quite awkward and no one really knows what to do or what to say.
"I think people are going to be able to connect to that."
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