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The £1.9m fine and £98m compensation that Lloyds TSB has been ordered to pay by the Financial Services Authority for mis-selling a high risk "precipice" product is a victory for Jobs & Money.
We warned against buying the Scottish Widows Extra Income and Growth Plan (EIGP); and then how we campaigned for a fair deal for investors who had been lured into signing up for the futures and options linked scheme whose value has slumped. Most sales were to elderly risk-averse savers.
In one case, a retired hotelier in the West Country was sold a £700,000 plan - all the cash from the sale of his business and his entire fortune. The sale generated commission worth over £32,000.
EIGP promised 10% annual income for three years although investors had a further two months without interest. It was based on 30 separate equity contracts that could go down and out but never up. Many of the shares such as ARM, Cable & Wireless, Colt Telecom, Logica, Marconi, Misys, and Vodafone fell heavily in the tech stock shake-out.
The Lloyds TSB fine is a victory for our persistence. And many investors will now be compensated. But it is only a first step on the long march for justice for victims of other high risk precipice bonds, and for those who bought the Scottish Widows plan from IFAs.
This week, Lloyds TSB was fined £1.9m by the watchdog for "a number of unsuitable sales of a high income equity-linked bond through its branch network between October 2000 and July 2001."
The FSA slams Lloyds TSB. It failed to:
· train staff properly;
· insist on a balanced portfolio;
· rein in sales staff and act with care and diligence.
Lloyds TSB will now compensate 22,500 customers, many of whom had no experience of equities. It will return the original investment money plus interest (but less any dividends paid to date) to those without previous equity experience if the EIGP accounted for more than 20% of their total wealth. And for those with shares, the cut-off line is 35% of financial assets in the plan. The bank will apologise and contact those affected.
But the compensation order does not apply to investors who bought EIGP through an IFA either face-to-face or via direct mail, even when the adviser was "strongly recommending" a purchase.
And that worries investors who responded to the call last week from Jobs & Money reader Katherine Kirk to set up a precipice bond pressure group.
Here are some extracts from our bulging mailbag.
"I was sold a Eurolife bond by Garrison IFA. My £10,000 is virtually wiped out. A pressure group should tackle product providers. They must have been aware of the high risks and should not sell bad products to inexpert, unwary and vulnerable buyers." (BW Essex).
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"I put £7,000 into a GE Life bond. I'll be lucky to get £175 capital back. The seller was CFS Independent but the Abbey National backing confirmed GE as appropriate for retired people (like me). I would not have gambled. But perhaps I only blame myself for trusting the advisers' (AM London).
"I want to pressurise the FSA to order compensation. I've lost 67% of my money in NDF Extra Income." (HM Glasgow).
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Is this an acceptable or functional layout for my toilet drain/vent system.
3 inch pipe goes straight down into san tee laid horizontal
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Not where I work. Vent needs to be downstream from WC
so is it a code issue or will the toilet just not vent properly? or both? In my plumbing book it has a few different options, which of these two would you recommend?
1. put a wye fitting in the horizontal run (downstream side) of the san tee, venting back from the wye.
2. put a wye or san tee in the vertical drop between the toilet and the bend, venting back from, or would this be putting the vent on the upstream side again?
Can I still put a cleanout in the tee where I have the vertical drop from the toilet going into, using either of these two methods.
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Digital Economy Bill
I attended an interesting talk hosted by Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) and the Institute of Computer and Communications Law on the Digital Economy Bill last night.
Speaking were Richard Mollet of British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and Jim Killock of Open Rights Group (ORG), with Graham Smith of Bird & Bird offering an introduction to the debate.
The Digital Economy Bill has just been through the House of Lords (in the UK) where a number of amendments were proposed. It is due to enter the House of Commons for debate with MPs shortly.
I have to admit I am not familiar with the details of the Bill (a summary is provided at the above link). There are Notification Provisions which concern ISPs matching subscriber details to IP (internet protocol) addresses supplied in the form of Infringement Reports from the rights holders. ISPs may also have to notify rights holders of persistent infringers. The more controversial measures of "suspension/disconnection" are set out in the Technical Measures section of the Bill. Many articles on the Net refer to a "three strikes" policy – interestingly this does not appear to be in the Bill (please correct me if I am wrong) but will be in the implementation details.
While not trying to excuse my own ignorance, a lack of clear information surrounding the provisions of the Bill may be a cause of some of the debate; Richard Mollet stated that at times it appeared the BPI and ORG were looking at different Bills: this could be explained by each party having a different intepretation of the Bill's wording. Many of the implementational details of the Bill are designed to be implemented by secondary legislation (i.e. not defined in the wording of the law).The reasoning behind this is that technology moves faster than the law, so the law needs to be flexible enough to adapt. However, it does lead to ambiguity – both parties may be correct in their interpretation depending on how the Bill is implemented. My personal view is that secondary legislation is, unfortunately, one of the only practical ways to keep up with technology changes, but that safeguards have to be encoded in the Bill to prevent abuse. Richard Mollet referred in his presentation to "the aims of the Bill" and "what the Bill is designed to do"; however, he may underestimate the ability of a less benign government to exploit ambiguous legislation for their own ends.
To be fair to both parties, they each had valid points. Condensed:
- BPI: Infringement (i.e. illegal copying of copyright material) is taking place and is harming sales. The industry (and I believe this is not necessarily appreciated by many in the opposite party) has tried hard to combat piracy through multiple "soft" initiatives such as discussions with ISPs. However, infringement (and the losses) are still occurring.
- ORG: The Bill gives too much power to authorities to disconnect households and organisations from the Internet. It is also worried about the effect on "free" or municipal wifi. They also raised valid points that the Bill needed debate and/or revision.
However, both parties also disminished their case through their polemic:
- BPI: At times Richard Mollet carried an air of indignant entitlement: the world is doing something wrong and stealing our material, they should stop and someone should stop them, and not necessarily considering the deeper issues. Psychologically and physically there is a difference between digital goods and real-world goods; the BPI tends to ignore this difference but for any law to be enforceable it needs to match how we see, produce and interact with goods. DRM has not been successful because it restricts people's expectations of use (I had to pay Apple £100 to get DRM-free copies of my purchased music to play the music on a Linux PC). However, the Apple App Store and DRM-free digital singles have been successful and profitable. The law only be used as a last resort when a change in industry and business cannot work.
- ORG: The argument that the Internet is a fundamental human right for me fell a little flat, a little indulgent and middle-class, like insisting that a Waitrose within 5 miles is a human right. While it is important, equating it with water stretches the argument thinly. Also I think ORG is maybe too commercially naive, money needs to be made from copyrighted content to support the creators and their entourage, hence something needs to be done to reduce illegal copying (or at least monetise it). However, the tortured tale of Napster shows us this is far from easy.
I do sympathise with the BPI a little, comment in the press and on the Internet and "blogosphere" has a distinct anti-commercial tone. This makes necessary balanced debate difficult. The former "comment" often has a hint of student or dinner-table debate, underestimating the compromises and Realpolitik necessary in successful commercial enterprise.
In summary, both parties are needed for successful and balanced legislation and a compromise does seem possible – encoding the three strikes policy in statute, replacing disconnection with fines, supplying safeguards for municipal wifi. However, whether there will be time for debate in parliment is another question. Is a poorly drafted Bill better than no law?
Some links:
Guardian News Report (the most recent online news article – choice of paper is not intentional)
The problem is not really that the internet is a human right. The problem is that copyright is fundamentally antithetical to the internet. The only way copyright makes sense and can be practical is if you force everyone to pretend data is like a material object — that it cannot be widely and infinitely copied, that it cannot be fluidly disassembled, sampled, and remade. Everything copyright restricts is exactly the good the internet offers.
Yes, legislation ought to serve the broad range of interests. But it is not a matter of neatly balancing the different claims. A successful approach needs to recognise the hard physical facts. It is reasonable that current industry should be helped, but helped to change, not to continue living off its comfortable monopolies that are now obsolete and obstructive to the good of everyone else.
The internet is here, it is not going away, it is getting bigger. And the inevitable consequence is that copyright is dying. If we want to gain the full benefit of the internet and support creative work in ways that make the most economic sense, we must dismantle copyright and its current business forms and assist their replacements.
As for compromise and Realpolitik, I see no compromise and all Realpolitik: what has the BPI/music-industry given up? Nothing, except perhaps the hope of something even more favourable to themselves. Have they been incentivised to adjust to new commercial conditions? Nope, not in the slightest. There certainly is no principled or intelligent substance to this legislation, it is simply what the richest side was practically able to get.


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Emails reflect AEG's fears about Jackson's health
File – In this March 5, 2009 file photo, US singer Michael Jackson announces at a press conference that he is set to play ten live concerts at [auth] the London O2 Arena in July 2009. Jurors hearing a negligent hiring lawsuit in Los Angeles filed by Jackson's mother against AEG Live were shown emails on Wednesday May 29, 2013, that demonstrated the company's top executives expressed concerns about the singer's health in the days before his death. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors hearing a lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live LLC have been shown emails in which top company executives expressed fears about Michael Jackson's health and the amount of time they had to get the singer prepared for his ill-fated series of comeback tours.
The messages were displayed Wednesday during testimony from AEG Live co-CEO Paul Gongaware, who at one point sent his boss' assistant a message stating the show was giving him nightmares and causing him to break out in cold sweats at night.
Gongaware testified that he was joking, but it was just one of several messages expressing concerns about Jackson's health. Another message from Randy Phillips, the top-ranking executive at AEG Live, wrote after one of Jackson's missed rehearsals that, "we are running out of time.
"That is my biggest fear," Phillips wrote to Gongaware and the CEO of AEG Live's parent company, Anschutz Entertainment Group, on June 20, 2009, five days before Jackson's death.
Gongaware said he didn't agree with Phillips' assessment. "He may have said that, but I didn't agree with that," Gongaware testified.
His testimony came under questioning by an attorney for Jackson's mother, who is suing AEG Live and claims it failed to properly investigate the doctor convicted of causing her son's death. Gongaware and Phillips are also named as defendants in the case.
AEG denies that it hired former cardiologist Conrad Murray, or could have foreseen the singer's death. The company's defense attorneys have not yet questioned Gongaware on the stand.
The company's defense attorney, Marvin S. Putnam, said outside court that the emails reflect the company was concerned about Jackson's health, and expressed those concerns to Jackson's lawyer and manager before his death.
Jurors have seen numerous emails throughout the trial, including several sent by people working on Jackson's "This Is It" comeback shows in which they expressed concerns about Jackson's health. Production manager John "Bugzee" Hougdahl, wrote Phillips in the last week of the singer's life that Jackson was on a downward slide.
"I have watched him deteriorate in front of my eyes over the last 8 weeks" Hougdahl wrote.
Katherine Jackson's attorney questioned Gongaware about whether the company put too much emphasis on the showbiz maxim, "The show must go on."
Gongaware denied that was the case.
He told the jury that he was concerned about Jackson's health, but that he thought "This Is It" tour director Kenny Ortega may have been overstating concerns about the singer's wellbeing.
Phillips also expressed concerns about Ortega, writing to Gongaware's private email address, "This guy is really starting to concern me."
Gongaware testified Wednesday that he wasn't sure who Phillips was referring to, and his boss may have been expressing concerns about Jackson or Murray.
Six weeks before Jackson's death, Gongaware sent an email to an assistant for the CEO of AEG in which he urged her to, "Pray for me. "This is a nightmare. Not coincidentally, I have them now every night. Cold sweats, too. Life used to be so much fun…"
Gongaware said he was joking in the message. "I don't have cold sweats," he said. "I don't have nightmares. I sleep great."
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My sweet friend Monica mailed me a series of three postcards recently, on which she handwrote the following passage from Sarah Ban Breathnach's Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy. These words have really got me thinking... and have also prompted me to pull out my own copy of this extraordinary tome.
Dreams and expectations and two very different things. Dreams call for a leap of faith, trusting that Spirit is holding the net, so that you can continue in the re-creation of the world with your energy, soul, gifts, and vision. Expectations are the emotional investment the ego makes in a particular outcome: what needs to happen to make the dream come true. [...]
The passionate pursuit of dreams sets your soul soaring; expectations that measure the dream's success tie stones around your soul. I don't think we should lower our expectations; I believe if we truly want to live a joyous and adventurous life, we should relinquish them.
Living your life as a dreamer and not as an "expector" is a personal declaration of independence. You're able to pursue happiness more directly when you don't get caught up in delivery details. Dreaming, not expecting, allows Spirit to step in and surprise you with connection, completion, consummation, celebration. You dream. Show up for work. Then let Spirit deliver your dream to the world.
Powerful stuff, no?
Thank you Monica, for a very special reminder to dream and to let go.


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I'm Olly and I think it's finally time I said hello!
I've followed these forums for a good while now, I bought a 330Ci Clubsport back in 2010. I got rid of that earlier this year, but I missed what it was all about, so a couple of days ago I got a molested and somewhat battered 330Ci M Sport off eBay!
It's got so many little problems, but it's a nice looking car, it just needs some love.
Anyway, a pleasure to be here, I've spent most of today looking at posts and the information available is excellent. Look forward to getting to know people and maybe get to some meets!


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"Shehzad Ali" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:29:17 +0100
Thanks, Nick. I will try the subtraction method.
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[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
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To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: st: RE: RE: RE: clorenz syntax
That it is a user-written programme is just a fact; mentioning that
signals to others that they might need to install it before they can use
it. In this field most of the good stuff is user-written, but that is
not in itself a problem.
Others know more about this than I do but I imagine that you should use
-glcurve-, as already advised, generate new variables containing curve
coordinates, and then "subtract" one curve from another. I guess that
subtraction might at worst entail interpolation to ensure that curves
were measured for the same coordinates. I can't advise further.
Shehzad Ali
Thanks, Nick. You rightly pointed out that it's a user written
The reason I wanted to use -clorenz- is that it plots the difference
concentration curves. I don't think -glcurve- does that. Do you know of
other way of plotting the difference between concentration curves?
Nick Cox
-clorenz- is a user-written program from SSC. (As I often point out, you
are asked to explain where user-written programs you refer to come
I've not used it ever, but a glance at the help file indicates that
there is no way that it will support your syntax. The syntax is of
standard form
syntax varlist [, <options> ]
so that I do not know why you expect it to support
syntax (varlist , <options>) (varlist, <options>)
The program also seems to lack some standard features (e.g. support for
-if- or -in-) and to be written in sub-standard style (e.g. uses
variable names that may already be in use).
I suggest that you check out -glcurve- by Philippe van Kerm and Stephen
Jenkins on SSC.
That's well written, well documented and well supported.
Shehzad Ali
Maybe I am doing something wrong with the syntax here. I am trying to
the difference between concentration curves using - clorenz -. Can I
two differences on the same graph? Here is what I am trying to do but am
getting syntax error.
clorenz (x1 y1, hweight(weight) rank(rank1) dif(c1)) (x2 y2,
rank(rank2) dif(c1))
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By Barbara Nance
It was a day like any other day, but, of course, as soon as one says that, a ripple in life shows up. At the entrance of my neighborhood road stands our community mailbox, like a sentinel of sorts. The well beaten dirt path at this junction carries not only memories of our tire tracks, but those of deer and coyote. I have often wondered what these animals think of our mailbox that resembles an alien robot. The five foot tall metal box stands at attention on its cement platform, a shiny tin soldier waiting for each of us to check in daily and collect our mail.
But this morning there was sadness in the neighborhood when we found out our mailbox had been brutally vandalized. Some scallywag delinquents most likely dared each other by moonlight to pry open our innocent box. The back panels had been filleted open exposing all the now empty compartments. It looked like a miniature abandoned apartment building. Barren nooks that once held letters from loved ones, special announcements and coupons. Then there are bills to be paid. Oh my, were any bills missing? We'll all have to drive into town and stand in line at the post office for our mail. How long might that go on? "Who are these scallywags?" I cried out.
After winding myself up into a tizzy, I took a deep breath and looked at the incident in a new light. Our mailbox, our tin soldier will be rebuilt and return to us stronger than ever before! It was wounded in its most vulnerable spot, but now will be reinforced with stronger materials, maybe titanium or if need be, Superman's crytonite! Avid imagination sees a new heart that will beat inside our mailbox, like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz. From that point on I will salute our silver soldier each time I pick up my mail, even if it does contain bills. It's all part of our communication with the world we live in.
The mailbox mystery may or may not ever be resolved as to who the scallywags were, but we now have an army of sleuth detectives out here in our neck of the woods. and we are strengthened by this incident as a group. We will have our tin soldier back on duty before you can say "mind wandering ponderings."


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by Kapil Upload a photoKa Pomblang Nongkrem, also known as Shad Nongkrem, is the most important festival of the Khasis, who are natives of the North Eastern State of Meghalaya. The festival is a harvest festival and celebrated for 5 days in November each year.
The festival is celebrated at Smit near the state capital Shillong. The Khasis give thanks to their Goddess Ka Blei Synshar for a bountiful harvest and offer prayers for the continued prosperity of their people. Traditionally, the festival involves animal sacrifice and dance and music performances by members of the tribe.
The festival involves sacrifice of goats in a ceremony known as Pomblang.The Khasis believe in ancestor worship and offerings are made to ancestors and to the ruling deity U Lei Shillong. The Khasis wear their traditional dress and participate in a dance called Nongkrem. The festival ends on the fifth day with a thanksgiving function. It also emphasises the important role women play in Khasi society. Prayers are offered to the deity and the ruling spirit of Shillong peak both are females.
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The North East states of India remain unfrequented by tourists. The Ka Pomblang Nongkrem Festival affords tourists a glimpse into the customs of the Khasis. The dances of the Khasis are remarkable for the vigourous movements. The Nongkrem is danced to the tune of pipes called Tangmuri and to the beat of tribal drums. The women are clad in the Khasi dress and intricate silver jewellery and move in the inner circle. Men wear silk dhotis, turbans; they hold a spear in one hand and a yak hair whisk in the other. The dance takes place in front of a holy pillar called U Rishot Blei.
The Khasis are a matrilineal society and the date of the festival is set by the King and announced by the king's sister. The King's sister is in charge of organising the festival and appoints the priest to conduct the ceremonies. The festival falls in October-November each year.


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"Utter the phrase, "sex in video games," and you're likely to get a torrent of heated opinions from both video game players and people who've never touched a game controller. Some nerves are still raw over 2005's highly publicized Grand Theft Auto "hot coffee" scandal, when savvy players discovered a deleted sex scene in the game's code. The resulting firestorm launched political protests and several lawsuits, leading publisher Rockstar to offer a rebate to offended gamers (the game sold over 21 million copies, and 2,700 people took advantage of the offer).
More recently, a 2007 game called 'Mass Effect' came under fire on Fox News, thanks to a steamy scene between a human and an alien, which had pundits on both sides talking for months.
Even with all of the controversy, game makers are certainly not shying away from adding explicit content to their productions. Vocal opponents might say it's only going to get "worse." This year alone, there are at least three major games likely to include some not-safe-for-kids antics -- 'Mass Effect 2,' 'Dragon Age' and 'Alpha Protocol' -- will all include some kind of adult sexual content, and if they're successful, we're certain more will follow suit.
Greg Zeschuk, co-founder of BioWare, the company responsible for the 'M'-Rated Dragon Age and the Mass Effect games, says that including sex is just the evolution of video games from a kids-only medium to something more serious and sophisticated.
Brief History of Sex in Games
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Dragon Age: Origins, another role-playing game by the creators of Mass Effect, will also contain sex scene that players can choose to participate in. The game arrives later this year, and we're sure that scenes (like the one pictured above) will raise eyebrows once the game hits the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in October.
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Dragon Age: Origins 2009
Dragon Age: Origins, another role-playing game by the creators of Mass Effect, will also contain sex scene that players can choose to participate in. The game arrives later this year, and we're sure that scenes (like the one pictured above) will raise eyebrows once the game hits the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in October.
Brief History of Sex in Games
Custer's Revenge (1982)
This adults-only game for the Atari starred General Custer, who wearing only a hat, boots, gloves and handkerchief, must avoid an onslaught of arrows to have his way with a Native American woman named "Revenge."
This game received backlash from women's, anti-porn groups and Native American special interest groups who deemed the adult 8-bit game offensive.
Leisure Suit Larry (1987-present)
Leisure Suit Larry is a loser who can't ever seem to get lucky (or stay lucky), even after 20-something years of giving it his best effort. And that's what these games area all about -- trying to bag buxom babes using by posing, competing in fashion shows or complete corny mini-games like guiding a sperm safely through rows of eggs.
Lara Croft Tomb Raider (1996-present)Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
In 2005, the makers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (released in '04) found themselves in the middle of a world-wide controversy after someone discovered a sex mini-game hidden in the code.
The mini-game, nick-named 'Hot Coffee' game, caused an uproar in the media, followed by protests and several lawsuits.
Lara Croft hit the scene in 1996, in the era when 3-D graphics in games were coming of age. In Lara's case, that meant she was able to sport large bosoms, the likes of which had never been seen before in games.
After the first two Tomb Raider games hit in the '90s, a modder created a 'Nude Raider' patch which, if installed, would render Lara in the buff in the game. The game's developer Core sued the responsible parties, but that hasn't stopped copycats from creating nude patches for almost every Tomb Raider game since.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
In 2005, the makers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (released in '04) found themselves in the middle of a world-wide controversy after someone discovered a sex mini-game hidden in the code.
The mini-game, nick-named 'Hot Coffee' game, caused an uproar in the media, followed by protests and several lawsuits.
God of War II
One could, arguably, say that the Hot Coffee incident emboldened game makers to add steamier scenes into their products -- with full disclosure of course.
God of War II took full advantage of this, adding a sex mini-game that, if completed, restores protagonist Kratos' health entirely.
The PSP spin-off, God of War: Chains of Olympus also included a sex mini-game (image above) with the same restorative benefits.
Mass Effect (2007)
The media lit up after a Fox News guest said this sci-fi role-playing game featured graphic sex and full frontal nudity. While players can choose to engage in an erotic scene with a blue alien named Liara, it's just as tame as sex scenes on a network TV show.
Dragon Age: Origins 2009
Dragon Age: Origins, another role-playing game by the creators of Mass Effect, will also contain sex scene that players can choose to participate in. The game arrives later this year, and we're sure that scenes (like the one pictured above) will raise eyebrows once the game hits the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in October.
"I think from our perspective we want to reflect real human relationships... And if that involves some sort of intimate scenes, we want to provide those for the player," Zeschuk says.
In another recent interview, Alpha Protocol lead designer Chris Avellone, also defends his decision to include sex in his game by saying it adds a level of depth to the interaction between two characters.
"I think it's an important step, and it's not sex for sex's sake, but it's part of human interaction that makes you more involved in the game world and your characters," he says. "Just like in the real world, sex runs the range from entertainment to a symbol of the depth of feeling between two people, and not having that reflected in a role-playing experience feels does RPGs an injustice."
It's important to point out that all the games mentioned this piece are 'M' for Mature Rating (the video game equivalent of an 'R'-rated movie), meaning that the video game ratings board, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), has deemed them appropriate for ages 17 and older. So it's worth comparing the appropriateness of sex in games to what the average 17-year-old is seeing on the TV or in movie theaters on a regular basis.
On the other side of the equation, a recent survey found that -- despite these facts -- parents still seem more concerned about sex in games than violence in games.
In the unscientific poll, posted on WhatTheyPlay.com, people were asked which was more offensive in games: a severed head, men kissing, use of profanity or heterosexual sex. Heterosexual acts between a man and a woman were deemed the most offensive (37%), followed by men kissing (27%) and then a severed head at 26%.
We also see this sentiment echoed in the video game ratings board, which has asked developers to cut out sex-scenes -- even in M-rated games -- to make them palatable for U.S. audiences.
"I worked on Fahrenheit (known as Indigo Prophecy in the States) and had to cut the sex scenes out of the game for the U.S.," said Constantine Hantzopoulos told ArsTechnica. "Yes, I was the guy that did that. It sucked because I don't believe in that, right. But you've got to do what you've got to do."
So how much is too much sex? That answer will largely depend on who is playing the games. Game creators make a compelling argument for including sex in games, when appropriate. Mature scenes can add to character development, and it punctuates that games aren't just for kids anymore -- they've evolved into a more mature entertainment medium (stats show the average gamer is now age 35), competing directly with TV and box office sales.
It's unrealistic to expect that video games won't suffer any more growing pains at the hands of concerned citizens -- that should be expected. However, as this younger generation of devoted gamers turns into parents and politicians, we're certain to see a much different reception for gaming as an entertainment art form"
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"For those unaware, the Kool-Aid man, who was retired as live action character in the 90s, has finally returned in all of his non-computer generated glory.
Actually, not quite all of his glory. For the updated version of the classic pitchman has something he never had before: Pants! In the latest commercials, Kool-Aid man is wearing fat guy cargo pants. Looking like Bobby Hill was never part of Kool-Aid man's M.O. before, and suddenly he's wearing short pants while he runs on the beach? Huh?
When did this happen?
See a shameful video and hear our theories after the jump.
The Kool-Aid Man, who was originally called the Pitcher Man, has been making children want to drink sugar water with ascorbic acid and red dye number 5 thrown in since 1954. But it wasn't until 1975, when he was given arms and legs and started appearing in TV ads, that he became an icon of vandalism and poor volume control. He would burst through any wall and scream "Oh yeah!" for no reason whatsoever. And, generally speaking, he was loved for it.
He was a shining example of how you could become a success in the cruel and often fickle world of Hollywood, despite having a glaring obesity issue. But now he's a shell of his former self.
While we're forced to conclude that Kool-Aid man's long absence had something to do with indecency laws, (parents and teachers banded together to protect their children from this), we're glad you're back, Kool-Aid man. It's just a shame it had to be under the ugly hand of censorship."
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This is a fabulous, restful, and friendly place to camp. Right on the Columbia River. Same rate for all size rigs - $20 a campsite. Hosts are very friendly and do not allow noisy youth to party into the wee hours. Great hiking! Fishing! Boat ramp. Lots of edible wild berries (Saskatoons!). Showers and flush toilets are at the entrance to the park (the only drawback here) which is almost 1 km from the campground. Decent outhouses located in the campground. Wal-mart is about 1-1/2 miles away that you pass by coming south from Highway 3. Campfires are often permitted here when a ban is on everywhere else, as was the case 2 years ago. This is generally a hot sunny area so look for the shade.
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A small park with some great shade trees when it's really hot (cedars). Cool in the mornings when camped under those trees. The finest water you'll find anywhere! People come there to fill up their water jugs. There is a sani dump available, that pretty much everyone uses, even locals that aren't camping. The bathrooms are kept clean...the showers in the back are very old and desperately need upgrading. If you intend to use them you would be advised to wear thongs. Try not to end up here on a Friday or Saturday night, in particular. If the local hoodlums show up you won't sleep very well. They drink, smash and burn picnic tables, try to burn trees, break off door handles at the bathroom, etc. The park keeper that lives nearby - him and his wife are/were super!)is powerless to control them, and he was beaten up by them in 2011. I have been coming into this area since 1982 and nothing has changed. The police (R.C.M.P.) are about 30 miles away in Nelson (through the night). They know all about it, as does the administration in the village of Salmo. In summary: usually a fine shaded place to camp weeknights and to fill up on water, and to the use sani dump. Lots of room for the kids to run around: swings, bars.


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The M&A market appears unstoppable. Yet while the well-known names of corporate law hog the headlines, it is the younger advisers that put in the lion's share of the hours required to support transformational deals such as private equity house Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' (KKR) £11.1bn acquisition of Alliance Boots.
The Lawyer has scoured the City for the very best of the new generation of corporate stars and will be tracking their careers.
In a series of video interviews, produced in association with Cantos and available on www.thelawyer.com/city_young_guns.html, we ask 10 of the very best 'City young guns', aged under 35, to shed some light on the issues impacting on the careers of the next generation of corporate stars.
Partnership aspirations
Of The Lawyer's 10 City young guns, three were made up to their firms' partnerships during the May promotion round. But with all the hype about alternative career paths, is partnership really still the most coveted legal title for corporate lawyers?A quick straw poll of the group is met with a resounding 'yes'. All admit, whether overtly or through more subtle mutterings, that partnership has always been, and remains, their key career goal.
"Being honest, I still aspire to being a partner in a law firm," says Samantha McGonigle, an associate at Weil Gotshal & Manges. "That's still the pinnacle of success in private practice."
But Clifford Chance senior associate Robert Crothers argues that this does not mean firms should give up developing alternative career paths.
"The people issue is one of the biggest challenges for law firms at the moment – both firms and the individuals are struggling with it, as not everyone wants partnership and all that it entails. Trying to retain people that don't want partnership is the biggest issue."
Ashurst partner Gavin Gordon, another of the trio made up in May, bangs the drum for Ashurst's approach to the issue, which has been to revamp its associate career path with defined job roles and offer the position of counsel as an alternative to partnership.
"The profession as a whole needs to offer an alternative [to partnership]," he says. "There's clearly a move towards addressing those issues, but the real difficulty in law is the progression from trainee to seven or nine years' PQE to potentially qualifying as a partner."
Career development
Another straw poll reveals that the majority of our City young guns' firms offer associates mentors to assist their career development. For example, Clifford Chance provides business skills training and career development partners, regardless of associates' career aims.
This is an initiative supported by the firm's global head of corporate Peter Charlton, who is clear that all levels of lawyers must be commercially savvy.
Charlton says: "Clients are telling us more and more that it's not just about delivering legal solutions, it's delivering business advice alongside this."
But McGonigle, who joined Weil from Lovells last year with her trainee mentor, partner Jonathan Wood, argues that the US approach is better placed to develop buy-in by associates – and therefore retain them – because of the greater level of actual client responsibility given to younger members of the team.
"The real difference [between UK and US firms] is the culture," she says. "We do the same type of work with the same clients, but the culture is more relaxed and associates are treated like adults. You're given more responsibility and also more information on the business."
Although this is not supported by exclusive research by The Lawyer, which recently revealed that only 7 per cent of associates found US firms to be the most attractive employers.
Long hours culture
All this, however, adds up to confirmation of the endemic long hours culturally expected of transactional lawyers. All of our young guns admit to working long, unsociable hours at times, and sometimes struggling with work-life balance.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Edward Cole, the last of the trio made up in May, says: "The hours can be long and the work can be tough on occasion. But you have to remember, balanced out against that is that the work can be exciting."
Crothers says: "Clients can be very apologetic and grateful for the long hours worked and that does make a difference. But ultimately they have their own legitimate business demands that they must meet… It's the pressure of global business."
But are our young guns getting it wrong? As the head of the world's largest law firm's corporate group, Charlton is well placed to know. "You need to maintain a balance in life. You have to work quite hard at that when you're a corporate M&A lawyer because the demands of the clients are very, very high. But you can make time, if you work at it."
City Young Guns
Ross Allardice, Kirkland & Ellis
**He is currently renovating a property in Edinburgh**
Scottish-admitted associate Ross Allardice opted to join the London office of Kirkland & Ellis in 2004 in order to access the more challenging workload and direct client and partner contact offered by a US firm.
Like his Scottish colleagues at Kirkland, well-known partners Graham White and Raymond McKeeve, who joined from Linklaters last year, Allardice started his career as a trainee in the Edinburgh office of Dickson Minto before moving to London after one year.
Since joining Kirkland, the 31-year-old University of Dundee and Christ's College, Cambridge graduate has helped advise several of the firm's top private equity clients, including Providence Equity Partners on its joint acquisition with Doughty Hanson of Caudwell Communications for £1.46bn last year.
Other recent mandates include advising CCMP Capital on its £505m acquisition of vacuum equipment manufacturer BOC Edwards.
Edward Cole, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
**Cole tries to visit his family in Australia at least twice a year**
New partner Edward Cole, who was made up in May, is tasked with the crucial role of helping develop Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's corporate and cross-border M&A practice in Asia. He will shortly be flying out to Tokyo.
The move is a return to his roots for the 32-year-old, who, although originally from Sydney, is a fluent Japanese speaker, having studied at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.
He joined Freshfields in 2001 in Japan, having cut his legal teeth as an associate with the chief of justice of New South Wales.
"I'm looking forward to using my Japanese language skills more again," Cole says. But his experience is far more diverse than his language talents may suggest, as he has advised on a diverse array of deals, such as Virgin Mobile's flotation in 2004 and various fundraisings for Swiss mining group Xstrata.
Rebecca Cousin, Slaughter and May
**Enjoys going for walks on Hampstead Heath to relax**
Slaughter and May associate Rebecca Cousin was always destined to become a lawyer, having from an early age shown a pleasure in scrutinising the smallprinted competition entry criteria on the back of cereal packets.
Since joining Slaughters in 2003, having trained at Pinsents (now Pinsent Masons) in Birmingham, she has carved out an astounding deals list, including advising Alliance Boots on its £10.6bn recommended cash offer by AB Acquisitions, controlled by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Stefano Pessina.
Other key instructions for the 31-year-old have been assisting investment company Crownstone European Properties on its EURO450m (£303.71m) share offering and proposed listing on Euronext earlier this year, and the Hilton Group on the £3.3bn sale of its hotel and leisure division, Hilton International, to Hilton Hotels Corporation in 2006.
Robert Crothers, Clifford Chance
**Has a passion for travel to remote destinations. Has visited Yemen, Iran and Libya**
Seven year-PQE associate Robert Crothers' dedication to Clifford Chance is indisputable, having begun his career with the firm as a trainee. He has since grown to become a highly regarded member of the corporate finance team and has worked on top mandates, including advising KKR on its £10.6bn recommended cash offer for Alliance Boots opposite fellow young gun Rebecca Cousin at Slaughters.
Other career highlights include advising key client Kraft Foods on the acquisition of the Spanish and Portuguese operations of United Biscuits and the return to Kraft of licensed trademarks, including Oreo and Ritz, across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Describing the legal profession as a "people business", the 31-year-old is clear that he was sold on Clifford Chance because of the team. This has since been bolstered by the firm's dedicated training and mentoring programme for career progression.
Gavin Gordon, Ashurst
**His favourite bands include Kaiser Chiefs and Arctic Monkeys**
Ashurst rising star Gavin Gordon was rewarded in May for his efforts advising a stellar client list, including private equity groups Blackstone and Candover, by being made up to the partnership at just 32-years-old.
Gordon, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge is integral to the firm's relationship with Blackstone. Notably, he assisted the private equity group on its £1.03bn acquisition, through its company Merlin Entertainment, of a majority stake in Tussauds Group in February. Other key instructions have included advising Candover on its £2.18bn acquisition, through bingo and casino operator Gala, of bookmaking chain Coral Eurobet in 2005.
When he is not advising on leveraged buyouts, M&A and cross-border transactions, season ticket-holder Gordon can be found cheering on his beloved Tottenham Hotspur.
Samantha McGonigle, Weil Gotshal & Manges
**Is a skiing fanatic. Favours Val d' Isère for the slopes and après ski**
Samantha McGonigle has proven to be a valuable asset to Weil Gotshal & Manges since joining from Lovells as an associate in early 2006 as part of partner Marco Compagnoni's team.
"My second seat as a trainee was with Marco and Jonathan Wood [her supervising partner at Lovells] and that really sold private equity to me," she says. As such, the 29-year-old associate, who is described by her peers as "super sharp and a real dynamo", focuses on advising an impressive array of private equity houses, particularly HgCapital and Advent International.
Recent key instructions for the Oxford University graduate include advising Advent on the disposal of Fat Face in a hotly contested auction that was ultimately won by Bridgepoint.
Ben Mercer, Stephenson Harwood
**Enjoys reading maritime novels, in the vein of Patrick OBrien**
Senior associate Ben Mercer is carving out a solid name for himself for top-level mid-market corporate advice at Stephenson Harwood, as the firm itself continues to build a solid reputation for AIM work off the back of its booming Asia practice.
Mercer, who recently turned 30, oversaw the corporate aspects of St Martins Property's $750m (£377.5m) sale of the Cevahir Mall in Istanbul – Europe's largest shopping mall – in March. He is also key to the firm's relationship with emerging markets fund manager Charlemagne Capital. He managed the advice to Charlemagne on its £300m IPO on AIM in April 2006.
Mercer, an avid golfer who is five years' PQE, looks headed towards partnership.
"I'm lucky enough to already run deals myself, obviously with a partner overseeing for regulatory reasons," he says. "But partnership would take my career to the next level. I suspect it's still the aim of the majority."
Dominic Morris, Allen & Overy
**Most of his spare time is spent with his nin-month-old daughter**
Senior associate Dominic Morris has had an astounding few years since joining Allen & Overy in 2004. The 33-year-old has drawn on his experience at magic circle rival Clifford Chance and subsequent stint at investment bank NM Rothschild to advise on several of the firm's leading corporate instructions.
Morris developed particular expertise in energy and utilities transactions during his time within NM Rothschild's natural resources team, and as a result has assisted on deals such as the Macquarie Consortium's £8bn acquisition of Thames Water Holdings.
Other key deal highlights include acting on Severstal's proposed E40bn (£27bn) merger with Arcelor last year and Shell's E4.4bn (£2.97bn) disposal of Basell NV to Access Industries.
Maegen Morrison, Lovells
**Her favourite book is The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester**
Maegen Morrison proved her credentials as a star corporate lawyer in May when she was made up during Lovells' record partnership promotions round.
The 32-year-old is particularly well regarded for her specialisation in financial institutions and the consumer and leisure sector, having notably advised Russian grocery discount retailer Pyaterochka Holding NV on its $1.37bn (£689.52m) acquisition of Perekriostok Holdings, the largest supermarket chain in Russia, in April 2006.
Other notable mandates include advising Lloyds TSB on its £975m sale of the Goldfish credit card business to Morgan Stanley in 2005.
It is a long way from her beginnings at Australian firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth, having obtained an LLB in Australia in 1999. After three years Morrison joined the flow of Antipodean talent moving to London and joinedLovells' corporate team before qualifying in England two years later.
Aisling Zarraga, Linklaters
**Her favourite book is The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester**
Linklaters managing associate Aisling Zarraga (née Walsh) has proven to be indispensable to the magic circle giant, stepping up to the breach left when the corporate group lost partners Raymond McKeeve and Graham White to Kirkland & Ellis last year. She has since taken over advising key clients including Tate & Lyle, Somerfield and HBOS.
In fact, Zarraga advised Apax Partners, Barclays Capital and R20, the investment vehicle owned by property investor Robert Tchenguiz, on their £1.8bn takeover of Somerfield and subsequent disposal of Kwik Save.
A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, she specialises in public and private M&A and private equity transactions, having refined her commercial skills during a secondment to GlaxoSmithKline in 2001 and stints as a trainee in both Singapore and Budapest.
The Lawyer TV
To see and hear more from The Lawyer's top 10 corporate lawyers, watch the City Young Guns video series, produced in association with Cantos, on www.thelawyer.com.
Our interview with Peter Charlton, global head of corporate at Clifford Chance, and six of the young guns is already available on the website, with the other four to be posted over the next two weeks.
To watch the videos, visit www.thelawyer.com/city_young_guns.html.


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NEW YORK, Thursday—I have a most pathetic letter from a girl in Athens, Greece. She writes that when her father died in Constantinople she and her mother and sister were left penniless, and they moved to Greece where she found a job to help support the three of them. Soon after, at 20, she "thinks" she was attacked by polio. Her legs became useless. She still continued working at home, however, with her hands and earning money for the family. But lately her hands and arms have become affected and they have had to go on relief given by the churches. She is brokenhearted at being a burden to her family.
Her mother is old, and it looks as though the girl not only could not get proper care but that the family was living on a most meager basis.
What valiant fights some people make in this world and how hopeless the situation must be in countries where the resources of both government and private charity are so much curtailed!
And while I am on the subject of letters, I have one which is signed just "An American Citizen." It comes from Chicago, and it says:
"Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Would you please investigate the repeated reports and complaints that non-Catholics of Catholic Spain are being subjected to religious persecution and that Protestants have been forbidden to build any more Protestant churches in Spain.
"If this is the condition in Spain, why then does said country receive help from the Marshall Plan? The people of the very faiths that are being oppressed and limited in Spain are made to help support and finance this Marshall Plan. To many and many of us that doesn't seem reasonable and a far cry from democracy.
"If you are not able to investigate because of your duties in the U.N., will you, through your knowledge and influence, direct this to the proper authority? Thanking you most kindly."
I would like to say, to begin with, that Spain does not receive Marshall Plan aid. But even if it did, we would have no control over the decisions of the government of Spain. Our government would not expect other nations to interfere with its domestic policies and we have no right to interfere with theirs. We do believe in freedom of religion and in allowing everyone to worship as they see fit, and in our own country we would allow any people that did not interfere with decency and order to worship as they saw fit in their own church.
The reason that the United Nations has voted for a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in which freedom of conscience and religion is one of the articles, is just because we hope that more and more people will come to believe that this freedom is a right that should not be taken from anyone.
The Declaration is not a legally binding document, and its acceptance must come through the willingness of governments and peoples to accept and live up to it. Spain is not a member of the United Nations, so she did not accept the Declaration. Her attitude toward religious freedom, which may be deplored by some, is her own business.


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