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Online Privacy & Security Statement

Our Commitment to Protecting Your Privacy

At COUNTRY Financial®,1 your privacy has always been important to us. We understand how important your privacy is to you, and we believe protecting your confidential information is a fundamental part of doing business. That’s why at COUNTRY we take steps to ensure:

  • We will restrict our employees' access to your information to only those who need to know information to provide products or services to you and for other reasons permitted by law.
  • Reasonable and appropriate safeguards are employed to protect your confidential information.
  • We will only share your information with non-affiliated third parties for marketing products that might be of interest to you, if you have not opted out of such sharing.

Categories of Information We Collect

This Privacy Policy governs your use of our website.  In an effort to provide the highest quality client service and to help ensure we are meeting your insurance and financial services needs, we may collect certain information about you through our website. The information we gather about you may include information:

  • From You: We may ask for your name, address, birthdate or age, Social Security Number, gender, marital status, telephone number, email address, driver’s license number, bank account or credit card information, accident and moving violation history, lien or lease holders information, college or school information, information related to your mobile device or mobile device carrier, other identifiers that permit physical or online contacting, and other personally identifiable information in combination with one or more identifiers mentioned above.  However, when you visit our website, you control the nonpublic personal information provided to us.
  • From Your Computer or Hand Held Device: We may use your Internet Protocol (IP) address to determine your geographical location and enhance your online experience. This information can be used in aggregate to generate reports on how visitors find and use our website, and other information.

From everyone who visits our website, we also collect:

  • Type of web browser
  • Type of device
  • Computer operating system
  • Internet service provider
  • Identification of any referring website
  • Areas visited within the website
  • Date, time, and length of access

This information does not provide any personal information, but is tied to a cookie that identifies your machine as a unique visitor. Cookies are described in greater detail below.

How We Share Your Information

COUNTRY considers the types of information listed above to be confidential.  However, from time to time and as allowed by law we may share that information:

  • Within our family of affiliated companies and with our business partners for everyday business purposes such as to service your transactions, fulfill your claims, and maintain your account(s). For example, we may provide your name, address, phone number, and certain claims information to a service provider for the purposes of servicing your claim.
  • As required or permitted by law to others, such as in response to court orders and legal investigations, or to consumer reporting agencies. Information sharing is limited to only that permitted or required by law.
  • Within our family of affiliated companies, or with your COUNTRY Financial representative, to provide you with outstanding products and services. For example, we may share information to provide better service to you in presenting products and services that meet your needs.
  • With companies that perform marketing services on our behalf. If we have joint marketing agreements, we may share information to offer financial products that might be of interest to you. We would limit the information shared to that which is needed to perform the transaction, such as name and address for a mailing.
  • With non-affiliates to market products that may benefit you or help you manage and protect your financial security.

How We Obtain Information From Your Online Use

  • COUNTRY uses Internet cookies, analytics or other technologies to help provide you with an enhanced online experience. Cookies are small text files sent to your browser from our web server.
  • COUNTRY collects statistical information to determine how users are using our website. We use this information to evaluate the usage of our website and to develop and improve our website content and functionality.

Cookies do not provide your name, address, email address or other personally identifiable information. We may link non-personally identifiable information that we collect with personally identifiable information that you provide to us through the use of our website.

How Your Information Is Used

COUNTRY wants your online experience to be the best it can be. Our main purpose for collecting information is to provide you with outstanding products and services. For instance, we may use the information to provide quotes or cost comparisons, answer your questions or concerns and provide you information in a timely manner. We also may use this information to contact you about other products and services from us or our affiliates, in which you might be interested. By learning more about you, we can deliver more relevant information about products and improve our customer service.

We may use general geographic location information and information about your Internet carrier, as well as information you provide us, to improve and customize our website’s content, layout, and services. For instance, if you provide us with your age and/or gender, we may place a cookie on your machine and on your next visit, personalize the message displayed.

If you login to the secured portions of our website, we use a cookie for session management and collecting analytics. This helps us to avoid asking you to login again as you move from page to page and allows us to evaluate and manage our marketing campaigns.

Currently, COUNTRY does not support the necessary technology to respond to “do not track” signals provided by major browsers, which are designed to provide you options regarding the collection of personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across different websites or online services. We do not allow our business partners to collect your personally identifiable information for their own marketing purposes when you use our website.

How We Protect Your Information

COUNTRY is concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your information. We use physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to help protect your confidential information that we process and maintain.

Our operational and data processing systems are contained in a secure environment and that environment is access-controlled.

To secure sensitive communications between your computer and our web servers, we have implemented digital certificates and enabled strong, RSA1024-bit, encryption. We use the secure sockets layer (SSL) security protocol to protect all exchanges of information via our web pages that are considered private or confidential.

We use various authentication technologies, including passwords, to authenticate visitors to the portions of our website that may allow access to confidential information. We have implemented other security controls such as firewalls, intrusion detection and intrusion prevention to protect our systems and networks and your confidential information. Our security systems constantly monitor the web server to help ensure your accounts are safe and secure.

We consider the security of your information a priority. Please be aware that, although we endeavor to provide reasonable security for information we process and maintain, no security system can prevent all potential security threats.

Data Retention Policy, Managing Your Information

COUNTRY may collect user provided data from your use of our website (“User Provided Data”) and retain this data for a reasonable time thereafter. If you’d like us to correct User Provided Data, please call us at 1-866-COUNTRY (1-866-268-6879) and we will respond in a reasonable time. Please note that some or all User Provided Data may be required to be retained by law.

We do not use our website to knowingly solicit data from children under the age of 13. For more information about children’s privacy and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), please visit the Federal Trade Commission website at

If you are a minor under the age of 18 and you have directly posted content on our website which you would like to have deleted or hidden, please call us at 1-866-COUNTRY (1-866-268-6879). We will respond to your request within a reasonable time and will take steps to ensure that content is either deleted or hidden. Please be aware that certain information may need to remain on our servers, as we may be required to retain certain information by law or where the information may have been provided by persons other than you.

Email messages without encryption are not secure. We are not responsible for the security or confidentiality of communications sent to us via unencrypted Internet email messages. Unencrypted email messages traveling through the Internet are potentially subject to viewing, alteration and copying by anyone on the Internet. Be cautious when submitting personal or financial information via unencrypted email.  Send confidential information through encrypted email or the U.S. Postal Service, or use the telephone to speak directly to our employees.

Internet Fraud

COUNTRY wants to protect clients by warning them about a growing form of Internet fraud called “phishing.” Fake email messages are disguised to look like requests from real businesses. These emails request private information. The information is then used to access financial records and steal identities. Be cautious when receiving emails from unknown or suspicious sources. If you receive an email message prompting you to login to read a message and you did not request any information, do not reply or click on the link, and contact us at 1-866-COUNTRY immediately.

Changes to this Privacy & Security Statement

Since Internet technology is quickly evolving, COUNTRY may make changes to this Privacy & Security Statement from time to time. We reserve the right to modify or amend this Privacy & Security Statement. When we make a change to this Privacy & Security Statement, we will post a new Privacy & Security Statement on our website. It is your obligation to periodically review this Privacy & Security Statement. You may also request a copy of this Privacy & Security Statement at any time.

Opt-In (Acceptance)

By using our website, you consent to our processing of User Provided Data and automatically collected information as described in this Privacy & Security Statement now and as amended by us. “Processing” means using cookies on a computer/hand held device or using or touching information in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting, storing, deleting, using, combining and disclosing information, all of which activities will take place in the United States. If you reside outside the U.S., your information will be transferred to the U.S. and processed and stored there under applicable U.S. privacy standards. By using our website and providing information to us, you consent to such transfer to, and processing in, the U.S.

Termination of Relationship

In the future if you terminate your relationship with COUNTRY, we will adhere to the privacy policies and practices described in this Privacy & Security Statement as amended from time to time.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about privacy while using our website, or have questions about our practices, please call us at 1-866-COUNTRY.

1This Privacy Statement covers the following companies: COUNTRY Mutual Insurance Company®, COUNTRY Casualty Insurance Company®, COUNTRY Preferred Insurance Company®, COUNTRY Life Insurance Company®, COUNTRY Investors Life Assurance Company®, COUNTRY® Capital Management Company, COUNTRY Trust Bank®, Cotton States Life Insurance CompanySM, and CC Services, Inc. 101071-04-201212


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> What Keppra is Known For

Side Effects | Keppra Index | Consumer Reviews & Comments
Return to the Keppra Page

Why Don’t They Just Make Planes out of Black Boxes?

This is the stuff you actually need to be concerned about if you are currently taking, or considering taking, a medication. The black box 1 and other warnings are side effects that can be especially hazardous, if not fatal. These are often, but not always, what a med is most notorious for, e.g. The Lamictal Rash is a black box warning.

If a drug has a black box warning then a verbatim copy of it from its full US PI sheet will be here. We may comment on any black box warning. E.g. Translate doctorese, note just how rare the problem is, or how the warning is the result of the nexus of panic and politics. Any other warnings of note, the pregnancy category, and comments about them, will go here as well. As with Keppra’s side effects, if you want to see them all, you’ll need to read the PI sheet. If you want to be paranoid pharmacophobic thorough, check Summary of Product Characteristics (SPCs) or other PI-equivalents we’ve found from other countries on the page of allegedly useful links. The US PI sheets have all the warnings you need to be actually concerned about, but once in awhile one will show up in some commie country on an overseas SPC before a PI sheet.

Black Box Warnings

Black Box Comments

Not only does Keppra have no black box warning (just like Topamax), it has fewer warnings than most other drugs. Some of the ones listed in the PI sheet look like they are there for standardization/CYA purposes. It pretty much boils down to “It’s a 1 in 10,000 chance that Keppra will mess with your liver, and it’s less likely to mess with your blood than any other antiepileptic drug AED on the market. But we’ve got to list those things in the warnings section and not just the adverse effects sections.”

Keppra (levetiracetam) Other Warnings & Things to Worry About

For all warnings, contraindications, etc., see the Keppra (levetiracetam) PI sheet.

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Keppra (levetiracetam) Pregnancy Category

C-Use with caution

Pregnancy Category Comments

What Do the Pregnancy Categories Mean?

Pregnancy categories A, B, C, D, and X are used to quantify both risk and the risk-to-benefit ratio. They are relatively neutral when it comes to severity of birth defects.

The only difference between categories A and B is that the drug companies conducted human trials to get that A rating, while the B rating means there has been no reported birth defect of any kind since the drug has been on the market. With both A and B, no matter how much of either med researchers give to critters, their cute little babies are just fine. Until dissected to prove there is no problem.

Category X is fairly straight-forward. You take this drug while pregnant, possibly pregnant, or potentially pregnant, your kid will be born with three arms and a total of two fingers. There are also plenty of alternatives available. So unless you’ve tried absolutely everything else already, and you insist on damning some innocent child to the same brain cooties that you have, talk to your doctor about another med.

It’s the meds that are categories C and D are difficult. C means animals gave birth to mutants when given anywhere from sub-therapeutic to ridiculously high amounts of the medication in question, and there have been reports of human birth defects that may be to probably are2 due to taking the med. Sometimes the data from the field are so vague (e.g. all or almost all the women were taking at least one other medication), and the critters didn’t spawn Roger Cormanesque offspring on anything lower than 50 times the maximum human dosage, that it’s pushing a C+ to B-. The important thing is category C meds are first-line drugs while category D meds are often, but not always, second- or third-line drugs.

For more information, see the Federal Regulations covering PI sheets and the FDA’s Summary of Proposed Rule on Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling. They’re both remarkably clear for legal / bureaucratic documents. Doubly so considering the FDA published them.

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Drug-Drug, Drug-Supplement, Drug-Food Interactions

Most drug-whatever interactions involve elimination metabolism. With crazy meds the best known example is Lamictal and Depakote or whichever flavor of carbamazepine you’re taking. If you’re taking Depakote you need to take less Lamictal less often. With Tegretol or Equetro you need to take more Lamictal more often. That’s not always the case. Interactions can affect transformation, which is why Paxil + tamoxifen = that breast cancer isn’t going anywhere, because tamoxifen itself doesn’t do shit, your liver turns it into endoxifen (and perhaps others), which does all the dirty work. Interactions can also be potentiations, where one drug enhances the effect of another without slowing its clearance. All patient information leaflets and drug-drug interaction checkers have boilerplate potentiation interactions along the lines of, “two or more antidepressants meds can make you extra drowsy/spacey/ready to go on a tri-state multicide spree.” Alcohol potentiates the sedative effects of TCAs, while alcohol and benzodiazepines potentiate each other3. There can be interactions that are beneficial, and those rarely show up in PI sheets or drug-drug interaction checkers.

Noted Drug-Whatever Interactions

Not a damn thing, which is noteworthy in of itself. This study suggests that maybe there are some in a few people, but the data aren’t clear and the differences are too small to matter.

Practically every other med will interact with something else, because even if they are just substrates of (are metabolized by) the same CYP450 or UGT enzymes there can be competition. Even Neurontin is self-inhibiting - take too much and you’ll get less and less out of it. But it just doesn’t work that way with Keppra.

And until its derivative, or the other med based upon it, hits the market, there isn’t much in the way of pharmacodynamic (what the meds do in your brain) interactions because Keppra works in a way that is truly unique.
Only one pharmacodynamic interaction has been reported when combining Keppra and Tegretol (carbamazepine). Mixing the two can cause the symptoms of taking too much Tegretol, even though there is no change in blood levels. This may or may not have something to do with this odd thing of one-way cross-tolerance in rats given Keppra and Tegretol. So if you are taking these two meds there is a small chance you may need to reduce the amount of carbamazapine you take, or stop taking whichever one didn’t work as well for you.

Check for Drug-Drug-Drug Interactions

Drugs.com’s drug-drug and drug-food interaction checker

It’s always a good idea to check for drug-drug interactions yourself. Just because most people in the crazy meds business know about really important interactions (e.g. MAOIs and a lot of stuff, warfarin and everything on the planet) doesn’t mean the person who prescribed your meds told you about them, or the pharmacist has all the meds you take at their fingertips like they’re supposed to. Or they have the time to do their jobs properly when not dealing with complete idiots or playing Angry Farmers on the Faecesbooks.

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Side Effects | Keppra Index | Consumer Reviews & Comments
Return to the Keppra Page

1 Called "black box warnings" because they appear in a box at the top of the PI sheets, written in big, bold print, and originally surrounded by a thick, black outline. Some companies still put black box warnings in a black box. There is no relationship to the black boxes in airplanes, although I haven't tried burning a number of different PI sheets to see if the black box warnings are still legible in the ashes.

2 Don't expect the drug companies to always cooperate in figuring out where on that scale their meds are.

3 Or: Alcohol + TCAs = Die like a 1960s trophy wife. Alcohol + Benzos = Die like a rock star.

If you have any questions not answered here, please see the Crazymeds Keppra discussion board. We welcome criticisms of the articles, notifications of bad links, site problems, consumer experiences with medications, etc. I’m not always able to write back. Hence I never answer questions about meds via e-mail that are answered by this or other articles. Especially if they have been repeatedly asked on the forum. That’s why we write these damn things. Questions about which meds are best for your condition should also be asked on the forum; because this is a free site, so the price of admission is making things easier for somebody else searching for the same answer. We don’t deal with children on the forum or in private because after doing this for ten years I don’t have the emotional stamina to deal with kids who have brain cooties. How to contact Crazymeds. — Jerod Poore, CME, Publisher Crazymeds (crazymeds.us)

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Keppra, and all other drug names on this page and used throughout the site, are a trademark of someone else. Keppra’s PI Sheet will probably have the name of the manufacturer and trademark owner (they’re not always the same company) at or near the very bottom. Or ask Google who the owner is. The way pharmaceutical companies buy each other and swap products like Monopoly™ real estate, the ownership of the trademark may have changed without my noticing. It may of changed hands by the time you finished reading this article.

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Nobody on this site is a doctor, a therapist, or a pharmacist. We don’t portray them either here or on TV. Only doctors can diagnose and treat an illness. While it’s not as bad as it used to be, some doctors still get pissed off by patients who know too much about medications, so tread lightly when and where appropriate. Diagnosing yourself from a website is like defending yourself in court, you suddenly have a fool for a doctor. Don’t be a cyberchondriac, thinking you have every disease you see a website about, or that you’ll get every side effect from every medication1. Self-prescribing is as dangerous as buying meds from fraudulent online pharmacies that promise you medications without prescriptions.
All information on this site has been obtained from the medications’ product information / summary of product characteristic (PI/SPC) sheets and/or medication guides - which is all you get from sites like WebMD, RxList, NAMBLA NAMI, etc., the sources that are referenced throughout the site, our personal experience and the experiences family, friends, and what people have reported on various reputable sites all over teh intergoogles. As such the information presented here is not intended as a substitute for real medical advice from your real doctor, just a compliment to it. You should never, ever, replace what a real doctor tells you with something from a website on the Internet. The farthest you should ever take it is getting a second opinion from another real doctor. Educate yourself - always read the PI/SPC sheet or medication guide/patient information leaflet (PIL) that comes with your medications and never ever throw them away. OK, you can throw away duplicate copies, but keep at least one, as that’s your proof of purchase of having taken a med in case a doctor doubts your medical history. Plus they take up less space than a bottle, although keeping one inside of a pill bottle is even better.
Crazymeds is not responsible for the content of sites we provide links to. We like them, or they’re paid advertisements, or they’re something else we think you should read to help you make an informed decision about a particular med. Sometimes they’re more than one of those things. But what’s on those sites is their business, not ours.
Very little information about visitors to this site is collected or saved. From time to time I look at search terms used and which pages they bring up in an effort to make the information I present more relevant. And the country of origin, just because I’m geeky like that. That’s about it. Depending on how you feel about Schrodinger, our privacy policy should either assuage or exacerbate your paranoia.
Crazymeds is optimized for ridiculously large screens and browsers that don’t block ads. I use Firefox and Chrome, running under Windows 72. On a computer that sits on top of my desk. With a 23 inch monitor. Hey, at least you can make the text larger or smaller by clicking on the + or - buttons in the upper right hand corner. If you have Java enabled. Like 99% of the websites on the planet, Crazymeds is hosted on domain running an open source operating system with a variety of open source applications, including the software used to display what you’ve been reading. As such Crazymeds is not responsible for whatever weird shit your browser does or does not do when you read this site3.
Crazymeds now uses a secure server, but it is not so secure that you can discuss anything having to do with nuclear power facilities, air traffic control systems, aircraft navigation systems, weapons control systems, or any other system requiring failsafe operation whose failure could lead to injury, death or environmental damage. Just so you know. So if you’re mentally interesting and have a job that deals with that sort of thing, talk about said job elsewhere. Otherwise feel free to discuss your meds and brain cooties.
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1 While there are plenty of books to help you with hypochondria, for some reason there’s not much in the way of websites. Then again, staying off of the Internet is a large part of curing/managing the disorder.

2 Remember kids, Microsloth operating systems are like TOS Star Trek movies with in that every other one sucks way, way more. With TOS Star Trek movies you don’t want to bother watching the odd-numbered ones. With Microsloth OS you don’t want to buy and install the even-numbered ones. Anyone who remembers ME and Vista knows what I mean.

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SEATTLE and SAN FRANCISCO – December 6, 2011New Relic Inc., the SaaS web application performance management (APM) provider, and CenturyLink Cloud, the enterprise cloud platform provider, announced today that CenturyLink Cloud has enhanced its leading enterprise-grade public cloud platform with the addition of New Relic Standard, now available free of charge to its public cloud customers. Organizations deploying business-critical apps on CenturyLink Cloud will now have deep, real-time visibility into application performance, which combines with CenturyLink Cloud’s offering to create an unparalleled solution for deploying and managing apps in the cloud. CenturyLink Cloud provides an enterprise-grade virtual private or hybrid cloud. Architected for security, risk mitigation and high availability—with 99.999% SLA at all layers and disaster recovery in every deployment—CenturyLink Cloud’s cloud platform is optimized for production environments and mission-critical applications.

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OpenSolaris AKA project Indiana is here. Sun and the OpenSolaris community launched the official first version of the open-source OpenSolaris operating system, which has only been available in pre-release versions for developers until now. New operating system includes:

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Amazon is offering selected developers the ability to run OpenSolaris applications on its EC2 “cloud computing” servers. Participation for now is by invitation only – the service has a beta tag while the company learns how to scale up.

Companies with OpenSolaris packages available for EC2 from Monday include Gigaspaces and Zamanda, with Sun also providing Glassfish and Ruby on Rails packages.

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Hello guys, I have a t-rb22 logitech trackball and at the moment it's not working properly. I have thinkered with it a bit, I think I know what the problem is and I need to replace a small switch inside (pictures attached).
This switch - well I call it switch - has a little pin at the back not visible in the picture that gets pushed in everytime a button is clicked on the trackball (it's the main left mouse click). I am not really techincal when it comes to these things and I have absolutely no idea where to buy it. It's a 426c IC (as you can see) and there is also a white cover that says 002069-0000 cav4. WOuld anybody know where and if I could buy this part anywhere or where I could get more info? Oh logitech don't sell this trackball anymore so no point asking them.

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You should be able to find the appropriate switch at an electronics component supply house. Then you will need to unsolder the old switch and solder in the new one. If you aren't an experienced solderer, or the device is wave-soldered directly to the circuit board, then you need someone with a lot of experience. I couldn't do it well, but my grandson does that sort of stuff all the time. Experience is the key here.

thanks, that's not actually the switch, mapli doesn't seem to have it but I have found it elsewhere. I will check how that's been soldered and take it from there

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Iraq: Protests Erupt in Basra Over Lack of Electricity

StoryAugust 15, 2003
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We go to Baghdad to speak with Guardian reporter Jamie Wilson. He recently wrote an article titled "Basra simmers in the heat while tempers boil over" that looks at the constant blackouts in post-Hussein Iraq. He talks about how Iraqis understand all too well what New Yorkers are going through now. [Includes transcript]

The article begins:

“If Iraq has had it bad over the past three decades, then Basra has had it the worst. Parts of the Iran-Iraq war were fought virtually at the gates of the city. In 1991 an estimated 250,000 people died in the uprising against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

As a punishment the regime left the city to rot, and it shows. The buildings are crumbling, and the canals, which once led to the city being compared favorably to Venice, are filled with rubbish.

The city was due a bit of good luck, and most people thought the British and the Americans would bring it.

But four months on things are, many say, no better, and whether by political design or through pure frustration exaggerated by the intense heat, some citizens decided at the weekend that it was time to have a say.

The riots began on Saturday at a petrol station in Sahht Square, a large open expanse of wasteland described by one British official as the city’s answer to Belfast’s Crumlin Road.

Tuesday, back at Red Six, the soldier’s codeword for the petrol station, there was no rioting, but among some of the drivers of the 400 or so vehicles waiting to fill up there was not much sign of the anger and resentment having gone away.

The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) is using more than 6 million liters of fuel confiscated from three smuggling barges seized in the Shatt al-Arab waterway to increase supplies of petrol to Basra, but the pumps were dry in Sahht Square. The CPA says vandals have torn down electricity lines and blames the power problems in the city on the outdated and badly maintained 1970s infrastructure.

But some residents are in no doubt that others are the cause of the problems. Sabri Zugheyer, 45, a restaurant owner, who needed fuel for his generator so that he could open up, said: "The British promised to make everything better, but now it’s worse. Even in the old days it was never as bad as this. Their promises are worth nothing."

  • Jamie Wilson, Guardian reporter speaking from Baghdad.

AMY GOODMAN: .and that’s some of the noise at Union Square, where, yes it was festive. But people have to be very careful, people should definitely be checking on their neighbors. People who in any way are handicapped or elderly, make sure you’re checking in. These are also very very hot days, and we have to make sure that everyone is safe. You know, as we went around, and we’re going to hear a lot from the producers, and the staff of Democracy Now, to give us a sense of everything that’s been going on. It really made me think about Iraq. We’re talking about high temperatures, and we’re talking about lack of electricity, and, to say the least, people’s quote, "business as usual" being interrupted. I was watching CNN a couple of weeks ago, a program on Saturday morning, and one of the reporters asked the reporter in Baghdad, she said, you know, we really have to ask, and a lot of people are asking it in this country, we gave you liberation, and yet, you’re talking about electricity. What do these people want, saying that they are ungrateful, talking about the Iraqi people. Well, we’re joined on the telephone right now, by a guest who has been covering major protest in Basra, is now in Baghdad. He is Jamie Wilson, and he reports for the Guardian newspaper. Welcome to Democracy Now.

JAMIE WILSON: Hi, how are you doing.

AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. Unusual circumstances today. We’re here with candles that light our studio, in the power hub, perhaps, of the world, New York. As you’ve heard, the biggest blackout in American history. Can you talk about some of the similarities right now.

JAMIE WILSON: Yeah, I mean, I can tell you that the irony hasn’t been entirely lost on some of the Iraqi people I’ve been talking to this morning. They’ve obviously heard about what’s been happening in America on sort of BBC World and various other radio stations here. And, I have to say, some of them are actually finding it quite funny, these people who’ve been without power for months and months now. And I think — certainly my driver said to me this morning, that perhaps now that Baghdad could donate some electricity to America to try and help sort out the problems. I mean, the people here are basically living with three hours on, three hours off, is how the system is working at the moment. It is better than it was, I think, a few months ago just after the war finished, when I think power was up to 30% of demand. It’s now up to probably somewhere around about 60% or 70% I guess. But still, most people in Baghdad are having to cope with three hours of electricity followed by three hours of no electricity, which in 50 degree Celsius heat, I’m not quite sure what that is in Fahrenheit, but I think I can tell you, it’s no fun for most of these people. Most of them don’t have air conditioning anyway, but more of them do have fans, that just take the edge off that temperature at night, particularly when they’re trying to sleep. And with no electricity, it really isn’t much fun for these people.

AMY GOODMAN: And that comment that the CNN reporter made, asking, isn’t there a certain level of ungratefulness here? We liberated the people of Iraq. What more do they want, and yet they’re talking about electricity.

JAMIE WILSON: Well, I think electricity goes to the heart of everything, really. It’s so important, as I’m sure you guys are realizing today, Without it, life doesn’t really, it’s very difficult for life to go on as normal. Especially in these temperatures, without refrigeration and without the fans that I was talking about. So, you know, for these people, they can’t live without electricity, as I’m sure you guys are finding out. So, I think that’s a pretty harsh comment to make.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you describe again for our listeners, what happened in Basra when you were there.

JAMIE WILSON: As a matter of fact, there was quite a lot of rioting in Basra, last weekend, some very serious rioting. Actually, about 2000 people took to the streets. It was a combination of a few things, really, coming together. One, incredibly high temperatures, last weekend, and humidity in Basra, and basically for most of the weekend there was a complete power blackout. Some of it was due to saboteurs taking copper from the electricity lines, but basically, just a huge demonstration that meant the infrastructure of the country couldn’t cope, and so, most of the city was left without electricity in these horrendous temperatures. Added to that, because of no electricity, the oil refinery couldn’t produce any gas, so people couldn’t get fuel for their cars, but, more importantly, they couldn’t get fuel for their generators, either. Because a lot of people do have generators and might maybe put a generator in the street that people will pay — owned privately — that people will pay to hook up to you, but when the power goes down, it means at least they can get power from a generator, even if it isn’t infinite, and not as much power as the would normally get. So, for the lack of gas when they couldn’t fuel up these generators, they really were left in a pretty dire situation. And that led to, you know, quite severe rioting, down in Basra. And that, you know, was just a reflection, really, of how bad that situation was getting.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you, Jamie Wilson. The news we also have out of Iraq now, while we have you on, the U.S. has apologized to Shiite Muslims in Iraq for knocking down a Shiite flag on Wednesday. Massive protests erupted in Baghdad, and the U.S. shot dead an Iraqi. And a British soldier was killed yesterday in Basra. Can you comment on either.

JAMIE WILSON: Yes, well, I think, the situation that happened in Sadr City, which used to be called Saddam City, which is a big Shiite area, was a very bizarre situation really, and I don’t quite know what the American helicopter was trying to prove by trying to knock down this flag. I mean, it does show a rather lack of awareness and sensibilities. I mean, the Shiites are the people who pretty much welcomed the Coalition to Iraq. Saddam Hussein very much relied on the Sunni Muslim population for his pathways. And I think it was, from what I can gather, it was sort of a cowboy maneuver from this one helicopter, but it does show sort of, that you know, perhaps, American and British forces need to at least think a little more carefully about what they’re doing sometimes with local sensibilities, because it’s very easy, I think, for the Iraqi people now, to start feeling a little bit under threat from the way things are going, feeling that American forces are being quite hostile toward them. And I don’t know how that helps the security situation for the American soldiers either. The British situation is quite worrying. They haven’t so far come up against any guerilla-style attacks, I’m sure you know, which have left more than sixty soldiers dead in, sort of, the north of the country. Again, the south of the country, where the British are based, is predominately Shiite, again, mostly welcoming. And I’m sure it would be a very worrying development for the British military that they’ve now, there was a bomb attack against an ambulance, it was, it was a remote control device placed against a lamppost, I believe, that exploded as a military ambulance was going past, killing one soldier and wounding two others. And yes, that will be very worrying for the British, they’ll be just waiting, I think, to see whether or not this is — whether or not there’s going to be more attacks, or whether it was just an isolated incident.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, Jamie Wilson, we want to thank you very much for being with us, joining us from Baghdad, just out of Basra. Talking about the situation now, and also about the riots this past weekend in Basra, because of the lack of electricity and services. We are broadcasting here from New York by generator. There is no electricity in this area, or in most of Manhattan, not to mention most of the boroughs of Manhattan, and it’s not only New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, as far away as Ohio. The national guard have been called out. In Toronto, in Ottowa, there is the largest blackout in American history that is taking place. We are going to go to a break, with the Blackout Drummers, as they’re called, joined by a clarinetist in Union Square last night. And then we’re going to George Monbiot, who writes about extreme climate conditions in the Guardian Newspaper, usually based in Britain, he’s in Norway right now. Stay with us. Democracy Now.

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Scene 1
Piyush tells Roshni and Rohan about Simar because they are worried. Roshni says I can’t believe she is your sister. Piyush says I think I have to go now. After so many years that man.. she couldn’t forget him. rohan says relax. we should all go there. Rohan says get ready. Piyush asks Roshni is Rohan here? Rohan comes and says I am ready.
Simar comes in with police. Piyush says maa what happened? Simar says actually.. Piyush says I have told them everything. Rohan says what happened. Simar tells them everything that happened. Inspector says if there is a complaint next time we will arrest her. Piyush says how can you ask her not to meet her daughter. Rohan asks him to calm down. Piyush says how can they do this. I will talk to them. Simar says its useless. Truth is that Anjali doesn’t even wanna see my face. Rohan says everything will be okay. Take her to room choti maa. Roshni takes her to room.
Piyush hits the wall. He says you saw Rohan how he insulted my mom. Rohan says it takes time. Rohan says choti maa always taught us love can heal anything. The man you are saying all this about is your papa. What you know? Just one side. She still respects him, there must be a reason. You should go, she needs you.

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Simar recalls how Prem insulted her. She is crying and sobbing. Piyush comes in.
Anjali says what should I do Kb. I even hate her name. Khushi says she is so clever, She only wants Prem’s money. Anjali says I don’t care about her and nor dad. I wanna fulfill my dream.
Khushi says whose text is it? Anjali says I am waiting for Arjun’s text. Khushi says he did so much to you? anjali says he is my key for Mumbai. I have to keep him happy. Khushi says your dreams will come true. Simar says I failed as a wife and mother. Piyush says you are the best mom. You promised me you won’t cry for that man. Please stop crying. Simar swipes her tears. Simar syas I won’t cry. you have to promise me one thing as well. You will remove all the hatred for you papa. Will you do that? Piyush says I promise I will try.
He says now have this soup. Piyush says please. Piyush says in heart if your distance is your problem, then I will remove the distance between you and Prem.

Piyush is watching TV. He keeps changing channels. Roshni comes and sits with him. Roshni says what happened? He says I am thinking how to get maa her happiness back. She says I have an idea. We should ask Rohan.. Rohan comes in and says I need help first. We have to select the candidate first. piyush sees a file in his documents. Piyush says I have the idea. rohan says what. Piyush says I will tell you later.

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Next morning, Prem is in his car. Piysuh comes in front of his car. Prem comes out. Prem says can’t you see? Are you okay? People start blaming Prem.
Prem says it was his mistake. He came in front of the car. The man says you shut up. Prem says to piyush, why aren’t you telling him its your mistake. Piyush says I came in front of his car. Its his mistake. Piyush says sorry sir. Prem says thats fine. Are you hurt? Piyush says no. Prem says it felt good that you accept your mistake. Piyush says when it was my mistake I had to accept it. He picks his papers and gives them. Prem says there are you resumes? so many copies? Piyush says I send my resume everywhere hoping I would get a job. in that tension I came in front of your car. Prem gives him his visiting card and says there are some vacancies in my company. Come at 11 tomorrow. Piyush says thank you sir. Why are you helping me? Prem says so you don’t come in front of someone’s car. Whats you names? Piyush says SP Piyush. Prem says SP? He says thats my parent’s initials. Prem says why initials? Can’t you use whole name. Piyush says no I wanna make my own name. Prem says I will see you tomorrow at 11.

Piyush comes back home. a card slips from his pocket. Its prem’s simar sees it.
Piyush comes in the office. He says wow there is more noise in hospital. Is this an office or library. Piyush asks receptionist I lost my number can I have yours? She says sorry. He says I want to meet Prem bharadwaj. I have an appointment with him. He asked me to come here. He gave me his card. She says he is in a meeting you can wait till then.

Mataji is on stairs and says simar will come back. Sankalp says give us the injection back. Mnataji says I won’t. Mataji slips from the stairs. They all run and pick her up.
piyush says to its been more than half hour. Please ask him I came here. I have to meet him. Watchman says whats the problem. Piyush says just call him once. Watchman says he can’t be called during the meeting. Watchman shoves him. prem says you don’t know I am. Piyush shoves him. Prem comes and says Piyush..

Precap-Sattu says let be bring taxi. Piyush says that won’t bee needed. Mataji sees him and says I see simar in you and look like Prem.

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The Final Preview: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

2011-04-13 17:00:00·  11 minute read   ·  Maurice Tan

Western fantasy role-playing games have moved in different directions over the years. You have the European type of games like Two Worlds II, the Gothic series, and the original The Witcher. Games that tend to expect a lot of patience from the player while giving you a huge amount of things to do in an open, yet usually (or initially) buggy world.

Then you have games like Dragon Age II that streamline the more hardcore elements to provide a more polished experience, but at the same time restrict your freedom in terms of customizability and things like crafting.

Now it looks like we finally have a game that tries to do it all, and in doing so might blow anything away that we've grown to kind of accept in recent years. If you were one of those people that complained about Game X and said "I'll wait for Witcher 2 instead," then congratulations: you were right.

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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (PC)
Developer: CD Projekt RED
Publisher: CD Projekt (Europe), Atari (North America)
Release Date: May 17th, 2011

Geralt of Rivia is back, and he is as bad-ass as he ever was. Following some events during a siege on a castle, Geralt finds himself a prisoner in a dungeon of the very kingdom he once protected. The witcher is being accused of a crime and acts like it's either one he didn't commit, or acts as if he knows more about it than he's willing to tell just anyone. A crime that appears to be a grave one, given the torture marks on Geralt's back and the guards' pleasure in beating him to a pulp.

After the White Wolf is being brought to an interrogation chamber, a seemingly familiar face greets him and asks him just what the hell happened in the events that led to his capture. Thus, Geralt is given the option to start at the beginning and tell his tale in chronological order, or to simply go to key events; events you'll play through yourself.

Choosing to recount his tale from the beginning, you play through Geralt's recollection of a massive assault on a certain castle. After waking up next to the lovely Triss Merigold -- who happens to sport the best areola and shaven vulva textures of any game to date -- the battle-scarred witcher is summoned before the king. As you exit the little tent you woke up in, you are greeted by a massive valley the likes of which you haven't seen before.

Army tents litter the field encampment and the distant scenery as trebuchets lay waste to a castle's defenses in the distance, launching their ammo in 5.1 surround sound. Soldiers idle, train, and talk about rape and glory, and you're instantly transported to a fully realized and living world that stands on the brink of a major assault.

You are free to walk around and talk to soldiers, who sometimes have a few lines to say but always seem engaged in something even if they're just standing around, and a few "friends" from Geralt's past. There is one problem though: Geralt can't remember his past up to a certain event that made him lose a significant part of his memory.

These former acquaintances are happy enough to fill you in on some of your previous dealings with them, including tales of even more rape and murder. If you are sick of JRPGs or anime tropes that deal with sexual innuendo involving 12 year old girls, and prefer a brutal and adult medieval fantasy world, this is the game for you.

Following some dialogue, the unapologetic soldier bandits present you with a choice. They have stolen a magical trinket from some defenseless priestesses and would like to know if it would protect an inexperienced member of their merry band in the battle ahead.

Geralt's wolf medallion reacts to the trinket's magic, but there is no way of telling what the magic item actually does. You are given the choice to tell them that it will protect the new guy or that you just don't know what it will do -- the latter resulting in the guy being donned in armor and sent to battle without magical protection.

After a brief detour, to experience the dialogue system and the way in which The Witcher 2 deals with choice, you make your way to King Foltest who briefs you -- and some of his slippery political advisors -- on the battle ahead. Though the new graphics engine looks fantastic, the camerawork and the production values of the in-engine cutscenes might be even more impressive. Even minor characters show personality before they speak a word -- their posture, brief hesitations, and clothing often communicating more than mere words could ever do.

Instead of having a tiresome chain of events explained to you, the game expects you to figure out what exactly is going on by just dealing with present events and by paying attention to key characters that shed light on the situation at hand. It's a refreshing take on the old narrative structure we've grown accustomed to in RPGs, for sure.

What matters for Geralt there and then is the battle at hand, not why the battle is fought in the first place, and that's what the game focuses on. You make your way to the castle's walls, riding along in a tower with the King's elite, while Geralt notes how the real men fight in the piss- and shit-filled streets below as the aristocracy literally towers above them. Finally, it's time for action.

Combat is now a far easier affair than in the last game. Geralt automatically attacks the nearest enemy when you click to attack, so you can just mash the mouse buttons (for quick and heavy attacks) to hack and slash your way through combat if you please. You'll see Geralt making acrobatic leaps and rolls to cross the distance before he slashes down his foe. That is, until you encounter shielded and heavier enemies who will destroy you if you don't block incoming blows, or dodge out of the way to attack them from behind.

Alternatively, you can use various types of magic to set your enemies on fire, lay traps for them, blow them out of the way or buff your defense. Holding down the control key slows the game down and lets you select magic or weapons with a cursor. Or you can just use the keys centered around the WASD control scheme to do all of that. It works well and it's pretty easy to get the hang of.

As you fight your way through the castle's defenses, you'll mix up regular fighting with supporting the army's advance. Launching a ballista here and opening a gate there, the gameplay varies from scene to scene. The scale and ferocity of the siege is pretty impressive in its depiction, as axe men are ordered to chop down a wooden door instead of having it just magically open as a game's trigger is set off. Cutscenes seamlessly break up the gameplay to depict medieval "special forces" tactics and assaults that propel the main attack ever onwards.

It's what you'd expect from a medieval assault, until a "monster" enters the fray changes the mathematics of warfare. One scene sees you frantically fighting your way to survival alongside a group of soldiers and key characters, while "thing" wreaks havoc on the battleground. Some other scenes are even more dramatic, and breathe fantasy back into what could've otherwise been a plain old medieval world at war.

Eventually the battle reaches a couple of climaxes. In some of them you can choose how to deal with the situation at hand, which affects some events afterward, eventually leading up to Geralt's present predicament back in the dungeon you started in. Throughout the entire siege recollection you go back and forth between the events you just played through and the "present time" interrogation, to discuss what happened before choosing what event to play through next.

Eventually Geralt of course escapes the dungeon somehow, finding some allies (or are they foes?) along the way. If you happened to tell one of the soldier bandits -- who you met at the beginning -- that their magical artifact probably wouldn't protect their new guy in battle, you can find him along the way and he'll recount how your choice saved his life. In return, he'll help you distract some guards. If he used the artifact instead, who knows what would have happened?

Later on in the game you arrive in a forest infested with bizarre creatures and Elves to continue on your quest. And like everything else in the Witcher universe, even the Elves are badass. None of those Lord of the Rings or World of Warcraft graceful kinds of Elves, or even Dragon Age's "Elves as social commentary" stuff. Elves are a race like any other; one that has suffered through many wars and has its own internal political divisions. More than that, they just don't screw around if you get on their bad side. Some, however, are friendly and peaceful enough.

You quickly find yourself in a miniature world of humans, non-humans, and all kinds of social and political themes reflecting both interracial relations and internal divisions within a race. A public hanging, for instance, can be resolved by pointing out that one man is being hanged for debauchery, to which a previously cheering townsman reacts: "Debauchery is one of my favorite pastimes, and I wouldn't want a noose around my neck for it!"

It's great stuff, and if you're a fan of potty-mouthed NPCs who scream random obscenities at you, or at seemingly no-one in particular, you can eat your heart out. Peeking inside a prison cell rewards you with someone shouting a continuous stream of obscenities for almost a minute on end. Elsewhere you can find an NPC named Fliparse. And later on, some shady sidequest NPCs may offer you to participate in an experiment that could perhaps make you stronger. But to finish that quest, you'll have to meet them again in some town two years from now. Two years!

That's the kind of scope you're going to have to expect from this game with regard to choice and consequence. Some consequences may be easy to anticipate when you are given a choice. Other choices may affects things you weren't even aware of. It appears that The Witcher 2 attempts to weave a magical tapestry of non-linear interactive storytelling throughout the entire game. And from the looks of it, it does so without making it as obvious as in other games.

The forest environment also provides a taste of the more open-world affair that the game offers, because the mostly linear castle siege and the escape from imprisonment -- which takes around 3+ hours in itself -- merely forms the Prologue of the game. You'll spend that amount of time only to be greeted by "Chapter 1" being casually thrown in your face as you enter the forest in question -- something that bodes well for the full game's length.

Backtracking seems to be less of an issue compared to the first game -- which for full disclosure I sadly didn't play all that much -- although even 15% of the forest map already yields you a fair number of sidequests that gradually let you explore the area.

You can fight monsters, resolve disputes, help out townsfolk with random things, or even perform tavern fist-fights through QTEs. I was afraid that the QTEs would get tiresome, until I saw Geralt kick a guy in the nuts. It was almost as if you could hear the design team talking to you through the game, holding a meeting where they once went: "How awesome would it be if we'd insert an animation where he kicks a guy in the balls?"

Typical other Witcher elements make a return as well, like crafting, potion making, and an extensive skill tree. The moment you first lay your eyes on the inventory system is when you start to understand just how deep the game will go. It's a hardcore, but still pretty accessible game that attempts to offers both a polished and extremely immersive world while seemingly not restricting you in your freedom.

What I played was a still unfinished preview build, so some bugs are to be expected. And while there were a few instances of getting Geralt stuck, it felt like even those would be minor annoyances if you just quick-save a lot. PC gaming excuses aside, the loading times were reasonable and the game looked and ran playable enough on a two year old PC (E8400 3.0GHz, 4GB RAM, HD4830 512MB) at 1680x1050 and "medium" detail. If you are looking at upgrades and have a good dual core CPU already, then a current-day midrange graphics card will probably let you run the game on pretty good graphics settings without too much trouble.

Overall, my 7 hours or so with The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings left me very impressed. Again, I didn't play The Witcher as much as I would've liked, but the difference between the two games feels like the difference between Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. Everything from the gameplay to the consistently high quality of cutscenes and the voice acting just feels like a labor of love by CD Projekt RED.

I looked back on my experience with Dragon Age II afterwards, and BioWare's fantasy RPG now feels like it's in almost every way a mere toddler in the shadow of The Witcher 2. That's not to say DA II sucked, but a single village in The Witcher 2 already has more personality than all of Kirkwall. Moreover, the politics now run deep without treating you like a child for once. Characters feel human and treat you like an adult, the player is expected to deal with temporal jumps in narrative to keep up with the story, choices actually carry weight, and oh my god the breast textures!

Not that it's a male-oriented or misogynist game in any way, just because it deals with adult content matter. There's plenty of manflesh and pretty boys to admire as well, and the female characters are strong, confident, and don't take any shit or act like girly caricatures. Triss Merigold in particular already feels like she's going to be a fan favorite of gamers regardless of their gender; which is how it should be.

I knew I should keep my eye on The Witcher 2 even before I first saw it in action last year, but now that I've finally played it I feel confident enough to say that as a PC owner you're not likely to find anything like it all year. Sorry Hawke, but your cardboard persona is about to be witched in half. And Shepard? I still love you and I know you star in a different kind of RPG. But I'm really, really glad that your third space adventure is scheduled six months away from what will inevitably be Geralt's assassination of our social lives.

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At DIVE.IS we offer the PADI Open Water Course which usually takes four days, Thursday evening, Friday afternoon and evening and both weekend days. In this program you will work closely with our instructors to learn the skills and theory necessary to dive safely and have fun doing it. You will develop confidence in the water using both skin diving skills and with scuba equipment and practise planning and executing dives up to 18m depth with a buddy.

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PADI now offers the opportunity to complete all your Knowledge Development and Exams online at your own speed. As such you do not need to participate in Day 1 of the course, but merely need to complete a quick review with your instructor, which will be held on Day 2 before the pool session.

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Price for Part 1 (theory & pool): Upon Request

Price for Part 2 (4 Open Water Dives): 69.990,- ISK

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Price: 99.990,- ISK

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