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The Citizenship by Investment Program, running since 1993 and recently improved, offers the applicant and their family the most affordable route to full, legal citizenship through making an economic contribution to the country. Once granted citizenship an applicant and family members will be able to travel visa free to 91 countries including the UK, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Ireland.  On Thursday 28th May 2015 Dominicans were granted visa- free entry to Schengen states, allowing nationals of Dominica unrestricted access and stay in EU Member states up to 6 months per entry.

Please note that nationals Iran, Iraq, Chechnya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, North Korea, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are currently not eligible for applying under the program, unless they hold permanent residence outside of their country of birth.

To qualify for citizenship by investment in the Commonwealth of Dominica the applicants are required to make a contribution via either of the following four options:

  • A non-refundable donation of USD $100,000 into a Government Fund for a single applicant
  • A non-refundable donation of USD $175,000 for a family application consisting of one applicant and their spouse
  • A non-refundable donation of USD $200,000 for a family application consisting of one applicant, one spouse and two children under the age of 18 years
  • A non-refundable investment of USD $200,000 for a family application consisting of applicant, one spouse and more than two children under the age of 18 years, and US$50,000 for every additional child dependent aged 18 years and below
  • Further Additional members of the family are charged as follows:

(a) An additional $15,000 (US Dollars) per child for children who have turned 18 years but are less than 21 years old.
(b) An additional $25,000 (US dollars) is required for any additional child over twenty-one years of age.

  • Certificate of Naturalisation fees – USD750 per applicant
  • Cost of expedited process for passport – USD1,200 per applicant

Please note that these figures may change without notice, are exclusive of professional fees and are used for a guidance only.  Please contact us for an accurate quote.

Currently the estimated processing time for a Citizenship by Investment in Dominica is around 5-14 months. An application is submitted to the Financial Services Unit (FSU) department of the Dominican Government department who review all submitted forms and supporting documents.  There is a mandatory interview which an applicant must attend to fulfil the application process. As the interview commission meets only ONCE a month it can often lead to difficulties with allocating an interview slot and this can prolong the application process.

Typically the following documents are requested from each applicant including child dependents:

  • Photographs
  • Certified copy of passport(s)
  • Certified copy of national identity cards
  • Medical Insurance certificate
  • Certified birth certificate
  • Proof of residential addresses via utility bills where required
  • CV
  • Business background information
  • Impeccable references

Please note that Regency Elite will provide and prepare these application forms and will assist clients with the right choice of supporting evidence.  For further information on how the application process works, please contact us.

A peaceful, tropical paradise covered by rainforest with hundreds of waterfalls, rivers and lakes a wide variety of fauna and flora and remarkably unspoiled natural beauty earns the Commonwealth Of Dominica the title of the ‘Nature Island of the Caribbean’. Its tropical climate is a fertiliser for coconut trees, banana plantations, citrus and tropical fruits and coffee making agricultural export one of the main drivers of the economy.  Tourism is, of course, another sector that generates large income for the country.

It is has also been named as one of the world’s happiest places to live.  It offers a relaxed lifestyle within a safe, peaceful and unspoiled environment that is culturally vibrant and home to a warm, friendly community. Additionally, there is no wealth, gift, inheritance, foreign income or capital gains tax. A foreign investor is only liable to pay income tax if he resides and earns in the country. Furthermore, since Dominica is a member of double taxation treaties with the USA and CARICOM (an international organisation consisting of 15 member states in Caribbean promoting economic co-operation in the region) it allows for generous tax relief benefits and export allowance in the Caribbean.

  • No age restriction on elderly adult dependents
  • Swift processing time
  • No restrictions on dual nationality
  • Citizenship for life
  • No tax on foreign income
  • No charge on capital gains
  • No charge on gift, wealth and inheritance taxes
  • Visa free access to 91 countries

    For a list of Visa Free Travel for holders of a Dominica passport please scroll down:

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  • Roseau

  • Population

    72,300 (2014 Estimate)

  • Eastern Caribbean Dollar

  • GDP

    $1,501 billion (Total)

  • English and local dialects

An island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique.

Age Demographics

74% Black, 20.2% Mixed, 4% Kalinago, 0.8% European, 1% others

61% Roman Catholic, 18% Followers of evangelical churches, 3.7% Methodists, 1.6 % Rastafarians, 1.6% Jehovah’s Witnesses, 1.6% Anglicans, 0.8% Muslims.

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If you are a holder of Dominica passport, you can visit the following countries without obtaining visa. Please note this information is for guidance only. To visit other countries, or to stay for longer period, you may require a visa. Please check with the embassy or consulate of the country you will be visiting.

  • Argentina
  • Bermuda
  • Botswana
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • El Salvador
  • Guatemala
  • Honduras
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Kosovo
  • Malaysia
  • Montserrat
  • Nicaragua
  • Peru
  • Trinidad
  • Tobago
  • Uruguay

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bangladesh
  • Bolivia
  • Cambodia
  • Central African Republic
  • Cuba
  • Djibouti
  • Egypt
  • Jordan
  • Iran (Must Get Approval Online
  • Kenya
  • Laos
  • Lebanon
  • Macao
  • Madagascar
  • Mozambique
  • Nepal
  • Palau Islands
  • Samoa
  • Solomon Islands
  • Tanzania
  • Togo
  • Turkey
  • Uganda
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

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  • Bonaire
  • Canada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Costa Rica
  • Curacao
  • Jamaica
  • Mexico
  • Panama
  • Turks & Caicos
  • British Virgin Islds.

  • Cook Islands
  • Hong Kong
  • Maldives
  • Micronesia
  • Montenegro
  • Niue
  • Philippines
  • Seychelles
  • Singapore

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  • Belgium
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  • Czech Rep
  • Costa Rica
  • Curacao
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Italy
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Latvia
  • Malta
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Panama
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Slovak Rep
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Turks & Caicos
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Explosion safety with vent ducts: expensive and unproductive

The situation: Indoor plant components cannot be protected by explosion vents alone. The dusts and flames exiting the vessel pose an enormous threat both to the safety of employees and the plant itself. Secondary explosions resulting from the dust thrown up by the initial explosion are just one example. Vent ducts are often used to channel the pressure wave and flames from an explosion to an outdoor area.

The problem: This solution prevents process-optimised plant design. The longer the venting duct, the stronger the duct, and the plant itself, must be and the higher the associated costs. The reason: the greater the distance of the explosion from its source, the greater the pressure that the duct and the plant must withstand.

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The advantages of flameless explosion venting

Flameless indoor explosion venting consigns expensive protection systems with complicated vent ducts to the history books. Companies are once again free to focus on optimising the design of their processes and plants for maximum efficiency. This form of flame- and dust-free explosion venting is the safest and most cost-effective solution for indoor use.

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The URL field only holds one link, if you try to put more than on in there it will treat the whole string as one link.
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Ok, I guess that is an ok workaround, although having a shortcut to add multiple URLs and especially to open multiple URLs would be ideal.
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The way I tackle this issue is to use OneTab (, which is very convenient in my experience.
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Lack of cross-border mergers shows Europe needs more integration: Bank of Spain

MADRID (Reuters) - The lack of cross-border mergers in Europe’s financial sector is evidence that the continent still has a long way to go in terms of market integration and diversification, the deputy governor of the Bank of Spain said on Wednesday.

“In my view, the lack of cross-border mergers can be partially explained by the over-capacity of the financial sector in Europe,” Margarita Delgado said during an event on the European Banking union in Madrid.

Delgado acknowledged cultural and regulatory obstacles were hindering the emergence of a truly European banking market and limiting, or even impeding, the free flow of capital or liquidity across borders.

She supported an end to “national ring-fencing supervisory practices which are detrimental to financial integration and, thus, limit the ambition of the Banking Union as a single jurisdiction.”

Delgado said benefits from synergies, potential cost-cutting and efficiency gains were mainly seen in mergers between institutions from the same country.

Andrea Enria, the head of the European Central Bank’s supervisory arm, also said at the same event that cross-border mergers in Europe and at a national level could be a useful tool at a time when the sector is struggling to make money from loans because of ultra low interest rates.

Delgado said the implementation of a common deposit insurance scheme in Europe would also contribute to making the European Union more stable.

“A fully fledged mutualised EDIS would have a strong impact on citizens’ trust; a greater degree of risk-sharing within the euro area would also help align financial responsibility with the pan-European decision-making process,” she said.

Despite calls from some European regulators for more market integration and completion of banking union, one important missing part is the creation of a common deposit insurance scheme.

Germany, the Netherlands and other northern European countries fear agreeing to a European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS) would mean they could be burdened with repaying deposits in countries such as Italy, Greece or Portugal, where banks are vulnerable, often as a legacy of the sovereign debt crisis of 2010-2015.

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Banquet HomeStyle Bakes: Creamy Chicken & Biscuits
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  • Even though there's buttermilk already blended in it already, I like to make the biscuits since they're premade, taste as close to homemade as possible
  • The stew had to be my absolute favorite part
  • For something as easy and straight forward as this, I am impressed

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      I tried out another one of Banquet HomeStyle Bakes. This time it was Creamy Chicken & Biscuits. Which is a hearty vegetable and white meat chicken stew and biscuit mix. Now with this Homestyle Bake kit, there is one can of hearty vegetable and white meat chicken stew and one pouch of biscuit mix. There is enough to serve four people when fully prepared.

      The only thing it tells you to do is add one-half cup of water to biscuit. Although for more homestyle flavor it suggests substituting one-half cup of sour cream and one egg for water. And to also sprinkle warm biscuits with shredded Cheddar cheese after baking. I will note that I added a few of my own ingredients to the kit.

      One serving of this mix is about one cup when

      prepared and is three-hundred and thirty calories with an hundred and twenty being from fat. There is fifteen milligrams of cholesterol, nine hundred and forty milligrams, two-hundred and seventy milligrams of potassium. Total Carbs is forty-three grams, sugars is six grams, and ten grams of proteins. This is all before I added my own ingredients.

      I can honestly say that the ‘hearty’ stew is no where close to being hearty. I’m glad Banquet didn’t call it chunky white chicken and vegetable stew. I’m not kidding when I say this, but I actually fished around for the bits of chicken with a spoon. I was almost fearful when I didn’t spot any until the very bottom. The little quantity of white meat chicken are in fact in chunk form, the kind you can get in a can

      from the store, usually from the brand Tyson. I can say that the vegetable quantity is also lacking. I don’t know if that’s just the individual unit I got but it was sad. Now Of course I had in mind that this is a meal kit and it would be lacking in the side department because its canned. In past experiences I’ve been surprised by brands and who of had a lot of food in a single can, but this time there wasn’t. That’s not say that all canned food is lacking. This is why I added an extra can of mixed vegetables to the mix and also added more bits of chopped chicken breast pieces. Because serving it to my family alone with what was included was pitiful.

      As goes for the biscuit mix, I ...

      • Banquet HomeStyle Bakes: Creamy Chicken & Biscuits
      added a little dash of salt and instead of adding one-half cup of water I used low fat milk in place of it. Even though there’s buttermilk already blended in it already, I like to make the biscuits since they’re premade, taste as close to homemade as possible.

      Preparation instructions is pretty straightforward. Have the oven preheated to four hundred degrees, Next, blend together the biscuit mix. Then pour on the stew into a 8×8 baking dish, and the drop nine spoonfuls of blended biscuit mix onto the stew. My biscuit mixture produced more than nine spoonfuls. I ended up baking them separately. Your instructed to bake for thirty to thirty-five minutes or until the biscuits are golden brown. Afterward let stand for five minutes.

      I have to say that the aroma coming from

      this meal made my mouth water. And for good reason, because it tasted great too. The stew had to be my absolute favorite part. It was rich, while beautifully caressing the chicken pieces and vegetables. And the biscuits, they were light and fluffy. Perfect for catching all of the streaming stew gravy. The entire meal was wonderful.

      Honestly, I am glad that decided to give it a try. Sure nothing beats homemade meals that is prepared by my own hand, but this meal kit earned two thumbs up from me. For something as easy and straight forward as this, I am impressed. The only thing I wish I would have done is add shredded cheese like the box applied. But overall I enjoyed this meal kit.

      I would recommend this to a friend.

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This product can be found online at, usually in bulk
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I never thought of buying something like this in bulk before. I do get several grocery items from, but never this. Thanks for the idea.
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We have had this meal before. But tonight when I fixed it the biscuits only rose a little bit and when we were eating it we both noticed a “bitey” taste to it. We ate one and then decided that might be something wrong with it so we did not eat any more. The date on the package is Aug. 9, 2015.
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    As a commercial roofing expert, one of the roofing solutions Rhino Roofing has available for your business is modified granular roofing.

    What is Modified Granular Roofing?

    Modified granular roofing is a membrane style commercial roofing system that has been used for over 50 years. It is constructed of asphalt and has plastic or rubber-based polymer binders to increase its durability. Modified granular roofing has a modified bitumen membrane. Sometimes hot asphalt can be used when sealing this material.

    Modified granular roofing can be installed in up to three plies, depending on the circumstances for installation. From here, membranes are welded together for increased durability.

    Modified granular roofing has been a tried and true commercial roofing solution that businesses have relied on for decades. This lightweight solution makes it cost effective as you can use less, all while getting more in the long-term.

    Because of the high heat used to help this type of roofing adhere to the surface, it helps to prevent leaks long term. When there are leaks in your commercial roofing, you run the risk of water damage and mold, as well as higher heating and cooling bills with air coming in from outdoors. By choosing modified granular roofing for your roof repair or replacement, you can count on long term coverage. In addition, it can stand up to inclement outdoor conditions, from hail and thunderstorms, to harsh winter storms. They can also stand up to fire as well.

    You can work with Rhino Roofing to learn more about the benefits of choosing modified granular roofing for your business and how it can save you in the long term.

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    In addition to using asphalt for this type of commercial roofing, granules are added to the process. This helps to increase protect from the sun’s harsh UV rays and high heat temperatures. Without this element, between a mix of the asphalt and the dark color of this material, the temperature of your commercial roof will rise, leading to poor heating and cooling costs.

    Modified granular roofing is a smooth coating that provides for great aesthetic appeal in addition to its durability benefits.

    It is important to inspect your commercial roof a few times a year for damage. If you have an existing modified granular roof, be sure to watch for a fading in the color of the roof, ventilation on your higher levels and any cracks or damage. If you have any dirt and debris that is pooling on certain areas of your roof, you will want to be sure that is removed to avoid damage and the attraction of unwanted pests.
    It is important to work with Rhino Roofing to assist you with your annual commercial roofing inspections. We can let you know if any repairs or replacement is needed.

    Modified granular roofing is a durable commercial roofing solution that can last up to 15 to 20 years when properly cared for. With this type of return on investment, modified granular roofing is a cost-effective roofing option that many have found to be a great return on investment, both in materials and in overall construction. As you work to decide which type of roofing is best for you, Rhino Roofing will help you every step of the way to determine your best pricing and durability to help you get the most out of your dollars.


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Whether it’s a cheeky beer in the Public Bar, a cocktail or two on Level One, or a glass of wine with sunset on our incredible Rooftop – sip in comfort and style at Richmond Club Hotel. Whatever your drink of choice, you’ll soon be sipping yours in one of our many bars nestled inside our inconspicuous facade. Go on, enjoy yourself.


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Get ready for the games to begin online, the Justice Department overturned its long-time stance on online gambling. The Justice Department announced at the end of December that the majority of online gambling is now legal. This is in the form of non-sport gambling. Some limitation will still apply but at least this will give states a chance to raise money in other ways.

Many states are scrambling to start new gambling forms. In some states the first form of online gambling will start with the state lottery. This will help the คาสิโน state lottery grow. The lottery is already a multi-billion dollar industry but with citizens having the option to order lottery tickets online, this will only raise more money for states.

The second form of gambling will be online poker. This is huge for people who have a passion for poker. Almost a years ago, the Justice Department shutdown poker sites such as and so on. Online poker could bring in millions of extra tax revenue for states. This time around the federal government or states could make up their own guidelines. The states that will rush to carry out this would be Nevada and New Jersey. These are two main casino states and they already has the resources and will to start the process of online poker.

Social networks could also tap into this booming market. Networks like Facebook, MySpace, Google+, etc could create an app for easy access to online gambling. Their software will put them in the prime spot to create users for online gambling. These social network already is linked with many business for easy access. Facebook IPO will really blow up if this is the case.

Then you have the mobile devices. In this country 150+ million people have a mobile phone or device. Talk about a market. With this many people will have access to online gambling the next step will be to protect these people from themselves. The last thing we need is people gambling away their life saving b/c of going all in on pocket threes. Just like alcohol, poker rehab program will me mandatory.

Make Money With Casino Affiliate Programs

Casino affiliate programs are probably one of the most lucrative income opportunities available on the internet. However, very few people know about the concept of casino affiliate programs – nor do they have any clue on how to get started. This article will hopefully shed some light on the issue and perhaps even motivate you to take a deeper dive into this huge money pie.

Casino affiliate programs are basically the same in structure and form as other affiliate programs in general. The term “affiliate” simply refers to a person or a company that sells or promotes products or services on behalf of another company. Commissions and bonuses are paid out on sales being made บาคาร่า by the affiliate – but it is the company that supplies the goods or services who will carry out any orders and deal with the customers directly. The true benefit of being an affiliate is that it is not required to actually have a product of your own – yet the affiliate can earn a substantial income by promoting the products and services of others. The world of internet has really opened up the opportunity for private individuals to make a lot of money this way – by promoting leading brands and companies – from the comfort of their own home.

As you would expect, the online gambling industry is a very lucrative one yielding over $30 billion USD every year. Online gambling is certainly an area where affiliate programs play a huge role, not only because of the huge profits that can be made by the affiliates, but also due to the fact that starting an actual online casino involve serious legal matters, gambling licenses and immense start-up costs. This is something that the affiliate never will have to worry about. The primary goal for any casino affiliate is to constantly recruit new players to the casino in question – and build ongoing commissions.

So, how do casino affiliate programs usually work and how can you get started? Well, first of all it is a good idea to perform a little research on Google to find trusted online casinos that are decently popular and also has an affiliate program that is attractive enough. If you were to find an online casino where nobody actually plays at, well, then chances are that you will find a hard time in recruiting new players to that particular casino anyway. A good tip when first starting out is therefore to always go with the big brands. When you gain more experience in affiliate marketing, you can opt in for smaller or more niche casinos.

The next thing to do is to analyze the casino affiliate program itself. A very common mistake is to assume that the program will be able to pay you (as an affiliate) in any payment method as you please. While most casino affiliate programs do host a vast range of payment options like bank wire, Neteller, Moneybookers etc, it does happen that even some of the best ones can pay you by check only for instance. Also, which should be noted, very few casino affiliate programs will pay you by PayPal, a payment processor that is widely used as a payment option in more mainstream affiliate programs.

Reasons Why You Should Give Up Vegas and Gamble Online

Gambling today is all around us. From the local lottery to football pools at work, gambling has become as much a part of our lives as shopping or eating with the family. But for millions of teens it may develop into so much more than the occasional bet with friends.

It can become an obsession, a way of life. The problem of gambling compulsively is a crippling illness that can destroy families, friends, jobs, and lives. Many history books specializing in the study of the legal aspects of gambling, argue that gambling in the United States has gone through three historical phases. Gambling thrived during the colonial and post revolutionary periods. Governments supported and encouraged lotteries.

Lotteries however were not the only type of gambling during this time. Wagering on horse racing was another popular form of gambling. Racing though was not quite as organized or as complex as modern day horse racing. Instead the gambling was only between a few owners of horses and their partisans. The first racetrack in the United States was built in Long Island, New York in 1665. With the end of Jacksonian morality, came the end of the first phase, gambling scandals and outright fraud caused the ban of lotteries and gambling. By 1862, all states expect Kentucky and Missouri outlawed lotteries. The second phase began after the civil war.

Southern states that were desperate for revenue turned to lotteries. New laws were enacted legalizing gambling houses so that states could collect taxes on them. As gambling moved west it became more pervasive, and laws were much more difficult to enforce. In the 1890s scandals in the Louisiana lottery resulted in new anti-lottery laws. Legislation banning lotteries in many states soon followed, some were even written into the State Constitution.

The second wave of legal gambling was short-lived. Scandals and the rise of Victorian morality led to the end of legal gambling. Virtually all forms of gambling were prohibited in the United States by 1910. There was legal betting in only 3 states, which allowed horse racing, but even that number shrank in years following. The thoughts about gambling ran so strong that Arizona and New Mexico were required to outlaw casinos to gain statehood.

The prohibition however did not stop gambling. There were many types of illegal gambling houses. Some operated openly for many years, but had to pay protection money to the law enforcement authorities for this privilege. The third and present phase began during the great depression of the 1930’s. The great depression led to a much greater legalization of gambling.

Let’s start with a definition. What is gambling? Gambling is betting on something that may or may not happen in the future. When we gamble, we take a risk, choose an uncertain outcome, and bet on it. Gamblers bet on casino games, horse racing, and sports where the result can’t be predicted with certainty. Some people will bet on anything. Remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer bet on the arrival and departure times of airplanes at a New York City airport?

How is gambling different from buying stocks and bonds? Stocks and bonds are considered investments and not gambles because we can reasonably expect to come out ahead in the long run. They may be risky but not in the same sense as gambling.

How is gambling different from buying insurance? When we buy insurance, we are betting on something that may or may not happen in the future. We don’t want to take the risk that it will happen, so we pay someone else (the insurance company) to take the risk for us. When we buy homeowner’s insurance, for example, we are betting our house will burn down and the insurance company is betting it won’t. (Of course we hope we won’t win this bet.) This isn’t gambling because the risk can be calculated. The insurance company uses all kinds of statistics to analyze the probability of our house burning down and fixes the premium we will pay accordingly.

People have gambled since ancient times บาคาร่า  . However, society never approved of it because it was labeled an attempt to get money without working for it. Society believed that hard work should pave the way to financial success. It wasn’t until the late 1960s that states (except for Nevada which had legalized all forms of gambling earlier) started to run lotteries to raise money for worthwhile causes.

So why do we gamble even though we are unlikely to win in the long run? We gamble for the excitement of the uncertain outcome. Some gamble to try to make their financial dreams come true. Some people gamble for entertainment or enjoyment, such as a night out with friends at the casino or a bingo game for a charitable organization or a lottery ticket. Some think they can beat the odds and make a living out of gambling. There are people who gamble because they simply love the challenge. They look at gambling as a game of skill or problem solving and they are sure they can win. Some like the environment or the thrill of a possible big win, or the adrenaline rush of taking a chance. Casinos allow us to socialize and pass some time. There are no clocks in a casino; we lose track of time; we forget all our troubles. It’s like a therapy session! If we are timid, we can go to a casino and boldly take chances.

Occasional gambling may be a relaxing form of entertainment but be careful not to get addicted. Addiction may lead to obsession. You may lose control and become so fanatical that you can ruin you life or suffer other catastrophic consequences. So if you gamble, be sure to set limits and keep to the limits you have set.

Gambling Facts – It’s More Than Numbers

Political leaders are approving gambling establishment developments in hope to raise needed revenue with out consequence to their constituents. Political leaders are aware that a significant number of people already have a problem gambling and the likelihood of more people developing an addiction is likely to increase. It’s unfortunate but these same leaders refuse to do anything about it since the increased revenues from the gambling establishments helped to fund many state needed programs. joker123

Political leaders look at the short run, because they are continually being tested to see what they can do for their voters. These leaders are not elected for life and usually serve for two years unless they are elected again. Once they are up for re-election they tell the voters this is what they have accomplished during their term. It’s unfortunate but these gambling establishments slowly deplete the economy. By the time all the negative affects are felt either the political leader is no longer in office, up for re-election with all new promises or another source of revenue is found. This political game continues until enough people put pressure on their leaders. Problem gambling is a silent addiction and very few people are willing to admit they have a compulsive gambling addiction, lost all their money to gambling, stole from their employer so they could gambling and or are embarrassed to let their love ones know they had a problem. Once again the political leader win and their voters and the local economy lose.

People are gambling excessively. A gambling establishment could not expand at the rate they are growing if people weren’t losing their money. These same people cut their spending at their local shopping centers, personal entertainment like movies and cut spending for everyday staples. I met one mother who stopped buying milk. She figured she could save twenty dollars a month and this would give her more resources to gamble. Now that she stopped she can’t believe that she could do such a thing to her family.

The gambling establishments created an empire. They opened gift shops, entertainment concert halls, gas stations and unique restaurant inside their entertainment complex. They give every patron a tracking card that earns them points only valid at their gambling complex while they gamble. They then use these points to eat, entertainment, hotel and or purchase gifts. This past holiday a significant number of people saved some of their points to buy family gifts. Once again the gambling establishments win and the local businesses and shopping centers lose.

Not everyone has a gambling addiction, but a good majority of people enjoy recreational gambling. It’s unfortunate but even a casual gambler gambles more then they expected. These casual gamblers people also will have to cut back their spending for a short time. They may not go out to their local diner because they cn eat for free at the gambling establishment. In all these situations, the local economy suffers. People who live with in fifty miles of a gambling establishment are more like to be negatively affected.

It’s time to find a solution to this growing epidemic. Political leaders need to step up to the plate and stop the abduction of the people. Recently their have been a significant number of commercials dealing with gambling addiction. Everybody applauded this first attempt to deal with gambling addictions. Unfortunately it appears the leaders are too late. An acre of land on fire can not be distinguished with a cup of water.

The only solution to stopping the problem gambling is to regulate the gambling establishments and or consider closing them down until a solution is found. No matter which direction the political leaders choose they need to pick up their pace.

Mr. Howard Keith has an extensive background in dealing with compulsive gamblers, relatives and friends of gamblers and teenage gamblers. Mr. Keith believes there are many alternatives to aid in the recovery of a gambling addiction verses a twelve step program. A large percentage of his emails were from compulsive gamblers looking for an alternative to Gamblers Anonymous and twelve step programs. Gamblers Anonymous also helps a significant number of people each year but there is a large percentage that they are unable to reach. For more information on gambling addiction and stop gambling you can check out

The latest trend to hit high schools is supervised teenage gambling at the Post Prom School Party. Over the past few months I have received numerous emails from parents, students and school faculty expressing concern about the new alternative entertainment. In all cases these people believe it would do more harm then good.

The concept became reality for students once the Post Prom Committee voted to accept this new alternative entertainment.
This Post Prom Committee believes this is safe night party for the High School prom. The students who are taking part are between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years old. Each student is able to purchase fake money to gamble with and at the end of the night they can trade this money in for prizes with at the end of the night. Some parents believe this is a safe wonderful event for their children. While others believe this is one area they prefer their kids not be involved with.

One of the emails I received was from a family who home schools their five children. I was surprised since their kids were not involved. She had explained to me that her daughter who is seventeen has friends who attend the public school system. She went on to tell me the negative behavior exhibited by these teens after the event took place. In fact they taught her daughter how to play black jack and poker. This is a good neighborhood that has strong community ties. She also informed me that she not see the difference between using fake money or real money when you still have a chance to win a prize that has value. She believes these teens are being educated on how to gamble, win and take the easy way out.

People in favor of this gambling event, nicely told those who were against it to have their teenager’s stay home. It was my understanding the post prom parties were supposed to be for everyone.

It surprised me that a school district finds gambling night an acceptable behavior for our teenagers.

I have seen first hand the self destruction gambling can do to teenagers and adults. It’s my belief that gambling should be limited to people who are eighteen and over.

Another email was asking me for the specific statistics on the negative impact on a teenager’s who attend a gambling event. General statistics reflect a percentage of those in attendance will develop a compulsive gambling addiction. Some of these same students may become addicted at some point in their life. I have found that addictions to gambling are not age sensitive. People of any age who are gambling for the very first time can develop a gambling addiction. Usually a friend or family member takes them to the gambling establishment. I first found it difficult to understand how a person who is sixty five retired and on a fixed income gets addicted to gambling. The seniors I spoke with were very upset and didn’t understand how this happened to them. The unfortunate part is they lost their pensions and now only have their Social Security to live on. In one case the Grandmother has to move in with her daughter.

There is very little difference between supervised gambling and allowing supervised drinking alcoholic beverages or serving the students there choice of dugs  pussy888  on a silver platter. If a Principal served a student an alcoholic drink he would be arrested. I am trying to understand how school educators and parents can distinguish between alcohol and gambling on school property. How is one more acceptable then the other?

Studies have shown that there is a correlation between alcohol addiction and gambling addiction. The correlation was based on individuals who attend both Gamblers Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

It would be a shame to find out ten years from now that students who took part in supervised gambling at the High School level their future was compromised by a life of self destruction and low self esteem.

It’s a proven statistics that students who gamble get a similar rush as if they just had an alcoholic beverage. The only difference here they will not wake up with a hang over and the side effects are minimal until it’s too late.

We have now given our students another option in life. The major concern is the student’s will probably like the rush from gambling a lot more then alcohol and or drugs since there is no hang over or smell. Some students are likely to continue gambling. Students with A grades are not exempt from this. Statistics show that compulsive teenage gamblers are also very bright and articulate individuals.

Earn More With Cisco Certification

After each annual salary survey, I’m always surprised by how much more Cisco certified individuals make beyond what their non-certified counterparts do. This has always been the case but I always thought that sooner or later the certification would be so common it would stop matter as much as it does today. However, since I began working in IT, it has never been the case.

The simple reason is the Cisco certification exams are difficult and cannot be faked. For this reason, you must know what you are doing to become certified. This keeps the people that like to memorize certification exam questions and answers out of the running for this certification. The result of this is IT managers know that when you have a verifiable Cisco certification, you know what you are doing. Of course, experience helps as well but in general when you have the books smarts, the experience will come to you very easily.

The next reason that the certification has remained so strong for so long is Cisco requires you to keep up with your certification. You cannot get it and do nothing for a decade. This keeps your knowledge up to date so once again, your employer knows that you are always on the cutting edge. This makes the Cisco certified people a better bet than someone that is not certified and may be riding knowledge that was received decades ago.

Finally, the certification also tells your employer that you are in this as a career. This usually is only a concern for new employees and the lower level certifications. However, there are a lot of people that install a router at home and visit –  call themselves specialists. Of course, this isn’t true but if an IT manager does not have a technical background it can be very difficult to figure out where this person is at. For that reason, the IT manager would be much more comfortable hiring someone with even the low-level certifications so he knows the candidate has some knowledge.

Any way you look at it, obtaining Cisco certification is a great investment into your career. It will allow you to make more money and obtain positions that offer greater prestige. This is true for the entry-level certification all the way up to the top. When you have the certification you are telling your employer and coworkers that you are an expert, or at least on your way to becoming an expert in your chosen field. This is much different than telling people about your experience or trumping up past experience to get a job.

Of course, the certification alone does not guarantee you a job and only. Indeed, you should have the appropriate amount of certification to coincide with you experience. You don’t want to be a CCIE with two years of experience. This would not be looked at favorably during your job search and people will assume that you are not ready for a high level position. However, when you obtain certification at a slow and steady pace, employers assume that you are using your experience to gain the certification. This is exactly what you want.

Building Traffic to a Gambling Portal

Given the competitiveness of the online gambling industry it is very difficult for new comers  fun888club  to the market to see financial success. Success in the online gambling industry takes time and effort, if you’re looking for a quick way of making money you should look elsewhere. For this article we will focus on making money from running a gambling portal.

A gambling portal is a website which refers players to other gaming sites, usually where they deposit money and play online games, such as online bingo or roulette. As the webmaster of the referring gambling portal you will receive a commission for referring the player.

This sounds simple and the concept is. But actually getting hold of the visitor and making them convert into a player is a science in itself. When running a gambling portal the key to success is targeted traffic, and the best way to get targeted traffic is through making sure your site has an abundance of fresh, and most importantly, unique, content.

Generally a gambling portal will feature reviews of gaming sites as well as news related to the games they promote. Some portals even offer forums. In these forums visitors can discuss a particular site before they decide to go ahead and play the games on offer.

As mentioned earlier, the best way of getting traffic to your gambling portal is through the search engines. There are other ways such as through social networks and of course pay-per-click advertising, but none of these methods come close to being as effective as good search engine placements. Good search engine rankings are difficult to obtain, especially in the competitive gambling industry. They require your site you have a good number of inbound links. There is no more effective way of gaining better search engine rankings than through link building.

When building links to your gambling portal the main thing you need to remember is to keep your inbound links coming from relevant websites. Irrelevant links are worth considerably less, in terms of rank boosting. Getting hold of gambling links can be very difficult. Often webmasters do not want to link to websites which contain gambling content. And already established websites are unlikely to link out a new or less established site. This can be worthwhile. The slower but less costly way of building your site’s search engine rankings is through trading links with sites at a similar level of development to your own. Page Rank is the common measurement used to determine a website’s linking value.

A great way to begin promoting your gambling portal is by using Google to search for ‘gambling directories’ or gambling resources sites. Providing that your site contains unique content these websites will generally link out to you for free whilst others may require a recipricol link. Whichever path you choose to take on your link building journey we wish you the best of luck!

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The name of the game is transparency. When trying to find a so called Google SEO Services expert, you must ask questions. An SEO Expert, who is in fact an expert, won’t be threatened by a potential customer who wants to know more. In fact, they will welcome the questions, as once a customer is properly informed; the true complexity of SEO begins to come to light.

Some questions you should ask would undoubtedly have to be about research, strategy and implementation. Let me touch on the first, research.

In our humble opinion, having been doing this successfully for years, research is the most important part of any SEO plan. Research provides you with information about how well optimized your competition may be, how quickly you need to see results, what keywords are both relevant and have the right monthly search volume and much more information. If you think about it, it really makes sense to be well informed before making any decision, and due to the lengthy process that is SEO, this becomes even more important. รับทำ seo

You would not want to optimize a website for keywords that get 10 searches a month, right; Especially if it could take 3 months to get there.

The second question you would make any SEO Expert would have to be what their strategy will be, whether it will be an entirely On-Page SEO effort, or a combination of On-Page and Off-Page SEO. I’ll cover these 2 differences in a later article.

Thirdly, how they plan to achieve the results they claim. Try to get someone who stands by their work. We offer to our clients a very simple guarantee, we deliver on the timeframe, and keywords selected or we work for free until we get them there. This is actually much easier to do for a seasoned SEO expert, since with experience comes the knowledge of how the process works, and how long it takes.

So the best advise we can give all of you looking for the right SEO is ask questions, take notes, and pick a Google SEO Service that has either a guarantee, but most importantly select someone who is willing to sit down and explain the process to you in detail. If you get a bad feeling, find another SEO service.

Stretching your limbs far behind to pull your website among top ranks is not that difficult though, but not simply done as well. You will get very bookish knowledge on SEO whenever you try different sources, but in reality, it is far from that. It is fierce competition, which you will have to face and fight. Exploring the truth about search engine optimization is about knowing every aspect of optimizing your website.

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Knowing SEO the professional way is elementary in achieving a dignified ranking for your webpage. It’s not only about understanding the purpose of your website, but to gain the knowledge of keywords required for SEO Professional. As keywords are the founding stone of the whole SEO concept, the real optimizers will perform extensive research based on anticipated queries. They work through the target audience and make your website apt for carving its way through the search engines to the users.

SEO involves:

Content polishing and weaving all the web pages in a theme-like structure is what SEO does. All your related blogs, forums and the whole domain will be based on a single idea. Important titles, meta tags, anchor text and relevant excerpts will be sprinkled with keywords. Internal linking is done for building up a network that can redirect the user from all directions to your page. It covers all SEO basics for getting you to the higher rankings.

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By all means, internet world is ever changing and advancing. Hence, the professional SEO expert hired by you understands the gravity of constantly being on the learning end. There are certain set of rules and algorithms which are used by search engines to display your websites and rank them accordingly. The search engine results page keep changing these rules which should be known for attaining a better ranking. Thus, it is a continuing educational system. By far, Google poses maximum challenges to SEO Professional.

Glance through some quick tips for choosing the right SEO Professional.

* If someone guarantees you a rank on Google, never buy it. It is absolutely not certain.
* If SEO Professional boasts of being able to type your required keywords in the browser address bar, do not fall for it.
* Always go for it the legal way.
* Out of turn e-mails from SEO firms should be a warning alarm of their fraudulency.
* Be clear on the SEO firm’s strategy as to how they plan to take things.
* Develop an understanding on how the money circulation is going to be.
* Consider the SEO strategy and conversion

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Content and design are two elements responsible for the success of your website. It is the combination of these two that can open the doors to your desired ranking on results page of a search engine. The keyword density, proximity and frequency are vital though, but the internal linking is as tricky. Choose your SEO Professional wisely for he who knows the changing strategies is worth the money that you yearn and they earn.

SEO Elevates Business Websites to Top Notch Search Engine Rankings

SEO is an unavoidable piece of e-business. There are just excessively numerous rivals in the business sector who do their business online to disregard the significance รับทำ seo of top positioning in web search tools. Business ventures utilize the best SEO software that they can discover with a specific end goal to make their sites emerge and be effortlessly open to the mass of potential clients.

SEO pros frequently take a shot at benefit of business undertakings to enhance activity to their locales. They utilize the SEO software in the field so as to augment proficiency. A percentage of the top SEO tools apparatuses that are much of the time utilized by specialists are advised below.

Web CEO is not only limited to SEO functions but extends to overall website management; hence the nomenclature. This top SEO software enables efficient time management by automating tasks that are repetitive. It also encourages the adoption of a structured approach to search engine marketing. Web CEO provides a website auditor which improves the quality of webpages drastically by highlighting broken and missing links, missing META info, incorrect displays, slow pages etc. Another very important function performed by this tool is that it submits articles to major directories following strict article submission guidelines. What’s even better is that it conducts daily keyword research and supplies unlimited keyword options.

If you want to gain valuable insight on market intelligence, SEMrush is the best SEO software to use. This marketing toolbox allows users to optimize content by finding relevant keywords and creates both organic research reports and advertising research reports to notify you regarding content strategy and PPC investment results of your competitors. The various tools which comprise SEMrush include a social media marketing tool which is vital for forwarding e-commerce these days. Site audit and backlink check are two other important features of this highly acclaimed SEO tool.

Internet Business Promoter (IBP)

According to most SEO tools, Internet Business Promoter is the top SEO software available in the market. In fact, this website promotion software has won multiple awards for its content optimization capacity. The best part is, it guarantees top 10 ranking against money back for an entire year from the date of purchase. With an unique article submitter and the ability to create comprehensive reports related to various facets of SEO along with other regular features, IBP is certainly value for money.

How Sports Arbitrage Trading Can Make You Money

So you are looking for a way to make money. Sports arbitrage trading is one of 918kiss the easiest ways one can earn unlimited amounts of money working any time of the day from anywhere in the world. Why is it so easy? Simple with arbitrage trading you CANNOT lose. Imagine betting $200 on something you know you are guaranteed to win! You win even if the team you bet on loses the game. How easy is that!

Sports arbitrage trading is huge over seas and is working its way around the world. It is one of the hottest, and newest things out on the Internet that is making people loads of money.

So how does sports arbitrage trading make so much money? It is very easy believe it or not. Sports arbitrage trading is simply placing to trades with two different bookies that disagree on one sporting event. When two bookies disagree on one sporting event this creates an Arb. This arb is what is going to make you money. No matter what team loses or wins the sports game YOU WIN! This is how easy it is for anyone of any skill level to make money with arbitrage trading. The best thing is you don’t even have to know ANYTHING about sports.

This sounds to easy and to good to be true right? Well it is easy and it does work. The only reason why you probably don’t know anyone making money with sports arbitrage trading is because if you yourself sat down and tried to find these arbs you would be doing this 24/7 non-stop all day long. BUT you’re in luck because there is now arbitrage trading software out floating around on the Internet that does all the hard work of finding these arbs for you. This now allows you to easily find the arb, and quickly place trades. What this means for you is you can trade faster and easier which in the end means more profits for you!

Imagine taking just $200 and trading that money and after just one month you turned it into $1,000! Yes this can be done! Millions of people worldwide do this for a living. Ask yourself this question how much would $800 extra a month help you? What could you do with this extra money? Arbitrage trading is and easy way you can work out of your house and earn and income. Do not let this pass you by!

Sharks Of Gambling Industry

At one point in time our society believed that gambling addiction only affected the gambler. However new information now available and those directly affected realized that gambling detrimental to the economic, political, social and physical well being of individuals, the community and the nation.

Gambling addiction negatively affects everyone. The following situations are from real situations that have occurred.

A compulsive gambler borrows money from friends and family not having the ability to pay back these loans. In one case I remember the family who loaned the money had to cut back their spending once they realized the loan was not going to be repaid.

A compulsive gambler uses their credit cards to get cash in order to gamble not having the ability to pay back these loans. The credit card company receives notice that one of their card holders is now filing bankruptcy.

A compulsive gambler no longer has the ability to spend money on local businesses and or charitable organizations. In turn the local businesses revenues decrease.  918kiss

A compulsive gambler no longer spends the quality time with their family members.

A compulsive gambler’s work production decreases while co-workers pick up the slack.

A compulsive gambler resorts to embezzlement as a means to continue feeding their habit.

A compulsive gambler was sentenced to jail time for illegal acts. This situation is a no win for everyone involved. The gambler can not pay back their debt while in jail.

A compulsive gambler commits suicide.

A compulsive gambler spouse files for divorce.

All of the above examples demonstrate that gambling addiction is detrimental to the economic, political, social and physical well being of individuals, the community and the nation.

Now that there is a problem, it’s time to find a solution and at the same time help those with a gambling addiction to move forward. There are websites that can help the compulsive gambler but there are no websites that can put the cash back into our society so we can move forward.

Mr. Howard Keith has an extensive background in dealing with compulsive gamblers, relatives and friends of gamblers and teenage gamblers. Mr. Keith believes there are many alternatives to aid in the recovery of a gambling addiction verses a twelve step program. A large percentage of his emails were from compulsive gamblers looking for an alternative to Gamblers Anonymous and twelve step programs. Gamblers Anonymous also helps a significant number of people each year but there is a large percentage that they are unable to reach.

Everything was going perfect for me in life. Good job, good home, good life and good friends. Until one day some friends asked if I wanted to go to the casino. By the time I realized it, three years of my life were gone and I was in debt. It was time to quit.

The day I decided to stop gambling I was depressed and relieved at the same time. I couldn’t go on any longer. I thought all my hopes and dreams were shattered. I couldn’t tell anybody what I was going through. I was afraid that they would be disappointed in me. I remember the first day. I was nervous and anxious. I had a hard time focusing at work. This was not my first time trying to quit. I was sure I really wanted to quit, but wasn’t sure if I could quit.

The day I decided to quit I had no where to turn. I found it was difficult to talk to my family and friends about my problem. I began to do research and found Gamblers Anonymous. I wanted to give Gamblers Anonymous a try. I happened to have met a lot of nice people there. They welcomed me into the group and made me feel comfortable. I had tears coming down my face and my anxiety kicked in. I was very quiet buy my emotions were running wild inside. I made it through my first meeting and was somewhat looking forward to the next one. As each week passed new members would join and others would disappear. This became a weekly event. Who was going to come back and who was going to stay?

I continued to go to my Gamblers Anonymous meeting on a weekly basis. I was always afraid some one would recognize me. The turn over was extraordinary. Each week as I entered the meeting my heart began to race until I was sure I didn’t know any of the new members. It was the tenth week and an old co-worker of mine walked through the doors. We hadn’t worked together for over ten years. I thought about leaving but I decided to stay and try and work it out. Unfortunately he did not keep the Gamblers Anonymous code. He had told a friend who told another friend until it got back to me. It was unfortunate, but I dealt with it and moved on.


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This Article analyses the structural comparativism and its implications for comparative public law. The term «structuralism» refers to various theories across the humanities, social sciences, and economics. When we refer to this approach, we focus on the structure and the relationship of the different components of legal institutions or «legal formants» existing within each legal system. The essay is divided into three parts. Part I analyses structuralism as a method. The structural comparison represents a methodological choice of theoretical nature and can be seen as a specialised application of functional comparison. Part II is devoted to the relationship between structuralism and legal science. Following the transformation of law in a structural way means doing multiple synchronous cuts, then comparing the systems. Finally, Part III highlights the development of structuralism in comparative private and public law, with particular attention to the dynamic approach.

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The Flight of Davis and Lee

Text: Gary Joyce • Photography: Gary Joyce

From the beginning of the American Civil War, "On to Richmond" became the rallying cry of Union troops. The Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 was a turning point in the war, and the bulk of both armies eventually entrenched and fought around the cities of Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia.

Petersburg was an important supply center for the Confederacy, and the longest siege in American history began in mid-June 1864 when Union troops surrounded most of the city. It ended April 2-3, 1865, with the evacuation and westward retreat of the Confederate Army. With Richmond indefensible, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his staff fled south by rail to Danville, Virginia.

Davis and his cabinet crossed the Dan River and arrived in Danville on April 3, 1865. One hundred thirty-nine years later, I was rolling there on my Kawasaki ZR-7S, along with my friend Donnie Cox on his shiny Yamaha Road Star. I rode to the city from my home in Mayodan, North Carolina, following roads (NC 770 and Berry Hill Road) that trace the curves of the Dan River. It took us just an hour to reach the historic avenues.

We visited the Sutherlin Mansion where Davis resided during the last days of the war. After watching Civil War re-enactors at the mansion, we headed to the Tobacco Warehouse District. During the war, six tobacco warehouses were turned into prisons for captured Union soldiers, and of the 7,000 soldiers held here, over 1,300 died in confinement. They're buried nearby, in the National Cemetery.

As we rode home that afternoon, I thought about that eventful week in 1865 and wondered what was going through the minds of my two great-grandfathers. They spent months in the trenches at Petersburg as soldiers in the 22nd North Carolina Infantry, and one of them was wounded when the Union army broke through the Confederate lines on April 2, 1865. Both of them managed to flee with General Lee and his army when the retreat to the west began.

Having picked up a brochure in Danville that outlines the routes of Lee's Retreat Driving Tour, I soon made plans to seek out whatever adventures lay before me along that trail. And, as fate would have it, I wasn't scheduled to work the following Friday, the day that also happens to be the anniversary of Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox.

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It’s the Sunday before the 1st May Bank holiday and people have no excuse for getting along to Mr Kyps for their “Gig For A Quid” night, this regular event showcases two local bands along with emerging bands from further a field with the very reasonable entry fee of just one English pound. Tonight’s event features “The Brompton Mix” from Woking in Surrey along with opening band “Lucky 13” and headliners “Eleven IV” for what promises to be an eclectic night of live music.

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Four piece Bournemouth band Lucky 13 take to the stage with a wave of twin guitar power and a solid backed two piece rhythm section getting those who have turned up early reason to move away from the bar to the front of the stage. Their set is made up with a majority of reworked covers including “Dakota” by the “Stereophonics” along with a few possibly too many “Kings Of Leon” numbers including “Sex On Fire” and “Use Somebody” that are all played well with plenty of energy but nothing really new as literally all pub bands play these particular songs to death. The band’s saving grace was their own original songs “Neon Sign”, and the epic “Closer” which demonstrated the band’s skill and obvious talent for creating music. The guitar work particularly on “Closer” was dynamic and ambitious with some highly original sounding bass guitar with some trippy pedal controlled effects, if this is just a taste of what this band are capable of I would love to have seen them drop the covers and play more of it. Lucky 13 leave the stage with plenty of vocal support from their local fans who all seemed to enjoy their 35 minutes on stage.

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The Brompton Mix are a four piece British rock ‘n roll band on a mission to take over the world and first they start with the UK. Armed with their manager drumming hero from iconic band “The Jam” Rick Buckler and a set full of well written original songs they confidently take to the Kyps stage after a pleasant day in the Dorset sunshine. Kicking off with “Take it Back” the band do their best to further warm up the initially unresponsive crowd who are determined to stay close to the bar. The ever smiling front man Ben Peppitt introduces every song with the tongue in cheek comment “This one of our favourite songs” and does his best to get the crowd involved. The band’s Brit Pop’esque style tunes begin to generate small but positive responses from around the room, as the band continue with tunes “In The Night” and “The Love Rats”. It is clear that they really have something here, demonstrating a certain close chemistry with the right ingredients. The best tunes are saved until last “Bang Bang” with an the most infectious chorus that you will ever hear and the epic “King Of The City” which has more swagger than Liam Gallagher along with some really spine tingling guitar work that really impresses from lead guitarist Azza Sergent. It will take a lot more hard work to win over audiences like this but when The Brompton Mix mange to do this expect fireworks as I see a real glimmer of something special here the could escalate into something on a much larger scale.

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Eleven XI seem to have bought several coach loads of people with them, as when they arrive on stage the place gets much busier with an obvious buzz of anticipation coming from their excited fans.The five piece band features two vocalists Paul Read (formerly of tribute act “Soasis”) and Carly Green, who together create some really unique music taking influences from all corners of the musical world. The band play a set comprising of all self penned original material which keeps the crowd entertained from the 1st to the last song. The band have yet to make any material available as of yet apart from a few impressive demos on their Soundcloud page. The band’s following has been slowly building with recent local gigs at Chaplin’s, Cellar Bar, and at The Beacon Hotel along with a radio interview on Hope FM. There are many stand out songs such as “Broken Wings” which has a very distinctive sound, along with some classic guitar work coupled with duel harmonies that would make the song very radio friendly. “Bruvers & Sisters” gives a very laidback but danceable feel with the backbone of Wally’s reggae bass lines with yet more nice harmonising, a perfect song for a summers day. “Halcyon Days” takes the audience on yet another welcome turn with a song that is takes it’s influence so obviously from the guitar styles of Andy Summer of The Police. It is such a welcome change to have a band that seem to really focus on their song craft rather than overblown performances. The band end on a high with plenty of very positive support and a rumour has it they may well be performing on a much bigger stage at this year’s “Grooves On The Green” and very deservedly so!!

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Notion (Kings Of Leon)
Dakota (Stereophonics)
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Use Somebody (Kings Of Leon)
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Into The Night
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Deep Blue Water
Broken Wings
Looking Out For Number One
Bruvers & Sisters
Halcyon Days
Bring It Back
Kaleidoscopic Dreams
Fast Train

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Following a hugely successful Big Top Headline slot at this summer’s Isle of Wight festival, British rock heroes FEEDER today announce their full live return to the UK and Ireland with a 14 date Tour. With the band poised to announce their 9th studio album in the coming weeks, their first since 2012’s “Generation Freakshow”, it also heralds the bands live return following a 4-year hiatus.

Following lead singer/guitarist and chief songwriter Grant Nicholasís recent, critically acclaimed solo releases “Yorktown Heights” and “Black Clouds”, which saw Grant play a host of shows with a very different, “lo-fi” lineup, the FEEDER frontman says he feels re-invigorated, and in the best creative space of his life.

Nicholas commented: “We are really looking forward to getting out there on the road again and feel reborn after our break. Isle of Wight Festival reminded us how good it is to be back playing together, and the loyalty of our fans is truly immense”. “We’re back and really excited to let people hear these new songs”

FEEDER first shot to fame when their debut EP “Swim” was released to huge critical acclaim in 1996. Since then theyíve had 25 Top 40 hits with the likes of “Feeling A Moment”, “Just The Way I’m Feeling”, “Just A Day” and “Buck Rogers” and amassed over 5 million record sales along with 3 Platinum and 2 Gold Albums.

Since “Generation Freakshow”, the band has appeared at a number of UK festivals, performed at Hyde Park to celebrate the 2012 Olympics and headlined London’s O2 Academy Brixton before announcing they were taking some time off. Feeder’s autumn tour will see the band revisit some of their biggest hits whilst also performing tracks from their forthcoming ñ and long-awaited – new studio album.

FEEDER kick off their tour at O2 ABC Glasgow on September 28th and visit a number of the UKís best-loved venues such as the O2 Ritz in Manchester, London’s Roundhouse and Nottinghamís Rock City before concluding at the Tramshed in Cardiff on the 19th October.

The Support comes from Devonshire three-piece “Reigning Days” who return to the live arena they join the headliners for all seven dates across the UK including a stop in the capital at The Roundhouse, Camden, and the band’s hometown, Exeter, with a date at the Lemon Grove.

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28th O2 ABC, Glasgow
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1st Newcastle Uni
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4th O2 Institute, Birmingham
6th The UEA, Norwich
7th The Lemon Grove, Exeter
9th Beckett University, Leeds
10th O2 Academy, Bristol
12th Roundhouse, London
13th Pyramids, Portsmouth
14th Rock City, Nottingham
16th Academy, Dublin
17th Limelight, Belfast
19th Tramshed, Cardiff

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Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Unveils 'Post Traumatic' EP - Rolling Stone
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Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda Unveils ‘Post Traumatic’ EP

Linkin Park MC grapples with Chester Bennington’s death on new three-track project

Linkin Park‘s Mike Shinoda unveiled a new three-track EP, Post Traumatic. The project marks the musician’s first new music since the death of his Linkin Park bandmate, Chester BenningtonPost Traumatic is available to stream and purchase, though Shinoda also recorded music videos to accompany each track.

“The past six months have been a rollercoaster,” Shinoda said in a statement. “Amidst the chaos, I’ve started to feel an intense gratitude – for your tributes and messages of support, for the career you have allowed me to have, and for the simple opportunity to create. Today, I’m sharing three songs I wrote and produced, with visuals that I filmed, painted, and edited myself. At its core, grief is a personal, intimate experience. As such, this is not Linkin Park, nor is it Fort Minor – it’s just me. Art has always been the place I go when I need to sort through the complexity and confusion of the road ahead. I don’t know where this path goes, but I’m grateful I get to share it with you.”

The EP opens with “Place to Start,” a hazy, R&B-tinged track with synths that quicken alongside Shinoda’s vocals, as he croons, “I don’t to know the end, all I want is a place to start.” The track ends with several voice mails from friends expressing their condolences over Bennington’s death.

“Over Again” finds Shinoda directly addressing Bennington’s death, the emotional challenge of performing at Linkin Park’s tribute concert for the late singer and his anxiety over figuring out what comes next. “And every step I took I looked and wasn’t any closer,” he raps over thumping drums, “Cause sometimes when you say goodbye, yeah, you say it/ Over and over and over and over.”

Post Traumatic closes with “Watching As I Fall,” another hard-hitting song packed with thundering percussion and jagged synth swells. “Maybe I should be more grateful,” Shinoda belts, “That I had to watch it all come undone/ Holding so tight to the edge is painful/ But can’t ignore it I know.”

Bennington died from suicide last July. In October, Linkin Park reunited for an all-star tribute to the singer, and in December they released a live record, One More Light Live, which features performances from the group’s 2017 shows before Bennington’s death.

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Scenes From the Border Crisis: Sketches by the Artist Molly Crabapple - Rolling Stone
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Award-winning illustrator Molly Crabapple travels to Texas to document families emerging from the trauma and turmoil of crossing the border

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More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents through Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy before it was suspended on June 20th. In July, I spent five days with my sketchbook in the Rio Grande Valley, the epicenter of the border crisis, and found an immigration system returning to its status quo – which even without family-separation is one of daily cruelty and heartache. Children were no longer being ripped from their mothers and fathers; families were incarcerated together, sleeping on bare concrete in packed processing centers, nicknamed hieleras, or “iceboxes.”

“They humiliate us,” a mother from Honduras told me at the McAllen bus station, where hopeful but exhausted migrants go after their often-traumatic initiation into the U.S. immigration system. “With sticks, they beat the metal bars to wake us up. If the children cry, they go after us. There was a child with a fever. They bathed him in cold water and let him lie naked on the floor except for his underwear. The mother was crying because the child is crying. She wants to cover him, but guards tell her she can’t.”

From the moment they’re seized at the border, immigrants move through an archipelago of institutions — Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Executive Office of Immigration Review — and at each point, they are guarded, shackled and transported by private contractors working for Ahtna, Trailboss and G4S. When I presented allegations of mistreatment to spokesmen from Customs and Border Patrol, they did not respond to my request for comment.

This alphabet soup of agencies does not make it easy for the media or anyone else to witness the detention centers and courtrooms that “process” the humans who cross the border. Officers withheld information from me about rules for visiting facilities, and presented elaborate, shifting requirements for access. On my first day reporting, I had permission to visit the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, where detainees work in the cafeteria and scrub toilets for $1 a day (a can of coke at the commissary costs $1.75). Port Isabel’s record of human rights complaints stretches back years; in 2010, inmates launched hunger strikes over medical neglect and the lack of legal aid, and a former guard wrote a memoir detailing the facility’s history of corruption and abuse, comparing it to Guantanamo Bay.

When a friend drove me up the unpaved detour road and past the barbed wire fences to the gate at Port Isabel, the guard said my friend wasn’t even allowed to drop me off since her name wasn’t on the list. Nor could I walk. When I asked to see the rule that forbade walking, the guard began patting his holstered gun. My only option, I was told, was to drive away and take a taxi. It cost $30 for a 10-minute ride (two taxi companies have a monopoly on visiting Port Isabel). “Imagine being a semi-traumatized Guatemalan woman just released, with no cash,” community activist Michael Seifert tells me. “This happens all the time. I don’t know why they can’t give them a ride.”

After my first day sketching at the Port Isabel court, the Executive Office of Immigration suddenly sent a directive to other courthouses that forbade drawing without prior permission. It promised federal penalties for artists who did not comply. When I arrived at the Harlingen immigration court the next day, the new directive was already taped to the wall and highlighted. “Just got it yesterday,” a guard shrugged.

In the evenings, I went to the bus station, where there were no restrictions on sketching and families were free to tell me their stories. They were the lucky ones. They had been released from the hieleras to family in the U.S. to pursue their asylum cases from a home rather than a cell (some families are instead locked up indefinitely in longer-term detention centers). Most of the migrants at the bus station wore electronic ankle monitors, which ICE uses to keep track of asylum seekers through its “Intensive Supervision Appearance Program,” run by a private-prison company. Many spoke with me but were scared to share their names for fear of the gangs they’d fled back home and that talking to the press would anger immigration authorities.

One woman sat on the floor quietly crying. Poverty had forced her to leave her two sons behind in Honduras, and one had died in her absence. Another mother sat nervously rubbing coins together between her fingers. She left Guatemala with her six-year-old son after her father threatened to hack the family to death with a machete. She told me that most people in custody with her had signed forms in English that they were unable to read, in hopes of being let out of the crowded hielera: “‘What if I never sign, and I’m never let out,’ I thought. I think almost everyone signed. No one knew what those documents said.”

Many parents at the station held yellow envelopes given to them by Catholic Charities that read, “Please help me. I don’t speak English,” while their kids bounced around, dancing and squirming with all the resiliency of childhood. “Dibuje mi mami” one boy commanded. “Draw my mom.”

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