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Freedom tantalizingly close for Skakel
For more than a decade, Michael Skakel has been the embodiment of the perp walk.
But by week's end, the nephew of the late Robert F. Kennedy could take an once-unimaginable walk, unencumbered by ankle shackles, handcuffs and corrections officers.
Criminal defense experts say it's entirely conceivable that Skakel, whose conviction in the 1975 slaying of Greenwich teenager Martha Moxley was vacated by a judge last month, could become a free man during an upcoming bond hearing Thursday in state Superior Court in Stamford.
"I think that if they see the first time that he went to trial and he was responsible and showed up at all his court dates, he should be able to get bail," said Andrew Pappone, a staff attorney for the New England Innocence Project in Boston.The nonprofit organization, which specializes in wrongful conviction cases, is not associated with Skakel.
Skakel, 53, is serving 20 years to life in prison for bludgeoning Moxley with a golf club in their Belle Haven neighborhood on Halloween eve. Both were 15 at the time. An arrest warrant wasn't issued for Skakel until 2000, when he turned himself in and then was tried as an adult.
That could bode well for Skakel's legal team, which characterized him as a low flight risk in court filings.
"He's already shown that he's willing to face the piper," said Lindy Urso, criminal defense lawyer from Cos Cob who is not connected with the case. "In this day and age, where would he go?"
Under a broadly worded statute state lawmakers put on the books in 2008, Skakel could apply to be compensated by Connecticut taxpayers if the overturn of his conviction is upheld.
Public Act 08-143 allows for exonerated prisoners to seek compensation from the state's claims commissioner for loss of liberty, enjoyment of life, earnings and earning capacity, familial relationships and reputation. The law was enacted after the General Assembly awarded $5 million in 2007 to James Tillman, who served nearly 17 years in prison for a rape he was cleared of by new DNA evidence.
"He could recover a bunch of money for the time he spent in jail, nothing to repay the time that he lost," Pappone said of Skakel.
Dorthy Moxley, 81, a crusader for justice for her daughter, shuddered at the thought of Skakel receiving compensation. "I don't think he deserves one tiny penny," Moxley said. "He's cost the state of Connecticut a lot of money. I think that's out of the question."
A Connecticut judge -- not the same one who will determine whether Skakel gets bail -- granted the Kennedy kin a new trial on Oct. 23 in a landmark 136-page decision. The basis for the habeas corpus ruling was that Skakel was short-changed of an effective defense by his then-lawyer Michael "Mickey" Sherman, whom he accused of being so engrossed with the celebrity of the case that he left many stones unturned.
The state is appealing the ruling and opposes Skakel's release on bond.
"I'm hoping that he doesn't get out," Moxley said. "They have come up with no new evidence. This whole habeas corpus thing is Mickey Sherman. It's not whether Michael Skakel is guilty or not guilty."
Skakel's lawyers, who also did not respond to a message seeking comment, petitioned for bail to be capped at $500,000 for their high-profile client. They say he poses no danger to the Moxleys, who reside in New Jersey.
"I think he's got a reasonable chance of a bond being set and, I assume, with the means of the family, he's got a chance of walking out of there within a few hours to a day," Urso said.
If Skakel is released on bond, there's a high probability that he will be forced to abide by a number of conditions set by Judge Gary White, a former public defender who experts say could require Skakel to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet on his ankle, check in with the bail commissioner on a regular basis and avoid alcohol and illegal drugs. It's unclear where Skakel would reside while the appeals process plays out. A number of family members live out of state, including his 14-year-old son.
"He does not strike me as the type of person who's going to be gallivanting," Urso said. "He's just going to be very happy to be breathing fresh air again."
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Rosanne Cash - Words and Music - 2009
When Rosanne Cash was a teenager, her father, Johnny Cash, was worried that she was straying away from her roots, and wrote her a list songs that he considered to be a part of her family genealogy. More than three decades later she's turned part of that list into a CD with help from Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Tweedy, and Rufus Wainwright. Rosanne stopped by Studio A with her producer and husband John Leventhal to chat with FUV's Rita Houston about her father's list, and how it led to her latest album, appropriately titled, 'The List.' (11/23/09)


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Recording Rooms
Tracking rooms and booths are two names for rooms in which one records sound, the difference being simply size [booths are very small, and tracking rooms can be anything bigger than a booth – some are quite large]. A reverberant field is desirable in a recording room because it can create a pleasing sense of space, and a richness of after-tones which compliment the sounds of the music made therein. A well balanced reverberant field can enhance the recording experience for musicians, and thus can increase their ability to produce their best performances. In order for the reverberant field of a room to be musically pleasant, it must have a high modal density and its modes must be reasonably well spaced. Tracking rooms which are above about 5,000 cubic feet [on the order of 20x25x10' in size] in volume are of sufficient size to begin considering a full fledged reverberant field. Rooms over this size can benefit from reverberant fields if modal problems are avoided / controlled.
"High Modal Density" means having many frequencies at which the room will resonate, and this comes from a room being large enough that it contains many resonate frequencies all the way down to the lowest frequencies of importance. Larger rooms have lower modes… and as the resonances of the room multiply and overlay each other going up the the harmonic chain of the audible band the modal density increases [more resonate frequencies per octave]. Thus modal density is greater in a large room versus a small room at any given frequency.
Because of the greater density of modes, the reverberant field of large room is more balanced and thus more pleasing to the ear… the reverberant field is less apt to have hot spots, or dead spots where a particular tone has an annoyingly loud or long echo, or have large gaps where all resonance is absent [troublesome null spots]. Small rooms are fraught with such inconsistencies low in the band – so much so that it is statistically invalid to peg a number to the average reverb time for a small room because the reverb time will be much too dependant on measuring position and the nature of the sound source. Large room's transcend these limitations [comparatively speaking] because they can support a diffuse reverberant field, where echoes are likely to come from one direction as any other, and can occur at many frequencies all the across the band [lows, mids, and highs]. In other words, the reverb field in a large room is diverse enough to take on a random element and sound "natural".
Consider your preconceptions as to what you expect hear in a large hall which exhibits a strong reverberant field versus a small room. You might reasonably expect a stone walled church to have a rich and luxurious reverb field – while conversely you might expect the field in a tiled bathroom to have a thin almost nasal character. The depth [extension into the range of very low frequencies] of the large chamber's modes [and the resulting modal density] are the cause for these preconceptions [and the underlying real world experiences that cause them].
Mathematically and physically a couple of things start to happen as rooms get bigger. One is that the frequency ranges at which different acoustic paradigms of conception and treatment become valid are lowered. Just as it statistically invalid to speak of the average reverb time [RT60] for a small room, there is a frequency range below which it is useless to attempt to conceive of sound waves as rays that bounce around the room like billiard balls. Lower still, there is a frequency range below which it is useless to attempt to treat acoustic problems through diffusion [instead, below this range, absorption is the only solution – in other words, these ranges are inversely proportional to room volume = the smaller the room, the larger the block of low frequencies that can't be conceived as behaving like billiards balls with predictable bounce patterns, and can't be effectively treated with diffusion.
Young's formula for calculating RT60 is room volume in cubic feet times .049 divided by the average Sabins per square foot for the room surfaces. Everest states that the approximate practicable lower limit for the use of diffusion is (the square root of (RT60 divided by the room's volume in square feet)) times 11250. He also states that the approximate practicable lower limit for the use of a ray model for acoustic conception is the previous result times 4.
Small rooms are capable of having only modest amount of reverb content without suffering from unpleasant levels of coloration (the unpleasantness starts in low frequencies regions where modal densities are lower). For purposes of this article, let's say that small rooms range in size from about 1,000 cubic feet to 7,000 cubic feet. The matters discussed in this section apply, to a greater or lesser degree, in such rooms dependant upon what the frequency range and amplitude of the sound source, the volume of the room, and on how evenly its modal content is spaced. The smaller the room the less reverb is desired, especially low frequency reverb. The louder the sounds are in a room the more unbalanced modes and insufficient absorptive treatments become a problem.
A room below 2,000 cubic feet [on the order of 14x18x8' in size] is a very small room acoustically, and most project studios, fit this category. Small tracking rooms generally cannot tolerate much strength in their reverberant fields. Very small rooms with surfaces reflective to sound tend to have modes which are very strong in one part of the sound spectrum and audibly weaker (or non-existent) in others ("coloration"). Small rooms are not able to support modal densities sufficient to provide an uncolored reverberant field and colored reverb artifacts become troublesome even at modest volumes. There just isn't enough space in a small room for a large enough variety of low frequency waves to be reflected by the limited square footage of surfaces available.
These issues reach criticality with booths. The reverberant field in closet sized small enclosures will have very low modal densities and will be highly colored. and this means that a large percentage of the surfaces inside a recording booth should be rendered acoustically absorptive. Recording for the spoken word require shorter reverb times than booths used for music (including singing) in order to preserve intelligibility.
This does not mean that small rooms cannot be used as recording rooms. For purposes associated with recording, a room can be "acoustically dead", meaning that it has little or no reverberant field. Dead rooms have greatly diminished modal content because they contain so much absorbent material that sound energy made in such a room cannot persist for long, but is instead quickly captured by the absorbent materials and turned into heat. This is not all bad news because a room without a strong reverberant field has some positive attributes. For example, such a room cannot possibly be muddy, and generally you can mic just about anything in just about any position and ignore the room's effect on the results. Unfortunately however, when mic'ing instruments in such rooms, the resulting recordings sound unnatural because they do not convey a normal sense of space or contain a normal amount of decay products. Nonetheless, music recorded in a dead room is perfectly usable, but it must be augmented through exposure to a reverberant field during mix down in order to sound "real". This is accomplished either by sending the signal through a reverb chamber and then folding it back into the mix, or the use of an electronic reverb unit. Dead rooms are a viable alternative for small studios but are generally not considered "best practice" for one's main recording room. One of the primary square footage / budgetary decisions in the design of a studio space is to take this issue into account – namely will the studio have a room with a "live" reverberant field.
Bottom line is that the smaller the room, the more you have to reduce the reverb field to insure clarity and avoid recording room coloration along with the target sound of the instruments; the smaller the room, the less reverb can be enjoyed without causing problems.
See the Optimizing Room Size / Mode Calculation portion of this FAQ for more on modes and how they come about.


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I get a mail to a given account. This i have to forward to some other recipients, my address should be used as "to", a group out of my addressbook as "bcc". And at the beginning of the subject line a fixed text should be inserted. Is that possible? And if yes, how?


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12-12-12 "Just a Number" to Prof. Woody Dudley
December 12, 2012
"Today is 12-12-12, the last major numerical date using the Gregorian or Christian calendar for almost another century," reports ABC News. "The next time three numbers will align as they did on 9-9-09, 10-10-10 and 11-11-11 will be on Jan. 1, 3001, or 1-1-1."
The story includes comments from Underwood Dudley, professor emeritus of mathematics at DePauw University.
"It's just a cute day," says Dudley, the author of Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras Wrought, Is Mathematics Inevitable? A Miscellany, The Trisectors and Mathematical Cranks.
ABC notes, "Today's date also comes nine days before the Maya calendar's end of its 5,000-year cycle, which has inspired talk of an impending doomsday Dec. 21, 2012." Dr. Dudley states, "Maybe we ought to look out for the end of the world. Other than that, it's just a number. The delusion of numerologists is that numbers have a power over events, but they don't. Just because it's 12-12-12 doesn't mean anything will happen. It would happen anyway."
Read the full story at the network's website.
Learn more about Woody Dudley in this previous story.
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Latest HIV News
WEDNESDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- Gay and bisexual men who were victims of sexual abuse and social shaming as children are more likely to have psychosocial health problems that could put them at greater risk for HIV infection, a new study suggests.
A second study found that most older gay and bisexual men report a low use of illegal drugs.
The first study included more than 1,000 HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay and bisexual men enrolled in the U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, which began in 1983.
Almost 10% of the participants had been victims of childhood abuse and nearly 30% had been the targets of gay-related victimization between the ages of 12 and 14, including verbal insults, bullying, threats of physical violence, and actual physical assaults.
The University of Pittsburgh researchers found that men who experienced childhood sexual abuse and a sense of masculinity failure were more likely to use illegal drugs and to engage in risky sexual behaviors in adulthood, both of which heighten the risk of HIV infection.
They added that those health issues have led to a "syndemic," or shared epidemic.
"Our study shows that the early socialization experiences of gay men can be deeply stigmatizing and increase their risks for syndemic [linked epidemic] conditions in adulthood," study author Sin How Lim, of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, said in a university news release. "Given the long-lasting impacts, effective interventions should address multiple interrelated social issues early on rather than focusing on each problem in isolation."
The second study examined illicit drug use (poppers, crack, cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy) over a 10-year period among 1,378 HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay and bisexual men, aged 44 to 63, enrolled in one section of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study.
About 79% of the participants were infrequent drug users, nearly 6% reported consistently high levels of drug use, more than 7% said they'd increased their use of drugs, and 7% said they'd decreased their use of drugs.
"Although a majority of participants reported infrequent drug use, three subgroups of men displayed distinct patterns of use over 10 years of midlife," study author Jessica G. Burke, an assistant professor in the department of behavioral and community health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, said in a university news release.
Understanding those subgroups and the factors that lead to drug use "will give us a better understanding of how we can address this behavior among similar individuals," she said.
The studies were presented this week at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna.
-- Robert Preidt
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Hey guys,
Looking at a past exam paper of mine and one of the questions says:
Using only the Scanner, String and System classes, write a basic program that prompts the user to enter Hair color, Eye color and Age, (all on one line), and then output the words in the order Age, Hair color, Eye color.
I have been stuck for awhile, I tried String[] split, but It didn't work. Help me please.


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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Legislators shot down the latest effort to get Utah taxpayers to subsidize the cost of a massive pipeline project to ship water from Lake Powell to St. George and the rest of Washington County, as well as Kane County.
Rep. Patrick Painter, R-Nephi, sought to earmark a portion of Utah's sales tax dollars to be used to help pay for the $1 billion Lake Powell pipeline and other major water projects.
"Mark my words," Painter said, "there will be a day that we wish we did" approve the funding.
Painter argued that Utah needs to act to develop 80,000 acre-feet of water, which currently flows out of the state by way of the Colorado River, before Democrats in Washington try to strip Utah of that water right.
"With the current administration and the current leadership in the U.S. Senate, I don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling with the party in power," Painter said. "Anything is up for grabs."
He said the users would pay the state back for the loan for the project, just as has been done with water projects through the years, and everyone in Utah would benefit from the jobs and economic development the water would bring.
But Painter's fellow lawmakers pushed back, arguing that water users should pay the cost of the project and not hundreds of thousands of other Utahns who pay sales tax but wouldn't receive water from the pipeline.
"Water is life in a desert state and we simply must develop every ounce we are able to, but I don't see how this bill affects that," said Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper. "All this bill affects is the funding source, to say the state shall be a bank. … Why should Utah taxpayers be the bank?"
Water bosses from around the state argued that the state has made similar loans for past water projects and that, without state backing, the cost of water would be so high that economic development would turn to dust.
"Quite frankly, with the private market [loans] we could run into $200 per month for water rates," said Dale Pierson, executive director of the Rural Water Association of Utah. "It will drive all development to the large, metropolitan areas where water is affordable and just kill development in rural Utah."
Ron Thompson, of the Washington County Water Conservancy District, said the scope of the Lake Powell project is different than in the 1970s, when the state helped finance the Quail Creek water project, but the principle is the same.
"The money that comes back to the state is millions of dollars," Thompson said. "We can call it a subsidy if we want, but there's a return to the economy."
Gail Blattenberger, an economist at the University of Utah, argued that the repayment projections for the Lake Powell pipeline fall far short of repaying the loan and the forecast demand is exaggerated.
New population projections for Washington County anticipate there will be about 400,000 people in the county in 2050, down from earlier projections of 600,000 residents.
That means water user fees will have to be about 60 percent higher to pay off the project.
And the water isn't even needed, Blattenberger said. With conservation measures and the slowing population growth, the county has enough water to meet needs until about 2047, without the Lake Powell pipeline.
Painter's proposal won the support of just one other member of the committee and was soundly defeated. It was his last chance to get the bill through the committee, since he lost his bid for a Senate seat and will not be returning to the Legislature.
Sen. Stuart Adams, R-Layton, who opposed the bill, said he suspects there is still life in the pipeline.
"I don't think this issue is going away," he said. "I think we'll hear it again."
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A brilliant exposition opened in Paris this month of November.
The Aesthetics, a mid 19th century movement that even if never clearly defined a style, came to influence art in the following century and beyond with their a quest of new sensations, a revolution in perception and soul alike.
Determined to move away from the ugliness and materialism of their day, this band of radically engaged artists rebelled against the rigid Victorian Academism under the banner of Art for Art's sake, proposing a new idealisation of art and beauty.
From the 1860s to the last decadent decade of Queen Victoria's reign, this movement is seen through the emblematic works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, James McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde.
Painters, poets and decorators passionately defined an artistic mood freed from the principles of order and Victorian morality, and allowed the expression of sensuality to prevail.
They all united in a quest to combine artistic creation and lifestyle, a quest that found fertile areas of expression in photography, the decorative arts, literature and fashion.
It was the age of Aesthetic romantics. It became a rallying call for a younger generation of disciples, amongst whom; the most prominent would be Oscar Wilde.
Remembered today as a dramatist and wit, in his lifetime Wilde was notorious as the spokesman of this daring art movement and its bold declaration that art exists solely to create beauty with no moral purpose whatsoever.
Wilde said : "A dreamer can find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
" It was an age of hedonism, of extravagances and depravity. Art that simply offered visual and sentimental delight. Pure poetry or beautiful pictures that had no need to tell stories, preach sermons, or rely upon sentimental clichés.
An art self-consciously absorbed in itself, aware of the past but created for the present, and existing only to be beautiful.
The emphasis was on elegance and often showed heavy Japanese influence. The opening of the East by the convention of Kanagawa, 1854, ended Japan's long period of self imposed isolation. Supplanting a largely fantastical Japan of the imaginary by real Japanese artefacts, these objects were avidly studied by artists, greatly influencing Edward Godwin in furniture designing.
As the movement rapidly evolved, it also revealed its dark side. The hero of Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray destroys lives in his pursuit of beauty without limits.
Indeed most aesthetic poetry dwelled upon the subject of sensual love, lust and cruelty, degenerate Femmes fatales and the theme of blood, punishments and death – sorely lacking what the Victorians described as 'moral fibber'.
Writing in that age of stern hypocrisy and repression, Walter Pater, who was also Wilde's tutor in Oxford, gleefully expounds on the sexual adventures of the great Renaissance artists, openly praising gay desire.
His febrile vision of art culminates in a bizarre description of the Mona Lisa: "Like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave."
Pater concludes that the purpose of life is to pursue sensual beauty and live in the moment. "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life".
Choosing as their models women whose looks and lifestyles where at odds with conventional Victorian ideals of demure and feminity, these painters created an entirely new type of beauty.
When Fredric Leighton painted Nanna Risi (la Pavonia) – with her sultry Roman features and glossy black hair, neither of which conformed to stereotypical notions of genteel good looks – it was a social scandal. Oscar Wilde reacted saying 'An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.'
Likewise, Algernon Swinburnes treatment of masochist sexual themes whipped a storm of critical abuse. Considered Unmanly Manhood, decadent and shamelessly vulgar, they were loathed by the society.
It was "the fleshy school of controversy". Many, if not most, objected to art for arts sake and deplored the absence of religious sentiments and virtue.
Oscar Wilde personified the movement in it's fullest. When asked to explain reports that he had paraded down Piccadilly in London carrying a lily, long hair flowing, Wilde replied, "It's not whether I did it or not that's important, but whether people believed I did it".
Wilde believed that the artist should hold forth higher ideals, and that pleasure and beauty would replace utilitarian ethics.
Even as the movement widened, it's ideas brought scant public support for what, to many observers, was deemed a perverse and immoral artistic clique.
Indeed, The prevalent bourgeois mentality reacted fiercely, for the most part they characterised the Aesthetics as obscene, viewed with suspicion and often downright hostility, to which Wilde would retort 'Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.'
In the end, these adventurers were Victorians, and pure hedonism was never going to be simple for them. Thus, the culmination of the aesthetic movement in Britain was to be a golden age of horror fiction that began with Gray's portrait.
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel popularised aesthetic Victorian decadence in its most glorious personification, Count Dracula. Sex, death and everlasting beauty pushed the lingering morality of the Victorian age inward – in the single beds of the aesthetes – to feast on macabre visions of sin.
This debate would continue to reverberate throughout the period and come to fore again as the pivotal issue during Oscar Wildes trials, until the final decadent phase of the movement in the 1890's.
Oscar Wilde who became the high priest of the movement, defied the age until finally it destroyed him, convicting him for homosexual "crimes", imprisoning him, then leaving him to eke away his final years in Paris, Saint Germain.
Few artists or writers have influenced the society of their times and beyond as much as the Aesthetics.
Across Europe its passion for flowers and vampires, decor and desire can be glimpsed in Van Gogh's Sunflowers, Klimt's Kiss or Damien Hirst's sliced animals.
Its legacy weaves through modern times in the defiance of dandies from Salvador Dalí to Freddie Mercury's Queen, to David Bowie and or even Kurt Cobain's Nirvana.
Yet, unfortunately, today art is moving away from beauty, becoming a statement, either political or social.
Propelled by armies of Nouveaux-riches with little sense of aestheticism, they stink the market with easy money deforming norms of beauty with mediocre taste. The major art fairs of today vomit innumerable objects which are, quite frankly, incomprehensible, and frequently just simply ugly.
Nowadays Critics seems enchanted with their own perspectives, oblivious of the merits of the oeuvres. Aesthetical beauty seems to be an afterthought.
We can still be provoked by the Victorian modernist hauteur: "All art is quite useless".
Maybe one day, once again, we can have art for art's sake.
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The cast of "Scream 4" is ready to deliver some big screams on the big screen, but things got REALLY scary behind the scenes.
Although maybe nothing that sounds as horrifying as what David Arquette pulled on the first "Scream" movie back in 1996 when the camera's weren't rolling: "I ran around in Gale's dress and a trenchcoat in the first film," Arquette admits. "That was pretty frightening, if you've ever seen my calves."
On the current installment, reviving director Wes Craven's genre-deconstruction horror franchise for the first time in a decade, Hayden Panettiere got the worst of it in a classically styled "who's-hiding in-the-closet?" take. "We were doing a scene in the bedroom and we think the killer might be in the closet," Panettiere remembers. "And we open the closet: He's not there. Then all of a sudden he WAS there, but he wasn't supposed to be there. There was this prop guy who scared me half to death!"
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"He disappeared and I didn't see him until the next day," the actress continues. "I was looking around for him and I didn't see him until the next day. He said, 'Dude, I wanted to come back, but I felt so bad. You were so scared.' So he definitely got me. You try to front like you're all tough, and then something jumps out of the closet."
Emma Roberts may have experienced her biggest freak-out while simply watching the film – and her fear factor may be genetic. "I'm really easily scared," Roberts confesses. "I was covering my eyes through most of 'Scream 4' – and I was in the movie. I saw it with my mom. She was like, 'Honey, I love you, but I have to step out for a moment because I'm too scared.' I said, 'You're too scared? It's me.' She said, 'It's just scary.' So we were all horrified. I was sitting next to a bunch of people and we were all in our seats with our knees up."
Since she signed on to the film, Roberts also constantly falling for her friends' admittedly lame attempts to unnerve her. "My friends keep calling me and doing the [Ghostface] voice, saying 'What's your favorite scary movie?'" she says. "As much as I know it's a joke I still can't help but be looking over my shoulder a little bit, because it's creepy."
Co-star Rory Culkin also learned that scare pranks can too often turn on their perpetrators. "When I was younger I actually had a Ghostface mask and I stood in my sister's room in the corner for like a half hour until she saw me in the reflection behind her," he recalls. "She freaked out and started slapping me."
Only Anthony Anderson seems to not have a good scaring-the-crap-out-of-someone story. "I grew up in an area where if you scared someone you got your ass whooped," he says. "So no, we didn't play those games."


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Ubisoft's new DRM scheme is already causing problems, as the servers required to authenticate games went down today.
When Ubisoft announced its new DRM system, that required PC gamers to be connected to the Ubisoft servers at all times while playing, one of the biggest concerns that gamers had is what would happen if the servers went down.
Well, as it turns out, when the Ubioft severs go down, no one can play their games and Ubisoft customers get very upset. At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games. Fast forward ten hours and it seems that the problem still hasn't been resolved, despite the assurances from a Ubisoft representative that the servers were 'constantly monitored'
"I don't have any clear information on what the issue is ... but clearly the extended downtime and lengthy login issues are unacceptable, particularly as I've been told these servers are constantly monitored," said 'Ubi.Vigil', adding, "I'll do what I can to get more information on what the issue is here first thing tomorrow and push for a resolution and assurance this won't happen in the future."
It's unclear whether this is a worldwide problem, or just a European one, but gamers are understandably frustrated. This is a disaster that everyone saw coming, but probably didn't expect to see quite so soon.
(Thanks to Xanthious for the tip)
Wow.. i wonder if they will just call this stupid DRM scheme a flop and move on to something that may actually do more than just annoy their customers.
I doubt it though.
All I can say is this:
Hopefully Ubisoft realises what a stupid system this is and drops it.
Hahahaha! That'll teach 'em... or not. Probably not. They'll never learn.
Ah well, at least it gave me a laugh. Hopefully this will teach people not to buy games with crappy DRM in them.
I smell more DRM hate! And a Shamus Young rant!
May I be the first to call `sabotage'? This all seems a little too convenient...
How can anyone, in the entire world, be this stupid?!
This company has the most unreliable servers in the entire gaming industry, and then makes you connect to them all the time?!
It boggles the mind.
At first I thought it was just them being arrogant, but now I'm convinced that the entire Ubisoft decision making staff were dropped as babies.
I knew it! I fucking knew it!
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And the first nail in the coffin for this mistake on Ubisoft's part
So not only has AC2 already been cracked, but the DRM servers that let paying customers play the game are also down.
Well done Ubisoft. You sure showed those pirates not to mess with you.
First the PS3, now the PC.
Now we just have to wait for every 360 in the world to stop working and the circle is complete!
...oh wait.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Yarrr, they be wishin' to plunder the seven seas now I bet ye.
Yeah I reckon aye. Damn DRM always screws shit up, I dont know why they do it.
Not only is it stopping pirating, but it's also stopping paying customers from playing their game. Oh wait, wasn't this the one that was hacked? So it's not even stopping pirating. It's only purpose is being a pain in the ass.
Good job, Ubisoft. Good job.
Not at all! My pirated version works perfectly!
Ok Ubisoft, it's been only one week and you've had both games using the new scheme cracked before launch date and then your servers went down. Please, before you embarrass yourself any further, just stop. It's ok to admit a mistake.
O well that's great to know, I've got AC2 coming tomorrow.
Another day of Battlefield me thinks.
Seriously wtf is up with devs today, their all fucking retarded....
Why is it that everything Ubisoft (and EA... OH! And Activison) touches dies?
This DRM is actually the gift that keeps on giving. After getting so pissed off that AC2, my most anticipated game of the year had essentially been canceled in my eyes due to this horrible idea, I get to watch it continuously backfire and give Ubi a big fat "We told you so."
Karma, guys.
The song sabotage by the beastie boys comes to mind.
Hmmm yes, I smell it too. I knew this would backfire, didn't think it would this soon though.
Ok, that was kind of flamebaitey, but damn, it made me laugh!
*rubs hands together*
Do you hear that? The sound of absolute defeat? Yeah, its for you, Ubisoft.
"And really bad eggs...Drink up me hearties YO-HO!"
Ohhh snap I see what you did there
OT: Ubisoft, most times with gaming companies I can see why you have done something and I usually understand so I don't call you out and insult you, I am even usually reasonable about idea's I dislike and accept the idea even if I don't like it. So you will see how much you have messed up and how much I hate your DRM system.
Ubisoft you have cocked up, you've cocked up really badly. I can honestly say I hate your DRM system more then I hate Bobby Kotick. You can shove it up your corporate arse's
First we wait for all Wii(s?) to suddenly start exploding.
Gee, I didn't see that coming...
Also, I'd like to aim a big, fat "I told you so" at those who thought this DRM was no big deal. And mark my words, worse is yet to come.
In an MMO, we would be given free day(s) to make up for something like this. What can Ubisoft offer? Thats why this fails.
*snicker* Maybe I just have a dirty mind, but...
OT: Seriously, this shit is hilarious.
EDIT: Ahhhh, ninja'd ;_;
It's just a little bit embarassing at this point.
Meanwhile, pirates (I assume) get to play their cracked version without issue. Nice job Ubisoft, really.
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Colliton insisted he wasn't running from the law and had gone to Canada only to attend some harness races.
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All Things Tarot: Musings of a Tarot Crone
The blog will provide commentary on all things Tarot, including new decks, art, reviews, updates, upchucks, and what it is like to live life using the Tarot as a companion, a counselor, and a muse.
High-Tech Tarot
Okay, well, maybe it is not particularly high-tech to some of you, but for an old crone like me who seems to have an aversion to modern electronics, it seems that way. I don't pay for my apps, I hardly know how to use my smartphone, but this is something that I discovered awhile ago, and now would not be without.
Yes, I still like the feel of the cards and yes, I still adore my Tarot of the Cloisters deck, but with the Galaxy Tarot app on my phone, if I have my phone, I have my Tarot. What's more, I can do readings, and email the screenshot right to my client. I can share specific cards, I can add my own notes, I can refer to the different aspects of the symbolism or different correlations; in short, there's not a lot I can't do with this.
I'm not one to go all gaga over an app, but this one--along with the sister app, Galaxy Runes -- are the only two for which I've actually paid. At $4 a throw they're excellent value for money.
Whether you're a novice just learning or an old hand at reading the cards, this is a most excellent app. There is a free version that, even with its limited resources, seems to have a lot to offer. Ten minutes with the free version convinced me I needed the pro. I think Galaxy Software has done an excellent job with it.
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When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: 45-Year-Old Memphis Man Shoots 17yr Old In The Butt For Sagging Too Much!
"A Memphis man accused of shooting a teenager during argument over sagging pants" - Tennessee News
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I was walking through the Kroger yesterday after work and beings it's Holiday Time, there was a voice on the speaker trying to get people to donate to Second Harvest.
Second Harvest seems to do really good work in feeding the people of Nashville when times are hard. I've participated in their various food drives through the years and am always glad to support them and would encourage anybody to help them out.
I could not help but giggle though when I heard the thing on the speaker about giving to Second Harvest. The voice said "Do you know 1 in 8 Tennesseans are at risk for hunger?"
Really? How does that jive with the news earlier this year that Tennessee jumped from 4th place to 2nd place in the nation as the Fatty State?
I am not a statistician nor am I good with numbers but somebody please explain who is right here??? Who is at risk for "hunger?" Define hunger". Usually, the people I see whipping out the foodstamps at the grocery store do not look like they've missed any meals.
The whole thing just made me laugh.
When it comes to matters of a weighty sort, it irritates me to no end because now, I'm at a point where FINALLY, I do not obsess over how I am not as good as this person or that one because I'm not thin. I have birthed 3 children and although I'm not what I think to be big as a house, the weight charts say I am.
I now can boast having some high blood pressure to contend with. Everytime I'm at the doctor, they point out I need to lose weight. I especially love when the doctor's nurse (who is about one and a half of me put together) calls and says, in regards to my blood pressure management to "Reduce your weight." Right on, Honey. I'm so encouraged by you since you are so slim and trim yourself. It's just effed up.
For years, I beat myself up and always felt as though I were inferior to others. The day I married in 1989, my dress was a size 8. AN 8! Yet, in my head, I thought I was as big as a house.
It might've been because several months before that, the first time I went out to eat with my future in laws, we were walking through Rivergate Mall. My then future and former sister in law, who is Japanese and weighed all of 100 lbs, and the rest of them, stopped to get a cookie at the cookie shop.
I did not desire a cookie at the moment. At that point, I was not big on sweets. My then future, now former mother in law asked me if I wanted a cookie. I said no. She said to me, with a sort of "Bless Your Heart" tone…"Yeah, I guess you have to really watch what you eat."
WTF? That was June of 1989. I weighed 130 lbs and fluctuated between a size 6 and 8. I was also 20 years old and I wanted her to approve of me. I was convinced I was a lard ass.
She further convinced me of my heftiness a year after I married her son.
I ran into her one morning right before Christmas, again at the mall. She said "I want to get you some clothes. But not jeans. You don't look good in jeans."
Ahh…the Good Ol' Days….nothing says "love" and "acceptance" quite like your mother in law reminding you you aren't Twiggy.
I know I need to exercise regularly. I know this. I know I need to eat smarter. I know I have to think about my health, especially now that I'm over 40 and I don't want to be 75 -80 years old and being one of those that say "If I'd have known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
It especially hits home because the last few days, my thoughts have been with a wonderful family I've known since I was a small child who are, at this writing, sitting by the bedside of their 44 year old son and brother in a hospice in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, waiting for him to die as a result of a brain stem stroke he suffered last week.
John was a good school chum of my sister. We went to church with them when we were really young. I was in Sunday School with his brother and later in the Franklin band with him and his future wife. As an adult, their father was my upline boss. They are such great folks and I'm so heartbroken for them with what they are going through. He was not what I'd call huge but he did enjoy food, wine and life in general. Probably too much.
In your 20's and 30's, you eat, drink, smoke all you want and it doesn't seem to have a lot of effect on your body, at the time. Somehow, though, you cross that 40 Line, and you suddenly have to, like, THINK about all that.
These are things in my brain today…


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James Clapper's Latest Section 215 Doc Release Shows NSA Behavior, Redaction Skills Both Questionable
from the unofficial-doc-releases-still-preferable,-easier-to-read dept
The ODNI released another batch of Section 215 court orders on Friday, and as usual, it was prefaced with the same statement by James Clapper that obfuscates the fact that these document releases were compelled by an EFF lawsuit.
These releases reflect the Executive Branch's continuing commitment to make information about the implementation of Sections 501 and 702 publicly available when appropriate, while ensuring the protection of the national security of the United States.I'm not entirely sure the Executive Branch's "commitment" is any less compelled than the ODNI's document releases. Obama has said he "welcomes the debate" on national security, but it's a bit like "welcoming" someone who has kicked in your door and made himself comfortable on your couch. It's more "confrontation" than "conversation."
Either way, there's not a ton of surprising stuff in these documents, thanks to the release of an unredacted court order by The Guardian back in June of last year. The verbiage has morphed over the last several years (the docs released date back to 2006 -- the point at which the collection was "authorized") with the greatest changes occurring after Judge Walton nearly shut the program down (for "systemic abuse" of the collection since its inception three years earlier) in March of 2009.
Here's what's worth noting from the latest ODNI document dump.
A footnote that appears in many of the orders gives us some idea how many numbers have made their way back to the FBI since the program's inception. The earliest order released (dated 8-18-06) states this:
The Court understands that NSA expects that it will continue to provide on average approximately two telephone numbers per day to the FBI.Three months later (11-13-06), the number of "tips" increases:
The Court understands that NSA expects that it will continue to provide on average approximately three telephone numbers per day to the FBI.There may be several redundancies in the NSA's tipped numbers (presumably the NSA doesn't concern itself with ensuring it hasn't tipped a number before) but the raw numbers indicate the FBI is receiving 1,095 tips per year, per telco. It's by no means a massive number compared to the entire collection, but it's still a lot of numbers for the nation's second largest national security agency to investigate.
The next point of interest appears in an amendment to a 2007 order, this one signed by Judge Kollar-Kotelly. Whatever the NSA was searching its collection for apparently didn't fall within the normal "counterterrorism" confines. The text is very heavily redacted, but the words remaining around the edges suggest a non-national security target.
3. The results of each such query shall be segregated to the extent feasible until BR 07-10 expires or [xxxxxxxxxx] whichever comes first.[The text doesn't show the lengths of the redacted areas, so this screencap might be a little more relevant.]
4. Upon the conclusion of [xxxxxxxxx] or at the time of the renewal application, whichever comes first, NSA shall submit a written report to the Court stating why the results of any query conducted pursuant to this Motion should not be destroyed.
5. This amendment is strictly limited to allowing queries of the metadata [xxxxxxxxx] and does not apply to queries for the purpose of [xxxxxxxxx].
As of January 2008, querying the metadata database was restricted to approval by "one of eight people." But by the following order (04-03-08), this number had mysteriously swelled to twenty-three. There's no documentation or explanation given for the expanded roster of query-approval personnel on what is basically the renewal of the previous court order. (This one is signed by a different judge, however.) This may be just be one example of the "systemic abuse" called out by Judge Walton in his near-dismantling of the program -- a tripling of query approvers for a database whose access was supposed to be very strictly controlled.
What is likely Judge Walton's first court order since his February 2008 order temporarily halting the NSA's bulk records collection notes that approvals to search the database will only be approved on a case-by-case basis until further notice. Unfortunately, this order also gives the agency a convenient way to avoid having to seek the court's prior approval.
[I]f the government determines that immediate querying of the BR metadata through contact chaining [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] is necessary to protect against an imminent threat to human life, the government may query the BR metadata for such purpose. In each such. case falling under this latter category, the government shall notify the Court of the access, in writing, no later than 5:00 Eastern Time on the next business day after such access.Walton's court order dated Feb. 26, 2010 contains a number of new additions not seen in previous orders. Most notably, it details the NSA's (compelled) decision to fix its software to limit the number of "hops" an analyst could take during contact chaining.
In addition, the Court understands from the Declaration of Lieutenant General Keith B. Alexander, Director of NSA (Ex. A to the Report of the United States filed in docket number BR on August 17,2009) that NSA has made a number of technical modifications that will prohibit a) from inadvertently accessing the BR metadata in [xxxxxxx]; b) from querying the BR metadata in [xxxxxxx] with non-RAS-approved identifiers; and c) from going beyond three "hops" from an identifier used to query the BR metadata in [xxxxxxx].How many "hops" did NSA analysts (this same order notes there are 125 analysts* approved to search the BR database) take before this implementation? Three years down the road from the program's beginning, the NSA is finally forced to admit it has a problem (well, several actually) and implemented the sort of software-based restrictions it should have had in place in 2006.
* This number seems to have been redacted needlessly in the renewal of the February court order.
It also notes the administration will be given access to BR data in order to "determine whether the information contains exculpatory or impeachment information or is otherwise discoverable in legal proceedings." The follow-up question (which still has no real answer) is what does the Executive Branch do with this info? Does it get buried? Is it barred from being admitted as evidence because it would "damage national security," even though it could spring an innocent person? From what we've seen in previous cases, it appears as though the government is more willing to imprison someone than allow surveillance data to be admitted as evidence.
Also of note is this particular redaction, the length of which indicates this order is aimed at AT&T. (Gotta love monospaced fonts.)
This isn't the only document in which the NSA exposes something inadvertently. A January 2011 court order duly redacts anything worth noting, including the recipient of the order, right up until page 4, where this slips through.
Finally, two supplemental orders from 2011 indicate the NSA was also gathering credit card information along with the rest of the metadata, possibly inadvertently. Both contain the following paragraph.
It is hereby ORDERED that such reports, in addition to the elements described in Paragraph shall include a discussion of NSA's consideration and, to the extent feasible, implementation of methods of purging the credit card information produced by [xxxxxxx] and described in letters submitted by the government on March 1, 2011, and April 13, 2011, in Docket Nos. BR 10-49 and BR 10-70.Note the time difference between the letters from the government and the orders to which they refer. Both BR collections were authorized by court orders in 2010 (10-49 was signed 08-04-10 and 10-70 on 10-29-10). At the very least, the NSA was sweeping up credit card info for nearly six months before it was pointed out.
What these documents show is that the NSA does have several layers of accountability and oversight, much of which has been in place since the inception of the Section 215 program. Unfortunately, most of these controls are internal, making the word "oversight" rather meaningless. As Walton discovered before issuing his order halting the program, any oversight outside of the agency had to rely on the NSA's portrayal of its activities, something that was rarely accurate.
And there's reason to believe that much of what was implemented as a result of Walton's court order has been less than rigorously enforced over the last few years. The orders following this pivotal point ran 10-13 pages and were loaded with restrictions and reporting requirements. The order leaked by Snowden from April 2013 runs only 4 pages and limits disclosure of the data, but very little else. The extensive reporting requirements implemented in 2009, as well as the stipulations restricting the number of people authorized to give query approval, are no longer present. Given what happened during the first three years of the program, this lack of mandated controls doesn't exactly inspire confidence that abuses aren't ongoing.
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If you love yourself, your kid, your house, your life, you should have a helicopter ceiling fan in your house. We've seen aviation inspired ceiling fans before (and even an awesome inverted chopper fan), but this helicopter ceiling fan will always look like it's flying in your room while it's cooling it down.
Redditor ScumbagJanitorGuy actually created this helicopter ceiling fan for his son. He painted the chopper and attached a ceiling fan to the helicopter. His next project will add to the awesomeness: he's gonna paint the ceiling to look like the sky. ScumbagJanitorGuy's son, you've got a good Dad. [Reddit via Neatorama]


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REINS Act would require congressional approval of major new rules.
The House on Wednesday passed the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, which would require a joint resolution of Congress to allow significant executive branch regulation to take effect. The 241-184 vote a day after President Obama threatened a veto.
It is the third major regulatory overhaul measure the House has passed this month. Chief sponsor Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Ky., has said the REINS Act is aimed at "restoring accountability and transparency to the regulatory process."
After it cleared the House Judiciary Committee in October, Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said: "The REINS Act reins in the costly overreach of federal agencies that stifles job creation and hinders economic growth. It restores the authority to impose regulations to those who are accountable to the voters -- their elected representatives in Congress."
The White House in its statement of administration policy said the bill's requirement that both chambers of Congress approve major new rules is unprecedented. "This radical departure from the long-standing separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches would delay and, in many cases, thwart implementation of statutory mandates and execution of duly enacted laws, increase business uncertainty, undermine much needed protections of the American public, and create unnecessary confusion."
It also said the 1996 Congressional Review Act already permits Congress to review regulations and noted that the administration has a governmentwide review of regulations well under way. "When a federal agency promulgates a major rule, it must already adhere to the particular requirements of the statute that it is implementing and to the constraints imposed by other federal statutes and the Constitution," the White House said. "Indeed, in many cases, the Congress has mandated that the agency issue the particular rule."
David Schoenbrod, a law professor currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, defended the bill on political grounds. "In a representative democracy, the right way to find out which regulations the voters desire is for their elected representatives to vote on them," he said. "The upshot would be that agencies would talk to centrist legislators before promulgating regulations. That is how we should get to sensible outcomes in a democracy, not by elected lawmakers hiding behind unelected agency officials."
The opposite view was expressed by Scott Slesinger, legislative director of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "All year long, the House has put the interests of big polluters ahead of the public's," he said. "The REINS Act would replace science and health with politics and pollution. Every nanosecond spent on this misguided effort was precious time that should have been devoted to solving America's very real challenges."
The REINS Act faces an uphill battle in the Senate, which last month rejected it as a floor amendment.


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Students Engage with Historical Documents during Interim
January finds Augustana students transcribing original historical documents on deposit in the College's Center for Western Studies archives. The new course, "Unlocking the Archives," supports both Augustana's major in anthropology and minor in Northern Plains studies.
Submissions Invited for Claire Donaldson Short Play Festival
Augustana College and The Great Plains Dramatist Exchange seek submissions for the Claire Donaldson '8 in 48' Short Play Festival. Submissions will be accepted through May 15, 2010. A scholarship and cash prizes are offered.
KELO TV: Augie's Dalton - Small Size, Big Impact
Augustana point guard Jordan Dalton had to wait his turn to crack the starting lineup. Playing behind guys like Corey McIntosh and Marques Blank will do that to you. But he paid his dues, and now, Dalton is making a big impact - despite his small stature.
Alumnus Assists in Treatment of Haiti Earthquake Casualties
Dr. Dale Peterson, class of 1960, is assisting in the medical treatment of those injured in the Haiti earthquake. He is a volunteer physician at Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Milot, located about 75 miles from Port-au-Prince.
Augustana Releases 2008-2009 Annual Report
The Annual Report is now available online to view fundraising, endowment and economic performance, as well as quality and cost comparisons with other institutions. Augustana's fiscal year runs from August 1, 2008, through July 31, 2009.
Augustana Alumni Safe Following Haiti Earthquake
Two Augustana alumni were among the many American missionaries serving in Haiti at the time of Tuesday's massive earthquake. Both Jonathan Larson, class of 2006, and Sarah Thomson, class of 2007, survived the disaster.
Dr. Robert Wright Talks Health Care Reform in The Daily Caller
Dr. Robert Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana, discusses health care reform in his recent editorial published by The Daily Caller. The DC is a 24/7 news site on current policy issues run by editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson.
Eighty-Seven Students Pursuing Studies Abroad
The 2010 January Interim at Augustana (January 4 thru 27) finds 87 students studying on seven continents - Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania, and Europe. In addition, 13 Augustana faculty members are teaching courses abroad.
Alumnus Leads Release of New Industry Standard
Owen Ambur, who graduated from Augustana in 1972, was recently recognized for his efforts in the release of the newest innovation StratML from AIIM (www.aiim.org). Ambur served as chair of the committee responsible for the new standard.
Former Augustana President Authors Book on Norwegian Lutheran Immigrants
Lloyd Svendsbye, former president of Augustana College, reveals the struggles of the early immigrants as he chronicles his ancestors' saga from Norway to Western North Dakota in his new book, I Paid All My Debts, published by Lutheran University Press.


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Payday Loans (also called a payday advance) is a small, short-term loan that is intended to cover a borrower's expenses until his or her next payday. There has been some criticism of these loans in the UK recently.
Controversial payday loans that charge astronomical interest rates of 2,000% or more over short periods to desperate borrowers have become hugely popular since their emergence in 2006, according to a report by a consumer watchdog. Paydayuk.co.uk, for instance, charges borrowers £50 for a loan of £200, which for short-term borrowing is an APR of more than 22,600%.
Xmas Payday Loans. Don't pay them back, read why here first
If you are in debt adding interest to a repayment plan or maybe a lot of other payday loan companies, then you need to stop all the charges, interest now. If a get out of debt button is all your after, then there is a company that I have thoroughly vetted that can do this for you by the end of the day. They contact them on your behalf and stop everything, informing you by email all the way. They hate Payday loan companies as much as me, any way, check them out if you need this resolved by the end of the day here
If you need a payday loan then you are at a point where you are so short of cash, there is no alternative and whatever you need it for, cash is needed. However, once they have you, they apply multiple tactics to get as much cash from you as possible. So if you have taken a loan and fallen behind on a payment, or they are adding extortiant amounts of charges on your account.
Xmas Payday Loans. Don't pay them back, read why here first
1. Call your bank and tell them your card has been stolen and you need a new card. Why? The payday loan company has your details, which means without you knowing they will use a POS machine to debit your acc for the loan charges you didn't know had been applied and you wont know until you try to use your card somewhere and its been declined. With new card details, they wont have them and wont be able to debit anything.
2. You would have had to put your employers address and tel number on the application. This means they will use the tactic of calling your work and trying to embarrass you into paying. Who wants their collegues to know they are in trouble? With one letter you can send it to the payday loan company which will mean they are breach of Section 40 of the Administration of Justice Act 1970, and the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 if they hassle you at work
3. CCA request, stall them further by sending off a CCA request for the original agreement. You will be surprised how many cant and if they cant, you owe nothing.
4. At this point they will be writing to you request payment. One simple tactic is to call them and say you are under consultation to be made redundant. You are being taken to court for non-payment of council tax and other priority debts. Which means, you only have enough to pay 70% of the original payday loan without any charges. Otherwise they will just have to wait for court outcome and are welcome to wirte to court.