Advantages: Clear, practical, and compassionate.
Disadvantages: I only wish more people would adopt these attitudes

.... Another form of dangerous energies that we would need to defend ourselves from is potentially even more common and thought about even less... harmful judgments. When one actually directs a thought towards another person in a negative or destructive manner, we are, in a very real sense, attacking them. Thought is energy after all and when someone things about you, they can affect your energy, mood, and even strength if you are not centered within your self and abilities. We've probably all heard the homely advice of "let good thoughts be your sword and shield" and "treat others how you want to be treated." This stands out as some of the absolute best advice one can attempt to follow in life. It isn't easy to avoid thinking angry thoughts about someone who has hurt or wronged us. The Witch's Shield can certainly help to educate and arm us from... Read review

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Advantages: Help to prolong breastfeeding
Disadvantages: Occasionally tend to move

...I had my first daughter 6 weeks early and she had to be admitted to special care, due to the shape of me it was very hard to get a young baby to latch on to feed so the staff suggested a nipple shield. I tried the Medela Shaped Shields, they are shaped so the baby is still in contact with the skin so bonding and milk supply are hardly affected. They helped my daughter to latch on and stay on, there was no stopping and starting with the shields, once she was on she stayed there until she had finished. I fed her with the help of these shields until she was a bigger baby and able to latch on herself. I had the same problem with my youngest daughter and I used the shields again, and I am still feeding her. They are very flexible, the teat part of the shield is smaller than other brands, ie. Avent and Boots. They are easy... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent graphics, sense of realism
Disadvantages: slightly repetitive, hard

...When I purchased Raven shield, but was packaged in an exciting cardboard about the same size as a DVD case, which opened up revealing 2 discs and an instruction manual. It contains a brief introduction explaining the storyline and what the aim of the game is. The rest of the manual is in depth, and explains clearly how to play the game. The game its self requires an 800mhz pIII of amd athlon, 128mb ram ( it struggled with my 256mb) 32mb video card and 2GB of HD space. I would recommend at least a 1ghz processor with 512 mb ram and a fairly new video card if game play is to be perfectly smooth. Game installation was fairly quick, 5 mins, pictures of up and comming "Clancy" games entertaining you as you wait. I was able to have the graphic setting on "medium", and it did look excellent. Human characters looked realistic... Read review

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Advantages: speaks to women, interesting story
Disadvantages: none

...'Unless' was Carol Shields last book before she sadly passed away, and her most striking. The story follows a woman who writes cheery romance-type novels, whose daughter decides to drop out of society and sit on a street corner in Toronto. Whilst trying to figure out what led her daughter to make such a radical life change, Rita thinks about her own role as a mother, a female writer, and the place women hold in western society. Shields wasn't an overtly feminist writer; her books looked at women through the banalities and simple acts of life, yet what she has to say in 'Unless' is powerful. Her writing is also at its sharpest here, with resoundng metaphors and simple sentences which strike directly into the heart of the reader. Above all, this is a fascinating story and character study, and Shields keeps us on our toes, guessing... Read review

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Advantages: hardhitting,realistic,brilliantly acted
Disadvantages: too brutal in parts

...There have been many cop shows both here and in the states,but none as hardhitting or brutally realistic as the Shield.It is a show which literally grabs you from the word go.The camerawork on the show is dizzying at times,as you feel you are moving with the cops on there many chases and investigations.It delves into the underbelly of street life in all its rawness.Strong storylines have included gang wars,beatings,drugs and murders.It is an unusual cop show because the main character Vic Mackey is almost an antihero because whilst he wants to clean up the streets he also wants to grab some of the illegal money for himself and his crew. The show is set in a busy policestation in LA.It is run by Captain Acaveda,who also wants to run for city mayor.His other main aim is to bring down his corrupt strike team led by Mackay,whose results... Read review

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Advantages: Great storytelling, visuals and voice acting; Fun; Later chapters challenging
Disadvantages: Some problems with the sound; Earlier chapters too easy

...More than six years after the first two instalments of the acclaimed Broken Sword series, George Stobbart and Nico Collard return for their third outing – Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon. Broken Sword 1 and 2 were 2D adventure “point and click” style games in the tradition of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango, and are generally considered to be classics of the genre. I was a big fan of these games and was very excited to hear that (finally) a third Broken Sword game was going to be made. When it was announced that Broken Sword 3 was going to be presented in 3D, however, I was a little worried, thinking that it may be turned into a Tomb Raider style action game. For some years now there has been a steady decline in 2D adventure games, as game producers have an annoying habit of viewing them as old-fashioned in comparison to the sort... Read review

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Advantages: challenging, adventurous and extensive gameplay
Disadvantages: patience and difficulty

...::: Introduction George Stobartt is back in a spine tickling sequel to the magnificent broken sword. To adventure; you must perform 'point-and-click' actions to guide George from the horiffic backstreets of paris to the high mounds of new mexico on an adventure to save his girlfriend nico, the world and innocent victims from the dreaded 'Kahns' captivity. ::: Requirements A memory card unit is not necessary required but HIGHLY recommended. This game can take months of patience in order to solve miserys, puzzles and complete the adventure. From personnal expereince, I must have used the memory card way over 100 times throughout the duration of the game. Secondly, you may decide to use a playstation mouse. This is operated in a similar fashion to a P.C mouse. The advantages of using a mouse is to increase... Read review

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Advantages: Classic old game, still very playable
Disadvantages: Non I could see

...This classic game of the nineties, tries to get the player involved in all the action taking place, and the game play is set just like you are watching a movie, just a little more cartoony, with it's 2D graphics... The story in Broken Sword is very good, in fact it has you eager to get to the next part, and the next. When people go to Paris as tourists, they go to see the beauty of the Parisienne skyline. They do not expect to be running around solving a mystery as George Stobbart, an American, and his girlfriend Nicole, do. But once they get drawn into it all, there is no stopping them, and they become entangled in a plot of intrigue and suspense as they travel all over Europe, unraveling all the clues. Broken Sword is basically a point and click role playing game, using interactive areas of the screen. You have to do a lot... Read review

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Advantages: see review
Disadvantages: see review

...Its interesting how most gamers spend half their time bemoaning how there is very little originality in the computer game market. We all yearn for something new, complain about everything having been done...and yet when something new DOES come along we still aren't satisfied. If it was new, fresh and inventive which people wanted then Die By The Sword should have been the biggest game of the year, instead it was only given a luke warm reception. What a fickle bunch we are. What makes this so different you ask? Well its another fighting game(yawn) but this time with one HUGE difference. You see Die By The Sword is set in medieval times of knights etc. and it is a knight which you play, battling against orcs, skeletons etc. on a quest for...well I forget what, I was too busy drooling over the combat system. You see, rather than clicking... Read review

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Advantages: Some lovely cineamtography and really good fight choreography
Disadvantages: Rather overlong and hammy

...breathtakingly inventive and often balletic martial arts smack-downs. Hark is a master of this, having previously helmed instalments of the "Once Upon a Time in China" and "Chinese Ghost Story" franchises. His take on epic Chinese cinema is faithful to its roots but, thankfully, with far higher production values. He knows his audience and provides romance, adventure, mysticism and cracking fight choreography. The cinematography is crisp and Hark's direction sharp yet reverential to the genre. He shoots in luscious colours that direct the audience in how to feel. The opening massacre appears in muted greys and saturated reds, while the pastoral idyll of Martial Vilage is presented in golden hues and Fire-wind's city in a range of unappetising greys and blacks. His attention to detail is superb, giving each of the seven swords as much of a personality... Read review

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