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We've just recently gone live with a new feature here at Libra, Unrealized Gain and Loss Reporting. If you're new bitcoin or haven't had that much experience accounting for capital assets (e.g. real-estate, stocks, mutual funds, etc.), the phrase "unrealized gain/loss" might be something you're not so familiar with. Don't worry, it's a concept that's super-easy to understand.
Basically, when you own a capital asset, which can be a number of things – like a piece of real estate, Apple stock, or in our context – bitcoin (or any other digital currency for that matter – like Litecoin), you have to keep track of the price you purchase/acquire it at, as well as the price you redeem/sell/dispose of it at.
Let's do a quick exercise using bitcoin as an example. Let's say you acquired or bought some bitcoin when 1 BTC was worth $150. You later then sold your bitcoin when 1 BTC was worth $200. If you had held your 1 bitcoin for less than 365 days when you sold it and it was worth $200, you would have a short-term realized gain of $50. If it had been more than 365 days you would have a long-term realized gain of $50. The reason we distinguish between short-term and long-term here is because in the United States, the IRS assigns a different tax-rate to people with short-term gains versus long-term gains.
So, we've established what a "realized" gain is. A "realized" loss is the same thing, except that you've redeemed/sold/disposed for a loss. If we reversed the above example, and you had acquired/purchased 1 BTC at $200, and then later sold it for $150. That would be a loss of $50. Pretty easy to understand, right?
Now the only part that remains is understanding what an "unrealized" gain or loss is. It's super-easy! An unrealized gain or loss is simply what your current gain or loss is, as of this very moment in time (or any point in time,as long as you haven't sold), compared to the price point you acquired/purchased at. It's unrealized because you haven't "realized" or "incurred" the actual gain or loss – you still hold the asset… you haven't disposed, sold, or redeemed it yet.
Ok, so why is unrealized gain and/or loss reporting helpful to you? Well, due to potential tax consequences of having a gain or loss, it is helpful to know before hand what your "realized" gain or loss could be. If you only have a couple of transactions you probably already have an idea of it in your head, however, a lot of our users have a ton of bitcoin or digital asset related transactions because they are miners, professional traders, or do a lot of business based in digital currency. These people utilize various cost basis methods such as FIFO or LIFO so that they can compliantly minimize their realized gains or maximize their realized losses in order to minimize their tax liability when accounting for their transactions.
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Bees are Dropping Like Flies in 2010
from Robert Cohen – www.notmilk.com
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and
one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery.
The revery alone will do, If bees are few."
– Emily Dickinson
Nearly four years Notmilk asked this question:
Where Have all the Honey Bees Gone?
http://health. groups.yahoo. com/group/ notmilk/message/ 2343
Notmilk blamed declining bee populations on dairy
farmers use of a powerful pesticide, Imidacloprid,
a poison made by the same people who manufacture
Bayer Aspirin. For conspiracy buffs, Bayer is owned
by the I.G. Farben company, the same chemical company
which used slave labor to manufacture Zyklon B, the
gas used to exterminate Jews in concentration camps
as part of Hitler's "final solution."
On April 21, 2006, Notmilk wrote:
"Imidacloprid can be toxic to humans, causing
epileptic seizures, diarrhea, and lack of coordination. ..
Imidacloprid is extremely toxic at low concentrations
to some species of aquatic fish and crustaceans. .."
Yesterday (March 24, 2010), CBS news reported:
"The mysterious 4-year-old crisis of disappearing
honeybees is deepening. A quick federal survey indicates
a heavy bee die-off this winter, while a new study
shows honeybees' pollen and hives laden with pesticides."
http://www.cbsnews. com/stories/ 2010/03/24/ tech/main6328765 .shtml
What will our future be without bees to pollinate
flowering plants which yield fruits and vegetables
and trees that produce nut-bearing seeds?
Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk. com

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How Cannabis Could Improve Your Sex Life, According To Science
Doctors and sex therapists agree, weed could be the key to unlocking a more satisfying sex life.
A recent article on Mic highlights the science-backed ways in which cannabis can make sex better for both men and women.
The benefits include boosting libido, strengthening orgasms, being more present, and curbing the stress and anxiety that could be a root cause of erectile dysfunction.
"Sometimes when couples smoke marijuana, they take more time to have a fuller sensual experience and slow down, which would allow more time for vasocongestion (blood flow to genitals) and myotonia (muscular tension)," sex therapist Ian Kerner previously told Mic. He said weed can cause couples to feel "relaxed, comfortable and sexy, [which may] lead to a higher quality of orgasm."
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In his address to Congress, President Obama made clear that he and his allies know how to spend your health-care money better than you do. It's a matter, you see, of "shared responsibility": You share your dollars with the feds, and the feds are responsible for making your decisions. In the health-care bill currently before the House (H.R. 3200), there is even a "Health Choices Commissioner," to be appointed by the president, who will rigorously define your choices.
On "shared responsibility," the president brooks no dissent. "Unless everybody does their part, many of the insurance reforms we seek — especially requiring insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions — just can't be achieved," he said. "That's why under my plan, individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance." This requirement is known as the "individual mandate."
The president's proposal is historic — though not in a good way. Never before has Congress forced Americans to buy a private good or service. In fact, for those with a traditional understanding of the Constitution as a charter of liberty (as opposed to the "living" version), the list of Congress's powers in Article I, Section 8, grants it no authority to require any such thing.
The Obama administration, along with its allies in Congress and throughout health-policy wonkdom, would have you believe that, on the question of a mandate, everyone of sound reputation is in agreement. That's not true; there is no consensus on this issue, any more than there is a consensus on the "public option."
For one thing, mandates are meaningless without penalties for non-compliance, and polling data suggests that Americans might accept an individual mandate, but not the penalties. This became a problem for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential primaries, when Obama strongly disagreed with her proposal to impose an individual mandate — saying, among other things, that it was unenforceable (he cited non-compliance with auto-insurance laws as evidence). Clinton responded by suggesting such measures as tax penalties and wage garnishments for health-insurance scofflaws, which Obama knew would be unpopular with voters.
Now that Obama is president, he no longer objects to such penalties. In the House bill, everyone would be required to have an "acceptable" health plan (as defined by law) or pay a penalty of 2.5 percent of his adjusted gross income. This penalty is expected to bring in $29 billion over a ten-year period. In the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee bill, the penalty is set at 50 percent of the price of the lowest-cost health plan participating in the bill's state-run health-insurance exchanges. That's expected to generate $36 billion over ten years.
Meanwhile, Sen. Max Baucus (D., Mont.) has unveiled a Senate Finance Committee draft that also has an individual mandate. It would levy a penalty of up to $3,800 on families for what the president calls "irresponsible behavior," by which he means health-care choices of which he disapproves. In Obama's usage, "personal responsibility" is selective; it doesn't extend to the question of taking responsibility for one's health care. That's the government's job. Of course, federal officials will have outside help in deciding for the rest of us. Powerful special-interest groups and health-industry lobbyists will do all they can to make sure that their favored medical treatments, procedures, drugs, and devices are part of the "bare minimum" that every plan must include.
Despite all this, the president is right on one key point: The current system makes those with health coverage pay for those without. And those who are without health coverage often get their care in the most expensive place possible: the hospital emergency room. The president correctly calls this a hidden tax. Under existing federal law, hospitals are required to provide treatment to everyone who comes to their emergency room, regardless of his ability to pay. There is no serious legislation under consideration that would change that.
About three-quarters of this uncompensated care, adding up to tens of billions of dollars annually, is financed, in some way, by the taxpayers. (Health-care providers absorb some of these costs by delivering charity care.) The extent and degree of this cost shifting varies from state to state. The challenge for conservatives is to address the situation in a practical way that does not reward personal irresponsibility — the free-rider problem — or curtail freedom. That means taking the principle of "personal responsibility" seriously by making sure that personal choices are clearly defined and consequential.
The experience of Massachusetts shows how hard it can be to pull off this balancing act. In 2005, as the state faced $1.3 billion per year in taxpayer-financed uncompensated health-care costs, Republican governor Mitt Romney came up with a plan. In sum, his position was that people should exercise their responsibility by choosing their own health insurance and paying their own health-care bills. The state would provide direct assistance to help low-income folks buy insurance, drawing heavily from existing government funding of health care.
Under the Romney proposal, those who did not wish to buy health insurance would be allowed to self-insure, but they would have to post a $10,000 bond to pay their health-care bills, such as hospital emergency care, instead of shifting them onto the taxpayer. Anyone who refused to do so would lose an exemption on his state income tax.
Romney's proposal, strictly speaking, was not a requirement to purchase health insurance; it was a requirement to pay one's health bills, through insurance or predetermined direct payment, thus reducing the burden on taxpayers. Nonetheless, it satisfied nobody. Critics on the right, especially libertarians, said it amounted to a health-insurance mandate, while those on the left said it was a weak and unnecessary substitute for the "real thing," which the Massachusetts legislature enacted in 2006: a straight mandate for individuals to buy health insurance or pay a fine.
That mandate fell short of universal coverage. Some 60,000 people, roughly 1 percent of the state's population, were initially exempted, as state officials — fearing a political backlash from labor officials, among others — refrained from imposing the mandate on some low-income people they believed would have trouble paying for insurance. So, while the state's liberal legislature allowed the government to set generous required benefit levels, politicians continued to steer money to favored hospitals, aggravating the state's health-care cost crisis. In other words, they deliberately weakened a key element of Romney's proposed reform, which was to redirect existing government funding from institutions to individuals and families. The Massachusetts experiment reminds us that in health-care policy, precision in drafting and careful implementation count as much as the broad outlines of legislation.
In Massachusetts or Washington, no individual mandate is going to achieve the goal of universal coverage. In the cases of similar mandates — auto insurance, income-tax filing, military draft registration — compliance has invariably fallen short of universal. The better course of action is to be serious about both personal freedom and personal responsibility. They go together; you cannot have one without the other. And under the House and Senate bills, we would have neither.
Requiring everyone to buy government-specified health insurance, whether they need it or not, is an unacceptable violation of personal liberty. It is a way of taxing healthy people without calling it a tax. Since that is an irresistible temptation to politicians, the list of required benefits would be certain to keep expanding.
The choice between freedom and responsibility, as the president and his congressional allies portray it, is a false choice. We can and should have both.
– Mr. Moffit is the director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation.


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DeVos Might Not Serve as Ed. Secretary If Trump Re-elected
Betsy DeVos hinted Monday that should President Donald Trump get re-elected in 2020 that she might not serve as education secretary during his second term.
"I'm not sure my husband would be OK with that," said DeVos of her husband, Dick DeVos, a former Michigan gubernatorial candidate, after hesitating before delivering her response.
Betsy DeVos, a Michigan native and one of the longest-serving members of the Trump administration, spoke to the 72nd gathering of the Education Writers Association on Monday. It was the first time she had addressed the gathering since leading the education department.
When asked by a reporter why she has not visited any schools in Detroit — where more children attend charter schools than traditional public schools and where data shows both types of schools are among the lowest performing in the nation — DeVos, a major charter schools advocate, said she visited a number of schools in Detroit before taking the job as education secretary.
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In Alaska, Tanner crab – or Bairdi snow crab, as the industry calls it – is a one-of-kind shellfish that's simple yet distinctive, with delicately sweet, snow-white flesh that explains its tremendous value and widespread popularity. The trademark big bright orange clusters guarantee a memorable presentation. It is much larger and packs a much sweeter, richer flavor than its cousin, the Opilio snow crab. Many Alaska fisherman believe Bairdi crab is the best-tasting of all the Alaskan crab species.
The Bairdi crab has always been harvested from the same areas in the Bering Sea off Alaska. It is targeted along with Opilio snow crab using traps and pots. The crab is then identified and separated as Opilio and Bairdi. One quick way to determine difference is its eye color. Bairdi crab has red eyes and Opilio has green eyes.
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Maliki's eight years in power
BAGHDAD – Here are the main dates of the eight years in power of Iraq's divisive prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, who finally bowed out under international pressure on Friday:
– February 22: Revered Shiite shrine in Samarra blown up, triggering later a sectarian war that will continue to rock Iraq until 2008, killing tens of thousands.
– April 22: President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd asks Maliki, a Shiite, to form a new government to replace Ibrahim Jaafari who was contested by Sunnis and Kurds.
– May 21: A national unity cabinet is sworn in, dominated by Maliki's United Iraqi Alliance which won most seats in parliamentary election.
– October 11: Parliament passes law allowing the 18 provinces to hold referendums to merge themselves into larger federal regions with a measure of self-government. It is opposed by Sunnis who fear their community would be left with a rump territory in the barren west and centre of the country.
– August 14: More than 400 are killed in attacks targeting members of the minority Kurdish-speaking Yazidi community in northern Nineveh province. Al-Qaeda is blamed. The violence is the worst since dictator Saddam Hussein was overthrown in the 2003 US-led invasion.
– March 7: Inconclusive parliamentary elections unleashes political crisis between Sunnis and Shiites.
– November: Political leaders announce deal stating the president of Iraq would be a Kurd, the prime minister a Shiite and the speaker of parliament a Sunni. Talabani reappoints Maliki as government chief.
– February 3: Protests demanding improved public services, more jobs, less corruption and broader political reforms erupt.
– December 18: US troops complete their withdrawal, ending nearly nine years of occupation..
– December 19: Arrest warrant issued for Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who takes refuge in Kurdistan. His Iraqiya bloc boycotts the cabinet.
– September: Formation of a new federal military command covering disputed territory in Kirkuk in northern Iraq sends already-poor relations between Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdistan region plummeting.
– December 23: The start of major protests, particularly in the Sunni province of Anbar, demanding Maliki's ouster and accusing him of monopolising power and discriminating against Sunnis.
– April 23: Start of a week of clashes in Hawijah in northern Iraq between security forces and anti-government protesters allegedly infiltrated by militants that leave more than 240 dead.
According to the NGO Iraq Body Count, 2013 was the deadliest year since 2008, with 9,475 civilians killed.
– January 2-4: Iraq loses control of Fallujah and parts of Ramadi in Anbar province to Al-Qaeda-linked fighters, after security forces cleared an anti-government protest camp in December.
– April 30: Maliki wins the most seats in the first general election since US troops departed, but his State of Law alliance falls short of an overall majority.
– June 10: Arab militants, led by radicals, seize second biggest city Mosul. Government forces take flight. The fighters go on to seize broad swathes of territory in the north and the west.
– August 8: US jets strike fighters positions.
– August 11: President Fuad Masum nominates Shiite Haidar al-Abadi as new prime minister. Maliki says it will take a court ruling for him to leave power.
– August 14: Maliki concedes defeat, bowing to huge domestic and international pressure, notably from former allies the United States and Iran. Washington hails the decision as a "major step forward". The UN speaks of a "historic milestone".


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Let me start off by saying that this is a terrible movie! This is something you need to know just from the outset of this review. Save yourself some money and just wait for it on DVD. Even then don't buy it, just hire it from the video store. Look, we can't really have high expectations of a movie starring Keanu Reeves. He seems to be the guy directors call when they want to take really good stories like the Constantine comic books and turn them into movies people don't really know how to react to. I mean, Reeves was even weird as Neo in The Matrix. He's just a strange actor. I digress though; let's just get back into why 47 Ronin is 118 minutes (Nu Metro's and Ster-Kinekor's ridiculous amount of trailers and ads aside) of your precious life given to a ridiculous venture.
The problem with this movie, strangely enough, is that it tries too hard to sell its weak plot to you and it tries to make you care about its shallow characters. I have no problem with the lack of a solid plot or weak character development in a movie about a fictionalised feudal Japan inhabited by honourable Samurai, witches, demons and other shady characters. In fact both those weaknesses usually make such a venture much better because you expect it to be cheesy and crammed to bursting with well-choreographed fight scenes accompanied by mind-bending CGI. 47 Ronin doesn't do this! There are only a handful of fight sequences and they are pretty much average and the CGI, though quite good, isn't that great or rather it isn't used that effectively. Director, Carl Erik Rinsch tried to tell the story of the real-life 47 Ronin and make it very fantastical at the same time and failed on both counts. This movie, then, doesn't reward the viewer in any way other than it being very pretty. The scenery takes your breath away and the costumes the characters wear are amazing.
The story centres on Lord Asono's kingdom of Ako preparing to host a tournament in honour of a visit from the Shogun, the ruler of all of Japan. His beautiful daughter, Miko is in charge of all the ceremonial preparations and we learn that she is in love with Keanu Reeves' character, the half-breed, Kai. He is an outcast because he is half Japanese and half British and was raised by the demons of the forest, the Tengu and was trained by them to fight and also learned some of their magical abilities, which he uses only once in the movie. He was adopted by Lord Asona but can never be a Samurai and everyone in the kingdom pretty much hates him. So much so that he lives in a hut in the outskirts of the kingdom. He is continuously beaten and humiliated throughout the movie for trying to help everyone. Oishi, the leader of the Samurai and later the 47 Ronin is the main protagonist even though he is pretty much dumb enough not to believe Kai when he warns them of the witch, Mizuki. Oishi is your usual honourable-to-the-death type of guy – a lot like Ned Stark from Game of Thrones. Lord Kira, ruler of the neighbouring kingdom, Nagato is the villain of the piece. He is your usual power hungry megalomaniac who seeks to rule all of Japan. He is a decent villain but his companion, Mizuki is the one that truly steals the show. She oozes sexy creepiness as a witch. What follows is a story of deception and revenge by 47 guys you really don't care about.
Another thing that irked me is the misleading posters of the movie, mainly the heavily tattooed pirate guy displayed on all the material as the Renegade. He looks cool and you think he's a prominent character till you find out he's in the movie for less than five minutes. What the hell, man?
|Who is this guy? He looks badass but he really isn't.
To conclude, this is a very bad movie. It is deadly dull and in no way captures the spirit of the real-life 47 Ronin who set out to avenge their master in 18th-century Japan. It has some interesting moments and in the few instances when the action kicks in it's done rather well but leaves you hungry for more. The story tries to engage you but doesn't get it right. Save yourself some time and money and give this one a miss.
P.S. I am overlooking the fact that this movie could have been much better in Japanese with English subtitles.


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Kasiisi Scholar Imelda Imetur, is working at Entebbe Airport as one of two dog handlers (both women) searching for illegal ivory in bags leaving Uganda. Click here to see the movie! Imelda, who foll0wed high school with a spell in local radio followed by a diploma in tourism has been working for the Uganda Wildlife Authority for some years. Nice when our kids are working to save Uganda's wild life. Her dog is an Israeli, and so Imelda has been learning commands in Hebrew.
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In between sessions, I tried to do a little grinding in the game, though sadly, much of my time was spent backtracking to previous worlds just to buy cheap weapons just to start the grinding thanks to the durability system. Also, I accidentally turned Rei into a Big Eye, an eyeball Monster from worlds and worlds ago with the power to paralyze and nothing else, and had to fight weaker monster groups so that he would even survive the fight to get new Meat! He finally survived a fight and gained the form of a Swallow: a giant moth monster that served quite well for several worlds.
Unfortunately, remember how I mentioned a while ago that we would need to train Agility? I wrote that blog entry after my grind session, so I wasn't training Agility at the time! What a mess. Thankfully, it had occurred to me to grind AGI once we started playing, so we got Kyle a Laser sword (lightsabre) from Venus' world and set to work fixing that, but the AGI training ended up taking most of the game! Obviously this was something we were not supposed to ignore early on, or were supposed to ignore and suck up, I can't decide.
We picked up the game outside the only town in the small seventh world, which was playing host to a dragon race hosted by Apollo. MAGI was on offer as a prize to the first racer to pass each obstacle on the course. In town, we bought some Dragon armour, ensuring some elemental immunity for a while, just like the FFLI days. Unfortunately, the Dragon armour wasn't end-game defence like in FFLI, but it would last for now.
As to the race, we were allowed to pick our own dragon for a rental fee, but the mechanics are deliberately counter-intuitive. See, there isn't actually a race. This was a side mode in a Game Boy game, after all, and FFLII is creaking at the limits as-is! Apollo has arranged things like this: there's MAGI on the course being guarded by monsters. If you pick a fast dragon, you'll fight the monsters "before" your opponents. If you pick a slow dragon, your opponents will fight the monsters instead, but they also slowly die off as they go. As a result, if you take the slowest dragon, you'll find your last opponent dead at the end of the track, and the final mid-boss essentially holds all the MAGI (the one it started with and the ones they took off the former winner's course). The intermediate dragons will have you outpaced by some of the competitors but outpacing the rest. You should decide for yourself whether you want to fight a few or a lot of enemies. These few enemies aren't that valuable and are probably better skipped, but players with Mutants should consider it, since these monsters are high-levelled and can give you high level abilities.
But wait, there's more: due to "a quirk in the game" as one walkthrough puts it, the dragon you choose actually changes the MAGI available on the course! It's practically a glitch because it doesn't seem like there's a reason it could happen by design, and yet… I can't imagine how it could have happened by accident!
Not knowing any of these details at the time, Kyle picked the 800 GP dragon (second-fastest). Arguably, second-slowest would have been better, since the "quirk in the game" would have changed the MAGI to give us an extra Mana MAGI for Liz, but we didn't know about the quirk at the time. Having picked the second-fastest dragon, we were only able to skip the first midboss, leaving us to fight a pack of giant turtles, Medusae, and of course the final set of enemies. The final obstacle was a group of Watchers, which were the big brothers of Rei's faulty Big Eye form. Unlike the useless Big Eye, these were incredibly dangerous, able to vaporize the party with a Mana-based move called Beam. Technically, Beam was not that powerful an attack, but that just goes to show how little Mana defence we had between KilB and Kyle!
Still, Liz and Rei survived and Apollo congratulated us at the end, followed by a long pause and then a very reluctant laugh. As Kyle put it: "He's not really helping in the 'Getting me to not want to kill him' books," and later the, "not being an evil God books." Yes, friends, I'm afraid the addiction may have returned. During the Mega Man Marathon, we aggressively pursued the Robot Masters until we had killed every last one of them. Then we tried to kill the Mavericks, though were still plenty to go at the time of writing (nowadays, the only surviving Mavericks in the Mega Man Marathon are Mega Man Zero bosses). But for now: we have now become overeager Godslayers.
Official Tally: Chaos, Dark Emperor, Light Emperor, Creator, Ashura (Legends II), Dunatis, Venus. You're next Apollo.
(I'm counting Chaos because, as far as I understand it, Dissidia treats Chaos as a deity opposite Cosmos. Otherwise I'd just call him a demon. Maybe Dissidia will force me to reinterpret but for now I'm going to inflate our numbers.)
Moving on to the next world, we reached the bane of my childhood playthroughs: Edo. This world is a fantasy Japanese setting, and is the last of the big worlds in FFLII (the last world is also fair-sized, but it's mostly empty). Edo is also somewhat strange in that it alone has a proper name among the game's many worlds, but perhaps that's misleading. "Edo" is the former name of real-world Tokyo, but the occupants of this fictional world use odd phrasing "this Edo," as though "Edo" meant "world" rather than the name of the world. I was debating how to phrase things myself, until I realized that the teleport spell/item/MAGI call the world "Edo" as well, so I'm going to avoid the integral article.
The primary reason I hate Edo is my own damn fault. Just like how I used to grind in Giant World during past playthroughs, I always tried to grind for cash in Edo. That was an awful idea. Edo exists in one of the worst possible points in the game to grind for cash. Why? It's simple math. Remember how it took several worlds for Rei's monster meat to become better? This is because it takes several worlds for the monster level to actually upgrade. Edo is one of the world where monster level goes up. But when the monster level upgrades, the game has to reduce the number of monsters in each fight to make it fair again. As you go through the next few worlds, monster count goes up until the level increases again. It is far more valuable for the player to go back to the previous world and fight less valuable monsters in larger groups, than it is to stay in this world and fight more valuable monsters that are virtually solo. I did not work this out as a kid. If you want to grind for cash, you have to grind back around the dragon town.
The developers were aware of this math, by the way. You can tell, because each of the "new monster level" worlds has a valuable shop to tempt you: Gold Gauntlets appear for sale in World 1, the Giant items in 3, and here in Edo you'll find the motherlode: Echigoya's black market shop, with some real game-busters for sale. Echigoya's is even worse, because it's only open for a limited time. Thankfully, Kyle made a good judgment call: fuck the black market. We were going to rush the whole world and move on to more lucrative territory. Sometimes that's what the Marathon is about: using skill and luck to bypass slow sections. Let's make it happen!
Edo was dominated by a massive Shogunate palace, but the doors were locked and guarded, preventing us from getting in. Kyle didn't even go to the palace at first, and accidentally arrived at the second of world's two towns instead. And I do mean "the second," because the game clearly wasn't ready for us to be there yet and there was almost nothing for us to do. Kyle didn't even walk off the beaten path to get there, he just went east instead of south! Nice of the designers to leave us a ghost town. If anything, this confusion helped in one notable way: we bought cheap items at the legitimate shops rather than allow ourselves be tempted by the black market (indeed, some of the black market's items are found in dungeons to come, enough to outfit one whole Robot, so buying a full party's worth would be a waste). While we were in the second town, we meet Taro, a samurai and teacher, but we weren't much able to interact with him. Another character who's supposed to be there, Kame, didn't even appear!
Since we clearly had to travel to the first town, we went there straightaway. This town which was built within a separate section of walls connected to the palace. There, we met Echigoya, decided not to buy his illegal crap, and ran into a group of Hatomotos (shogunate samurai) on the town's bridge. They refused to let us cross. There were only four of them on the overworld cutscene, but eight in the battle. I guess feudal Japanese gangsters multiply asexually? They opened fire with bazookas and closed at us with Katanas, making them an actual legitimate threat, but we survived, and were "saved" out of combat by a detective named Hana, who had the Hatamotos running scared. Glad to know our ripping them to shreds with our weapons had no psychological impact?
We tracked Hana back to her place in the second town, where she confirmed some local rumours about her father being killed while investigating Echigoya for smuggling, and that she had taken a job as detective to finish the job. She asked our kind party of heavily armed strangers for assistance in her investigation. Ma'am, the Killbot 9000's middle name is "legitimate investigation!" We headed back to Echigoya, and just after Kyle said "I wish we could just mug the guy," we totally just mugged the guy! Echigoya confessed that a shipment was coming in that very day at the port.
We found the ship, and also Hana's… assistant? Butler? Whatever his job, his name was Kame, a turtle Monster, who told us she had gotten on the ship but refused to say which dock the ship was on despite the entire area being flooded with random encounters. Sometimes you just have to wonder why your characters can't see past the edge of the screen, you know? On the ship, we found Hana, who had been rescued from Echigoya's thugs by Taro, also offscreen. She explained that we could go straight to court with this ship full of evidence. Echigoya isn't getting away this time, she declared, because the ship was full of terrible, evil… bananas!
Oh, did I forget to mention that the localization team didn't just censor the idea of your dad leaving your family to start a second, but also censored the term "opium" to "bananas?" And that the characters in the game can't even make up a good excuse for this to be true? If I weren't ten years too familiar with this, this plot point would be right up there as one of the silliest things in the series. Illegal bananas. As it stands it's just, oh, #4 or so.
We worked our way back out of the ship (oh, to be in a game with an Exit spell!) and on the way, tried out Hana's moveset. Being inspired by a famous, Japanese fictional character, Zenigata Heiji, Hana used her trademark Coin, which you'd think the designers would have gone to the trouble of making useful, but did not. It really did seem to be no more dangerous than actually flicking a coin at a late-game monster. She also had "Temptat," which could charm opponents (apparently seduction skills are something you can buy at a store – like punching!). We did not know that when we used it, however, and tried out its Temptation powers on a snake monster. After successfully seducing the snake, Hana presumably called up Firion to tell him she had found him a date.
Joking aside, what is with this game and giving you partners that are either useless or so strong they wipe the board clean on their own? They're perfectly capable of making Guest party members that were appropriate for the world (they're arguably best when they're just a bit stronger than you): Dad and Mask both qualify, Ki probably would have been fine on World 2 and she was certainly close to World 2. But Mr. S and the guy who joins next are so OP that it takes away the challenge, and Lynn and Hana are outright failures. Did a programmer change the mechanics of Lynn's martial arts and Hana's Coin when the designers weren't looking? Did that same programmer just… crank the next guy's numbers?
We took Hana to the court, south of the palace, where the Judge had his deputies brought in Echigoya and checked the banana ship. Unfortunately, it turned out the whole court system was crooked and the deputies hid the evidence instead. When we returned to Hana's home in failure, Kame came in wounded, having tried to investigate Echigoya himself, only to get jumped by some black market guards. One of the deputies followed Kame to arrest him on a legitimate breaking and entering charge, but Taro shoved Kame under Hana's bed at the last minute, and the deputy somehow failed to notice the trail of blood leading from the door to the nonchalant, whistling man at the back of the room. The best part was how the party, represented on-screen by KilB, sat down at Hana's table in an effort to look casual, as if Hana had just sat down with the Killbot 3000 and its bristle of swords and grenade launchers, for tea.
Our party decided to do something on its own for once and… can I please emphasize just how bonkers this is? Throughout this entire game the party has built up from small town destined heroes to sci-fi/fantasy godslayers that honestly, truly were bristling with swords and festooned with heavy firearms, and on top of that, magic. This investigation plot just seems… tonally inappropriate? In an internally consistent game, you can do odd plots like this no matter how many supervillains you've killed. But once you go completely gonzo, the plots have to stay gonzo or they fall short. This episode of Law and Order: Feudal Japan is bizarre, sure, but too small-scale! This could have worked in some other game, and it might even work if you think of it in isolation, but in the context of the main game, we have walked up to and shot multiple gods in the face before coming here, and have taken their powers from their still-warm corpses and hung them about our neck like gristly trophies, and you want us to busting banana smugglers? The only way this Law and Order plot is going to be appropriate to the setting is if we burst into this salesman's office is if he whips out a Vulcan cannon and starts opening fire in return.
Which he can totally do! But he didn't, we blew him up with rocket launchers before he had a chance, because this situation is complete overkill. (His one turn spent alive was wasted hitting us with an abacus instead. The abacus is a strength weapon (?) that only he can drop, but he didn't. What a weird little footnote on a weird little scenario.)
Before we blew Echigoya's office to smithereens, we overheard a meeting between him and the local "Sho-Gun," who was masterminding the Chiquita Underground to make money for his personal MAGI hunt! The Sho-Gun escaped (no doubt through a hole we made in the wall) and fled to his palace. When we returned to Hana's house, this news was enough to stir Taro to action: he revealed himself as the last of the Guardians, and on learning that Dad/Captain had died and that we were his protégés, he joined up with us to take out the Sho-Gun. As I've already implied, Taro was OP, with higher stats than some of our party members at the end of the game. He also had a Muramas, one of the series' most powerful weapons, like it was no big thing (for good reason: this was the first game in the series to include the Muramasa and they hadn't yet made it a super weapon). He even had a Cure spell book. I'd have paid for him to stick around, though I'm not sure what a noble guy like him would think about that.
The Sho-Gun's palace was a long dungeon, and sadly one of the last ones we bothered to search without a map before losing patience entirely. Still, we got to the top and fought the man, who proved completely harmless. He only got off a single Riddle attack before dying. In reality, the true villain was his demon/New God? father, identified only as "Magnate." Magnate killed Sho-Gun and took the fight to the roof, where, I knew from experience, you could fight the corner statues as powerful bosses called "Dolphins," at only this point in the game. And for no good reason, either, as they don't even have any powerful drops! They're so tough that when I showed Kyle the easter egg, the Dolphin practically destroyed us and we had to reload our save!
Magnate was incredibly powerful in his own right. He opened with magical powers which nearly wiped us out (Thunder, the damnable legacy of Garuda from FFIII!), but luckily for us, we had picked up a "Tank," weapon earlier in Edo, and installed it as part of KilB. This was not just a Tank cannon, but an entire literal tank (you thought I was kidding in the scene with the tea!) and if you used it, you gain a high chance of blocking melee attacks, because you're in a tank! Have I emphasized that yet? Unfortunately for the Magnate, he followed up his magic by spending almost all of his turns smacking a sword into the front of an armoured vehicle as it shot him in the face. That didn't go so well for him.
After the fight, Taro left the party, having fallen for Hana (unable to even speak in front of her, forcing our party to say it out loud. Because we're the kind of folks you want to do your matchmaking). We headed out refreshed, but I'm afraid to say that while this was my first ever safe and breezy trip through Edo, it was all downhill from here.
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Christoph Gerling has been a research associate at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) since 2019. In the research group "Innovation & Entrepreneurship" he is working on the project "Learn. Match. Partner", which is part of the "_Gemeinam Digital" initiative sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy. "_Gemeinam Digital aims to support small and medium-sized enterprises in their digital transformation. In this context, Christoph examines the extent to which partnerships between SMEs and start-ups can provide answers to the challenges of digitalization.
Christoph studied Aerospace (M.Sc.) and Technology and Management (B.Sc.) at the Technical University of Munich. During this time, as coordinator of the Entrepreneurship Initiative of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, he founded several seminar formats aimed at informing, motivating and networking those interested in entrepreneurship. He was also contact person for organizing information events at the universities and colleges.
In the context of his doctorate Christoph deals with cooperative and collaborative entrepreneurship and its effects on the cooperation between companies and the formation of inter-organisational relationships.
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The killing came during heightened focus on women's rights ahead of a possible exit of foreign forces from Afghanistan
KABUL, May 11 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a former television journalist and adviser to the Afghan parliament in Kabul on Saturday, underlining threats to women and drawing widespread condemnation.
Mina Mangal, who used to report for prominent TV station Ariana News, was killed by two unidentified men on a motorbike close to her home in eastern Kabul, police spokesman Basir Mujahid said. She had been on her way to work as an adviser to the parliament's cultural affairs commission.
There was no immediate word on the motive for the attack, but another Kabul police spokesman, Ferdous Farahmarz, said the cause may have been a family dispute.
The killing came during heightened focus on women's rights ahead of a possible exit of foreign forces from Afghanistan and potential return of the hardline Taliban to a role in government.
Already outraged at worsening security for women in the capital, some Afghans shared her picture on social media and demanded a severe punishment for the perpetrators.
"In a country where my life is in danger as a journalist, I want the government not to show appreciation for our work but to focus on how to protect us," Zalma Kharooty, an Afghan female journalist, posted on Facebook.
Afghanistan ranks near the bottom of global indices on gender equality, with forced marriages, honour killings and domestic violence prevalent nationwide, particularly in rural areas.
As U.S.-Taliban peace talks gain momentum, many women fear losing hard-earned freedoms since U.S.-backed Afghan forces overthrew the austere Taliban in 2001. During their 1996-2001 rule, the Taliban barred women from working outside their homes and required them to be accompanied by a male relative.
(Reporting by Orooj Hakimi; Writing by Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
#AFG. Meena Mangal, former journalist and current advisor to the cultural affairs commission of the #Afghan parliament assassinated in #Kabul on Saturday morning. #MOI pic.twitter.com/F409sycUS8— Ab Qadir Sediqi (@qadir_sediqi) May 11, 2019
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In chapter 4, we'll learn professional workflows for making design system improvements while mitigating inconsistencies. This chapter covers techniques for gathering UI feedback and reaching consensus with your team. These production processes are used by folks at Auth0, Shopify, and Discovery Network.
Previously, I wrote that design systems are a single point of failure for frontend teams. In essence, design systems are a dependency. If you change a design system component, that change propagates to dependent apps. The mechanism for distributing changes is unbiased – it ships both improvements and bugs.
Bugs are an existential risk for design systems so we'll do everything to prevent them. Small tweaks end up snowballing into innumerable regressions. Without an ongoing maintenance strategy design systems wither.
Continuous integration is the defacto way to maintain modern web apps. It allows you to script behavior like tests, analysis, and deployment whenever you push code. We'll borrow this technique to save ourselves from repetitive manual work.
We're using CircleCI here, which is free for our modest usage. The same principles apply to other CI services as well.
First, sign up for CircleCI if you haven't already. Once there, you'll see an "add projects" tab where you can set up the design system project like so.
Add a
.circleci directory at the top level and create a config.yml file inside of it. This will allow us to script how our CI process behaves. We can simply add the default file that Circle suggests for Node for now:
version: 2
- image: circleci/node:10.13
working_directory: ~/repo
- checkout
- restore_cache:
- v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "package.json" }}
- v1-dependencies-
- run: yarn install
- save_cache:
- node_modules
key: v1-dependencies-{{ checksum "package.json" }}
- run: yarn test
At the moment, this runs
yarn test, which is a basic React test that was set up by create-react-app for us. Let's check that it runs on Circle:
Note that our build failed as we currently don't have any tests defined for our project. That's OK, we'll add some soon, for now let's keep moving.
"But it works on my machine?!" – everyone
Visual review is the process of confirming the behavior and aesthetics of user interfaces. It happens both while you're developing UI and during QA with the team.
Most developers are familiar with code review, the process of gathering code feedback from other developers to improve code quality. Since UI components express code graphically, visual review is necessary to collect UI/UX feedback.
Delete node_modules. Reinstall packages. Clear localstorage. Delete cookies. If these actions sound familiar, you know how tough it is to ensure teammates reference the latest code. When folks don't have identical dev environments it's a nightmare to discern issues caused by the local environment from real bugs.
Fortunately, as frontend developers, we have a common compile target: the browser. Savvy teams publish their Storybook online to serve as a universal reference point for visual review. This sidesteps the inherent complications of local dev environments (it's annoying to be tech support anyways).
When living UI components are accessible via a URL, stakeholders can confirm UI look and feel from the comfort of their own browsers. That means developers, designers, and PMs don't have to fuss with a local development environment, pass screenshots around, or reference out of date UI.
"Deploying Storybook each PR makes visual review easier and helps product owners think in components." –Norbert de Langen, Storybook core maintainer
Build the visual review workflow using Netlify, a developer-friendly deployment service. Netlify is free for our use case, but it's straightforward to build Storybook as a static site and deploy it to other hosting services as well.
Now find your design system's GitHub repo that we created in the last chapter.
Enter the
storybook-build command for Netlify to run whenever you commit.
All going well, you should see a successful build in Netlify:
Browse your published Storybook by clicking on the link. You'll find that your local Storybook development environment is mirrored online. This makes it easy for your team to review the real rendered UI components just as you see them locally.
Netlify runs a build command on every commit that deploys your Storybook. You'll find a link to it in GitHub's PR checks (we'll see that below).
Congratulations! Now that you set up the infrastructure to publish Storybook, let's demo gathering feedback.
While we are at it, let's add the
storybook-static directory to our
.gitignore file:
# …
And commit it.
git commit -am "ignore storybook static"
Every time a pull request contains UI changes, it's useful to initiate a visual review process with stakeholders to reach a consensus on what's being shipped to the user. That way there are no unwanted surprises or expensive rework.
We'll demo visual review by making a UI change on a new branch.
git checkout -b improve-button
First, tweak the Button component. "Make it pop" – our designers will love it.
// ...
const StyledButton = styled.button`
border: 10px solid red;
font-size: 20px;
// ...
Commit the change and push it to your GitHub repo.
git commit -am "make Button pop"
git push -u origin improve-button
Navigate to GitHub.com and open up a pull request for the
improve-button branch.
Go to the Netlify URL in your PR checks to find your button component.
For each component and story that changed, copy the URL from the browser address bar and paste it wherever your team manages tasks (GitHub, Asana, Jira, etc) to help teammates quickly review the relevant stories.
Assign the issue to your teammates and watch the feedback roll in.
In software development, most defects stem from miscommunication and not technology. Visual review helps teams gather continuous feedback during development to ship design systems faster.
Deploying a Storybook URL for every Pull Request has been something we've been doing for a while in Shopify's design system, Polaris, and it's been amazingly helpful. Ben Scott, Engineer at Shopify
Visual review is invaluable; however, reviewing hundreds of component stories by hand can take hours. Ideally, we want to see only the intentional changes (additions/improvements) and automatically catch unintentional regressions.
In chapter 5, we introduce testing strategies that reduce noise during visual review and ensure our components remain durable over time.


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Benson's Pig is the thirteenth episode of Season 7 (and one hundred and ninety fourth overall) of Regular Show. It was announced at New York Comic Con 2015. [1]
Benson decides to stop being a cat person and becomes a pig person, so when he gets a pig, he asks Mordecai and Rigby to look after it.
- Mordecai
- Rigby
- Benson
- Pops
- Skips
- Muscle Man
- Hi Five Ghost
- Apple Sauce
- Harry Roughauser
- News Woman
- Police
- Low Five Ghost
- Gene
- Originally, a machine gun was going to be used, but this was changed to a Beanbag gun by demand from CN due younger viewers. [2]
- A clip of this episode was viewed at NYCC 2015.
- This is the first episode where storyboard artist Calvin Wong is Supervising Director.
- The Police Helicopter in this episode bears a resemblance to AH-64 Apache, although this is inaccurate that the Apache was never used by any US Police Department in real-life.
- ↑ http://www.bubbleblabber.com/nycc-2015-regular-show-press-interviews/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ERfmxqRkGo
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Based on the Tungsten Carbide industrial chain, this report mainly elaborates the definition, types, applications and major players of Tungsten Carbide market in details. Deep analysis about market status (2014-2019), enterprise competition pattern, advantages and disadvantages of enterprise products, industry development trends (2019-2024), regional industrial layout characteristics and macroeconomic policies, industrial policy has also be included. From raw materials to downstream buyers of this industry will be analyzed scientifically, the feature of product circulation and sales channel will be presented as well. In a word, this report will help you to establish a panorama of industrial development and characteristics of the Tungsten Carbide market.
The Tungsten Carbide market can be split based on product types, major applications, and important regions.
Major Players in Tungsten Carbide market are:
Lineage Alloys
GuangDong XiangLu Tungsten
Japan New Metals
Xiamen Tungsten
Jiangxia Yaosheng
China Minmetals Corporation
Buffalo Tungsten
Major Regions that plays a vital role in Tungsten Carbide market are:
North America
Middle East & Africa
South America
Most important types of Tungsten Carbide products covered in this report are:
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Type 4
Type 5
Most widely used downstream fields of Tungsten Carbide market covered in this report are:
Machine tools
There are 13 Chapters to thoroughly display the Tungsten Carbide market. This report included the analysis of market overview, market characteristics, industry chain, competition landscape, historical and future data by types, applications and regions.
Chapter 1: Tungsten Carbide Market Overview, Product Overview, Market Segmentation, Market Overview of Regions, Market Dynamics, Limitations, Opportunities and Industry News and Policies.
Chapter 2: Tungsten Carbide Industry Chain Analysis, Upstream Raw Material Suppliers, Major Players, Production Process Analysis, Cost Analysis, Market Channels and Major Downstream Buyers.
Chapter 3: Value Analysis, Production, Growth Rate and Price Analysis by Type of Tungsten Carbide.
Chapter 4: Downstream Characteristics, Consumption and Market Share by Application of Tungsten Carbide.
Chapter 5: Production Volume, Price, Gross Margin, and Revenue ($) of Tungsten Carbide by Regions (2014-2019).
Chapter 6: Tungsten Carbide Production, Consumption, Export and Import by Regions (2014-2019).
Chapter 7: Tungsten Carbide Market Status and SWOT Analysis by Regions.
Chapter 8: Competitive Landscape, Product Introduction, Company Profiles, Market Distribution Status by Players of Tungsten Carbide.
Chapter 9: Tungsten Carbide Market Analysis and Forecast by Type and Application (2019-2024).
Chapter 10: Market Analysis and Forecast by Regions (2019-2024).
Chapter 11: Industry Characteristics, Key Factors, New Entrants SWOT Analysis, Investment Feasibility Analysis.
Chapter 12: Market Conclusion of the Whole Report.
Chapter 13: Appendix Such as Methodology and Data Resources of This Research.
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Global Engagement Week
7 November 2017 - Nick Boothroyd
We're celebrating all things global from 13 -19 November with Global Engagement week bringing a variety of international-themed events to campus including a Mandarin Taster Session, Global Quiz Night and Study Abroad Fair.
Events are taking place throughout the week for both staff and students to get involved in and the food courts will be serving up a different regional delicacy every day.
Jeanne Keay, Pro Vice-Chancellor: Global Engagement said: "Our Strategy highlights our commitment to developing a community of staff who are globally engaged and a student body who are globally engaged through their programmes and extra-curricular opportunities and on graduating are prepared for living and working in a global society.
"We have some really exciting events happening this week, from CV Writing for Global Employability through to Global Music Night."
Monday 13 November
10am – 3pm International Volunteering & Partners Fair – The Gateway City Campus
Come and find out where you can volunteer with Leeds Beckett International Volunteering, Students Union Volunteering, as well as many other partners local and international. Do something great with your free time while gaining valuable employability skills!
12pm – 1pm International Employability Session – The Gateway (Office) City Campus
This session will be run by a member of the Student & Graduate Futures team, and will help you understand more about finding & applying for opportunities overseas (whether you are a UK/European or an international student). We will also look at how to find and apply for jobs in the UK – this will include looking at part-time and graduate roles, and how to write an effective CV/application. This second section will be more directed at international students looking to find work in the UK.
For lunch why not grab yourself some of the delicious international themed food today in our Food courts which today will be Mexican.
6pm – 7pm 'Are you your culture?' – Calverley Building Room CL311, City Campus
Have you ever met someone who assumed you would think or act a certain way because of where you're from? While it's nice to have a national identity, it's not nice to be stereotyped. Join us for an hour of watching hilarious video clips from around the world to experience the funny side of several cultures. And tell us what you think! Are you your culture? – Facilitated by Sasha Jurchak, Masters Student in International Communication.
6pm – Yoga – Calverley Building Room CL303, City Campus
Join the Leeds Beckett Yoga Society for their class, why not give it a go? All welcome non-member £5.
Tuesday 14 November
12pm – 2pm Mandarin Taster Session – Calverley Building Room 313, City Campus
Impress your friends by learning some basic Mandarin with Eva, one of our very own International Student Ambassadors. 25 spaces available – to book a place contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
For lunch why not grab yourself some of the delicious international themed food today in our Food courts which today will be Oriental.
6pm-9pm Global Quiz Night – Students Union Headingley
Bag yourself some prizes by scoring high on our Global Quiz! Bring your friends and make a team to enter.
6pm – Yoga – Calverley Building Room CL303, City Campus
Join the Leeds Beckett Yoga Society for their class, why not give it a go? All welcome non-member £5.
Wednesday 15 November
10am – 3pm Study Abroad Fair – The Gateway, City Campus
Come along and discover the fantastic study abroad opportunities you can do in your 2nd year (Undergraduate) across the world. We will have country specific stalls and also students who can talk about their experience of being an exchange both outgoing and incoming to Leeds Beckett.
12.30-2pm Student Barometer Drop in – The Gateway, City Campus
Come and meet our Student Services team where you can drop in and do the Barometer Survey whilst enjoying a free cup of tea and a piece of cake! We want to ensure that our students have a great experience and are getting the most from the course they are studying. That is why we are asking all 2nd years and all levels of International students to participate in the survey.
For lunch why not grab yourself some of the delicious international themed food today in our Food courts which today will be Indian.
6pm – Leeds Beckett Running Club, Meet at Carnegie Sports Centre Reception
6pm – 9pm International Student Club Karaoke night, Emmanuel Centre, LS2 9JT
The International Students Club is a FREE club open to all students of Leeds which runs every Wednesday. Join them on this night for a fun Karaoke night!
6pm – 9pm – Leeds Beckett Sikh Society Event, Calverley Building Room CL113
Join the Sikh Society for an evening of discussion on the Sikh history and religion with a guest speaker.
Thursday 16 November
For lunch why not grab yourself some of the delicious international themed food today in our Food courts which today will be American.
6pm – 10pm Global Music Evening, Students Union, City Bar – Stage 2 area
Join us for a night of talent from Leeds Beckett Students, staff and Alumni.
Friday 17 November
12pm – 1pm Talk by Moonlight Trust – Lecture Theatre F, Rose Bowl, City Campus
The purpose of this session is to raise awareness of the one of the biggest refugee crisis happening around the world. Noushin Aslam is the founder and CEO of Moonlight Trust who is one of our very own Alumni and started her volunteering journey with Leeds Beckett International Volunteering. Noushin will share her experiences of working in official and unofficial refugee camps, in Greece, Turkey and middle east.
Moonlight trust is a UK based charity committed to reduce poverty and social injustice for some of the most deprived communities around the world, especially those stuck in desperate situations fleeing violence and persecution.
11am – 2pm – Library pop up stand – Student Hub, Headingley
The Library is popping up
- How can the Library support you?
- How can we help with your research?
- What skills are you developing?
- What resources do we provide?
Find out how the Library supports the Leeds Beckett community, whoever and wherever Leeds Beckett students are in the World.
For lunch why not grab yourself some of the delicious international themed food today in our Food courts which today will be good old British Fish & Chips!
Saturday 18 November
Try Park Run for FREE – Park Run is a great way to get into running and is FREE there is one held every Saturday at Woodhouse Moor, why not join a few of our ambassadors who will meet you there and go for a run together. You will need to register on the Park Run Website before you go at: parkrun.org.uk/register.
Sunday 19 November
Mini trip to Harrogate and Knaresborough – Join our International Social Network for a trip to Harrogate and Knaresborough two great local towns. You will need to meet our Ambassadors at the Bus Station and bring some bus fare! Contact email@example.com for more details.
Leeds International Film Festival, Random Acts Leeds – Until 16 November, Leeds Big Screen, Millennium Square
Daily screening times: 10:00, 12:00, 16:00, 18:00, 20:00, 22:00 | Free
Random Acts presents a selection of short film by young artists filmmakers aged 16-24 on Leeds Big Screen, Millennium Square. From animation and comedy, to dance and spoken word – these bold and creative short films reflect the mosaic of contemporary life in England through the lens of its young artists. These innovative, thought-provoking films are each less than 3 minutes and span a range of art forms and topics. The project is a joint initiative by the Arts Council England and Channel 4 Random Acts. Accompanying the screening will be short films celebrating the Leeds' bid to become the Capital of Culture 2023.
Why not 'Give it a go' with a new sport or fitness class this week?
Fitness Classes - £4
Free Taster session at a Sports Club*
Please email Athletic Union - email@example.com – to enquire about your free taster session. *Excludes Netball, Football and Cricket.


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OKLAHOMA CITY – House Speaker Kris Steele today named David K. Hill, chief executive officer of Kimray, as his appointee on the Judicial Nominating Commission.
"In November, the citizens of Oklahoma voted to change the membership of the Judicial Nominating Commission to include individuals with broad-based knowledge and experience," said Steele, R-Shawnee. "David Hill is a proven leader in business, education and government. He clearly has the qualities needed to thoroughly vet nominees for judicial vacancies. I am confident he will serve the state of Oklahoma well and I appreciate his willingness to take on this important duty."
The Judicial Nominating Commission reviews candidates for judicial vacancies and submits a list of nominees to the governor, who makes the final selection.
Hill is an OSU alumnus and has a degree in International Business from the Advanced Training Institute in Chicago, Ill. He has been with Kimray since 1993.
Hill previously served for six years on the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, starting in 1998.
In 2004, Hill and his wife Shannon founded Providence Hall, a private school providing classical Christian education to the north Oklahoma City metropolitan area. In addition, Hill is a founding board member of the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon. He and his wife have been married 17 years and have six children.


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May 29th is National 529 College Savings Day. A 529 Plan is a state-sponsored college savings plan that can be used to sock away higher-education money on a tax-free... read more →
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Most traders have heard of the role quantitative analysts, or "quants" play on Wall Street. Quants use advanced mathematical and statistical modeling to anticipate market moves and stay one step ahead of unsophisticated traders.
Even professional active fund managers have found it extremely difficult to time the market in recent years. Active fund managers are getting desperate after more than a decade of underperformance has driven more and more money into ETFs and passive funds.
Surprisingly, despite the edge that quants and big data can potentially provide, BCG recently reported that less than half of the 153 asset managers the firm surveyed use advanced quantitative analysis.
Related Link: Danish Investment Firm: The Odds Of A Global Recession Within 18 Months Stand At 60%
How Do Quants Help?
Macrowonk is a quantitative analysis firm that uses its unique, complex algorithm to identify economic signals and predict how the signals will impact financial markets based on massive hoards of data. The algorithm performs more than 3,000 daily calculations based on real-time economic data to compute scores that underpin Macrowonk's market indicators.
Quantitative analysis is filled with complicated jargon and vague buzzwords, but Macrowonk provides concrete examples of ways its analysis can be practically applied to an investment portfolio.
Case Study
In one recent case study, Macrowonk applied a filter to the popular S&P 500 Index tracking ETF, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY), to demonstrate its algorithm's power to identify economic signals that could help investors avoid the type of large market sell-offs that are typical of economic recessions.
Using historical economic data, Macrowonk found a potential sell signal in the June 2007 U.S. Employment and Housing Data. In the eight months that followed, the SPY ETF dropped 11.8 percent during the trough of the U.S. recession. The SPY eventually recovered and delivered an overall gain of roughly 100 percent from 2004 to 2016. The ETF's max drawdown during that period was a troubling 56 percent.
By applying the Macrowonk filter, traders could have achieved a 138 percent overall gain in that period. Perhaps most importantly, they could have avoided much of the stress and uncertainty of the recession by reducing their max drawdown to only 14.9 percent.
Interested in evaluating or testing MacroWonk indicators? Contact us at email@example.com.
The Power Of Quantitative Analysis
Recession-proofing a portfolio is simply one way traders can use quant tools to maximize investment returns over time. Technology has forever changed the world of investing, but traders who refuse to adapt to the changing world and leverage the power that technology provides are destined to be left in the past.
Posted-In: Macrowonk quantitative analysis QuantsFintech Psychology Trading Ideas General Best of Benzinga
© 2017 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.


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Your iPhone comes with a number of preinstalled apps that are meant to be helpful both as you first start using your device, as well as after you have become a seasoned pro at navigating it. The Tips app was introduced in iOS 8, and served the purpose of providing occasional assistance in using the device. This assistance often comes in the form of notifications that appear periodically.
But if you find these tips to be distracting, or if you don't want the Tips app taking up space on your Home screen, then you might be wondering if it is possible for your to remove the Tips app from your iPhone SE. Fortunately this is possible, and you can see how to do it by following the guide below.
How to Uninstall the Tips App from an iPhone SE
The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone SE, in iOS 10.3.2. Note that this feature is available on iPhones that are using iOS 10 or higher. It will also work on other iPhone models using iOS 10 or higher as well.
Step 1: Locate the Tips app on your iPhone. For me, the Tips app was located in the Extras folder accessible by swiping to the left from my primary Home screen.
Step 2: Tap and hold on the Tips app icon until it starts to shake and a small x appears at the top-left of the icon.
Step 3: Tap the small x at the top-left of the icon.
Step 4: Touch the Remove option to confirm removal of the app and its associated data.
Some things of note concerning the removal of the iOS Tips app:
- This is not going to increase the amount of available storage on your iPhone.
- You can reinstall the Tips app later by going to the App Store, searching for the Tips app, and downloading and installing it in the same way that you would any other app.
- You can use this same process to delete some of the other apps on your iPhone, such as GarageBand, iMovie, and more.
If you aren't certain that you want to uninstall the Tips app, but you are sure that you want to stop the notifications, then read this article on disabling notifications from the iPhone Tips app.
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We will conduct a worldwide search and can locate just about any vintage movie poster and provide you with a detailed description of its current condition, and when available, a picture of the actual poster.
We will provide you with a firm price and estimated time frame of arrival, and if you choose to purchase it, we will request payment immediately so we can get the poster for you.
After we receive the poster, we will examine it closely to ensure it matches the condition and description, and then we will ship it to you.
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RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - Local federal workers returning to work for the first time in 35 days say they were hit with an unexpected cost, parking.
"(For) a lot of us, this is their only source of income. So when we had the shutdown, we weren't able to get paychecks," federal employee John Stumpf said.
Frustrated workers said their regular parking garage is trying to charge them for the month of January.
"When people were called back into work mid-month, they really didn't have the money to afford the garage," Stumpf said.
Stumpf said hundreds of workers use the Coliseum Parking deck on 7th Street and it's $100 to park for the month, but most federal works haven't gotten a paycheck or worked in 35 days.
"One of the employees said, 'I only have $50 in cash for me and my kid, it's suppose to last for me and my kid,'" Stumpf said.
And $50 is just how much the garage wanted from those workers to park for the four days left in January. Many said they just can't afford it.
"They have my money for the month of January and I didn't park there at all," Stumpf said.
Stumpf has another problem, his monthly payments automatically come out at the beginning of each month. Twenty-eight days later and he is parking for the first time this year.
"We get here and we are trying to figure out what is going on, and they are not giving anybody a solid answer," Strumpf said.
The City of Richmond owns this garage and several others.
"We would like to make sure them returning to work is an easy transition," spokesperson Sharon North said.
Sharon North works with the City of Richmond Public Works and said the city is stepping up and footing the bill.
"Those who have paid for January, we are going to give them February to try and help out," North said.
Those who haven't paid, don't worry about it for this month.
"There are just four days left in the month and we understand what they have gone through, so we are not going to make them pay for the remainder of this month," North said.
Stumpf says he and federal employees in Richmond just wanted compassion.
"It's not like we started last month, we just didn't think we got the support,"Stumpf said.
If you are a federal worker affected by the parking garage mix-up, you can contact the garage management or Richmond's Department of Public Work. You will need to bring your Federal ID.
Copyright 2019 WWBT. All rights reserved.


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Release Date: Sep 2, 2014
Record label: Monkeytown
Genre(s): Electronic
Pity the 12" producer. Their releases are compartmentalized into a tier somehow less important than a full-length, treated as mere precursors to something bigger and better; they face pressure to translate their art into the ironclad LP format, and to satisfy general expectations of what an album is supposed to be. So pity Dark Sky, because they are, at the least, three consistent 12" producers who had little choice but to issue their first full-length five years into a respectable career built solely on short-form records.
If there has been one consistent criticism of Dark Sky's work, it's that it's derivative. Part of that post-dubstep generation who arrived when UK producers were fusing house, two-step and techno, Dark Sky have struggled to mint a distinctive sound. Instead, the trio's back-catalogue has swung from the '90s hardcore-referencing "Ruk" to the garage-tinged, retro house of "Neon" in a way that, for all their clear talent, has tended to sound fashionable rather than fresh.Given that context, Imagin is a bizarre debut album.


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New Leadership Book, What Are Your Blind Spots?, Counters Common Business Beliefs
SYLVANIA, Ohio, October 9, 2018 – Would you give your kids cocaine cough drops for a toothache or restrict your travel for fear of falling off a flat Earth? Those were once commonly-held beliefs, but now we know better.
Today, too many business leaders live in the past, using outdated practices to engage and motivate their people―and they're failing miserably. A new book, available today, seeks to change that: What Are Your Blind Spots?: Conquering the 5 Misconceptions that Hold Leaders Back, written by the author team who pioneered organizational change and workplace engagement.
Jim Haudan, co-founder and chairman of Root Inc., wrote the rules on organizational change and employee engagement in his 2008 best-selling book, The Art of Engagement: Bridging the Gap Between People and Possibilities.
For more than 20 years, Rich Berens, CEO and Chief Client Fanatic of Root Inc., has helped align leaders at Global 2000 organizations to drive strategic and cultural change at scale.
"Most of today's leadership philosophies are grounded in the Industrial Age," said Haudan. "While the workplace, our culture, our expectations and our technology have changed, approaches to leadership have stagnated."
Berens added, "We know that 60 to 90 percent of all organizational strategies are not executed, and studies show 70 percent of people in organizations are not actively engaged. It's clear that what today's leaders are doing is not working."
Haudan and Berens' What Are Your Blind Spots? is written to help executives and managers scrutinize their approach to leadership and figure out personal blind spots―the areas where style and methods are hampering success.
The five key blind spots Haudan and Berens say to watch out for are:
- Purpose: Many leaders are embracing workplace purpose, but most fail to run their business in a purpose-driven way that achieves exceptional financial results.
- Story: The way we construct our stories and share our strategies is driven by numbers and bullet points. They're void of emotion, narrative, and meaning and don't inspire or motivate people to change.
- Engagement: Rational, logical presentations do not engage and stir the hearts and minds of your people. Businesses must move from presentations to conversations to create genuine engagement.
- Trust: The common misconception is organizations need to create tight processes, scripts and routines to minimize variability in employee performance. This focus does nothing to scale the unique human judgment that creates marketplace differentiation.
- Truth: Contrary to leadership beliefs, employees do not feel it's a smart career move to tell their boss the truth or what they really think and feel. This atmosphere creates a lack of trust, collaboration and common ownership.
Already, What Are Your Blind Spots? has received high praise from top business leaders:
- "Haudan and Berens hit on one of the most powerful obstacles to creating great organizations with highly engaged people—leadership blind spots! It is time to awaken the sleeping giant of human potential in our organizations, and this book provides a blueprint to do just that." —Cheryl Bachelder, former CEO, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. and author ofDare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others
- "Berens and Haudan provide great insight into what truly drives culture change. This book is a must-read for any leader who wants to engage the hearts and minds of their people." —Phil Cordell, Senior Vice President of New Brand Development, Hilton Worldwide
- "Jim Haudan and Rich Berens have been trusted partners in shaping leadership behaviors and driving improvements in organizational engagement. What Are Your Blind Spots? provides invaluable insight that will help leaders in any organization—and I love how Jim and Rich bring things to life with stories and real-life experiences." —Ryan Marshall, President and CEO, PulteGroup
- "Berens and Haudan explore essential building blocks for leaders, which will enable them to engage their teams and drive change." —Klaus Entenmann, Chairman of the Board of Management, Daimler Financial Services AG
Click to download What Are Your Blind Spots? sample chapter and to learn more about the book, and Jim Haudan and Rich Berens.
What Are Your Blind Spots?: Conquering the 5 Misconceptions that Hold Leaders Back
By Jim Haudan and Rich Berens
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; (October 5, 2018)
Hardcover: 192 pages
Language: English
Jim Haudan is Co-Founder and Chairman of Root Inc., the organizational change expert on helping companies create leadership alignment, execute strategies and change successfully, build employee engagement, and transform businesses. He is a sought-after business presenter who has spoken at TEDx BGSU, Tampa TEDx, and The Conference Board.
Rich Berens is CEO and Chief Client Fanatic of Root Inc. and has helped align leaders at Global 2000 organizations to drive strategic and cultural change at scale. He is a noted speaker on the issues of transformation and how to create lasting change, and has written articles for numerous publications and blogs. Under Rich's leadership, Root has been listed among the Great Place to Work® Institute's top 25 places to work, been named to the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list, and experienced 10 years of consecutive growth.
About Root Inc.: The world's most respected organizations partner with Root Inc. to realize positive change. Root activates, motivates, and inspires people to accelerate the speed of change through a combination of disruptive methods, storytelling, and interactive experiences. Root's process of defining the future, building an organizational movement, and creating lasting change is backed by proven research and has evolved over 25 years. A bold culture and international reputation for results has attracted two out of every three of the Fortune 50 to work with Root.
Change begins at http://www.RootInc.com.


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It is not possible with standard BOm scenario... You have to Variant Configuration. Instead of Making two BOM for S1, you make 200% BOM by adding both then items in same BOM . Then based on Characterisitc of A , it would select R1 material & Similarly for B would R2
This is confirgurable BOM scenario. Many things to do activate , Class < characterisitc , Object dependency etc,
Best Regards,
You provided two options of BOM to the System for making S1. Selection is been made based on either Order Qty, Order Date or Production Version.
In MRP 4 View a field called BOM Selection Method controls this functionality.
Select BOM based on Parent material number is not possible in case of normal item. Only KMAT material type can full-fill your requirement.
Thanks With Regards,
Dinesh Kumar V.


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Wellcome to mysterious space and join the army! Spacecraft 2 is a spacecraft fighter multiplayer game, you control an epic aircraft kitted with space-age weaponry and features. Try to avoid the danger and defeat your enemies to win the game. Just call your friends and fight like a team! W,A,S,D to control direction, mouse left to control fire, space to control fly foward.
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So you want to lose weight. It is as ease as eating cake. Now go do it.
There is no mystery, it is all hype used to encourage us to buy a program. The key to weight loss is mental conditioning. Train your mind, change your attitude and your body will follow.
Before you decide to start that expensive program dig deep and do some research. Read, read and read some more. Get a medical physiology book and read about how the body works. How does the food we eat get converted to the building blocks of our body. Then trash those other books you bought.
Next, get weighed and check your blood pressure. Don't buy a scale it's a waste of money. If you have heart disease let your Doctor know that you are planning on changing your life. Don't ask for approval, he knows less than you do. Just do it.
Go cold turkey. Dump the crap from your fridge. Don't have more than a weeks worth of food in your fridge. Your diet should consist of fruits, veggie, beans and legumes. If you want to have meat, don't eat more than once or twice per week. Stop eating out and don't add sugar to anything.
Next, move more and sit less. Select something you like and work hard. Workout for 35 minutes minimum 3 days a week. Workout at 80% of maximum. If you can talk comfortably you are not working hard enough.
After the first 6 weeks check your blood pressure. Remember, the mind will always quit before the body.
Now do it.