text: Mobile Legends : Minotaur Build and Strategy Guides December 15, 2016 admin MOBA After giving you a legend spotlight on Miya, today we want to share to you the build and strategy guide on how you should play Minotaur. This legend is very interesting to play especially for those who love the tank role. Minotaur is a symbol of power for the entire kingdom until he was defeated by a stranger (I think he is Thesus). With the incident he had trained alone in his labyrinth and hoping for the day to get his vengeance on this man. Due to process of training he endowed himself with intelligence as he learned how to concentrate his fury into power. You can take a look in this guide to play Minotaur well and use their advantage in battle. Ability Despair Hammer – Wields a warhammer an deals 350 physical damage to enemies within melee range in front of him, also lowering their movement speed 65%, If in Rage Mode, attack range will expand greatly. 8 seconds cooldown. Motivation Roar – Encourages himself and the surrounding allies, healing 340 HP for himself an giving allies 50% healing. If in Rage Mode .a Rage Regen effect will be activated for 2 sec, allowing him to regen HP after taking damage. 11 seconds cooldown. Minoan Fury – Strikes the ground 3 times in a row, causing shock waves that deal 360 physical damage to nearby enemies as well as 180 true damage. Also lowers target movement speed 50%. If in Rage Mode, his striking speed will increase and enemies will be knocked airborne. 40 seconds cooldown. Rage – When abilities or basic attacks hit enemies, Minotaur will become more enraged. When Rage is full, Minotaur will enter Rage Mode an receive extra armor and magic resist (effects increase with level), as well as extra effects for his abilities. When Rage Mode subsides, Minotaur will be unable to build up Rage for a time. Passive. Mechanics You can play Mino as bruiser/fighter or tank support/jungler but if you are going to ask about how we build our Minotaur, it should be play as tank as his regeneration boost, CC, and his Rage skill where it boost both armor and magic resist. You should max out the first skills as this will let you slow down the target while dealing damage. You have also sustain in battle which you can spam because of zero mana cost. Before initiating, make sure your rage is near to get ready so you can use it in battle. You can charge it in the jungle so it will give a surprise to your enemies. Mino's ultimate is a game changer as this is capable of knocking out the enemies and airborned giving them helpless while you and your team attacking them. After executing the attack, you can use the stun and despair hammer to add more CC and damage against opponent. Minotaur Build We are all agreed that you will build your Mino as tank, so we will focus into two major parts; these are magic defense and armor. Invest on item that counter the opposing team. If your opponent getting kills from magic user, start with magic defense otherwise you can build on armor which is common as a jungler/support you need armor so you can tank most neutral creeps or carry. Like what we've said in our Mobile Legends strategy guides, you need to build based on circumstances as there is no perfect build at all that works for all circumstances. So if you see that your opponent has legends such as Miya, Bruno, Laila, Yunzhao, you can focus your build in armor as they are more on physical damage. And you can go for magic defense if the team has Nana, Eudora or Alice. As you can see I'm not fan of hybrid. If you want to go for tank, build as a tank let your other teammate do the damage. In MOBA, the fact is, you can't do everything. 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July 26, 2002—In this issue:
- Rumors About XP SP1 Product Activation Changes Not True
- Longhorn: It's All in the Timing
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- Exchange 2000 SP3
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- Microsoft Has No Interest in Expensing Options
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A bizarre rumor about Microsoft making sweeping changes to its Windows Product Activation (WPA) technology in Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) is completely false, the company told me Thursday. The rumor, which was started by a small Web site for technology enthusiasts, had Microsoft changing the product keys for all its customers who use volume licensing. This rumor has spread across the Internet and become embellished en route. One version that I came across Thursday morning claimed that Microsoft was making the change so that it could charge licensees yet again for SP1. Not so, says Microsoft.
"There is no truth in this rumor," Allen Nieman, the lead technical product manager for licensing technologies at Microsoft told me Thursday. "We are not changing the way volume licensing customers install or deploy Windows XP. We are not issuing volume licensing customers new product keys. Volume licensing customers are not impacted by any of the changes we are making to activation in SP1. The only folks impacted by the changes we are making in SP1 are people with illegal copies of Windows."
As I first reported in May 2002, the WPA feature in XP SP1 will get two minor modifications, neither of which will affect legitimate users. First, Microsoft discovered that most pirated XP copies are tied to one company's volume-license product key. So, Microsoft alerted the company about the problem, changed the company's key, and disabled it for use after SP1. Anyone who uses this pirated key will be unable to upgrade to SP1 or any future updates through Windows Update. Second, Microsoft is adding a 3-day grace period for people who use one product key to install XP on a second system. In the past, users who wanted to install a copy of XP on a second system had to immediately activate by phone. This new policy will give users some breathing room if disaster strikes and they need to install XP on a new system.
(An irreverent look at some of the week's other stories, contributed by Paul Thurrott, [email protected])
The next major revision of Windows, code-named Longhorn, won't ship until 2005 at the earliest. Various Microsoft executives have said as much in the past, and this week, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates specifically said so during the company's annual financial analysts meeting. Because the Longhorn release schedule is tied to the release of so many other products and technologies, a time frame of 2005 (or beyond) is virtually guaranteed. Here's why: Gates said this week that Microsoft would tie Longhorn to future releases of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, and, of course, the Microsoft SQL Server Yukon technologies, which Microsoft will use for the Longhorn file system. And my understanding is that Redmond will release Longhorn's server versions—the follow-ups to the Windows .NET Server (Win.NET Server) family releases that will happen in first quarter 2003—in lockstep with the Longhorn desktop versions. Given all this information, how quickly could Microsoft release updates to Office, Exchange Server, and Windows Server? I'm thinking 2 years would be the minimum; indeed, Office 11 will ship mid-2003, meaning that Office 12—the version that Microsoft will release along with Longhorn—won't happen until at least mid-2005. And consider Windows Server: Windows 2000 Server shipped to customers in February 2000, with its successor, a minor update called Win.NET Server, scheduled to hit around the same time in 2003. So how could the next update appear any sooner than mid-2005? It can't. So, Longhorn is definitely on track for mid-2005 or later. And that, people, means that we can expect at least one or two interim Windows XP releases in the meantime, as I've been saying for a while now. And although Microsoft won't talk about these releases because it's busy pushing XP Service Pack 1 (SP1), XP Tablet PC Edition, and XP Media Center Edition, I can assure you that mentions of future XP versions will start appearing later this year. It's unavoidable.
And speaking of Microsoft's plan to tie Longhorn with Office 12, here's a quote. During the Microsoft financial analysts meeting, Gates described the move to the Longhorn generation of products. "If we didn't have this approach—a version of Office that takes advantage of \[Longhorn\]—then the work wouldn't show through," he said. "The most important ISV \[Independent Software Vendor\] for us is Microsoft itself. We want one architecture for all our products." In the meantime, Office 11, due in mid-2003, will feature ClearType technology for clearer text; a persistent query window for live updating of query information; and a new UI, which we can hope will look a lot better than that awful blue-gray "Office NGO" look we've seen in early alpha releases of the product.
Recession? What recession? Microsoft said this week at its annual financial analysts meeting that the company would increase R&D spending for its next fiscal year by almost 20 percent, to $5.2 billion. Additionally, Microsoft will add 5000 jobs over the same period, bringing its total workforce to 55,000 people. And what will Microsoft be doing with all those people, you ask? Investors hope the company will be working to pump up its stock price, which hit a 52-week low the other day. In hindsight, my recommendation that friends and family consider buying Microsoft stock at $70 a share now seems like awkward miscalculation, as the stock was trading in the low 40s as I wrote this.
Microsoft has issued a critical set of bug fixes for its popular Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server product, dubbed Exchange 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3). As Microsoft notes, Exchange 2000 SP3 is a cumulative service pack that provides interoperability with Windows .NET Server (Win.NET Server) domain controllers (DCs)—but not with Win.NET Server machines directly (you can't run Exchange 2000 on Win.NET Server); fixes to customer-reported problems; and updates based on the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Initiative. The company recommends that all Exchange Server customers download and install SP3 on all servers running Exchange 2000. For more information and the free download, visit the Microsoft Web site.
And speaking of Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Microsoft reported this week that its Exchange Server product line is now the most popular collaboration and messaging server in the world, surpassing solutions from IBM and, well, just IBM, I guess. Exchange Server usage rose 20 percent over the past year, giving it more than 39 percent of the market. Does anyone else find it odd to see Microsoft continually touting its domination over other products?
Despite repeated calls from investors and analysts that Microsoft change its policy of not expensing stock options, company executives say they have no plans to do so, unless, of course, new laws force them to. The weird thing is, even Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admits that "it makes economic sense to expense options." Scrutiny over corporate handling of stock options has intensified since the Enron and WorldCom fiascos, of course, but Microsoft says that it won't have similar problems because its executives don't bathe in extravagant perks of the kind that executives from those companies enjoyed. And Ballmer even noted that Gates and he won't accept new stock options in the future. Which is nice, except that Gates and Ballmer are already two of the richest men in the history of the planet Earth, making any future stock options rather pointless anyway.
It's been a good week for future-product news, thanks to the Microsoft financial analysts meeting, which the company generally uses to divulge product plans to which it hopes that the markets react favorably (this time, of course, they didn't). Another product that Microsoft discussed this week is Visual Studio .NET, which was released in February (I think the previous Visual Studio—VS—release came out a really long time ago—1977, maybe). Anyway, Visual Studio .NET will be updated often in the future, starting in late 2002 with a minor release code-named Everett. This release will improve security and performance and will include the final version of the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, which adds support for mobile-phone and handheld-device applications development (and apparently includes a handy little mirror for checking your makeup during long code compiles). A major Visual Studio .NET release will ship in late 2003; this one will be tied to Microsoft SQL Server 2003 (code-named Yukon). In fact, Yukon will ship with a special version of Visual Studio .NET so that database developers will have only one set of tools to worry about. And, developers will be able to write Yukon stored procedures in any programming language, not just T-SQL, the native language of SQL Server (and, I believe, Slovenia). Finally, a circa-2005 VS version will coincide with the Longhorn release and offer up the new Longhorn-style UI.
Everybody's favorite online giant was slapped with a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accounting probe this week after "The Washington Post" expose about AOL revealed that the company's accounting practices were a little unconventional. For example, AOL apparently reported some of its online advertising transactions in 2000 and 2001 in a rather questionable manner, including what appears to be a bizarre legal settlement that involved stock rather than cash. AOL Time Warner stock responded to the news predictably, dropping 18 percent to about $9 on Thursday; the stock has dropped more than 70 percent this year. Does anyone alive still believe that the AOL-Time Warner merger was a good idea?
Quarterly shipments of handheld computers slipped 10 percent year-over-year—to 2.6 million units, despite the fact that I personally purchased two handheld computers (just doing my part for the economy, ahem). More interesting, perhaps, is news that Palm's share of the market fell dramatically, from 40.6 percent in first quarter 2002 to 32.4 percent in second quarter 2002, when the company sold 846,000 devices. Hewlett-Packard (HP) is now the number-two maker of handhelds, thanks to its merger with Compaq; HP sold 485,000 units in the second quarter, for 19 percent of the market. But the bigger winner, in some ways, was Sony, which jumped to the number-three spot with sales of 250,000 units, a dramatic 233 percent rise from the 75,000 units Sony sold a year before. Sony's performance gave the company 10 percent of the market. Handspring, once the number-two handheld vendor, slipped to fourth place with 171,000 units sold and 6.5 percent of the market.
Although I won't be able to divulge many details about Windows XP Media Center Edition (code-named Freestyle) until this fall, I want to respond to the number-one question I receive about this product: Why isn't Microsoft making it available to existing XP users as a free download or as a $100 Plus-style package with a remote control and TV tuner card? Microsoft told me this week that it's looking at providing Media Center in various ways in the future, but for the initial release, the company felt that consumers wouldn't get a good experience unless Microsoft could ensure that the underlying hardware was a known quantity. To this end, the video card, TV tuner, and remote control in the Media Center PCs that will ship this year (only from Hewlett-Packard—HP—in the United States) are indeed a known quantity. But I think the company is making a mistake by severely limiting the potential audience for this enthusiast-friendly software. A lot of people want it, but they aren't going to pay $1500 to get it.
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Mesa, AZ - Playing in their fourth overtime game in their last seven games, Mesa gets an important victory over Pima, 94-93.
Mesa this season has played in a total of five overtime games, winning three of the five games. In their latest OT thriller, the T-Birds had six players score in double figures, five of which players came off the bench for Mesa.
Leading the way was Jamil-Wilson Jones, who had 19 points and seven assists. Michael Vos-Otin finished with 16 points, six rebounds and five assists while Noe Anabir finished with 13 points, James Hampshire finished with 12 points and Brent Kimbrel and Austin Denham each scoring 10 points each.
Mesa fell behind ealry on, going down 12-4 in the first five minutes and down 19-10 with about 10 minutes to play in the first half.
But the T-Birds battled back in the last 10 minutes, taking the lead at 36-33 with 2:14 left in the half. Pima though would regain the lead and take a one point lead into halftime, 41-40.
Both teams exchanged leads in the second half, culminating in a last second shot for the Pumas, which they scored with two seconds left to send it to overtime.
In the overtime, Mesa had big three pointers from Brent Kimbrel and Jamil Wilson-Jones, along with a monster dunk from James Hampshire but it was the Vos-Otin layin that sealed the victory for the T-Birds, 94-93.
With the victory, Mesa moves to 12-9 in conference play, which puts them in the third spot for the ACCAC DI Conference Tournament. With one game to play, it looks as though Mesa will either have to travel to Cochise or Arizona Western, depending on how they finish the regular season on Tuesday night.


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BASKETBALL: Trojans rout Parkway
BOTKINS — The Botkins Trojans ripped down a 49-27 victory over the Parkway Panthers in non-league varsity boys basketball action Saturday night at Botkins High School.
The Trojans dominated every aspect of the floor, from the initial tip-off down to the final minute in the first quarter as they pulled ahead of the Panthers 15-3.
But as the second quarter started, Parkway picked up its offensive mentality, matching Botkins with eight points each going into the half.
"We knew Parkway's capabilities weren't limited to their 1-10 record," Botkins coach Brett Meyer said. "We'd watched quite a few games where they had staged a comeback. So we told our boys they needed to continue to play hard and get at them."
Even though the Trojans were up 23-11 coming out of halftime, they didn't let down on their intensity.
Draining shots all over the court, senior Ethan Zimpfer added eight points to the boards while juniors Seth Hoying and Heath Geyer each sank a 3-pointer of their own.
The Trojans offense wasn't the only thing there Saturday night as they outrebounded the Panthers by eight and grabbed 13 steals.
"Going into the fourth quarter Parkway had 18 points, so we challenged our boys to keep them under 30," Meyer said.
And they did just that, outscoring Parkway 10-9 in the final quarter.
Botkins' victory increased its record to 6-4 overall.
The Trojans are back in action again Tuesday night when they travel to Anna to take on the undefeated Rockets.


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Jane has a financial background which began with an Economics degree. She worked as a Production Accountant in theatre on a number of large musicals before moving to the film industry. Since 1997 she has been working on film & commercial productions. Jane started initially as the Production Accountant of the feature film Risk, Rabbit Proof Fence and Mullet. Since 2001 Jane has been working at Macgowan Films as a Line Producer on US television commercials and assisting in the development of all Macgowan Films' projects.


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Great Train Robber Gordon Goody dies
One of the last surviving members of the gang who staged the Great Train Robbery, Gordon Goody, has died.Read the full story ›
Bronson sends email tribute to 'diamond geezer' Biggs
An email from notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has been read out at the funeral of Ronnie Biggs in which he paid tribute to the Great Train Robber as "staunch, solid, loyal to the end".
The homage from Bronson continued:
Much respect to a diamond geezer. I do hope the royal family show their respect with a nice train wreath. Three cheers to you Ron, we love you buddy.
Nick Reynolds, the son of the late mastermind of the 1963 robbery Bruce Reynolds, meanwhile described Biggs in heroic terms, saying:
The word legend is defined in the dictionary as an extremely famous or notorious person, especially in a particular field, and Ron certainly fits that description.
Speaking about the ill health Biggs had suffered in his last years, Mr Reynolds said: "The house was a wreck but the lights were on and Ron was very much at home."
Charles Bronson sends bouquet for Ronnie Biggs
Charles Bronson, one of the country's longest-serving prisoners, has paid his respects to Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs with a bouquet.
The flowers contained an old ten-bob note with the words "Ronnie Biggs RIP" scrawled across it.
Two-fingered salute travels with Ronnie Biggs coffin
Flowers in the shape of two fingers have travelled in the back of the hearse carrying the coffin of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs to his funeral.
Stetson hat and a Charlton scarf adorn Biggs coffin
A Stetson hat and a red-and-white Charlton Athletic scarf sat atop the flags of Brazil and the UK as Ronnie Biggs' coffin was carried into a packed-out chapel in north London.
Ronnie Biggs' coffin arrives at Golders Green Crematorium
When Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was last seen in public, at the funeral of robbery mastermind Bruce Reynolds, Biggs stuck two fingers up at journalists.
Today, as the hearse carrying his coffin passed through the streets of north London, a white floral wreath in the shape of a two-fingered salute was visible alongside a Union flag and the flag of Brazil, the country where he spent many years as a fugitive from British justice.
The funeral cortege, with a guard of honour formed by 13 Hell's Angels bikers, left the home of Biggs' son Michael and daughter-in-law Veronica in Barnet, north London, ahead of the service at Golders Green Crematorium, north London.
Funeral of Great Train Robber Biggs to take place
The funeral of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs will take place today.
Biggs, who gained notoriety for spending 36 years on the run after escaping prison, died last month at 84.
The world-renowned robber had been cared for at Carlton Court Care Home in East Barnet, north London, after suffering several strokes in recent years.
He was last seen in public last March at the funeral of fellow robber Bruce Reynolds.
Biggs' funeral will be held at Golders Green Crematorium, north London, this afternoon.
A robbery that captures the imagination
Exactly 50 years on, the Great Train Robbery is a crime that still captures the imagination. The mastermind behind the violent attack on a mail train in Buckinghamshire was Bruce Reynolds, who died months before today's anniversary.
Today, his family was joined by infamous gang member Ronnie Biggs, as they buried his ashes at a cemetery in North London.
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Origin : Cuba
Format : Grand Robusto (Super Robusto)
Size : 143 x 19.84 mm (5.6 x 50)
Ring : 50
Price : ~$11 each
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San Cristobal de la Habana La Fuerza is the second review in our San Cristobal series. Slightly longer than a regular robusto, this gordito measures 5.6 inches with a 50 ring gauge. A few weeks ago, I thoroughly enjoyed the Oficios and I was looking forward to trying another vitola from the brand, having high expectations.
Appearance :
This is some nice presentation. The wrapper is neat and has an attractive colorado color. The cigar has a pleasant smell of fermented tobacco. The pre-draw is woody and has some resistance.
Construction :
I felt that the cigar lacked smoke, and it is probably not because of the draw which, as I already said, was on the tighter side. La Fuerza burned relatively well but, again, nothing to be excited about. Overall, a pretty average construction.
Flavor :
The beginning brings an array of toasted notes; unfortunately they do not last long. The first third is earthy with a slight floral taste. The flavors are not very expressive, the smoke is medium-bodied. It's an easy cigar, quite round in the second third. However, I found the last third really too young, very tannic and hardly enjoyable. I let it rest in the middle of the last third.
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At $11 a pop, these are quite expensive. I would prefer most of the regular robustos (RASS, BRC...) over La Fuerza.
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I probably was expecting too much from this cigar, after the excellent Oficios. San Cristobal La Fuerza could benefit from 3-5 years of aging, but when young (these were from '08) they are not a very interesting option, at least for me. What is your experience with this smoke?
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Nice review. Getting them shipped from Switzerland, though… I mean, there is interest, there is fascination, and there is obsession…
Thanks for the review.
Thanks for the review. It would be interesting to know if and how much these would improve over 3-5 years.
Nice review as usual. It's a nice looking wrapper. I need to get to Canada at some point.
I have had a box of these LA Fuerza. The first 10-12 were as you described. The remainder I let sit in the humidor for 6 months. Age changed this vitola for the better. They gained significant character and were 4/5 stars! With age, it is a wonderful and distinctive smoke. Goes great with port.
I think this cigar should be revisited by all. It is unfortunate the OP had a negative experience but lately, the La Fuerza production has been outstanding.


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Great things are happening in high schools in and around Detroit. We have made tremendous progress in a very short period of time in transforming the high school experience for thousands of young people in some of our toughest neighborhoods and communities.
By our count, there were 30 high schools in our region among the 2,000 high schools in America labeled "Dropout Factories" that began with a 2004 John Hopkins University study, followed by a 2006 study "The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts," which cited school's failure to graduate more than 60 percent of their freshmen class for three or more consecutive years. At that time, we set a goal of turning those schools around within 10 years or, alternatively, shutting them down.
Where are we four years later? Only 22 of those schools remain open. Of those, 18 are on the path to turn around -- meaning that they will have graduation rates of 80 percent or higher for the freshmen who enter this year. We are confident of this because 12 of those schools are in United Way's networks of turn-around schools. Those schools share three core strategies (based on a model from Mass Insight):
- Hire great leaders with the autonomy to made decisions for their schools.
- Ensure that each teacher has personal relationships with and accountability for a group of 20 or fewer students over four years.
- Work in collaboration with a network of other schools to align community partners and share and learn best practices to keep all kids on track for success.
This past year, a new school system was established in Michigan, the Education Achievement Authority, to transform persistently low-achieving schools, and we believe that the six Detroit high schools moved into this system will achieve at least 80 percent graduation rates because of their commitment to and execution of these strategies.
We have overcome huge challenges in the last four years to get here, including:
- Creating the belief that this work can be done.
- Changing state laws and local collective bargaining agreements for site-based management, funding for turnaround schools and alternative-certification pathways for teachers.
- Sustaining the momentum of the work despite continuing changes in leadership and governance structures of Detroit's schools and surrounding districts.
On a daily basis, our kids and therefore our schools face an onslaught of challenges stemming from the ravishing effects of poverty and the culture of violence in the neighborhoods around them. A recent story in the Detroit Free Press captures the impact of a senseless killing of a good young man in one of our schools, as well as the caring power of the adults in that community to make their school so much better in spite of this. I am so proud to be a partner and friend to the principal, Tanya Bowman, and the other leaders and teachers in our high school networks throughout our region who are on the front lines every day making miracles happen for our kids.
The biggest challenge we face now is giving our kids systemic exposure to the broader world. We have thousands of adults who care deeply in our region and want to help, and we have thousands of kids who need those relationships and real world experience in a professional setting. Our challenge is to create those vibrant and accessible on-ramps so that those two worlds can come together in life-changing ways. We think this is going to be the lever that accelerates the success of our kids, our schools and our city.
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Hungary is in the heart of Europe. Hungary is beunded by 7 countries: Romania, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia. The capital city is Budapest and the population is 10 million. The climate of Hungary is moderate, that means we have 4 seasons: winter, autumn, summer, spring.
In winter the coldest temperature -20degrees.The snow usually falles and we can snowballing or ski.In summer the warmest is 35 degrees.The sun always shine and we can got to the beach.In autumn the temperatura 15 degrees.We can go to walk a park or something like that. In spring the temperature is similar to autumn.but in spring,some flower open,and it's so beautifull.
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A lot of celebrities have already broken their promises to leave the country if Donald Trump is elected President. I want to reassure you, however, that I still fully intend to keep my promise. I will be leaving for Costa Rica on January 12, 2017–a week before Trump's inauguration.
Granted, I was going to do this if Hillary won too, and I will most likely be returning to the U.S. in March, but the important thing is that I'm keeping my promise. And that I don't have to spend the winter in Michigan.
If you too would like to escape the Trump regime and/or winter weather, you can! In January, I will be part of a writer's retreat in La Garita, Costa Rica. La Garita is about 20 minutes from the San Jose airport, and is centrally located so you can easily take day trips to either coast, the jungle, and lots of other beautiful destinations. I'll be talking about self-publishing, but there are also workshops on writing humor and acting exercises for writers. More details here. If you're a writer or aspiring writer and want a tax-deductible vacation (or you just want to come hang out with me because I am awesome), you can't beat this.
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O2 has announced that it's launching a scheme called O2 Money, to help you keep track of your finances using your mobile phone. The network has partnered with Natwest to offer "Load and Go" and "Cash Manager" pre-paid Visa cards.
Both cards are offered free and only available to O2 customers. They send you text updates whenever you spend money on them, and the pre-paid nature means that you can only spend cash that you've already waved goodbye to from your bank balance.
The Cash Manager card, the company says, is designed for people who "want to keep their disposable income separate from regular outgoings". It gets loaded up online, works like a debit card, and it doesn't cost anything to withdraw cash from, unless you're using one of those dodgy cash machines that charges a fortune.
Then there's the Load and Go card, which is targeted at kids aged 13 and up. Parents can load it up online or at "one of over 20,000 locations across the UK". It won't work in places like online gambling sites, but does have chip and pin security, so that your kid won't have to worry so much about losing cash.
Both cards will be available from the O2 Money website from the middle of August.


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Letter dated 17th July 1877, from Giuseppe Fiorelli, the then Direttore Generale dei Musei e degli Scavi di Antichità del Ministero della Istruzione Pubblica del Regno d'Italia, to the director of the Museo Kircheriano, concerning the need to recuperate ancient objects found in the excavations at the Ministero delle Finanze di Roma.
Information on the history of Roman archaeology can be gleaned form this document. For example the fact that in 1877, ancient objects were found during excavation of the area prior to the construction of the seat of the Ministero delle Finanze – still to be found in Via XX Settembre - and also that these objects became part of the Museo Kircheriano which is today the Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme.
It is worth noting that this excavation was particularly important for the finding of the remains of the tufo block Servian Walls and the Porta Collina, both parts of the perimeter walls of the Republican city. Other structures of the Roman imperial era also came to light during these excavations.
For further reference see "Carta Archeologica di Roma" table III, Florence, 1977 which was the source for the following mapping.
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Even as Build America Bonds continue to transform municipal finance, one thing stays constant: hedging a portfolio of muni securities remains very difficult.
The BAB program has opened the market to new types of investors and traders, and potentially to greater liquidity and transparency.
That's small solace so far to dealers, traders, and brokers of state and local government debt, who have found that hedging the credit risk in taxable municipal securities is just as elusive as it is in the tax-exempt space.
"For the most part, neither tax-exempts or Build America Bonds are that easy to hedge," said a capital markets veteran. "It's a long-only market, and it's not super-liquid, with a limited ability to hedge spread risk."
Whether in the taxable or tax-free municipal debt markets, the impracticability of hedging comes down to one thing: fully shielding an inventory of municipal bonds requires shorting municipal credit, and nobody has figured out a good way to do that yet.
In a sense, any decline in the value of a muni bond is attributable to one of two things: either the benchmark interest rate rises, or the spread of the bond's yield over that benchmark interest rate widens.
Many market participants agree that hedging the former risk — which is known as duration — is not so tough.
Because U.S. Treasury debt provides the benchmark rate for just about all bonds denominated in dollars, and because Treasuries are among the most liquid and continuously traded instruments in the world, a trader stuck with a municipal position can hedge duration risk by shorting a Treasury.
Market participants say duration risk has also been hedged using Treasury futures or options, or short positions on the London Interbank Offered Rate.
That way, if prevailing interest rates spike and clobber the value of a dealer's municipal bonds, he will recoup his losses with gains on his short position on Treasuries or Libor.
The risk of a widening in a bond's spread over the Treasury rate is a different story altogether. A reliable method for positioning oneself to benefit from a municipal bond's spread swelling out has yet to emerge.
Take the story of Fred Yosca, who trades both tax-exempt and taxable municipal bonds at Bank of New York Mellon. Yosca began trading BABs at the beginning of this year, and like many traders hedged his exposure by shorting Treasuries.
"My model was to hedge them fully based on duration, with the appropriate cash Treasury," Yosca said. "That worked like a charm until May."
From January through April, the nominal spread of the average BAB yield indicated by a Wells Fargo index tracking the sector over the 30-year Treasury rate compressed 40 basis points.
The long-BABs short-Treasuries model worked fine as BABs outperformed Treasuries during that period.
Then, in May, public sector workers in Greece rioted. The markets fretted over sovereign debt defaults and fat-fingered traders and double-dip recessions. People worried about the swelling supply of taxable municipal bonds in the primary market, or about federal subsidy withholdings — or whatever else you want to attribute the widening of BABs spreads to.
The BAB spread over the 30-year Treasury jumped 17 basis points in May.
Yosca was slammed with a short position on Treasuries, which strengthened 30 basis points in May, and a long position on BABs, which strengthened fewer than 15 basis points.
"I got killed," he said.
Yosca's lament: hedging duration risk does not address a shift in spreads.
The long-BAB short-Treasury hedge has since completely fallen apart, as the nominal spread has distended an additional 40 basis points since the end of May to about 200 basis points.
"There's duration to hedge, and then there's spread," said one public finance banker. By shorting Treasuries, this banker said, "you'd really only be hedging duration — you haven't hedged that spread risk."
This is not so foreboding a problem in the investment-grade corporate bond market, where traders have long had access to futures on a number of credit indexes that would decline should corporate spreads bleed out. That offers corporate traders a way to hedge duration using Treasuries, and hedge spread risk using indexes.
Municipal traders have no such index.
"It is very difficult to short state or local government credit in the U.S.," JPMorgan municipal analysts Chris Holmes and Alex Roever wrote in a report last month. "In both the cash and derivative markets, shorting U.S. state and local government credits ranges in difficulty from 'challenging' to 'outright impossible,' depending on the target."
It has been tried before.
In the mid-1980s, the Chicago Board of Trade launched a municipal bond index future based on The Bond Buyer 40 Index. In a paper written for CBOT in 1988, Richard Bookstaber, then a principal at Morgan Stanley, called hedging municipal inventory by taking opposite positions on Treasuries "largely ineffective."
While shorting Treasuries does address duration risk, "it does not address the major sources of risk in the municipal bond market," he said. Credit default threats and changes in the tax law are idiosyncratic risks posed by municipals and unanswered by a short Treasury position, he said. The only way to truly hedge a municipal position, Bookstaber argued, was with an instrument that responded directly to municipal bond prices.
Maybe so in theory, but the muni-bond index product in practice was bedeviled by a number of setbacks, most notably reports of index manipulation, culminating in CBOT dumping the product from its exchange in 2002.
By that time, the market had begun the process of forgetting about spread risk, anyway.
Roughly 46% of the $2.7 trillion of new municipal bonds sold from 2001 to 2007 were insured, according to Thomson Reuters. Tender-option bond programs had devised ways to arbitrage the municipal yield curve, keeping distortions in the relationship between tax-exempt and taxable rates to a minimum.
The market's acceptance of the value of bond insurance, the stable interest rate patterns ensured by the TOB programs, and a widespread appetite for risk rendered municipals essentially a duration product — changes in municipal bond values were a function principally of changes in Treasury rates.
Spreads rarely played much of a role.
From the beginning of 2004 to the end of 2006, the ratio of the triple-A 10-year municipal to the 10-year Treasury averaged 83.6%, according to the Municipal Market Data scale. In those three years the ratio never dipped below 78% or ascended past 92%. That meant hedging munis with opposite positioning on taxable rates was eminently sensible. The average 30-day correlation between changes in the rates over that period was 0.88. At no point in those three years was it lower than 0.77.
In 2008, that all changed. The ratio climbed to a once-unthinkable peak of 186.1% as Treasury yields collapsed and municipal yields jumped. The 30-day correlation between changes in the two at times in the second half of the year approached zero. Changes in Treasury yields no longer explained changes in muni values — not exactly the ingredients for a stable hedge.
Phil Condon, head of municipal portfolio management at DWS Investments, said far from recouping losses on munis with short Treasury positions, many people in the financial crisis lost money both on their long municipal positions and on the short Treasury positions they had hoped would serve as a hedge.
The behavior of tax-exempt rates relative to Treasuries during the crisis challenged people's assumptions about just how stable the relationship was, according to Condon.
People had long assumed the triple-A 10-year municipal rate could not persist above the 10-year Treasury rate for any appreciable length of time, he said. Yet it did for 73 straight trading days to close out 2008, and 22 days to open 2009.
"In '08, they showed they can do almost anything they want to do," Condon said.
Since then, munis have become more of a credit-spread product, tending to move in tandem with Treasuries but clearly exhibiting spread-shifting at times.
The difficulty of capturing this spread through a derivative or some other mechanism is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that municipal spreads often vary for the same issuer between the taxable and tax-exempt markets.
The tax-exempt market has strengthened in July, based on the ratio of the Municipal Market Advisors 30-year triple-A yield to the 30-year Treasury, while the taxable municipal market has weakened, based on the BABs spread.
Since the beginning of May, the taxable municipal market has weakened far more than the tax-exempt market, based on their respective relations to Treasuries.
The trailing 30-day correlation between the changes in BABs yields and tax-exempt yields has been under 0.2 at certain points this year. It has averaged 0.5.
While it would be an exaggeration to say spreads in the two markets are uncorrelated, they have not moved in lockstep.
How can an index or derivative offer a position on municipal spreads if different parts of the cash muni bond market do not even agree on what the spread is?
"While the credit may be the same, that doesn't mean they'll trade the same" in the taxable and tax-exempt markets, Condon said. "The buyers are different buyers. That's the bottom line."
Holmes' and Roever's report explored a number of short-selling mechanisms that exist in the taxable market that do not work so well for munis.
One of these is municipal credit-default swaps, which are essentially insurance contracts that gain in value when a municipality edges toward default.
These presumably provide a good way to short municipals, thus hedging the credit spread exposure of a bond inventory.
Just as the tax-exempt and taxable markets argue over the appropriate spread for an issuer, CDS contracts do not always agree with the bond market on spreads.
When the Wells Fargo index on BABs launched in August, the nominal spread over the 30-year Treasury was 179.6. The average spread on municipal CDS contracts compiled by Bloomberg LP was 174.
The two spreads have since walked divergent paths, at one point differing by 86 basis points — in November 2009, when the BAB spread remained elevated and municipal CDS spreads had contracted significantly.
Holmes and Roever explain that municipal CDS are thinly traded and "largely unused by the most experienced institutional investors." They also point out that muni spreads are illogically high compared with corporate spreads. That suggests to them that most of the users of these contracts are people shorting municipals.
Directly selling a municipal bond short by borrowing it, selling it, and buying it back later is usually impractical because the lender of the security collects tax-free interest from the municipality but owes taxable interest to the short-seller.
Selling a taxable municipal security short is theoretically more plausible, but is hampered by the fractured maturity structure of the BAB market.
It would be dangerous to sell short a bond unless you thought you would be able to buy it back at some future date.
The roughly $120 billion of BABs state and local governments have floated since the program's inception are split into nearly 15,000 Cusip numbers, according to Bloomberg. The peril with short-selling BABs is, who knows whether the particular Cusip you borrowed will be available for purchase later?
"For many issues, a short-seller could find it hard to locate specific bonds to cover his position," Holmes and Roever said.
For those hoping that the development of the taxable municipal market will one day facilitate short-selling, Holmes and Roever warn that many issuers and some institutional investors have "strong incentives" to make sure selling municipal debt short stays as hard as possible.
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Saving the World's Women
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF and SHERYL WuDUNN, New York Times
August 17, 2009
In the 19th Century, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.
Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount importance, in an economic and geopolitical sense the opportunity they represent is even greater. "Women hold up half the sky," in the words of a Chinese saying, yet that's mostly an aspiration: in a large slice of the world, girls are uneducated and women marginalized, and it's not an accident that those same countries are disproportionately mired in poverty and riven by fundamentalism and chaos. There's a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism. That's why foreign aid is increasingly directed to women. The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution.
One place to observe this alchemy of gender is in the muddy back alleys of Pakistan. In a slum outside the grand old city of Lahore, a woman named Saima Muhammad used to dissolve into tears every evening. A round-faced woman with thick black hair tucked into a head scarf, Saima had barely a rupee, and her deadbeat husband was unemployed and not particularly employable. He was frustrated and angry, and he coped by beating Saima each afternoon. Their house was falling apart, and Saima had to send her young daughter to live with an aunt, because there wasn't enough food to go around.
"My sister-in-law made fun of me, saying, 'You can't even feed your children,' " recalled Saima when Nick met her two years ago on a trip to Pakistan. "My husband beat me up. My brother-in-law beat me up. I had an awful life." Saima's husband accumulated a debt of more than $3,000, and it seemed that these loans would hang over the family for generations. Then when Saima's second child was born and turned out to be a girl as well, her mother-in-law, a harsh, blunt woman named Sharifa Bibi, raised the stakes.
"She's not going to have a son," Sharifa told Saima's husband, in front of her. "So you should marry again. Take a second wife." Saima was shattered and ran off sobbing. Another wife would leave even less money to feed and educate the children. And Saima herself would be marginalized in the household, cast off like an old sock. For days Saima walked around in a daze, her eyes red; the slightest incident would send her collapsing into hysterical tears.
It was at that point that Saima signed up with the Kashf Foundation, a Pakistani microfinance organization that lends tiny amounts of money to poor women to start businesses. Kashf is typical of microfinance institutions, in that it lends almost exclusively to women, in groups of 25. The women guarantee one another's debts and meet every two weeks to make payments and discuss a social issue, like family planning or schooling for girls. A Pakistani woman is often forbidden to leave the house without her husband's permission, but husbands tolerate these meetings because the women return with cash and investment ideas.
Saima took out a $65 loan and used the money to buy beads and cloth, which she transformed into beautiful embroidery that she then sold to merchants in the markets of Lahore. She used the profit to buy more beads and cloth, and soon she had an embroidery business and was earning a solid income — the only one in her household to do so. Saima took her elder daughter back from the aunt and began paying off her husband's debt.
When merchants requested more embroidery than Saima could produce, she paid neighbors to assist her. Eventually 30 families were working for her, and she put her husband to work as well — "under my direction," she explained with a twinkle in her eye. Saima became the tycoon of the neighborhood, and she was able to pay off her husband's entire debt, keep her daughters in school, renovate the house, connect running water and buy a television.
"Now everyone comes to me to borrow money, the same ones who used to criticize me," Saima said, beaming in satisfaction. "And the children of those who used to criticize me now come to my house to watch TV."
Today, Saima is a bit plump and displays a gold nose ring as well as several other rings and bracelets on each wrist. She exudes self-confidence as she offers a grand tour of her home and work area, ostentatiously showing off the television and the new plumbing. She doesn't even pretend to be subordinate to her husband. He spends his days mostly loafing around, occasionally helping with the work but always having to accept orders from his wife. He has become more impressed with females in general: Saima had a third child, also a girl, but now that's not a problem. "Girls are just as good as boys," he explained.


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CW's "Arrow" Casts Colton Haynes as Roy Harper
The CW's "Arrow" is continuing its embrace of DC Comics mythology with the addition of "Teen Wolf" alum Colton Haynes in a recurring role as Roy Harper, TV Guide reports. He'll debut on the Feb. 20 episode, titled "Dodger."
The character has a long comic-book history, dating back to his introduction in 1941 as Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy and continuing through to the present in his identity as Arsenal. In between, he was a member of the Teen Titans and the Justice League, and an agent of Checkmate.
On "Arrow," Roy is "a handsome, street-savvy, teenager from the Glades, the harsh, poverty-stricken portion of Starling City" who will serve as a love interest for Oliver Queen's (Stephen Amell) younger sister Thea (Willa Holland), who's nicknamed "Speedy" (though for her partying ways rather than her proficiency with a bow). According to the network, Roy is "destined to become a significant part of her life and an important player in the larger world of 'Arrow.'"
News of Haynes' casting arrives just two months after the surprise announcement that the 24-year-old actor wouldn't be returning for a third season of MTV's hit "Teen Wolf."
The midseason finale of "Arrow" airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.
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I have just started to realise that maybe I can have the dreams that I have been hanging onto by the very ends of my fingernails for most of my life. I started some of my writing idea's years ago. I started to have idea's for what I saw myself writing back when I was just ten. I was told I couldn't be a writer. I was told to get a proper career because, that was what I needed to live on. I couldn't have been more wrong to have listened to the adults that told me that. For four years of my life, I was miserable and hated what I was stuck in.
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I have found not only that person. I never thought that I'd find the person I could trust to direct it. I have also found the person that I can trust to do that. I know that the first season is flowing out of me now. I know that when I present this person with my huge information, Episodes packet then I know there is a huge chance that they might reject this but, if they do then it will never seen the light of day. 'Island of Lies' is something that could show off the bountifulness of the Island yet the audience would be caught up there while, I powerful storyline would tie them up in ribbons of words and feelings. I hope that its good enough for them.
It would make sure that I have achieved my dream by the first step into the water. I will make sure that its not the last. I have strict terms on the contract movie rights to all my books which, means that if my new book is famous then I will at least see it the way that I want it. I just want to keep writing now that I have started and I hope that through being open an somehow honest with my readers that it will help to keep my dreams alive.
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Patricia Hogue wasn't the only one reaching for tissues when the staff and children of Otter River Elementary School surprised her with a special assembly Tuesday morning.
Her fellow teachers could be seen dabbing their eyes.
Hogue is retiring at the end of this year after 40 years as an elementary school teacher. Her entire career was spent in Bedford County Public Schools — the last 35 at Otter River Elementary.
District 1 school board member Richard Downey has decided to seek reelection to the school board. Downey was first elected in 2011.
Although $1 million was stripped out of the school division's maintenance fund in this year's approved budget, the school board was able to replace $300,000 of that by transferring money from the transportation fund, in action the school board took Thursday. The money became available due to savings on fuel costs.
Some costs will go up next year. The school board raised tuition for non-resident students by $170 per year.
Bedford County Public Schools has a student advisory council composed of student representatives of all three high schools and all three middle schools.
The group's purpose is to relay the concerns of students to the school board. The advisory council meets several times during the year and makes a presentation at a school board meeting at the end of the year.
The students on the 2014-2015 council made their presentation at Thursday night's school board meeting.
Students at Liberty High School and Staunton River High School got a chance to experience how dangerous texting while driving is, without actually killing themselves or anybody else.
To say Saturday's YOVASO Color Run was a success would be akin to saying Bill Gates has a little money – both are woefully understated.
Spence White remembers, as a student, resenting teachers who didn't care whether they made their classes interesting or not.
That's certainly not been a problem for students in his Cavalier Theatre classes at Jefferson Forest High School.
White, the director of Cavalier Theatre since 2010, was to be named as Bedford County Public School's Teacher of the Year for 2016 during a ceremony Tuesday evening in Boonsboro.
Last year, Bedford Science and Technology Center's (BSTC) automotive technology program held a benefit car show for one of its own.
Luke Arrington, a senior, was diagnosed with cancer last year. The benefit car show, which was pulled together on short notice, drew 76 entries. It was such a success that Mark Mathia, the program's instructor, decided to make it an annual event, benefiting a different local charity each year.
Bedford County's school board adopted an adjusted budget at a Monday night work session that had been called for that purpose.
The school board's original budget called for a $2.6 million increase in local funding but the supervisors, last month, increased the local transfer to the public school system by $735,000. The purpose of Monday's work session was to make the school budget fit within available funds.
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