![]() This would have been implemented by now if it were anything less than fiendishly difficult. It is a shame that Jones fails to deliver anything but a sadly bland and anodyne set of remedies - fight corruption, act locally, and undermine the Taliban's sanctuaries in Pakistan. This is hardly news.Īfghans do not think in the language of NATO. Are we to conclude that big countries always fail to occupy Afghanistan? Or that countries with terroristic policies toward Afghans eventually get booted out? The only clear lesson from these horror tales, from the Hellenistic period to the Anglo-Afghan wars to the Soviet period, is that wars in Afghanistan are not easy. Alexander famously insisted his officers take local wives and gave his men reason to believe that most would never see Macedon again surely forcing an officer to marry an Afghan and never to go home counts as a sign of resolve and a commitment to "local" initiatives, if not of the precise modern liberal variety Jones prefers. The lessons of the past are by no means clear. Canada won, but the region has remained dangerous. Jones devotes more than a few paragraphs to Operation Medusa, the Canadian initiative that ended in the largest land battle in NATO history. Jones’s book takes seriously the war concept originally conceived: NATO coming to the defense of a member state, the U.S. ![]() Most others are halfhearted - they only build roads and schools, even if evildoers destroy roads or kill teachers. The coalition errs frequently, and members amount to just a few committed nations: U.S., U.K., Canada, the Netherlands. Graeme Wood book review (edited by Gloves): The Graveyard of Empires describes the follies of the patchwork of nations in Afg. To others, the boast demonstrated that the Americans would have to redouble their efforts. To his audience of Turks, this was cause for approval. Relative Deprivation, this unbalance needs adjusting making the “ordinary Afgh” feel better off, otherwise there will be no progress.Ī story: Turkish defense minister bragged that the Turkish contingent in ISAF had finished a tour in Afg without firing a shot. Also need to provide them with food/water etc to ensure their support. Taliban offered a harsh but fair and quick judicial system, central gov need to do the same. Need to offer Afgh something they want/need. Borders for them is just line on a map, that do not fit the real world. Lack tradition for being under on government. ![]() Makes it much harder to make a coherent structure. ![]() A state: a multitude of ethnical group, like Afgh. A nation state: one ethnical group=1 state (like FR, GM and NO) The tribal leaders/ each valley has its leaders. Lack of tradition for a central government in Afgh. Afghanistan a wicked problem Difficult/impossible to solve because of incomplete info and when you find one part of the answer/solve a part of it will create another one forcing a growth of the wicked problem. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But that will all be explained later.\r\n\r\nThere is no special name for your stick guy like the first game. \r\n\r\nI have played this game on and it is somewhere on the front page there.\r\n\r\nThe main goal is to get all the 4D objects and give them to the professor and then he will give you a key to the lab. I have been spending a lot of time playing the sequel to Stick RPG and the new game is great so I decided to make a walkthrough of it. abandoned warehouse: at skys bar at night beat up guy with fight above his head. Mobster tower: at night street 3 outside vinnies bar beat up black guys. Gangster HQ: in afternoon on street 1 beat up the red guys standing in the square At afternoon propose to her on steps of U of S Take watch to casino trade with guy for ring Take calculator to her in skys bar at night, get pencil Take text book to green guy in U of S street 2 Go to stickbucks in morning, talk to kate Take package to Devlin in morning in police station street 1 in return for watch. Take cool card to vinnies muscle in vinnies bar street 3 in return for package around 10 pm at club give devin the switch blade in return for cool card take the bag to the red guy outside vinnies bar street 3 for switch blade around 10 am go to xxx dvd store street 1, talk to her she gives u bag. Propose to Tiffany in skys bar street at around 3 in evening Take watch to casino and exchange for ring Take purse to her outside mobster tower street in the morning ![]() Take scarf to tiffany at club late at night ![]() Take puppy to sister on street 3 by penthouse Get high strength, around 150, do, Go to street 2 recieve puppy When you have all 3 objects, only require 1 of each, give back to ansel in the university in return for lab key, then go to lab on street 1 defeat all enemies. Buy from guy who randomly appears in casino. Give the guy outside condos at night 3 coca, (negative karma) Buy from guy who randomly appears in casino Give the depressed guy on far right of street 1 self help book, he gives squegie give to Buy from guy who randomly appears in casino Give the prince money to bail out of jail at police station (I wouldn't recommend this) Go to Professor ansel at the back on the University, he will start the mission for you There are many ways to get the 4d objects Your basment on street 1 for positive karma, or to the millionaire at the end of theĬondos at night on street 2. Once you have all 4 trophemon give them all to either the hippies in the square outside Get cuban cigars cigarettes and lighter from dealer street 2, give to vinnies body guard ![]() Give busker on street 2 change 10-11 times Give Grand slam burger to construction worker by casino, use ladder on lady with lost Give pizza from Joes and Shake from McSticks to club dj at around 5 pm Thees jobs need positive karma What you get for making out jobs *Collect sledgehammer by giving toilet roll to guy in skys bar, Single Barrel Shotgun: Gun Dealer Street 2 Carbon Steel Katana: Gun Dealer Street 2 Ornamental Katana Sword : Steel and Hawks Hall of Fame Bat: Max Drug Dealer Profession Here are the weapons in the game and how to get them. There is other ways for karma stuff but I can't think of them off the top of my head. Things like buying the fake ID will give you negative karma but buying the regular ID for 25 dollars more will give you positive karma. One thing that I have forgot to talk about is the karma, you can have either positive or negative karma in the game and that could effect the jobs that you get. You will need the strength and or intelligence for different jobs. On street 2 there is the University where you can study or take a class or work out in the gym. You start out getting a job at McSticks and I think every 5 shifts that you work there you can ask for a promotion. You first probably want to just walk around (hold shift to run/skateboard/hoverboard) and try to remember where things are since the whole layout is a lot different then the first game. But whatever you do DON'T pick socially awkward interpretativeĭancer unless you want to make things a lot harder for yourself. What to choose for your special ability thing depends on how you are going to play the game. I would recommend to have charm as your highest stat since it is the hardest to get. There is no special name for your stick guy like the first game. The main goal is to get all the 4D objects and give them to the professor and then he will give you a key to the lab. I have played this game on and it is somewhere on the front page there. ![]() ![]() ![]() The app sends daily notifications to users, asking them how they feel and presenting them with questions about their health, self-care, or emotions. Users can also customize the set of questions to fit their preferences. These indicators include positive or negative state of mind, engagement with friends or family, thoughts, a specific music tune, and even pictures. The app also provides a shortcut to the monthly calendar in the upper left corner of the main window for quick reference.Įach diary entry includes a set of indicators that users can select to paint a picture of their day. To add a new entry, users can tap the Plus button and choose between adding a new diary entry or a new question. The app's main window has a question of the day area, a mood chart area showing how the user felt throughout the week, and a section with daily mood entries. The app is simple and intuitive, making it accessible for individuals who are new to mood tracking. It offers an easy-to-use interface that includes several features to track their moods and emotions. Reflexio is a mood tracker journal app designed to help users monitor their emotional well-being over time. It sends daily notifications, displays monthly mood charts, and offers customization options. Users can add diary entries or questions and select indicators to paint a picture of their day. Once installed, you don't have to configure anything at all: in less than a minute, you can download almost any video from the Internet to the memory of your Android device.A mood tracker journal with an easy-to-use interface. Its main asset and what has made it a benchmark since 2012 is its simplicity and effectiveness. TubeMate YouTube Downloader is one of the oldest and most reputable music and video downloaders on Android. And, of course, you can change the app's language. You can even use some experimental tools, such as the proxy. You can also choose the folder where you want to save all the downloaded content, differentiating between video and audio files. From here, you can choose whether you want to download content only when you have access to the Internet, and you can also limit the maximum download speed. In the upper right corner of the TubeMate YouTube Downloader interface, you can access the options menu. Normally, there are more than half a dozen different formats and qualities to choose from. After that, you can choose from all the options available on the website itself. All you have to do to download a video or a song from one of these websites is select it, browse the website in question in the usual way, and, once you've found the song or video you're interested in, tap the green arrow button. From the drop-down menu on the left, you can access the complete list of supported websites, including some of the world's most popular social networks. Using TubeMate YouTube Downloader is quite simple. This way, you can conveniently save it on your Android, after which you can access it even without an Internet connection. As long as the website in question allows it, you can also choose the format and quality in which you want to download your multimedia content. TubeMate YouTube Downloader is an app that lets you download videos and music from more than a dozen portals, such as Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Soundcloud. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trelby’s lag is virtually non-existent, even when I loaded in a test script. Especially over the course of a 90-page screenplay, consisting of 6 months of work, and 20-30 drafts. But those tiny bits of “lag” – even if they’re just mere milliseconds between your keystroke and what appears on the screen – they really add up. All good screenwriting programs do this, of course, but Trelby’s just feels FAST. COFFEE SHOP – NIGHT, then hit Tab and it jumps down and awaits your input for the action/description line. Very intuitive tabbingįor new screenwriters: By tabbing I mean, for example, you type INT. I jumped right in and started writing a scene, and it just flew. The interface is sleek, plain, and modern, and fully customizable. Wow! This app is an elegant, easy-to-use, streamlined little firecracker of a screenwriting program. Take it from me - I’m a desktop guy who used to vehemently poo-poo using anything other than Final Draft, but here are a few others worth your attention: Trelby Whereas software development used to be the realm of large, well-funded companies and teams made up of dozens, if not hundreds of developers and programmers, now it’s all about the smaller, more agile companies rushing in to fill an ever-increasing demand for lighter, cheaper apps, and we screenwriters stand to benefit from the panoply of new options for screenwriting. As the name of the article states: I’m here to provide some cheaper and free alternatives to Final Draft that, in my opinion, really give Final Draft a run for its money. I don’t quite remember much other than I wasn’t a very good beta tester because I was extremely busy at the time, and that the Final Draft folks were very nice and responsive.īut I’m not here to rake Final Draft over the coals. Update 5/23/22 - A few months after this article was originally published, I was invited to take part in the beta development for Final Draft. And Final Draft is there with a fair priced offering for it. And while screenwriters who got their start during the heady days of the typewriter (like me and many of my generation X) are probably not keen on the idea of writing a screenplay on a tablet, thousands of younger screenwriters have no problem banging out scripts on a mobile device. ![]() There are tons of excellent features that make Final Draft a solid writing app, and most folks wouldn’t dream of trading their Final Draft for another screenwriting app.Īnd as far as pricing goes, I have to emphasize that Final Draft does offer a lower-cost version of their app for iOS, as well as educational discounts, so my beef with their pricing isn’t full-on Kobe / Angus. But I don’t blame Final Draft – they’ve created and marketed a great product that basically now dominates the screenwriting space.Īnd that domination didn’t come just through great marketing. $199 for Final Draft 12 is a big chunk of change for most aspiring screenwriters. ![]() The game has changed when it comes to simplicity and UI design, yet Final Draft still feels a bit stuck in that 90s Microsoft Word vibe, as does its cousin, Movie Magic Screenwriter, and many other writing apps, if we’re being perfectly honest.ĭislike 3) The price. But it was certainly mine, on two different sets of hardware over several years and on several iterations of operating systems.ĭislike 2) The interface/user experience. Is that everybody’s experience? I don’t know. Though it did crash on the Mac, it crashed a lot less than when I ran it on my pc. And to be certain, Final Draft is a solid app and deserves a lot of credit, and certainly not hate.īut what do I strongly dislike about Final Draft? Three things:ĭislike 1) Before I switched from a Windows machine to a Mac, Final Draft had a penchant for crashing in the most inopportune moments, no matter what version I ran. I reserve that word for shows like The Bachelor. What do I hate? Well, “hate” is a strong word. And 95% of the time, that’s either a PDF or, you guessed it, a Final Draft file.) (And if you’re running a script coverage service like me, you need to be able to open whatever file the client sends in. What do I love? Its ubiquity: Everybody uses it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Switzerland Sire La Vita Bella Jackson has perfectly clear DNA tests for DM, SOD1, and VW! OFA CLEAR EYES, and holds an 18 generation lineage in the Berner-Garde. Calm, strong, and hard-working, the hardy Bernese Mountain Dog is a Sennenhund-type dog from the Swiss canton of Bern. 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We have taken reasonable steps to ensure that any information provided by The Motley Fool Ltd, is accurate at the time of publishing. I’m considering adding it to my portfolio after Barclays when I have some more free cash. Ultimately, the stock does appear to be good value even with the recent jump. This could provide a catalyst to grow market share in the future. Yet given the performance last year, the company has good cash position that it can make use of for long-term growth via investments. I expect energy prices to come back under control, and could fall off sharply in certain situations (such as peace in Ukraine/easing tensions with Russia). One concern I have is whether this kind of performance can be replicated going forward. The 2022 figure excludes the value of disposed Spirit Energy assets. This contrasts to the 2021 figure of £392m. To put this in perspective, the preliminary 2022 results showed an adjusted operating profit of £2,823m. Why has the business been doing so well? The company pointed to “strong gas production and energy generation against a backdrop of higher commodity prices and strong management of increased commodity volatility”. In contrast to Barclays, Centrica shares recently touched 52-week highs. The stock has risen by 32% over the past year. With a P/E ratio of 5.12, Centrica ( LSE:CNA) is also potentially undervalued. Senior leadership needs to get a grip on risk management when it comes to this area. One risk I’m aware of is the trading division, which had a costly blunder worth several hundred million dollars in the last quarterly update. I’m just waiting to see if there’s any further short-term weakness in the next week or so. I’m very interested in picking up some Barclays shares over the coming month. The bank is diversified by generating revenue from a host of sources, ranging from retail customers to corporate clients and institutional funds. ![]() A sudden deterioration in asset performance could lead to higher levels of credit events and losses for the structure, which in turn would put pressure on the credit enhancement levels, particularly at the bottom end of the structure.To be clear, I don’t agree with the market-induced sell-off in big banks, particularly Barclays. ![]() The transaction is susceptible to the performance of the underlying assets. This expectation is reflected in the ‘CCsf’ and ‘Csf’ ratings on the class C, D and E notes. The analysis also showed that further loss allocation can be expected at the bottom end of the structure, where the class E notes presently have losses allocated to their full outstanding balance, while the class D notes’ allocated loss equates to 7% of their balance. The analysis showed that the level of credit enhancement available at the top end of the structure is sufficient to meet the expected losses and for this reason the agency has upgraded the class A+, A and B notes to ‘AAAsf’ and ‘BBBsf’. Given the second-lien nature of the portfolio and the low levels of recoveries achieved following the sale of the underlying assets, Fitch has assumed zero recoveries on loans presently defined as credit events and any future loans expected to meet the credit event definition. As of June 2013, the credit enhancement available to the class A+ and class A notes was 91% and 70.6%, respectively, (compared with 17% and 14% at transaction close). The notes in the structure are amortising sequentially, which has resulted in a significant build-up in credit support available to the top of the structure. Meanwhile, EUR4m of loans have been liquidated with reported period loss severities ranging between 64% and 115%.Ĭredit Enhancement Sufficient to Withstand Rating Stresses According to the investor reports, the reduction has largely been driven by the removal of loans due to ineligibility with the warranties, which over the past year amounted to EUR9.1m. In addition, loans defined as credit events have declined to EUR36.1m (23% of the then current balance) from EUR49m in June 2012 (24.9%). Over the past 12 months the volume of loans in arrears by more than three months (excluding credit events) has remained stable at under EUR1.5m. ![]() ![]()
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