It’s the best time of year to shop ‘til you drop! The more NX you spend, the more rewards you'll receive!
Spend 50,000 NX - 69,999 NX and receive:
5,000 Maple Reward Points
Spend 70,000 NX - 109,999 NX and receive:
10,000 Maple Reward Points
Spend 110,000 NX or more and receive:
15,000 Maple Reward Points
Cat of All Trades: November 7 – November 28
Everyone will receive a Summon Custom Kitty item which can be used to summon your Custom Kitty to appear by your side. Originally, your kitty has a very basic look.  This unlocks new options to decorate your Custom Kitty, allowing you to change the face style, fur pattern, and accessories to create a kitty that’s unique.
Thanksgiving Events: November 7 – November 28
Turkeys are starting to appear near Henesys, Mu Lung, Leafre, and other major towns! If you hunt these birds, you can find all sorts of fun items. Players Lv. 33 and above can begin by accepting the ‘Thanksgiving’ quest from NPC Cassandra. Then start hunting Plump Turkeys!
Classes
Check Out The Main Three Different Character Classes!
Warrior
Keeper of The Land
Magician
Pretty Much Just Harry Potter
Bowman
Ever Watch The TV Show "Arrow"?
About
Do You Ever Wonder How A Website Actually Gets Made?
Our First Steps
Falls, Scrapes, and Bruises
Being new to this platform of web development, Tina & Garrick created their brand new GitHub accounts with enthusiasm and delight. This until they got past the startup page. From there, the two spent hours creating, and deleting countless repositories until one was finally set up correctly.
Brick By Brick
A Foundation Is Built
After jumping through hoops and over hurdles, Tina & Garrick collectively decided on a general structure for their website that they felt would work best for their purpose. From this point, the two had begun remapping, designing and editing the basic structure of their newly created site.
Research Is So Much Fun!
Just Kidding…
Now came the fun part! The research aspect! Yay! There's nothing that makes students happier than sitting at a desk for countless hours on end looking up articles! Well now doesn't that sound like a grand old time! This of course being a big lie, research from the perspectives of Garrick & Tina was not fun by any means, however they realized that in order to create to the most successful site possible, sacrifices had to be made.
So I mean...
Are We Done Now?
Could this be it? This be the end of the journey? Of Course Not! This is only the beginning! Tina & Garrick are said to be providing updates to this forum from now on. Now only time will tell what the fate of Free Info Market could possibly be!
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Warrior
Keeper Of The Land!
Description
The Warrior is a solid, well-rounded character perfect for players new to MapleStory. This character excels at defense, with large amounts of health and access to powerful suits of armor. These strengths help keep the Warrior protected when engaged in close-quarters combat against hordes of monsters. Warriors can wield the widest array of weapons in the game, including everything from swords and axes to spears and blunt weapons, as well as shields, and can specialize in their favorites as they level up. Warriors hail from the town of Perion, located in the northern highlands of Victoria Island. When Explorer-type Warriors reach a certain level, they can choose between three different specializations: Fighter, Page or Spearman. They can continue to level and grow, to ultimately become a Hero, Paladin or Dark Knight.
Hero
Specializes in swords and axes, utilize combo strikes in order to create powerful blows.
Pro: Excellent damage to opposing
Con:Slow mobility
Pro: Great Defense and Health
Con: Close Range Attacks Only
Pro: Best Offensive Skills Among Adventurer Classes
To start your adventure as Hero keep reading, if not continue on to Paladin.
2nd Job: Fighter
Once you have reached Level 30, head back to Shrine of Warriors located at the highest point of Period. Once inside talk to “Dances with Balrog”, he’ll give you a letter to pass it to the job advancement instructor near period, he will also give a quest to collect 30 Dark Marbles by defeating the monsters inside.
Tip: Stock up on all potions before defeating the monster
Once the marbles have been collected talk to the instructor, who will award you with a Proof of Hero . Then go back and talk to “Dances with Balrog once again, where then you’ll be able to select Fighter as your job advancement
Skill Build:
Combo Attack: Max
Weapon Master: Max
Rage: Max
Physical Training: Max
Weapon Booster:Max
Combo Fury: Max
Brandish: 19/20
Final Attack: Max
3rd Job: Crusador
Once you have reached level 60 go to el nath- Chief residence and speak to Tylus. Once you have spoken to him go back to Period and talk to “Dances with Balrog” once again. Next, find the door of Dimension located at Ant Tunnel which will then bring you to “The Path of Glittering Crystal.” Walk to the end of the path and enter the portal to defeat the wiseman’s dark side to obtain the black charm.
Tip: Stock up on potions
Once you have obtained the Black Charm, go back to “Dances with Balrog” and exchange the charm for a Necklace of Strength. Take the necklace and go back to El Nath and give the item to Tylus. Head on to the Holy Ground at the Snowfield (Sharp Cliff II). 1 Dark Crystal is reuirred to answer 5 questions to obtain the Necklace of Wisdom, again head back to Tylus in El Nath and give him the Necklace of WIsdom
Skill Build:
Intrepid Slash,Rush,Panic,Self Recovery: 1
Rush : Max
Self Recovery: Max
Combo Synergy:Max
Chance Attack : Max
Panic:Max
Intrepid Slash: 14/20
Endure: Max
Shout: Max
4th Job: Hero
Once you reach level 100 defeat Zakuum in order to to obtain skillbook.Talk to Librarian Wiz to begin the quest. He will give you a blue book and ask you to take it to Village Chief Totamo in Leafre.Take the blue book to Chief Totamo. He will ask you to search for a necklace which was stolen by Griffey.Hunt Griffey until you obtain Chief Totamo’s necklace.Return to Totamo with the necklace. He will give you another quest to talk to “The Insignificant Being” in Sleepywood Dungeon.“The Insignificant Being” will tell you to find a shield and a key, and return it to Librarian Wiz. Kill a Jr. Balrog to obtain the key. Now go to Sanctuary Entrance 4 and enter the middle portal. You must have the key to enter. Find the shield inside this arena before the timer runs out. Return to Librarian Wiz with the key and the shield to obtain the Enrage Skillbook.
Skill Build:
Raging Blow, Combat Mastery, Advanced Final Attack (1)
Advanced Combo (MAX)
Puncture, Enrage (1)
Advanced Final Attack (MAX)
Combat Mastery (MAX)
Raging Blow (MAX)
Power Stance (MAX)
Enrage (MAX)
Puncture (MAX)
Maple Warrior (MAX)
Magic Crash (MAX)
Hero’s Will (MAX)
Paladin:
Specializes in Swords and Blunt weapon. They utilize the power of fire,ice ,lightning and holy elements to scar the battlefield.
Pro: Massive defensive skills, highest out of all classes and a decent offensive ability
Con: No decent mobility unless mount is used.
Pro: Elemental Advantage
Con: Can only use a one handed weapon due to shield mastery
Pro: An extremely respected class
2nd Job: Page
Once you have reached Level 30, head back to Shrine of Warriors located at the highest point of Period. Once inside talk to “Dances with Balrog”, he’ll give you a letter to pass it to the job advancement instructor near period, he will also give a quest to collect 30 Dark Marbles by defeating the monsters inside.
Tip: Stock up on all potions before defeating the monster
Once the marbles have been collected talk to the instructor, who will award you with a Proof of Hero . Then go back and talk to “Dances with Balrog once again, where then you’ll be able to select Page as your job advancement
3rd Job: White Knight
Once level 60, Go to El Nath - Chief Residence and speak to Tylus. After talking to Tylus, head back to Victoria Island and talk to Dances with Balrog which is located in Perion. Next, find the Door of Dimension located at Ant Tunnel Park and it'll bring you to "The Path of the Glittering Crystal". Walk until the end of the path and enter the portal to defeat the wiseman's dark side to obtain the Black Charm.
Return to "Dances with Balrog" and exchange the Black Charm for a Necklace of Strength. Return to El Nath after that and give the item to Tylus. Head on to the Holy Ground at the Snowfield (Sharp Cliff II). 1 Dark Crystal is requirred to answer 5 questions to obtain the Necklace of Wisdom. Again, head back to Tylus in El Nath and give him the Necklace of Wisdom.
4th Job: Paladin
At Level 100, speak to Dances with Balrog. He will send you to see Harmonia of Leafre. The job instructor will instruct you to return the Heroic Star and Heroic Pentagon. They are dropped by Manon and Griffey, or obtained through buying the Secret Letter of Spell from Vega and giving it to Chief Tatamo of Leafre.Return the items to Harmonia and he will complete your journey as a White Knight and advance you to Paladin.
Skill Build
Blast, Divine Charge, Advanced Charge (1)
Guardian, Heaven’s Hammer, High Paladin (1)
Advanced Charge (MAX)
High Paladin (MAX)
Elemental Force (MAX)
Divine Charge (MAX)
Blast (MAX)
Power Stance (MAX)
Maple Warrior (MAX)
Magic Crash (MAX)
Hero’s Will (MAX)
Heaven’s Hammer (MAX)
Guardian (MAX)
Extra 48 SP.
Dark Knight:
Specialize in Spears and Polearms as primary weapons.They use a variety of supportive buffs to support their party members as well as their own.
Pro/Con: Decent Mobility if the 4th job maxed Berzerk otherwise no mobility unless you you use a mount
Pro: Massive range and best at mobbing out of all adventure classes
Con: Very weak until 3rd job
Pro: Popular recruit for a party
2nd Job: Spearman
Once you have reached Level 30, head back to Shrine of Warriors located at the highest point of Period. Once inside talk to “Dances with Balrog”, he’ll give you a letter to pass it to the job advancement instructor near period, he will also give a quest to collect 30 Dark Marbles by defeating the monsters inside.
Tip: Stock up on all potions before defeating the monster
Once the marbles have been collected talk to the instructor, who will award you with a Proof of Hero . Then go back and talk to “Dances with Balrog once again, where then you’ll be able to select Spearman as your job advancement
3rd Job: Berserker
Once level 60, Go to El Nath - Chief Residence and speak to Tylus. After talking to Tylus, head back to Victoria Island and talk to Dances with Balrog which is located in Perion. Next, find the Door of Dimension located at Ant Tunnel Park and it'll bring you to "The Path of the Glittering Crystal". Walk until the end of the path and enter the portal to defeat the wiseman's dark side to obtain the Black Charm.
Return to "Dances with Balrog" and exchange the Black Charm for a Necklace of Strength. Return to El Nath after that and give the item to Tylus. Head on to the Holy Ground at the Snowfield (Sharp Cliff II). 1 Dark Crystal is required to answer 5 questions to obtain the Necklace of Wisdom. Again, head back to Tylus in El Nath and give him the Necklace of Wisdom
Skill Build:
Rush, La Mancha Spear, Lord of Darkness (1)
Lord of Darkness (MAX)
Cross Surge (MAX)
Hex of the Evil Eye (MAX)
La Mancha Spear (MAX)
Rush (MAX)
Evil Eye Shock (MAX)
Endure (MAX)
Evil Eye of Domination (4/10)
4th Job: Dark Knight
At Level 100, speak to Dances with Balrog. He will send you to see Harmonia of Leafre. The job instructor will instruct you to return the Heroic Star and Heroic Pentagon. They are dropped by Manon and Griffey. Either way, return the items to Harmonia and he will complete your journey as a Berserker and advance you to Dark Knight!
Skill Build:
Barricade Mastery (1), Dark Impale (2)
Dark Impale (MAX)
Final Pact (MAX)
Barricade Mastery (MAX)
Stance (MAX)
Gungnir’s Descent (1)
Sacrifice (MAX)
Gungnir’s Descent (MAX)
Hero’s Will (1)
Magic Crash (MAX)
Maple Warrior (MAX)
Revenge of the Evil Eye (MAX)
Hero’s Will (MAX)
Magician
Pretty Much Just Harry Potter
Description
The Magician may look fragile, but this powerful magic-user can obliterate enemies from afar with devastating spells. With a large amount of mana, the Magician can cast elemental or supportive skills from a distance while characters stronger in melee combat engage monsters up close. The Magician is perfect for Party Quests, Boss Fights, hunting and other activities that require elemental power. The Magician calls the town of Ellinia, located in the eastern forest of Victoria Island, home. When Explorer-type Magicians reach a certain level, they can choose between three different specializations: Fire and Poison Arch Mage, Lightning Arch Mage or Bishop.
Arch Mage
Best Equipment: For Arch Mages, best equipment would be a stagg
Level 1- 10: Seraphim Staff
Level 15 : Sapphire Staff
Level 25 :Wizard Staff
Level 35: Maple Staff
Level 43: Maple Llama Staff
Level 51 :Mystic Cane
Level 55: Evil Wings
Level 95: Blue Marine
Level 163: Elemental Staff 8
Bishop:
Healing Magician, best move is Genesis which kills all monsters on the team.
Pros:
-Wanted by almost all parties.
-Has by far the best party skills. (HS/Adv Bless etc)
-Good survivability. (Thanks to magic guard, besides that they are not good at all.)
-Huge amount of MP.
Cons:
-Only a few attacking skills (Big bang/Shining ray/Angel. ray)
-Low DPS.
Pros:
-Utilizes a variety of skills in order to stack a multitude of DoT attacks.
-The best DoT in the game by far.
-Pro to ridiculously-funded players: DoT has no damage cap (or 2147xxxxxx may be the cap).
-Mist Eruption does insanely high damage every ~12 seconds (with lag), even for low-funded players.
-Great mobbers.
-Decent bossers.
-Decent survivability (Magic Guard Buff, HP/MP recover from Infinity, Elemental Resistance from Ifrit).
-No Skill Book needed from Boss Zakum.
-Elemental attributes and the ability to switch them off.
-Summon Ifrit deals extra damage and support.
-High MP to cast attacks.
-Doesn't rely on weapon speed.
-DoT ignores various monsters buffs.
Cons:
-Less popular than the rest of the mages.
-Lack anything resembling a useful party skill (until Union when meditate gets 30 magic instead of 20 - but that's still sub-par).
-When highly-funded, they are hindered by the damage cap comparing to other attacking mages that are also highly-funded.
-Though they have great potential for bossing, post-Union they are severely overshadowed by Evans and ILs in that
regard at multi-part bosses.
-Most skills look bad. (Depends on the persons oppinion.)
-At popular bosses, they easily succumb to seduce+1/1 or Damage Reflect without the help of other classes. Thus it's
quite hard, even for super-funded FPs, to solo/duo bosses like Pink Bean.
-Summon might attacks enemies that one wishes to avoid.
-No party skills.
-Relies on dispelable Magic Guard Buff against high damage dealing monsters/bosses.
Pros:
-Proficient in harvesting Battle Points in PvP due to it's large arsenal of AoE attacks, status effects and ability to employ "hit and run" tactics effectively.
-High maneuverability thanks to Teleport.
-Chain Lightning has the largest potential directional range in the game for a staple attack thanks to its arcing
between enemies, despite only hitting 5 at most.
-A comparable attacker when compared to other adventurer attack classes in terms of %/s in PvE.
Cons:
-Glacial Chain's cooldown is not 5 seconds as advertised, but more like 8-10 seconds due to server latency.
-Infinity has limited use at bosses that dispel frequently due to its 3 minute cooldown and 40 second (1 minute with
Buff Mastery) duration.
-Infinity's stance effect is 50% which in practice is not particularly functional, past this easily removed skill
adventurer mages have no stance at all.
-Very low HP, very reliant on dispellable Magic Guard for survival at end-game.
-Seal does not work on bosses.
-Vulnerable to 1/1 + seduce.
Magician 2nd Job Advancement (Requirement: Level 30)
Once you’ve reached Lv 30, go back to Ellinia’s Magic Library, which is located at the highest point of Ellinia. Go inside, talk to Grendel the Really Old. He’ll give you a letter and you’ve to pass it to the job advancement instructor located at the north of Ellinia. After giving the letter, you’ll be given an errand to collect 30 Dark Marbles by defeating the monsters inside. Be careful to stock your potions up before you start collecting the 30 Dark Marbles.
Once you’ve collected 30 Dark Marbles, talk to the instructor, and he’ll award you with a Proof of a Hero. Go back to Ellinia’s Magic Library, and talk to Grendel the Really Old once again, where then you’ll advance as the Cleric/Fire-Poison/Ice-Lightning
Magician 3rd Job Advancement (Requirement: Level 70)
Go to El Nath – Chief Residence and speak to Robeira. After talking to Robeira, head back to Victoria Island and talk to “Grendel the Really Old” which is located in Ellinia. Next, find the Door of Dimension located at Forest of Evil II and it’ll bring you to “The Path of the Glittering Crystal”. Walk until the end of the path and enter the portal to defeat the wiseman’s dark side to obtain the Black Charm.
Return to “Grendel the Really Old” and exchange the Black Charm for a Necklace of Strength. Return to El Nath after that and give the item to Robeira. Head on to the Holy Ground at the Snowfield (Sharp Cliff II). 1 Dark Crystal is requirred to answer 5 questions to obtain the Necklace of Wisdom. Again, head back to Robeira in El Nath and give her the Necklace of Wisdom
Magician 4th Job
At Level 120, speak to Robeira. She will send you to see Gritto of Leafre. The job instructor will instruct you to return the Heroic Star and Heroic Pentagon. They are dropped by Manon and Griffey. Return the items to Gritto and she will complete your journey as a Priest and advance you to Bishop or Arch Mage!
Bowman
Ever Watch The TV Show "Arrow"?
Description
Bowmen are nimble, long-range snipers. They have a variety of skills to help attack, evade danger, buff their damage, and launch arrows at groups of monsters. Bowmen can attack an enemy horde with arrow barrages, but are strongest attacking single targets from afar, as their long range is balanced by modest HP. Bowmen call the bustling town of Henesys, located in the southern part of Victoria Island, their home. When Explorer-type Bowmen reach a certain level, they can choose between two different specializations: Bowmaster or Marksman
Bowmaster
Pros:
-One of the best 1 vs 1 attacking skills. (Hurricane)
-Good third job mobbing skills (Especially usefully at jesters etc)
-Good amount of speed, thus good mobility. Good mobility skills in general, since they have Double Jump and somewhat
high avoidability by 4th job. They also have the highest speedcap at the moment and obtain the highest speed in 4th
Job pre-Union patch.
-No need for arrows due to soul arrow. (More space for potions/other use items).
-Good mobbing skills, starting from 2nd Job. Their second job mob skill (Arrow Bomb) curves and stuns, while the
Crossbowman counterpart (Iron Arrow) does not.
-Arrow Bomb in 2nd Job has the ability to stun.
-They can use potions while attacking (Hurricane only).
-Hurricane triggers Final Attack with every shot (obv at the % chance).
-Hurricane is not affected by neither Booster nor Speed Infusion, meaning you do not have to waste money on Useful SI.
-Really good avoid/suvivability from illusion step in 4th job and good damage from afa and spirit link (which is also really good for hp).
-Elite puppet is very good for holding aggro away from you and for absorbing damage.
Cons:
- Low HP. Applies to all archers (someone correct me on this).
 Can not jumpshoot (technically they can but it's not an applied
mechanic in their skills like jump-attacking on warriors/assassins).
- Female Bowmasters can not obtain Decent Hyper Body.* Applies to Marksmen as well.
- Shares one of the most expensive Mastery books (Advanced Final Attack) with two (soon to be three @ Wild Hunters)
other classes.
- Bowmasters arrows are bulky and cannot be potentialed, when compared to the ones mercedes get.
Pros:
- Good amount of damage with pierce and snipe.
- Mastery books are cheap.
- Higher base damage due to needing less STR.
- Good mobility skills for the same reason as Bowmasters.
- No need for arrows due to soul arrow. (More space for potions/other use items) This applies to Bowmasters as well.
- Rush skill (Dragon Breath)
- They have the ability to freeze enemies in 3rd Job.
- Good mobbing skills, starting from 2nd Job. Their second job mob skill does not curve and stun like Arrow Bomb for Hunters, however.
- Going STRless is a lot easier to do compared to other classes due no STR requirement on armors.Applies to Bowmasters
as well, should change this to "Going low-STR is easier compared to Bowmasters due to needing less STR to equip their weapons" as crossbows require 5 less STR than bows.
-Both snipe and pierce are easily capped thus putting more funding into a mm only boosts strafe after a certain point
Cons:
-Pierce charges slowly and is not affected by Crossbow booster or Speed infusion.
-Iron Arrow/Dragon Breath/Piercing Arrow have limited range compared to other skills. Elaborate?
-Iron Arrow does not curve and stun.
-Ultimate Strafe does not trigger Final Attack; Single Target DPS leaves much to be desired, especially compared to Bow masters.
-Female Marksmen can not obtain Decent Hyper Body.* Applies to Bowmasters as well.
-Maxing Strafe if a pre-requisite for Ultimate Strafe, so they must sacrifice some points out of another skill to do
so
-Marksmen arrows are bulky and cannot be potentialed, when compared to the ones mercedes get.
Skill Build 2nd Job :Cross Bowman
0. Rangefinder is auto-maxed.
1. Iron Arrow (1) Soul Arrow: Crossbow (1)
2. Crossbow Mastery (MAX)
3. Crossbow Booster (3)
4. Soul Arrow: Crossbow (MAX)
5. Physical Training (MAX)
6. Iron Arrow (19/20)
7. Crossbow Booster (MAX)
8. Final Attack: Crossbow (MAX)
9. Net Toss (MAX)
Bowman 1st Job Advancement (Requirements: Level 10, with 25 DEX)
Head to Bowman Instructional School in Henesys where you’ll find Athena Pierce. Talk to her, and she will advance you as a Bowman if you’ve the requirement stats.
Bowman 2nd Job Advancement (Requirement: Level 30)
Go to Bowman Instructional School in Henesys once you’ve reached Lv 30. Go inside, talk to Athena Pierce. She’ll give you a letter and you’ve to pass it to the job advancement instructor near Henesys. After giving the letter, you’ll be given an errand to collect 30 Dark Marbles by defeating the monsters inside. Be careful to stock your potions up before you start collecting the 30 Dark Marbles.
Once you’ve collected 30 Dark Marbles, talk to the instructor, and the instructor will award you with a Proof of a Hero. Go back to Henesys’s Instructional Bowman School, and talk to Athena Pierce once again, where then you’ll advance as the Crossbowman/Hunter.
Bowman 3rd Job Advancement (Requirement: Level 70)
Go to El Nath – Chief Residence and speak to Rene. After talking to Rene, head back to Victoria Island and talk to Athena Pierce which is located in Henesys. Next, find the Door of Dimension located at Sleepy Dungeon V and it’ll bring you to “The Path of the Glittering Crystal”. Walk until the end of the path and enter the portal to defeat the wiseman’s dark side to obtain the Black Charm.
Return to Athena Pierce and exchange the Black Charm for a Necklace of Strength. Return to El Nath after that and give the item to Rene. Head on to the Holy Ground at the Snowfield (Sharp Cliff II). 1 Dark Crystal is requirred to answer 5 questions to obtain the Necklace of Wisdom. Again, head back to Rene in El Nath and give her the Necklace of Wisdom.
Bowman 4th Job:
At Level 120, speak to Rene in El Nath. She will send you to see Legor of Leafre. The job instructor will instruct you to return the Heroic Star and Heroic Pentagon. They are dropped by Manon and Griffey, or obtained through buying the Secret Letter of Spell from Vega and giving it to Chief Tatamo of Leafre. Either way, return the items to Legor and she will complete your journey as a Ranger and advance you to Bow Master or a Marksman.


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If you're interested in using RSS to do more than simply publishing your blog, like taking advantage of it to integrate your applications, then you ought to take a look at /n software's RSSBus platform, which recently reached Beta 4. It's a really cool piece of technology with lots of connectors and the best part is that extending it is incredibly easy.
Basically, RSSBus provides a way to create connectors that generate RSS feeds with whatever you like (from bringing in a real RSS feed from another site, to keeping track of the most recently updated customer contacts in your CRM), and then provides a simple scripting language that allows you to manipulate those feeds in whatever way you like. The introduction whitepaper tells it best, so go check it out.
And speaking of BizTalk adapters, it's worth noting as well that /n software released back in October Version 2.0 of their BizTalk Server Adapter Suite, which includes AS2, Secure FTP (SFTP and FTPS), RSS, SSH, Secure SMTP/POP/IMAP, SMPP, SNPP, XMPP adapters and more. Lots of good stuff here. Somehow I had missed on reporting this one!


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FedEx CEO challenges NYT publisher to public debate after tax story
FedEx Corp Chief Executive Frederick Smith has challenged the publisher of the New York Times & Co and the editor of the business section of the newspaper to a public debate in response to a story about the company's tax bill.
REUTERS: FedEx Corp Chief Executive Frederick Smith has challenged the publisher of the New York Times & Co and the editor of the business section of the newspaper to a public debate in response to a story about the company's tax bill.
The package delivery firm's financial filings showed it owed no taxes in the 2018 fiscal year overall due to President Donald Trump's tax overhaul, according to the NYT story published on Sunday.
Smith late on Sunday called the story https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/business/how-fedex-cut-its-tax-bill-to-0.html "distorted and factually incorrect" and challenged NYT's publisher A.G. Sulzberger and the business section editor to a public debate in Washington.
"FedEx's colorful response does not challenge a single fact in our story. We're confident in the accuracy of our reporting," Danielle Rhoades Ha, VP-communications at NYT, said in an email on Monday.
"FedEx's invitation is clearly a stunt and an effort to distract from the findings of our story."
Smith, in his statement https://about.van.fedex.com/newsroom/statement-from-frederick-w-smith-chairman-and-ceo-of-fedex-corporation, said the focus of the debate should be the federal tax policy and the relative societal benefits of business investments along with intended benefits to the economy.
(Reporting by Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)


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About xmodmap
Xmodmap is used to control the mappings between the keys you press on the keyboard and the results you will experience on screen. Some common usage examples of xmodmap are:
- Disabling and/or reallocating the caps-lock key
- Mapping certain foreign or other special characters to keys on your keyboard
- Enabling "media" keys
- Terminology
To achieve things like the above, you’ll be mapping KeyCodes to KeySyms and KeySyms to Modifiers so it’s obviously important to understand exactly what xmodmap means by these terms (I certainly didn’t when I started out).
KeyCode
A KeyCode is a number generated by your keyboard when you press a certain key. For example, the space bar usually produces the KeyCode 128.
KeySym
A KeySym is simply a word used to name a type of key. This concept is very important because it means that applications don’t need to interpret the information output by your keyboard directly; they can refer to keys by name.
As mentioned above, most keyboards produce the code 128 when you press the spacebar but it would be possible to have a very non-standard keyboard that outputs the KeyCode 64 when the spacebar is pressed. You’d certainly want to ensure that code 64 is interpreted as a spacebar press without having to rewrite all the applications you use. To do this, we’d map the KeyCode 64 to the KeySym "space".
Modifier
A Modifier is a special kind of key that can be held at the same time as another key and modify its output.  If you hold shift and press A, you’ll see the letter ‘A’ – shift is a Modifier.
Let’s start with looking at modifiers to get the hang of Modifiers and KeySyms…
Modifiers
There are 8 modifiers:
- Shift
- Lock
- Control
- Mod1
- Mod2
- Mod3
- Mod4
- Mod5
Xmodmap provides three different operations for changing the way KeySyms are mapped to Modifiers: clear, add, and remove.
My favourite example – turning off caps lock:
$ xmodmap -e "clear Lock"
This command clears the Lock modifier meaning that no keys now produce a caps lock effect. Bliss!
To reassign the caps lock key to do something more useful:
$ xmodmap -e "add Shift = Caps_Lock"
This adds the KeySym "Caps_Lock" to the list of keys that produce the Shift modifier. In other words, we’ve turned caps lock into another shift key.
If you change your mind and want to stop the caps lock key behaving as a shift key:
$ xmodmap -e "remove Shift = Caps_Lock"
This is basically the opposite of the previous example.
Mapping KeyCodes to KeySyms
Now we’ve got the hang of changing the Modifiers, we’ll round off by looking at mapping the physical keys on your keyboard to produce the results you want.
First things first, you’ll need to know the keycode of the key you want to change. To do this, you can use xev.
$ xev
After running xev, press the key in question and you’ll see some output like this in your terminal:
KeyPress event, serial 21, synthetic YES, window 0x800001,
root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 1539131, (69,8), root:(683,402),
state 0x0, keycode 63 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
The third line is the one we’re interested in. You’ll see the word keycode followed by the number you’re going to need next, in the example above it’s 63.
Now we’re going to map that key to give us some foreign characters.
$ xmodmap -e "keycode 63 = e E eacute Eacute"
The "keycode" command maps a KeyCode to a number of KeySyms. The order of the KeySyms is important as it represents how the KeySyms are derived.
- The key pressed alone
- With the Shift modifier
- The key pressed along with the Mode_switch key
- With Mode_switch AND Shift
Mode_switch is just another keysym and you can map it to a chosen key on your keyboard like this:
$ xmodmap -e "keycode 64 = Mode_switch"
My personal choice is to map Mode_switch to my AltGr key. To do this, you can use a special version of the keycode command. $ xmodmap -e "keycode Alt_R = Mode_switch" This asks xmodmap to lookup what keycode(s) are currently assigned to the KeySym Alt_R (right alt) and assign them to Mode_switch as well.
So with the above mappings, here’s what happens when I press the keys on my keyboard:
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The key on it’s own -> A lowercase ‘e’
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With shift -> An uppercase ‘E’
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With AltGr -> A lowercase e-acute (as used in French for example)
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With AltGr and shift -> An uppercase E-acute
Saving Your Mappings
Once you’ve decided how you’d like everything set up, you obviously don’t want to have to type all those xmodmap lines in every time you start X. To save you from this, you can just put all your mapping into a file (I save mine at ~/.xmodmap) and then just tell xmodmap to load from it.
$ xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
Ideally, you’d add that line to your .xinitrc so it runs automatically when you start X.
The End
That just about wraps up this howto. I hope somebody finds it useful as I certainly found xmodmap confusing in my early days. Now I have my keyboard customised to do just what I want and I couldn’t live without it.
Useful Links
A few useful links about xmodmap.


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Operations with all the special numbers All operations with the special numbers presented above are well-defined. This means that your program won't crash just because one of the computed values exceeded the representable range. Still, this is usually an unwanted situation and if it may occur, you should check it in your program and handle the cases when it occurs. The operations are defined in the probably most intuitive way. Any operation with a NaN yields a NaN as a result. Some other operations are presented in the table below. (In the table, r is a positive representable number, ∞ is Infinity, ÷ is normal floating point division.) A complete list can be found in the standard or in your compiler's documentation. Note that even comparison operators are defined for these values. This topic exceeds the scope of this article, if interested, browse through the references presented at the end of the article.
Rumor: Floating point numbers can be compared by comparing the bit patterns in memory. Validity: True. Note that we have to handle sign comparison separately. If one of the numbers is negative and the other is positive, the result is clear. If both numbers are negative, we may compare them by flipping their signs, comparing and returning the opposite answer. From now on consider non-negative numbers only. When comparing the two bit patterns, the first few bits form the exponent. The larger the exponent is, the further is the bit pattern in lexicographic order. Similarly, patterns with the same exponent are compared according to their mantissa. Another way of looking at the same thing: when comparing two non-negative real numbers stored in the form described above, the result of the comparison is always the same as when comparing integers with the same bit pattern. (Note that this makes the comparison pretty fast.) Rumor: Comparing floating point numbers for equality is usually a bad idea. Validity: True. Consider the following code: for (double r=0.0; r!=1.0; r+=0.1) printf("*");How many stars is it going to print? Ten? Run it and be surprised. The code just keeps on printing the stars until we break it. Where's the problem? As we already know, doubles are not infinitely precise. The problem we encountered here is the following: In binary, the representation of 0.1 is not finite (as it is in base 10). Decimal 0.1 is equivalent to binary 0.0(0011), where the part in the parentheses is repeated forever. When 0.1 is stored in a double variable, it gets rounded to the closest representable value. Thus if we add it 10 times the result is not exactly equal to one. The most common advice is to use some tolerance (usually denoted ε) when comparing two doubles. E.g., you may sometimes hear the following hint: consider the doubles a and b equal, if fabs(a-b)<1e-7. Note that while this is an improvement, it is not the best possible way. We will show a better way later on. Rumor: Floating point numbers are not exact, they are rounded. Validity: Partially true. Yes, if a number can't be represented exactly, it has to be rounded. But sometimes an even more important fact is that lots of important numbers (like zero, the powers of two, etc.) can be stored exactly. And it gets even better. Note that the mantissa of doubles contains more than 32 bits. Thus all the binary digits of an int fit into the mantissa and the stored value is exact. This can still be improved. If we note that 254 > 1016, it should be clear that any integer with up to 15 decimal digits has at most 54 binary digits, and thus it can be stored in a double without rounding. This observation can even be extended to non-integer values: double is able to store 15 most significant decimal digits of any number (in the normally representable range). A similar computation for singles shows that they are able to store only 7 most significant decimal digits. This is way too little for almost any practical applications, and what's even more important, it is less than the precision required by TC when a floating point value shall be returned. The moral of this story is pretty clear: Never use singles! Seriously. Don't even think about it. There's plenty of available memory nowadays. As a side note, once rounding errors occur in your computation, they are propagated into further computations. Thus even if the final result shall be an integer, its representation in a floating point variable may not be exact. As an example consider the star-printing cycle above. Rumor: I've heard that long doubles will give me more precision. Validity: Platform dependent. One less common precision type defined in the IEEE-754 standard is extended double precision, which requires at least 79 bits of storage space. Some compilers have a data type with this precision, some don't. E.g., in g++ on the x86 architecture we have a data type long double that uses 10 bytes (80 bits) of memory. (In MSVC++ the type long double is present, but it is mapped to a double.) The 80-bit extended double precision format is used internally by the Intel 80x87 floating-point math co-processor in order to be able to shift operands back and forth without any loss of precision in the IEEE-754 64-bit (and 32-bit) format. When optimization in g++ is set to a non-zero value, g++ may even generate code that uses long doubles internally instead of doubles and singles. This format is able to store 19 most significant decimal digits. If even more precision is required, you may either implement your own arithmetic, or use the BigInteger and BigDecimal classes from Java's math library. Rumor: In practice, there's no real difference between using different values of ε when comparing floating point numbers. Validity: False. Often if you visit the Round Tables after a SRM that involved a floating point task you can see people posting messages like "after I changed the precision from 1e-12 to 1e-7 it passed all systests in the practice room" Examples of such discussions: here, here, here, here and here. (They are worth reading, it is always less painful to learn on the mistakes of other people made than to learn on your own mistakes.) We will start our answer by presenting another simple example. for (double r=0.0; r<1e22; r+=1.0) printf(".");How many dots will this program print? This time it's clear, isn't it? The terminating condition doesn't use equality testing. The cycle has to stop after 1022 iterations. Or... has it? Bad luck, this is again an infinite cycle. Why is it so? Because when the value of r becomes large, the precision of the variable isn't large enough to store all decimal digits of r. The last ones become lost. And when we add 1 to such a large number, the result is simply rounded back to the original number. Exercise: Try to estimate the largest value of r our cycle will reach. Verify your answer. If your estimate was wrong, find out why. After making this observation, we will show why the expression fabs(a-b)<epsilon (with a fixed value of epsilon, usually recommended between 1e-7 and 1e-9) is not ideal for comparing doubles. Consider the values<PHONE_NUMBER>56.1234588623046875 and<PHONE_NUMBER>56.1234741210937500. There's nothing that special about them. These are just two values that can be stored in a double without rounding. Their difference is approximately 2e-5. Now take a look at the bit patterns of these two values: first: 01000010 00111100 10111110 10001110 11110010 01000000 00011111 10011011 second: 01000010 00111100 10111110 10001110 11110010 01000000 00011111 10011100 Yes, right. These are two consecutive values that can be stored in a double. Almost any rounding error can change one of them onto the other one (or even further). And still, they are quite far apart, thus our original test for "equality" fails. What we really want is to tolerate small precision errors. As we already saw, doubles are able to store approximately 15 most significant decimal digits. By accumulating precision errors that arise due to rounding, the last few of these digits may become corrupt. But how exactly shall we implement tolerating such errors? We won't use a constant value of ε, but a value relative to the magnitude of the compared numbers. More precisely, if x is a double, then x*1e-10 is a number that's 10 degrees of magnitude smaller than x. Its most significant digit corresponds to x's eleventh most significant digit. This makes it a perfect ε for our needs. In other words, a better way to compare doubles a and b for "equality" is to check whether a lies between b*(1-1e-10) and b*(1+1e-10). (Be careful, if b is negative, the first of these two numbers is larger!) See any problems with doing the comparison this way? Try comparing 1e-1072 and -1e-1072. Both numbers are almost equal to zero and to each other, but our test fails to handle this properly. This is why we have to use both the first test (known as testing for an absolute error) and the second test (known as testing for a relative error). This is the way TC uses to check whether your return value is correct. Now you know why. There are even better comparison functions (see one of the references), but it is important to know that in practice you can often get away with using only the absolute error test. Why? Because the numbers involved in computation come from a limited range. For example, if the largest number you will ever compare is 9947, you know that a double will be able to store another 11 digits after the decimal point correctly. Thus if we use epsilon=1e-8 when doing the absolute error test, we allow the last three significant digits to become corrupt. The advantage this approach gives you is clear: checking for an absolute error is much simpler than the advanced tests presented above.
Rumor: Computations using floating point variables are as exact as possible. Validity: True. Most of the standards require this. To be even more exact: For any arithmetical operation the returned value has to be that representable value that's closest to the exact result. Moreover, in C++ the default rounding mode says that if two values are tied for being the closest, the one that's more even (i.e., its least significant bit of the mantissa is 0) is returned. (Other standards may have different rules for this tie breaking.) As a useful example, note that if an integer n is a square (i.e., n = k2 for some integer k), then sqrt(double(n)) will return the exact value k. And as we know that k can be stored in a variable of the same type as n, the code int k = int(sqrt(double(n))) is safe, there will be no rounding errors. Rumor: If I do the same computation twice, the results I get will be equal. Validity: Partially true. Wait, only partially true? Doesn't this contradict the previous answer? Well, it doesn't. In C++ this rumor isn't always true. The problem is that according to the standard a C++ compiler can sometimes do the internal calculations using a larger data type. And indeed, g++ sometimes internally uses long doubles instead of doubles to achieve larger precision. The value stored is only typecast to double when necessary. If the compiler decides that in one instance of your computation long doubles will be used and in the other just doubles are used internally, the different roundings will influence the results and thus the final results may differ. This is one of THE bugs that are almost impossible to find and also one of the most confusing ones. Imagine that you add debug outputs after each step of the computations. What you unintentionally cause is that after each step each of the intermediate results is cast to double and output. In other words, you just pushed the compiler to only use doubles internally and suddenly everything works. Needless to say, after you remove the debug outputs, the program will start to misbehave again. A workaround is to write your code using long doubles only. Sadly, this only cures one of the possible problems. The other is that when optimizing your code the compiler is allowed to rearrange the order in which operations are computed. On different occasions, it may rewrite two identical pieces of C++ code into two different sets of instructions. And all the precision problems are back. As an example, the expression x + y - z may once be evaluated as x + (y - z) and the other time as (x + y) - z. Try substituting the values x = 1.0 and y = z = 1030. Thus even if you have two identical pieces of code, you can't be sure that they will produce exactly the same result. If you want this guarantee, wrap the code into a function and call the same function on both occasions. Further reading
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HiveMind 2
HiveMind 2 is on its way.
Its main features are:
- XML dependencies removed from core and placed in separate hivemind-xml library
- Pure java API for the definition of modules (services, configurations etc.)
- Annotation based API for the definition of modules
- Explicit and extensible Autowiring Service
- Configurations not longer restricted to lists and maps
Expect to find some info here soon and an alpha version in February 2007.


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I'm A Celebrity viewers livid after Ian Wright and James Haskell ruin Christmas
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here viewers were left fuming on Thursday night after Ian Wright and James Haskell suggested Father Christmas wasn’t real (how dare they?).
During the show, the celebrities were discussing their favourite festive traditions while they were chilling at the camp, and fans believed the pair had implied that the big man in red wasn’t real.
The England rugby player told the campers that his parents used to spoil him at Christmas, leaving footprints on the carpet.
I was so lucky as my parents spoilt me rotten, Christmas was the most magical time and my favourite time of the year,’ he began.
‘I had footprints on the carpet and bite marks in everything.’
Ian then questioned: ‘Half a mince pie bitten?’
James replied: ‘Yeh yeh, carrots with tooth marks in it.’
The former footballer then went even further by explaining that he used to dress up as Father Christmas for his kids.
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Stray dog found caring for abandoned kittens by roadside
The protective pooch is now looking for a forever home
by Joanna WhiteheadA stray dog has been discovered by the side of a road keeping a litter of abandoned kittens warm.
The caring pooch was found guarding the five baby cats by the side of a road in Ontario, Canada, last week.
It is not known whether the kittens were dumped by their owner or abandoned by a feral mother cat.
Pet and Wildlife Rescue shared the heartwarming story in a bid to find a forever home for the protective pup, which has since been named Serenity.
According to the staff, a “good citizen” called the animal shelter to alert them of the situation, prompting an animal control officer to collect the animals who have been “living [their] best lives since!”
The story was picked up by media and adoption requests for Serenity have been flooding in.
In a post shared by the shelter, the heroic pooch is described as approximately two years old with “the energy of a toddler” and good with cats.
Despite her protective nature, Serenity can be quite jumpy and needs help with house training and “to be taught some manners”.
While the shelter staff have said that they would like to rehome Serenity and the kittens together, they are unable to do so as this would involve a wait of several months for the dog.
The shelter’s goal is to get animals out of the shelter environment and into their forever home as soon as possible.
The kittens are currently being cared for in “a warm foster home”. Once they are old enough, they will also be rehomed.
Responses to the touching story have been flooding in from around the globe, with social media users commenting on Serenity’s caring behaviour.
“Sweet girl!”, wrote Amanda. “Animals are so much better than humans”.
This makes me cry both happy and sad tears,” wrote Amanda. “Thank you for all that you do.”
Black cats often taken longer to be adopted because of their association with witches.
More recent reports have claimed that they’re not as photogenic for social media posts.
The popularity of these five kittens suggests that they won’t be without a forever home for long, however.
Interested parties can find out more at Pet and Wildlife Rescue.


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Welcome to Math Of The Dead. This tutorial will guide you through the main concept and features of this interactive brain game.
Select a gun and click on a zombie to decrease or increase its health by the number on the bullet icon in the red box at the top of the page.
The currently selected gun is highlighted in grey.
 For example if you get the zombies health to (-11) or 11, when you kill it your score will be 11 points for that zombie.
You must kill zombies before they reach the dotted line at the bottom of the screen or you will lose the game.
If you are using a computer here are the hot keys on your keyboard:
Click boxes with a red background to learn more about them.
When you are ready, click Start Practice Wave to kill some zombies!

The number you are currently using is in the red box, you can use this by clicking on a zombie, or skip it by clicking on the red box.
Try skipping a bullet.
Each time you use this gun you will be performing addition with the numbers from the bullet queue and the numbers above the zombies head.
For example if the current bullet is ( -1) and you click on a zombie with (-1) health you will cause the zombie’s health to equal -2.
Each time you use this gun you will be performing subtraction with the numbers from the bullet queue and the numbers above the zombies head.
For example if the current bullet is ( -1) and you click on a zombie with (-1) health you will cause the zombie’s health to equal 0.
Each time you use this gun you will be performing multiplication with the numbers from the bullet queue and the numbers above the zombies head.
For example if the current bullet is ( -1) and you click on a zombie with (-1) health you will cause the zombie’s health to equal 1.
Each time you use this gun you will be performing division with the numbers from the bullet queue and the numbers above the zombies head.
For example if the current bullet is ( -1) and you click on a zombie with (-1) health you will cause the zombie’s health to equal 1. Also this gun rounds up if you attempt to divide 15 by 7 you will cause the zombie’s health to be 3.

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What is the Tech Radar?
The shopping24 Tech Radar is a list of technologies, complemented by an assessment result, called ring assignment. We use four rings with the following semantics:
- ADOPT — Technologies we have high confidence in to serve our purpose, also in large scale. Technologies with a usage culture in our shopping24 production environment, low risk and recommended to be widely used.
- TRIAL — Technologies that we have seen work with success in project work to solve a real problem; first serious usage experience that confirm benefits and can uncover limitations. TRIAL technologies are slightly more risky; some engineers in our organization walked this path and will share knowledge and experiences.
- ASSESS — Technologies that are promising and have clear potential value-add for us; technologies worth to invest some research and prototyping efforts in to see if it has impact. ASSESS technologies have higher risks; they are often brand new and highly unproven in our organisation. You will find some engineers that have knowledge in the technology and promote it, you may even find teams that have started a prototyping effort.
- HOLD — Technologies not recommended to be used for new projects. Technologies that we think are not (yet) worth to (further) invest in. HOLD technologies should not be used for new projects, but usually can be continued for existing projects.
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Beef shin really shines here cooked slowly with plenty of aromatics. A perfect winter weekend supper for a group of hungry friends.
Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5. Trim most of the excess fat from the beef shin, leaving on some for colour and flavour. Prepare the beef by taking the meat off the bone in seams and cut into big chunks. Season well with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Heat a little oil in a frying pan and fry the pieces of beef until browned on all sides.
Heat a little more oil in a heavy-based flameproof casserole. Add the vegetables and star anise and cook briefly until the vegetables are just soft. Pour in the red wine and port and bubble until the liquid has reduced by half. Add the beef and pig's trotter and cover with the stock. Bring to the boil, skimming off any scum that rises to the surface, then add the stout, soy sauce and fish sauce. Transfer to the oven and cook for three hours, or until the meat is very tender.
Take the casserole out of the oven, remove the meat from the pan and keep warm. Strain the cooking liquid, return it to the pan and bring to the boil. Let it bubble until the sauce is thick then season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Take the pig's trotter out of the meat mixture and reserve the meat – it is delicious on toast. Return the beef to the pan and put it back in the oven for a further 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, make the parsnip purée. Place the parsnips and shallots into a saucepan with the milk, cream and bay leaves and cover with water. Add the olive oil and lemon juice and a good pinch of salt and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer gently for 15-20 minutes. Drain the vegetables, reserving the cooking liquid, and discard the bay leaves. Place the vegetables in a food processor and blend with enough cooking liquid to make a purée with the consistency of whipped cream. Season with salt and freshly ground white pepper and keep warm.
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Today was my first Manchester Game Jam!
One of my friends has just got a Raspberry Pi and we’re looking to create a game on it.
Looking forward to our first ‘Game Jam’ event next week, not sure if we’ll manage to get anything up and running, but sure it’ll be fun and looking forward to seeing what the other people get up to.
Do you know know of anywhere in Manchester where front end devs get together? If so please let me know, so far I’ve not found anything, so looking at setting something up. If you’re interested, please comment below and if there’s interest I’ll look at setting something up.
Have dabbled about a bit in CodePen and saw @chriscoyier, send this tweet out:
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After playing about with other dotfiles, I’ve now had a go with the .osx file.
These have been on my TODO list for a while, searching Google I couldn’t really find any decent screencasts or thorough documentation for a n00b like me. I’d seen this page over at GitHub http://dotfiles.github.com/ and started by looking over some examples:


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Bound by an inescapable blood debt to the Italian crime lord, Santino D'Antonio, and with his precious 1969 Mustang still stolen, John Wick--the taciturn and pitiless assassin who thirsts for seclusion--is forced to visit Italy to honour his promise. But, soon, the Bogeyman will find himself dragged into an impossible task in the heart of Rome's secret criminal society, as every killer in the business dreams of cornering the legendary Wick who now has an enormous price on his head......
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AfriForum to sue Panyaza Lesufi for ‘defamation’ over ‘assassination’ claim
The education MEC had earlier claimed that the group had been doing everything they could to find dirt on him to destroy him.
by Citizen reporterGauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi. Picture: Itumeleng English / African News Agency (ANA)
After Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi appeared on live TV during a departmental press conference about school placements for 2020 and made accusations against Afrikaner lobby group AfriForum, the organisation’s head of policy, Ernst Roets, said they would sue him for alleged defamation.
Lesufi had claimed that the the lobby group had been “following” him and his family and even been trying to “assassinate” him. The MEC may, however, have been speaking figuratively about “character assassination”.
 There’s no need for you to follow my family … and my children to school.”
Lesufi said he had opened three cases with the Hawks but the cases had “gone dormant”. He spoke about how there had been a public demonstration against him in which an effigy of him had been hanged, but no criminal case had progressed regarding that.
The MEC and AfriForum have often butted heads, particularly over educational language policy and the MEC’s attempts to turn some Afrikaans-only schools into dual-medium or English facilities.
Lesufi said he would not back down and “gone are the days of schools that belong to kleinbaases alone”.
AfriForum, too, are regularly in court.
Roets said, in Afrikaans, of Lesufi’s outburst that the man was “well and truly mad in the head”.
“Lesufi goes on TV, says AfriForum is following him and his children, is hacking his bank account and is trying to assassinate him,” said Roets.
“Hy is so waar as wragtig mal in sy kop.
“Lesufi will have to prove his ludicrous claims during his defence when he appears in court for defamation…”
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Renting is a process that many people will experience in their lifetime and it can be a scary, stressful and overwhelming process. Having been a renter myself I was ecstatic when I was asked to collaborate with a small startup to help them conceptualise a new, more intuitive rental service.
Investigate existing process, discover user pain points, conduct user interviews, information architecture, create prototypes.
Investigate existing process, discover user pain points, conduct user interviews, information architecture, create prototypes.
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Originally the service was intended as a way to helping landlords and estate agents to spot bad tenants. Through meetings with expert matter holders, customer interviews and surveys we gathered research and insight about Tenants, Landlords and Estate Agents to learn about their habits, goals, motivations, lifestyles and needs. But this quickly pivoted the purpose of the product to reward good tenants and help them through the rental process.
Originally the service was intended as a way to helping landlords and estate agents to spot bad tenants. Through meetings with expert matter holders, customer interviews and surveys we gathered research and insight about Tenants, Landlords and Estate Agents to learn about their habits, goals, motivations, lifestyles and needs. But this quickly pivoted the purpose of the product to reward good tenants and help them through the rental process.
I thought it would be useful to get a better understanding of the details and events of the rental process. The flow diagram on the left is an early draft of a typical rental process in London. I’ve written hypothetical dates to get an understanding of the timeframe between events while thinking about the thoughts and feelings a renter might be having during this process.
It’s important to have a good understanding how the prototype will behave which is why I created this flow diagram of the Agent flow which shows the order and interactions of each screens. The act of creating this diagram was more important the actual output as it allows me to challenge my thoughts about what information should be asked for and when. I did the same for the Tenant flow.
At such a high level of thinking, the solution for the service went through so many possible outcomes. But without a way to visualise the service, it was difficult to quantify it’s value. Creating a prototype helped demonstrate the problem they were solving for and how it could be achieved. We used this prototype to present to, users, stakeholders and potential investors.


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Trucker Path
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I started it as my side hustle, and since I opened my shop in June 2018, it has grown slowly.  Let’s talk about how we build a product from scratch with low technology and no code. Not just a mock-up, but an actual product we launch, sell, and grow.
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Solidifying 1999 as the Year of the Mob Comedy, Mickey Blue Eyes is not quite as well-structured as this spring's Analyze This, or as substantial as HBO's much-lauded series The Sopranos. But it is full of several charming performances and very entertaining, nonetheless.
Hugh Grant (Notting Hill) stars as Michael Felgate, a British art auctioneer at a New York City Sotheby's clone. Despite not having yet met the family of his girlfriend Gina (played by Jeanne Tripplehorn, Very Bad Things), Michael decides to propose after only three months of courting. He pops the question via doctored fortune cookie and is shocked when Gina gets up and flees the Chinese restaurant in tears immediately following the proposal. (Not to quibble, but Gina and Michael had reservations at a finer bistro and didn't make it on time to keep them - so where did he get the fortune cookie message?)
Thinking that she may have gone to her father's restaurant, Michael heads to The La Trattoria (meaning, literally, `the the restaurant') and meets Gina's father, Frank Vitali (James Caan, This is My Father), as well as a myriad of other shady Sicilian characters. Although everyone hits it off nicely, Michael becomes a bit suspicious when he stumbles upon a frosty gentleman in the freezer while trying to find the bathroom. He is also able to track down Gina in the bedroom of her childhood home – complete with Duran Duran poster – where she explains that her fear is that her connected family members will somehow corrupt her honest and naïve man.
Gina has good reason to worry. The next day Michael's art deliveries are early for the first time ever, thanks to freshly rejuvenated Teamster drivers. He thinks nothing of it until Frank suggests that Michael help auction the painting of the son of his mob boss (played by Burt Young, Rocky). The picture depicts Jesus wielding an automatic rifle while executing what appears to be a mob-like hit. At that evening's auction, the painting is sold for $50,000 to someone resembling the man in The La Trattoria's freezer. Within twelve hours, the FBI is questioning Michael for money laundering.
Sadly, Mickey follows the trend of current films by revealing most of its funny moments in the trailer – especially when Frank tries to teach Michael to drop the stuffy British accent to become Kansas City Little Big Mickey Blue Eyes, a hard-ass Italian gangster. A talking stuffed gorilla has some of the film's best lines, and Burt Young can elicit laughs just from peering out from behind his super-thick Harry Caray glasses.
Mickey's less-than-stellar production pedigree makes the film even more surprisingly enjoyable. Writers Adam Scheinman (Little Big League) and Robert Kuhn (The Cure) have crafted a nifty little script that, frankly, could have used a little less of the romantic plot and a lot more cursing. Director Kelly Makin (Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy) packed the cast with alumni of Analyze This, The Sopranos and HBO's other fantastic drama series OZ, as well as Kids cast member Scott Thompson.
Caan is wonderful as Frank, and it is truly a joy to watch Grant's Michael abandon his sheepish, puppy-dog schtick while breaking dozens of laws trying to cover his own tail. Unfortunately, Joe Viterelli (the scene-stealing Jelly from Analyze This) is completely underused in his role. For that, we will have to wait for the sequel, Analyze This…Again. (1:42 - PG-13 for some adult language, mild violence and slight sexual content)
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