![]() I know which hand is the correct one to eat with, how to use a full set of formal silverware with correct etiquette, where to place my chopsticks once I’ve finished eating, and how to save a seat in a hawker centre using a pack of tissues. My time spent overseas gave me rigorous sensitivity training in table manners. His food tells stories of our culture and religion that could not be put into words. Through food, his tales of bitterly cold winters and fresh morels, of gunny sacks filled with saffron flowers on his doorstep, of tiny apples and giant walnuts, connect me to a time and place that I otherwise could not comprehend. My dad’s cooking tells stories of his childhood in Kashmir. My mum’s cooking hints at my grandmother’s Eurasian background through colourful Peranakan dishes. The origins of my family span a beautiful tapestry of ethnicities, languages and customs. I remember being so utterly confused when I was presented with Assorted Creams biscuitsĪpparently I am known as a ‘third culture kid’, a term given to people who’ve grown up away from their parents’ culture. Twenty-one years later, my memories are as clear as day. I remember the condensation running down the sides of mugs full of icy lime juice, in the sweltering heat of the banana leaf restaurant. I remember the tiny, crispy baby squid from the beachside seafood restaurants, and the fruit tiles on the walls of the Nyonya restaurant we used to go to with my grandparents. I remember the little bags of fried anchovies doused in curry sauce from my primary school canteen, the curry puffs from the ‘green shop’ around the corner from our home with a perfectly halved boiled egg in the centre. My world before Australia was a riot of colour, and all of my childhood memories are tied to food. I was born in Singapore, so my idea of lunch was something very different. Had I grown up in Australia, I probably would have approached bread-in-salad-in-bread with the same gusto as my fellow classmates. ![]() ![]() I’m not a picky eater, and my lunchtime protests had nothing to do with entitlement or a distaste for sandwiches.
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The claimants’ particulars of claim and a witness statement seen by Reuters detail allegations regarding the bank’s behaviour in the months before its near-collapse they allege there were significant disagreements between staff with responsibility for steering the lender through the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression. Some analysts estimate the total eventual claims against the bank will outstrip RBS’s expectations. It has provisioned $5.6 billion to settle these and other historic misconduct charges. cases alleging mis-selling of mortgage bonds. The bank has already booked billions of pounds of writedowns since 2008 and is facing a number of U.S. But Chief Executive Ross McEwan said last month that the bank, while still pursuing settlement talks with some of the claimants, was ready to fight if the case reaches court. RBS, which is still 70 percent owned by the British taxpayer, declined to comment for this article. It could end up being one of the costliest cases in English legal history. They are now claiming they were misled about the state of the bank’s finances ahead of the 2008 cash call and are seeking compensation for their losses.Ī trial is scheduled to begin in London in March after the two sides failed in July to agree an out-of-court settlement. Just six months later, RBS - Britain’s largest corporate lender and home to hundreds of billions of pounds of customer deposits - required the first tranche of a UK government bailout that ended up costing 45.5 billion pounds.Īs a result, some shareholders, including some of Britain’s biggest institutional fund managers, lost more than 90 percent of their investments. In 2008, the Edinburgh-based bank made a then record 12 billion pound cash call on investors. ![]() Little more than a year later, RBS became one of the biggest casualties of the turmoil that engulfed the industry. In the summer of 2007, the bank stunned markets by leading a consortium of lenders in a 71 billion euro ($77.3 billion) takeover of Dutch bank ABN Amro just as worries about a massive U.S. In the 1990s and 2000s, RBS had gone from being a small Scottish lender to a global banking giant, largely thanks to an aggressive expansion plan led by former chief executives George Mathewson and Fred Goodwin. Documents seen by Reuters include the claimants’ particulars of claim and the bank’s defence. The allegations, which focus on the months leading up to the 2008 crisis, are at the heart of a 4 billion pound ($5 billion)lawsuit brought by thousands of RBS’s investors, which is due to start in the UK early next year. In documents filed by lawyers acting for RBS, the bank rejects those allegations, and denies that it should have repriced assets more promptly or that it misled shareholders over its finances. property prices.īut some managers resisted the warnings, allege lawyers acting for RBS shareholders now seeking billions of pounds in compensation for losses suffered when the bank was bailed out in the 2008 crisis, according to the claimants’ “particulars of claim” and a witness statement seen by Reuters. ![]() The claimants’ filings allege senior managers were warned by internal risk experts for more than six months that overvalued toxic debt, including subprime mortgage bonds, had left the bank dangerously exposed to a collapse in U.S. LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland bosses avoided repricing billions of dollars of souring investments on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis for fear of endangering bonuses and a takeover bid for a rival, court documents allege. Now click on “Delete Local Data” and confirm the action to delete the game from your hard drive. Right clicking on the entry forBus Simulator 21 in your Steam library will open a menu. Open your Steam client and select the library.
![]() but the best way to prevent it is to set your search preferences to "BEST" instead of "ANY" or "NORMAL". Honestly this is the GAYEST feature in the game. Even if you're right up against them the game may not register the hit if they have a lower signal. The lower signal always wins in this scenario. You ask yourself "how is this happening when I emptied my whole clip into him?" That's lag compensation. You may say, damn he's good.but when you watch the killcam.you haven't even sent one bullet his way, or maybe you sent three or four bullets. You get the first shot over him but he puts you down in one-two shots. You run into him multiple times and he seems to always best you when you both lock eyes on each other. ![]() Here's a scenario: You have 4 bars and the other player has 3. This basically permits players with lower levels of connectivity to get the advantage on those with the best connectivity. There seems to be a very evident feature in the game called "lag compensation". Has the same replay feel as the first zombies, and I only play when I'm with friends. It's really fun with the more people you play with though (on Live of course, local only supports 2 characters). I find it pretty hard to even find where weapons are and it takes a little while to kill off zombies after the 5th wave if you don't have a Ray Gun or an LMG. The zombies mode is a LOT more difficult than zombies from Black Ops (speaking on default maps). This game just doesn't measure up to that feel like it's predecessor. When playing a campaign mode you need to feel the characters and feel like you're a part of the story. It's very linear, like MW3's campaign.but unlike MW3 it differs from it's predecessor. But the story just isn't as compelling as the first Black Ops storyline. The campaign mode changes it up by allowing you to select your weapons in the beginning of each chapter. ![]() I'll make this quick so you're not sitting here all day reading omega long reviews: The first one was fun and that's how I feel about the second one. But the series I am especially fond of is the Black Ops series. I might as well admit that I'm a Call of Duty fan. If you have an average to above average (not best) internet, get this game. 343 Industries may run a very close second this year, but Call of Duty is still the boss on the battlefield. Huge, deep, streamlined and varied, it raises the bar yet further for online shooters – especially with the new focus on eSports and CoD-casting. The multiplayer, on the other hand, remains peerless. Despite its quality, Treyarch’s campaign falls slightly short of Halo 4′s sandbox brilliance, and can’t match Spec Ops: The Line ’s harrowing narrative. This year has seen some great shooters in Halo 4, Borderlands 2, Spec Ops: The Line and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, and to say that Black Ops 2 surpasses them all would simply be untrue – but only just. Where Modern Warfare’s campaigns have become increasingly throwaway from game to game, Black Ops 2′s shapeable narrative changes the game and is hopefully portentous of the franchise’s future. Saying that a Call of Duty title is a contender for Shooter of the Year is almost clichéd but the truth is that Treyarch have taken a series that even staunch fans can’t fully deny was beginning to feel stale and rolled the dice – and not just with the multiplayer mode. Is Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 worth your money? ![]() If you’ve ever been frustrated by seeing only images of the back ends of deer, chances are you had the camera perpendicular to the trail. It also helps with your daytime image quality because the sun’s glare will also be eliminated. ![]() This ensures that the sun’s path will never move across the sensor, causing a false trigger. One common mistake made when setting up a trail camera is simply facing the camera in the wrong direction. What follows are tips on how you can improve your trail camera use, enabling you to capture more useful information and move you one step closer to wrapping your tag around a mature whitetail this fall. Unfortunately, most hunters make small mistakes that keep them from realizing the full potential that a trail camera can provide. In the right hands, a trail camera is incredibly powerful, but as with any tool, it is important to understand how to use it. No other item in your hunting tool chest can help your success more than a trail camera. The trail camera is the single most important advancement in hunting whitetails in the last 20 years. Stay tuned in the coming months for the rest! We're excited to share our first article, "Trail Camera Tips and Tricks: Things You Should Be Doing But Probably Aren't". Iowa Sportsman magazine invited us to write articles for their next 6 issues. ![]() After all, not once we kept precious internal storage space occupied with duplicate files. I didn’t get the chance to use it that much (actually, I used it just once), but I was impressed by the ‘skip duplicate content’ feature, which you will definitely love it as well. Therefore, another one of the best DeTune alternatives for Windows is iSkySoft iTransfer, a great tool for transferring iPhone/iPad/iPod media files to a Windows PC, with just a few clicks. This is definitely a tool name with too many “i”, but in the end it’s not the name that matters that much, but the things it can do. Eventually, it looks complicated at first, you will definitely start getting along with it in no time. Since it’s similar to iTunes, it’s obviously very easy to use and you won’t get lost in the menus. In a nutshell, iExplorer is very similar to iTunes, but you will never lose your content (yes, it happens) and neither your device crashes.Īnd yes, we’re going to talk about the interface as well. Hey, what do you know? Another iSoftware? Yes, that’s right, and this is a pretty good one as well since a lot of iOS users are praising it. You can use to sync the files from your iDevice to your PC, no matter if we’re talking about music, videos, photos, as well as contacts, messages, bookmar…You know what? It can sync pretty much anything that’s on your device with your Windows PC.Īs a bonus, it can do the same things for Android-running devices, so there’s no doubt that it’s worth giving a shot. Doesn’t make sense? Ok, let’s say that it was a bit mandatory for all tools to have a user-friendly interface and SynciOS Manager is no exception. While developing this list, one of the main aspects I considered when picking DeTune alternatives for Windows was how easy to use the tool looks. Still, at a second thought, just the fact that it’s loaded with so many features can make it a bit difficult to fully understand its functionality. Whether it’s the classic MP3 or uncommon formats like AIFF or SPEEX, you can transfer such files on your iDevices easily.Ī cool trick this tool can do is organize your music into different genres, as well as bands or titles, so it’s obvious that it had to be present on our list with the best DeTune alternatives for windows. Jajuk is a music transfer software, ridiculously fast and very flexible, being able to deal with several audio formats. It looks like this Jajuk thing is very popular among iOS users who own a Windows-running PC. But hey, it’s a free tool, I bet you can get over such details… Jajuk There are some minuses though, like the fact that you don’t have access to the iTunes store or the slightly slow loading times. Not to mention that the user interface is very friendly and any those who are not such technical users will find it very easy to use. Specifically, you can manage apps (yes, even that!), transfer photos and music, or even view your available storage. ![]() If you ask us! iTools is one of the best DeTune alternatives for Windows, allowing you to easily manage the content on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod, through your computer. This is a pretty good name for a tool like this. Let’s see what we have for you guys! iTools Here you can find a quick selection of them, bringing all the features to Windows. But hey, DeTunes alternatives for Windows are also available for download, so anybody can control an iPhone, iPad, or iPod. Windows users heard about this tool and they wanted to try it too. Actually, some users claim that it’s even better than iTunes, Apple’s native app for such things since it allows you to keep songs on your device, even though they were previously deleted from iTunes! Sometimes, it can be a bit difficult to sync all your iDevices between them, so you need to rely on third-party tools, but they also include some pretty cool features, allowing you to easily control everything.įor example, we have DeTune, a nice piece of software which you can use to manage the contents of your iOS devices directly from your iMac. Apple has some pretty amazing products and a great ecosystem, but it’s that kid in school who doesn’t get along with others that much. ![]() ![]() So too, an interest in Magic: The Gathering has persisted since William’s youth, and he can frequently be found watching Magic streams on Twitch and reading over the latest set spoilers. Eastward NintendoSwitch IndieGamesHere are my first impressions of Eastward having now played 5 hours of this amazing adventure RPG for Nintendo Switch &. Now, William enjoys playing Super Mario Maker 2 on the Switch with his daughter and finding time to sneak in the newest From Software game when possible. running eastward along said road a distance of 600 feet, more or l ss, to. This interest reached a height with MMORPGs like Asheron’s Call 2, Star Wars Galaxies, and World of Warcraft, on which William spent considerable time up until college. Eastward at IGN: walkthroughs, items, maps, video tips, and strategies. ![]() The games setting is split between the 'real' world and a dream world crafted from the. The northwestern ares of high pressure has moved eastward from the North Pa. William’s first console was the NES, but when he was eight, it was The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening on Game Boy that fully cemented his interest in the format. For the completionists out there, Eastward should offer around 27 and a half hours worth of playtime on average, if we go by the stats on its page. 10/15 OMORI (20.5 Hours Min.) OMORI is a psychological horror game that incorporates various RPG elements. Hi NVAfXlU H 1NKS8 Hltb VK have clients who will buy and Improve MKXTS. Kena costs 40, and there's also a deluxe edition for a few more bucks at 49.99. You can easily search play-time of specific game you want to know by using this package. All the while, William’s passion for games remained. Being an indie title, Kena: Bridge of Spirits price is cheaper than other AAA titles. ![]() Upon graduating from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, William entered the realm of fine arts administration, assisting curators, artists, and fine art professionals with the realization of contemporary art exhibitions. IGN's Eastward complete strategy guide and walkthrough will lead you through every step of Eastward from the title screen to the final credits, including boss strategies, collectible. What is Eastward built in Eastward is being developed using Pixpil’s in-house game engine based on MOAI. Use our interactive playlist to track what games you've finished, plan what to play next, or copy the whole thing and create your own Nintendo Online Top 166 List. Boy, do we have a special episode today for you! We're joined by Studio Voyager, the team behind the upcoming game What Lies in the Multiverse? being co-developed with IguanaBee and published by Untold Tales.William Parks is an editor at Game Rant with a background in visual arts. Eastward is a single player game, with dual character control during combat, dungeon and puzzle-solving sections. Pokemon Puzzle League joined the Nintendo Online game list this week. ![]() Additionally, achieving recognition as a competent physicist often involved a complex negotiation of gender roles and the practice of physics. Further, various interchangeable forms of competence emerged as assets that can be used to achieve recognition in this physics community: technical, analytical, and academic competence were identified by participants as characteristics necessary to achieve recognition as a physicist. The results of this study revealed the salience of recognition in the constitution of physicist identities: individuals who saw themselves, or were seen by others, as physicists were more likely to pursue trajectories into academic physics. Through observations, photo-elicitation, and life history interviews, eleven men and women shared stories about their experiences with physics, and the contexts that have enabled or constrained their trajectories into doctoral physics. Viewing a physics department as a case study, and individual participants as embedded cases, this study uses a sociocultural approach to examine the ways doctoral students construct these stories about becoming physicists. ![]() Doctoral physics students have stories about what kinds of actions, behaviours and ways of doing physics allow individuals to be recognized as physicists. ![]() This study highlights the importance of a focus on gender as an aspect of identity construction, thus opening up possibilities for exploring how doctoral students navigate ideologies of gender at the same time that they learn how to become physicists. This approach offered a limited perspective on gender and relied on essentialist notions of being a man, woman or physicist. Scholarship on this disparity has, in the past, focused on issues of equity and difference in order to find ways to recruit and retain more women in physics. In Canada today, a gender disparity persists in the enrolment and persistence of doctoral students in physics. ![]() ![]() Worth dropping considerable points into the skill so that you can cut Ancestral Horn’s long cooldown a bit, cast two wolves in quick sequence and refresh battle standard and war horn. Unlock her when you have spare points but I’d concentrate on buffing wolves and ancestral horn first and getting utility skills. Nymph is the second pet in the nature tree. Max out both synergies and put spare points when you have them into the base skill. Susceptibility reduces resistances for physical, elemental and poison. Fatigue reduces dmg dealth, speed and chance of health reduction. Can be a little clunky to target sometimes and does okay damage but is primarily used for it’s synergy skills which both apply fantastic debuffs that will synergize great with your pets. Maxxed out you’ll get +31% elemental resistance, not a huge amount but it will allow you to concentrate on other stats on your gear instead.Ĭast on a monster and it will spread to nearby targets. Permanence of Stone will give you and your pets elemental buffs. A single point buffed with skill items should be fine. Mana use isn’t a big issue as you can just use pots. Tranquility of Water will give a chance to get discount energy cost. It doesn’t matter as much for the pets as their health pools get huge buffs elsewhere but this can help give you an enormous health pool. Gives a speed buff on the first point, maxxed out it gives a huge boost to health for you and your pets. It’s not as important as other skills so one point backed by +skill items is usually fine. With so many pets out, Dissemination can help spread around some heals. ![]() This can be very helpful when you’re fighting a boss that can damage multiple of your wolves at once and you need to spread around a few heals. The faster regrowth cools down, the more you can spam it. Accelerated growth is worth investing at least a few points into. Put further points into regrowth when you find your heals can’t keep pace anymore. Useful heal for topping up your wolves’ health between, and during, fights (not to mention your own). Strength of the Pack will synergize with you and your ancestral warriors, buffing damage and speed. Survival Instinct is useful for making a wounded wolf extra tanky preventing them from getting burned down too fast. Maul will add some more damage but other skills take priority. Call of the Wild has a number of synergy skills. They will dish out physical damage wrath and battle standard synergy will help their DPS. Summon limit increased to two at 7/16 and three at 18/16. |
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