When designing store layout and product placement plans, one of the things to consider very carefully in your plan is the placement and use of pause points. These are points in your store where people pause for various reasons, and especially while they are waiting for services of sorts.

The sad reality is that especially in small businesses I have noticed that these points usually are completely underutilized. And since there are simply so many ways to make use of these spaces efficiently, this could become some of your best producing areas in your store.

To highlight what I am referring to these include, cashier stations, service desks of any kind, and any other location in your store where people have to stand and wait for something, for one reason or another.

The important points to realize here are that:

1. These are natural pause points, and people often spend up to a few minutes at these points just waiting. This happens without forcing it too much, and people expect to wait irrespective.

2. This offers an immense opportunity for promoting and selling impulse items, as well as highlight some really nice “want products” for future shopping.

The point is that people are just standing (or sitting) around in your store, in a space that you control, which offers one of the best opportunities ever for advertising and selling products. If you do not use it you are losing a lot. You can easily have their undivided attention after all.

Here are some of the key points to consider when planning your pause points:

1. Make sure to develop them so you find the right balance between speed and pause to ensure minimal agitation and maximum sales reward. (think about how long you are willing to stand in that queue, especially with some distractions to keep you busy… )

2. The layout of your pause point could be:

• herding lines (like in large airports) with products on display along the lines. This one will provide lots of space (and customer face time) for you to have impulse items on display. E.g. if done right you can easily herd your entire customer base past every impulse item in your store while they wait for the cashier. I have seen it used with some success with fast lane cashier stations for example.
• Simple multi line structures, like in most large retail stores have some efficiency since you can still display some impulse items. One thing I have noticed is that the store side of most of these queues, are completely under utilized. People are standing in the queues. They turn around and look around, and not having the right product mix behind them, is simply a waste.
• Vertical space is often wasted. In a few small occasions I have seen stores make use of TV advertising at pause points. Run some advertising for people to watch. It works and will earn you income for sure.

3. More is better. Realizing that there is an obvious cost to you when creating pause points, having more will increase sales. And if you use them right, find the right balance and have the correct product mix, they will far outsell the cost of maintaining and staffing these points.

Using the old adage of “Waste Not, Want Not” I would suggest that you ignore these wonderful opportunities only if you have enough money and really don’t want any more…

I wish you all the best with your ventures and invite you to share you stories and comments here.

Cheers!

If you are looking for a telescope to start out with that offers professional stargazing at an incredible price, the Meade LX90 ACF 8 might be the right telescope for you. The LX90 8 is a modern telescope that has its roots in the old RC telescopes of yesterday. With the addition of advanced coma-free optics, Meade introduced the LX90 into the future. This is a precise and pleasant way to view the moon, planets and stars while still keeping money in your wallet. Because it is so inexpensive due to the advanced coma-free technology and other factors, the LX90 8 is popular.

The Meade 8 LX90 utilizes advanced coma-free optics technology, but it has many other things going for it. It has an eight-inch clear aperture, and a 2034 millimeter focal length. Its focal ratio, similar to other Meade telescopes, is f/10. And you might be surprised to find that the ultra-high transmission coatings that are included in the more expensive professional Meade telescopes like the LX200 series are also included in the LX90 8. This is not caused by your extraordinary luck; it is just a basic feature Meade provides for you at no extra charge.

The size of the optical tube for the LX90 8 is a little over nine inches for the diameter and almost seventeen inches for length. And here is another plus. The LX90 8 telescope has the Sony brand of GPS your telescope needs to find objects in the night sky. This is a modern telescope at a fair price with many good features in its makeup and design. The LX90 8 has an eight by fifty viewfinder and is mounted on double tine forks. This gives you a solid base to work on and gets rid of the potential of damage to this valuable scientific instrument. The accuracy of its GO TO pointing system is five-arc minutes.

In high precision mode, the accuracy of the LX90 8 is up to three-arc minutes. It has electric, RA, and DEC slow motion controls, and it has Autostar for its hand controls. The keypad has twenty buttons on it and its background is lit by red LED lights that save on the battery juice. It has an alphabet and numbers display that runs two lines by sixteen. The batteries used for the LX90 8 are eight C-cells that last about sixty hours. This allows plenty of time for the stargazer to view the stars from even the most remote of places.

The LX90 8 telescope has an onboard database of over thirty-thousand objects. These are objects in the night sky it can recognize as individual objects. This is a remarkable telescope, and I could bring up many more points about how it is made, what kinds of operations it is capable of performing, slew speeds and tracking rates. Suffice it to say, the Meade 8 LX90 is a telescope you need to really study to appreciate. And that is saying a lot considering the low price you can purchase the LX90 for today.

Jin Shin Do acupressure involves the use of 30 main points. Additional points may be added as the student progresses, but these are the original points with which Jin Shin is based. These points make up the eight “Strange Flows” and include places of common stagnation and blockage in the natural flow of energy in the body. By working on these pressure centers through this pattern of points energy can be regulated and controlled. In addition to these areas, there are a number of points from the “Great Central Channel” that will be included in the thirty pressure-point (tsubo) map. This central “tsubos” are easily found on anatomical landmarks.

The best way to know that you are on the point is by the way it feels. Most often they will be places of tightness and tension, which create a hardness to the touch. There is often a place on the tsubo that feels like a slight indentation or hollow that may rest between tendons and muscle fibers. It is helpful, if you can not find this depression to hold the points that appear more tense. An acu-point can be a very small area, but the area that is being affected is about the size of a dime. As long as you are in the general area you will be able to release any build up of energy. Overtime you will develop sensitivity in your fingertips and be able to detect them more accurately. But, for now, practice is all you need to think about.

This is a basic thirty point numbered system of Jin Shin Do points used to guide the student through a set formula. They are numbered consecutively down the front and up the back of the body, then down the outside of the arms and up the inside arms. There are 12 total tsubos on the front of the body and twelve on the back and 8 on the arms. Remember that the descriptions of each point is bi-lateral, that is to say it is found In the exact spot on the other side of the body. Try to first practice on yourself and then a friend or family member. It is also helpful to get a chart so that you can visual see where the tsubo-points lie on the body. Any Chinese meridian system diagram will do the trick.

Thirty Main Jin Shin Do Treatment Points:

Start on either the left or right side of the body

1) GB 14 – is located on the forehead above the eyebrows. If you draw a straight line up from the center pupil, you will find an indentation on the forehead, a fingers width from the eyebrow. Press gently for a minute or so, (the same goes for all points listed below).

2) ST 3 – is located at the bottom of the curve of the cheekbone, directly down from the center of the eye.

3) ST 13 – is located just below the collarbone in the space between the first and second ribs. About the very middle of the collarbone region.

4) ST 16 – is located in the space between the third and fourth ribs, directly up from the nipples

5) LV 14 – is located at the junction of the ninth rib cartilage to the eighth rib.

6) SP 13 – is located approximately two fingers width above the middle of the groin, usually riding along the crease of your paints at the thigh.

7) SP 10 – is located about three fingers width above the top of the knee, on the inside of the thigh. It may be easily recognized by the usual sensitivity.

8) SP 9 -located on the inside of the leg just below the head, or top, of the tibia.

9) K 6 – is found about a fingers width below the inner ankle bone.

10) SP 4 – is located in the little hollow just below the metatarsal cuneiform joint of the big toe.

11) GB 41 – is located on the outside of the foot, about halfway between the base of the toes and the front part of the outer ankle bone.

12) B 62 – is located just below the outer ankle bone and many be tender upon pressure.

13) GB 34 – is found below the head, or top, of the fibula, along the outside of the lower leg.

14) GB 31 – is located just behind the thigh-bone and about halfway between the top of the femur and the knee.

15) B48 – is found just outside the top of the sacrum, in the dimples of the buttocks.

16) B 47 – and the following two points are located on a long muscular band which can be felt along the entire back. Draw a line from the lowest rib down to the top of the pelvic bone. And then divide this line in half.

17) B 42 – is located between the ninth and tenth ribs and on the muscular band described above.

18) B38 – is located between the fourth and fifth ribs. Draw a line along the inside of the shoulder-blade, then divide this line in half from top to bottom.

19) TW 15 – is located in the little hollow just above the top of the shoulder blade.

20) GB 21 – is located on the trapezius muscle at the base of the neck.

21) (extra point) is located about halfway between the top of the neck and the base of the neck.

22) GB20 – is located just below the base of the skull, in a little hollow between the two muscle bands you will feel.

23) SI 10 – is located on the back of the shoulder just below the joint between the arm and shoulder.

24) Li 14 – is located just below the bulging muscle of the upper arm.

25) LI 11 – is found in the front of the elbow joint.

26) TW 5 – is located above the wrist on the outside of the arm. It is found between the two bones of the lower arm and about two fingers width above the wrist.

27) P6 – is found above the wrist on the inner arm, in a position similar to that of number 26

28) P3 – is located on the crease of the inner elbow region.

29) P2 – is located on the inner surface of the upper arm, within the biceps muscle.

30) LU 1 – is located on the outside of the upper chest. It is found below the collarbone and just outside the rib cage at a level about one fingers width above the underarm.

I don’t claim to be a good advertising writer. But over the years, I’ve sent hundreds of business letters. Here are a few things I try to include in each of them:

l. The headline, first sentence, and P.S. are usually the best-read parts. They need to dramatize an offer, or focus on the reason the letter was sent.

2. Most letters should emphasize a single theme. Everything in the letter should relate to that theme.

3. Use active, descriptive words.

4. Show customers how to solve a problem. In a letter to your customers, this might involve MAKING or SAVING money.

5. Readers relate to “success stories.” Can you tell them how you’ve solved a specific problem for other customers?

How about running an “open letter to customers?” Detail your plans for your company’s future, or for an upcoming trade show. Tell how your reader can benefit.

6. One major question companies ask is “How do we get more response – or feedback – from a letter?”

Here are a few ideas: give away something free; offer that item or service in the first sentence; use a color marker (perhaps red or blue) to highlight the letter’s main points; give readers a reason to contact you by a specific date; put a toll-free number, e-mail address, phone, and physical address in the letter.

7. “The pain/gain concept” is an idea that’s been around for years. In it, you talk about (1) the pain or problem your reader may have, and (2) how your company, product or service can solve it.

The other day I was at a meeting that went much later than I expected. I’d missed lunch by a long-shot and I was so hungry I could barely think straight. I had a long ride home ahead of me and it was rush hour in LA. Luckily, there was a Trader Joe’s nearby, so I went to get a snack to hold me over. I grabbed some roasted almonds and a banana, as a seasoned Health Coach might do, but then my body took over and I lost control. I passed by some fruit juice sweetened blueberry oat muffins and I couldn’t resist. When I got back to my car, I ripped open the muffins and started eating. The first one barely made a dent in my hunger, so I quickly ate a second. Almonds? Banana? Forget about it. I still felt starving after the second muffin, so I went ahead and ate a third. I didn’t feel in the least bit satisfied, and could have eaten the fourth, except for the fact that I was starting to feel sick; I was light-headed, a little nauseous, and I was beginning to get a headache from the blood-sugar rush, so I threw the muffin in the back-seat where I couldn’t reach it, while I spent the next 45 minutes in traffic.

By the time I walked into my apartment, I had a throbbing headache, I was irritable, and I was just as hungry as I was before I ate the muffins.

After I finally got some real food into my system and recovered my senses, I realized that I had just done exactly what I tell my clients never to do; let yourself get past the point of hunger so you can’t make a rational decision about what to eat. In fact, a client of mine had just finished telling me the day before how she bought fast food for the first time in months; she had forgotten to bring food with her during a busy day of meetings, and accidentally let herself get so hungry that, in the moment, fast food seemed like a good idea.

Remember this:

Your body is powerful. We are biologically wired to avoid starvation. If you get past the point of hunger (if your blood sugar level dips too low or you are nutrient deficient), your body’s survival instinct will kick in and over-ride your intellect. We are no match for our bodies!

When your blood sugar level dips too low, we don’t have enough fuel for our brain; we literally can’t think straight.

Our bodies will always try to get what they need to stay in balance. That’s why cravings are so difficult to fight. In my case, my blood sugar level had gotten too low, so my body was craving glucose, our body’s main fuel for energy. Sugar is the quickest form of glucose. I don’t eat sugar, but the refined flour in the muffins is a close second, which is why I bought them and felt compelled to eat them over the almonds. Unfortunately, our bodies and brain need a steady flow of glucose to function properly- not a rush of too much glucose all at once, followed by a blood sugar crash. Furthermore, the muffins I ate contained very few nutrients and little to no protein, so my body still felt hungry; but the more muffins I ate, the more I spiked my blood sugar, which eventually made me feel sick.

It had been so long since something like that had happened to me that I forgot what it felt like to be over-powered by my body, even though I talk to my clients about it all the time. What a great reminder!

So what should you do to avoid my mistake? It’s simple:

Always be prepared. Bring solid nutritious snacks with you that will stabilize your blood sugar when you’re going to be out and about for long periods of time, like nuts, whole grain crackers, fruit, avocado, or pack a healthy lunch.

Take it from me; don’t let yourself get past the point of hunger!

Do you want to be successful at Forex trading? I understand how you feel. People trading or considering trading Forex want to be successful. A big secret to your success is your choice of a Forex broker, especially when using certain scalper type strategies that look for many small gains. A fair spread is one of the key points in selecting the correct broker.

Did you know that the biggest broker related issue, especially when using certain automated programs and strategies, is the size of the bid ask spread. Additional issues include, but are not limited to, off quotes and slippage.

For your benefit, and additional information, a test was conducted to illustrate the point of price spreads between brokers. Two brokers were tested using the exact same automated robot and settings. One broker had a spread of 8 pips, and no trades were taken by the robot. The second broker had a spread of 4 pips and profitable trades were taken. While this was not a long term scientific study, it does illustrate the importance of the correct broker and pricing.

The point of this test was to illustrate that with any trade, either personally taken or using an automated trading robot, the spread is very important if one wants to consistently obtain profitable trades. A target of 4-5 pips is not unreasonable to expect.

If the spreads are too wide an automated robot simply does not trade, as a way to protect you from inappropriate risk. If you are placing your own trades, you should have similar trading rules to follow. You can always widen your spread but this can be financially dangerous. If the price spread is consistently wide, you may want to look for another Forex broker.

Larger banks and institutions have the highest access to pricing and the most precise quoted spreads. Traders who use the Retail Market, i.e. you and me, for Forex trading will never have as accurate pricing as the larger players. However, choosing the correct broker can provide you with an extra edge that may make a significant difference in your profits over time.

The focus of this article has not been the very basics of broker selection or to be negative toward brokers. The focus has been on the price spread financial area that can make or break your account. However, when initially selecting a broker you should obviously get to know them. Call them and talk to them. If you don’t like what you hear, move on. If you have a question, ask it! Make sure they are insured. Make sure they personally do not hold your money. Please reference the Bernie Madoff case.

There’s nothing that quite compares to a bracing winter walk. During summer, the sea might be more enticing, you can stop off for numerous ice creams en route and meander in shorts and t-shirt as the sun warms your skin; but at the same time, it’s hot, clammy, you’re often jostling for position on the busy coast path, and parking at the start of the route can be somewhat problematic. No such problem today. We snare one of many available free seaside spaces in New Polzeath, and our spot provides a great vantage point for reading a newspaper and watching the surfers in the water, before heading a couple of steps away to the Doom Bar of the Atlantic Hotel for a pre-walk coffee.

Cornwall has a fantastic selection of walks which make the perfect setting for a winter getaway. Why not stay for the weekend and relax in one of Cornwall’s holiday cottages (http://www.cornwalltoday.co.uk/Accommodation/CottageInCornwall.aspx )prior to your walk, and wrap up warm before you head out into the cold.

This is one walk that you will be more than glad to have a woolly hat with you, to keep your ears nice and toasty and to stop your hair blowing in your eyes and obscuring the views. Also, as any conversation is stolen by the wind, it doesn’t matter if you can’t hear anything anyway; it’s actually quite nice to be engrossed in your own world for a while. After sitting inside and looking beach ward, it’s great to be heading away from Polzeath, and taking the coast path to Pentireglaze Haven, where the soft sand underfoot is the perfect place for a spot of beach rambling, though we find little aside from small mussels, plenty of kelp, and a cottage nestled at the back of the beach, which we enviably spy through the windows of. Heading away from the beach to climb the hillside, waving goodbye to our sleepy start point, we then return to beach level to discover a small pebbly cove. Tempted as we might be to take the grassy turning to Pentire Farm, we refrain in the knowledge that we will be passing through the farm on our return route.

Heading onwards and upwards, the increased puffing is worth it, the path levels out to provide expansive seaward views which include the day mark of Stepper Point and the lighthouse of Trevose Head in the distance. The deserted stretch of sand to the south of Stepper Point is Harbour Cove, usually peopled with bodies during the summer months. Looking inland, rolls of hay sit on the hillside, the lush green of the fields contrasting the grey and somewhat uninviting ocean. Eyes down, we discover a large hairy caterpillar in the undergrowth, and once we’ve seen one, a game of spot the caterpillar ensues; they’re out in abundance today. We pass a National

Trust sign that points us up hill to the Tumuli – a prehistoric burial ground, where an abundance of heather disguises what lies beneath.

Continuing on the blustery route to the rocky outcrop of Pentire Point, here barren volcanic rock makes up the headland; look carefully and you’ll see gas bubbles in the rocks that formed when the lava cooled rapidly in the ancient seas some 350 million years ago. Newland Rock can be seen offshore, whilst Rumps Point is visible in the distance, like a stegosaurus, sporadic triangular rocks rearing out of the grass headland. As you head to explore Rumps, you will find area of shelter from the wind, although you won’t want to stay too long in these quiet pockets as the views are far more spectacular the further up that you climb.

On the unusually shaped double headland of the Rumps are the remains of an Iron-Age cliff castle, where a massive triple rampart and ditch system protected an area of around six acres at the tip of the headland. We explored the stone circles that sat within the enclosure, trying to envisage those who had stood in the very spot from which we now admired the views. If the hills could talk they’d have a lot to say; excavations in the same area have unearthed pottery from the first century BC, indicating trade with the Mediterranean area. The large offshore rock behind the eastern headland is The Mouls, which is a breeding site for puffins, gannets and kittiwakes.

Once you’re looking to head on, I challenge you not to want to roll down the hills that you have so recently puffed your way up. Carry on your circular route; following the stone wall until you reach a junction and bear right to start your inward loop.

Heading towards Pentire Farm, a helpful information board reveals that the whole peninsula is part of a working farm which produces beef, corn and sheep, the latter of which we’ve seen plenty of during our walk. Though there’s not a person around when we pass through the farmyard, there are cream teas available here in season. Descending to your start point, you’ll be able to appreciate the shelter, peace and quiet, before a last uphill stretch towards the car. As we hungry walkers head towards Trebetherick we pass Mowhay Café and Gallery where the atmosphere is warm and welcoming – it’s like stepping into someone’s front room. We feast on what can only be described as a delicious lunch before, quite frankly, wanting nothing more than to go home and curl up in front of the fire – with that lovely feeling that only fresh air exertion can bring on.

If you would like to visit this region and are looking for somewhere to stay nearby, why not log onto http://www.cornwalltoday.co.uk where you will find a wide variety of either self-catering cottages and farmhouses or bed and breakfasts to suit your needs.

In August 2017, I ran across an infographic by Eric Edmeades on different ways that hunger may present itself. Edmeades listed and described 6 hungers.

Because I strive to make nutrition easy for my clients, I wrote a response article, critiquing Edmeades’s notion of 6 hungers and addressing each one.

My article went relatively unnoticed until just recently – 3/30/18, in fact – when Mr. Edmeades posted a reply to me online.

It felt as if the reply had been written with a bit of anger, and I responded that I had not attempted to tear down his work, but to address some points of confusion and perhaps generate a little controversy.

In his reply to my 2017 article, Mr. Edmeades had focused on a strong point of his, regarding one type of hunger. He wrote, “Thirst absolutely shows up as hunger.” He referred to the bushman culture of southern Africa and cited several times that he had gone hunting with them. They took no water on the trip of 27 miles one day and 17 miles the next, but instead stopped to eat. Of course, the foods they ate were high in water content, which took care of their thirst.

And I Agree with That!

Interestingly, this was a point that my article had never contradicted. I had written, “It makes sense that we look to food when we’re thirsty. Back in the days when people foraged for food – and the foods they ate were high in water content – eating was a way to stay hydrated.” No argument there.

I also wrote, “But the two states are different. Distinguishing thirst from hunger is a learnable skill.” I have spent considerable time helping clients tune in to their body signals for thirst and hunger, teaching them to distinguish between the two, and getting them to drink more water, rather than always reaching for food.

To keep things simple for my clients, I reserve the term “hunger” for food hunger, rather than using it to refer to thirst or any other urge to eat. (As a side note, contemporary US residents don’t always consume high water-content foods, so interpreting thirst as hunger won’t automatically lead to hydration. But I digress.)

Happily, Mr. Edmeades and I have communicated about these topics through a couple of written posts, and it feels as if we’ve moved to a friendlier and more collaborative base.

What’s Still Confusing About Hunger?

The ‘genuine hunger’ point does still leave some room (and need) for clarification, within the context of the 6 Hungers infographic. When I’m confused, I’m concerned that my clients – who have typically studied nutrition less extensively than I have – will also be confused.

My confusion centers on Hunger #1, Nutritional Hunger. Edmeades calls this the “only genuine hunger.”

Apparently, this genuine hunger occurs when the body needs specific nutrients. That does in fact seem like a genuinely valid reason to eat.

Yet in the infographic, Edmeades never describes how to identify this hunger. How can I help my clients – who may be struggling to identify the hunger sensation – distinguish it from thirst, appetite, an emotional urge to eat, or a craving when they’re all called “hunger”?

With the 6 Hungers approach, they will now have to distinguish Nutritional Hunger from empty stomach hunger and low-glucose hunger, as well.

Further, Edmeades cautions that Nutritional Hunger is not always communicated honestly. He doesn’t explain, however, how the honest and dishonest sensations of nutritional hunger differ from each other. I fear this will make things still more confusing for my clients and would definitely like to learn how to communicate this to clients clearly and precisely.

My primary coaching and consulting goal is to help clients respond to food and eating naturally and logically, so they can make informed decisions about when to eat.

I would love to hear from Eric Edmeades about specific ways I can help my clients do that, particularly the ones who have been away from a natural response to food for many years.

Can the 6 Hungers concept help my clients, rather than confuse them?

Once I learn that it can, I’ll be able to embrace the 6 Hungers fully. In the meantime, I do feel a need to prevent client confusion by using the word “hunger” to describe the physical sensation of hunger only, rather than anything else that may drive them to eat.

Mr. Edmeades, any suggestions or clarifications?

Both Asiasoft and Nexon claim that there will no longer be a need to Hit Point (HP) wash to successfully fight bosses after the Big Bang (also known as Revival and other titles) patch as the HP gain and damage formula have been changed, but, with new stronger bosses coming out with a fair bit of frequency and an increased Maximum HP of 99 999 instead of 30 000, this might not always be the case. Over time, stronger bosses (like the Black Mage, when it comes out) will again increase the likelihood to have higher HP than normal to survive and, likely HP washing will still be needed just for better survivability.

To answer the question of the title, HP washing works the same way as it did before the Big Bang patch.

You:

* Compare your MP to the min MP for your class and level.

* Then add the desired amount of AP points to Hit Points.

* Use an AP reset to remove the same number of points out of MP and add to the stat you normally would anyways.

The only real difference to HP washing itself is the minimum MP formula and the amount of Hit Points gained per point for some classes.

The formulae and numbers are listed as is below. The formulae for first job are often different for each class, but being most people who would seriously consider this wouldn’t need to start before the second job and often not until the third or fourth, they won’t be added.

Pages/Spearmen 2nd+ job:

min MP: 4 * lvl +155

HP Increase: 20

MP removed: 4

Fighters/Arans 2nd+ job:

min MP: 4 * lvl +55

HP Increase: 20

MP removed: 4

Pirates/Mechanics 2nd+ job:

min MP: 18 * lvl + 95

HP Increase: 18

MP removed: 16

Thieves(but dual blades) 2nd+ job:

min MP: 14 * lvl +135

HP Increase: 16

MP removed: 12

Dual Blades:

min MP: 14 * lvl + 355

HP Increase: 16

MP removed: 12

Bowmen 2nd+ job:

min MP: 14 * lvl + 135

HP Increase: 16

MP removed: 12

Adventurer Mages 2nd+ job:

min MP: 22 * lvl + 449

HP Increase: 6

MP removed: (due to int calculations, it’s too hard to accurately figure out and generally not needed)

Knights of Cygnus: (same as Adventurer counterparts, dawn warriors use the fighter’s numbers)

Evans 2nd+ job:

min MP: 22 * lvl + 143

HP Increase: 12

MP removed: (due to int calculations, it’s too hard to accurately figure out and generally not needed)

Wild Hunters 2nd+ job:

min MP: 14 * lvl + 123

HP Increase: 16

MP removed: 12

Battle Mages 2nd+ job:

min MP: 22 * level + 143

HP Increase: 20

MP removed: (due to int calculations, it’s too hard to accurately figure out and generally not needed)

That being said, to have Hit Points that is far above what it would normally be without washing, it will still cost quite a bit of “cash shop points: to accomplish. This can be difficult for some to acquire without help.

Plot points are linear links that make up the chain of traditional Aristotelian 3-act dramatic structure. This classic structure worked well in Hollywood for almost a century now. Although young movie makers are forcing the limits of this structure, plot points still rule the day as the “tent poles” that hold up of the circus of our dreams. Here are the plot points of Hitchcock’s great and often underrated classic, Notorious (1946), as I see them.

Notorious (1946)

Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Reinhold Schunzel

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Ben Hecht (Screenwriter)

ESTABLISHING SHOT: Miami Courtroom. Journalists waiting outside.

INCITING INCIDENT: German spy Huberman is sentenced to 20 years in jail.

PLOT POINT 1: CIA agent T. R. Devlin proposes Alicia Huberman, the daughter of traitor Huberman, to spy for USA by going down to Rio, Brazil for an unspecified mission. Devlin is counting on Alicia’s patriotism and her disagreement with her father’s vocation.

MID POINT EVENT: Alicia, although in love with Devlin, agrees to marry Sebastian, the local aristocratic contact for the German spy ring in Brazil and her father’s old friend, in order to to report as an insider about the things going on around Sebastian.

PLOT POINT 2: Sebastian finds that Alicia and Devlin have been to the wine cellar where “uranium sand” was hidden in wine bottles for a secret German project.

3rd ACT RESOLUTION: Devlin finds the poisoned Alicia in her Sebastian mansion bedroom. Devlin eats his pride and admits he loves her, and runs away with her leaving Sebastian to the mercy of his German collaborators who had punished a similar case of “incompetence” with death.