Q: Investing in precious metals can be a good way to shield your investment portfolio from the effects of inflation. Monetary policy employed to combat recent recessions has often involved the inflation of currencies. Lack of faith in the dollar has resulted in the devaluation of cash assets and the rise of commodity prices. Price volatility is always a concern for precious metals investors. The discovery and sale of large precious metal reserves can increase the supply overnight, leading to sharp drops in price. Additionally, if you invest in physical metal such as gold coins or bullion, you need to protect them in a bank vault or safe. Although gold is the best-known precious metal, there are a few other metals that are often used for investment.   Gold is a globally recognized symbol of wealth. Gold was commonly used as currency prior to the development of paper money and state currencies. Currently gold is crucial to the electronics industry. It is used in many components due to its properties of electrical conduction, corrosion resistance, and chemical stability.  Silver is commonly thought of as gold's more affordable cousin. Silver is valuable to the electronics industry because it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal.  Platinum is often part of medical equipment, automotive parts, and computers.  Palladium is key to the production of catalytic converters because of its ability to withstand extreme temperatures and oxidation. It is also used in a variety of other industrial applications such as water purification and the refining of oil and natural gas.
A: Understand the benefits. Understand the disadvantages. Do your research.

Q: This type of virus places all files on your USB into a hidden folder and replaces them with shortcuts of their original names. You can usually tell you have a shortcut virus if you see small arrows over the file or folder icons. If you double-click any of these shortcuts, the virus will activate and spread to your PC.. If you're using Windows 10, try using the Using Windows Security (Windows 10) method first. If you're using Windows 8.1 or earlier, try the Using Microsoft Safety Scanner (Windows 8.1 and Earlier) method  first. It's possible that Windows' own built-in antivirus software can fix the problem for you. If you're prompted to view the files on the drive or change your USB settings, just close the window for now. You'll need to know the drive letter of your USB drive (e.g., F: or D:) to remove the files. If you're not sure what it is, press the Windows key and the E key on the keyboard to open File Explorer, and then scroll down on the left panel to find your flash drive and corresponding drive letter. You may have to click an arrow or plus symbol next to "This PC" or "Computer" to see the drive.  A list of results will appear. A menu will expand. This opens an administrator-level command prompt. You may be prompted to verify your password to open up the window. Be sure to include the colon (:) after the letter. For example, if your USB drive is the F drive, type F: and press the Enter key. To do this, type del *.lnk and hit the Enter key. To do this, type attrib -s -r -h /s /d *.* and press the Enter key. If your drive was infected by a shortcut virus, this should restore your files to their original locations safely. To see a list of files on the drive, type dir /s and press the Enter key.
A: Understand the shortcut virus. Plug the USB flash drive into your Windows PC. Press ⊞ Win+S to open the Search bar. Type command prompt. Right-click Command prompt in the search results. Click Run as administrator. Type your USB drive letter and press ↵ Enter. Run the command to delete all shortcuts. Run the command to restore your hidden files.

Q: Again, place your front foot on the front of the deck and rest your back foot slightly behind your front foot. Make sure your stance is solid and you feel well balanced. Push off with your back foot and get moving at a comfortable pace. Stay relaxed and make sure that you're heading straight forward. The more speed you build up now, the faster and more impressive looking your tailwhip will be. Do the simple jump trick by crouching down, jumping up and pulling the scooter behind you. You'll need plenty of air time to perform the tail whip, so make sure you jump as high as you can. With your back foot, kick the tail of the scooter out, either right or left. The direction doesn't matter, choose what is most comfortable to you. Since the scooter deck is attached to a pivot point (the handlebars), it will move away from you on a circular path. Once you're airborne and you've kicked the tail to start the circle, you'll need to make sure the deck returns under your feet so that you can land. Momentum will do most of the work, and the deck will continue to rotate back to you, but you'll need to help it out by moving the handlebars. Push them in a circular motion, moving in the same direction that the board is moving in. The deck will continue turning, so you need to catch it with your feet. When the deck returns to its original position, catch it with your front and back foot. Return to your original stance, with front foot facing forward and back foot just behind it. Stay relaxed as you fall to the ground, and make sure your stance is solid. As you connect with the pavement, let your knees buckle a bit to absorb the shock. Straighten up your handlebars a bit if you need to, you may have changed course in midair on accident.
A: Position your feet on the deck. Get some speed. Perform a jump. Kick the tail of the scooter. Move the handlebars. Regain your stance. Land.

Q: When you first start playing, you’ll want to play against bots first. This will help you learn how to play the game and get comfortable with the controls, so that when you play with your friends you won’t be a terrible teammate. Click on "Play Dota" at the bottom right, then choose "Practice With Bots", where you will be able to select the difficulty and team.  Always play against bots first. The strangers you get paired against will not be...welcoming if you suck. Another way to play against bots is to join a Co-op bot match. With this type of game you will play with strangers or your team (if you become part of a team) against bots. When you’ve got a good idea of how to play the game, you can play against and with your friends. Nothing build friendships like killing your friends and insulting their moms. Create a lobby from the play menu and either password protect it to only play with your friends or leave it open to play against a few friends and a few strangers. If you enjoy having your playing aptitude, gender, and sexual preference  mocked or simply enjoy making strangers look like idiots by thoroughly beating them, play a match or play a team match (if you have a team).  Choose your game mode. Sometimes you might want to change your game mode. This is possible for any matchmaking game, as well as lobby games. Game modes affect how you can choose the heroes that you, your teammates, and the opposing team play with. “All Pick” is wide open. “Single Draft” gives players a choice of three heroes based on attribute. “Captain’s Mode” (the standard format for championship games) allows team captains to choose heroes in turn for their players from a nearly unlimited pool. “Random Draft” gives players a 22 hero pool to choose from and turns are taken in choosing heroes. “Least Played” removes your 40 most-played characters from the pool. “Limited Heroes” is limited to the easiest to play heroes. “All Random” is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.   Adjust settings. Don’t forget to make sure the settings are correct when you go to join a match. The settings can help get you matched with the right people and make sure your connection is strong, combating rage-inducing lag. Remember: Lag kills. Friends don’t let friends lag. The most important setting to pay attention to is region or server location. You want to play against people and with people that are close to you if you know your connection is slow. This will help ease lag issues.
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Fight against bots. Fight against friends. Fight against strangers.