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NICOLE and Inspiration (H2020)
The Inspiration (H2020 program) team has asked NICOLE to help understanding of our priorities regarding the most critical research needs to be highlighted in the Soil-Water-Sediment Research Agenda.
We are invited to prioritize these research topics indicating for each how important it is for:
1) Addressing the EU Societal Challenge 5 (SC5)*, related to Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials,
2) The research needs in your country,
3) Your own knowledge needs as stakeholder of a Strategic Research Agenda.
Please share your interests and opinion with the Chair of NICOLE H2020 working group, Laurent Bakker. More information on Horizon2020 CSA Inspiration, please click here.
An article from Divyesh Trivedi, chairperson at the time of the 10th anniversary
Warmest congratulations to NICOLE, its steering team and secretariat and all of its members who have kept NICOLE operating sustainably and successfully over the past 20 years.
NICOLE has had some notable successes, issuing benchmark guidance on key issues affecting industrial land management. For instance the review of the type of evidence required to demonstrate monitored natural attenuation provides guidance as good as can be found anywhere. The booklet on stakeholder engagement, with its striking image of a person in a hazard protection suit on a crowded beach certainly showed how important it is to communicate with people who have a vested interest in land management.
Other people will no doubt talk about how NICOLE started, but it is important to remember how much the context of industrial land management has changed. Notice I did mention clean-up or remediation? This is entirely intentional. I can certainly say that in the UK there is more emphasis on proportionate, manageable and sustainable land management. My particular experiences relate to my organisation, the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), a government owned organisation working in partnership with academics and industry to deploy technological solutions that support continued operations on nuclear sites across the UK. Such sites are busy industrial locations. How do you avoid disrupting operations at such sites, yet need to manage land for decades? By looking at long term land management technologies that have a small footprint, use materials that are readily obtainable (maybe by-products), and are durable, safe and cost effective. Let’s use that word sustainable again.
Looking back at “tree of life” images that so many people painted in the entertaining session at its 10th anniversary conference, I wish NICOLE all the best to grow and be sustainable for the next 10 years.
Currently Divyesh Trivedi is research fellow at The National Nuclear Laboratory in UK.
NICOLE Emerging Contaminants Working Group Report
The working group Emerging Contaminants, was led by Tomás Albergaria, provided a summary report on PFAS. The working group successfully contributed to the workshop in Manchester, and cooperated with other networks like Concawe.
Please click here to read the report. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact Tomás Albergaria.
Nanoremediation for Soil and Groundwater Clean‐up ‐ Possibilities and Future Trends
Nanotechnologies could offer a step-change in remediation capabilities: treating persistent contaminants which have limited remediation alternatives, avoiding degradation-related intermediates and increasing the speed at which degradation or stabilisation can take place.
However, adoption of nanoremediation has been slower, with fewer than 100 field scale applications, since the first field application in 2000. On the other hand, the recent emergence of nanoremediation as a commercially-deployed remediation technology in several EU countries, notably the Czech Republic and Germany, indicates that it is now time to look at nanoremediation as a technology in the European market-place.
Since early 2013, the EU FP7 NanoRem project has been carrying out an intensive development and optimisation programme for different nanoparticles (NPs), along with analysis and testing methods, investigations of fate and transport of the NPs and their environmental impact. NanoRem is a €14 million international collaborative project with 29 Partners from 13 EU countries, and an international Project Advisory Group (PAG), providing linkages to the USA and Asia. It is a major initiative, which will support the effective deployment of nanoremediation technologies in Europe.
To read the full article, please click here. And if you are further interested in the program, please click here.
Welcome to our new member
A very warm welcome to our new member Colas Environnement!
The Colas Group is present in various lines of business involving the construction and maintenance of infrastructure for both roads and all other forms of transport (air, rail, maritime) via two main operating divisions: Roads (including civil engineering and building), its core business, and Specialized Activities (Railways, Waterproofing, Sales of refined products, Road Safety and Signaling, Pipelines)
For more information please visit their website.
Contamination Expo Series 2016
12 – 13 October 2016, ExCeL London, United Kingdom |
The contamination Expo Series 2016 is a major event in the UK for land contamination professionals to find innovative solutions and technology.
For more information and tickets , please visit their website. |
2 – 4 November 2016, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Workshop theme: Looking back, at the Future
If you wish to find out more information about hotel possibilities please feel free to click here. |
NanoRem Final Conference
21 November 2016, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
The final conference of the EU project NanoRem („Taking Nanotechnological Remediation Processes from Lab Scale to End User Applications for the Restoration of a Clean Environment“, will take place on 21st November 2016, as a preconference to the DECHEMA Symposium.
For more information click here. |
8 – 9 June 2017, Milan |
Value land management & marketing as asset |
26- 30 June 2017, Lyon, France |
More information and call for abstract is open on the website. |
4 – 6 October 2017, Copenhagen |
NICOLE and ICCL back-to-back meeting |
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As an exercise physiologist, I received a peloton healthcare worker discount when I got my peloton bike+ subscription.
Today I want to clarify what is peloton healthcare worker discount, what it includes, who is eligible, and how to get one.
As a whole, healthcare workers, medical professionals, and first responders do get a discount on selected peloton products, as long as they’re currently working in the healthcare field or have an active medical license or certification. Peloton uses SheerID for the verification process.
What is the Peloton healthcare discount?
Overall, the peloton healthcare worker discount is a reduction in the cost of the peloton accessories. These include:
- Heart rate monitors
- Resistance bands
- Peloton cycling shoes
- Exercise mats
However, the caveat is that you must first purchase Peloton Bike, Bike+, or Tread to be eligible for this offer.
Please keep in mind that this is for new purchases only.
If you have already owned a bike or tread for a while, you are not eligible for this discount. Also, the discount doesn’t cover all-access membership.
Still, I think this is a great deal because you can save up to $200 from buying the accessories that you would have to buy anyway to fully use the bike and do the classes.
You can apply the $200 to any product from the accessories. Alternatively, you can apply the discount to peloton packages and it will be deducted at the checkout from the total price.
My experience with peloton healthcare discount
The whole process was relatively quick and easy. (Everything took less than 30 minutes.)
First, I needed to get first verified by SheerID, an American eligibility verification services company that specializes in offering exclusive discounts for specific target groups like college students, teachers, military personnel, and healthcare workers.
They help retailers and subscription service providers like peloton that want to protect the exclusivity of their discounts.
Second, the SheerID collected some personal information that was necessary for verification purposes. It included:
- First and last name
- Email address
- Date of birth
- Organizational association
- Place of employment
- Licensing documentation
- Work ID card
- Pay stub from within the last 90 days
Basically, the verification process means confirming that I was currently working in a medical or healthcare facility.
(This process could also be also done via phone, chat, or directly via the website. I’ve chosen the website.)
After the verification process was done, peloton send me an email with the discount promo code.
Here’s a photo of how to use the peloton healthcare discount promo code.
Once I get the promo code in my email, I entered the code just before I hit the checkout button during my purchase. After the code was verified, I automatically noticed a reduction in the total price.
(Again, easy process.)
If that doesn’t work, call the peloton support
Alternatively, you can also contact the peloton customer support team and get your discount via online chat.
Please remember that they will also need to verify your healthcare worker status, which means you should have your ID cards and other necessary documents on hand.
You can also contact them via phone. That’s what I did. I called peloton support after being disconnected from the chat. The lady asked me to send pics of my ID cards for proof and started the process immediately.
I think calling directly can be easier because once you get on the line with the peloton customer service team member and they can answer any questions.
Peloton app discount for healthcare workers
Another discount that Peloton offers for healthcare workers is the reduction of their Peloton digital subscription. It includes a 30-day free trial for the first month when buying a Peloton digital membership.
Then, you pay $9.99 per month, instead of paying $12.99 per month.
Again, this process can be done via phone, chat, or website, and verified by SheerID company to make sure that people who apply for the selected discount are eligible to get them.
The verification email is fast. I did get instant confirmation. Also, if you’re not qualified immediately, they will typically ask you to provide more information.
Here’s a photo of the email I received from the peloton.
It informed me about my eligibility for a digital membership healthcare discount.
Why Peloton gives away discounts for healthcare workers?
As peloton said, they are proud to give away discounts for healthcare workers as a way to express their gratitude for all the hard work that medical and healthcare professionals do every day.
Healthcare workers promote health, save lives, and provide treatments to everyone, which helps to improve their quality of life.
In fact, there are several other companies and brands in multiple fields that choose to give away discount codes for first responders, healthcare workers, and medical personnel.
- Under Armour
- North Face
How to get a Peloton app healthcare worker discount?
Follow these steps to apply and receive the Peloton app healthcare worker discount. (Peloton doesn’t provide detailed information on how to fill out these forms.)
1. Go on the Peloton website
Start from the peloton website and fill out the online discount form. You will need to fill out your status, organization, name, email address, and postal code.
2. Fill out your status
Status requires you to choose which medical profession or healthcare job you have. You can choose between a Doctor, Nurse, or another healthcare worker.
“Only medical professionals with an M.D. or D.O license apply under the status of Doctor. Other medical doctors (e.g. dentists, chiropractors) should apply under the status of Other Health Worker,” according to SheerID.
Registered nurses and nurse practitioners do get a discount at peloton because they’re classified as medical professionals.
Other medical professionals include:
- Hospice workers
- Emergency medical technicians
- Other trained caregivers
You should choose “Other Health Workers” if you’re:
- Respiratory Therapist
- Pharmacy technician
- Physical therapist
- Family practitioner
3. Fill out your organization
Organization refers to the place of employment like Miracle Mile Medical Center in Los Angeles, or Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Weston.
You just need to press the letter and the auto-complete feature will show you the names of the facilities.
Here’s a photo of how to find your organization on the peloton healthcare worker discount page.
The peloton has over 500 medical facilities from the US in its directory.
If you can’t locate your organization from the list provided, then just copy the full name of your medical organization from your work documentation.
4. Wait for the verification email
Once you complete all steps, wait until you get an email confirmation. (This process takes up to a minute.)
5. Get a promo code and apply a discount at the checkout
Finally, open your email and get the discount code. Use that code at the checkout desk.
Who is eligible for Peloton Healthcare Discount?
Most medical professionals and healthcare personnel are eligible for the peloton app and accessories discount.
These include but are not limited to emergency medical personnel, dental professionals, medical and nursing students, laboratory technicians, administrative personnel, and even hospital volunteers.
Below you can see the full list of healthcare and medical professions that qualify for the peloton healthcare worker discount.
Eligibility for peloton healthcare discount |
Medical assistant Nursing assistant Licensed practical nurse Physicians Physician assistants Veterinarians Veterinary technologists Dieticians and nutritionists Cardiovascular technologists Therapists and mental health counselors Registered nurses Pharmacists Pharmacy technicians The diagnostic medical sonographer (DMS) Emergency medical technicians Clinical laboratory technicians Dentists Dental hygienists Dental assistants Radiologic technologists Physical therapists Physical therapy assistants Massage therapists Health information technicians Clinical laboratory technologists Respiratory therapists Family practitioners Nurse practitioners Surgical technologists Medical transcriptionists Occupational health and safety specialists Chiropractors |
Please keep in mind that some professionals may need to provide additional information for the verification process.
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Depression is a common mental health condition characterized by feelings of sadness, anger, hopelessness, and helplessness. It often interferes with daily life and your ability to function.
While the exact cause of depression is unknown, many contributing factors are believed to have an impact. Here are a few causes and ways to deal with depression.
The Regions of the Brain
Your brain is a powerhouse for the rest of your body. Different areas of the brain help to regulate your mood. The amygdala, hippocampus, frontal lobe, and thalamus all affect your emotional regulation and ability to cope with stressors.
Research has shown that nerve cell growth, connections, and functioning of nerve circuits may play a larger role in the development of depression.
Your Family Genes
Many illnesses and conditions can be traced back through family history.
There isn’t a specific gene that can be linked from one family member to another, but studies have shown this trend to be true. It could be due to biology, or it could be a result of learned behavior. When you grow up around someone who struggles with depression, their actions and coping mechanisms can influence your own development.
Going through a significant life event, especially when unaddressed, can lead to depression. Suffering childhood trauma can make you more vulnerable to depression later in life. These experiences affect how you cope with stress and how you perceive the world around you. As life becomes more complex, it can spiral into depression.
Adult experiences of stress or trauma can trigger the onset of depression. Things like losing a job, ending relationships, moving, and childbirth, bullying, abuse, or assault can be difficult to cope with and lead to depression.
Medication and Other Substances
If you’re taking certain medications for another condition, it’s possible that depression could be a side effect. Always read the information about your medication and discuss it with your physician for more information.
Recreational drugs and alcohol may seem to take away pain and mental clutter, but they actually can work the opposite. In the long run, they contribute to depression.
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Edward Abbey – American environmentalist
Edward Abbey is a famous American writer, a prominent philosopher, and one of the most controversial, influential and radical environmentalists.
Edward Paul Abbey was born on January 29, 1929 in Indiana, Pennsylvania. The years of the Great Depression forced the family to move frequently from place to place in search of work. His father was a real estate agent and was fond of left-wing political ideas, and his mother was a teacher. Edward wrote comic articles for the school newspaper. In 1945 he was drafted into the army and sent to Italy. After demobilization in 1947, he entered the University of New Mexico to study philosophy and English. After graduation in 1951, Abbey constantly changed jobs. He worked as an editor, a factory worker and a social worker.
In 1954 he wrote his first novel Jonathan Troy.
In 1956, Abbey became a ranger in the National Park Service. In the same year he published his second novel The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time. The book was filmed in 1962.
In 1968, he published his new novel Desert Solitaire rich in ecological philosophy. Abbey expressed an amusing idea: “Patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” He believed that without the wildlife people would not be able to preserve their freedom.
However, the most important book, which brought him international fame, is considered The Monkey Wrench Gang, published in 1975. Abbey’s work inspired some radical environmentalists, including Dave Foreman and other members of Earth First!
Abbey’s novel, Fire on the Mountain (1962), was made into a motion picture in 1981.
In the 80s Abbey had serious health problems.
Edward Abbey died from esophageal bleeding on March 14, 1989 in Tucson, Arizona. He didn’t want to be buried in a coffin and wished his body to become the fertilizer for cacti and trees. Friends put his body into a sleeping bag and buried in the prairies of Arizona without any tombstones.
He is the author of 21 books, numerous periodical articles, and several introductions to others’ books.
Abbey is the subject of a one-hour video documentary, Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness (1993), by Eric Temple.
On October 16, 1965 Abbey married Judy Pepper who died of leukemia on July 11, 1970.
In 1973, Abbey married Renee Downing. However, they divorced after four years of marriage.
In 1982, he married Clarke Cartwright.
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Wednesday, Mar. 09, 2005
Living in a Superficial World
Maybe I'm way too superficial, or perhaps I'm just really, really insecure....
Everyone always says that it's what's on the inside that counts but clearly, that's not always true.
From my earliest memories, I can picture painting my fingernails and toenails, trying on different outfits, wearing my mother's shoes as I played dressup, and styling my younger sister's hair. I've always been such a 'girl'. In gym class I was one of those girls who hid behind the bleachers so I wouldn't have to participate. I was the one who stood way, way, way in the outfield during softball and hoped that the ball wouldn't get hit to me. Never have I liked being outdoors and getting dirty. I'd much rather be inside, warm, dry and doing 'girly' things.
While I was in third grade, I learned how to french braid my own hair. From then on, I no longer wanted my mom to do my hair for me, I wanted to do it myself. I begged her to let me get my hair layered or cut short. She said no until I was in 6th or 7th grade because she thought that I wasn't going to take care of my hair. "You'll have to style it everyday. It won't look right if you let it down and don't curl it."
That's when the majority of it started. When I say 'it', I am referring to my constant worrying about how I look.
The clothes that I wear must be in style and I must think that they look half decent on me. Sometime during 6th or 7th grade I realized that I hated the clothes I was wearing and started dressing up more. I hardly ever leave the house without putting on makeup either. Can you believe that I only own one pair of sneakers (clog sneakers - - Skechers)? The rest of my shoes consists of heels, high heels, and higher heels. I'm really short (5 ft. 1) though so I need some heighth.
:::NOT relevant to this entry at all .....but does anyone remember the song that goes 'I wish I were a little bit taller, I wish I were a balla, I wish I had a girl if I did, I would call 'er. I wish I had a rabbit and a hat and a bat and a '64 Impalla'....I thought of that when I mentioned in the above paragraph that I was short.:::
Up until I was 19, I would wear makeup for dances, church, prom and any other special occasion. Once I wore makeup to a party, then to work the next morning because I didn't get any sleep that night. Ever since then I felt it necessary to wear it all of the time except for when I sleep. I seriously feel naked without it. I also hate how my face looks when it isn't painted in eyeshadow, mascara and esp. eyeliner. I would have a fit my eyes weren't lined. For me, makeup is a must.
Lately I haven't been as happy with my looks as I've been in the past. When I used to get ready to go out, I felt good about myself; or comparable to everyone else at least. I've come to notice that I'm beginning to hate how I look more and more each day. This all has to do with my attitude and self esteem, I know. But why is my self esteem going down when it is supposed to be going up? I had more self esteem during middle school and high school than I have now. Aren't those years supposed to be the toughest yrs. growing up wise?
My old roommates are staying at our old apartment apparently. They're really starting to fix the place up too. Adam and I were talking about it last night, saying that it's kind of stupid to put the money into fixing the place up when they're only probably going to be living there for another year. We got to talking about how one day Adam would like to move. So would I...kind of. First, I'd like my financial situation to be a little more stable, which I told him so and he understands. I also told him that I wouldn't mind having a different career by that time. He would also like to have another job. But then he said,"I'd like bartending in a big city where I'd get $100.00 tips."
A good girlfriend would have been happy, encouraged that, and supported him 100%. Afterall, if that's what would make him happy, then I should be happy for him. Instead, I got all quiet, slumped down in the front seat of the car and started thinking. He asked what was wrong and I replied,"I don't think I could handle you working in a place like that. I'd be too jealous." "Do you think I look like Brad Pitt or something? You'd have to worry that much?", he teased. Then he told me that I was the only girl he loved and would ever want to be with. He tried to pull me towards him to kiss me, but I pulled away, hitting my head on the window.
All I could think about was my boyfriend working at an upscale club with thousands of people coming to the bar for their cocktails. Actually, I shouldn't say that I was thinking about people; I should be more specific and say that I was thinking about the girls. I come from a small town so the population of pretty girls is a little sparce. But in a big city there would be so many girls who were more beautiful than I am and it would really upset me. He's a guy, so it would be in his nature to ogle them. I'd absolutly hate it.
For the past few months I haven't even liked picking up an issue of Cosmo or wanted to watch tv because of all the beautiful girls. In the media, there are beautiful people everywhere. Just pick up a magazine and you'll see. Or while you're driving home from work or school sometime, take a look at some of the billboards along side of the road. I see these things and wonder to myself,"Why can't I look like that? Why can't my legs look like hers? Why isn't my stomach flat like that model? Why can't my breasts be bigger?" I'm just constantly comparing myself to the girls and woman who seem to look perfect. I try not to think this way because I feel so pathetic and I know that it is, but yet, I can't help it that I'm not happy with my looks.
I was explaining this to Adam's friend Ben a couple of weeks ago. I told him that I want to get surgery someday. I'd get breast implants, lyposuction, botox, you name it. Anything to make myself look better. He asked me why I wanted surgery. I said,"Because there are so many girls who are prettier than I am." Ben goes,"Yeah, but at the same time, there is nothing wrong with how you look. You're a very pretty girl."
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The human female, Narita, turned back to Jequith after the door slid shut. “I’m so sorry.”
“You did not have to turn away your friend, just because we are here.” Jequith said the words politeness demanded, but it was intensely grateful that there were no more humans crowding into this small space. One was more than enough. The scent of this one alone, heightened by adrenaline and endorphins, was so thick that Jequith could barely think. Its mother had been right — it had been a fool to leave their world, to come to such a strange, human-filled place. Over ninety-nine percent of this planet was human populated, and yet that wasn’t enough for them. They had to have it all.
Narita frowned. “Amara…wouldn’t have understood. Her family are traditionalists — they’re the same as the people who sent a missile into the Warren, who blew up your home. Terrorists!”
Jequith frowned. Even in the midst of its anger, its rage, with the smell of burning wood and flesh still etched in its memory, Jequith could not help but be fair. Its academic training kicked in, even now. “Not the same, surely. Not every traditionalist is anti-alien — and even among those humans who dislike and fear non-humans, most won’t turn to violence. Not unless they are pushed.” It was puzzling — bewildering, really. Jequith wondered, even now, in the midst of chaos, just who had been pushing these people. Humans and the other species had always had their differences, but things had blown up so fast. One day, humans were shoving Varisians and Denebians in the marketplace, dropping an insult here and there; the next day, missiles streaked through the sky. “Most people want only peace.” This place had been a haven of peace, not so long ago.
Narita shrugged. “Fair enough, but I still don’t think we need her in here. Not tonight. Whatever’s going on with Amara, she’ll just have to handle it herself.” Her eyes flicked back to the corner, where Jequith’s partners slept their unnatural sleep. “Are you surethere’s nothing else we can do for Shariq?”
Concern obvious on her face. Here was the evidence that not all humans were bad; Narita had taken them in, at great risk to herself.
And what did she know of Jequith, really? A friendly office floormate, someone to greet pleasantly on the way to or from department meetings. They weren’t even in the same department — recent funding cuts had squeezed nonhuman medicine into the same wing as human medicine. But they were both medical professionals, and they shared a similar love of the alien, the other. She specialized in avian diseases, and Jequith was completely fascinated by human sexuality and procreation. So Jequith had come here, to study and treat them, and now it paid the price.
It tried to reassure her. “Trust me. What there is for such as us to do, we have done.” They had bound its mate’s wound, made a nest where she could huddle with Harim, their male partner. “If Shariq is to heal, our mate will have to do the rest.” The human still frowned, and Jequith took a quick breath and made an effort to sound more reassuring. “I am reasonably certain that she will be fine.” It was telling the truth. The wound was serious, but not life-threatening, not now that they had help, and a quiet place for male and female to share the healing trance.
“And the baby?” Narita asked, frowning.
Well. That was the question.
Three years ago, Shariq had come to it. Jequith had long ago given up hope. It had known that taking this position was risky, that few of its people would be likely to come so far. Eiskiyarien, its home planet, lay seven Jumps away — for a traditional people, not given to overmuch risk, that was seven Jumps too many for most of them. Jequith had always known that it was strange, with its fascination for the foreign, the peculiar. Its parents had been united, the three of them, in warning Jequith away from this life-path. But Jequith had been stubborn. And then, after sixteen lonely years on this planet, it had become convinced that it would pay the price for its stubbornness. To die alone, unmated, childless. It loved its work, but it had always wanted a family too. It had just hoped, expected, to be lucky, for no good reason.
And then Shariq had sashayed into its office one day, frills flared, skin flushed a dark, rich purple. She’d trilled a wordless invitation, and Jequith had been utterly bewildered. It could not give the female what she so clearly needed. Who was she? What was she doing here? And then Harim had sidled in behind her, shyly. He was the one who spoke. “We’ve been looking for you,” he said. “We need you.”
It was not the human way, Jequith knew, to mate so suddenly. But sometimes, there was no need for courtship, no need even for speech. They were alone, the three of them, far from their people. She was in need, and they were both willing, eager. In Jequith’s sharp urgency, it barely remembered to shut the door. The threesome could have been disastrous, but as Shariq sang her mating song and they sank to the floor of Jequith’s cold, barren office — so different from a mating nest back home! — it felt oddly convinced that they would, in fact, be perfect together. Finally, after all its long wanderings, Jequith had found a home.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Jequith was jerked back to the present by a renewed pounding on the door. Across the room, Shariq shivered and Harim wrapped himself more tightly around her — Jequith could scent the changes in its mates, the birthing hormones still so high in its system that it felt almost as if it were inside their skins. This was what it was for, to defend against all dangers while male and female was immersed in their new creation. Three years it had watched over them, as Shariq — so slowly! — grew the new one within her.
Three years of rising tension, as the pro-human sentiment rose, and so often it had wanted to take them away — but where could they go? Shariq could not endure a Jump with the little one within her, and there would be no point to taking a slow shuttle to one of the other planets in system, barren rocks that they were. So they were trapped on this planet until the child was born, trapped in its only major city, the single place where they could live and work in relative peace. Jequith, who had chosen to train as a scholar-medic, leaving it with no fighting skills at all, was left to twist in the wind, what little there was of it in this climate-controlled environment. Once, this planet had seemed a paradise to it, a haven for peaceful learning amidst some of the strangest peoples in the universe. A paradise — but now, it had become their prison.
And again, Bang! Jequith felt its vestigial outer teeth filling with poison; its body reacted, regardless of its will. Though what was the point? Now, when the child was lost to them. It could fight the woman outside the door, but even if she hated it and its people, what would be the point of fighting? There were too many humans on this planet. Even if its body were demanding that it rip the woman into bloody pieces, that it defend its mates against all comers, it would never be able to take all the humans down. There had to be another way through this war.
Bang! Jequith dug a clawed hand into its trembling thigh and snapped, “She cannot heal with these distractions; we must have quiet!” Bang! And then Shariq’s body rippled, and Jequith felt a frantic pulse rip through its own body, in mirror to hers, a wave of motion and heat from claws to spine to armored nose. The child, still moving after all!
The little one had been so still, for so long, after the explosion that ripped open a wall of their sleeping alcove and threw Shariq across the room with the force of the blast, hard, into the far wall. A wall-lamp pierced her side, sending blood streaming out to stain the wood floor. Harim plastered himself against her at once, so that his body might work to heal hers, merging in the way that only males and females could. And somehow, somehow Jequith managed to get them on a makeshift travois, cursing the weakness of its fore-limbs all the while. Averting its eyes from the ruin of the beautiful house they’d built together, an island of light and color in the dark streets of the Warren. Trying to ignore the breaking of its heart.
Jequith had dragged them out of the district, through the harried, frantic crowds, had brought them here, to Narita’s home. Suddenly, another sweet shiver raced through it, echoing Shariq’s. Jequith had assumed the child was dead, but now its throat clutched with unbearable hope. Bang!
“Open the door,” Jequith said, its voice shaking.
Narita shook her head, protested, “Why? Why would you risk it?”
Jequith had no answer for her — there was no reason to trust, not really. But it had been granted shelter tonight, and then joy, when all hope had fled. How could it leave someone out in the cold on a night like this? “Just open it. Let her speak, at least.”
Narita stood still for a long moment, as if she fought her own inner battle. And then, sighing, something loosened inside her. Her scent changed, a trickle of something sweet joining the dark scents of fear and grief. She laid her palm against the plate and the door hissed open; and the human female fell inside, one fist still raised to hammer against the door. Narita snapped, “Amara — what are you doing here?”
The woman had fallen against the door, but there was no lack of pride in her; she struggled back upright before answering, a bag clutched tightly to her chest. “I left him.”
“What’s that to me?” Narita asked. Her voice as cold as the ice that covered half of Eiskiyarien now, and her body barred the entrance, so that the woman, Amara, stood half in and half out, preventing the door from sliding shut.
“Please, kunju. Don’t.” It was in her voice, the desperation that her squared off shoulders denied. Amara took a quick, steadying breath. Then she said, her voice now controlled and carefully blank, despite the bleakness of her words — “I have nowhere else to go.”
Jequith grieved for her, for the pain it heard. It grieved for all of them. Before Narita could answer, Jequith spoke, its hearts thumping in steady unison. “It is your home. But for our part, we would have her stay.” If they were to forge a new path forward, perhaps this was part of the answer. That small creatures, desperate and despairing, should reach out to each other in the darkness of night.
Amara’s eyes widened, as she finally looked beyond her own troubles to the rest of the room. Shariq and Harim in the corner, dark blood staining their clothes. Jequith, frill raised sharp as a warrior’s, and in one clawed hand, a kitchen knife. What good the knife would do it, Jequith hadn’t known, but after the blast knocked it to the ground, after it struggled to its feet, it found the knife in its hand. Instinct had triumphed over civilization, and it would be so tempting, to trust instinct more.
But Jequith was determined that instinct would not rule it. It would guard, it would protect; that much, instinct would make sure of. But with the life of the child singing through it, with the birthing imminent and Shariq and Harim out of immediate danger, Jequith thought that it could afford to take a risk, could dare to be kind. To repay the chance that Narita had bought for them.
Narita hesitated a long moment, and then, finally, took a step backwards. “Come in, then. You’re letting in all the cold.”
And it was strangely true — Jequith could feel a blast of cold air whipping past. How odd — it was if they are home again on Eiskiyarien. Maybe the chill wind had come to greet the new one that even now was readying herself to be born. “Welcome,” Jequith whispered to the coming child. The human woman took a tentative step into the room, letting the door whoosh shut behind her. If she had thought that it was speaking to her, no harm done. On this night, they could all use shelter from the storm.
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Cher Files a Conservatorship of Son Elijah Blue Allman, Cites Substance Abuse Issues
Cher has filed to have her son Elijah Blue Allman placed into a conservatorship.
According to documents obtained by People that were filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, Cher is asking to be the sole conservator of her son's estate. In her filing, Cher claimed that Allman is "substantially unable to manage his financial resources."
Additionally, the documents go on to state that Allman is set to receive assets from a trust by the end of the year. However, they go on to say that a conservator is "urgently needed ... to protect Elijah’s property from loss or injury." The documents then go on to state the reason for the conservatorship is because Allman is "currently unable to manage his assets due to severe mental health and substance abuse issues."
The paperwork states that Allman's estranged wife, Marieangela King, should not be his conservator because of the couple's "tumultuous relationship."
"Elijah is entitled to regular distributions from the Trust, but given his ongoing mental health and substance abuse issues, [Cher] is concerned that any funds distributed to Elijah will be immediately spent on drugs, leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself and putting Elijah’s life at risk," the documents say.
The filing states that Cher loves her son and wants what is best for him, but that she has been unable to discuss Allman's preference for a conservator because of her son's "current mental and physical health issues."
A representative for Cher has not shared a statement at this time. A hearing for the temporary conservatorship is set for Jan. 5, 2024 and a permanent order is scheduled for March 6, 2024.
The news about Cher seeking a conservatorship of Allman comes after her son alleged that the singer hired four men to remove her son from a hotel room in an alleged intervention in Nov. 2022. However, Cher has denied these allegations.
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Entering our local gym, we hear the same instructions every time. “Stretching helps prevent bad things and enables good things – lean into it!”
Despite this regular refrain, stretching remains an underappreciated practice in exercise, in life … and in how pastors and church boards guide their faith communities. Often, and especially right now, the focus is not on stretching, but on keeping things the same or breaking things apart.
There are two polar opposites: Staying still and Breaking. It’s easy to visualize each end of the axis, whatever the activity.
In between is stretching.
Stretching is growth. Extending our reach. Becoming more resilient, limber, and powerful. Stretching hurts a bit, and maybe leaves us just a little bit sore.
But then, tomorrow, we can stretch further than we could yesterday. Because stretching compounds.
If you’re afraid of breaking, the answer isn’t to stay still. No, if you’re afraid of breaking, the answer is to dedicate yourself to stretching.
We’re not suggesting that your board roll out the yoga mat or take Jazzercise classes together (but if you do, please send us a video). Stretching in the context of church means nurturing deeper faith.
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount offers a discipline of stretching. Hungering and thirsting for righteousness, showing mercy, seeking to be pure in heart and to be a peacemaker – these are actions, not just words, that can stretch a congregation.
Think, too, of Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:
You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.
This way of living is not going to come naturally to most of us, individually – and often, it isn’t the first reflex of congregations. It takes work.
So do these words, just one chapter later:
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Beautiful words. But to live them? That’s a stretch.
Baptismal vows taken by the congregation, promising to nurture the baptized, ask us to stretch in how we relate to one another. And so do God’s commandments that seek to order the chaos we experience much of the time. And so does the pattern of the early church in Acts. Vivid descriptions of sharing, caring, and resisting the pull of dominant culture. To live into these – takes stretching.
So, how? How can your church board lead your congregation past the instinct to stay still, but also past the understandable urge to break things apart?
In church life, as in faith formation, the best stretches are often achieved by leaning into the largest questions possible – and by letting go of as many assumptions as possible.
Below, American poet Marge Piercy (b. 1936) reflects on the need to let go in order to learn to love differently.
To have without holding
By Marge Piercy
Learning to love differently is hard,
love with the hands wide open, love
with the doors banging on their hinges,
the cupboard unlocked, the wind
roaring and whimpering in the rooms
rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds
that thwack like rubber bands
in an open palm.
It hurts to love wide open
stretching the muscles that feel
as if they are made of wet plaster,
then of blunt knives, then
of sharp knives.
It hurts to thwart the reflexes
of grab, of clutch ; to love and let
go again and again. It pesters to remember
the lover who is not in the bed,
to hold back what is owed to the work
that gutters like a candle in a cave
without air, to love consciously,
conscientiously, concretely, constructively.
I can’t do it, you say it’s killing
me, but you thrive, you glow
on the street like a neon raspberry,
You float and sail, a helium balloon
bright bachelor’s button blue and bobbing
on the cold and hot winds of our breath,
as we make and unmake in passionate
diastole and systole the rhythm
of our unbound bonding, to have
and not to hold, to love
with minimized malice, hunger
and anger moment by moment balanced.
Do you have a regular practice of stretching? What gets in the way of your stretching as often as you should?
When do you know that you are stretching well? When do you know you have gone too far?
What does Piercy’s poem suggest about the stretching that goes along with learning to love differently?
Can you think of a time, in the life of your church, when you as a congregation have successfully stretched without breaking? What made that possible?
Can you think of a time when the congregation stretched too far? What went wrong?
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D.I.Y. Craft – Baby Romper
Make your own Dog Appliquéd Baby Romper
Tools and Materials
French Bulldog Template or
photo of a dog in profile
Damp, clean cloth
Trans-Web or other fusible webbing on release paper
Blank baby romper (or blank t-shirt for yourself!)
Machine-sewing thread in a coordinating color for decorative topstitch
Button in coordinating color (optional)
1. Download and print the template for the French bulldog silhouette (click here to download) on card stock, or create a dogsilhouette of your own by tracing a photograph. If you make thesilhouette yourself, shrink or enlarge it to make sure that it is aboutsix inches wide.
2. Cut the dog silhouette from the card stock.
3. Choose a fun, graphic, patterned fabric for the dog appliqué.Larger, busier patterns work best on simple silhouettes. Moredetailed dog silhouettes look better in smaller patterns, so thedetails of the dog’s shape are not lost in the fabric.
4. Prewash the fabric for your appliqué to reduce shrinkage.
5. Cut a square or rectangular piece from the fabric approximately7 inches square.
6. Cut a piece of Trans-Web slightly smaller than your fabric square.
7. Using an iron on the wool setting, iron the Trans-Web onto theback of the fabric; the rough side of the Trans-Web should be facingthe wrong side of the fabric. Allow the paper-backed fabric to cool.
8. Using a black marker, trace the dog silhouette onto the Trans-Webpaper backing.
9. Cut out the dog silhouette from the paper-backed fabric.
10. Peel the paper backing from the appliqué to expose theiron-on webbing.
11. Position the appliqué, fabric side up, onto the blankonesie. Make sure the appliqué is positioned above thewaistline, so the full silhouette will be visible if the baby iswearing pants.
12. Lay a damp cloth over the appliqué and iron with steamfor 10 seconds.
13. Once the appliqué is fused to the onesie, use coordinatingthread and a simple zigzag stitch on your machine to sewaround the edge of the appliqué.
14. Once you’ve sewn around the entire silhouette, tuck the threadtail back under the stitches by hand with a needle to ensure threadsare secure. Optional: Sew a button on the appliqué for the eye.
Tips: This process is not restricted to baby baby romper; you can usesilhouettes to personalize a variety of clothing and household items!
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Oh boy, is it a joy to photograph my very best friends! My sweetest long-time roommate, best friend, and twin is getting married to a pal of mine since the 7th grade, and that is truly something to celebrate. They are high school sweethearts who conquered a long-distance college relationship across the country and came out thriving and more in love than ever.
The most exciting chapter for them, filled so full of love and joy, and I got to help capture it! Just a few months ago, I hiked up to hide in the bushes and capture their Cerro San Luis proposal moments, and now had the absolute privilege of taking their engagement photos in our sweet little seaside hometown. Sadly, I won’t be able to shoot their wedding day though, gotta stand by their side on that one. ; )
I drove home this day to sneak their session in amidst a busy work week for these two hard workin’ engineers, and thought it was going to be quite overcast and gloomy. Thankfully, this superstar display of God’s beauty in a warm and spectacular cloud-studded colorful evening met us instead. The best unexpected natural wondershow, fitting for the special nature of the session.
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Wells Fargo is in trouble yet again.
Federal regulators slapped Wells Fargo with sanctions on Tuesday after the bank failed to come up with an adequate plan to dismantle itself in an orderly way in a bankruptcy.
Wells Fargo ( is the first bank to be penalized over the "living wills," which are required as part of the post-crisis regulatory overhaul known as Dodd-Frank. )
It's the latest legal trouble for Wells Fargo, which has been embroiled in a scandal for the past three months over the creation of millions of fake accounts and its treatment of workers.
Regulatory officials said the action has nothing to do with the sales practice problems that Wells Fargo has gone through.
The Federal Reserve and FDIC ruled that Wells Fargo "did not adequately remedy all of its deficiencies" that were raised by regulators back in April for the 2015 living will plan.
Regulators are punishing Wells Fargo by prohibiting the bank from establishing international bank entities or acquiring any non-bank businesses.
If Wells Fargo fails to address the questions raised by regulators by the end of March, more harsh penalties may be imposed. First, regulators said they would limit Wells Fargo's non-bank and broker-dealer assets at the levels they were at on September 30, 2016.
Regulators warned that if Wells Fargo fails to fix its living will within two years, they could require the bank to sell certain assets or operations "to facilitate an orderly resolution of the firm in bankruptcy."
By comparison, Bank of America (, )JPMorgan Chase ( and the other two financial institutions that didn't had shorfalls in their living will in April all passed the test on their second try. )
In a statement, Wells Fargo said it's "disappointed" with the result, but is "dedicated to sound resolution planning and preparedness." The bank said it believes it will be able to "address the concerns" by the March deadline.
So far, investors seem mostly unfazed by the penalties. Wells Fargo shares dipped less than 1% in after-hours trading on Tuesday.
Specifically, regulators faulted Wells Fargo for failing to come up with a less complex legal structure that would make it easier to wind down the bank if it ever had to file for bankruptcy. That was one of the problems that made the 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse so troublesome.
The Fed and FDIC also said Wells Fargo didn't make enough progress toward identifying shared services and establishing contingency arrangements in case of a bankruptcy.
"Regulators are looking at every nook and cranny to see what they can find on Wells Fargo," said Mike Mayo, a veteran bank analyst at CSLA.
Mayo said the Wells Fargo living will decision shows how the more subjective aspects of bank regulation have become "murkier and murkier." He complained that the letter regulators wrote to Wells Fargo over the living will problems is "like a language unto itself."
Wells Fargo has found itself in a legal penalty box since the September fake account settlement.
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Rail Vision (Nasdaq: RVSN) has been making significant strides this month, witnessing a remarkable uptick in its stock market performance. The company’s share price saw a dramatic increase this January, an astounding 877%, driven by a series of positive developments and groundbreaking announcements. As we revisit our previous review on Reddit, it’s crucial to reflect on this substantial momentum and its implications for Rail Vision’s future. here is a previous Reddit review about RVSN.
“You may all may remember me as that rando who keeps talking about Railvision (NASDAQ: RVSN), which develops computer vision and autonomous driving technology for passenger and freight trains. Think Mobileye $MBLY but for railways.
But I digress. Look at the chart. RVSN only listed in March ’22 at ~$3, and then followed the trajectory of most recent IPOs downwards. They bottomed out at $0.40 in early Q4, and since have begun an inspiring climb. Riding a solid ascending support, its trading above the 20/50/200 SMAs and OBV shows a very significant uptick in BUY volume since mid-November, shortly after bottom in late October/mid-November. Slap on MACD and any other momentum indicator of your choice, and you’ll see that in the short-to-intermediate term, there’s is some real bullish energy behind RVSN.
Now for the million-dollar question–why? The true answer–no idea. But here are some theories:
• It looks like today’s pop in volume was generated by an NR about the successful completion of a POC for AI-driven obstacle detection tech (i.e. autonomous driving trains). This was for a switchyard in the US, and the test received GoA4 status, which is the highest level of automated train operations. This follows a similar POC performed for Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) in the Never Never (Aussie outback) for a long-haul freight train carrying ore to port that concluded end-Q3. Both of these successful POCs in countries (the US and Australia) with extensive and ageing rail infrastructure is cause for optimism regarding RVSN’s eventual go-to-market. They’re still pre-revenue for the most part, but if you’re in for the long game these two POCs are not something to ignore.
• Insiders still own ~55% of RVSN shares with low institutional ownership and a low short ratio (1.11, or 0.46% of total float). That means that either insiders are quietly buying in order to beef up positions and SP before something big, or that retail is catching a whiff of this play and hopping onboard. I think $MBLY’s slick listing and gains since October testify to the market’s demand for computer vision solutions despite the bloodbath other tech equities have undergone in the past year”.
Full disclosure: since my last post about RVSN I entered 10k shares and am already looking at 40% upside after a 2 week hold. That PT of $7 ain’t looking so far off all of a sudden. DYOR, and if anyone has other takes on whats going on here and where RVSN is headed feel free to jump in. | <urn:uuid:d64b1522-34ab-4afa-b639-94127799523a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://moneypulses.com/after-rvsns-record-breaking-877-surge-in-january-2024-whats-next-for-rail-vision/ | 2024-04-24T02:45:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.948762 | 701 |
1. Be passionate about your product or service
It is not at all uncommon for many of us to hold jobs we don’t particularly like. After all, we may earn decent money and have a solid benefits package, and since it pays the bills, we soldier on.
You won’t be able to do that as a small business owner.
Your chances of succeeding as an entrepreneur will increase dramatically if you are passionate about the product or service you offer. You’ll be selling these products or services, everyday you're in business, and unless you have a strong desire to do so, it will just be a question of time before you will fail.
Before you even start a business, make sure you’re offering a product line that you believe in and that you feel good about selling to other people.
2. Provide a high level of service to your new bosses
When people contemplate going into business, one of the benefits they imagine is working for themselves. Wrong! You may no longer have a boss in the same sense as when you’re on a salary, but you will ultimately answer to your customers and clients.
You will need to provide a level of service that will keep your clientele coming back on a regular basis. Even more, you will want them to refer you to other potential customers so you can increase your business. This can be more difficult than trying to please a single boss.
They may not be able to direct your activities on a day-to-day basis, the way a traditional boss will, but your mission in your business will be keep them happy.
In a real way, you may be exchanging a single boss for five, 50 or 100 or more “bosses”. You'll improve your chances of succeeding if you get used to that idea early on.
3. Always be ready to sell (or market)
A lot of people don’t like to sell, which is why they work on a salary basis. But if you are going into your own business, you’ll need to get over that phobia in a real hurry.
When you go into business for yourself, you are two-parts salesman and one-part technician. You'll have to be selling all the time — that is how you will build your business.
This doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll have to do “hard selling” in the manner of a car salesman, but you'll have to persuade prospective customers that you and your product line are what they need to buy.
4. Put the “80/20 rule” to work for you
When you have a traditional job, it’s quite possible to spend an entire day doing “busy work”. You will not have that luxury if you’re running your own business.
You’ve probably heard of the “80/20 rule” — which generally means that 80% of your production will come from 20% of your activities. You can count on that rule when you have your own business.
You may have 20 different significant responsibilities in running your business. But out of the 20, there are probably just four — 20% — that will produce the greatest amount of your income. Those are the activities that must command the bulk of your time.
That may be marketing, sales, purchasing significant inventory for your product line and closing sales. If most of your revenue is coming as a result of those activities, then that is where you need to spend most of your time. Any other allocation of time will be a recipe for failure.
5. Don’t get sidetracked
When you start your own business, you almost have to become single-minded. Your business and its success have to become your primary drivers in life. This is especially true when you’re first starting a business, and need to get it from 0 to 60 mph in as little time as possible.
This might mean that the coveted 40-hour work week will not exist in your life — that’s actually quite typical for business owners. You will have to be prepared to work 50, 60, 80 or even 100 hours per week — if that’s what it takes to get your business rolling.
Later on you may be able to pull back, especially if you can afford to hire employees. But until that time comes, you’ll have to be prepared to put in the time that is needed.
6. Never give up!
If there is one quality that separates business success stories from business failures, it's relentlessness. If you are going to start a business, you have to do what is necessary to make it succeed. You will face obstacles and there will be times when it looks like your business effort is a complete failure. That is exactly the time to not give up!
If you can keep pushing forward — no matter what — you will generally overcome whatever obstacles that confront you. Adopt the philosophy that you will never quit on yourself! If you can master that idea, you will at least double your chances of succeeding as a small business owner.
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Our volunteers are an integral part of our agency. In cooperation with our volunteers, we are able to provide a safe and crime free environment for users of our trails, parks, and recreation facilities. The Volunteer Patrol consists of community members who travel the parks by car, bike, and horse to watch for and report violations and concerns. Volunteers assist in investigative, administrative, and community service functions. Park Police volunteers also assist at community events such as Police Awareness Day, Montgomery County Fair, etc. Such assistance may consist of traffic direction, dispensing information, public relations, etc.
To qualify to be a Park Police Volunteer, you must meet the following qualifications:
- Be at least 18 years of age (21 for horse-mounted).
- Successfully complete a background investigation, including criminal history and driving license check.
- Be able to donate at least 60 hours a year.
- Be able to follow procedures accurately and responsibly.
A well-trained volunteer workforce is a priority to our division. Our volunteers attend a Volunteer Academy. The Academy provides an orientation to the volunteer program as well as the specific duties, responsibilities, and limitations of the position. Upon successful completion of the Academy, new volunteers are paired with experienced volunteers for a field training program. Trainees are continuously monitored and evaluated periodically.
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Chinese fashion brand “Shein” facing claims made by the US over Uyghur forced labour
A group of lawmakers in the United States claimed the Chinese fashion brand “Shein” is forcing Uyghur forced labourers to work more to make some of the clothes it sells. The lawmakers asked for a legal investigation.
Dozens of Democratic and Republican lawmakers signed a letter citing legitimate claims of “using coerced and underpaid labourers.”
Additionally, it demanded that Shein independently audit and confirm “that the firm does not use Uyghur forced labour” before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would permit Shein to sell shares in the US.
Shein replied to the letter with: “We are dedicated to upholding human rights and abiding by the local regulations and laws in every marketplace we operate in. A strong code of conduct that is in line with the fundamental principles of the International Labour Organisation must be followed by our suppliers, it continued.
Uyghurs, a primarily Muslim ethnic minority, have been accused of being coerced into servitude and interned by China by human rights organisations and Western nations, particularly the US and UK.
The US has imposed new laws on the import of commodities from Xinjiang that require businesses to verify the products weren’t made using forced labour, and some Western brands have eliminated Xinjiang cotton from their supply lines.
Shein, which was established in Nanjing, China, in 2008, presently has its headquarters there.
It has been attracting youthful customers in the US, UK, and Europe by creating fast fashion even quicker and frequently at lower prices than many of its competitors, like Boohoo or Asos.
In order to grow its online following, it has worked with celebrities and influencers. In 2021, its mobile application briefly overtook Amazon as the most installed shopping app in the United States on the iOS and Android app charts.
According to reports, Shein orders batches of clothing from thousands of independent manufacturers in China, and if they meet client expectations, it will order from them again.
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AMERICA 5.0: THE POST COVID – 19 WORLD
First of all, I’d like to thank those of you who took the time and expended the effort to send me feedback on my COVID – 19 posts, including those who objected to the positions I’ve taken. We need more genuine dialogue about critical issues our society is dealing with even when they get heated. I’m saddened by those few responses that engaged in personal, ad hominem attacks, but that seems to be an aspect of our culture that turns positions and points of view into crusades, instead of platforms for debate.
Nothing has changed about my view of the way we have responded to the pandemic. I still consider it a massive overreaction and ill-conceived strategy, driven by a short-sighted panicky need to try and eradicate all pain, suffering and fear from a phenomenon that is beyond our control and which has surpassed our limits to end it on our terms. The pandemic has taken, and will continue to take, an enormous toll on our citizenry, and our inability and unwillingness to come to terms with that fact, has lead us to abandon an analysis of the long-term implications of our short term interventions. It is a given that we should do whatever we can to protect and take care of the most vulnerable amongst us. But it is foolhardy and extremely self-destructive to shut down the economy, and prevent the majority of people from working and contributing to the maintenance of a viable economy. (Some “experts” are even floating the idea that portions of the workforce be allowed to return to their jobs; and two countries – Sweden and Australia – have lifted restrictions on large numbers of workers.) Hopefully we will come to our senses, in the not too distant future, but the damage already done will push back our recovery by many years.
The economic carnage created by our short-sightedness is only part of the price we are paying, and will continue to pay for a significant period of time. There is a profound psychosocial cost. The devastation of being prevented from working injects a corrosive lack of productivity and impact into the lives of those fired and “furloughed.” People want to work; to do something meaningful; and to have an impact on the world they live in. In addition to the economic angst, doing nothing is damaging to physical and emotional health, as well as important relationships. Chronic health conditions flare up, and domestic violence and child abuse increase. The pandemic is already inflicting damage on people; it is inconceivable that we are adding more suffering through our “solution.”
In an unintended and unpredictable way, the COVID – 19 pandemic has provided the catalyst for a cultural transformation in our country that few people alive today have ever experienced. It will end up forcing us to enter into what I call America 5.0. Toffler and others have written about the evolution of our society, in terms of “waves.” The waves represent major transitions from one form of human organization to another. The first wave involved the shift from nomadic life to the agrarian way of life. The second involved the shift to the industrial way of life, and the third, to the culture of information. And our embrace of the ability to produce and disseminate massive amounts of information spawned the culture of digitization – compacting overwhelming amounts of information into digestible chunks. All these shifts required us to adapt, over time, to new ways of conducting communal and individual life. The COVID – 19 pandemic presents us with no such luxury. It has hit us like a meteor and has created the next cultural shift of deep and gargantuan proportions – America 5.0.
There has been much discussion recently of a “new normal” and how life will be different, given how many people are working remotely and how many families are experiencing a new “togetherness.” None of this discussion captures, from my perspective, the enormity of the changes to come.
America 5.0 will incorporate the following shifts in our culture: Learning will replace education: Schools, both public and private, will vanish.
Free agents will replace employees: Labor and management will interface very differently
24/7 Workspace will replace office buildings
Multi-dimensional, flexible personal living space will replace traditional housing
Health consultants and high accountability will replace many healthcare professionals
Learning pods and content repositories will replace the University
It is important to note, that we have seen the need to make these shifts, but have failed to act, because the dislocation and pain that would be involved, has seemed to be too much – until COVID – 19. In subsequent posts I’ll discuss in detail, each of these shifts. In the meantime, keep the pressure on, to return people to work. I see signs that momentum is building. | <urn:uuid:855f6996-1628-41a3-9435-c85b09dc6add> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://morrieshechtman.com/america-5-0-the-post-covid-19-world/ | 2024-04-24T02:00:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.958114 | 1,009 |
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A multi-track track recorder for MIDI
In quarantine I decided to build a multi-track tape recorder for MIDI, in the style of old TASCAM 4-track cassette recorders and the Teenage Engineering OP-1. It's web based, using Web MIDI to record and play back MIDI events.
Single File Components
Simplifying the Drupal frontend
Lunr for Drupal
Static searches without custom code
After creating Tome, I realized that the two most common requests for static sites would be form submissions (covered by many third parties) and search. Search on a static site is usually done with AJAX, sometimes to a third party or something like Solr.
A static site generator for Drupal
As I started to use static site generators like Jekyll and Gatsby, I started to wonder why Drupal couldn't also be used as a static site generator. After a ton of work, more than any on any Drupal module I've made, I created Tome, a static site generator for Drupal 8 that stored content, config, files, and HTML statically.
An inline notation tool for Drupal
When comparing Drupal to other content management systems, a major feature request is to have some sort of inline commenting tool. This is useful when collaborating with other content editors as part of a moderation workflow.
The original GIF-strip generator
When I was helping to plan my wedding, I thought it would be a cool idea to have a photo booth. I looked up some local Portland options, and thought the ~$1,000 price tag for what is essentially a DSLR camera and a backdrop was pretty ridiculous.
A wedding invite video game
As my wife and I were splitting up tasks for our wedding, I ambitiously took on creating and printing wedding invites, and making a website where our guests could learn more about Portland and digitally RSVP.
Select and preview files and images in Drupal
When I was working at Acquia on the demo team, it became apparent that Drupal's native file handling was not exciting enough to impress clients coming from other content management systems.
Altimit OS Clone
A Love2D copy of a video game user interface
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Our April newsletter is out now!
Our latest newsletter is out and gives details of our first pop up plant sale of the year. It also takes a look at the Moseley map, commissioned by Moseley in Bloom in 2013 from local artist Samantha McEwan. It also gives a further update about Open Gardens and some top gardening tips from the National Trust.
You can also read all the previous editions here. | <urn:uuid:97de57e3-a9c9-4669-8bf9-e3276554992b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://moseleyinbloom.org.uk/2023/our-april-newsletter-is-out-now/ | 2024-04-24T03:19:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.950594 | 86 |
Make the rebellion a colourful one. Be part of the story by creating the art that will be seen by the world as we take to the streets to force the change this world needs. We meet regularly and welcome dancers, singers, painters, poets, graphic designers, costumes makers….. and so many more. Get involved.
Extinction Rebellion Brisbane Meanjin Art Collective
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Lead Group: Extinction Rebellion Australia
Issue: Climate change
Group Status: Active
Geographic Range of Activity: Local
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Synopsis: Jared is closeted. Sam is straight. They find a connection in each other that they've never had before, but where do they go from there? Over the course of three nights, six gay men sat down for interviews about their experiences, sexual and otherwise, with straight men. Those documentary interviews provide the narration for 'Curious Thing' as we watch Jared and Sam form a friendship that tests the boundaries of what they know about love. But as Jared's walls slowly come down and his passion for Sam grows, things take an unexpected turn.
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More or less pages from Homepage? Linking 3rd hierarchy level pages from Homepage.
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With the concept of preserving link juice, many websites stopped linking too many pages from homepage. We even removed our 3rd hierarchy level pages removed from our homepage. We didn't notice much change in rankings. Recently I have gone through some SEO articles where some experts suggested to link low level pages from homepage which indicates to Google the way we respect and prioritise those pages but not just homepage and very next level pages. This also works in internal linking it seems. Is this true? Can we add such low level pages from homepage? Which actually works
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We have been on the first page of Google for a number of years for search terms including 'SEO Agency', 'SEO Agency London' etc. A few months ago we made some changes to the design of the home page (added a blog feed), and made changes to the website sitemap. Two days ago (two months after last site changes were made) we dropped subsantially in the SERPs for all home page keywords. Where we are found, a date appears before the description in the SERPs, dating February 2012 (which is when we launched the original website). The site has been through a revamp since then, yet it still shows 2012. This has been followed by a few additional strange things, including the sitelinks that Google is choosing to show (which including author bio pages showing in homepage site links), and googling our brand name no longer brings up sitelinks in the SERPs. The problem only affects the home page. All other pages are performing as standard. When Penguin 4.0 came out we saw a noted improvement in our SERP performance, and our backlinks are good and quality, largely from PR efforts. Of course, I would be interested in additional pairs of eyes on the back links to see if anyone thinks that I have missed anything! We have 3 of our senior SEOs working on trying to figure out what is going on and how to resolve it, but I would be very interested if anyone has any thoughts?
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While I was doing research on UK Flower companies I noticed that one particular domain had great rankings (top 3), but has slid quite a bit down to page two. After investigating further I noticed that they had a drastic loss of referring pages, but an increase in total referring domains. See this screenshot from ahrefs. I took a look at their historical rankings (got them from the original SEO provider's portfolio) and compared it to the Wayback Machine. There did not seem to be any drastic changes in the site structure. My question is what would cause such a dramatic loss in total referring pages while showing a dramatic increase in referring domains? It appears that the SEO company was trying rebound from the loss of links though. Any thoughts on why this might happen? 56VD5jD
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Without mentioning names, we're noticing a shift in many of our clients ranking pages. Previously many of them held page 1 positions with their home page. We've been building brand only anchor text to these pages for some time now and there's a noticeable change in visibility to the domain as a whole displayed in GWT and there's an uplift in organic traffic too. It just happens that some of our clients already had pages in the root directory that were very optimised for the clients' head terms, but all of a sudden, these sub pages with very few inbound links have started ranking in the place of the home pages. I've attached a screenshot of the landing page organic traffic. The pages in question have been there for at least 8-10 months. These inner pages would not normally have been able to hold their ground in this position and I'm concerned that this is a temporary change. I can see this going one of two ways; (i) home page beings to out rank sub page as before, (i) sub page loses ranking ability and home page rank does not come back. My questions to the community are therefore; **Has anyone else noticed this shift in ranking behaviour? ** What are everyone's thoughts on this? - Will it remain this way? From this query I can easily ask another wider question; Good advice across the internet says we should be building strong brand links and citations to our clients' domains. Typically brand links go to the homepage, which should provide the homepage and (to a lesser extent the domain) with a ranking/traffic/visibility uplift. However, as I'm noticing other pages now picking up ranking boosts as a result of this; **Should we still be trying to gain links to these more commercial landing pages? ** How are others building high quality links to pages full of commercial copy? I hope this can spark a little bit of a debate. I look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts. Thanks yPOEjVA.png
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Hello all - I am looking at a website with 8 heavily keyword optimized site-wide links in the footer. Yes, there are only 8 but it looks a bit spammy and I'm tempted to remove them. I imagine there's some possibility of a Google penalty too? What would your advice be? Thanks, Luke
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One of our big natural search competitors for gift keywords is Gifts.com. We are competing for many keywords like "teen gifts", "gifts for him", "gifts for her". For many of these, the Google SERP has multiple Gifts.com pages on the first page. I have never seen more than one of our pages (uncommongoods.com) on a SERP page. Any clue how/why Gifts.com has multiple pages in search results ? Thanks!
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With some of the great reports SEOMoz has provided I've been able to start to take the correct steps towards fixing crawl issues, on-page issues, etc. One of my websites allows a customer to drill down to their specific state and then their city to apply for an auto loan. The SEOMoz reports told me I had too many links on these pages specifically. One of my ways to remedy this would be to add "no-follow" tags on the links in the footer as well as the links to the cities. Am I steering myself in the right/wrong direction? Should I be approaching this problem from a different perspective? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Jordanusd.net Review;- Jordanusd.net, a new suspect, is an online shoe retailer. Numerous purchasers from all over the globe are curious as to whether Jordanusd Net is legitimate or not. We visited the official website of this online shop to educate shoppers about it. To begin, the site is very deceptive. It advertises a 50% discount at the top to entice people and then displays a huge array of shoes in a variety of colors and styles with 50% off price tags.
Is Jordanusd.com a Scam?
To determine the website’s validity, the owner has the first right to determine if they are purchasing their goods from a secure website. The following factors will assist you in determining the website’s validity.
Jordanusd is a shoe retailer, and we made every effort to ascertain the company’s validity. To determine validity, we looked at consumer evaluations about their purchasing experience, product quality, and other factors.
Jordanusd Internet Reviews
While searching the official website for testimonials, we were unable to locate any, since the side has a percent recognition rate. As a result, there are no supporters for this website, indicating that it is untrustworthy due to its lack of legitimacy.
Finally, we conclude that this website is not trustworthy but doubtful. Rather than picking this website, we must evaluate others that have a large number of legitimate testimonials to guarantee that we do not fall victim to scam. All information included in this website review is courtesy of Jordanusd Internet Reviews. | <urn:uuid:71fef5f8-eac2-4456-882c-4219f0d3665f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mrjunkychunky.com/jordanusd-net-review/ | 2024-04-24T02:15:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.936996 | 325 |
Toro Tapas Bar, which served tapas, has been transformed into Tortuga Island Accra by the owner, Ximo. Its menu features a variety of regionally produced international cuisine, primarily featuring meat meals like slow-cooked beef short ribs or grilled beef fillet, but it also offers seafood dishes like shrimp cooked in garlic and chilli oil with homemade bread and some vegetarian selections. The restaurant is one of the best restaurants in Accra.
Over the years the restaurant has managed to pave its way through people’s hearts with its cuisines and entertainment. Mostly every week you can enjoy a theme party organized with different DJs. It is a great spot to enjoy a cocktail and some of the international cuisine you dying to try. If you are looking for good music whiles enjoying delicious cuisine with your family, then Tortuga Island Accra is one of the best places to visit all week round.
Try their new Kawa Moka coffee and thank me later in the comment section. There were a few renovations but now the restaurant has opened its doors to the wider public and you can also make a reservation before you visit.
Address: Troas St, Accra, Ghana
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2nd floor 36.5sqm 1 bedroom condo on Thappraya Road with green city views. The condo comes fully furnished and decorated in a modern style. The condominium is brand new and offers its residents a wide range of amenities and services, large swimming pools with resort style children’s pools and water cannons, fitness center and a stylish lobby providing reception services. Convenient location with easy transport links to Pratumnak Hill, Jomtien Beach and Pattaya City. Excellent quality, reasonable price, this condo is ideal as a permanent residence or for a rental investment opportunity. | <urn:uuid:29c92834-64da-483d-a3de-99e2c6015ba1> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://muangthai-realestate.com/properties/1-bedroom-condo-resort-south-pattaya-jomtien-grande-caribbean/ | 2024-04-24T01:59:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.94228 | 122 |
Fischer discharged as director of state agency
QUINCY — Brent Fischer was fired from his position as the executive director of the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board on Sept. 8 after an investigation and three-month suspension with pay,
Fischer, who is from Quincy and formerly served as Adams County Sheriff, confirmed his discharge in an interview with Muddy River News Friday morning.
“Over the last two years, there have been a number of changes made to the (ILETSB) board,” Fischer said. “It had become apparent that they were waiting to make a change with the director position. So, yes, I have been discharged from my duties. I believe in the agency and its mission. We have to support law enforcement now more than ever. I believe in law enforcement. We have to have good police officers who are properly trained. It is becoming difficult to recruit officers because of today’s charged political climate. We have to find and train good men and women who are still willing to serve.”
Fischer, who had an annual salary in excess of $156,000, said the board voted to terminate his employment on Sept. 8. Keith Calloway, the deputy director of the agency under Fischer, is listed as the interim director. He did not return a phone call to Muddy River News. Neither did the board chair, Mitchell R. Davis III, the police chief for Hazel Crest, Ill.
Quincy Police Chief Rob Copley was a long-time member of the ILETS Board whose term ended earlier this year. He was not reappointed.
Fischer was appointed to the position by the ILETS Board in December 2015 while Republican Bruce Rauner was governor. He was the second Adams County resident to hold a state agency director position under Rauner at the time. Republican Jeff Mays was director of the Illinois Department of Employment Security from 2015 to early 2019.
Fischer, a Democrat, served as Adams County Sheriff for 17 years before his appointment. He began his career with Adams County as a bailiff in 1991. He was hired as a deputy in 1994, then defeated long-time Republican incumbent Robert Nall in the race for sheriff in 1998. Fischer won re-election twice and served as sheriff until his appointment to the ILETSB post. He also served 10 years as a board member of ILETSB and was its chairman from 2010 to 2012.
Fischer replaced another Quincy native, Kevin McClain, as head of ILETSB. McClain is a brother of Mike McClain, the former state representative, lobbyist and confidant to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. McClain is under federal indictment for his alleged involvement in the Commonwealth Edison bribery scheme. He has pleaded not guilty.
Fischer is not connected to the federal indictment.
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JT Brubaker is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2020.
In his early life, Brubaker enrolled at Tecumseh High School in New Carlisle, Ohio. Soon after high school, he furthered his education at the University of Akron where he played college baseball.
Beginning his college baseball career, he went 5–4 with a 3.63 ERA over 15 starts. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the sixth round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft.
After his 2015 Major League Baseball draft, he began playing in minor leagues when he was assigned to the West Virginia Black Bears, compiling a 6–4 record with a 2.82 ERA over 15 starts.
The following season, he was a member of two teams namely the West Virginia Power and the Bradenton Marauders where he pitched to a combined 6–11 record with a 4.44 ERA in 26 starts between the two clubs, and in 2017, he pitched with the Altoona Curve, going 7–6 with a 4.44 ERA in 26 games (24 starts).
JT Brubaker Wife: Is JT Brubaker Married?
Fans of JT Brubaker have been on the rampage of knowing his relationship since he barely discusses it in interviews he grants.
As a matter of fact, JT Brubaker is a married baseball personality. Darci Brubaker is known as the wife of the Pittsburgh pitcher.
The two dated for a while before tieing the knot in January 2020. Darci is a Master’s student in Clinical therapy. She studies at Liberty University. | <urn:uuid:30c20d3d-0aeb-484c-96b5-07e42cc24050> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mufcarena.com/jt-brubaker-wife-is-jt-brubaker-married/ | 2024-04-24T02:29:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.985019 | 347 |
♦ Livestream of the ZZT world "Nightmare" by Barjesse (1996) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/nmzzt/]. ♦
Revisiting what was often considered to be ZZT's most impressive puzzle game. In Nightmare, the sandman needs a vacation, and has trapped you in the land of Nod so that he could be free to leave. In order to wake up and force the sandman to return (before everyone dies of exhaustion) you need to find the pieces of your consciousness scattered throughout Nod.
These pieces are guarded by a variety of puzzles which the sandman assures you have no chance of solving, being an adventurer who thinks more with their gun than their brain.
Players get to explore a strange world with unique puzzles on nearly every board. In this first chapter we solve a few traditional slider puzzles, collect pieces of corrupt dreams while fighting nearly-invisible conveyors, solve a riddle regarding the gongs of a clock, and shoot our way through a mysterious black box trying to find spots that will allow the player to hit a target.
The sandman's taunting messages do a wonderful job building up atmosphere and creating an eerie envrionment out of what's a very empty world to explore. The puzzles are impressive and while many of the classics are represented, the game offers a lot of unique brain teasers to poke at. It's a game that still holds up quite nicely, with few other puzzle worlds that are fit to directly compare it against.
♦ Play this world directly in your browser ♦
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Organic Arabica coffee with Cordyceps mushroom, cardamom & vanilla
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Pure Grade Extract
We only use Pure Grade Extracts that guarantee 100% concentrated mushroom without added binders. Pure Grade is the hallmark of the highest quality mushroom supplements.
Studies have highlighted improved kidney function in those with chronic renal failure, and protection from kidney damage.
Traditionally used for respiratory ailments,research suggests cordyceps might help enhance lung function by increasing oxygen utilisation and improving respiratory capacity which may be beneficial for asthma and COPD.
Studies show increases in oxygen uptake, aerobic capacity, and resistance to fatigue. Cordyceps can naturally support energy levels.
Several studies have looked into the effects of cordyceps on libido and sexual health suggesting it may increase levels of male sex hormones, and improve sperm quality and quantity.
Research has shown an increase in the production of protective immune cells, and enhanced immune response. Cordyceps has also been shown to have powerful anti-viral effects; in particular the militaris species which is rich in cordycepin.
Has a close similarity to adenosine so some enzymes can’t distinguish between the two. Adenosine is central to energy metabolism, it is needed to make ATP which is the body’s energy currency. Cordycepin is also a powerful anti-viral compound.
Polysaccharides and Nucleosides
Pharmacological functions of cordyceps are primarily due to the bioactive polysaccharides, modified nucleosides, and cyclosporin-like metabolites it produces.
Rich in anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds.
Cordyceps is a highly respected adaptogen and has long been used to support physical endurance and stamina. We add organic roasted coffee for an energising boost, which helps to support alertness. Cardamom is an aromatic, and warming spice that is the ideal coffee companion. Vanilla is the perfect sweet complement to coffee’s natural earthiness.
Organic coffee with a natural adaptogen energy boost, no jitters.
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Our Organic Cordyceps is a 100% fruiting body extract of cordyceps militaris carefully cultivated in JiangSu and Fujian provinces under nature-identical conditions on organic rice to provide an equivalent profile to its wild cousins.
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Our Pure Grade range of extracts are regarded as practitioner quality and contain the highest levels of active compounds. It is common for mushroom capsules and powders to use ‘drinks grade’ extracts that contain a high level of maltodextrin to help encapsulation, and to taste sweeter to the palate. Pure Grade is the hallmark of the highest quality mushroom supplements. | <urn:uuid:836cc40a-f111-43b2-a937-984c2459b2a9> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mushroomsforlife.com/collections/mushroom-coffee-lattes/products/organic-cordyceps-adaptogen-coffee | 2024-04-24T02:33:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.895525 | 585 |
The SuperFly actor is reportedly facing up to a life sentence after pleading guilty to multiple rape charges. According to Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Wallace, Kaalan Walker promised to introduce a slew of women to celebrities like Drake. Victims claimed that the actor’s promises helped fuel their “hopes and dreams” of one day becoming celebrities themselves.
Walker went on to state some of the actual conversations that Walker had with one of his victims. “He talked about Drake, taking her to a Drake party,” Wallace states. “What does he tell her?” ‘Well, you know what? If you want to do all of these things, if you want to be at parties with Drake, if you want to be a Victoria Secret model, you know what we have to do? We have to film a sex tape. He’s a 22-year-old man telling a 16-year-old girl, ‘We have to film a sex tape.'”
Originally arrested on Sept. 11, 2018, the 27-year-old rapper and actor allegedly conned women into thinking that he would help advance their music and modeling careers only to take advantage of them once they met. Dating all the way back to 2013, when Walker reached out to a girl online and offered her $5,000 to appear in a music video. When she finally showed up, Walker raped her. The victim has sense stated that she never expected to lose her virginity that way. Then, DNA evidence tied Walker to a sexual assault that took place in a parking lot outside of a Tyga show.
Despite adamant about his innocence, Walker was found guilty by a jury on Monday (April 18) for sexually assaulting four women and three teenage girls.
Walker’s lawyer, Andrew Flier has released the following statement regarding the jury’s guilty verdict:
“Mr. Walker adamantly maintains his complete innocence,” states Flier. “He did not receive a fair trial as the jury did not hear many material issues and facts due to being excluded improperly by the Court. There were 25 charges originally and 17 including dismissals and not guilties are gone. [Three] of the main women were found not guilty. This case will be overturned on appeal.”
Walker is due back in court on May 27 and is currently facing a maximum-sentence of 100 years to life in prison.
Singer Kehlani has been very vocal about her stance on this case. Having known one of Walker’s victims personally, she has been an advocate for the women who came forward. In 2021, she released the following statement on how she felt regarding the case. “I am standing with the victims of a serial rapist who I know personally to be aggressive, dangerous and twisted,” she said.
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Ford jumped into the COE game in a big way during the 1930s when the company began building the unique trucks in their own factories.
Ron McCracken is the proud owner of a 1939 Ford COE truck that has undergone a major change over the past 80 years. For example, the ’39 Ford truck now has a 350 small block Chevy engine that is not housed in the factory engine compartment under the cab.
The engine is now positioned behind the truck’s cab in the bed and provides plenty of punch for the vintage Ford truck. The massive number of bug splats on the truck’s flat front cowl and windshield suggested that Ron is not afraid to drive his Ford COE.
The vintage truck also sits on a 1971 GMC chassis that helped make a big change in the handling game on it. In fact Ron is very impressed with the truck and believes the relocation of the engine to a center position has given the former COE a well-balanced ride that “drives really nice down the highway”, according to Ron.
The generous supply of bug splats on the front of the flat-nosed truck suggested that Ron was very comfortable with how the truck drives on the road with the new chassis/power train setup.
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Ron is happy with the amount of air provided to cool the two units and told MSCC that he has not experienced any overheating issues from the new rad/AC condensor setup.
The truck now has a front disc/rear drum brake system that can slow the big Ford truck down with little effort when necessary. It also has power steering and the aforementioned air conditioning retro-fitted into the truck for extra creature comforts.
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- Try something new: Take a leap and try something you’ve never done before. This could be skydiving, bungee jumping, or something less extreme like taking a dance class.
- Have a spa day: Treat yourself to a relaxing spa day on your 18th birthday. Get a massage, a manicure, and a pedicure, and spend the day being pampered.
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The Ballad of Hasse Andersson: A Journey of Music, Magic, and Melody
29.02.2024 21:45The Musical Odyssey of Hasse Andersson: A Melodic Adventure
In the heart of Sweden, amidst the lush greenery and whispering winds, lived a man whose melodies echoed through the valleys and danced with the clouds. His name was Hasse Andersson, and his life was a symphony of joy, passion, and harmony.
Long ago, in a small village nestled between rolling hills, young Hasse discovered his love for music. With his trusty guitar in hand, he would wander through the meadows, strumming tunes that seemed to awaken the very soul of nature. The birds would sing along, and the trees would sway in time with his melodies.
As Hasse grew older, his music carried him far and wide. He traveled from town to town, sharing his songs with anyone who would listen. His voice was like honey, sweet and soothing, and wherever he went, hearts were touched, and smiles bloomed like flowers in spring.
But Hasse's journey was not without challenges. There were times when the road was rough, and the path ahead seemed uncertain. Yet, through it all, he remained true to his music, drawing strength from the songs that filled his heart.
One day, as Hasse sat beneath a canopy of stars, strumming his guitar by the light of the moon, he received a message that would change his life forever. It was an invitation to perform on the grandest stage of all—the Eurovision Song Contest!
With excitement bubbling in his veins, Hasse set off on a new adventure, his guitar slung over his shoulder and a song in his heart. The competition was fierce, with performers from every corner of the globe vying for the top spot. But when Hasse took the stage, magic happened.
His voice rang out clear and true, weaving a tapestry of sound that captivated the audience. The music soared, lifting spirits and igniting dreams, and when the final note faded away, the crowd erupted into thunderous applause.
Though Hasse did not win the contest that day, he won something far greater—the love and admiration of millions around the world. His songs became anthems of hope and happiness, spreading joy wherever they were heard.
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The James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver awe-inspiring images and insights into the universe. Its mirror is six times the size of the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been taking stellar pictures since 1990. But it’s not just about size. The new telescope records infrared wavelengths rather than visible light so it can see farther and more clearly. Older stars appear as bright eight-pointed spikes in the Webb telescope pictures below due to the way the images are taken. But it also adds to the ethereal nature of each image as we peer farther and farther into infinity.
A Holiday Galaxy
The James Webb Space Telescope shared this festive image just in time for the holiday season. Galaxy NGC 7469‘s spiral looks like a wreath, complete with glowing lights. The large red starburst is actually made up of spikes from the telescope’s hexagonal mirrors caused by the light from the galaxy’s center. The gas and dust shines brightly as it falls into a black hole, but doesn’t it look lovely? Scientists are excited about the star-forming regions they can now see thanks to the telescope’s infrared cameras. But it’s also the perfect image for this year’s holiday card.
An Illuminating Protostar
A new star, “only” about 100,000 years old, is forming in the neck of this cosmic hourglass. The protostar L1527 itself is hidden in this view, but the light it creates illuminates clouds of gas and dust that are being sucked inwards. The vivid pinks, oranges, and blues are only visible in the infrared light of the James Webb Space Telescope. As the star ages, it gathers these nearby materials into its accretion disk, gaining mass and eventually reaching the size and stability of a full star.
The James Webb Space Telescope Captures the Pillars of Creation
The first image of the Pillars of Creation from the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 is one of the most widely seen space photos. Now the James Webb Space Telescope adds its remarkable abilities to share even more of the wonder that is the Pillars of Creation with the world.
The near-infrared view of this cosmic nursery 6,500 light years away reveals many new details. The red dots seen on the edges of the top pillar are young stars, only a few hundred thousand years old. The red lava-like areas in the other pillars are ejections of hydrogen molecules from still-forming stars. The entire image is eight light years across but represents only a small area of the Eagle Nebula. This image from the James Webb Space Telescope is truly astounding.
In addition, we also got to see a slightly more creepy version of the Pillars of Creation courtesy of the James Webb Space Telescope. This rendition was taken with the telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). The first image, meanwhile, was taken with the telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). This second view allows researchers to see concentrations of gas and dust. But it also makes for another amazing, slightly horror-movie-inspired image from the James Webb Telescope.
Dust Rings Around Binary Stars
The James Webb Space Telescope imaged a system with two enormous stars, each 25-30 times more massive than our Sun. Called Wolf-Rayet 140, their orbits bring them close together about every eight years. The gravitational forces push out a huge dust cloud when that happens. Previous images from ground-based telescopes could see two dust rings, but the new image from JWST shows at least 17. Check out this video from JPL for a visualization of the two stars orbiting each other and a comparison to the older images.
Neptune’s Rings in Focus Courtesy of the JWST
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest view of Neptune’s ring in more than 30 years. We see the rings and the planet’s fainter dust bands. Neptune system expert and interdisciplinary scientist Heidi Webb said, “It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we’ve seen them in the infrared.”
The image above of the Tarantula Nebula is 340 light years across. It introduces us to tens of thousands of stars never seen before because they were lost in the dust of Hubble’s view. The region forms news stars, which appear pale blue. And in case you’re trying to find the eight-legged creature the nebula is named for, apparently it looks like a tarantula’s burrow with silk around the entry, rather than the spider itself. The video below also shows the mid-infrared image from the Webb Telescope. Gases and cosmic dust glow turquoise and purple. It’s beautiful to us casual observers, but adds even more data for astronomers.
The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals the Phantom Galaxy
Also known as M74, the Phantom Galaxy is 32 million light years away in the constellation Pisces. When compared to pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, the image from the James Webb Space Telescope cuts through the gas and dust to show off the star clusters at the galaxy’s core. Stars and other distant objects are also visible through patches in the arms of the spiral. Combining the images from the two space telescopes gives astronomers the best of both worlds. The visible and infrared light spectrums provide complementary insights into the mesmerizing center of the Phantom Galaxy.
Exoplanet HIP 65426 b
Images of this faraway planet are the first of one outside of our Solar System. Different cameras and filters on the James Webb Space Telescope provide multiple views and insights to astronomers. HIP 65426 b is a gas giant nine times the mass of Jupiter, but we don’t know much more about it yet. Scientists are analyzing all the new data from the Webb Telescope. They removed the light from the planet’s sun using a coronagraph. Once the much brighter star was masked, the faint planet could finally be photographed.
First Images from the JWST
Keep up with the telescope’s Twitter account to see the newest images and research. These include tests taken right here in our own Solar System. Like stunning views of Jupiter, including aurora and some of its many moons. And plenty of distant targets, like the Cartwheel Galaxy and its swirling dust clouds. And of course the first images, including a deep field view that included the oldest and farthest away objects ever photographed.
Originally published September 6, 2022.
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By Inas Younis, New Age Islam
25 January, 2015
Last Week U.S state Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called on Saudi Arabia to review blogger and activist Raif Badawi’s case and asked them to “cancel this brutal punishment.”
Badawi was arrested back in 2012 and charged with “insulting Islam through electronic channels” and “going beyond the realm of obedience.” He was charged and sentenced with ten years in prison, a two hundred and sixty six thousand dollar fine, and one thousand public lashings. Now the spotlight just happens to be on this particular case at the moment, but just to give you some perspective, this month alone the Saudi government beheaded ten people. And back in 2011, a year before Badawi was arrested, a Saudi woman was executed for ‘witchcraft and sorcery’. There are countless other cases of human rights abuses, all of them equally disturbing, but you get the point.
The idea that a hundred billion dollars of Saudi money has bought them silence from the international community and specifically from the United States is not exactly accurate. This latest onslaught of denunciations in the Badawi case has convinced me that global condemnations has done more to advance Saudi interests than any kind of silent treatment. Instead of silence by official sources, like the state department and human rights organizations, we are being treated to the soothing balm of civilized and polished statements imploring the Saudi government to “review and cancel”.
What is there to review and cancel? Are we calling on the Saudi regime to cancel this punishment or to cancel the implementation of all cruel corporeal punishments in general? And what is there to review? Are we demanding that they review whether one hundred lashes versus one thousand would pass some kind of United Nations litmus test?
Instead of issuing a statement demanding the release of this innocent man, who has committed no crime, the state department has asked that the public flogging be cancelled, with no mention of the prison sentence or fine. To further mask the obscenity of these negotiations, the case of Raif Badawi was recently referred to the Supreme Court.
Are we to believe that a Supreme court is going to review whether flogging is a legitimate form of punishment for a crime that the international community does not even recognize as a crime? Are we expected to pretend that there is an actual procedure and due process to the application of tyranny?
What one hundred billion dollars worth of Saudi Money has bought is not our silence, but our participation in a simulated judicial process with a policies and procedures protocol designed to enforce just one edict: “what the monarch says goes.” Sadly, even Badawi’s wife has been intimidated into prostrating to the Saudi establishment by pleading on behalf of her husband and insisting that:
“Badawi had written several essays in which he praised Saudi officials for showing signs of reformist ideology and had never criticized his religion of Islam or the Saudi monarchy.”
The implicit suggestion she is being forced to make is that she believes that if her husband had attacked the Saudi monarchy or took issue with their clerics, then punitive action would have been warranted. Condemnations, while necessary, seem to do little more than reinforce the pretensions of a mock system which does not appear to exist except as a public relationship device.
But just to be fair, we need to put a few other things in perspective. First, can we afford to hold hundreds of billions of dollars and peoples livelihoods, not to mention risk our security with Iran, up against the flogging of one man? Or perhaps the more pertinent question is not whether we can afford to risk so much to save one man, but why can Saudi Arabia afford to risk so much to assert their power to flog him.
The answer is that, for the Saudis this is not about one man, this is about preserving the status quo and the Saudi establishment’s anachronistic level of awareness. What we have done with our sanitized denunciations is shamefully reduce a critical moral imperative to being about one man who may or may not be flogged depending on how much pressure we are willing to exert. We are being led to believe that if Badawi is released we have cause to celebrate, even thought in principle we have already lost. Because this is not about one man. This is about right and wrong, good and bad, justice and tyranny. This pre- test to the real test. Will we do the right thing?
The Saudi Government has enough impudence to win any standoff. And I suspect they will continue to manufacture discord. Because with every incident of this kind, they will be reminding the modern world that we have abdicated moral certitude by confessing through our actions that we will do business at any cost to our collective conscience.
This is not to say that any nation should physically intervene. We need only to regain the moral certainty, without any disclaimers, that we are not obligated to lend their actions any legitimacy by requesting that they make concessions. We need to recognize that the only difference between the human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and those of any other illicit gang is that a criminal does not expect his victims to sanction his crime with the pretense that he is exercising a right over them. Delaying lashes, or decreasing the number of lashes from a thousand to one hundred are meaningless gestures. If the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia intends to flog their citizens, behead them, imprison women for driving, and deprive them of sunlight, then let them do it in broad day light so the world can see with greater clarity, just how reprehensible their laws are. We need to leave them at the mercy of the one billion Badawi's who might one day be able to do what the most powerful government in the world could not; and that is to say to the kingdom and its monarch- you have no power over us.
If the free world is ever to claim the kind of power that only moral certitude can grant it, they must simply do the right thing. That is the only way to introduce the modern world to the Medieval one, and to show them once and for all, that Allah is on our side.
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At year’s end, the insurance company compares paid claims to the amount contributed by the employer. The employer receives a refund if the total claims and expenses are less than the employer’s contributions for the year.
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Level funding insurance may be the right choice for small and mid-sized businesses that want to gain more control over their insurance plans. It is also a suitable option for businesses that want access to claims data and to pay a consistent monthly premium. Level funding is an excellent option for businesses that want to operate a self-funded plan that will align with their risk tolerance, cash flow, budgeting methods and employee numbers.
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With level funding insurance, companies have the benefit of consistent and predictable health costs. In addition, they only pay for healthcare costs that their employees actually incur. Level funded health plans enable employers to combine administrative expenses and claims coverage to create a regular monthly premium. This option takes all the guesswork out of monthly payments.
This kind of insurance offers the advantages of self-funding while limiting its disadvantages. For lower-risk groups, monthly premiums are generally much lower than the premium a group would need to pay for the same benefits under ACA community rating rules.
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by MIKE BAILEY
FRENCH LICK, Indiana – When you think about the great one-two combinations of golf courses, you might not think of the state of Indiana. But you should. Because the two courses at French Lick Resort in the southern part of the state are incredibly challenging and spectacular. And they’re in a unique resort environment that includes a domed hotel with a great history, casino, excellent dining and a few more features.
I’m talking about the Pete Dye Course, which will play host this October to the Korn Ferry Championship Presented by United Leading & Finance; and the Donald Ross Course, a classic design that first opened in 1917.
The Dye and Ross courses, ranked no. 1 and no. 2 respectively by Golfweek, have plenty of history. The Ross staged the 1924 PGA Championship won by Walter Hagen. And the Dye Course since it opened in 2009, has been the site of lots of big events, including the Senior PGA Championship in 2015 as well as staging the LPGA Senior Championship, first played there in 2017.
The bottom line is that both these golf courses are incredible tests and beautiful to boot. If you’ve never been there, this is bucket-list type golf. And as golf participation continues to soar since the pandemic, this is the time to start thinking about a visit.
“We continue to see record growth in golf,” says Dave Harner, French Lick Resort’s director of golf. “We’ve already surpassed our 2023 package sales, and we’re really not even into the season yet.”
One of the things that makes a golf experience special here is that these two courses couldn’t be more different, and they complement each other well.
The Dye Course is, well, difficult, among other things. During the PGA Professional Championship held there in 2010, many of the players didn’t break 80 in some of their rounds. The same happened in the Senior PGA. The cutline in the 2015 event year was 8-over-par, and these were the best senior players in the world. So you definitely want to play the appropriate tees because the approaches are tricky and you don’t want to be coming in with long clubs if you can help it.
But you’d be hard-pressed to find a more beautiful course or intriguing one, for that matter. It’s located at the highest point in the area, and sometimes when you play it early, you might feel like you’re in the clouds if there’s fog that’s rolled in. The conditioning is always incredible, and every hole is captivating. It’s a course with illusions, fascinating greens complexes, and elevation changes.
The Dye is a course that I didn’t fully appreciate until I had played it three or four times. It’s not that I wasn’t impressed the first time around; it’s just that it took awhile to start to figure it out. Dye and his co-designers, including wife Alice Dye and Chris Lutzke, crafted a puzzle that you have to put together. So you not only have to hit the ball well, but you’ll need to think your way around this course, too. Oh, and it’s also over 8,100 yards from the tips, so again, pick the right tees.
The Ross Course is hardly a letdown, of course. The former home of the Symetra Tour Donald Ross Classic, the course has few even lies. The greens are treacherous as Ross greens tend to be (stay below the hole), and there’s a wide variety of holes. Some of the uphill shots you’ll have to add a couple of clubs to, and there’s even a cool little par 3 that’s a great hole-in-one candidate if the hole location is right. While it’s just 7,100 yards or so, don’t underestimate it. The Ross is a great test as well.
But while golf is the main attraction, there’s so much else at this resort that’s located in the hometown of basketball great Larry Bird. There are two hotel options, but the one that’s really unusual is the West Baden Springs Hotel, which was arguably the real eighth wonder of the world (not the Houston Astrodome) when it opened in 1901 as the largest freestanding structure in the world. It’s been renovated in recent years and is simply spectacular. The French Lick Springs Hotel is a really nice option as well.
There’s also a 51,000-square-foot casino with all the good stuff, a winery, great spas at both hotels, and lots of terrific dining options. Among the places to eat is 1875: The Steakhouse. Located in the French Lick Springs Hotel, the restaurant’s name honors the first year of the Kentucky Derby, which is conducted at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, of course. And that’s only 74 miles away. So if you’re planning to fly in, Louisville is probably your best option.
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Nowadays, many people are thinking about pursuing careers in the area of actuary job description. This post is for you if you’ve considered becoming an actuary and are eager to learn more about the job. To find out if this is the right career for you, continue reading to explore the actuarial job description.
Below are the Example of Actuary Job Description:
One Example Of A Job Description
A self-starter and creative person with a strong drive to collaborate with Product Management and other teams to integrate statistical rigor and analysis into routine procedures are sought after by ABC Company. The ideal candidate will be well-versed in business principles and have a track record of developing innovative ideas for the firm and putting those ideas into practice.
The person in this job assists the Actuarial Manager and team by locating business problems, analyzing the causes of the issues, and formulating solutions to enhance overall business performance. This includes performing analysis inside a chosen business segment to evaluate its reserves and profitability and financial planning.
Responsibilities Listed in The Job Description For An Actuary
- Analyze indications, working with product managers to determine and predict the effects of changing markets, products, and economies on profitability and rate needs
- Forecast premiums and losses in conjunction with Finance and Product, evaluating the expected variations in such projections.
- Conduct reserving analysis utilizing conventional and unconventional techniques, create new designs, and use them as necessary.
- Model weather occurrences, economic shifts, and changes in the composition of the firm and how they affect reserves and rate need
- Determine how reserves and reserve variability will be affected by changes in claim practices and business mix; design and evaluate key metrics and exhibits to help with this estimation.
- Effectively convey analysis results to peers and senior management across the company through presentations and writing.
Job description for an actuary’s qualifications
- FCAS or close to FCAS with recent exam passing achievement and a desire to succeed FCAS
- 4-6+ years of experience studying P&C insurance while applying statistical models and approaches in the real world, excellent interpersonal and communication abilities that enable efficient engagement with coworkers and executives
- Strong project management skills to see ideas through to fruition. Excellent statistical, programming, and data management skills
The second example of a job description
responsibilities and obligations
- Utilize cutting-edge actuarial methods for all activities.
- Ensure pricing equity across the membership and assist management in maintaining the pricing discipline needed to fulfil corporate goals.
- To properly conduct analyses, create and manage a variety of actuarial/financial models and excel spreadsheets.
- To obtain interim and annual actuarial information, coordinate with external actuarial and auditing firms.
- To be informed of changes in the law and, maintain proper external ties, maintain adequate industry participation.
- help the management set annual production objectives
- Provide reinsurers, auditors, actuaries, and other professionals with the necessary claims and profitability history, perspective, and analysis.
- Regularly provide management with statistical data and performance reports on the business.
- Recognize and abide by all corporate rules and regulations.
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Job description for an actuary’s skills and aptitudes
- Possibility of maintaining actuarial qualifications by legislation and the ability to use sound actuarial principles
- Ability to use actuarial analysis and recommendations to apply practical knowledge about the company’s activities.
- an apparent ability to support research and rationally justify management recommendations
- high levels of an organization
- the ability to handle several jobs while responding to written and spoken requests
- paired with a strong sense of confidentiality, high levels of diplomacy and tact
- Exceptional oral and written communication abilities, including the capacity to create concise and clear program documentation, user instructions, work reports, and other written materials.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to guide real-world uses of modern information technology, computer hardware, and software
- adept in translating customer demands into practical implementations
- The capacity to gather, evaluate, and advocate tactical and strategic action from pertinent data
- Team player having the ability to inspire and enthuse management and coworkers
- able to discuss the strengths and limitations of computer hardware, software, and information technology trends
- expert understanding of the actuarial science used in commercial insurance
- Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook proficiency
- A proficient Excel user. It would be ideal to have some VBA experience.
- Has experience using relational databases and SQL and is adept at working with massive data sets.
Experience of actuary job description
Five years of experience in multi-line actuarial work
Strong preference for prior senior leadership experience working under a CFO.
Education of actuary job description
CAS Designation and an A.S. or B.S. in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, or a related discipline
Average Salary and benefits for the job description of an actuary
In the United States, an actuary makes a median yearly compensation of $108,000. Experience, location, industry, and firm size will all impact the Salary.
The bottom 10% earned less than $64,860, while the top 10% made more than $193,600. Most actuaries are full-time employees. However, some put in more than 40 hours a week. Actuaries’ employment is expected to increase by 20% between 2018 and 2028, which is substantially faster than the average for all occupations.
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Redistricting round-up: Census Bureau suggests data can be available to states, in legacy format, in August
On March 15, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that redistricting data could be made available to states in a legacy format by mid-to-late August 2021: “In declarations recently filed in the case of Ohio v. Raimondo, the U.S. Census Bureau made clear that we can provide a legacy format summary redistricting data file to all states by mid-to-late August 2021. Because we recognize that most states lack the capacity or resources to tabulate the data from these summary files on their own, we reaffirm our commitment to providing all states tabulated data in our user-friendly system by Sept. 30, 2021.” The legacy format would present the data in raw form, without the data tables and other access tools the Bureau will ultimately prepare for the states.
Earlier: On Feb. 12, the U.S. Census Bureau announced it would deliver redistricting data to the states by Sept. 30. This followed the Bureau’s announcement on Jan. 27 that it would deliver final apportionment counts by April 30. Under its original operational timeline, the Census Bureau was scheduled to deliver apportionment counts by Dec. 31, 2020, and redistricting data by March 31.
The census, reapportionment, and redistricting: The census is conducted every 10 years and kickstarts the entire redistricting process. Article I, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution requires that congressional representatives be apportioned to the states on the basis of population. The U.S. House of Representatives has 435 members. Consequently, a state may gain representatives in the House if its population grows or lose representatives if its population decreases, relative to populations in other states.
Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, and Texas are all expected to gain between one and three representatives each. Meanwhile, Alabama, California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and West Virginia are expected to lose representatives. These estimates are subject to change.
Federal law requires that congressional and state legislative districts have equal populations (as nearly as practicable). To meet this requirement, redistricting authorities rely on detailed Census Bureau data.
Alabama: State sues over census statistical methods, data delay
On March 11, the state of Alabama sued the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Census Bureau in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Alabama Solicitor General Edmund G. LaCour, Jr. alleged the U.S. Census Bureau “intends to use a statistical method called differential privacy to intentionally skew the population tabulations given to States to use for redistricting.” This would prevent Alabama from having “accurate information about where Alabamians actually live.” LaCour also challenged the U.S. Census Bureau’s announced delay in delivering redistricting data to the states: “The Bureau has no authority to grant itself this extension and deprive Alabama of information to which it is entitled.” He asked that the court bar the use of the differential privacy method and direct the U.S. Census Bureau to deliver data to the states by March 31. On March 26, Judge R. Austin Huffaker, a Donald Trump (R) appointee, ordered a three-judge panel to consider the case.
- Case name and number: Alabama v. U.S. Department of Commerce (3:21-cv-00211).
Ohio: U.S. district court dismisses suit over census data delay
On March 25, Judge Thomas Rose, a George W. Bush (R) appointee, dismissed an Ohio lawsuit over the Census Bureau’s delay in delivering redistricting data to the states. Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers said, “The unavailability of decennial census data irreparably harms the State: the Ohio Constitution requires the State to use decennial census data during redistricting if the data is available, and allows the use of alternative data sources only as a second-best option. By blocking the State from conducting redistricting using decennial census data, the Census Bureau’s decision prevents the State from conducting redistricting in the constitutionally preferred manner.” Flowers sought “an injunction either prohibiting the defendants from delaying the release of Ohio’s redistricting data beyond March 31, 2021, or else requiring the defendants to provide the State with Ohio’s population data at the earliest date this Court deems equitable.” Rose denied the state’s request, writing, “The Court will therefore reject Ohio’s request for an order that pretends that the Census Bureau could provide census-based redistricting data by March 31, 2021. The Court cannot ‘order a party to jump higher, run faster, or lift more than she is physically capable.’” The state appealed Rose’s decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, where it is currently pending.
- Case name and number: Ohio v. Coggins (U.S. District Court: 3:21-cv-00064; U.S. Court of Appeals: 0:21-cv-03294).
Oregon: State supreme court proposes condensed timeline for legislative redistricting
On March 10, Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek (D) and Senate President Peter Courtney (D), on behalf of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, sued Secretary of State Shemia Fagan (D) in the Oregon Supreme Court, asking the court to extend the state’s constitutional deadlines on legislative redistricting. In their complaint, attorneys for the plaintiffs said, “[Unless] this Court (1) enjoins the Secretary of State from moving forward with apportionment and (2) extends the deadlines set forth in Article IV, section 6 (and allows reapportionment to occur in a special legislative session), reapportionment will either not be done at all or will be done using old Census data that will result in malapportioned legislative districts. Neither result is constitutionally palatable.” Under Article IV, Section 6, the legislature has until July 1 of the year following the census to adopt new legislative district maps. If the legislature fails to do so, the secretary of state has until Aug. 15 to adopt a legislative district plan. The plaintiffs asked the court to extend these deadlines to three months following the release of census data (expected by Sept. 30).
On March 19, the Oregon Supreme Court proposed the following timeline:
Drafting and responses:
- Oct. 15, 2021: Deadline for state legislature to adopt its own plan.
- Oct. 22, 2021: Deadline for the secretary of state to adopt a plan if the legislature fails to do so.
- Nov. 19, 2021: Deadline for electors to object to new district plan.
- Dec. 3, 2021: Deadline for the legislature, secretary of state, and others to respond.
- Dec. 10, 2021: Deadline for the submission of reply briefs.
Judicial review and enactment:
- Dec. 17, 2021: Deadline for the state supreme court to file its opinion approving of the redistricting plan.
- Dec. 31, 2021: Deadline for the state supreme court to file opinion rejecting the redistricting plan.
- Dec. 28, 2022: Deadline for the secretary of state to submit a revised plan.
- Feb. 11, 2022: Deadline for the state supreme court to make final revisions to the redistricting plan.
Attorneys for state lawmakers said they support the court’s proposal: “Implementing this Court’s tentative amended deadlines is the least disruptive option, given the extraordinary Census data delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and is the only option that ensures that all of the parties responsible for reapportionment—including the Legislative Assembly—are able to exercise their constitutional role in the reapportionment process.” Fagan’s office opposed the proposal: “The Secretary supports initially using non-census data to draw maps that can subsequently be evaluated—and revised if necessary—in light of the census. The Secretary continues to believe that this approach will achieve the most timely and accurate solution to this difficult problem, without requiring this court to significantly rewrite the Oregon Constitution.”
- Case name and number: Oregon ex rel. Kotek v. Fagan (S068364).
Federal courts in Georgia, Michigan strike down ballot access requirements for select candidates
On March 29, federal courts in Georgia and Michigan struck down ballot access requirements for select candidates.
On March 29, Judge Leigh Martin May, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, struck down a Georgia law requiring minor-party and unaffiliated candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives to submit petitions signed by at least 5 percent of the district’s registered voters. May, a Barack Obama (D) appointee, ruled that this requirement “overburdens [voters’ and candidates’] rights to vote and to associate with their preferred political party, and so it violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments.”
In her order, May contrasted the 5% signature requirement for U.S. House candidates with the 1% requirement for statewide candidates, “The [Georgia] General Assembly has deemed a 1% petition signature requirement adequate to guard against ballot crowding and frivolous candidacies on a statewide basis. It is not immediately clear why candidates for non-statewide office must clear a proportionally higher hurdle, the 5% petition signature requirement. [The state] has not offered any explanation for this disparity.”
May directed the plaintiffs (the Libertarian Party of Georgia) to submit a brief within three weeks on proposed remedies. The state will then have an opportunity to respond before May issues further guidance.
Under the 5% signature requirement, originally enacted in 1943, no minor-party candidate for the U.S. House has qualified for the general election ballot. In 2020, minor-party or unaffiliated candidates would have needed between 19,777 and 26,539 signatures in order to qualify for the ballot (the number varied by congressional district).
It is not clear whether the state will appeal the decision.
- Case name and number: Cowen v. Kemp (1:17-cv-04660).
On March 29, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision striking down Michigan’s petition requirement for unaffiliated candidates for statewide office. Writing for the court, Karen Moore (a Bill Clinton (D) appointee) said, “[It] is our responsibility to ensure that Michigan’s provisions for qualifying independent candidates for statewide office fall within the bounds of what the First and Fourteenth Amendments require. Our careful review of the facts and circumstances leads us to conclude that the 30,000-signature requirement, geographic-distribution requirement, and filing deadline, when viewed in combination, unconstitutionally burden Plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights.” Judge Ronald Lee Gilman (also a Clinton appointee) joined Moore’s opinion. Judge Richard Griffin (a George W. Bush (R) appointee) dissented.
The district court had earlier reduced the petition signature requirement for unaffiliated statewide candidates to 12,000, an order the state appealed. The appellate court upheld the district court’s remedy, calling it a “workable interim provision.”
It is not clear whether the state intends to appeal the appellate panel’s decision.
- Case name and number: Graveline v. Johnson (U:S District Court: 2:18-cv-12354; U.S. Court of Appeals: 0:20-cv-01337).
Legislation update: Redistricting, electoral systems, and primary systems bills
Redistricting legislation: So far this year, we’ve tracked at least 120 redistricting-related bills up for consideration in state legislatures.
Redistricting legislation in the United States, 2021
Current as of April 7, 2021
Electoral systems legislation: So far this year, we’ve tracked at least 131 bills dealing with electoral systems that are up for consideration in state legislatures.
Electoral systems legislation in the United States, 2021
Current as of April 7, 2021
Primary systems legislation: So far this year, we’ve tracked at least 16 bills dealing with primary systems that are up for consideration in state legislatures.
Primary systems legislation in the United States, 2021
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Troubled Youths Struggle After Detention Center Stay
Dr. Karen Abram |
The kids who pass through juvenile detention facilities are among the most troubled youths in the community. How do they fare a few years after this significant brush with the legal system?
Researchers from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine interviewed youths ages 13 to 22 who had been detained in Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center to see how they were doing three years later. They found that more than 90 percent were struggling in their lives and more than 20 percent were severely impaired in their ability to function. The severely impaired group had been expelled from school, broken the law, and were addicted to drugs.
“This study highlights that we have failed to provide effective rehabilitation for these kids. We need to intervene early,” said Karen M. Abram, PhD lead author and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Feinberg School. “There is a dearth of services for these kids. They need help in multiple areas over a sustained period of time.”
Abram suggests that interventions should include “wraparound” services in which an interdisciplinary team of professionals develop a treatment plan and service agencies work together to provide appropriate care. She said these youths need treatment for psychiatric disorders—especially addictions—as well educational and vocational training and social skills.
“These kids need alternatives to their criminal lifestyle,” said Dr. Abram, who also is associate director of the Psycho-Legal Studies Program at Feinberg. “We need to provide effective services. If we don’t, there are ongoing costs, both to these kids and to society.”
The paper was published on-line in the Journal of Adolescent Health and will appear in the print edition in the spring.
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A joint letter from Professor Dame Janet Beer, Vice-Chancellor, and Matt Ashton, Director of Public Health, Liverpool City Council:
We are writing to let you know about an important change to teaching arrangements across the University. This change will see more classes being taught online as an additional measure to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 in our local community.
You will no doubt be aware that, over recent weeks, the number of cases of the virus in Liverpool and the surrounding area has increased significantly. This change is a result of more transmission of the virus among all age groups and in many different settings.
At the same time, we have been carefully monitoring cases among the University community on a daily basis, aided by the use of the University’s own testing facility on campus. This has identified a number of cases among the student population, along with a relatively small number among staff, consistent with the wider increase in case numbers across the city.
In this context we have held discussions, also involving neighbouring universities, to agree how we can all, working together, best support efforts to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 across the city.
Changes to teaching arrangements
We have today agreed that face-to-face teaching will, for the rest of this month, be limited to essential delivery for students in clinical, laboratory and other practice-based disciplines, and that required for professional accreditation. The campus is a safe place to be but, by further reducing face-to-face teaching, we will contribute to the city’s wider goal of reducing interaction between different household groups and help to reduce the spread of the virus.
The change will take place with immediate effect, initially until Friday 30 October. These arrangements will be reviewed on Friday 23 October, again on the basis of latest public health insight and further discussion with neighbouring universities, and we will communicate further with you at that time.
It has always been the University’s commitment to you, and to students, that the response to the pandemic is guided first and foremost by the goal of helping everyone to protect their overall wellbeing. The aim of delivering an element of face-to-face teaching to all students was driven by that goal, as the significant benefits of being able to meet fellow students and academic staff in person are widely understood.
However, at this time it is clear that the University community needs to take new steps to help Liverpool combat the pandemic. We have not made this decision lightly and the intention is to reintroduce an element of face-to-face teaching for all students at the earliest opportunity, when COVID-19 cases in the city are under greater control.
We know that this means that some students will, at least during October, be taught wholly online. Libraries and other facilities will still be open, with bookable spaces and arrangements in place to help maintain a safe environment. The University is also working with the Guild of Students to deliver a wide range of activities students can participate in beyond their academic programme and will be adding further to this over the coming days. The potential impact of the pandemic on students’ mental wellbeing is one of our key concerns at this time and students will continue to be offered many different social activities together with emotional and welfare support.
Public health advice strongly encourages students to remain in their current accommodation and not to return to a family home or other location at this time. It is of course also essential that those who are self-isolating continue to do so.
We are sending you this email to let you know about this decision as soon as possible and we will shortly be sending a similar message to students. Heads of departments and schools will now need to urgently review teaching schedules to identify and communicate the detail of the changes to be introduced as a result of this announcement. We recognise that making these adjustments is an additional burden at an already very busy time and would like to thank all colleagues across the University for continuing efforts to make the best possible provision available to the students.
The campus will continue to be open for a range of purposes, with significant safety measures in place.
Last and by no means least, may we take the opportunity to remind you of the need for the whole University community to continue to unite against the spread of COVID-19. We saw over the summer how, with everyone working together, the virus can be kept under control.
The three key steps we can take as individuals – wearing a face covering, regularly washing our hands, and maintaining a safe distance from anyone from another household – make an enormous difference. By collectively following this advice, and the various regulations in place locally and nationally, we can help Liverpool and the University return to a greater sense of normality as soon as possible. | <urn:uuid:feefc9d1-3ac3-40c8-ad51-a1e6bf6cf8d7> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2020/10/08/joint-letter-from-the-vice-chancellor-and-the-director-of-public-health-for-liverpool/ | 2024-04-24T03:16:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.97025 | 965 |
Next Generation Web Experience: Frequently Asked Questions
Last updated: August 1, 2019
The following frequently asked questions have been compiled from feedback we have received from the U of M community about the NGWE project. These questions will be updated regularly as the project progresses.
Have a question that isn’t answered here? Contact ngwe [at] umanitoba [dot] ca
WHAT IS THE NEXT GENERATION WEBSITE EXPERIENCE PROJECT?
The Next Generation Website Experience (NGWE) is an initiative to create a modern, user-focused umanitoba.ca for the entire university community.
Benefits of the new umanitoba.ca will include:
- User-centred design, improving navigation and search
- Responsive design, supporting mobile users
- An accessible experience
- New visual design along with a framework for a common look and feel around the site
- Improved performance management and measurement capabilities
- Improved web capabilities through a modern Content Management System (CMS), Drupal
Our website is the University’s most important communication tool, it’s the first impression of the University of Manitoba. Our current website was designed when websites were just for sharing information and can no longer meet user’s expectations for a great online experience due to its age.
WHO IS LEADING THE PROJECT?
The NGWE project sponsor is John Kearsey, Vice-President (External) and the project executives are Lori Yarchuk, Associate Vice-President, Marketing Communications and Mario Lebar, Chief Information Officer. Members of the NGWE project board include:
- Jeff Adams, Student Affairs
- Greg Bak, Faculty of Arts
- Doug Brown, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
- Christine Cyr, Indigenous Engagement
- Jay Doering, Research and International
- Kyra Fanning, UMSU as of May 1, 2019
- Adam Gerhard, IST
- Paul Lacap, MCO
- Ben Li, Faculty of Science
- Lisa O’Hara, Libraries
- Ruth Shead, Indigenous Engagement
- Darlene Smith, Human Resources (HR)
- Ehsan Tahmasebian, UM Graduate Students’ Association
- Mark Torchia, Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
- Reg Urbanowski, College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Thank you to Carl Neumann, UM Graduate Students’ Association and Owen Black, UMSU VP External for their support and contributions while serving on the board.
WHEN WILL THE NEW UMANITOBA.CA LAUNCH?
You will see the new website when you wake up on August 8, 2019.
HOW ARE WE TRANSITIONING TO THE NEW WEBSITE?
The NGWE project contains five phases. We are currently in phase 3.
Our approach has been to focus on the university’s strategic priorities, transitioning to the new website in a gradual staged approach.
On Thursday, August 8 we will reveal phase one of the new site, reflecting a select number of top level pages.
Following the initial launch we will gradually migrate content in stages. Faculty and department web content will move to the new website over the next 18 months.
As we transition, RedDot and Drupal will run in tandem.
Following is a tentative release schedule with Release 1 being migrated in the fall of 2019. This is a draft schedule. The project team will work with each unit to refine the release migration plan.
RELEASE 1 | RELEASE 2 | RELEASE 3 |
Agriculture | Law | Health Sciences |
Architecture | Health Sciences | Arts |
Ancillary Services | Asper | Engineering |
External Relations | Faculty of Music | The Centre |
KinRec | School of Art | IST |
Indigenous Engagement (o/s) | Social Work | |
Grad Studies (o/s) | Education and Extended Education | |
Student Affairs (o/s) | Research (o/s) |
RELEASE 4 | RELEASE 5 | RELEASE 6 |
Health Sciences | Health Sciences | Health Sciences |
Arts | Environment | Human Resources |
Colleges | Legal | Administration |
Institutional Analysis |
Research Centres |
HOW DO WE STREAMLINE THE LARGE VOLUME OF CONTENT ON OUR EXISTING WEBSITE?
Reducing the volume of content on umanitoba.ca will improve the user experience. There is content for a variety of audiences including students, prospective students, researchers, alumni, staff, retirees, the community and many more! To better meet the needs of all our audiences, the plan is to introduce a protected tool (Intranet) along with our new website, which will be available by the end of 2019.
HOW IS CONTENT FOR THE NEW WEBSITE BEING CREATED AND/OR MIGRATED?
The process for content creation and migration includes the NGWE project team, the Marketing Communications Office (MCO), Information Services and Technology (IST), our campus partners and –– for the Initial Site –– our partner vendor Domain7. After Initial Site launch, and for the duration of the site migration, content creators and quality assurance experts on a newly formed NGWE Site Migration team will be supporting new content creation and migration.
All content created for the website during the NGWE project will be reviewed within the Marketing Communications Office (MCO) and by the respective faculties and units before publication.
HOW HAVE STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF BEEN ENGAGED IN THE PROJECT?
In the last year, more than 1,000 prospective and current students, as well as staff and faculty members, participated in workshops to explore possible website features, information architecture, wireframes, intranet and content lifecycle. In addition, close to 700 participated in online testing on the information architecture with most testers being prospective and current university students.
HOW HAS THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY BEEN ENGAGED IN THE PROJECT?
The project board includes Christine Cyr and Ruth Shead from Indigenous Engagement who have been instrumental in informing direction at each stage of the project. Additionally, Indigenous stakeholders from across campus have participated in many of the NGWE workshops and sessions that have been required for discovery, design and development.
HOW WILL U OF M ENSURE CONTENT IS ACCESSIBLE?
The U of M’s new Content Management System (CMS) is designed to support sites that comply with accessibility standards WCAG 2.0 and ATAG 2.0. Also, accessibility standards will be included in content guidelines to ensure everyone keeps accessibility top of mind when creating web content.
WHO DO I ASK TO MAKE A CONTENT UPDATE?
Feel free to reach out to your contact in the Marketing Communications Office or the site migration team.
WHAT ABOUT TEMPLATES?
The new website is being built using a Design System that includes a large Component Library and guidelines around those components. There will be an ability for units to create pages that align with their specific content needs and priorities.
WILL A NEW VISUAL IDENTITY BE PART OF THE NEW WEBSITE?
Yes! The new website will launch with an exciting new look and feel.
WHAT WILL REPLACE REDDOT?
Drupal is the CMS that will replace RedDot. Drupal is a popular CMS in the higher education sector, widely used across the U15 and at top colleges in the U.S. Drupal will allow authors to easily update content and configure their sites with additional functionality to meet specific requirements.
WILL DRUPAL CONNECT WITH EXISTING PLATFORMS OR FEEDS?
There are many third-party platforms that are linked from our current website. Some can be easily integrated with Drupal. The NGWE project team will be connecting with faculties and units about third-party integration throughout the project.
IS THERE A BROWSER PREFERENCE FOR DRUPAL?
There is no preference, Drupal works well with any modern browser.
THE NEW WEBSITE IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE IMPROVED SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY BUT THE SEARCH ISN’T WORKING WELL. WHY ISN’T SEARCH IMPROVED?
The search functionality is currently based on Google Search tools which are continually crawling through the internet to find new content. A copy of this content is then saved and used for Search. It often takes a couple weeks for new content to be incorporated into search tools.
WHERE DID PEOPLE SEARCH AND RESEARCH EXPERTS SEARCH GO? WHY IS IT NO LONGER ON THE HEADER?
People Search and Research Experts Search has been moved to the Footer of the main page. This tool has been moved making it still accessible to those who need it while minimizing use by those accessing it to solicit staff and students.
IF I’M A CONTENT CREATOR, HOW DOES THIS IMPACT MY WORK?
The new content management system, Drupal, is easy to use. The transition from Reddot to Drupal will simplify your web content updates and also make is easier for our students and researchers to access information. We ask for you to be patient and keep an open mind on how we can use these tools to best support learning and research as we develop the new content together.
WILL TRAINING BE PROVIDED?
Yes. The NGWE project team is currently developing a training strategy and plan.
HOW AM I SUPPORTED?
Questions, or Feedback: Connect with the project team through NGWE [at] umanitoba [dot] ca
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This book and the study of the Middle East
This study takes the Middle East to be constituted around an Arab core, with a shared identity but fragmented into multiple territorial states; the core is flanked by a periphery of non-Arab states – Turkey, Iran and Israel – which are an intimate part of the region’s conflicts and an integral part of its balance of power. Because the Middle East’s unique features defy analyses based on anyone conceptual approach to international relations, this study will deploy a combination of several to capture its complex reality
The Middle East is arguably the epicentre of world crisis, chronically war-prone and the site of the world’s most protracted conflicts. It appears to be the region where the anarchy and insecurity seen by the realist school of international politics as the main feature of states systems remains most in evidence and where the realist paradigm retains its greatest relevance.
Yet neo-realism’s1 a-historical tendency to assume states systems to be unchanging made up of cohesive rational actors, and everywhere the chief determining factor in shaping state behaviour is quite inadequate to understand the Middle East. The regional system, recent and unconsolidated, has been contested by its units as much as it has shaped them and realism’s assumption that conflict is chiefly the inevitable byproduct of a states system’s anarchy misses the main causes of the Middle East’s exceptional war and instability
Core periphery relations
According to structuralist analyses, the Middle East, once an independent civilisation, was turned, under imperialism, into a periphery of the Western-dominated world system. As the location of both Israel and of the world’s concentrated petroleum reserves, the Middle East remains an exceptional magnet for external intervention which, in turn, has kept anti-imperialist nationalism alive long after decolonisation. The region remains, as Brown (1984) argues, a uniquely ‘penetrated system
States and foreign policy
Especially in the Middle East, the state cannot be assumed, as realism does, to be a unitary actor responding chiefly to system-level determinants (external threats and opportunities). Indeed, where this model of the state does not hold, foreign policy may be more 6 The international politics of the Middle East are immediately shaped by domestic conflict or may sacrifice state interests to supra-state ideological causes. An understanding of the behaviour of states, therefore, requires analysing how state formation affects foreign policy and opening the black box of decisionmaking
The regional system: conflict and order
The character of the regional order is the product of its original external imposition and the collective interactions and conflicts of the states that contest or defend it over time. That order, in turn, shapes the character and behaviour of its parts, the states.
The problem of order building
Order in states systems may be built on shared identity and norms where an international society’ is emerging (Bull 1995), or, that lacking, by a contractual ‘international regime’ if there is sufficient interdependence of interests (Krasner 1983). Constructivists have charted the Middle East’s first indigenous attempt to create a regional order, the Pan-Arab regime. Rooted in the Arab world’s common identity, this ‘regime’ enjoined cooperation, enforced by Egyptian hegemony, against shared threats and external domination while limiting inter-Arab conflict to ideological rivalry (Barnett 1998; Sela 1998). | <urn:uuid:98a560da-c5ed-445c-957f-ed92e9cdd13f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://news24fun.com/introduction-to-the-international-politics-of-the-middle-east/ | 2024-04-24T04:08:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.929094 | 703 |
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has berated the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, over his recent comment on the raging minimum wage debate.
In a statement on Friday signed by its Secretary General, Nuhu Toro, the TUC described Onanuga’s position on the proposed minimum wage as baseless speculation.
News360 Info recalls that the presidential aide, during an interview with Arise News on Monday, said it will be difficult for the Tinubu government to peg the proposed new minimum wage at N100,000 as proposed by the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero.
However, according to the TUC, the comment made by Onanuga will serve to sow the seed of discord and undermine trust in the government.
According to the union, the presidential aide hypothetically said that both the federal and state governments would be unable to pay public servants a N100,000 or more national minimum wage if such were approved.
The statement reads: “The attention of TUC has been drawn to speculative and uninformed public pronouncements by the presidency on the ongoing national minimum wage negotiations.
The remarks made by the aide are not only insensitive but also indicative of a disconnect from the realities faced by millions of hardworking individuals striving to make ends meet.
Such speculative statements undermine the fundamental principles of fair compensation and perpetuate the cycle of economic inequality. Tinubu’s government owe workers a duty to advocate for policies that promote decent wages and ensure reasonable standard of living for all citizens, in line with global best practices.”
The TUC said that the federal and state governments, employers and organised labour, are in the preliminary stages of negotiations for the new national minimum wage in the country in accordance with the constitution.
It also urged all Nigerians to support the democratic process of arriving at a living wage and ignore the tantrums and distractions of people who think governance is all about propaganda, not sincerely serving the people.
It added: “No proposals have been made by any of the negotiating partners, including the presidency. No offer has been made, and none has been negotiated. So, the president’s spokesman in bandying around figures, is merely being mischievous. This may well be a strategy to throw spanner in the works of the negotiating body.
“If the presidency has a figure or figures it wants to propose, it should do so through the minimum wage negotiating committee, through social dialogue, determined by the cost-of-living index, rather than behave like a man throwing stones in the marketplace and hiding his hand.
The presidency has knowledgeable people in government that can advise on how proposals are submitted to the negotiating body, rather than allow grossly uninformed speculators like Onanuga to dirty the waters.
Nonetheless, the Congress was not going to dignify Onanuga and his principals with counter-proposals because it is neither how tripartite negotiation works, nor how social dialogue can be carried out.
Rather, we remain focused on executing the socio-economic and patriotic task of giving the country a sustainable living wage.
We urge the working people to ignore and disregard Onanuga and his tribe of gamblers who while milking the country dry, wail that there is no money to pay hardworking Nigerians decent wages.
The TUC also holds that it is immoral for the funds of the country to be frittered away on things such as buying expensive cars worth billions of Naira for politicians in power and their spouses.
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Corporate gifts are an excellent way to express gratitude to clients, customers, and even staff. You may distribute them at events or use them for professional reasons. Businesses pack these presents in rigid boxes to give or send them to others. When you provide the appropriate presents, you will not only make the receivers feel valued, but you will also get some marketing advantages for your business. However, with so many alternatives, selecting the finest presents may be difficult. With a few considerations, though, it should be simple to discover the ideal presents for the appropriate occasions or purposes.
Companies will never run out of events to celebrate. There are always occasions for corporate presents, such as the CEO’s birthday, a public offering, an anniversary, a change in leadership, Christmas, and New Year’s.
Here are the most popular business presents:
How Can You Find Gifts For ladies?
Whether for female executives, a female boss, or a coworker, there is a multitude of excellent corporate gift options. Metal business card holders are ideal for professionals who want to make an impression on customers. Those who have to confine themselves to a desk might welcome picture frames, smartphone holders, and desk clocks. Compacts, key chains, and atomizers are ideal business presents for Christmas or year-end gatherings for ladies on the road.
You may give the elegant business presents in rigid boxes to express gratitude. End-of-year celebrations and business anniversaries are ideal occasions for rewarding workers for their performance, tenure, or for just being excellent role models. In addition to trophies, customized corporate gifts such as money clips, credit card holders, CD cases, paperweights, and clocks are excellent methods of expressing appreciation for a good job.
You May Consider Some Edible business gifts
Shared sweets such as gourmet cookies, candies, coffee-and-mug ensembles, pretzels, chocolates, and food baskets will leave a lasting impression on clients and colleagues. These sorts of company presents are ideal for holidays or as press launch handouts. Include a local dish if you are catering to expatriate personnel. And remember to include customized gift cards! Even though the message is essential, these business gifts will get appreciation if they have a personal touch.
Gifts of relaxation for the stressed-out staff. These days, corporate gifts for stress alleviation are popular. To-go gifts including spa basics, bath sets, foot spa products, do-it-yourself face treatments, and aromatherapy candles are great. Also, add DVDs of jazz or other calming music to the ensemble. But on the weekend, employees will look forward to a leisurely hour at home.
Presents for business partners and customers.
Your Christmas or end-of-year present list should include your business colleagues. Send them business gifts that will make an indelible mark. Gift possibilities include miniature gavel sets for business attorneys, leather cigar cases for prominent clients, glass timers and letter openers for their executive staff, and memento chopsticks for all partners.
Small yet useful gifts Silver, leather, and gold-appearing objects have a high perceived value among receivers. Whether they are cuff links, key chains, letter openers, or baggage tags, these sophisticated business gifts will be very well received.
Desktop presents that will keep giving.
Given the amount of time we spend in the workplace and the number of people that pass by our desks, whether they be coworkers, clients, messengers, or consumers, it is stated that office and desk promotional goods are among the most effective methods to establish a brand. Also, you may consider many corporate gifts to do the job as per your demands. They may include candy dishes, picture frames, alarm clocks, memo holders, and cellphone holders. You may also consider paperweights, timers, scissors and letter openers, and even gameboards. It is useful for you to display them on recipients’ desks. So, you have to ensure that your logo or the contact information is applied properly and will last for years. Also, the process of making luxury rigid boxes is easy to pack these presents.
Use Of Vouchers
When a corporation issues a voucher, a website URL is printed on the voucher. The recipient has about one month to register and use the first coupon. Depending on the excursions your workers choose, the redemption fee ranges from $15 to $50. After the first certificate has been used, a confirmation voucher will be sent out. Depending on the selected package, this coupon must be utilized within the next year or two. Another internet URL will be provided, and your employee will be brought to a page that has information on the trip you or they have selected. With the 7-night, 8-day coupons, it is possible to save $1,000 or more on a few of these trips if the traveler is flexible.
When you or an employee chooses to travel, you visit the offered website, select a property, submit a request via the website, they confirm, and if applicable, you pay the hotel taxes, airport taxes, or any other fees stated at the time of booking. On a $2,000 vacation package, the average redemption value is less than $400. In essence, you are receiving a vacation worth $2,000 for $400 or less.
In many cases, the corporate gifting department pays the minimal activation price and then distributes activated coupons to workers. If the corporate gift donor wishes to offer an employee a great incentive, they may redeem the first certificate and then instruct the employee to visit the website to choose their next trip. The business then pays the average redemption price of $400 or less, and the employee receives a free vacation.
The back-office coupons include the option of buying one get one free flight, cruises, all-inclusive vacations, globe travels, purchasing a week at one of the most popular travel locations and getting two free airfares, and more.
Presents for folks who are traveling
Executives and salesmen who spend a great deal of time in airports or hotels or who are constantly on the road would appreciate travel-themed corporate presents. Pillows, small travel kits, baggage tags, alarm clocks, maps, and garment bags are among the giveaways. In order to pack them, the use of rigid boxes is vital. You may use them to make travel simpler or more pleasant for these regularly travelling employees. Whether an organization has tens of thousands of workers or just a few, the gift of travel is a genuinely unique present to provide to employees throughout the globe. | <urn:uuid:80697634-dfeb-4a82-80c7-fee7037e5e65> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://newsnmediarelease.com/post/main-reasons-to-celebrate-events-with-business-presents/ | 2024-04-24T03:25:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.937598 | 1,358 |
Georgia Cabinet Co: Your Source for Exquisite Kitchen Cabinets and Countertops
When it comes to transforming your kitchen into a culinary haven, look no further than Georgia Cabinet Co. We understand that the kitchen is the heart of your home, and our mission is to provide you with the finest kitchen cabinets and countertops that combine functionality with exceptional aesthetics.
Exquisite Cabinets: Our extensive range of kitchen cabinets is designed to cater to every taste and space. Whether you’re dreaming of a modern, sleek look or a timeless, classic design, we have the perfect cabinets for you. Crafted from premium materials, including solid wood and high-quality laminates, our cabinets are built to withstand the test of time. We offer various finishes and styles to match your unique vision, and our expert team is here to guide you through the selection process.
Luxurious Countertops: At Georgia Cabinet Co, we believe that countertops should be more than just functional; they should be a statement piece in your kitchen. Explore our exquisite selection of countertops, including stunning granite, elegant marble, and durable quartz. Each material offers a distinct blend of beauty and resilience, allowing you to create a kitchen that reflects your personality and lifestyle.
Our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products. We pride ourselves on providing Cabinets and countertops, ensuring that your kitchen remodeling journey is seamless and enjoyable. From design consultation to installation, our experienced team will be with you every step of the way.
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Pixelated Masterpieces: Exploring Classic Arcade Artwork
Classic arcade games have left an indelible mark on the world of gaming, with their simple yet captivating gameplay and iconic pixel art. However, beyond the joysticks and high scores, another facet of these timeless classics often goes underappreciated: the intricate artwork that adorned their cabinets. These pixelated masterpieces represent a unique intersection of art and technology, and they continue to captivate both gamers and art enthusiasts to this day.
During the golden age of arcade gaming in the 1980s, arcade cabinets were designed to catch the eye and entice players. The artwork that graced these cabinets was a key element of this allure. These vibrant, hand-drawn illustrations and designs were essential for drawing players into the virtual worlds they were about to enter. From the iconic Space Invaders to the enigmatic Donkey Kong, each cabinet artwork was a visual gateway to the game’s universe.
The pixel art on these cabinets is a precursor to the pixel art movement that has gained popularity in recent years. Every pixel was a stroke of artistic genius, a testament to the skill of the illustrators who had to work within the constraints of the low-resolution screens of the time. Despite these limitations, arcade art managed to convey character, emotion, and narrative, all with a limited palette and pixel density. This art was a reflection of the creativity and resourcefulness of the artists who designed it.
For many, the arcade cabinet artwork holds a deep nostalgic value. It serves as a portal to a bygone era, a reminder of afternoons spent in dimly lit arcades, pockets full of quarters, and the excitement of challenging friends or setting high scores. Today, collectors and enthusiasts actively seek out and preserve these classic cabinets, ensuring that the artwork remains intact and appreciated.
The enduring appeal of Classic Arcade Artwork is a testament to its timelessness. In an age of hyper-realistic graphics and immersive virtual reality, these pixelated masterpieces continue to resonate. They remind us that art doesn’t have to be grandiose or technologically advanced to be powerful. Sometimes, a few well-placed pixels can evoke a sense of wonder and nostalgia that transcends the boundaries of time and technology. In the world of gaming and art, classic arcade artwork remains a pixelated masterpiece that will always have a special place in the hearts of those who experienced it in its heyday. | <urn:uuid:1800986a-0eb4-4bc7-9f4f-9abefb8aa07c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://newspaperio.com/pixelated-masterpieces-exploring-classic-arcade-artwork/ | 2024-04-24T03:22:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.955745 | 496 |
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India’s leading perfumery brand unveils a curation of 12 fragrances designed for online retail only.
New Delhi, Jun 1: Scent is a personal journey, and discovering fragrances should give as much joy as wearing them. In a post-pandemic world, the way we wear perfumes has evolved — from occasional appearances, fragrances are now a part of our self-care daily routines.
To make fragrance discovery more accessible and inclusive, Ajmal Perfumes, a globally known, homegrown perfumery brand with a rich heritage acquired through 70 years of experience, unveils ‘Online Exclusive Collection, a curation of 12 fragrances designed for the discerning and curious customer. The focus is to reveal the personality and the type of the perfume through its packaging and content categorization.
Elaborating further on the launch of the Online exclusive line, Abdulla Ajmal, Perfumist and Business Mentor, Ajmal & Sons – NHA division, India, adds, “Through this novelty, we want to democratize the process of selection. You don’t need to be a pro to understand which perfume is your type. In the last two years, our teams have been in touch directly with our consumers, and one of the most frequently asked questions was – How do I know which is my perfume type? My teams worked with this brief. We have decoded fragrances into ‘what, when, and where to wear’ on the websites. Each fragrance of this 12-set collection is an extension of different facets of your personality. ‘Online Exclusive’ is truly a global collaboration; the product is manufactured in Dubai, using some of India’s finest raw materials ingredients and the best perfume expertise from Europe.”
Elaborating further on the launch, Saurav Bhattacharya, President – Ajmal & Sons – NHA Division, India, adds, “Launching an exclusive Fragrance line from the House of Ajmal is a part of our’ Lifestyle to Pantry’ strategy to drive usage of fine fragrances as part of a daily regime, convenience consumption and, therefore, market expansion, we are activating the digital world. The online platforms, including the marketplace channels and our own direct-to-consumer website, help us bridge the gap between consumer needs and the easy accessibility of fragrances for a daily lifestyle regime. At this point, it becomes critical to understand our consumers’ consumption needs, especially the GEN Z and Millennials, to capture a share of their digital wallets and be able to offer products at accessible price points.
There is a scent for everyone now accessible with Ajmal Perfumes delivering nationwide via their website – https://in.ajmalperfume.com priced INR. 2100 onwards.
Ahead, 12 fragrances, part of ‘Online Exclusive by Ajmal’
1. Ajmal DAWN – (Citrus Floral)
Casual and calm, Ajmal Dawn is a refreshing unisex fragrance perfect for a warm summer day. It opens with citrusy notes of mandarin, bergamot settling into a white floral heart of tuberose and lily of the valley. At the base, sandalwood and cedarwood wrap a hint of musk.
Perfume type: Quiet & Easy going
When to wear: AM – Summer
2. Ajmal D’Light – (Floral Fruity)
Ajmal D’Light is an utterly stunning tropical fragrance that balances the freshness of fruits with the sweetness of a blooming garden. Joyful and vibrant, this fruity floral composition blends the softness of peony with uplifting lychee in the top notes. Rose and magnolia in the heart rest luxuriously on a base of cedarwood, amber, and musk.
Perfume type: Elegant & Daring
When to wear:: AM – Summer
3. Ajmal Serenity In Me – (Amber Woody)
Glamorous and mesmerizing, Ajmal Serenity in Me is a feminine ambery woody fragrance that you wear when you are ready to be noticed. It opens with a splash of lemon and generous hints of refreshing cardamom. The heart reveals an opulent bouquet of roses before enveloping dry-down to elegant creamy wood, patchouli and vanilla.
Perfume type: Bold & Mesmerizing
When to wear: PM – Summer
4. Ajmal Sierra – (Aromatic Woody)
Ajmal Sierra is an enticing aromatic woody unisex fragrance. The rose and jasmine notes are surrounded by the freshness of sweet lemon and the velvety warmth of sandalwood and amber. Ideal for brunch dates and first meetings.
Perfume type: Modern & Refreshing
5. Ajmal Dame – (Chypre Fruity)
Ajmal Dame is a modern take on the classic feminine fragrance. This bold mix starts off with a sparkling mix of bergamot and pepper and ends on an earthy green note. In an offbeat floral heart, you find geranium and lavender wrapped up in a veil of musk. The result is a dramatic courageous scent that helps you stand out in a crowd.
Perfume type: Dramatic & Passionate
When to wear: PM- Summer
6. Ajmal Shadow Noir – (Citrus Aromatic)
Poised and charismatic, Ajmal Shadow Noir is a light, refreshing evening fragrance. The energizing top notes of bergamot and lemon nudge you to pause and refocus with every spray. The aromatic squad of jasmine, rose, coriander, and lavender strengthen the heart, while cedarwood and oakmoss give long-lasting elegance.
Perfume type: Sophisticated & Strong
7. Ajmal L’Eau Blu – (Aromatic Woody)
An aromatic woody that opens with lively mint notes, refreshing lemon,
and a tangy apple. The aquatic heart of jasmine, sage and marine notes
on a base of patchouli, vetiver, and labdanum give a deep earthy
experience of this invigorating fragrance.
Perfume type: Invigorating & Energizing
8. Ajmal Aristocrat Her – (Fruity Amber)
Powerful and stimulating but with an underlying softness, Ajmal Aristocrat is a mesmerizing feminine fruity, ambery fragrance. The regal floral notes of rose and jasmine mingle seamlessly with refreshing grapefruit and comforting plum to stir an olfactory storm. Enveloped in sandalwood and tonka beans, this spectacular Eau de Parfum is for moments when you hold attention.
Perfume Type: Discerning & Sensual
9. Ajmal Pure Power – (Aromatic Spicy)
Ajmal Pure Power is the scent of adventure and excellence with an invigorating blend of lemon, clary sage, bergamot, lavender, and pepper. This aromatic spicy fragrance has a delicious base of Tonka, cacao, and amber. It is recommended for casual wear.
Perfume Type: Adventurous & Curios
When: AM – Summer
10. Scarlet Bloom – (Fruity Floral)
Audacious and mysterious, Ajmal Scarlet Bloom is an alluring fragrance of love and romance. It blooms with the presence of mandarin, pear, red fruits, peony, rose, jasmine, patchouli, musk, and vanilla. This radiant fragrance is what you wear to let your inner diva shine.
Perfume type: Extrovert & Glamourous
When: PM – Summer
11. Oudh Crystalline – (Amber Woody)
Courageous and charismatic, Ajmal Oudh Crystalline is a bold fragrance for men and women that radiates with top notes of bergamot and red fruits. This opulent fragrance has freesia, rose and jasmine at heart. Musk, vanilla, and patchouli at the base lend the composition an addictive trail. Perfect for occasions when you want to dress up and leave a mark.
Perfume type: Flamboyant & Stylish
12. Sonnet – (Floral Amber)
Passionate and chic, Ajmal Sonnet is a glamorous, self-indulgent floral woody fragrance. The top notes of bittersweet almond and refreshing bergamot slide into a cheerful heart of orange blossom, tuberose, and rose. The final finish rests on a rich base of sandalwood, vanilla, and amber. It is perfect for all occasions, easily transforming from daytime to evening wear.
Perfume type: Fashionable & Trendy
About Ajmal Perfumes:
Founded by the Late Haji Ajmal Ali in the early 1950s – in Assam, India – the journey of Ajmal Perfumes is that of the story of ‘A Farmer to A Perfumer’. Thanks to Late Haji Ajmal Ali’s vision and unstinting dedication to the craft of perfumery, Ajmal Perfumes has grown from a modest trading house into a multi-million-dollar corporate entity. Today, Ajmal’s family-owned business – headquartered out of Dubai, United Arab Emirates – is steered by the passion of the second and third generations of Ajmal’s, each playing a pivotal role in the brand’s development and growth. In its entirety, Ajmal Perfumes is a brand with a rich heritage acquired through almost seven decades of experience and know-how in the intricate art of perfumery. A true innovator and a pioneer in creating and marketing perfume products to a global clientele. Our core values are Excellence, innovation, partnership, integrity and open communication.
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But to try this, you want some means by which to measure your success. CryptoGraf has lovely features such as accurate and real-time value updates, custom price notification, and day by day and week efficiency summaries. Users should manually enter their portfolio data such as the digital currencies that they have purchased in the past to have the ability to monitor their progress. CryptoPro options real-time crypto price monitoring, interactive crypto charting, and customized watchlist.
The highest performing threshold rebalancing technique being a 25% threshold. After an epic rise and fall, the trade is now being passed round like a hot potato. The histogram distribution for the 1-week rebalancing outcomes reveals a heavy skew towards the lower finish of the unfold. The vary for these outcomes stretches from a -26% to a a hundred and twenty% efficiency enhance over HODLing. In distinction to Kraken the place we noticed tight spreads in performance throughout the backtests that used the 1-month rebalance interval, we see an unlimited unfold for KuCoin. The KuCoin trade has lengthy been one of many community favorites. Their stellar grassroots marketing has inspired a dedicated following of traders who’ve fallen in love with the trade. We can discover that the best performing threshold carried out nearly identically to the highest performing periodic rebalances.
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Wealth management companies could seem comparable, but they’re really very totally different. The nuts and bolts of an optimization-based rebalancing automation system. Smartleaf automated intelligent rebalancing is now obtainable to AdvisorEngine shoppers at no additional price. Smartleaf technology allows Altium to convey extremely-high internet value portfolio operations in-house and deliver extremely personalized, tax-optimized solutions at scale. Common beliefs in the wealth administration business which might be untrue — and potentially dangerous. Whether this is good or dangerous for advisors is determined by your imaginative and prescient of the purpose of wealth management. We answer a query from a reader about rebalancing automation and transparency. Applying institutional quality analytics to the needs of particular person traders. Six questions that may help you select the proper rebalancing system.
- Portfolio rebalancing additionally gives traders a good alternative to evaluation their portfolio and the various funds or belongings they’re invested in.
- Rebalancing by set asset targets is an efficient way to strategy portfolio rebalancing since markets can change more in a while intervals than in others.
- if a certain subset of stocks changes from 15% of the portfolio to 20%.
- A normal rule of thumb is to rebalance when an asset allocation changes more than 5%—ie.
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Much of the time, the honest reply is “that is simply the way in which we have all the time accomplished it.” Top producing PM at financial institution trust uses Smartleaf to spend extra time with shoppers. We be taught so much from our purchasers, and we’d wish to, every so https://cryptolisting.org/ often, highlight use cases that might be interesting to others. “Householding” means managing a number of accounts to a single goal, leveraging tax-advantaged accounts the place possible. Asset management corporations could also be poised to disrupt wealth management.
We obtain the date that this generates on an aggregated and nameless foundation. Blocking these cookies and tools does not have an effect on the way our providers work, but it does make it much harder for us to improve your experience. It turns into frustrating to see your portfolio drastically change over the few hours you slept the evening before. Create your free account to unlock your customized reading experience. Even in years with huge capital losses , CoinTracker might help Carol declare capital losses. These can be utilized to offset capital features in other asset courses , other forms of revenue, or gains in future tax years. In many cases these may be to the tune of hundreds of dollars or more in financial savings so see how one can get began. If Carol were to as an alternative rebalance weekly or even day by day, as an alternative of yearly, CoinTracker would nonetheless capture all of these rebalance transactions and neatly incorporate them into the capital positive aspects calculations. By signing up, you will create a Medium account when you don’t already have one.
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The need-based nature of threshold rebalancing has demonstrated, in recent studies, superior performance when in comparison with periodic rebalancing historically. It isn’t solely important to have a clear understanding of the property that must be in your customized index, but also the weighting every asset ought Auto rebalanced crypto portfolio indexes to maintain within the index. This will affect how much of your whole value is placed into each particular person asset. One possibility for the way to consider when to add or take away an asset from the index is to use a ‘buffer zone’. This defines a threshold at which point an incoming asset ought to be thought-about for addition to the index.
Threshold Rebalancing — While periodic rebalances can be scheduled for free of charge, optimizing your technique with threshold rebalances is feasible with a premium subscription. Shrimpy Social — A social buying and selling platform the place you can talk, comply with, and share your crypto strategies with fellow users. Transparency — You can track all of the transactions and underlying assets of the C20 token in actual-time on the blockchain. Autonomous and Automated — Just purchase the C20 token and chill out, Crypto20 would do the remainder.
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However, on average, threshold rebalancing carried out better than periodic rebalancing across all of the examined thresholds. Similar to the results from the periodic rebalancing backtests, threshold rebalancing also demonstrated an affinity in direction of higher thresholds. That means much less frequent threshold rebalances additionally performed better than extra frequent rebalances. From the histogram, we will https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto rebalanced crypto portfolio indexes see the performance unfold is extremely tight. In addition to a smaller spread within the histogram, we additionally see a smaller spread in the median outcomes for the different periodic strategies. The Kraken periodic rebalancing results show a historical choice for longer rebalancing durations.
We have been interested in what happens to ESG constraint usage when operational barriers have been eliminated, so we checked out ESG use on accounts managed on the Smartleaf system. However, because of Smartleaf, tax filing season is a good time to remind your purchasers that they’re in good arms. This is time consuming and costly, but many assume it is the only method to support high levels of customization and tax-management. In distinction, a “models-based mostly” approach, whereas rather more efficient, is commonly seen as a one-dimension-suits-all “cookie-cutter” resolution.
We don’t need to screw over individuals with fees which are too high in comparison with their preliminary principal.So right here’s some quick maths for what your minimal investment amount must be, given a variety of anticipated returns. Although this scales rather well with larger accounts, it isn’t so good for low minimal quantities. This value may be lower or higher relying on the volatility of the market sooner or https://1investing.in/ later. We simulated the transaction fees from rebalancing the HODL 20 each four weeks for the last 3 years, assuming Binance’s 0.1% transaction charge to reach at empirical average for annual transaction costs. HODL 20 with no rebalancing was up a factor of 51x and the HODL 20 with monthly rebalancing was up a factor of 164x. While every claims to “best” seize the market, we favor to not make such boisterous claims. Unsystematic threat — The risk an investor brings upon themselves when selecting an individual coin/token.
The resulting portfolio values are then calculated based on this starting value. In order to offer probably the most accurate calculations, these backtests will all commerce utilizing BTC as the only quote forex. That means if a trade must happen between LTC and ETH in the course of the rebalance, the backtest will simulate this as first a commerce from LTC to BTC, then a commerce from BTC to ETH. There are not any optimizations for situations where there are opportunities for direct trading, even if there are direct trading pairs out there. During each rebalance occasion, the historic order guide is evaluated, precise trades are simulated primarily based on the actual state of the order guide at that time, and the resultant balances are calculated. With a present deviation of 20% meaning if we had a threshold under 20%, the entire portfolio can be rebalanced. Some examples of widespread rebalancing durations embrace 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, and 1 month rebalance intervals. As a outcome, many rebalancing methods want to seek out methods to simplify the problem and focus on probably the most promising variables throughout a rebalance. Many index funds will need a mechanism for what occurs when worth is added or removed from the fund. One of the most popular of those mechanisms is dollar-cost averaging.
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And regardless of the obscure tones of cringe within the intentional misspelling of a common 4-letter word for the purpose of “lol’s”, this is actually a good message for true believers within the blockchain. As we see, the drawdown has elevated significantly compared to the hourly durations, whereas the risk and profitability are similar to the edge rebalancing values. As we see the return of the portfolio is quite restrained with a rise in the hourly period of rebalancing. Portfolio drawdown doesn’t grow exponentially, as is the case with threshold rebalancing. The lower in profitability and the increase in drawdown, as we see, happens starting from the 8 hour rebalancing interval. We see that three of our 4 property are extremely correlated with one another. | <urn:uuid:2849fbe9-ffdc-4578-88a5-f51f12eb0e19> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://newzcities.in/bitpanda-launches-worlds-first-actual-crypto-index/ | 2024-04-24T03:05:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.924282 | 2,413 |
Bayern Munich has confirmed that Harry Kane sustained a left ankle injury during Saturday’s match against Darmstadt in the Bundesliga. Despite the setback, Kane is expected to link up with the England squad for international duty.
The incident occurred late in the game when Kane, who had scored earlier in the match, went down in the goalmouth while stretching to reach the ball. Bayern boss Thomas Tuchel provided insight into the injury, stating that Kane “slipped and fell into the net and twisted his ankle.”
Following the match, Kane was substituted due to the injury. However, despite the setback, the striker has traveled to join the England squad for upcoming international fixtures. The England team doctors, in collaboration with Bayern Munich’s medical staff, will oversee Kane’s treatment during his time with the national team.
Kane’s goal against Darmstadt not only contributed to Bayern’s victory but also marked a significant milestone in his Bundesliga debut campaign. With 31 league goals to his name, Kane surpassed the previous record held by Uwe Seeler for the most goals in a Bundesliga debut season.
Reflecting on Kane’s injury, Tuchel expressed concern, highlighting Kane’s resilience and commitment to the game. “When Harry goes off, it’s never a good sign because Harry never goes off when there’s still goals to score,” remarked Tuchel.
As England prepares to face Brazil and Belgium in upcoming friendlies, Kane’s presence and goal-scoring prowess will be sorely missed. With 62 goals in 89 appearances, Kane holds the record as England’s all-time leading goalscorer, underscoring his importance to the national team’s success. | <urn:uuid:9a9a746e-7d81-48f9-aa4d-a77718e49658> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://ngreporter.com/harry-kane-suffers-ankle-injury-but-will-join-england-for-international-duty/ | 2024-04-24T02:01:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.954891 | 363 |
Rarely has a single find changed scholars’ views of the capabilities of people of the past as radically as the discovery of the world’s earliest known wooden architecture, which dates to nearly half a million years ago. The pair of interlocking logs joined by an intentionally cut notch was unearthed beneath a bank of Zambia’s Kalambo River by a team led by University of Liverpool archaeologist Larry Barham. Researchers believe the logs may have formed part of a walkway or the foundation of a platform built over wetlands. Prior to this discovery, the oldest known surviving wooden structures were built by people living in northern England around 11,000 years ago.
The 476,000-year-old log structure predates the appearance of the first modern humans by some 150,000 years and was likely the handiwork of the archaic human species Homo heidelbergensis. Paleoanthropologists believe H. heidelbergensis was highly mobile.
Thus, it is surprising that the hominins would have invested labor in building a semipermanent structure. “We haven’t seen archaic humans manipulating their environment on such a large scale before,” says Barham. “It suggests an attachment to a single point on the landscape.”
At the same site, the team unearthed stone axes as well as four wooden tools dating to between 390,000 and 324,000 years ago. These included a digging stick, a wedge-shaped object, a notched branch, and a flattened log. Marks on the log, notes Barham, resemble nothing so much as tool nicks on a work bench, inviting speculation as to what other structures an imaginative H. heidelbergensis woodworker might have fashioned. | <urn:uuid:871af63c-d4dc-47ad-843b-3cade3dbce8b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://nguoinghe24h.com/earliest-wooden-tools-in-zambia/ | 2024-04-24T03:33:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.96727 | 352 |
On Friday, July 14 at 5:30 p.m., Castle in the Clouds in Moultonborough will host Wild West Gala in the Clouds, a fundraiser that underscores the importance of historic preservation in New Hampshire.
“Historic preservation is one of our primary objectives—we are stewards of history,” said Charles Clark, executive director of Castle in the Clouds, who said Gala proceeds will support a new restoration project at historic Lucknow Estate.
As for the nature of the project, Clark said it will remain a secret until the night of the event. “We are announcing it at the Gala so we don’t want to spoil the surprise,” he added.
Ladd-Gilman House (1721)
At the American Independence Museum (AIM) in Exeter, Executive Director Jennifer Carr said their proverbial “secret” is out. Built in 1721, AIM’s Ladd-Gilman House has been the focus of ongoing restoration efforts for more than 5 years.
“It’s a process that involves painstaking research, professional assessments, and significant financial support,” said Carr. “Currently, we are looking to conduct an historic building assessment of the Ladd-Gilman House before proceeding with further restoration projects.”
One future project at AIM that is already known, however, is a new heating system at the Ladd-Gilman House. “Controlling the internal climate within the museum is essential both for the building’s structural integrity and the care and preservation of our artifacts,” added Carr.
According to Jeff Barraclough, president of the New Hampshire Heritage Museum Trail and executive director of member institution Millyard Museum in Manchester, historic preservation may be defined in many ways.
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Boo! Happy Halloween this Friday. Stop in for party supplies or a spooky bottle of wine.
Happy Birthday to my brother Roger, 54 yesterday. Grandma (Mom) baked the cake via Piggly Wiggly in Waupaca. She also made dinner for Scott last Wednesday. He was a little worried because she hasn’t cooked an actual meal in at least 4 or 5 years. He got to her appartment and smelled chicken. She had roast chicken and potato wedges from the Pig.
Missed my golf game with the kids this morning, busy stacking fire wood and putting stuff away for the winter. Carter and Kenzie are all excited about trick or treat. Carter wants to be the fireman again and Scott to be the fire hydrant again.
Order fresh turkey, turduchen, duck or goose for Thanksgiving. 6 different turkey or turduchen options available. 920 734 4905. Also non traditional items like seafood, ham, rib roast or lamb.
Fresh seafood for Tuesday will be Tilapia. Chef George made cajun stuffing to go with the tilapia last week, look for it again Tuesday, they sold out last week.
Fresh seafood for Wednesday will be Ora King Salmon, Atlantic Cod and boneless rainbow trout.
Fresh seafood for Thursday will be Monk fish and Canadian Walleye.
Fresh seafood for Friday will be Dover Sole, Crab Stuffed Dover Sole, Scottish Salmon, Wild Coho Salmon (probably the last fresh wild salmon til next spring, the season ends Friday) Wild salmon will be thawed out unless we splurge on troll caught King. Yellowfin Tuna, Wild Gulf Shrimp, Atlantic Haddock, Canadian Perch and U10 scallops, yes the big ones!
Order Live Lobster. Clams and Oysters by 4 pm Tuesday for Wednesday and 4 pm Thursday for Friday.
From the smoke house this week:
Grim Reaper hot stix, regular Hot Stix.
Bacon, Pepper Bacon and Cajun Bacon
All Beef Hot Dogs
Dog bones or bones for Dogs which ever you prefer
Brat Flavors will be Red White and Blue (because I couldn’t think of anything black or orange) and Plain in Pork.
Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast 3.99 lb
Chicken Wings 3.99 lb
Whole chickens 2.29 lb 4 pound average
Apple Pie smoked sausage stuffed Pork Tenderloin in bacon weave 5.99 lb with or without sauerkraut.
Bacon Wrapped Pork Tenderloin 5.99 lb
Pork Chops 4.29 lb Stuffed 4.99 lb Boneless Stuffed 5.99 lb
Ground Pork 3.49 lb, Mild or sweet Italian 3.99 lb
Meat loaf mix 5.99 lb makes great meatballs also
Ground Chuck 3.99 lb 5 pounds or more, 4.49 lb less than 5 pounds
Ground Round 5.49 lb
Choice Top Sirloin 9.99 lb
Choice Chuck Roast 5.99 lb
Choice Beef Stew Meat 5.99 lb
Whole Beef Tenderloin 11.99 lb 4 – 5 pound average
Choice Porterhouse 12.99 lb
Choice T Bone 12.49 lb
Grass Fed Ground Chuck 6.99 lb
Grass Fed Rib Eye Steak 21.99 lb in on Thursday
Grass Fed Top Sirlon 12.99 lb
Check out our NEW selection of Goat. Roasts, chops and ground goat.
Bring your venison trim in. We offer grinding of hamburger and sausage making including jerky and dried venison rounds.
Dogfish head 120 single 12 oz bottle
Founders Harvest Ale single or 4 pack 12 oz bottle Limited Release, we have 1 of 3 cases in the valley
Boulder Brewing Shake 6 pack bottle a big chocolate favorite last year
Monty Python Holy Grail Ale 6 pack bottle by request
Tommyknocker Maple 6 pack bottle another winter favorite last year
Tommyknocker Pick Axe IPA 6 pack bottle by request also
Door County Little Sister Witbier 6 pack bottle
Went to the beer show at Lambeau last Wednesday, look for lots of new stuff over the next couple weeks.
Thank you for shopping at and recommending my store to your family and friends, Richard.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — A next woman has died from troubles relevant to cosmetic surgical procedure this thirty day period in Tijuana, Mexican media noted.
A 36-12 months-previous lady died Wednesday after undergoing cosmetic surgical procedure at the private Analysis Clinic, which had its license suspended and was below evaluate, El Sol De Tijuana documented Friday.
Erwin Areizaga, head of Baja California’s Defense Towards Health Challenges Fee, said Dr. Alexsander Llamas, the medical center administrator, could not offer proof of license, which the fee has formerly confiscated.
“Although the clinic has a license, the verification will go on in subsequent days to review in element all aspects of the healthcare facility, these as clinical documents, upkeep logs of surgical machines, in addition to paperwork that accredit health-related staff and of nursing,” the company claimed in a information launch.
It is unclear whether or not Llamas executed the medical procedures.
Areizaga explained inspectors visited the establishment on Wednesday and that Llamas was the one who acquired them and took treatment of them as head of the clinic.
Areizaga then stated prosecutors pointed out that they couldn’t uncover Llamas, but Areizaga referred any thoughts about the doctor’s whereabouts to the Baja California State Legal professional General’s Office.
The wife of a Guatemalan diplomat died on July 4 soon after undergoing a cosmetic procedure in Tijuana.
On July 4, María José Chacón, 38, was rushed by ambulance to Tijuana’s Purple Cross Clinic, in which doctors reported she died of organ failure following a cosmetic method on June 24 at Hospital Jerusalem.
She was the wife of Henry Giovanni Ortiz, the Guatemalan consul general in Denver.
The person who executed the beauty treatment on Chacon did not have a surgical license, Areizaga said.
“After the inspection, it was established there was no professional medical accreditation for this individual pretending to be a health practitioner at this institution,” Areizaga said past 7 days. “Investigators discovered the health practitioner accountable for the clinic had died previously, and which is why this establishment did not have a license.”
According to the reports, Areizaga claims staff at the Hospital Jerusalem dismissed a point out purchase to shut but ongoing carrying out healthcare and surgical techniques. The facility reportedly was also running an illegal pharmacy on site.
He said the clinic experienced been shut down and sealed off, but team customers allegedly taken out seals on doors and admitted far more clients.
Baja California Gov. Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda has claimed she will drive a invoice in the state congress to “avoid these varieties of charlatans.”
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Kept you waiting, huh? Let's not waste any time with this. If you are reading this, then you know that Fallout 76 was a money sink, a bad idea, a glitch-fest, and many other negative things. It was a cavalcade of embarrassment of such proportions that only the launch of the Playstation 2 and the Red Ring of Death plague could match up to it. Well done, Bethesda. Well done. Even better, because this is an Always-Online game, the usual modding suspects -- you know who you are -- could not come to Bethesda’s rescue and spend their own unpaid time fixing the game, and in turn drive up sales without earning anything themselves. Seriously modders, stop fixing these busted as hell games for free. Your time and toil is more worthwhile than that and you are wasting it by giving it up to Bethesda/Zenimax. If that's too harsh a statement, then let me remind you that several who have tried to help fix this game by submitting bug reports or building tools like interactive maps got themselves banned for their efforts, while others are grinding for loads of caps and other items to sell on eBay for tens of dollars with impunity. Now, with that out of the way, Fallout 76. The base game for now. Wastelanders comes later, though I may reference changes Wastelanders made to the base game here and there. The reason we at No Mutants Allowed did not do a proper review of this back in 2018, well, was obvious. Every single person who has not drunk the Bethesda Kool-Aid for years and not rushed to their defense in the past could see the game for what it was, and knew where the problems stemmed from. We had a feeling this was coming with the release of Fallout 3 back in 2008, and more so with Fallout 4 back in 2015. It was obvious that not only was Bethesda's penchant for glitchy games going to worsen the issues Fallout games had starting with Fallout 2, their willingness to abandon canon at a moment's notice, track record of poor writing with Emil Pagliarulo at the helm, and their willingness to cut out game systems that have role-playing utility for the sake of audience expansion and the almighty dollar was also going to spell trouble for the series. One could say this is more Zenimax's thing than Bethesda's, but let us not forget that Zenimax only exists because Mr. Christopher Weaver, Bethesda's founder, co-founded it as a way to support Bethesda when the company was in financial trouble. I doubt he had any idea until it was too late that the man he chose to be CEO for Zenimax, like a modern-day leech, which is fitting for a lawyer, would help run him out of his own company, but that’s exactly what Robert Altman allowed, and even without Zenimax breathing down Bethesda's neck, the major gameplay changes from Daggerfall to Morrowind and then to Oblivion and Skyrim were enough of a sign of what would come. Remember, the publisher is not always to blame. Now, although we did not do a proper review back then, I participated in the BETA for ten hours and logged everything I saw and found. (https://nma-fallout.com/threads/fallout-76-my-impressions.216770/) Needless to say, it didn't take me long to realize that, after factoring in every bad aspect of the BETA and factoring out the things I tend to 'like' in Bethesda games, the game would suck. That fact that it did so exponentially harder and longer than I imagined still amazes me, and if I had to guess, that is more than likely why, with the release on Steam, so many between websites and players and content creators are running defense for it and being nice to it. We'll get to that. Trust me. So, what problems does this game have, aside from the obvious? Let's start with the presentation of the world, and to do that, let's start with what each game begins with: the video and voiceover that introduces you to the world ahead. In Fallout 1, the video begins with an ad related to Vault 13 and the classic 'Maybe' by The Ink Spots begins playing. As the camera draws out, you see the TV you were watching set in front of a blasted hellscape of a major city, dashing the nostalgic feeling you probably had before the TV at last shuts off. It's chilling, and possibly upsetting, to say the least, and then Ron Perlman speaks. He speaks on the subject of war, and goes over the details of the world leading up to the day the bombs fell. Then he gets to the subject of Vault 13, and says "Life in the Vault is about to change." Only when the Overseer speaks after creating your character do you then understand what the trouble is, and then Fallout 1 begins in earnest. Mmm-mah. It's perfect. It sets the mood, and gives you the information you need. Now, let's look at what Fallout 76 does. It begins with the speaker dropping the 'War. War never changes' line. Right away, wrong. That line was meant for a historical monologue, not a general speech to the public, and because it is used this way, it sounds cringey. That established, let’s move on. The presenter then goes over how in 1776, Americas knew armed conflict was the only way to secure the nation's future, and brings up the fight against the Red Menace, aka China -- how ironic -- and the celebration of the construction of Vault 76 on the tricentennial anniversary of USA independence. He then talks about how it will be staffed with the best and brightest, the people who once the vault door reopens will have to rebuild the outside world. Oh, if only. And then it fades to white and we get the character creation screen while the Overseer details a bit about Reclamation Day, aka the day when Vault 76 opens and everyone has to leave. You are then lead down a linear route to gather supplies and other things you will use outside of the vault to start your mission. At this point, you may not think there is very much wrong with this intro, and some might argue it's similar to the intro of Fallout 1. Those people would be dead wrong when considering the mood of these two videos, and I will explain why. With Fallout 1, players truly did not know what awaited them outside of the vault. The IP was new, and so were the surprises. This is not the case with Fallout 76. Not only did we know what would be outside of the vault thanks to 21 years of releases and story, Bethesda could not shut up about it and spoiled nearly everything about the story with their marketing and press releases, including the fact that you would be the one launching the nukes that flush out the Scorchbeast Queen. Not only that, but being able to bomb a location and then farm the nuked area for a while before everything reset was touted as an end-game activity, meant to provide you with the best stuff in typical MMO raids fashion. I doubt I have to explain why this runs so counter to Fallout's themes, and why its promotion before the game released is one among many showcases of how Bethesda never truly understood Fallout as an IP, but just in case... Regardless of the pseudo-MMO nature of Fallout 76, in universe and in lore, as well as IRL, we have examples of how dangerous and deadly these nukes are. In particular the end and post-game of Lonesome Road from Fallout: New Vegas. For those who have not completed the DLC, for one, what are you waiting for, and for second, if you decide to use the nukes, whatever area(s) you target will be completely destroyed and bathed in radiation back in the New Vegas game world map, and all related factions will love or hate you accordingly for your actions. Having the nukes and their aftereffects function as little more than switching on the end-game status of an area for a short while is rather pathetic and cheapens the thematic and literal power of such warheads. Speaking of the nukes, during the times that I have jumped back into 76 post-release to see how bad things are, it often isn't long before someone in the level 50+ range drops a nuke on the server's world. And yes, I was once in a server that got nuked multiple times in quick succession and was in turn kicked because the server stopped working. I also notice these nuke launching players mostly tend to target out of the way areas in the corners of the map, like the edge of Cranberry Bog. Points for that I suppose, but when I hear that distinctive beeping of the nuke codes on a ghoul commander, it only reminds me of what a mockery Bethesda has made of such powerful weapons. Next, let's talk gameplay and quests. Before release, Bethesda made clear that not only were there no NPCs, but that holotapes would be the only way to experience the story. There are two types of holotapes you will come across while playing Fallout 76: Mission-based and flavor-based. While these sometimes overlap, such as the Overseer's tapes, to whoever was in charge of the writers group related to these things, I have to tell you, you need to learn how to separate these two styles when the situation calls for it, especially when the game has no living NPCs of any kind and the game itself is designed more around the Explore-Kill-Gather-Return gameplay loop than the story. (This holds true even with Wastelanders in play because aside from new NPCs in some areas where a dead body with a holotape could be found, such as the Morgantown Airport, little has changed about the progression of these quests.) Think back to the holotapes you find early on when doing volunteer work for the…who were they…oh, The Responders. Think back to the holotapes you had to listen to when doing the resupply run mission, aka 'Safe for Work', at the airport. A few were written and directed as though it was dialogue from a living NPC who was traveling with you and giving you a personal once over as you did each step, a bit like Sunny Smiles during Goodsprings' 'Back In The Saddle' quest. From a narrative perspective, this makes the logs sound like the writers were trying to make up for the lack of NPCs instead of playing into that point. As we know from Bethesda's Fallout 76 presentation in 2018, the dev team no doubt knew the game would have no NPCs and therefore should have planned the dialogue and narrative of the tapes around that. And once again, I must fall back on Fallout: New Vegas to pull up a contrast. Starting as early as Doc Mitchel in Goodsprings, you can pry to learn a little more about certain NPCs you meet. In New Vegas, the majority of this is optional though can sometimes lead to things you can use later. In Fallout 76, optional details that players would have had the ability to skip over in other Fallout games are forced into necessary recordings, and either bloat the runtime of the recording or make the flavor parts feel forced. (Because of Bethesda’s penchant for stealing ideas people come up with for mods, among other things, I will not be sharing my ideas for how this would be done properly.) As for the gameplay, as I said before, this game has one major loop it thrusts you into from the word go, both because Bethesda is not well known for the kinds of multi-tiered/layered quests we have seen in other RPGs up to 2018, and because this game was designed from the ground up to play this way: Explore-Kill-Gather-Return. That said, let's get something out of the way early. I play the Bethesda Fallout/Elder Scrolls games, even New Vegas, as a hoarder. If it has good scrap/cap value or I think I've never collected it or it could be useful, I grab it and haul it to a place where I can pick through all of it, sell what I don't want/need, and repeat as necessary. And frankly, this feels like how the games are designed to be played given all the things you can loot, break down, sell, etc., so on that level the central loop of Fallout 76, and by extension Fallout 4, appealed to me. However, I cannot and will not ignore how crap the main quests of both games are, nor the abundance of quests that have no depth to them beyond killing things while searching for an item or location or person of some sort. So prevalent is this trend that anytime I play these games now, I tend to have a playlist of Mythbusters episodes or other videos running in the background just to add some flavor to what I'm doing. That and it bugs me when I hear music from Fallout 1 and 2 in 4, seeing as Bethesda had zero hand in developing those two games. (Speaking of music, I swear I noticed a similarity in style between a few songs in Fallout 76 and FarCry 5…) Contrast time again. Obsidian, before they lost their best talent to what they have now, and I do not say that lightly, showed exactly how to make this Search-Kill-Gather-Return loop work. They didn't simply throw places at the player and tell them 'Here, check these places out' like Bethesda tends to do with their sightseeing/theme park approach to open world design. They made a majority of the places worthwhile to visit, or put them in the player's way and give them the option to divert from the path and investigate these new areas. For example, the town of Primm. Like Shady Sands in Fallout 1, you can pass right by it if you choose and miss the handful of quests, stacks of loot, potential reputation gains and nuggets of information related to not only Benny but Ulysses as well. Curious players however will at least check the town out, and adventurous players will take a stab at some of what Primm offers, or clean the place up before moving on. With Fallout 76, while you will have the initial gut feeling of 'Oh, what's this place' when looking at the world map or you arrive at places like Flatwoods, in contrast to New Vegas and the trust Obsidian placed in players back then, Bethesda showers you with new goals or tidbits, either once in new places or as you approach, in hopes that you will stick around for them if nothing else. (The Grafton Tourism Trap quest comes to mind.) The end result is your quest log gets bloated and you will start resorting to the ‘Well it’s close. Might as well do this one’ mentality of getting quests done. 'Now, hold on', some of you might be saying. 'How can you compare a single-player game to a multiplayer one?' Simple: Because with one exception, which we shall not name, Fallout has always been story and character driven. Even compared to the black sheep of the IP, Fallout: Tactics, 76 fares worse in the story and setting. Why? Because the story you do receive is narrated to you, like someone is reading you a book and to make them continue you have to 'play the game'. At no point are you weighing the outcomes of your actions against the needs of immediate, much less local, others. You simply follow a linear trail of holotapes and related quests starting from the inside of Vault 76, which I somewhat remember from my BETA days, through the hauntings of the Responders and other factions like the Brotherhood of Steel (WTF?) and the Enclave (Seriously?), and then end the 'official' story in the fields of Appalachia post nuke touchdown with a big fight against the Scorchbeast Queen. You then have the option of shooting more nukes into the world to get more high level supplies and gear, which you then build or enhance in order to do this same endgame gameplay loop again and again and again. (And lest we forget, Bethesda has been called a single-player MMO company for many years, mostly thanks to Skyrim and the Radiant Quest system that game introduced. Fallout 76 is the full circle point.) So, at best, you will play this game because you like the story/writing bits, to which I would say don't encourage this kind of storytelling as a standard because along with it comes low standards for everything else and Fallout doesn't need that, and at worst you play it because it's there and you want something to do for a few hours. At least until it crashes, freezes, glitches out, or any number of other things Bethesda games are known to do. It did each and every one of those things during my early and even recent time on the XBOX version, including locking up my console and forcing a hard reset to fix, and coupled with the Always-Online requirement as well as Bethesda's penchant for buggy games... Now, let's use this gameplay segment to discuss something that relates not only to your survival in-game but your IRL wallet: The Repair Kits and Scrap Kits. The presence of these things within the Atomic Shop means the game shop is no longer cosmetics only and now has Pay-To-Win options available; do not let Pete or any other Bethesda apologist tell you otherwise. I feel I should remind folks that the gaming industry has already crossed the line into operating parts of itself as casinos for all, the underage included, and lies about that on the regular to avoid legal and financial penalties. See also any game that lets you use bought currency to gamble on items of value like GTA V, NBA 2K20, etc.; the excuse of not being able to cash out is the typical defense said companies will use to justify these actions. However they slice it though, gambling is illegal if you are under 21 for a reason: it is habit forming and, person depending but especially for children, very addictive. https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/...oed-for-being-an-unabashed-gambling-ad/91891/ Anyway, during the BETA, I did notice my weapons and armor broke down at faster rates than they have been during my most recent runs, so I suspect Bethesda is well aware that they're stepping on toes with their lies about these things and as such are trying to save face by dialing back how fast your equipment degrades. However, I seem to recall Bethesda making it a point within Fallout 4 that your stuff never breaks because, as they implied, it annoyed some players because it made them go get said things fixed before resuming their adventure. I therefore will contend that they only allowed this role-playing system back into full use in Fallout 76 because they had plans from day 1 to introduce these kits and scrape some more money off impatient players. Hell, we know by now they were planning on selling lunchboxes with prizes and buffs in them, as well as the option to buy Perk Cards directly, so these kits, and the fridge that keeps your food good for longer and the scrap collecting Protectron, are more or less permanent test-the-waters items. And I doubt, although I hope, that the Steam player base has learned from this last year and a half of embarrassment and rejects buying these things if they cannot resist buying 76. (My doubts were confirmed, and how; Bethesda Stockholm Syndrome is worse than I thought. Not only are websites like RPS (http://archive.is/UeUuW) and Polygon (http://archive.is/GFDj3) shilling for Bethesda and against open criticism of a faulty game, reviewers on Steam are doing the same like willing lapdogs. The rating reached Mostly Positive on the backs of those reviewers as of the 17th of April; Steam restricting the ratings allowed to count towards that score to only those who bought the game on Steam seems to be part of the reason, so Bethesda.net buyers will not have their voices counted. How fucking pathetic.) Speaking of those Perk Cards, let's discuss those for a moment. Aside from being a further dumbing down of the Perks system the OG Fallouts used to define one's character outside of SPECIAL, Skills, and Traits, the fact that, like your character's appearance, they can be changed out at a moment's notice and also allow things like picking higher level locks, means players have little reason beyond desire to create a new character. This is not how Fallout works, but as I mentioned before, Bethesda had plans to sell Perk Card packs for Atoms, which one can buy with real money, so there is that to consider. Lastly, let's go back to Fallout 4 for a minute. Fallout 4, from my time spent with it, was the moment when operant conditioning, or in laymen's terms The Skinner Box, was put in front of most other reasons for playing the game. Why do I say this? Because that is the end goal of the game outside of the main quest, itself a railroaded and forgettable journey that only exists in the state it does because Bethesda's writing team is collectively awful. (If you want proof of this, go to Fort Hagen before you find Valentine or get Dogmeat to follow the scent trails and you will find the elevator leading down to where Kellogg is has been hidden from the game. No finding your spouse’s killer by accident for you.) And if you follow the main quest of Fallout 4 as Bethesda wanted you to do, you have no choice but to let Preston and his people move into Sanctuary Hills, starting off the settlement building loop if you had not started doing that in other places yourself. Bethesda likes to claim that system is optional, but with this fact in mind, as well as 4 of 6 Fallout 4 DLCs with it as a focus, and a requirement that you have to use it if you want the Minutemen as your allies against The Institute…I hear that 'Tell Me Lies' tune winding up again. But as bad as the operant conditioning in Fallout 4 was, 76 is noticeably worse. Explore-Kill-Loot-Return is the whole point of the game, because that's how you get the things you need to build your CAMP, your weapons, etc. Now, with all of that established, let's change gears to the other half of this review: the Wastelanders content. A few points to go over before I begin: - If you had the game already installed, the old game client gets fully patched over before you can play the Wastelanders content, so that means a few hours to download another 55 GB 'patch'. (For shit sake Bethesda, not this again.) - The new dialogue checks are almost completely dependent on your SPECIAL stats, which is to be expected with how the game is designed, and with the story segments restricted to instances, once things happen you can't save scum to get the result you want. (Personally, this is a nice change over what we got with the quicksave-quickload method of doing things in Fallout 4, but it still means a butchering of the SPECIAL system and no way to specialize your character beyond percentage increase and ability-to-do-this perks.) - Some early SPECIAL checks require hyper-focus on one stat via at least 7 levels to achieve, though my first instance of this was not affected by the fact that my character was wearing a Vault 76 suit, and one I found later, which you can see below, depended on an 8 in PER, even though anyone with two brain cells to rub together could come to this decision. (Invest in INT if you must play this game. Not only does it have the most useful perks, many SPECIAL checks ask for a high INT number, usually 8.) - The game still runs as badly as I remember from the early days, though on PC it runs considerably worse, with constant lag spikes that will get you killed or cause issues with shots or melee attacks. (For reference, my CPU, which is a stock quad-core 3.7 GHz AMD Athlon, a little over 4 years old, was running at 92% load regularly with 76 running, which I never have happen outside of doing video rendering/DVD ripping. Not even Fallout 4 with almost 100 mods loaded into it, or HITMAN 2 from that same year, demanded that much from my CPU.) The XBOX One/PS4 don't seem to have this issue, so along with the PC version being an unoptimized mess, it must be something on Bethesda's end with their servers. - The base Fallout 76 content has not been removed, so the Responders and other major factions that you investigated the first time around will still be gone. (The achievements have already spoiled that you will find the Overseer, and it happens relatively quickly.) And as mentioned earlier, there are new NPCs in some quest locations where there weren't before, but they are unimportant and do not affect anything once your business with them, if any, is done. - If you know about the NewDialogue Interface mod on Nexus, which has eclipsed 4 million downloads on the same service, you'll be 'happy' to hear Bethesda, more or less, swiped it for Wastelanders. So be sure to give Cirosan and shadwar some love. God knows Bethesda won't. - The faction reputation system in Wastelanders is similar to the one from Splinter Cell: Double Agent on the XBOX 360, I.E. two binary meters representing two groups that rises and falls as you do things for or against either side. It also starts with the Raiders already hostile towards you, which compared to the Legion and NCR in New Vegas is a change that signals a bias towards the Settlers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyutdwjL6Jg - I'm detecting a whiff of 'wahmen power' with the ratio of important/friendly/in-power female NPCs you can have long talks with versus men. I noticed this in the base game as well with many of the audio logs, and thus I wonder if this is an early warning sign for wokeness in future entries of Fallout, and by extension Elder Scrolls. Now, let's begin. Wastelanders begins with a retcon to the Fallout 76 'story': The Overseer left the vault a year, not hours, before you do. The first NPC you can talk to, a Mr. Handy named Crutchley, says so, and the recording you hear over the intercom is followed by new bits of dialogue mentioning the message repeating every 24 hours before the system makes a corrupted playback noise. (This might have something to do with the life support systems in Vault 76 shutting off completely once the All-Clear signal was received, so either it never came or the Overseer sabotaged the Vault's systems before leaving.) When you leave the vault, or start playing again with an existing character, you will be pointed in the direction of two women accosting anyone coming out of the vault. They are asking about the location of some kind of treasure and implying the vault had one. And here is another instance of Bethesda spoiling the details of their newest content by blowing their load in the trailers and pre-release articles. The Wastelanders DLC involves a treasure in one of the vaults in the area, Vault 79, and whichever group you side with will eventually break into said vault and get the riches inside, which is the huge stockpile of gold bullion that was once housed in Fort Knox. Think GTA V's main quest, but with less interesting characters and the story about halfway along by the time you exit Vault 76. At the first location you visit, there's a holdup going on and you will be introduced to the first SPECIAL checks, one PER, one CHA, and one LUC, all 2+. If any of those are high enough, you can get an easier outcome to the situation, which is Mort stealth killing the raider. If you see a (-) next to the number, as you will during a later phase of the conversation, you have to have that stat or lower to get the result. Since it was a CHA check in this case, it was no doubt the 'Dumb' option, or knowing Bethesda, the 'Sarcastic' option. (I did not see another since then.) One thing I was disappointed to see was even though you have these options, you cannot select the ones you will fail due to low stats just because. This was something New Vegas allowed, which was funny in its own way, and not only that, you were given different dialogues for not meeting the base level of Skill or SPECIAL. In 76, no matter your SPECIAL level, you will always see what your character means to say. (Thank you, Cirosan and shadwar.) However, I did notice a blatant call-back to New Vegas' 'Ghost Town Gunfight' quest. After you finish finding out where the leader of the gang responsible for the holdup in the bar is, you can ask the bar owner, point blank, 'What if I chose to help this gang instead of you?' Since the answer in both games was obvious, I did not ask this question, though another aspect taken from the New Vegas quest was a choice of how to proceed with resolving the quest -- guns blazing or diplomacy -- and a few optional objectives that can be pursued before going in. Because the world of Fallout 76 is much larger than that of New Vegas, these optional objectives are much more spread out, though all of them are also on the way to the ultimate objective. Of course, even if you do the optional objectives, which get you a passcode to enter the compound without being shot and three Stealth Boys, you can easily sneak into the compound, into the area where the boss is, and run right for him and talk to him even if you've been spotted. As soon as you convince him of a deal, the guards go non-hostile until you shoot them. Fair enough. (I noticed a slight, yet colored, smoky aura around the lead Raider and his second-hand at this time. As if we needed Fallout to be any more gamey.) From there, you're sent to hunt down Dutchess' missing bodyguards before she helps you any further, and at this point I'm getting the feeling that this new content is being padded to stretch out its runtime. More so when once you return one of the two guards, who is just the head of an Assaultron and like the others in Fallout 4 sounds like the VO was a lisping drag queen, you have to find a new Assaultron body for it, or whatever you choose to settle with, before you get any more progress. (While we're on this subject, a point we brought up with our Fallout 4 review that still stands today was that General Atomics robots like the Mr. Handy were not built like ZAX, I.E., they do not have sophisticated AI systems that can mimic human emotions or speech/learning patterns. In the world of Fallout, machines like those were the size of ZAX for a reason, I.E. a call back to the vacuum tubed, room sized computers we had in the ‘40s and ‘50s.) What follows this is a trip back into Gauley Mine after dealing with Crane, who was in the position I thought he was after Dutchess hinted at such, then to a RobCo demo area where you can get a free two star legendary before hoofing it back to the bar. If you chose to spare the raiders and made a deal with them, as I did, they'll be there demanding what you found. If you tell them the truth and show the weapon, they'll accept it after another SPECIAL check, in this case STR -3, INT +4, or CHA +4. Going this route earns you some recognition with the Free Radicals, one of the raider gangs and the one I assume you will be helping in the end. (It remains to be seen, though from my time playing I highly doubt, if Bethesda will flesh this group out in any major way since at least two Raider gangs -- Blood Eagles and Mothman Cultists -- are always hostile.) After this, you can find the Overseer at her home, but then you get Wastelanders biggest roadblock: you must get far enough in the original quest line to be immune to the Scorched plague, I.E. you must finish at least the Ounce of Prevention quest, which at least gives that quest some value, and you must be at or higher than level 20. Usually, I don't mind level caps in RPGs, but this cap also means you must traipse around Appalachia and find things to do to get you to that level before you can resume the missions and until then, you cannot gain or lose any clout with the Raiders or Settlers. Aside from that, if like me you found the general feel of Fallout 76 to be boring and a waste of time back before Wastelanders was a thing, you likely walked away from this game within the first week or month and then watched in awe as Bethesda shit its pants over and over again trying to justify this game and fix their own IRL blunders. So, if you’re coming back now just for Wastelanders, by the time you hit level 20 you may be just as willing to say screw it and walk away again. And I was getting the feeling in waves upon seeing that by level 11, my stash at my CAMP was going past 550 of the allowed 800. On that note, Fuck You Zenimax/Bethesda. I may play as a hoarder, but I'm not coughing up 13 bucks to get that limit removed when I can stash thousands of pounds of stuff in all of your past games. (If you paid for Fallout 1st in any way, congratulations on being one of the many reasons why Bethesda and Zenimax treat their player bases the way they do. You are part of the problem, and will continue to be because you enable this to continue to be a thing. And lest we forget, they couldn’t even get that Fallout 1st stash box to work right on Day 1 as it ate items that got put into it, so why are you wasting your money?) (This will never not be hilarious though: https://falloutfirst.com/) This is also where how huge yet empty Fallout 76 still is starts to bite it in the ass. If you're a new blood to this game, to which I again will ask why you wasted your money, at best you'll be between level 8 and 11 by the time you reach this roadblock and if you bought Fallout 76 for the Wastelanders content, surprise. It’s back to the rest of the game, and the grind, for you. At the time of this review, I have passed this roadblock and gotten a few quests into Wastelanders, but at this point, it's clear to me there is no reason to keep playing. I know what the story is, and I know what will follow the breaking into of Vault 79. More endgame grind for scrip and gold bullion, just for weapons to do the same grind again and again. Dead Money/GTA V this is not, so I see no reason to further waste my time with this tripe. (Vault 79 also introduces T-65 Power Armor meant for the Secret Service...seriously? What next? X-80a Power Armor that was designed for astronauts? T-10p armor designed for sewage workers?) As far as I am concerned, and I'm certain many on this site would agree with me, this new content with Wastelanders, free or not, does not justify the $40 cost of a copy of this game, the 18+ months of frustrations and stupidity on the part of Bethesda players had to live through if they wanted to play the game, or the headaches and frustrations you will encounter to this day while playing a typical Bethesda game saddled with an Always-Online requirement. (By the way Bethesda, what is it with you and mistaking left-handed weapon construction/holding for the universal/right-handed? You made this mistake with the Bolt-Action/Hunting Rifle in Fallout 4, and now you're doing it again in 76 with the bows.) So, no. There is no recommendation for this game, much less any positive things to say about it. Not only does it continue, if not worsen, the trends present in Fallout 4, from the reasons to play to the low quality of writing, I will borrow an analogy that I keep seeing on Steam and elsewhere to sum up what Wastelanders is in relation to the base game of Fallout 76: If you have been abused by another for 18 months, and then they give you a box of cookies, does that excuse the previous months of abuse? I would hope not, but as is becoming clearer by the day, there are more clueless/sympathetic normies and sycophantic Stockholm cases than actual critics of this game. It’s the only reason I can see as to why it is getting its current positive reception despite what we saw happen since November 2018. That and, as I mentioned a while back, Steam limiting the reviews being allowed to count towards the now Mostly Positive score to copies brought on Steam, so the ones who got free copies thanks to having a copy on Bethesda.net and are still rightly angry at being sold a broken game 18 months ago and having thing after thing happen to them get nothing besides scorn and mockery from the gaming press and the people mentioned above. Keep that in mind when you hear positive things about Fallout 76 going forward. The truth hurts, and that is the truth.
I have read another accurate analogy for this game: it's like trying to use perfume on a corpse. It might smell less bad, but it still smells bad. I think it's also really sad, and shows low the RPG genre has gotten, when writing that is better than Fallout 3 and 4 is considered a thing out of this world. Like it's really hard to make writing that is better than Fallout 3 and 4's.
Pretty much. It isn't hard to top those two games, but the bare minimum shouldn't be acceptable at this point.
UPDATE: I'm done with Steel Dawn's Main Quest. Posted below is my walkthrough/review of the questline and what I saw. If there is a discrepancy with the lore that I missed or got wrong, let me know. ----------------------------------------------------- Well, here we are again. It's been a year since we last looked at Fallout 76, and even with Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda, it seems little has improved. So let's get started with the surface level stuff. Since we did not go back into this game since the Wastelanders review last year, a few things have changed. For one, the Seasons system. The Weekly and Daily challenges no longer award Atoms but SCORE, which counts up towards new rewards along a single-track board game with 100 spaces to fill. The other five challenge parameters still have Atoms, Perk Card Packs, and etc. among the rewards. Which reminds me... Remember the Lunchboxes we saw in the hacked gameplay from last year? Well, they're a thing now, for a minimum of 50 atoms like the Scrap and Repair Kits. What does that buy you? An EXP boost and a random buff for one IRL hour. F-ing lovely. There are some of these scattered throughout the SCORE board as well, but for something this pitiful that costs .50 a pop, it just reminds you of what kind of company Zenimax is. There has also been a change in the way thirst and hunger work. Instead of penalizing you for letting the stats drop to their lowest points, you instead gain buffs for keeping the stat high. Letting them drop to near zero does not penalize you anymore. So, further dumbing down and casualization of the Fallout IP, along with what we’re going to see coming up. - Main Quest - Steel Dawn begins as most Bethesda DLCs do: with a radio broadcast. This one announcing that the Brotherhood of Steel have returned to the region and intend to help people recover from the damage of the Great War. Where do I even begin with this... First, no. The Brotherhood, until Bethesda's take on them, were not interested in helping the outside world. They never saw outsiders as worthy to share in what they had, unless they performed a great deed for the Brotherhood, as we saw in Fallout 1. Exploring The Glow was a task worth of Initiate status at best, but in the end it paid off. When I jumped back into the game and checked the status of my old gear, the radio broadcast told me to go to Fort Atlus on the north-east center of the map. Thankfully, when I stopped playing last time, my character was a half-mile south of the location, so getting there didn't take long. Upon arrival, it was pretty clear this branch of the Brotherhood was mostly made up of recruits from among the civvies of the area, and upon finding Knight Shin, who was arguing with a Paladin about the excess of civilians coming in, I was given a task to do to get things started. Right off the bat, it's also clear Bethesda wants you to be on the side of the Paladin, but because I know what the Brotherhood is and was, I was not. Shin has my sympathies more than Rahmani does. And it's good I was because as we see in Shin's first assignment to you -- ask the prospects what they want from the Brotherhood -- it's clear that Rahmani's idea of expansion will simply bring too many grifters. One among them is clearly a drugged-out Raider interested only in guns; the others have more understandable concerns, but as Shin rightly points out, the Brotherhood is not a mercenary force. Once that task is complete, you're allowed into Atlus and sent to one of the Scribes, who is supposed to investigate the lower area of the facility. The dialogue checks appear more frequently during this period, and to my surprise, the Scribe even quizzes you about the details of the machinery when you’re done with your work. You can be a complete barbarian with taking the components out, which as far as I know, only miffs the Scribe rather than ruins your chances to join. Two search-and-exterminate quests follow, the first to give the Paladin an idea of how you handle yourself without overt orders and both to “spread a good image about the Brotherhood”. Paladin Rahmani even uses Preston’s meme line from Fallout 4 for the second quest, which was a major red flag. For both quests, you also have optional objectives, one to bring a potential new recruit along and the other to spare a Brotherhood marked weapon for the settlement you’re helping. Aside from feedback from Rahmani and Shin about your decisions, these choices do not affect anything. The next task has you looking into a supply cache of weapons for the Brotherhood. We later find out these were nabbed by both the raiders of Crater and settlers of Foundation, and for the first part, Knight Shin comes with you to negotiate with the raiders. If you don't have either a high Perception or Charisma, 8 in these cases, you can't talk down the Raider peacefully and have to go to Crater to talk to him after shooting him up. What this leads to is another fetch quest, though one where you again have a choice: give the Raiders accurate info about the Brotherhood's presence or talk to the Scribe from before and give them falsified information. Thus far, I've yet to see any major consequences from doing dumb things against the Brotherhood's interest, which is typical Bethesda, but I gave the falsified info nonetheless. (This stop also gave me the excuse to finish the last part of the inoculation quest from Wastelanders that I stopped doing halfway through, which is sign enough of how bored I was by this line of fetch quests by now.) The Foundation is the next stop, and at this point, I should mention that I am going through all of these quests overburdened and with a full stash, I.E., I cannot fast travel. Even if I could though, the quests so far have been typical Bethesda: go here for quest, find out thing is missing or elsewhere, go retrieve it and come back. I guess this is typical of the Brotherhood at this time too, but because nothing I have done is of much consequence to the main quest, there's little to separate this back and forth from typical Bethesda fare. At Foundation, surprise, the weapons are in another location. Nearly a mile from Foundation for 'testing'. As I suspected, when I arrived, everyone was dead, killed by a mistimed rocket blast. Upon closer inspection, I was pointed to a nearby mine, and inside was the kid who caused the explosion that killed everyone besides himself. When you try and talk to him, he refuses to let you in. And that's where I discovered...you still can't make any real decisions of consequence in this game. Long story short, the kid died at the wrong end of my explosive shot revolver, but nothing about the quest besides the basic info within the quest long updated and no mention of it was made. Soon after, I was meant to grab a diving suit and search the mine for a few keys to get into where he was. The one time I was glad to have quest markers because hunting down a key in a place like a mine is annoying enough, more so when the keys don’t spawn until certain quest triggers are activated. Afterwards, upon returning to Foundation, the speech check to convince the storekeepers that everyone was dead was rather easy -- 2+ -- though the 5+ option was to convince them that one of the team had gone nuts and I had to kill them. You can then try a 4+ Strength or 8+ Intelligence check to convince them to turn over the weapons, and here's where I avoided doing more work and was thankful for being a hoarder: they want compensation for the caps they spent getting the weapons, which was 1000. If you can pay that, your job with Foundation is over, or you can pay 2500 to get a "better" result. Needless to say, I chose the cheaper option and headed back to Atlus. Shin and Rahmani have another back and forth, this time over the choices I made, and Shin points out something useful: all the work I've been doing, on Rahmani's command, seems more in line with assisting the people of the area than keeping on their mission of reaching Appalachia, getting a feel of the area, reporting back and moving on. And said mission...was given to them by Elder Maxon. Yeah. THAT Elder Maxon, from Fallout 1. Remember how I said we'd get to the retcons 76 introduced? It's time. First and foremost, Roger Maxon, during this early time in the Fallout timeline, had no plans to send groups of his tiny force to unknown areas of the destroyed USA. And what's more, for those who remember, Bethesda used the excuse of 'well, the BOS had access to satellites and they used those to communicate with other chapters' early on to justify why the BOS was in this area. Question, then: Why did this one unit travel 2,000 miles into West Virginia rather than another chapter closer by? In-game, the Scribe you work with says the journey was approved by the Elders, who were of the opposite mind of Maxon, but if we take that at face value, then we have to assume only two main branches of the BOS exist. One on the West Coast, where they started, and the second on the East Coast, which was established remotely. No Southern, or Midwestern, or Northern chapters, despite how far into the Resource Wars the world was by 2077 and how thick on the ground the military presence would be within the USA at the time as well. And during the course of this journey, which would be longer than the actual Oregon Trail, are you trying to say there was nothing else of note they found along that journey? No major conflicts, discoveries, periods of tension, losses of men and material? Looking at the map of the USA from around 2077 in Fallout canon, they would’ve started in the SouthWest, before the New California Republic was formed, which I’ll touch on in a minute, and depending on the route, they would’ve passed through the Four States, the Plains, possibly the northern tips of the Texas Commonwealth, the Midwest, and definitively the East Central territory. Five potential sources of things to find and deal with, and no word about them at all. Then again, Bethesda likely would’ve wasted the opportunity to expand the canon of the series, so small victory there. Moving on, the last real assignment takes place on the west end of the map. It’s where the Scribe you’ve been working with has located something the chapter can use to broadcast news to Elder Maxon back in New California… Yeah, stopping again. Bethesda, New California wasn’t established until after Fallout 1, after the NCR was formed. For all the talk about Todd Howard being a huge fan of the classic games, there’s a lot of stupid retcons and lore issues that keep rearing their heads as the games get made. Probably a result of the writers not giving a damn, and thus, our work will never end. Anyway, the transmitter location turns out to be an Enclave base that was destroyed internally by the Scorched plague. It's a lengthy dungeon too, though if you've played Dead Space or Resident Evil, you'll know what's coming as you progress. Make sure you have the space to gather up as much scrap as you can carry down there too; there’s a lot of good stuff, though no unique weapons or armor. There are a few benches to break down what you find, and you'll be showered with laser and plasma guns by the end. And speaking of the end, you want to know how much your final choice -- Rahmani or Shin -- within this location doesn't matter? Just watch. And it gets better. When you get back to Fort Atlus, instead of any sort of punishment for Rahmani and what she did within the transmitter base, which rightly would place Shin in position to lead, you instead have to deal with a sudden infestation of Super Mutants and she comes along. It’s a long slog down into the bowels below Atlus to take care of them, which involves blowing up four access points to stop them from coming in, made no better when all the enemies level with you so you can never feel more powerful than who you run into. And that’s it. Once you get back to the surface, despite everything you saw Rahmani do, betraying the Elders and the Brotherhood code just to pursue her own goals, you are unable to do anything beyond ignore her once the questline is over. Everything at Atlus churns on like nothing of value happened, which to be truthful, is precisely the case. After I was finished with the last quest, I almost let out a ‘That’s it?!’ in response. So, back into the shelf this game goes until the next update. HITMAN III and Werewolf the Apocalypse: Earthblood look more interesting anyway. Here’s to 2021. - Final Notes - 1.It seems I was correct in the last review concerning Wastelanders and Fallout 76. There’s definitively a tone of ‘wahmen power’ in this update. Everyone of note whom you talk to is a woman, and the biggest offender, Rahmani, gets off at the end with no punishment for her actions. Keep that in mind as Bethesda releases more games. 2.Why are Brotherhood members of this chapter saying ‘Ad Victorium’? That phrase wasn’t invented until Fallout 4, and because of the time and setting, within the classic games, no one said such a phrase to other members. Another retcon for no reason. 3.Going back to the SCORE thing, which came with a Seasons update, the one update I was glad to see is scrapping PERK cards you don’t use to gain PERK coins that can be used towards Legendary PERKS. Since I quit playing at level 45, I have yet to see what use this is, though whatever comes next may make me cross that threshold. 4.The game’s stability has not improved one bit since I last played Wastelanders. Two crashes, one shutdown, texture hiccups, lag, freezing, randomly disabled controls, and many more. I still have not touched Nuclear Winter either; the last I had heard about it, cheaters were running rampant.
I’ve got a question. Are Knights and Paladins considered separate castes, a la Fallout 1, where Knights are like mechanics/repairmen and Paladins are the soldiers, or are Knights considered just a lower ranking Paladin, a la Fallout 3/4?
It will be said the one thing I liked about Fallout 4's brotherhood was the expansion of the ranks. Whilst Knights are still better off a separate cadre, I liked the Squires idea
All the lore retcons aside, what does this expansion actually add other than the "White Knights of the Wasteland"? Any interesting new plotlines? Nope Any interesting new characters? Nope Anything that expands on the Fallout universe? Nope You might as well call this the Seinfeld of Fallout; an expansion about nothing. It had some new armors, weapons, and other crap for people who want to larp in the Appalachians. Might have been somewhat of a plot if the Brotherhood decides to use the technology of ATLAS to try to transform the region and that it could have disastrous consequences, the BOS expedition leadership not caring about it as they seek to shape the region to their own liking. Perhaps even doing it with the best of intentions "This will wipe out all the Scourged and Scourge Beasts permanently."
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Bank Nifty :
Although we have seen new lows but a rising RSI in last few sessions. This indicates possibly a sharp bounce in near term.
Sensex Technical View:
Sensex continues to hold on to the 200 dema at 18800 by making a couple of bottoms there in near term.
But we need to see a sustaining move above 19150-19200 and followed by that a move above 19600 to get back into the strong uptrend in short term.
Continue to wait and watch – Focus on stock specific opportunities as Index may get into a consolidation in that case there would be certain big movers and certain laggards.
Stocks to watchout for :
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For now buy and book on bounce. Bank of Baroda looks interesting for 850-870
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United Spirits can crack below 1260 in short term.
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NIST has updated the NVD program announcement page with additional information regarding recent concerns and the temporary delays in enrichment efforts.
CVE-2018-5786 DetailDescriptionIn Long Range Zip (aka lrzip) 0.631, there is an infinite loop and application hang in the get_fileinfo function (lrzip.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted lrz file. Severity
CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:
NVD Analysts use publicly available information to associate vector strings and CVSS scores. We also display any CVSS information provided within the CVE List from the CNA. Note: NVD Analysts have published a CVSS score for this CVE based on publicly available information at the time of analysis. The CNA has not provided a score within the CVE List. Weakness Enumeration
Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2CPEs loading, please wait.
Denotes Vulnerable Software
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CVE Dictionary Entry: NVD
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Aim: The neurological disorder known as normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), which has an unknown cause, may be treatable, and is defined by a clinical triad of symptoms. A phenomenon known as dementia refers to a decline in cognitive performance that goes beyond what may be anticipated from the typical effects of biological aging. The symptomatic similarity between these two diseases causes problems in diagnosis. The objective of our study was to compare the concentrations of IL-17A, IL-17F, IL-34, and CXCL13 in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with NPH and dementia for an informative laboratory diagnosis.
Methods: The study included NPH and dementia cases (n=7, n=5, respectively) taken from the patients’s CSF sample by lumbar puncture (LP). The levels of IL-17A, IL-17F, IL-34, and CXCL13 were measured in the CSF of patients' with NPH and dementia by enzyme-linked assay (ELISA) and compared between the two different groups.
Results: There was no difference in age between the NPH and dementia groups (p=0.5). There was no statistically significant difference was found in IL-17A (p=0.7), IL-34 (p=0.9), and CXCL13 (p=0.2) in the inflammatory marker analysis in the CSF. The groups had a statistically significant difference in IL-17F (p=0.04).
Conclusion: IL-17F can be an important laboratory marker used in the differential diagnosis of NPH and dementia.
Keywords: NPH, Dementia, IL-17A, IL-17F, IL-34, CXCL13
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Recently I read an article about a family that made a pretty radical decision to put their three neurotypical children in a boarding school and live at home with their autistic son. I should clarify that their son is a teenager with some hardcore behaviors that made the other kids fearful for their safety and resentful for all the ways their lives were impacted au roids/a> by their sibling’s erratic behavior. I get it – I really do – and want to share my perspective.
I lost my ability to speak early on. I was probably two years old, but my parents didn’t catch on until about a year later. Even then they were told to give me time to sort out the languages I was hearing (Serbian and Lithuanian). I remember how frustrated I was trying to find the needed word, but it was all garbled in my mouth. It didn’t happen overnight, but gradually, under the radar of my parents. I wasn’t too concerned, but I didn’t know why it was happening. I started to feel frustrated when I couldn’t get my parents to understand what I needed. It didn’t matter what I wanted: I might have been hungry or tired. Maybe I was trying to explain what I was feeling at a given moment. I know I came into this world autistic, but it all got a little too intense right around the age of three. That’s when everything got too loud, too bright, too much for me to absorb, so I shut down. I couldn’t handle all that stimulation, so I turned inside. It was the safest way to protect myself, and it was an intuitive reflex which, I have no doubt, is shared by all autistics. It meant that to the outside world, I was unreachable and so hard to engage.
Had I not been able to learn a way to separate all the sensory channels coming at me, I do believe there would have been times when I would have become violent. I mean, I was ten and in a special ABA program where they were teaching me my ABC’s. The reality was that I had taught myself to read in Kindergarten, and had no way to let anyone know. This continued for five or six years, and I was so terribly bored. Can you imagine what that was like?
My point is that autism is, for many of us, a full-body experience which filters the world through a particular lens that doesn’t work with ninety percent of the environment surrounding us. We retreat internally, and find ways to interact that might be weird, such as through movies or quoting lyrics or getting really excited about something and repeating words that feel good in our mouths.
When the world is too intense, and someone reacts with violence, it doesn’t surprise me at all. It means a few things to me:
- That their sensory stimulation is topped out
- That there needs to be a way for them to be able to communicate that to others without resorting to violence
- That they need a way to productively communicate with others so that they can show their intelligence
- That there also may be other medical issues at play, like anxiety and depression, which combined with autistic sensitivities, can really do a number on a person’s coping skills and perseverance
This last point is especially important because so many nonverbal autistics are tested on their IQ’s and found to be intellectually delayed. I know I was, but that’s a story for another time. I want to say that every family has to make choices that work for them. These may look different from other autistics’ families, but we are all, hopefully, trying to meet the needs of the family in the best way we can. However, if that means you ignore what your autistic child is experiencing, you are not really helping them at all. There needs to be a balance that will dip in favor of your autistic child every time they struggle in your world. If not, then how can you expect them to keep trying?
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Guide to anal douching for beginners
If you're considering having anal sex, then you may have heard about anal douching and wondered what it is. Anal douching is the process of cleaning the rectum and anus to prepare for anal sex, foreplay, or with the intent to clean it. It's an important part of sexual health and hygiene, as it helps to reduce the risk of infection and ensure that both partners are comfortable and safe. In this guide to anal douching for beginners, we'll discuss what anal douching is, why it's important, and how to do it properly.
What is anal douching?
Anal douching is the process of cleansing the rectum and anus before engaging in anal intercourse. It is often done with water and a special device, known as an enema, or with a bulb syringe that is filled with water. The purpose of anal douching is to remove any residual fecal matter that may have been left behind after using the bathroom.
When performing anal douching, it is important to use a gentle stream of lukewarm water and make sure to follow the directions on the package of your enema or bulb syringe. Anal douching can be a beneficial part of enjoying anal intercourse. Ensuring that the rectum and anus are clean and free from bacteria, can help to reduce discomfort during sex and increase pleasure.
What's the effect of it?
Anal douching is a popular practice that helps to clean the rectum and colon before engaging in sexual activity. Many people find it beneficial to have a clean and hygienic area before any type of anal play or intercourse. Anal douching can also provide a feeling of greater control over the process of anal sex.
Overall, anal douching can be beneficial for individuals looking for greater control and confidence during anal sex. By making sure your rectum and anus are clean, you can help create a safe environment for all involved.
Is it safe?
Anal douching can be a safe and effective way to clean the rectum before engaging in anal sex. However, it is important to note that anal douching should only be used as part of a thorough cleaning regimen that includes other hygiene practices such as washing the anus and surrounding area with warm water and gentle soap.
If done properly, anal douching can reduce the risk of transmitting and/or contracting STDs or other infections during anal intercourse. It is important to use clean equipment and new, disposable supplies each time you douche. Be sure to read all instructions carefully and use lukewarm water when douching.
In addition to being careful about the equipment and supplies used for anal douching, it is important to also pay attention to how often and how much water is used. Over-douching can cause irritation or tear of the anal tissue, which can lead to infection. To avoid this, only douche once every 24 hours and use no more than 1-2 liters of water at a time.
It is also important to remember to never douche while you have an active infection. Doing so can cause the infection to spread further or worsen existing symptoms. If you have any concerns or questions about anal douching, talk to your healthcare provider. They can provide more information on the risks and benefits of anal douching and help you find the right products and techniques for your needs.
Different vessels can be used to give your derriere a deep clean. They are:
- Shower enemas
To use a shower enema, make sure you have a firm grip on the hose as well as a good understanding of the water pressure and temperature. Start by filling the hose with warm water and inserting it into the rectum. Gently move it around to ensure that all areas are cleaned. Make sure you take your time, as rushing can lead to an uncomfortable experience.
Once the water has been expelled, be sure to thoroughly dry the area before proceeding with any other activities. It's also important to remember that shower enemas should only be used for occasional deep cleaning, not for daily use. With proper care, a shower enema can give you a clean and comfortable experience.
- Enema bulbs
It is a reusable rubber bulb that is put into the rectum and has a nozzle on the end. You can fill it with saline or any other security solution.
The majority of sex toy stores sell enema bulbs. Just keep in mind that hard plastic nozzles are frequently used, which might be uncomfortable. One with a flexible tip is a little friendlier to your bum.
- Fleet enemas
One of the safest options for anal douching is this. Fleet enemas can be purchased offline or online. There are several versions available; make sure you select the one that contains regular saline.
They are simple to use and have nozzle tips that have been pre-lubricated to reduce the danger of harm. Remember to follow the preparation guidelines on the package.
How do you do anal douching？
If you're going to douche, be careful how you do it. Damage and pain can be avoided with proper administration.
Follow these steps to get your butt and douche ready for action:
Use a clean nozzle and douche to start to prevent the spread of bacteria.
To prevent burning the mucosal lining, use water that is a little cooler than lukewarm.
Be sure to mix an enema solution, such as a Fleet enema, according to the directions on the container.
Lubricate the douche's tip to facilitate entry.
Depending on the kind of douche or enema, the procedure changes a little. However, the fundamental concept remains the same: put the nozzle into your anus and expel the liquid.
To administer an enema or anal douche:
So that the contents of the douche and your rectum have somewhere to land, stand up in the shower. If you want to play around on the spot, you can also do it over the toilet!
For simpler access, stand with one leg raised on the shower bench, the side of the tub, or the toilet.
Use a clean, lubricated finger to relax the hole before inserting the nozzle to prepare it for doing so.
Take a deep breath, hold the nozzle lightly against your anus, then slowly and gently insert it while exhaling.
Pour the liquid out slowly by gently pressing the douche bulb, bottle, or bag. Start at a low setting while using a shower enema to avoid discharging a lot of water at once.
Before letting the liquid out, hold it inside of you for a short while.
Continue until the bottle or bulb is empty, the water coming out of you is clean, or both.
How often can you do Anal douching?
How often you can douche safely is not governed by any hard and fast rules. The ideal frequency would be no more than twice or three times per week, and not more than once every day.
What could happen if you over-douche?
Even if you take all the essential precautions and douche properly, you still run the danger of harming your anus and intestinal lining.
When you do it too frequently, you run the danger of upsetting your body's electrolyte balance and normal elimination cycle.
Are there any other risks to consider?
It might not be a good idea to anal douch if you have hemorrhoids or anal fissures. It is more likely to hurt and hurt when you insert the nozzle into your rectum if you have either of these conditions.
Laxative use before anal play is also not advised. Some commercial enema preparations include stimulant laxatives like bisacodyl that cause intestinal contractions to aid in the passage of stool.
Some unattractive side effects of laxatives include gas, cramps, and diarrhea, which can also induce dehydration.
In conclusion, a great way to start exploring the world of anal sex is through the use of an anal douche. However, be careful not to overdo it; you can always go slowly and build up to it as you become more comfortable and relaxed.
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Eric Mack sets forth with his characteristic elegance the essentials of Locke’s philosophical outlook on political morality. He points out what is not always clearly appreciated, namely, that if each is to be free – and not just some few – then we need somehow to demarcate a domain, a sphere, within which the individual has complete authority: Others must apply for permission to enter that domain. So “regime of compatible freedom depends on the identification of the fences that mark off mine from thine. Thus for Locke, rights characteristically take the form of property. Property in its broad sense, that is, rights to life, liberty, and estate, provide each individual with moral protection against subordination to other individuals and to the state.”
Accurately enough, he goes on to say that people have, in the view of Locke (and Nozick and others), “morally significant features” such that “individuals are not to be treated as objects or resources or means at the disposal of others.” If an agent abides by that constraint in relation to others, they are required to “allow him to pursue his own ends in his own chosen way.” The question is, though: Why are those features “morally significant”? What is it about those features that ground the principle in question? Bad accounts, or non-accounts (such as that these are “natural rights” ) abound.
"it is a precept, or general rule of reason, that every man, ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek, and use, all helps, and advantages of war."
We have a minor more-or-less scholarly difference regarding Hobbes, whom Mack classifies as an “authoritarian.” That’s certainly right on the strictly political level, but in Hobbes there is beneath this a moral level, set forth in (a) a depiction of the state of mankind without rules and (b) a list of fundamental moral rules beginning with one master rule, the First Law of Nature, calling upon all to refrain from violence against others. This, he thinks, is a “
rule of reason” – a pregnant phrase in context. Locke too thinks that his Law of Nature, which I would argue has precisely the same content as Hobbes’s First Law, is a pronouncement of reason, saying, “
Reason, which is that law, teaches that no one….” How Hobbes becomes a sort of political authoritarian despite this total agreement in basic premises is a fascinating question. Hobbes’s idea is that anybody contemplating the natural condition of mankind would see that what we need is a general rule, and specifically that one. Locke, on the other hand, seems to leave matters at a purely intuitive level or even, worse yet, a religious one.
Mack suggests that the salient passage in paragraph 26, which starts out with the communist-sounding proclamation that “the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men” has the effect – as I think most of us would say – of really denying this: “In effect,” Mack writes, “the earth is originally unowned.” Now I agree that this is what Locke should have said, and I agree too that his slightly tortuous argument in that paragraph tries to works around to that conclusion. Still, what we should realize is that Locke isn’t entitled to lean on any theological premises in the Treatise, and absent those, there is absolutely no reason to declare the earth to be primordially communist. The earth is just a bunch of stuff, and people are in fact able to put bits of it to their use. Since it is just a bunch of stuff, there is no natural reason why they should not go ahead and use it – and plenty of reason, “natural” enough, why they should, in the process, grant each other the moral status of rights to what they have thus selected and put to use. These reasons need to be spelled out, and Locke gets a very good start on this by arguing (as Mack says) that if we didn’t, in effect, have this institution of property rights, relying instead on full-blown communism, mankind would have starved – a claim confirmed by the world’s celebrated communist basket-cases, such as the vast starvation of early Maoist China in recent times.
But as Mack perceptively asks – well, why
aren’t we obligated to just go ahead and starve? He proposes a de-theologized answer: “all persons rationally seek ‘
the comfortable preservation of their Beings’ (
FT 87).… [S]ince the use or appropriation of portions of nature is necessary for the pursuit of comfortable preservation, all persons have rights to engage in such use or appropriation.”
Now if we look at it in this de-theologized way – as we of course should – then a question arises: If particular person Jones can, in some circumstances, appropriate bits of nature at the expense of his fellow man and thereby “preserve himself” – well, why shouldn’t he do that – contrary to the requirements of the Law of Nature?
What this all hinges on is a recognition of a natural right, namely, a right of acquisition, “a right to make things one’s own.” There are two aspects of this needing discussion. The one that gets almost all the attention among recent scholars, in the wake of Nozick and others, is how we get from our natural right to general liberty to this right to acquire and then become the owner, in the appropriately normative sense, of what one acquires. Locke’s famous derivation via our original right to ourselves, through our labor, to rights in things is the focus of this discussion, with many authors denying that the argument goes through, while others (including Mack and myself) think it does. But even if we are right, that leaves us with the more fundamental question: Why should we think each other to be “owners” of ourselves in the first place? (Hobbes’s answer is clear: because if we don’t, we’ll be facing an awful state-of-nature situation.)
We get some light on this by following Mack’s further discussion. Not all rights of individual acquisition need depend on “labor-mixing.” “Various conventions develop” that, he holds, “define [my emphasis] what counts as an entitlement-generating initial acquisition.” In ensuing discussion, considerable weight is put on this device. But doesn’t this tread on thin ice? If ownership is a function literally of conventions, in at least some cases, doesn’t that imply that the conventions could be other than they are, thus changing our rights – contrary to the original assertion of natural rights in this area?
Mack’s next discussions concern the famous spoilage proviso and still more famous “enough and as good proviso” on acquisition. His discussion of the latter is elegant. We are not to acquire something if that would leave others in a
worse condition than they would have been in a propertyless state of nature, of course -- but there is no restriction such that “each individual be left ‘as good’ a portion
as has already been acquired by other individuals” (again, my emphasis). The more familiar egalitarian interpretation involves an illegitimate shift of baseline. That is a signal contribution, indeed, to the discussion of this much-vexed question. (In my own writing on this, I have arrived at a similar conclusion by a slightly different route.
Mack notes that Nozick tends to put this in utility terms: No one to be left worse off than he or she would have been in the unmodified commons – but Mack proposes that Locke instead is concentrating on freedom, with the striking summary that “it is not too far off the mark to say that Locke is concerned with no one being worse off with respect to economic opportunity rather than with respect to utility per se.” This is interesting and plausible; my question would only be whether there is really any difference for such creatures as we are. If there is – if we suppose that being fed intravenously forever without doing an ounce of effort represents a “level of utility” different from whatever might ensue from our own efforts -- then perhaps we should agree with Mack here.
Next he goes on to discuss the effects of the introduction of money as it bears on the proviso. Extensive commercial activity will, Mack agrees, really disenable some people from initial acquisition of, say, natural resources and land. How can this be all right? His answer is that, nevertheless, the new opportunities created by all this, as we might call it, “unnatural” activity more than compensates for any losses at the primitive level. Locke himself, as Mack notes, has already pointed out that a king in a country without exchange and property will be worse off than a day-laborer in the England of his day (not to mention the contemporary poor, with their TVs, cell phones, indoor plumbing, and more).
Now he is careful to qualify this: “Almost” everyone, not absolutely everyone will thus benefit. That raises two questions. One has to do with interpersonal comparisons of benefit: Are we sure that people will be better off poor now than in a genuine “state of nature”? There’s hope for a decent answer to that one. But another is more fundamental: What about those who exploit the compliance of most of us with Locke’s natural law – the thieves and cutthroats (including the political ones) or those who have a natural preference for violence. It would be nice if we could show that such persons are irrational – but it’s not obvious.
"Thirdly, The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent..."
With respect to one sizable subset of that class of persons, Mack discusses Locke on the Poor Law. Those who fall into such poverty that they might really have been better off in a commons may, Locke thinks, actually be forced to work for their upkeep. (That is, if they can. We should note that it is totally implausible to think that the ones who
can’t would have done better in a common.) Mack observes that “it is hard to avoid the conclusion that when Locke shifts from high philosophy to public policy – especially public policy concerning the less reputable members of society – liberty and property tend to get lost in the shuffle.” Yes, indeed. Just as he seems to underappreciate the contribution that his proposed restrictions on the scope of political authority would have (#38): “
Thirdly, The Supreme Power cannot take from any Man any part of his Property without his own consent.” It’s pretty hard to square that with any government, let alone the limited one that Locke wants. Well, nobody’s perfect!
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It is difficult to disagree with Eric Mack’s splendid little essay on Locke’s property doctrine, so instead of taking issue with him I will attempt to supplement his essay by attempting to place the chapter on property more firmly within its context in the Second Treatise. Placing it so will allow me to confirm, reinforce, and perhaps extend some of Mack’s most important conclusions.
"To this purpose, I think it may not be amiss, to set down what I take to be political power; that the power of a magistrate over a subject may be distinguished from that of a father over his children, a master over his servant, a husband over his wife, and a lord over his slave."
Readers are sometimes puzzled by the placement of the chapter on property within the Treatises. It occurs in a series of chapters quite obviously devoted to fulfilling Locke’s promise in 2 Tr2 to explain political power in such a way as to distinguish it clearly from “
that of a Father over his Children, a Master over his Servant, a Husband over his Wife, and a Lord over his Slave.” The task of distinguishing these various powers was necessitated most obviously by Robert Filmer’s doctrine, which identified all these powers with the power of fathers. After presenting what one might call the baseline situation, the state of nature where there is no political power of any sort, Locke proceeds in a series of chapters to discourse briefly on the various powers he identified in 2 Tr2. Thus in chapter 4, “Of Slavery,” he explains how the power of a “Lord over his Slave” can legitimately arise, despite the natural freedom and equality of human beings. Chapter 6, “Of Paternal Power,” clearly carries forward Locke’s agenda by explaining the nature and limits of the power of fathers over children. Chapter 7, “Of Political or Civil Society,” presents Locke’s account of “
conjugal society,” that is, of the “power of a Husband over his Wife.”
In the midst of these chapters elucidating the various relations or sorts of power that Locke means to distinguish from the “
power of a Magistrate over a Subject,” or political power, comes the seemingly irrelevant and digressive chapter “Of Property.” What is this chapter doing in this place? The key to answering that question lies in noticing that Locke has not in direct terms explained one of the sorts of power he had promised to explain in 2 Tr2: that of “a Master over his Servant.” Locke has in mind something much broader than his words convey to a modern ear, for the master-servant relation, as he understands it, translates into what we would call the employer-employee relation. To explain that relation is to explain how some come to work for others in exchange for wages.
In chapter 7 Locke mentions in passing the master-servant relation in tracing out the chronological emergence of the different relations: “
The first society was between Man and Wife, which gave beginning to that between Parents and Children; to which, in time, that between Master and Servant came to be added.” In this chapter Locke proceeds to explain the conjugal relation, the first in time, but the penultimate relation discussed before Locke gets to his ultimate destination, the political relation of magistrate and subject. In the preceding chapter Locke had explained the paternal (or better put) parental relation. He will go on in chapter 7 to again touch very briefly on the master-servant relation, but only in the context of distinguishing it from the master-slave relation (2 T85):
Master and servant are Names as old as History, but given to those of far different condition; for a Free-man makes himself a Servant to another, by selling him for a certain time, the Service he undertakes to do, in exchange for Wages he is to receive: … gives the Master but a Temporary Power over him, and no greater than what is contained in the Contract between men. But there is another sort of Servants, which by a peculiar Name we call Slaves, who being Captives taken in a just War, are, by the Right of Nature subjected to the Absolute Dominion and Arbitrary Power of their Masters.
Servants are free-men who exchange their labor for wages via contract; slaves are not free and do not relate to their masters via contract, as Locke explained in chapter 4. How men come to be slaves Locke explained clearly in that chapter. But how do men come be servants, i.e., beings who sell their labor to others? That is precisely the task of chapter 5 to explain. It is not at all out of place, but it is the place where Locke presents the ground for this all-important economic relation.
"From all which it is evident, that though the things of nature are given in common, yet man, by being master of himself, and proprietor of his own person, and the actions or labour of it, had still in himself the great foundation of property; "
This insight into the organizational placement of the discussion of property is not only helpful for confirming our general impression that Locke knew how to present his thought in an orderly and logically structured manner, but it also gives us a crucial insight into what the dominant point of chapter 5 is. To repeat, that point is to explain the genesis and nature of the employer-employee relation. Or perhaps better put, to show the legitimacy of that relation. This insight helps make clear that
the point of the chapter “Of Propriety” is to show how, beginning from the claim that the earth “
belongs to mankind in common” (which, as Mack rightly shows, means that the earth is originally unowned rather than jointly owned), we can arrive at a situation in which the whole earth is owned, and owned quite unequally, with some possessing a great deal more than they strictly need and others owning none of it. This does not mean these dispossessed men are entirely without property, however. As self-owners, they are “
Proprietor(s) of [their] own Person(s), and the actions or labour of it” and thus have within themselves “the great Foundation of Property.” (2 T44)
The history of property relations would seem to be a history of injustice or at least unfairness, for mankind moves from a situation where all have a right of preservation and an equal right to appropriate the goods needed for preservation from an unowned world to a situation where most have no right to appropriate anything directly from a world no longer “owned in common.” But the point of Locke’s chapter is to establish that this apparently unfair development is perfectly legitimate and to the benefit of everybody, i.e., genuinely a common good. I need not repeat the arguments by which Locke tries to show this, for Mack has laid them out exceedingly well in his essay.
One benefit of seeing the point of chapter 5 in this way is that it refutes C.B. Macpherson’s claim that Locke is a mere unconscious mouthpiece for developing market relations in 17th-century England, unwittingly taking for granted the master-servant relation and merely importing it, untheorized, into his property doctrine. Locke was so far from unconscious of the master-servant relation that explaining it was his chief goal in the chapter on property.
This insight into the aim of chapter 5 confirms Mack’s basic conclusions about the consequences of the introduction of money. The complete ownership of the world, which in a sense is equivalent to the expropriation of some from their primitive rights, is neither a denial of the rights of the expropriated (if we may even speak of them in that way) nor a disaster for them. As Mack rightly brings out, the landless retain their rights (as the right to sell their labor for wages) and their benefit (as the increased productivity that the unleashing of labor power made possible by the introduction of money). The landless retain “the great foundation of Property” in their labor power and do accrue property in the form of the wages they gain with their labor.
"As justice gives every man a title to the product of his honest industry, and the fair acquisitions of his ancestors descended to him; so charity gives every man a title to so much out of another’s plenty, as will keep him from extreme want,"
The assumption behind Locke’s presentation of the mature post-money world is something like a full-employment economy. This is “ideal theory.” Mack brings out very well Locke’s implicit point that if this assumption of ideal theory is not met, there is a just basis for complaint by those both dispossessed and unemployed. As he says in 1 Tr42: “
As Justice gives every Man a Title to the product of his honest Industry, and the fair Acquisition’s of his Ancestors descended to him; so Charity gives every Man a Title to so much out of another’s Plenty, as well keep him from extreme want, where he has no means to subsist otherwise.”
Locke is using somewhat traditional language but his meaning is quite untraditional, for he speaks here of granting a man a “title,” i.e., bestowing on him a right, via charity. In speaking in that way Locke is in effect saying that “charity” is not something different from justice (as it traditionally was thought to be) but under the situation specified is a matter of justice or right. That is to say, what he is speaking about is not charity at all, but an en-titlement. This “right” to support for the otherwise resourceless connects to Mack’s discussion of Locke’s essay on the Poor Law. I believe that Locke’s point is that the propertied should honor the right of the resourceless via a public policy rather than as helter-skelter individuals. As Mack makes clear, Locke outlines a kind of welfare policy that meets the obligations of providing support for those unable to support themselves in the wage economy without providing incentives for dependence or shirking. It is of some interest, I think, that Thomas Paine, a few generations later, picked up on Locke’s basic argument and developed from it a more full-blown plan for something like a welfare state.
[For further discussion, interested readers might consult my forthcoming essay, “Two Paths from Revolution: Jefferson, Paine and the Radicalization of Enlightenment Thought” to appear in Simon Newman and Peter Ounf, eds., Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions (University Press of Virginia, forthcoming, 2013.)]
Placing chapter 5 in the context of the line of argument of this part of the Second Treatise has the further consequence of highlighting a feature of Locke’s doctrine that does not always stand out, and which does not receive much notice in Mack’s essay. As Locke emphasizes and Mack reports, Locke partly justifies the movement from the universal common to total but unequal ownership of the earth by claiming that all are better off than they would be in a pre-private property world: the famous day-laborer versus the Indian chief. Mack points out that it is not universally true that all are better off—the point Locke concedes in his proposal for a poor law. Mack, however, does not emphasize the other important aspect of Locke’s thesis: Although all or almost all are indeed “better off” in the sense of materially better off, the members of society are far from equally better off, as Locke’s emphasis on explaining the existence of a class of men who have no property but their persons and nothing to sell or barter but their labor. Civil society, commerce, and money raise all the boats, but some are way at the top of the wave and others in the trough. Locke does not take this as a justification for redistribution, in part for reasons not too far from Rawls’s theory of justice—this is the arrangement from which all do benefit and therefore the inequality is justifiable and just.
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Tempa Dukte Lama
Foreword by H.E. Menri Lopon
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“In this present book, Journey into Buddhahood, Tempa Lama Rinpoche has explained in great depth the teaching of the Five Paths and Ten Stages based on the Sa Lam books by rDro mGon bLo Dros rGyal mTshan and by other ancient great Bon lineage masters. Particularly, Tempa Lama has explained the teaching of the Paths and Stages and its application in everyday life in a way that is simple and easy to understand.
This book is the first time that the Bon teachings on the Paths and Stages of compassionate beings are written in English or any other Western language. At this time people in the West take a deep interest in the practice and teachings of Bon and Buddhism. For those people, this book is like the rain coming at the right time and place. This book will be of great benefit to all those aspiring beings.”
- H.E. Menri Lopon Yangton Trinley Nyima Rinpoche
Journey into Buddhahood offers a profound guide to attaining full liberation according to the Bon Sutra path, the path of compassionate beings. This journey begins with the aspiration to attain awakening in order to help all sentient beings gain freedom from cyclic existence. The journey consists of five successive paths. On the Path of Accumulation we gather merit and wisdom to help us overcome the two delusions that obscure our true nature. These are the delusion of affliction, which consists of afflictive emotions and afflictive views, and the delusion of intellect, which is the grasping at the self and phenomena as real and substantial. Tempa Lama’s book offers a detailed explanation of these two delusions and how we can gradually transcend them through practicing the Thirty-seven Aspects of Enlightenment. On the second path, the Path of Application, we prepare for the direct recognition of the nature of reality. On the third path, the Path of Seeing, we attain a direct recognition of the true nature of the self and phenomena for the first time. This recognition is deepened and stabilized on the subsequent Path of Meditation. Finally, the compassionate being attains liberation on the Path of No More Learning or full Buddhahood.
Olmo Ling Publications, 2014.
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“To improve gender equality, we need to debias systems, not people. Human resource management must be based on rigorous evidence of what works to level the playing field'', Iris Bohnet, behavioural economist.
➖Use The Behavioural Insights Team's ‘how to improve gender equality’ series: How to set effective targets, How to establish diversity leads and diversity task forces, How to run structured interviews, How to use skill-based assessment tasks, How to increase transparency of progression, pay and reward processes.
➖Set internal targets for gender representation and be transparent with them, internally and externally. Making a public commitment makes it more likely that the target will be achieved. Read a step by step guide from The Behavioural Insights Team how to set effective targets. Have functional/department leadership teams track success monthly/quarterly using attrition, promotion and recruitment data, inclusion sentiment data / engagement surveys with demographical analysis, listening sessions anecdotes, exit survey feedback or stay interview data.
🔦 At KPMG UK, Inclusion, Diversity and Social Equality (IDSE) data is reported monthly to track progress towards publicly set firm-wide targets, as well as internal functional targets. This data is also used to review all people processes including recruitment, performance management, work allocation, promotions, and reward. This data enables any disproportionate outcomes to be challenged, ensuring fair outcomes for colleagues.
➖Appoint a dedicated D&I lead (with ringfenced time and access to data) to program manage data led activity and create fair processes throughout the organisation.
➖Appoint a D&I task force to oversee D&I activity and 'a way for underrepresented groups to have their voices heard and their perspectives incorporated into decision-making within the organisation', How to establish diversity leads and diversity task forces, The Behavioural Insights Team.
➖Audit your recruitment process for bias, run structured interviews and collect data over time to see if there are any disparities for women vs men. Read how in The Behavioural Insights Team's How to run structured interviews. Aim to advertise all opportunities.
➖Promotion and recruitment: use skill-based assessment tasks to provide candidates an opportunity to demonstrate their skills rather than just talk about their skills. Read how in The Behavioural Insights Team's, How to use skill-based assessment tasks. According to LinkedIn, 'A skills-first approach to hiring could improve diversity in AI and utilise a largely untapped pool of women with relevant skills. LinkedIn data shows that when hiring for jobs where women are underrepresented, like in the AI sector, if companies prioritised skills instead of previous job titles, the talent pool would grow 24% more for women compared to men', 'The number of women hired into leadership is increasing, but by less than 1% a year', LinkedIn.
➖Be transparent about how the organisation sets pay and how promotion and reward decisions are made. Read how in The Behavioural Insights Team's, How to increase transparency of progression, pay and reward processes. They say organisations should identify the processes that could be made more transparent, ensure criteria and processes are clear, increase accountability and aim for external transparency. Use storytelling to showcase intersectional examples of women being promoted at various levels and in various roles.
➖Build inclusive behaviours into the organisation's values then measure all employees on inclusive behaviours through your performance management and development process i.e. require employees to provide demonstrable evidence in line with your values.
➖Make flexible working the default. Encourage employees and managers to have flexible
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➖'De-gender’ caring policies by moving to equal parental leave policies. 'Both statutory provisions and employer-enhanced policies provide significantly higher maternity vs. paternity leave provisions, positioning women as the primary caregiver and setting a precedent for long-term imbalances in who works vs. who cares for children. This trend penalises mothers via lower earnings and slower promotion rates, creating a “leaky bucket” for employers’ female leadership pipeline'. An increasing number of UK companies (including Abrdn, Aviva, Bain & Company, Diageo, Goldman Sachs, John Lewis, UNICEF, and Vodafone) are addressing gender inequality by introducing equal parental leave policies, under which all parents, regardless of gender, receive the same amount of leave and pay.
Download the Business In The Community (BITC) Equal Parental Leave Toolkit, Workbook and Cost Calculator.
- Consider caring the norm, not the exception.
- Champion equitable access to care for all genders, men and women, in your policies.
- Foster a culture that supports men to care.
- Promote flexible working directly to men.
➖Create psychological safety in the workplace with zero tolerance policies to harassment and bullying. Publish clear and accessible processes to report an incident and encourage all employees to speak up by sharing the actions an organisation has taken in response to previous reports of non-inclusive behaviour.
➖ Read the evidence based insights gathered from best performing organisations (in relation to gender) and key employer recommendations from BITC in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality ‘Class of 2023’ Insights Report, Business in the Community (BITC).
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- Flexible Working
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- Pay and Reward
- Policies to Support Parents and Carers
- Progression and Promotion
- Psychological Safety
- Recruitment and Selection
- Strategy and Objectives
- Women on Low Pay
Consider resources and support relating to gender majority groups
- Male allies resources hub from everywoman
- How to engage white men as D&I champions and allies
- Mark International Men's Day - 19th November
- Report: Bias against women and girls in Large Language Models (LLMs), an AI report overseen by UNESCO and undertaken by IRC.
- Guide: Enabling Progression for Women in Tech, by Sky and Tech Talent Charter
- Guide: How to improve gender equality in the workplace: evidence-based actions for employers, The Behavioural Insights Team
- Report: Women in the Workplace: 2022, LeanIn
- Discussion guide: Who Cares? campaign, Business In The Community
- Report: The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality ‘Class of 2023’ Insights Report, Business in the Community (BITC).
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Addiction terminology can be confusing. Explore common opioid use and treatment terms.
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Buprenorphine is a partial opioid agonist, which activates the same receptors as other opioids but with less intensity, and is used in opioid addiction treatment.
Carfentanil is a potent synthetic opioid developed as a tranquilizer for large animals. It is not approved for human use but has been found in street drugs.
Understand the concept of the ceiling effect in opioid addiction treatment and its implications for medications like buprenorphine.
Codeine is a naturally occurring opiate commonly used to treat mild to moderate pain and as a cough suppressant. It is a less potent analgesic than morphine.
Cravings are intense urges or desires to use a substance, often triggered by cues associated with the substance, such as specific environments, people, or emotions.
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Learn about the concept of dependence, its distinction from addiction, and its relevance in opioid addiction treatment and recovery.
Detox is the process of removing a substance and its associated toxins from the body, often as the first step in the treatment of substance use disorders.
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is responsible for approving and regulating medications used in MAT for OUD, as well as overseeing the safety and efficacy of these treatments.
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Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist that blocks the effects of opioids and is used to treat OUD by preventing relapse after detoxification.
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OUD (opioid use disorder) is a medical condition characterized by a problematic pattern of opioid use, leading to significant impairment or distress.
Understand the opioid epidemic and the opioid overdose crisis, their causes, and the efforts made to address these public health emergencies.
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Overdose occurs when an individual consumes a toxic or lethal amount of a substance, leading to severe adverse effects or death. Learn more here.
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Suboxone is a combination medication containing buprenorphine and naloxone. It is used as a medication for addiction treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD).
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Subutex is a brand name for the medication buprenorphine, which is a partial opioid agonist used to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) and manage chronic pain.
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We’re getting our first official look yet at what the two Universal hotels across from Epic Universe will look like once completed. Thanks to the hotel company posting the official website early, we now have a full rundown for one of these new hotels, including a possible opening date of January 21, 2025.
Let’s dig into all of the new concept art, hotel descriptions, and more to see what we can learn about the Universal Stella Nova Resort. See the video version of this story below for additional visuals.
Known in permits as Projects 912 and 913, the two hotels being built now will be located on the south side of the new “Epic Boulevard,” which will connect existing roads to Epic Universe.
Built by Finfrock, which specializes in building precast concrete structures, the main buildings for these two hotels were completely constructed within the last 12 months. This is the same contractor as the Universal’s Endless Summer Resorts, which were built in a similar style.
We saw trademarks for what we presumed would be the names for these two hotels back in September of 2022. And with today’s news, we do have confirmation that they will in fact be called “Universal Stella Nova Resort” and “Universal Terra Luna Resort.”
In recent weeks, colorful reflective tiles have been installed along the exterior of the Project 912 structure, which we now know is the Stella Nova Resort.
Thanks to the Loews Hotels official website posting the official landing page for this resort early, we can now see what both of these hotels will look like once completed.
This rendering was found at the top of the landing page for the hotel, and shows both of the buildings with their completed tile designs.
This official website, which was live for several hours, describes these two new hotels as the “new gateway to Universal Orlando Resort.” We can even see a new Universal entry sign in the rendering, on the corner of Universal Blvd at the start of the extended Kirkman Rd., as if this will be the new entry road leading to all of Universal Orlando Resort.
The website goes on to say:
“The all-new Universal Stella Nova Resort was inspired by the infinite vastness of the unknown universe, and the wonder of what lies beyond our world. Opening January 21, 2025, it’s where you’ll take off for amazing adventures and exclusive theme park benefits at the parks; it’s also where you’ll touch down for relaxation and recharging between the fun.”
This possible opening date aligns with the construction timelines seen in permit information, which has the punch list for Project 912 completed by January 2025. If the sister hotel follows the same rule of thumb, that could mean we could see Terra Luna open by the end of March 2025. Of course, since this Loews website page is no longer live, that January opening date is subject to change.
According to the site, the Epic Universe theme park will not be open when this resort opens to guests. Its says that the Universal Epic Universe theme park will open at a later date in 2025. However, they do stress that “convenient and complimentary shuttles” will be able to take you from the hotel to the current theme parks and CityWalk—and that early entry for an hour for select experiences will be available, same as the existing Universal Orlando hotels.
Looking back at the official concept art for the hotels above, it is worth noting that the Epic Universe theme park is missing from this image. It should be visible in the background at the top of the image, behind the Kirkman Rd raised circle ramp.
The park may be missing from this image so guests booking this hotel do not assume it will be open when they check in, or simply because new concept art for the park has not been released yet.
What we can see in the art, is a pretty good look at the two resorts’ pool areas, which appear similar to the Endless Summer Resort pools at first glance.
The pool for Stella Nova is described as a 10,000 square feet resort-style pool, and will also include a nearby kids’ splash pad area, hot tub, and outdoor fire pit, which seem more in line with offerings at Cabana Bay or Aventura than Endless Summer, making it hard to pin down a price point.
And that is something that was not yet visible within the landing page for the Stella Nova Resort: pricing. We can assume from the amenities, (and being conveniently located across from Epic Universe,) that these resorts may fall into the Prime-Value category, like Cabana Bay or Aventura, but that is still not confirmed.
Other amenities include a fitness center, game room, gift shop, and dining options.
The official site says “Throughout the resort, there are restaurant and lounge options sure to fit the palette of everyone — including a pool bar and grill, and pizza delivery.” Permits we’ve seen for the hotel describe a restaurant with 203 seats, as well as a bar/lounge with 113 seats.
As for the rooms of the Stella Nova Resort, of which there will be 750, it says “You’ll enjoy endless family fun with a massive pool, standard rooms that sleep up to four, multiple dining options, and tons of recreational fun.”
An example floorplan image is included in the image gallery, which shows an almost exact duplicate layout as the standard rooms at Cabana Bay.
Images of the room itself, including the bathroom, were included too, showing what the unique rounded space-porthole style windows look like from the inside—as well as the celestial-style wallpaper behind the bed and art-deco carpet.
According to permit documents, it does not appear that this resort will feature any multi-bedroom suites like the Endless Summer Resort, although connecting doors can be opened between adjoining rooms to create larger shared space for families.
Bookings for Universal Stella Nova Resort are rumored to open as early as next month, which will be just about a year out from its possible opening, giving guests time to plan their next vacation. This could explain why the official website is being prepared now.
No details were included about the hotel at the back of the park, the 500-room Universal Helios Grand Hotel, but we expect that one to open with the theme park, and to cost quite a bit more.
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Casinos, those vibrant palaces of possibility, have Neng4d long captivated the human imagination. With their dazzling lights, melodious clinks of coins, and the palpable thrill of risk, they stand as monuments to entertainment and chance. Whether nestled in the heart of bustling cities or nestled along scenic coastlines, these establishments beckon adventurers and risk-takers alike into their world of excitement and possibility.
A Glimpse into History
The history of casinos is as rich and colorful as the tapestries adorning their walls. Dating back to ancient civilizations, gambling has always held a place in human society. From the throwing of dice in the streets of Rome to the opulent gambling houses of Renaissance Europe, the allure of games of chance has transcended time and culture.
However, it was in the vibrant atmosphere of 17th-century Venice that the modern concept of the casino began to take shape. The city’s ridotti, private rooms where nobility gathered to indulge in various forms of entertainment, laid the groundwork for the extravagant casinos we know today.
The Modern Casino Experience
Fast forward to the present day, and casinos have evolved into sprawling complexes offering an array of amenities designed to enchant and delight patrons. From the moment one steps through the doors, the senses are bombarded with sights, sounds, and smells designed to heighten the experience.
The casino floor itself is a spectacle to behold, with rows upon rows of slot machines jingling their siren song and tables adorned with green felt where fortunes are won and lost with the roll of the dice or the turn of a card. Whether you’re a seasoned gambler or a curious novice, there’s a game for everyone, from the simplicity of slot machines to the strategic depths of poker and blackjack. | <urn:uuid:7a4bcabe-246f-4817-9f87-efc23f5ad7cb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://osomatsu-santepc.com/step-into-the-glittering-world-of-casinos-a-journey-into-entertainment-and-chance/ | 2024-04-24T03:30:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.942958 | 373 |
This wildly alluring Silver Sprout Ring is made from sterling silver and set with a Blue Topaz Faceted Stone. It has manipulated silver wires with twists and turns creating a look of sprouted growth that branches across your fingers. It features subtle textures, oxidized for a rich contrast and polished for an eye-catching look!
The Silver Sprout Ring is the only one available and is a size 8.
Top 2″ x 1.2″
Ring Band widest area 7.5 mm
Blue Topaz Faceted Stone 5 mm
Please allow up to 7 – 10 days for completion & delivery of your Silver Sprout Ring, it is 100% fabricated by hand.
Jewelry is packaged in a pretty gift box and all US Packages will be shipped via the US Post Office, includes insurance & delivery confirmation. Items are subject to shipping cost & sales tax.
We want you to be completely satisfied with your purchase however sales are final. If you have any concerns, please contact us, and we will make every effort to work with you.
Silver, brass and copper will all naturally tarnish over time creating a more antiqued look. If you wish to keep it looking new and polished we suggest using a polishing cloth, gently buff jewelry to remove tarnished areas and bring up the brighter points. We recommend Sunshine brand polishing cloth for extra shine but a standard polishing cloth will do the trick as well.
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