The Prometheus League
Breaking News and Updates
- Abolition Of Work
- Ai
- Alt-right
- Alternative Medicine
- Antifa
- Artificial General Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Super Intelligence
- Ascension
- Astronomy
- Atheism
- Atheist
- Atlas Shrugged
- Automation
- Ayn Rand
- Bahamas
- Bankruptcy
- Basic Income Guarantee
- Big Tech
- Bitcoin
- Black Lives Matter
- Blackjack
- Boca Chica Texas
- Brexit
- Caribbean
- Casino
- Casino Affiliate
- Cbd Oil
- Censorship
- Cf
- Chess Engines
- Childfree
- Cloning
- Cloud Computing
- Conscious Evolution
- Corona Virus
- Cosmic Heaven
- Covid-19
- Cryonics
- Cryptocurrency
- Cyberpunk
- Darwinism
- Democrat
- Designer Babies
- DNA
- Donald Trump
- Eczema
- Elon Musk
- Entheogens
- Ethical Egoism
- Eugenic Concepts
- Eugenics
- Euthanasia
- Evolution
- Extropian
- Extropianism
- Extropy
- Fake News
- Federalism
- Federalist
- Fifth Amendment
- Fifth Amendment
- Financial Independence
- First Amendment
- Fiscal Freedom
- Food Supplements
- Fourth Amendment
- Fourth Amendment
- Free Speech
- Freedom
- Freedom of Speech
- Futurism
- Futurist
- Gambling
- Gene Medicine
- Genetic Engineering
- Genome
- Germ Warfare
- Golden Rule
- Government Oppression
- Hedonism
- High Seas
- History
- Hubble Telescope
- Human Genetic Engineering
- Human Genetics
- Human Immortality
- Human Longevity
- Illuminati
- Immortality
- Immortality Medicine
- Intentional Communities
- Jacinda Ardern
- Jitsi
- Jordan Peterson
- Las Vegas
- Liberal
- Libertarian
- Libertarianism
- Liberty
- Life Extension
- Macau
- Marie Byrd Land
- Mars
- Mars Colonization
- Mars Colony
- Memetics
- Micronations
- Mind Uploading
- Minerva Reefs
- Modern Satanism
- Moon Colonization
- Nanotech
- National Vanguard
- NATO
- Neo-eugenics
- Neurohacking
- Neurotechnology
- New Utopia
- New Zealand
- Nihilism
- Nootropics
- NSA
- Oceania
- Offshore
- Olympics
- Online Casino
- Online Gambling
- Pantheism
- Personal Empowerment
- Poker
- Political Correctness
- Politically Incorrect
- Polygamy
- Populism
- Post Human
- Post Humanism
- Posthuman
- Posthumanism
- Private Islands
- Progress
- Proud Boys
- Psoriasis
- Psychedelics
- Putin
- Quantum Computing
- Quantum Physics
- Rationalism
- Republican
- Resource Based Economy
- Robotics
- Rockall
- Ron Paul
- Roulette
- Russia
- Sealand
- Seasteading
- Second Amendment
- Second Amendment
- Seychelles
- Singularitarianism
- Singularity
- Socio-economic Collapse
- Space Exploration
- Space Station
- Space Travel
- Spacex
- Sports Betting
- Sportsbook
- Superintelligence
- Survivalism
- Talmud
- Technology
- Teilhard De Charden
- Terraforming Mars
- The Singularity
- Tms
- Tor Browser
- Trance
- Transhuman
- Transhuman News
- Transhumanism
- Transhumanist
- Transtopian
- Transtopianism
- Ukraine
- Uncategorized
- Vaping
- Victimless Crimes
- Virtual Reality
- Wage Slavery
- War On Drugs
- Waveland
- Ww3
- Yahoo
- Zeitgeist Movement
-
Prometheism
-
Forbidden Fruit
-
The Evolutionary Perspective
Daily Archives: July 19, 2023
Real jobs for eager young people: The Heckscher Foundation … – New York Daily News
Posted: July 19, 2023 at 1:14 pm
Soon, summer internships will wind down and recent college graduates will march off to their first entry-level jobs. As they start their careers, many young people from underserved backgrounds will be left behind, without the network, resources, or skill sets they need to compete in the job market.
Workforce training programs are meant to fill that gap by putting underserved youth on the path to full-time jobs with a living wage, benefits, and opportunities to move up. Right now, those programs are falling short.
College graduate looking for a job. (Shutterstock/Shutterstock)
In New York City, unemployment for workers of color is significantly higher than for white workers. This year, 12.2% of Black workers and 7.5% of workers of color overall are out of a job, compared to only 1.3% of white workers. Inequality is worsening the difference in employment rates between Black and white workers, is skyrocketing, recently reaching its highest point in decades. The job search has been even more difficult for young people, with about 17% of New Yorkers unemployed, with young Black men disproportionately represented in that group.
If were going to narrow that gap, we need to increase rates of employment in high-quality jobs for underserved youth. That means workforce training programs need to innovate.
The Heckscher Foundation, the philanthropy I lead, is one organization aiming to do that through a new funding model. Heckscher works with New Yorkers under the age of 25 who spent time in foster care, have been through the court system, or have some or no college education. We fund programs offering full-time job commitments that help them achieve financial independence.
This month, we started the Heckscher Foundation Challenge, which today is awarding $7.6 million in grants to New York high schools, colleges, and nonprofits that run workforce training programs for young adults from low-income communities and communities of color. Weve funded workforce training programs in the past, but we made a commitment to only fund organizations that secure hiring commitments from employers as a result, more than 1,100 young New Yorkers will have full-time jobs.
Tying funding to job guarantees from employers is one way to make programs more effective. One example is the model honed by the Gap and now Old Navy, called This Way ONward, where New York youth are trained to manage the challenges of a career through jobs skills training provided by The Door, mentorship and with the employers committing to hire successful graduates of the training program.
Weekdays
Catch up on the days top five stories every weekday afternoon.
Yet another promising new approach is the Career Readiness and Modern Youth Apprenticeship program recently announced by Mayor Adams and Chancellor David Banks, which will place 3,000 New York public school students in paid apprenticeships. As with all new workforce training programs, its success will depend on whether these apprenticeships result in full time employment.
Nonprofits and employers are hungry for innovations like these. Unclear communication from employers about the skills theyre looking for makes it difficult for providers to develop training curricula, while employers complain that they cant find workers prepared for the demands of even entry-level jobs.
The job market is giving training programs an opening to break this stalemate. Some industries like manufacturing, finance, and hospitality dont have nearly enough workers to keep their businesses producing, while others like clean energy are creating new jobs faster than they can fill them. These industries are all looking for workers ready to hit the ground running, which means that employers are willing to collaborate with training programs in ways they might not otherwise.
Trainers and hirers mutual desire for change was apparent in our inaugural Heckscher Foundation Challenge application cycle. Overwhelming numbers of nonprofits and employers participated 96 organizations applied for grants for their training programs and 234 companies offered to guarantee jobs to those programs graduates. Their enthusiasm about trying something new makes us confident that changing funding and training models can make a difference for the young people we work with.
At the same time, policymakers are beginning to recognize the dangers of failing to adequately train workers for critical jobs and investing millions of dollars in workforce training across the country. Those investments give us a unique chance to create a society where everyone can build a career that satisfies their needs and supports their family, regardless of the educational opportunities they got growing up.
These new commitments from government, philanthropy, nonprofits and businesses show the will exists to put underprivileged youth on the path to great jobs. Lets give our workforce training programs a makeover so they can make the most of it.
Sloane is chairman and CEO of the Heckscher Foundation for Children.
The rest is here:
Real jobs for eager young people: The Heckscher Foundation ... - New York Daily News
Posted in Financial Independence
Comments Off on Real jobs for eager young people: The Heckscher Foundation … – New York Daily News
All about the Benjamins: Researchers decipher the secrets of … – ND Newswire
Posted: at 1:14 pm
A rare window into the early American monetary history thanks to techniques from physics
Benjamin Franklin may be best known as the creator of bifocals and the lightning rod, but a group of University of Notre Dame researchers suggest he should also be known for his innovative ways of making (literal) money.
During his career, Franklin printed nearly 2,500,000 money notes for the American Colonies using what the researchers have identified as highly original techniques, as reported in a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The research team, led by Khachatur Manukyan, an associate research professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has spent the past seven years analyzing a trove of nearly 600 notes from the Colonial period, which is part of an extensive collection developed by the Hesburgh Libraries Rare Books and Special Collections. The Colonial notes span an 80-year period and include notes printed by Franklins network of printing shops and other printers, as well as a series of counterfeit notes.
Manukyan explained that the effort to print money for the fledgling Colonial monetary system was important to Franklin not just as a printer but as a statesman as well.
Benjamin Franklin saw that the Colonies financial independence was necessary for their political independence. Most of the silver and gold coins brought to the British American colonies were rapidly drained away to pay for manufactured goods imported from abroad, leaving the Colonies without sufficient monetary supply to expand their economy, Manukyan said.
However, one major problem stood in the way of efforts to print paper money: counterfeiting. When Franklin opened his printing house in 1728, paper money was a relatively new concept. Unlike gold and silver, paper moneys lack of intrinsic value meant it was constantly at risk of depreciating. There were no standardized bills in the Colonial period, leaving an opportunity for counterfeiters to pass off fake bills as real ones. In response, Franklin worked to embed a suite of security features that made his bills distinctive.
To maintain the notes dependability, Franklin had to stay a step ahead of counterfeiters, said Manukyan. But the ledger where we know he recorded these printing decisions and methods has been lost to history. Using the techniques of physics, we have been able to restore, in part, some of what that record would have shown.
Manukyan and his team employed cutting-edge spectroscopic and imaging instruments housed in the Nuclear Science Laboratory and four Notre Dame research core facilities: the Center for Environmental Science and Technology, the Integrated Imaging Facility, the Materials Characterization Facility and the Molecular Structure Facility. The tools enabled them to get a closer look than ever at the inks, paper and fibers that made Franklins bills distinctive and hard to replicate.
One of the most distinctive features they found was in Franklins pigments. Manukyan and his team determined the chemical elements used for each item in Notre Dames collection of Colonial notes. The counterfeits, they found, have distinctive high quantities of calcium and phosphorus, but these elements are found only in traces in the genuine bills.
Their analyses revealed that although Franklin used (and sold) lamp black, a pigment created by burning vegetable oils, for most printing, Franklins printed currency used a special black dye made from graphite found in rock. This pigment is also different from the bone black made from burned bone, which was favored both by counterfeiters and by those outside Franklins network of printing houses.
Another of Franklins innovations was in the paper itself. The invention of including tiny fibers in paper pulp visible as pigmented squiggles within paper money has often been credited to paper manufacturer Zenas Marshall Crane, who introduced this practice in 1844. But Manukyan and his team found evidence that Franklin was including colored silks in his paper much earlier.
The team also discovered that notes printed by Franklins network have a distinctive look due to the addition of a translucent material they identified as muscovite. The team determined that Franklin began adding muscovite to his papers and the size of this muscovite crystals in his paper increased over time. The team speculates that Franklin initially began adding muscovite to make the printed notes more durable but continued to add it when it proved to be a helpful deterrent to counterfeiters.
Manukyan said that it is unusual for a physics lab to work with rare and archival materials, and this posed special challenges.
Few scientists are interested in working with materials like these. In some cases, these bills are one-of-a-kind. They must be handled with extreme care, and they cannot be damaged. Those are constraints that would turn many physicists off to a project like this, he said.
But for him, the project is a testament to the value of interdisciplinary work.
We were fortunate to have student researchers on this project with interests both in physics as well as in history and art conservation. And the core research facilities as well as the Rare Books and Special Collections team were incredible research partners. Without an uncommon level of collaboration across disciplines, our discoveries would not have been possible.
In addition to lead investigator Manukyan, the research team for this project included Armenuhi Yeghishyan, a laboratory technician in the Department of Physics and Astronomy; Ani Aprahamian, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Physics and concurrent professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Louis Jordan, an associate University librarian emeritus for academic services and collections; Michael Kurkowski, a former undergraduate researcher studying physics and mathematics; Mark Raddell, a former undergraduate researcher studying finance and physics who is now a consultant at Deloitte; Laura Richter Le, a former undergraduate researcher who is now a graduate student at the Conservation Center at New York Universitys Institute of Fine Arts; Zachary D. Schultz, a former associate professor at Notre Dame who is now a faculty member at the Ohio State University; Liam Spillane, who works at Gatan Inc.; and Michael Wiescher, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Physics.
This research project was funded by an internal grant from Notre Dame Research. For more information on the Nuclear Science Laboratorys work investigating historical materials, visit sites.nd.edu/kmanukyan/research/.
Contact: Jessica Sieff, associate director, media relations, 574-631-3933, jsieff@nd.edu
Continue reading here:
All about the Benjamins: Researchers decipher the secrets of ... - ND Newswire
Posted in Financial Independence
Comments Off on All about the Benjamins: Researchers decipher the secrets of … – ND Newswire
Six curators talk about the artists on their radar – ArtsHub
Posted: at 1:14 pm
As the year has ticked over into its second chapter and programming is settled and smooth in our post-pandemic push forward ArtsHub checked in with curators across Australia to find out which artists are on their watch list.
Selected by: Rachel Ciela, Lead Creative Simon Lee Foundation Institute of Contemporary Asian Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia (WA)
Why: The paintings and drawings of Ipeh Nur depict elaborate worlds filled with a multitude of characters, both real and imagined, and carefully crafted stories. Her works negotiate the complex intermingling of historical memory and tradition in Indonesia with great warmth and generosity while simultaneously offering a raw and unfiltered view of the artists personal experience of contemporary life.
Nur was recently included in ART JOG 2023. She lives and works in Yogyakarta.
Follow Ipeh Nur on: Instagram @ipehnurberesyit
Selected by: Beatrice Gralton, senior curator, Brett Whiteley Studio, Art Gallery of New South Wales (NSW)
Why: Heather B Swann is having a moment. For over three decades the Hobart-based artist has worked rigorously and ambitiously between drawing, sculpture, painting performance and installation, and we are now beginning to see her work consistently included in major exhibitions around the country. Ive known her for 20-something years and had the privilege to include her series of works, Leda and the Swan in The National 4.
The years that it takes Swann to produce a body of work is testament to her endurance and commitment as an artist. It is a long road, and her work is a complete surrender to the process of making art. There is something exhilaratingly vital and expansive about this journey, inviting us below a surface of perfectionto embrace our own messy and physical selves.
Right now, Swann has work in the exhibition Twist at the Tasmanian Museum and Gallery and is working towards the National Gallery of Victorias Triennial in December, as well as some other major (and, as yet, unannounced) projects for 2024. She shows with Station Gallery.
Follow Swann on: Instagram @heatherbswann
Selected by: Sophie OBrien, Head of Curatorial and Learning, Bundanon (NSW)
Why: This exciting collective of performance-makers represents a wonderfully experimental energy that continues to thrive in Australia an impulse that often emerges from a devised theatre-making context, but draws on other performance disciplines to fuel its explorations. They prove cultural organisations and arts schools to still be essential in providing meeting places for artists who will go on to collaborate or connect for many years into the future.
Often celebratory in nature and irreverent in performance, the group relishes non-theatrical spaces, collaborating with intergenerational communities. Borrowing from the live art field to put the audience at the centre of the work, the group creates spaces that feel risky and alive.
They are comparatively emerging, having only formed after training together a few years ago, but have already started winning awards with Green Room and Melbourne Fringe Festival. They describe their practice as instinctive, physical and highly playful that is, offering us all a sense of unrepeatable, uplifting joy.
Follow Pony Cam on: Instagram @ponycamcollectiveand its website.
Selected by: Francis E Parker, Curator Exhibitions, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) (VIC)
Why: Its hard to comprehend in reproduction, but Josh Foley often creates a simulation of impasto in a totally flat surface, like a kind of trompe lil, so passages that look loose and spontaneous are actually the result of meticulous work. That kind of contradiction fascinates me. Being from just outside of Launceston myself, I also detect a Tasmanian sensibility in some of his paintings.
In 2011 Foley won the John Glover Prize, which was then the richest landscape prize in Australia. Winning this award at the age of 27, he remains the youngest person to achieve this.
Josh Foley currently has a show on at Despard Gallery in Hobart.
Follow Josh Foley via Despard Gallery or his website.
Selected by: Anna Briers, Curator, UQ Art Museum (Qld)
Why: A creative to watch right now is Alicia Frankovich, a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand, and previously located in Berlin. Frankovich has an impressive track record working across performance, sculpture, video and photography. Her practice is the kind of thing Im drawn to at the moment. Shes an artist who is critically engaged with current discourses, but who has developed an artistic methodology that is visually arresting and compelling on an embodied level a practice that is open and generous to audiences.
Her work is collaborative and relational, and she works with a diverse array of professional and untrained performers to tease out the important questions of our time through dance. Most recently, in March, I saw Atlas of Anti-Taxonomies (2019-22) at the Gus Fisher Gallery in Tmaki Makaurau/Auckland, a work which developed as part of the artists PhD research.
The work undertakes a reordering of Western knowledge systems, drawing on thinking by Mori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith and art historian Aby Warburg. Presented as an installation, it consists of a series of illuminated suspended screens depicting images of flora, bacteria, symbiotic organisms such as lichen, fungi growths and their mycorrhizal networks, climate phenomena and so on. It speaks to our entanglement with ecological planetary systems, which are in fact borderless anti-taxonomical if you like. It resists the separation between nature and culture, decentres the notion of human supremacy and affirms the relational interconnectedness of all things. It is the severing of these entanglements that got us into this mess.
She also recently developed a major choreographic installation in response to the Australian bushfire crisis in the summer of 2019-20 entitled AQI2020 for the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tmaki, which oddly hasnt been presented in Australia yet.
Frankovich is included in Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria, and has an upcoming solo exhibition at 1301SW, Melbourne in February 2024. She is also developing a major new performance work for a UQ Art Museum group exhibition for 2025.
Performers in Rich in World, Poor in World, 2023 (pictured top): LJ Connolly-Hiatt, Mara Galagher, Shelley Lasica, Shian Law, Enzo Nazario, Erin ORourke, Lana prajcer, Angelita Biscotti, Jesse Gall, Erin Hallyburton, Alexis Kanatsios, Daniel R Marks, Rajdeep Puri. Music: Igor Kaczyski.
Follow Alicia Frankovich via her website.
Selected by: Con Gerakaris, Curatorial Program Manager, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (NSW)
Why: With a brazen palette and effortless style, Jacquie Meng conjures vivid parallel universes populated by folkloric tales both historic and contemporary. Meng equally draws upon lived experiences and whimsical situations to present an ever-changing visual lexicon of cultural symbology, rendered in caricatured figures in a flattened perspective borrowed from woodblock prints. Objects of the everyday and treated with the same importance as universal signifiers of Chinese heritage: the Bic lighter is as fundamental as the carved jade chamber within which a joss stick burns. Her exalted avatar traverses the divide between real and imaginary, a post-human protagonist mythologising the idyllic daydream of driving a flame-decal monster truck down Northbourne Avenue, phosphorescent Nalgene in hand.
Jacquie has just completed a residency atKunstraum, Brooklyn New York (01 April 30 June), and is currently undertaking one at Pilotenkueche, Leipzig (4 July 23 September).
Follow Jacqiue Meng via Instagram @jacquiemeng or her website.
Check out our 2022, 2021 and 2020 iterations of curators on artist to watch.
Read the rest here:
Six curators talk about the artists on their radar - ArtsHub
Posted in Post Human
Comments Off on Six curators talk about the artists on their radar – ArtsHub
The Biggest X-Men Wins In Marvel Comics Last Five Years – CBR – Comic Book Resources
Posted: at 1:14 pm
The last five years have been pretty wild for the X-Men. For a while, Marvel was doing its best to marginalize the team but they've become the publisher's biggest comics again. Things have cooled off recently, but fans have been treated to some amazing stories, many of which saw the X-Men triumph over tremendous odds, saving their newly minted mutant nation of Krakoa and sometimes the universe.
The X-Men have had some impressive wins in the last five years. The team has always been in the upper echelons of Marvel's heroic community, but they've changed tremendously since 2018. They proved they can handle circumstances no one imagined they could.
RELATED: Every X-Men Comic Currently Running (& Their Most Recent Issue)
Wolverine is the X-Men's most popular member, so it makes sense that he is responsible for at least one of the team's massive victories. Mikhail Rasputin, working for the Russian government, was able to get his hands on the Cerebro Sword. Using that and his reality-altering powers, he used Wolverine's and Xavier's memories to use Omega Red to assassinate Professor X at multiple points in the past. Xavier and Jean Grey used their mental powers to send Wolverine back to stop them.
Wolverine battled Omega Red in multiple situations, from saving the Xavier family on the night of Charles' birth to stopping the assassinations of Xavier's ancestors. After halting Rasputin's plans, Wolverine was able to not only defeat Omega Red but retrieved the Cerebro Sword. Wolverine, Xavier, and Jean Grey saved the X-Men, and with them the universe, by ending Rasputin's plans.
Not every win for the X-Men came through force of arms. After X Of Swords, the mutant team had a big problem. The mutants of Arakko had spent millennia battling the demonic hordes of Amenth and formed a martial culture. They wouldn't have fit in very well on Earth, so the Quiet Council thought outside the box. Gathering their most powerful mutants, they set out to do something unprecedented.
Mutants of Krakoa and Arakko alike worked together to take Mars, a planet incapable of supporting life, and terraformed it. They gave it a heavier core, a breathable atmosphere, and water. They made the red planet into a new world and named it Arakko, giving it to the mutants who had survived millennia of death and destruction. The Quiet Council promised fireworks for the first Hellfire Gala, and they delivered with a win unlike any other in history.
As Krakoa was still establishing itself, an alien invasion ravaged the Earth. The mutant nation was targeted as well when the alien Cotati attacked the island. The mutants of Krakoa were sorely outnumbered, but their teamwork allowed them to at least hold back the invaders, keeping the island from falling completely. Then Magneto decided to intervene.
Since the establishment of Krakoa, Magneto had been acting as a leader. He let others get their hands dirty, relishing his position of power in a place that was basically the culmination of his wildest dreams. However, with aliens overrunning the island, Magneto donned his old purple and red costume and unleashed his full power on the invaders. He broke their beachhead on Krakoa, shredding the Cotati with his powers. With Magneto at the head of their forces, the X-Men kicked the invading forces off their soil.
RELATED: 10 Biggest Changes Marvel Made To X-Men's Lore Over The Years
Powers Of X took place in multiple universes, several made possible by the powers of Moira MacTaggert. In her ninth life, a hundred years after the establishment of the X-Men, Nimrod and the Sentinels had taken over the Earth, slaughtering mutants to nearly nothing and transforming humanity into post-human machine hybrids. The only ones fighting them were a group of X-Men led by Apocalypse, and they made one final play to stop their future from happening.
The X-Men attacked Nimrod's data vault, led by Apocalypse himself. Sorely outnumbered, the group was violently cut down as Apocalypse battled Nimrod to a standstill. However, even with their horrific losses, they got the information they needed. Wolverine gave Moira the data and then killed her, resetting the timeline and giving her the knowledge she'd need to slow down Nimrod in her next life.
Extermination saw the X-Men beat an old foe. Ahab, a mutant-hating cyborg from a future where humanity enslaved mutants, came back in time to kill the original five X-Men, who had been transferred to the present by Beast. As that was happening, a younger version of Cable had come back to send the young mutants back to the past to stop Ahab.
At first, the X-Men fought against Cable, thinking he was the one trying to destroy their time-tossed teammates. However, Ahab's plan was laid bare and the X-Men and this younger Cable worked together to stop him. The original X-Men were sent back to the past, their minds altered so they wouldn't remember their time in the present until it was necessary, and Ahab's terrible quest was stopped.
X-Men Red's early issues concentrated on Storm, Magneto, Sunspot, and the Fisher King working to consolidate power on Arakko. Meanwhile, Abigail Brand, the leader of SWORD, Krakoa's space agency, had secretly allied with the Orchis Initiative and was working to destabilize the Arakkii government by placing Vulcan in their Great Circle. After this failed, Brand's coup plans continued apace.
The Arakkii Brotherhood, working with SWORD's X-Men Red team, led by Cable and Thunderbird, recognized Brand's threat and worked to stop her. After Brand unleashed a newly resurrected and angry Vulcan on the Brotherhood and X-Men Red, the combined mutant heroes were not only able to stop her but forced her out of SWORD. Arakko remained independent and SWORD was no longer Orchis's secret pawn.
A.X.E. Judgment Day shook the Marvel Universe. It all started with new Eternal Prime Druig working to cement his power base among his people. Discovering that mutants evolved from Deviant genes, he was able to get the majority of the Eternals to agree to war against Krakoa and Arakko. The immortal forces of the Eternals did their best to raze the mutant homelands to the ground, but the mutants stood firm.
In order to end the conflict, rogue Eternals worked with the Avengers and Mister Sinister to create a new Celestial god for the Eternals, the Progenitor. Unfortunately, the Progenitor decided to judge the whole of humanity and destroy Earth if it found the world wanting. The X-Men allied with the Avengers and the Eternals, and were instrumental in defeating the Progenitor, their powers and mutant technology giving the heroes the advantage they needed to win.
Krakoa was swept up in the attack of Knull. Knull was able to get control of Cable with a symbiote, who used a Krakoan gate to bring more symbiotes to the island nation. The mutant island was overrun and soon mostly under Knull's control. The only mutants ready to stand against him were the members of SWORD, safe in the orbiting Peak space station.
A group of mutants made their way to Earth, but Knull's symbiotic mutants were able to hold them at bay. Manifold, whose mutant powers allow him to shape the universe in any way he needs, stepped up. He was able to open a portal over Krakoa and suck the symbiotes into it, saving those the aliens were bonded to and freeing the nation.
RELATED: 10 Best Female X-Men Characters, Ranked
X Of Swords was a supernatural war against the demonic hordes of Amenth. Led by the Golden Helm of Annihilation, the Amenthi were responsible for the sundering of the ancient mutant nation of Okkara into Krakoa and Arakko, with the Arakkii traveling into Otherworld to battle them. Amenth was able to conquer the Arakkii, who challenged the Krakoans to a contest of swords.
Traveling to Otherworld, champions of both sides participated in contests that Krakoa eventually won. However, the Amenthi still attacked. The X-Men were sorely pressed until Captain Britain and the Captain Britain Corps entered the fight. Together, they were able to defeat Amenth and free the Arakkii, saving the world from the demonic invasion.
House Of X was brutal, forcing the X-Men to pay dearly for their greatest victory. Using knowledge gained from Moira's ninth life, Xavier and Magneto sent a team of X-Men to the Forge, a sun-orbiting space station, to stop the Orchis Initiative from activating the ultimate Sentinel, Nimrod, by destroying the Mother Mold. A bloodbath followed.
Every member of the X-Men's Forge team was killed but they still completed their objectives. In a final stroke, Nightcrawler and Wolverine teleported into space to destroy the last strut holding up the Mother Mold. They died but their sacrifices saved the nascent mutant nation. Brought back by a new method of mutant resurrection, the team celebrated the victory that made Krakoa's survival possible.
More:
The Biggest X-Men Wins In Marvel Comics Last Five Years - CBR - Comic Book Resources
Posted in Post Human
Comments Off on The Biggest X-Men Wins In Marvel Comics Last Five Years – CBR – Comic Book Resources
How To Become Rich With The Power Of Compounding – New Trader U
Posted: at 1:14 pm
Welcome to a journey towards amassing wealth by harnessing one of the most potent tools in the world of finance. Its a powerful yet simple concept that is often overlooked in the pursuit of quicker gains. This strategy, appreciated by successful investors worldwide, is the fascinating concept of compounding. This blog post will delve deep into understanding this fundamental principle, unearthing the secret to the exponential growth of wealth. Through the art of patience, the importance of time, and the magic of reinvestment, I aim to enlighten you on a proven path to financial independence and prosperity. So, lets embark on this exciting journey, mastering the steady strategy to multiply your money.
Compounding, often hailed as the eighth wonder of the world by financial enthusiasts, is the process where the value of an investment increases exponentially over time due to the earnings on both the principal amount and the accumulated interest or dividends. This snowball effect enables your wealth to grow faster and faster as time goes on.
The true magic of compounding lies in its exponential growth. Unlike linear growth, where you add a fixed amount each time, exponential growth multiplies your wealth. The principal and the profit earned on it both contribute to your earning potential. Therefore, the longer your money stays invested, the more potential it has to grow.
The Rule of 72 is a simple way to estimate how long it will take for an investment to double, given a fixed annual rate of return. By dividing 72 by the annual rate of return, investors can get a rough estimate of how many years it will take for the initial investment to duplicate itself. The Rule of 72 is reasonably accurate for steady interest rates.
Here are some examples:
Annual rate of return/Years to double the original capital:
Its important to note that this rule is a mathematical concept and does not consider other real-world factors such as inflation, taxes, or changes in the interest rate.
Here is how long it takes to compound and double return rates most similar to those in the stock market and investing:
Here are the years required to double your investment for annual capital gain rates from 11% to 20%:
Again, its important to remember that these are rough estimates, and the time to double your investment may vary based on several factors. Higher rates of return are typically associated with higher risks. Of course, no returns in the real world are this steady; this is just to show what is possible with compounding at different return rate areas.
At its core, compounding is the process where the return on your investment, in turn, earns a return, which then gets added to your original investment. This process continues over time, resulting in the exponential growth of your wealth.
As a simple example, heres how it works: Lets say you invest $1000 at an annual interest rate of 10%. After the first year, you would earn $100 in interest (10% of $1000). If you reinvest this interest, your total investment becomes $1100. In the second year, you earn interest on the total amount ($1100), not just your initial investment. This means youll earn $110 (10% of $1100). This cycle of earning interest on your interest continues, and thats where the magic happens.
Lets look at this above example over forty years to see the power of compounding:
The formula for compound interest is A = P (1 + r/n)^(nt), where:
If you invest $1000 at an annual interest rate of 10% compounded once a year (n=1) for 40 years, the calculation would be:
A = $1000 * (1 + 0.10/1)^(1*40)
So, A = $1000 * (1.10)^40
A = $1000 * 45.259255
A = $45259.26
So, $1000 compounded at 10% a year for 40 years equals approximately $45,259.46.
The longer the time, the more dramatic the compounding effect becomes. Over time, your investment doesnt just grow; it soars. This is why its often called the magic of compounding.
For example, if you invested $1,000 at an interest rate of 10% and left it untouched for 40 years, the power of compounding would turn your investment into approximately $45,259.46 without adding any additional funds.
Therefore, the key ingredients for taking advantage of this magic are: start investing as early as possible, reinvest the returns you get, and give your investment time to grow. Its not about making quick gains but steadily accumulating wealth over time. This is the power and magic of compounding for wealth creation.
In compounding, patience is not just a virtue but a necessity. The power of compounding is best realized over long periods. The more time you give your investments, the more they can compound and grow. A crucial element of harnessing this power is investing as early as possible. Its not about timing the market but the time spent in it that makes a difference.
There are many investment avenues where compounding plays a significant role. Stock markets, mutual funds, bonds, or even your savings account can leverage the power of compounding with a high-interest rate. Any investment avenue to reinvest the earnings can potentially compound your wealth.
To maximize the benefits of compounding, there are a few key strategies to follow. First, reinvest your earnings from interest, dividends, or capital gains. By doing so, your earnings start to earn too. Second, diversify your investments across various channels to spread the risk and potential for compounding. Lastly, consider investing in avenues that compound more frequently.
The key to successful compounding is consistent and regular investments. Regardless of market conditions, invest a fixed amount at regular intervals. This disciplines your investment habit and averages your cost of investing over time, a concept known as dollar-cost averaging.
A common mistake among investors is not giving their investments enough time to compound. Withdrawing your investments prematurely can significantly dilute the potential of compounding. Another pitfall is not reinvesting the returns. Remember, in compounding, the reinvested earnings generate additional returns.
To enhance the effects of compounding, you could consider increasing your regular investments over time, often aligned with increments in your income. Another effective technique is investing in windfall gains like bonuses, tax refunds, or inheritance, which can significantly boost your wealth compounding.
The power of compounding can turn your retirement dreams into reality. Starting early with a disciplined investment strategy can build a substantial retirement corpus. Moreover, many retirement accounts tax-deferred or tax-free status can enhance compounding, as taxes can significantly erode the compounding potential.
Compounding can be your secret weapon in the quest for financial independence. Its not about chasing quick riches but steadily growing wealth over time. Compounding with patience, time, and consistent investments can pave the way for financial freedom, allowing you to live on your terms.
In essence, attaining wealth via compounding is a journey of steady and measured growth rather than a frantic race. It calls for a deep understanding of the multiplying effect that time, patience, and re-invested earnings can have on your principal amount. Being mindful of potential errors, such as withdrawing investments prematurely or failing to maintain consistency, is essential for leveraging compoundings full potential. Adopting effective strategies, a diversified investment approach, and an early start can significantly boost the compounding process. Ultimately, compounding serves as a reliable path to a secure financial future and independence, facilitating the realization of your long-term financial aspirations and a comfortable retirement.
Go here to see the original:
How To Become Rich With The Power Of Compounding - New Trader U
Posted in Financial Independence
Comments Off on How To Become Rich With The Power Of Compounding – New Trader U
Women Deliver 2023 | Together We All Lead – Procter & Gamble
Posted: at 1:14 pm
Through passion, energy and vision, women across all generations have been historys changemakers, and todays women and girls are again leading the way on many global issues including gender equality.
At P&G and in the communities we serve, we want to create an inclusive environment with equal voice, representation and opportunity for all. When we unlock the potential of women and girls through access to education, business investment and leadership opportunities, we can see families thrive, communities flourish and economies grow.
As a part of our commitment to advancing gender equality, we partner with organizations, changemakers and women leaders from all generations who are creating positive impact. We admire our longstanding partners, including CARE, Girl Up, Save the Children, Vital Voices and many others, as well as the young people they support who are leading the way.
Bontle Modiselle is a Guinness World Record holding entertainer, dancer, choreographer and advocate for #KeepingGirlsInSchools. Partnering with Always in South Africa, Bontle uses dance to tackle stigma around periods and inspire a movement of sisterhood. Most recently, Bontle led a nationally-recognized dance at a local high school to the Blood Sisters soundtrack with Always Keeping Girls in School beneficiaries for Menstrual Hygiene Month.
Nora Salem is a graduate from the United Nations Womens Stimulating Equal Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs who has become a successful business owner. Overcoming a long-held belief that a womans role is in the home and the stigma as a single mother, Nora showed her community whats possible when you give women opportunities. Shes inspiring her daughter and generations of girls who follow her to believe they can have financial independence and reach their dreams.
Be inspired by the "Not Only a Mom" documentary and learn more about the programs barrier breaking and business building impact.
Sarah Kapesa as a Girl Up Teen Advisor, Sarah demonstrates to other girls the power of raising their voices to create impact in their communities. She works with Girl Up by supporting decision-making and advising on strategy to advance global gender justice. Her passion for gender and racial equality inspired Sarah to participate in a project to find sponsors for the education of 32 inspiring young girls in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Get started with more details the Teen Advisors Program.
Zuriel Oduwole is an education advocate, founder of Dream Up, Speak Up, Stand Up and an Advisory Board Member of CARE, who has inspired more than 50,000 young girls across 21 countries to believe in the power of their dreams. Zuriel was a youth activist in 2015 when she first partnered with Always to help make its iconic #LikeAGirl campaign, which helped educate girls about puberty. She wrote, narrated and produced the video Unstoppable Like A Girl and continues to be just that...unstoppable!
Watch Zuriel announce P&Gs latest news on the companys campaigns to create more equality in the world at the Global Citizen Festival.
Katherine Batzin, Mara Teresa Torrez and Valery Quintero are alumni of the Vital Voices Voces Que Inspiran Program (Voices That Inspire), which empowers a generation to bring creative solutions to todays biggest problems. Since graduating the program, each of them has launched an organization with important impact in their communities:
Katherine was motivated to start the Brave Guatemala (Voces que Florecen) project, which provides comprehensive and sustainable support to girls between the ages of 14 and 18 who are institutionalized in public and private orphanages in Guatemala. The project aims to increase their hope and ability to fully integrate into society.
Maria Teresa started the Nan Gana Project in Panama, which educates mothers, or caregivers in vulnerable conditions, about study methodologies, soft skills, and technology so that they can be mentors in their children's learning and to acquire knowledge and skills that serve them for their lives.
Valery Quintero believes that "with small actions, great changes are achieved, and the main change begins with you." She founded Activate to promote mental health by conducting workshops that foster emotional intelligence and soft skills in children and young people in Panama.
Learn more about our partner program Voices That Inspire.
All these young leaders will join us at Women Deliver 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda, where there will be space and support to connect and create the impact that they know is possible. Together we can unlock the innovation, creativity, and impact of this entire generation of change makers to help move us towards an equal future.
READ MORE STORIES ON OUR BLOG:
Read more here:
Women Deliver 2023 | Together We All Lead - Procter & Gamble
Posted in Financial Independence
Comments Off on Women Deliver 2023 | Together We All Lead – Procter & Gamble
A mom owed nearly $102000 for her son’s stay in a state mental … – NPR
Posted: at 1:14 pm
Bridget Narsh at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Narsh's son has autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, and ADHD. In 2020, he spent more than 100 days at Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility. The state billed the family nearly $102,000 for the hospitalizations. Eamon Queeney/KFF Health News hide caption
Bridget Narsh at her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Narsh's son has autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, and ADHD. In 2020, he spent more than 100 days at Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility. The state billed the family nearly $102,000 for the hospitalizations.
Bridget Narsh's son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to send him to Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility in Butner, North Carolina.
The teen, who deals with autism and post-traumatic stress and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders, had started destroying furniture and running away from home. His mother worried for the safety of Mason and the rest of the family.
But children in crisis in North Carolina can wait weeks or months for a psychiatric bed because the state lacks the services to meet demand. And when spots do become available, they are expensive.
The standard rate at Central Regional was $1,338 a day, which Narsh could not afford. So, when a patient relations representative offered a discounted rate of less than $60 a day, her husband, Nathan, signed an agreement.
Mason, now 17, was hospitalized for more than 100 days in Central Regional over two separate stays that year, documents show.
But when requests for payment arrived the following year, Narsh said she was shocked. The letters which were marked "final notice" and requested immediate payment were signed by a paralegal in the office of Josh Stein, North Carolina's attorney general. The total bill, $101,546.49, was significantly more than the roughly $6,700 the Narshes expected to pay under their agreement with the hospital.
"I had to tell myself to keep my cool," says Bridget Narsh, 44, who lives with her husband and three children in Chapel Hill. "There is no way I could pay for this."
Medical bills have upended the lives of millions of Americans, with hospitals putting liens on homes and pushing many people into bankruptcy. In recent years, lawmakers have railed against privately operated hospitals, and states have passed laws intended to make medical billing more transparent and limit aggressive debt collection tactics.
Some state attorneys general as their states' top law enforcement officials have pursued efforts to shield residents from harmful billing and debt collection practices. But in the name of protecting taxpayer resources, their offices are also often responsible for collecting unpaid debts for state-run facilities, which can put them in a contradictive position.
Stein, a Democrat running for governor in 2024, has made hospital consolidation and health care price transparency a key issue during his time in office.
"I have real concerns about this trend," Stein said in 2021 about the state's wave of hospital consolidations. "Hospital system pricing is closely related to this issue, as consolidations drive up already inordinate health care costs."
Stein refused an interview request about Mason's bills, which arrived at the end of 2021 because the North Carolina government suspended debt collection in March 2020 as the nation felt the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Across the nation, states seize money or assets, file lawsuits, or take other steps to collect debts from people who stay at state-run hospitals and other institutions, and their efforts can disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities and the poor, according to health care consumer advocates. In North Carolina, officials looking to collect unpaid debt are permitted to garnish residents' income tax refunds.
Attorneys general must balance their traditional role of protecting consumers from harmful debt collection practices and the state's obligation to serve taxpayers' interests and fund services, said Vikas Saini, a cardiologist and the president of the Lown Institute, a Massachusetts-based nonpartisan think tank that advocates for health care reform.
The Narsh case is "the perfect storm of every problem in our health care system," says Saini, who at the request of KFF Health News reviewed the payment demand letters the family received. Far too often health care is unaffordable, billing is not transparent, and patients end up facing enormous financial burdens because they or a loved one is sick, Saini said.
Bridget Narsh holds one of the letters demanding payment from the North Carolina attorney's general office. Her son's service dog, Koko, specially trained to help people with autism, is at her feet. Eamon Queeney/ KFF Health News hide caption
Bridget Narsh holds one of the letters demanding payment from the North Carolina attorney's general office. Her son's service dog, Koko, specially trained to help people with autism, is at her feet.
The Narsh family had Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance at the time of Mason's hospitalizations. Bridget Narsh has records showing insurance paid about $7,200 for one of his stays. (Mason is now covered by Medicaid, the state and federal health insurance that covers some people with disabilities and low income people.)
In a written statement, Nazneen Ahmed, a spokesperson for Stein's office, said state law requires most agencies to send their unpaid debts to the state Department of Justice, which is charged with contacting people who may owe money.
Ahmed directed KFF Health News to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees Central Regional Hospital.
Bailey Pennington Allison, an agency spokesperson, said in a written statement that officials researched the Narsh case and determined the state had properly followed procedures in billing the family.
The state bases its rates for services on the costs of the treatment, nursing, professional consultation, hospital room, meals, and laundry, Pennington Allison said. Hospital staffers then work with patients and families to learn about their income and assets to determine what they can afford and what they will be charged, she said.
The spokesperson did not address why Mason's parents were offered, but did not ultimately receive, a discounted rate both times he was admitted in 2020.
Narsh contacted an attorney, who negotiated the bill with the state. In April, her family reached an agreement with North Carolina officials to pay $100 a month in exchange for the state reducing the charges by roughly 96% to about $4,300. If Narsh defaults, however, the deal stipulates she must come up with the original total.
States can take a variety of approaches to debt collection. North Carolina is one of about a dozen that can garnish residents' income tax refunds, says Richard Gundling, a senior vice president for the Healthcare Financial Management Association, a membership organization for finance professionals.
Gundling says state officials have a responsibility to protect taxpayer money and collect what is owed but that seizing income tax returns can have more severe consequences for people with lower incomes. "There is a balance that needs to be struck to be reasonable," he says.
With health care a leading cause of personal debt, unpaid medical bills have become a major political issue in North Carolina.
State lawmakers are considering a bill called the Medical Debt De-Weaponization Act, which would curb the ability of debt collectors to engage in "extraordinary collection" such as foreclosing on a patient's home or garnishing wages. But the current version of the bill would not apply to state-operated health care facilities like the one Mason Narsh went to, according to Pennington Allison.
In a written statement, Stein said he supports legislative efforts to strengthen consumer protections.
"Every North Carolinian should be able to get the health care they need without being overwhelmed by debt," Stein said. He called the bill under consideration "a step in the right direction."
Narsh said the unexpectedly high amount of the bill was frustrating, at least in part because for years she struggled to get Mason more affordable, preventive care in North Carolina. Narsh says she had difficulty finding services for people with behavioral issues, a shortage acknowledged in a state report released last year.
Multiple times, she says, she has been left with no option but to take him to a hospital to be evaluated and admitted to an inpatient mental health facility not suitable for people with complex needs.
Community-based services that allow people to receive treatment at home can help them avoid the need for psychiatric hospitals in the first place, Narsh said. Mason's condition improved after he received a service dog trained to help people with autism, among other community services, Narsh says.
Bridget Narsh shares a cell phone picture of her son and Koko attending school. Her son's condition has improved since he got the service dog and other community-based services. Eamon Queeney/KFF Health News hide caption
Bridget Narsh shares a cell phone picture of her son and Koko attending school. Her son's condition has improved since he got the service dog and other community-based services.
Corye Dunn is the public policy director at Disability Rights North Carolina, a Raleigh-based nonprofit mandated by the federal government to monitor public facilities and services to protect people with disabilities from abuse. The irony, she says, is that the same system that's ill-equipped to prevent people from falling into crisis can then pursue them with big bills.
"This is bad public policy. This is bad health care," Dunn says.
KFF Health News, formerly known as Kaiser Health News (KHN), is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism.
See the original post:
A mom owed nearly $102000 for her son's stay in a state mental ... - NPR
Posted in Post Human
Comments Off on A mom owed nearly $102000 for her son’s stay in a state mental … – NPR
Acclaimed Temple psychologist’s new book explores parenting adult … – Temple University News
Posted: at 1:14 pm
How do I know if my adult child is struggling?
What should I do if I dont like their romantic partner?
Should I lend them money for their new startup idea?
Can I give parenting advice to them?
An estimated 65 million American parents currently have a child in their 20s or 30s, and it turns out these parents have a lot of questions about navigating their relationships with their adult children. Earlier this year, Laurence Steinberg, a Temple psychology professor and leading international researcher on teen behavior and brain development,came to their rescue.
Steinbergs new book You and Your Adult Child: How to Grow Together in Challenging Times (Simon & Schuster), which was published in April, is a comprehensive guide for parents with adult children in their twenties or thirties.
To Steinbergs knowledge, this is the first parenting book ever published that is specifically directed at parents of 20- and 30-year-olds, so it was important to him to be as comprehensive as possible. The book covers everything from maintaining healthy day-to-day relationships with an adult child, constructively resolving conflicts with them and supporting their mental health to assessing whether they are struggling, handling a variety of issues concerning their romantic lives, and finding the appropriate level of involvement in their college education.
There may be confusion, at first glance,about why an expert in adolescent development would be writing a book about managing relationships with adults in their twenties or thirties. But there is a connection between this slightly older demographic and Steinbergs 45-year career studying adolescent development and behavior.
In Steinbergs 2014book,Age of Opportunity: Lessons From the New Science of Adolescence, he argued that adolescencetypically considered to end at age 19was now elongating for many young adults to the age of 25. This is due, at least in part, to the changing economy that has made home ownership and financial independence a challenge for some young people in their twenties or thirties. As a result, some are finding themselves back at home with their parents or needing financial support from them. This is foreign territory to parents who had vastly different experiences when they were this age.
Soon after publishing Age of Opportunity, it struck me that this elongation and lengthening of adolescence have implications for parents that havent really been discussed, Steinberg said. This was reinforced by the increasing number of parents who would approach him after his public speaking events, desperate for more information about managing their relationships with their adult children.
Around the same time AARP, a nonprofit dedicated to enhancing quality of life for people 50 years old and over, also noticed a significant uptick in the number of questions they were receiving from their members about how to handle relationships with adult children in their twenties or thirties. To properly address their members concerns, AARP decided to encourage the development of a book, in partnership with Simon & Schuster, on the topic and started searching for an expert who could lead the project.
"Now that youve let go of some of the prerogatives of parenthood, youll likely find your child to be a source of emotional support, a good listener, a good teacher who knows more than you do about many things, and a good companion.
-- Laurence Steinberg
Suffice it to say, it didnt take long to identify Steinberg as the expert for AARP and Simon & Schusters book project. About a year later, You and Your Adult Child was published. This new book combines his research and expertise in a way that provides parents of adult children with not only an understanding of whats happening in their adult childrens brains during this critical moment in their lives, but also provides effective communication strategies that strengthen their relationship with their adult children.
The conflicts over autonomy you and your child had when they were younger will dissipate once you both come to a new understanding about your relationship, Steinberg says. Youll start seeing them in a different light and appreciate how mature they are.
Steinbergs hope is that his book helps parents learn to navigate this new landscape with their children in a healthy way, allowing all parties to deepen their appreciation for each other and enjoy this time together as adults.
In exchange for being open, theres a good possibility the two of you will develop a deeper friendship than youve ever had with them before, Steinberg writes in his book. Few people have known you for as long or as intimately as your child has, and few relationships have been as close. Now that youve let go of some of the prerogatives of parenthood, youll likely find your child to be a source of emotional support, a good listener, a good teacher who knows more than you do about many things, and a good companion.
Read more:
Acclaimed Temple psychologist's new book explores parenting adult ... - Temple University News
Posted in Financial Independence
Comments Off on Acclaimed Temple psychologist’s new book explores parenting adult … – Temple University News
Federal Ruling Approves Construction of North America’s Largest … – Slashdot
Posted: at 1:14 pm
schwit1 shares a report from NPR: In a blow to tribes, a U.S. appeals court has denied a last ditch legal effort to block construction of what's expected to be the largest lithium mine in North America on federal land in Nevada. In a decision Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. government did not violate federal environmental laws when it approved Lithium Nevada's Thacker Pass mine in the waning days of the Trump administration. Lithium is a key component of electric vehicle batteries, and despite pressure from west coast Paiute tribes and environmentalists, the Biden administration did not reverse the decision and had continued to advocate for the mine, which would be located on remote federal land near the Nevada-Oregon border.
Several area tribes and environmental groups have tried to block or delay the Thacker Pass mine for more than two years. Among their arguments was that federal land managers fast tracked it without proper consultation with Indian Country. "They rushed this project through during COVID and essentially selected three tribes to talk to instead of the long list of tribes that they had talked to in the past," Rick Eichstaedt, an attorney for the Burns Paiute Tribe, said in an interview late last month. But in their ruling, the Ninth Circuit judges responded that only after the mine was approved by federal land managers did it become known that some tribes consider the land sacred. Full construction of the mine is expected to begin in earnest this summer.
Go here to see the original:
Federal Ruling Approves Construction of North America's Largest ... - Slashdot
Posted in Post Human
Comments Off on Federal Ruling Approves Construction of North America’s Largest … – Slashdot
Where Is Kate Chastain From ‘Below Deck’ Now? – We Got This Covered
Posted: at 1:14 pm
From the very moment Kate Chastain came aboard Bravos hit seriesBelow Deck, the star left a lasting impression on fans and cast members alike due to her work ethic.
For context,Below Deckfollows yacht employees during the charting season as they worked and lived on a luxurious boat. Chastain whoseyachting career dates back to 2007 became a chief stewardess after many years in the field, a position she kept when she joinedBelow Decksseason twocast in 2014.
Chastain successfully chartered numerous boats during her time there and instantly became a fan favorite for her managerial skills, sense of humor, and facial expressions. Despite the accomplishments, the former reality star appeared ready for a new chapter in her life and career as she expressed displeasure in her chief stewardess responsibilities. Chastain remained on the show until 2020 when she shockingly announced to Captain Lee Rosbach that she was leavingBelow Deck after season seven to pursue other endeavors on land.
In addition to breaking the departure news to Captain Lee Rosbach, Chastain took to her official Instagram to reveal the main reason behind her exit: financial independence. Following the revelation, Chastain claimed that the decision to leave Below Deck wasnt an easy one, in fact, it took months of reflection and internal discussions. She wrote,
After many months of reflection and internal discussions, I have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new land based role. I intend to step back as a senior member of the Below Deck Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support His Majesty Andy Cohen
So what happened to Kate Chastain after leavingBelow Deck and what has she been up to lately?
Shortly after Chastains departure, she moved to New York to start a radio show withSirius XMnamedUnapologetically Kate Chastain.According to the 2020 press release, Chastains radio show featured her unfiltered opinion on pop culture, social commentary, etc.
Along with the radio show, Chastain reportedlybegan a production company titled Remotely Possible Productions. Although Chastain revealed little details regarding the company, the star disclosed the sole reason behind its creation at the height of the pandemic in an Instagram post. She wrote,
At this point Im ready to start my own pandemic proof production studio.calling it Remotely Possible Productions; where good enough is safe enough.
To date, it is unclear if Chastain is still working at Sirius XM, however, since leavingBelow Deck, her business relationship with Bravo Network continued. The star briefly appeared onBravos Chat Roomand aBelow DeckspinoffGallery Talk, a serieswhere cast members bond and review the latest episode ofBelow Deck. Most recently, Chastain participated in the competition seriesThe Traitorson Peacock.
Most recently, Chastain participated in the competition seriesThe Traitorson Peacock. As for her humanitarian efforts, Chastain createdGenesis Boutique. Genesis Boutique is a Florida resale store that raises funds for their organization, providing shelter for homeless women and children.
In order news, Chastain became a mother for the first time in May 2023 after she welcomed her son Sullivan Cay. Although the identity of Cays father has yet to be revealed to the public, many fans assumed that it was Chastains former co-worker Chef Ben Robinson due to the pairs striking resemblance. Still, both parties have denied the allegations, and Chastain has since revealed that she is raising her son alone in Florida.
Despite the fact that Chastain left Below Deck three years ago, the star did possibly tease in a previous interview with Entertainment Tonight that the only way she would come back to show is if she was demoted to level three stewardess because of the lack of responsibilities, or if the network agreed to pay her more money.
Idjust be down there with my music saying, Hey, guys You get to be part of it with zero responsibility. When youre third stew, you dont realize how wonderful life is.
But after the birth of her son Sullivan Cay earlier this year, it is unlikely that Chastain will return to the popular series.
All seasons of Below Deck are available on various streaming services for a small fee including Peacock, Vudu, Hulu, and many others.
See the original post:
Where Is Kate Chastain From 'Below Deck' Now? - We Got This Covered
Posted in Financial Independence
Comments Off on Where Is Kate Chastain From ‘Below Deck’ Now? – We Got This Covered