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2024.05.23 15:08 TryGroundbreaking754 Time to take a new look at ONCY

I first became aware of ONCY shortly after we lost a family member to Pancreatic Cancer. With all of the flim-flam and "alternative medicines" being touted, ONCY stood out as an organization that was actually trying to research, understand, and treat the various forms of Pancreatic Cancer. I bought a few shares since it seemed to be a legitimate company.
Separately, I had started fundraising for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCan), a California-based non-profit that supports research and patient care. Shortly thereafter, PanCan announced that some of its research dollars would be directed to ONCY. "Amazing!" I thought, "we are on the road to a cure...or at least to better quality of life for the patients!" They ONCY announces a partnership with Pfizer and I was ecstatic.
Since then, several financial firms have issued higher price targets and the company has reported better than expected financial results. To be sure, they company is 100% in R&D mode and is not showing a profit, but their expenses are coming in lower than Wall Street expects. From an investor's perspective, they seem to be making progress and from a caregivepatient perspective, the same could be said.
With that, the stock price has been hovering in the penny stock range and I just cannot seem to figure out why. Is ONCY simply not on anyone's radar? Is the company a dud? Are investors hoping an M&A with Pfizer? Is it simply time for ONCY to start promoting themselves better to the investing community?
Any thoughts would be helpful.

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2024.05.23 15:08 Jubjub636 Stormlight Adaptation

I recently just got into the Cosmere and have just finished WoR and like most of us was blown away by it and can’t wait to start Oathbringer. That being said, reading these books has made me realize that I’ve never wanted an adaptation more for a series than Stormlight Archive. I don’t even care if it’s live action or animation like Arcane. I’m in the film industry myself so I definitely feel like film is my main form of media that I enjoy. So I’m not trying to knock how good the books are, I just want those epic moments from Stormlight on the silver screen. I think it would be so incredibly good

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2024.05.23 15:06 tornardinho Sugestão de moradia

Sou de Belo Horizonte e vou me mudar para São Paulo em Agosto a trabalho e estou começando a olhar opções de apartamento.
Informações: 1) Meu trabalho é na Faria Lima pouco depois da Av. JK 2) Tenho moto e vou levá-la para SP 3) Meu trabalho paga meu Uber para ir e voltar, pretendo utilizar isso mas caso o trânsito seja terrível talvez eu vá de bicicleta/moto 4) Meu orçamento é ~R$4.000 para aluguel, IPTU e condomínio 5) Quero morar sozinho 6) Minhas prioridades são 6.1) Estar próximo do trabalho 6.2) Ter vida na rua/ser um bairro bom de andar a pé 6.3) Segurança
Tenho considerado alugar um apto em Pinheiros, já que Vila Olímpia (onde é o trabalho) me pareceu um bairro muito morto e sem graça.
Dito isso, qual bairro vocês recomendam? Meu orçamento está factível ou impossível conseguir algo nessas condições por esse preço?
Obrigado!!

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2024.05.23 15:03 Previous_Access6800 Revenge is Best Served Before

It had been 15 minutes since the reactor of the R’aklack was slowly powering up and feeding the excess power into the sizable batterie banks of the vessel.
On the mark of its commander, the thorium-plated tungsten coil towards the heck of the vessel heated up to just below its melting point.
Not even a millisecond later the combination of magnetic fields and microwave generators of the LINAC sprang into action grabbing itself the elections emitted by the tungsten coil and propelling it forward.
But the R’acklack was not so crude to shoot the now relativistic electrons directly at its unsuspecting target 45 light minutes away.
Instead, the electromagnets, constructed along the path of the electrons on two rail-like structures reaching from the midsection of the ship to its bow, powered up.
The magnets were arranged with alternating polarization and specific spacing. As the first electrons entered the array they were shaken side to side by the magnetic field. The acceleration in combination with their relativistic speed made them emit powerful but crude synchrotron radiation.
The R’acklack was constructed with precision in mind, thus the spacing of the magnets was so that the electrons wiggled in the path of their own radiation with just the right frequency.
The continued absorption and emission of the synchrotron radiation made the electrons bunch up in small groups, in defiance of their nature.
This was the brilliance of the R’acklack now all the electrons in perfect synchronization were reaching the turning point of their wiggling motion all at the same time, frequency, and with the correct distance from each other. Thus the radiation they emitted was as equally as perfect: monochrome, coherent, and collimated.
The R’acklack would fire for 10 minutes, before extinguishing the beam and leaving the system. Its target, the space station identified as the enemy center of command, only being hit with the deadly X-rays after the R’acklack had left.
But it didn’t come to that.
A small metal cylinder, 20mm in diameter and 100mm long entered the R’acklack’s hull through a newly created opening. The small tungsten rod behaved like a raindrop ripping through paper; only for the paper to also become a raindrop and join the violent journey through the ship's subsystems.
The R’acklacks ablative coating protecting it against the newest and most powerful lasers did not afford any protection. Not against the initial rod, nor against the significant amount of interior, that left the other side of the spacecraft at high speeds.
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10 minutes earlier

“Sir, I think I’ve found our mysterious graviton source”, the young sensor officer shared her screen to the captain's console, “unknown object, heating up fast.”
“I want to know its shape and surface structure”, the captain replied.
“Can we go loud?” the sensor operator asked, to make her job easier and the results clearer.
But the captain denied the request: “Negative, let's stay quiet for now. Passive sensors only.”
The ship adjusted its radiators to face away from the strange object and cooled the outer hull of the vessel to the ambient temperature of space.
Meanwhile, the computer of the spacecraft was busy reconstructing the shape of the unknown object using the reflection of the faint sunlight on the surface of the object as well as from the many radio waves that permeated the solar system.
Bit by bit, the potato-shaped blob took the form of a sleek but foreign vessel.
Thus, the sensor operator had quite an unusual report: “Sir, I think we found aliens.”
Before the captain could respond, the sound of multiple alarms filled the bridge. “The vessel deployed a strong magnetic field. It’s also acquiring a positive charge at an alarming rate.” The sensor operated, paused trying to make sense of what she would read out next: “There was also a faint X-ray emission in front of the vessel for a very short time.”
“Can you extrapolate the vector of the X-ray pulse?” The captain asked.
It took agonizing seconds for the computer and the sensor operator to find the answer to this question: “It’s hard Sir. Only approximately.”
“I take approximates”, the captain replied.
“Earth, Sir.”
“Charge railgun, full power”, the captain ordered, “Fire when ready.”
It took another few agonizing seconds before a small tungsten rod, with a diameter of 20mm and a length of 100mm left the United Earth Cruiser, operating near Jupiter, with a velocity of 30km/s.

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2024.05.23 15:01 QC_1999 Avaliação de corridas 2024: GP da Emilia Romagna

Foi feito o post perguntando se o GP da Emilia Romagna foi uma boa corrida
Houve 129 votos, 34,1% votaram "sim", enquanto 65,9% votaram "não". Com isso a corrida assume a 5ª posição da temporada de 2024.

Classificação da temporada:

Posição	Corrida	% de votos "sim"	Total de votos
1	GP de Miami	88,2	136
2	GP da Austrália	75	128
3	GP da China	57,6	85
4	GP do Japão	42,6	68
5	GP da Emilia Romagna	34,1	129
6	GP da Arábia Saudita	28,6	35
7	GP do Bahrein	22,6	84

Média de 2024: 49,8

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2024.05.23 15:01 Shaper15 Now More than Ever, We Wish We Had These Lost Octavia Butler Novels (2017, Electric Lit)

Link: https://electricliterature.com/now-more-than-ever-we-wish-we-had-these-lost-octavia-butler-novels/

Now More than Ever, We Wish We Had These Lost Octavia Butler Novels

‘Unfinished Business’ examines the groundbreaking sci-fi writer’s plans for her ‘Earthseed’ series
By KRISTOPHER JANSMA 20170817
In 1989, Octavia Butler set out to write The Parable of the Sower, the first in a planned trilogy of novels about humanity’s uncertain future. Her many earlier novels had already established her as a titan of science fiction. She’d written awesomely weird books about telepaths and time travel and aliens and psionic vampires. Butler was an anomaly in the sci-fi world; in interviews, she often described herself by saying, “I’m black, I’m solitary, I’ve always been an outsider.” She had already upended a genre that had long been both very male and very white. But she wanted to do something even bigger.
In a lecture at MIT titled “‘The Devil Girl From Mars’: Why I Write Science Fiction,” Butler recalled reading that Robert Heinlein had once delineated three kinds of science fiction stories: “The what-if category; the if-only category; and the if-this-goes-on category.”
She had mastered the first two categories, and was intrigued by the third. The Parable of the Sower would be a starkly realist novel about where American might carry itself in a few short decades — if this goes on.

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To do this, she amalgamated her own memories of growing up in the racially integrated Pasadena of the 1950s with contemporaneous news reports about rises in global warming, racism, violence, prison populations, and mega-corporations. In this way, she created the shattered America described by Lauren Oya Olamina, a black fifteen-year-old with “hyperempathy” living in a walled-up town outside of LA in 2024.
Told through Lauren’s diaries, the novel envisions the crises facing America thirty-some years later with eerie accuracy. Clean water is getting scarcer. Whole towns are being privatized by individual companies. Literacy is deteriorating—and, oh yeah, there’s a charismatic President promising to make the country great again.
As Gloria Steinem wrote last year in an essay celebrating the novel’s 25th anniversary, “If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it’s one written in the past that has already begun to come true.”
The Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and became a New York Times Notable Book the following year. Already a Hugo and Nebula award-winning writer, Butler soon became the first science fiction writer to ever receive the MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant.” She said she hoped the prize, which at the time was $295,000, would help her to complete her work on the trilogy.
A year later she published a sequel, The Parable of the Talents, in which a religion based on Lauren’s diaries, called “Earthseed,” struggles against Christian fundamentalism.
At the time, Butler spoke in interviews about her ideas for the third book, The Parable of the Trickster, in which adherents of Earthseed would attempt to build a new society on another planet.

Butler spoke in interviews about her ideas for the third book, The Parable of the Trickster, in which adherents of Earthseed would attempt to build a new society on another planet.

But, struggling for years with depression and writer’s block, Butler would not finish the trilogy as she planned, though she would complete several new stories and a novel, Fledgling, about a race of vampires trying to co-exist with humans.
In 2006, Butler died of a stroke outside her home in Lake Forest Park, Washington. Her many papers now reside at the Huntington, a private library in San Marino, California. Curator Natalie Russell describes the collection as including “8,000 manuscripts, letters and photographs and an additional 80 boxes of ephemera.”
On display there now are numerous treasures, including working manuscript pages from The Parable of the Sower covered in her brightly colored notes: “More Sharing; More Sickness; More Death; More Racism; More Hispanics; More High Tech.”
There are the beautiful, bold affirmations that recently went viral online, which she wrote to frame her motives for writing: “Tell Stories Filled With Facts. Make People Touch and Taste and KNOW. Make People FEEL! FEEL! FEEL!” On one page of her journals she visualized the success that she desired: “I am a Bestselling Writer. I write Bestselling Books And Excellent Short Stories. Both Books and Short Stories win prizes and awards.”
But what is not on public view are the drafts — the things she had hoped to write someday and never did, including The Parable of the Trickster.
Scholar Gerry Canavan described getting a look at that work-in-progress for the LA Review of Books in 2014:

Last December I had the improbable privilege to be the very first scholar to open the boxes at the Huntington that contain what Butler had written of Trickster before her death. What I found were dozens upon dozens of false starts for the novel, some petering out after twenty or thirty pages, others after just two or three; this cycle of narrative failure is recorded over hundreds of pages of discarded drafts. Frustrated by writer’s block, frustrated by blood pressure medication that she felt inhibited her creativity and vitality, and frustrated by the sense that she had no story for Trickster, only a “situation,” Butler started and stopped the novel over and over again from 1989 until her death, never getting far from the beginning.

The novel’s many abandoned openings revolve around another woman, Imara, living on an Earthseed colony in the future on a planet called “Bow,” far from Earth. It is not the heaven that was hoped for, but “gray, dank, and utterly miserable.” The people of Bow cannot return to Earth and are immeasurably homesick. Butler wrote in a note, “Think of our homesickness as a phantom-limb pain — a somehow neurologically incomplete amputation. Think of problems with the new world as graft-versus-host disease — a mutual attempt at rejection.”
From there Butler became hopelessly blocked — though not exactly in the commonly-held image of writers’ block, of staring day after day at a blank page, lacking inspiration and confidence. In fact, as Canavan describes, her “dozens upon dozens” of drafts represent a wide range of ambitious ideas.
In some versions, the colonists struggle with a creeping blindness. In others, they develop a terrible telepathy. There are versions where Imara must solve a murder and versions where Imara herself is murdered but becomes a ghost. “Sometimes Imara is an Earthseed skeptic; other times she is a true believer; sometimes she is, like Olamina, a hyperempath; still other times the cure for ‘sharing’ has been discovered in the form of an easy, noninvasive pill,” writes Canavan. “Sometimes Bow is inhabited by small animals, other times by dinosaur-like giant sauropods, and still other times by just moss and lichens; sometimes the colonists seem to encounter intelligent aliens who might be real, but might just be tokens of their escalating collective madness; and on and on and on.”

In some versions of The Parable of the Trickster, the colonists struggle with a creeping blindness. In others, they develop a terrible telepathy.

Canavan reveals that Butler hoped to for this book to serve not as the last in a trilogy, but as the middle of a seven-part series. (Take note, George R.R. Martin!) Trickster was to be the first of four new novels about life on Bow and the colonists’ struggle to build a better humanity. He writes that the colonists “can choose: either live together, work together, struggle together, and pray together, or else hoard food alone, scheme alone, lose their minds alone, breakdown and die and murder each other alone.”
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Four more books. That would be how long it would take, in Butler’s estimation, for the human beings of the future to move past their homesickness, their biology, and their history and truly become capable of working towards a common decency. She saw hope, but only a long way off.
In 2001, during a speech to the U.N.’s World Conference Against Racism, Butler explained that before embarking on the first Parable novel she had instead dreamed about writing a novel about a utopian civilization where everyone possessed a kind of hyperempathy. For a time she thought that, at least in fiction, she could create a world where “people were inclined either to accept one another’s differences or at least to behave as though they accepted them since any act of resentment they commit would be punished immediately, personally, inevitably.”
But soon she realized this would never work. “Popular, painful sports like boxing and football convinced me that the threat of shared pain wouldn’t necessarily make people behave better toward one another,” she said. “And it might cause trouble. For instance, it might stop people from entering the health care professions. Nursing would become very unpopular. And who would want to be a dentist in such a society? So much for fiction.”
Instead she created Lauren, a lone hyperempathic girl in a society of the empathy-deficient. Empathy was, she realized, not the solution but an affliction.
So much for fiction? I don’t know about that. Butler may have ended up writing a dystopia instead of a utopia, but what she wrote gets right to the heart of our crises. It was not, she said, intended to be a prophecy, but rather a cautionary tale.

Butler may have ended up writing a dystopia instead of a utopia, but what she wrote gets right to the heart of our crises.

The rest of her speech to the U.N. that day is an exact outline for what she wanted the rest of the Parable books to be about — a way out that she did not live to write herself. Fortunately, what she did leave us influenced a generation of writers from every margin in society to continue her work.
“Whatever is the source of our intolerance, what can we do about it?” Butler asked. “Of course, we can resist acting on our nastier hierarchical tendencies. Most of us do that most of the time already. […] Will this work? Well, it hasn’t so far. Too many people will not, perhaps cannot, do it. There is, unfortunately, satisfaction to be enjoyed in feeling superior to other people.”
She lists the basic human traits that catalyze our nasty tendencies into nasty behavior: ignorance, fear, disease, hunger, suspicion, hatred, war, greed, and vengeance.
“Amid all this, does tolerance have a chance? Only if we want it to. Only when we want it to. Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we’re as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.”

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2024.05.23 14:50 Aelexi93 Forum mods removing posts they dislike already, screenshot of post that got removed

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2024.05.23 14:34 flower_in_a_field Calorie Count Confusion

Can someone please explain to me how if I eat 1 bar it is 100 calories but somehow if I eat 2 bars I lose 10 calories making it only 190 calories? The math ain't mathing here.

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2024.05.23 14:34 Sad-Consideration-90 Terceira pista da Rodovia dos Imigrantes sairá R$ 6 bilhões e terá 4 anos de obras no Litoral de SP

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2024.05.23 14:32 CajunNerd92 The Wars of Light and Shadow: An Overview

Since the final climactic volume in this criminally underrated series just came out today, I'm reposting this on here with the permission of the original author. Original thread is located here

The Wars of Light and Shadow were fought during the third age of Athera, the most troubled and strife-filled era recorded in all of history. At that time Arithon, called Master of Shadow, battled the Lord of Light through five centuries of bloody and bitter conflict. If the canons of the religion founded during that period are reliable, the Lord of Light was divinity incarnate, and the Master of Shadow a servant of evil, spinner of dark powers. Temple archives attest with grandiloquent force to be the sole arbiters of truth.
Yet contrary evidence supports a claim that the Master was unjustly aligned with evil. Fragments of manuscript survive which expose the entire religion of Light as fraud, and award Arithon the attributes of saint and mystic instead.
Because the factual account lay hopelessly entangled between legend and theology, sages in the seventh age meditated upon the ancient past, and recalled through visions the events as they happened. Contrary to all expectation, the conflict did not begin on the council stair of Etarra, nor even on the soil of Athera itself; instead the visions started upon the wide oceans of the splinter world, Dascen Elur.
This is the chronicle the sages recovered. Let each who reads determine the good and the evil for himself.

So begins Curse of the Mistwraith, the first book of the Wars of Light and Shadow, a series very near and dear to my heart. In my opinion, this series is the most criminally underrated and underread long running work of epic fantasy. Today, I'm going to try to share part of just exactly why I love this series and gush about it with such enthusiasm, along with why you might just enjoy it too, albeit with a catch - I'm not going to mention anything about the plot or the characters.
Even though I can gush for pages and pages on the wonderful stories or characters that you'll find in these pages, since so much of the series relies on overturning the assumptions you bring with you and continue to make along the way, anything that I say about either will unfairly color your preconceptions before going in. (Besides, there are plenty other reviews of the series on here that do more justice to these aspects than I could.)
Instead, I'll talk more about the mechanical elements of the Wars of Light and Shadow - the prose, pacing, series structure, and worldbuilding, along with a little something special at the end so you can hopefully see if her work will appeal to you.
Prose
Instead of describing how wonderful Janny's prose is here, I'll just post an example of her prose here, and you can decide if her works are for you knowing that this is typical of the prose you'll find in her works.
One moment, inevitable, turned destiny’s card like the bell stroke that shattered all hope; or else, like the phoenix birthed from immolation, a spark struck in bright, helpless pain might salvage the cold course of destiny. No way to tell which ahead of the crux where possibility ended, and probability dimmed to opacity.
Seems a little difficult to take in? Don't worry, you'll adjust to the rhythm of Janny's prose after a couple of chapters - and trust me when I say that you do not want to skim, as it's on the little details that hinge the foreshadowing and explosive developments that are to come in future volumes.
If you don't know that her prose is for you, though? Simple, give To Ride Hell's Chasm a try, a standalone work in a separate universe with prose as rich and detailed as her main series, showing off the pacing structure that inhabits each of her works. Speaking of which:
Pacing
The works of Janny Wurts all have a similar but pretty unique characteristic to their pacing.
First off, Janny is all about the slow burn. Each of her works has a slow, but deliberate and carefully planned out build, and just when it seems that things are buidling towards a climax, you check your place in the book and - wait a minute, that can't be right! - you're only just barely halfway through! And amazingly enough, the pace and tension don't dissipate, but rather keep building and intensifying over the second half of the novel, resulting in a second half that is hard to put down.
If you're familiar at all with Brandon Sanderson's works, if you'll imagine the Sanderlanch but extended over the back half of a novel then you'll have a good idea of what Janny Wurts' pacing is like.
Moreover, this characteristic 1-2 punch of a slow build to halfway followed by a climactic rush towards the finale is evident not only in each volume of the Wars of Light and Shadow - each story arc (more about those later) also exhibits this same style of plotting, in addition to the series as a whole! So by the time you reach the back half of the series, each book is almost impossible to put down.
We only have one book left and Janny has promised it as being pure finale, pure denouement. So if you choose to undertake this journey, then be sure to hold onto your butts everyone once Song of the Mysteries comes out!
And don't forget, this series doesn't sprawl - rather, each new volume and new arc serves to only further deepen our understanding of all the pieces in play and serves to illuminate new facets of how they all relate together. And on top of that, there are no dropped subplots, no loos threads left unresolved, no extraneous detail - everything will matter and be resolved in the end.
Structure
Don't view The Wars of Light and Shadow as a series in eleven volumes.
While each volume is structured to have a distinct beginning, middle, and end, all the while exhibiting Janny's distinct 1-2 narrative punch, the series was first envisioned as a story in 5 arcs. Each arc features its own distinct narrative arc, climax, and resolution, and if it weren't for the limitations of publishing then each arc would be fully contained beginning-to-end under one cover and one volume.
Arc 1 consists of Curse of the Mistwraith
Arc 2 (The Ships of Merior) consists of Ships of Merior and Warhost of Vastmark
Arc 3 (Alliance of Light) consists of Fugitive Prince, Grand Conspiracy, Peril's Gate, Traitor's Knot, and Stormed Fortress
Arc 4 (Sword of the Canon) consists of Initiate's Trial and Destiny's Conflict
Arc 5 will consist of Song of the Mysteries
To get more in-depth:
Curse of the Mistwraith is the introduction, the stage setter, the foundation upon which the rest of the series is built on. It introduces us to the world, the main characters, and establishes the major conflict that drives the entire series forward from here on out. What seem to be at first insignificant details will turn out to be the fulcrum on which future explosive unveilings hinge, although if you aren't feeling the series it does have a good climax and enough closure that you can treat it as a standalone, if you wish to do so.
Arc 2 was originally published under one volume in the initial hardcover release, but it was too big for paperback and and so it was split into the two paperback volumes Ships of Merior and Warhost of Vastmark that we have today. As such, expect Ships of Merior to be almost all setup for the breakneck climax that is Warhost of Vastmark. This arc serves to deepen the main characters in addition to introducing a handful of secondary ones that prove to be crucial to later arcs, and it also raises the stakes of the series-spanning conflict to new heights - the climax is such that, at the time of its release, many thought that it was the end of the series, that's how explosive Warhost is. But those readers couldn't be more wrong, as now the stage is truly set for the explosive reveals and unveilings of the upcoming arcs to begin.
While spread across 5 volumes, the Alliance of Light arc is really one giant story that was too large to fit fully in one cover. Fugitive Prince functions in much the same way for the Alliance of Light as Curse of the Mistwraith did for the entire series, and so the pacing gears back a bit for foundational set-up - but the series doesn't sprawl here, and all the extra detail proves to be necessary by the time the arc finale rolls around as it all comes back to pay off in spades.
Arc 3 is where the series expands into world view - where we start to go really indepth into the various factions, the rules of law, the magic, the Law of Major Balance, the Compact, the Paravians, even Athera itself - and this is where the major unveilings really start to take place. This is where the series starts to shift and really deepen, and if you're only reading for the surface level plot - if you're only reading for 'what happens', and pay no mind to thinking about 'why it happens', 'how it happens', 'what are this character's motivations, what are they thinking', 'what is the purpose of this faction, what is their moral high ground, what guides them as a whole' - this is where you might start to get lost, because unless you're willing to engage the work at the levels that it asks you to, you might find yourself thinking that, for example, 'nothing happens throughout this series' - when this sentiment couldn't be further from the truth.
Peril's Gate is the tipping point in not only this arc, but for the entire series as well - this volume provides the 1-punch for the entire series, with the pace only speeding up from here not just in the rest of the Arc 3, but for the rest of the series, too. Stormed Fortress is basically a climax for the Alliance of Light that's as long as a standard fantasy novel, where all the threads converge into one location - and of course, it's such an explosive arc finale that many people once again thought the series was ending here back when it first came out.
So do you remember when GRRM planned to have a 5 year timeskip after A Storm of Swords, only to reconsider and write those events out anyway, resulting in the next couple of volumes scattering all the plot threads to the four winds? Janny avoids this with Sword of the Canon, where instead of picking up right after the climactic convergence of Stormed Fortress she instead jumps ahead to the next hot nexus of change in the story.
This shift of perspective not only keeps up the pace as the series charges ever onwards towards the finale, but a certain character's perspective lets us view events during this time jump as they become relevant, with the result of us getting reveals both backwards AND forwards in time, carrying more levels of plotting as we not only start to get the answers to important questions and mysteries that have been going on all series, but also sets everything up for the grand finale that will be Song of the Mysteries, which Janny has promised will be all denouement, with no stray threads left unraveled from the greater tapestry, no single mystery left unsolved, no question left unanswered by the time the last page of Arc 5 is turned.
Worldbuilding
Athera is one of the most unique and fully realized fantasy worlds that I've come across, but you might not realize it at first. Janny initially holds most of the cards close to her chest, giving you only just enough to seem familiar and lets your assumptions fill in the gaps at first.
The purpose of this is twofold: Not only does this let you focus more on the characters and their interactions in addition to the surface level plot on the first go around, but with each new reveal - each carefully placed new tidbit that is unwound; about the characters, the factions, the various races that inhabit Athera, even the very planet itself - each new bit of information upturns more of those assumptions that you've unconsciously made, casting prior events and knowledge into a new light.
And as more and more of the full picture unfolds, layers peeling away and unwrapping like an onion the further into the series you go, you will find that as you reread the series with the context of later events and revelations in mind that everything was there all along, even in Curse of the Mistwraith - you're just able to read between the lines now, and with that, an entirely different story unfolds, one that was always there but until now was hidden by your assumptions and lack of knowledge about the world.
And Janny rarely spoonfeeds you via infodumps, instead she immerses us with vivid prose and lets us experience events in a way that we learn about the world through example as the characters experience things themselves, letting the themes and philosophy she explores unfold themselves naturally as they all derive from the characters, their personalities and natures, and their experiences and encounters with each other.
For example, there's basic concepts underpinning all the various forms of magic used through the series - physics, resonance, quantum mechanics - but instead of telling us how the magic works, she shows us in detail the different magical workings and rituals and gives us enough information to let us divine for ourselves how the different factions tap into and shape the magical energy of Athera.
It is my honest opinion that Janny's worldbuilding easily rivals that of Erikson's and Esslemont's Malazan. But whereas The Book of the Fallen was based on a series of tabletop campaigns ran by various groups of people over the course of decades, Athera is all the product of Janny's mind, built up and expanded upon over the course of her life - the initial seed for the series was first thought up in 1972; and even today, during the course of writing the final volume Song of the Mysteries, she's still surprising herself as she's finally filling in the gaps between what were only sketched out scenes and bits of hastily scribbled notes that were the result of inspiration from decades ago.
And whereas Erikson just dumps you straight into the deep end and tells you to swim, Janny grounds us at first from the point of view of two half-brothers who come from foreign lands and foreign seas and lets us experience each new event and revelation from fresh eyes. Their experience and relative naivety fuel our assumptions at first and lay the groundwork for all we know to be blown away and seen anew over and over again, as what is initially seen as a bogstandard medieval fantasy setting is gradually revealed to be nothing at all like what we first assumed we saw.
As you will come to see, this series truly deserves to be called Epic Fantasy, with a capital E and a capital F.

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2024.05.23 14:30 Separate-Warthog-328 Social Media Marketing Hacks: Strategies for 2024

As we move into 2024, social media marketing continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Staying ahead of the curve requires innovative strategies and a keen understanding of emerging trends. Here are some social media marketing hacks and strategies that can help you stand out and drive engagement this year.

1. Leverage AI and Automation

Strategy: Use AI-powered tools to enhance your social media efforts.
Execution:

Content Creation: Tools like Jasper and Copy.ai can help generate engaging captions, posts, and even blog content.
Chatbots: Implement AI chatbots on platforms like Facebook Messenger to provide instant customer support and engage with your audience 24/7.
Analytics: Use AI-driven analytics tools to gain deeper insights into your audience’s behavior and optimize your strategy accordingly.

Outcome: Increased efficiency and personalized interactions can lead to higher engagement rates and better customer satisfaction.

2. Short-Form Video Content

Strategy: Capitalize on the popularity of short-form video content.
Execution:

TikTok and Instagram Reels: Create engaging, bite-sized videos that are fun, informative, or entertaining. Trends and challenges can help your content go viral.
Consistency: Post regularly to maintain visibility and engagement.
Behind-the-Scenes: Share behind-the-scenes looks at your business, product creation, or team activities to humanize your brand.

Outcome: Higher engagement rates and increased follower growth, as short-form videos often get prioritized by algorithms.

3. Social Commerce

Strategy: Integrate social commerce to streamline the shopping experience.
Execution:

Shoppable Posts: Use Instagram and Facebook’s shoppable posts to allow users to purchase directly from your social media profiles.
Live Shopping Events: Host live shopping events where you showcase products and interact with your audience in real-time.
User-Generated Content: Encourage customers to share their purchases and tag your brand, then feature this content on your profile.

Outcome: Simplifying the purchasing process can lead to higher conversion rates and increased sales directly from social media.

4. Influencer Partnerships and Micro-Influence rs

Strategy: Collaborate with influencers to expand your reach.
Execution:

Micro-Influencers: Partner with micro-influencers (1,000 to 100,000 followers) who have a highly engaged and niche audience.
Authenticity: Ensure the influencer’s values align with your brand for authentic promotion.
Long-Term Relationships: Build long-term partnerships rather than one-off deals for more meaningful engagement.

Outcome: Influencer partnerships can drive brand awareness, credibility, and conversions, especially when the influencer’s audience trusts their recommendations.

5. Enhanced Personalization

Strategy: Personalize your content to cater to individual preferences.
Execution:

Segmented Campaigns: Use data to segment your audience and tailor content to different groups based on interests, behaviors, and demographics.
Dynamic Ads: Implement dynamic ads on platforms like Facebook that change content based on the user’s interaction history.
Direct Messaging: Use personalized direct messages to engage with followers, offer special deals, or gather feedback.

Outcome: Personalized content can significantly increase engagement and foster a stronger connection with your audience.

6. Interactive Content

Strategy: Create interactive content to engage your audience actively.
Execution:

Polls and Quizzes: Use Instagram Stories, Facebook polls, and LinkedIn to create interactive polls and quizzes.
Augmented Reality (AR) Filters: Develop branded AR filters on Instagram and Snapchat to engage users creatively.
Contests and Giveaways: Host contests and giveaways that encourage users to participate and share your content.

Outcome: Interactive content can boost engagement, increase followers, and generate buzz around your brand.

7. Sustainability and Social Responsibility

Strategy: Highlight your brand’s commitment to sustainability and social causes.
Execution:

Transparency: Share your sustainability practices and efforts to contribute to social causes.
Content Themes: Regularly post about environmental issues, charitable activities, and ways your audience can get involved.
Partnerships: Collaborate with NGOs and other organizations to amplify your impact and reach.

Outcome: Demonstrating social responsibility can enhance brand loyalty and attract consumers who prioritize ethical practices.

Discussion Points:

What social media strategies have you found most effective recently?
How do you see social media marketing evolving in the next few years?
What tools or platforms do you recommend for staying ahead in social media marketing?

Looking forward to hearing your insights and experiences!"
socialmedia, marketing, Entrepreneur, digital_marketing

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2024.05.23 14:27 KillerCroc1234567 Poster for “Beverly Hills Cops: Axel F”

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2024.05.23 14:27 ExpressionNo9447 BITS FEES 2024-28?

I am creating this because I felt if there's a number to it, there'll be less panic in it for the fees. I just needed some insight from other aspirants and especially from people who are in BITS.
The form uses a dropdown option to select the campus and scholarship. Hover over cells with yellow marks to see comments explaining the data.

BITS 2024 EXPECTED FEES

I have used an older form from a video by Aarav Pratap Singh. You can check him out, I'm putting it out there to not get plagiarism warnings.
Feel free to add suggestions and ask questions although I have added comments in the form which will address any possible doubts you may have and you can check this video out for clarity-
BITS PILAI FEE STRUCTURE MCN SCHOLARSHIPS BITSAT 2023
Edit: Guys this is still under maintenance I've posted here for people to pitch in so chill out with the criticism. Also its obviously gonna be a nightmare with a lot of people navigating through the form so make a copy of it and check.

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2024.05.23 14:24 QuitteQuiett molda carater

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2024.05.23 14:23 Gunther__Lauch Cool stuff around the world (Countach, Diablo, Murci, Ford GT, 1 of 1 Porsche, Rally cars, Testarossa and more)

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2024.05.23 14:21 LChris24 The Regions/Factions: When Daenerys/Drogon Land in Westeros (Spoilers Extended)

Background
Let's try and flash forward until ~the end of TWoW when Daenerys lands in Westeros (potentially at Dragonstone where her ancestor Aegon I planned his invasion). I thought it would be fun to look at the different regions that sit before her from a pretty macro perspective and what exactly is/could be going on there.
The Iron Islands (Euron Greyjoy)
Euron left the Iron Islands in the hands of Erik Ironmaker:

Euron smiled. “I left the islands in the hands of old Erik Ironmaker, and sealed his loyalty with the hand of our sweet Asha. -The Forsaken

which I am confident will remain loyal to Euron, unless a forgotten blood oath comes into play:

Of Torwyn Greyjoy, who swore a blood oath with Bittersteel, then betrayed him to his enemies -TWOIAF,

The Stormlands (Young Griff)
While we will likely get a JonCon chapter about the assault (through "guile") on Storm's End, we also find out in Arianne II that the Golden Company/Young Griff have taken the castle:

“Where?” demanded Arianne.
“Has no one told you?” Halden Halfmaester favored her with a smile thin and hard as a dagger cut. “Storm’s End is ours. The Hand awaits you there. -TWOW, Arianne II

After taking this castle, Young Griff+ Golden Company+ "Friends" plan to fight Mace Tyrell in the field outside Storm's End.
If interested: Arrival and Initial Attacks by the Golden Company
Dorne (House Martell)
Likely aligned with Young Griff (because what other option do they have?), House Martell will likely still be in power here when Dany arrives. That said at some point it could go the way of the Vale, will very little going on here (once the spears move, Arianne marries/dies, etc).
If interested: The Princess' Ravens to Doran Martell & Doran Martell: "Where is my Son?"
The Westerlands (House Lannister)
Outside of Lann the Clever, Casterly Rock has never been taken by siege or storm and we should expect to see it at some point. With Kevan dead (he was potentially going to be a POV there at some point) it is unknown who exactly holds the rock (Vylarr, Maester Creylen etc,) but Cersei could flee there if she feels threatened.
If interested: Tyrion & The Casterly Rock Drains & "Inside" the Walls of Casterly Rock
The Reach
We should expect to see more of Garlan/Willas Tyrell in TWoW and it will be interesting to see who exactly holds the Reach when Dany arrives. Has Euron overrun it? Has Leyton Hightower successfully defended it? Has Young Griff come to their aid after taking King's Landing? Way too many questions and not enough answers for this far ahead.
If interested: The Black Tide & Towers by the Sea: The Hightower Defenses
The Wall (Stannis Baratheon)
Stannis has chosen to take the Nightfort as his seat as he prepares to fight the Others. That said he not only has marched south to take Winterfell, but he will at least seemingly win the Battle of Ice and return/meet at some point to burn his daughter.
If interested: The Great WaDance of the Dragons II occurring simultaneously
The North (A Stark/Snow)
There are so many different factions that want different Starks in control of the North (Sansa/Jon/Arya/Rickon/fArya all have the support of different groups). It will be interesting to see where this plotline heads by the time Dany arrives.
If interested: War of the Wolves II
The Vale
After Sansa's Vale plotline ends, I really do not expect the scene to return there. Once the knights of the Vale follow her wherever her plotline heads next, there really won't be a need. That said holding the Vale in name is valuable.
If interested: Post Vale: Sansa's Plotline Direction
The Riverlands
GRRM has mentioned the situation in the Riverlands from a macro perspective:

Who is overlord of the Riverlands? (Since the Freys have Riverrun yet Littlefinger was named Lord Paramount). George says that Littlefinger is the Lord of the Riverlands but that he is going to run into trouble. I commented that Littlefinger is really powerful now that he has the Riverlands and supposed control of the Eyrie. GRRM laughed and said that I need to remember that for all his power Littlefinger has no army. (I thought that was interesting). GRRM also commented that (I forget which Frey, Emmon?) the Frey given Riverrun really wants to be Lord of the Riverlands and has dreams of having his father be his vassel. -SSM, CONJOSE: 29 Aug 2002

but just like the War of the Five Kings, the Riverlands will likely stay war ravaged. And while she may have been given the gift of "mercy" by the time that Dany arrives, it should be noted that Lady Stoneheart is the de facto ruler of the Riverlands imo and holds the cards to most of the plotlines here.
Dragonstone
In order to prepare for his great war, Stannis has basically abandoned defense of dragonstone to mine as much dragonglass as possible:
If interested: Dragonglass: A Different Look at the Assault on Dragonstone

"On Dragonstone, where I had my seat, there is much of this obsidian to be seen in the old tunnels beneath the mountain," the king told Sam. "Chunks of it, boulders, ledges. The great part of it was black, as I recall, but there was some green as well, some red, even purple. I have sent word to Ser Rolland my castellan to begin mining it. I will not hold Dragonstone for very much longer, I fear, but perhaps the Lord of Light shall grant us enough frozen fire to arm ourselves against these creatures, before the castle falls." -ASOS, Samwell V

and while what exactly happened to Ser Loras is ambiguous, it is known that the island was taken in King Tommen's name, but was being held/searched by Loras' men. Depending on the Tyrell's status this island could be held by several different groups if/when Dany assaults from here.
Iron Throne (One of Several)
The next logical step in Young Griff's plotline (and path north) is probably King's Landing. Where he could find a city very receptive to his arrival:

Glowing like sunset, a red sword was raised in the hand of a blue-eyed king who cast no shadow. A cloth dragon swayed on poles amidst a cheering crowd. From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire. . . . mother of dragons, slayer of lies . . . -ACOK, Daenerys IV

and:

Aegon has been shaped for rule since before he could walk. He has been trained in arms, as befits a knight to be, but that was not the end of his education. He reads and writes, he speaks several tongues, he has studied history and law and poetry. A septa has instructed him in the mysteries of the Faith since he was old enough to understand them. He has lived with fisherfolk, worked with his hands, swum in rivers and mended nets and learned to wash his own clothes at need. He can fish and cook and bind up a wound, he knows what it is like to be hungry, to be hunted, to be afraid. Tommen has been taught that kingship is his right. Aegon knows that kingship is his duty, that a king must put his people first, and live and rule for them." -ADWD, Epilogue

but GRRM has mentioned that there will be numerous people to sit the Iron Throne before the end (Bran):

I know who's gonna be on the throne in the end. I'd better not say. There'll be a few people sitting on it before the answer. -SSM, Emmy Panel: March 2013

Obviously this doesn't necessarily mean before Dany, but we also things like this:

“Never. No godless man may sit the Seastone Chair!”
“Why would I want that hard black rock? Brother, look again and see where I am seated.”
Aeron Damphair looked. The mound of skulls was gone. Now it was metal underneath the Crow’s Eye: a great, tall, twisted seat of razor sharp iron, barbs and blades and broken swords, all dripping blood.-The Forsaken

and:

He saw his brother on the Iron Throne again, but Euron was no longer human. He seemed more squid than man, a monster fathered by a kraken of the deep, his face a mass of writhing tentacles. Beside him stood a shadow in woman’s form, long and tall and terrible, her hands alive with pale white fire. Dwarves capered for their amusement, male and female, naked and misshapen, locked in carnal embrace, biting and tearing at each other as Euron and his mate laughed and laughed and laughed … -The Forsaken

If interested: Future Characters on the Iron Throne
TLDR: Just a quick discussion on which groups/factions could be holding the different regions (although some will probably be war torn and not held in entirety) when Dany arrives in Westeros.

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2024.05.23 14:18 AMS_1010 [Help]Brazilian micro PC fan upgrade

Hello everyone, hope everyone is doing fine.
Picture link: https://www.imgur.com/a/PhZ9LcR
I bought a positivo c6400 which is a Brazilian brand It is a 12700t, 16gb of RAM, 512GB NVME SSD.
It is a small footprint and I am having issues with the fan being too loud due to the not so great fan coming with it, do you have any fan upgrades that you could recommend for this form factor? Thanks in advance.

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2024.05.23 14:13 jeanfrancoismon The evolution of my Speedmaster Purchases

Started with my first speedshitter. Chrono didn’t function, dial looked like shit. Bought my second one. Beautiful but fucking massive. More research and money and bought my third speedshitter. Chrono functioned, correct size, but the dial looked like shit. Bought my fourth and final speedshitter. Chrono functions, correct size and the dial isn’t horrible. Happy enough with it. A few hundred dollars spent to find my close enough to make me happy shitter.

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2024.05.23 14:10 LT-Pliskin Samtale om løn

I et tidligere post skrev jeg om at jeg var kontaktet af en recruiter på LI.
Du kan læse det her: https://www.reddit.com/dkkarriere/s/kRX0pugpCd
Jeg har nu haft en indledende tlf samtale, som egentlig bare var en screening af mig for at verificere mine kompetencer. Jeg skal nu tale med den person som refererer direkte til virksomheden.
Personen jeg taler med i denne screening egentlig ret lige til sagen og stiller nogle direkte spørgsmål. Fint nok. Til sidst spørger personen til mine lønforventninger.
Mit svar var: "jeg er glad for du tager det op og min forventing var faktisk at du ville præsentere en lønramme for mig".
Personen kan/vil ikke give en lønramme, men oplyser jeg ikke behøver at sætte noget tal på nu, men blot kan vente til min næste samtale. Dette siger jeg ok til.
Hvordan bærer jeg mig ad herfra? Skal jeg bare lave min research og give en lønramme til næste samtale? Et det ikke et red flag at de ikke vil oplyse lønramme?
Det skal siges at løn er "lidt" underordnet. Stillingen er en rigtig god mulighed og den erfaring og læring jeg kan få er langt vigtigere end lige at klemme ekstra mønter ud. Men jeg vil selvfølgelig gerne stille mig selv bedst muligt, da jeg har en familie med 2 små børn og en kone uden indtægt da hun studerer og har opbrugt sine SU-klip.
Håber på nogle kyndige råd 🙌🏼

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