Workers in the bottom quintile of the wage distribution experienced a 35 percent employment decline while those in the top quintile experienced only a 9 percent decline. Large differences across the wage distribution persist even after conditioning on worker age, business industry, business size, and worker location. As a result, average base wages increased by […]

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For $20, fans of German soccer club Borussia can have a cut-out of themselves placed in the stands at BORUSSIA-PARK. According to the club, over 12,000 cut-outs have been ordered and 4,500 have already been put in place. Here is the tweet and photo. And some sports bettors are betting on simulated sporting events.  (Again, […]

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How many stupid, outrageous, maddening government failures can you document in just 500 words? Jim Doti and my former colleague Laurence Iannaccone should win a prize for this piece in the WSJ: …the U.S. is, by far, the world’s largest producer of alcohol. That distinction is a result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, […]

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When: Tue Dec 1, 2015

Where: Central Edinburgh (TBC)
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: For booking, please visit the event website

When: Wed Mar 2, 2016

Where: Edinburgh (TBC)
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Delegates will discuss the ways in which the transition is impacting on the health and social care workforce, public health improvement and the third and independent sectors. Areas for discussion include: -Progress on the integration process - including case studies outlining integration in practice - and wider policy priorities beyond April 2016 - Integration and primary care - including discussion on the ways in which to tailor resources efficiently to meet local population needs - Next steps for public health improvement in Scotland and priorities for developing mental health services - Addressing barriers to the adoption of technology enabled care - Responding to challenges facing social care and assessment of the relationship between secondary and social care - Developing care standards in Scotland For further information, please visit the event website

When: Wed Jan 27, 2016

Where: Scotland: workforce, funding and delivery of care
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: This conference will provide a timely opportunity for delegates to consider the future of primary care in Scotland. For further information, please visit the event website

When: Fri Nov 20, 2015

Where: Glasgow City Council Learning Academy
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: The second of what will be regular events and networking sessions to support the work of local area researchers in Scotland under the umbrella of the Local Area Research and Intelligence Association More information http://laria.org.uk/t-event/laria-listens/

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The following is a guest essay by Evan Villarrubia. “I feel stupid! And contagious!” — Nirvana The panic and lockdown state we are just exiting in Dali (southwestern China) has been by far the most intense historical episode I’ve ever experienced. I’ve gone through several deep emotional phase changes throughout this time. If I’d written more »

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Clusterfuck Nation For your reading pleasure Mondays and Fridays Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page These are strange days, indeed. But in what alternative universe can anyone imagine Joe Biden actually making it through a presidential election campaign? The party he supposedly leads stuffed him into a broom closet last week after he gibbered more »

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Clusterfuck Nation For your reading pleasure Mondays and Fridays Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Spring is popping now with a ferocious energy that can only remind the sullenly sequestered masses that life is going on without them. Every living thing is busy making-and-doing out there, except the poor humans, idled without work or more »

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Citing the need to have an arm’s-length view on policy issues that impact fire, life and electrical safety, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has announced the launch of the NFPA Fire and Life Safety Policy Institute. The Policy Institute will study a range of issues and provide guidance and information to policymakers on the best approaches governments can take to improve safety for the citizens they serve.

Knowing that today’s homes burn faster than ever, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) announced “Every Second Counts: Plan Two Ways Out” as the official theme for this year’s Fire Prevention Week campaign, October 8-14, 2017. Experts say you may have as little as two minutes (or even less) to safely escape a typical home fire from the time the smoke alarm sounds.

В отличие от большинства других финалок, фф5 активно пытается быть комедией. Локализация Advance-версии в этом начинании ей подыгрывает.

Игра начинается буквально с того, что на принцессу падает метеорит, отчего она ненадолго отключается.

И сразу же можно считать непростительные грехи. Да, амнезия. Да, над ней тут пытаются шутить, но по факту она нужна только для того, чтобы сперва Галуф не мог рассказать весь сюжет команде, а потом - чтобы все офигели от того, какой этот смешной старик на самом деле серьёзный король.

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Итак, наши герои телепортировались за Галуфом в его мир. И тут же оказались на необитаемом острове, где быстро сдохли от голода и скуки.

Но нет, надо ж было появиться какому-то приспешнику хсмерти и принести их к нему прямо в замок.

При помощи ЗЕРКАЛА злодей транслирует изображение героев, сидящих у него в подвале, в небо. huh

Локализаторы явно тут перестарались с шутками.

А теперь внимание.
У Хсмерти есть барьер, активация которого убьет всех людей, которые влезут к нему в замок.
Галуф не знает, что барьер уже готов, и поэтому идёт в атаку.
Хсмерть мог впустить его внутрь и убить всех сразу. Вместо этого он пытается шантажировать Галуфа его соратниками. И даже не обращает внимания на то, что Галуф не какой-то там шаг вперёл делает, а на виверне прилетает прямо к нему в замок и спасает друзей со всем их скарбом.
Какая глупость.

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Итак, миры объединились, герои пошли бухать в родной Тайкун, но потом все, кроме Ленны, сбежали с вечеринки и попёрлись к мудрой черепахе за сюжетом.

А он им и говорит "Help! I'm a turtle and I can't get up!"

This makes no fucking sense whatsoever but okay boomer

Оцените, пожалуйста, всю глубину лора и терминологии этой игры.
ПУСТОТА была запечатана в ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ между двумя мирами, которое называется ТРЕЩИНА. Злой пень ХСМЕРТЬ хочет заполучить СИЛУ ПУСТОТЫ.
Это примерно весь сюжет игры. Сплошные дебильные сущности, мутные условности и волшебные хуеверти. А вот, кстати, и следующая.

ВСЁ ЭТО ВРЕМЯ Я БЫЛ ЗАНОЗОЙ В ТВОЕЙ ЖОПЕ!

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Всю Final Fantasy III легко разделить на две части. Первая - это череда рандомной хуйни, куски которой друг с другом особо не вяжутся. Вторая - это основная сюжетка про злого Занде, чьё имя в первой половине почти не упоминается.

Ещё у фф3 есть две радикально разные версии. В оригинале с NES четверо героев были настолько безликими, что их имена не выводились даже рядом с их репликами. DS-ремейк (который был потом везде портирован) дал им разные дизайны и бэкграунды, но по факту ничего не изменил - герои по-прежнему максимально безликие болванчики. Какой-то намёк на индивидуальность есть только в самом начале, когда партию надо собирать (тут же главное отличие от оригинала в сценарии).

фф3 начинается буквально с ДЫРЫ. В оригинале сразу все четверо сюда падают, в ремейке - сперва один, потом остальных приводит. В ДЫРЕ живёт Кристалл, который нарекает их воинами света и говорит пойти мир спасать.

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Итак, в прошлый раз мы вернули себе эиршип, самое время полетать по миру и поиссле--

Ой.

Пролетали над королевством, а там устроенная самим королём гражданская война, наш корабль сбивают, выхода нет, все друг друга мочат, всё закрыто и в разрухе, принц прогнан из замка, но потом его вместе с партией впускают, а ночью король его пытается зарезать. Из всех коротких зарисовок из фф3 эта, пожалуй, наиболее яркая.

Плюс тут всё относительно неплохо продумано для несовских финалок. В Саронии, где партия оказывается заперта, есть магазин, гостиница, воскрешалка и леса, где можно подкачаться. Потому что Гаруда - ад.
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There is much to fear, especially for minority and young voters, with a switch to all-mail voting — unless our system is fixed. Palast and Fox discuss the challenges our democracy faces during the coronavirus pandemic and what we need to do to

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Trump & Co are stealing the election right now, but we can steal it back. We can beat the ballot bandits. Watch this video of my conversation with constitutional expert and broadcaster Thom Hartmann — then pre-order my new book, How Trump Stole 2020, to find out how!

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They don’t steal votes to steal elections. They steal votes to steal the money. If you can steal an election, you’ve stolen the keys to the treasury — our treasury. In this conversation, award-winning investigative reporters and authors Greg Palast and David Cay Johnston follow the (stolen) money, and expose the billionaires and ballots bandits who are systematically stripping the United States of its assets, just as a vulture fund would with a corporate entity caught in its talons.

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The House of Representatives.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is currently $37.50 on cdkeys.com. Yesterday it was $41. 

 

https://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/mount-and-blade-ii-2-bannerlord-pc

 

On Steam its MSRP is $50 with a limited time sale going on now for $45. The game just came out to Early Access 3/31.

 

The question now is: jump now on the good price, or will the price continue to fall?

 

Note: It's in Early Access and has been in development for like 8 years. Expect some clunk.

Not sure if it was a glitch or intentional, but I got a notice this morning saying that my copy of Final Fantasy Remake Standard Edition had shipped.  That made me happy enough, as I was afraid it might be delayed - had it pre-ordered on Amazon but it shifted to delivery unknown earlier in the week so I canceled it.  But, back on topic - about 3 hours later I got a message that I had a 25 dollar reward.  I did not have anywhere near that many points before so I looked for where they came from.  When I clicked on the Final Fantasy VII Remake purchase, this is what it said:

 

Total Points: 1142

My Best Buy Visa Purchase Bonus - 83

$10 Dollar Certificate for Final Fantasy VII Preorder - 500

$10 Dollar Certificate for Final Fantasy VII Preorder - 500

Base Points - 59

 

Did this happen to anyone else?  Considering I preordered it when I still had Gamers Club - so got it for 51.23 ... this has been an especially Cheap Ass Gamer type of purchase.

 

P.S.  Sigh, I really miss Gamers Club.  Hate spending 64.04 on new releases (that includes local tax).

Uplay+ service, with access to + 100 games is is 50% off for the 1st month!  Members can get unlimited access to + 100 games for $6.99
https://store.ubi.com/us/uplayplus/
 
Free shipping and +50% off on all physical games until April 19th. There's merch on sale as well.
https://store.ubi.com/us/free-shipping-sale/

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet since its been going on for a few days now.  Great game.  Price before GCU.

 

Slay the Spire (PS4) - $8.99

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/slay-the-spire-standard-edition-playstation-4/6379879.p?skuId=6379879

 

Slay the Spire (Switch) - $21.99

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/slay-the-spire-standard-edition-nintendo-switch/6379876.p?skuId=6379876

https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/xbox-one/games/products/outlast-trinity/10143092.html

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/nintendo-labo-offer

Includes Variety Kit, Robot Kit, Vehicle Kit, and VR Starter Kit.

https://shop.cookingmamacookstar.com/

In stock right now (8am CST 4/15/2020) $39.99 plus $5 shipping.

There’s been a bunch of scuttlebutt around this game being delisted from the eShop, supposedly mining bitcoin and a disagreement between the publisher and the IP owner. No matter the truth, grab it at retail pricing and don’t pay scalpers on eBay.

30% Off Turtle Beach Elite Atlas Pro Wired PC Gaming Headset (Expires April 25th)

30% Off Turtle Beach Elite Atlas Aero Wireless Headset for PC (Expires April 25th)

25% Off ROCCAT Vulcan Aimo Keyboard Black & White/Silver (Expires April 25th)

25% Off ROCCAT Kain Aimo Wireless Mouse Black & White (Expires April 25th)

25% Off ROCCAT Kain Aimo Mouse Black & White (Expires April 25th)

10% Off My Arcade Gamestation Assorted Items (Expires April 22nd)

25% Off ROCCAT Kain 102 Aimo Mouse PC Gaming, White (Expires April 25th)

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/alien-isolation

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/214490/Alien_Isolation/

 

Thought this discount was notable enough to warrant its own thread.

 

Thanks MysterD for the following post

 

 

GameBillet has Alien: Isolation Collection [Steam key] for $9.29.

 

Side note:

On GameBillet, all the Alien Isolation's DLC's, Season Passes, etc. are on sale on GameBillet too:

 

Alien Isolation sale on GameBillet:

Alien Isolation: Collection (Base Game & All 7 DLC's) = $9.29.

Alien Isolation: Season Pass (The 5 Challenge Maps DLC Pack) = $4.10

Alien Isolation: Crew Expendable DLC (Story DLC #1) = 79 cents

 

Alien Isolarion: Last Survivor DLC (Story DLC #2) = 79 cents.

https://www.cdkeys.com/playstation-network-psn/playstation-plus/1-year-playstation-plus-membership-ps3-ps4-ps-vita-digital-code

 

These has been in the 35-40s recently

2k has a new promotion during the pandemic they are offering a free game each week. I have little info about this but I'm playing mafia 3 on xbox one currently. feel free to post with details if you want. I barely remeber playing this on last gen, I think I played a few hours and quit. now though I'm really enjoying it as a time-filler, it's a good gta rip-off.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-ipad-latest-model-with-wi-fi-128gb-space-gray/5985613.p?skuId=5985613

 

I'm thinking about it, but I am uniformed about the current ipads.

 

Airpods are $139.99

https://2k.com/en-US/blog/play-the-golf-club-2019-for-free-right-now/

 

Trial available on Xbox starting 12:00AM PT 5/7/20 through 11:59PM PT 5/13/20 and on Steam starting 10:00AM PT 5/7/20 through 9:59AM PT 5/14/20. Progress will transfer for people who purchase the full game.

 

2k is posting a free game play session each week

 

2K’s Give Back Project offers Free Play periods for the 2K community on Xbox and Steam

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*with a $60 donation to Lar’s MS Research fundraiser. It’s May 8th (legitimately in case you didn’t know), which means there are only a few weeks in the 2020 edition of the DeSouza MS Research fundraiser. For the final stretch, Lar is changing the rules. Instead of a theme for May, May’s theme is ALL […]

Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said on Thursday that a Republican plan to shield businesses from coronavirus-related lawsuits is “dangerous.”

Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggested that he would not support additional relief funds to households and businesses unless the package also includes a measure shielding businesses from liability for coronavirus infections.

But Napolitano argued that the provision would be anti-conservative and violate states rights.

“Can the Congress tell state courts that they cannot hear claims of liability when someone goes into a public accommodation and contracts coronavirus?” the Fox News analyst explained. “Congress has been very reticent to do that. Conservatives who believe in states rights have been very reluctant to interfere with the operation of state courts.”

Napolitano pointed out that the only other instance where Congress has restricted state courts is a law that prohibits gun manufacturers from being sued over gun violence.

“I think that this liability shield business is very dangerous,” he added. “The decision of whose fault someone was harmed by should be decided by juries and not by politicians.”

Remember the April 15th "Operation Gridlock?" in Lansing Michigan? In my piece on April 21st I said we needed to start tracking these protesters to show that they will spread the virus to other communities. Well, someone did.

The people at the Committee to Protect Medicare released data which shows the protesters dispersing to smaller communities across Michigan in the following days. The map above shows that cellphones that were in Lansing on April 15 scattered across the state. (Link)

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Here is the COVID-19 situation in Maryland and Washington, DC.

To date, 311 people have been tested statewide.

Delaware has eight cases of COVID-19, most of them connected to the University of Delaware.

The first COVID-19 death in Nevada was a man in his 60s with an underlying health condition.

Here's a look at the number of coronavirus cases in Nebraska, and the latest news on the COVID-19 outbreak.

Here are the latest updates on coronavirus in Kentucky.