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Blood of Hercules

I just finished it… it was so bad just so so bad. I heard such good things and was so excited! Did any of you have a similar experience??

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Help with scaling size

New to Screen Printing here. Does my artboard size on illustrator have to match the the 13x19 transparency paper i have? I have the ruler enabled so i ca determine what size the logo is. Is this the correct way to scale the size of my logo? When i select "print" do i have to change any settings so the printer knows im printing on 13x19?

Do I inform HR? Am I being unreasonable?

6 years qualified Hi, Seeking advice... please excuse the long story. I started working for a large private company 3 years post qualification. I was a diligent employee and took any additional training available. A grape incident occurred last year and I had to have an extended period of time off ( 5 weeks in total but split over a 12 month period in line with progressions with the police investigation eg. After providing a statement,.medical examination etc.) I am now leaving the company but my manager has openly told me he will be paying the next employee more than my CURRENT salary. The following is an older male but with 2 years post grad experience of physio. Prior to this he worked in a gym. I understand he is an older person and I have had to have time off in the last year, however, I feel really upset that I've likely been and have been underpaid. For context, my current salary for this role is the top end of band 5. Am I being unreasonable to feed the salary discrimination back to HR?

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Unfair Redundancy?

Hello everyone, I’m hoping to get some advice on a redundancy process I’ve gone through and if anyone here has experienced something similar. Here’s the background: I worked for a company in a permanent PAYE role for less than two years (around 11 months). Unfortunately, I was made redundant recently. However, I’m concerned that the redundancy process wasn’t handled correctly, and I’m looking for guidance on whether I have any legal grounds to challenge this. The Situation: • During my redundancy consultation, I was not told I was underperforming or anything like that. I had been informed by colleagues that I was the only one not being moved into a new role (a team leader role) that was available. • The team leader role was posted externally the same day I was made redundant, which seems strange since I was doing something very similar in my current role. • I had been speaking to my managers about my immigration status and awaiting approval to stay in the UK, and I’ve wondered if that played a part in why I wasn’t offered the new role (I was told by colleagues that they couldn’t justify why I wasn’t being moved over to that role). • The company sent me a link to apply for this new role externally, rather than offering it to me as an alternative to redundancy. • The role I was made redundant from was essentially the same job with a few less responsibilities, and I’m confused why I wasn’t considered for it or at least consulted about it properly. The Legal Issue: From my understanding, the redundancy process should have included an offer of suitable alternative roles, but it seems I was excluded from consideration for this role just because it was freelance/self-employed. My manager mentioned in an email that if the team leader role were a permanent PAYE role, they would have had to prioritise me as an “at-risk” employee, but because it’s freelance, they said it falls outside of the redundancy process. However, I feel this is a flawed argument. In my view, they should have still considered me for this role since it was a suitable alternative for my skills and experience. I have also read that discrimination based on immigration status or nationality can be grounds for a claim, especially since I was waiting for approval on whether I could stay in the UK and had raised this with my managers. I was never told I wasn’t doing my job well, and there was no coaching or feedback provided. Questions: • Do you think the redundancy process was handled incorrectly, especially regarding the self-employed role? Was I entitled to be prioritised for it, even if it was freelance/self-employed? • Can I make a claim even though I haven’t been employed for two years? Or to the employment tribunal? • Have any of you been in a similar situation or know someone who has? What advice do you have for me on how to move forward? • Is it worth contacting an employment lawyer to look into this, or should I go through ACAS or another channel first? Thank you for any input or advice you can provi

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Found in cow dung

Hello, found these in cow dung in my grampas land, central brazil. We had a rainy week and the temperature dropped a lot in the last couple days. Could these smaller ones be panaellous?

Randomly discovered Bill Evans, fellow New Jerseyan, at 43

I just started working from home about six months ago and have gotten into the habit of trying to find soft instrumental jazz to leave on in the background. Not being a jazz aficionado by any means and just trying to find what I liked I started with Coltrane, etc…YouTube’s algorithm led me to Bill Evans and I was really struck by it. “Peace Piece” is probably my favorite at the moment. A comment on the video that I could not agree with more but that I would not have been able to vocalize or put my finger on myself is that Evans somehow makes the piano “breathe.” Also just interesting that he is a born and raised New Jerseyan like myself, having grown in not all that far from where I currently live.

Discussion - I just finished the audiobook version of “Broken Crusade” by Stephen B. Fischer. I think it’s a masterpiece.

** Spoilers throughout for the novel Broken Crusade** I just finished listening to Broken Crusade…and I’ve got to say, I think it’s a masterpiece. 20+ year 40k fan, never much liked the Black Templars. Oh I’d enjoyed the odd Grimaldus adventure but the chapter to me were always very one note, prior to this story. From how a super advanced starship might actually work… to battles that are much more than bolter porn. The antagonists are well thought out…nuanced and well written. The novels portrayal of the futility/fear/sheer destructiveness of war & making that lynchpin for why I wanted these hyper religious, space fascists and their slaves to be victorious…was incredible. To top it all off, it’s the first novel which I can safely say I preferred listening to in audiobook form…over reading and using my own mental narration. The narrator conveyed so much emotion in a way which was organic and heartfelt…without “acting” as the character. I felt as though the Castellan were reading his own story, from the sorrow of losing his brothers, one by one, to the ‘shame’ he felt upon his rescue….a breathtaking performance. The Castellan started as a generic Space Marine ™️…by stories end he’s a man mostly broken by his experience, both physically and mentally. He fails in almost every (admittedly impossible) task before him, loses his ship, his fighting company and at one point…his faith. I have always liked these books, as raging against the dying of the light is a universal concept. I have always struggled with and fought against severe anxiety and depression. It is a fight I often lose, sometimes not being able to get out of bed for weeks or at my worst…months at a time. I like reading stories of those who fight knowing they will never, ultimately, win. Yet they fight all the same. All men and women falter and fall…we all share in one immutable truth : the inevitability of failure. No matter your strength, intelligence or willpower…you will fail, one day (hopefully very very long from now) for the last time… …but… **every** attempt to get back on your feet is in itself…victory. Your struggle matters even if there is no one to witness it, whether you’re battling your own mind for control or fighting against external pressures or assailants…it is always worth fighting for…because you matter. Even bereft of family, friends or relationships, you bring worth to world. I read around 15-20 Black Library novels a year, have read over 400 in my lifetime. This is close to if not my favorite, certainly in recent memory…perhaps ever. It’s what every space marine based story should strive to be. And I dig it. Also…the missionary Prosepine has brass plated, radiantly glowing golden balls (Praise Be!!!) roughly the mass/heft of neutron stars. Telling a Black Templar to his FACE that he’s kinda being a lil faithless bitch…is like playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded stub pistol. And I hope we see more strong female characters who maybe don’t try to burn most people at the stake…and aren’t Mary Sue’s or simply plot/sexual tools. If I have to read Dabnett describe another female character whose voluptuous, bodacious, bust is simply spilling from her body glove (Wtf is a body glove?! Are we talking like commander shepherd armored suit that’s form fitting or like magical sci-fi space spandex?! It wouldn’t be as egregious if he did it with his male characters in as much lurid detail. IE - The sheer girth of Sigismunds “lightning tower” caused his ceramite codpiece to creak under its immensity. Luckily, the Mechanicum had just found an STC for an enhanced and reinforced variant for the armor section. The “Scrotalum Protectinautis” segment can still be found in relic suits of power armor in the 41st millennium. Rogal Dorn, being the stern disciplinarian he was, had averted any attempts at sullying the honor of the Imperial Fists. Ancient texts recovered from an ancient and holy librarium frozen underneath the permafrost of Inwit…refer to a device known only as “the pain knackers” should any of his progeny attempt to beat the bishop. As such, similar to the Caestus assault ram which Sigismund and his men were sequestered, was fit to bursting. Only the iron will with which his Legion was famed, kept the permanently and painfully engorged liquidity within “Imperator Rex II”.) I’d love to hear everyone else’s opinion on the novel. Did it resonate with anyone else as it did me?

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Sheetmetal Construction foreman, with estimator opportunity within company.

I’m on track to making $35/hr in a few months (union raise) I’m a Foreman for a Sheetmetal company in New York (2 yrs). I went through the apprenticeship and got my project management certification after. I recently got asked to come in for a meeting to speak about becoming an estimator. I would like that role but has to make sense for me money wise. What should be my target salary and how should I negotiate it? Most likely with this position I won’t be in the union anymore and therefore will lose my health benefits as well if I don’t continue to pay out of pocket.