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What do striking Hollywood writers want? A look at demands

The first Hollywood strike in 15 years began Tuesday as the economic pressures of the streaming era prompted unionized TV and film writers to picket for better pay outside major studios, a work stoppage that already is leading most late-night shows to air reruns. (May 2)

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published 12:31 PM EDT, May 3, 2023

The 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike Tuesday after negotiations with Hollywood studios that began in March failed to result in an agreement. The guild has billed the issues behind the labor dispute as “an existential crisis.” Writers say they’re facing a host of new issues brought on by streaming and other recent technological shifts in the industry.

Here’s a look at the demands behind the first Hollywood strike in 15 years, as the industry braces for a long hiatus:

INCREASED PAY

The guild is seeking higher compensation for writers across the board. Though there are more jobs available to WGA members than ever before because of the proliferation of streaming services, pay for most writers is down. Ten years ago, 33% of TV writers were paid the minimum rate. Now, according to the WGA, 49% are. Accounting for inflation, writer pay has declined 14% in the last five years. The median weekly writer-producer pay is down 23% over the last decade, with inflation factored in. Writers say many of their members aren’t even making a living wage. They are also seeking increases for their pension plan and health fund.

BETTER RESIDUALS

For more than half a century, residuals have been a foundational way for writers to make money. But streaming has upended those payouts. Writers used to be handsomely compensated anytime their work went into syndication or was sold for overseas territories. Reruns meant a big payday. But now, series and films often simply land a streaming service and stay there. Streaming services also generally don’t share viewership data with filmmakers and writers, meaning writers don’t know how valuable their work has been. To replace backend residuals, the WGA is seeking more upfront fees.

STAFFING REQUIREMENTS

The union wants TV shows to staff a certain number of writers for a period of time. At issue is the rising practice of “mini rooms” where only a handful of writers are working on a series. Such writer rooms are often employed during development, before a show is greenlit. That means writers can be working on a series that doesn’t get picked up for as much as a year after they worked on it, or not at all. The process has circumvented some of the protections WGA members have from being overworked and understaffed. The use of mini rooms accelerated during the pandemic, with writers often meeting by Zoom — a still commonplace practice.

SHORTER EXCLUSIVITY DEALS

Many of the rules around TV writing are also still based on a now increasingly outdated model. Writers might have once expected to spend almost a year working on a 22- to 25-episode season of broadcast TV. Now, the average season is much shorter. Popular shows like “Bridgerton” might have only eight episodes. Not only does that diminish writers’ per-episode pay, it can limit them from working on other programs if they’re tied to longer terms of exclusivity.

ASSURANCE ON AI

Writers are also increasingly concerned that producers will use artificial intelligence to write scripts or at least fill in the blanks on unfinished screenplays. The fast-advancing technology has potentially widespread ramifications for Hollywood, and, in some cases, may be a useful tool. But the WGA wants production companies to agree to safeguards around its usage.

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"...DEDICATED TO PUNX & SKINS EVERYWHERE WHO HAVE STUCK TO THEIR GUNS AND NOT BEEN SUCKED IN BY MEDIA INVENTED FASHIONS."

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on the the "Never Surrender"/ "Razors in the Night" 7 inch vinyl double A-side single by English street punk/Oi!/UK82 band, BLITZ, released in March 1982 under the No Future label.

MINI-REVIEW: "The best of the “skunk” ("skinhead punk") bands comes up with a second terrific release. On this one the guitar sound isn’t quite as heavy and dense, but it’s more than compensated for by the accelerated tempo. A must."

-- MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL, c. summer 1982

REVIEWER: Jeff Bale

LABEL: No Future

ISSUE: MRR #1 • July/August 1982

Sources: www.negativeinsight.com/niblog/alabelfitforheroes, www.discogs.com/release/384245-Blitz-Never-Surrender-Razors-In-The-Night, various, etc...

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From UPS to Hollywood, summer of strikes from pandemic convenience | Fortune

"Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.

But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.

Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.

At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.

“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.

Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and televisions shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.

Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single digit checks.

Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever,” said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.

“Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.

Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like “a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”

Then there’s the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.

Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.

“It’s not sustainable and I’ll never do that again,” she said.

Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.

Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.

“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.

Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.

The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.

Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.

Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.

“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said..."

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Associated Press video journalist Leslie Ambriz contributed from Los Angeles.

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Jora Holiday Bio **Update 2021**

The following paragraphs contains information exclusively for the original series.

Full Name: Jora Ladybird Holiday

Age: 9, 29 (Ben10000); 39 (Ken 10)

Birthday: March 31/April 1 (she was born 11:59pm on March 31)

Species: Human

Race: African American

Fandom: Ben 10 (classic&reboot), The Secret Saturdays (crossover), Generator Rex (crossover), Cartoon Network/CN City (crossover)

Voice Claim: Kimberly Brooks; Brandy Norwood is another alternate choice

Character Role: Friend and love interest to Ben Tennyson

Powers/Abilities: Rot Inducement, Mycokinesis, Poison/Toxin Immunity, Self Healing/Regeneration, Moderate Chronokinesis (Time-Acceleration)

Items: Vials, Mini Lab, Gloves

Relationships

Family: Jeremy (father), Mavis (mother), Tasha (sister), Pattibelle (first cousin) Ginger (family friend); Kenny, Kendrix & Belle (future children), Devlin (adopted son/cousin in law(?))

Friends: Ben & Gwen Tennyson, Max Tennyson, Cooper Daniels, Richard Mortis, Mama G (future mentor)

Acquaintances: Ginger T. Glass, Tamika

Love Interest: Ben is her primary love interest, as seen with their eventual future together as well as hints and blatant displays of "puppy love."

Enemies: Pretty much every villain in this show; her personal arch-nemesis is Kudzu, a lifestyle expert & entrepreneur who initially tried to gentrify Jora's neighborhood & ruin her family's business. Other villains include Master Mortis (Richard's creator), and Kudzu's bounty hunters.

Appearance

- Dark Skinned African American girl

- Chubby, shorter than Ben and Gwen

- Has dark brown hair styled in twisted pigtails, pink hair scrunchies

- Black Bead Eyes//dark brown

- Wears lilac lacy gloves

- Wears three different outfits through the show:

- Season 1: Yellow t-shirt, pink shorts, beige sandals

- Seasons 2&3: Pink and Yellow striped tank top, orange skirt, and same sandals

- Season 4: Pink and white t-shirt, yellow capris with orange belt, and purple shoes

Personality

A sweet and quiet girl, Jora Holiday did not consider herself to be special. She lacked friends in school and kept to herself out of fear of getting bullied. This was because she had to deal with her mutant powers since they came into fruition as a very small child. Jora normally tries to avoid or deflate conflict, though deep down she does get a little fed up with playing peacemaker if the squabbling persists. Jora is compassionate and humble, never boastful but also bashful when it comes to compliments and praise. Of the four kids she is regarded as the nicest.

Because of her powers Jora has clean freak tendencies in her desire to look as normal as possible. She tried to avoid gross situations, although later down the line she learns it's okay to dirty her gloves - literally.

But with sweetness comes sourness, as she does have a passive-aggressive side towards slights, whether real or perceived. She didn't get along with Tasha, feeling as though the latter didn't care for her (which isn't true). Jora tends to be oversensitive and takes things too personally, ans even can be prone to tears if provoked hard enough. She also bears lingering resentment and shame over the partial ailments her element brings; these feelings fade away over time as she grows to accept her powers and adapt to her condition. One of her biggest flaws is her timidness and inability to stand up for herself and others. She also didn't get along with Ben for a while, though they get better quickly.

Jora has a love of nature, as shown with her hobby of collecting flowers and mushrooms. She despises animal abuse of any kind, and strives to be a bit more conscious of the environment. She also seems to have no phobia towards bugs, and thus is the designated "spider catcher" on the Rust Bucket.

Jora has a passion for fashion and a girly sense of style, preferring to dress in bright or pastel colors. Her love of nature and love of fashion could lead to a career based on environmentally friendly beauty products.

Ben 10000: Lavender shortsleeved dress and white apron

Adult Appearance

When she grows up Jora is considerably more capable of handling herself. She gets upset when people see and treat her as a fragile thing, seeing as though they don't trust her. She also is very in tune with nature, spending her days off on long walks in the forests, or at her homemade lab making potions.

In this timeline she was a waitress who worked after shifts as a vigilante. At the time the Hero of Heroes didn't know who this mysterious woman was, although he was struck by familiar feelings.

Ken 10: Mint Green blouse and pink maxiskirt with pink wristwatch (which is actually her transformation device)

Costume: White bodysuit with light purple accents, helmet and visor.

Powers:

Jora has the element of Decay (&Rebirth), which enables her to induce decomposition in organic material.

Techniques

- While not proficient at hand to hand she can run fast in short bursts and have stamina

- Generate spore clouds to obscure vision and block a person's airways

- Increase or decrease the rate the decay

- Increase or decrease the size of mushrooms, from giant prehistoric constructs to miniature samples to be used for medicine

- Create a slippery puddle of rot to make opponents fall

- Throw globs of inky, rotting matter to create fungus or for long range

- Autumn Leaf Tornado

- Create Penicillin (first "upgrade")

- Able to "purify" corrupted Mycellium in the episode "Camp Fear"

- Scavenger-animal Empathy

- Forensics (adult level)

- Fossil Fuel Manipulation (adult level)

- Floral Manipulation (adult level, possibly teen)

- Acid Spit (adult level)

- Hallucinations (teen level)

Weaknesses

- Her power has little to no effect on material such as metal, glass, synthetic fabrics, stones

- Has to wear her gloves at all times which can be tedious and uncomfortable

- Lacks strength and hand-to-hand proficiency

- Weak to extreme heat & cold

- Shroom Constructs can be easily destroyed if not continually reinforced

- Unable to control her powers if under extreme duress

- Requires weapons to compensate for elemental weaknesses

- Requires a source for better potency

Strengths

- Immune to Time related attacks since her powers are considered a form of chronokinesis

- Create healing potions

- Immune to mycotoxins and can decrease and even render dangerous mushrooms safe for consumption (handy for outdoor missions)

- Powers seem to increase in wet environments, the Moon

- Her kind gentle personality makes it easier for her to restrain the dangerous potential of her abilities

- Memorized enough species of fungi and has her own mini lab to safely store and carry samples

- Natural empathy towards others

- Quick learner, continually studies her powers and traits to adapt

Background

Born the second child to floral shop owners Jeremy and Mavis Holiday, Jora had a normal childhood in the comfy small town of Annville, SC. A quiet child, she spent after-school helping around the shop. They were small yet popular with the townsfolk, reputed for their knowledge of plants and colorful arrangements. However that normalcy took a detour when Jora's powers camemto fruition.

When people started to notice more and more plants dying, that in turn led to decrease in customers and soon the shop began to undergo financial trouble. One day, a beautiful woman named Kudzu came into the store offering to buy the place from Jeremy. See, Kudzu was one of the wealthiest and powerful people in town. He refused. The next day Kudzu came again with another proposition. Again Jeremy refused. This occurred all through the week, until finally a very irritated Mavis demanded Kudzu to leave their family alone. That time, Kudzu left and didn't ame back after that. The couple was relieved. Jora was nervous.

One day, just as Tasha and Jora were at the last day of school anf thr parents were off to cash in their winning lottery ticket, the floral shop caught fire! The firefighters were called and put out the blaze, but it left their shop and home in charred ruins.

Jora felt very guilty: if she never had her powers, there wouldn't have been such an awful domino effect. The fire was ruled as a freak accident, however Jeremy and Mavis believed that other forces were at work. They couldn't prove their theories as their suspect had too much power and leverage to be fought one on one. So they came up with a plan: they would spend the summer working to add money to the saved money while their kids go out of town. Mavis called upon an old friend from trade school to take the girls on vacation (somewhere safe from Kudzu).

The next couple of days after staying at a shelter, the girls were able to buy a few new outfits and essentials and told to wait for a brown and white RV. When the RV arrived, out came a older gentlemen in a bright scarlet Hawaiian shirt, with two children trailing behind him. He introduced himself as Max Tennyson, and the two kids were his grandchildren Ben and Gwen.

Trivia

Jora has a nature motif to contrast Ben's aliens and Gwen's magic.

Overall Jora is the most normal member of the team; her family has no connection to the Plumbers or magic.

Jora doesn't have signature color, the closest would be pink and yellow since those are colors she tends to wear the most of.

I made Jora so that there'd be another main girl in the cast and because the show didn't have a black female character (despite having nonwhite female characters of other ethnicities, and black male characters)

She does not have a major role in UAF; instead her storyline is seen as a spinoff (think Static Shock to the Justice League) focusing on smaller-scale plots with occasional cameos from main cast

Jora does come back in Omniverse to replace Gwen as the female lead; she is joined by Dr. Azura (Secret Saturdays OC), Myra Hopewell (GenRex), Ginger T. Glass, and her cousin Patti.

It is unknown whether her power is genetics or a random mutation.

In the Ben 10000 timeline she and Ben broke up because Ben tried to forbid her from going on active missions as a way to keep her safe. Obviously she didn't like that and left. They do reconcile at the end of the episode.

Out of my OCs for this fandom Jora is the lead character, followed by Kendrix

Jora's powers can vary based on the type of fungi she's using at the time. So her colors could range from inky-black to a gorgeous green

She is a candidate to take on the mantle of Mother Nature (currently held by Mama G)

Her hobbies are: reading comics and books primarily fantasy genre, costume design, hiking, floral pressing, DIY crafts, and insects

Due to her timid nature she has a fear of public speaking.

I don't have a claim for her in the live action films sorry!!

Jora is a foil for Kevin in that she was born with destructive powers. Unlike Kevin, she learned to rely on friends to help her stabilize her powers.

- A recurring subplot is the girls encountering and escaping from Kudzu's hired goons sent to track them down.

Jora was going to have standard plants and flowers as her power but I wanted to go for nontraditional elements instead.

The irony is that she's a softie dressed in bright colors and respects life, yet has a power related to death.

- At the end of the show she reunites with her parents and they're able to rebuild their business. She also stands up to Kudzu and exposes the woman for the rotten POS she is

Quotes:

"Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, meet face!"

"I like comic books. My favorite is the Fantasia Legends."

"If you're supposed to be Lucky Girl then why dress up like a black cat?"

"There's a lot of stories hidden beneath these trees. You just gotta know where to look."

"I'm not that scared little girl you used to pick on, Ben. I think you know I can take care of myself."

"Look I didn't get to choose my powers okay! But Kudzu chose to set our family's house on fire and I'm not gonna sit back and watch her hurt anyone else!"

"It's okay. I'll help you."

"It's called having good manners. You should try it sometimes."

"Leave. Them. Alone!"

"Please let this be a normal day this time!"

"You're like a mushroom. Unassuming at first, but something unique and vibrant!"

"Ben I don't know how to say this but... you're not alone. Don't ever think you're alone."

"I hope you'll be able to see that there's more to life than just money and business but until that day comes, we'll all do very well without you!"

"I may make things rot but the both of you are rotten to the core!"

Recent Pictures

Reference sheets for Omniverse

Sketches:

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I’m the applied physics anon from earlier; American healthcare is definitely not free, however most American grad programs do provide health insurance! Which can still require a fair bit of out of pocket, unfortunately, and the compensation is pretty meager ($24000-$26000 a year.) I went to Christopher Newport University, which is right next to the Jefferson Lab that I mentioned, but it’s a liberal arts college and does not have the best STEM grad programs. Old Dominion University is maybe 30 minutes or so away from CNU/JLab, and it actually has a (mini) particle accelerator on campus. They have some planetary science/astro stuff too because of their proximity to NASA Langley, but I think the majority of research focus is on Nuclear/particle. One of my peers who interned at JLab actually used that connection to end up working at CERN, so a detour through the American education system might just bring you to Switzerland! :)

Grad school covers your health insurance? That's very cool! By compensation do you intend the total yearly costs that they are willing to cover for you? Also I was inspired this morning and went googling around some american grad schools and wow they are so unbelievably expensive?? Like as of today I have in my moving out + grad school saving fund 4k and I started saving at 17

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WITH THE TAIL BETWEEN HER LEGS ep. 1-2: Ladybug

(A RWBY fanfic for big league perverts)

(AND FUTANARI FETISHISTS)

Blake Belladona was rushing in her motorcycle down the street, her punctuality was an important deal to her, and she was not gonna risk it because her boss is a bitch. Her old friends from Beacon were gathering for Yang's B-day in her favorite bar, and she had to be there for her partner's party. The black cat crossed the streets as if they were her own, ignoring the cars in her sides and dodging any traffic lights and officer she could, trying to waste the less time she could to get to the place of the party, and after 20 minutes of races, she stopped at the parking lot of a western themed place. 

As she turned off the black sport bike, she got off her famous ass, and walked to the gatekeeper, pulling a yellow card with a flaming heart as it's logo from a little white purse. "Xiao Long invited me" said Blake at the same time she showed the card to the 6'11" monster blocking the access. "Huh?, Oh so you are the one who was missing, kitty?" answered the man after opening the door and crossing her name from that night's guest list. "Thanks Bruno, I'll bring you some cake later" replied the Belladona, as she passed the door and squeezed in the crowd. The cat eared lady was waved from a private table in the second floor, almost isolated from the noise of the dance floor and the counter. Jaune opened the chain to the stairway and thanked Blake for coming: "Thanks Monty you're here! Yang and Nora has been making me drink all this time, and I don't think I could have any more whisky without vomiting" said the blondie at the same time he went up to the stairs. 

"Kitty cat!" Yelled Yang, as she hugged both of her friends, "You and I need to empty another bottle of scotch, Arc… And you Bellabooty: You are gonna show me how good you look on the dance floor or I'm gonna get mad for coming late" claimed Yang as she pulled them towards the private lounge tugging from their coats. As the bottles ran empty and the hours passed the group of eight reduced at each of them went drunk or home. First Jaune and Pyrrha, later Weiss, and lastly Ren carrying a heavily drunk Nora. When the clock reached the 2AM. Blake called a Taxi for Yang and Ruby who were almost too drunk to protest against the measure.

As she helped the staff clean the mess of 5 hours of Nora and Yang she passed to the couch were a drunk Ruby was cuddling. 

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For the cat, The silver eyed girl was a perfect prey: her mini skirt, loosened because the hours of dancing revealed a tight red thong with black details. Her feet, usually covered by stockings and boots were naked now, trying to rest from the painful heels which the redhead never used. Her gentle chest, even if never as big as her sister's was tightly wrapped in a white corset, pushing her breasts up, and making them look seductive for the black cat. Blake unable to restrain herself, kissed the cheek of Ruby, making the drunk but sleep redhead wake up and hug Blake "Blake? Give me a kiss, please?" Asked the naive Ruby tugging from the coat's flaps the black haired woman and making her fall over her. "Jeez, Ruby, you look insatiable" said Blake before coiling her tongue with Ruby's in the bold style of the Belladona: bravely, passionately, and with a string joining the pair's mouths after they finished. Doing so, revealed a tightness inside Blake's shorts, a tightness never supposed to rise with a friend she never thought she would lay her hands off.

Regretting what she did, Blake ran to the bathrooms and shutted herself inside the toilets.

Blake ripped off her bursting white shorts and threw them in the floor, showing a throbbing dick who was demanding for attention. Attention only Blake could give with her right hand while thinking of the pink lips of the redhead: first spitting on the head of his cock, following by gentle strokes with her hand, distributing the spit of hers and Ruby around all the length of the shaft. The head, feeling the movements of her hand, answered the letting with shivers of pleasure in her hips, and releasing also wet fluids from her pussy dripping in her thighs. With every stroke, the girl pant and shivered, slowly raising the speed until she wanked her meat with mad speed, as she edged in the verge of climax, she heard a worrying call from outside her door: *Knock**Knock**Knock* "Blake? Are you ok?" asked Ruby, making the Cat Futanari drip a drop of her white cream over the sink. Without a warning, the redhead, entered the bathroom with fizzing eyes and barefooted, only to watch the throbbing dick of what she thought was her old classmate...

[End of chapter 1]

Before the surprised girl, could scream in fear, Blake kissed her again, with more time, with less love,but for time and technique enough to compensate for the rude act. "It is not what you think Ruby, I was… always like this, it's just that I forgot to behave myself, and your lips were just too much for me to handle and…" tried to apologize the cat eared futa, only to make Ruby interrupt her with another kiss and a gentle stroke around her breasts: "I'm not scared of you, I was only surprised of your… 'size' " said the redhead as she changed her hands from the cat's breasts to her throbbing rod. "I caused this to you?" asked the naive girl towards Blake as she held with both hands the still boiling meat of her. Blake nodded at the same time she bit her fingers, trying to hold her load time enough to either die of embarrassment or calm her male instincts.

"Then, I should take responsibility for my own mess" replied Ruby as she got on her knees, kissed the crown of Blake's dick and started licking the head of it, making circles around the glans as she looked straight to the eyes of her partner's pain filled face. Then she opened her hot mouth and shoved the dick in front of her to the back of her throat, making the knees of the Cat weak, and getting the cock even deeper inside the redhead's mouth.

"Don't worry *hic* Blakey! I will relieve you of this in ten moves or less!" condemned Ruby to Blake as she pulled out her head and slapped her meat in her blushed cheek:

She ran her tongue from the top of Blake's pussy lips to the back of her cock's head.

"Ruby!..

She licked the neglected dick cheese, running the same tongue that tasted her pussy juice inside the corners of her glans and urethra.

...please...

As she returned the scout to her mouth she gently kiss the urethra of the Futanari.

...this is no good...

Opening slowly, she gave the catgirl's dick a small taste, slurping the head of her 8 inches long cock. Ruining the redhead's pink gloss lipstick and smearing it over her shaft as she closed again.

...Oh Gods!...

Repeating the motion, Ruby shoved again the giant thing inside her cheeks, trying to suppress any instincts that said her to bite it, making it go half the way inside until the petite girl gagged the meat rod once more.

...I...hate...yo…

Blake answered the harassment, grabbing the head of her former captain and sticking her boiling meat again against the will of the redhead, smearing the thing inside the mouth as the girl dripped spit and precum from her lips to her chest

...C-cu-Cumming!"

Blake's cock hardened itself inside the mouth of Ruby, opening the flow of hard boiling white fluid inside the throat of the girl, stiffening her legs as Ruby grabbed the Belladona's ass and pulled it towards her face; preventing the retreat of her coward friend as she swallowed anything the cat spitted at her. As the climaxed cat panted in pleasure, Ruby stood up and walked with an arrogant smirk towards the toilet stall. The redhead entered and started stripping her lower half, showing her fit rear as she put her hands in the top of the toilet and opened her legs."Nine moves Blake, you need to make the 10th" challenged Ruby.

Blake loosened up her legs, recovering from the climax she just released, falling to her knees, and drooling on the floor. Her chest beat at 100 MPH, her lust was winning over her common sense, her dick over brain, and of course her own body heat over the clothes. She took off her white coat, pulled her violet scarf and tore her black blouse, leaving only the black torn stockings she had under the white shorts. Only after that, she stood up again and ran towards the horny redhead.

Belladona stood over Rose, kissing her at the same time she untied her white corset, her new erection throbbed against the inner lips of her leader, trying to enter as it pushed forward without any success. Ruby, without breaking her standing doggy style pose, answered Blake's kiss, coiling her tongue with hers and pushing her hips with her own and making her rod slip down instead of sliding inside. When Blake finally took the white thing out of Ruby, she pinched the redhead's nipples, "Brats like you deserve punishment, Ruby" said the catgirl answering the girl's challenge as she broke the kiss, and locked her arms behind her back.

Ruby, without notice felt her little pussy being forced open by the head of the Belladona's cock, swallowing in intoxicating pleasure every inch of the shaft and releasing love juice in gratefulness, as the cat pulled back her cock, charging another ram at the back of her redhead partner's cervix, and slamming her meat against it. For over 15 minutes, Blake repeated the motion until a yellowish liquid started dripping from Ruby's thigh, exposing the pleasured status of her former leader, making her smirk and replying "thank the gods we were here in the bathrooms instead of my bed, I would have spanked your cheeky ass red as your cape, if you had soiled them" taunted the Bellabooty as she stroked the redhead's clit with one hand and carressed her throat with the other.

"That doesn't need to stop you" replied Ruby, at the same time she slammed her butt with Blake's hips, accelerating the rhythm to the pace of each slap, and as promised by the Belladona It wasn't until her ass was red as roses and the pace was enough for the two of them, that the Belladona stopped, hugging the redhead's waist as she poured her cream in the deepest of Ruby's womb. Ruby's legs trembled in extasis, as the white fluid invaded her deepest corners, and fell apart when the meat rod left her hot vagina, making the excess fluid drip into the bathrooms' floor.

Blake left the petite girl panting, almost knocked out by the orgasm, whispering in her ear "I'll go out and get your sister a taxi, wait here and we will continue this at my place, ok?"

[itcars]

First Look: The New Electric MINI Cooper SE

The new MINI Cooper SE is all about locally emission-free mobility, and is geared towards sustainability. The international press presentation of the purely electrically powered production model of the British premium brand will be carried out in a CO2 neutral manner. Test drives with 100 percent green electricity, consistently resource-saving event design and compensation payments for certified climate protection projects make it possible to reduce the ecological footprint of the new MINI Cooper SE to zero when it makes its first appearance before media representatives from all over the world.

The international media launch of the new MINI Cooper SE will take place in January 2020 in Miami, Florida. Here the entire test car fleet can be supplied exclusively with electricity from renewable sources. This gives media representatives the opportunity to complete their test drives and the round trips for film and photo shoots completely emission-free. The CO2 emissions generated by the arrival and departure of the MINI Team and journalists from all regions of the world are offset by the purchase of environmental certificates. Compensation will also be paid for all other greenhouse gases that cannot be avoided in connection with the event. The certificates acquired for this purpose will benefit a wind energy project in South America selected according to the highest international standards.

The proceeds from the acquisition of the environmental certificates will be used to expand the Peralta wind farm in Uruguay. There, 25 turbines will cover the electricity needs of around 50,000 households. The wind farm has been recognized as a pioneering project by the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure at Harvard University. It helps to further increase the share of renewable energy in Uruguay's electricity mix and thus supports the country's plan to achieve complete climate neutrality by 2030. In addition, a project for the use of wind energy in the south of Argentina is being supported. In the Patagonia region, the country's largest plant of its kind, covering an area of around 1500 hectares and using 43 wind turbines, supplies climate-neutral electricity to the national grid.

The new MINI Cooper SE is powered by a 135 kW/184 hp electric motor that accelerates it from zero to 60 km/h in 3.9 seconds and from zero to 100 km/h in 7.3 seconds. Its space-saving high-voltage lithium-ion battery, which is located in the vehicle floor, enables a range of 235 to 270 kilometers. A conventional household socket outlet is sufficient for charging, alternatively the MINI ELECTRIC Wallbox is available. To make charging up really quick, rapid charging stations with a capacity of up to 50 kW can be used.

[sunshinecoastqldnews]

UK shopper confidence falls to report low in September

UK shopper confidence has defied expectations of an enchancment and fallen to a brand new all-time low, as households wrestle below the strain of the price of dwelling disaster.

The buyer confidence index, a intently watched measure of how folks view their private funds and wider financial prospects, dropped 5 proportion factors to minus 49 in September, analysis group GfK mentioned on Friday. That was the bottom since data started in 1974.

Joe Staton, GfK shopper technique director, mentioned confidence had “tumbled” in September to a brand new low as households “buckl[ed] below the strain of the UK’s rising price of dwelling disaster pushed by quickly rising meals costs, home gas payments and mortgage funds”.

The autumn defied expectations of a small rise to minus 42 forecast by economists polled by Reuters, who thought there could be some enchancment following the federal government’s £150bn bundle geared toward freezing family power payments.

The info come the day after the Financial institution of England lifted rates of interest by 50 foundation factors to 2.25 per cent, the very best since 2008, that means borrowing will grow to be costlier for companies and households.

“For shoppers already struggling to maintain their family funds in test, the elevated price of borrowing on account of the speed rise . . . could signify the breaking level, resulting in the acceleration of lower in demand,” mentioned James Brown, managing associate at international consultancy Simon-Kucher & Companions.

Incorporating the power payments freeze, the BoE expects UK inflation to peak at 11 per cent in October from its present 9.9 per cent, a close to 40-year excessive, additional eroding households’ actual incomes.

The info additionally comply with affirmation, forward of Friday’s mini-Finances, that the federal government will from November reverse the 1.25 per cent rise in nationwide insurance coverage contributions that was launched in April.

Staton mentioned the “mini-Finances, and the longer-term agenda to drive the financial system and assist rebalance family funds, will probably be a significant check for the recognition of Liz Truss’s new authorities”.

The GfK index, based mostly on interviews collected within the first two weeks of the month, confirmed scores in relation to 4 of the 5 questions posed, which contact on private funds and the broader financial image, at report lows.

Ahead-looking indicators, which monitor expectations for the following 12 months, registered the biggest fall, dropping 9 proportion factors for private funds and eight proportion factors for the financial system.

Economists count on record-low shopper confidence to lead to falling spending, a pattern registered by the BoE in its brokers survey printed on Thursday.

Advisable

It confirmed that meals retailers reported clients choosing cheaper items and chopping again on non-essential objects, similar to confectionery. Low cost chains gained market share, whereas gross sales of home items, similar to furnishings, electrical items and home-improvement merchandise, fell.

Clothes gross sales had been supported by the return to the workplace, however in hospitality, gross sales had been down on pre-pandemic ranges. Vacation reserving additionally weakened and home tourism was restricted by larger petrol costs.

Demand was robust, nevertheless, for monetary providers and authorized recommendation, similar to tax planning, fairness launch, debt consolidation and early compensation. Third sector organisations additionally reported a big rise in folks in search of debt recommendation.

[thesevenseraphs]

Update 1.1.4

Strikes

Nightfall strike unique rewards

Possible rewards include Legendary weapons and Exotic accessories

Drop rates increase in likelihood based on score thresholds

Strike repetition reduction 

Players will no longer see the same strikes back-to-back in strike playlists

Challenge Card

Increased the Power handicap maximum from 40 to 45

Fixed an issue where “Tree of Probabilities” wouldn’t end immediately after Valus Thuun’s death if he was killed very quickly

Fixed an issue where players could respawn below the boss fight of “A Garden World”

Fixed an issue where vehicles were not rewarding points when destroyed

Fixed an issue where Orbs granted points in public areas

Other

Exotic repetition reduction

Protections were put in place that prevent back-to-back duplicate Exotics from Exotic Engrams

Fixed an issue where some emblems were not displaying what statistic they track

Prometheus Lens correctly appears in the Exotic weapon collection for players who acquired the item from Xûr without owning Curse of Osiris

Reduced interaction time for patrol beacons and activity totems from 3 seconds to 1 second

Fixed an issue where applying or previewing a shader on an item would return players to the top page of the shader inventory

Sandbox

Weapons

Pulse Rifles

Increased PvE damage for all Pulse Rifles by 16%

Increased rate of fire for adaptive and high impact Pulse Rifles

Adaptive: from 360 rpm to 390 rpm (+8.3%)

High Impact: from 320 rpm to 340 rpm (+6.3%)

Increased base damage for adaptive, high impact, and rapid-fire Pulse Rifles

Adaptive: from 14.5 to 16 (+10.3%)

High Impact: from 16 to 18 (+12.5%)

Rapid-Fire: from 12 to 12.5 (+4.2%)

Increased precision multiplier for lightweight Pulse Rifles from 1.5x to 1.6x (+6.7%)

Decreased precision multiplier for adaptive Pulse Rifles from 1.55 to 1.475 (-5.8%)

Design Note: This keeps precision damage close to where it is now, when you factor in the base damage and rate of fire buffs above. This puts most of the buff into body shots, but in the end, this still increases precision damage overall.

Scout Rifles

Increased PvE damage for all Scout Rifles by 15%

Increased base damage for high impact Scout Rifles from 37 to 40 (+8.1%)

Hand Cannons

Increased PvE damage for all Hand Cannons by 15%

Precision Hand Cannons deal 0.15x more precision damage, increasing from 1.5x to 1.6x (+6.6%)

Increased hip fire accuracy when using controllers on console and PC by 33%

Increased ADS accuracy when using controllers on console and PC by 25%

Sidearms

Increased PvE damage for all Sidearms by 15%

Increased hip fire accuracy; reduced cone by 20%

Increased ADS accuracy; reduced cone by 12%

Increased inventory (allowing more reserve ammo to be stored)

Increased range falloff start by +1 m

Increased ADS movement speed

Submachine Guns

Increased PvE damage for all Submachine Guns by 10%

Set optics to 1.3x

Increased inventory (allowing more reserve ammo to be stored)

Linear Fusion Rifles

Increased PvE damage for all Linear Fusion Rifles by 50%

Increased aim assist

Decreased flinch multiplier

Shotguns

Increased PvE damage for all Shotguns by 35%

Increased inventory (allowing more reserve ammo to be stored)

Increased aim assist on SUROS precision Shotguns

Sniper Rifles

Increased PvE damage:

By 20% for yellow bar enemies

By 40% for red bar enemies

Increased precision damage, which now scales with the weapon’s rate of fire

Changed from 2.5x for everything to 3.0x at the lowest rate of fire up to 3.5x at the highest rate of fire

Increased aim assist

Increased inventory (allowing more reserve ammo to be stored)

Grenade Launchers

Increased blast radius

Drum-Fed Grenade Launchers: +0.5 m

One-Shot Grenade Launchers: +1.0 m

MIDA Mini-Tool

Decreased the MIDA Mini-Tool’s optics to match other Submachine Guns

Prevented the stacking of Lightweight and the MIDA Mini-Tool’s Lightweight perks

Adjusted player movement speed to match the MIDA Multi-Tool

Auto Rifles

Decreased range by 10 for all precision Auto Rifles

Decreased aim assist for all precision Auto Rifles

Perks

Scaled up PvE damage for the following perks:

High Impact Reserves

From 1.12x to 1.30x (+16%)

Kill Clip

From 1.33x to 1.53x (+15%)

Rampage

From 1.33x at 3 stacks to 1.65x while at 3 stacks

Also increased duration from 3 seconds to 3.5 seconds

Dragonfly 

Buffed damage

From 50 to 65 (+30%)

+30% additional damage against combatants

Updated FX

Explosive Rounds

Decreased PvE Explosive Rounds damage multiplier by 15%

Increased PvE damage for the base weapons to compensate for this decrease

Grave Robber

Reloads 50% of the magazine instead of 30%

Timed Payload

Splits damage 55/45, explosive/direct instead of the previous split which was more direct damage

Abilities

Increased Super regeneration rates from 6:40 minutes to 5:00 minutes 

The output of every increment of the Mobility stat, from 2 - 10, has been increased allowing for a significant boost in player speed

Vanishing Step (invisibility upon dodging) and Vanish in Smoke (Smoke Bomb invisibility) 

Dodging remains unchanged and still breaks both aim assist and projectile tracking for the duration of the actual dodge

The invisibility granted by Vanishing Step no longer breaks aim assist or projectile tracking in PvP (unchanged in PvE)

Increased the duration of invisibility granted by Vanishing Step by 1 second

Increased the duration of Smoke Bomb invisibility by 1 second

Increased the movement speed of “melee Supers” (Fist of Havoc, Sentinel Shield, and Arc Staff) 

While these Supers are active, sprint speed is automatically set to the fastest possible sprint speed (no additional perks needed)

Characters automatically sprint when you request forward movement

Increased movement acceleration to reach max speed almost instantly

Titan

Increased the distance the player travels with an untargeted airborne shoulder charge attack (Shield Bash, Seismic Strike, and Hammer Strike) back to 4.5 m

Lift 

Strafe Lift 

Increased top speed of Strafe Lift

Catapult Lift 

Increased the initial horizontal acceleration gained from activating Catapult Lift

Increased the amount of time Catapult Lift can be active to allow for more control

Hunter 

Arc Staff 

Increased the speed of the Arc Staff dodge animation

Increased the speed of all Arc Staff attack animations

For Arc Staff Super cast animation and all Arc Staff melee attacks, reduced the amount of time you’re locked in animations before you can move or attack

Increased the AoE range of all Arc Staff attacks

Warlock

Glide 

Overall 

Increased the initial extension of vertical speed gained from activating Glide to allow for quick, on-demand bursts of speed

Strafe Glide 

Increased the top speed of Strafe Glide

Greatly increased the horizontal acceleration of Strafe Glide to allow for more in-air maneuverability

Increased Strafe Glide’s max height to match the other vertical movements

Burst Glide 

Greatly increased the top speed of Burst Glide (higher than Strafe Glide’s top speed)

Balanced Glide 

Recalibrated Balanced Glide to gain some of the added speed of Burst Glide and some of the added horizontal acceleration of Strafe Glide. 

Design Note: Our intent is for Balanced Glide to have some of the properties of both Burst and Strafe Glide without being as potent as either version.

Dawnblade 

Decreased the cost of throwing sword projectiles with the Daybreak Super, allowing for one additional throw

Increased the Super duration extension gained from the Everlasting Flames perk (~+20%)

The buff granted by the Swift Strike melee ability now removes all in-air accuracy penalties while active

Decreased the Icarus Dash cooldown from 10 seconds to 6 seconds

Increased the grenade and melee energy that Heat Rises gives you per kill from 10% to 16%

Fixed an issue where players could throw infinite numbers of Nova Bombs in Mayhem

Mods

Mods that affect ability regen rates (i.e., for grenades, melee, and class abilities) now have increased output (16.667% per mod). They still cap at 3 mods (50% regen rate).

Crucible

Weekly Featured Playlist (Rumble, Mayhem, Iron Banner)

Each week we will rotate among Rumble, Mayhem, and Iron Banner playlists in the Crucible

Crucible repetition reduction

Enabled repeat map protection for Quickplay, Competitive, and Iron Banner playlists

Quitter penalties

Incomplete matches in Competitive Crucible playlists will now result in a warning or temporary (30 minute) suspension from Competitive and Osiris Competitive playlists

Added invisible physics and kill volumes to keep players inside the intended playable area on a number of maps.

Iron Banner 

Now features 6v6

Time limit is 12 minutes

Score limit is 125 points

Respawn time is 7 seconds

All Control Zones start off neutral

Additional Guardians (max of 3) in a zone increases capture speed

Emperor’s Respite has been removed from the Iron Banner Control playlist

Power ammo

Recurring side crate respawn times reduced from 90 seconds to 45 seconds

Initial side crate respawn times reduced from 90 seconds to 30 seconds

Crucible gameplay/ammo improvements

Quickplay (Clash, Control, Supremacy) match length has been extended to 10 minutes, with score limits adjusted accordingly

All modes

Increased assist and kill credit time from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds

Increased Super energy granted to players for both kills and assists

Players who are defeated while carrying Power ammo will lose all of their Power ammo and drop 50% of it on the ground as a brick

This brick is visible to all players, and anyone can pick it up

The brick expires after 30 seconds

The brick requires a full .25-second interaction instead of a passive walkover

This interaction can be interrupted if the player takes damage

Quickplay

All modes

Match length has been extended to 10 minutes, with score limits adjusted accordingly

Respawn time for all Quickplay game modes has gone down from 5 seconds to 2 seconds

Recurring side crate respawn times reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds

Neutral crates for Clash/Supremacy are unchanged

The player Super display has been removed from the HUD

Players can still access this information in the death screen and while in Nav Mode (when their Ghost is out)

The player Super display remains unchanged in Competitive

Control

Reduced initial side crate Power ammo respawn times from 90 seconds to 30 seconds

Changed the amounts of Super energy players get for capturing zones 

Players on the capturing team get slightly less than before

Players participating in the capture itself get 2x that amount

Clash/Supremacy

Initial side crate Power ammo respawn times reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds

Competitive (Includes Trials of the Nine)

All modes

Tracker is now turned off

Design Note: This is to enable more flanking and expression of individual power.

Survival

Reduced recurring neutral crate respawn times from 75 seconds to 45 seconds

Reduced respawn time to 7 seconds

Countdown

Reduced recurring side crate respawn times from 60 seconds to 45 seconds

Lowered revive lockout time from 20 seconds to 7 seconds

Players no longer lose revive tokens on death

Crucible Power Ammo Crates

Rockets

Now: 1 rocket

Was: 2 rockets

Drum-Fed Grenade Launchers

Stays at 4 grenades

Single-Shot Grenade Launchers

Now: 6 grenades (may be capped by weapon inventory size)

Was: 4 grenades

Sniper Rifles

Now: 6 shots 

Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 6

Shotguns

Now: 5 shots

Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 4

Slug Shotguns

Now: 6 shots

Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 4

Fusion Rifles

Now: 5 bursts

Was: (variable) 4–5 shots based on mag size

Wardcliff Coil

Stays at 1 volley

Swords

Now: 6 swings

Was: 30% of total Energy, capped at 9 swings

Linear Fusion Rifles

Now: 4 shots

Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 6

The Prospector

Now: 8 grenades

Was: 4 grenades

Legend of Acrius

Now: 4 shots

Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 4

Tractor Cannon

Now: 6 shots

Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 4

The Colony

Stays at 4 shots

D.A.R.C.I.

Now: 8 shots

Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 6

Borealis

Now: 8 shots

Was: (variable) 2 mags, capped at 6

[sw5w]

Sebulba Spins Out

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:09:18 - 01:09:21

[lakefeperd]

Man I really don’t know how to use this website, I tried responding to @blazehedgehog ‘s post but there seems to be a character limit so, i’m doing this here. I feel like I have to respond to it, so I will, not only that but I feel like this could be helpful to someone out there that wants to know some of the thinking that went into Fark. First, about sections that you only hold forward for too long, well, you'll be surprised how many people have a problem with that so I decided to make sure the early levels are levels were the player has to get comfortable with it. If you think there's no way that this is possible, let me explain it, have you ever seen someone that isn't good with video games try to play a racing game? If you did so you might notice that they overcompensate their turning, as in, they will turn left too much, notice it, freak out and turn right really quickly eventually crashing into every wall. Something similar happens in fark but to an even bigger extent since you don’t have an acceleration button, or a boost button, you’re always holding the analog forward and there’s only so much tweaking I can do to compensate for it. That’s why the first stage has very small running paths with railings, so this isn’t much of a problem, even if people overcompensate they can still have a reasonable experience. The second one doesn’t have running sections like the first and is supposed to introduce people to a more open stage with no places to really fall to their deaths. Now the third is supposed to get people used to the running, it starts with bigger paths that require some control and hazard avoidance, albeit, easy ones and later moves on to a big path, this time, with no railings. Now when it comes to the combat, the game previously had forced combat sections but due to how free the movement system is, I found myself skipping all those sections during play testing, they just didn’t work for me. Due to that I decided to make the combat mostly optional but it does have its rewards, it’s just that, aside from the buff system, which give you more speed on the dash, double attack and defense plus collectables, most those aren’t on this demo, I won’t reveal what they are though, since they are still under development. Still, it’s important to consider that not everyone is here for the combat and i’m trying to do my best to balance platforming and combat trough the whole game, so, to me, it’s okay it feels more skewed toward the platforming in the early levels, I will likely add more combat in the late game. Another thing you might want to consider is that skipping enemies was also the same way the original Spark played like, it’s just that it was fairly easy to kill most, the game really only stopped you to fight enemies on rare occasions. Mini bosses were also easier to implement in a 2D game, since a couple of them didn’t require more then a couple of sprites, since a couple of them where big monsters. This time, I just don’t have as much resources and time to implement lots of mini bosses. I won’t talk much about the story tho, I rewrite the whole thing every time I get to doing anything cutscene related so it’s likely going to be very different in the final version. The same happened with the original game as well.

[sw5w]

Sebulba's Steering Arm Snaps

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:07:02

[softsuaveweb20]

Advantages of Tracking Hours in Construction

Time following programming for development organizations is a significant piece of a business when following hours worked. An advanced time clock has done a lot of good to numerous ventures and bringing about exact representative finance. Bosses have figured out how to improve finance mistakes and the misfortunes brought about through abundance hours unaccounted for.

In case you're searching for motivations to receive a period check mini-computer in your business, continue to peruse. Coming up next are a portion of the advantages of utilizing time-following innovation in development.

Aligning an Online Time Clock With Payroll

The vast majority of the advantages of receiving a period check mini-computer in development reduces to the finance. The finance division gets the most effect of time following since representative time information records decide the sum one gets with each check.

At the point when representative time records are written by hand, there is a more serious danger of mistakes because of obscured composing, incorrect time passage, time robbery, etc. An online time clock can likewise incorporate with your finance supplier to smooth out the interaction.

The American Payroll Association (by means of Business 2 Community) found a mistake pace of "1 to 8% of complete finance in organizations that utilization customary timecards." Furthermore, about 40% of private ventures "cause a normal of $845 every year in IRS punishments" because of fumble of finance measures.

Nonetheless, when time following programming supplanted written by hand time sections, payrolls got simpler to measure; time and energy are directed into different zones, in this manner improving efficiency. The danger of overpaying or coming up short on is killed, and representatives get an exact check. Organizations and wages must be in consistence with the Fair Labor Standards Act , which looks to ensure representatives. The billable hours and additional time should be recorded to guarantee that representatives and bosses have a reasonable arrangement toward the finish of the workday.

How to Calculate Man-Hours in Construction

Worker hours are utilized to quantify the exertion utilized to finish a venture.

To ascertain the worker hours put resources into a development project, duplicate the quantity of individuals who chipped away at that project by the absolute time (in hours) it took to finish it. For example, 3 roofers working 6-hour days require 4 days to finish a development material undertaking. The worker hours can be determined in like manner:

Work × hours of the day × number of days =

3 × 6 × 4 = 72

A normal of 72 worker hours were placed into this undertaking.

Worker hours help a project worker gauge the measure of time it will take to complete a specific task, and the measure of human work that will be expected to finish it.

Utilizing a period clock mini-computer makes the cycle significantly simpler and more precise, in light of the fact that toward the beginning of a venture, the representatives will basically punch in when work starts and punch out when work is accomplished for the afternoon. A chief will likewise have a visual of an advanced timecard progressively.

Development workers for hire get a reasonable comprehension of the normal time and exertion it takes to finish an undertaking. The worker for hire would then be able to designate assets appropriately and evade sit around idly while getting ready for resulting projects.

Reduce and Prevent Time Theft

A great deal of organizations are confronted with time robbery issues. Indeed, as per the American Payroll Association, about 75% of organizations in the United States cause misfortunes coming about because of time robbery yearly.

This may not generally be out of apathy or wrong hard working attitudes on the representatives' part, yet in addition lack of common sense and absence of time the board. This definite circumstance is the thing that a period clock programming battles against.

At the point when work hours are followed utilizing cloud-based programming, regardless of whether representatives choose to require additional 5 minutes for lunch, the businesses don't need to bear the expense of the time squandered. This implies that representatives are considered responsible for their work hours, and the businesses don't need to compensate for taken time each year.

Accurate Job and Project Costing

As a general rule, development experts make mistakes in assessment when attempting to extend the expense of a task. The spending plan may now and then run low, causing a sort of contact among workers for hire and customers.

At the point when development hours are followed utilizing time computing programming, the worker for hire or the venture administrator gets a strong understanding on what amount of time a particular undertaking could require, the worker hours, and the expense of assets required for the task, including work that would be required in resulting activities of that nature.

A few sorts of time following programming even have a sort of work and venture costing program connected to them, as a little something extra for customers to help accelerate the entire cycle. This encourages one consider all the costs that would almost certainly come up in venture execution, helping ensure the customer comprehends and plans for the said sum. This likewise guarantees that the sums across all venture desk work from the agreement to primer notification and change orders are reliable.

Along these lines, representatives, businesses and customers have a mutually beneficial arrangement.

Anticipated Labor Requirements

Having a  Employee time tracking software for construction on the ground during development truly has an effect. On the worker for hire, an extra advantage of estimating worker hours is that it gives them an exact gauge of how much labor force is required for ensuing related undertakings.

This is a bit of leeway in situations where a task must be done in a brief timeframe, in light of the fact that the worker for hire realizes how much additional work is expected to finish the venture inside the particular timetable.

The workers as well, realizing what is in question, will commit themselves and their skill to the task on ground, maintain a strategic distance from interruptions, and throw any considered time burglary.

Monitored Team Performance

A period clock mini-computer helps a business realize precisely how the group is taking care of ventures — in the event that they complete tasks inside the predetermined timetable or not. This, once more, can be controlled by figuring worker hours.

The business will assess the speed at which workers execute projects, regardless of whether they fall behind or meet the timetable. In the event that it's in the negative, the boss can discover the main driver of the deferred project or give inspiration to the laborers to continue.

The proper time clock programming will give worker studies to your development organization to pose inquiries when beginning their day. These inquiries may inlcude:

Do you have the legitimate gear for the afternoon?

Have you restored your business driver's permit?

Did you require the current year's wellbeing test needed by OSHA?

Besides, checking group execution through time following is fundamental since it gives representatives a road to spread out any challenges experienced in an undertaking to the chief, turning away the danger of irreversible harm over the long haul.

Source on :https://www.ontheclock.com/Blog/time-tracking-for-construction.aspx

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Jack Ryder is a former Gotham City resident and is the host of a political talk show. He is fired after criticizing his own sponsors on-air and refusing to change his behavior or apologize. Knowing Ryder is a decent detective, Chief of Network Security Bill Brane hires the former talk show host as one of his investigators. Brane reveals that CIA contacts have asked him to help find Dr. Yatz, a scientist recently captured by local gangster Angel Devlin who is working with communist powers. Ryder decides to infiltrate a masquerade party at Devlin's mansion and visits a local costume shop. The clerk explains he mainly sells costumes for children but offers Ryder "leftovers" from adult orders. Ryder cobbles together the costume involving yellow tights, green trunks, and red gloves and boots. He completes the disguise with yellow make-up, a green wig, and a red sheepskin rug he decides to use as a cape. At the costume party, Ryder fights some of Devlin's henchmen, suffering injuries in the process, and then discovers the kidnapped Dr. Yatz. The scientist injects Ryder with a chemical serum designed to accelerate healing while also granting great strength and stamina. He also hides a tiny device of his own creation in Ryder's wound, saying it is the safest way to keep the technology hidden from Devlin. The device, he explains, can "rearrange the molecular structure of matter," making clothing or items weightless and invisible until needed. By activating the device now hidden beneath his skin, Ryder is able to instantly cause his yellow and red costume to vanish or reappear instantly.

As Yatz then destroys the evidence of his work, Devlin's men arrive and shoot him dead. In costume, Ryder escapes Devlin's party but is blamed for the chaos. Police arrive and one of the cops refers to the yellow-costumed intruder as a "creeper." Deciding he likes the name, Ryder later attacks and defeats Devlin's gang. He then reverts to his civilian guise and informs Brane and the police of Devlin's involvement in Yatz's death. Ryder then decides to continue secretly operating as the Creeper whenever he needs to fight crime. In his private life, he continues acting as a WHAM-TV network security investigator for Brane. A month after first becoming the Creeper, Ryder is assigned to help WHAM-TV weather correspondent Vera Sweet, who has been threatened. The two initially dislike each other, but over time they develop a flirtatious relationship.

Although the Creeper fights crime, he is frequently considered a villain himself by news media and authorities. During his first adventure involving a costumed villain, a man called the Terror, Ryder realizes that Yatz's implanted device has two side-effects: when he is the Creeper, it prevents his costume and make-up from being removed from his body, and when he is Ryder his superhuman powers become dormant, leaving him vulnerable.

During his early adventures, the Creeper regularly fights a shape-shifting terrorist name Proteus. At one point, Proteus reveals that he is motivated by being overwhelmed by how corrupt he finds society. He had hoped to find a friend in the Creeper and had spared his life before, but then concluded the yellow vigilante is actually an enemy after learning he is secretly Jack Ryder. While attempting another attack on society, Proteus seemingly kills himself and the Creeper muses whether he has lost both an enemy and a friend. Following this, the Creeper continues operating in Gotham City and Jack Ryder becomes a television reporter for WHAM-TV. He winds up teaming up with other superheroes often, most frequently aiding Batman. During an encounter with the Joker, the Creeper is rendered temporarily amnesiac and is tricked into helping the Joker plant a bomb, only realizing the truth at the last moment. He then brings the Joker to justice, not as the Creeper but as Jack Ryder.

Post-Crisis RevisionEdit

Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, much of DC Comics history is revised. The Creeper is given a new origin and interpretation as well. In the new continuity, Ryder is not a talk show host or TV reporter initially. Instead, he is a newspaper journalist working for the Herald Examiner and known for exposing corrupt criminal operations. Investigating the home of criminals during a masquerade party, he is ambushed and knocked out. The criminals knew he intended to investigate them and have decided to humiliate him before taking revenge. They drug him with a hallucinogen, one said to cause psychosis if used in too strong a dose, dress him up in a yellow and red costume with a green wig, and present him to the masquerade party as a jester called "the dancing creep." Drugged and confused, Ryder attempts to escape but is severely beaten. He is then taken some distance away, shot, and left for dead.

Ryder awakens in the home of Dr. Emil Yatz, a German immigrant and scientist who discovered the journalist dead near his estate. Yatz explains he used his experimental "inorganic matter transference" technology to heal and revive Ryder. Yatz explains he was rejected by the scientific community and became a science fiction writer before finding a sponsor. He created a device that can map the atomic structure of inorganic objects and then "swap" them with others, rending one temporarily invisible and intangible. Yatz realized his criminal sponsors intended to kill him soon, and when he found Ryder he decided to hide his powerful device inside the man's body. Attaching the power source activated the device now in Ryder's forearm under his skin, healing the man. After destroying his scientific notes, Yatz explained that the device's "sub-atomic matrix" has been imprinted with Ryder's costume since he was wearing it when the scientist attached the power source. Now realizing Ryder also had a drug in his system, Yatz warns the drug may have been imprinted as well, meaning Ryder will once again be in a drug-induced state if he activates the device. The criminals arrive and murder Yatz before the scientist can say more. Touching his forearm, Ryder activates the Yatz device and becomes the costumed, chaotic Creeper, bringing the criminals to justice with physically enhanced abilities and healing. He later wakes up at his typewriter, having no real memory of his activities as the Creeper but knowing his alter ego will be an effective weapon against crime.

Death and RebirthEdit

The Creeper appeared in the Eclipso: The Darkness Within crossover that happened in various DC Comics annuals in 1992. Tricked into being mentally controlled by the dark diamonds of the demonicEclipso, the Creeper is later freed by Bruce Gordon, the villain's longtime adversary. In the self-titled Eclipso comic book series, the Creeper, Gordon, and Gordon's wife Mona make a foray into a South American territory Eclipso has conquered. Later, the Creper joins government operative Amanda Waller and several heroes to fight against Eclipso. Called the Shadow Fighters, the group included Major Victory, the original Steel, and Wildcat II. In Eclipso issue #13, some of the Shadow Fighters venture into Eclipso's territory and engage the villain in battle. Eclipso uses his power to possess several hyenas, using them to track down the Creeper and literally tear him apart limb from limb, apparently killing him. The remains, along with those of other fallen heroes, are stolen from Eclipso's control by surviving Shadow Fighters.

Years later, the new series The Creeper Volume 1 reveals that the Creeper's healing ability increased in order to compensate for the damage inflicted by Eclipso, allowing him to heal and resurrect. He also now exhibits a weaponized laugh that can cause pain and even stun opponents. The experience of death and resurrection is traumatic for Jack Ryder, who becomes a patient to the psychiatrist Dr. Solos. While undergoing therapy, Jack Ryder considers the possibility that he has inherited his mother's mental illness and may have only mistakenly believed the Creeper's personality is a result of drugs and a scientific device. He later realizes that he has conflicting memories of the Creeper's origin. In one version, he remembers buying costume leftovers before infiltrating a masquerade party. In another version, he remembers being drugged and shot before Dr. Yatz resurrected him. He realizes the different versions of this origin include elements that don't make much sense to him and concludes that none of these memories are accurate, that he has repressed the memory of his origin and his mind created other scenarios he found more acceptable. Ryder discovers Dr. Solos is actually his old enemy Proteus in disguise and learns the villain is somehow connected to his origin. Further information is not revealed, as The Creeper Vol.1 is canceled.

Post-Infinite Crisis RebootEdit

Following the crossover Infinite Crisis, several areas of DC Comics continuity are revised again. Jack Ryder is a former journalist who now works as the host of a controversial political and news commentary TV show You Are Wrong!, where he regularly challenges criminals and politicians and often praises costumed vigilantes. Later on, Bruce Wayne: The Road Home: Outsiders reveals that in the new history, Ryder briefly dated Gotham photojournalist Vicki Vale when he was younger. His ex-girlfriend Vera Sweet is now a producer and on-air reporter for the same network. When he realizes others are becoming suspicious of his connection to the notorious Creeper, Ryder pretends to be disillusioned by that particular vigilante, promising $1million to the person who catches the Creeper and brings him to face the law.

The Creeper's new origin story is soon revealed in a flashback in the mini-series The Creeper Volume 2. Years earlier, Ryder is interested in the work of scientist Dr. Vincent Yatz, who is combining stem cell therapy and microscopic nanotechnology to create a revolutionary "nanocell" treatment called "smart-skin." This technology enhances a human body's regeneration, not only healing wounds but even preventing scarring and restoring burns. Local mobsters come to Yatz's lab to steal this new technology and Ryder accidentally interrupts when he arrives. Unable to escape but determined to keep the mobsters from taking his discovery, Yatz quickly injects the last sample of smart-skin, still somewhat unstable, into an unwilling Ryder. Believing that Yatz will create more nanocells if forced to, the criminals shoot Ryder in the head and throw him into the ocean. The smart-skin activates and revives Ryder, transforming him into a yellow-skinned superhuman with green hair and a mane of thick, red hair growing on his back and shoulders. The Creeper has Ryder's knowledge but acts as a separate personality. After the Creeper transforms back into Ryder, the TV host discovers he can still hear the Creeper's voice in his head, allowing them to communicate.

Batman encounters the Creeper while on patrol and then investigates the Dr. Yatz case, discovering in the process that this new yellow-skinned vigilante is really Jack Ryder. Ryder and the Creeper learn that Yatz secretly intended the smart-skin to be a weapon and that tests on human subjects repeatedly resulted in mutated monsters. To achieve better results, Yatz took on a silent partner who introduced his own chemical "nerve agent" to the smart-skin, which resulted in Ryder's unique transformation into the Creeper. The silent partner is revealed to the Joker, and the "nerve" agent used was a version of his Joker venom, known to normally alter skin and hair color in victims while inducing temporary madness and uncontrollable laughter before killing them. In exchange for helping Yatz improve his results, the Joker wants to use the man's technology to create an army of maniacal, super-strong, near-invincible soldiers. Seeing the successful results with Ryder, the Joker refers to the Creeper as "family." A similar batch of smart-skin is then used to turn dozens of others into maddened, yellow-skin soldiers with green and red hair.

Batman and the Creeper defeat the Joker and his operation with Yatz. Batman creates a chemical agent that can cure Ryder of the Creeper and offers it to the TV host. Ryder decides to throw away the cure and instead forms a truce with his alter ego, agreeing to let the Creeper out from time to time to fight criminals. This ends the flashback mini-series, and the Creeper shows up sporadically in other DC Comics stories, encountering Eclipso again and helping to fight the Sinestro Corps. During the crossover Final Crisis, Batman is believed killed. It is then revealed that Batman prepared for this eventuality by leaving instructions to recruit a team of heroes he trusts, tasking them to act as a new version of the Outsiders. The Creeper is recruited into this new team, though this version of the team lasts only a year. Later, Batman is revealed to be alive.

Reign in HellEdit

During the Reign in Hell miniseries, the Creeper was presented as a demon that co-inhabited the body of Jack Ryder rather than an identity he assumed due to scientific experimentation. The story shows the Creeper demon separating from Jack Ryder, having been recalled to Hell by Lilith, the mother of all Earthborn atrocities. It is later revealed that the Creeper demon is just one of a similar-looking species of demon. The Reign in Hell miniseries had many internal continuity errors that made its place in DC Comics canon questionable and the idea that the Creeper was a demonic entity was not repeated afterward.

The New 52Edit

In 2011, DC Comics created a new version of its universe called the New 52. In this timeline, the Creeper is first seen in a brief cameo when he is considered as a candidate for a new United Nations-sanctioned Justice League International team.[11] In Phantom Stranger #7 (2013), Jack Ryder is introduced as a talk show host at Morgan Edge's network who recently quit his job. After encountering the Phantom Stranger, Ryder is killed by a monster attacking Metropolis.[12] The Presence, in the form of a dog, notes that Ryder's story is not over, that he was not led to his death but rather to his destiny.

In Katana #3 and #4 (June 2013), it is revealed that the New 52 version of the Creeper is a malicious and fearsome-looking oni who regularly "rides" human hosts in order to cause chaos and violence. Unlike previous incarnations, this Creeper is a villain (though why he would be considered for membership in Justice League International earlier is never explained). This oni is revealed to be locked inside Soultaker, the mystical sword of the hero Katana, along with many other souls of enemies the blade has defeated over the centuries. When the villain Killer Croc breaks the sword, all the souls are released, including the Creeper who reveals that he sometimes whispered to Katana through the sword, pretending to be her dead husband. Seeking out a new body to "ride," the Creeper discovers the recently deceased Jack Ryder and decides to possess it.[13]

The relationship between this oni Creeper and Jack Ryder is further explored in Justice League Dark #23.1 (subtitled Creeper #1), part of the Forever Evil crossover.[9] The story reveals the Creeper's past in feudal Japan and describes him as a wild being who "justifies cruel temper tantrums under the guise of spreading chaos." Although his appearance in the series Katana indicated the Creeper was defeated by Katana herself and that he has possessed Jack Ryder's body before, the origin revealed in Justice League Dark contradicts this by revealing the oni demon has been trapped inside of Soultaker since the days of feudal Japan, passing the time by tormenting the other imprisoned souls, and that he never and could never have met Jack Ryder before meeting him after being freed. Possessing Ryder's body results in Jack Ryder being resurrected, unaware that he now shares his body with an oni demon who occasionally takes over his form and uses him to cause chaos and death. Ryder is confused by his occasional blackouts but continues working as a TV reporter for the show Life After Death.

DC RebirthEdit

The 2017 initiative DC Rebirth altered DC Comics continuity yet again, removing much of the New 52 changes and restoring several stories and ideas from comics published before 2011. Post DC Rebirth, the Creeper is reintroduced with his more classic appearance, once again the product of experimental science rather than a demon inhabiting a human host. While investigating a series of murdered criminals down in Chicago, Jack Ryder becomes the Creeper to battle a Deathstroke copycat, then is recruited by Bizarro to join the Red Hood's team of Outlaws. In the Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock, Creeper is shown to have been captured by Kobra's cult until he is retrieved by Black Adam.[14] He and Black Adam later attack Israel

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