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Posted: Dec 1, 2021 / 10:49 PM EST / Updated: Dec 1, 2021 / 11:18 PM EST
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The staffing and hiring process is complicated since the start of the pandemic. This has led businesses to go on a hiring spree during the 'Great Resignation of 2021.'
"It's an applicants market right now," Dr. Michael Kirchner, professor of organizational leadership at Purdue University Fort Wayne said. "There's such a disconnect between the number of jobs available and the available talent pool. For a while, there was the argument that once the government benefits are expired now we are going to see more people come into the workforce. The truth is we have so many more jobs than we have talent."
The 'Great Resignation' is a phenomenon that describes the record numbers of people leaving their jobs right after the COVID-19 pandemic. This has left companies across Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana desperate to hire and yet some workers still can't seem to find the right job.
WANE 15 spoke with Dr. Michael Kirchner back in October about a 'filter' or automation employers use to fill vacancies. There are ways to get through this filter which include using keywords found in the job description and placing them in your resume and cover letter.
Why is everyone hiring and no one is getting hired?
However, after passing the 'filter' there are other hurdles applicants have to go through before getting a job. Here are some reasons why a person's applicant might not be selected for a job or interview.
Employer-Controlled Reasons:
Screening system
Overqualification
No immediate openings—planning for the future
Viable candidate identified prior to being posted
Difficulty understanding how prior experience relates to position
Candidates/finalists selected before application submitted (~80-85% of positions filled via network)
Unanticipated cuts
Primacy vs recency effect (especially during interviews but can happen in submissions)
Stereotyping/favoritism/perceptions (about degree from particular school or experience at a particular company)
Poor/incomplete screening process, i.e. process for evaluating and ranking applicants
How does the liveable wage compare to the minimum wage in Fort Wayne?
Applicant Influenced Reasons
Incomplete application/application package (cover letter, references, transcripts, etc.) (50%+ have admitted to not finishing a job application because of its length)
Mistakes on application/incorrect contact information
Spelling/grammatical errors in application package
Poorly organized resume
Inability to translate prior experience
Don't meet the minimum education requirement(s)
Don't meet the minimum work-experience requirement(s
With the hurdles of applying for the jobs, Kircher says employers are working hard to keep current employees.
"It is a lot less expensive to retain an employee than it is to hire a new employee," Kirchner said. "That means employees are finding new ways to keep their current employees happy and a lot of that has to deal with the culture of the workplace."
No matter what industry employees work in, Kirchner says oftentimes they all want the same thing, which includes feeling appreciated for the work they do and being recognized for their hard work. Employees also want to feel that the work they are doing matters and that they have a say in the work they are doing. An example of this is remote working.
Kirchner says the problems surrounding the 'Great Resignation of 2021' are not forecasted to end anytime soon. A solution could take years but how long is anyone's guess.


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The cause of this analytic gap might be self-imposed blinders on U.S. strategic assessment concerning Chinese strategic ballistic missile defense development. Ever since the end of the Cold War, U.S. security policy has largely assumed that only the United States would possess credible strategic missile defense capabilities with non-nuclear interceptors.
This article examines the question of whether this tacit assumption will remain valid for much longer and seeks to understand the implications for the United States and its allies of further development and possible deployment of a limited Chinese strategic missile defense system. This analysis is based on the authors' discussions from mid-2014 to the late spring of 2015 with more than 50 experts (government officials, military officers, and nongovernmental analysts at think tanks and universities) in China and the United States. The course of these discussions was guided by a set of incentives and disincentives that China might be considering in weighing whether to continue developing and potentially deploying a strategic missile defense system. The conversations helped further refine these model incentives and disincentives, as described below.
The overarching assessment is that it is quite possible, certainly less unlikely than many believe, that China could deploy a strategic missile defense system with a small number of interceptors within the next few years for a variety of national security, geopolitical, and domestic reasons.
For more than 50 years, China has explored and developed capabilities to defend against a spectrum of ballistic missile challenges, from short-range missiles to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). In 1964, the year in which China tested its first nuclear explosive device, it launched the 640 Program, which is coded as "64" for 1964 and "0" for the first major defense program that began that year, to study missile interception, early-warning systems, and target discrimination techniques. Yet, this ambitious agenda fell far short of a viable ballistic missile defense system due to China's relative lack of financial and technical resources in the final two decades of Chairman Mao Zedong's rule.
In 1983, Deng Xiaoping, Mao's successor, canceled this program, in part because his modernization efforts emphasized economic development above all other priorities. Nonetheless, Chinese leaders felt internal political pressure that year to continue examining missile defenses in order at least to understand the implications of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) launched by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. By the mid-1980s, Chinese scholars were advising the foreign affairs and defense ministries about diplomatic and technical options for responding to the U.S. missile defense program.
After three failed tests in February, May, and December 1983, the fourth test of the U.S. Homing Overlay Experiment was successful on June 10, 1984. This technology could also provide a country with the capability to produce anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons, a finding that was not lost on China.
By the end of 1991, however, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the decision by the George H.W. Bush administration to substantially scale back U.S. research and development (R&D) on strategic missile defense led China's interest in missile defense to wane. Although the United States remained committed through most of the 1990s to limited-scale strategic missile defense development, North Korea's August 1998 launch of a long-range Taepo Dong missile tipped the arguments in favor of U.S. deployment of ballistic missile defense systems despite the failure of this launch. In January 1999, William Cohen, President Bill Clinton's secretary of defense, announced that the United States would invest more in theater and national missile defense systems and would seek an amendment to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to enable a deployment of a missile defense system intended to shield the territory of the United States even if only to intercept a very limited number of ballistic missiles.
In response, China launched a vigorous diplomatic effort to denounce these U.S. plans, but the United States under the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama has pressed ahead with a limited deployment of missile interceptors with the stated purpose of defending against an ICBM threat primarily from North Korea. Behind the scenes, China was quietly performing R&D on countermeasures to U.S. missile defenses and modernizing its strategic nuclear forces.
This brief history illustrates the decades-long pattern of Chinese behavior that several Chinese academics emphasized in meetings: (1) Chinese arms control officials and political leaders have strongly denounced U.S. deployment of strategic missile defense; (2) in parallel, China has devoted financial and technical resources to understanding the U.S. developments; (3) if the United States significantly expands its strategic missile defense deployment, China takes offsetting steps to ensure the credibility of its offensive nuclear deterrent and accelerate its limited, ongoing missile defense development; and (4) Chinese senior leadership can decide whether to move forward with deployment of its own strategic missile defense system. China may also be inclined to move forward on strategic missile defense by factors unrelated to U.S. ballistic missile defense developments.
One unusual feature of Chinese statements about the country's ballistic missile defense intercept tests is that China made the statements at all. Beijing normally is quite secretive about its strategic weapons tests. Probably a major reason that ballistic missile defense constitutes such a striking exception is the worldwide condemnation China experienced with its 2007 ASAT test, which created a huge amount of harmful long-lived debris in low-earth orbit. The statements help Chinese leaders shape the narrative on these tests, rather than let others characterize them.
Although it is uncertain at this time whether China will deploy a strategic missile defense system in the coming years, it would be unwise to dismiss the possibility and remain unprepared for what could be an important new development in a dimension of the strategic environment that the United States has had largely to itself for the last 25 years. Just the series of missile defense tests that China has conducted in the past five years should make the United States and its allies alert to this important possibility and encourage closer examination of China's possible motivations and objectives. Accordingly, a limited Chinese strategic missile defense deployment is probably less unlikely than most people realize.
China's strategic missile defense program has reached a stage of maturity that makes deployment a viable option. The questions now are whether, when, and to what purpose might it do so. Dozens of officials and experts in China and the United States responded to a list of factors that could make China want to develop strategic missile defense and could lead toward potential deployment. The list was created prior to the meetings, and the officials and experts helped revise and refine it. These factors are presented here in roughly descending order of what is believed to be their importance to China.
Achieving better understanding of strategic missile defense technology. In discussions, many of the Chinese officials and experts said that R&D would be useful for China's own planning and intelligence gathering and would provide insight into the vulnerabilities of U.S. ballistic missile defense systems and ways to overcome or defeat those systems. Such knowledge would be useful in general and especially in understanding the intricacies and challenges of current and future U.S. ballistic missile defense systems and their components.
Some experts believe that China will not go beyond development and thus will not deploy a system. This is certainly possible. Notably, China would gain important operational information and insight if it deployed a missile defense system. Most of those operational insights, however, could be gained from a limited deployment, with only incremental benefit from more-sizable deployment levels.
Providing a cover for kinetic-energy ASAT testing. The 2007 Chinese ASAT test used hit-to-kill technology very similar to the technology that China is currently testing in its strategic missile defense program, for which China has not been criticized. Unlike a full ASAT test, these missile defense tests do not generate long-lived orbital debris. As a result, developing strategic missile defense provides a public rationale that allows China to continue to improve its kinetic ASAT technology while avoiding the diplomatic downsides of ASAT testing, which have undercut China's campaign against the weaponization of space. As one PLA official said, the hit-to-kill technology "is useful for both missile defense and space applications, but space is more important." The connection between strategic missile defense and ASAT weapons was widely accepted and understood. No one tried to deny Chinese ASAT activity. At a minimum, it was defended as necessary for technical readiness and an understanding of what the United States and others might do in that area.
Countering growing Indian ICBM capabilities. India has successfully tested its canister-launched, three-stage Agni-5 ICBM and is expected to begin deploying it in 2016, putting all major Chinese metropolitan areas within range of Indian nuclear weapons for the first time. India is expected to begin testing an even longer-range, larger-payload Agni-6 ICBM by 2017, expected to be capable of carrying multiple warheads. Because China and India likely see their offensive nuclear capabilities as intended for deterrence rather than nuclear war-fighting, these developments need not be directly provocative. From a domestic political perspective, Chinese leaders may feel the need to respond to such developments because China's perceived nuclear vulnerability to India, symbolized by the new ICBMs, could become a potent political issue.
Keeping up with Indian developments in ballistic missile defense. A related incentive for China to develop and deploy at least some form of strategic missile defense is that India is seeking to develop and deploy a strategic missile defense system itself. According to the director-general of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation, India expects to have the capability by 2016 to protect against ballistic missiles having a range of up to 5,000 kilometers.8 From a purely political perspective, as one Chinese academic said in a tone of complete incredulity, "Can you imagine India having strategic ballistic missile defense and China not having it?"9 India and China are taking some important steps to reduce tensions between them, but there remains a strong subtext of competition and wariness between the two countries.
Because of China's great respect for U.S. technological capabilities, it is possible that the Chinese leadership and the PLA would have concerns that road-mobile ICBMs that China has been developing are not a permanent future guarantee of ICBM survivability. As U.S. surveillance, intelligence, sensor, reconnaissance, and especially software capabilities advance, along with the ability to extract useful information from the "big data" that these capabilities provide, China will likely continue to have concerns about the survivability of road-mobile ICBMs.
To destroy these missiles, the United States or Russia would not need to identify a mobile ICBM's location precisely. It is important to remember that road-mobile ICBMs are much softer targets than silo-based ones, which means that a Chinese adversary would need to locate a Chinese road-mobile ICBM to within only a few miles to have confidence in its ability to destroy it with a nuclear weapon. A Chinese strategic missile defense capability tailored to this threat to the mobile missiles could not guarantee survivability, but at the least, it could seriously complicate an adversary's planning. China could not count on its missile defense system working well, but neither could the adversary count on the system failing to work well. This perception effect creates a modest but important island of stability in an otherwise potentially unstable crisis situation. In a high-stakes crisis where the use of nuclear weapons is being contemplated, a modest level of Chinese ballistic missile defense for its silo-based and road-mobile ICBMs could strengthen China's ability to deter an adversary's launch of nuclear weapons.
Inoculating the leadership against domestic charges that it was leaving China defenseless against external missile threats. Xi Jinping is a powerful leader, but he serves as president at the pleasure of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. Although his position presently appears secure, it is not very difficult to envision a scenario in which his hold on power could become more tenuous: a serious decline in China's economy, growing unemployment, a collapse of the stock market or banking system, new scandals, and other ills. A political attack from another party faction that pointed out that Beijing would be helpless if even a single nuclear-armed missile were heading toward China could be a serious political threat, as it proved to be in the United States in the late 1990s. Even a small Chinese missile defense, which would provide other security benefits as well, could seem like a reasonable and low-cost domestic political insurance policy. Politically, there is a big difference between a small strategic missile defense system and none at all.
The cost of a robust defense would be substantial, so the number of such sites would likely be limited to a few high-priority locations, but certainly those that provided protection to senior officials would qualify. The radars and interceptors for such point defenses would be different from those used for broad-area defense, with interception taking place within the atmosphere much closer to the attacking missile's target rather than outside the atmosphere. The atmosphere strips away the chaff and decoys that help hide the nuclear warhead from radar detection, making warhead detection and tracking much easier. At this point, however, the nuclear warhead is very close to its target and still moving quite fast.
An interceptor for this type of engagement can cover only a limited area, much more limited than missiles that intercept the warhead much farther away. This means that it can defend only a few high-value targets unless a country is prepared to make extraordinary expenditures. China could choose to develop and deploy both kinds of strategic missile defense systems, but this would be a costly endeavor.
Other possible Chinese incentives for deployment include introducing a level of uncertainty in U.S. allies about the U.S. extended nuclear deterrence guarantee, especially as the U.S. strategic arsenal is reduced in an eventual follow-on agreement to the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty; acquiring important negotiating leverage in any eventual multilateral strategic arms control negotiations; and creating technology spin-offs, especially for theater missile defense.
On the other hand, China has to consider several important disincentives for proceeding with deployment.
Contradicting past Chinese position on strategic missile defense. Actual deployment of a missile defense system would represent a major shift in Chinese policy. Yet, it would not be the first time Beijing would have made such a shift; Chinese ASAT behavior is a notable previous example.
Triggering potential adverse responses from India, Japan, the United States, and possibly others. Chinese work on developing strategic missile defense does not appear to have led to any significant responses from other countries, but actual deployment could do so and could lead to offensive-defensive arms races that China would most likely want to avoid.
Chinese development of strategic missile defense is ongoing and is helping China understand the complexities of designing such a system and what its weak points are, whether or not it decides to deploy the system. In addition, this development provides an important hedging option for China against an uncertain and evolving future strategic environment.
China faces a variety of incentives and disincentives for deploying a strategic missile defense system. Whether China would deploy such a system is unclear, but the very fact that such a decision is under consideration is telling and represents a major change over the last 10 years. At a minimum, it appears that a Chinese deployment of a missile defense system is probably less unlikely than most U.S. defense analysts have assessed it to be.
Such a deployment would likely be limited. The most compelling reasons for China to deploy a strategic missile defense system involve the small number of interceptors required. Seeking to defend against the larger U.S. or Russian nuclear arsenal would require a very large investment with no assurance it could reach its goal because either adversary would almost certainly take offsetting steps to counter such a Chinese initiative. Furthermore, even were it to ultimately deploy missile defense interceptors in greater numbers over a wider area, China would want to gain more experience in what would be a new class of weapons for it.
Following are the most likely reasons for a limited deployment.
It would provide China with a plausible cover to continue testing its kinetic-energy ASAT system. This suggests that a limited nationwide or regional defense would be more likely than a point defense although the latter cannot be ruled out. Point defense would not provide much cover for an ASAT testing program.
It would send a strategic message to India, Japan, and the United States, in that order, that China is capable of defending itself and overcoming major technical obstacles to do so.
It would enhance China's regional prestige and sway, providing a "technological merit badge" of recognition for achieving such a difficult technological task.
The United States would likely have no technical reason to make any significant adjustments to its strategic posture in response to the most likely levels of any Chinese strategic missile defense deployments. It would be more likely that the United States would need to respond somehow to address domestic U.S. political concerns and concerns of U.S. allies, especially in Asia. The U.S. responses would seek to demonstrate that the U.S. strategic nuclear posture and forces are robust and able to deal with such deployments. A number of technical options available to the United States should suffice, particularly in missile defense penetration aids and enhancements to the bomber leg of the U.S. nuclear triad.
A Chinese move to deploy early-warning satellites would be a significant indicator of greater interest in strategic missile defense deployment, as it would be a crucial component of an effective strategic missile defense system. Such satellites would not be necessary for a deployment devoted exclusively to ASAT testing.
In summary, Chinese deployment of a limited strategic missile defense system should be no cause for alarm by the United States and other countries. Yet, the implications would be significant and would merit greater understanding through increased dialogue and more-thorough policy and technical review.
This article has only scratched the surface of this issue. One area for further analysis is the new dynamics of a multipolar strategic missile defense world. In particular, especially in light of Indian determination to deploy such defenses and Russian deployment a growing possibility as well, the management of strategic nuclear crises in the Eurasian region could become more challenging. Alternatively, if the affected countries can reach agreements through dialogues and the establishment of rules of engagement, strategic stability could result.
Bruce W. MacDonald is special adviser to the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Project at the U.S. Institute of Peace, an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). Charles D. Ferguson is president of the FAS. This article is based on the report "Understanding the Dragon Shield: Likelihood and Implications of Chinese Strategic Ballistic Missile Defense," developed under work supported by the Naval Postgraduate School Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD with funding from the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The views and conclusions are those of the authors.
1. Frank A. Rose, "Ensuring the Long-Term Sustainability and Security of the Space Environment" (remarks, U.S. Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium, Omaha, Nebraska, August 13, 2014), http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/2014/230611.htm (hereinafter Rose STRATCOM remarks).
2. Steps China has taken include deployments of the road-mobile DF-31A intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), development and likely future deployment of the longer-range DF-41 ICBM, development of Jin-class ballistic missile submarines and associated JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and deployment of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles on its older DF-5 ICBM and possible deployment on the DF-41.
3. U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense, "Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China," U.S. Department of Defense, April 7, 2015, http://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2015_China_Military_Power_Report.pdf.
5. Frank A. Rose, "Ballistic Missile Defense and Strategic Stability in East Asia" (remarks, Federation of American Scientists, Washington, D.C., February 20, 2015), http://www.state.gov/t/avc/rls/2015/237746.htm.
6. Denise E. Der, "Playing Defense: Examining China's Intentions Regarding Ballistic Missile Defense" (master's thesis, Georgetown University, 2015), p. 14.
7. Chinese academic experts, meetings with authors, Beijing and Shanghai, February 2015.
8. Wang Ting, "Agni V and China/India Ballistic Missile Defense" (presentation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, n.d.), http://carnegieendowment.org/files/Wang_Ting%20Presentation.pdf. The presentation took place during the week of October 2, 2012. See Sarah Weiner, "Recap: 'China-India Nuclear Crossroads,'" Center for Strategic and International Studies, October 9, 2012. http://csis.org/blog/event-recap-china-india-nuclear-crossroads.
9. Chinese academic, meeting with authors, Beijing, February 11, 2015.
10. Chinese expert, meeting with authors, Beijing, February 10, 2015.
11. In 1993 a Chinese scholar published an article that examined the threat to China's Three Gorges Dam from missile strikes and raised the possibility of missile defense to protect it. Brad Roberts, "China and Ballistic Missile Defense: 1955 to 2002 and Beyond," IDA Paper P-3826, September 2003, p. 21, n.80, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA418710 (citing Wan Yung-Kui, "Can the Chinese Armed Forces Successfully Protect the Three-Gorges Dam?" Hong Kong Tangai, No. 31 [October 15, 1993], pp. 72-80).
12. Chinese academics, meetings with authors, Beijing, February 2015.
13. People's Liberation Army officials, meetings with author (MacDonald), Beijing, February 2015.


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Tales of Crestoria from Bandai Namco is a turn-based RPG style game in the world of Crestoria. Like most Japanese RPGs in the market, gacha mechanics are incorporated in its gameplay to make the experience more interesting. Tales of Crestoria is a must-try for fans of the Tales Series, especially those who have been aching to see the franchise on mobile platforms.
What Is Tales of Crestoria?
Tales of Crestoria is a fantasy RPG game that brings the Tales Series to a mobile platform. The game is the first Tales Series title to be made into a mobile game. Contrary to its predecessors, Tales of Crestoria is a new concept in the Tales franchise as it incorporates the mechanics of gacha games and a turn-based combat system.
If you're a fan of the Tales Series and you're expecting Tales of Crestoria to just be a mobile version of their previous games, you might want to manage your expectations. The game follows an entirely original plot that you won't find in any other game in the Tales franchise. You will, however, encounter characters from other Tales games, which only adds to the excitement of the game.
That said, it's a must-try for diehard fans of the franchise, though some critics claim that it is lacking the spice and kick that the other Tales titles have.
Overview: Tales of Crestoria Is All About the Plot
As stated, the game follows an entirely original plot and was made for the franchise's mobile debut.
Tales of Crestoria follows a character named Kanata Hjuger in the world of Crestoria. There, he must bear the weight of his past sins while battling through enemies to find paradise in a world that wants him gone. The game centers on the concept of morality and begs to question why it's important to society.
In this world, people must carry a Vision Orb at all times. The Vision Orb records images that are transmitted through vision centers that can usually be found in churches or plazas in the game.
Vision Orbs become useful when an individual must face trial. Much like a modern CCTV, it shows footage of the crime that citizens must judge by sending in "prayers." Prayers sent in by the citizens will determine whether an individual is innocent or guilty.
© Photo by Bandai from the Play Store
If someone is found guilty, they'll be branded with the Stain of Guilt, a mark of those who are judged as sinners. Once someone bears the stain, they become a transgressor that enforcers will have to hunt down to pass their sentence.
Kanata is a transgressor looking for sanctuary after being proclaimed guilty for protecting someone important to him.
While people may think that the game is too dramatic for its genre, it's not new for Japanese mobile RPGs to have such themes. As a part of the Tales Series, you can expect to find a layer of drama under all the action. The plot provides players with a fresh take on the franchise that even new players or those unfamiliar with the Tales Series will enjoy.
Tales of Crestoria: Gameplay
Tales of Crestoria breathes new life into the long-running franchise with this mobile game. There are a couple of differences between the traditional Tales Series games and this one, but its gameplay will make up for the differences.
Here's a quick overview of what to expect from Tales of Crestoria's gameplay.
Story Content
As mentioned, the general plot of Tales of Crestoria is entirely original. This aspect can usually make or break a franchise, especially if it's a venture into a new gaming platform.
The plot follows the story of the player character, Kanata, and a band of his comrades as they venture through the interactive world of Crestoria. Your band of heroes will consist of characters from other Tales titles such as Cress from Phantasia and Lloyd from Symphonia to name a few.
If you're a player who isn't too thrilled about spending too much time on story mode, this game won't be for you because you'll spend the majority of your time going through and finishing the story mode. However, the most essential part of story mode that you should clear out is Chapter 2, Part 3 as this will unlock raids that you'll need to complete your daily missions.
An RPG is never complete without exciting battle modes. Fortunately, Tales of Crestoria has a couple of them that you can enjoy.
The game essentially runs on a turn-based battle style that is Player vs. Environment, similar to that of Fate/ Grand Order. You'll be able to deploy a total of six units with one being an optional friend unit and the other two are kept as reserve units in case the other units' HP drops to zero.
Apart from the main battle mode, you'll also be able to play in tower events, campaign events, and raids. All battle modes will put you against CPU-controlled teams and bosses.
What makes Tales of Crestoria a unique RPG is its PvP Arena where you can battle the teams of other players. There's a catch, though; you won't be playing against them in real-time as you'll still be playing against CPU-controlled teams. But that still poses a challenge because you'll be able to see the strength of the other players.
As far as battles go, you'll still have to progress through story mode to have some of the battles. Battling in raids will earn you rewards. The more contribution that you have, the grander reward that you'll receive.
Gacha Mechanics
Gacha games are getting very popular these days. You'll find them mixed in a variety of genres such as RPGs and rhythm games. They usually make games more fun for new players but seasoned players will tell you otherwise.
Gacha games are usually a test of luck. You're either very lucky to get the characters that you want or not. Everything comes at random when you're dealing with gacha games and Tales of Crestoria is no different.
There are different types of summons in the game and they require a summon currency that comes in the form of Gleamstones, Guild Points, or Summon tickets. Depending on the type of summoning, you will need to prepare around 250 Gleamstones for a single summon and 2,500 Gleamstones for 10x summon.
Remember that regardless of how much points you spend, it still doesn't guarantee that you'll be getting an SSR or an SR summon. The game is much more generous than other gacha games when it comes to rolls so you might be able to score at least one SSR when you begin the game.
That said, not everyone is lucky when it comes to Gacha so it's better to be wise with spending your summon currency.
Progression in Tales of Crestoria
© Photo from the Tales of Crestoria Fandom Wiki
How Fast Can You Level Up?
Depending on how much time you invest in playing the game, leveling up shouldn't be a great concern as you'll be able to progress through the game quicker. But for casual players, you might want to not only invest time in going through story mode but also try playing through the daily dungeons. Through the daily dungeons, you can earn elemental EXP potions and memoria stones among others that you can use to power-up your characters.
Playing through raids is also a great way to level up because you'll get different power materials and even higher EXP when you participate in them. Always remember that the more time that you dedicate to playing the game, the faster you can progress.
Do You Have to Farm and Grind?
Put simply, yes. Farming and grinding is an inevitable part of playing an RPG. You will need to farm for the materials that you can use for powering-up, summoning, and leveling up. Tales of Crestoria, in particular, will require you to farm through the story mode, raids, and dungeons to collect items and level up. Grinding is also essential in the game if you want to reach a certain goal or complete a quest.
Is It Easy to Build Your Teams?
Tales of Crestoria makes it easy for you to build your teams because you can get or roll for characters when you start. It's recommended to have a mixed-element team to balance out all their abilities, but it's also important to have specific teams per battle or quest that you can use to counter the enemy. Mixed element teams are good for the long haul, but you'll need to switch it up from time to time to defeat certain bosses.
Team building in the game is easy. However, what matters most is that you adequately level up all the characters that you plan to use in a team.
As far as the game is concerned, players have mixed feelings about the game. Some people adore the game, while others care very little about it and choose other RPGs over it. Whether or not Tales of Crestoria is a good game is up to the player to decide. Here are a couple of points to remember before you decide on playing the game:
Easy-to-learn mechanics
Great plot
Good gacha rates
Chance to get characters from other Tales Series
Occasional glitches
Mid-game interruptions
Big file size
Is Tales of Crestoria Free?
Yes, Tales of Crestoria is free. Tales of Crestoria is free to play and you won't have to spend anything to download and play it. However, there are also in-app purchases that you can opt to avail. In-app purchases in Tales of Crestoria are usually items and in-game currency.
You can, of course, make do without additional purchases. Whether or not you purchase items won't affect how well you'll do in the game and won't have an exponential effect on leveling up.
The Verdict: Is Tales of Crestoria Worth Playing?
Tales of Crestoria, despite being a great game in its own right, is a hit or miss. Players either love it or not. The game has points for being an original Tales installation but at the same time, many technical issues affect the entire gaming experience. The plot is well thought out and is great for those who are looking for something that has a heavier storyline. However, keep in mind that the game suffers from several issues that are until now waiting for patches.
If you're a hardcore fan of the Tales series or if you're looking to try this game out specifically, Tales of Crestoria is available on the Play Store and the App Store. You might need a gaming phone to play this game as it has a lot of heavy graphics and its file size of 1.68 GB will just get bigger as you progress.
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The Do Nothing Machine is made up of 764 gears and is on display at the Craftsmanship Museum in Carlsbad, CA.
According to a newspaper article (paper unknown) from about the early 1960's, the inventor of this engineering marvel was Lawrence Wahlstrom, a retired clock maker. He worked in the newspaper business and for the telephone company, while also acting as caretaker and landscape gardener for a Beverly Hills estate for 40 years. He always enjoyed tinkering with clocks and had attended a clock school to learn about their repair. Somewhere along the line he acquired a fascination for gears. After coming across a surplus WWII bomb sight containing a complicated cluster of gears, he got it working again. He also realized that people prefer to be entertained rather than educated, so he began adding more and more gears to his assembly over a 15-year period starting in about 1948. The first known publicity photo of it appeared in 1950.


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Blanket bogs, a natural asset
Posted by: Natural England, Posted on: 4 November 2020 - Categories: Uncategorized
By Brad Tooze, Natural England Head of Uplands
Peat and peatlands are among the most important habitat England has to offer, storing an estimated 580 million tonnes of carbon and providing a wild home for some of our most cherished species including hen harrier, golden plover and Sphagnum moss.
Re-wetted peat workings at Thorne Moors part of Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve, South Yorkshire
This blog explains our approach to peat in upland blanket bog, which can be defined as areas of peat that have formed across the landscapes in upland areas where the climate is cool and wet[i]. It also sets out how we are providing updated advice on burning to help protect and restore these fragile places.
Peatlands are key ecosystems that can deliver important services for the benefit of society and the economy:
There is a climate emergency and we need to reduce carbon emissions. Peatlands in the UK contain over 3000 million tonnes of carbon. Peat is essentially dead plant matter and in waterlogged conditions plant remains do not break down and their carbon remains locked up in the ground. If the peat ecosystem is damaged the peat may be exposed to the air and it decays so that the stored carbon in it is released to the atmosphere. Healthy bogs not only continue to store carbon, but may also continue to form more peat, adding to the carbon that they store. Degraded peatlands in England produce an estimated 10 million tonnes CO2e[ii] emissions into the atmosphere each year. Most of this comes from peatlands used for intensive agriculture in the lowlands but about 5%, representing 0.5 million tonnes of annual greenhouse gas emissions, comes from upland blanket bogs.
Many of us depend for our drinking water supplies on upland areas. Well managed peatlands release less peat into the water and this saves treatment costs to remove colouration.
Upland peatland that is well managed and in a more natural state can help reduce the risk of flooding arising from more frequent severe storms.
Blanket bog supports distinctive habitats which are important for a range of plants and animals including breeding birds such as golden plover and dunlin. In a global context, some of England's peatland habitats are extremely important: The UK's blanket bog comprises around 10-15% of the world's entire resource, with about a quarter of this in England.
Peat provides a window into the past. Its archive contains remains of plants, animals and microscopic particles that allow us to study the environment of the past. Peatlands also hold many secrets and surprises including human artefacts, preserved ancient forests and even remains of long-abandoned settlements.
Unfortunately most of our peatlands, even remote areas of blanket bog which have formed over thousands of years, have been damaged and degraded by centuries of exploitation. They have been drained, cut for fuel or horticultural peat, burned to promote grasses for livestock or heather for gamebirds, damaged by atmospheric pollution, planted with alien conifers and reclaimed for agriculture. Less than 13%[iii] now survives in near natural form. Those pressures all remain to varying degrees, but currently most blanket bog is managed for livestock grazing or grouse shooting. The latter may involve repeated burning, a practice that has become particularly controversial and the subject of scientific debate in recent years.
Natural England's own assessment of the science points to a large and increasing body of evidence that burning on blanket bog is damaging to environmental outcomes and ecosystem services. Burning results in changes in vegetation type and structure. It promotes dominance of heather or purple moor-grass at the expense of the range of bog species that thrive naturally in undisturbed areas. Burning can also lower the water table in the peat so risking loss of carbon stored in it. It affects the capacity of the peat to absorb water and simplifies the surface structure, creating higher rates of run-off after heavy rainfall.
Many organisations and land managers agree that restoration of blanket bog habitats is necessary for the delivery of the important services that they provide. A growing number of environmental and countryside organisations, as well as individual members of the public, recognise that burning on blanket bog is damaging. Natural England is working with land managers to promote sustainable management, including ending routine burning, so that blanket bog can be restored.
The Committee on Climate Change recommend restoring at least 180,000 hectares of peat by 2050 as a contribution to mitigating climate change and achieving the government target to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2025. Protection and restoration of peat is also a key to meeting government commitments in the 25 Year Environment Plan and for Nature Recovery Networks. Natural England is working with Defra to deliver the target of 35,000 hectares of peatland restoration, announced in the Chancellor's March budget.
Where land is in an environmental scheme funded by the taxpayer we are working to ensure that burning management on blanket bog ceases. Any new agreements will not include burning on blanket bog and we are amending older agreements to remove reference to burning it when the opportunity arises. Nevertheless, some land owners are still able to burn blanket bog habitat quite legitimately.
We recognise that in some very specific circumstances, burning may be necessary to remove heather that is impeding the recovery of the bog habitat. In support of our work on blanket bog we issued a Position Statement: Burning as a tool for the restoration of upland blanket bog, in February 2019. We have recently reviewed the Statement and an updated version can be found at the Natural England Access to Evidence Catalogue[iv], along with supporting documents. We will also work with land managers to identify exceptional situations where burning is required to mitigate against the risk of wildfire as part of a comprehensive wildfire management plan.
With the awareness and understanding of the impact of burning on peatlands growing, we anticipate that we will receive reports of burning on blanket bog on protected sites in the coming months. We will investigate each case and undertake field visits where appropriate. We also have the capacity to monitor incidents of burning through analysis of data from earth observation satellites to support our work.
It is of course the case that land managers will continue to burn heathland habitat and should we receive reports arising from those activities, we will usually be able to readily recognise it as distinct from burning on blanket bog.
As a further development of national policy we look forward to the publication of Defra's England Peat Strategy which will act as a catalyst for action on peatland in both the uplands and lowlands.
[i] Blanket bogs are extensive areas of peat formed from plant remains in areas where there is a cool climate of high rainfall and a low level of evapotranspiration, which keeps the ground wet preventing plant remains from breaking down and allowing peat to develop over large expanses of undulating ground. This blanketing of the ground with a variable depth of peat gives the habitat its name.
[ii] EFRA inquiry: State of peatland in England Written evidence submitted by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. https://old.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environment-food-and-rural-affairs-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/peatland-17-19/publications/
[iii] Implementation of an Emissions Inventory for UK Peatlands, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat07/1904111135_UK_peatland_GHG_emissions.pdf
[iv] http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/6647144950005760
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Comment by Rob Yorke posted on on 04 November 2020
Hi, might be best to fully define blanket bog right at the start of the blog. Especially as managed burning of heather on dry heath, grass, bracken, reeds and gorse will be occurring over the next few months by a range of land managers for differing purposes from habitat improvement to provision of livestock grazing to wildfire 'fuel load' reduction.
There is also more nuance over burning practice as outlined here in an extract from my letter published in the Observer (28.12.19) last year -
"There is room for a wider diversity of upland land uses from a variety of stakeholders who could all promote better working practices around the use of controlled fast "cool burning" to provide a mosaic of wildlife-friendly habitats while reducing the risks of uncontrollable slow "hot burning" wildfires harming the peat."
Rob Yorke http://www.robyorke.co.uk
Comment by Carlos posted on on 04 November 2020
Natural England was founded in 2006 and has significant powers. As you have openly acknowledged the cruciality of our peatlands, is it safe to say that since 2006 you have blocked all planning attempts on these habitats? And that all future attempts on these areas strictly prohibited?
Comment by JM posted on on 05 November 2020
This blog says the UK net zero target date is 2025, I thought it was 2050?
Comment by Henry Adams posted on on 10 November 2020
In response to both JM and Brad Tooze re latter's "... the government target to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2025."
Government's NZ target is indeed 2050 but Brad Tooze's NZ 2025 is fascinating because:
1. 2025 corresponds to the NZ target year for the hypothetical linear pathway for the UK to reduce its emissions for a 66% chance of limiting to 1.5C according to Prof Tim Jackson's calculations starting from UK's fair budget based on the 1.5C 66% path (though NB Tim Jackson recommends a non-linear pathway for several reasons, and a NZ 2030 target). https://timjackson.org.uk/zero-carbon-sooner/
2. 2025 also corresponds to XR's zero target. It's unachievable (if only they had chosen 2030), but at least it emphasizes the urgency for steep emissions reductions.
3. World temp increases now head to crossing 1.5C around 2030 unless drastic emissions reductions are made urgently.
4. The NZ2050 target would only be compatible with the Paris temperature goals statement if most of emissions reductions are achieved by 2030 and the hard-to-achieve reductions (e.g. steel-making, cement-making,,) completed in the next decade or so.
But UK government policies and laws still head way above +2C and there is no sign that government wishes to comply with the Paris temperature goals statement... yet...
Comment by Dr Henry Adams posted on on 11 November 2020
5. Yet a DEFRA spokesperson said: "We will also phase out the use of peat in horticulture in England by 2030, and have been clear that we will consider further measures to end the use of peat once and for all." and ONS 22july19 state: "the UK Government has stated in the 25-year environment plan (HM Government, 2018) an action to cease using peat in horticultural products by 2030".
Clearly "by 2030" shows government is still failing to recognise the urgency that we need to reduce emissions.
UK government policies and laws still head way above +2C and have yet to comply with the Paris temperature goals statement 5 years on from signing the Accord.
This has been written by a consultant ecologist who has worked on peatlands on numerous occasions over 3 decades and is now focusing on the climate emergency.


Varda and JR at work on FACES PLACES. Photo: Cohen Media Group.
In her Oscar-nominated documentary, the trailblazing filmmaker continues to look at the world with a gaze both wondering and humane.
Early on in Agnès Varda and JR's documentary Visages Villages (vaguely translated for English-speaking audiences as Faces Places), the 89-year-old Nouvelle Vague pioneer lays out a sort of free-floating mission statement for the artistic experiment to follow. Sitting across from her new friend at the kitchen table in her longtime home on the rue Daguerre, Paris, a plate of cookies cozily situated between them, Varda assuredly proposes, "We'll make images together but differently." Faces Places chronicles an extended road trip through the French countryside undertaken by these two artists, who roam from village to village in JR's massive truck, which also doubles as a large-scale photo booth of magically indeterminate functionality. Together, they capture the villagers they come across, he taking and blowing up their portraits to larger-than-life proportions and pasting them around the towns these men and women call home, she directing and documenting the exercise with the assertive intuition and insatiable spirit of inquiry that are Varda's trademarks.
Varda is widely regarded as one of the most inventive and tireless directors of her generation, an adventurous artist thrillingly untethered to any single genre or storytelling form. And yet Faces Places marks the first of Varda's films to ever receive an Oscar nomination (for Best Documentary Feature), a point that speaks less to the merit of her filmography than it does to the Academy's notorious, gradually-correcting myopia. (Varda received an honorary Oscar from the Board of Governors last November.) So what makes Faces Places so exceptional, aside from the rumored likelihood that this may be the aging luminary's inevitable swan song?
Varda first began trotting the globe with JR in 2014 after her daughter Rosalie, a costume designer and producer on the film, initiated a coffee date between her mother and the sunglasses-sporting French photographer who is the elder Varda's junior by over half a century. Although critics, reporters, and audiences alike have commented a great deal on the odd unlikeliness of these now inseparable accomplices-in-art, few recent cinematic collaborations have made more immediate sense. After all, one of Varda's first jobs before becoming her era's leading female auteur was shooting actor headshots at Paris' famed Studio Harcourt, and JR's career-long interest in reproducing the images of people from across different epochs, continents, and cultures is directly paralleled in Varda's own on-and-off career as documentarian in features and shorts like Du Côté de la Côte, Black Panthers, Mur Murs, The Gleaners and I, and The Beaches of Agnès, a body of work that spans six decades and copious walks of life.
This inquisitive spirit guides and suffuses every single frame of Faces Places. Together, Varda and JR embrace the infinite possibility of the road and its ever-renewable potential for camaraderie, training their separate camera-eyes on countless individuals throughout the course of the film's 90-minute runtime. Some subjects are probed for a fuller account of their lives and views, while others happily continue on paths unseen by our eyes but whose forward progression can still be felt, off-camera. Even those who flicker upon the screen for little more than a blink take on an aura of fleeting fascination, each one a multicolored thread in the stretchy patchwork quilt that is this freewheeling film's chosen structure. A thriving farmer who tends to his sprawling acreage all by his lonesome — and whose full body is later photographed and affixed on the side of his barn by JR — can inspire as much interest as the various multiethnic families that the production happens upon during a local picnic at an abandoned, tumbledown housing site. At this last event, the camera settles on a young woman with the same sparkling, catlike eyes as Cléo, the flighty but evolving heroine embodied with dreamlike elegance by Corinne Marchand in Varda's wondrous, sharp-witted masterpiece, Cléo from 5 to 7. Did Varda (who co-edited Faces Places with JR cohort Maxime Pozzi-Garcia), JR, or any one of their seven cinematographers recognize this resemblance during shooting or post-production? Possibly, or maybe this is one of the many stray, flyaway observations that these filmmakers eagerly invite viewers to make throughout the duration of their project, whose points of preoccupation often lie in the eyes of its beholders.
Very little is forced in Faces Places, which comes to embody the casualness of Varda and JR's own fellowship, itself defined by exchanges of a terse yet cozy familiarity that bespeak a friendship seemingly decades-long. But we are also made privy to plenty of getting-to-know-you conversations about family, relationships, and other miscellanea that are peppered throughout the film and serve to remind us of the relative freshness of this duo's acquaintance. They remain perpetually honest at all times and thus inspire an air of similar honesty in the people they spotlight, like the sweet, beautiful barmaid from the Provençal commune of Bonnieux who JR snaps barefoot, holding an antique bridal parasol that belongs to the late mother of the village bellringer. When asked, months later, how she feels about her towering image being pasted to the facade of the building directly opposite the bar where she works, thus becoming a stopping place for many a flash-happy tourist, the woman shyly but sincerely admits that it makes her more than a little uneasy to be rendered an easily recognizable star in her tiny town.
The film cheerfully changes its course and follows wherever Varda and JR wander: a salt factory in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban where the pair stages an exuberant group portrait of the plant's longtime employees; a modest, off-the-beaten-path graveyard where Varda's friends, the married photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martine Francke, are buried; the port city of Le Havre where Varda and JR arrange a lovely homage to the willing wives of three local dockworkers using the harbor's polychromatic shipping containers. Many of these pitstops are planned, but Faces Places as a whole could have only emanated from its filmmakers' deep appreciation for the strange and impetuous. In one village, they accompany a toothless, long-haired homeless man named Pony, who would have fit right in among the proudly uncompromising, off-the-grid individualists interviewed by Varda in The Gleaners and I, far into the forest. Once there, Pony invites them into his hidden fortress, a rainbow-colored wonderland assembled with incalculable doodads and knick-knacks.
In addition to its exploratory quest to raise the everyday to a level of grandeur, Faces Places distinguishes itself amid Varda's prior work for its unblinking meditation on aging and ailing. The eye disease that continues to blur Varda's vision increases in scope from a passing reminder to one of the film's primary subject matters. During one of Varda's eye surgeries, to which her co-director accompanies her, the camera locks on Varda's eye as it is punctured by a needle, a sensation she compares to the notorious, nightmarish eye-slice of Luis Buñuel's avant-garde touchstone Un chien andalou. Later, JR reproduces one of Varda's eye exams on the steps of a building, using real people, each one holding a separate letter on a placard. These are fanciful touches, but the experience they illustrate can be startlingly authentic, especially when Varda is at her most candid and unfiltered. "Every new person I meet feels like my last one," Varda groans at one point to JR, who reflexively chides her for such morbidity, but the sentiment is soberingly resonant and adds a bracing, ticking-clock urgency to this image-making expedition.
Although most of Faces Places is devoted to making and celebrating new friends, Varda and JR also carve out time to movingly honor their loved ones, near and departed, like Cartier-Bresson and Francke, but also JR's adorable, 100-year-old grandmother, whom Varda and JR pay a mid-film visit to in her apartment. At one point, Varda's fellow elder laughs with tender knowingness when asked if JR will remove his sunglasses on this reverent occasion. (He won't.) Later on, Varda also attempts to reconnect with an octogenarian comrade now estranged: Godard. The famously elusive French iconoclast manages to upend Varda's movie without even entering the frame. In the film's final moments, Varda and JR pay a visit to his estate in Switzerland, only to find that her onetime associate is nowhere to be found, leaving only a cryptically srawled message on one of his window panes that stirs up the memory of Varda's beloved late husband, the director Jacques Demy, and ultimately causes her to weep. The nakedly vulnerable reaction that Godard's cold-shoulder spurs in Varda prompts an unspeakably tender act of generosity from JR, but the very inclusion of this snub in the completed film is strikingly indicative of Varda's overarching cinematic credo, which is possibly best defined as an acceptance of all that life has to offer, its pleasures and its pains.
Varda continues to use her art not as a shelter but as a vessel for voyaging into uncharted territories of emotional and existential promise. In her eyes, no subject is unworthy of commemoration and all filmmaking endeavors have the capacity to be truly egalitarian experiences, presided over by a director or two, but molded and transformed by many viewpoints, the audience's included. Shaped by countless collaborators, Faces Places is a radiant act of warmth, whimsy, and love, both newfound and eternal. If this indeed turns out to be Varda's final effort then rarely has a swan song ever felt as rich with spontaneity and curiosity. It is as remarkable for the visual experience assembled before our eyes as for the hard-won pieces of wisdom that remain etched in our heads and hearts long after the actual filmgoing experience has faded to black.
You lose friends, but you make new ones. You remember, always. And sometimes, in between all the loss, remembrance, and discovery, you find the courage to create, gloriously.


(1) I'm no scientist but I started this thread so that I can reach someone who is more knowledgeable about this topic.
I have read somewhere that Magnetic Field of Earth and Sun are related. That if the magnetic field of the sun weakens, the magnetic field of the earth also weakens. With a weakened magnetic field, particles from space could easily penetrate our atmosphere thereby affecting our weather. Is the described wild jet streaming is something a result of this scenario?
However, another relation was stated that with a weaker magnetic field of the earth, the volcanoes becomes active. And since there are undersea volcanoes, is the heating of the seas (EL Nino Phenomenon) near the equator has something to do with undersea volcanoes becoming active?
Perhaps you're grasping at straws to try and get the arguments to slow down an think. I don't think that you're going to be able to achieve that.
The magnetic field of the Sun has little to do with the magnetic field of the Earth though certainly the magnetic field of the Sun has a lot to do with the particles that escape the Sun and strike the outer magnetic field of the Earth.
The Earth's magnetic field is generated by the Earth's molten interior spinning at a different rate than the mantle. And this is caused more by gravity of the Sun than it's magnetic field.
Quite right. Also, several animals (mostly birds) do have a kind of 'magnetic compass' built into them. The sense the same thing we see with our navigation instruments, but cruder. A bit like where we can tell where the Sun generally is in the sky when our eyes are closed.
Like our own compasses, the magnetic field of Earth is been pretty stable. There seems to be no indication of any radical weakening as is suggested. I don't think we have to really concern ourselves with it.
Assuming it DOES happen, the reversal will mostly mess up our navigation charts. The field is still there, just distorted. It still deflects the solar wind. The field never drops to zero, just moves around as multiple poles until they settle into their new alignment.
This is also the same way the Sun's magnetic field changes, which happens pretty much every 11 years.


I officially joined the "work from home club" about 2 months ago when some life changes happened, and while I love it so far I will admit, my wardrobe has completely changes. I partially blame not having my full closet where I am living (more on that later) and partially the fact that it's less motivating to get all dolled up when I truly only see my dog most days except for the occasional video chats with my boss. I've been living in anything comfortable that isn't pajamas. Granted this all happened in winter, so comfort and warmth was my main concerns. I do go days without actually putting real pants on (mostly I am referring to jeans and or anything that isn't stretchy) which I've loved but there comes a time when a girl has got to step it up, especially someone like me who is obsessed with fashion and its a part of her life. The point of this long rant is I need a closet makeover at least this closet I have. Anyone with me? I spent some time researching the best work from home pieces that everyone must have in their closet! Hope everyone had a great weekend!
I have a super casual workplace and totally understand! For me, even though I can be casual I still want to have fun pieces that make me feel pulled together or else I feel drab every day. I LOVE those polka dotted pants your picked out! So cute for spring!
Comfy cute is a definite must wherever you work!
Gotta love comfortable clothing that also still looks flattering on! I love those wide-leg red pants. Some fun finds!
Nice choices! I really like the denim shirt!


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Fitzsimmons, James, ed.
Art international, Vol. III:1/2, 1959, through Vol. X:10, Dec. 1966. SALE PRICE through 31 December 2021
Zürich [later Lugano, Switzerland]: James Fitzsimmons, 1956-1984. An unbroken run of 72 very early issues (80 numbers + 3 duplicates) of this superb periodical, partially bound somewhat irregularly in three half-leather and red cloth volumes plus separate copies in the original covers, See below for details. Approx. 35 x 25.....	More
Ford, Charles Henri, ed. & pub.
View: through the eyes of poets. 2nd series complete, April 1942–January 1943
New York: 1942/1943. 2nd series complete: 4 issues in publisher's wine-colored boards, with covers bound in. Profusely illustrated. Printed on white and colored papers. 26.3 x 18. cm (boards). **Series 2, no. 1, 1 April 1942: Max Ernst. Pale blue covers by Max Ernst. **No. 2, 1 July 1942. Tchelitchew/Tanguy.....	More
Ford, Charles Henri, ed. & pub.; Ernst, Max
View: through the eyes of poets. 2nd series, no. 3, Oct. 1942. Vertigo issue
New York, October 1942. Series 2, no. 3, October 1942: Vertigo issue. Orange covers with red drawing by Hanani Meller. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 32 pp. Paper covers. 26.3 x 18.4 cm. Drawings by Kurt Seligmann, Pavel Tchelitchew, and André Masson. Texts by Roger Caillois, Parker Tyler, Nicolas.....	More
Ford, Charles Henri, ed. Noguchi, Isamu. Schapiro, Meyer. Janis, Sidney. Seligmann, Kurt. Parker, Tyler. Sitwell, Edith. Bowles, Paul
View. Series VII, No. 1, October 1946
New York: View Editions, 1946. Cover design of sculpture by Isamu Noguchi in black and yellow on white. Illustrations by van Gogh, Morris Hirschfeld, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Isamu Noguchi, Yves Tanguy, and others. 50 pp. Decorated paper covers. 30.5 x 23 cm. Articles by the authors listed above, plus.....	More
Ford, Charles Henri, ed. Sitwell, Edith. Borges, Jorge Luis. Chagall, Marc
View. Series V, No. 6, January 1946
New York: View Editions, 1946. Geometric cover design by John Tunnard. Illustrations by Tchelitchew, Chagall, Oscar Dominguez, and Charles Rain. 22 pp. Decorated paper covers. 30.8 x 23.5 cm. Text includes "A sleepy tune," and "Some notes on Shakespeare," by Edith Sitwell; "The circular ruins," by Jorge Luis Borges; "My.....	More
Hellens, Franz. ed.
Le Disque vert: revue mensuelle de littéraire. 1ere année, no. 2. Paris-Bruxelles, juin 1922
Bruxelles: Imprimérie de "L'Expansion Belge." Published under several titles, 1922-1957. A couple of mild bumps, some tanning, name lightly on front cover. **Free domestic shipping with direct order.	More
Hess, Thomas B., and Rosenberg, Harold
Location. Vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 1963
New York: Longview Foundation, 1963-1964. The first of two issues. Illustrated and with literary contributions. Cover by Larry Rivers. 98 pp. Stiff card covers. 24 x 21.7 cm. Contributions by Kenneth Koch, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Burke, Saul Steinberg, Marshall McLuhan, Willem de Kooning, Saul Bellow, and others. There are at.....	More
Hester, Tom, ed.
Spanish Village art quarterly. Volume 1, number 1, Spring 1941 (of 2 published)
San Diego, 1941. Balboa Park in San Diego was developed during two world's fairs, the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition and the 1935-36 California Pacific International Exposition. The Spanish Village, an artists' colony of thirty-five studios, is one of the attractions added in 1935. This professionally designed and conceived magazine was modeled.....	More
Irwin, John; Leider, Philip; Coplans, John; Masheck, Joseph; and Sischy, Ingrid, eds.
Artforum, volumes 1-25, 1962-1987, complete. SALE PRICE through December 31, 2021
San Francisco 1962-1964; Los Angeles, 1964-1967; New York, 1967-present. 253 fine, original issues in decorated paper covers, as issued. When the first issue of Artforum arrived in the summer of 1962, it seemed hopelessly parochial, with its nearly exclusive emphasis on California exhibitions. Even that issue, however, featured an article.....	More
Jupp, Ernst; Sandberg, [Willem]; Schweicher, Curt; Wagenfeld, Willem, eds.
Form: internationale revue. 1:1957 [first issue]
Köln-Ehrenfeld: Verlag an den Westdeutschen Verlag, 1957. The firat issue of the legendary, short-lived, mid-century periodical on industrial design, architecture, fine art, theater, film, and dance. Designed by Willem Sandberg, the equally legendary typographer and director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 50 pp.....	More
Kerwin, Barbara Wallis, ed. & pub. Rosenthal, Rachel
Artists news: a visual arts resource magazine 4:5. Winter 1981. Vol. IV, no. 5
Topanga, California: 1981. Cover: "Torn sky woods," by Ken Ruth. Interview of Rachel Rosenthal, by Claudia Chapline. Many b/w ills. 26 pp. Decorated card covers. 27.6 x 21.5 cm. Also articles by Joan Burleigh, Myra Taylor, Elenore Welles, and Dan Giesler. Covers browned. Thc scan of the cover is brighter.....	More
Kuspit, Donald B. Stubbs, Ann
Fire in the lake. Vol. 3, no. 12, Winter 1978. Questions to Dr. D. B. Kuspit. Kuspit by Stubbs
[New York?]. No ills. White on black cover + 12 leaves printed one side. Bound loosely with one staple at the top edge. Letter size, 28 x 21.7 cm. This ephemeral publication begins with a series of critical questions posed by Ann Stubbs to the critic Donald B. Kuspit, and.....	More
L'association internationale pour l'étude de Dada et du Surréalisme
Cahiers de l'association internationale pour l'étude de Dada et du Surréalisme 1-4 ( complete set)
Paris: Association internationale pour l'étude de Dada et du Surréalisme, 1966-1970. Nos. 1-4 (all published). Some plates and illustrations. Decorated paper covers. About 18.5 x 13.5 cm. Contributors include Michel Sanouillet, Michel Seuphor, Roger Shattuck, Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Janco, Georges Ribemont0-Dessaignes, Henryk Berlewi, Tristan Tzara, and many others. **No. 1.....	More
Leider, Philip, editor. Dennis Hopper, Andy Warhol
Artforum, volume III, number 3, December 1964. With cover "Andy Warhol," a photograph by Dennis Hopper
Los Angeles: Artforum, 1964. Profusely illustrated (with 1 plate in color). 58 pp. Original paper covers. 27 x 26.5 cm. The cover, printed in black on a metallic silver background, is an homage to Warhol's own compositions: a grid of six copies of Hopper's portrait of Andy Warhol in dark.....	More
Maciunas, George (1931-1978), ed.
Fluxus 3 newspaper eVenTs for the pRicE of $1. Number 7. February 1, 1966
Fluxus cv V TRE Number 7. 4 pp. Printed in black on pale green paper. 56 x 43.4 cm / 22 x 17 in. Folded in eighths to letter size for mailing. The front page, shown in 2 scans, features photographs of the Fluxorchestra concert at Carnegie Recital Hall, 1965.....	More
McGrath, Tom, ed.
International times IT Number 4, Nov 28-Dec 11, 1966
London, 1966. Dick Gregory, Alexander Trocchi, Paul Butterfield, and Takis are featured in this early issue of an influential underground newspaper. In original, unbound state. Illustrated. 12 pp. About 42 x 31 cm (16-3/4 x 12-1/2 inches).14.5). Slight, unavoidable browning of newsprint and minute tears at leading edge.	More
International times. IT. Number 10, Mar 13-26, 1967. Photocopy
London, 1967. An early issue of an influential underground newspaper, brimming over with satire and transgression. Nearly all the print run of this exceedingly rare issue was seized and destroyed by the police. Illustrated. This high-quality photocopy is slightly reduced in size 16-3/4 x 12-1/2 inches to 17 x 11.....	More
ArtsCanada: the new technology and the arts. February 1967, issue no. 105
Toronto: Society for Art Publication, 1967. Periodical with 7-inch Flexidisc and tabloid insert ("Artscan"). Profusely illustrated (color centerfold). 22 pp. Contents: "Technology and environment,": by Marshall McLuhan;"The sensory dynamics of new technology," by Arnold Rockman; "Severini's abstract rhythm of Madame S.," by Joshua C. Taylor; "Velvet Underground in Hamilton," by.....	More
Paalen, Wolfgang, editor & publisher
Dyn number 1
Mexico City: April-May 1942. The first of five issues (6 numbers). 8 mounted plates (5 color), 2 original woodcuts by Paalen (1 mounted, and 1 hors-texte), plus 12 text illustrations. 52 pp.Original paper covers. 28.3 x 22.5 cm. Texts variously in English or French by Wolfgang and Alice Paalen, Edward.....	More
Paalen, Wolfgang, publisher & editor
Dyn: the review of modern art. Number 6
Coyoacan, D. F., Mexico: the editor, 1944. The fifth and final issue of (6 numbers). 34 hors-texte pls. (8 in color) + 62 + [2] pp. with many other, illustrations. Original paper covers. 28.6 x 22.5 cm. Texts, in French and English, on modern art, Pre-Columbian art, and other topics.....	More
Reinhardt, Ad. Picasso, Pablo. Motherwell, Robert. Gottlieb, Adolph. Rothko, Mark. DeKooning, Ad. Baziotes, William. Blesh, Rudi. Cézanne, Paul. Stilll, Clyfford. Guston, Philip. Kline, Franz. Tworkov, Jack
Pax Number 13: Documents of Modern Art; Archives of American Art: Censored; The new decade.
New York: Robert Lax, 1960. Pax was issued intermittently in 18 issues between 1956 and 1962, with three later ones in 1985. This one is a wonderful satire by Ad Reinhardt, who is paired up with other artists and reconfigures or comments on their statements on art. Samples: Gottlieb and.....	More
Richardson, Leander
Leander Richardson's Illustrated Dramatic News. Also New York Dramatic News. Christmas issues for 1889, 1890, 1892, 1894. . SALE PRICE through December 31, 2021
Illustrations by Matt Morgan, C.A. Vanderhoof, D. McCarthy, H. Pruett Share, "Zim," and others. Size ranges from about 43.5 x 29.5 to 42 x 30 cm. 32 to 102 pp. Many advertisements. 1889: marginal tears and spine fold mostly split; 1890: bound with metal fasteners; 1892: marginal tears in front.....	More
Rothenberg, Jerome, and Antin, David
Some/thing. No. 1 through nos. 4 & 5, Spring 1965–Summer 1968 (complete)
New York: Hawk's Well Press (nos. 1 & 2 only; thereafter by the editors), 1965-1968. 4 issues (all published) featuring Paul Blackburn, Anselm Hollo, Jackson Mac Low, Diane Wakoski, Ted Berrigan, George Brecht, Carolee Schneeman, Carol Bergé, Robert Bly, Charles Bukowski, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Allan Kaprow, Gary.....	More
Ruscha, Edward. Leider, Philip, editor. Artforum, volume V [5], number 1, September 1966. Surrealism issue
Artforum, volume V [5], number 1, September 1966. Surrealism issue, with cover design by Edward Ruscha, "Surrealism soaped and scrubbed"
Los Angeles: Artforum, 1966. The justifiably famous Surrealism issue of Artforum magazine with its great cover by Ed Ruscha. It sold out three weeks after publication. Articles by the following writers: Max Kozloff, Lucy R. Lippard, Ronald Hunt, Robert Rosenblum, Toby Mussman, Roger Shattuck, William Rubin, Whitney Halstead, Kurt von.....	More


Im just another tattoo lover. I stumbled upon last sparrow tattoo today and thought id join.
Welcome! Share some pics of your tattoos, everyone enjoys seeing them.
Here are all my tattoos. Most on my upper left arm. The kitsune tattoo on the other arm.
Ditto on the nice work; that dagger through the skateboard is especially sick. Ex-skater so it struck a nerve.
Thanks @JAC1961 just got it finished in October. Really loved how it came out.
Thanks @dustybitch i knew i needed one skateboard tattoo. Even off the board skater forever!