Zenless Zone Zero follows the same path as other HoYoveres games like Genshin Impact. In the sense that there are many gacha features in the game. Like the other games made by the developer‚ ZZZ has three currencies you have to pay attention to. They can be confusing. The first time I played‚ the currencies made everything overwhelming. So to make sure you don’t go through my experience‚ this guide will explain all the currencies in Zenless Zone Zero.  Zenless Zone Zero: All currencies explained If you’re coming from Genshin Impact or Honkai Star Rail‚ this will be familiar territory. But like me‚ you may be a little puzzled as to what each represents. Having this many currencies should make the ZZZ unapproachable‚ but the aforementioned games have proven otherwise. In turn‚ ZZZ has become one of our most hyped games of 2024.  Image: HoYoverse What does all the currency mean&;#63; So what...

With an abundance of healing items in Fortnite‚ you’ve likely ignored or forgotten about any campfires you’ve encountered. To help you find a campfire to light to complete the Fire Chakra Avatar Quest‚ this guide covers the location of every campfire on the Fortnite Island. Where to find a campfire in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 2 Image: Fortnite.gg There are eight campfires on the Fortnite Chapter Five Season Two map‚ but you only need to light one to complete the Quest. You can find a campfire in any of the following locations: On the lone island at the very top of the map Southwest of Pleasant Piazza The small island in the middle of the lake hosting the Earth Shrine southeast of Restored Reels Behind the house north of Restored Reels Near the watchtower in the snowy area on the road from Reckless Railways to Classy Courts East of Classy Courts‚ on the lowest part of the cliffs leading to Coastal Comms Northeast of Rebel’s Roost The ...

One thing I learned while looking through the thousands and thousands of Fallout: New Vegas mods is that the creators and players are really‚ really thirsty. So many NSFW mods‚ I need some church. However‚ in my search‚ I found a selection of what I consider to be the funniest Fallout: New Vegas mods available. Lightsabers mod How can you have an even vaguely enjoyable future without the promise of Lightsabers&;#63; The answer: You can’t. This funny Fallout: New Vegas mod adds the use of lightsabers to the game‚ allowing you to engage in battles and cut your foes in half. They come in 9 colours and in both single and double-blade styles. Image: PC Invasion Gravity Gun Just like Half-Life‚ the Gravity Gun can manipulate the gravity of the object it is pointed at. It could be a ferocious Death Claw or an innocent bystander; this Fallout: New Vegas mod will let you throw them wherever you like. Fallout: New Vegas Randomizer mod This one makes it to the list of funni...

Smack in between the Georgian and Edwardian periods was the fashion-forward and ideological Victorian era. Not only were there advances in science and technology during this time‚ but there were also small moments of rebellion. Many old photographs show women wearing bonnets‚ but there's more to the story. Keep reading to see what was really under Victorian women's bonnets. The fashion during the... Source

Scientific discoveries happen every day. One of the biggest finds happened in northern Myanmar in 2016. Scientists stumbled upon one of the most peculiar fossils that had been enveloped in amber for over 99 million years. After examining the fossil‚ they knew this was a new species altogether. Keep reading to learn about their groundbreaking research and what this means for prehistoric history. Source

Planned Parenthood’s 2022-2023 annual report is out. Unlike last year’s annual report‚ now we’re finally able to see how the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade is affecting Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers and bottom line. Spoiler alert: Abortions and government funding are at all-time highs. Actual health care for things such as cancer screening and preventive care continues to decline. More affiliates than ever are providing “transgender services.” Here are the key takeaways: In the medical data section‚ Planned Parenthood reported: 392‚715 abortions‚ an all-time high‚ and up from last year’s 374‚155 abortions. 410‚272 breast cancer screenings and Pap tests‚ down from 470‚419 the previous year. 129‚216 preventive care visits‚ down from 187‚234 the previous year. 1‚721 adoption referrals‚ down from 1‚803 the previous year and less than half of the 4‚279 reported just four years ago. 2‚250‚913 million contraceptive services‚ down from 2‚348‚275 the previous year. 2.05 million unique patients‚ down from 2.13 million the previous year. Planned Parenthood performed 228 abortions for every one adoption referral. In a nod to the reality that women in pro-life states are still traveling out of state to get abortions‚ Planned Parenthood reports that demand in pro-abortion states rose up to 700%. Some 33‚000 people have gotten travel and financial assistance. In the long term‚ the trend of more abortions and fewer health services is even more stark. Pro-life scholar Michael New points out that “in the past 10 years‚ the number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood has increased by 20%. Meanwhile‚ cancer screenings fell by more than 58%‚ and prenatal services declined by more than 67%.” After going all-in on “gender-affirming hormone therapy” starting in the 2015-2016 reporting year‚ Planned Parenthood reports an all-time high of 45 clinics offering such services. Planned Parenthood buries the specific number of services in an “other” category in the medical data tables. We can reasonably infer that gender services drove a noticeable spike in the category. It went from 8‚153 in 2015 to 177‚237 in this year’s report. Now take a look at the financial side of things. Planned Parenthood reported: $2.5 billion in net assets‚ up from $2.3 billion the previous year. $699 million in government funding‚ up from $670 million the previous year. $2 billion in total revenue‚ up from $1.9 billion the previous year. $178.6 million in excess revenue (calculated by subtracting total expenses from total revenues)‚ a decrease from $204.7 million the previous year. $977.5 million in private contributions and bequests‚ including from 576‚000 active individual contributors. Last year in those categories‚ Planned Parenthood reported $694.9 million and 727‚000‚ respectively. That means that fewer people are contributing‚ but the ones who are writing checks are writing very‚ very big ones. The sobering reality is that Planned Parenthood is swimming in cash and aborting more unborn children than ever before. That’s despite more than a dozen states protecting unborn children with beating hearts‚ despite abortion clinics in pro-life states closing up shop or moving to abortion-friendly states‚ and despite Planned Parenthood laying off roughly 100 employees in the national office. The pro-life movement has racked up lifesaving wins since Dobbs. But Planned Parenthood’s cold‚ hard data shows that the pro-life movement still has a lot of work to do to build a culture of life. Take Planned Parenthood’s government funding‚ for example. Why such a dramatic increase&;#63; One culprit is the federal Title X family-planning program. The Trump administration issued a regulation that required‚ among other things‚ that participants physically and financially separate any abortion activity from Title X activity. Rather than comply with the rule‚ Planned Parenthood clinics sided with abortion and pulled out of the program. But the Biden administration changed the regulation‚ and starting in 2022‚ Title X funding flowed to abortion providers‚ such as Planned Parenthood‚ once again. Government funding isn’t the only place executive action is having an impact. Why are Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers continuing to rise despite nearly two dozen states passing robust pro-life laws after the Dobbs decision&;#63; Planned Parenthood can thank the Food and Drug Administration. In the spring of 2021‚ under the cover of containing COVID-19‚ the FDA stopped requiring that chemical abortion drugs be dispensed in person in limited health care settings‚ opening the door to telemedicine abortion and abortion pills being shipped by mail. Then‚ in December 2021‚ the FDA announced it would make that policy permanent and create a process for retail pharmacies to dispense these pills without a doctor’s visit. In January 2023‚ the FDA officially updated the regulations for the abortion pill. What does this mean in practice for an organization like Planned Parenthood&;#63; According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest abortion numbers‚ abortion pills are now used in at least 56% of all abortions. And thanks to President Joe Biden and the FDA‚ it’s never been easier for Planned Parenthood to get dangerous do-it-yourself abortion pills into the hands of women and girls across the country. These executive policy choices should not go unanswered. Congress’ federal role over the power of the purse provides a path forward. Congress can and should defund Planned Parenthood and redirect funding to real women’s health care. It should restore the Trump-era pro-life Title X rule. It should prohibit the FDA’s reckless disregard for women’s health and safety that opened the door to dangerous DIY abortion pills. All of this could be accomplished through the appropriations process through policy riders. In fact‚ each of these solutions was proposed for fiscal 2024 appropriations‚ but didn’t make it across the finish line. For the sake of women‚ girls‚ and unborn children everywhere‚ let’s hope pro-life policymakers in Congress hold the line as Congress begins considering fiscal 2025 appropriations. The post Planned Parenthood Checklist: More Abortions‚ Less Actual Health Care‚ More Tax Dollars Than Ever appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A juror on former President Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York City was dismissed Thursday after prosecutors raised concerns that he may not have answered truthfully to all questions as part of jury selection‚ according to multiple reports. Prosecutors questioned whether the man‚ an IT consultant who was one of seven jurors sworn in Tuesday‚ had been honest in answering a question about whether he or a relative had been convicted of a crime‚ The New York Times reported. Prosecutors voiced concerns after discovering an article describing an individual with the same name who was arrested in the 1990s for tearing down right-wing political posters. It is not known whether the juror confirmed it was him because he was questioned out of reporters’ earshot‚ according to The Associated Press. Judge Juan Merchan said the juror had “expressed annoyance about how much information was out there about him in the public‚” according to NBC News. This is the juror whom prosecutors said shared a name with someone once arrested for tearing down political posters — something that wasn't disclosed during voir dire. https://t.co/VjtAMppdDV— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 18‚ 2024 The juror’s dismissal initially brought the count back down from seven selected jurors to five. Another juror was released earlier when she expressed concerns about her ability to be impartial after friends and others asked whether she was a juror‚ NBC News reported. NEWSA 12-person jury has been selected for Trump's first criminal trial in New York.After a flurry of peremptory and for-cause challenges‚ jury selection progressed in a fast and furious fashion. An alternate already has been chosen.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 18‚ 2024 The judge directed reporters Thursday not to report physical descriptions of jurors or note their place of employment‚ according to multiple reports. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Trump Juror Dismissed After Prosecutors Question His Honesty on Arrest Record appeared first on The Daily Signal.

It’s been a week since a liberal‚ 25-year veteran editor for National Public Radio published a damning online essay about the network’s biased‚ left-wing coverage‚ and there appears to have been no self-reflection by NPR’s powers that be. Uri Berliner‚ who authored the essay‚ was chastised by NPR employees‚ suspended‚ and finally submitted his resignation Wednesday. I can’t say I’m surprised. With apologies to Berliner‚ who said that he’d rather see the taxpayer-subsidized network reform itself and get back to serving the broader public‚ rather than be defunded‚ he hasn’t quite come to grips with the depth of the problem. The West’s compromised and radical institutions won’t reform willingly. They are part of a tightly knit‚ self-reinforcing system that uniformly rewards left-wing ideology and punishes even mild dissent. If you want a look at where NPR is headed‚ just take a look at the social media posts of the network’s new CEO‚ Katherine Maher‚ who took over at the helm in January. Old media posts and media appearances paint an almost ludicrously predictable picture of what NPR has become. The portrait they create is of a woman who seems more like an AI bot crafted by Google employees‚ rather than a real person. She has backed every left-wing cause‚ cheered every Democratic presidential candidate with pom-poms‚ and riffed on the news with every kind of woke inanity you can think of. Follow journalist Christopher Rufo on X for the latest: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo. Here are some of the more noteworthy reveals. This is what she said about “truth” at a 2022 TED Talk‚ when she was the CEO of Wikimedia. “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that is getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done‚” she said. “That is not to say that the truth doesn’t exist or to say that the truth isn’t important. Clearly‚ the search for the truth has led us to do great things … [but] one reason we have such glorious chronicles to the human experience and all forms of culture is because we acknowledge there are many different truths.” Here's the new NPR CEO Katherine Maher (and former chief executive of Wikipedia) explaining that &;quot;the truth&;quot; is an outdated concept.Everyone can have their own truth: pic.twitter.com/LyUGXSBI8g— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 17‚ 2024 Maher is all aboard the relativistic “my truth” train. She said she cracked down on the “free and open” ethos at Wikipedia because it was too often based on a “white male‚ Westernized construct” that led to “exclusion of communities and languages.” It’s no surprise then that she’s not a huge fan of the problematic First Amendment‚ which she saw as the “No. 1 challenge” to combating what she called “disinformation and misinformation.” She said she coordinated with the government to suppress content related to COVID-19 and the 2020 election. As a quick reminder to our nation’s cultural elites like Maher: The First Amendment was designed to protect free speech‚ not because all speech is good‚ but because it was the best way to protect the truth. Why does the head of a major media organization seem to have a problem with a constitutional amendment protecting the free press&;#63; The problem at NPR isn’t just the woman in charge. If anything‚ it seems like the most empowered employees want to do more to smash dissent and control the narrative. Are these employees in the majority&;#63; Who knows‚ but given how quickly Berliner was purged‚ it doesn’t take a lot to surmise that people like him aren’t going to be listened to behind closed doors. So‚ what can be done to fix NPR&;#63; I’d suggest that asking for the network to fire Maher might be satisfying‚ but won’t ultimately solve the underlying problem. If NPR were to fire her‚ she would likely just be replaced by another AI chatbot with similar‚ but perhaps slightly stealthier opinions. Many on the Left believe—correctly—that their position within America’s most elite institutions is unassailable. Speaking the generic‚ DEI-laden language of the institutions is how one makes it to the top in the institutional rat race. This is why the nation’s most elite private high schools are often even more absurdly left-wing than public schools. They know that the path to success doesn’t just come from grades‚ or accomplishments‚ or genuine merit. Instead‚ it comes from a combination of immutable and select mutable personal characteristics and from relentlessly being on the right side of the “narrative” at all times. That’s how revolutionary regimes often operate‚ whether it be France in the late 18th century or the Soviet Union in the early 20th century. Maher played that game flawlessly‚ which is why today she is NPR’s CEO. “The new CEO of NPR is part of a rising cohort of affluent‚ left-wing‚ female managers who dominate HR and DEI‚” Rufo wrote for City Journal. “… They value safety over liberty‚ censorship over debate‚ and relativism over truth.” In some rare cases‚ somebody different rises to the top and is willing to defy institutional left-wing gatekeepers. That’s the Elon Musk model and why his takeover of Twitter‚ now X‚ was such a big deal. That’s unlikely to happen with NPR‚ as it’s more directly connected to higher education and the federal government. The only way forward for positive “change” at NPR is to not only pull the plug on the network’s direct funding‚ but also to cut off the flow of grant money that has floated many of its most ridiculous programs. Out of the hundreds of millions of dollars Congress appropriates to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting‚ a significant amount is appropriated to local NPR affiliates through grants. Maybe if NPR is totally defunded and forced to operate on its own‚ the network will have to finally reckon with its narrow‚ shrunken audience. BREAKING: Rep. Jim Banks to introduce legislation to defund NPR. The American people should not be subsiding a CEO who is explicitly anti-truth‚ anti-speech‚ and anti-First Amendment. https://t.co/qndvhuPExw— Christopher F. Rufo &;#63;&;#63; (@realchrisrufo) April 18‚ 2024 Let’s stop using taxpayers’ money on media organizations with leaders that treat the First Amendment as if it’s problematic. Is that too much to ask&;#63; The post NPR Is in Turmoil. But Nothing Will Change If It Keeps Getting Taxpayer Subsidies. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Born in Coatzacoalcos‚ Mexico‚ Salma Hayek is one of the most successful actresses in the world. She's shined in projects such as Desperado‚ 30 Rock‚ Grown Ups‚ and works as a producer‚ too. Fans will want to look through these gorgeous photos of Hayek both on and off-screen. One of the movies Salma Hayek is best known for is the titular role in 2002's Frida. Her stellar performance earned her a... Source

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