So you have stealthily maneuvered your way through the Corvega plant in Fallout 4‚ picking pockets and raising no alarms. Of course‚ you haven’t. It’s a blood bath‚ and you have pulled a bloody key from Jared’s corpse for the Corvega safe in Fallout 4‚ and you want to know where it is. You barbarian‚ is nothing sacred&;#63; Where to find the Corvega safe You can find the Corvega Safe on the bottom floor of the Fallout 4 plant you just fought your way through. Jared usually occupies the platforms over the bottom floor‚ so you will have to make your way to the ground. Once you have picked the Corvega Safe Key from Jared in Fallout 4‚ go to the bottom floor. Then‚ directly underneath the office‚ amongst the supporting structure‚ you will see a blue board with the words Keep Out. Directly behind this board‚ you will find the Corvega Safe in Fallout 4. Image: YouTube The loot inside isn’t anything to write home about. It is usually just a few sellable trin...

Once you wash up on the shore of the island you’ll eventually find mysterious dig spots requiring a Shovel. So where can you find a Shovel in No Rest for the Wicked&;#63; We’ll show you where to look. No Rest for the Wicked: Where to find a Shovel If you want to uncover those dig spots you’ll need a Shovel‚ but where exactly can you get yourself one&;#63; Just like other tools such as the Pickaxe and Axe you’ll need to find it yourself. You can find a Shovel in No Rest for the Wicked at Filmore’s shop in the Mess Hall. Screenshot: PC Invasion Currently‚ I’ve yet to spot the Shovel as a discoverable item in the open world‚ unlike other tools. Despite this‚ I was later able to purchase it from Filmore’s shop for 20 Copper coins. How do you unlock this shop&;#63; Well‚ it’s located here on the map with the star icon and you’ll need to find the Mess Hall Key to unlock the door. Screenshot: PC Invasion The key is easy to miss‚ but not...

If poor developer decisions and a lack of engaging content weren’t enough for players to quit Pok&;eacute;mon GO‚ recent changes to playable avatars might be the straw that breaks the Camerupt’s back. The “Rediscover Pok&;eacute;mon GO” campaign aims to freshen up the seven-year-old game with fancy location-based graphics‚ new AR features‚ and a long-awaited update to player customization. The campaign’s first phase recently introduced brand-new models for player characters‚ which‚ unfortunately‚ look like they’ve crawled out of the depths of our nightmares. While these new customization options offer long-requested features like hairstyles and body types‚ they come at the cost of every player looking like they’ve crawled straight out of Bloodborne. Whether it’s the unsettling faces‚ disproportionately long bodies‚ or clipping issues with clothing‚ Niantic has somehow managed to downgrade avatars already below the industry standard. I have no words… byu/Longjumping-Ad...

Aquamarine is a new material introduced in The Rising Tide DLC and can be used to craft Serpent Rings at the Blacksmith. Lucky for you‚ we created this guide showing all Aquamarine locations in Final Fantasy 16: The Rising Tide. How to find all Aquamarine crafting materials in Final Fantasy 16 This guide will first show the locations of all eight Aquamarine crafting materials in Final Fantasy 16. Afterward‚ we will discuss everything that can be crafted using this rare material. Just a heads up‚ it’s recommended to first acquire the Adder Stone before attempting to find all Aquamarines. The Adder Stone glows and makes a noise whenever you come close to an Aquamarine‚ making this task much easier. You can get the Adder Stone by completing the “What Ails You” side quest. Aquamarine #1: Father’s Fell Screenshot: PC Invasion One Aquamarine is located Southeast of the Riversmeet Obelisk and within the Father’s Fell area. It lies beside an en...

Hard work‚ passion‚ virtue‚ and true grit earmark the American heartland. Anecdotes‚ generation-spanning farm families‚ and crop innovations speak volumes. They are all children of agriculture. Farming teaches faith in God‚ food cultivation‚ animal husbandry‚ the value of love‚ the richness of relationships‚ and the growth of character. Farming offers time for reflection—an Aristotelian balance between nourishing and strengthening the physical body and deepening and improving our souls. From my earliest days‚ the farm was my classroom and nature was my teacher. I learned to treasure my parents‚ a work ethic‚ discipline‚ and sacrifice. A diminishing number of Americans are denied that chance today. Engaging in routine daily farm tasks and providing care for the animals instilled accountability and highlighted the precariousness of life‚ illustrating how it can be either abruptly lost or extinguished over time. It further imparted the importance of nurturing your fate and the necessity of diligence and industry to accomplish your goals. I have never forgotten. The farm also cultivates family togetherness‚ i.e.‚ if we do not all hang together‚ we will all hang separately. My family of 10 has no bad blood. We have been intimate our entire lives‚ and that intimacy grows by the day. Our devotion to God and the lessons we imbibed on the farm unite us. It was under the vast‚ blue vault of heaven that I felt most connected to nature and in harmony with my family. It was an awesome spiritual experience and celebration of family. Numerous references in the Bible establish a nexus between farming and God‚ thereby illustrating the interdependence of the nature of earth and spiritual development. Within the Book of Genesis‚ God positions man in the Garden of Eden with the instruction to tend to and maintain it (Genesis 2:15). Since creation‚ humanity has been saddled with a responsibility to cultivate and maintain the land. 2 Corinthians 9:6 emphasizes the principle that you reap what you sow: “The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly‚ and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” This verse speaks to the law of harvest‚ a concept as true in the spiritual realm as it is in the physical world of farming‚ where the investment of effort‚ care‚ and resources dictates the yield. Farming imparts ethics and patience. It has been a privilege to have lived with the knowledge and skills I gained on the farm. It has made me a diligent professional and prosperous entrepreneur who knows how to innovate to overcome complex challenges. After learning how to manage a farm‚ everything else is as easy as pushing water downhill. Daily labor consists of harvesting crops‚ caring for livestock‚ and waking up before the break of dawn. It means working in sweltering heat with no shower breaks. Nothing else compares. Farm work puts life into proper perspective. All troubles are provisionally set aside. You derive solace from the woes of the world and discover tranquility‚ calm‚ and the answers that have long been hidden. When you listen to the farm noises—the cows mooing‚ the dogs barking‚ the cats meowing—epiphanies come. The United States is forgetting the value of agriculture in all its moods and tenses. Processed food diminishes health. Farmland is gobbled up by the Chinese government. The number of American farmers is plunging. America is losing its signature identity. To quote John Donne‚ “No man is an island‚ entire of itself.” Our deliverance is in unity—E pluribus unum. Agriculture teaches the hard truth of necessary interdependence and collaboration with the elements and with others. But division has become America’s watchword at our peril. Turning back to acclaiming agriculture is a necessary first step to alleviating our alarming divisiveness. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation. The post A Story of the Soil and the Soul appeared first on The Daily Signal.

“It’s better to be the United States’ enemy than its friend.” Foreign officials tell me this is their perception under the Biden administration‚ which has a strange habit of appeasing our adversaries while holding our allies to impossible standards. It’s bad foreign policy‚ plain and simple. Moreover‚ it’s encouraging chaos in our own region of the world. Just look at what’s happening in the Dominican Republic. The Caribbean nation is facing extraordinary migratory pressure from neighboring Haiti‚ which has all but collapsed into anarchy. President Luis Abinader has made it clear he will protect Dominican sovereignty by enforcing deportations. Yet the Biden administration‚ influenced by radical left-wing groups like Amnesty International‚ is pushing Abinader to accept 3 million Haitians at any moment. This is unfair to the Dominican Republic‚ a developing nation with limited resources that is already bearing significant burdens on Haiti’s behalf. Anyone who doubts this should consider the fact that more than a third of all births in the Dominican Republic are currently to Haitian citizens. But encouraging illegal mass migration is also unfair to our country. The Biden administration seems unaware that many Haitians view the Dominican Republic as a stepping stone to Puerto Rico—and that a well-established smuggling ring to facilitate that journey already exists. Because our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico have their own fiscal constraints‚ illegal migrants who reach the U.S. territory would likely move on to the continental United States. Like most Americans‚ I recognize that what is happening in Haiti is horrible and tragic. The breakdown of law and order‚ the displacement of more than 300‚000 people‚ and the need of roughly 5 million for some form of aid—all of these are matters of grave concern. This is why I support the international peacekeeping mission that Kenya proposes to lead once Haiti has established a provisional government. In addition‚ I have reintroduced legislation to preserve U.S. trade benefits for Haitian manufacturers‚ which could prove a lifeline to legitimate Haitian businesses in this time of crisis. But‚ like most Americans‚ I also recognize that no country should experience illegal mass migration—not the Dominican Republic‚ and not the United States. Illegal mass migration does no good for the nation people are migrating from. When all able-bodied‚ law-abiding citizens leave their homeland‚ there is no one left to defend it from criminals and tyrants—and no one left to provide for the vulnerable who remain there. On a more fundamental level‚ though‚ I cannot support illegal mass migration because the job of elected officials is to protect their citizens first‚ not anyone else’s. This is why I have asked the State Department to prioritize U.S. citizens trapped in Haiti‚ as well as their adopted Haitian children. Moreover‚ it’s why we cannot allow Haitian citizens to surge across our borders. As Sen. Rick Scott‚ R-Fla.‚ and I noted in a recent letter to President Joe Biden‚ Haiti is rife with gangs‚ and jailbreaks allegedly have released thousands of dangerous criminals. This means illegal mass migration from Haiti would put Americans at risk. Since Biden took office as president‚ more than 8 million people have crossed our insecure southern border‚ and 90‚000 have immigrated from Afghanistan without being vetted. The resulting threats to our national security—from the rise of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua to the infiltration of Islamist terrorists—are severe and out of control. The tragedy in Haiti is great‚ but it’s no excuse for letting these threats increase. Originally published by RealClearWorld and distributed by RealClearWire The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation. The post Biden Mustn’t Encourage Illegal Mass Migration From Haiti appeared first on The Daily Signal.

House Democrats released an agenda Thursday that includes a vow to codify a right to so-called gender-affirming care—transgender surgeries‚ hormones‚ and puberty blockers. The promise came within the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ agenda‚ which House Democrats first shared with NBC News. That agenda includes a slew of left-wing interests‚ including promises of a higher minimum wage and stronger antitrust laws. “If the progressive base is not excited and enthusiastic—and if they don’t feel like we are trying to earn their votes and that they are important—then I think the horrific idea of a second Donald Trump presidency could become reality‚” Rep. Pramila Jayapal‚ D-Wash.‚ who chairs the progressive caucus‚ told NBC News in an interview. “We cannot afford to let that happen. And we won’t.” Although NBC claims that the agenda goes “lighter on cultural issues‚” under the category “advancing justice‚” it promises to “codify the rights of transgender‚ nonbinary and intersex people‚ including gender-affirming care and health care.” Jayapal did not respond to requests for comment for this article explaining what‚ exactly‚ codifying a right to “gender-affirming care” would entail. Rep. Pramila Jayapal‚ D-Wash.—flanked by fellow Democratic Reps. Ann Kuster of New Hampshire and Joe Neguse of Colorado—speaks to reporters on Wednesday. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images) In March 2023‚ she joined with other Democrats in introducing a “Trans Bill of Rights‚” citing the rise in parental rights laws‚ laws protecting kids from gender transitions‚ and laws prohibiting boys from participating in girls’ and women’s sports. “Day after day‚ we see a constant onslaught of anti-trans rhetoric and legislation coming from elected officials. Today‚ we say enough is enough‚” Jayapal said at the time.  “Our Trans Bill of Rights says clearly to the trans community across the country that we see you‚ and we will stand with you‚ to ensure you are protected and given the dignity and respect that every person should have.” That legislation would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include gender identity as “protected characteristics.” It would also amend federal education laws to say that they protect kids from being discriminated against based on gender identity. The Trans Bill of Rights also called for ensuring that “every child has the right to grow up in a supportive environment by having their authentic identity respected in the classroom‚ ensuring they can participate in school sports with their peers‚ and ensuring access to an inclusive curriculum.” It further called for “expanding access” to trans surgeries‚ hormones‚ and puberty blockers and codifying rights to abortion and contraception. Jayapal told NBC News that progressive Democrats assume “this is an agenda for a Democratic president with a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House.” She added: “We have to excite our base. We have to show them what the path forward is—not just say‚ ‘This is the most important election of your life‚ and we expect you to vote.’ I don’t think that’s going to turn people out. And so‚ I think this agenda‚ really‚ speaks to the needs of poor people‚ working people‚ progressives across the country who want us to make that case to them.” “We are not seeing the momentum that we would like to see‚” she told NBC. We’re going to have a tough election. … We know we’re going to have to put together that progressive coalition. And I think this is the thing that allows us to say‚ ‘Look‚ here’s what we’re fighting for.’ The post House Democrats Vow to Codify ‘Rights’ to Trans Surgeries‚ Hormones‚ Puberty Blockers appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In his latest book‚ “The Last Best Hope‚” political risk analyst John Hulsman offers a succinct‚ understandable guide to uniting the disparate wings of conservatism behind a realist foreign policy. While pitched at the interested layman rather than foreign policy nerds‚ Hulsman’s vignettes might even teach the most savvy readers a new thing or two. Such as‚ “After the Jay Treaty vote (1794)‚ Washington never spoke to Jefferson or Madison again.” A healthy reminder‚ lest we think our own times and leaders are the most polarized in American history. Before I describe the book further‚ a disclosure: John is one of my oldest friends‚ as well as a former fellow at The Heritage Foundation‚ where I work. Conservatives are unable to unite in the relentless way that the Left doesthese days in Congress‚ but parsing them into specific tribes is a pointless exercise. Hulsman simplifies this by dividing them into Jeffersonians and Jacksonians. Roughly speaking‚ the former are the more traditional‚ corporate‚ intellectual types‚ and the latter are lower information‚ populist‚ gut-instinct conservatives. As he pithily puts it‚ “Jeffersonians like Johnny Cash; Jacksonians are Johnny Cash.” What should unite them is patriotism‚ suspicion of globalism‚ and‚ in foreign policy—realism. From Hulsman’s first book in 2006‚ “Ethical Realism‚” to his biography of Lawrence of Arabia to his amusing short book “The Godfather Doctrine‚” realism and “prudence as a policy-making virtue above all others” is a thread running through his work. The nine “precepts of American realism” Hulsman cites in “The Last Best Hope” are each provided with a parable and a great American who embodied it. For his first precept‚ that “alliances should be entered into when they advance specific and primary American interests‚” Hulsman starts with our first president‚ George Washington. So popular that he could have been the first king of the United States‚ Washington left office deliberately after two terms‚ setting an example that endured until Franklin Roosevelt in 1940. Washington used his unique national eminence and enormous personal capital to convince Congress—barely—to pass the wildly unpopular Jay Treaty with the British. The treaty certainly favored Britain in the short term‚ but it also created the scope for the westward expansion of the United States and allowed our commerce to prosper under the British naval umbrella. Washington saw that the fledgling U.S. must stay out of encumbering foreign alliances and “remain neutral in the face of Europe’s great revolutionary wars” rather than siding with France as Thomas Jefferson and others advocated. Washington’s farewell address warned‚ in Hulsman’s words‚ that “America’s national identity must come to supplant sectional attachments‚ law and order must be strictly maintained‚ and something must be done about the evils of political parties.” Seeing the state of our union today‚ this seems very prescient. To illustrate the maxim “no more stupid wars‚” Hulsman looks at how John Quincy Adams kept us out of potentially catastrophic foreign interventions while advancing the national interest. As secretary of state for an emerging United States in the context of a decaying Spanish Empire and rising Britishone‚ Adams said that “America … goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy”—or as Hulsman sums up his philosophy: “American political beliefs must not be imposed on other countries whose specific history might be very different” from ours. In the 50 years following the end of World War II‚ America ignored this wisdom and “frittered away its dominant position in the world‚ spilling copious amounts of blood and spending trillions of dollars for no real strategic gain‚” Hulsman concludes.  As to Hulsman’s admonition that “to act‚ or not to act‚ depends on the national interest‚” he illustrates it with the story of how Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state‚ William Seward‚ kept us from going to war with Great Britain while we were engaged in the Civil War and possibly losing the Civil War. In a nutshell: “One war at a time.” These are lessons Napoleon and Hitler never learned‚ and which America needs to remember when staring down China‚ Iran‚ North Korea‚ Russia‚ and others all at once. For the precept “sovereignty is real—and everything‚” Hulsman resurrects Sen. William Borah from relative historical obscurity and describes his successful fight to stop the U.S. from joining Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations. Not becoming part of the League of Nations is generally described in grade school history books—which is as far as 99% of Americans ever go in this subject—as a tragic failure. Instead‚ Hulsman argues convincingly that it was a brilliant and perspicacious campaign to prevent the thin end of the globalist wedge from entering our polity. That wedge‚ which Hulsman has opposed as “Wilsonian” foreign policy for many years‚ is now firmly up the national backside and sinking deeper‚ prodding the foreign policy “blob” to try to do everything‚ everywhere‚ all at once. It is this interventionist‚ utopian progressivism‚ for example‚ that will soon have us building—and likely protecting—a pier to bring supplies into Gaza at the same time our ally‚ Israel‚ is attempting to wipe out a terrorist group committed to its destruction. Comparisons with Somalia in 1992 and “Blackhawk Down” hang over this latest Wilsonian interventionist enterprise. Hulsman’s fifth precept is that “America must never shirk using force to fight wars when its primary interests are at stake but … never go abroad looking for a fight over lesser interests.” (One minor quibble I have with the book is that this lesson seems a bit duplicative of others in his canon‚ but though he could easily have made it seven or even six precepts‚ that would have left out some crisp historical chapters that make this book entertaining and more popular history than political tract). Hulsman illustrates this lesson by describing how Franklin Roosevelt slowly brought a reluctant nation around to his view that (in Hulsman’s words) “no scenario for the elimination of Hitler was ever credible without the full involvement of the United States.” Hitler and Imperial Japan were existential threats to the U.S. that required all possible measures to resist‚ unlike any scenario since—underscoring the historically illiterate comparison President Joe Biden made in his 2024 State of the Union address between Europe in 1941 and today’s situation in Ukraine. Precept six is that “furthering the specific interests of the American people” must be the touchstone of American foreign policy. Yes‚ it does sound rather like “America first‚” but then what sensible country does not put itself‚ and its people‚ ahead of others&;#63; Charity begins at home. For this lesson‚ Hulsman cites underratedPresident Dwight Eisenhower‚ who resisted communism through a “containment” policy while avoiding being sucked into wars in Egypt and Vietnam in support of the fading British and French empires. In his final speech‚ Ike warned us that a permanent war party and “military-industrial complex” would‚ if not stopped‚ trap the United States in a series of perpetual wars while impoverishing the country. Hmm. Precept seven is that “American national interests … should always drive U.S. foreign policy.” This rather repeats the last one‚ but it allows Hulsman to tell the tale of the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ John F. Kennedy’s best moment on the presidential stage. Kennedy‚ despite relative youth and inexperience‚ played a legendary hand of poker against the Russians‚ ending the crisis with a secret deal to remove U.S. missiles in Turkey in exchange for the Russians taking theirs from Cuba. All the while‚ he fended off the Joint Chiefs of Staff who‚ “to a man‚ favored a U.S. airstrike to destroy the missiles‚ followed by a ground invasion of Cuba.” In criticizing the Wilsonian “endless laundry lists as to what America should do in the world‚” Hulsman evokes Frederick the Great‚ who said‚ “He who defends everything‚ defends nothing.” The eighth precept is the pragmatic lesson of Hulsman’s earlier book‚ “The Godfather Doctrine.” Sometimes‚ he argues‚ “the U.S. must be ruthlessly prepared to cut deals with the devil” when our national interests so require. This used to be obvious‚ but in today’s social-media-driven‚ nuance-free age‚ where there are actually Queers for Palestine‚ it has to be spelled out. Hulsman does so using President Richard Nixon’s “masterstroke in going to China‚” which split the Russian-Chinese communist axis and allowed the U.S. to defeat Russia in the Cold War. Hulsman admires the partnership of Nixon and his national security adviser‚ Henry Kissinger‚ and their “shared realist principles that American foreign policy should be about doing good rather than feeling good.” That boils down‚ these days‚ to the principle that the U.S. “must be ruthlessly prepared to cut deals with less than savory leaders and countries if doing so furthers basic U.S. interests …” Today’s morally Manichaean environment makes it harder for our leaders to do so‚ but the lessons of thousands of years of history can’t be undone by 20 years of activism on social media. Hulsman’s ninth and last lesson is that the U.S. should remain an example for the world‚ “a shining city on a hill‚” in the words of Pilgrim father John Winthrop so eloquently adopted by Ronald Reagan. We should never be‚ as we have been for much of the past 50 years‚ “in the foolhardy business of trying to impose democracy on the rest of the world at the point of a gun.” Reagan knew that America‚ as “a country not founded on race‚ but on a way and an ideal‚” had to cherish the history‚ laws‚ and traditions that made us special and such a magnet for freedom-loving people. As he said‚ “If we lose freedom here‚ there’s no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.” The Gipper would be saddened to see the state of America’s campuses‚ companies‚ and government today‚ where identitarian politics are paramount and history‚ capitalism‚ family‚ and tradition are reviled by a good portion of our self-appointed elites. How should Hulsman’s nine “lessons and carols” be applied in practice&;#63; His recommendation is as simple as “The Last Best Hope” is short. U.S. foreign policy should be realist‚ that is‚ “guided by questions of security and survival” with “prudence as a policy-making virtue above all others.” Hulsman’s record on predicting political events is impressive‚ from calling the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the month to his predictions (so far) on the 2024 U.S. election campaign. He warned of the consequences‚ early and often‚ as neoconservatives led us into wars we could not win‚ at prices we could not afford. The central thesis of Hulsman’s work is that “today’s foreign policy blob has cared more about what is going on in faraway places of limited importance to Americans rather than America itself.” As we survey a divided nation with an essentially open border‚ zero fiscal responsibility‚ and disastrous progressive experiments tanking everything from education to public safety‚ his words could not be more pertinent.  At home‚ our house is falling apart‚ and there’s diminishing (and borrowed) money to fix it‚ even if we can agree on how. Eisenhower‚ still faced with the debt load of World War II‚ balanced three of his eight annual budgets. The last time we had a run that long was Bill Clinton’s final three fiscal years. And today‚ Biden’s proudest fiscal boast is not that he ever came close to a balanced budget‚ but that he’s slightly lowered the annual deficit compared to the worst year of the COVID-19 crisis. Abroad‚ there are too many dragons to slay for our limited capability. From Ukraine to Taiwan‚ Haiti to Mali‚ we will either make tough‚ responsible choices about national priorities or have them forced on us. If conservatives ever get back in power and want to return U.S. foreign policy to realism and pragmatism‚ Hulsman’s “The Last Best Hope” provides them with the map to do so. The post ‘The Last Best Hope’ Is a Roadmap for Coherent Conservative Foreign Policy appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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