In Nightingale‚ if you want to light up your base and keep everything well lit for the bonus – and also to see – then you’ll need a lot of Twine. It isn’t immediately apparent where one can craft this stuff‚ so allow me to enlighten you. Buying a Simple Spinning Wheel in Nightingale Upon first stumbling into the Abeyance Realm‚ you will scarcely have any recipes to your name to build things. Puck will quickly reprimand your ignorance‚ but will tell you about Essence Traders. It is from them that we will purchase the recipe for a Simple Spinning Wheel. Go to your map and look around for an Essence Trader. You should find one pretty close to where you spawn. If you chose the Forest Abeyance Realm like Puck recommended‚ then they should be a small ways north. Screenshot: PC Invasion You can purchase the Simple Spinning Wheel for 55 Essence. If you’re short on Essence‚ then I’d recommend going around with your Sickle and harvesting a bunch...

Truckers keep things interesting‚ don’t they? And they’re at it again with a NYC trucker’s strike organized to protest a verdict against former President Trump. Last week‚ New York Judge Arthur Engoron ordered former President Trump to pay $354 million in damages in a civil business fraud trial. While the court accused Trump of dishonest business practices‚ no financial institutions have ever made complaints about him.  No fine this massive‚ no prohibitions on conducting business in New York‚ and no bans on receiving loans from New York banks have ever been handed down in a case like this.  This is pure political persecution.  Don’t take my word for it: that was how legal scholar and constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley described it too. BREAKING: Legal scholar Professor Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) EXPLODES After Judge Engoron Hits Trump with $364 Million Fine and 3-Year Ban in New York Civil Fraud Case‚ Says‚ "None of us could find a case like this!" Well‚ no one else has gone through this!!!!! WATCH pic.twitter.com/3Lk5Ef3tRl — Simon Ateba (@simonateba) February 16‚ 2024 In response to these punitive damages‚ rumors started circulating on X about truckers refusing delivery into NYC beginning Monday‚ February 19. This may get really interesting. What happens if the trucks stop? CDL Life put out an infographic in 2012 that’s been resurrected recently‚ showing what would happen to life without truckers. Daisy wrote about it here.   Within two to three days‚ food and fuel shortages would become severe‚ leading to price spikes.  Manufacturing centers used to “just-in-time” processing would have to shut down.  Garbage would begin piling up‚ rail transport would stop‚ and business transactions would grind to a halt as banks run out of cash. Within a week‚ automobile travel would cease due to loss of fuel.  Within a month‚ the nation’s clean water supply would be exhausted‚ and illnesses would begin to spike.  Hospitals would be largely unable to treat people‚ due to their exhaustion of supplies. This infographic is from 2012. If anything‚ things would fall apart faster now.  Our supply chain is less resilient than it was twelve years ago.  Truckers make First World living what it is. Is this NYC trucker’s strike happening? While some posters on X insist this won’t happen because trucking companies will never stand to lose money‚ a few facts are worth noting. One is that approximately 10-15% of truckers are independent‚ and these are typically the more capable and experienced ones.  They can simply turn down some delivery jobs and choose others.  We’re in the middle of a labor shortage; workers have some choice. Truckers already dislike NYC.  On Sunday‚ an Amazon driver had to fight off a drunk‚ naked migrant.  And the trucker found himself in trouble with the law. Another Amazon driver was brutally slashed in an unprovoked knife attack in late January  and no arrests have been made.  Who wants to work in that environment? The tolls are high‚ streets are narrow‚ people are unfriendly‚ and crime is rampant.  Reading truckers’ X feeds‚ some are happy for an excuse to avoid NYC because of the constant extra fees.  NYC is a less profitable area for them anyway. Turning down business there won’t hurt them as much as it might in other places. And not every trucker has to go along with the boycott in order to make life miserable for New Yorkers.  Imagine what just a 10% reduction in goods deliveries would do to prices within a week or two. This decision by Judge Engoron will backfire in other ways‚ as well. Kevin O’Leary‚ Shark Tank mogul investor‚ summed it up nicely on Fox News.  “$355 million as a penalty‚ plus 9% interest‚ and there’s no victim?”  He said this decision terrifies possible investors because it’s so arbitrary. JUST IN: Fall out from Trump persecution continues‚ Shark Tank mogul Kevin O’Leary is DONE INVESTING in the State of New York.. "I would NEVER invest in New York now! And I'm NOT THE ONLY ONE saying that!" pic.twitter.com/rIvD5ygM7W https://t.co/KsFoybWAvH — Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) February 19‚ 2024   Lawfare stunts only increase Trump’s support among general voters.   He’s sounding less crazy all the time.  Many people saw Trump as paranoid when he claimed persecution during the Russian collusion hoax.  Well‚ he was right about that. Even liberal journalists such as Glenn Greenwald admitted he was framed. The Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy was at the center of the media narrative for only 2 1/2 years. It's been 3 whole days since it got debunked as a hoax and you're still talking about this? Will there ever be an end to it??? pic.twitter.com/9nmr22duiT — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 27‚ 2019 In 2020‚ many people still believed in the system enough to think that Trump was exaggerating about the election getting stolen.  Now‚ it looks like he was right about that‚ too. The insane lawfare directed at him now makes the Washington elite look deranged.  I didn’t like Trump in 2016.  But the world didn’t fall apart between 2016 and 2020. I’d rather go back to that‚ than keep power in the hands of people so dismissive of citizens’ rights. Protests like this can make people pay attention. Too many people don’t see the connection between what happened to Trump and what could happen to any American not wanting to go along with the DC establishment.  NYC may be home to Wall Street‚ New Yorkers may see themselves as too sophisticated to care about what goes on in the rest of the country‚ but Wall Street needs Main Street to survive.  What do they think they’re trading without actual on-the-ground production? The financial and political elite are used to convenience and physical ease‚ with no curiosity regarding the people who grow and transport their food‚ who keep the lights on and the water running.  Throwing a monkey wrench into the flowing goods and services will hopefully force urban consumers to pay attention. Protesting European workers have had some measure of success. The European farmers’ protests‚ largely supported by truckers‚ won some concessions.  They had been protesting punitive tax hikes and unfair competition from cheap imports‚ as we’ve discussed before. After a few weeks of chaos‚ they managed to get the European Parliament to agree to a number of concessions‚ including a continuation of diesel subsidies and tax breaks. Because truckers and farmers perform so much of the actual production and transportation‚ they see the effects of regulation before those regulatory effects appear to the average consumer in the form of higher prices.  Since 2020‚ the cost of producing agricultural goods has increased by 28%.  No one expects this to change; in fact‚ the USDA is concerned that prices in 2024 may be below break-even levels for American farmers. The cost of shipping will probably continue to rise‚ at least in the short term.  Climate change regulations lead to uncertainty regarding fuel pricing; who wants to invest tens of millions of dollars in oil and gas infrastructure when politicians are threatening to make it illegal within the next ten to fifteen years? Here’s why many truckers support Trump. Trump pays attention to these issues.  He consistently receives the support of blue-collar workers because he listens to their concerns.  He’s like Kevin O’Leary in that he sees the connection between his own wealth and the health of the regular economy.  He’s popular among the working class because he treats them like valued employees‚ not “useless eaters” or “deplorables.” Trump’s natural egomania makes him unwilling to cooperate with the Globo-Blob.  Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Accords. If we sign on to the upcoming WHO Pandemic Accord‚ he’ll probably try to get us out of that‚ too. He sees America as a company that he wants to run and run well.  Trump doesn’t want to share that with anyone else. Why should he?  His vision of a strong‚ independent America resonates with the average citizen who mostly just wants predictable work so they can raise their families in accordance with their own values. Unfortunately‚ this unwillingness to participate in the schemes of the Washington establishment means that a lot of very powerful people know that they may get fired if he gets elected this year.  They are becoming increasingly desperate in their attempts to make him unable to run. 60% of the world is going to the polls in 2024. Indonesia just elected an ultra-nationalist.  Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro just had his passport seized. Most of us can assume chaos is headed our way in 2024‚ and this trucker protest looks to be part of it. I wish the truckers the best‚ but for the rest of us‚ having a plan to survive disruptions in supply chains has never been more important.  The same goes for having trusted networks of family and friends. I love having the internet as a source of news and practical information. YouTube home improvement videos have been invaluable.  But nothing replaces real-world friends and neighbors that you can band together with in times of distress.  As this crazy election cycle approaches‚ keep your friends close. What do you think about the NYC trucker’s strike? Do you think the NYC trucker’s strike will unfold enough to make an impact? Do you think it will change anything? How much of a problem do you expect this to cause for NYC dwellers? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section. About Marie Hawthorne A lover of novels and cultivator of superb apple pie recipes‚ Marie spends her free time writing about the world around her. The post The NYC Trucker’s Strike: How Much Influence Do They Wield? appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

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The common bacteria Escherichia coli usually lives harmlessly in our guts‚ but sometimes escapes to cause serious disease in other organs. Analysis of the difference between the disease-causing “bad bacteria” and the non-toxic “good” versions reveals the harmful ones have lost the capacity to produce cellulose.Besides its role as an indicator of the health of pollutants in waterways‚ E. coli is possibly best known for causing diarrhea‚ sometimes fatally. That is far from the only way it can afflict humanity‚ however. It’s responsible for 80 percent of urinary tract infections‚ as well as neonatal meningitis‚ and a quarter of bloodstream infections. Yet most E. coli are harmless‚ despite being the same species as the pathogens.Central to the problem of most pathogenic E. coli is the capacity to escape the digestive system to wreak havoc elsewhere. Professor Mark Schembri of the University of Queensland led a team exploring what distinguished the escaping E. coli from those that know their place. They found mutations affecting the pathway that causes the production of cellulose‚ which normal E. coli make.“All E. coli have the capacity to produce cellulose‚” Schembri told IFLScience. “It exists in core genes. It’s really intriguing therefore that some have the pathway blocked. This isn’t associated with new genes‚ but a deterioration of the pathway.”The cellulose is one of several polysaccharides that surround good E. coli cells. These‚ Schembri told IFLScience‚ mask other factors and keep the cell quiet from the perspective of the immune system. “If the pathway is closed it exposes other factors that initiate an immune response‚ which causes inflammation‚” Schembri said. That not only makes for an unpleasant time in the guts‚ but it creates an opportunity for the E. coli to escape to the bloodstream and infect other organs.Rather than good and bad E. coli having lived beside each other after some ancient separation‚ Schembri and his team found multiple mutation events producing the same outcome. In other words‚ the same thing keeps happening‚ leading to the appearance of new pathogenic strains.For good and bad E. coli to both flourish there must be an evolutionary tradeoff‚ with pros and cons to cellulose production for the bacteria. Schembri told IFLScience his team don’t understand what these are yet‚ but think it probably reflects the wide diversity of environments in which E. coli live‚ with some being more amenable to the cellulose producers‚ and others to those that don’t produce it.Having taken a wide sample of E. coli from organs outside the digestive system‚ Schembri’s team think cellulose non-production is the common feature. “We didn’t study E. coli that causes diarrhea‚” Schembri told IFLScience. However‚ he noted that one particularly devastating diarrhea-inducing strain‚ which infected at least 4‚000 people in Germany and killed 53‚ also lacked the capacity to produce cellulose‚ which Schembri says is “part of what made it bad.”     The significance could stretch beyond E. coli. The team investigated the related bacterium Shigella‚ and found it cannot produce cellulose. Meanwhile‚ Salmonella behaves similarly to E. coli‚ with mutations to the cellulose pathway associated with toxicity.Without exploring further‚ the team can’t say which other pathogenic bacteria have the same issue. Nevertheless‚ Schembri noted to IFLScience that even where cellulose may not be involved‚ something similar may occur with the other polysaccharides on the cell surface.“In 2019 alone‚ almost 5 million deaths worldwide were associated with bacterial antibiotic resistance‚ with E. coli causing more than 800‚000 of these deaths‚” Schembri said in a statement. “As the threat of superbugs that are resistant to all available antibiotics increases worldwide‚ finding new ways to prevent this infection pathway is critical to reduce the number of human infections.”It’s unlikely that we can simply switch cellulose production back on to prevent disease. Schembri told IFLScience the team have not worked out a way their discovery can be applied. Nevertheless‚ he added: “Now we have better knowledge we can use it to build diagnostics. There also appears to be a connection [between cellulose non-production] and antibiotic resistance.” This may be something we can exploit in our battle against disease‚ but‚ Schembri acknowledged‚ “applications are a fair way off.”The study is open access in Nature Communications.

How far would you go to look for something that might not be there at all? Well‚ researchers from the University of Texas at El Paso spent six weeks looking for a lost bird species in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo‚ and they have managed to capture the first ever photo of the yellow-crested helmetshrike (Prionops alberti). “It was a mind-blowing experience to come across these birds. We knew they might be possible here‚ but I was not prepared for how spectacular and unique they would appear in life‚” said Michael Harvey‚ PhD‚ an ornithologist and UTEP assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences‚ in a statement.The yellow-crested helmetshrike‚ prior to this expedition‚ had not been seen for nearly 20 years‚ leading to fears that the species may have gone extinct. The team trekked over 120 kilometers (75 miles) through the depths of the Itombwe Massif‚ a mountain range in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The team‚ which consisted of both ornithologists from the US and Congolese researchers from the Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles‚ stumbled upon the helmetshrikes‚ which they described as “noisy and active groups in the midstory of the forest.” The bird has not been seen for so long because of the ongoing wars and political instability in the country that made visiting the area difficult. During the expedition the team found 18 of the yellow helmetshrikes at three different sites. The photos were then confirmed by Cameron Rutt‚ PhD‚ who leads the Search For Lost Birds Project at the American Bird Conservancy.“This inspires hope that perhaps the species still has a reasonably healthy population in the remote forests of the region‚” Harvey said. The herpetology team on the expedition also managed to rediscover an amphibian species‚ the red-bellied squeaker frog (Arthroleptis hematogaster) that was last seen in the 1950s.However the team are concerned for the future of the recently rediscovered frog and bird species due to the threats of habitat loss due to the growth of agriculture as well as mining. The IUCN Red List suggests that the species will lose more than 90 percent of its range due to climate change by 2080.“Mining and logging as well as the clearing of forests for agriculture are making inroads deep into the forests of the Itombwe range. We are in discussions with other researchers and conservation organizations to further efforts to protect the region’s forests and the helmetshrike‚” continued Harvey.This is by far not the first species to be rediscovered recently. In South Africa a golden mole was seen swimming through the sand dunes for the first time in 80 years‚ while over in Europe a tap dancing spider was spotted alive in Portugal for the first time since the 1930s. “Right now is a golden opportunity to protect these tropical forests‚ so that we don’t lose species like the helmetshrike before they are known and studied‚” concluded Harvey. 

One of the grandest fictions of our leftist media is that somehow‚ championing “social change” is what makes you a “bona fide news organization.” Anyone who resists that siren song isn’t a professional‚ but a propagandist. One-sided coverage is great -- if you've picked the right side. On February 19‚ National Public Radio displayed this fiction with an audaciously arrogant story headlined “Poland's new government deprograms its once far-right public media.” Let’s especially giggle at the word “deprogram.” To restore something to the Left is like breaking out of a cult. Morning Edition co-host A Martinez touted an “Iron Broom” of democracy restoring Poland’s public broadcasting‚ known by the acronym TVP. “Part of the new government's effort to rebuild the country's democracy involves returning a popular national TV broadcaster from a right-wing propaganda tool back to a bona fide news organization.” Unless you speak Polish‚ it’s hard to know if this finger-painting is accurate‚ but we can assume that if NPR proclaims it as “bona fide news‚” it’s soothingly socialist. The villains of this story were the “far right” Law and Justice Party‚ which rudely took over the government broadcaster like they were in charge of the government. NPR is praising the socialists for cleaning house‚ doing exactly the same thing they accuse the conservative party of doing. But when they do it‚ professionalism is returning. One Polish lefty uncorked this summary of the right-wingers (and please concentrate on how this fits NPR vs. the Republicans as you ponder it): “They were transformed into a propaganda outlet on the part of the ruling party whose main task was to attack and demonize the oppositional parties and politicians.” Later‚ he added they were “fueling polarization.” Liberal media outlets never do that‚ do they? NPR reporter Rob Schmitz announced that “the most notorious case” of bias under previous President Andrjez Duda came in the 2019 stabbing death of Pawel Adamowicz‚ the mayor of Gdansk. Schmitz said the mayor “was the subject of nearly 1‚800 negative TV stories about him in one year alone….The murderer took the microphone and blamed the mayor and his Civic Coalition party for imprisoning him‚ a sign to many in the party that TVP's negative coverage about the mayor's liberal policies shared the blame for his murder.” Forget that the murderer was a paranoid schizophrenic. The people who are allegedly opposed to “fueling polarization” are once again blaming conservative media for someone’s violent death. NPR can easily and shamelessly use “far right” to describe its opponents‚ but it doesn’t easily identify anyone as “far left.” These "public" broadcasters notoriously touted the book In Defense of Looting and another author who said riots against the police should be described as “rebellions.” They preposterously tried to deny the founders of Black Lives Matter were Marxists even as they self-identified as Marxists. Terms like “radical left” only seem to air on NPR in soundbites from Donald Trump‚ in segments containing headlines like “If Donald Trump becomes president again‚ how authoritarian would his agenda be?” (December 10‚ 2023)‚ “Trump's Rhetoric‚ Always Extreme‚ Is Getting More So” (December 19)‚ and “Trump Embraces Autocratic Language” (December 21). Trump had roughly talked of "rooting out" the "vermin" of the current government. Leftists don't use "autocratic language" like that. Instead‚ as they root out the opposition‚ they call it "deprogramming." 

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What does the Balatro Blank voucher do? You’ll figure out fairly quickly in Balatro that vouchers are one of the most game-changing things you can purchase from the shop. They can do many things‚ ranging from lowering all future shop prices in your run to making foil cards appear with more regularity. The Blank voucher‚ though‚ appears to do absolutely nothing. Balatro captured hearts and minds after its Steam Next Fest demo‚ and since the full release‚ it’s managed to capture hearts‚ clubs‚ spades‚ and diam- sorry. It’s popular‚ is what we’re saying‚ and we’re getting to grips with the deck-building card game so we can up the ante and go all the way. If you want to unlock your true potential in Balatro‚ you'll have to figure out what the Blank voucher does... or read a little bit ahead because we've done it already. Continue reading What is the Balatro Blank voucher? MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best roguelike games‚ Best card games‚ Best new PC games

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