Started in 1960 and it was rough. Heating issues, water cuts, backed up sewers... but I made it to 10k people. In 1968 I had to enable cheat mode for a one time "loan forgiveness". I built up debt into 1980 but finally turned the profitability corner. So here's what I'm going to try to do in my next play:
Macro Layout
Pollution is king. When things ramped up, 400 meters wasn’t enough. Put the edge of housing a full kilometer from industry and waste handling.
Rail is important early. Lay in a single rail line to pull gravel for construction, coal for a heating plant + bricks, and connecting the farm to the industry. Build your construction industry on one side of the border and your manufacturing industry on the other side of it.
City layout
Start with a bus stop and building your residential buildings 200 meters max away from it. Put paths parallel to roads. Create redundant paths to everything so upgrading to gravel, asphalt, etc. doesn’t break things. Build all your housing on one side of the bus stop initially.
Put city services based on vehicles (police, fire, etc.) outside the core of the city. They’ll only be walkable to half of the city compared to the bus stop but the city can be larger. Same with university and schools. Schools, kindergartens, etc. may become overcrowded as the city grows. Build the large hospital in the core as despite having ambulances it is primarily a walking building.
Transfer for big waste (large) should be at the edge of your city and connected to a rail line. Technical services delivers to there. From there, a rail line eventually exports it for handling. Until the rail station is built, use a distribution office to export waste. Sorting is key and should be researched early. Use Stand for big waste containers (small) attached to roads to collect waste whenever possible. Stand for small containers (large) can be used when footpath access is the only option but it’s remarkably less efficient. Citizens produce about 1:3 biological waste to mixed waste so allocate containers accordingly. Within the city only hospitals create hazardous waste and nobody creates aluminum waste.
Build the small party headquarters to start, then the large technical university. You'll need the numbers for faster education and faster tech tree climbing.
Import 3rd world immigrants once you have a minimum educated base to staff your schools. They're way cheaper. Quality housing > dense housing. Dense is great but dense and poor quality = high resource intake and low productivity. Densify in your second city, or rework.
Monuments only get your to 40% loyalty so don't lose your mind on it.
Water and Power
Redundant and parallel. Every time you place a transformer, place a high six way high voltage splitter with it. You will branch your power network to more places over time and need to reroute wires which you can only do while online with open switch ports. Never use the last switch port without building another chained switch.
Similarly, always branch your water and sewer. Unfortunately you can’t have multiple inputs to a line, but you can at least make sure that you can keep branching until the upstream has nothing left to give. Pay attention to pressure. Build the large water tower to supply the town.
Intake water quality is key. Your wells must be placed where pollution won’t reach. Industry should be fed directly from a well so you’re not spending chemicals purifying water. The more polluted the water is, the more chemicals you’ll have to spend to clean it up and that gets expensive very quickly.
Treating wastewater gives a massive reduction in pollution but also takes an expensive amount of chemicals. Best to put your outlet far away if possible instead of trying to treat the water. Drop a sewer switch (remember, always an empty outlet on every switch for infra changes!) before the outlet in case you change your mind.
Roads
Vehicles use the same amount of fuel as long as they’re in motion. If your vehicle top speed is a fraction of your road speed, you’re wasting money. Road stretches of ~500 meters need to be paved and should probably be divided highways. Tight industrial roads with lots of turns can be gravel because you won’t accelerate much anyway. Panel roads are also pretty good as intermediates here. If you’ve got advanced roads on, make sure to set give ways at every highway intersection or your vehicles will drop down to 50 km/h at every one.
Your center of town road probably gets congested and you can help that by banning heavy goods vehicles except supply.
Industry
Focus around one large long warehouse with a train connection at the end and factories directly connected around the warehouse. Central warehouse should have:

• Food factory
• Fabric factory
• 2x Clothing factory
• Chemical factory (possibly 2x)
• Livestock farm

The livestock farm is a bit of a wildcard. It consumes a lot of water and generates a lot of wastewater. Plan for this and consider whether it should be located near your farm or near your factory. I lean towards keeping it with the factory for the sake of concentrating your workforce on one high-throughput passenger line. We'll see how the next playthrough goes.
Mining
Steel is my highest cost and getting to a steel mill that runs even at 5% of capacity seems highly worthwhile. Find coal, colocate with coal mining, attach to train line. Attach transfer to large waste and manage as needed. General separation on site may be reasonable.
Farms
Grow locally. Farms are basically the one thing that doesn’t require people to produce profit or at least reduce cost. As the input to one of your early money makers (clothing)
Economy
Clothing is a top export and accessible early which is key. Build for it, use your own crops, and fill in the rest of the supply chain as you can (chemical plant). Same for steel after some time: find the iron, move it over… but start with making the plant run even with imports.
The republic runs on steel. Want to move something efficiently? You need rails and steel. Want to store it? More steel. More efficient building or process? Going to take steel.
Find coal, make steel. When you have steel, get the radio station going. Yeah, that's not an industry but the productivity boost from loyalty boost is huge.
Now that you have clothing and steel going, make a refinery.
From this point, find the most expensive import and produce it locally until the most expensive doesn’t matter. From there, climb the tech tree into autos and nuclear power. Expand to new cities.

Hey so I heard the math isn't hard in accounting but I can't do fractions I can't add subtract multiply or divide fractions I can do every other math K - 12th just fine but I've never understood fractions.
Will I need to be doing this in college and if I can't understand it should I just pick another major?
Algebra, geometry, trigonometry and physics math was easier to me then fractions.

Special thanks to u/SpacePaladin15 for creating the NoP universe.
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I'd also like to thank u/xskipy10 for their awesome fanart of the main cast as well as their recent Tohba meme and their fanart of Michael baysitting. You're work is a treasure!
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Thank you as well to u/Accomplished-Golf-59 for his take on Michael, Teylim, and Tohba in his submission for the Banner Art Contest, and u/Spacer_Catgirl4969 for their awesome music video featuring a pixel-art Dohkar in his bar. Be sure to give ALL of these awesome creators your love and support.
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And let's not forget u/Guywhoexists2812 who has been an awesome source of memes as well as sick pixel art, such as THIS and THIS!!!! And even THIS!!!!!! And how could I forget THIS!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!
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Today, we join Khornel and Michael as they prepare for yet another protest show as they continue the fight against those abusing their power. LETTUCE...conclude...for now...
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Songs Mentioned/Used: Gives You Hell by The All American Rejects
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Memory Transcript Subject: Khornel, Krakotl Talent Manager Date:[Standardized Human Time] February 2, 2137
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Aaaand DONE!
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I turned my head from side to side, inspecting my handiwork. While I still wasn’t QUITE as good at it as Ms. Teylim, touching up my feather dye was becoming easier and easier with practice. I’d even experimented a bit this time, and I was really liking how it turned out.
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If only this crappy mirror wasn’t so smudgy.
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Regardless of the state of the motel’s bathroom mirror, I was satisfied with the way I looked. My blue and newly touched up orange feathers were complimenting each other perfectly. And the slight hint of pink along the border definitely helped the whole spectrum of colors come together.
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Perfect.
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Once I was out of the bathroom, I sat down on the bed I was sharing and went through my bag to make sure I had everything.
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Pad? Check!
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Client contracts? Check!
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Pens? Check!
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Extra pair of glasses in case he forgets…again…
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Check!
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Credits for the fare? Eeeehhh, we can walk.
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Other than that though, I had everything.
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“Hey… Khorry?”
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My crest perked up at the voice. I turned around to see Scolina working at the small table in the kitchen area.
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“Yeah? What’s up?”
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“Sorry… I know you’re about to leave, but could you…help me with this?”
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I gave her a reassuring smile as I came over. Looking at the page she was working on, it seemed she’d gotten stuck on one of the problems for her math courses. Since she hadn’t received any education in the facility, she had a lot to catch up on, especially considering she was only a cycle younger than me.
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“Oh, I see the problem. You were right to divide both sides of the equation here, but the problem is when you tried, you accidentally wrote the fraction upside down. Since you’re dividing the zero by something else, it should be on top.”
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“So when I accidentally put it on the bottom-“
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“You created an irrational loop because-“
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“You can’t divide by zero.”
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Scolina cradled her head in her paws, continuing to stare down at her homework.
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“Thanks, Khorry. Sorry I’m so dumb.”
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“Hey! Don’t you ever say that about yourself! You’re not dumb, ‘Lina. You’re just behind, and that isn’t your fault.”
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“But…but I-“
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“Listen, if I had a credit for every time I made a dumb mistake in just these past few months alone, we wouldn’t need to live here. Making mistakes doesn’t make you dumb, it just means you’re learning.”
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She sniffled a bit before wiping away at her with her arm, the small pink sleeve that covered her scar soaking up any tears that were forming.
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“Thanks, Khorry.”
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I bent down and draped my wings around my sister, giving her a nice warm hug. After everything, while she DID have a very touching reunion with her father, the absence of her mother and the introduction of Trivah, Dailo, and Trilly was a bit too much change to deal with all at once.
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So we all decided that she’d stay with us for now until she’d adjusted a bit. It was odd at first, to be sure, but I liked having her here. Grandfather adored her and I had to admit, having a little sister, at least unofficially, was something I was definitely warming up to.
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“Always happy to help. Now, I’ll be working late tonight so be sure to get both yourself and grandfather to bed at a decent time, alright?”
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“Okay. Bye-bye, Khorry.”
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“Bye-bye, hatchling.”
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I ran my beak through her head fur, preening out a small tangle and freeing a spine that was loose. Once I’d disposed of it, I turned to head out the door, but not before stopping at the other bed, where Grandfather was sat, listening to the radio. His expression instantly brightened as he heard me coming.
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“Off to change the world again, Little ‘Nel?”
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“I’m gonna try.”
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“I know you will.”
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I knelt down and gave him his hug as well. I missed this. After so long without him, every hug was a nostalgic treasure.
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“And I’m not little anymore!”
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“Perhaps not, but you’ll always be MY Little ‘Nel.”
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“I know, Grandfather. I’ll be sure to make you proud out there.”
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“You already do, my child. Now go. And be sure to tell that future Grandson-in-law of mine to run a comb through his head fur from time to time. I can’t even see and I can tell how scruffy he looks.”
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I pulled away as felt my face turn warm, adding a splash of purple to the spectrum of color on my face.
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“It’s not like that! WE’RE not like that! …Not yet, anyways…”
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“Well, then tell him to hurry it up already! I want great grandpups before I die!”
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CAW! CRAW!
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“GRRRRGH!! NOPE! Not having this conversation! Goodbye! Love you!”
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“Love you too! Best of luck today!”
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“Bye-bye, Khorry!”
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I barely heard the taunts of my family behind me as I stomped out the door and slammed it. After taking a moment to settle my feathers back down, I walked down the hall to the next door over.
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Knock knock knock!
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“It’s open!”
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My mood instantly brightened from the kind, muffled, voice inside the room. I opened the door and was immediately greeted by the sight of Ms. Teylim making a meal, along with her adorable hatchling excitedly bouncing in his high chair.
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“Khornel, dear!”
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“NEWWY!!!”
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I walked over at a brisk pace before kneeling down to give them both hugs.
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“Where’s Michael?”
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“He should be-“
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SLAM!!!
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“Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Lost track of time!”
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I couldn’t help but roll my eyes as my scatterbrained best friend and business partner sprinted into the kitchen area and quickly grabbed a slice of strayu from the table.
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“You ALWAYS lose track of time!”
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As much as I wanted to scold him for not being ready by the time I got here AGAIN, we didn’t have the time.
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“Let’s just get moving before we’re late.”
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“Right! Let’s go!”
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However, just as we were about to leave…
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“Ahem. Forgetting something, my joey?”
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Michael looked up for a moment and frantically began checking his pockets before looking back at Ms. Teylim. Her smug look said it all. After a quick facepalm, he immediately jogged back to the kitchen area and knelt down to give her a goodbye hug, as well as a peck on the cheek for good measure. Lucky…
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“Muah! Bye, Ma! Love you!”
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“Be careful!”
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“We will!”
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Once he broke free from the hug, he made one last side trip to Tohba’s high chair, already going to plant a kiss on the top of his head. Again, lucky…
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“MIKEY!”
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“Mmmmmmm-“
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“HEEHYEHAHAHA! TICKWES!!”
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“-mmmMUAH! Bye-bye, Bud! ¡Te amo!”
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“BYE-BYE, MIKEY!!”
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With his goodbye hugs and kisses out of the way he made his way over to me…
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My turn?!
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…Only to run right past me and out the door.
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Awwwe… Phooey…
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Dejected as I was, I chased after him and down the hall.
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“What?! I don’t get a kiss, too?!”
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“Buy me dinner first, Bird Brain!”
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“UGH!! You’re the WORST!!”
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Memory Transcript Subject: Dohkar, Venlil Militia Leader Date:[Standardized Human Time] February 2, 2137
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“COMMANDER ON DECK!”
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STOMP!
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My four brothers stood in a line in front of the bar, still as statues as I came down the stairs. I still wasn’t sure how to feel about most of them. While I left, they all stayed, and continued fighting for The Guild even when they knew what they were doing was wrong.
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Still, I knew these men. They all trained with me, ate with me, stood by me…grew up with me, and now, they stood here, ready to fight with me. While I could never forgive them for standing by while the people I loved suffered, I am willing to let them prove they’re willing to change.
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“At ease.”
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I marched in front of them, inspecting each to make sure their garb and gear was in order. In some ways, it resembled their old Guild uniforms minus any actual environmental protection. However, instead of chrome, we wore the same white coloration of the APCs that had broken through the Guild Offices walls. Black boots, gloves and bandoliers offset the white of our suits. And finally, five stripes of bright, blazing, blue accented our new badges, reminiscent of not only the blue helmets of the UN troops that fought by our sides, but also the eyes of a particular human musician, one I was looking forward to hearing sing again.
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“Alright men, in order for this rally to go smoothly, we need to be on our guard. My most recent talks with Tevis didn’t go quite as well as I’d hoped, but I did manage to get him to leave us be for the most part. While we WILL still have to deal with the Interim Guard being there, they won’t be coming nearly as armed or numerous as usual. They’re simply there to observe, nothing more. Keep your eyes on them, but don’t do anything rash, or let any of the civilians do so either.”
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I turned and marched down the line once more. While I was itching to move onto individual orders, there was the Mazik in the room to address.
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“Now, I know many of us are shaken by news of the archives on Talsk. Believe me, I am too, but that’s all the more reason for us to stay vigilant. The people are afraid, confused, and questioning everything. The Magistrate, on top of their normal nonsense, will be that much more desperate to keep control. It is our job to be the barrier between the people we serve, and those willing to use this crisis to exploit them. There will come a time to rest and collect our thoughts, but now is not that time. The people need us. This town needs us, and until that is no longer the case, we MUST remain strong.”
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“SIR!”
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Once I was at the end of the line again, I turned back around and began giving out individual orders, starting with-
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“Bennic, out of everyone else in the squad, you’re currently the one with the best rapport with the people. I’m having you in charge of evacuation in case something goes wrong. Keep your eyes peeled for escape routes and be ready to begin herding everyone together at a moment’s notice.”
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“Yes, sir.”
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Next in line was Abra, our weapon specialist. Out of everyone, he was our best shot, even better than me. But he ALSO had one of the itchiest flamer fingers among us as well.”
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“Abra, have you already made sure everyone’s gear is working properly?”
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“Yes, sir. Every sidearm, baton, and smoke bomb we have is cleaned, checked, and functional.”
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“Good, then I just want you to stay vigilant. Find some higher ground and keep an extra close eye on the Interim. The moment one of them tries something funny, I want to know.”
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“And if they try harming the civilians?”
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I furrowed my brow at him. I knew what he was getting at.
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“Aim for NON-lethal, and make sure you have proof that THEY were the aggressors first.”
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He gave a dejected chuff before responding.
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“Yes, sir…”
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What am I going to do with you, little brother?
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Next was Ento, probably the only other Yotul here in town other than Teylim and Tohba, were they still here.
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“Ento, were you able to make your last diagnostics check on the sound equipment last paw.”
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“Yep! Everything on our end was working perfectly last I checked. We’ll still have to wait until they try connecting to know for sure, though.”
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“Do everything you can to make sure it works. Leave the Interim and civilians to us.”
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“Yes, sir!”
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Finally, there was our medic, Canuck. Besides Bennic, this Zurulian was probably the one I was closest with growing up, if only because I’d always get the brunt of Albiel’s punishments when I’d stand up for the others, and it was usually Canuck patching me up.
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“Canuck, in the case of an emergency, I want you to return to Dr. Forrik’s clinic. Since he’s still caring for his wife, I need you there getting everything ready in case something happens.”
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“You sure you lot will be alright without me there?”
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“We’ll be fine. The clinic will need you more than we will.”
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“Yes, sir.”
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With one last turn, I inspected my squad one last time.
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“One last question.”
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“What is it, Ben?”
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“What about our…junior recruit?”
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I sighed and looked back towards the staircase leading upstairs, just in time to catch a pair of suspiciously Nevok-shaped ears dip back from around the corner. I made sure to speak loud enough for him to hear me.
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“He is to stay here and hold the fort. And he should bear in mind, I don’t just let ANYONE watch over MY bar. This is a large responsibility I’m trusting him with, and I trust he won’t let me down.”
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The ears reappeared and solemnly nodded before retreating back up the stairs. Once I was sure my point was made, I turned back to my squad.
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“Alright, if that’s all, we’ve got protestors to escort! Let’s move out!”
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“SIR!”
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Memory Transcript Subject: Khornel, Krakotl Talent Manager Date:[Standardized Human Time] February 2, 2137
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The Soulroot tram station was surprisingly bustling. I half-expected the place to be a ghost town like most places were after Cilani’s interview. But with the news breaking about the Farsul’s archives breaking, it seemed the people of Soulroot were out and about more than ever, either flocking to the many churches and chapels in the area, or simply deciding to pray at the Soulroot itself for answers…any answers.
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“Damn. I always forget just how big that thing is.”
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Speak of the devil…
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We both gazed out the window of the tram car as it passed through the massive central park area of the city. In its exact center, dwarfing even the buildings surrounding the large, wooded park, was the city’s namesake: Kihri, The Soulroot. One of five massive Seraphim Trees spread across Venlil Prime.
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“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?”
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“Yeah. I can’t believe it was so close. I would’ve loved to have visited here.”
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“Maybe we will when we have time.”
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“I hope so.”
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Once we passed the park, we turned back around and returned to our pads. He was working on another instrumental while I decided to pull up our current client list. I suddenly remembered something as soon as the list loaded and I saw the newest addition.
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“Oh! By the way! I got us a new client!”
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“Oh, sick! Who are they?”
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“A restaurant in the next district over. It’s called The Lackadaisy. It IS an hour-long tram ride there, but it pays well, AND I got us a few perks as well.”
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“OoooOOOoo! Like?”
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“Like us getting to eat AND take out half off on the paws we play there. It might not be dinner, but I’d say half off lunch and take out once a week isn’t half bad.”
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“You da bird, ‘Nel. When do we start?”
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“You are scheduled to play during the lunch rush in two paws. We are to enter through the back entrance and meet with co-owners Sylvon and Kenta.”
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“Sylvon and Kenta. Got it!”
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Now approaching: Five Meadows
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“This is our stop.”
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We knew the tram wouldn’t take us all the way there. The Magistrate’s lockdown had seen to that, but that didn’t mean we couldn’t hang out by the border. In fact, the border that separated Soulroot and Five Meadows had become a popular gathering spot for people from both towns to “voice their displeasure”, which was exactly why we were here. With the lockdown of Five Meadows in effect, the war still ongoing, and the news of archives now made public, the people’s opinion of the local Magistrate was at an all time low. It was time to take advantage of that.
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Once we exited the tram and saw crowds growing on both sides of the fence separating us from our home, we immediately spotted the makeshift soundstage we’d be using, as well as several figures on the other side garbed in white. They only got clearer once we got closer. Michael was even more excited to see them as I was.
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“Heya Dohk!”
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Dohkar, dressed in the new uniform of the Five Meadows Militia, greeted us with a warm smile, being sure to stay a decent distance away for the electric fence.
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“Mike, Feathers, it’s good to see you two are alright.”
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“Likewise, nice duds by the way. Totally doesn’t make you look like an oompa loompa or anything.”
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“Watch it, Ape. I’ll have you know it was Trivah who made these.”
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“Shit! Is she alright?”
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“She’s fully recovered and here with her family. You’ll forgive me if I don’t call them over. The last thing I want is Trilly and Dailo trying to get through this fence.”
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“No worries. Just tell them I said hi.”
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A yotul garbed in the same uniform ran up to Dohkar and greeted us with a nod.
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“Everything’s set up, you two. Once you're connected, let me know and we’ll do a sound check.”
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“Right!”
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Memory Transcript Subject: Michael Ruiz Andrews, Human Street Musician Date:[Standardized Human Time] February 2, 2137
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Breathe…focus…
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Sometimes…I wonder if it was all worth it…
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Breathe…focus…
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In a lot of ways, life was the same as it was back on Earth. Here I was, stuck in a shitty apartment, well…motel room now, I guess. I still had a shitty landlord that hated my guts. I was still struggling to make ends meet, playing music I wasn’t all that crazy about for people I wasn’t all that crazy about. I still didn’t have any real direction to take my life in, or any real plans for the future. So…was it worth it?
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Breathe…focus…
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I’d lost almost everything I had. I lost my guitar, the only real thing I had to remind me of Dad, and everything he taught me. I lost pretty much all of my possessions. Hell, the only reason I had new clothes to use at all was thanks to the human embassy here in Soulroot. I lost my home a second time, just days after finally bringing myself to start calling it that. I even almost lost my life. My scar still itches from time to time just thinking about it. So…was it really worth it? Remembering all the pain, suffering, heartache, and loss I’d been through in these past few months, sometimes I really question it.
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Breathe…focus…
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But then…then I remember the GOOD times. I remember all the people I’ve met, all the songs and memories we’ve made together.
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Breathe…focus…
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I remember meeting Mom, and my baby brother. I remember singing for them for the first time. I remember sitting and eating breakfast with them, talking and laughing the early hours away. I remember watching Tohba and teaching him how to sing, just like Dad taught me. I remember meeting Dohk, his honest words and advice keeping me grounded when the world around me just didn’t make sense. I remember meeting ‘Nel, slowly but surely building a friendship and trust that I wouldn’t give for anything.
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Hopefully she puts up with me long enough for me to finally be ready.
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I remember all the strife and challenges I’ve gone through, knowing that I wasn’t alone for any of it. I remember all the things I’ve gained: A life, a family, a mentor, a partner…
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A home…
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Breathe…focus…
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A home worth fighting for.
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Breathe…focus…
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A home worth living for.
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Breathe…focus…
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A home…worth playing for…
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So breathe…focus…and play…
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The speakers come to life with a chill beat, soft snares and shakers keeping the pace as the ambience builds. A triangle marks my entrance as I take over, plucking at Teyrin’s strings. I nod along with the bouncing melody, letting myself get into it. I see a few in the crowd begin swaying along as I begin to let my soul sing.
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I wake up every evenin’…with a big smile on my face! And it never feels out of place!
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It’s hard to not grin as I speak, letting the notes express my current mood perfectly. I make sure to give those Interim jerks guarding the border a smug look which they definitely don’t appreciate.
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And you’re still probably workin’…at a nine-to-five pace! I wonder how bad that tastes!
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When you see my face, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell!
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When you walk my way, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives yooou hell!
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I turn to ‘Nel, standing up on stage singing next to me. There’s no one I’d rather be up here with.
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Now, where’s your picket fence, Love? And where’s that shiny car? Did it ever get you far?
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You never seemed so dense, Love! I’ve never seen you fall so hard! Do you know where you are?
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When I’m up here…and I think about my old life on Earth…
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And truth be told, I miss you… (Miss you…)
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And truth be told, I’M LYIN’!!!
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We turn to the closest Interim chump keeping us from our home.
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WHEN YOU SEE MY FACE, HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL! HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL!
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WHEN YOU WALK MY WAY, HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL! HOPE IT GIVES YOOOU HELL!
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WHEN YOU FIND A MAN THAT’S WORTH A DAMN AND TREATS YOU WELL!
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THEN HE’S THE FOOL, YOU’RE JUST AS WELL! HOPE IT GIVES YOOOU HELL!
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I hope it gives you hell!
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Memory Transcript Subject: Jerrick, Nevok Fugitive Date:[Standardized Human Time] February 2, 2137
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The mood of the song calmed for a moment. I watched the live broadcast just hoping nothing would happen. Everything going on was just so CRAZY. With the raid, the Magistrate taking over, and now the archives, it just made everything I did in the name of The Guild even more pointless.
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Tomorrow, you’ll be thinkin’ to yourself, “Yeah, where did it all go wrong?” But the list goes on and on!
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Everything I did for HIM…pointless…
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And truth be told, I miss you… (Miss you…)
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And truth be told, I’M LYIN’!!!
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I hope you rot, Father…
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WHEN YOU SEE MY FACE, HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL! HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL!
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WHEN YOU WALK MY WAY, HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL! HOPE IT GIVES YOOOU HELL!
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WHEN YOU FIND A MAN THAT’S WORTH A DAMN AND TREATS YOU WELL!
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THEN HE’S THE FOOL, YOU’RE JUST AS WELL! HOPE IT GIVES YOOOU HELL!
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Memory Transcript Subject: Michael Ruiz Andrews, Human Street Musician Date:[Standardized Human Time] February 2, 2137
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A figure stands in my periphery… I know who she is…
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Now you’ll never see! What you’ve done to me!
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She’s not my mother…
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You can take back your memories, they’re no good to me!
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“You’ll never be rid of me, Blue.” I know…
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You can hiss all your lies! You can look me in the eyes!
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With that sad, sad, look that you wear so well!
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But that just means you get to watch as I live my life without you in it.
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[Warning!: You Are About To Access Restricted Files: Continue?: Y/N…]
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[The Following Is A News Broadcast Archived By Magistrate Intelligence…]
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[The camera opens on a female, human, reporter with green eyes standing in front of an energetic crowd…]
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“WHEN YOU SEE MY FACE, HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL!!! HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL!!!”
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“AS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME, THE “FREE FIVE MEADOWS” RALLY IS WELL UNDER WAY!”
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“WHEN YOU WALK MY WAY, HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL!!! HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL!!!”
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“AND YOU CAN JUST FEEL THE ENERGY OF THE CROWD HERE!”
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“WHEN YOU FIND A MAN THAT’S WORTH A DAMN AND TREATS YOU WELL!!!”
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“ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE FENCE, IT APPEARS THAT THE RUMORED “FIVE MEADOWS MILITIA” ARE ACTUALLY HERE GUARDING THE PROTESTORS!”
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“THEN HE’S THE FOOL!!! YOU’RE JUST AS WELL!!! HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL!!!”
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“HOPEFULLY, WE’LL BE ABLE TO GET AN INTERVIEW! UNTIL THEN, JUST LISTEN TO THIS!!!”
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Memory Transcript Subject: Michael Ruiz Andrews, Human Street Musician Date:[Standardized Human Time] February 2, 2137
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Breathe…focus…and ROAR!!!
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To my old life on Earth!
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WHEN YOU SEE MY FACE, HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL! HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL!
“GIVES YOU HELL!!!”
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To the Federation killing my people!
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WHEN YOU WALK MY WAY, HOPE IT GIVES YOU HELL! HOPE IT GIVES YOOOU HELL!
“GIVES YOU HELL!!!”
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To the Magistrate holding my hometown hostage!
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WHEN YOU HEAR THIS SONG AND SING ALONG, THOUGH YOU’LL NEVER TELL!
“YOU’LL NEVER TELL!!!”
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To every last asshole who thinks I’m a monster for what I am!
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THEN YOU’RE THE FOOL, I’M JUST AS WELL! HOPE IT GIVES YOOOU HELL!
“GIVES YOU HELL!!!”
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To that monster who took my mom, rotting in whatever cell he’s being held in.
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WHEN YOU HEAR THIS SONG, I HOPE THAT IT WILL GIVE YOU HELL!
“GIVE YOU HELL!!!”
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And lastly, to that figure, that voice in my head telling me I don’t deserve a home…
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YOU CAN SING ALONG! I HOPE THAT IT PUTS YOU THROUGH HELL…
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The End

My son is in the fifth grade and doing well for the most part but constantly backslides when it comes to decimals and fractions. It seems like it comes down to a basic misunderstanding of what a decimal or a fraction is. He can look at a decimal or a fraction and plug in a formula but he can't answer basic questions about them and has a distinct lack of understanding about what these numbers represent.
As an example, if I were to show him 1.5 and I explain to him that the 1 represents 1 whole, complete, number or object and the .5 represents half of an object he seems like he gets it but then when I ask him how much he has he answers 6.
"So you have 1 whole pizza here, and then you have 1/2 of a pizzas. That 1/2 of a pizza is .5 pizza - it's less than one. How many whole pizzas are there?"
"1"
"Ok, good. So you have 1 whole pizza and we still have .5 of a pizza. If we add another .5 of a pizza how many do you have?"
With a question like that he'll answer 3, 11, 6, 5, or 1 but won't ever land on 2. He's so fixated on "5" in "0.5" that his ability to comprehend it as less than one is completely missing.
Here is what I have tried so far:
Pizzas (whole pizzas and slices).
Money - I thought this would be good because it's got the system backed in already. A dollar is a dollar, a dime is .10, a penny is .01 but for whatever reason this seems to barely work at all. I think he sees "a dollar" and "a penny" as two separate things instead of 1 of them being "1 dollar" and the other being ".01 dollar."
Lego - We're building a wall that is 10 studs wide - a 1x2 brick is .2 or 2/10s of the wall, a 1x3 is .3 or 3/10s of the wall, etc. How tall can you build a wall with these Lego. Basically giving him a pile of bricks and explaining how each of them is a 'part' of a wall. I really thought this was going to work but he was completely lost and asked to stop doing it this way.
I was able to get some success with fractions by giving him a handout that correlated fractions to Pokémon - Diglett is 1/3 of a Dugtrio. If you have 8 Digglet you can make 2 Dugtrio and would have 2/3 left.
Last night I tried a different approach when discussing decimals because he was having trouble understanding where 'tenths' and 'thousandths' were. I drew a bucket and said "If I gave you a spoon that holds '.001' of the water needed to fill this bucket how many times would you have to pour out the spoon to fill the bucket?" Then I had to walk him through it step by step - ten pours of ".001" to get it to ".01". So every ten pours of ".001" raises the ".01" by ".01" to "0.02" then "0.03" until eventually it gets to ".1". He then realized that it took 100 pours of ".001" to get the bucket ".1" of the way filled and that he would have to do that 10 times - so 10 x 100 is a thousand, the spoon holds 1/1000 - he got it. Then I asked him, "OK, if I give you a cup for the next bucket and each pour fills the bucket up "0.1" how many pours would it take and he was completely lost again.
I tried finding some videos to explain this but everything I watched bypasses teaching what a decimal is and jumps straight into their structure - they show "this is the tenth space" but don't explain what that means or how a "tenth" is different from the whole number.
Does anyone have any recommendations for videos or methods I could use to approach this from a different angle? It's like he's hit a wall - he can multiple and divide decimals and fractions when he remembers the 'rules' for doing so but the numbers are so devoid of meaning for him that his comprehension is shot.
Thanks for any assistance.

If you can divide 1 bitcoin into really tiny amounts of fractional bitcoin, doesn't this take away the alleged scarcity? Sure on the ledger it was originally 1 bitcoin, but if can sell 1/10000th of a bitcoin doesn't this effectively make the total available supply 10000 times larger?

This stupid, stinky parody on a crypto wallet requires absolutely insane commissions to be paid each time you try to exchange any TRX token, such as USDT. They are usually as high as $3.5 dollars, which is ABSOLUTELY unjust and much, MUCH higher than average.
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Shit, these "wallets" are THE ONE WALLET, just with DIFFERENT TOKENS!!!
Each time when I try to send USDT, I must add funds to my SEPARATE TRX account, because these shitty people separated THE SAME wallet to two different ones. I lose funds due to large commissions, 2-3 times higher than average, and I cannot transfer money at all when I have no TRX, I cannot even buy it, because shitty TrustWallet have no exchanges.
When I want to pay TRX for USDT, I need to pay... TRX!!!!!!! How can it be??? I must pay for transferring funds between THE SAME WALLET???? I was so inexperienced that I couldn't understand it. But now, I see. I see, how these f*cking scammers pwned me.
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This stupid, stinky parody on a crypto wallet requires absolutely insane commissions to be paid each time you try to exchange any TRX token, such as USDT. They are usually as high as $3.5 dollars, which is ABSOLUTELY unjust and much, MUCH higher than average.
Moreover, it divides your actual USDT wallet and TRX wallet as... TWO FCKING SIMILAR WALLETS, while they are technically the same and have the same address. I started to use it when I didn't understand crypto well, so I've downloaded it as one of the most popular. I was unable to understand their shitty stink, making this wallet seemingly good only for complete noobs.
Shit, these "wallets" are THE ONE WALLET, just with DIFFERENT TOKENS!!!
Each time when I try to send USDT, I must add funds to my SEPARATE TRX account, because these shitty people separated THE SAME wallet to two different ones. I lose funds due to large commissions, 2-3 times higher than average, and I cannot transfer money at all when I have no TRX, I cannot even buy it, because shitty TrustWallet have no exchanges.
When I want to pay TRX for USDT, I need to pay... TRX!!!!!!! How can it be??? I must pay for transferring funds between THE SAME WALLET???? I was so inexperienced that I couldn't understand it. But now, I see. I see, how these fcking scammers pwned me.
That's why I've lost several profitable deals and lose some fraction of my funds. I'm so fcking disappointed, I cannot even describe it. I feel only desperation and rageml, total RAGE towards people who've used me as an inexperienced crypto noob to make me pay for their shitty, lame wallet.
Stupid, fcking piece of popularized scam using a lack of people's literacy in crypto to make them pay more and fund TrustWallet instead of being productive for themselves. Never do my mistake. Never. Abandon this stinky crypto wallet parody.
Fck TrustWallet. Fck stinky scammers that make profits on inexperienced crypto pals. Forever. And always.

This stupid, stinky parody on a crypto wallet requires absolutely insane commissions to be paid each time you try to exchange any TRX token, such as USDT. They are usually as high as $3.5 dollars, which is ABSOLUTELY unjust and much, MUCH higher than average.
Moreover, it divides your actual USDT wallet and TRX wallet as... TWO F*CKING SIMILAR WALLETS, while they are technically the same and have the same address. I started to use it when I didn't understand crypto well, so I've downloaded it as one of the most popular. I was unable to understand their shitty stink, making this wallet seemingly good only for complete noobs.
Shit, these "wallets" are THE ONE WALLET, just with DIFFERENT TOKENS!!!
Each time when I try to send USDT, I must add funds to my SEPARATE TRX account, because these shitty people separated THE SAME wallet to two different ones. I lose funds due to large commissions, 2-3 times higher than average, and I cannot transfer money at all when I have no TRX, I cannot even buy it, because shitty TrustWallet has no exchanges.
When I want to pay TRX for USDT, I need to pay... TRX!!!!!!! How can it be??? I must pay for transferring funds between THE SAME WALLET???? I was so inexperienced that I couldn't understand it. But now, I see. I see, how these f*cking scammers pwned me.
That's why I've lost several profitable deals and lose some fraction of my funds. I'm so f*cking disappointed, I cannot even describe it. I feel only desperation and rage, total RAGE towards people who've used me as an inexperienced crypto noob to make me pay for their shitty, lame wallet.
Stupid, f*cking piece of popularized scam using a lack of people's literacy in crypto to make them pay more and fund TrustWallet instead of being productive for themselves. Never do my mistake. Never. Abandon this stinky crypto wallet parody.
Fck TrustWallet. Fck stinky scammers that make profits on inexperienced crypto pals. Forever. And always.

I am studying about Loan Amortization and the book I'm currently studying from starts by presenting a problem that would allow to arrive at the general formula:
(1+i)ⁿ * i / (1+i)ⁿ - 1
It says someone got a loan (L) at a monthly interest rate (i) that'll be payed in 3 months in equal payments (P)
So 1º month we have our outstanding balance: L (1 + i) - P
2º month: [ L (1 +i) - P ] * (1 + i) - P
L (1+ i)² - (1+i)P - P
3º month: [L (1+ i)² - (1+i)P - P] * (1 + i) - P
L(1+ i)³ - (1+i)²P - (1 + i)P - P
At the end of the third month the outstanding balance must be 0, so:
L(1+ i)³ - (1+i)²P - (1 + i)P - P = 0
L(1+ i)³= (1+i)²P + (1 + i)P + P
L(1+ i)³ = P [ (1+i)²+ (1 + i) + 1]
L(1+ i)³ / (1+i)²+ (1 + i) + 1 = P
Up until now everything is wonderful. I can understand why everything was done. But then the book says that this part (1+i)²+ (1 + i) + 1 is equal (1 + i)³ - 1 / (1 + i) -1 and you must so replace it. And it really is, but how the hell did it get to that? Is there a property I don't know about that I should to follow the logic?
Anyway, made the changes the formula is:
L(1+ i)³ / (1 + i)³ - 1 / (1 + i) -1 = P
So this is, I imagine, a case of dividing fractions, where you take the numerator times the inverse of the denominator, that would look like:
L(1+ i)³ * (1 + i) -1 / 1 * (1 + i)³ - 1 = P
But the book just skips that all around and jumps to the conclusion that is:
L(1 + i)³ * i / (1+ i)³ - 1 = P
So my question is how did L(1+ i)³ * (1 + i) -1 / 1 * (1 + i)³ - 1 = P became L(1 + i)³ * i / (1+ i)³ - 1 = P?
I can only get to L(1 + i)⁴ - L (1+ i)³ / 1 * (1 + i)³.
If somebody could help me that would be very appreciated. thx

All included patients received oral finasteride and topical minoxidil, or combined with six sessions of Er: YAG laser at 2-week intervals.
Patients were divided into medication or combined therapy groups. The efficacy of the two therapies was evaluated by the investigator's Global Assessment (IGA) scores and the patient's Likert satisfaction scale at week 12 and week 24.
Changes in total, terminal and villous hair count, total and terminal hair diameter, and AGA grade were also recorded. Adverse events were evaluated at each follow-up.
A total of 192 male patients with AGA were included, including 67 receiving combination treatment, and 125 receiving medication treatment.
At week 24, the combination treatment afforded superior outcomes in the IGA score, patient's global assessment, total and terminal hair counts, and diameters (all P<0.05).
No severe adverse events were reported in both groups. The combined therapy of ablative fractional Er: YAG laser and medication was superior in treating male AGA than single medication therapy without serious adverse effects.
Link to Study

Can anyone please point out where I maybe going wrong?
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• Sequences
• Understand and use algebraic notation
• Equality and equivalence
• Place value and ordering integers and decimals
• Fraction, decimal and percentage equivalence.
• Solving problems with addition and subtraction
• Solving problems with multiplication and division
• Fractions and percentages of amounts
• Operations and equations with directed number
• Addition and subtraction of fractions
• Construction, measuring and using geometric notation
• Developing geometric reasoning
• Developing number sense
• Sets and probability
• Prime numbers and proof
  
  • Ratio and scale
  • Multiplicative change
  • Multiply and divide fractions
  • Working in the Cartesian plane
  • Representing data
  • Tables and probability
  • Brackets, equations and inequalities
  • Sequences
  • Indices
  • Fractions and percentages
  • Standard and Index form
  • Number sense

In August 1891, William T. Lynn, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and member of the British Astronomical Association, wrote a letter to the editors of the Observatory (a journal devoted to astronomy) concerning Assyrian eclipses. In his letter, he related the following:
"But two, if not three, eclipses (of the Sun) do really appear to be recorded in the Assyrian inscriptions. The first of these occurred in B.C. 763 on the 15th of June, and was total in or near Nineveh. There appears no reason to doubt that it is mentioned in the Assyrian so-called 'Eponym Canon,' which was interpreted by Sir Henry Rawlinson in 1862, from the fragments of terra-cotta tablets brought over by Sir A. H. Layard and placed in the British Museum. The inscription in question states (as kindly translated for me by Mr. T. G. Pinches, of the British Museum) that in the "Eponymy of Bur-sagale, governor of Gozan, a revolt in Ashur (the city) took place in the month Sivan and the Sun was eclipsed." This, according to the Canon, was in the eighth year of the reign of Assur-day-an, and the record must be allowed to fix subsequent dates in the Canon with great precision. For although Oppert, by assuming a lacuna of 46 years in it, endeavored to identify the eclipse with the annular one of June 13th, B.C. 809, there seems little ground for this or doubt that the view of George Smith is correct, and the eclipse the total one of June 15th, B.C. 763."
Assigning the solar eclipse in the Eponymy of Bur-sagale to the year 763 B.C.E. established the anchor date for the chronology of the Neo-Assyrian period. Lynn stated the eclipse was then fixed to the eighth year; however, it appears in the canon published by Smith in the ninth year - perhaps a lapse in memory. Professor Julius Oppert maintained that there was a break in the canon because he recognized a conflict with the Biblical records and concluded that the eclipse of 809 B.C.E. was the correct one. That Oppert held this opinion, of 46 missing years, is also confirmed by George Smith on page 75 in his book, "The Assyrian Eponym Canon," which he published 16 years before Lynn wrote his letter to the editors of the Observatory.
Moreover, neither Smith nor Lynn were willing to accept Oppert's opinion that 46 years were missing from the canon. Trying to add back 46 years in a single place in the canon was more than they were willing to attempt. Nevertheless, when the Biblical chronology is aligned to the accepted chronology (using 539 B.C.E.), 46 years are missing from the Assyrian and Babylonian periods, but certainly not in one place. Within the cannon, only 15 years are missing between the reigns of Ashur-nerari V and Tiglath-Pileser III. An additional ten years are missing in the post-canonical period from the reign of Ashurbanipal after the reign of Samas-suma-ukin and before the reign of Kandalanu, during which time Ashurbanipal ruled over Babylon. Another 21 years are missing from the Neo-Babylonian period, after the death of Labashi-Marduk and before the reign of Nabonidus, during which time Belshazzer exercised military control without being officially acknowledged as king. These are the 46 missing years, but not the 46 missing years Oppert thought should have been added back into the canon in one place (for more specific information, see the articles "Interregnum" and "Eponymen").
Therefore, the eclipse of June 13th, 809 B.C.E., is the one that occurred in the Eponymy of Bur-sagale. Oppert was correct but unable to understand where the chronological errors actually were, and Lynn and Smith were right to reject Oppert's opinion, but only because he proposed to add back 46 years in a single place in the canon. Nevertheless, the anchor date of June 15th, 763 B.C.E., for the Neo-Assyrian empire is wrong. Additionally, a lunar eclipse occurred in the eponym of Mutakkil-Marduk (Waterman Vol. 2, 1930:483, Letter 1406) on October 21, 844 B.C.E., 35 years prior to the solar eclipse in the eponym of Bur-Sagale.
Lynn's second reference to an Assyrian eclipse is also recorded in his letter and reads as follows:
"An eclipse is also mentioned in an Assyrian tablet in the British museum, which would seem to have occurred in the reign of Esar-haddon. Mr. Pinches thus translates the portion referring to the eclipse: - 'Since the king my Lord went to Egypt, an eclipse has taken place in the month of Tammuz [corresponding nearly to our own June]. . . . . . When I brought the account of the eclipse of the month Tammuz, I sent it away to the presence of the king.' It is very difficult to identify this eclipse with any resulting from calculation; the only conjecture I can make is that it may have been one which occurred on the 27th of May, B.C. 699, and was annular in India."
The only eclipse that matches the biblical chronology occurred on 8/6/-699 (700 B.C.E.), which was in Esarhaddon's twelfth year. According to the Esarhaddon Chronicle, which states, "The twelfth year: The king of Assyria marched to Egypt but became ill on the way and died on the tenth day of the month of Arahsamna." According to the report, the eclipse occurred in the month of Tammuz (June/July), which would have been after Esarhaddon marched toward Egypt but before he became ill and died on the tenth day of Arahsamna (OctobeNovember). Thus, Esarhaddon died shortly after the eclipse took place.
The accepted chronology assigns Esarhaddon's reign to the years 681-669 B.C.E., which includes his ascension year. In considering Lynn's second eclipse and searching through all the years of Esarhaddon's reign (according to the accepted chronology), the annular eclipse (seen as partial at Nineveh) of 6/17/-678 (679 B.C.E.) would be a candidate, except the eclipse occurs in the second year of his reign, which was five years before his first campaign to Egypt.
Esarhaddon's campaign against Arzâ, located at what is termed the "brook of Egypt," does not imply he campaigned in Egypt in his second year, because Arzâ was a separate city-state kingdom located at the southernmost end of Canaan and not in Egypt (see "The Brook of Egypt and Assyrian Policy on the Border of Egypt," Nadav Na'aman).
Lynn's suggestion for the second eclipse (that of the "27th of May, B.C. 699") must be a mistake for the 27th of May, B.C. 669 because there was no eclipse on the date he provided, in addition to it being displaced 30 years from the last year of Esarhaddon's reign. Nevertheless, the final part of the eclipse of 5/27/-668 (669 B.C.E.) was only visible above the horizon for 15 minutes and was over before reaching three degrees above the horizon. With the mountains partially obstructing the view and the sun being eclipsed only for a small fraction of its diameter at the bottom, it is unlikely to have been visible. Perhaps this was part of the reason Lynn stated, "It is very difficult to identify this eclipse with any resulting from calculation."
At this point, the only other option available for the advocates of the accepted chronology would be to look at the reign of another king who went to Egypt during an eclipse in the month of Tammuz. Ashurbanipal is the only alternative. His reign, according to the biblical chronology, is significantly different from that of the accepted chronology.
Ashurbanipal ruled Assyria from 699-652 B.C.E., with his first regnal year in 669 B.C.E., which is 48 years. The reason for the ten-year difference between the biblical chronology and the accepted chronology is because of the additional ten years (twelve total) he ruled Babylon after the reign of Samas-suma-ukin and before the reign of Kandalanu. Edwin Thiele created a coregency between Hezekiah and Manasseh in an attempt to synchronize the biblical chronology with the accepted chronology because he didn't know Asshurbanipal ruled Babylon for the ten additional years after he defeated Samas-suma-ukin.
The accepted chronology assigns Ashurbanipal's reign to the years 669-631 B.C.E., for a total of 38 years. Concerning the later part of his reign, Wikipedia makes the following statement:
"The end of Ashurbanipal's reign and the beginning of the reign of his son and successor, Ashur-etil-ilani, is shrouded in mystery on account of a lack of available sources."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashurbanipal
Additionally, it must be pointed out that there is a dispute concerning the reign of Ashurbanipal over whether he reigned for longer than 38 years. Wikipedia has concluded that Ashurbanipal's reign could not have exceeded 38 years.
"Inscriptions by Ashur-etil-ilani suggest that his father died a natural death, but do not shed light on when or how this happened. Though his final year is often erroneously given as 627 or even 626, this follows an estimate from an inscription written nearly a century later at Harran by Adad-guppi, the mother of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus (r. 556–539). The final contemporary evidence for Ashurbanipal being alive and reigning as king is a contract from Nippur made in 631. If Ashurbanipal's reign had ended in 627 the inscriptions of his successors Ashur-etil-ilani and Sinsharishkun in Babylon (covering several years) would have been impossible, given that the city was seized by Nabopolassar in 626 and never again fell into Assyrian hands."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashurbanipal
However, the Biblical chronology demonstrates that ten years are missing from the post-canonical period, which reveals that Ashurbanipal ruled Babylon for ten additional years and reigned for 48 years. Because the proponents of the accepted chronology have not considered the Biblical chronology, they are divided among themselves with insuperable difficulties.
According to the accepted chronology, Ashurbanipal secured Egypt by 663 B.C.E., which was in the early part of his reign. He put down the rebellion that began in the last years of Esarhaddon. However, during Ashurbanipal's campaigns in Egypt, there was only one partial eclipse, which was visible at Niniveh on 8/27/-663 (664 B.C.E.), but it occurred in month six (Elul), where the criteria requires month four (Tammuz). The scribe did not provide the day of the month. The best case would place the eclipse 42 days late (relative to the months), and the worst case would be 72 days late, which would be difficult to account for. The eclipse of 8/6/-699 (700 B.C.E.), which agrees with the Biblical chronology for the last year of the reign of Esarhaddon, is only 21 days late in the best case, 51 days late in the worst case, and off nominal (the middle of the month) by 36 days, whereas the eclipse considered for the reign of Ashurbanipal is 57 days off nominal.
It is prudent to keep in mind that looking for an eclipse too far from the actual month stated in the report and attempting to justify it by assuming excess or missed intercalations beyond what is within reason will only increase the probability that the eclipse is the wrong one.
There are no other eclipses that merit consideration while Ashurbanipal campaigned in Egypt. Therefore, only the eclipse of 8/6/-699 (700 B.C.E.), which occurs in the twelveth year of Esarhaddon's reign (according to the biblical chronology), meets the required criteria with the least amount of difficulty, but only so long as the solution is sought within the reign of Esarhaddon.
In consideration of Lynn's statement regarding the eclipse, "which would seem to have occurred in the reign of Esar-haddon," and assuming that the reported eclipse is not firmly fixed to his reign, Ashurbanipal, unlike Esarhaddon, would have occasion to go to Egypt without prosecuting a military campaign. After Ashurbanipal regained control of Egypt, he installed Psammetichus as king and entered into a treaty with him. The eclipse of 6/17/-678 (679 B.C.E.), which took place in Ashurbanipal's 21st year (according to the Biblical chronology), occurred in the first year of his reign in Babylon after he defeated Samas-suma-ukin. This eclipse meets the required criteria, and, under the circumstances, the purpose of his visit could have been to reaffirm the terms of the treaty. The date of the eclipse falls almost exactly in the middle of the month of Tammuz, which is much closer than the eclipse on 8/6/-699 (700 B.C.E.) for the twelveth year of Esarhaddon. For this reason, and assuming the circumstances of the report do not require it to be placed in the reign of Esarhaddon, assigning the eclipse in the report to 6/17/-678 (679 B.C.E.) in the 21st year of Ashurbanipal is preferable because it falls within the middle of the month Tammuz and aligns with the political circumstances associated with the king going to Egypt.
Nevertheless, the report cannot be simultaneously associated with the reigns of both kings. Until there is evidence that the report is limited to the reign of Esarhaddon, the eclipse in the reign of Ashurbanipal is to be preferred. However, it is possible for the proponents of the accepted chronology to choose from several eclipses in the reign of Ashurbanipal (according to the accepted chronology) that would meet the criteria in the report. The eclipses on 6/27/-660 (661 B.C.E.) and 6/7/-650 (651 B.C.E.) are both options.
Lynn's third reference to an Assyrian solar eclipse involved some degree of controversy but was accepted as a valid eclipse after he made an inquiry to Theophilus Pinches, a member of the staff at the British Museum, who confirmed that the text did in fact describe an eclipse. Lynn related this information, in addition to other details, to the editors of the Observatory in his letter, which contained the following statement:
"The immediate successor of Esarhaddon was Asshur-bani-pal. An inscription made in his reign was interpreted by. Fox Talbot (see the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archeology, vol. i. pp. 13 and 348) to record the occurrence of an eclipse of the Sun, which, at the suggestion of Oppert, was supposed to have been that of the 27th of June, B.C. 661. The inscription, as translated by Talbot, states that it took place whilst the king of Elam was preparing an attack upon Assyria, and that 'for three days the evening Sun was darkened as on that day.' No eclipse of course could produce such an effect as this; but he suggests that 'it is not impossible that, in a very ignorant age, the report of such a wonder having happened in Susiana should be believed in Assyria, at the distance of many hundred miles, and have been chronicled by a superstitious scribe.' Revising, however, a record by a conjectural process of this kind is always a hazardous proceeding, and on reading it I felt doubtful whether an eclipse was really referred to in the inscription. But Mr. Pinches has kindly examined it again, and considers that the eclipse and the three days' darkness at evening are distinct occurrences, forebodings of evil to the king of Elam. He, thus, in fact translates the passage: - 'Te-umman devised evil, and Sin [the moon god] devised against him forebodings of evil. In Tammuz an eclipse at evening - he troubled the lord of light and the setting sun thus also for three days was troubled - it went forth for the end of the reign of the [king] of Elam. This [omen] was the announcement of his [i. e. the god's] decision, which changeth not.' Upon the whole, therefore, we may fairly conclude that the eclipse of June 27, B.C. 661, is really alluded to in this inscription."
Oppert was correct in identifying the eclipse of 6/27/-660 (661 B.C.E.), although he couldn't place it in the 39th year of Ashurbanipal without knowledge of the ten missing years (after the reign of Samas-suma-ukin) and the 21 missing years during the neo-Babylonian period (after the death of Labashi-Marduk).

So the recent findings have led me to establish some clarifications for the 'template'. which like the dip signifiers, comprises of two forms: standard and completed. The 'standard template' is essentially the 'gateway' sector division I applied to Sacco's orbit way back when I first published The Mystery of Tabby's Star: it omits the 0.4 fraction in Sacco's orbit because accommodating the fraction or placing where it should fall in a division with a base unit derived from our terrestrial spin speed would have been problematic to say the least. The template comprises of 54 total sectors: 52 * 29 (= 1508) + 2 * 33 (= 66) = 1574. This is the 'standard template'. The fulcrum dateline (Aug 24 in 2017) bisects the template and is flanked either side by the two extended 33-day sectors (sector #54 and sector #1). In each half template (or orbit) there is 1 extended sector (33-day) and 26 regular (29-day) sectors. The opposite pole of the 2017 fulcrum (sector #28) falls in 2019 on Oct 20 (where the fascinating wave-like dip sequence kicks off - re: Bruce Gary's photometry for the period).
Of course the problem of the standard template is that over time it loses consistency because the full orbit periodicity (re: Sacco) = 1574.4. The fulcrum cycle (2.5 * 1574.4 = 3936) was a solution I hit upon after close study of Bruce Gary's 2019 photometry, where the first of the multi-dip waves maxes on Oct 21, pointing to a 1-day advance of the fulcrum. However, I began to notice striking consistencies emerging when restoring the missing 0.4 fraction - assigning it to the fulcrum itself. This is the completed template: 52 * 29-day regular sectors, + 1 * 33-day extended sector, + 0.4 fulcrum, + 1 * 33-day regular sector = 1574.4. This not only fitted the fulcrum cycle like a glove, but fitted also the proposition of a signal flagging itself as signal by the transition of the 'gateway' standard template to the more astrophysical completed template.
The fulcrum cross yields remarkable template consistencies as presented in relation to key dip distances, whether it be D800 to D1520, Elsie to Evangeline, Elsie to Tess, D1520 to Evangeline, and in Kiefer's 928 days, Bourne's 776 days; and in the proposed geometric structures underlying the orbit (1130.4, 444) and more. The method is simply to subtract 66.4 (the completed template's extended sectors) from these time spans, multiply by four, or divide by 0.626, and key fragment combinations emerge including Boyajian's 48.4-day spacing.
Applying the method to the stretch between D1520 and Elsie (1541 days) yielded minor consistencies. However, here and there as my work progressed pointers to the standard template kept cropping up. Firstly was the 157.4 finding in π applying the standard Elsie dip signifier. Then there was the Bourne finding (thanks to Solorzano's base 10 threading for helping me find this) which pointed to the completed template:
776 + 77.6 = 853.6
853.6 - 66.4 (fulcrum cross) = 787.2
Half Sacco's orbit, as demarcated by the fulcrum between the extended sectors. Then remarkably the 837 days between Elsie and TESS (re: the last academic download) also offered this curious route:
837 - 66.4 = 770.6
928 (Kiefer) - 770.6 = 157.4 (1/10th of the standard template as in the π route)
776 (Bourne) - 770.6 = 5.4 (1/10th the template's 54 sectors)
So retuning to the 1541 days between D1520 and Elsie, this remarkable variation of the fulcrum cross method yields consistencies for the template - which was derived long before I looked at the distances between individual dips. Here the +/- method in the quadratic correlation pointed the way to add the standard template's extended sector, and subtract it:
1541 + 33 = 1574 (standard 'gateway' templaste)
1541 - 33 = 1508 (or 52 regular 29-day sectors)
The application of the fulcrum cross is to subtract only rather than split the extended sectors in this way, so rearranging:
1574 (abstract standard template) - 33 (extended sector) = 1541
= an actual astrophysical-derived distance (abstract to concrete)
1541 - 33 = 1508 (from concrete back to abstract)
This logic is precisely what a signal of this nature (an arrangement of dust dips sprayed from asteroid processing platforms) requires to be intelligible as 'signal'.

The Philippine GDP stands at 5.89 trillion pesos, while the U.S. GDP is a staggering 1.46 quadrillion pesos, making it 248 times larger than that of the Philippines.
An Advanced U.S. Aircraft carrier carries a price tag of approximately 13 billion dollars, equivalent to about 746 billion pesos. Annually, operating one carrier costs between 1.5 to 2 billion dollars, translating to roughly 114 billion pesos.
Assuming a 10-year span, the total cost of owning and maintaining an aircraft carrier amounts to approximately 1.9 trillion pesos.
With a population of around 120 million people, dividing the GDP by the population yields roughly 49,000 pesos per person.
Given the Philippine GDP, the country could potentially acquire and sustain 2-3 aircraft carriers.
In simpler terms, acquiring one aircraft carrier would equate to around 15,800 pesos per person.
GDP Disparities: The comparison of GDP between the Philippines and the U.S. highlights a significant economic gap between the two countries. The U.S. GDP is substantially larger than that of the Philippines, with the U.S. GDP being approximately 248 times larger.
Affordability of Aircraft Carriers: Despite the large GDP difference, the Philippines could afford to purchase and maintain 2-3 advanced U.S. aircraft carriers over a 10-year period. This indicates that even though the Philippines has a smaller economy compared to the U.S., it still possesses the financial capacity to invest in expensive military assets.
Cost per Person: Breaking down the cost per person, it shows that each Filipino would contribute approximately 49,000 pesos towards the GDP. When considering the cost of an aircraft carrier in relation to the population, it would cost each person around 15,800 pesos to purchase and maintain one carrier for 10 years.
Relative Impact: While the cost of an aircraft carrier may seem substantial on an individual basis, it's a fraction of the GDP per capita. This suggests that the acquisition and maintenance of such military assets, though expensive, are feasible within the broader economic context of the Philippines.
Overall, this analysis provides insights into the economic capacity of the Philippines to invest in high-value military assets relative to its GDP and population size, showcasing how economic metrics can be used to assess military capabilities and expenditures.

Looking for quiet places to study besides libraries.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

If I invite 60 people to a party and only 2 show up, it makes sense that 2/60 people showed up, or 3%. In this way, only a small fraction of the whole 60 people showed up.
But, if I look at it as actual physical things, I'm "dividing" 2 people by 60 people to get a percentage of how many showed up. This doesn't make intuitive sense to me.
Like why does it make sense that I can divide 2 people into 60 pieces to figure out what percentage of people showed up?