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hudsonmckenzie · 8 months ago

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Things best immigration lawyers in UAE must know about the immigration law

Because of the different ways that immigration law can impact both an individual and a major company, most attorneys will at some point in their employment come across a client who needs immigration law representation. The best immigration lawyers in the UAE need to know when to seek out further professional help and how to handle clients' immigration-related concerns in a responsible manner.

Since immigration law can be expansive and intricate at times, it is imperative that lawyers possess a basic understanding of its most important subjects, such as the extent of the federal government's authority over immigration rules and regulations.

All three of the government's outposts are amicably connected to immigration: The executive branch has jurisdiction over immigration with relation to international affairs, and the judiciary decides whether or not the other two departments are effectively using their respective responsibilities. Congress' authority stems from the power of American sovereignty.

Americans tightened their relatively open and unrestricted immigration policy in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and they little questioned it until the late 1800s.

The origins of immigration law can be traced back to the 19th century and the Plenary Power Doctrine, which holds that the legislative and executive branches of government have exclusive responsibility over all immigration-related matters.

A person who is "knocking on the door" to enter the country is actually "on far shakier footing than someone who has made it here, even if it was outside the rules." She continued by pointing out that immigration law is civil law, not criminal law, and that it lacks funding for certain rights granted to people charged with breaking the law, such as the right to government-funded legal representation.

It can be difficult to challenge detention since people might be detained whether they are trying to enter the country or are already inside but are waiting for an immigration official to arrive. Even after being ordered detached, a person may be detained while they wait to be really removed.

Depending on immigration status, there are many distinct types of visas, which is similar to alphabet soup. An individual can enter the United States on a non-immigrant visa for a brief period of time and for a specific reason. The most popular non-immigrant visa categories are as follows:

B-1: Business visitor

B-2: Pleasure tourist

E-1: Treaty trader

E-2: Treaty investor

F: Student

H: Temporary worker

J: Exchange visitor

K: Spouse or fiancé of U.S. citizen

L: Intracompany transferee

O: Worker with extraordinary abilities

P: Athlete or entertainer

R: Religious worker

S: Witness or informant

T: Victim of trafficking in persons

TN: Trade visa for Canadian or Mexican

TPS: Temporary protected status

U: Victim of certain crimes

The different types of employment visas include:

EB-1 – People with extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers and professors, multinational managers or executives

EB-2 – National interest waiver, excellent ability and advanced degree professionals

EB-3 – Professionals with bachelor’s degree, skilled workers with 2 years of job experience, or unskilled workers

EB-4 – Special immigrants (religious labors)

EB-5 – Investment green cards

The most popular type of visa is the H-1B, which requires that the applicant have a job offer with a salary that is considered to be standard in that area, possess a bachelor's degree or higher, or work as temporary aid in a specialty occupation.

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rwby-redux · 2 years ago

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God, I just rediscovered this and I'm THRILLED to see that you're still working on this project – it's such a wonderful thing to see in motion, and to read through. I'm planning to use this as a rough setting guide for a RWBY-themed TTRPG campaign, since it addresses most every issue I had with canon. A couple of questions I had, though: 1) How available do you feel huntsmen are for work/how numerous are they? 2) Is there any difference in opinion of huntsmen between kingdoms?

Oh, man, thank you. I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate hearing that. It’s incredibly validating to be told that all of the time, energy, and research that’s gone into it so far has paid off, and that people genuinely enjoy engaging with the content. With luck, I’ll be working on this project for at least another few years, so there’s still plenty more to come. :)

That TTRPG sounds like it’ll be a lot of fun! Needless to say, I’m flattered you’re using the worldbuilding here as a basis for the campaign.

At the moment I don’t have a definitive answer for the total number of Huntsmen across Remnant. But if I had to throw out an estimate, I’d say it’s about 40,000 (or 0.0114% of the global population, which is 350,000,000). As for their availability, it depends. While there’s no immediate shortage of Huntsmen, there is some competition for work.

Certain types of work are considered more “stable” than others because they’re offered through the government. For example:

Teaching. Arguably one of the more sought-after forms of long-term employment, that entails working at one of the four academies or any of the various prep schools. In order to qualify for this type of work, a Huntsman needs a Class-A license, which requires seven years of schooling.

Outpost positions. For the duration of their employment, Huntsmen are permanently stationed at the outposts in an “on-call” sort of role. This job holds a lot of appeal for people that enjoy a more rural lifestyle. In order to qualify, however, a Huntsman needs a Class-B license, which requires six years of schooling.

Bounties. Any sort of job listing that requires apprehending a person is strictly authorized by the government. To reiterate: Private clients do not have the legal ability to post jobs of this nature. Typically, work like this is “outsourced” from the local law enforcement when the target is considered too dangerous for non-Huntsmen to subdue. In order to be authorized to fight and subdue non-Grimm targets, a Huntsman needs to have a Class-B license.

Security detail. Jobs of this nature involve working for government agencies as guards. This can include things like protecting the CCTs, perimeter walls, or inter-city public transit (such as roads and rail lines).

Expansion teams. Perhaps the least common form of government employment on this list, since city-building takes a lot of preparation, time, and resources to pull off. When one of the kingdoms wants to build a new settlement, Huntsmen are contracted to first go into an area and cull all of the Grimm in the immediate vicinity. From there, they’re responsible for protecting the surveyor teams, engineers, and other laborers over the course of the area’s development. Projects of this nature can take years to complete. Depending on who you ask, this is arguably the most dangerous form of government work a Huntsman can undertake.

The remainder of the work out there is found through private clients. Most of the time it’s for things like security, although research agencies will sometimes put out ads for Huntsmen to participate in academic studies, or to procure Grimm as test subjects. (The latter requires quite a bit of red tape, including the permits to actually be in possession of Grimm.)

Government jobs are generally considered more “stable” because they’re long-term and always available (albeit, in limited quantity). The drawback is that they usually require higher-level licenses for a Huntsman to undertake.

Jobs in the private sector, although in constant flux, aren’t quite so limited/don’t have as many barriers to entry, so Huntsmen tend to gravitate more toward these roles. It’s how companies like the SDC manage to snag Huntsmen for their payroll.

While there’s always going to be a demand for Huntsmen, there’s no denying that, over the years, settlements have gotten better at withstanding Grimm. Rapid technological growth has dramatically increased global safety over the last few centuries (particularly in the immediate decades after the Great War), so there’s been a slow but noticeable decline in work from private clients. That, coupled with the number of Huntsmen competing for jobs, means that they’re not insulated from poverty.

It’s not something that the public likes to talk about (in no small part due to how people sensationalize Huntsmen).

At the moment, global opinion of Huntsmen is high. It’s really only a handful of people from Atlas which think Huntsmen—give or take a few decades—will gradually become obsolete.

Here’s the thing about Huntsmen, though. They’re a bit like vaccines, if you’ll forgive the topical example. When a vaccine successfully reduces the disease threat, the perceived risk decreases, as cultural memory of the effects of that disease fade. Ironically, people stop vaccinating because they don’t think it’s necessary, even though vaccinating in the first place is what created that perception.

If Huntsmen are like vaccines, then Grimm are like a disease. And if people ever believed that Huntsmen were no longer necessary for public safety…

Hopefully it never comes to that.

#asks #cccsrmdccndtw #i speak #huntsmen #huntsman employment #huntsman outposts #sweet messages #worldbuilding #fun fact: pickerel's capture of tyrian was considered a bounty job #and a rather high-profile one at that

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goggentahmel · 5 years ago

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dcnativegal · 5 years ago

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Autumn in the Oregon Outback

It’s autumn here in the Oregon Outback. I’m writing this in mid-December and it surely feels like winter. The snow is so beautiful and stays white. In DC, by day 3 the snow is grey and black.

We started burning wood in the stove right after the equinox. Much of the wood we’ve bought is stacked in the wood shed but then we were away for a weekend and it rained and the wheelbarrow wheel is flat and Valerie’s hand isn’t quite healed from surgery… can you hear the excuses? So, we gather the wood from the driveway AND the shed at the moment. All in good time.

We had a little trouble locating someone who’d deliver wood all the way to Paisley. We were on a waiting list, but I got anxious since wood is our only source of heat. A client knows somebody who knows somebody who desperately needs the work, and next thing we know, we have a pile of wood. When Valerie organized it, she realized it was not quite a cord, and we’d paid $160, which is a lot for a cord, though more reasonable with the 90-minute round trip from Lakeview factored in. We gave him another chance and he gave us than two and a half more cords. That were not cut quite right. So we have a stack that needs more chopping, and a lot of misshapen bits with tree branches sticking out that make them very hard to stack. We are making do. He was deeply grateful. And we have heat.

When I got up this morning, it was 23 outside and 62 inside. It may get warmer than freezing today, and with my beloved pyromaniac, Valerie, at the stove, it might get as warm as 78. Which means it’s over 80 in the loft if you want to take a nap. I go from wool socks, warm jammies and a sweatshirt to a tank top and shorts in the course of a day. If we ever lose power in winter, we’ll be fine.

Valerie had a medical adventure this past summer in which she woke up and couldn’t get the world to stop spinning. I called her daughter, Hope, an RN at the one hospital in this county, and she met us in the emergency department. The 45-minute ride down to Lakeview with poor Val puking in a bucket was not fun. With a shot of Zofran, she stopped puking, and after an overnight stay to see if she’d had a stroke, an MS flare or “just” loose crystals in her ears, she saw a neurologist to establish care with one out here in Oregon. And it was the neurologist who said, you know you really should see a hand surgeon about those lumps in your left hand. Which hurt when she bonks them. So she did. And the hand surgeon, in Bend, went WHOA NELLY you need those lumps out. Can it wait until after my grandson Adam’s wedding in September? Nope. We’ll schedule the surgery for next week. That’s how fast she came to have 22 schwanomas removed very delicately; they apparently cluster like grapes along nerves. The surgeon had to cut her hand like Zorro because straight-line scars would contract and she’d have even more trouble opening her hand fully. The presenting problem of dizziness turned out to be a temporary issue of rogue ear crystals, but what came out of all the hullabaloo was a hand that no longer hurts.

She’s fine now, and stretches her hand out with the use of heat.

Recently, Valerie spent hours with 3 neighbors killing chickens, then defeathering them, and finally putting them in baggies to freeze. For her labors, she got two whole chickens (minus their heads, and innards), and two livers. Valerie does love liver and onions. (The big animal vet she sometimes works for says eating liver is like sucking on an oil filter. I’ll take his word for it and avoid the whole situation.) The neighbors, who’d bought chicks to grow them into meat chickens (not egg-producing ones) now have 35 chicken carcasses frozen for winter meals. Valerie invited me to help. Ha! Ha, ha ha HA! That would be a no. I did take over our new-to-us poodle named Griffey. He’d have LOVED to smell all the feathers as they were drifting to the ground. The whole business was a revelation. I didn’t stay long. (Shudder.) If I’m going to eat chicken, I need to appreciate where the poor bird on my plate came from. I just don’t need to pluck the actual feathers off myself.

Later that same day, after Valerie’s chicken-plucking and a long shower, we drove to the Lakeview Elks Lodge for a fundraiser for the senior citizen meal program. (The Elks Lodge is the largest venue for big gatherings in the county.) There are 350 senior citizens living below the poverty line. The program serves less than a third of that, and although the meals are offered for free, they are not entirely subsidized by tax revenue, therefore, fundraiser. I’ve come to know the folks at the Senior Center through my many requests for transportation, and they are hardworking, smart women.

Val and I sat and chatted with a husband wife pair we’ve gotten to know from St. Luke’s Episcopal. And then, my coworker, fellow knitter, and Valerie’s primary care provider walked in with her husband. I gestured wildly and they joined our table. She’s the health care person who refers the most clients to me for mental health assessment. I got to know her when I worked in Christmas Valley, those 18 months when I drove north each workday instead of south. She referred clients to our tiny mental health outpost up there. Other things we have in common: she’s a liberal. She’s lived and worked on the east coast. She grew up with a high ACE score (which means, many Adverse Childhood Experiences.) She’s a serious introvert and has a very busy, stressful life in the same clinic that I work in. I admire her very much. Her name is Kathleen.

The Lakeview Senior Center program started and we heard about services to folks 65 and older in the county, which include home delivered meals, transportation to far-flung doctor appointments in Bend and Medford, and daily meals with socializing. Right before dinner was served, there was a loud clatter and thud at the edge of the tables. A man had collapsed. A small group surrounded him. Kathleen asked, is something wrong? Yup. She went over to the man, and stayed there until the EMTs took him out on a gurney to the emergency department. She came back to the table, regretful that she’d had half a beer and had to breathe that breath onto this guy, who’s had trouble with dehydration since his car broke down and he wandered around in the desert for days. Despite the Hebrews’ and Jesus’ success at wandering in deserts, it’s not recommended.

We finally chewed on our tamales, beans and rice, followed by sheet cake. Manley, and Valerie, talk old haying equipment, and tell stories. One of my favorites is about the time when young Valerie worked as a ‘hooker’, that is, she hooked lumber so that it could be lifted by a CAT(erpillar) onto a truck… she tells this story so much better than I do… A guy in a caterpillar hoists her up by large hooks which she holds onto, and he lifts her over to the log he wants her to put on the truck next. She puts the hooks where they go and up goes the log onto the truck.

One day, she’s swinging in the air above the logs still waiting to be loaded, hanging on by her hands, and she sees that the guy running the caterpillar is slumped over the enormous steering wheel. Has he had a heart attack? She swings herself around to see the other crew member to find out if he notices the slumped guy, and guy #2 is slapping the side of the truck in paroxysms of humor. Uh oh. She looks down and her bra straps had snapped and her bra was now visible as a belt around her waist. The caterpillar driver managed to catch his breath and graciously swings her up and over a bush and she drops down. After she’d gotten her bra back up where it belongs, she came out behind the bush and bowed.

A great story. One of many that show how a tough woman gets out of a pink-color trap to work alongside cranky menfolk who learn begrudging respect for this ‘hooker’ and ‘millwright’ and shoe cobbler and… my partner is remarkable …

At the benefit dinner, we listened to the brief explanation of how Meals on Wheels is a program of the triple A which has nothing to do with the American Automobile Association, despite the importance of ‘wheels’ in home-meal delivery, but is rather the Area Agency on Aging. Which is a governmental entity. And that’s all that’s said about that by the director of the program. Because we are in an anti-government, very “red” county. But I know that it’s the Older Americans Act that funds all the ‘triple As’ in the country, one covering every county in the USA. (Since Lake County is the red headed step child of Klamath County, that triple A covers 2 counties.) And I know that the Older Americans Act was one enduring program signed into law by Lyndon B Johnson as part of the Great Society Legislation which also brought us Medicaid and the Voting Rights Act, to name just two more important bits of ‘government.’

Just ask Valerie. My blood pressure goes up when people disparage ‘government’ around these parts. I know too many very good people who served in ‘government’, how many laws are so deeply helpful to everyone, like the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Affordable Care Act, and the Family Medical Leave Act. How most things that we complain about are due to the influx of corporate control over government, and how reluctant the government is to tax corporations. Campaign finance reform would be the way to drain the ‘swamp.’

Nevermind. I’m trying to chew all my food and not eat too much of it since my bariatric surgery in April as the evening wears on.

(I will post about the weight loss adventure one of these days…)

I’m glad we went. I’m glad to show my face in support of the senior center. Plus we got to visit with two folks I like. One of whom knew just how to care for a man who collapsed.

The other day, Kathleen walked into my over-decorated office and said, Jane I really need your help. Expecting to hear about a patient who was crying in the examining room and who would soon be ‘warmly handed off’ to me for counseling, I was surprised to hear she needed help with the first couple of rows of a 90-stitch knitting project. Could I cast on? Why of course. “Other duties as assigned.”

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In other news, we are adjusting to life with a dog. Since Valerie’s faithful Westie, Dudley, died about 7 years ago, she’s dog-sat various pooches and lived happily with my 13 year-old cat, Moe. Since Val’s pretty much retired from ranch irrigation, she’s now able to spend time with a dog. She was vocal about wanting some sort of poodle mix, because they are smart. Lake County is full of cow dogs, pit bulls, and lots of chihuahuas for some reason. When her daughter Hope saw a message on Facebook about a family needing to rehome a poodle mix, she signaled Valerie, and next thing we know, we have a dog named Griffey, named after a baseball player. He’d been born 6 years before in Maryland, and flown by a coworker’s father to a ranch here; Erin has a poodle breeding business. Poor Griffey apparently didn’t like being in a herd. That family rehomed him with a young couple who had a baby and worked long hours away from home. Griffey pooped in their bed. So Griffey came to us.

This pooch is very well behaved. Aside from chasing the cat, which we are trying to discourage, he obeys Valerie’s voice, loves going gallivanting in the desert every mid-day, and enjoys the cat food Moe turns her nose up at. We take him with us to town for church, and he sits in the truck, waiting for our return. Moe gets the house to herself for a few hours. We’ve become a family who lives with a dog. His current names include “Nickelplate” (which is cheap jewelry), “poor, sad dog”, Snicklefritz, and “Your dogliness.”

I swear there are 2 rush hours in Lakeview every weekday: one at lunch to let the dogs out to pee, and one at dinner for the same purpose, even if folks are going out to dinner later. The homeless people have dogs; the owners won’t go into subsidized housing if their dogs can’t come, too. Dogs and guns. Everyone has them. We don’t have guns. But we do have Griffey. Currently, Griff and Moe are negotiating how to sleep on their humans without hissing and growling at each other. This is not going well; however, Moe, who’s never lived with a dog or encountered dogs in her sheltered life, is learning to hiss and swipe, which may be far more effective than us ordering Griffey to resist a primeval impulse to chase.

The other thing I’ve been doing is starting up and nurturing a group of women who knit, crochet, or want to learn. I miss knitting in a group, chatting, sharing stories about anything. These gatherings have been called “Stitch and Bitch”, but there is no bitching that I can tell. Occasional complaints about the wait service at the first venue we tried, which had but one worker and one cook for the entire restaurant. We moved to the bowling alley, a large building that has a cavernous party room with a wall protecting us from the racket of big ball bowling. The food has been better and the waitresses take good care of us. So TJ’s Family Fun Center is where we can be found on Wednesday evenings right after work.

I’m surprised by the enthusiasm, and we’ll see if it lasts. The very first gathering, there were 11 of us, and a couple women came to learn. I’m a pretty patient teacher, as long as you’re right handed. I’ve listed youtube videos in our facebook group for lefties, and lots of projects. Here are a couple that I finished this fall.

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ebrainy · 5 years ago

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How airplane food goes from the kitchen to your flight

Inside Gate Gourmet, the airline catering company that makes up to 25,000 meals a day.

How airplane food gets to your seat

Gate Gourmet at Dulles International Airport caters 18,000 meals for passengers on 275 flights daily. That number can reach 25,000 meals in high season. (Monica Rodman/The Washington Post)

By Natalie B. Compton

More than 44,000 flights take off around the world every day, and many of those onboard are hungry. On shorter flights, these passengers may opt for a snack pack; on longer ones, they may get a full meal.

Preparing the latter is no small feat.

Gate Gourmet is one major player in the airplane catering game, feeding about 750 million passengers a year in about 60 countries. On a typical day at its Dulles International Airport branch, in suburban Washington, the company is responsible for getting 18,000 meals onto 275 flights. In busy seasons, that number jacks up to 25,000 meals.

A cook prepares the salmon in the hot kitchen at the Gate Gourmet food complex in Dulles, Va. (Gabriella Demczuk for The Washington Post)

Annually, that means Gate Gourmet IAD (as it’s known, using the airport’s code) alone goes through 84,000 Coca-Colas, 100,000 yogurt cups and 1,300,000 pounds of ice.

“We’re open 24 hours, seven days a week,” said Gate Gourmet IAD general manager Jim Stathakes (whose preferred airplane meal option is chicken).

Gate Gourmet’s Dulles outpost is in airport back country, hidden among office buildings and guarded by security and hygienic checkpoints. The facility measures 132,000 square feet, but the inner workings feel less like a factory and more like a Costco mixed with a commissary kitchen: Around every corner, you’ll find some of the 300 daily employees chopping, washing, searing and packing food that someone will soon be eating in the sky.

Thinh Thi dices melons at Gate Gourmet. (Gabriella Demczuk for The Washington Post)

Each in-flight meal has to be timed perfectly in a 24-hour window to match its corresponding flight. Produce (usually items you can get year-round, like pineapple) is delivered for just-in-time freshness. Food must be cooked and then blast-chilled, its temperature brought down for safety reasons. Employees must have your meal ready four hours before a flight departs and delivered onto the plane no later than one hour before boarding starts.

Sylvain Harribey is an executive chef at Gate Gourmet who helps design meal plans for its airline clients. While food safety is the No. 1 priority for creations, he also looks to match a meal with its flight path.

“We want to make sure we have the right food for the destination,” said Harribey, who attended culinary school in Bordeaux, France. “When you sit in the plane, that’s your first step in getting to your destination.”

If you’re flying from Tokyo, for example, pork with ginger garlic soy sauce and rice is fitting. A baguette with your meal, meanwhile, sets the tone for a journey to Paris.

A dish prepared for first class at the Gate Gourmet food complex. (Gabriella Demczuk for The Washington Post)

But there’s one more consideration, too: How we eat in the sky isn’t the same as how we eat on Earth.

“We know that up in the air at 36,000 feet, our taste buds are different,” Harribey said. “We don’t [taste] as much salt because the air is drier within the aircraft.”

To overcome that biological quirk, Harribey adds a little more salt to dishes, along with herbs and spices to enhance flavors further.

You don’t get all that with the snack pack.

source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2019/10/30/how-airplane-food-goes-kitchen-your-flight/

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Finally: Korinth

Recap: Having acquired the feather from that rando lady aka: Athena 4 real, nobody can convince me otherwise, it is now time to see what is the next quest on the agenda! I am off to the Porneion district in Korinth to visit some hetaerae as instructed. Anthousa is my contact, so let’s go find her! I immediately stumble into a nearby pyre and catch myself aflame, because I am super good at this game.

Korinth isn’t too far away, and their flag is a Pegasus! I think it’s going to be easy to find her, but alas—the hetaerae aren’t in the Porneion district after all.

Next, I talk to some horny dude, and he tells me that they have made themselves scarce because some dude named “Monger” and his army are loitering about. Looks like I’m going to have to defeat a dude, but lets check the rest of the clues. Next I find some scaredy cat who tells me more about how the Hetaerae were pushed out of the market by he who shall not be named.

Finally a woman to talk to, maybe she’ll be more helpful. She just wants to err— sell me her wares, but does indeed tell me where I might be able to find Anthousa! Possibly she is at the temple of Aphrodite, because they have clients there. I will check there first.

I find this temple through pure happenstance whilst clearing locations. The guards chase me all the way up a mountain after I get caught looting. Thank you, guards!

A Simple Favour

What conversing with Alkibiades is like.

I stop off at an exclamation point and pick up a quest, and LO! It is Alkibiades there to assign me dubious package delivering tasks and make sex puns at me. Of course I will deliver the package, Ace. Winkity wink.

We comment on the size of this box I am to deliver and he tells me that big things can come in small packages sometimes. I get stonewalled with the rest of my questions. No, I can’t know about the guy who gave this package to Alkibiades in the first place or what it is. Why can’t Ace or the OG guy who gave him the package deliver it? It’s just a chain of favors and I’m the last link apparently. I also learn that Alkibiades’s favorite Hetaerae and/or his favorite port of call changes based on his mood. And that is all we get to discuss for now.

I have Anthousa to find and a tiny package to deliver.

Okay, I’m delivering it to a guy near a fort in the name of Diodoros. It’s absolutely, definitely, totally NOT from Alkibiades. Nope. Lol, I have a feeling Ace over here is 1000% setting this Diodoros dude up somehow. Haha, Let’s go find out!

I’m sorry Anthousa, but my curiosity is piqued. Consulting the map to select the newly acquired quest, I discovered that I have completed the cave quest! I guess I’ll also go collect that reward, but first to synchronize this location so I don’t have to walk back here again!

A quick fast travel back to Phokis to complete this quest and score a buttload of XPs! Nice.

Back to Aphrodite’s temple now!

Okay, so the “Monger” is hassling people at the temple now, so the Hetaerae have moved on to somewhere else. Basically this guy is giving everyone the shakedown. He’s after the Hetaerae because they rake in the dough and he wants a piece of the action. This is why they are in hiding, so I guess I’m going to take the monger down.

Time to deliver the package, then visit Anthousa at her possibly new hiding place, possibly place that she has already fled leaving some other lady to tell me about her possible whereabouts.

So, I have to infiltrate a damn fort to get this package in and deliver it to a general—and it is a, well, I’ll let Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg explain:

So, it’s not an actual dick in a box, it’ is a casting of one and it comes with a note: “For when your wife starts to miss me” Hahaha, but also, thank you for sending me into a heavily guarded outpost for THIS, Ace.

Well, A: I’m not going to sell Alkibiades out obviously, but B: This dude in front of me is probably going to waste Diodoros if I say its’ from him. I could say it’s from me which would be hilarious, but I don’t know— This can’t possibly be part of some brilliant military stratagem can it? I take a while to think it over, and just end up doing what Alkibiades told me to do. Like, I don’t want to be on his bad side, for real. The last thing I need is someone sending my enemies handcrafted artisanal dildos when he decides I’m not useful anymore.

Anyway, the package recipient whose name I don’t remember threatens to end Diodoros. Him and his little army too as I suspected. Huh. Maybe it IS part of a brilliant military stratagem after all? At least that’s what Ace more or less tells me when I find him in Aphrodite’s temple. He wanted to get Diodoros out of the way and this seemed to work a treat. Now that is done, so it’s time for more egregious flirting. He wants to know did Alexios like what he saw? About the casting—which was his doing of course as if there were any doubt in the first place. I’m on to your ways, friend! Also, he’s into doing it right here in the temple… I mean, if we’re going to defile a temple then I guess we could do worse than Aphrodite’s.

Surprise!

I can’t think of a reason not to this time. There are no goats anywhere nearby. Flash-forward to tomorrow, Ace has bid me adieu with hope for an encore performance at some future point, and it is now time to visit Anthousa!

Finding the Hetarae

I find her at the fountain and surprise Phoibe is here! Alexios is not enthused about this turn of events. She is just here to relay to Anthousa that I am coming, an “emissary” if you will. I let her tag along for a while, but when I start asking about my mom, Myrrine and Phoibe starts in about how I’m a sad orphan raised by Markus of the bad ideas on nowhere island, I send her away to play. She’s annoyed, but I don’t want her to get hurt or reveal all my secrets!

Anthousa might know something, but first I have to help her and the girls with their little Monger problem.

I Found them!

I finish up the fort location instead of the Monger quest, and I find that I have somehow picked up a huntress quest. For once I get to visit a huntress camp without getting besieged by bears. This one was super easy, because I already just took care of the captain that was hassling these ladies and the quest is finished before it even started! I’m all for easy XPs!

Now, onto the Monger problem.

The Torture Room

The first part of this quest is to find out why one of the ladies, Damalis’s, clients has been acting strangely. Probably the Monger put him up to it, possibly by kidnapping his family or something. Let’s go find out!

Phoibe has followed me, I try to be nice, but honestly her inserting herself into these proceedings is worrisome to say the least. I mean, I don’t have an easy time avoiding stabby bandits myself, but I’m sure the game has concrete plans for her that are unavoidable anyway, which I have magically not been spoiled about. I mean, I’ve been playing this game for a thousand years now it’s a miracle I don’t know all its secrets already.

In any case, we team up and Phoibe tells me about things she overheard. This dude is having a meeting at a pig farm about some land and is supposed to bring Damalis there also I find out. While I’m distracting him with this info I know courtesy of my girl Phoibe, she breaks in and steals a bunch of clues. I sat there and listened to the guy blabbering for forgiveness at me, but I’m still not quite sure what the Monger has on this him that he’s acting the fool and willing to betray Damalis, whom he claims to love. It’s time to find some more clues!

We head to a house that was in the letter Phoibe stole. I find some bloody pots, a secret room, a lock of hair that somehow Alexios knows by smell. Though he can’t quite place it. Oh, and a wall with a creepy manacle attached to it and also casts of faces and breasts — So, the Monger has a creepy torture sex dungeon. Gross. Just in time, one of the Monger’s lackeys arrives to call me a prude explain it to me in case I didn’t figure it out from the clues. Bro, it’s more the kidnapping people and holding them against their will that’s the evil of it, not my prudish ways. Ugh. In any case, he has caught Phoibe, but she escapes with Alexios’s help.

I head back to Damalis to give her the bad news and chastise Phoibe for not listening to instructions. Anyway, Damalis is grateful and now knows what to steer clear of RE: the Monger’s plans. Also, I level up! Time to spend some ability points!

One thought before we move on— Whose familiar lock of hair was that in the Monger’s lair? Do I know someone he kidnapped???? IS HE someone I know? Alkibiades? Herodotus? Sokrates? Yikes. For now, all we can do is move on and help the rest of the hetaerae.

Come Sail Away

A woman named Erinna has misplaced her friend Kleio. The only clue we have to go on is that some guy saw her get on a boat. I spend bunch of time sinking this pirate boat only to find out that Kleio was the one who hired them. It was not an abduction, she was running away from the Monger. To Mykanos. Heh. Good thing I already took care of the tyrant on that island. Well, in any case, I agree to take her there. I’m certainly not going to force her back to Korinth if she doesn’t want to be there. I head back to give Erinna the good news. She’s super sad that her friend is gone, and makes me promise that she’s safe.

Sure thing! She’s with my girl Kyra and my bro Thaletas now.

Taking Down the Monger

My next quest in this area is called “lawless port” or something and I wander blindly towards the gold diamond only to find that it’s right in the Monger’s warehouse. I have to hide in the bushes until the guard goes away so I can plot my strategy. Apparently I am supposed to burn down the warehouse.

Good, eff this Monger dude. I see some people tied up in there and I free them before I start any fires. As I do the deed and attract more guards all of a sudden — A cut scene! Some dude with a Spartan shield comes in to save the day! Yas! I don’t have to beat all these guys! Am I supposed to know this dude? Was it his hair?

After we beat all the baddies together I learn that his name is Brasidas and I do not know him after all. He wants to deal with the Monger on the DL, because of blablabla politics. (Sparta is Allied with Kornithia, if the take out the main guy in public that’s bad for business.) I get the choice to help him or stick with Anthousa. TBH, my first inclination is Brasidas’s hush, hush option, so lets do that. Mainly because I don’t even remember what Anthousa’s plan was. I already helped out her friends.

Brasidas

Anyway, after that’s all decided I spill all my family secrets to Rando McSpartan over here. He knows Myrrine, and my not dad— who I say I haven’t seen him since the whole cliff throwing incident but… who the fuck did I meet on that first beach I landed on? Wolf of Sparta? That was Nikolaos, my Spartan dad, right? Who is still not dead? I let him live, because fuck the Serpent. Why am I lying to Brasidas? or is this game so long that even the writers forgot what happened in the beginning??? (I have no choice in the dialog options here, so I’m not actually choosing to be cagey about it. I am very confused, game.) The exit to this convo is to tell Brasidas I’m not dwelling on the past, so let’s not. We have Mongers to eliminate.

Anthousa Displeased

As expected Anthousa is not pleased with my decision making. And after she arranged a whole viewing party for the Monger’s execution and everything. I head off to do the deed and as I’m passing through the market I get a notice that there is a cultist clue nearby! Cool! I send Ikaros flying, but there’s nothing there. Searching doesn’t help either. With the help of the internets I find out that I have to buy the clue from the Blacksmith. This clue tells me that the deserter Pallas is the cultist and I can find him in Achia. But that will have to wait! I also discover that I have a bunch of dudes I can unmask, but I haven’t bothered to, so I do that. Now the map shows me exactly where they are! Heh. Why have I been making this quest much harder than it had to be?

I am back in the sacred cave—the cave the ended my cave quest. Good news, the Monger thinks I’m a demi-god also, and I definitely don’t know him. Shit, though—he knows my mom? Was it her hair???? We get a flashback to him manhalding her because she had the gal to stand up to him. This guy is attacking my mom, kidnapping people, and being a general devil. Also, he is confirmed to be a cultist! It’s time to end him!

Anthousa shows up just at the end of the fight to try to convince me to do this one last time in public so the people can see his cowardice. I mean, I don’t know if dragging an already beaten up man in for a public execution gets that message across at this point. Who doesn’t show up? Brasidas. I thought he was supposed to be helping me! In any case, I’m not doing that. Goodbye, Monger. I’ll take my golden triangle. I think I only need three more to upgrade the spear now!

The End

Later, Anthousa, is not quite as steamed at me as she was at first. She thanks me, and ‘for once’ thanks to Alkibiades. We share a chuckle over him and his wily ways and she tells me about my mom. She was a friend, but Myrrine wasn’t happy there in Korinth.

Here’s the points of interest: She left Spart, because—you know the attempted child murder. She was heartbroken. Anthousa gave her shelter after finding her in the streets. She looked to the sea, clearly she was restless in Korinthia, and she never told anybody anything about her past or where she was going. The only clue I get is that dear old Mom got on a ship called the Siren Song, known for her ability to weather anything Poseidon could throw her way.

We bid each other adieu and Anthousa promises to keep me up to date on Korinthia’s happenings.

#Miscellaneous

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office-b-help · 2 months ago

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Client List

[ This is a list of B's clients to use as a reference. Your user tag will be added but not @'d. ]

@【FILLER EXAMPLE】 - 【# B's Client: NAME】

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@【literal-trubbish】 - 【# B's Client: Alex Allison】

@【probablenotabsolute】 - 【# B's Client: Bryony】

@【hisuianrecluse】 - 【# B's Client: Asrani】

@【tobias-the-legend/champ-cabinet】 - 【# B's Client: Tobias】

@【cristalin-league-official】 - 【# B's Client: Beck】

@【cristalin-league-official】 - 【# B's Client: Wyatt】

@【j0nathand0e】 - 【# B's Client: Doe】

@【j0nathand0e】 - 【# B's Client: Lano】

@【quagsireoutpost】 - 【# B's Client: Outpost】

@【archaeo-ace】 - 【# B's Client: Hydrangeas】

@【cryogonalsmelody】 - 【# B's Client: Axel】

@【poketherapist-in-training】 - 【# B's Client: Chief】

@【harlequin-the-mr-mime】 - 【# B's Client: Harlequin】

#rotomblr #pkmn irl #pokeblogging #pokeblog rp #ooc post #(<- Technically)

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hudsonmckenzie · 3 years ago

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Things best immigration lawyers in UAE must know about the immigration law

Most attorneys may encounter a client who requires immigration law counsel at some point in their careers, given the various ways that immigration law can affect both a single person and a large organization. The best immigration layers in UAE must grasp how to responsibly address immigration concerns for clients as well as when to seek out further professional assistance.

Immigration law is sometimes large and complicated, so it's crucial for attorneys to have a fundamental grasp of its most critical topics, such as how much control the federal government has over immigration laws and regulations.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, Americans strengthened their relatively open and unrestricted immigration policy, and they scarcely questioned it until the late 1800s.

The Plenary Power Doctrine, which states that the legislative and executive branches of government have sole authority to control all aspects of immigration, is where the history of immigration law begins in the 19th century.

In reality, someone who is "knocking on the door" to enter the United States is "on far shakier footing than someone who has made it here, even if it was outside the rules." She continued by pointing out that immigration law is civil law, not criminal law, and that it lacks funding for certain rights granted to people charged with breaking the law, such as the right to government-funded legal representation.

· B-1: Business visitor

· B-2: Pleasure tourist

· E-1: Treaty trader

· E-2: Treaty investor

· F: Student

· H: Temporary worker

· J: Exchange visitor

· K: Spouse or fiancé of U.S. citizen

· L: Intracompany transferee

· O: Worker with extraordinary abilities

· P: Athlete or entertainer

· R: Religious worker

· S: Witness or informant

· T: Victim of trafficking in persons

· TN: Trade visa for Canadian or Mexican

· TPS: Temporary protected status

· U: Victim of certain crimes

The different types of employment visas include:

· EB-1 – People with extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers and professors, multinational managers or executives

· EB-2 – National interest waiver, excellent ability and advanced degree professionals

· EB-3 – Professionals with bachelor’s degree, skilled workers with 2 years of job experience, or unskilled workers

· EB-4 – Special immigrants (religious labors)

· EB-5 – Investment green cards

#best immigration layers in UAE

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newstfionline · 8 years ago

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David and Goliath in Vietnam

Neil Sheehan, Vietnam ‘67, May 26, 2017

There are some events that can be understood only with the perspective of time. The war in Vietnam is one.

It was June 21, 1989, and I was interviewing a diminutive man with four stars on the epaulets of his dark green uniform shirt. We were talking in what had once been the mansion of a French colonial governor in Hanoi. The man was Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese military genius who had led his country to victory, first against France’s attempt to reimpose colonial rule in the aftermath of World War II, then against the unparalleled might of the United States when it subsequently sought to permanently divide Vietnam and install a client state in Saigon.

“The American soldiers were brave, but courage is not enough,” General Giap said. “David did not kill Goliath just because he was brave. He looked up at Goliath and realized that if he fought Goliath’s way with a sword, Goliath would kill him. But if he picked up a rock and put it in his sling, he could hit Goliath in the head and knock Goliath down and kill him. David used his mind when he fought Goliath. So did we Vietnamese when we had to fight the Americans.”

General Giap’s American opponent, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, was certain that he had the formula for victory in Vietnam. General Westmoreland seemed to be everything one could desire in a commanding general. He was tall, handsome and articulate. He had led an airborne regimental combat team with distinction in the Korean War, and had attracted the attention of President John F. Kennedy’s favorite general, Maxwell D. Taylor, whose patronage had gained General Westmoreland the Vietnam command.

General Westmoreland boasted that he was going to bleed the Vietnamese to death with a huge killing machine he was deploying in their country. Superbly trained Army infantry and Marines would outmaneuver the Vietnamese as fleets of “slick ship” transport helicopters shifted them swiftly from one battleground to another with unprecedented mobility. They would be protected as they landed by a second fleet of “gunship” helicopters with electrically controlled, rapid-firing machine guns and pods of air-to-ground 2.75 inch rockets attached to the sides. They carried their artillery with them, 105 millimeter howitzers slung under the boxy CH-21 “Chinook” cargo helicopters the Army had recently developed.

“Westy,” as he liked to be called, was building airfields all over the place. Once on the ground, the troops could summon unlimited strikes by jet fighter bombers stacked overhead, laden with bombs and napalm and white phosphorous, which could burn its way through a man’s flesh. There was no limit to the level of explosives that the United States would use to shatter the Vietnamese. The eight-engine B-52 “Stratofortresses” of the Strategic Air Command, created to devastate the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons, would now blast the Vietnamese with the closest equivalent in conventional bombardment--20 tons of 500-pound bombs dropped from a single aircraft flying at 30,000 feet. When the B-52s struck, the earth trembled for miles in every direction.

The Vietnamese turned to the natural fortress that was their land. In the 1960s the hand of man had hardly touched the mountains of the Annamite chain, which extended from North Vietnam well down into the Central Highlands of the South. The Annamites were then still a primeval place of lonesome peaks and forbidding ridges. Broadleaf evergreen and teak and mahogany rain forest covered all except for the thickets of bamboo and the clearings in the valleys of tall elephant grass. The canopy trees were 60 feet high; below them were the pole trees of mid-height, and then underbrush.

Beneath the trees, the Vietnamese proceeded to create complexes of fortified bunkers. The main bunkers, where the command was located, had lavish protection--a layer of logs, a layer of dirt, and succeeding layers of logs and dirt up to eight or nine feet in height. To knock out one of these bunkers required a direct hit by a 250-pound bomb, a rarity in practice. The smaller bunkers had less but still adequate overhead cover and all were connected by zigzag trenches (a pattern that gave the Vietnamese soldiers additional shelter) deep enough to stand up in and take on the Americans, who at first would have no idea where the enemy was located. Firing lanes were cleared, but otherwise the underbrush was left in place for concealment.

When the American soldier leapt from his helicopter, he was also confronted by a fighting man as well or perhaps better armed than he was. The Vietnamese infantryman wielded the finest of assault rifles--the AK-47. The weapon was the work of a brilliant Soviet firearms designer--Mikhail Kalashnikov. It was fully automatic and rarely jammed, in contrast to the American M-16 rifle, which required constant cleaning to prevent a stoppage. The gallows humor about the AK-47 was that if you dropped it in the mud, you could pick it up, bang it against a tree to clear it, and it would start firing again.

The B-40 rocket-propelled grenade was another product of the Soviet arsenal that the Vietnamese infantryman possessed. Its pineapple shaped warhead at the end of the launcher had formidable blast and fragmentation effect. Nor did the Vietnamese want for any lack of heavier, crew-served machine guns.

It typically took three days of air and artillery bombardment to expose the bunkers by blasting away the trees and other overhead cover. By then the Vietnamese survivors would be gone, carrying most of their dead and wounded with them. Despite all the protection the bunker complexes provided them, the Vietnamese suffered severe casualties. They mitigated their losses to some extent by seizing and holding the initiative. Studies showed that 80 to 90 percent of the time it was the Vietnamese and not the Americans who initiated combat or decided to fight another day. But no one could endure all the violence the Americans could hurl at them and not get hurt. The Vietnamese were, however, prepared to accept these casualties. They were fighting for the reunification and independence of their motherland, while the American soldier served in a half-conscript, half-volunteer army fighting a war of empire thousands of miles from home.

The “hill fights,” as they were called, unfolded through 1967 as General Giap lured General Westmoreland into one battle after another. The most gruesome occurred in late November 1967 near the outpost of Dak To in northern Kontum Province in the Central Highlands. It became known as “Hill 875” after the military practice of naming a battleground for its height in meters. Colonel Jonathan Ladd, known as Fred, the Special Forces commander in Vietnam in 1967 and a friend from earlier years when he had been an adviser to a South Vietnamese infantry division in the Mekong Delta, told me what had happened.

Fred had a camp at Dak To. It suddenly came under mortar fire. The Special Forces were composed then of mountain tribal mercenaries led by experienced and canny Army noncommissioned officers. Fred flew up to Dak To from his headquarters at Nha Trang on the coast and sent out patrols to ascertain the source of the mortar fire. They discovered that the Vietnamese had built another of these man traps on Hill 875 and adjoining ridges. The mortars were a macabre invitation to a fight for the bunker complex. General Westmoreland was in Washington, called home by a nervous Lyndon Johnson to shore up public support for the war that was being eroded by the high casualties. The general urged patience. He was winning. “The end begins to come into view,” he assured the nation in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington.

General Westmoreland’s subordinates knew what he wanted. The 173rd Airborne Brigade was dispatched to Dak To, along with battalions of the Fourth Infantry Division under Maj. Gen. William R. Peers, a respected officer. As soon as Fred briefed him, General Peers announced that he was going to unleash a heliborne assault on the bunker complex. Fred pleaded with him not to do so. “For God’s sake, General, don’t send our people in there,” Fred said. “That’s what they want us to do. They’ll butcher our people. If they want to fight us, let them come down here where we can kill them.”

General Peers refused to listen, imbued as he was with the Westmoreland doctrine of “Find ‘em, fix ‘em, fight ‘em, and destroy ‘em.” The paratroops shouted “Airborne all the way,” as they fought their way up the slopes. Two hundred and eighty-seven of these troopers and infantrymen from the Fourth Division died. More than 1,000 were wounded. And as always, when the fight was over, the Vietnamese disappeared.

Neil Sheehan is a former correspondent for The New York Times and the author of “A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.” He obtained the Pentagon Papers for The Times in 1971.

#Vietnam War #Hill 875 #William C. Westmoreland #Neil Sheehan

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Segmentation Systems for Creating Consumer Profiles If you do want to use preexisting consumer profiles, there are many options available. Market research firms often make their consumer profiles available for discrete market research projects that are conducted for their market research clients at large companies. There are several different examples of classification categories that market research firms use. ABC1 is a common grouping strategy based on the professional job role of an individual, a person designated as the head-of-household, or the main contributor of income to a family. The term ABC1 is shorthand for the first three socioeconomic groups in the taxonomy, which is: A = Senior or higher managerial, administrative, or professional B = Intermediate managerial, administrative, or professional C1 = Supervisory or clerical, and junior managerial, administrative, or professional C2 = Skilled manual workers D = Semiskilled and unskilled manual workers E = Everyone entirely dependent on public support (chronically ill, unemployed, elderly, disabled, and other reasons) Lifestage and other special groups are mostly categorized according to proprietary consumer research or census-based research. Different countries associated specific percentages with each of the life stages groups. The standard taxonomy for life stage groups is: Pre-Family or No Family: Younger than 45 who are not parents. Family: Any age with at least one child younger than 16 still at home. Third Age: Ages 45-64 with no children younger than 16 still at home. Retired: Older than 65 with no children younger than 16 still at home. ACORN (A Classification of Residential Neighborhoods) is a geodemographic segmentation used in the United Kingdom. The system uses census data on residential areas to categorize consumers based on income, education, ethnicity, and other traits. Postal codes then can be associated with specific ACORN categories because people who live in neighborhoods tend to share a number of attributes. MOSAIC is a system of consumer classifications that covers consumers in 29 countries, including the United States, Australia, Eastern Asia, and Western Europe. It identifies 10 types of residential neighborhoods that can be found in cities around the globe and classifies more than 400 million households worldwide. ESRI Community Tapestry is a system for classifying households in the United States. It divides U.S. neighborhoods 14 LifeModes, including: Affluent Estates, Upscale Avenues, Uptown Individuals Family Landscapes, GenXurban, Cozy Country Living Ethnic Enclaves, Middle Ground, Senior Styles Rustic Outposts, Midtown Singles, Hometown Next Wave, Scholars and Patriots, Unclassified These LifeModes are subdivided into more than 60 market segments such as Top Tier, Enterprising Professionals, Rustbelt Traditions, and Urban Villages. CAMEO is a classification system that divides consumers into segments both within specific countries and around the world. CAMEO UK classifies households within the United Kingdom, while CAMEO International is a global system that segments customers across borders. CAMEO Global is the largest system of segmenting consumers in the world, covering buyers across 40 countries in Eastern and Western Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. PSYTE HD is a Canadia geodemographic system that uses postal codes to classify consumers into more than 50 groups based on lifestyle and neighborhood. It uses the Canadian census as well as third party data to create a comprehensive map of consumer behavior based on neighborhood.

Consumer Profile Basics: Defining Your Ideal Customer

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mastcomm · 5 years ago

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Dawn Mello, Who Revived Bergdorf Goodman and Gucci, Dies at 88

Donna Karan reminisced recently about a morning in the early 1980s when she saw the first collection she had designed under her own label showcased in the windows of Bergdorf Goodman. She stood outside transfixed.

“I felt like Audrey Hepburn window gazing in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’” she recalled. “But I wouldn’t have been there, I wouldn’t be here now, if Dawn hadn’t been at my side.”

Dawn was Dawn Mello, the farseeing merchant who forged a career in the mid-1970s and ’80s, recasting Bergdorf Goodman, a once musty relic on Fifth Avenue, as a temple of high-end consumption, and who in the ’90s helped restore luster to Gucci and a cluster of fading brands.

A much revered figure whose keen eye, nurturing personality and regally understated aesthetic helped shift the landscape of American fashion and retailing, Ms. Mello died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 88.

To admirers she was a force field, one of the few women to rise to leadership positions in retailing, wielding clout, first as Bergdorf’s vice president and fashion director, then as president. She was also among the first to snap up and promote designers including Ms. Karan, Giorgio Armani, Azzedine Alaïa, Kate Spade and Tom Ford at the start of their careers.

“To me that was it, to be the first kid on the block with a new talent or new idea,” Ms. Mello said in 2009.

Colleagues and friends ascribed her success to a combination of intuitiveness and judicious timing.

“To succeed in this field, you had to have pretty good instincts from a merchandising standpoint,” said Joe Cicio, a longtime friend and a former top executive at Macy’s and I. Magnin. “She was current. She had an uncanny eye. If she asked you to take a look at something, a new designer’s sketches or portfolio, that’s what you did.”

Robert Burke, who succeeded Ms. Mello at Bergdorf and is now a luxury retail consultant, summed up her influence: “She took a position.”

In the ’80s and early ’90s, “an effective fashion director had the idea, sourced it, manufactured it, figured out how to promote it, how to extend its life,” Mr. Burke said. “Then she or he figured out what to do with it, in case it didn’t work.”

Ms. Mello made the most of that role, influencing the look of the windows, floor displays and advertising. Another vital part of the job was to scour the marketplace for trends and talent that could create an exclusive image for the store.

There was a time in the early 1980s, she once recalled, when she found herself sprinting across the street to a neighboring specialty store and accosting a young window dresser.

“He was wearing a great-looking outfit,” Ms. Mello recalled, “so I said, ‘Gee, can you tell me who designed this?’” Impressed to learn that the young man had made it himself, she invited him to see her.

Days later, he arrived at her office with his mother in tow, and an armful of clothes. “We gave him a little space in the store and that was the beginning of Michael Kors,” Ms. Mello recalled.

Mr. Kors recalled, “She plucked me from obscurity at a small boutique on 57th Street called Lothar’s and brought my collection to Bergdorf Goodman in 1981 to launch it,” adding, “She supported me and so many other new talents, throughout her career.”

Ms. Mello told French Vogue in 1986 that a career as a fashion designer had no appeal for her. “I wouldn’t have known which direction to take,” she said, adding, “I always wished to work in a store.”

She studied in Boston at the Modern School of Fashion Design, arrived in New York in the 1950s and modeled for a time. She served as an executive at the May Company in the late ’60s, and during the early ’70s, as director of fashion merchandising at the now defunct B. Altman department store. She worked alongside Ira Neimark, the store’s chief executive, who, after leaving Altman to assume the top position at Bergdorf in 1975, invited Ms. Mello to join him as fashion director.

“He told me, ‘We’ll build the store in your image,’ and he never went back on his word,” Ms. Mello told her biographer, John A. Tiffany, who charted her influence in “Dawn: The Career of the Legendary Fashion Retailer Dawn Mello” (2019).

With her ashy blond hair and imposing stature — she stood six feet tall — to some she embodied the style aspirations of the very customers she hoped to lure.

Ms. Mello’s softly polished appearance was reflected at Bergdorf, a redoubt of blond-on-beige understatement from its designer shops to its elevators. Her own genteel look belied a tough core.

“In business, Dawn has always had to be a formidable presence due to her standing as one of the first and only females in executive leadership at the time,” said Martha Wikstrom, a financial executive who later became her partner in a luxury consulting firm.

Her hiring decisions as often as not were founded on a shrewd meld of instinct and personal affinity. “One of the great lessons I learned from Dawn,” Mr. Ford said, “is never to hire anyone you wouldn’t want to have dinner with.”

Born in Lynn, Mass., on Oct. 5, 1931, Ms. Mello was the daughter of Anthony and Blanche (Raczlowski) Mello. Her father was a mechanic, her mother a homemaker.

In the early ’70s, she rose from buying officer to general merchandise manager and vice president at the May Department Store Company.

But Ms. Mello — who was deferentially known as Miss Mello in the industry — rose to prominence when, with Mr. Neimark’s blessing, she transformed Bergdorf into a world-class luxury emporium, installing its first escalators, and adding sumptuous carpeting and an ambience that fused old-world touches with streamlined understatement. Hyper-attentive to image, she upgraded the store’s advertising campaigns, and worked to turn Bergdorf into an outpost for blue-chip designers.

In 1989, she joined Gucci, then a down-at-the-heels Italian leather goods house troubled by family scandals, counterfeiting, excessive licensing and overdistribution. As creative director, she moved the company headquarters to Florence and was swift to enlist Florentine artisans to revamp, tone down and upgrade the products, including the company’s signature bamboo-handle handbags and snaffle-bit loafer.

The next year she recruited Mr. Ford to update and glamorize the company’s ready-to-wear. “Dawn changed lives, and she certainly changed mine,” said Mr. Ford, a little-known designer at the time, who flourished under Ms. Mello’s tutelage and went on to become the company’s creative director when she left in 1994 to return to Bergdorf as president.

In 1999 she left once more, eventually joining Ms. Wikstrom to form a consulting firm for luxury clients. Together they created Atelier Fund to invest in a new generation of emerging designers.

She leaves no immediate survivors.

Quietly aggressive throughout her career, Ms. Mello nonetheless preferred to operate behind the scenes. “Dawn has spent decades bringing other people’s stories to life, silently standing in the background while others took their bows,” Mr. Tiffany, her biographer, wrote. “The focus was always her work, never her own popularity.”

“She had always been shy, especially when it came to dealing with celebrities,” said Myra Hackel, Ms. Mello’s friend and administrative assistant of 30 years. Ms. Hackel recounted an instance when Sharon Stone arrived with her sister at Bergdorf to browse. Ms. Hackel pleaded with Ms. Mello, who was in her office, to descend to the sales floor to welcome Ms. Stone. Ms. Mello begged off. “You go down and greet her,” Ms. Hackel was told.

Her stringent aesthetic and sense of correctness never deserted her, friends recalled. “When she visited Barneys New York, she would always stop at the Mark Cross table,” said Martha Kramer, a former executive at Ungaro whose husband was president of Mark Cross at the time.

The merchandise, rifled by shoppers, was left in disarray. Ms. Mello wasn’t having it. She hovered over the table, intent on restoring a semblance of order and eye appeal.

“Inevitably, some salesperson would approach to offer help,” Ms. Kramer recalled. “And Dawn would politely wave them away. ‘It’s fine, I’m just straightening,’ they were told.”

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Noticias de series de la semana: El regreso de Maggie

Renovaciones

Netflix ha renovado Stranger Things por una cuarta temporada

TNT ha renovado Claws por una cuarta y última temporada

BBC Two ha renovado Motherland por una tercera temporada

Netflix ha renovado Dear White People por una cuarta y última temporada

AMC ha renovado The Walking Dead por una undécima temporada

Pop ha renovado Florida Girls por una segunda temporada

TNT España ha renovado Vota Juan por una segunda temporada que se titulará Vamos Juan

Cancelaciones

ABC ha cancelado Grand Hotel tras su primera temporada

Noticias cortas

Lauren Cohan (Maggie) volverá como regular a la undécima temporada de The Walking Dead.

Snowpiercer vuelve de TNT a TBS.

Lincoln (NBC) pasa a llamarse Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector.

Stephanie Sigman (Jessica Cortez) no estará en la tercera temporada de SWAT.

Incorporaciones y fichajes

Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, A Series of Unfortunate Events), Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard, The Durrells), Olly Alexander (Penny Dreadful, Skins), Stephen Fry (Gosford Park, V for Vendetta), Tracy Ann Oberman (Friday Night Live, Toast of London), Shaun Dooley (Gentleman Jack, Broadchurch), Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells, Lydia West (Years and Years) y Nathaniel Ash () protagonizarán Boys. Alexander será Ritchie, un joven de dieciocho años que guarda un secreto a sus padres (Hawes y Dooley) y a sus amigos (West y Ash) y conoce a Roscoe (Douglas) y Colin (Howells) y se embarca junto a ellos en nuevas aventuras mientras el SIDA comienza a acechar.

Julia Goldani Telles (The Affair, Bunheads) protagonizará la tercera temporada de The Girlfriend Experience. Será Iris, una joven neurocientífica que se da cuenta de que las sesiones con sus clientes le dan ventaja en el mundo tecnológico y se cuestiona si sus acciones se deben al libre albedrío o a algo más.

William Jackson Harper (The Good Place, Midsommar) se une como recurrente a The Underground Rairoad. Será Royal, un hombre negro nacido libre que conoce a Cora (Thuso Mbedu) durante su viaje.

Jesse Williams (Grey's Anatomy, The Cabin in the Woods) se une como recurrente a Little Fires Everywhere. Será Joe Ryan, un adinerado trabajador de Wall Street.

Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes, The Office) será recurrente en Never Have I Ever, la comedia de Mindy Kaling para Netflix, como Mohan Venkatesan, padre de Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan). Richa Shukla se une como regular interpretando a Kamala, prima de Devi.

Joel McHale (Community) participará en dos episodios de la undécima y última temporada de Will & Grace interpretando a un nuevo interés amoroso de Karen (Megan Mullally).

Cynthia Erivo (Bad Times at the El Royale, Widows) interpretará a Aretha Franklin en la tercera temporada de Genius.

Bernadette Peters (Smash, Mozart in the Jungle) será Ms. Freesia, la figura materna de Pepper Smith (Julia Chan), en Katy Keene. Daphne Rubin-Vega (Smash, Tales of the City) será recurrente como Luisa, la madre de Jorge/Ginger (Jonny Beauchamp).

50 Cent (Power, Spy) será recurrente en For Life como Cassius Dawkins, un recluso recién transferido a Bellmore. Timothy Busfield (The West Wing, thirtysomething) se une como regular. Interpretará a Roswell, mentor legal y amigo de Aaron Wallace (Nicholas Pinnock).

Cherie Johnson (Cherie) también estará en el revival de Punky Brewster.

Nat Wolff (Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars) será Lloyd Henreid, un criminal leal a Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), en The Stand.

Mekia Cox (Once Upon a Time, Chicago Med) se une como regular a la segunda temporada de The Rookie. Será Nyla Harper, detective que quiere volver a una vida normal tras pasar cuatro años como encubierta.

Leah Gibson (Jessica Jones, Sacred Lies) y Carl Lundstedt (Cloak & Dagger) serán recurrentes en la segunda temporada de Manifest como Tamara, camarera de un bar al que suelen acudir los X'ers, y su hermano Billy.

Winston Duke (Black Panther, Us) protagonizará Swagger, nueva serie de Apple TV+ inspirada en la vida Kevin Durant que explorará el mundo del baloncesto juvenil. Será Ike, entrenador y antiguo jugador estrella.

Mary Kay Place (Big Love, Lady Dynamite) y Elizabeth Rodriguez (Orange Is the New Black, Fear The Walking Dead) se unen como recurrentes a la décima temporada de Shameless. Serán Oopie, la irritantemente dulce tía de Tami (Kate Miner); y Faye, una femme fatale que acudirá a Frank (William H. Macy) por razones inesperadas.

Sebastian Roché (The Young Pope, The Vampire Diaries) será recurrente en Batwoman como el doctor Campbell, un respetado cirujano plástico de Gotham.

Tony Cavalero (The Righteous Gemstones, School of Rock), Jessica Lowe (Wrecked, Man Seeking Woman), Peter Serafinowicz (The Tick, People of Earth) y Jamie Demetriou (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Fleabag) serán recurrentes en la segunda temporada de Miracle Workers, centrada en los habitantes de una villa medieval. Serán un bro feliz al que le encantan las noches de juegos en la taberna y las ejecuciones públicas, una joven segura de sí misma y condescendiente entusiasmada con casarse con su hermano y asentarse, el rey tirano que prioriza matar a criar a sus hijos y el sereno que presenta las noticias en la plaza del pueblo.

Cornelius Smith Jr. (Scandal, All My Children), Keeya King (Van Helsing, Saw VIII) y J. Alphonse Nicholson (P-Valley, Shots Fired) se unen a Madam C.J. Walker. Serán W.E.B. Dubois, activista e intelectual; Peaches, cantante de jazz; y John Robinson, marido de Lelia (Tiffany Haddish).

Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes (Westworld, Chronicles of Narnia), Freddy Carter (Free Rein, Pennyworth), Archie Renaux, Amita Suman (The Outpost) y Kit Young protagonizarán Shadow and Bone, la adaptación de las novelas de Leigh Bardugo para Netflix. Serán Alina Starkov, General Kirigan, Kaz Brekker, Malyen Oretsev, Inej y Jesper Fahey.

Leïti Sène (Benvinguts a la família) y Sergio Momo (Zona hostil) se unen a la tercera temporada de Elite. Interpretarán a Yeray y Malick.

Natalia Cigliuti (This Is Us, The Glades) se une a Deputy como recurrente. Será Teresa, la esposa de Cade Walker (Brian Van Holt).

Derek Theler (Baby Daddy, American Gods), Beth Riesgraf (Leverage, Complications) y Lamont Thompson (NCIS: LA, The Brink) se unen como regulares a 68 Whiskey. Serán Sasquatch, miembro de una fuerza de seguridad; la mayor Sonia Holloway, la doctora con mayor ranking en la base; y el coronel Harlan Austin. Usman Ally (On Becoming a God in Central Florida, A Series of Unfortunate Events), Artur Benson (Shooter), Aaron Glenane (Picnic at Hanging Rock) y Linc Hand (Revenge, Ghosted) serán recurrentes como el capitán Hazara, doctor paquistaní; Khalil, soldado afgano; Colin Gale, miembro del ejército australiano; y Crash, un piloto con un nombre único.

Carter MacIntyre (Benched, Drop Dead Diva), Adam J. Harrington (Turn, Drop Dead Diva) y Terrence Terrell (Giants, Bigger) se unen como recurrentes a la sexta temporada de Bosch. Serán Clifford Maxwell, agente del FBI que trabaja en un caso en el distrito de Bosch; Jack Brenner, agente especial del FBI a cargo de la investigación de un asesinato en el terreno de Bosch; y Marvel, un gangster jamaicano.

Vladimir Caamaño (Superstore) se une a Tommy como regular. Será un escolta e investigador de Tommy (Edie Falco).

Pósters

Nuevas series

AMC ha encargado diez episodios Kevin Can F--- Himself, comedia que mezclará formatos monocámara y multicámara para mostrar, según Sarah Barnett -presidenta de AMC Networks-, la furia de la esposa típica de sitcom, que durante décadas ha existido para enfatizar el personaje masculino. Creada por Valerie Armstrong (Lodge 49, SEAL Team), escrita por Craig DiGregorio (Shrill, Kevin (Probably) Saves the World) y producida por Rashida Jones (Claws, Angie Tribeca) y Will McCormack (Claws, A to Z).

AMC encarga la event series (dieciséis episodios en dos temporadas) 61st Street, drama centrado en Moses Johnson, un joven negro, que es atleta de instituto, al que confunden con el miembro de una banda y se ve arrastrado a lo más profundo del corrupto sistema penal de Chicago. Creada por Peter Moffat (The Night Of, The Last Post) y producida por Michael B. Jordan (David Makes Man, Raising Dion).

TBS encarga diez episodios de Obliterated, drama centrado en un equipo de fuerzas especiales que rastrea una red terrorista que quiere destruir Las Vegas y, tras celebrar una fiesta de fin de misión llena de drogas y alcohol, descubre que la bomba que habían desactivado era un señuelo. Deberán sobreponerse y desactivar la bomba real. Escrita y producida por Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg y Josh Heald, creadores de Cobra Kai.

Netflix ha encargado ocho episodios de Brews Brothers, comedia creada por los hermanos Greg y Jeff Schaffer que sigue a dos hermanos que han perdido la relación y acaban abriendo juntos una fábrica cervecera. Ambos son genios de la cerveza pero muy distintos tanto en personalidad como en técnica. Protagonizada por Alan Aisenberg (Orange Is the New Black, Mozart in the Jungle) y Mike Castle (Clipped). Les acompañan Carmen Flood y Marques Ray (Dr. Ken). Escrita por Greg (That 70's Show, Mad About You) y producida por Jeff (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm).

Hulu ha encargado Woke, comedia de acción real con secuencias animadas inspirada en la vida y obra del artista Keith Knight. Trata sobre un dibujante de San Francisco que se encuentra en la cúspide del éxito cuando un incidente relacionado con policías lo cambia todo. Creada y producida por Knight y Marshall Todd (Barbershop). Escrita por Aeysha Carr (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Carmichael Show). Protagonizada por Lamorne Morris (New Girl, Valley of the Boom).

Netflix encarga ocho episodios de Clickbait, thriller que explora las formas en las que nuestros más peligrosos e incontrolables impulsos son alimentados en la era de las redes sociales y revela las fracturas cada vez más grandes que encontramos entre nuestra apariencia real y la virtual. Creada, escrita y producida por Tony Ayres (The Slap, Glitch) y Christian White y dirigida por Brad Anderson (Fringe, The Sinner).

Universal TV ha adquirido los derechos de Life Will Be The Death Of Me, adaptación de las memorias de Chelsea Handler (2019) que cuentan su año de autodescubrimiento.

Netflix encarga Human Resources, spin-off de Big Mouth centrado en el lugar de trabajo de los monstruos.

Fechas

Dublin Murders se estrena en BBC One el 14 de octubre

Giri/Haji se estrena en BBC Two el 17 de octubre

La tercera temporada de Atypical llega a Netflix el 1 de noviembre

Servant se estrena en Apple TV+ el 28 de noviembre

Harley Quinn se estrena en DC Universe el 29 de noviembre

Foodie Love se estrena en HBO el 4 de diciembre

La segunda temporada de Lost in Space llega a Netflix el 24 de diciembre

Star Trek: Picard se estrena en CBS All Access el 24 de enero

Tráilers y promos

War of the Worlds