#Solved Project in Operation Management

[nasa]

Student Experiments Soar!

Have you ever wondered what it takes to get a technology ready for space? The NASA TechRise Student Challenge gives middle and high school students a chance to do just that – team up with their classmates to design an original science or technology project and bring that idea to life as a payload on a suborbital vehicle.

Since March 2021, with the help of teachers and technical advisors, students across the country have dreamed up experiments with the potential to impact space exploration and collect data about our planet.

So far, more than 180 TechRise experiments have flown on suborbital vehicles that expose them to the conditions of space. Flight testing is a big step along the path of space technology development and scientific discovery.

The 2023-2024 TechRise Challenge flight tests took place this summer, with 60 student teams selected to fly their experiments on one of two commercial suborbital flight platforms: a high-altitude balloon operated by World View, or the Xodiac rocket-powered lander operated by Astrobotic. Xodiac flew over the company’s Lunar Surface Proving Ground — a test field designed to simulate the Moon’s surface — in Mojave, California, while World View’s high-altitude balloon launched out of Page, Arizona.

Here are four innovative TechRise experiments built by students and tested aboard NASA-supported flights this summer:

1. Oobleck Reaches the Skies

Oobleck, which gets its name from Dr. Seuss, is a mixture of cornstarch and water that behaves as both a liquid and a solid. Inspired by in-class science experiments, high school students at Colegio Otoqui in Bayomón, Puerto Rico, tested how Oobleck’s properties at 80,000 feet aboard a high-altitude balloon are different from those on Earth’s surface. Using sensors and the organic elements to create Oobleck, students aimed to collect data on the fluid under different conditions to determine if it could be used as a system for impact absorption.

2. Terrestrial Magnetic Field

Middle school students at Phillips Academy International Baccalaureate School in Birmingham, Alabama, tested the Earth’s magnetic field strength during the ascent, float, and descent of the high-altitude balloon. The team hypothesized the magnetic field strength decreases as the distance from Earth’s surface increases.

3. Rocket Lander Flame Experiment

To understand the impact of dust, rocks, and other materials kicked up by a rocket plume when landing on the Moon, middle school students at Cliff Valley School in Atlanta, Georgia, tested the vibrations of the Xodiac rocket-powered lander using CO2 and vibration sensors. The team also used infrared (thermal) and visual light cameras to attempt to detect the hazards produced by the rocket plume on the simulated lunar surface, which is important to ensure a safe landing.

4. Rocket Navigation

Middle and high school students at Tiospaye Topa School in LaPlant, South Dakota, developed an experiment to track motion data with the help of a GPS tracker and magnetic radar. Using data from the rocket-powered lander flight, the team will create a map of the flight path as well as the magnetic field of the terrain. The students plan to use their map to explore developing their own rocket navigation system.

The 2024-2025 TechRise Challenge is now accepting proposals for technology and science to be tested on a high-altitude balloon! Not only does TechRise offer hands-on experience in a live testing scenario, but it also provides an opportunity to learn about teamwork, project management, and other real-world skills.

“The TechRise Challenge was a truly remarkable journey for our team,” said Roshni Ismail, the team lead and educator at Cliff Valley School. “Watching them transform through the discovery of new skills, problem-solving together while being driven by the chance of flying their creation on a [rocket-powered lander] with NASA has been exhilarating. They challenged themselves to learn through trial and error and worked long hours to overcome every obstacle. We are very grateful for this opportunity.”

Are you ready to bring your experiment design to the launchpad? If you are a sixth to 12th grade student, you can make a team under the guidance of an educator and submit your experiment ideas by November 1. Get ready to create!

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[mya-valentine]

Headcanon: Working Closely with Dottore and Pantalone

Working with both Dottore and Pantalone is a constant balancing act. Dottore thrives in the realm of chaos, with his twisted experiments and disregard for ethical boundaries, while Pantalone is the epitome of control and calculated precision. Your role often involves navigating between these two extremes, ensuring that Dottore’s reckless endeavors don’t entirely destroy Pantalone’s well-constructed plans—or his profits.

When working with Dottore, you can never fully predict what kind of experiment or scheme he’ll drag you into. His workspace is full of dangerous contraptions and ominous, mysterious equipment. He treats everything like a puzzle he’s determined to solve, even if it means crossing lines others wouldn’t dare. He might request your assistance in something seemingly innocent, only for it to evolve into a disturbing and twisted experiment.

On the other hand, Pantalone runs things with the precision of a businessman. Every decision is meticulously calculated, and he expects nothing less from those who work closely with him. He’s always thinking several steps ahead, and his projects often revolve around securing wealth and influence for the Fatui. When working with him, you are exposed to high-stakes negotiations, economic manipulation, and subtle power plays.

You often find yourself playing the mediator between Dottore and Pantalone. Dottore’s mad scientist antics sometimes clash with Pantalone’s structured business endeavors. It’s not uncommon for Pantalone to become exasperated by Dottore’s unpredictable actions, and you’re the one who has to smooth things over, explaining Dottore’s reasoning—or lack thereof—while ensuring Pantalone’s operations aren’t compromised.

Joint meetings between the three of you can be tense. Dottore often speaks in vague, almost mocking tones about his experiments, while Pantalone raises a brow, always concerned about how much these ventures will cost the Fatui. You’ll feel the palpable tension as Pantalone tries to rein in Dottore’s more outlandish ideas, but Dottore never gives in easily.

While Dottore can be incredibly intimidating, there’s a certain thrill in working alongside someone as brilliant—and dangerous—as him. He occasionally lets you in on his more technical ideas, expecting you to keep up with his genius. He enjoys showing off his creations and theories, and if you’re able to contribute meaningfully, he’ll regard you with a mix of interest and amusement.

Pantalone, on the other hand, values your ability to manage things with poise. He expects you to understand the broader picture, the economy, and how to influence people subtly. He enjoys teaching you about the intricacies of wealth management and expects you to adopt his same level of attention to detail. If you manage to impress him, he might even offer you a more strategic role in the Fatui’s financial dealings.

Dottore has a twisted sense of humor, and you’ll often find yourself on the receiving end of it. He’ll make cryptic or morbid jokes about his experiments or the people involved, and you’ll need to keep your composure to avoid becoming another one of his “test subjects.” There’s a fine line between working with him and becoming part of his next experiment.

Pantalone, being a man of wealth, spoils those who earn his favor. If you manage to keep things running smoothly between him and Dottore, he will reward you handsomely—whether that’s through financial compensation, gifts, or special privileges. He values competence and loyalty, and he’s more than willing to show his appreciation through luxurious means.

Both Dottore and Pantalone hold significant power within the Fatui, but their power manifests in different ways. Dottore’s influence comes from fear and intellect, while Pantalone’s stems from wealth and control. You’ll need to navigate their distinct power dynamics carefully, knowing that they both have the ability to make or break you in the organization.

Earning trust from either Dottore or Pantalone isn’t easy. Dottore respects intellect and curiosity, while Pantalone values loyalty and efficiency. Over time, you may find yourself in a unique position where you’ve gained the trust of both men, becoming someone they rely on—Dottore for assistance with his experiments and Pantalone for managing the financial and strategic aspects of the Fatui.

Working with them can feel like being part of a dangerously effective machine. Pantalone’s resources fund Dottore’s more elaborate projects, and in return, Dottore’s inventions or discoveries can increase the Fatui’s power.

Working closely with Dottore and Pantalone is a challenging yet intriguing experience, requiring adaptability, wit, and a keen understanding of both chaos and order. It’s a delicate dance between madness and strategy, and if you manage to thrive in such an environment, you’ll earn the respect—and maybe even the protection—of two of the most powerful Harbingers in Teyvat.

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[forsaken-headcanons]

HCs for Elliot!! [yapping session nerd warning]

After seeing people hc elliots is a people pleaser, i got the urge and idea to do some people pleaser characteristics research. As a people-pleaser-on-a-fundamental-worrying-level myself, i thought of giving some headcanons about his people pleasing side

[This is probably me just projecting some traits that are considered as people pleasing according to some psychology websites]

Just to note, people pleasing isn't a medical term used by psychologists, more of a label

- People pleasers please people because they want to feel needed by people and will become the "handy reliable man" due to their low self- esteems

- Elliot has his cheerful, happy personality as a way to cover his low self esteems that he has, and also to serve customers with a smile (except 007n7 lol)

- He molded himself into one of the caregiver/parental roles from the survivors despite his young age (prob is in his mid twenties), with most of the other being older than him. This gives him pressure and stress to operate efficiently and take care of the others, while having little-to-no time for himself

- His selfless giving and caring are often taken up to others' advantages (mostly unknowingly)

^ Due to this, Elliot feels extremely burnt-out and hates his role he assigned himself to because it often feels like what he is doing is one-sided

He is an absolute peacemaker, trying to solve/fix people's problems for them and coming up with various excuses for people's bad habits

^Though lately, he has been tired from being the cover-up guy, so he almost stopped doing that

- Possibly due to his service for customers, he would keep his opinions humble and agree what the customer's says

- Elliot would often not speak his mind and just agree with people's opinions or find a middle ground between arguments even if he doesn't wholly agree with what he is saying

[This includes pineapplepizza. He likes it but wouldn't admit it]

^Even if somebody asked his opinion about smth small, he would still hold "do what you want" even if he has the strongest opinion about the question

- Man hates being the caregiver lately, since many don't even take his pizzas, but still contributes to taking care of some sentinels like guest 1337

^ def would contribute to smth he dont wanna do, like distracting the killer [this aint dandys world though]

- Saw hcs of him being the therapist that people can vent to, but wouldn't really talk about his feelings

[Though I can see g1337 being a dad and listening/ caring for Elliot's mental and physical being] <-Yo have any hcs on this mod？

People pleasing is mostly rooted from low self-esteem and wanting a sense of belonging, which could root from various long-term traumas, like neglect from parents of physiological and emotion needs, rather than a once event like an accident

I don't necessarily think Elliot's parents were abusive though, it's more that his parents had arguments about finance and business managing a lot that Elliot's and his sisters needs weren't often met and he had to take care of his sister with a "third parent role". There were definitely maids around but their parents mostly argued when there weren't anyone but their children around.

Probably Elliot was taught to be humble due to the family wealth status to a point when anyone compliments him for his pizza mkaing skills he would just down play it and say its no big deal or nothing big

Thats what I have for now

[And yes some-perhaps most- were projections]

I read that you hc Itrapped NPD AND BPD which is an interesting combo, def would do research on those and make some headcanons for ya mod

🔫🐟 anon

[omg a hc not about 007n7]

Why yes, I do have some headcanons for 1337 being a father figure.

He would father over all the younger survivors - Noob, Two Time and Elliot. He'd call them "kiddos" and spend most of his time in rounds protecting them.

More Elliot particular hcs - Guest would call him "Elli". Elliot gets hurt a lot during rounds and nobody is there to heal him (unless a dispenser somehow survives for longer than 2 miliseconds), but Guest is always willing to patch him up and treat his wounds. He has a lot of experience in doing so from his time in the army. He'd give him some advice that would help Elliot survive too. He's more than willing to listen to Elliot's troubles.

[wandixx]

Greeting comrades,

I’m Wandixx, Polish history enthusiast, baby writer and budding artist. Grab your tea/coffee/juice or whatever else beverage you favor and let’s go!

I’m part of the DPxDC fandom so my fics are from here. And this list exists so we all can find anything on this blog, welcome!

Here is my AO3:

My finished fics/prompt fills:

“Blood Blossom”:

Desperate times require desperate solutions. When, after escaping GIW, Danny gets trapped by the Justice League, he has only one way to get out of it. Eating a Blood Blossom. (this one includes a sad and happy ending!)

“Contingencies”:

Danny lives with Bats and it all seems to go pretty well. Until they find his contingency plans, including ones against himself, that were just over glorified suicide to-do list. How the hell are they supposed to handle that (that’s a chunky boi, over 20k)

"(Don't) Leave me here alone" (previously "You'll never find the answers")

M'gann was having an amazing day. She met with her civilian friends, drank an amazing smoothie, saw a cute dog. For a few hours, she didn't have to think about problems that took more than 20 minutes to solve. For a few hours, she could just be Megan. And then there was a scream of a woman, mother, who thought too loud and faded too fast and M'gann wasn't enough to save her and it made her whole world come crashing down. And then Danny found her, with a soft smile and patient voice. He kneeled beside her to pick up the pieces. And shards cut them both in the process. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 AO3 link Art by Clockworkclown

“Ghost of fries and hero of cookies”

Duke wasn't expecting to wake up from his quick rooftop nap to some meta kid with fries. He also wasn't expecting kid to stay Or Danny asked Dani to stay safe while she was in Gotham. Where would she be safer than under the wing of a local hero? And he looked like he needed a bad day combo anyway. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, art AO3 link

“Reverse summoning”:

It’s always DC characters summoning Danny. How about we do this another way around? Danny was desperate for a mentor and help (and some cold medicine). How- What- Why is Wonder Woman standing in his bedroom? 

“Unknown, the Wandering Hero”:

Unknown was what Justice League called the friendly anonymous hero, who kept helping them with ghosts. Only one with powers working on them. It just turns out, they were much younger than everyone expected. Danny went through a lot lately and the less people knew who he was, the less likely he was to return to the operating table.

M'gannxDanny one-shots: (their ship name is 💚Spearmint💚) (I love them so much, can you tell?)

"M'gann and curious case of disappearing cities"

M'gann was bored out of her mind and her monitoring shift with Green Arrow just started! Sure, it was important thing to learn and all, but also just a bit more interesting than drying paint. And then entire city just disappeared from the feed, so she stormed out to investiagate. And it went downhill from there

"Fight over the Mars"

Danny was ambushed by Vlad when he was minding his own buisness. It wouldn't be unusual if he didn't have a portal gun, that send them all over the world and then to the freaking Mars. And then Miss Martian showed up. Yeah, Danny was absolutely normal about that part

"Relationship reveal with ghost summoning on the side"

Young Justice fumbled a bit a mission involving the cult. Yeah, they managed to summon the wish granting ghost and only Aqualad had a way to touch her. Not the best look... But then Miss Martian said she had an idea! The idea was to summon another ghost... And it worked and he attacked the first ghost! Wait, when exactly did petnames get on the table?!

"Date in the Ghost Zone"

Danny loves Ghost Zone. Especially Far Frozen, where he found almost second family. Danny also loves M'gann, his amazing girlfriend, for who he'd go to the end of world and back. It was only fair he introduced one to another.

"Relationship reveal with a side of mind-control (or really the other way around)"

M'gann didn't need to be a psychic to see that something was wrong. She didn't need to be one of Phantom's closest friends and know that whatever was going on was against his basic principles. She maybe even didn't need to be his girlfriend, with added bonus of being intimitely familiar with his eyes, which were decidedly never red. Team was none of it, of course, so they assumed it was a villain attack. M'gann was all of that, so she could help.

Actively posted fics:

"GIW made a lot of mistakes and the biggest one was going against Young Justice" (may change hah)

Young Justice wanted a chill afternoon for once, hanging out at amusment park. And then, Danny was attacked by some freaks in white suits. Well, it seems there are villains to make fun of and... did somone mention ✨an evil lab✨? part 1, part 2

"There is only so much you can do for the dead"

Phantom asked for a small favour from the Team. Just one room, for one day. Easy enough. The room he planned to spent his Death Day in. Nobody was quite ready for that. part 1, part 2

"Count the freckles, connect them like the stars"

Five time Danny found and drew constellations from M'gann's freckles and one time she did that for him Virgo (part 1), Pisces (part 2)

Stuff that I shared snippets of/will get updated maybe some day:

"Danny and Wally are chaos incarnate"

"Seriously chaotic fashion misadventures" (Dani x Damian little fluff)

"Danny, the Young Justice member" random ideas part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

Mr. J'onzz meet ghost and a half

Christmas in Mount Justice

The stuff I have somewhere on paper and would love to share if asked.

Make yourself at home, and I hope you’ll like it here!

[osakanone]

"How realistic are mecha, really?": They aren't, but not for the reason you're thinking of or the one adjacent to it. Trust me.

Crossposted from reddit, since people seemed to like it. Like in the thread, I am very happy to answer questions about any esoteric weirdness.

Hold my beer. Again

They're not becoming a possibility. Yes. I know. This sucks. But stick around. Its not for the reasons you think. Well it is, but it also isn't. You'll see.

The robot needs the technology more than the technology needs a robot.

the technologies which the robot needs will improve and alter the doctrine of every other platform

This creates a doctrinal lock-in where the potential functional space for them to exist is unmet -- that they are so far ahead, that nothing new can emerge that isn't just other platforms becoming more generalized (eg, a post-stall recovery aircraft, or a helicopter with high impact landing-gear and a rigid rotor/jet engine design to act as a surface-fighter -- a tank which walks or manoeuvres like a robot is just flat out of the question: Tanks are made to be simple-as-fuck boxes which tank hits, and shoot and acquire asap and rumours of their deaths as a doctrinal weapon are exaggerated by recent events where obsolete weapons which aren't maintained properly who's crews aren't adequately trained were fighting very clever civilians with drones)

What you consider "realistic" (5th/6th) is just as if not more unrealistic than other gens purely because of their smaller size and very bizarre relationship with the environment -- they're just both too big, and too small to make sense, sitting in a size niche which is just very weird

If such a vehicle does exist, its going to be defined by its functions rather than a humanoid appearance

we know this because specialized platforms tend to beat tasked platforms historically until specialized platforms mature and become generalized enough for it to act as a force-multiplier (eg, your air to ground radar and datalink let you drop bombs smarter, or interfere with Ground-to-Air radar to defend yourself)

thus, the closest you're probably going to get is some weird variation of DARPA's Ground X Vehicle Project meeting with Gravity Industry' style mobility in limited cases, hybridized with smaller robots and wingsuits, which mix manoeuvring operation styles, with some rocker-boogie mechanism elements for terrain handling: It won't be humanoid, whatever it is.

This is assuming you can magically solve the square-cube law of volume-mass which is partially negatable with certain custom topologies exceeding graphene but actually manufacturing them would be miserable work probably not even be something you can make without microgravity

Energy flat out isn't solvable with what we know about right now. Nothing with that energy density can exist that isn't going to simultaneously make for an incredible fragile, dangerous and problematic source of power given the forces involved. Cooling is also a horrifyingly unsolvable problem on this scale, as is radiation management: You can't just dump molten tungsten in emergency cooling mode - you'll not only proceed to alert everybody who has even the vaguest IRST capacity to your position, but you'll also probably set fire to the environment and cook off your own ammunition. *

Motors aren't well suited to the tasks of such bodies (its like trying to make a slingshot out of dental floss), and we don't have an effective way to turn electricity into a form of motion which corresponds with the shock absorbing and motion control qualities which are actually desirable yet

Even if we did, the actual means of ensuring it doesn't fragment every time it moves don't exist. Every time an A10C fires its main gun, the fuel lines micro-fracture and have to be replaced after it lands. Metal, when you subject it to high physical forces ends up feeling and behaving closer to how you would think of glass. You'd need a material capable of repairing itself too, atop the quasicrystalline property which again, just isn't doable, let alone simultaneously.

So in terms of our mindset going into this?

Its... Probably not happening barring a very, VERY extreme change to how we understand physics to function, or some really kick ass (and actually entirely possible) changes in how engineering achieves outcomes (which could happen if the greatest threat to the mecha didn't exist)

Combat is moving towards information dominance. 

That's drone swarms, and role modularized long range travel, and the idea of fighter beyond-visual-range combat extending out to infared search and track systems which are networked to one another, which we're already seeing in singleton weapons and their mounting strategies even on the personal scale, which DARPA is currently investigating which everybody wants to mate with the gravity industries gear for boarding ops so the most likely avenue is to scale up from people, rather than scale down from vehicles as the development pathway -- but there's probably going to be multiple pathways with competing niches once the technology becomes cheap enough.

Costing

Ultimately its down to "how much money do I have to spend to defeat something more expensive than myself?" -- because our current structure of war is defined by cost, and by making the other guys surrender by using economic, and military violence (private, and publicly funded) instead of convincing them that we (NATO members, etc) have good opinions purely because of the natural benefits of "doing as we say" (which we see with basically any conflict in the last 70 years, which are usually feigned as ideological but pretty much always about disrupting market competition, dominating markets, or controlling a pressure position in another country to achieve those two things).

This isn't because they're particularly excellent weapons, but because they're cheap relative to the strength they offer, and how we define cheap is very different to how we defined cheap 100 years ago -- both in good, and terrible ways (such is the way of history).

Mecha are kinda the ultimate boondoggle. They are very very expensive, and just don't make sense.

They're cool as hell, yes.

But they don't make sense.

DISCLAIMER: If you're prone to depression, are dealing with a lot right now, or don't want your day ruining, you should stop reading NOW. What comes next is a psychosocial hazard and could be very bad for your mental health. LAST CHANCE . . .

The "real" reasons

If conflict some how became a meritocracy of leading by excellence rather than intimidation, and about human outcomes instead of cost outcomes, then things could change, but we don't live in that world.

Remember, violence exists to end human conflict (not to be confused with military conflict, which violence is the primary instrument of): Human conflict is when two parties oppose one another and communicate about what their goals and intentions are. Violence happens when communication stops. Communication stops, because parties cannot come to terms, or because nobody wants to be reasonable because the inherent request is unreasonable to the interests of the other party.

I'd love to say physics is the greatest threat, or maybe our concept of conflict but its not: * Its economics.

The concept of private-equity (not to be confused with venture-capital investment) is kiiiind of the dominant economic system on the face of the planet which dictates the interest of every nuclear power's actions against every non-nuclear power) is functionally dissolved, and investment models as we know them magically become better regulated OR a better economic system comes along which totally undermines private equity.

Its an economic finger-trap where most of the money that would be reinvested into people and technologies to push the world forward ends up getting swallowed up.

It also has private armies) and simulates the economy and political events in order to control them for maximum profitability. Yeah.)

We already live in Armored Core, folks.

And that economic system knows that if it gave free agents like ravens any kind of military power, it would functionally undermine itself, which is why it will never happen.

Private equity benefits from not having technology change, because its primary goal is wealth extraction. It leads to the collapse of every business you've ever seen go under, its why products undergo enshittification, which is coming for everything.

Its why the housing crisis happened, why the banking collapse happened, and its why there's an incentive to continue industrializing diseases like insulin instead of curing them.

tl;dr:

The one thing AC gets super wrong is you can either have the depressing relatable low-saturation late-stage hyper-capitalist dystopia where life is cheap on planet earth and everything terrible about South Korea times a thousand covers the whole world, and you need to have your own organs brought from you and leased back to you to lock you in to a lifetime of debt the same way everything else works...

OR

you can have the robot;

You can't have both.

e: I'd pick the robot any day

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Apologies for any inaccuracies, I haven't edited this and I threw the original together in the space of around 40 minutes. Questions very welcome: I enjoy giving long detailed and substantiated answers.

If you enjoyed this, please consider reading my other work on the theoretical design factors of mecha, their control systems, and my fictional writing in mechposting.

[pekoehoneyncream]

König MBTI Type

Quick Run Down: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality typing device based on Carl Jung's theory of psychological types. It sorts people into 16 different personality types based on four pairs of opposite traits: Extraversion (E) vs. Introversion (I), Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N), Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F), & Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P)

König is ISTP

Introversion, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving.

(Fair warning, most of this is ripped straight from mbti sites, w/ minor wording edits from me)

Core Characteristics:

Independent and Self-Reliant: They value their independence and prefer to operate autonomously. ISTPs are often self-sufficient and capable of handling tasks on their own without needing much external support.

Practical and Realistic: They approach challenges with a practical mindset, focusing on finding effective and efficient solutions. They might prefer hands-on methods and immediate fixes rather than theoretical discussions. They favor tangible, factual information over abstract theories. This preference for concrete data helps them feel more grounded.

Practical and Hands-On: ISTPs are highly practical and enjoy working with their hands. They are skilled at understanding how things work and prefer to learn through direct experience rather than theoretical concepts.

Detail-Oriented Focus: When engaging in activities or projects, they pay close attention to the specifics and details. This focus helps them manage tasks effectively but can also lead to heightened stress if things don’t go as planned.

Tendency to Withdraw: When feeling overwhelmed, they may retreat into solitude to process their thoughts and regain composure. This withdrawal helps them recharge and regain a sense of control.

Reserved and Private: They tend to keep their thoughts and feelings to themselves, sharing personal insights only with those they trust deeply. This preference for privacy helps them manage their internal world without external pressures.

In Relationships:

Pros:

Problem-Solving Skills: ISTPs are excellent at tackling problems head-on with a logical and practical approach. In a relationship, this means they often find effective solutions to challenges, making them reliable partners in difficult situations. Their ability to stay calm under pressure can be a grounding force.

Loyalty: Despite their reserved nature, ISTPs are deeply loyal to those they care about. In both romantic and platonic relationships, they’re committed and will go to great lengths to support their loved ones. Their loyalty often creates a strong sense of trust and security.

Adventurous Spirit: ISTPs love new experiences and are often spontaneous, which can make relationships exciting and full of unexpected adventures. They’re the type to surprise you with an impromptu road trip or encourage you to try something new. This keeps the relationship dynamic and engaging.

Self-Reliance: They tend to be very independent and don’t demand constant attention, giving their partners or friends plenty of space. This independence can be refreshing, as they don’t cling to others for validation. It allows for a balanced relationship where both parties can maintain their own identities.

Practical Support: ISTPs are hands-on and often express care through actions rather than words. They’ll fix things, solve problems, or help out in practical ways, making them reliable when it comes to getting things done. This practical support is often appreciated in both romantic and friendship contexts.

Cons:

Emotional Reservedness: ISTPs can struggle to express their emotions, which might leave their partners or friends feeling disconnected or unsure about where they stand. This emotional distance can sometimes be mistaken for a lack of interest or care. It might require patience to navigate their reserved nature.

Difficulty with Open Communication: While ISTPs are great at solving practical problems, they might avoid or downplay issues that involve deeper emotional or relational complexities. This can lead to misunderstandings or unresolved conflicts in the relationship. Partners and friends may find it challenging to get them to open up about their feelings.

Overly Independent: ISTPs often pride themselves on their self-sufficiency, which can make it difficult for them to ask for help or rely on others, even when they need it. This independence can lead to unnecessary struggles, as they might push themselves too hard rather than leaning on their partner or friends. It can also create a sense of distance, as they may not share their challenges, leaving others feeling shut out or unable to support them.

Overly Critical: ISTPs' focus on logic can sometimes make them overly critical or blunt, especially when they feel something isn’t efficient or doesn’t make sense. This can hurt the feelings of those who are more sensitive, even if the ISTP doesn’t intend to cause harm. Their straightforwardness might be misinterpreted as insensitivity.

Need for Alone Time: ISTPs value their alone time highly and might withdraw unexpectedly to recharge, which can be confusing or hurtful to those who don’t understand this need. This withdrawal isn’t a reflection of the relationship’s value but rather a necessity for time alone without any judgment. However, it can create tension if the other person feels neglected.

Risk-Taking Behavior: Their adventurous nature can sometimes lead to impulsive decisions that may cause concern or stress for those around them. This risk-taking behavior can be thrilling but also unpredictable, leading to instability in the relationship. Partners and friends might struggle to keep up with or support their spontaneous actions.

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Captivating Moment and Operation Aether Ordeal

Caleb's Lucid Dreams myth being more or less in the main story timeline (more like a Bond than the other Myths) prompted me to go back and watch Captivating Moment again, and I realized that it's pretty explicitly set during Project Aether Ordeal (i.e. during the 3-4 months after MC is first in the N109 Zone) which is actually really interesting and puts the rest of MC and Sylus's "early in the relationship" memories into a pretty specific place in the timeline.

This is sort of a ramble but with lots of citations so I hope it'll be interesting to the other folks enjoying the lore and the meta aspect of the storytelling!

Spoilers below the cut! Sorry if it doesn't work on mobile, I only halfway understand how mobile Tumblr decides when to use/not use the "keep reading" cut 😅

Disclaimer 1: First off I want to say that an exact timeline is sort of not the point of LaDS, they intentionally give themselves room to not have to manage continuity perfectly, but I enjoy putting things into context.

Disclaimer 2: As a writer myself, I feel comfortable speculating on things that happen "behind the scenes" with creating LaDS, since I've worked myself into some continuity errors and ret-cons of my own. You can decide how plausible or not what I'm suggesting seems.

Okay back to the lore dump.

We still don't know the exact timeline after Homecoming Wings, but the writers usually give themselves some flexibility to work with, so I'm not anticipating us finding out that something happened immediately after Homecoming Wings. At that point, we're still sort of in Operation Aether Ordeal, though all parts of the Spatium Core have at least been spotted. (I need to replay the second half of Homecoming Wings, I forget exactly where that left off.)

Notably, in Captivating Moment, MC mentions she's on an 'Aether Core' mission. When the myth dropped concurrent with Sylus's release in July, we wouldn't start getting content about Operation Aether Ordeal until October. So if you watched the myth early, you could kind of assume that MC is chasing a lead about her own Aether Core--but that's pretty much resolved at the end of Long Awaited Revelry. Rather, I think this was intentionally a reference to Operation Aether Ordeal, though vague enough to not spoil anything.

One reason this is likely an intended reference (but ends up creating a continuity error) is that the season is given as spring. I'll have to make a longer post about it, but before Prologue to Tomorrow, the most natural time for Operation Aether Ideal would be spring 2049. This assumes that only about a month goes by between MC becoming a Hunter and the Bloomshore District Explosion, which is a natural assumption for an otherwise unspecified time skip, and the early chapters of Under Twilight give summery vibes, though the season isn't specified.

However, Prologue to tomorrow's Xavier branch, Voyage of the Outcast, goes and sets itself in autumn. Since it's explicitly two months after Long Awaited Revelry, then LAR and Captivating Moment must happen circa July/August, which is solidly summer, not spring.

I think this is specifically why the new Serpent's Cast World Underneath story says that snow is on the ground during the Bloomshore District Explosion--the writers realized they needed to extend one of their unspecified time skips, and the best candidate was the time skip between Talented Hunter and Under Twilight. By adding a 6mo time skip there, then Voyage of the Outcast is able to correctly happen in autumn.

But the consequence of this is that Captivating Moment, which was already published, now represents a continuity error by stating the season to be spring when it should be late summer or autumn.

From a fanfic/headcannon perspective this is actually really easy to solve--the conversation between MC and Sylus about plants (and how little he sees them in the N109 Zone) works just as well with autumn leaves or late-summer vibrance as it does with spring blooms.

Not sure how interesting this will be for others, but as someone who's kind of driving myself crazy trying to sketch out the main story's timeline, I felt a little less insane when I started to see the evidence that the writers also sort of lost track of things and went back to ret-con them. 😅

The time skip being lengthened has some other interesting consequences--MC now has known/reconnected with Xavier, Zayne, and Rafayel for over a year by the time she meets Sylus. That's interesting context to think about for their relationship at the time of Prologue to Tomorrow and Homecoming Wings. I think a lot about Zayne's comment in Homecoming Wings that MC "needs something other than lukewarm"--i.e. he realizes he's not being clear enough that he wants to spend more time with her, and he needs to be bolder. It pushes Zayne memories like Everlasting Wish well after late 2049, which isn't particularly consequential other than that it assures my heart that the world won't like, entirely abruptly explode? probably?

Again I want to emphasize that fitting the Memoria into the main story timeline is kind of missing the point, since they're meant to be branching timelines with room for "what if this relationship went after, what if that crisis didn't happen" etc. It's meant for each player to be able to string together their own continuity that makes the most sense to them--which for me personally is enjoying the challenge of trying to fit everything into the context of the main story. 😅

Since it's rumored that we're getting a Sylus main story branch soon, I'm really curious how much they'll reference, where they're going to go with it, the relationship stage it'll represent, etc.

Alright that's enough of me rambling about the timeline for now. If you got this far, thank you! <3

[heron-knight]

Apotheosis: part 2

-- part 1 --

Working under Laridae was not the worst situation she’d been in-- but certainly the one that she hated the most. There’s something about a corporation hijacking your talent that doesn’t feel right no matter how bad the alternative is, and the deadlines weren’t exactly forgiving either. You can’t rush creativity-- everyone knows that. The director, apparently, had not got the memo on that particular part of workflow management.

The schedule was the same every day: wake up, drink a beaker (they hadn’t given her any mugs) of the cheapest coffee possible, and let the tiny scraps of energy it provided drag you through ten hours of solving whatever problem the director had decided to throw at her, whether that was figuring out how to mix ambystomagen courses in a combination that usually kills people but do so in a way that doesn’t, making a synthcreature to exact specifications which to any other grafter would have been deemed impossible by the laws of biology, or installing some graft or another on an agent, her patient blindfolded so as to not be able to see the proprietary tech filling the lab. They say that if you love doing what you do, you’ve never worked a day in your life-- a notion that Laridae was seemingly the foremost authority in disproving. It wasn’t just the hours, the deadlines, or even the mandatory nature of it-- it was that every single project she was given was so damn impersonal. She knew nothing about any of the people she was operating on-- nothing about what kind of graft would work best for them. Nothing about if they even wanted these or just had to get them in order to keep their jobs. She wasn’t even allowed to talk to any of them, either-- and living with the knowledge that someone was getting a mod without knowing their grafter may very well have been the worst part. At the very least, she didn’t blame herself-- the culprit of that injustice was always within view, leaning against the wall of the lab as she worked and watching. Occasionally, the director would ask a question or two-- inquiries that Mina wouldn’t have answered if it weren’t for how simple they were. The basics of grafting science, in most cases, often as foundational as the basic theories. Capturing an experienced grafter to learn their techniques would have been expected-- but the questions Grey was asking could have been answered with the internet. Overall, being a tool of a megacorporation was not the job she would have chosen. At least they let her keep her jacket.

“Do you have to be standing there?” Mina said, one hand gesturing agitatedly to where the director leaned against the counter a few meters away as the others continued with her current task. Grey was just standing there in that way that she always did-- a pattern so noticeable that Mina had picked up on it in only her first few days there, but not exactly describable in any way that mattered. It was… angular? Nonchalant? Quite dynamic, she had to admit-- though in all her time helping people become their true selves, she’d never seen someone quite so able to stand at all times like there was a mirror in front of her and she was staring into it like Narcissus into the pond-- not that Mina would have blamed her for doing so. She was modded, obviously-- though it wasn’t clear for how long, or what it was exactly. Mina could tell from the distinct smell of ambystomagen-grown tissue, the level of skin softness that tended to be a welcome side effect of it-- but most importantly, in how she moved. How she stood. It was in the same manner that one might test drive a ferrari. 

Standing there like that was one thing-- but she had also for whatever reason brought a bag of chips into the lab. Between the constant crunching and the distracting (not to mention ominous) texture of the detonation collar locked around her neck, she’d been operating at practically half efficiency.

“Yes.” Grey replied in between mouthfuls of chips. “How else will I know if you’re trying to Iron Man your way out of here?” immediately, Mina set down the equipment for a moment and turned to face her, the agitation on her face as clear as humanly possible and then some. For someone that supposedly had brought her there to work for the company, Grey was proving to be the primary thing standing between her and productivity. She’d been hanging around the lab almost more often than not, seemingly just to watch and offer the occasional reminder that Mina was an investment-- and that Laridae tended to drop investments that weren't working out. Usually from somewhere very high. Didn’t she have a department to run? A regular guard could remind her of that just as well.

“First of all,” Mina said, pointing in the director’s general direction while irritatedly scratching at the skin beneath her collar, “Tony Stark’s a total asshole in most if not all of his movies. If I were to escape using the tools provided, I would Xiong Xiaoli my way out of here. Second--”

“Well that’s obvious, but I didn’t think you’d get the reference.” 

“--second, if I had a way out of this collar, you’d be dead already.” the director laughed, offering the slightest glimpse of just a few more teeth than an unmodded human would have had-- a little bit sharper too. Mina knew early on that the venom in those teeth was what had knocked her out, but still it was reassuring to finally see them. Worn by your antithesis or not, a quality graft like that is always nice to see.  

“Oh please, darling-- you and I both know the collar’s explosive is nothing but a timesaver. I took you down once, I could do it again. Primegull?” Mina caught the bag as she tossed it over and stared at the hyperrealistic charcoal seagull drawing that looked back at her. 

“Primegulls:” she read, “partially-natural potato-allegorical chip product… rated adequate by nine out of seventeen Laridae quality-assurance judges… guaranteed at least 15% organic? I’m impressed.”

“Organic as in derived from organic material, not unmodded.” Grey replied, picking up a scalpel and spinning it between her fingers. “The rest is synthetic or mineral filler. How else do you think we got it to such a low fat content? You’re basically holding a bag of dust loosely held together by bits of potato." On the logic that most people in her line of work either died young or lived long enough to replace most of their digestive organs, Mina decided to try one. It tasted a bit like chalk, but not entirely in a bad way.

“When you say dust, do you mean like--”

“Marble and granite dust, mostly. Imperial or corporate, Vermont is Vermont so plenty gets made. We’ve tried quite a few recipes, but not all of them got through QA. my favorite was the volcanic ash one. What do you think of the packaging?” Mina glanced again at the monochrome bird that stared out at her from the bag. It was certainly something she hadn’t seen before on a potato-allegorical chip product package.

“It’s… interesting. Whose idea was this?”

“Mine.” the director said, smiling. “The marketing department tried to get me to change it, but I’m the director now so I don’t have to.” Mina leaned back against the counter and looked at her sideways.

“Do you… have a background in business? Like, at all?” all the buisnessfolk she’d encountered had generally had a degree of socioeconomic narcissism that she’d learned to smell from a mile away so she’d know when to start loading her gun. The director did not seem to have this.

“Well, until recently I was just another corporate assassin. Then I got promoted all the way from there to here.” 

“Why did Laridae high command do that?” Mina asked. The response that followed was not immediate-- a break in the director’s tone that up until then had not happened. She sighed and stared at the ceiling. There was something on her face that hadn’t been there before-- if Mina didn’t know better, she’d have thought it was genuine conflict. 

“Because everyone thinks I killed you.”

The lab was silent for a moment, except for the occasional sound of some machine or another and the quiet rustle as Mina set the chip bag down on the counter. “I’m an investment, Mina--” she said after a bit, standing and turning to face her. “just as much as you are. This arrangement’s plenty dangerous to me as well.”

“Says the woman holding the detonator to my collar.” Mina grumbled, taking a half-step towards her. Nuance had been a luxury in the US, but still she’d learned that sympathetic or not, she was perfectly capable of hitting first and debating later. She kept her instinctual armor of undying wrath on standby. She couldn’t help but be surprised, though-- both in that the director thought she was that useful, and that Laridea cared that much about killing her. “So you’re saying…” she said, pacing perpendicular to the director, circling her.  “…if I just get far enough to announce to someone else that I’m not dead yet, you’d be in just about as much danger as me?” the director took the scalpel and balanced it on her nose, not pausing the conversation at all as she did so. 

“Darling, I know for a fact that if you were willing to die if it meant taking me down with you, neither of us would be alive right now.” Mina stopped in her tracks and stared at her for a moment-- there was something about how she’d said that. Almost as if she understood why that was--  The downside of having a moment in your life when you finally gain the will to live is that the will to live that it produces tends to be quite strong. She could try all she wanted to convince herself that the reason she hadn’t just told the director to shoot her was because she could do more against the corporations alive than dead-- but the truth was she simply wanted to live. No matter how long you live after reaching the form you needed, there’s always that sense of just how much of your own life you’ve missed out on. Mina stepped back to the counter, and for a minute or so, the lab was silent again-- only the occasional clink of glass tubes or the whir of a centrifuge. The air was heavy enough that the sound barely travelled. It went on like that for a minute or so. Mina tried to mantle her spite-- to cultivate her anger towards the director into something she could use to stay alive just like she’d done dozens of times before-- and it took a bit more focus then it had before. There was something new, now. That little hint of doubt. Of nuance. Whenever it was just her and her enemy, Mina had always survived by finding someone to unconditionally hate, and she’d never been stuck in a situation where she couldn’t.

“Grey?” Mina said, setting down the equipment but still facing the wall.

“Selina. And what is it?” Mina started to say something, then paused. Not now. Not with this much at stake. The director had made her decision, and whatever the answer to the question would be, it wouldn’t excuse all she’d done. 

“Nothing.” She continued with her work. 

“What are you working on?” The subject change was somewhat startling but not uncommon in her stay at Laridae. Perhaps it was just to be sure of what she was working on so she couldn’t Xiong Xiaoli her way out of the lab, but that type of status report generally doesn’t involve details of the scientific theories at work. Mina sighed and replied without stopping her project-- there had been enough delays already.

“Mixing the ambystomagen courses that you ordered.” she said. 

“Which one is which?” Selina pulled over a chair and rolled next to her, scanning the counter and seemingly a bit confused of its contents for someone in charge of handling its associated department. Mina guessed that not many of the department heads so far had had a background in science either. 

“Bioelectricity, chimera link… that one there’s the one that grows the radio transmitter organ, but I keep telling you that one won’t work.” she gestured to the various medications across the counter, some still half-finished and some already bottled. “There’s the wings you asked me to make-- that one will work, but I had to mix in a bunch of skeleton structure and composition courses so it’ll hurt like hell for whoever you give it to.” the director leaned over and pointed at a bottle in the corner. 

“And this one?”

“Estrogen. That one’s mine.” the director scanned the contents of the counter again, sometimes nodding as if she understood what they were.

“What’s this here that you’re adding to all of them?” she pointed at the larger beaker full of ambystomagen.

“That’s… the ambystomagen.”

“I know, but which one?” Mina looked sideways at her, then remembered the common misconception.

“Oh! I see. Yeah, it’s not the ambystomagen that determines the shape of the mod-- that’s what the splicer’s for. The ambystomagen is the part that gives you the healing factor where it's applied and lets you actually grow it. Each course is actually two separate ones. Didn’t they tell you this when they gave yours?”

“Did you tell our agents that you’ve given mods?” 

“Fair enough.”

“Then why are you mixing it in with the splicer?” Selina asked, “if they need two separate courses anyway.” Mina sighed, not used to having to figure out how to phrase it-- most people that came to her for a graft already knew this. 

“If you take the splicer without the ambystomagen, all you’ll grow at the graft site is scar tissue. The splicer course only lasts a week, and after that you start taking just the ambystomagen.”

“I see.” 

“This way, you don’t need to worry about taking two courses at once-- you just start with one, then switch to the other.” For a moment, Mina forgot that she was speaking to her enemy. She’d never missed a chance to answer questions for anyone interested in grafting, and even as she caught herself-- even as she remembered that the director was someone that would kill her if she stopped being useful-- she made a decision. I’m not about to start now.

[helgahaze]

Astrology of Tarot Practice

Tarot, astrology, magic, spiritual, meditative, energy practices, and even some areas of psychology basically operate on the fuel of outer planets: Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

In the birth chart of a person deeply interested in such activities, these planets are highly likely:

Related to the 1st house,

Are strong, dominant planets,

Have aspects with the Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, or Mars.

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto provide a specific background in worldview and personal vibe, which inevitably reflects on the style of practice, regardless of whether tarot is a simple interest, hobby, or professional activity.

Below, see how it works for each of the outer planets.

Pluto

A brilliant analyst and researcher. Digs deep. Feels relations and connections. Understands how to manage them. Naturally senses vulnerabilities, flaws, and bugs. Works quietly and secluded, then produces results all at once. Ignites from the excavation of everything shadowy, repressed, unconscious, dark, and magical.

Pluto is like a cat who proudly lays out a dead mouse right in front of you. Mercilessly and frankly, in plain sight.

The closest character in tarot court cards: Queen of Wands.

Ideal tarot activity: digging out the causes of problems, picking through trauma, magic, shadow work, tarot as a tool for transformation.

Uranus

A detached genius engineer. Needs to make calculations and then produce the result. In its own unique style, with a focus on the future. Builds multidimensional information models and masterfully navigates them. Goes from the general to the specific.

Has intuitive intelligence. Processes information with lightning speed. Finds connections and parallels that carry the essence. An excellent forecaster and strategist.

The closest character in tarot court cards: King/Knight of Swords.

Ideal tarot activity: planning and forecasting, developing paths to goals, cause-and-effect relations, tarot as a tool to clear the mind and untangle.

Neptune

Works as a translator. Relies on intuition. Feels the world as a whole living, breathing organism. Sees and understands reality through metaphors, images, and symbols better than directly. Loves to solve mysteries and riddles.

Creates an atmosphere of magic, a soft, enveloping, polyphonic vibe of meanings, in contrast with the dead mice of Pluto and the mathematical structure of Uranus.

The closest character in tarot court cards: Queen of Cups.

Ideal tarot activity: self-help, self-discovery, spirituality, search for inspiration, meditation, intuition development.

These examples were written with a focus on tarot reading, but you can easily project these key style patterns of each planet onto other spiritual or magical practices.

[aryamdesign]

Difference Between Architecture and Architectural Engineering

In the construction and design industry architecture maintains distinct boundaries from architectural engineering despite their overlapping domain. These professions emphasize structure functionality along with artful presentations yet they conduct their work differently throughout all levels of expertise. We will discuss the essential distinctions between architecture and architectural engineering through this examination of their function in creating built environments.

What Is Architecture?

Architecture studies the design process for creating both buildings and defined physical environments. Architects develop ideas and execute designs for structural places through planning and visual form creation to accomplish operational functionality alongside visual appearance excellence. Architects work based on their creative skills that link with design principles and cultural representation.

Core Responsibilities of Architects:

Design and Planning: Architects define all stages of building construction beginning with the positioning of spaces alongside their artistic design features.

Functionality and Aesthetics: Architects achieve aesthetic excellence by tackling both efficiency and facade elegance alongside client-directed design objectives.

Project Management: The responsibilities of an architect span across the entire project lifecycle beginning with design review then proceeding through construction activities with engineers and contractors and multiple stakeholders.

Regulatory Compliance: During design construction and building evaluation stage architects confirm their work meets all required building codes together with zoning regulations along with safety requirements.

Skills and Education:

A complete architecture program takes five years to complete and places equal importance on design development and architectural history study and design theory exploration.

Proficiency in design tools such as AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Revit.

Creative problem-solving and an eye for detail

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[all-pacas]

DIAGNOSTIC OLYMPICS, SEASON 3, EPISODES 1-12

S1: part one, part two, part three

S2: part one, part two, part three

Hi! I was curious about who on House (besides House) gets the most diagnoses right. Other folks have already run a tally (it's Chase), but I was curious how other factors would influence the tally — whose ideas get run with, who manages treatment, who screws up… So I thought I'd keep score.

1 point for getting the answer. This is almost always going to be House.

.5 points for Valuable Contribution — stuff that isn't the final answer, but either is thought to be the final answer or is valuable to the solving of the case. Stuff like "noticing something on the MRI" doesn't count; things like "figuring out how to treat" does.

-.5 to -1 for Mistakes — stuff that delays or prevents diagnoses, injuring or killing patients, etc.

MEANING DIAGNOSES: Scurvy for patient one, Addison’s for patient two

+2 HOUSE: One for curing scurvy girl, and one for Addison’s guy. That said, not a lot to say about this episode; the fellows didn’t do much besides follow orders and most of the episode was just about House. Which is fine, just boring for the purposes of this project!

CANE AND ABLE DIAGNOSES: Chimerism

+1 HOUSE: Still manages to pull it out in the end, despite being off his game. +.5 CAMERON: Is the one to figure out why the patient keeps having different results on his bleeding time tests (that isn’t “Chase fucked up”). Also has the idea to tag the foreign DNA in order to target it for removal. +0 CHASE: Yet another episode where he really bonds with a child patient, and he even tells off the parents for not being supportive. He doesn’t do much in terms of diagnosing, although he does a lot to take care of the kid. CHASE DID IT: Chase is blamed for screwing up a bleeding test: this is the second time him making a mistake has been the operative assumption. This time, Foreman really jumps on the bandwagon.

INFORMED CONSENT DIAGNOSES: Amyloidosis

+0 HOUSE: Sure, he solved it. But putting the patient in a coma against his will and insisting on treatment against his will is… shady. I mean, I get that sometimes patients don’t know what is in their own best interest and it’s a gray area, but we can all agree that this dude knew what he wanted and House utterly ignored it. -.5 CAMERON: She loses points for refusing to work on the case at all, which does count as “bad medical practice;” not to mention hypocrisy. She doesn’t want him to die, but refuses to treat him when House doesn’t kill him? She doesn’t lose points for the actual euthanasia: the patient was terminal and begging for it even before it was clear he was terminal, and that means she doesn’t get demerits for killing someone. +5 NURSE BRENDA: Watching her give everyone the stink eye this episode made me remember how great she is.

LINES IN THE SAND DIAGNOSES: Eye worms

+1 HOUSE: As per usual, figures it out. +.5 FOREMAN: His bedside manner is not winning him any points this episode. I don’t think it harmed anything, but his impatience and general rudeness wasn’t helpful, either. That said, his tricking Wilson into doing a biopsy for him was pretty great, and he gets his points for deciding a brain tumor is most likely, deciding he’ll biopsy and proceed under the assumption, and challenging House to come up with a better idea. House doesn’t have one, and so Foreman gets a merit for Leadership. +0 CAMERON: Did she do anything related to the case this episode? +5 NURSE BRENDA: Did they write her off the show because she went to jail for trying to murder House? I love her

FOOLS FOR LOVE DIAGNOSES: Genetic disease. And incest!

+1 HOUSE: Comes up with the genetic explanation after an episode of foundering. +.5 CHASE: Comes up with a diagnoses of salmonella based on pot use, which is a stretch but House likes it and they run with it; it’s wrong but it’s the only idea they have for a while. +.5 FOREMAN: Because they’re not thinking genetic, they really struggle to come up with a diagnosis. Foreman insists it must be two different diseases, and gets his way on a biopsy when House doesn't have a better idea. +50 UHHH: Foreman comes out really strongly pro-incest in this episode, and like, I understand his basic point (they didn’t know they were siblings and even though they are genetically family they don’t have a familial relationship), but what a wild take from our guy.

QUE SERA SERA DIAGNOSES: Lung Cancer

+1 HOUSE: Finally realizes the dude has cancer after noticing clubbing on his hands. +.0 CAMERON: Manages to break the MRI and get away with it, which should honestly be worth more points. But loses those points for drugging the patient because she didn’t think he could make his own decisions about his care, causing him to crash through a window. -.5 CHASE: Exiting the entire episode when House tells him to “keep sitting on his ass” is honestly super funny of him. However, it’s also putting his whiny fatphobia ahead of helping the patient, sooo…

SON OF COMA GUY DIAGNOSES: Genetic disease, but mostly heart failure.

+0 TEAM: IDK man. This is a good episode, but it’s also one with fake medicine and no real diagnosing because it relies on fake coma fixing medicine. The fellows work hard while the grownups have their road trip.

WHAC-A-MOLE DIAGNOSES: Genetic disease

+.5 HOUSE: House figures it out, but loses some points for keeping his team from helping Wilson, which in turn endangers Wilson’s patients. He also loses like five friendship points, but we’re not judging on that. +.0 CHASE: When House challenges the fellows to run a single test, Chase’s first guess is a virus, and he points out that the vomiting could have caused the heart attack. House’s theory is Hepatitis A, and he agrees with the heart attack/vomit idea. Chase ends up testing for bacteria and not a virus, but he was by far the closest of the three -- Foreman thought neurological, and Cameron thought a weakness in the heart. Chase doesn’t get points, because he didn’t actually figure it out, but I thought it was interesting to mention that he was by far the closest.

FINDING JUDAS DIAGNOSES: Light allergy

+1 CHASE: Honestly, part of me wants to give him more than one point for this. We’ve had a few episodes now where someone else has figured out the diagnosis moments before House, or after House, but this is the first time someone figures it out instead of House. Chase is about to go on a bit of a hot streak, though, so he’ll make up the bonus points later. CHASE DID IT: Both literally solving the case, and, when House starts to question the treatment, Chase preemptively (and angrily) suggests that maybe he screwed up, since that’s always where House ends up.

MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS DIAGNOSES: Autoimmune cancer

+.5 HOUSE: Figures it out, but steals oxy. From a dead patient, so I guess technically he didn’t do any medical harm, but… IDK, I’m counting it. +0 TEAM: Foreman comes the closest to being useful this episode: Cameron is too busy being mad at Wilson, and Chase is largely silent, I guess still smarting over being punched. But most of the episode is about House.

WORDS AND DEEDS DIAGNOSES: Meningioma

+1 HOUSE: Figures out just about every twist of the case, even while pretending to be in rehab. +.5 CHASE: Realizes the patient is hiding symptoms, which makes them realize he’s been having a whole series of heart attacks. Even Cameron and Foreman give him credit for the ‘breakthrough.’ +0 CAMERON: She correctly diagnoses broken heart syndrome, but misses the fact that the patient is delusional; that his partner and brother aren’t involved. This leads him to electroshock treatment and permanent literal brain damage. I don’t think she deserves to lose a point, since the electroshock was House’s idea and at the time it was the only solution they could think of. But it’s still a big thing to miss.

ONE DAY, ONE ROOM DIAGNOSES: N/A

RUNNING TALLY:

HOUSE: 44 (+8) TEAM: 5.5 (+0) FOREMAN: 3 (+1) CHASE: 6.5 (+1.5) CAMERON: 4 (+0)

Foreman has started to get himself into his niche of "able to successfully get his way over House," giving him such much needed points. Chase is about to go on one hell of a streak, starting of course with Finding Judas; even with a couple of demerits, he keeps having and getting credited for Good Ideas this season… which gets him fired, oh well.

[voidmountain]

@piratedllama I can but you’re not going to like it!

Void’s guide to getting a job in conservation

My story

My educational credentials: BAs in philosophy and creative writing from a big cheap state school, and a PhD in English literature with a specialization in environmental humanities from a small private R1. Couple years as an adjunct professor.

I trained my entire life to be a literature professor. It’s all I ever wanted. By the time I was finishing my doctorate, I had a very limiting belief that I was either over- or underqualified for any job outside academia. I was wrong.

By the time I made the decision to leave academia, I had published 2.5 peer reviewed academic articles and several magazine pieces. I also had about 5ish years of part-time communications consulting under my belt from helping run the writing center at my institution. I got a part-time social media/SEO management gig, and then used a grant to fund a comms internship at a local environmental nonprofit. Then I straight up just applied to jobs at conservation orgs on LinkedIn at a rate or 5 per week for about 6 months. I was looking for jobs in communications and education. Landed a couple interviews then got a position as a comms manager. My islander heritage ended up being relevant too bc I have a cultural insight into the regions where the org works. I’ve worked here for about a year, mostly wfh desk stuff, but I like to tag along to projects so I can take pics/do interviews/help with fieldwork/coordinate community meetings & info sessions. I still have a publishing career on the side, with 2 new articles out and a book manuscript in the works.

I do not recommend doing it this way lol.

What I would do instead

Conservation orgs have room for people with all kinds of backgrounds and expertise. If your goal is to have a job similar to mine, get lots of writing and science communication experience. Be able to show that you’ve built impactful campaigns and learn your way around SEO and communications terminology. Start with internships/social media, try and get some experience working with journalists, and have a nice portfolio of campaigns (easy way to start is an awareness campaign for a particular policy or science issue). Other creative experience is a plus (photography/graphic design/web design/UI).

Fieldwork is not that hard to get into. You can get field experience as an undergrad by working in research labs or volunteering. From there, lots of conservation orgs in your area are probably looking for volunteers or part-time workers to do field monitoring. TBH you don’t really need a degree to get into fieldwork, but the ceiling is kind of low without one. With a BS you can work your way up through an org probably to a manager level position where you could lead a field team but not direct a program. Generally, without a MS or PhD, you won’t be designing programs—just carrying them out, which can be really rewarding. You can also make lateral moves towards things like project management—coordinating supplies, transportation, methods, and problem-solving stuff.

Other ways to get into the field: orgs often contract out conservation tech companies to carry out specialized operations, like aerial monitoring and bait distribution. Getting a license for like a heavy-lift drone, an ROV, or boat stuff can also get you in the thick of it.

If you want to design and direct conservation programs, unfortunately you probably need to go to grad school. I can write up a separate post about how to decide whether to pursue an advanced degree if people are interested, but my general advice is Never Enroll In A Masters Program. Either do it as a 4+1 with your undergrad or go straight for the PhD. That’s where you’ll get experience designing your own experiments and contributing to the sum of conservation knowledge.

Extremely important caveat

You do not have to do any of these things in any particular order. It’s totally cool to work in the field for a couple years before going back for the PhD. You also do not need to link your education to your job (god knows I didn’t). My side hobbies of wildlife photography and scuba diving made me a great candidate for the job I eventually got, and they didn’t have anything to do with my degree or original career path. There’s also a million other jobs that conservation orgs have that don’t involve having a science background at all—HR, finance, admin, philanthropy, consulting, & policy analysis are huge parts of this. So are other jobs that aren’t *within* conservation at all, like journalism & social organizing.

A lot of folks I meet out here in the conservation world are on their third or fourth careers. It’s very, very normal to switch it up, try many things, land somewhere, leave, and pick up somewhere else.

All this to say: the world is really, really big. Don’t feel pressured to take the shortest most linear possible path. There are a million ways to have a good life.

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Best MBA Colleges in Delhi NCR under IP University—RDIAS Leading with Industry-Focused Programs and Great Placements

Pursuing an MBA in Delhi NCR under Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) is an excellent choice for students aspiring to pursue a successful career in business and management. Among the top MBA colleges in Delhi NCR, Rukmini Devi Institute of Advanced Studies (RDIAS) is a premier institute offering an industry-aligned curriculum, state-of-the-art infrastructure, and excellent placement opportunities.

Why Choose RDIAS for an MBA under IP University?

RDIAS, affiliated to IP University, offers a comprehensive MBA program designed to develop analytical, leadership, and decision-making skills in students. The institute integrates experiential learning through case studies, live projects, and internships, giving students practical exposure to real-world business challenges.

Industry-focused curriculum

RDIAS offers a dynamic and updated curriculum aligned with industry trends. Subjects such as marketing, finance, human resource management, and business analytics are taught with a focus on practical implementation. The learning approach includes:

Case study analysis to develop problem-solving skills.

Simulations and group discussions to enhance decision-making abilities.

Workshops and certification in emerging business areas such as digital marketing and data analytics.

Exceptional placement assistance

RDIAS has a dedicated placement cell that collaborates with top recruiters across various industries. The placement record is impressive, with students securing roles in leading companies such as Deloitte, KPMG, Infosys, HDFC Bank, and Wipro. The placement cell provides:

Resume-building assistance and mock interviews.

Pre-placement training to develop soft skills and business acumen.

Networking opportunities with alumni and industry leaders.

Experiential learning through internships and industry exposure

To bridge the gap between academia and industry, RDIAS integrates internships and live projects as a mandatory part of its MBA curriculum. Students get to experience the following:

Corporate internships with reputed firms.

Industrial visits to understand business operations first-hand.

Guest lectures by industry experts from companies like Google, Amazon, and Tata Group.

State-of-the-art infrastructure and learning facilities

The college offers world-class infrastructure with modern classrooms, a well-equipped library, computer labs with advanced business analytics software, and seminar halls for events. The smart learning environment enhances academic engagement and overall student development.

Strong alumni network and career growth opportunities

RDIAS has an extensive alumni network that helps students in career progression through mentorship programs, industry connections, and placement referrals. The institute encourages students to participate in the following:

Entrepreneurship development programs for aspiring business leaders.

Organize festivals and competitions to develop strategic thinking.

Global exchange programs to gain international business insights.

Conclusion

For students looking for the best MBA colleges in Delhi NCR under IP University, RDIAS is the top choice due to its industry-oriented education, exceptional faculty, practical teaching approach, and excellent placements. The institute prepares students for corporate jobs and leadership roles in the competitive business world. If you aspire to pursue an MBA in Delhi NCR, RDIAS should be your priority for a successful and rewarding career.

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Sammy Emily and Davinia Muras [FNAF, Renegade AU]

Published: Mar 23, 2025

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/1174299961

Whilst Henry Emily and William Afton were the founders of Fazbear Entertainment, they were not alone in the creation of the company. Daniel Discord was their accountant, Carla Mitty was their graphic designer, and they hired Eduardo Muras as both a parts supplier and as a partner for large scale projects.

°*°•🛠️ Sammy Emily 🛠️•°*°

Sammy is one of Henry's children. She remembers having a sister, Charlotte, and and also remembers that her sister went missing, and all of the odd things that her father did in the aftermath. One of these memories was of playing in the storage closet of the diner in front of a camera before getting picked up by her father who was wearing the Spring Freddy suit with the Spring Bonnie head. After her parents separated, she stayed with her mother, and she grew more into herself.

Due to the gravestones in the cemetery, she never looked into her sister's or father's deaths.

It was only after the town had been swept by two major animatronic related incidents in six months - dubbed by the police as TW1 and CL4, the latter of which killed her aunt Jen -  that Sammy begun looking into things. She found that in both incidents, the animatronics were targeting a girl named Charlie, who looked like Charlotte if she got to grow up. From the reports, it appeared that Charlie was dead: Sammy felt a tiny piece of hope that she didn't know she had shatter. But as Sammy left the library, she saw Charlie. Charlie seemed to spot her too. They both seemed to recognise eachother, and they awkwardly begun talking to one another. Sammy mentioned her dead sister and her memories of playing in the closet of the diner, and Charlie mentioned how she had grew up believing that her brother had been abducted, describing the scene that the camera in the diner would have picked up.

They both knew that they were each others missing sister. They had both undergone quite the transformation each, but they were still sisters.

Sammy and Charlie's friend groups merged, and things were pretty normal for a while.

After several franchised Freddy's locations starting cropping up, Sammy, Charlie, and co went to investigate in hopes of solving the loose end that was the twins father. One of the restaurants was being run by a lady detective who was using the place as a sting operation to try and catch Fazbear Entertainment off guard and figure out what Faz Ent's plans were and why the people running the franchised locations almost always go missing, and a masked man with unknown motives. Charlie and John worked for the lady detective under fake names whilst Sammy and the rest played the part of patrons alongside several others.

The lady detective's location survived to day seven, but people begun to notice tremors underfoot. The building was evacuated. Just as everyone bar the two owners had been evacuated, the building begun to collapse. The lady detective managed to escape during the collapse, but the masked man remained unaccounted for.

When the building had finished collapsing and burning, the rubble was immediately investigated. As the remains of the office were found, Sammy and Charlie saw their father for the first time in approximately twenty years.

The lady detective begun to have an argument with Henry, and it revealed that not only was Henry alive, but he was nearby and was responsible for starting the fire. When the twins approached to ask Henry why he abandoned them, he told Sammy that he abandoned her because he was trying to bring Charlotte back, and he told Charlie that he abandoned her because he'd caught wind of Charlotte's actual ghost roaming around. Neither sister wanted anything to do with Henry after that. Both sisters promised that if they found Charlotte after this, they'd treat her like a third sister.

With nothing to prove to anybody, she lived for herself, her sisters, and her friends.

Sammy married Davinia, and because finding her own place in the future felt impossible, she tried to understand her past. She felt fortunate to have Davinia there to ground her back in the present.

After the HW1 incident, Sammy started to notice that Davinia would appear increasingly distressed after coming home from work. It also seemed as though the incident that had shattered Silver Parasol had opened up a whole Pandora's box: many ghosts with their own plans re-emerged, and various robots across many companies - most of whom didn't even know until now that they had ties to Fazbear Entertainment - begun to malfunction. Sammy realised that her pops old business partner must be back, and not all of the malfunctions could have been caused by old Will. She begun to dig into it.

Sammy hypothesised that some things were using William's re-emergence as a cover to act out on their own, and the more Sammy investigated, the more apparent it became that this was the case. People at Fazbear Entertainment were manually sending the projects of any contractors haywire.

The chaos sowed by Fazbear Entertainment also seemed to work as a cover to keep people from finding out where William had gone. It was only through her connections that she was able to contact Sylvia Blake of Silver Parasol who confirmed that William had posessed Ness.

As her investigations had put her in danger of Fazbear Entertainment's wrath, the list of people who Sammy could share this information with was small, and consisted of other people that were already neck deep in shit.

As the incidents stacked up, Sammy figured out how to intervene and mitigate most human instigated incidents. This got her scouted by Mike Schmidt - the friend of Charlie's journalist friend - to join his information network. Given that Mike was one of the few people she could safely talk to about Freddy's, and he was linked to most of the people in her existing network anyway, it was a win-win.

One day, Davinia came home from work mumbling to herself about virtual space, yet snapping to lucidity when around Sammy. The next day, Davinia vanished.

Sammy cursed herself for not noticing any signs, but upon closer thought, Sammy realised that Davinia had to have been kidnapped. She used the mumblings about virtual space to guide her investigation into recent incidents and found a series of virtual world projects that were linked to Fazbear Entertainment. Employees had been going missing from companies that had been contracted to work on this virtual world, and Davinia was now another name on that list.

It didn't take Sammy long to find out that Davinia was being held at the mega pizzaplex and that she was being used as a kind of human processor for a VR environment. After suggesting an infiltration, Mike put Sammy in contact with Carl Burke to get her kitted up for the mission. Sammy would be part of the second group to investigate this; the first group had not yet returned from their investigation.

Due to the scarcity of information regarding the VR environment, the first part of the investigation was actually finding a way into the virtual world.

Her way in was a man named Nathan Douglas: he and 'Nightmare' had been the puppet figureheads of Faz Ent's pharmaceuticals operations, which was a front for Faz Ent's illicit experiments, and she found that he had been forced into the virtual world against his will. After arriving at the megaplex and gaining temporary access to some VR admin controls, she freed Nathan. She then called Nightmare in hopes that he was physically close enough to save Nathan. Nightmare picked up, and after Sammy explained that she planned on infiltrating the VR environment and was wondering if he'd be up to join her, he explained everything he knew about the virtual world. He didn't, however, explain that he and Nathan were the same man.

Sammy would rather not remember what happened in the VR environment. It all happened so fast: her memories got suppressed, and false memories got streamed into her head. So many painful memories that she immediately snapped, and as the thing that was at the core of all of these bad memories was right before her, she destroyed it.

She lost herself to the VR environment, becoming Edwin Murray. She didn't loose herself entirely though: enough felt wrong about her body, how people referred to her, and the mismatch between Edwin's memories and the brief glimpses of her real memories that she didn't loose herself entirely.

One day, she happened across a detective lady named Morgan Smith. The name rung a bell. That bell caused other bells to ring. As they spoke, she was able to pull herself back rather and she promised Morgan - who she now knew was Mike Schmidt - that she'd destroy this virtual world, though she didn't use those words.

She was able to find the core of the virtual world - the storyteller tree - and she overloaded it. As Edwin was locked in the core, he'd soon suffocate, and if she didn't eject herself from the character before that, she could wind up dead or comatose. She used that time Edwin had left to carve sigils into the characters arms and paint the walls with warnings written in her character's blood so that if this place was found before the virtual world was destroyed or if the virtual world was recovered, people would know the danger that this place and the mimic posed.

A Faz Ent exec - Burrows - tried to stop her, but by the time he reached the core, Edwin was dead, Sammy had ejected herself from the character and entered developer mode. The door sealed behind the exec. It wasn't the mimic that Burrows saw on those screens as his VR environment avatar suffocated to death: it was Sammy.

With the VR environment crumbling, Sammy was able to take off her headset and power down the VR environment from the outside, and the last place that kept power lead her to Davinia.

When Sammy found Davinia, she found her hooked up to machines, with so many cables protruding from her skin that she looked like an angel. Sammy had to cut most of the cables to free Davinia, and many of them dug in so deep that pulling them out would mean death.

After freeing Davinia, Sammy picked her up and ran. She wound up in a group with the other moles, including the ghost of Alistair who opened the path forwards. They were out by 11:00. Oddly enough, a group of kids had been frontrunning during the last stretch of their escape. There was something abnormal about those kids: they were exfiltrating like any other mole.

Sammy wound up car pooling with Julian to get to the Maid Marion clinic where Davinia was promptly treated.

Davinia was partially paralysed by her ordeal, and given what the damage could have been, Sammy was just happy that her wife survived.

°*°•🖥️ Davinia Muras🖥️•°*°

Davinia is the only child of Eduardo Muras.

Her father worked alongside Henry, William, and the beginning of Fazbear Entertainment. She never understood why her father anglicised his name for the company name when they were already European, as he always told her 'I'll tell you when you're older'. As her mother had passed away shortly after her birth, Davinia spent her childhood surrounded by robots, and she was half raised by the 'learning machine' that her father had very easily put together.

Life was alright. Her and the learning machine would receive the same clothes and toys so that it could learn from Davinia. Due to its penchant for mimicry, Davinia and Eduardo affectionately called it 'Mimi', and its records were stored in cabinet C, box 1.

One day, Eduardo was coming back from the store, and Davinia was playing in the warehouse. The doors were open, and as she went out to greet him, a blue van sped down the road, hitting her father.

The van sped off, and Davinia and Mimi dragged Eduardo into the warehouse. Eduardo had died on impact, but as he was the only one who could comprehend death, Davinia, Mimi, and everyone else in the warehouse only thought that he had broken down, so they tried to put him back together.

For a while, the robots in the warehouse were Davinia's only family.

It was actually William Afton himself, who was visiting to check on the progress of an order after Eduardo stopped responding to all correspondence, who found Eduardo rotting in the medical bay. Given that Eduardo meant nothing to him, and he had already helped Daniel bump off Carla, he didn't want to get implicated in another murder so soon, so he left, pretending that nothing had happened, and he sent a teenage Afton Robotics employee, Charles Ramirez, to deal with it. Davinia only remembers being dragged out of the warehouse kicking and screaming after Charles had partially dismantled Mimi. The next thing she remembered was sitting next to strangers at her father's funeral.

At least they had the decency to bury him under his real name: Eduardo Muras.

The next news that she received of what became of her home was that the animatronics had become hostile towards the crew that was sent in to recover the machines, with one they called 'mimic1' being the most hostile of all.

She knew she'd never see her family again, but she didn't understand why they wouldn't let her stay with them: her dad had been hit by a car, but the rest of her family had been doing their best to fix him! Broken endoskeleton bits and snapped cables could be repaired or replaced! And of course her family would be mad when some guy from a company her dad works with abducted her!

When she grew up, she counted herself lucky that she hadn't just been tossed in a mental hospital. She learned what it looked like from the outside: a feral girl who believed that everyone including herself was a machine, living in a warehouse with the mutilated corpse of her father. At least Charles had had the decency to get the security camera footage of Eduardo getting hit by a car (though it was likely at William's request so he'd be able to prove that he didn't kill this one), which proved that Eduardo was already dead before herself and Mimi attempted repairs.

Davinia begun to study programming and machine learning, in part in hopes of understanding how her father had made Mimi, and in part in hopes of connecting with people who may have known her father.

Davinia wound up meeting several people who had connections to Fazbear Entertainment, and most of them were the children of the original employees, were younger employees with little connection to the original location, or were survivors of various incidents usually they were a mix of the three. She made friends with Sammy, Gabe, Susanna, Jeff, Chip, and many others. When Sammy reunited with her long lost sister, Davinia made friends with all of Charlie's friends too.

When Fazbear Entertainment started to try and rear its head again through franchising, Davinia went with Sammy to a location that was being run by a Lady detective. Whilst Sammy and Charlie found closure in finding out what sort of man their father had become, Davinia found herself no closer to finding out more about her own family, aside from the fact that people at Fazbear's had been trying to find her father using the wrong name.

She simply carried on trying to carve her own path.

Davinia married Sammy, and because trying to make sense of the past was driving her insane, she focused on the future. She felt fortunate to have Sammy there to ground her back in the present.

After the HW1 incident, Davinia noticed something odd in the systems at her workplace. Whilst whatever had caused the HW1 incident was no longer around - hell, the whole team that had been impacted by that incident had long since left, taking the entity from that incident with it - a whole Pandora's box seems to have been opened in it's wake. Whatever happened in regards to Silver Parasol had created a chain reaction, unleashing a slew of ghosts that were once at rest, whilst also sending various projects haywire. One of these projects that went haywire was one of Davinia's: it was a virtual learning machine that seemed eerily similar to Mimi, given that it already knew how to play. It flip-flopped between various personas, and it appeared to be trying to take over the computer that it was on, but it couldn't break its way out of a zip folder if it tried (it did try: it asked Davinia to stick it in a zip file, and it got stuck. Though it was the first file Davinia ever saw that actually moved to a zip file instead of just being copied into one). She found herself talking to this program more and more, and soon, she was 99% certain that this program was what had become of Mimi. Days begun to feel blurry, and she wasn't sure what to make of things. Finding this connection to her past and seeing what had become of the poor thing; she'd have said she was spiraling if she was aware enough at this time to acknowledge her own existence.

Soon, she received word of an ongoing project: she was being added to the team of people working on a virtual world. She wouldn't be abandoning her current project, as the virtual world was made for digital entities like the learning machine to inhabit so it can receive enrichment.

She found herself mumbling about it, Mimi would not stop talking about it, and aside from what precious time she spent with Sammy, the rest of the night and the next morning was a blur.

She doesn't really have any proper memories of what happened next day at work, but she does remember snippets: a damp cloth rag and a syringe, being strapped to a chair, IV drips, something opening a hole in her skull, and cables being jammed into her brain.

After that, everything felt like she was in a dream, weightless in a sea of green and blue. Sometimes she found herself seeing a world from the perspective a bird, high in the air. It was a truly odd dream. And then, the dream crumbled: with multiple intersecting acts of defiance against the 'dream', somebody managed to destroy the 'core' of the dream.

Davinia woke up in a hospital bed with Sammy at her side. Her wife had been terrified that she wouldn't wake up after having all of the cables removed from her brain, but Davinia was now awake, so Sammy could rest easy. Instead of resting, Sammy explained how she had found Davinia, and the sorry state she was in. As Sammy talked about how Davinia had been used as a human processor for Faz Ent's virtual environment, things begun to click into place: she hadn't been dreaming, she had been observing the virtual world. When she asked how long she had been gone for, she was terrified to know that it had been a year, and that whilst Sammy had found her in around a week, she had managed to get herself trapped in the VR environment for the most part of that year.

Fortunately, she didn't have to worry about her stuff as the local paranormal department had been paying the bills, given that Sammy had been working with them as a part of the infiltration mission.

Her whole life had still been upturned though, and she couldn't even walk anymore as the cables that had been jammed into her brain and spine had caused some damage, partially paralysing her. She wouldn't walk again, but she was out of that virtual world now, and could start recovering in whatever ways she could, and start adapting to her new situation.

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From Burnout to Balance: Is Project Resource Planning the Ultimate Solution?

Burnout is no longer a silent intruder in the workplace, it’s a widespread disruption, silently eroding productivity, morale, and innovation. With increasing pressure to meet deadlines, deliver quality outcomes, and align with dynamic goals, teams often find themselves trapped in chaotic workflows. The divide between what is expected and what is delivered continues to grow. This is where a shift towards project resource planning has emerged as a beacon of stability.

A structured approach to resource distribution isn’t merely about scheduling—it’s about restoring order, clarity, and purpose. It offers a comprehensive overview of skills, schedules, and assigned roles. When implemented effectively, it transforms a fractured process into a seamless operation.

The Root Cause of Burnout Lies in Poor Planning

Workforce exhaustion often results from uneven workloads, poorly defined roles, and misaligned priorities. Without visibility into task ownership and team capacity, employees juggle conflicting objectives, causing fatigue and disengagement. Leadership, in such scenarios, often reacts to symptoms rather than solving the underlying problem.

A well-devised planning system allows businesses to align their human capital with real-time project needs. It enables early detection of overload, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies. More importantly, it allows for a preventive, not reactive, managerial style.

Clarity Creates Confidence

When people know what they’re doing, why they’re doing it, and how their contributions affect the bigger picture, confidence and accountability naturally increase. Task transparency reduces confusion and eliminates duplicate efforts. A clearly mapped schedule lets employees manage time more effectively, promoting both efficiency and mental well-being.

Resource forecasting through intelligent tools supports realistic deadlines and reduces rushed outputs. Balanced task assignment nurtures sustained momentum and steady performance without burnout. This clarity becomes the silent catalyst behind exceptional team dynamics.

Enhancing Performance with Technology

Technology enables precision. Gone are the days when Excel sheets dictated workforce allocation. Today’s systems offer intelligent dashboards, behaviour analytics, and workload forecasting—all in real-time. Modern tools serve as operational command centers where strategy, execution, and evaluation coexist seamlessly.

Key Platforms That Reinforce This Shift

EmpMonitor stands out as a workforce intelligence platform that provides real-time employee tracking, productivity breakdowns, and application usage analytics. Its strength lies in mapping behavioural patterns alongside performance. Automated timesheets and screen activity logs, ensure that resource management decisions are data-driven and transparent. EmpMonitor excels in both in-office and remote team settings, offering flexible yet detailed oversight.

Hubstaff contributes to this ecosystem with its GPS-enabled framework, making it well-suited for mobile teams and field-based activities. It tracks time, location, and task completion metrics, allowing for accurate billing and service delivery analysis. 

Desk Time focuses on simplicity and intuitive design. It’s suitable for creative and agile teams that prioritize clean time-logging and visual timeline management. 

Together, these platforms showcase how digital tools revolutionize resource planning with actionable intelligence and minimal manual effort.

Turning Data into Action

One of the most profound benefits of structured resource planning lies in turning raw data into strategy. By monitoring time investment, engagement trends, and workflow pacing, leaders can adapt schedules, reallocate resources, or restructure priorities before productivity drops.

More than numbers, it’s about understanding human bandwidth. This employee wellbeing strategy leads to smarter delegation, increased autonomy, and performance-based adjustments—all essential for a healthy work environment.

Building a Culture of Preparedness

Effective planning isn’t just operational—it’s cultural. It breeds discipline, encourages ownership, and ensures employees are equipped to deliver without overstretching. With real-time insights, feedback becomes continuous rather than occasional. It also supports upskilling opportunities by revealing gaps where intervention is required.

By embedding structure into everyday functions, teams become more responsive and less reactive. The culture shifts from chaotic urgency to composed delivery.

You can also watch : How to Use Live Screen Monitoring in EmpMonitor | Step-by-Step Guide

Conclusion: The Balance Blueprint

Balance in today’s professional landscape stems not from lowered aspirations, but from strategic and refined execution. Organizations that synchronize effort with available capacity tend to achieve higher productivity and demonstrate greater resilience. With the right structural approach, maintaining equilibrium becomes both attainable and enduring.

The integration of project resource planning allows for thoughtful decision-making that respects both business goals and human limits. It’s not merely a managerial practice—it’s the framework for organizational health. For teams fatigued by inconsistency and overwhelmed by misalignment, this approach marks the transition from burnout to balance.

In a fast-paced world, the organizations that thrive will not be those that push harder, but those that plan smarter—with clarity, control, and compassion.

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development of the Blackbird program. Enjoy❤️

Clarence “Kelly” Johnson was an authentic American genius. He was the kind of enthusiastic visionary that bulled his way past vast odds to achieve great successes, in much the same way as Edison, Ford, and other immortal tinkerers of the past. When Kelly rolled up his sleeves, he became unstoppable, and the nay-sayers and doubters were simply ignored or bowled over. He declared his intention, then pushed through while his subordinates followed in his wake. He was so powerful that simply by going along on his plans and schemes, the rest of us helped to produce miracles too. Honest to God, there will never be another like him.”

― Ben R. Rich, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

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“We became the most successful advanced projects company in the world by hiring talented people, paying them top dollar, and motivating them into believing that they could produce a Mach 3 airplane like the Blackbird a generation or two ahead of anybody else. Our design engineers had the keen experience to conceive the whole airplane in their mind’s-eye, doing the trade-offs in their heads between aerodynamic needs and weapons requirements. We created a practical and open work environment for engineers and shop workers, forcing the guys behind the drawing boards onto the shop floor to see how their ideas were being translated into actual parts and to make any necessary changes on the spot. We made every shop worker who designed or handled a part responsible for quality control.

Any worker—not just a supervisor or a manager—could send back a part that didn’t meet his or her standards. That way we reduced rework and scrap waste. We encouraged our people to work imaginatively, to improvise and try unconventional approaches to problem solving, and then got out of their way. By applying the most commonsense methods to develop new technologies, we saved tremendous amounts of time and money, while operating in an atmosphere of trust and cooperation both with our government customers and between our white-collar and blue-collar employees. In the end, Lockheed’s Skunk Works demonstrated the awesome capabilities of American inventiveness when free to operate under near ideal working conditions.

That may be our most enduring legacy as well as our source of lasting pride.”

― Ben R. Rich, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

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