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[beebigdigital]

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[reasonsforhope]

"In China, a landscape architect is reimagining cities across the vast country by working with nature to combat flooding through the ‘sponge city’ concept.

Through his architecture firm Turenscape, Yu has created hundreds of projects in dozens of cities using native plants, dirt, and clever planning to absorb excess rainwater and channel it away from densely populated areas.

Flooding, especially in the two Chinese heartlands of the commercial south and the agricultural north, is becoming increasingly common, but Yu says that concrete and pipe solutions can only go so far. They’re inflexible, expensive, and require constant maintenance. According to a 2021 World Bank report, 641 of China’s 654 largest cities face regular flooding.

“There’s a misconception that if we can build a flood wall higher and higher, or if we build the dams higher and stronger, we can protect a city from flooding,” Yu told CNN in a video call. “(We think) we can control the water… that is a mistake.”

Pictured: The Benjakitti Forest Park in Bangkok

Yu has been called the “Chinese Olmstead” referring to Frederick Law Olmstead, the designer of NYC’s Central Park. He grew up in a little farming village of 500 people in Zhejiang Province, where 36 weirs channel the waters of a creek across terraced rice paddies.

Once a year, carp would migrate upstream and Yu always looked forward to seeing them leap over the weirs.

This synthesis of man and nature is something that Turenscape projects encapsulate. These include The Nanchang Fish Tail Park, in China’s Jiangxi province, Red Ribbon Park in Qinghuandao, Hebei province, the Sanya Mangrove Park in China’s island province of Hainan, and almost a thousand others. In all cases, Yu utilizes native plants that don’t need any care to develop extremely spongey ground that absorbs excess rainfall.

Pictured: The Dong’an Wetland Park, another Turescape project in Sanya.

He often builds sponge projects on top of polluted or abandoned areas, giving his work an aspect of reclamation. The Nanchang Fish Tail Park for example was built across a 124-acre polluted former fish farm and coal ash dump site. Small islands with dawn redwoods and two types of cypress attract local wildlife to the metropolis of 6 million people.

Sanya Mangrove Park was built over an old concrete sea wall, a barren fish farm, and a nearby brownfield site to create a ‘living’ sea wall.

One hectare (2.47 acres) of Turenscape sponge land can naturally clean 800 tons of polluted water to the point that it is safe enough to swim in, and as a result, many of the sponge projects have become extremely popular with locals.

One of the reasons Yu likes these ideas over grand infrastructure projects is that they are flexible and can be deployed as needed to specific areas, creating a web of rain sponges. If a large drainage, dam, seawall, or canal is built in the wrong place, it represents a huge waste of time and money.

Pictured: A walkway leads visitors through the Nanchang Fish Tail Park.

The sponge city projects in Wuhan created by Turenscape and others cost in total around half a billion dollars less than proposed concrete ideas. Now there are over 300 sponge projects in Wuhan, including urban gardens, parks, and green spaces, all of which divert water into artificial lakes and ponds or capture it in soil which is then released more slowly into the sewer system.

Last year, The Cultural Landscape Foundation awarded Yu the $100,000 Oberlander Prize for elevating the role of design in the process of creating nature-based solutions for the public’s enjoyment and benefit."

-via Good News Network, August 15, 2024

[dunmeshistash]

Interview to celebrate the opening of the Ryoko Kui Exhibition

About Delicious in Dungeon: Story making

Q1. Your first long-running series has lasted for about 9 and a half years. Has it been different from your previous experience drawing short stories?

A1. Compared to short stories, the series has been easier because the same characters appear each time. But I was surprised to find that I got tired of drawing the same characters too many times.

Q2. You have said before that the overall structure of the story was decided before serialization began, but how much of that had you communicated to your editor? Also, what kind of communication did you have during the series production?

A2. The goal was something we discussed and had decided on from the beginning. The goal itself was simple, but the path to get there was more difficult and took longer than imagined.

Q3. Regarding the overall story concept and development, did you write out or put anything down in writing (such as the plot)?

A3. I did, but it was simple.

Q4. Did you come up with the dishes based on the monsters you wanted in the story? Or did you come up with the monsters based on the dishes?

A4. It depended on the story, but usually the story came first followed by the monsters or food. I feel like that was most often the order.

Q5. As you progressed in drawing the series, what elements of the characters, story, or world expanded or grew in the most unexpected way?

A5. Nothing particularly unexpected perhaps. When I used to draw web manga, I tended to think up inconsequential settings. So, from the beginning I tried to restrain myself as much as possible and not expand too much. I was surprised when my editor said "Let's expand it more," in the second half of the series.

Q6. "Delicious in Dungeon" starts with a relatively simple setting, but as the series and the labyrinth exploration continues, the map slowly expands little by little in the readers' minds. It becomes more three-dimensional, revealing the secrets of the world, and taking on a multilayered structure. Are there any sources that you used as a reference, or which influenced you in creating this multilayered structure?

A6. A long time ago, when I was working on my personal web manga (fantasy), I drew it however I wanted, thinking that "Only people who can read this will read it," but I regularly received feedback that it was "unreadable", so I tried to make it as easily. accessible as possible.

Q7. The series combines many elements, including "fantasy", "gourmet", "battles", and "puzzle solving", but I think it's also important that it is a "comedy" which makes people laugh. Could you let us know if you have a creative commitment towards depicting humor?

A7. My hopes are that I can make it fun for people to read.

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About Delicious in Dungeon: Drawing manga

Q1. Please tell us about the drawing tools you currently use, both digital and analogue.

A1. In terms of analogue tools, I use a light box, a G pen, a round pen, and a brush pen. And for digital, I use CLIP STUDIO PAINT and a Wacom LCD tablet. Screentone pasting is always done on the computer, so ultimately it all ends up as a digital manuscript.

Q2. Do you have any rules or reasons for using digital and analog separately?

A2. I'm always looking for ways to draw better and save time, so the exact approach is probably different for almost every chapter. Personally, I feel that analogue methods create more appealing lines, but I feel like digital saves time, so maybe I'll do a digital rough sketch and do the inking by hand… I might have been using a G pen, and maybe I'll try out a turnip pen, or this time I'm short on time so I'll draw it entirely digitally, but with digital I can redo it over and over, so maybe analogue is still faster, and so on and so forth. I'm indecisive in this way and so haven't developed a consistent process.

Q3. I understand that you prepare 3D data for your assistants to draw the backgrounds. What kind of data did you make for "Delicious in Dungeon" ?

A3. You could call it 3D, but it's not a proper model, just something to help with the rough sketching. I line up cubes to share the perspective and sense of scale, and they use it as a reference.

Q4. At the beginning of the series, the characters and backgrounds were somewhat simply drawn, and it seems like they became richly detailed over the progression of the story. What was your intention behind using these different styles?

A4. It's simply that my technique isn't stable. I thought I'd put a lot of effort in at the start. I remember being confused when my editor asked me to add more in to the drawing, and I wondered "Where…?"

Q5. Thinking about the food, were there any menu illustrations that you were particularly satisfied with, or which you struggled with?

A5. I've never liked my own food illustrations. But the times when I read other people's manga and thought "That looks delicious," I think it's been more an influence of the movement, the staging, and the situation than the drawings.

Q6. For the world maps and the terrain of each continent, did you refer to any maps of the real world? I feel like the shape of the 'island' is similar to the shape of Fukuoka Prefecture or Kyushu.

A6. I didn't reference any specific geography, but I did try to put thought into things like whether a developed city would be near a river or the sea, and what the coastline would look like. I'm pleased if it feels similar to a real place, because it means my interpretation was pretty accurate.

About Delicious in Dungeon: Other

Q1. Which is your favorite monster?

A1. Nightmare.

Q2. I'm sure you have received a lot of feedback from readers in countries and regions outside of Japan. Please tell us if there was anything from them that made you happy, was unexpected, or which made a lasting impression on you.

A2. When you play foreign games, there are times when you think "Why did they translate it into Japanese like that?" But having been on the side of having something translated, I've realized some things are unavoidable, or endless, and there are many things that don't matter either way from the author's perspective, so it was interesting.

About Ryoko Kui's short story collections and herself

Q1. Dragons are a consistent and important motif in your work. Was there any particular work or experience which inspired this? Also, are there points about drawing dragons which you find interesting or have had to work hard on?

A1. It's less about liking dragons, and more that I'm interested in the worlds in which dragons exist. When I draw dragons, the depiction in itself has a sweet feeling to it. I have never had a pet reptile, so I don't have a very good understanding of them.

Q2. Unomiya University in your story "The dragon's school is on top of the mountain" has a Faculty of Dragons, Department of Environmental Studies, and Department of Technology Studies, and a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. If you were to enroll in the university, which department or faculty would you like to enter?

A2. I probably wouldn't be accepted….

Q3. The collection includes a short story staged as an essay manga. Are you a fan of essay manga? Please tell us about any genres of essay manga that you like.

A3. I love all kinds of essay manga. I read them often.

Q4. If you were to make your own game, what kind of game would you like to make?

A4. I prefer being a player when it comes to games.

Q5. When did you first start drawing illustrations (doodles)?

A5. I don't exactly remember when I first drew a picture, but I think I started drawing manga around the fourth or fifth grade of elementary school. in my notebooks and had my friends read them.

Q6. What is the most fun part about drawing manga?

A6. Every part is fun and hard in its own way.

Q7. Please tell us if there is anything you "just can't stop no matter what".

A7. My procrastination habit.

Q8. Could you please tell us if there's something you want to draw now?

A8. I've been working continuously since the serialization, so I'd like to take about 2 to 3 months to just draw whatever I want.

[johnnylandslide]

WoL Magic Cards Tutorial!

I'd made a custom Magic: the Gathering card of Johnny recently, and shared it in the Seafloor discord, and since there was a lot of interest in the concept I figured a tutorial might be nice so we have something to do while we wait for plugins to come back. Here goes!

Download CardConjurer This is the tool I use to make custom cards. It's just a web app developed by a college student; he got DMCA'd by WOTC so it's not hosted on the internet anymore, but you can still run it locally.

Just unzip the contents somewhere, and then run launcher.exe when you're ready. It should open up the app in a browser tab.

2. Navigate to the Card Creator

3. Pick out a Frame

Enter this search box on the right. We're going to be using the Nickname ("Godzilla") frames. These give us a small subtitle box below the card name that indicates what the Magic card's actual name is.

If you want to create a custom card instead, use the Borderless frames.

In the menu below, you should see the different colors of the borderless frames. You'll have to add three of these elements to the card: the text box, the card name, and the power/toughness box. Do them in that order, by clicking each element and then Add Frame to Card. If your card is legendary (or if you feel like it), use the Crown option rather than just Title.

You'll have to choose the correct color. If your chosen card is monocolor or >=3 colors, this is very easy since you can just choose that color or gold, but for two-color cards the process is slightly more involved. First, add the color that goes on the left using the Add Frame to Card button, and then add the right color using the Add Frame to Card (Right Half) button. Use the gold power/toughness box.

If any of the card elements get out of order, you can reorder them using the layers controls at the bottom of the page.

4. Import the card text

Navigate to the Import/Save tab, and type in the name of the real card you're putting your OC over. Select the specific version of it using the dropdown afterwards.

(For some reason, Firefox suggests completing this field with my credit card information. I think it knows more about Magic than it's letting on.)

After the card is imported, navigate back to the Frame tab, and click Load Frame Version. This will force the text on the card to fit into the frame set that's currently selected in the bar on the right, which should still be the Nickname ("Godzilla") from earlier.

We should have something closely resembling the real card in the editor, now.

5. Make it yours!

First off, go to the Art tab, and upload your image. Once it shows up, you can adjust it by clicking the actual card in the editor. Clicking and dragging pans it around, shift+clicking scales, and ctrl+click rotates.

Next, pop over to the Set Symbol tab and remove it, since this is your own card and isn't from a Magic set.

And now, go over to the Text tab to finish this off! Start by entering your card name into the Nickname tab.

If your chosen card name is too long and ends up clipping the mana cost, you can reduce the width of the text box with the Edit Bounds menu until it fits.

Next, go to Rules Text to update the name if the card refers to itself. I changed all instances of "Vadrik" to "Johnny". Since this card is really just to look at and not to play with, I also renamed the Day/Night mechanic to fit the Black Mage flavor even better. Feel free to get creative!

You can use {flavor} to add flavor text as well. I added the {lns} commands after some words to add line breaks to make the text blocks look better.

You can also edit the typeline in the Type tab, if the creature type doesn't match your WoL. Johnny is already a Human Wizard though, so I didn't have to do that. Technically this would be a mechanical change of the card, but since these aren't real cards anyway I think it's a valid concession to make. Just don't go abusing it if you actually end up printing these out LOL

6. Download the card image

Finally, head back over to Import/Save, scroll all the way to the bottom, and hit Download you card.

And you're done! There's obviously a lot more that's possible with CardConjurer, and tons of avenues for creativity. If you end up following this tutorial, or creating any other FFXIV-related MTG cards, I would really love to see them!

[skyl3m0n]

This is from the person who owns the GDLTD AU and I want some more information on your character Atlas. I am going to put her in the AU but I need some more info.

Like:

What is she based on?

What is she exactly?

A photo of her design inspiration?

What her personality is like?

Her history?

What is a snow-pyridactal?

Because I need more ideas on who she is first to give her more fitting lore in the AU

Thank you very much

To begin with, I want to make it clear that Atlas is a male character, not female.His design has truly sparked my creativity and imagination. The concept was bom from a deep fascination I developed for Arctic animals, which led me to ponder the idea of crafting a creature inspired by a prehistoric being. This thought process gave rise to the snow pterodactyl, and soon after, Atlas himself emerged into existence. I have such a fondness for him, it's almost Overwhelming

Atlas embodies a personality that is fiercely loyal, incredibly kind, and undeniably sweet. However, when angered, he can project an intimidating presence, and he often exhibits a shy Demeanor

One notable aspect of his character is his intense aversion to Dandy. In the original game. Dandy's actions resulted in the tragic loss of Atlas's friends, a betrayal that he finds impossible to Forgiving

Reflecting on his past poses a significant challenge for him. Nevertheless, the essence of his memories remains strikingly clear. He once enjoyed a close-knit friendship with a group of companions, a bond that thrived before the onset of the ichor operation, which tragically resulted in their infection and premature deaths. Initially, he was blissfully ignorant of the grave circumstances they were facing, but as he delved deeper in pursuit of the truth, he found himself caught in a perilous web of danger. It was through this treacherous journey that he ultimately uncovered the mystery surrounding their demise, and it was during this process that his bitterness towards Dandy began to take root, intensifying with each new revelation

As for Atlas's abilities, he possesses the remarkable power to create protective shields. reminiscent of the iconic skills seen in Steven Universe.

Additionally, he can soar through the skies, aided by his wings that he has. However, for this alternate reality, those wings are not a natural endowment but rather prosthetic replacements, serving as a painful reminder of the traumatic day when his original wings were brutally torn from his back, marking a profound loss in his life and his Psyche

In this alternate universe, his character embodies a subtly distinct tone. He is mare introspective, often choosing to embrace silence rather than engage in conversation. Although he retains his shy nature, there's a palpable intensity about him especially evident in his approach to combat, where he displays a more aggressive and fierce demeanor.When it comes to outfit inspiration, think of Whisper from the Sonic comics. Her look, including the mask, truly encapsulates the essence of what i envision. Upon further reflection, I found Whisper's outfit to be quite captivating, and for this alternate universe, I would love to weave in elements that echo that unique style, creating a blend that feels both fresh and fitting for his character when it comes to weaponry, aside from the shields he has, his primary choice is a bow and arrows, as he prefers engaging from a distance. For close combat, he relies on knives and blades

I really hope this provides some clarity. Here's a reference for the original character, Atlas, to give you a better understanding of his appearance (not for the alternate universe, but for the original concept).

Here's what his looks like (not for the day but what Atlas looks like) so you can get an idea of what he looks like for the og universe and not the au.

[talonabraxas]

The Cosmic Egg and Evolution of Man

There is a great mystery hidden behind the universe and one’s own life and until this mystery is unravelled our life can have no real meaning and we cannot be at peace, wrote Taimni in his preface to “Man, God, And the Universe.” The vast majority of people are not even vaguely aware of this mystery and are so completely assimilated with their environment and the current of life in which they find themselves that the deeper problems of life do not trouble them at all. But these deeper problems of life do not cease to exist because they are ignored. They appear in the form of other problems, generally more serious and sometimes deadly, he added. Here I am trying to delve into the mystery of the universe from what I understood from the teachings of Navajyoti Sri Karunakara Guru, the Founder of Santhigiri Ashram at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Some of us may wonder about life and its perfect processes. Let us take for example the process of procreation among humans. A woman and a man desire to come together stirred by the primal fire of Kama and the man deposits his egg in the womb of the woman. This egg develops into a human undergoing nine or ten months of evolution. This process was not invented by scientists, but it is the microscopic replication of the method evolved by God to create the universe. Rigveda (10.121) mentions Hiranyagarbha, the Golden Egg as the source of the creation of the universe. It is said that God, wishing to create the world, produced an egg as big as the cosmos. God meditated for a thousand years sitting inside the egg and when the egg burst, the Lord himself was born out of the egg as the Progenitor of the universe (“He made Himself by Himself.”, Taitiriya Upanishad: 2.7.1). The Rishis called the Egg Brahmanda (the Cosmic Egg), and the Progenitor Manu. Rig Veda acknowledges Manu as the progenitor of mankind and refers to him as ‘The Father Manu’ (Verses 1:80:16, 1:124.2, 11:33-16). Also read this section dealing with death in Chandogya Upanishad, which refers to the world as Manu’s creation:

“He (the soul of the dead person) proceeds from the sun to the moon, from the moon to lightning. Some superhuman being coming from the world of Hiranya Garbha leads those who arrive there to Brahman. This is the path of the gods; this is the path to Brahman. Those who attain by proceeding along this path, do not return to this cycle of birth and death, to this creation of Manu.” (Chandogya Upanishad 4.15.5).

Scientists have discovered that the universe has an oval shape. Like the nine months of the evolution of the human egg, the Cosmic Egg also undergoes nine stages of evolution before it gets dissolved during what we call ‘Maha Pralaya’. What is the Cosmic Egg like? The Puranas mention that Brahmanda has 14 biospheres, seven nether and seven upper inhabited by different types of souls. If we count from the human world, there are ten dimensions of consciousness. Rishis called these astral biospheres Mandalas/Lokas with different wavelengths and colours. Sri Karunakara Guru referred to them as Avasthas, or spiritual stages]. The Buddhists and Hindu esoteric sects such as the Theosophical Society explain these levels of the Absolute in terms of Physical plane, Astral plane, Mental plane, Buddhic plane, Atmic plane, Anupadaka plane, Adi plane and Shiv and Shakti. These Avasthas are related to the expanding consciousness reaching up to the core of the Cosmic Egg, the Paramatma. Like a spider which creates a web around it sitting in the centre, and withdraws it in the end, Paramatma creates and withdraws webbed multi-dimensional universes. Nobody can say when it started and when it will end as it is a beginningless and endless process.

Parabrahman (the Absolute) is ‘Shubra Jyotis’- ‘White Light’, says Mundaka Upanishad. The example of the prism is given by Taimni. “When passed through a prism, the Pure White Light gets dispersed to form a spectrum of different colours and frequencies. What has happened is that the beam of white light has been dispersed or differentiated by the prism and all the vibrations, visible and invisible have been separated from each other, according to their wavelengths, forming a continuous spectrum. By putting another inverted prism in the path of the emergent rays it is possible to recombine or integrate them again into the original beam of white light. So, the whole process is reversible.” That is how the Absolute Brahman self-manifests and disperses into various astral biospheres with the potential to remain unaffected by what is created. One must evolve through these astral biospheres one by one to merge with the Absolute. Then only there is Mukthi. Following are roughly the ten Lokas beginning from the human world:

1. Bhuloka (abode of man). 2. Bhuta loka (abode of earth spirits) 3. Pitru loka and Bhuvar Loka (abode of ancestral souls, 4. Bhuvar Loka (abode of Yakshas, Kinnaras, Devi-Devas, angels, etc.) 5. Swarga Loka (Heaven, the abode of Trimurti (Brahma,Vishnu and Mahesh) and other spiritual powers in heaven. Indra is the lord of heaven) 6. Rishi Loka (The abode of transcendental Rishis above heaven) 7. Parashakti Mandala (the sphere of the feminine principle) 8. Ishwara Mandala (The abode of supramental souls such as Sri Krishna) 9. Brahm-Mandala (the Cosmic Mind in creative mode) 10. Parabrahma Mandala (the ultimate seat of Parabrahm, God Almighty)

The abode of human beings is Bhuloka which is perceptible through the sense organs, mind, and intellect. When the soul (sookshma sharira) departs from the body it reaches various atmospheres in the Brahmanda according to its karma and evolution of consciousness. Gross souls with sinful actions remain in the atmosphere as earth spirits. Lighter souls with some virtues are transported to Pitru Loka. Those who are yet more radiant attain to Bhuvar Loka and then to Swarga Loka to reap the result of their virtuous actions. Swarga or Heaven is a place of super-sensuous enjoyments, inhabited by devas and other angelic beings. Indra is the Lord of Hindu heaven.

Similarly, there can be different lords in the heavens for Christians and Muslims, whom they call the ‘One God’ who sits in heaven and delivers judgment. The Swarga of Indra exists between the sixth and seventh spiritual sky. A man cannot attain Mukti in heaven because it is a world for the enjoyment of karma, and there is an end to it. Many people mistakenly think that their destination is heaven. But “Greater than the earth, greater than the sky, greater than heaven, greater than all these worlds (is Brahman)”, declares Chandogya Upanishad (3:9:28:7).

The transcendental experience begins from the seventh spiritual sky identifiable with the Rishi Loka. There are no physical limitations in this sphere because the souls can exist here as pure radiance. What we see as millions of stars in the Brahmanda are such evolved souls. They can take a body at their will when descending into the world. They are called Avatars, meaning the ones who descend from the Nakshatra Loka, the star world. Sri Krishna was the only Mahatma who had transcended the seventh spiritual sky and attained the status of Ishwara in the eighth spiritual sky by birth itself.

Christianity and Islam are heaven-centric religions promising enjoyments in heaven. That means the spiritual stature of Jesus Christ and Prophet Muhammad is related to the spiritual skies equivalent to the Swarga of Hindus. The final Judgement by God is related to the theory of karma, which is not acknowledged in the dogma of Abrahamic religions. You reap the result of your karma in heaven or hell in an organic way. There is nobody to judge you. You touch fire you get burnt. Why should be there someone to judge? Even if there is a judge, what difference does it make? When the merit or demerit of karma is exhausted in heaven or hell, the souls are reborn on the earth plane. They must resume the journey of evolution all over again to reach the Absolute. The goal of man is not heaven. A soul must transcend heaven too, forsaking the desire for pleasures to reach the presence of Paramatma. That is why the Ishavasya Upanishad said that the face of Truth is hidden by a golden disk. One must remove this lid to see the truth of God. Only the one who achieves this feat can become a Rishi and inhabit the blissful Rishi Loka.

This soul-travel through the above astral planes is not an easy feat. It requires tremendous will- power and self-sacrifices, and most importantly the help of a spiritual master who himself has transcended these spiritual abodes. The journey up to heaven is not as difficult as the journey beyond. The powers in heaven such as the Devi-Devas and other angelic beings can be pleased with a certain amount of spiritual regimen and devotion. They may grant your wishes, and even the power to perform Siddhi (miracles). But once you try to cross their territory, the problems start. There will be tests and resistance from the fallen souls known as Yogabhrashta, Satan, and Jinn. These are powerful souls with tremendous Siddhis. They are fallen from the path in the middle of their journey because of their egoism and thus failed to achieve Mukthi.

These jealous souls intimidate the genuine seekers with the lure of Siddhi or may trap them in sexual scandals or some other issues that create public outrage against them. This is done to stop them on their path of evolution to higher regions above heaven. The persecution becomes unbearable in this stage, and most of them fall prey to these evil powers. Even great souls like Sri Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir, Moses, Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad, and innumerable other souls were intimidated by these fallen souls. The persecution of Sri Krishna by demonic powers, the death of Buddha by consuming rotten meat, the sufferings undergone by Mahavir, and Moses, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the sickness that led to the death of Prophet Muhammad after partaking of the poisoned food offered by a Jewish woman, all these are a few examples of such persecution.

Trimurti of Hinduism also exists below the seventh sky, the Rishi Loka. Vishnu is one of the Trimurti gods. The pundits made Sri Krishna an avatar of Vishnu. That is not right. Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma are called Devas. But Sri Krishna was not a Deva. He was a Kalanthara Guru, the spiritual authority of Dwapara Yuga. Sri Krishna called himself Ishwara, not a Deva. There is no evidence that Sri Krishna was an Avatar of Vishnu. That is the sectarian view of Vaishnava Puranas. Different sects appropriated great Mahatmas to promote their sects. Sri Krishna stood at a higher pedestal than all other gods and prophets. There was no parallel to him. He is known to have subdued even Brahma and Indra. After Sri Krishna, only Sri Karunakara Guru could transcend all the spiritual abodes and become the true image and instrument of God in this Kali Yuga. When the Guru transcended all the spiritual levels, Sri Krishna himself appeared in a vision and revealed to the devotees that they should follow only Guru from now on. But this is understood only by the followers of the Guru, the rest of the people are living like the proverbial frog in the well (koopa mandukas) who know nothing of the sea.

Evolution is supposed to be ending with man, considered the most perfect among all created living beings. One cannot calculate when exactly man originated in the world. We can perhaps discover it in relation to the present Manvantara. The British geneticist and evolutionary biologist JBS Haldane held that the ten Avatars or incarnations (Dashavatara) of God are a true sequential depiction of the great unfolding of the evolution of life, in the present Manvantara. The first Avatar Matsya was fish. The initial forms of life were aquatic during the Cambrian period (the earliest three geologic eras roughly 542 to 251 million years ago). The second Avatar Kurma belongs to the group of reptiles when the aquatic life gets evolved into amphibians. The third Avatar was Varaha or boar when the amphibian evolved into land-dwelling animals. The Avatar Narasimha or man-lion can be compared to primitive uncivilized humans. The fifth Avatar Vamana the sward-man may be related to the first man who originated during the Pliocene era (the period that extends from 5.332 million to 2.588 million years before the present), and Parashurama the sixth Avatar with the first man originated during the quaternary period (the most recent of geologic time scale spanning 2.588 million years ago), the weapon-wielding iron age. Rama, Krishna, and Buddha indicate advanced states of physical and mental evolution of man. The transition to the next stage is inevitable.

The present civilisational crisis can be overcome only when the orthodoxy in all religious traditions including Hinduism comes out of its shells and make possible the transition to the next stage of the supramental evolution of consciousness instead of going on proving and justifying their dogmas that are irrelevant now. The age of superhuman beings and supramental spirituality is coming. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh had predicted it, and Sri Karunakara Guru has put the cornerstone for such a civilisational change. --Mukundan P.R.

The Cosmic Egg by Talon Abraxas

[thisisthiago]

WeHeartIt is dead.

It died in 2023, during a sunny June, though the process started taking place way before that date. It’s unclear, though, the reason why it started to happen. And, since I’m not a journalist, I might focus on why it meant so much to me for so long.

WeHeartIt, famous for embracing thousands of people around the idea of creating personal galleries and sharing them with friends, was born in 2008 from a Brazilian developer. He came up with the idea of creating a platform where people could save, share and, most importantly, heart images.

And didn't that work out? At its peak, the social network had 25 million monthly users and partnered with brands such as Teen Vogue to promote content and increase that reach. Of course, there was always Pinterest, but this wasn’t it. WeHeartIt was a hot mess of posting and hearting and expressing ourselves through the images we saved or the postcards we sent or even the collections we built. Of course, you could open Pinterest and organize your ideas, wishes, and... crochet templates, I guess? But at WeHeartIt, what looked like a mess would then become a gallery with layers of meanings and feelings, resembling the rings of trees. Our profiles, as rings of trees can tell us about a harsh winter or a particularly hot summer, would have layers composed of travel dreams, romantic ideas, or heartbreaking moments. It was safe and, as a 2018 article from Women’s Forum would point out, it was a mood booster.

Can you imagine such a lovely mess? "Dancing On My Own" was at the top of the parades (at least for hipsters worldwide), Tumblr was the next most favorite network, and Facebook wasn’t as cringe as it is now. In the middle of all that, WeHeartIt was thriving. Saving us from the boredom and helping us all to create a gallery where we could go back to see (and feel) all that was there to remember.

But then, things started to go somewhere out of the road, and we learned that good and new features don’t necessarily mean improvement. The app didn't have to try and be anything else. Of course, a design refreshment is always welcome, but some of the updates were simply needless or had no sense at all. All of that led to what we encounter today when we go into the platform website.

I won’t refer to all of the annoying-but-still-not-changing-the-core-of-the-app updates and features. I’m talking about ads, postcards, articles and yes, podcasts. Though all of these were meaningless and even annoying, they never interfered in my possibility of using the core functions of the app: managing my profile, visiting other people’s profiles, and hearting images.

Then, all of a sudden, WeHeartIt starts rolling out a message saying that the app will now focus on other features and so, they would do part with profiles and hearting. Yes, you read that correctly. The owners of the app decided that the main functions of the website should no longer be available, in order to redirect the main focus of the app to photo editing.

As I said in a rather harsh review of the latest version of the app in Apple’s App Store:

The so-called "photo editing" capabilities are laughable, barely a patch on dedicated apps in that domain. It's utterly disheartening that even a relic like the 1967 app surpasses WeHeartIt as a creative tool at this point. There appears to be an overwhelming lack of satisfaction with this so-called "upgrade."

Though scattered around the web, many of the platform users have shown their discomfort with the current state of the app. A quick search on Twitter, Reddit, App Store Reviews, and even Tumblr shows us. Even though some users still try to make some of the old features of the service work, it’s only a matter of time until the database is updated and we no longer have access to any image at all.

It’s sad that WeHeartIt is dying. The idea was great, and the execution worked for a while, but now it just looks as if the owners of the platform are looking for an excuse to shut it down permanently. We might as well just end up with a page like the former ffffound.

[izicodes]

Hi Loa! You said you started off with HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and you post a lot about your website projects. So I wanted to ask if you have any advice for the process of designing a website and making various graphics. I enjoy coding a whole lot, but I've avoided front-end stuff until now because looking into design and tools for it made me feel a little overwhelmed. What would you do if you were to start learning anew web design for your coding job and hobby projects? Thank you a lot :)

Hiya! 💗

I'd be happy to share some advice on designing a website and creating graphics. It's great that you enjoy coding and want to explore front-end development and design, and don't worry, though I love frontend stuff a lot, I still find some things overwhelming e.g. I'm currently learning Django which I have put off from learning because it looked "hard" but now I love learning it. Just give yourself a little push and you'll enjoy it! 😉🙌🏾

Web Design Inspiration

Two key places I get inspiration for my website designs are Pinterest and Behance!

For instance, when I was, and still am, researching Old Web GUI designs, I made a Pinterest board of images relating to what I wanted to design and I used that as a reference when building the design in HTML and CSS. So, I would look at the picture and think "Okay in terms of HTML elements and CSS styling, how can I replicate this? 😉👍🏾". You can check out these boards: board 1 | board 2

Pinterest is the main inspiration place, and Behance is for more in-depth web design components. What I mean is if I need inspiration for a navbar design or a certain card design, I would use Behance.

Now I don't particularly do this, which is bad, but I do recommend making a wireframe for your web designs. I talked about wireframes in a previous post, but to sum it up; wireframes are good because they allow you to stick to your design plans and not go off on a tangent. These are especially good when working in a team at work, for example.

The reason why I don't particularly do them as often as I should is because I see things in my head vividly enough that I won't forget where everything should be - no super power but that's the main reason I don't make wireframes. As well, I change ideas halfway through so there's no real need for me to keep making wireframes if I will change the design 2 minutes later! 😭💔

But that's just me, but you should totally start designing wireframes. Practising drawing up some wireframes will definitely help with being creative in your designs. Take everything around you as an inspiration. The way I think of it is to think like an artist who is capable of painting anything - all you have to do is look around and paint. You can do the same with web development - everything is an inspiration. I saw a person make a whole webpage with amazing graphics... just about water. You can do the same.

If you need help on that part, definitely look into graphic design. I took extra classes in Graphics (which was just graphic design) when in school which involved looking at graphic artists and studying their work, then replicating something with our own twist. You can do the same with web design - study websites online, some you like or random ones. Look at a piece of the website and try and replicate it. That's why I like projects which are like "make a Google clone" or "make a Netflix clone" because it gives you the chance to study other people's codes and you can keep that knowledge for any future projects!

And lastly, study web design principles. There are some principles that good websites all put into their design that make the user's experience good. Read this article about it and this should even give hints to how you could design your next website! Learn about fundamental design principles such as colour theory, typography, layout, and composition. Understanding these principles will help you create aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly designs.

Web Design Tools I Use

Now, what do I use every time I start a new "project", what online tools do I use? I literally have these on my browser's bookmarks, ready to go!

Pinterest (inspiration) - LINK

Behance (inspiration) - LINK

Coolors (colour palette generator) - LINK

CSS Gradient Generator (because I'm lazy) - LINK

Google Fonts (main source for fonts) - LINK

Font Palace (fonts I want but not on Google Fonts) - LINK

Font Awesome (for the little icons) - LINK

Image Colour Picker (if I have an image and I want to pick the colour from it) - LINK

Optional tools:

Bootstrap 4/5 (sometimes I use this for personal projects, definitely use it at work) - LINK

Pattern.css (creates a patterned background for you, again I'm lazy) - LINK

Storyset on Freepik (people graphic images) - LINK

Pexels (stock background and even fake product images) - LINK

Unsplash (same as Pexel) - LINK

LottieFiles (set animations) - LINK

TinyPNG (makes image sizes smaller so less space) - LINK

CSSmatic (4 cool CSS generators) - LINK

That's all I have to say, if I didn't help with your question, message me to help you further but I do hope this helps you!! Good luck! 🥰🙌🏾💗

[thequietcreator]

I asked Grok To Make A Comparison To ChatGPT, and I Was Surprised

ChatGPT vs. Grok 3: A Detailed Comparison

Both are powerful, but they cater to different strengths and audiences. I didn’t notice the difference in the first place, I thought it was the same, but just made by different companies. So, I decided to ask one of them to make a comparison for me, to be clear on what I need for my journey, or which one could help me with a variety of needs. I wanted to know details: their features, performance, accessibility, pricing, and ideal use cases to help me decide.

1. Background and Development

ChatGPT (OpenAI)

ChatGPT, launched in November 2022, is built on OpenAI’s GPT architecture, evolving from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4, GPT-4o, and the newer o1 and o3 models. OpenAI, co-founded by Sam Altman and others in 2015, has leveraged massive funding (e.g., $13 billion from Microsoft) to create a versatile AI known for human-like text generation. Trained on diverse datasets like books, articles, and web content, ChatGPT excels in creativity, reasoning, and broad conversational tasks. Its reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) refines responses, making them coherent and contextually relevant. For creators like me, this is just excellent.

Grok 3 (xAI)

Now, Grok 3, released in February 2025, is xAI’s latest model, succeeding Grok 1 and Grok 2. Founded by Elon Musk in 2023, xAI aims to accelerate scientific discovery with AI. Grok 3, trained on xAI’s Colossus supercluster with 100,000 GPUs, uses a custom large language model (LLM) with 2.7 trillion parameters and a 128,000-token context window. Its real-time data access via the X platform (formerly Twitter) sets it apart, emphasizing truth-seeking and technical reasoning.

Key Difference: ChatGPT benefits from a longer development history and broader data sources, making it more established and versatile. Grok 3, a newer contender, leverages massive compute power and real-time X data for up-to-date, technical responses.

2. Core Features

ChatGPT

Multimodal Capabilities: Supports text, image processing (via DALL·E 3), and voice conversations. It can analyze charts, photos and generate images.

Web Browsing: Integrates with Bing for real-time web searches, enhancing current event responses.

Plugins and Integrations: Offers 943+ plugins (e.g., OpenTable, Wolfram) for extended functionality like restaurant bookings or advanced computations.

Memory and Context: Retains conversation history, allowing follow-up prompts and context-aware responses.

Modes: Features Search and Reason modes to enhance contextual understanding and problem-solving.

Customization: Allows tone and style adjustments via custom instructions or API settings.

Grok 3

Real-Time Data Access: Pulls live data from X posts and web searches via DeepSearch, ideal for trending topics and current events.

Multimodal Support: Processes text and images (e.g., documents, diagrams) but does not generate images natively, relying on FLUX.1 for image creation.

Interaction Modes: Offers three modes:

1. Think Mode: Transparent reasoning, showing how conclusions are reached.

2. DeepSearch Mode: Iteratively searches the web and X for real-time insights.

3. BigBrain Mode: Not publicly available, reserved for advanced tasks (details limited).

Humor and Personality: Known for witty, irreverent responses with pop culture references, reflecting Elon Musk’s style.

No Plugins: Lacks a plugin ecosystem, focusing on X integration.

3. Performance and Benchmarks

ChatGPT

Benchmarks: Built on GPT-4o and o1, ChatGPT scores 79% in math (AIME’25), 78% in science (GPQA), and 72.9% in coding (LiveCodeBench). Its o3 model (not fully public) reportedly outperforms Grok 3 in math and science.

Strengths: Excels in creative writing, structured tasks, and broad knowledge. Its RLHF ensures polished, contextually accurate responses.

Weaknesses: Can be slower in real-time tasks due to periodic data updates. Responses may feel formal or overly cautious.

Grok 3

Benchmarks: Scores 93.3% in math (AIME’25), 84.6% in science (GPQA), and 79.4% in coding (LiveCodeBench), outperforming ChatGPT’s o1 in these areas. Achieved a 1400 ELO in Chatbot Arena blind tests.

Strengths: Superior in mathematical reasoning, scientific problem-solving, and coding, with 25% faster responses and 15% higher accuracy in natural language tasks. DeepSearch enhances real-time accuracy.

Weaknesses: May lack depth in creative or structured writing compared to ChatGPT. Humor can be inconsistent, leaning toward bland “dad jokes.”

Key Difference: Grok 3 leads in technical domains (math, science, coding) and speed, while ChatGPT shines in creative and general-purpose tasks. Benchmarks suggest Grok 3’s edge in reasoning, but ChatGPT’s o3 may close the gap, and that’s one of the things I need.

4. Accessibility and Pricing

ChatGPT

Free Tier: GPT-3.5 is free via web and mobile apps, with basic conversational capabilities.

Paid Plans:

ChatGPT Plus: $20/month for GPT-4o, o3-mini, web browsing, and 10 Deep Research requests.

ChatGPT Pro: $200/month for o3, 120 Deep Research uses, and a 200K context window.

Enterprise/Team: Custom pricing for businesses with enhanced security and API access.

Platforms: Available on web, iOS, Android, and Azure OpenAI Service. API integration is widely supported.

Global Reach: Accessible in countries like the U.S., U.K., India, and more.

Grok 3

No Free Tier: Requires a paid subscription, limiting accessibility. (This is the first surprise I experienced while comparing)

Paid Plans:

X Premium+: $16-$50/month (varies by region; $50 in some markets), includes Grok 3 access.

SuperGrok: $30/month for higher usage quotas on grok.com.

Platforms: Accessible via X platform, grok.com, iOS/Android Grok apps, and X iOS app. API access is planned but limited currently.

Limitations: Primarily tied to X ecosystem, with no confirmed global availability details.

Key Difference: ChatGPT’s free tier and lower-cost Plus plan make it more accessible. Grok 3’s premium-only model and X integration may deter budget-conscious users. And a first minus for Grok.

5. User Experience

ChatGPT

Interface: Seamless, intuitive across web and mobile, with a clean design and context-aware responses.

Tone: Neutral, formal, friendly, and professional, with humor available on request. Custom instructions allow tone tweaking.

Memory: Saves chat history, enabling seamless follow-ups.

Deep Research: o3’s Deep Research mode (available in Plus/Pro) delivers detailed, evidence-based responses, ideal for complex queries.

Grok 3

Interface: Minimalistic, integrated into X or grok.com, with a focus on transparency via Think Mode.

Tone: Witty, casual, and sometimes edgy, with a playful, Musk-inspired personality. May not suit professional contexts.

Memory: Lacks persistent chat history, resetting after sessions, which frustrates some users.

DeepSearch: Fast, real-time research with concise outputs (1,000–2,000 words), but less comprehensive than ChatGPT’s Deep Research (up to 75,000 words).

Key Difference: ChatGPT offers a polished, memory-enabled experience for professional and creative users. Grok 3’s snarky tone and real-time focus appeal to casual, trend-savvy users, but its lack of memory is a drawback. So, I give another minus to Grok.

6. Ideal Use Cases

ChatGPT

Creative Writing: Excels in generating articles, stories, and marketing content with polished, SEO-friendly prose.

General Knowledge: Handles diverse queries, from philosophy to customer service, with broad contextual understanding.

Coding: Strong for debugging and writing code, though slightly less efficient than Grok 3.

Business Applications: API integrations and enterprise plans suit customer support, content automation, and data analysis.

Deep Research: Ideal for academic, analytical tasks requiring comprehensive, evidence-based responses.

Grok 3

Real-Time Insights: Perfect for tracking current events, trends, or breaking news via X integration.

Technical Tasks: Superior in math, science, and coding, especially in STEM research or technical problem-solving.

Engaging Conversations: Suits users who enjoy witty, dynamic interactions for casual or exploratory queries.

SEO and Marketing: Generates quick, keyword-rich drafts, though less polished than ChatGPT or Claude.

X Ecosystem Users: Best for those already active on X, leveraging its social media integration.

7. Limitations and Challenges

ChatGPT

Outdated Data: Free tier (GPT-3.5) has a knowledge cutoff (September 2022), and even paid tiers rely on periodic updates.

Formal Tone: Can feel stiff or overly cautious, limiting engagement for casual users.

Cost for Advanced Features: Deep Research and o3 access require expensive Pro plans ($200/month).

Hallucination Risk: Like all LLMs, it may generate inaccurate information, though RLHF mitigates this.

Grok 3

No Free Tier: Excludes budget-conscious users, unlike ChatGPT’s free option.

Limited Ecosystem: Tied to X, with fewer integrations and no plugin support.

Memory Absence: Resets chats, hindering long-term conversations.

Humor Inconsistency: Witty tone may not always land, and humor can feel forced.

Data Privacy Concerns: X’s default use of user posts for training (opt-out required) raises privacy issues.

Key Difference: ChatGPT’s broader accessibility and ecosystem are offset by slower real-time updates and higher costs for advanced features. Grok 3’s real-time edge and technical prowess are limited by its premium model and X-centric design.

8. Which Should You Choose?

Choosing between ChatGPT and Grok 3, as told before, depends on your needs, budget, preferences, etc. To be more precise, these are a few things that could help people decide:

Choose ChatGPT if:

You need a versatile AI for creative writing, general knowledge, or business applications.

You want a free tier or an affordable paid plan ($20/month).

You value memory, plugins, and a polished, professional tone.

Deep research for academic or analytical tasks is a priority.

You prefer a widely accessible platform with global reach and API support.

Choose Grok 3 if:

You need real-time insights for current events or trends, especially on X.

You’re focused on technical tasks like math, science, or coding.

You enjoy witty, engaging conversations and don’t mind a premium subscription ($30-$50/month).

You’re active in the X ecosystem and value its integration.

Speed and reasoning transparency (Think Mode) are important.

Both models are exceptional, and the choice isn’t about one being “better” but about what aligns with your goals. If you’re budget-conscious or need broad functionality, ChatGPT’s free tier or Plus plan is a great starting point. If you’re an X user or need cutting-edge technical reasoning, Grok 3’s real-time data and speed make it a compelling option. You might even try both to see which fits your workflow best, and this is exactly what I have been doing for quite some time now.

9. Future Outlook

ChatGPT: OpenAI’s ongoing investment in GPT-4.5, o3, and beyond suggests continued improvements in reasoning, multimodal capabilities, and integrations. Its enterprise focus and global reach will likely solidify its dominance.

Grok 3: xAI’s plans to open-source Grok 2 and expand API access could boost community contributions and integrations. Daily updates and voice mode additions show rapid iteration.

AI Landscape: The gap between top models is narrowing, with compute power and speed driving competition. Both models will likely evolve, but their distinct philosophies — OpenAI’s safety-focused versatility vs. xAI’s truth-seeking dynamism — will shape their paths.

Final Conclusion

I am giving a slight advantage to ChatGPT because of the tone, creativity, and numerous options on a free basis, as that is what I need.

But let’s not underestimate Grok, as it is quite a powerful AI model based on search engines across the web.

ChatGPT and Grok 3 are remarkable AI models with unique strengths. ChatGPT’s maturity, accessibility, and versatility make it a go-to for creative, professional, and research-heavy tasks. Grok 3’s real-time data, technical prowess, and engaging personality cater to trend-savvy, STEM-focused users within the X ecosystem. By understanding their features, performance, and use cases, you can choose the AI that best suits your needs — or even leverage both for complementary strengths. The AI race is heating up, and it’s an exciting time to explore these tools!

[ilovemurdoc1990]

Help Wanted: Animaniacs Writers needed for a friend to help with a project!

Are you a witty wordsmith with a penchant for zany humor? Do you dream of writing for a cast of animated characters who defy the laws of physics and logic? Look no further! Our friend’s exciting project is seeking talented writers to join the creative chaos of the Animaniacs universe.

About the Project:

Title: Animaniacs: The Reimagined Adventures

Description: This fan-driven project aims to revive the beloved 90s animated show, bringing back Yakko, Wakko, and Dot for more slapstick antics, cultural references, and musical mayhem.

Format: Web series with short, bite-sized episodes (think mini-skits meets Looney Tunes).

Job Responsibilities:

Scriptwriting: Craft hilarious, clever, and occasionally absurd dialogue for our iconic trio. Bonus points if you can sneak in a pun or two!

Character Development: Dive into the minds of Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and their extended cast. What makes them tick? What drives their wacky behavior?

Song Lyrics: Yes, there will be songs! Compose catchy tunes that stick in viewers’ heads like gum on a hot day.

Pop Culture References: Stay up-to-date on memes, trends, and internet oddities. The Animaniacs thrive on parody and satire!

Qualifications:

A love for animated comedy and a deep appreciation for the original Animaniacs.

Creativity that knows no bounds (or gravity).

Ability to channel your inner Yakko, Wakko, or Dot (or all three simultaneously).

Familiarity with the Animaniacs’ signature catchphrases: “Hello, Nurse!” and “Goodnight, everybody!”

Perks:

Work from your own zany tower (or coffee shop, if you prefer).

Collaborate with fellow writers who share your passion for nostalgia and chaos.

Unlimited access to the Warner Bros. water tower (just don’t fall off).

Application Process: Send us your résumé, a brief cover letter (in verse, if you dare), and a sample script snippet where the Animaniacs encounter a time-traveling squirrel with a penchant for disco. Extra points if the squirrel moonwalks.

Contact Information: DM me and I'll give you my friend's contact info!

Disclaimer: This project is fan-created and not affiliated with Warner Bros. Animaniacs, but we promise to keep it as zany as the original!

Apply now and let the chaos commence! 🎩🎤🌟

[redux-iterum]

Do you have any advice to help or prevent writer's block? I have a terrible habit of starting but never completing what I write. Also really excited for the Charred Legacy!

Hello and thank you! My advice splits into two categories of writer's block, which I'll call here Classic Block and Progression Block. Classic Block refers to the block people usually mean, especially when drawing: that you can barely write three sentences before erasing it all because it's awful and you hate it, leading you to sit around stewing in frustration that your skill level is so low. Progression Block, meanwhile, is the block where the actual work of writing something to completion is a Herculean task, even if you don't hate your writing style. The distinction DOES matter, as you’ll see.

To start off, Classic Block sources from your standards of writing not matching what you perceive to be your level of ability. Maybe you used to like how you write, but now all you see is the flaws. Your skills have leveled out or lowered instead of steadily increasing in quality – at least, that’s how it feels. This leads to you not writing at all, or only getting a bit done and then abandoning it because it sucks and what’s even the point and you’ll never make anything good anyway and so on. It’s the same thing as artist’s block, just with typing.

This brand of block has similar advice in every medium of art that it appears in, which is “study and practice”. The only way to get better is to examine where your faults are at and work to fix them. If you find how you write dialog unnatural, for example, you take a look at books or scripts you enjoy the dialog of and pay close attention to how the characters talk, or you find as many advice posts on the web as possible about how to create natural-sounding conversations, or even just listen in to people chatting in the real world. Like an artist studies anatomy and feels more confident about their improving work, a writer studies all the advice they can get and applies it to their story, and continues writing for practice until they get somewhere they’re okay with. It may not be as easy as artist’s block to conquer, depending on who you are, but it is doable.

Progression Block is a different beast, and I’ve certainly felt it before on my comics and writing. This is when you’re at the beginning or starting the middle of your project and you find yourself unable to continue on to the end. Maybe you’ve lost the adrenaline that the start gave you; maybe the prospect of a long-term story is too daunting; maybe you ran out of ideas or passion; maybe you don’t like the start now and you want to rewrite it before you continue; maybe (and this is the most common one) you’ve found yourself at a part of the story you’re not that excited about and it’s difficult to get through it. Whatever the case is, you’re good at starting ideas, just not finishing them. This is extremely common, so don’t feel bad about it. I can’t count how many webcomics or fics I’ve seen left to rot after about a month of work on them. I’ve done it myself, multiple times! We’re all at risk of it.

The biggest thing to address here is that, sadly, writing is not always going to be exciting. That’s just a fact. You are not going to be riding a high the entire process. You WILL get to something that feels more like homework than fun. This is a guarantee for every single project that goes on longer than a couple pages, and sometimes even the short stuff isn’t safe. This is not a horrible thing, it’s just something you need to develop methods to overcome. Discipline is important if you want to take writing seriously. There are ways to get through this: dinner-before-desert (the promise of “I have to write this dull chapter and I’ll get to write the scene I’m really excited about”), setting small goals to get the unfun part done a bit at a time (writing 200 words a day, or a couple paragraphs, etc), finding things to appreciate (like that joke you threw in or how pretty this scenery is), and having something occupying the senses to keep flow going (listening to music, mainly) are all tools I use myself to get past potentially weeks of writing that I’m not excited about. You do need to be a little stern with yourself, but the reward of getting to the thing you’ve been dreaming of since the start is completely worth it, I can promise that. You just gotta eat your dinner first, and then we’ll get you some ice cream. One carrot at a time. You can do this.

Something that can get to people is the prospect of being “stuck” with something for months or potentially years. The size of a project can be intimidating, I understand that. You’re doing this particular thing for god knows how long, and you have to do it on a regular basis if you ever want to get anywhere with it? That’s a little scary! I get it! But that does not mean you won’t have fun, or won’t ever be finished. It took me six years to complete a comic you can read through in one day, I’ve started one I know will take me at least ten, and Iterum itself is going to be a long fucking ride I don’t dare to guess the length of. I have had the occasional sensation of leaning on a table, bracing myself on my arms, staring down at a drink and thinking “Jesus Chirst” about how long all this shit will take me.

With that issue, I’ve personally found that taking joy in the process is the best solution. “Well, I do love writing these particular characters, I’m excited to see how they’ll grow over time!” “Planning chapters is a very chill way to spend my evenings while still giving me something to think about.” “It’s so exciting to have all these secret plot developments no one but me knows yet!” And so on. Like in life, you should appreciate the Now, not constantly be fretting about Later or Before. Learn to love typing out dialog and prose! It’s doable.

Of course, you should have a few thoughts about the future. That’s where planning comes in. Some people can make up shit on the fly and write a complete, excellent novel. I am not one of those people, and not many are. Some architecture is generally necessary. When I don’t have a set general path ahead of time for me to take as I write, I give up on things because I don’t know where to go next. Create your path, however vague or exact it needs to be! My advice on planning is to start with only the most major of story beats, arrange them in the order you want or need them to happen, and add smaller connecting lines to them, then connecting even smaller lines to those lines, slowly getting more and more specific and detailed as you zoom in on the story beat-by-beat.

Another thing that might help you keep at it is finding an audience – at least, it worked for me. When I started writing for real, I was doing choose-your-own-adventure threads in forums, and then a choose-your-own-adventure webcomic, where people got to send in commands to move the story forward. I could not get anything completed on my own to save my life, but having people participating and actively waiting for me to continue the story helped me develop the discipline and work ethic required to do the projects I’m doing now (and taught me how to improvise extremely well, as a side benefit). Your audience could be one person, or ten, or a hundred. Even if they don’t comment or regularly engage with the story, just knowing that someone is there waiting to see what happens next can be a good motivator.

One final thing: you may fall into the trap many do of looking at the small bit of stuff you’ve completed, not liking it, and wanting to go back and rewrite it, because this time you’ve got the skills to do it right.

DO NOT FUCKING DO THAT.

All that’s going to do is trap you in an endless cycle of “improving” what’s already there at best, and wear you out from going over the same old ground over and over and drain your love for the story at worst. You will not be fixing anything. Put it out and move on. Don’t keep trying to rescrub the same plate until you put a hole through it. You’re going to look back and think it’s shit. That’s normal. Doesn’t mean it’s true, or that you should waste time “fixing” it. Learn to go “well, I don’t like it, but I gotta keep going”. Get it done. It will never be perfect, and the sooner you understand that, the sooner you can get this project done.

That’s about all the advice I can think of for now. I hope this prattling helped you, at least a little bit!

[dissertationwritinghelpforstds]

How to Conduct a Literature Review Using Digital Tools (with Notion Template)

Embarking on a literature review is a fundamental component of academic research that can often appear overwhelming due to the sheer volume of relevant articles and sources. However, leveraging digital tools like Notion can substantially streamline and enhance this process. By providing a structured approach, Notion enables researchers to manage their literature reviews with greater efficiency and organization. This comprehensive guide will walk you through a methodical literature review workflow using Notion, explore various digital tools, and offer a Notion template to facilitate your research.

The Benefits of Using Notion

Notion is an advanced organizational tool that integrates the functionalities of note-taking, project management, and database creation into a single platform. Its versatility is particularly advantageous for managing a literature review. Here are several key benefits of using Notion:

Integration of Pages and Databases: Notion allows for seamless linking of pages and embedding of databases within other pages. This interconnected structure facilitates comprehensive data management and easy navigation between related information.

Customizable Filters and Sorting: Users can create custom properties and apply filters to databases, which enables sophisticated sorting and retrieval of data tailored to specific research needs.

Efficient Data Management: Notion supports the transfer and management of data from Excel sheets, enhancing the organization and accessibility of research materials.

In my workflow, Notion plays a central role through two primary databases: the ‘literature tracker’ and the ‘literature notes’ matrix. These databases are instrumental in tracking papers and synthesizing information to construct a coherent argument.

Stages to Literature Review Workflow

1. The Literature Search

The initial phase of a literature review involves a systematic search for relevant sources. This step is critical for building a comprehensive and well-rounded review.

Identify Keywords: Begin by developing a list of keywords that are pertinent to your research questions. Engage with your supervisor or colleagues to refine this list, ensuring it encompasses all relevant terms. As you progress, be prepared to adjust your keywords based on emerging research trends and findings.

Utilize Database Search Tools: Employ established databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar to locate pertinent literature. These platforms offer extensive search functionalities and access to a broad range of academic papers. Additionally, set up email alerts for new publications related to your keywords. This proactive approach ensures that you remain informed about the latest developments in your field.

Library Building and Recommendations: Manage your literature library using tools like Mendeley, which facilitates the organization of references and offers recommendations for related papers. Mendeley’s sharing capabilities also enable collaboration with colleagues, enhancing the collective management of research resources.

2. Literature Mapping Tools

Literature mapping tools are invaluable for visualizing the relationships between papers and identifying key research themes.

Citation Gecko: This tool constructs a citation tree from ‘seed papers,’ illustrating the connections between various studies through their citation relationships. It is particularly useful for uncovering seminal works and understanding the progression of research topics.

Connected Papers: Connected Papers uses a similarity algorithm to generate a graph of related papers based on a given key paper. This tool provides insights into related research that may not be immediately evident through direct citation links, helping to broaden your understanding of the field.

3. The Literature Tracker

An organized literature tracker is essential for managing and reviewing research papers effectively.

Organize with Notion: Utilize Notion’s customizable properties to document essential details of each paper. This includes metadata such as title, author, publication date, keywords, and summary. The ability to filter and sort this data simplifies the process of managing large volumes of literature.

Database Views: Notion offers various database views, such as the kanban board, which can be used to track your reading workflow. This visual representation aids in monitoring your progress and managing tasks associated with your literature review.

4. The Literature Synthesis Matrix

The synthesis matrix is a crucial component for organizing and synthesizing information from the literature.

Second Pass of Papers: After an initial screening, populate the ‘literature notes’ database with detailed information from the papers you deem relevant. This should include comprehensive notes on the paper’s summary, key results, methodology, critiques, and any future work suggested.

Relational Databases: Leverage Notion’s relational database capabilities to link related papers and create a synthesis matrix. This matrix helps in identifying connections between different studies and assists in constructing a coherent narrative for your literature review.

5. Writing Your Literature Review

Writing a literature review involves synthesizing the collected information into a structured and insightful analysis.

Identify Research Themes: Use your literature matrix to pinpoint key research themes and questions. These themes will form the basis of your literature review sections and guide the development of your thesis statement(s).

Summarize and Evaluate Sources: Focus on the most significant sources for each theme, summarizing their key points and critically evaluating their contributions. This involves assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each study and linking related research to provide a comprehensive overview.

Situate Your Research: Clearly articulate the research gap your study addresses, justifying your research approach based on the identified gaps and the synthesis of the reviewed literature.

6. Iterating Your Literature Review

A literature review is a dynamic process that requires regular updates and revisions.

Regular Updates: Continuously update your literature review as new research emerges. Balance the time spent on reading with the progress of your own research to ensure that your review remains current and relevant.

 Notion Template

To facilitate your literature review process, I have developed a Notion template that includes:

A Literature Tracker Database: For recording and managing details of relevant papers.

A Literature Notes Database: For detailed notes and synthesis of the literature.

Predefined Properties: For filtering and sorting entries according to specific research needs.

You can duplicate and customize this template to fit your research requirements.

Useful Resources

Here are some additional resources that can aid in the literature review process:

The Literature Review: Step-by-Step Guide for Students

3 Steps to Save You From Drowning in Your Literature Review

How to Write a Literature Review

How to Become a Literature Searching Ninja

Mind the Gap

7 Secrets to Write a PhD Literature Review The Right Way

By following this structured approach and utilizing digital tools like Notion, you can streamline your literature review process, enhance organization, and ensure that your research is thorough and well-founded. This methodology not only simplifies the review process but also provides a robust framework for developing a strong thesis or dissertation.

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what do you like about emacs?

a lot of things, really! I will refer you to the documentation for Doom Emacs for a short answer to this question that I agree with, or you can keep reading for my much, much longer answer. :)

as a software that predates modern text editors and IDEs, emacs breaks the mold when it comes to the established design patterns of these tools. in some cases this can be a problem: emacs is notoriously slow (though somehow still faster than modern IDEs on my machine lol), and its default keybindings are horrendous. but it is also emacs's greatest strength: the sheer versatility and extensability of its design is unmatched by any other tool in existence.

the first thing you need to know about emacs is that.. it's not really a text editor. I mean, that may be the mission statement on the website, and that's certainly what it was when it started out, but as it's developed it's become more than that. emacs is a software platform for text-based applications.

the entirety of emacs is designed to function as one big interpreter for the language Emacs Lisp (elisp for short). when you press a key on your keyboard in emacs, say the Enter key, that keypress is sent to emacs's standard library code written in elisp. the code looks up that key in a keymap, which associates it to a particular elisp subroutine to run (specifically "newline-and-indent"), which accesses the file you're currently editing and makes the corresponding change.

every aspect of that process is configurable directly through the elisp language. you can rebind the key to a different action, of course, but you can also edit the "newline-and-indent" subroutine to do something else, or edit any other elisp function. you can switch between multiple keymaps (a keymap is just a lisp object) on some condition, such as opening a particular file. you can even tell emacs to display text that isn't linked to any file and alter the keymap when the user is interacting with that text to contain your own custom bindings. in effect, you can create any text-based interface you want.

here is a non-exhaustive list of all of the things that I have used emacs as:

IDE

Prose editor

File manager

Calculator

Productivity tool

Email client

Calendar

Web browser

Tetris

all of these tools use, to varying degrees, the techniques I mentioned above to directly modify how emacs functions through elisp. with a little knowledge of the language, you can modify these tools to your liking just as easily as you can modify emacs itself. emacs becomes a unified interface for a hundred different applications, all of which are fully configurable and self-documenting. (yeah I didn't even mention that emacs is self-documenting within its code until now).

.. so it's not even really that I "prefer" emacs, because that framing implies that there are alternatives that are equal in scope or utility. I use emacs because it is the only thing that does what emacs does.

Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.

- Neil Stepheson, In the Beginning was the Command Line (1998)

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Welcome to The Aureum

Hi! I'm a newer software dev, but with a long history with programming (thanks to this accursed site in 2014 and my desire to join robotics) I also happen to love writing and art, and have a lot of OCs. I always struggled with keeping them organized and finding a software that works for me.

Enter, The Aureum!

What is The Aureum?

The Aureum is a work in progress web based app made with electron that I am working on so that I can organize my characters in a bit of a different way. A lot of elements and planned features take inspiration from the fandom community wiki, mixed with some of my other favorite world building websites that just ended up not being a good fit for me.

I made this blog so I can easily keep track of my development progress on this, and maybe make some cool new friends in the process.

What does it do?

Currently? Very little, other than make characters with information.

However, I'm currently working on a number of features, one of my most ideal features being project organization. This would allow me (and other users ofc) to sort their OCs and locations BY the project. Maybe you're a writer working on a few different series/stories at the same time, and you need some way to seperate them. Maybe your a game dev, visual novel creator, etc and you just want to have some way to store all of your story and character information in one place.

I also have some more fun and 'unique' features that are being worked on, like an automatic reference sheet generator, which prints out some of your characters information like name, age, height, weight, body type, and some of your preselected colors.

Another favorite feature I'm working on are the personality sliders! In the characters page there are sliders that you can edit to have a little more of a 'fun' view of how your characters act. Here are some screenshots of the layout from within Figma!

Currently, I'm setting up the data storage structure so that we can input all of this character information and still be able to create a project after to put the character in. But while I'm still working out the kinks, here's a list of the main planned features that will be implemented before i send it out to friends to alpha test!

Features

Multiple Projects/ Worlds

Entirely locally hosted, no internet connection required

Personality sliders

Character sheet generator

Timeline feature per project/world

Ability to link to sources and citations

Relationship linking between characters (Similar to fandom wiki setups)

The Aurei - The golden ones, your favorite OC's flagged so that you can access them faster, especially if you have favorites from multiple projects.

Random generation features, for things like art prompts and writing prompts.

Ideas for future releases

D20, d6, etc dice roller

Fake social media screenshot generator similar to twinote or photonote

Additional timeline just on a character by character basis

Ability to sort OCs by tag - by gender, species, location, etc.

Dark mode (maybe custom color palettes for later that users can upload/customize via css)

and more!

Okay but when will it be done?

Truthfully, who knows? I'm solo deving this software for fun, while working a full time job on top of my normal small game projects I make. It might be functional in a few months, or it might take a few years. Ultimately, I have no timeline for this project, and I want to be up front right out of the gate. Once i get a stablle build with the main character and project features implemented and organized, I'll send it off to friends to alpha test, and if all goes well for a few weeks, then I'll post the alpha build for others to use.

Why are you doing this?

the short answer is just because i want to. The longer answer is because, while I love using things like notion, obsidian, metos, worldanvil, etc. I find that there's always one or two things missing from each of them that I'd personally like to have. A lot of these softwares/websites are created with specific things in mind, like note taking, etc. But for me, I make games, i do art, i write stories, and I'm a DND Dungeon Master, so not all of those softwares will work for my every project.

I wanted to make something that would work for everyone, for all of their creative needs.

Also a mini note, to anyone who comes back and sees this or is curious, this project *will* be free on release to the public and likely hosted on itch.io. There are currently NO plans for an online sync or any only features, as that is not within my devstack or technical abilities at this time.

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The Comprehensive Guide to Web Development, Data Management, and More 

Introduction 

Everything today is technology driven in this digital world. There's a lot happening behind the scenes when you use your favorite apps, go to websites, and do other things with all of those zeroes and ones — or binary data. In this blog, I will be explaining what all these terminologies really means and other basics of web development, data management etc. We will be discussing them in the simplest way so that this becomes easy to understand for beginners or people who are even remotely interested about technology.  JOIN US

What is Web Development? 

Web development refers to the work and process of developing a website or web application that can run in a web browser. From laying out individual web page designs before we ever start coding, to how the layout will be implemented through HTML/CSS. There are two major fields of web development — front-end and back-end. 

Front-End Development 

Front-end development, also known as client-side development, is the part of web development that deals with what users see and interact with on their screens. It involves using languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create the visual elements of a website, such as buttons, forms, and images. JOIN US

HTML (HyperText Markup Language): 

HTML is the foundation of all website, it helps one to organize their content on web platform. It provides the default style to basic elements such as headings, paragraphs and links. 

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets):  

styles and formats HTML elements. It makes an attractive and user-friendly look of webpage as it controls the colors, fonts, layout. 

JavaScript :  

A language for adding interactivity to a website Users interact with items, like clicking a button to send in a form or viewing images within the slideshow. JOIN US

Back-End Development 

The difference while front-end development is all about what the user sees, back end involves everything that happens behind. The back-end consists of a server, database and application logic that runs on the web. 

Server: 

A server is a computer that holds website files and provides them to the user browser when they request it. Server-Side: These are populated by back-end developers who build and maintain servers using languages like Python, PHP or Ruby. 

Database:  

The place where a website keeps its data, from user details to content and settings The database is maintained with services like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB. JOIN US

Application Logic —  

the code that links front-end and back-end It takes user input, gets data from the database and returns right informations to front-end area. 

Why Proper Data Management is Absolutely Critical 

Data management — Besides web development this is the most important a part of our Digital World. What Is Data Management? It includes practices, policies and procedures that are used to collect store secure data in controlled way. 

Data Storage –  

data after being collected needs to be stored securely such data can be stored in relational databases or cloud storage solutions. The most important aspect here is that the data should never be accessed by an unauthorized source or breached. JOIN US

Data processing:  

Right from storing the data, with Big Data you further move on to process it in order to make sense out of hordes of raw information. This includes cleansing the data (removing errors or redundancies), finding patterns among it, and producing ideas that could be useful for decision-making. 

Data Security:  

Another important part of data management is the security of it. It refers to defending data against unauthorized access, breaches or other potential vulnerabilities. You can do this with some basic security methods, mostly encryption and access controls as well as regular auditing of your systems. 

Other Critical Tech Landmarks 

There are a lot of disciplines in the tech world that go beyond web development and data management. Here are a few of them: 

Cloud Computing 

Leading by example, AWS had established cloud computing as the on-demand delivery of IT resources and applications via web services/Internet over a decade considering all layers to make it easy from servers up to top most layer. This will enable organizations to consume technology resources in the form of pay-as-you-go model without having to purchase, own and feed that infrastructure. JOIN US

Cloud Computing Advantages:  

Main advantages are cost savings, scalability, flexibility and disaster recovery. Resources can be scaled based on usage, which means companies only pay for what they are using and have the data backed up in case of an emergency. 

Examples of Cloud Services: 

Few popular cloud services are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. These provide a plethora of services that helps to Develop and Manage App, Store Data etc. 

Cybersecurity 

As the world continues to rely more heavily on digital technologies, cybersecurity has never been a bigger issue. Protecting computer systems, networks and data from cyber attacks is called Cyber security. 

Phishing attacks, Malware, Ransomware and Data breaches: 

This is common cybersecurity threats. These threats can bear substantial ramifications, from financial damages to reputation harm for any corporation. 

Cybersecurity Best Practices:  

In order to safeguard against cybersecurity threats, it is necessary to follow best-practices including using strong passwords and two-factor authorization, updating software as required, training employees on security risks. 

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) represent the fastest-growing fields of creating systems that learn from data, identifying patterns in them. These are applied to several use-cases like self driving cars, personalization in Netflix. 

AI vs ML —  

AI is the broader concept of machines being able to carry out tasks in a way we would consider “smart”. Machine learning is a type of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that provides computers with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. JOIN US

Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: some common applications include Image recognition, Speech to text, Natural language processing, Predictive analytics Robotics. 

Web Development meets Data Management etc. 

We need so many things like web development, data management and cloud computing plus cybersecurity etc.. but some of them are most important aspects i.e. AI/ML yet more fascinating is where these fields converge or play off each other. 

Web Development and Data Management 

Web Development and Data Management goes hand in hand. The large number of websites and web-based applications in the world generate enormous amounts of data — from user interactions, to transaction records. Being able to manage this data is key in providing a fantastic user experience and enabling you to make decisions based on the right kind of information. 

E.g. E-commerce Website, products data need to be saved on server also customers data should save in a database loosely coupled with orders and payments. This data is necessary for customization of the shopping experience as well as inventory management and fraud prevention. 

Cloud Computing and Web Development 

The development of the web has been revolutionized by cloud computing which gives developers a way to allocate, deploy and scale applications more or less without service friction. Developers now can host applications and data in cloud services instead of investing for physical servers. 

E.g. A start-up company can use cloud services to roll out the web application globally in order for all users worldwide could browse it without waiting due unavailability of geolocation prohibited access. 

The Future of Cybersecurity and Data Management 

Which makes Cybersecurity a very important part of the Data management. The more data collected and stored by an organization, the greater a target it becomes for cyber threats. It is important to secure this data using robust cybersecurity measures, so that sensitive information remains intact and customer trust does not weaken. JOIN US

Ex: A healthcare provider would have to protect patient data in order to be compliant with regulations such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) that is also responsible for ensuring a degree of confidentiality between a provider and their patients. 

Conclusion 

Well, in a nutshell web-developer or Data manager etc are some of the integral parts for digital world.

As a Business Owner, Tech Enthusiast or even if you are just planning to make your Career in tech — it is important that you understand these. With the progress of technology never slowing down, these intersections are perhaps only going to come together more strongly and develop into cornerstones that define how we live in a digital world tomorrow. 

With the fundamental knowledge of web development, data management, automation and ML you will manage to catch up with digital movements. Whether you have a site to build, ideas data to manage or simply interested in what’s hot these days, skills and knowledge around the above will stand good for changing tech world. JOIN US

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Understanding Police Recruitment Result Implications for Future Candidates

 The recruitment procedure for police officers is vital in retaining law and order in society. Police departments internationally seek devoted individuals who are devoted to serving their groups. With the development of technology, many police departments have streamlined their application techniques, permitting candidates to use online. This manual will provide a top-level view of a way to observe online police recruitment, what the recruitment system includes, and pointers for successful software.

Police Recruitment Result 

Understanding Police Recruitment

Police recruitment is the manner by way of which regulation enforcement companies select and lease new officials. This method commonly includes several steps, which include:

Application Submission: Candidates submit their programs, which encompass personal facts, educational history, and work experience.

Preliminary Screening: The branch critiques programs to make sure candidates meet the minimal qualifications, which can also encompass age, education, and physical health requirements.

Written Examination: Candidates can be required to take a written examination to evaluate their cognitive abilities, reasoning abilities, and knowledge of regulation enforcement ideas.

Physical Fitness Assessment: Physical health assessments are carried out to ensure candidates can perform the demanding duties of a police officer.

Background Investigation: A thorough background check is carried out to verify the candidate's history, including criminal data, employment records, and private references.

Interview: Successful applicants are invited for an interview with police branch officials.

Psychological Evaluation: Candidates can also undergo mental checks to ensure they are mentally able to handle the demands of police work.

Medical Examination: A clinical exam ensures candidates meet the health necessities necessary for police work.

Training Academy: Those who skip all of the preceding steps are enrolled in a police training academy.

The Online Application Process

Applying online for a police role can be a convenient way to begin your journey into law enforcement. Here’s a step-by-step guide on the way to apply online for police recruitment:

Research the Department

Before applying, study various police departments to locate one that aligns together with your values and professional dreams. Each department can also have precise necessities and options, which include:

Educational Requirements: Some departments require at least an excessive faculty diploma, whilst others might also select or require a college degree.

Background Checks: Understand the branch's guidelines concerning crook facts and beyond conduct.

Visit the Official Website

Once you've been diagnosed with a police department you want to apply to, go to their respectable website. Most police departments have a committed phase for recruitment that provides information about contemporary openings, application processes, and specific requirements.

Create an Online Account

Most police departments require applicants to create a web account to apply. This account will assist you to:

Fill out and submit your software.

Track the fame of your application.

Access vital documents and forms.

Make sure to apply a legitimate e-mail cope with, as all conversations regarding your utility will in all likelihood be sent there.

Complete the Application Form

Fill out the web application form appropriately. Be prepared to offer:

Personal Information: Name, deal with, date of birth, and make contact with facts.

Education History: Schools attended, levels earned, and relevant certifications.

Employment History: Previous jobs, such as dates of employment, activity titles, and descriptions of duties.

References: Contact information for folks that can vouch to your man or woman and work ethic.

 Submit Required Documents

Many police departments require assisting documents to accompany your utility. Common documents can also include:

Resume: A cutting-edge resume detailing your work to revel in and abilities.

Cover Letter: A letter expressing your interest in the function and your qualifications.

Transcripts: Academic transcripts from excessive faculty and any post-secondary training.

Certifications: Any applicable certifications, together with CPR or first aid.

Ensure all files are formatted efficaciously and submitted in the required record formats.

 Pay Application Fees (if relevant)

Some police departments charge an application charge. If required, ensure you pay this charge as a part of the software system. Keep a receipt of the transaction to your information.

 Review and Submit

Before submitting your application, carefully evaluate all information for accuracy and completeness. Double-check that each one required documents is connected. Once you are confident everything is accurate, put up your utility.

After Submission

Once your application is submitted, the ready sport starts offevolved. Here’s what to expect subsequent:

Confirmation of Application: You will generally receive an affirmation e-mail acknowledging receipt of your software.

Application Review: The department will assess your software to determine in case you meet their minimal qualifications.

Notification of Next Steps: If you skip the initial evaluation, you will be notified approximately the subsequent steps in the recruitment procedure, which may additionally include scheduling assessments and interviews.

Tips for a Successful Application

To enhance your chances of fulfillment, bear in mind the following tips:

Be Honest: Complete your application certainly. Any discrepancies can result in disqualification.

Tailor Your Resume: Customize your resume and cover letter for the unique police department and role.

Prepare for Tests: Study for written exams and exercise bodily health assessments earlier.

Gather References Early: Choose references who understand you nicely and might offer fantastic testimonials approximately your individual and painting's ethic.

Follow Up: If you haven’t heard lower back inside an affordable time frame, don't forget to follow up with the department to inquire about your utility status.