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shkatzchen · 7 months

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Autumn Bookworm Reflections

Ten behind the scenes looks at the making of my Autumn Bookworm Set.

The entire set took a month to complete.

Every Autumn Bookworm piece is named for a different poem, inspired by the "Rug of Poetic Justice." I thought it would be fitting for my recolor of it to be named for a poem and that then extended to the whole set.

I read a lot of poetry to get appropriate titles. For the Chipmunk in my Yard has one of my favorite images, "This autumn when trees bolt, dark with the fires Of starlight." I picked A Basket of Flowers because it had "basket" in the title, but it also has a line of melodic consonance I greatly enjoyed: "For the sake of past hours, For the love of old times." My favorite poem discovered in this process I didn't use: Autumn Begins in Martin's Ferry, Ohio. There's a haunting beauty to it, but it lacked a good line to serve as a title.

The original set was only supposed to recolor four items from the Book Nook set, because I like color and there's just too much neutrality in it. The final set has ten build/buy items and eleven books.

The bed gave me fits, because Sims4Studio changed the weights of the mattress if I loaded it into the file the frame came from, rather than the file the mattress came from. Until I figured out that was the issue I had beds moving in all sorts of strange ways when Sims tried to sleep.

Hawthorne Cottage was built specifically to test and display this set. I had a lot of fun putting it together and playing it has given me a chance to get into some aspects of Cottage Living my gameplay heretofore hasn't covered.

Building Hawthorne Cottage led to the addition of matching curtains to the set. They weren't originally planned, but I had trouble finding ones that matched from EA's offerings for the build and so I decided just to make my own.

The palette has sixteen swatches divided into four groups. This was reduced from sixty-four original swatches under consideration and is the third version of the sixteen swatch palette. I think of them (counterclockwise from the top left) True Autumn, Thanksgiving, Wintry Autumn, and Soft Autumn.

I struggled with whether to use Wintry Autumn and Soft Autumn. Although I drew inspiration from a palette clearly marked as autumnal, Wintry Autumn feels a little Christmassy to me. Despite that, I liked the colors together too much to exclude them. Soft Autumn is the biggest outlier of them all, and the one that gave me the most second thoughts, but I wanted a purple in the set, and I was trying to get away from more yellows and browns.

There aren't any real whites in this set. I'd have liked to use a cream in Soft Autumn, but I have difficulty recoloring with anything too pale, because the process I use tends to lose the details I'm trying to save if the color is too light.

Get more info and download the entire Autumn Bookworm Set from the main post here.

#sims 4 #simblr #sims #the sims 4 #ts4 #my cc #sims 4 cc #ts4cc #ts4 custom content #behind the scenes of cc #my process #maxis match cc #maxis recolor #autumn bookworm

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pantoranqira · 9 months

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'Average DC character gets possessed 3 times' factoid is not true. Carol Ferris, who works in aviation and is possessed 1000 times per day is a statistical outlier and should not be counted

#AGAIN WITH THE POSSESSION CAROL????? REALLY???#this is the third time in 3 issues... by 3 different entities.... my girl what is your DEAL #blah #dc comics #green lantern #carol ferris #star sapphire #swishy liveblogs

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burlveneer-music · 1 year

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It’s taken 35 years, but The Flowerpot Men’s entire output is now collected on an album, 1984. Includes “Beat City” (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Bear) and the best-ever cover of Dr John’s “Walk On Gilded Splinters”.

The Flowerpot Men - Ben Watkins (Juno Reactor) and Adam Peters - were an innovative British duo who released a series of EPs between 1984 and 1987. Their sound was a unique mix of swamp-ish rock’n’roll and ultra hard edged European electronic music. Fiercely independent , their music combined raw electronics, treated acoustic instruments and heavily amplified electric cello to create a sound years ahead of its time. Musical outliers, The Flowerpot Men disbanded before ever completing an album* and their three EPs have been out of print since the late 1980s.

* That’s not quite true: they released an album in 1990 as Sunsonic called Melting Down On Motor Angel (the title of a Flowerpot Men song).

Here is the whole album:

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#flowerpot men #ben watkins #adam peters #80s #reissue #postpunk #electronic #gothic #2023

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elvaria-project · 1 year

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Not Oversimplified Elvaria Lore- Part 2, Classical History(The Age of the New Kingdoms/Creation Era)

Hikarina got the shit going so now more kingdoms will pop into existence in the nest 60,000 years

Åsthenar's island keeps moving and merges with a giant mountain range, so that's their territory and they call it the Gyvorkal Mountains Fulegria becomes Fulegor Adontium but still has their crisis The Hikarinians and Yūregians gave hope to remaining undecided survivors of The Fall that they could find a place in the world, so some began to sail out to the other continents they saw hints of from across the oceans Some feared that those landmasses from across the sea were only islands, and so held off on sailing until someone from the leaving groups returned Some Lunarisians travelled north to the frozen landmass they saw, learning to wield bitter frost to create icy paths through sea They never came back and some hope was lost, but more decided to sail away, believing the northerners had found land The frozen north became Halinskor, and the kingdom that would be established Yukiosa, the kingdom of ice Some Urthalisans sailed east to the continent saturated in elemental energies, learning to tame the capricious sea They created large boats which they propelled with their power, and found new land they called Jin'hu-Guo, establishing Walekria, the kingdom of water Unlike the Yukiosans, after only a thousand years, they came back for the remaining survivors on the now named continent of Yinorael, bringing fleets to ferry them to the elemental continent. Many went with the Walekrians except for a small group of Urthalisans that wished to find their own way, and this lot sailed south to the continent of Kavathanar, finding the half elves that had isolated themselves for many thousands upon thousands of years They chose to join these people in their mysterious ways and over generations would become indistinguishable from them, but never went back to Yinorael Those that went with the Walekrians would gain new power as they traversed the continent, bringing with them new kingdoms. Some Lunarisians found a light in the caves of which they followed to find abundances of minerals, and so they called the land Cevris Astal and established the subterranean kingdom of earth, Föllen Alatsa

Some Solarians felt the heat of magma that reminded them of the sun they once loved, and so they called the scorched land Emorscal and established the kingdom of flame, Flaerna

Some Urthalisans travelled through cavernous darkness along a river that seemed to breathe and found a vast cave of crystals that radiated with the glow of Asurei, and so they established the kingdom of crystal bearing the name of Lustarise, a name shared by the cave system that birthed the kingdom

Those that followed the Flaernans but did not embrace fire traveled northeast and discovered the arid desert, yet they were not satisfied with the scorching heat it brought There was no other land that they felt a call to, and this one they felt was closest to the sun they once embraced, and so they called the land Desaebla and established the kingdom of sand, Dalirna But not all of those that came to the new continent had found a place where they belonged, so they would be guided by observant beings to lands and powers they could call their own Cirania, a benevolent being among the Dysheraln descended from the Dak-Shan of old, decided to lead one of the outlier groups to the land of forests and grasslands, teaching them to embrace the powers of nature despite it not being a legitimate element, and so this land of green and the new kingdom of nature would both be named Floernia The Sky Lords, the four elves that fused with powerful air elementals over a hundred thousand years ago, would come down from the air lands above to lead another of the outlier groups to the land above the clouds, teaching them to embrace the sky instead of the distant sun and moon, and so this land far above would be named Syklari, and the kingdom of air, Avianaen, would be established The final outlier group would find their place in the continent a century later, still clinging to their roots of celestial power from the solar and lunar legacy that died after The Fall Two beings would descend from the dark of night and light of stars to bring the group past a dense forest to the north- Sarkath, The Celestial One, and Qilanar, The Black Serpent They would each bless one half of the group, with Sarkath granting his half the ability to reach towards the stars once more and draw power from stellar energies, and Qilanar granting her half the ability to pierce through the darkness of space and draw power from the inky blackness that embraced the stars These elves would call the land Qisara Kranor and establish the kingdom of Zodiana, worshipping the wyrm-like beings almost as if they were gods Elemental energies still spread throughout the world and Asurei still tainted the atmosphere, so the elves would continue to diverge and gain their own distinct adaptations and appearances to their lands until few resembled the Solarians, Lunarisians, and Urthalisans of the past(except Yūregians and Föllen Alatsans still looked mostly like Lunarisians since they didn't need to change much) However, as thousands of years passed and each kingdom gained their separate identities, they would forget their blood ties from the ages long past to reach for individual futures This would mark the start of the modern era, but also the start of war- a concept the elves had not contemplated since the Dak-Shan were defeated over eight hundred thousand years ago in the distant forgotten past.

#lore #worldbuilding #infodump #elves #fantasy

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sickviking-fr · 2 years

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well that didn't work out as planned XD

Instead of having Hero, my disabled maren, be a loner outlier living in the marina, now shes part of a small pod of maren who live and work and trade on the pier.

When leaving the main town and heading towards the ferry that will take you to the amusement park across a large lake, you come across a number of smallish booths, stalls and kiosks selling wares and talents, all manned by peaceful merfolk. Each clearly temporary building sells something different, from fresh fish and water crops, to palm reading and fortune telling, and even a couple souvenir shops!

Drarr is quick to inform you that all of the maren are self employed, and most arent even officially residents of the village, though they are under the protection of local law enforcement and have agreed to follow the town laws while on land.

#flight rising #my lore #lore #fr lore #Hero

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newstfionline · 18 days

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The rich world faces nightmare budget deficits (Economist) A decade ago finance ministries were gripped by austerity fever. Governments were doing all they could to cut budget deficits, even with unemployment high and economic growth weak. Today things are very different. Across the West, governments are spending a lot more than they are taking in. No government is more profligate than America’s. This year the world’s largest economy is projected to run a budget deficit (where spending exceeds taxation) of more than 7% of GDP—a level unheard of outside recession and wartime. But it is not the only spendthrift country. Estonia and Finland, two normally parsimonious northern European countries, are running large budget deficits. Last year Italy’s deficit was as wide as in 2010-11, following the global financial crisis of 2007-09, and France’s grew to 5.5% of GDP, well above forecasts. How long can the firehose [of spending] keep blasting? Talk of fiscal consolidation has recently become louder. The Italian government believes it will soon be reprimanded by the EU for its stance. In Britain the opposition Labour Party, which hopes to take power before long, promises fiscal rectitude. The French government talks about cuts to health spending and unemployment benefits. America is the outlier. In the world’s leading economy, the conversation still has not turned. Ahead of the election, Donald Trump and Mr Biden promise tax cuts for millions of voters. But fiscal logic is remorseless. Whether they like it or not, the era of free-spending politicians will have to come to an end.

Skip the Traffic: Commuters Turn to Ferries to Get Around (NYT) As remote work reshapes the way people live and travel around cities, Americans are taking to the waterways not only as part of their commute but also as part of their daily lives. Some coastal cities are seeing ferry ridership bounce back after a decline during the pandemic, and growing interest in water transit is spurring both new types of ferry services and waterfront development. The ferry boom comes as municipal governments are trying to address a variety of social, economic and environmental challenges, and as some of the country’s largest cities look to water transport to ease traffic, connect communities and meet housing and commercial development goals.

Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky (WSJ) Nearly every building in the country is being photographed, often without the owner’s knowledge. Companies are deploying drones, manned airplanes and high-altitude balloons to take images of properties. No place is shielded: The industry-funded Geospatial Insurance Consortium has an airplane imagery program it says covers 99% of the U.S. population. The array of photos is being sorted by computer models to spy out underwriting no-nos, such as damaged roof shingles, yard debris, overhanging tree branches and undeclared swimming pools or trampolines. The red-flagged images are providing insurers with ammunition for nonrenewal notices nationwide.

Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools (NYT) Westfield Public Schools held a regular board meeting in late March at the local high school. But it was not business as usual for Dorota Mani. In October, some 10th-grade girls at Westfield High School—including Ms. Mani’s 14-year-old daughter, Francesca—alerted administrators that boys in their class had used artificial intelligence software to fabricate sexually explicit images of them and were circulating the faked pictures. Five months later, the Manis and other families say, the district has done little to publicly address the doctored images or update school policies to hinder exploitative A.I. use. In a statement, the school district said it had opened an “immediate investigation” upon learning about the incident, had immediately notified and consulted with the police, and had provided group counseling to the sophomore class. “All school districts are grappling with the challenges and impact of artificial intelligence and other technology available to students at any time and anywhere,” Raymond González, the superintendent of Westfield Public Schools, said in the statement.

House Republicans are heading for the exits (Washington Post) House Majority Leader Steve Scalise thought he had a good argument for Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.). The Wisconsin Republican had announced he was going to leave Congress, one of 21 Republicans who have said they are headed for the exits this year. But three Republicans who had previously announced their intention to leave had reconsidered and were now going to stay. Scalise (R-La.) wanted to emphasize that momentum to Gallagher, hoping the young rising star might reconsider. The sell hasn’t worked yet. Gallagher, 40, is set to retire earlier than previously expected, leaving the House with just a one-vote majority when he departs April 19. The tumultuous year has reaffirmed for most that they made the right call to leave, that because the House has become more partisan, it is now more difficult to pass legislation that makes an impact than when many were first elected.

Protesters in southern Mexico set state government building afire and torch a dozen vehicles (AP) Protesters in southern Mexico set the state government building afire Monday and torched at least a dozen cars in the parking lot. The protests occurred in the violence-wracked city of Chilpancingo, the capital of the Pacific coast state of Guerrero. The protesters are demanding answers in the case of 43 students at a rural teachers college who disappeared in 2014. Another student from that college was killed in a confrontation with police in March. Images of the protests showed at least a dozen vehicles engulfed in fire and flames shooting out of the windows of the state office building, which is near the main highway leading from Mexico City to Acapulco. The building, which houses the governor’s office, was ransacked.

Haiti police recover hijacked cargo ship in rare victory after 5-hour shootout with gangs (AP) Haiti’s National Police agency says that it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours. Two police officers were injured and an undetermined number of gang members were killed in the shootout that occurred Saturday off the coast of the capital, Port-au-Prince, authorities said in a statement. It was a rare victory for an underfunded police department that has struggled to quell gang violence following a spate of attacks that began Feb. 29.

Ecuadorians wanted an action man. President Noboa has fulfilled that role—embassy raid included (AP) While world leaders have expressed shock and bewilderment over Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s decision to raid Mexico’s embassy last Friday, the extraordinarily unusual move—and Noboa’s relative silence about it—is unlikely to hurt him with his constituents. In fact, it’s exactly the sort of no-holds-barred crimefighting they expect and voted for. Ecuadorians were looking for their action man last election, fed up with widespread corruption and the robberies, kidnappings, extortions and murders fueled by the growing presence of international drug cartels. Noboa, often sporting bulletproof vests, sunglasses and leather jackets as well as the occasional smart-casual white T-shirt, so far seems to be fulfilling that role. If stopping lawbreakers in their tracks means breaching an embassy, then so be it, Ecuadorians interviewed over the weekend told The Associated Press.

Russia and Ukraine trade blame over Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant drone strike (Guardian) On Sunday, multiple drones attacked the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the drones detonated at three locations around the plant, but only caused “superficial scorching,” not structural damage. Both Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for carrying out the strikes, but it’s unclear who actually attacked the plant. “Attempts by the Ukrainian armed forces to attack the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant continue,” said the Russian forces currently in control of the plant. “A kamikaze drone was shot down over the plant. It fell on the roof of unit 6.” On the other hand, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military said that Russia had conducted a false-flag attack on the facility “with drones, pretending that the threat to the plant and nuclear safety is incoming from Ukraine.” Either way, the IAEA says the shenanigans need to stop. “Such reckless attacks significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident and must cease immediately,” said the director general of the agency.

Indonesia expects biggest-ever Eid homecoming (AP) Millions of Indonesians are packing bus and train stations, airports and highways as they head to hometowns to celebrate Thursday’s Eid al-Fitr festival with family. The Transportation Ministry expects the largest movement of people in Indonesia’s history. The agency is projecting the number of travelers heading home could reach 193 million, or nearly 72% of the population—up from 124 million, or 46%, last year. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country. And every year, there is a vast exodus of people from urban centers across the vast archipelago to more rural hometowns to celebrate the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The homecoming tradition is known as “mudik.”

Gazans return to Khan Younis after Israel pull-out (BBC) Palestinians are returning to Khan Younis after Israel’s military announced on Sunday it was reducing its soldier numbers in the southern Gaza Strip. As Gazans make their way to a city largely destroyed by six months of war, many are finding rubble where their homes were. “We came to check our house. We didn’t find anything,” resident Asad Abu Ghalwa said. “You build a home corner by corner, stone by stone,” said another man who came back to Khan Younis. “And in the end, with a press of a button, it is reduced to rubble.” Still, this return gives hope to some displaced Palestinians like Muhammad al-Mughrabi, who used to live further north in Gaza City. “I dream daily of returning to my hometown,” he told Rushdi Abualouf. For now, Mr al-Mughrabi is in Rafah, with more than a million Palestinians.

Overcrowded ferry capsizes off Mozambique’s coast, leaving at least 98 dead, media reports say (AP) A makeshift ferry overcrowded with residents reportedly fleeing a feared cholera outbreak capsized off Mozambique’s northern coast, killing at least 98 people including children, local media said Monday. The ferry with an estimated 130 people aboard capsized Sunday after it departed the southeastern African nation’s coast for the nearby Island of Mozambique and at least 11 people were hospitalized, state-run Radio Mozambique quoted island administrator Silvério Nauaito as saying.

Large Scientific Review Confirms the Benefits of Physical Touch (NYT) A hug, a handshake, a therapeutic massage. A newborn lying on a mother’s bare chest. Physical touch can buoy well-being and lessen pain, depression and anxiety, according to a large new analysis of published research released on Monday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. Researchers from Germany and the Netherlands systematically reviewed years of research on touch, strokes, hugs and rubs. They also combined data from 137 studies, which included nearly 13,000 adults, children and infants. Each study compared individuals who had been physically touched in some way over the course of an experiment—or had touched an object like a fuzzy stuffed toy—to similar individuals who had not. Positive effects were particularly noticeable in premature babies, who “massively improve” with skin-to-skin contact, said Frédéric Michon, a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and one of the study’s authors.

#headlines #news

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amandacooperkf · 10 months

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Back in the old days—that would be 2000 through...

Back in the old days—that would be 2000 through 2019—full-time all-remote careers were almost unheard of. After all, only 4% to 5% of the workforce was entirely remote, and those positions were outliers. But the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that on any given day, one-third of Americans are working from home. What are your thoughts? Share with us below in the comments. Read more: https://krnfy.bz/44n9Xw3 #workingfromhome #careers #office

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Back in the old days-that would be 2000 through 2019-full-time all-remote careers were almost unheard of. After all, only 4% to 5% of the workforce was entirely remote, and those positions were outliers. But the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that on any given day, one-third of Americans are working from home. What are your thoughts? Share with us below in the comments. Read more: https://krnfy.bz/44n9Xw3 {hashtag|\#|workingfromhome} {hashtag|\#|careers} {hashtag|\#|office}

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talentconsulting · 10 months

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college-girl199328 · 1 year

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Census 2016: Fertility takes back seat to immigration in Canada’s growth

After Debbie Clarke’s first child had reached the “terrible twos,” she and her husband decided their family of three was big enough; adding a sibling would be just too much.

“At the time, I was working really late hours, and I just didn’t think it was fair to have another child when I didn’t really have the time and the energy to put into another child,” said Clarke of Mississauga, Ont., whose son Austin is now 15.

“When he was younger, it was very hectic because I had to work nights." My husband worked days. I thought to myself, "You know what?" "I have to do what I think I can handle physically, emotionally, and financially; I think one is good enough for me."

Clarke is among a growing proportion of Canadian women choosing to have only one child or none at all. And that trend towards limited childbearing is increasingly reflected in Canada’s average fertility rate, which the 2016 census figures released Wednesday have pegged at 1.6 percent, slightly higher than the 1.59 percent posted by Statistics Canada three years earlier.

One outlier? Nunavut is home to the highest fertility rates in Canada; women there give birth to 2.9 children on average, fueling the territory’s 12.7 percent growth rate, the highest in the country.

The fertility rate refers to the number of children a hypothetical woman would have in her reproductive life, based on females aged 15 to 49.

In Canada, that rate has been steadily falling over the last several decades: 1971 was the last year when the average number of children matched the 2.1 replacement level needed for the population to renew itself without being bolstered by immigration.

“The first thing to think about is that this is an average, so we still have a few families that have five or six children, and increasingly we have families that have none,” said Nora Spinks, CEO of the Vanier Institute of the Family, acknowledging that smaller families are progressively becoming the norm.

“One of the major reasons people are having fewer children is a combination of circumstances and biology,” she said. More women are choosing to start a family later in life compared to earlier generations. In the 1960s, for instance, the average age for a first birth was about 22.

Today, that age has been pushed to 30 and beyond. "So that’s where the biology comes in." The cost of child-rearing--from daycare to school-based activities to socking away dollars for post-secondary education--is another critical element that often dictates the family size, said sociologist and social demographer Susan McDaniel, a Canada research chair in global population and life course at the University of Lethbridge.

“Children cost a lot, and that’s in terms of money, but also in terms of opportunity costs,” she said, referring to women’s participation in the workforce, including those building or maintaining a career, as well as time invested ferrying kids to and from such extra-curricular as hockey practice and ballet lessons.

“They realize that the opportunity costs of having a lot of children are greater than the benefits of having one or two." But they’re also increasingly great for fathers, who are more and more involved with raising kids.

Still, McDaniel believes the trend toward smaller families is beneficial in some ways because having fewer children allows parents to devote more time and attention to individual children than they could with a larger brood.

That’s been the case for Marissa Monticciolo-Caserta, who had initially hoped to have two or three kids. But when she and her husband split up almost five years ago, she decided her son Nicholas would be her only child.

"I didn’t feel that it would be fair to my son because he spends time 50-50 with me and with his father," the Mississauga graphic designer said of her seven-year-old. "He does have a good relationship with both of us, and I felt that if I did have any other children, it might cause issues for him."

Monticciolo-Caserta, who is in a new relationship, thought having another child would be selfish. "We live together, and he has two children, so my son has an older stepbrother and a younger stepsister."

According to Spinks, Canada is not alone in its move toward smaller family sizes. "Fertility rates around the globe are dropping, even in cultures where typically women have seven, eight, or more children," she said. "We’re now seeing those women having three or four."

While the U.S. is also experiencing a bit of a baby bust, our southern neighbor's estimated 1.88 fertility rate continues to surpass Canada’s average.

"The U.S. has the highest birth rate in the industrialized world," said McDaniel. "Their patterns of having children are different than ours." She said Americans overall form unions marriages in life and have children at a younger age. They also have a higher teen birth rate, and a significant proportion of the population belongs to fundamentalist religious groups, which tend to encourage larger families.

What’s puzzling to social demographers is how U.S. couples on average manage to have larger families, given that they have far less support in the form of such benefits as paid parental leave.

The answer, McDaniel posited, is that there are almost 20 million undocumented immigrants, mostly Hispanic, hidden within households that provide domestic services and child care for “very limited money.”

"It’s a kind of built-in nanny system if you like, and that might contribute to it... "How this is going to work out in the future with (Donald) Trump, I don’t know," she said, pointing to the U.S. president’s vow to crack down on illegal immigrants.

As for Canada, immigration has been the lifeblood of population growth since 1999. According to Statistics Canada, about two-thirds of the current expansion is driven by the arrival of new Canadians, while natural increases make up the remaining third.

Based on a medium-growth scenario, immigration could account for more than 80 percent of the country’s population increase beginning in 2031, the agency says. Without a sustained level of immigration, it says Canada’s growth rate could be close to zero in 20 years as the population ages and projected fertility rates lag replacement levels.

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ccorde · 2 years

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What Are Boomerang Employees?

Boomerang employees represent a small outlier in most organizations, but in today's peculiar job market, they may become more common for a few reasons. #welcomeback #hiring #talent

What Are Boomerang Employees?

A career path isn’t necessarily a straight line.

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anthony-nicholson8 · 2 years

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What Are Boomerang Employees?

Boomerang employees represent a small outlier in most organizations, but in today's peculiar job market, they may become more common for a few reasons. #welcomeback #hiring #talent

What Are Boomerang Employees?

A career path isn’t necessarily a straight line.

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ufmcgator · 2 years

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What Are Boomerang Employees?

Boomerang employees represent a small outlier in most organizations, but in today's peculiar job market, they may become more common for a few reasons. #welcomeback #hiring #talent

What Are Boomerang Employees?

A career path isn’t necessarily a straight line.

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thedaveandkimmershow · 2 years

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Believe it or not we started the day yesterday in a conversation with a couple from Arizona.

It was one of those "Good morning!" "Good morning!" exchanges that opened up an instant conversation about our travels and wound up with a Show 'n Tell of their rig.

Meanwhile, Kimmer's taking a shower expecting our rig to be set up, water boiling, by the time she gets back... which is exactly when I'm touring our neighbor's across the street rig... which is also exactly the moment I hear her calling my name.

Because she's at our minivan and I...

Am completely not.

So I call her over for a tour of her own, the rig in question belonging to a snowbirding couple from Arizona who right now live on the Olympic Peninsula and are staying at the RV park as proof of concept that their utility trailer works for road tripping.

Which it does, by the way.

It's basically a one-room space on wheels with a double-bed and storage area (for, among other things, their awning and table and chairs). And the whole thing's wired for electricity and heat.

Seriously. The husband opened the side door and it was warm in there.

As Kimmer continued the conversation with the couple, I excused myself to set up our rig and get the hot water going.

After breakfast, I got into an impromptu conversation with the young man next door who was also doing dishes just then.

Turns out he and the young woman he's traveling with are working from the road. They actually spend the first part of their days "at work". Then, after lunch, they take off to explore wherever they are.

They're from Florida, by the way. So their way of life on the road is serious.

They're outliers on this trip of ours. Because, compared to the demo of everyone else who's traveling these roads with their massive homes on wheels, these two are seriously young. Driving a truck with a camper mounted in the truck's bed.

The truck and camper are jet black. And these kids definitely travel light on their feet with plenty of tech.

Yesterday was the last day of our July road trip. So next on the agenda was breaking down our minivan camp set up. Which took a bit of doing because it's definitely a clever Tetris job on Kimmer's part... and this is our first time striking this particular set.

Finally, after a ton of wrangling, it's time to leave.

Given our experience getting here the other day with that three-hour wait for the ferry in Edmonds, we initially set out to take the long way home through Olympia. However, after checking the Kingston ferry terminal website, we decide to take our chances with the Edmonds/Kingston ferry again, figuring we'll stop in historic and lovely Port Gamble along the way. Which is exactly what we woulda done had I not missed my turn onto 104.

And why did I miss that turn?

Because I thought the right branch at Quilcene was 104.

At which point I just kept going.

And yes. If you haven't guessed by now, I wasn't using Google Maps because, you know, how tough can this be?

This is the second time this year, by the way, we wound up going somewhere we weren't meaning to go. In the first case, traveling from from the St. George/Hurricane KOA to Zion National Park in southern Utah, I had to turn us around, backtrack a few miles to right my wrong. In this case, by the time I realized I didn't recognize where we were and thought to check Google Maps, we were within spitting distance of Port Townsend.

Twelve miles.

So Kimmer suggests we head that way to see how much it's changed.

Just barely on the outskirts of town, we're distracted by the local Habitat For Humanity (a more thrift shop experience rather than hardware in Port Townsend) and the local GoodWill that's a few blocks back.

After that we continued our way into the town that completely reminds me of a slightly bigger version of what Pioneer Square should be. And no, the town hasn't changed really at all since the last time we were here at the start of our marriage.

So now we're cruising the historic district, pretty much at the north end of it, when a car pulls out of its parking lot right there... and I pull right into it just because.

And now our agenda becomes Port Townsend on foot.

Just like that.

Really our agenda's food and wine... and right away we run into the beer & wine garden for today's music concert. Unfortunately, the concert's still a few hours away so we continue down the block. There's a lot of local art here. A lot of clothes and fashion. Definitely a lot of wine. Definitely a lot of history. There's even a little shop with a metric ton of variations on flavored and aged balsamic vinegar.

Seriously. Try the blueberry flavored one on vanilla ice cream and you'll absolutely understand what I mean.

Eventually, after walking down one side of the street and up the other, we settle on a restaurant called Vintage by Port Townsend Vineyards where we indulge a Discovery Red and a Discovery White, a glass of red blend and white blend respectively, topped with a platter of meats, cheese, olives, crackers, and dark chocolate cranberries on that deck next to Puget Sound on the perfect summer's day.

Sunshine... but not too bright.

Warmth... but not too hot.

And breeze... but not too much.

An absolutely lovely way to draw our 3-day road trip to a close.

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