![]() If your 529 is used to pay for qualified education expenses, no federal income taxes are owed on the distributions, including any potential earnings. Another factor to consider is the short horizon for investing when starting to save for the child at age 5 or 10 versus starting when they're born. (2) monthly contributions from the account owner of $166.66, and monthly gifted amount of $41.66 to a 529 account made on the first of each month beginning when the child is age 10 and continuing through age 18, (3) annual rate of return of 3.3%, compounded monthly, and (4) no taxes on any potential earnings within the 529 College Savings Plan account.ĭifferences in the assumed rate of return across the 3 scenarios are due to the fact that target date fund investments tend to become more conservative and focused on capital preservation as opposed to growth the closer the account beneficiary approaches college age and needs these savings to cover qualified education expenses. ![]() Scenario 3: (1) monthly contributions to a 529 account from the account owner of $166.66 only, made on the first of each month beginning when the child is age 10 and continuing through age 18. (2) monthly contributions from the account owner of $166.66, and monthly gifted amount of $41.66 to a 529 account made on the first of each month beginning when the child is age 5 and continuing through age 18, (3) annual rate of return of 5.3%, compounded monthly, and (4) no taxes on any potential earnings within the 529 College Savings Plan account. ![]() Scenario 2: (1) monthly contributions to a 529 account from the account owner of $166.66 only, made on the first of each month beginning when the child is age 5 and continuing through age 18. (2) monthly contributions from the account owner of $166.66, and monthly gifted amount of $41.66 to a 529 account made on the first of each month beginning when the child is born and continuing through age 18, (3) annual rate of return of 7.5%, compounded monthly, and (4) no taxes on any potential earnings within the 529 College Savings Plan account. Scenario 1: (1) monthly contributions to a 529 account from the account owner of $166.66 only, made on the first of each month beginning when the child is born and continuing through age 18. This hypothetical example assumes the following:
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For instance, being one of Twitter’s first users is now a status symbol. This obviously is rather arbitrary and meaningless at first, since there aren’t that many users. Give early users status with a “user number.” There are countless ways to reward your first users, so think carefully about what your initial users’ motivations are and how you can reward them with extrinsic or, preferably, intrinsic rewards. ![]() When building for your community, ask yourself how your product can provide such a serious value add that your users have to share it as a representation of themselves. We then make it incredibly easy to share the products that are featured.įor builders, Product Hunt gives them free traffic and garners both positive and constructive feedback. That’s how they get the real value out of it, sharing Product Hunt as a byproduct of sharing their own product. They continue to share their Product Hunt page beyond their feature, as it provides them with positive feedback and social proof (upvotes, comments from influencers, etc). The more they share, the more their own product benefits (by getting more exposure within our community). We set Product Hunt up so that our second key group - makers/founders - would get the most value of of it by sharing it as far and wide as possible. and break news.Īll of our product improvements center around serving these four groups of people. 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And we had to provide them a way to promote others’ projects within their own tight-knit communities.Īrmed with that information, we honed the product and started to launch community programs to grow the userbase beyond these initial users. ![]() We had to give them insider access and the ability to share and elevate themselves as a part of our community. How do you use community to expand your reach? What kinds of features and outreach are required to grow a community exponentially?įrom analyzing how we acquired our early users, we learned that the only way to continue growing and strengthening our community was to deliver them exclusive value beyond any they’d imagined possible. This article is all about how to go from initial traction to viral growth. Our team knew that in order for Product Hunt to grow for a niche community of super-users into a full-fledged community product, we had to start thinking more strategically. Ryan has written about how he launched Product Hunt, built a great community, and grew it initially. I joined early on to help Ryan think about scaling the great community. Community is, in a large way, the root of Product Hunt’s success.įrom its early days, Product Hunt’s creator, Ryan Hoover, has done a fantastic job of bringing the right people onto his platform and deeply engaging them through every step of the building process. ![]() They focused less on broad policies and more on what each person needed-in real, tangible ways. They took a holistic view of workers to support their full lives, which includes their families, communities, and personal lives outside of work. Many came up with new ways to show care and respect, and provided their employees with much needed flexibility. The best companies learned to pivot and adapt to these challenges. Burnout raged and mental health suffered. 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The company also gives paid time off on the last Friday each month for what the company calls " Ocrolus Appreciation Day." Additionally, Squarespace, which ranked 14th, noted on its career page its flexible PTO. Ocrolus, which placed 25th on the large company list, noted on its careers page that it offers unlimited PTO. "This year's list of Best Companies for Work-Life Balance are known for cultivating workplaces that prioritize their employees' mental health and flexibility, ultimately creating a more engaged and productive workforce."Īccording to their websites, Chegg and HubSpot, two companies that ranked highly on the list, both offer some kind of mental health resources to employees. "With the rise of 'quiet quitting' due to post-pandemic burnout, more companies are permanently adopting a remote/hybrid work model or expanding their time off policies," Jason Nazar, co-founder and CEO of Comparably, said. It often indicates a user profile.Ģ3andMe placed at the top of Comparably's 2022 ranking of big companies that have great work-life balance. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Scratchpad could not exist without crucial financial support like what Bangor Savings has committed.” Scratchpad plans to use the funding for operational expenses for its third cohort of entrepreneurs in the fall, Mainebiz reported. “Accelerators act as a force multiplier for entrepreneurs helping them grow revenue, customers and ultimately, jobs. Scratchpad CEO Pouyan Salehi says theyve grown to a team size of 56 since launch in 2019 and have raised 49.6M in funding. Scratchpad a pioneer and leader of the workspace for revenue teams had announced it has raised 13 million in Series A funding led by Craft Ventures with participation from Accel. “Scratchpad is thrilled to partner with Bangor Savings to be able to support entrepreneurs as they work to get to scale quickly,” said Harkins. Those companies have raised more than $3 million, added hundreds of new customers and created more than a dozen jobs, the article states. 1999 Funding for Little Einstein Is Made Possible In Part By The Grant From The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, And By The National Support of Viewers Like You. Scratchpad has worked with eight companies across the state that were trying to grow to the national or international level and needed outside financing. Funding for Little Einstein Is Made Possible In Part By Grant From The Corporation For Public Broadcasting, And Public Television For Cabitors. The bank was a founding corporate partner of Scratchpad, a seed-stage accelerator business that helps grow startup companies, when it was launched in 2015. Posted about my SAB listing a few weeks ago about not showing up in search only when you entered the exact name. ![]() Mainebiz reported the Bangor-based Scratchpad Accelerator, run by University of Maine Business School associate professor of management Jason Harkins and serial entrepreneur Lisa Liberatore, will receive a $150,000 investment from Bangor Savings Bank over three years. MaEconomic Development, Outreach, UMaine in the News 3, 2021 Scratchpad, Inc. The only challenge will be to find proper working games. ![]() You won’t need to smash your head against the table while trying to figure out how it works because it’s very intuitive. To wrap it up, Nestopia is a simple tool that simply does its job and it does it well. The easy way to check the controller is to use Windows built-in controller diagnostic screen. Nestopia provides detailed documentation if you want to check up on the specs it uses or if you want to verify compatibility and other details. You can look into audio, video, input, preferences and you even get to import cheats. However, if you know your stuff and want to get technical with it, Nestopia has a decent amount of settings to offer. It uses very little system resources and it’s good to go any time you need it because it doesn't require any kind of tampering or setting up. Nestopia runs on just about any modern PC without any setbacks. Play the console classics on today’s computers Configuring Nestopia is also a piece of cake. No matter how good with computers you are, or how bad, using this little emulation tool is a breeze and that doesn’t just apply to loading a game. That’s how quick and practical Nestopia is. In fact, you can even drag and drop a ROM over the main window and if the file is correctly built, the game will run automatically. You have a basic window with all the neatly sorted menus and submenus and from there you can run a digital ROM in a few clicks. Nestopia’s strongest point is the user-friendly appearance with which it is built. Quick access through a simple graphical user interface ![]() A second piece of good news is that there is also a large number of emulators that make it very easy to run and play the old school titles, and like Nestopia, they are easy to use. For bsnes, you need to go into settings > input and set p2’s input device as ‘super scope’. There will always be a demand for the classics and since not everyone has the original consoles and games, digital versions are supplied all over the Internet. For Nestopia, make sure you have the NstDatabase.xml (you can get it from in your system/BIOS directory and then it should automatically detect which games need the zapper. ![]() Then, just 14 years later, that title was taken by the nearby Woolworth Building, which was more than twice as tall at 241 metres. In 1899, the tallest office building in the world was the Park Row Building, coming in at 119 metres. Steel framing meant New York's skyline got taller and taller with each decade. "A steel skeleton was a much more efficient way to erect tall buildings than a pure masonry structure." " the last quarter of the 19th century, there's lots of experiments in the advancing technologies, particularly 'steel framing'," Willis says. New York's Woolworth Building around 1913. It was the introduction of steel that really gave birth to the modern-day skyscraper. New York's earliest tall buildings were built with brick and stone, which came with severe limitations. ![]() "Interestingly, three kinds of businesses create the first tall, multipurpose buildings: They are insurance companies, newspapers, and inventions ," Broderick says. ![]() Similar buildings continued to spring up in the lower Manhattan area. "These two buildings were about 10-storeys tall … They rose to about 260 feet which is by far the tallest thing in the skyline of lower Manhattan in 1874, when each of them were completed." Meanwhile, Willis points to two nearby buildings from this era that she considers the "very beginning of the skyscraper in New York": The New York Tribune Building and the Western Union Telegraph Building. "At first, people were a little afraid - the very top floor didn't rent," she says. ![]() Mosette Broderick, the director of Urban Design and Architecture Studies at New York University, points to the Equitable Life Assurance Building, which opened in 1870 and rose seven storeys. The history of the New York skyscraper goes back to structures like the Western Union Telegraph Building. He fell a few centimetres but the safety system kicked in and the platform halted. In a suit and top hat, he rode an elevator platform up, before ordering its rope be cut. Otis famously demonstrated his invention at the 1853 New York World's Fair. Willis says the development of elevators in the mid-19th century, specifically a safety system designed by American industrialist Elisha Graves Otis, made the idea of a skyscraper possible. "Buildings were constrained by the leg muscles of the people who inhabited them," says Carol Willis, the founder, director and curator of New York's Skyscraper Museum.īut the invention of the elevator dramatically changed this. "New York took that to the extreme, as usual." Going upįor much of human history, most residential and commercial buildings didn't rise beyond a few floors. Rather than spread out and have the disadvantages, commercially and socially - decided they had to go up." "That got filled up more and more people wanted to be there. "We started with a very defined area of land called Manhattan," Patrice Derrington, the director of Columbia University's Real Estate Development Program, tells ABC RN's Rear Vision. If the apartment sells at that price, it would become the most expensive home in the US.Īt more than 470-metres high, this towering new development is yet another chapter in the city's dramatic 150-year love affair with the skyscraper. Shit slaps just as hard.Song belongs to The Slow Rush, and Tame ImpalaFull Instrumentals p. Watch the music video for Tame Impala’s “Breathe Deeper (Lil Yachty Remix)” above. A studio quality instrumental remake of the track, Breathe Deeper. Meanwhile, Impala is currently on tour across North America in support of The Slow Rush, which will conclude on November 20 in Mexico City, Mexico. The deluxe version of The Slow Rush is slated for release on February 18, 2022, via Interscope. The deluxe album is comprised of two unvaulted B-sides, both the original and remixed versions of “Patience” and multiple extended versions and remixes of songs from the original record. The physical version arrives in a 2xLP package that includes updated artwork, a 40-page book and a 2050 calendar. Parker has also announced a deluxe box set edition of Imapla’s 2020 album The Slow Rush, which will feature B-sides and remixes of the record’s tracks, including Yachty’s take on “Breathe Deeper.” As with all Tame Impala tracks, Breathe Deeper was written and produced by Kevin Parker. “It was so amazing to work with Kevin as I’ve been a big fan since high school so it was a pleasant surprise and honor to be a part of such an incredible song,” Yachty said in a release. The rapper storms Impala’s renowned live instrumentals with heavy-hitting verses, complementing a series of vividly psychedelic scenes featuring Lil Boat and Impala’s Kevin Parker in the visual. The remix, which features Atlanta rapper Lil Yachty, is a breezy. Tame Impala, Lil Yachty - Breathe Deeper (Lil Yachty Remix) (Official Video) - YouTube As Tame Impala, Kevin Parker delivers the song of the (Australian) summer with the release of the remix to Breathe Deeper. In October, Parker participated in a John Lennon tribute livestream on what would have been the Beatle’s 80th birthday, performing a cover of “Jealous Guy.Tame Impala have recruited Lil Yachty for a remix of “Breathe Deeper,” along with an accompanying music video. Tame Impala also performed a set as part of NPR’s Tiny Desk at Home series, playing a trio of recent songs from the past two years. ![]() In place of a live tour, the group has managed to put together several great live performances on late-night shows, including “Is It True” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and “Borderline” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Tame Impala released The Slow Rush back in February. Does it make any logical sense? Not at all, but it sure looks cool. Other fantastical sights, oscillations, and creatures join the fray. ![]()
![]() “This project is truly incredible,” said Wade Crowfoot, California secretary for natural resources. The Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is a partnership of the National Wildlife Federation and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, and will be built by CalTrans. Gavin Newsom, who was also there, promised $50 million for other similar projects throughout the state, though they will not be of the same size and scope. Alex Padilla at the project’s groundbreaking ceremony Friday.Ĭalifornia Gov. “We can protect California’s ecosystems without jeopardizing the transportation and other infrastructure development that we need for a growing population,” said US Sen. This cougar is often seen in the Hollywood area. More than 5,000 individual contributions were made, said Steven Keck, acting director of CalTrans, the California Department of Transportation, noting the crossing also will help protect motorists. The $87 million Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is named for the president and CEO of the Annenberg Foundation, a family foundation that supports non-profits. This week, an 18-month-old mountain lion recently separated from its mother and seeking its own terrain was hit and killed on the 405 freeway, Ana Cholo, spokesperson for the National Park Service (NPS) tells CNN. Mountain lions, which typically wander a territory spanning 150 to 200 miles, will be among the chief beneficiaries of the new overpass, providing a safe passage from the Santa Monica Mountains, across the freeway, and into the Simi Hills of the Santa Susana mountain range. ![]() Flying Under the Radar: Wildlife Trafficking in the Air Transport Sector Flying Under the Radar is the most comprehensive report on wildlife trafficking in the air transport sector to date, analyzing ivory, rhino horn, reptile and bird seizures from airports worldwide between 2009-2016.Wild animals in Southern California soon will have more turf to roam thanks to the world’s biggest wildlife crossing, which will span 10 lanes of Highway 101 in northwest Los Angeles to close a crucial gap for habitats.Food Security and Health Depend on Biodiverse Ecosystems Taylor Ricketts’ work focuses on the question: How do we meet the needs of both people and nature in an increasingly crowded, changing world?.But where does one begin a search for information when Google lets you down? It’s why policymakers, conservation champions, health practitioners and many others seek data and research to help them make important environmental decisions that have a huge impact on food security, global health, climate change, security and even human rights and good governance. That is, Earth’s natural environment provides for our well-being. Scientists and researchers spend their professional lives gathering evidence that helps prove what many of us intuitively know. Nature is a Treasure Trove for Human Well-being And there is the plethora of research that supports it.Biodiversity and Food Security Are Inextricably Linked Biodiversity underpins the ecosystem goods and services that enable sustainable development. ![]() The website brings together decades of research on the sustainable management of wildlife, with a particular focus on hunting in the tropical forests of the Congo Basin and the Amazon. CIFOR's New Bushmeat Site The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) launched a new website on bushmeat, or wild species that are hunted for food.DNA Detective Dogs Saving Pangolins Sniffing her way through the forests of Nepal and Vietnam, Athena, an Australian Shepherd mix, and her trainer are working to save the world's most-trafficked mammal-the pangolin. ![]() Vice City itself is based on the real-life city of Miami, so being surrounded by plenty of water (as was the case last time) was to be expected. But, as was the case with the San Andreas map Rockstar revisited for GTA 5, the version of Vice City featured in GTA 6 is expected to be much larger in scope. Last seen in the PSP spin-off GTA: Vice City Stories, the original version consisted of two main islands you could travel between depending on the desired mission. This is because a spate of gameplay leaks released online last year on September 18, 2022, all but confirmed that the GTA 6 location will be none other than Vice City. The GTA 6 location is probably the one factoid about the game we know to be a hard fact. Neither release window has yet to be officially confirmed or acknowledged by Rockstar itself, leaving players and developers alike to endlessly speculate as to when the GTA 6 release date might be. ![]() “Their aimed-always-changing-not-set-in-stone deadline is holiday 2024,” his post read, before going on to speculate that “it could slip into early 2025 as well”. GTA 6’s release date falling into 2025 also aligns with what GTA forums user Tez2 has heard too. ![]() There's word that Rockstar is so intent on this release date, it's even reportedly scrapped previously included DLC content. This led Henderson to theorise that GTA 6 has probably suffered from an internal delay while it restructures, possibly targeting a release date closer to 2025 now as a result. This came in response to a Bloomberg report from Jason Schrier regarding how Rockstar was attempting to “clean up its frat-boy culture” following several industry criticisms. Regular leaker Tom Henderson, however, took to Twitter back in July, 2022, to say that Rockstar was supposedly targeting a “fall 2024” release. We can only speculate as to when the highly anticipated sequel to GTA 5 might release. Sadly, as is to be expected for a game its developer doesn’t even really want to acknowledge (they begrudgingly confirmed it), the GTA 6 release date is still unknown. The big question everyone wants to know is when GTA 6 will be released. That’s what we’ve gathered up for you all in one place here.įortnite Skins: all of the latest Battle Pass, Crew and Crossover outfits GTA 6: expected release There’s not a great deal of confirmed information out there about the game, therefore, but there’s still a handful of details that have been made known through the occasional drip. Rockstar has kept up its usual policy of secrecy when it comes to all things GTA 6, only speaking out on the topic when it’s been forced to by leaks. Launching on so many platforms – with new incremental mechanical and graphical improvements each time – only goes to show just how popular Rockstar’s crime-em-up still is, hence the anticipation for its eventual sequel, GTA 6. GTA 5 launched near enough a whopping 10 years ago back on the PS3 and Xbox 360, before being ported to PS4 and Xbox One a year later, and then again eventually coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X. It would be an understatement to say that GTA 6 represents one of the most hyped video games of all time. GTA 6 still remains a mystery for the most part, but there are some slight threads we can pull on to help paint a better picture about Rockstar’s highly anticipated sequel. |