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I got the disqualification letter from EDD last week, received much advice from this sub (thank you so much, beautiful humans). I am now preparing to send my taxes to EDD for review and had some questions:

- Should I try to call the EDD before sending the taxes by mail? I no longer see an upload link in my EDD account. I assume I will need to send by mail. I know some people in this sub have had luck with calling (is there a good number to call and get through to a human?) or..

- Should I get my taxes together along with a letter and send via certified mail to the appeals office?

- For the taxes themselves.. my accountant sent over personal taxes from 2019, form 1120S for my S-corp, CA form 100S for S-corp. Is this everything I need to send?

Background: I own an S-corp with a partner. We made very little money in 2019 and the company took a loss. I did not take payment from the company. I do not have other income . The company did have clients and took payments. I received PUA and am looking to justify my qualification for PUA. (edit:) When I sent my paperwork, I neglected to send the tax information. I assumed that because we took a loss that my taxes wouldn't matter (I was wrong). I sent tax id information, new logos that were created, and a proposal / contract that we sent to a client in Jan 2020. I am following up to send in tax paperwork based on suggestions from this sub.

Thank you to everyone in this sub who has given me advice over the past few days. I don't think I could have made it through the week without you.

Hello, heres my first post and Im here to ask, if any of u encountered any snakes during peer review? For this certain module, I really really did put in effort and did more than than the parts Im allocated in the group reports. I attended all zoom meetings btw. However, peer review I got 15/20. It was like the shock of my life???!! As a result, the professor said that there will be a penalty of 5% on my reports grade. I really wanted to score for this module and am really afraid that my final grade will be affected. Its so unfair...I seriously suspect that theres this groupmate of mine who did minimal work, gave me poor rating for peer review. (Everyone in the group is aware of his poor attitude and slacking)

What should I do? 😔

For some reason, no one really ever discusses peer review, at least not in my immediate academic circles, so I'm just curious to hear others' experiences.

I got my first peer review requests last year, around the time of my PhD defense. In the first year of my postdoc, I was getting requests maybe once a month on average. Just starting my second year, and I've been getting almost one a week now.

So I’ve been apart of some pretty shitty group projects in college, but this one takes the cake.

Super easy class. No tests, no homework, it’s all discussion-based with one individual presentation (20% of your grade), and 2 team presentations (40% of your grade each).

Not to sound like that guy, but I’m used to being a leader in my groups. I like to take charge, but I respect that everyone different styles of working and learning as well as personal lives. I try encourage everyone to participate fairly and evenly and usually give people the benefit of the doubt.

With this project, there were 4 total members (including myself). We’ll call the other A, B, and C. B and C were not pulling their fair share from the get-go. They were evidently serial procrastinators who didn’t do any bit more than they were asked to do (and sometimes not even that). They showed no initiative and it felt like I was begging them to put together this first project that was worth 40% of our grade. I have my own life too obviously, but when it came time to putting the finishing touches on everything and having to practice the presentation before we had to present, it didn’t seem like they gave a shit about my time. They finally finished their first attempts at around 10 the night before we had to present, which left us practicing until midnight.

This bothered me on so many levels. I completed my work weeks earlier and had to wait around for them all to finish so we could practice. They were completely disrespectful to my personal time and what’s worse is they didn’t see a problem with it. All of this to get an 80 on this presentation. I was livid.

I reached out to our professor for help and he suggested practicing more (yeah, I tried), setting meeting times monthly to keep each other accountable, and set deadlines for the work for the next project so we wouldn’t be doing everything at the last minute.

With his great advice, I decided to set up a document outlining tasks that needed to be done as well as dates they needed to be done by (the first task being due 3 weeks from that date). I sent it out to the team and let everyone choose which tasks they wanted.

After a few days of me reminding everyone to choose their tasks, everything was finally laid out. Each task took about 20 minutes to complete, and we only had to choose 3 each. Piece of cake, right? WRONG!

I checked in with the team the days leading up to our “due dates” for our tasks. Checkpoint 1 went well; everyon

People post a lot of information in this group, it's great to learn from. There are often posts which are debunked after being reviewed but there are sometimes posts in the past that haven't been debunked or corrected to be false as we obtain new information/facts.

Could we have a stickied board where apes on a volunrary basis put posts that may no longer seem fit to be true/factual that can be peer reviewed and mods can then go in and mark it as debunked? We could maybe have a rationale section/appeals.

This isn't needed for every post, just the ones that get a lot of attention or are marked as dd when they've been debunked but the flair hasn't been updated. This would reduce misinformation.

I think this would add a lot of credibility to our sub, especially for new apes searching keywords and looking at previous information.

Just a thought. :)

I have the opportunity to invest and have decided that growth and aggressive managed funds are the way to go. I have picked 7 based on information from Sorted. Anyone know of professionals that can provide an objective opinion? I'm fairly confident of my selections but would like my better half to have additional assurance.

I work in a lab as a PhD student and my PI brings me unpublished papers to do the peer review for him. He usually only checks the title and leaves me all the work, even for large 80-100 pages review-papers sometimes. Is this normal?

I am not registered in with any publisher and he controls everything basically. I have to submit my peer-review in a specific format to him. This was the last 3 years so far but I am getting tired of it, especially that sometimes I have 2 peer reviews to do (apart from my normal work) in a week. Other students in our lab have to the same but I asked a few people from outside and the have never done it, so that is why I would like to collect more experience from others.

Originally, my PI said this is for my 'development' to know how to and how not to write an article. But now I feel that I am competent enough (I would be able to do the reviewing by myself if I registered to ACS or something). Moreover, sometimes I have to do the peer-reviewing from topics that are completely out of my expertise, even though I told my PI that I do not understand anything. His answer was: try read more of the subject, understand it, and review it. [Note: I am an engineer, mostly doing computation/coding. The review was about biology: algae and bacteria stuff].

From a legal perspective, I am a little concerned that basically he gets the price for my (and my group members work) and he even got a 'Best reviewer of the year' award.

[edit]: Is there a nice way letting my PI know that I don't want to do this anymore?

TL/DR: OP's PI makes everyone to do the peer-review for unpublished papers. OP is concerned if this is legal or not. OP is also concerned about the ethical perspective, but OP knows that it does not really exist in academia.

PS: please don't hate me, I am not reviewer 2. I am always respectful and really precise when I point out a mistake or something.

This will be my first big WLED project. I first stumbled on this topic a couple of weeks ago and I proceeded with a test area on my house. I was thrilled with the results and now I'm looking to do my first "big" implementation.

This is our house and I have gotten the wife's blessing to do the roofline that is marked in red. I've calculated that its about 53ft of LED's. When it comes to strips/pixels I do prefer the look of the strips. Through various youtube videos, quinled's website, and this subreddit I got it down to 2 strips. The ol trusty (5v 2812b's) or the new kid on the block (12v 6812's). Knowing that the theoritical max LED's per channel is right about 600, it seems as though I could run all the roofline in red with a single channel of 2812b's. That is appealing for me and my first project. However it looks like with the RGBW lights you'd get roughly half as many LED's per channel. For an outdoor project like this is there really a huge advantage with the white channel and the 12v vs the 5v?

Other item I've been thinking about is power injection. With the 12v's there would be much less injection required, but I would be paying almost 3x more for the 6812's rather than the 2812b's. Worth it for the dedicated white channel or save and learn this time around with the 2812b's?

Now as for the "green" section on the picture, that was my test area. There I used a single 5m 30 IP65 strip. Keeping that in mind would it be worth it sticking with the 2812b's so that there is consistency across the entire roofline? Would I need IP67 strips if I am keeping the LED's in an aluminum channel and they're located under the drip edge of the roof? I have no issue going IP67 if I need to, otherwise I'd stay with the IP65's for ease of soldering in power injection points.

I am open to other suggestions as this is a very new world I am walking into! Please let me know if there is anything else that I could have missed.

Jabbing and vaccination theories are dependent on virus and transmission theory. If virus and transmission theories are false, there goes jabbing, lockdowns, masks, anti-social distancing and other techniques that are so popular today with totalitarian governments and pharma-$$ sources.

Per modern virus theory, involving the life-cycle of the virus, here is a chart with major developments in the technology of virus discovery.

[8] Morens, D.M. & Fauci, S.A., \"Emerging Pandemic Diseases: How We Got to COVID-19\", Cell, Volume 182, Issue 5, 3 September 2020, Pages 1077-1092.

The source of the chart is:

Is SARS-CoV-2 the Phantom of the COVID-19 Opera?The Corona Conspiracy, Part 30Frank Visserhttps://www.integralworld.net/visser206.html

Frank Visser is a prolific writer and a defender of the establishment virology theories, attacking the "conspiracy theory" challenges from Stefan Lanka, Andrew Kaufman, John Rappoport and others, who are generally considered 'virus denialists'.

Looking at the chart, which is quite helpful, I noticed some gaping hole omissions, which I express in my questions to Frank Visser in the comments and in twitter, so far unanswered (slightly tweaked here.)

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COMMENTS QUESTION

When, where, who were the studies that demonstrated that the inactive/dead RNA/DNA ('viruses') hijacked cell functions for replication? What were the evidences and proofs given? And how were those studies replicated/repeated in rigorous peer review.

ADDED 11/2/2021 from original comment.
Let’s put the emphasis on human, or at least primate, studies.

These should all be famous studies. Or did this become modern dogma more by scholastic osmosis than science?

Similar questions can be asked about triggering illness and transmissional theories, as well as virus isolation and purification.

However, I would be very pleased if you gave the best answer to the hijack cell replication element, which is a rather amazing claim!

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**Your thoughts and answers most welcome.**Including Frank Visser as well, as he posts on reddit.

Thanks!

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Steven Avery

Dutchess County, NY, USA

> The trial tracked 775 adults with mild to moderate Covid, who were considered higher risk for severe disease owing to health problems such as obesity, diabetes or heart disease. Half were given a five-day course of the pill, called molnupiravir. In the placebo group, 53 patients (14%) were hospitalised compared with only 28 (7%) of those who received the drug. There were no deaths in the drug group after that time period compared with eight deaths in the placebo group, according to Merck.

Sursa: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/01/covid-antiviral-pill-halves-hospitalisations-and-deaths-maker-says

I did many unfruitful searches before posting this. Question: Put a tiny amount of 'product' from the freeze-precipitation on the tip of your tongue. Does it start to burn after 30 seconds or so because it is so basic or is it more likely some sodium hydroxide (lye) made it's way into my product? Reason I ask is because most of the teks are very much like making soap (saponification), especially the 'teks' that suggest you vigorously shake the basified water to move the goodies into hot or heated NPS.

My 'tek' has a couple unusual aspects I want to share and get peer review. I usually get astounding results in terms of quality and quantity. I use 'muriatic acid aka hydrochloric acid' to acidify. A cheap immersion blender works wonders when the powdered or shredded material is soaking in acidic water. Next day, I make the mixture basic with lye. I extract from the water/root slurry using TOLUENE because naphtha, hexane, or heptane just don't work as well...not even close. >>>Here is the unusual step I did not notice in other teks: I wash the 'product' out of the toluene with some clean acidic water and the goodies go from the toluene into the water. <<<< I basify the water and I stir fairly gently to move the goodies into heptane (or hexane but heptane is better for this imo) and freeze-precipitate. Root that arrives today is ready for a major elf-fest tomorrow because the first pull takes out 3/4 of the goodies. After washing the toluene I put it back in the soak-jar for a week or more and repeat the washes and freeze precipitation.

I am also researching the possible role of ACETONE in extraction. Why? Because mixtures of hexane or heptane and acetone evaporate out at a LOWER temperature than either of the components (!). Any thoughts on that would be appreciated. Thank you.

Long story short - I’m 32. Need a new hip. Insurance company is trying to deny it and has a peer to peer meeting with my doctor Friday at 11 am. My surgery is scheduled for next Monday and I am losing hope for relief.