Hi neighbors, I'm in need of some composite lumber for a landscaping project at my house, but what I need can be really old and beat up, so I'd prefer not to buy new.

Maybe you demolished an old deck and you've been procrastinating on getting rid of it? I need about 100sf of material. Must be composite or PVC.

Thanks so much!

For those looking for colors on composite lumber

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We've looked at Trex and a few others. But I am not at all familiar with these products so I don't know if their prices have fluctuated much recently. Anyone know how to look up historical price data for something like this?

There is 11 types of composite lumber in eco, does anyone have pictures of them for color differences before I have to make all of them?

Hoping this doesn't violate rule 8, but if so, I'll move it over to the megathread.

I have a late 2000s Sundance Cameo I just bought for cheap The bottom base and a few bottom frame boards are rotten has anyone replaced their framing or their bottom base with PVC or composite material?

I was planning on rebuilding my deck this year and everyone's been saying how outrageous lumber prices are. Is this the case for composite decking like Azek PVC or Fiberon?

Hello everyone! I'm in the process of getting quotes from professional deck contractors for a 2 elevation deck. Upper deck would be around 100 sqft and lower elevation would be around 450 sqft. Two sets of stairs.

First contractor quoted around 35k, using standard trex.

Second contractor hasnt provided a quote yet and said his quote, when provided, will be valid for 24 hrs so they can lock material prices.

My questions is, should I wait another 6 months since lumber futures are already declining and the prices come back down? How much is the limber futures affecting composite deck materials, like trex, that are partially made from lumber?

Also, any one have some good rules for evaluating if a contractors price is reasonable?

Thanks All!

Our deck/balcony is ~8' wide and ~6' out from the house (built in 2003). Somehow when these were built, they managed to get zero spacing consistency between the cantilevered joists (see photo). The question is, since the generic guidance is 16" joist spacing for composite decking and one gap is 20 3/4 inches, based upon the photo, do I bother throwing in at least one non-cantilevered joist in that larger gap just to prevent sagging?

If so, the rim joist on the end is currently only toe-nailed on (and pulling away, which I'm fixing), so I imagine I'd need to reinforce those connections and use joist hangers for that extra support board.

Thoughts?

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As the title mentions, I’d like to build some houses or roosts for my backyard birds. Since I’d like to attract chickadees, I’m planning on following this guide from Cornell: https://nestwatch.org/wp-content/themes/nestwatch/birdhouses/black-capped-chickadee.pdf

I might modify it slightly so I can convert the nest box to a roosting box for winter (removable door that can flip so that the entrance hole is at the bottom for winter, keeping heat in).

My question is, which do you think is better for the birds? Traditional lumber or composite lumber? Traditional lumber seems like it’d be safest, but I feel like it might be tougher to clean/disinfect each year. It also wouldn’t last as long.

Composite on the other hand seems like it’s fairly easy to clean, but I do wonder about the safety of plastic with the birds. I also worry that the material might get hotter than wood if exposed to sun. Also, would the birds struggle to hold on to the composite over regular wood? Composite does have a definite advantage when it comes to longevity.

So we are in need of replacing our deck. It is over 20 years old and the cedar is beginning to break down. Our deck is south facing and so it gets the sun all day long. We live in southern Ontario.

I am wondering about composite. Is it worth the price to use? Does it fade? I have read some reviews about some of the products out there like Fiberon, Timber Tech, Correct Deck, and Trex and they are not perfect it seems.

I am interested in any advice about composite lumber and satisfaction with your purchase.

Trying to source the manufacturer of the composite lumber for the Alfresco line at Crate & Barrel.
Anyone here just happen to know?

Also interested in suggestions for something similar.
Already checked most major brands of composite decking, and no one offers smaller slat sizes like this.

I'm on a committee to plan the outdoor space at my kid's school. I've been tasked with researching composite recycled plastic lumber in comparison to traditional lumber. I realize that there will be differences in upkeep, replacement, etc, but since we'll be using some of this to create vegetable garden beds the idea of bpa, pvc, etc leaching into the soil from the composite has been raised. I'm in St. Louis, MO if that helps. This past summer it was as hot as 108. Any ideas on this or where I can start my research. Its hard to tell the authority of some of these sites I'm finding.

TL;DR: Does Composite recycled plastic lumber leach any chemicals into the soil?

I want to build a new front and rear deck with storage for my Carolina Skiff J16. I'm just planning things out right now and will likely do the work in the middle of summer 2022. I was planning on just doing wood/resin/fiberglass, but I keep hearing that "composite" is better.

What exactly are we talking about regarding composite? What are the products? I've looked around (google) and really the only thing I've found is Coosa board which is expensive, hard to get, and still has to be glassed. Also 3M reinforced PU foam . What am I missing?

Has anybody tried a product like this stuff? MoistureShield Composite Decking: Inspired Outdoor Living I would love to take a screw-&-glue approach to the build, if possible. Thanks.

Cheat sheet with hotkeys

Hi everyone

I have spent some time doing a cheat sheet of the most essential steps to think of in a typical AoE game for my girlfriend who is completely new to Age, to RTS and to some extent to computers. The idea being to have a printed version nearby or a digital on a second screen that she can check from time to time to see whether she forgot something important. I thought it might be of some use for newer players (I assume under 800 elo). I have included the hotkeys that I set up for her, but here is the link if you want to exchange them with your own. Please keep in mind that it is not exhaustive and based on my personal opinion of what I think are essential steps for beginners. I am a fairly experienced player, but far from an expert.

How the cheat sheet works:

Blue keys indicate "go-to" hotkeys, green are game actions, black are buildings (I use B to build both types of buildings), and red are units.

Dark Age

The dark age segment describes a basic general build order, with two houses at the start, 6 villagers on sheep then 4 making one lumber camp. I would suggest doing loom afterwards as it will simplify boar lures massively for newer players and doesn’t make that much of a difference vs doing it before clicking up. Also protects the player versus wolves, scout lames and who knows, an eventual drush. Add 4 villagers to berries and the rest to food under the TC until you can click up. During the transition, build a second lumber camp to have 5+5 villagers on wood.

Essential hotkeys include the “go-to TC” hotkey, villager hotkey, garrison (instead of town bell) & return to work, as well as Idle villager. I am aware that this might seem like much, but it will simplify your playing by a lot once you get used to it.

I would suggest building a barracks while going up to feudal.

Feudal Age

In feudal, I give the 4 essential units as I wouldn’t recommend drushes or men-at-arms at lower elos as they require too much multi-tasking. Be offensive with archers or with scouts depending on your civ or be defensive with spearmen against scouts and with skirms against archers. Keep in mind that if you do archers or skirmishers, you will need a blacksmith to do fletching.

From the eco per

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

#Good morning traders and investors of the r/StockMarket sub! Welcome to Thursday! Here are your pre-market stock movers & news on this Thursday, December 16th, 2021-

Dow futures up 200 points following Fed decision to aggressively wind down asset purchases

> U.S. stock futures rose sharply in early Thursday trading after the Federal Reserve signaled it would be aggressive on tapering and sees three interest rate hikes in 2022.

> Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped about 222 points. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.7% each.

> Shares of companies that have done well in previous rate-hiking cycles led premarket gainers. Materials stocks FMC Corp. and Freeport-McMoRan both rose more than 3% ahead of the opening bell. Bank stocks also rose across the board, with JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America all up about 0.6%.

> In transportation news, Delta Air Lines reported that it now expects to see a profit of $200 million in the fourth quarter, after previously projecting a loss. Shares rose 2.2% on the news.

> In other central banking news, the Bank of England announced it is hiking its key policy rate by 15 basis points to 0.25%. Markets were awaiting a separate policy decision from the European Central Bank. There also is more economic news on tap, with weekly jobless claims and housing starts out at 8:30 a.m. ET.

> Following the Fed news, traders accelerated their own expectations for interest rate increases. Fed funds futures trading now points to a 63% chance of the first quarter-percentage-point increase coming in May 2022, with chances also rising to about 44% that the central bank could make its first move as soon as March, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.

> Stocks traded in negative territory throughout the regular session Wednesday and turned higher ahead of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference in the afternoon at the conclusion of the two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The Dow added 383 points, or 1.08%. The S&P 500 rose 1.63% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite jumped 2.15%.

> “The fact that the FOMC acknowledged new COVID variants as a threat to the economic recovery that could alter policy going forward, as well as the generally optimistic tone from Powell in the presser, helped spark a relief rally as the Fed meeting was viewe

Update: I've started adding analysis links at the bottom of the post, so that we can see how high level players respond to a few different situations with this build. If anyone has other game examples of Rus FC v X, please comment and I'll add them! :)

Youtube Guide Video: Credit to Aussie Drongo’s video on the build

5 -> Sheep

1 -> Hunting Cabin -> House -> Lumber Camp -> Wood

TC -> Villagers -> Sheep

Scout -> Find the 3 and 2 sheep groups -> Enemy Hunt

@ Hunting Cabin -> 2 Scouts (Other Deer or join 1st Scout for contested deer)

@ 400f 200g -> 4f vils -> Golden Gate (you can do more vils to get that trade tick asap)

@ Golden Gate construction -> 4th Scout + 7f 3w villager distribution if 4 building

@ 18/20 -> House

2f:1w villager distribution ratio

@ 4 Scouts & Feudal -> Move 4 Scouts to closes enemy Deer hunt

@ Feudal -> Sell Food -> Professional Scouts

@ 175w -> Wooden Fortress w all Wood vils

@ Professional Scouts -> 3+ Scouts + Steal Deer!

@ 27/30 -> Food vil -> House

@ Deer carcass return -> Switch from Sheep to Deer

Sell Food for Gold until you have 600g

@ 1200f 600g -> ~9f Vils -> Abbey of the Trinity (7:15 or asap)

@ 450w -> 3f Vils -> 3x Archery Range

@ 36/40 -> 1f Vil -> House -> Houses as required moving forward

@ Castle -> 3x Horse Archer production + 1x Warrior Monk Production

@ Warrior Monk -> Relics (enemy vs FC, yours vs non FC) -> Rally to relics as needed

@ Horse Archers -> Apply pressure w Horse Archers + Hunt Boars

Continue with 2f:1w or 3f:2w villager ratio and balance economy as needed with Golden Gate

Capture Sacred Sites as able after Relics

@ 3 Relics -> Monastery

Add Archery Ranges as resources start to bank up

Add 2x Blacksmith as able (not sure if this is better before extra Ranges or not)

@ Blacksmiths -> Boyar Fortitude & Horse Archer upgrades

Notes:

• Lure Wolves
• Kill Sheep before you need them for gold
• 1st Scout must bring back Sheep on time (2:10-2:25) -> keep in mind that 9 Villagers can’t consistently harvest 1 sheep, so ideally you want sheep home when you’re at 9 villagers and are down to one of your first 3 sheep; you may have to balance tasks on the map (ex: deer) vs sheep return on a game by game basis.
• Have your Fortress on a vulnerable side of the woodline, but in range

Motivation

This is going to be a series in which I look at bonuses, descriptions, tech trees, history, game mechanics, unique units, and unique techs to make a guess how civs were intended to be played. This is just my musings about civs I like and to discuss AOE2. I cannot actually speak for the designers, I don't really believe there are right ways to play a civ. That won't stop us from trying to come up with an intended army composition. This is supposed to be a fun conversation.

Assumptions:

• Every civ was not meant to be played the same
• The strategy should utilize every civ bonus / advantage
• Unique Units were meant to be main line units
• Regional Units were supposed to be main line units
• Unique techs were meant to be used
• Civ Descriptions i.e. "Defensive Civilization" "Gunpowder and Monk" are intentions
• Original mechanics are a better source for intent than later balance changes
• The game was intended to be balance
• The game was designed for competent players to have fun with various units opposed to pro players playing the meta. This means a player who knows hard and soft counters, can match economy to production, scouts, and uses hot keys with a little micro. I have in mind players from 800-1200 ELO.

The Big Bias

If there was one map for Age of Empires II it would be Nomad. The first time I played Age of Empires and Age of Empires II they were set to Nomad starts. Originally nomad was a setting not a map. The reason Nomad was not included as a map in Age of Empires II is because Chinese additional villagers defeated the balance. I will tend to consider how the bonuses and units work for an open hybrid map with water on the outside.

Samurai

The image of the Samurai is the most ubiquitous cultural icon associated with the Japanese. In reality Samurai went through a number of stages as cavalry archers, mercenaries, feudal rulers, swordsmen and more. Samurai is a broad term that can be translated to servant or henchmen. They were a warrior caste similar to the knights of feudal Europe. Unlike knight Samurai comprised a dominate number of troops in an army. Knights made up a small contingent of an army supported by man-at-arms and conscripted men. Historians could fight all day defining Samurai.

In AoE2 Samurai were originally going to have melee and ranged attacks before developers removed their ranged attack because it was cumbersome. To mimic real life Samurai and developers early ideas AoE2 Japan

I'm a 30 year old high school dropout who's spent the last 15 years as an agoraphobic shut-in. I have no job, no friends, an IQ that's barely above room temperature due to severe brain damage caused by so many years of stagnant isolation wherein I spent most of it locked in morbid self-attention and self-cannibalizing thought patterns, plus I leech off the government and my family for sustenance. Naturally, I have zero confidence and have never once, and I mean NOT ONCE, gone anywhere by myself, at least beyond my time in school. The only exceptions have been rare walks late at night, which themselves number less than 5, even after all these many years. My only remaining family is my mother, who's just as catastrophically depressed as I am, and my older brother, who while very much a fully functional, successful and healthy human being, is well and truly burdened by the all the troubles happening in his own life, combined also with his sheer indifference to the predicament I, and my mother, happen to be in. In other words, we're like three people drowning in the ocean together. How can three people drowning together in the ocean help each other? All they can do is spastically flap their arms around and drown. What you really need is someone in a boat to throw out a life preserver, but there's no ships nearby, and there's likely never to be any given the metaphorical remoteness of how badly adrift we are from any and all forms of salvation or assistance. To say otherwise is simply being knowingly and willfully obtuse.

So yeah, that about sums it up. It really just speaks for itself, doesn't it? At least in terms of conveying how breathtakingly bad the situation is. I'm also deeply unhappy and I possess a disposition that's purely and utterly miasmic in its composition. Boredom, bitterness, dissatisfaction, and frustration, are essentially the only emotional states I ever experience.

And as it'll probably come as no surprise to anyone, I've struggled with mental illness literally my entire life. Even as a young child I was wracked with anxiety over the most trivial of social engagements, and additionally I could never understand the dynamics of human interaction. This prevented me from establishing any sort of friendships, despite having ample opportunity to do so. My struggle with these things was so pronounced in fact, that I suffered my first nervous breakdown at age 12, and it's all been downhill ever since. For at least the last 7 years I've bee

Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster. Long story short I'm looking for a few new picks that meet a specific set of requirements.

I'm looking for companies that produce construction materials but they have to be produced in the US. The materials I'm interested in are things like metals (iron, steel, copper, aluminum, etc, also including coating metals), wood (grown and processed in the US), drywall, and plastics (pvc pipe, PE pipe, reinforced composite lumber, etc)

I'm alreadying thinking of the big names for metals like X, NUC, FCX, MT, CLF, and VMC (and would be open to others). But I'm at a loss for lumber and plastics. The US imports most of its lumber from Canada and plastics seem to come from overseas. Also, drywall? I can't find anything that's a public company

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

An orthodox understanding of Nirn’s geography is that relative to Tamriel, you have Akavir to the east, Yokuda to the west, Atmora to the north, and Aldmeris (disputably, assuming it actually existed which is a contentious subject) to the south. This is firmly established by books, in-game dialogue, maps and developer commentary. Here - without contradicting any of the facts I just mentioned - I propose and elaborate on a theory: Atmora and Kamal are the same place. Much of the evidence here is circumstantial, but what are fan theories but beautiful necklaces created by stringing together beads of facts that don't line up with a flimsy bit of string?

(NOTE: I am not the first to propose a theory like this: see https://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/cnl3f2/kamal_decendents_of_atmora_theory/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/4bdfzx/theory_on_the_location_and_fate_of_atmora/, as well as others I probably missed.)

First, according to my theory, Akavir is still east of Tamriel. If you sail east from Morrowind, you will probably end up in Tsaesci, much like how Europe is east of North America. But suppose Akavir - like Tamriel - is a continent that stretches up north, close if not beyond the arctic circle. In fact, imagine it stretches so far up north that the northern part of Akavir is situated around the North Pole. Since we see auroras and frozen oceans year-round in Skyrim’s northernmost regions, and since Atmora is implied to be a decent distance across the sea, it’s a fair assumption that Atmora is located close to, if not at, the North Pole as well.

Now that I’ve established how my theory envisions Nirn’s geography (which again, crucially, is not suggesting that Akavir is not east of Tamriel), without further ado, let’s do further:

PART 1: HISTORICAL COINCIDENCES

First, what do we know about the Kamal? Going off of Mysterious Akavir, we know they’re one of the four major races of Akavir, they’re described as demons (with Kamal translating to “Snow Hell”), and they’re led by a “king among demons”, Ada’Soom Dir Kamal. They thaw out once a year and attack the Tang Mo, the monkey folk of Akavir.

Now let’s start with the only verified instance of Kamali interaction with Tamriel. We know that the Kamal invaded Skyrim in the 2nd Era

Back in April, I asked a local contractor for a quote on a new deck. I finally got the quote today. It's for an ~350 square foot deck, steel frame, composite surface, about 18" (inches) off the ground. I expected it to be in the 12-16k range. It came in at 35-38k. Were my expectations crazy, or is this quote just bonkers?

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I started playing WowsL earlier this year, and have fallen very much in love with the game. But over recent weeks, I’ve realized that this game gives me an itch that it can’t quite scratch. I keep having these “wouldn’t it be cool if…” thoughts, only to quickly realize that what I’m hoping for couldn’t possibly fit within the game as it currently exists. At the very least, it would require a whole new mode, quite unlike anything currently on offer (not to replace anything currently in the game, but as an additional mode). There is no chance that what I’m looking for will ever get made, but in the spirit of “pie in the sky” wishful thinking, I thought I’d share my ideas with you and see what you all think. I’ll say right up front that I think working most of these ideas into a PvP experience would be close to impossible, so I’m framing all of this within a concept of a single- player (or possibly co-op) mode against AI opponents.

First, here are the elements I’d like to see which are currently missing from the game:

• Large battles and a greater sense of scale

The 9v9 setup that WowsL is built on makes perfect sense for the type of game that it is. But I wish there was a way we could experience a clash between larger naval forces. MUCH larger. Something that leans slightly closer to historical naval battle numbers, where each battleship would have several accompanying cruisers and many destroyers. Not only would this make the overall battle larger in scale, but it would emphasize the scale of the ships themselves. The majority of each team’s fleet would be Destroyers, with numerous cruisers and only a small handful of massive, lumbering battleships (I know that sounds horrible from a balance perspective, but I’ll get to that later). I’m not set on a specific number, but something like 4-5 battleships, 8-12 cruisers, and 20-30 Destroyers per team. In fact, having some variation between fleet sizes could come into play, but I’ll get to that later as well. All of this would obviously require significantly larger maps.

Next up…

• A greater sense of power

One of the problems with the tier system in WoWsL is that as you earn more powerful ships, your opponents grow equally in power. This makes perfect sense for balancing reasons, but the downside is you rarely get a moment to truly experience the increases in power as you climb the tech tree. I was thrilled when I purchased my Iowa, but then in my very first match with it, I went up against an enemy Iowa a

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

A/N

New pupils to the Galactic Military Academy attend the first of many philosophy classes during their academic career.

Other entries in the Third War Journals:

1. AI Theory Guest Speaker, Attendance Mandatory
2. Intro to Practical Philosophy, General Education (you are here)
3. And Their Rallying Cry

///

“Page one of the syllabus, open your datapads to it. I catch you sleeping in the first week of my course, you will lose a letter grade – and I will catch you! Every single species of the Senate client races have passed through my class and I have the eyes to spare.”

The hulking crustacean-like Querati thumped the floor as its legs adjusted within the environmental suit. Assisted movement servos whirred and pressure vents hissed as he banged a large claw on the podium. Five eyestalks in their own articulated limb sheathes moved as he surveyed the class of close to two hundred sentient amalgamations of feet, hands, teeth, tentacles, and eyes.

“Right. Pay attention and take notes, especially questions. My class is meant to be sixty percent lecture and forty percent Sorkratical Sphere. For those that are behind on their Philosophy coursework, that means having a conversation a question at a time,” the electric talk box projected from where a throat would be on most warm-blooded species.

Taking their walking stick – a staff, really, with a sanded down portion where some recognized as once housing a spear tip – they thumped it soundly on the floor.

“Who wants to single themselves out and tell me what the three topics of chapter one are?” they asked, all five stalks moving independently. “No, I don’t do icebreaking, there isn’t enough time in a life for boring introductions.”

“Practical Philosophy, sir,” a student responded. Herbivore, large eyes, small arms, small legs. Good at hiding or short bursts of speed. “History, Xenological Similarities, and a Case Study.”

“Good, good. Dim-claw Tikkanav from the Veridi Conglomerate is not afraid to let his voice carry over. Now,” the Professor nodded in what the students hoped was an affirmation, “can anyone tell me why that was stupid?”

The sounds of uncomfortable shifting at various seats echoed through the lecture hall.

“No one?” the Querati said, focusi

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

#Good morning traders and investors of the r/stocks sub! Welcome to Thursday! Here are your pre-market stock movers & news on this Thursday, December 16th, 2021-

Dow futures up 200 points following Fed decision to aggressively wind down asset purchases

> U.S. stock futures rose sharply in early Thursday trading after the Federal Reserve signaled it would be aggressive on tapering and sees three interest rate hikes in 2022.

> Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped about 222 points. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.7% each.

> Shares of companies that have done well in previous rate-hiking cycles led premarket gainers. Materials stocks FMC Corp. and Freeport-McMoRan both rose more than 3% ahead of the opening bell. Bank stocks also rose across the board, with JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America all up about 0.6%.

> In transportation news, Delta Air Lines reported that it now expects to see a profit of $200 million in the fourth quarter, after previously projecting a loss. Shares rose 2.2% on the news.

> In other central banking news, the Bank of England announced it is hiking its key policy rate by 15 basis points to 0.25%. Markets were awaiting a separate policy decision from the European Central Bank. There also is more economic news on tap, with weekly jobless claims and housing starts out at 8:30 a.m. ET.

> Following the Fed news, traders accelerated their own expectations for interest rate increases. Fed funds futures trading now points to a 63% chance of the first quarter-percentage-point increase coming in May 2022, with chances also rising to about 44% that the central bank could make its first move as soon as March, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.

> Stocks traded in negative territory throughout the regular session Wednesday and turned higher ahead of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference in the afternoon at the conclusion of the two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The Dow added 383 points, or 1.08%. The S&P 500 rose 1.63% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite jumped 2.15%.

> “The fact that the FOMC acknowledged new COVID variants as a threat to the economic recovery that could alter policy going forward, as well as the generally optimistic tone from Powell in the presser, helped spark a relief rally as the Fed meeting was viewed as