![]() Without thorough documentation of an adverse employment action, workers may be able to establish a prima facie case of retaliation based on timing alone.Įxperts also recommend that training for managers include an anti-retaliation component. I used synthetic urine for 10 months and even though they were suspicious all they. If an adverse employment decision closely follows protected activity, employers need to take careful note of the facts justifying the discipline, sources have said. They cant unless they do DNA test or other specific testing that is costly. On the other hand, the 11th Circuit has said a termination that occurred eight months after a worker filed an EEOC complaint wasn't retaliation. Please refer to the message on your Quest Diagnostics bill or the Explanation of Benefits (EOB) from your insurance carrier for more specific information about why you received. ![]() ![]() If we don't get in touch with you, you can't explain it, or don't want to send it to an outside lab, we report it to the employer as a positive test. Although you may not have physically visited a Quest Diagnostics location, your physician may have sent your specimen out to a Quest Diagnostics laboratory to be tested. Youll find them all at Quest Diagnostics. 21 May Quest Diagnostics Los Banos West I Street in Los Banos: details with 13. Location/Address: MAR 451 QUEST DIAGNOSTICS - 200 FOREST ST. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was allowed to proceed with her claims of retaliation and bias. If you insist it's bullshit, we offer you the chance to send out the specimen for testing at an outside lab. When choosing a lab, consider such extras as being able to schedule an appointment, get reminders and access test results anywhere. 25th Anniversary Art Contest Winners Contact Us. Another resident received a call from a male subject. An expert in data breaches, Eva Velasquez had a sinking feeling when she learned Monday of a new breach said to have affected 11.9 million patients served by Quest Diagnostics, one of the nation's largest medical testing firms. The court in this instance noted that evidence of causation can include "factors such as suspicious timing, ambiguous statements suggesting retaliatory intent, evidence that the formal reason for termination was pretextual, or disparate treatment of similarly situated colleagues."Įxperts have noted that a close relationship in time between the protected activity and an adverse employment action can suggest unlawful retaliation. For example, a Philadelphia fitness instructor fired hours after letting her bosses know that she had filed a complaint with the U.S. The victim became suspicious and called Quest Diagnostics and found out the letter was a scam.
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![]() For maximum close-range effectiveness, we recommend using the MP40 or Owen Gun. Pairing this weapon with an SMG allows you to be effective at basically all ranges.While it’s more than capable of downing enemies at close range, most SMGs and shotguns will have an advantage. ![]()
In order to legally stay on BLM land, you need to register and get a permit, yet in all the blog posts I’d read, no-one had mentioned how or where you get one from! So on Thursday morning I took the MINI to find out. Being in the rocky, dry desert, Quartzsite is a harsh environment, but it had more vegetation than where we’d stayed near Yuma. The ground was a hard, gravel rocky road covered in thousands of pieces of quartz, probably why the place is named Quartzsite. We awoke to discover we were actually in a great location – not too close to other rigs and with a nice view of the mountains and yes, Dome Rock! We wouldn’t have to move after all. Having the MINI as our toad proved to be very handy to drive ahead and scope out the landscape first before bringing in the coach ![]() TIP: Arrive before dark especially if your setup is a truck and trailer OR fifth wheel. We’d have to wait until morning to see what our location was really like, and assess if we’d need to move. We didn’t want to bother the other RVs so we quickly found a place to park the coach and setup for the night. Yay! I called Marc to come on up as I drove back to the entrance of the dirt road to meet him and guide him in. I drove up a little further and found lots of open space and level enough ground to safely park. Soon enough, another car drove by so I followed them into a dirt road then saw a sign for BLM land and at least a half a dozen other parked rigs. There were no other cars in sight. Marc decided to pull over for a bit while I went on ahead, in search of a decent and safe place for us to park. Marc drove the coach and followed me in the MINI for about 5 miles along Dome Rock Road West. No street lights, no buildings, just wide open desert land. The problem was, we had arrived in the dark (which we don’t recommend) and not surprisingly, BLM land isn’t lit up with signs and easy access roads like a campground! We couldn’t see Dome Rock – just a few imposing shadows of things that could be big rocks… or mountains – it was hard to say. We had no idea even which road to take, so decided to just take “Dome Rock Road West” as it sounded like a reasonable guess. On the drive, I had researched a couple of blog posts for ideas and we decided to head toward Dome Rock, as it apparently had good cellular/internet signal and great views of the rock. Quartzsite has an abundance of BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land where you can park and stay for free. Fortunately, we were doing well with our water and had enough on board to last us for another 3-4 days, so Marc dropped the MINI so I could scout out a suitable place to park before taking the coach in. It was only an 85 mile drive (less than 2 hours) but we were still on the road at twilight, taking in the changing colors of the sky as we drove. We pulled into Love’s Travel Stop to fuel the coach and learned they didn’t have a dump station or a tap where we could fill our water tank. ![]() We left Yuma for Quartzsite on Wednesday afternoon to avoid the high winds. All will be revealed – literally – in this post and video. ![]() We dropped in to see what it’s all about and ended up discovering two very unusual highlights. Part 3 of our boondocking adventure continues in Quartzsite, Arizona where we got a taste of the town that is famous for attracting the largest gathering of RVers in the world. The human civilization has to fight back but does this by employing iron machines to go into combat. There has been an attack on a territorial human colony by alien creatures. At the beginning of the game, a short storyline reveals the plot. The game is set in an unexplored galaxy that holds the unknown. Producers of Iron Marines have explored a concept that is not quite common in many games, but not only have they done that, but they have also managed to depict it in one of the fascinating RPS action games ever. With Iron Marines, the imaginative capacity of the players is greatly amused, as the game is set in space and the characters are quite unfamiliar. Iron Marines gameplay provides an arcade feel in the comfort of your home and with the simplicity of your mobile device. ![]() Unlike many RPS games, it is easy to understand and follow through. The game is an action RPS game and is one of the leading names in the real-time strategy action genre due to its unique and interesting gameplay and many more exceptional features. It is available for download on iOS and Android devices and is supported on devices with operating systems of Android 5.0 and above. Iron Marines gained massive popularity after its release, amassing over 500,000 downloads and positive reviews. I am glad to have more high-quality RTS action on iOS, but don't love what I have to put up to do so here.Iron Marines is an epic real-time strategy action game offered by Ironhide Games and released on the 13th of September in 2017. That said, many ways in which this game tries to evolve past its original formula feel mostly inconsequential and the others just seem like a way to further monetize players who already have to buy in to the experience already. Iron Marines Invasion provides a whole lot more Iron Marines levels to play, which is nice. To be fair, the original Iron Marines has some of this (and has added more over time), but Iron Marines Invasion takes things further and thus it feels more detrimental to the experience. None of these affect the moment-to-moment action too much, and Iron Marines Invasion is not so difficult that you might feel the need to purchase units to complete the campaign, but it all leaves a pretty gross taste in my mouth. ![]() The level navigation menu is a confusing sprawl of distant planets, constant prompts for turning on notifications pop up, the tech tree upgrade system has fewer ways to customize your progression through the game, and there are fewer hero characters and unit packs that come with the base game (while many more are available for additional purchase). Perhaps the most noticeable (and unwelcome) changes between Iron Marines and Iron Marines Invasion occur outside of the levels themselves. While you can mix and match a greater variety of units that look different, you are still playing with all the same unit archetypes, and because you can equip different sets of units to play with per mission, some duplication in roles is present as well. ![]() While some of these levels-particularly a few setpieces toward the end-feel like the pinnacle of Ironhide's RTS design capabilities to date, large sections of the game simply feel like a re-hash of the first Iron Marines.Ī big reason why this game feels so much like the first one is because the unit design isn't all that different from the original Iron Marines. Iron Marines Invasion is a more expansive campaign than the original game, with essentially twice as many levels that have you doing a lot more planet hopping to fight in new locales. Your units will attack all on their own and even regenerate lost health over time, so a lot of the game revolves around combining units or building base defenses that work well in combination with your spacing so that you are able to defeat your foes without having your own forces destroyed. Your missions vary from level to level, but they all revolve around a galactic conflict presenting an existential threat to most space-faring life. ![]() Just like its predecessor, Iron Marines Invasion is a real-time strategy game where you tap and drag space marines, aliens, mechs, and hero units around a map that you have an overhead view of. It's good, but not special like the first game was. In a lot of ways, Iron Marines Invasion is just more of this, which is nice, but it feels less inspired this time around. Ironhide Studios took their years of experience as premier tower-defense designers and made something more akin to Starcraft both in look and feel while being careful to keep things manageable using a touchscreen. The first Iron Marines is easily an all-time classic for me. ![]() Text blurbs in the Discussion section offer additional context about upcoming. It is no longer necessary to purchase an interface separately, the new Kestrel Meters with Bluetooth include the software necessary to communicate wirelessly at a range of up to 30-feet. You can track hourly and weekly forecasts, view precipitation and radar maps, and study the sun and moons positions. If you select the Bluetooth model, your meter includes custom communication software designed to quickly and easily configure your data transmission frequency, download logged data, graph data and transfer data to other applications. Like all the pocket weather meters in the Kestrel 4000 series, the Kestrel 4500 is capable of storing and charting up to 1400 data points for later analysis. These added features make the 4500 the Kestrel Meter of choice for military professionals, HAZMAT teams, and flight crews. In addition to the Kestrel 4000’s extensive list of capabilities, the Kestrel 4500 has these distinct monitoring functions: LaCrosse 2300 series of weather stations. Through a series of mathematical calculations, the algorithm determine which TV stations have the best daily, weekly and monthly accuracy. Figuring that we could use the technology to run. The forecast and observed weather data are fed into patented software, WeatherTracker II, which compares the forecast with the actual observed conditions. Your data can be used to improve existing systems and software. Hurricane, freezing rain, snow, and many other severe weather layers. As we watched, videos of the storm chasers intrigued us and we wondered what they used for tracking tornadoes. Ads can be shown to you based on the content youre viewing, the app youre using. ![]() Access a growing library of map layers, including: Earth Networks Total Lightning. ![]() Davis Wizard and Monitor - These weather stations are still in beta and need to be completed. Dont forget about these additional features. WeatherTracker can connect to your account and download that weather data into WeatherTracker. An incredibly comprehensive weather app - it accesses many data models from different. Vantage Connect works by directly upload data from a remote station to. And now, the Kestrel 4500, as well as the entire Kestrel 4000 series, is available with Bluetooth Technology, allowing you to communicate wirelessly and transmit and log your data automatically. WEATHERTRACK Amazing Weather Details at your Fingertips. Capable of monitoring and reporting an exhaustive list of environmental parameters – from temperature to barometric pressure, dewpoint, wind chill, and more, the Kestrel 4500 is the most feature-rich pocket weather meter in the entire Kestrel catalog. The Kestrel 4500BT Bluetooth Weather Tracker is Kestrel’s flagship meter. ![]() ![]() FLIRC have kept everything that makes the original case great, shrunk it down, and added some nice elements that make this mini PC for every day carry. ![]() The FLIRC Zero shares the same genetics as the original FLIRC case with some added features. If that’s not a deal-breaker for you, though, then this is a great case to get.The FLIRC Raspberry Pi Zero Case is finally here - overly engineered, affordable and adorable! If only the GPIO pins remained accessible. We love the style of the Flirc case, and its heat sink opens up a world of overclocking. We’re going to experiment some more with overclocking, which makes this a fun case. We also played around with CPU clock speeds up to 2.0GHz, which idled at 48 ☌ and maxed out at 69 ☌. The overclocked Raspberry Pi (inside the Flirc case) idled at 41 ☌, and running our five-minute stress test took it up to 67 ☌. We took the CPU clock speed up to 1.75GHz. This time it idled at a mere 28 ☌ and our five-minute stress test took it up to a mere 46 ☌.īecause this is comfortably below the threshold, it opens up a world of overclocking (something that has been reintroduced on Raspberry Pi 4). Next, we put a Raspberry Pi into the Flirc Raspberry Pi 4 case and ran the same test. Unsurprisingly, the Raspberry Pi with no heat sink attached quickly went up to 79 ☌ and hovered at that level for the rest of the test, nudging up against (but not pushing over) the level where Raspbian starts to throttle the CPU. Warning! Don’t do this at home without doing your research first. For each test, we left the Raspberry Pi to run for five minutes. This puts all four cores of Raspberry Pi 4 under stress. We used stress (apt install stress) and the following script from Core Electronics to test our Raspberry Pi 4 while measuring temperature: while true do vcgencmd measure_clock arm vcgencmd measure_temp sleep 10 done& stress -c 4 -t 300s Watch your Raspberry Pi and restart afterwards. WARNING!: Stress testing should only be done for short periods. We stress-tested a Raspberry Pi 4 board on its own vs a Raspberry Pi 4 inside the Flirc case to see what temperatures it reported. However, for many of us, GPIO pins are the very essence of Raspberry Pi. If you plan to use Raspberry Pi as a desktop computer, then this might be a valid trade-off. But it’s an ungainly addition to such a lovely looking case. To Flirc’s credit, it has addressed this issue via a small gap on the underneath of the Flirc Raspberry Pi 4 case, which could be used with a breakout I/O cable. Unlike the official case, the lid cannot be quickly removed to provide access to the pins. One downside to the sealed approach is that the GPIO pins are hidden away inside the case. The microSD card slot is easily accessible, and a small cut-out on the enclosure enables the LEDs to shine through. Everything is neatly constructed from high-quality materials and there’s considerable charm to the heat sink. Putting together the case is ludicrously simple: you simply drop a Raspberry Pi in the bottom half, attach the thermal paste, squidge down the lid, and use four screws to hold everything together.įlirc claims that this is “the most beautifully crafted Raspberry Pi 4 case” and it’s not a wholly unwarranted claim. You use this to squidge the Raspberry Pi to the heat sink. Inside the pack is a square thermal pad (similar in substance to Blu Tack). This turns the whole of the aluminium case into a giant heat sink, cooling down your Raspberry Pi 4. Here’s where things get clever: inside the case is a protruding heat sink that reaches down to Raspberry Pi 4’s CPU. ![]() You have all these responses and opportunities to find new things. You have all of these people who (probably) want to talk to you. The script, which again is absolutely a joy to read, the premise, and the design all encourage you to explore. It’s like there’s a sense of enthusiasm that’s infectious. It is otherworldly in the most appropriate way. It suits the dreamlike nature of the world everyone inhabits. ![]() Because it’s unconventional, it’s okay that it isn’t HD and pristine. Its stylized characters transitioned well to the Switch port. As much as I love the PlayStation, there are a lot of games from that era that didn’t age well. Though, even when I would sometimes flail, I at least enjoyed the sounds and the view. (If you like having things spelled out for you and tidy quest lists, this might be too much.) I appreciated it, in a way, though admit it wore on me a bit as I engaged in some hours of trial and error working things out. You’re in the same position as the child. (An additional save system would have been a godsend.) Getting to explore and enjoy the unusual spaces is more engaging, though again it will take time before you might really find yourself capable of accomplishing things. They have their lives, and honestly, what the “hero” is doing seems boring, reckless, and violent in comparison. But it feels very much alive.Įveryone is doing something. Things aren’t entirely obvious, with some experimentation and patience needed to understand your limits and complete the different challenges. (While the child was playing an RPG, there are even more mature stories going on.) The localization is superb and an utter delight. The cast is varied and unique, with a wide array of dispositions. You have to take care of yourself and watch your action limits. It’s to spend time with the supporting cast members, learn about their lives, make peace with the monsters’ souls you find, and collect love. Except, once inside, the goal isn’t to fight monsters and save the day. (Really, go read the manual.) Your avatar is a child pulled into an RPG. It is from an age where you read the manual. Then I keeled over and died, triggering a game over.Ĭlearly, Moon is not a handholding adventure. I met Gramby, took a nap and got some clothing, got her picture, bought bread for her, talked with the King and got his card, chatted with Yoshida the bird about destiny, grabbed a treat for Tao, and delivered the bread. The first time I played Moon, I managed the first day just fine. While it can be frustrating, I think it’s the sort of game people should at the very least know exists. Which is a shame, because it’s this novel, completely out there experience that requires you to get invested. We’re now living in a world where Taiko no Tatsujin games are getting localized and we can look at an otome visual novel and figure, “Okay, there’s a good chance Aksys will eventually pick that up.” This isn’t to say some unusual PlayStation-era games didn’t make it over-we have Incredible Crisis and Thousand Arms-just Love-de-Lic’s Moon: Remix RPG Adventure wasn’t one of them. Companies are more willing to take chances on games that would normally fall outside people’s comfort zones. ![]() Also, if you intend on staying "free-to-play," Unity is going to be better, as it can do 2d and 3d, and doesn't put limits on export platforms. I'm not going to elaborate more, as this forum is Unity's and there are plenty of things that have been said above. But if you want 3d graphics, despite 2d gameplay, Unity wins. And Unity has some 2d features as well, though they aren't as advanced as GMStudio. For all the good things about GMStudio for 2d games, Unity has it for 3d. ![]() You can code it yourself, but there are much better options. The physics is only for 2d, there is no collision for 3d, and worse, there isn't even any out of the box method to load 3d assets. ![]() You can do some things, but it doesn't have much of anything built in. There is a shader set on GM's asset store that does lighting, but not only simple overlay lighting, but rather normal based lighting, so you have to give it a normal map to go with the colored sprite, and it uses lights in 3d space and ends up looking 3d despite only being drawn in quads. In fact, people have made shaders meant for 3d, including ones that do vertex animation, etc. And despite what Hippo said up there, you CAN create shaders in GMStudio. Even without that step, it is no longer run-time interpreted like it used to be. The GML language can do a lot, and it can actually be compiled into C++ code. In the past things weren't as good, but the latest GMStudio product is actually pretty good. I mean pixel art, or HD art, or vector art, or even 3d pre-rendered into sprites. When I say 2d, I don't mean 2.5d(except maybe iso graphics, but still 2d), and I especially don't mean 3d limited to side view or anything like that. GMStudio, for 2d games, is really the bees knees. For the record, I have both installed, but I'm currently using Unity for my game, because though the game is 2d in gameplay, I want 3d graphics. I've used both GMStudio(latest iteration of GameMaker) and Unity, so I think I can judge pretty well. One is able to manage and control Meet S via mobile devices,tablets,laptops,desktops,Macs,and T-Voice 100.ĭefinitely,when you are looking for the perfect meeting room solution,there is no doubt about which is the best video conferencing solution available around having looked at Meet S. You can control your huddle room from anywhere you are and at any time using the ezTalks software. Choosing this one-in-all device enables you to avoid spending a lot of your cash in purchasing the traditional and complex video conferencing equipment and still have a perfect meeting room. This full integration of hardware and software delivers a small workplace meeting experience that is simple,quick and unparalleled. This huddle room solution has incorporated the use of a fully integrated design involving microphone,speaker,HD camera,CODEC (coder-decoder),touch screen,and an in-built multifunctional software. ![]() The wide angle lens guarantees that the entire huddle room is captured and that no participant is missed. The professional image sensor incorporated ensures that everyone participating in the meeting and every detail is plainly visible. The Meet S has an ultra HD 1080p camera with a wide-angle lens of 120°. 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