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Helldivers 2 Galactic War live map: Track status and progress with this Liberty-approved web app – Windows Central

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The driving force behind the live service nature of Helldivers 2 is its Galactic War, a massive overarching metagame in which players wrestle with enemy Terminid and Automaton factions for control of various planets and sectors. As Major Orders come down from Super Earth's top brass (AKA, developer Arrowhead Game Studios), Liberty's finest space marines are encouraged to deploy to crucial fronts and either liberate hostile-controlled worlds or defend them from incoming invasions.

Squads contribute to these efforts represented by a percentage bar above each world and sector by finishing groups of missions called planetary operations, and while individual completions only have a very minor impact, the community can win conflicts in a matter of days or even hours if they fight on a planet en masse. Victory often leads to rewards like Warbond Medals, temporary free uses of certain stratagems on other battlefields, and even special unlocks like Helldivers 2's new Exosuit mechs; conversely, defeat can result in serious consequences (luckily, players have only lost one minor fight so far).

Due to the importance of Major Orders, it's valuable to understand where most players are fighting so you can head there too, and also to keep an eye on how the war effort is progressing on a macro scale. You can view these details with the map on your ship in the game, but thanks to this Super Earth-approved Helldivers 2 Galactic War map website, you can also monitor them outside of it.

First shared on Reddit by its particularly patriotic architect, the "Helldivers: Galactic War Status and Progression" web app or Helldivers.io functions as a live tracker of the Galactic War and how it's unfolding around the clock. It automatically updates once every minute, and includes a simplified version of the in-game map that displays every active planet along with stats like their player counts, liberation percentages, progression rates, and the current rates at which the Terminid bugs and Automaton bots are pushing back against the community's efforts.

Notably, the table above the map also features a "Predicted Time" column that estimates when a world will be successfully freed or held based on calculations with the latest recorded progression rates (or if a planet is losing ground and needs reinforcements). Right now, for example, it suggests we'll liberate Fenrir III later today as part of an ongoing Major Order to free four planets in a week (EDIT: We did, baby, and Turing is next). It shows which enemy faction you'll encounter on each one, too, as well as if a planet is part of the current Major Order. The latter is also displayed on the map itself with golden borders.

The only thing that's missing from the web app are indicators for each world's Environmental Effects and Planetary Hazards like extreme cold/heat, meteor showers or earthquakes, but the creator mentioned they plan to add these in future updates. They also noted they're open to suggestions for other additions, so make sure to drop a comment in the Reddit thread I linked above if you've got an idea.

There's even a full in-depth explanation of how the Galactic War mechanics work at the bottom of the page, which is quite helpful since Helldivers 2's in-game menus don't go into much detail about them. All in all, this is an amazing tool, and one I highly recommend using as you fight to spread managed democracy.

Helldivers 2 is available now for $39.99 on both PS5 and PC, and so far, it's one of thebest PC gamesof the year. Notably, the game also supports cross-platform play between PS5 and PC.

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A year of achievement, rebuilding and progress for utilities – Yoursun.com

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Trkiye: No Direct Dialogue with Damascus, No Progress in Normalization – Asharq Al-awsat – English

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Trkiye and Russia held a round of political consultations that discussed Syria and a number of other topics related to bilateral relations and regional issues, including the war in Ukraine and the situation in the Caucasus region.

In a statement on X, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the consultations were led by Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Burak Akabar, and his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Galuzin.

Diplomatic sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the consultations revolved around Syria and the Russian-sponsored normalization process between Ankara and Damascus, which was halted as both sides acknowledged the presence of many obstacles that need to be addressed.

In this context, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said that the normalization process has not witnessed any progress so far, adding that his country was not engaging in any direct dialogue with Damascus.

Turkish media quoted Keceli as saying on Friday that the Syrian government was setting preconditions for the normalization.

The Russian Presidents envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, confirmed in January that the process of normalization of relations between Trkiye and Syria had been completely halted since past autumn, noting the Syrian side wanted assurances from Ankara that Turkish forces currently present illegally on Syrian territory would be withdrawn in the future.

The Turkish military presence in northern Syria constitutes the main obstacle to the progress of the normalization process between Ankara and Damascus. The latter had announced that there would be no talk of any steps for normalization before the troops withdrawal.

Ankara, for its part, says that the presence of its forces was necessary until the completion of the political process, the adoption of the constitution, the holding of elections, and the formation of a Syrian government through elections that provide guarantees for the safe return of refugees.

Also, Trkiye says that it does not trust the current ability of the Syrian army to guarantee the security of the common border, in light of the presence of Kurdish militants in the south.

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U.S. Inability To Address Nuclear Waste Harms Environmental Progress – Newsweek

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If you need your garbage collected, you call Waste Management. But if you're a nuclear power plant operator, don't bother calling the federal governmentin 40 years they still haven't made a pickup.

In 1982, Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), which directed the Department of Energy to site, build, and operate a repository for the disposal of high-level waste and spent nuclear fuel. Since that time, political paralysis has prevented the government from creating a storage site, which has left spent fuel in communities that did not consent to its presence and were promised its removal. Overcoming this decades-long failure is critical to reviving nuclear power and achieving climate goals without unfairly burdening local populations or taxpayers.

The federal government's inability to fulfill its legal obligation has not stopped the private sector from safely managing spent nuclear fuel. For over 30 years power plant operators have stored spent fuel with zero incidents of radioactive leakage or death. Since the 1950s, the U.S. has generated a little over 90,000 metric tons of waste, which would be easy to permanently store and manage. If it were all stacked up, it would fit on a single football field at a depth of less than 10 yards.

While the industry's safety in the handling of spent fuel is commendable, the status quo is not sustainable for taxpayers or the environment.

The Department of Energy still holds the obligation to collect and dispose of the nation's spent fuel. But with no national storage facility available, the federal government currently pays power plant operators to store spent fuel on-site. Taxpayers have been left to pick up the tab, spending $2 million per day and nearly $9 billion total since 1998. If left unaddressed, this figure will rise to an estimated $30 billion by 2030.

America's inability to implement a feasible waste solution has also come at a cost to the environment. Eleven statesincluding California, New York, and New Jerseyhave imposed moratoriums on new nuclear power until a repository is completed. Instead of building out a fleet of reliable, carbon-free nuclear energy, these states have placed their hopes on renewables, which need baseload natural gas to survive.

Finding a solution to this challenge will require political willpower, community engagement, and innovative thinking.

Many of the answers have been outlined already in the 2012 Blue Ribbon Commission's report, which includes eight high-level recommendations to address spent fuel storage in the U.S. To date, the Department of Energy has begun to implement only one of those recommendationsstarting the process of developing a consent-based siting process for an interim storage facility for spent fuel in 2021.

However, under the current structure of the NWPA, the Department of Energy is not legally authorized to build an interim storage facility. While the original NWPA mandated and described a process to select a location for a repository, subsequent amendments have limited the scope to a single site, Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The law now functionally excludes consideration of any other sites or storage methods.

Congress should reform the law to give the Department of Energy the flexibility to site permanent and temporary storage facilities as it sees fit. Importantly, funding for the construction of these sites already exists through the Nuclear Waste Fund, which has over $44.3 billion collected to be spent on a nuclear waste disposal facility.

Reducing restrictions to a consent-based process is in the best economic and environmental interest of the United States. As has happened in the case of Yucca Mountain, a lack of community buy-in increases costs and delays projects. However, when stakeholders are engaged, approval for the nuclear industry greatly improves. In fact, the communities most supportive of nuclear power are the ones that have the technology in their vicinity.

Congress also should continue to fund R&D programs like the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Project, which is working to deploy a sodium-cooled fast reactor that effectively runs on spent nuclear fuel at the site of a retiring coal plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming. If this project is successful, it could provide a solution to address America's spent fuel challenges.

It has been over 40 years since Congress first set out to establish a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the United States. Its failure to do so has cost taxpayers and the environment dearly, but solutions remain. By reforming the broken NWPA, engaging with communities, and investing in innovation, the U.S. can more efficiently handle its spent fuel and address one of the biggest roadblocks to unleashing a nuclear energy revolution.

Jeff Luse is a policy analyst at Generation Atomic.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground.

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Park Progress – Greater Wilmington Business Journal

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Pender County is seeing its Field of Dreams endeavor bear fruit, as Pender Commerce Park grows and thrives.

The planning began in the early 2000s when the county wanted to create an economic driver on its largely rural west side. Officials teamed up with Wilmington Business Development to focus on developing about 400 county-owned acres along U.S. 421, just north of the New Hanover County line.

In 2013 we took the property through the Duke Site Readiness Program and the first tenant, Acme Smoked Fish, was recruited shortly after, said Scott Satterfield, CEO of WBD. Acme has since been joined by Berkshire Hathaway-owned Empire Distributors, FedEx Freight, Coastal Beverage and the first foreign direct investment in the park Polyhose a manufacturer and distributor of hydraulic hose out of Chennai, India. (Read more about Polyhoses products in this months MADE feature here).

To accommodate Acme and other future tenants, Pender County built water and wastewater treatment plants on site. Piedmont Natural Gas ran its pipes into the park. In 2015, AT&T announced the installation of fiber optic cable to bring high-speed internet to the parks future tenants. Pender Commerce Park was the first business park in North Carolina to receive the designation of AT&T Fiber Ready.

The park welcomed Brooklyn, New York-based Acme Smoked Fish in early 2015. Six months later, the company was poised to hit its five-year job target as it increased its capacity more quickly than anticipated.

Acme is not the only park tenant that has grown.

This location and space helped us [achieve] our aggressive growth plan, said Brian Rector, chief financial officer of Coastal Beverage Co., which moved to Pender Commerce Park about five years ago from its location on Harley Street, off Market Street in Wilmington.

Unable to add all the space it needed at the Harley Street facility, the beer, wine and soft drink distributor worked with Will Leonard, of Cape Fear Commercial, to scout alternatives. After looking at a few possibilities, Rector said his team quickly understood that [the park] was the location for us.

We could build almost twice the size warehouse, which allowed us to maintain good inventory levels and to continue to see strong organic growth, Rector continued. Our brands continue to do well. Weve definitely seen some organic growth with the increase in [the regions] population, and we are always looking for new brands that fit Coastal Beverages plans.

We also acquired Atlantic Shores Distributors the same year we moved out here; we picked up their brands and service territory, Rector added. Theres quick access from here to several interstates.

Fellow beverage company Empire Distributors had found a home at the commerce park a couple of years before Coastal Beverage began building its new facility. Other companies have followed.

Joining those tenants in the park in recent years has been Chris Ramm, of Ramm Capital Partners/Taylor Development, Satterfield said. As part of a product development initiative, Ramm has worked with WBD and Pender County to stand up more than 250,000 square feet of speculative space in multiple buildings, which has since been leased to quality tenants including Colony Tire, Professional Builders Supply, Superior Pool Products, Lansing Building Products and The Home Depot. Our brokerage partner was Cape Fear Commercial.

The largest-scale project, to date, in the park is a 300,000 square-foot cold storage facility recently developed by RL Cold and leased to the largest transportation company in the world, Maersk, Satterfield added.

The facility is operated by Maersk subsidiary Performance Team.

Another tenant, Polyhose Inc., recently announced plans to double the size of its current plant. Polyhose officials also committed to an additional 8 acres at the park, citing more opportunities coming our way, as the company establishes its North American presence. Polyhose, whose U.S. unit supplies hoses to automotive and construction equipment manufacturers worldwide, expects the new phase to be complete in the first quarter of 2025.

The proof has certainly been in the pudding as far as our association with Wilmington and the local community is concerned, Fatema Mo, Polyhoses vice president of marketing and human resources, said in the announcement. We hope our association continues to get stronger and we are able to look at different ways in which we can contribute to the community and grow together.

Success stories like this help balance the reality that some prospects will get away.

A major disappointment to Pender and WBD officials was Amazons decision to abandon plans for a 1,000-job distribution center at the commerce park. But, said Satterfield, the company hasnt taken all its marbles and gone away.

Amazon has a holding in the park with plans to bring a final-mile delivery station to the market, he said, adding that Amazon owns Lots 6 and 7. Each deal in the park has been complex in nature but created significant jobs and tax base for the entire region.

A remaining asset ripe for redevelopment is the former BASF site which the larger proposed Amazon project was tied to that straddles New Hanover and Pender counties adjacent to the commerce park.

The southern/brownfield parcel more than 150 acres represents a tremendous economic development opportunity for end users considering greater Wilmington for expansion or relocation, Satterfield said. The site is high and dry with good sandy soils, sits along a four-lane highway, and is less than 15 minutes from downtown Wilmington, ILM and the Port of Wilmington.

Two years ago, the Golden LEAF Foundation gave Pender County a grant of $500,000 to clear and clean up the brownfield site. Satterfield has said WBD is bullish on the sites potential.

When WBD staffers pitch Pender Commerce Park to potential tenants, what attributes do they emphasize? Satterfield ticked off a few.

Location proximity to Wilmingtons assets and amenities, infrastructure and competitive cost are amongst the key advantages associated with the Pender Commerce Park, he said. Every client is unique; thus, the attractive attributes rank different for each respective client. With that said, this is widely recognized as one of the best industrial positions in the market and is the model for us with other business parks being developed in neighboring counties.

We knew the park was going to be successful, and we all know each other pretty well, Rector said. We continue to plan and hope for the growth of 421. From downtown Wilmington up to the park, things continue to build up.

Satterfield said that, although decades in the making, the Pender Commerce Park is delivering as officials hoped.

The Pender Commerce Park has become the premier business park in Southeastern North Carolina with over 1,000 jobs, more than 1 million square feet of industrial space under roof and more than $500 million in capital expenditure investment represented at the park, he said. The foresight and proactive investment by Pender County in land and infrastructure has led to this string of results and helped to drive activity up and down Wilmingtons most prominent industrial corridor.

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Helldivers 2 Galactic War live map: Track status and progress with this Liberty-approved web app – Windows Central

Pittsburgh police will only respond to calls of in-progress emergencies as part of new staffing plan – Police News

A year of achievement, rebuilding and progress for utilities – Yoursun.com

Trkiye: No Direct Dialogue with Damascus, No Progress in Normalization – Asharq Al-awsat – English

A WORK IN PROGRESS | News | shelbynews.com – Shelbynews

From recurrent networks to GPT-4: Measuring algorithmic progress in language models – Tech Xplore

U.S. Inability To Address Nuclear Waste Harms Environmental Progress – Newsweek

Park Progress – Greater Wilmington Business Journal

SF supervisor to hold hearing on homeless-shelter progress | Housing | sfexaminer.com – San Francisco Examiner

‘It’s good to see progress being made on the site’: Revised vision for Liberty Theater property in Libertyville – Daily Herald

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