Calculating gross and weekly wages worksheet

Understanding how to calculate tax on payslip.

2023.06.01 13:58 Weird-Agency-6176 Understanding how to calculate tax on payslip.

Hi, so I've been trying to calculate my tax, and I cannot get it to line up up with my spreadsheet nor any online calculators available. I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
My partner works for same company and that one I have calculated correctly.
I earn 48. 3k a year. I pay 10% into employer pension and my tax code is 1221L. There are no other deductions for student loan or any benefits etc.
My understanding is my annual taxable amount should be 48.3 - 10% = 43.5k, Minus off £12210 allowance = 31k that I pay 20% on. This equals 6.3k per annum. I get paid every 4 weeks so 13 times a year, so I should pay £481 each pay day. I'm only paying £382.
I cannot see what I'm missing. Like I said I have my partners calculated the same and it matches exactly.
Any ideas or obvious things I've missed?
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2023.06.01 13:53 Ner0ess1 I am thinking of giving up

I am studying Software Development at college as preparation for Discrete math. I have missed almost all classes however I have been self learning utilizing studying techniques (pomodoro etc) from several resources like KhanAcademy, asking chatgtp and preparation material for the test. The one thing 2 hours of daily study for 2 MONTHS have taught me is.. I suck at math? I liked studying it on KhanAcademy but it doesnt nearly give me enough theory to pass the test and the preparation material has made me even more confused than I was, I honestly think it might not be for me. Its like things I learnt last week disseapear from my head when I try to revise and learning new things take hours. I know this is super ungeneral post and there really is no helping me from what I said. I kind of just wanted to rant about how stupid I feel... I am trying to remain motivated but its hard man, I legit feel like I havent even learn anything and me now preparing for the test and not even being able to answer one question from example test kind of just makes me want to give up.
Here is the example test, the test in a week. I think its over and my efforts have been absolute waste.
Mathematical Analysis Sample Exam Paper Each question is worth 6 points, for a total of 60 points. Please answer all questions carefully. Explain your approach, simply stating yes/no is not sufficient, provide as much reasoning as possible. Write your name on each sheet of paper.
Question 1 Provide an example of a convergent geometric series and another example of a divergent geometric series. If possible, calculate the infinite sum for one of them. To what value must the individual terms of any convergent series approach?
Question 2 Determine the one-sided limits (from the left and from the right) at the point x = 1 for the real functions f, g, and h, given f(x) = 1/(x - 1), g(x) = signum(x - 1), and h(x) = ln(x). Determine whether these functions are continuous at x = 1. If not, justify whether it is possible to redefine them to make them continuous. Question 3 Explain what the domain and range of a function mean. Compute the domain for f = sin(x)/x. Is this function even or odd on its domain? Is this function monotonic on (0, ∞)? Question 4 Find the equation of the tangent line to the function y = 1/(x + 1) at the point x = 1. Draw the function and its tangent line. Question 5 Define the inverse of a function. Give an example of a function and its inverse. Also, provide an example of a function that does not have an inverse and justify it. Determine the derivative of the inverse function at 8, given that f'(2) = 12 and f(2) = 8, and f is strictly monotonic. Question 6 Explain what the trigonometric form of a complex number is. Compute the absolute value of the number 2i/(4 - i). Question 7 Write the general equation of the tangent plane τ(x, y) to the graph of the function f(x, y) at the point (x0, y0). Compute it specifically for f(x, y) = xy - y^2 and the point (0, 1). Also, compute all second partial derivatives at this point. Question 8 Find all functions whose derivative is f(x) = sin(3x + 5). Use the substitution method. Question 9 Define what it means for a sequence to have a limit at infinity. Provide a sequence that has a limit at infinity. Provide two different sequences whose limit is -1. Give an example of a sequence that does not have a limit (neither finite nor infinite). Question 10 Consider the function f(x) = x^2y + 5y + 3 and the rectangle with vertices at points [0, 1], [1, 1], [0, 2], and [1, 2]. Compute the integral of the function f over this rectangle.
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2023.06.01 13:48 kitkid 'The Run-Up': The New Terms of Abortion Politics

Jun 1, 2023
The Dobbs decision upended political calculations on both sides of the abortion debate. Democrats used the issue as evidence of Republican extremism, and it cost the G.O.P. seats in the 2022 midterms.
Now, with a presidential primary looming, abortion activists have an opportunity to reset their strategies for 2024 and roll out new litmus tests for their respective candidates.
This week, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, and Alexis McGill Johnson, head of Planned Parenthood, on how they’re trying to reshape the abortion debate in the U.S.
You can listen to the episode here.
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2023.06.01 13:43 Mode1961 Overtime and covering for someone else

So last Friday, I was near my 40 hours for the week and my boss asked if I could come in Sat for 4 hours to cover for someone else. I asked "But how am I going to log that since I will be at my 40-hour max for the week", She replied that the hours would be "in Lieu", iow, and I will get 4 hours off at some point in the future. I said "I am sorry but I don't want to be THAT GUY" but if I work overtime I wanted to be paid in OVERTIME. Since our overtime is double time, if I work 4 hours I want to be paid double my wage for 4 hours. "That's not how we do it here", well sorry then I am not working.
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2023.06.01 13:30 readingrachelx Housewife highlights/Daily shit talk - June 1st, 2023

ATLANTA
NEW JERSEY
ORANGE COUNTY
NEW YORK
BEVERLY HILLS
MIAMI
BRAVO
TORONTO
CHESHIRE
NAIROBI
GQEBERHA
Links to this week's episode discussion posts:
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2023.06.01 13:28 baltimore-aureole OMG . . . the average worker needs 2 lifetimes to earn as much as a CEO?

OMG . . . the average worker needs 2 lifetimes to earn as much as a CEO?

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Photo Above – Screenshot from the upcoming film “Bezos Ark”, starring Russell Crowe Not Shown – Rising sea levels due to “climate change”
CEOs got smaller raises. It would still take a typical worker two lifetimes to make their annual pay AP News
I found this disturbing at first. The average worker needing 50 or 60 years of salary to earn as much a CEO. (See link above).
Which CEO is average, though? I draw a distinction between guys (and women) who invent something neat, then risk everything to bring it to market. Steve Jobs of Apple. Bill Gates of Microsoft. Maybe even Elon Musk, of Tesla – although much of his good fortune came from conning the Obama administration into doling out tax rebates for millionaires scooping up his first edition $100,000 Telsa hot rods. That's called “an inflection point”. Once you reach a critical mass of sales, you're home free.
I'm less certain about CEOs who don't invent stuff – who just hype it. Jeff Bezos didn't invent the idea of online shopping and home delivery. That was probably Sears Roebuck. Which went bankrupt because they couldn't figure out how to get it right. And kudos to Bezos for using other people's money to build thousands of warehouses, and serving us up a bunch of faux/imitation crapola from China. Is Jeff a genius? Compared to you and me, for sure! If I had the brains and guts to do that, I surely would have. I just hope I didn't go bankrupt and into oblivion if I got it wrong.
True confession – I've always hated Facebook. Not Mark Zuckerberg personally. Just the idea that a website - invented to keep you connected with friends and family- has become a monster. One of the biggest threats to personal privacy. It sells our “cookies” to the highest bidder. When I research a potential purchase – dog kibble, a car, or some obscure book –for weeks afterwards I will be inundated with alternative products, from obscure companies. Until my car and kibble cookies are eclipsed by my next search for canvas summer shoes. Do I need to remind everyone that Facebook is also a stew of "moderator approved" conspiracy theories and state sponsored trolls?
Google is the real cookie monster. Online search engines aren't the same kind of game changer as fire, the wheel, or atomic fission. But Google is getting its comeuppance. Hemmed in by a gazillion lawsuits for "scraping" intellectual property from other sites, and for manipulating their search results for a kickback. Just wait 'til Artificial Intelligence really gets rolling. Search engines will serve up amalgamated/composite results, instead of linking us to trusted sources. If you ask CHATGPT if the earth is round, it might hedge its bets and tell you there's a 2% chance the world is flat. That, of course, would be based on the millions of results it has seen. How else could AI already conclude that white supremacy, pedophilia, and genocide of Jews are mainstream ideas?
Back to giant CEO pay. I'd have less angst if there were also giant CEO taxes being paid. But no one really knows how much bozos like Bezos pay. Certainly they have enough left over to build 500 foot mega-yatchs. To buy mansions in 7 countries. To keep a small army of guys in Zurich watching over their numbered, tax evading bank accounts.
I should confess that i am NOT a tax accountant. All I know is that there's more than 2,000 pages of IRS regulations - just for me. That's the length if you're an individual filer with a normal W2 wage statement. If you're a billionaire, or a corporation, or a subchapter S partnership, or an entertainer with royalties, or an NBA superstar college dropout with deferred income going decades into the future . . . well, who know how many pages of loopholes are baked into YOUR regulations?
My point is this: the world – well, America at least - would be a lot fairer if we had a straight income tax. Exclude the first $25,000 or $50,000 in income. Then pay something easy to understand on the rest. 17% ? 25%? I've seen both numbers argued. Forget all the deceptive crap. Tank those tax deductions for yachts masquerading as second homes. Drop carry forward interest. Let capital sinking funds sink under the waves. Forget farmland tax credits on land which you had no intention of farming, and never got enough rain to grow squat on anyway.
Pick a number for the income tax rate, and let's go with it. Maybe even two numbers. A normal rate for incomes less than $250,000 a year, and a higher rate for incomes over that. But no BS deductions. Your rate is your rate. Whether you're a stoner, a schoolteacher, or software billionaire with a yacht bigger than the Titanic.
Can we at least discuss this?
I now open the floor for debate: to everyone in this forum claiming to be a tax accountant, a socialist/redistributionist, or a millionaire. Tell me straight up why it's unfair to have simple income taxes? And just forget all the tricky loopholes created by politicians for their rich buddies?
Yes, I'm aware that someone is going to snark that “rich guys” will simply flee to a place with low taxes. Someplace usually run by a nasty dictator. That's their choice. I guess we'll just have to depend on the self evident advantages of democracy, a fair legal system, and human rights to make America's case. After all, people like Elon Musk (from South Africa), Sergei Brin, co-founder of Google (from Russia), and Zoom founder Eric Yuan (China) didn't come to America because they heard about our tax rates, did they?
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2023.06.01 13:25 throwRAemote My (40F) partner (40M) won't commit but I can't seem to end things

I need this space to talk things through and this is partly to put my thoughts on paper (very long sorry!) We met 3 years ago online, he was really open and attentive to begin with, I was more guarded. He seemed a bit immature and drank a lot but that seemed not too challenging. We moved in after a year (on my lease), and over time he withdrew more and more. I had always said I wanted to be married, buy a house etc. He nodded along. After two years, he started getting in prolonged moods, not speaking for days and days but would always say it was due to some perceived slight. We stopped having sex, and only did when I would become upset. He refuses to say why we don't have sex other than I'm not nice enough to him. We might have sex twice a year, nil affection or imagination. Just rubbish missionary. I've tried to talk about it a million times, work out what the issue is and build intimacy, and he just says there is no problem. I thought it might be cause I put on - fair amount of lockdown weight, but he denied it. I gave him an ultimatum after another week of not speaking to either see a counsellor with me or leave. He chose to leave. He spent weeks arranging to move out (which I now think was probably a delaying tactic) then we had a very tearful conversation and decided to give it a go. He said he would think about marriage after his promotion at work
You can tell where this is going ... a year later, absolutely nothing has changed and he now : he doesn't ever want marriage. It is my own fu in a way for thinking he could change. I'm miserable. I'm in a sexless relationship with someone who refuses to ever make any adult decision and sneers at what I want in life. But somehow I haven't ended it. I guess I am scared to be single at 40. When I try to talk about it he gives me crumbs and tells me I should be happy. I do all the work of adult (name on lease, organise the bills etc) and feel like he doesn't want to grow up. I don't even really want sex anymore, it's painful and I feel gross afterwards having sex with someone who doesn't signal a moment of affection, desire or attraction. My binge eating disorder has come back after years of being ok, feel so gross (he is not supportive and buys shit food non stop) and can't lose this weight When I try and end things I just get tied in knots and he keeps arguing with me that I am or should be happy with our relationship. I think the sex thing has made me feel unloveable. I feel so upset whenever people ask when we are getting engaged etc. he is objectively bad news (debts he won't pay off, drinks too much, mean and rude to strangers) How the fuck do I get rid of him and be brave enough to move on? The few friends I have spoken to haven't been much support except one.
I feel unloved, ugly, weak and miserable.
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2023.06.01 13:25 No-Butterscotch-8098 GM4A Trapped In an MMORPG with roleplaying system

The year is 2065 and the world is dying. Technology however has continued to leap forward in 2030 Outian Technologies created the first AI that not only passed the Turing test but could be programmed and trained just as well as a living person. This revolutionized most jobs and caused a massive fallout of lost jobs as the AI were simple to install and could perform the intellectual labor of dozens of employees in a fraction of the time. The Founder and Owner of Outian Technologies, Glen U. Zautner, however was the first human to pass into the Trillionare status. With his newfound wealth he did what all mega wealthy men did, he started a space program Æthelwulf LLC, though his ambitions were beyond what the Billionaires of the 2020s could belief. He employed his AI technology and millions of men and women to craft a space station able to carry humanity not just to Mars but to the nearest livable planet in the TRAPPIST-1 System due to it harboring multiple habitable planets. Though even with all his advances in technology it appeared as though the journey would take 30,000 years with the state of the art ship he was creating and with a path specifically calculated by his AI. This is when he began to buy more corporations as the population speculated on what he was doing. His first purchase was a failing business known as Novromics Group a business that was attempting to use the newly manufactured brain/human interfaces to establish a virtual afterlife. Only a few years after his purchase the company turned around and brought in billions more to fuel his endeavor as almost every person began signing up for the extremely reasonable price to become immortal, though there were issues with the 'Heavens' being limited and over time the minds would grow distant to their former lives. Though at the same time he purchased Novromics Group He also purchased the gaming company Gremlin Inc after their 5th major open world release that has not only revolutionized the gaming industry but also logged more playtime hours than any other game in history "Broken Lands: Online" had captured the minds and imaginations of all the unemployed and destitute people of the world. His purchase came with next to unlimited funds, resources from his AI labs and computer industries along with another purchase of the Virtual Reality Company Honian Bionic Realities. Rybanks Cryogentics, Olive Branch Computing along with some of the most brilliant and creative minds the world had to offer were quickly snatched up by his overwhelming pay. Over the next 30 years he invested more and more of his trillions of dollars and with investments from others still seemed to shift the worlds economy to producing his ship and grand idea. In the year 2060 he released his grand plan, he was going to bring humanity out of this dying world. 10 million people would join him, his investors, specially chosen men and women with vast knowledges. Their were only 5 million slots able to be purchased at the staggering cost of 2 million a person, the rest were given out based on genetic information and a lottery. Those chosen would wear a large brain/mind attachment for 5 years as it uploaded and mimicked their brain patterns. They would be brought in constantly to special VR training areas to map out their minds and train them to live in this new world. Finally within one week of the launch date every participant was given a character creation menu and base information about the world they would be entering. A fantasy world crafted by the join ventures of the team at Gremlin Inc and Honian Bionic Realities, a world meant to challenge and let people stay entertained for years to come...but there was a catch...
I have been working on a rpg setup that allows for mostly text based interactions as opposed to Dungeons and Dragons meant for parties and live play. If you are interested to give it a try feel free to message me. The world is fairly dark but it isn’t an endless slog of nightmares.
I have a character building setup and a fun 1 on 1 tutorial level. Feel free to Dm.
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2023.06.01 13:23 working_2021 I had my first test yesterday 😭😭

im taking a drop this year for mains. We had our first test yesterday and it was just 1 chapter, Solutions and I studied for a whole week only to get 52% and a rank around 350 out 1500 students.

It's so disheartening. I feel like I'm wasting my dad's money and time. He's so angry with me. Idk what the fuck im supposed to do

There are kids out there getting 100/100. They started preparing during school days. I come from state board and my math and everything is weak. Im so slow at calculations. I might move to an hostel bc i can't stand my dad
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2023.06.01 13:22 No-Butterscotch-8098 GM4A Trapped In an MMORPG with roleplaying system

The year is 2065 and the world is dying. Technology however has continued to leap forward in 2030 Outian Technologies created the first AI that not only passed the Turing test but could be programmed and trained just as well as a living person. This revolutionized most jobs and caused a massive fallout of lost jobs as the AI were simple to install and could perform the intellectual labor of dozens of employees in a fraction of the time. The Founder and Owner of Outian Technologies, Glen U. Zautner, however was the first human to pass into the Trillionare status. With his newfound wealth he did what all mega wealthy men did, he started a space program Æthelwulf LLC, though his ambitions were beyond what the Billionaires of the 2020s could belief. He employed his AI technology and millions of men and women to craft a space station able to carry humanity not just to Mars but to the nearest livable planet in the TRAPPIST-1 System due to it harboring multiple habitable planets. Though even with all his advances in technology it appeared as though the journey would take 30,000 years with the state of the art ship he was creating and with a path specifically calculated by his AI. This is when he began to buy more corporations as the population speculated on what he was doing. His first purchase was a failing business known as Novromics Group a business that was attempting to use the newly manufactured brain/human interfaces to establish a virtual afterlife. Only a few years after his purchase the company turned around and brought in billions more to fuel his endeavor as almost every person began signing up for the extremely reasonable price to become immortal, though there were issues with the 'Heavens' being limited and over time the minds would grow distant to their former lives. Though at the same time he purchased Novromics Group He also purchased the gaming company Gremlin Inc after their 5th major open world release that has not only revolutionized the gaming industry but also logged more playtime hours than any other game in history "Broken Lands: Online" had captured the minds and imaginations of all the unemployed and destitute people of the world. His purchase came with next to unlimited funds, resources from his AI labs and computer industries along with another purchase of the Virtual Reality Company Honian Bionic Realities. Rybanks Cryogentics, Olive Branch Computing along with some of the most brilliant and creative minds the world had to offer were quickly snatched up by his overwhelming pay. Over the next 30 years he invested more and more of his trillions of dollars and with investments from others still seemed to shift the worlds economy to producing his ship and grand idea. In the year 2060 he released his grand plan, he was going to bring humanity out of this dying world. 10 million people would join him, his investors, specially chosen men and women with vast knowledges. Their were only 5 million slots able to be purchased at the staggering cost of 2 million a person, the rest were given out based on genetic information and a lottery. Those chosen would wear a large brain/mind attachment for 5 years as it uploaded and mimicked their brain patterns. They would be brought in constantly to special VR training areas to map out their minds and train them to live in this new world. Finally within one week of the launch date every participant was given a character creation menu and base information about the world they would be entering. A fantasy world crafted by the join ventures of the team at Gremlin Inc and Honian Bionic Realities, a world meant to challenge and let people stay entertained for years to come...but there was a catch...
I have been working on a rpg setup that allows for mostly text based interactions as opposed to Dungeons and Dragons meant for parties and live play. If you are interested to give it a try feel free to message me. The world is fairly dark but it isn’t an endless slog of nightmares.
I have a character building setup and a fun 1 on 1 tutorial level. Feel free to Dm.
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2023.06.01 13:22 Big-Magazine3758 Account Manager IT sales in Data science & BI

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2023.06.01 13:21 No-Butterscotch-8098 GM4A Trapped In an MMORPG with roleplaying system

The year is 2065 and the world is dying. Technology however has continued to leap forward in 2030 Outian Technologies created the first AI that not only passed the Turing test but could be programmed and trained just as well as a living person. This revolutionized most jobs and caused a massive fallout of lost jobs as the AI were simple to install and could perform the intellectual labor of dozens of employees in a fraction of the time. The Founder and Owner of Outian Technologies, Glen U. Zautner, however was the first human to pass into the Trillionare status. With his newfound wealth he did what all mega wealthy men did, he started a space program Æthelwulf LLC, though his ambitions were beyond what the Billionaires of the 2020s could belief. He employed his AI technology and millions of men and women to craft a space station able to carry humanity not just to Mars but to the nearest livable planet in the TRAPPIST-1 System due to it harboring multiple habitable planets. Though even with all his advances in technology it appeared as though the journey would take 30,000 years with the state of the art ship he was creating and with a path specifically calculated by his AI. This is when he began to buy more corporations as the population speculated on what he was doing. His first purchase was a failing business known as Novromics Group a business that was attempting to use the newly manufactured brain/human interfaces to establish a virtual afterlife. Only a few years after his purchase the company turned around and brought in billions more to fuel his endeavor as almost every person began signing up for the extremely reasonable price to become immortal, though there were issues with the 'Heavens' being limited and over time the minds would grow distant to their former lives. Though at the same time he purchased Novromics Group He also purchased the gaming company Gremlin Inc after their 5th major open world release that has not only revolutionized the gaming industry but also logged more playtime hours than any other game in history "Broken Lands: Online" had captured the minds and imaginations of all the unemployed and destitute people of the world. His purchase came with next to unlimited funds, resources from his AI labs and computer industries along with another purchase of the Virtual Reality Company Honian Bionic Realities. Rybanks Cryogentics, Olive Branch Computing along with some of the most brilliant and creative minds the world had to offer were quickly snatched up by his overwhelming pay. Over the next 30 years he invested more and more of his trillions of dollars and with investments from others still seemed to shift the worlds economy to producing his ship and grand idea. In the year 2060 he released his grand plan, he was going to bring humanity out of this dying world. 10 million people would join him, his investors, specially chosen men and women with vast knowledges. Their were only 5 million slots able to be purchased at the staggering cost of 2 million a person, the rest were given out based on genetic information and a lottery. Those chosen would wear a large brain/mind attachment for 5 years as it uploaded and mimicked their brain patterns. They would be brought in constantly to special VR training areas to map out their minds and train them to live in this new world. Finally within one week of the launch date every participant was given a character creation menu and base information about the world they would be entering. A fantasy world crafted by the join ventures of the team at Gremlin Inc and Honian Bionic Realities, a world meant to challenge and let people stay entertained for years to come...but there was a catch...
I have been working on a rpg setup that allows for mostly text based interactions as opposed to Dungeons and Dragons meant for parties and live play. If you are interested to give it a try feel free to message me. The world is fairly dark but it isn’t an endless slog of nightmares.
I have a character building setup and a fun 1 on 1 tutorial level. Feel free to Dm.
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2023.06.01 13:21 jiSchoolERP What Are The Essential Features Required To Be In ERP Solutions For Schools?

What Are The Essential Features Required To Be In ERP Solutions For Schools?

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An ERP solutions for schools can provide a variety of essential features that improve efficiency, accuracy, and transparency in school operations. Here are some of these important features:

  1. Student Information System (SIS): The system keeps track of student attendance, grades, schedules, course history, and more.
  2. Financial Management: Efficiently manages financial transactions such as income, expenses, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, and reporting.
  3. Human Resources: Handles employee records, job postings, recruitment, benefits management, performance evaluations, and other HR tasks.
  4. Payroll: Calculates and processes salaries and wages for all employees, including deductions and taxes, ensuring accurate and timely payment.
  5. Transportation Management: Tracks bus routes, pickup times, drop-off locations, transportation costs, and driver assignments, and ensures the safety of students.
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2023.06.01 13:10 Financial_Tackle_459 A Letter of Gratitude from Devs

A Letter of Gratitude from Devs
Fellow Travelers, Greetings! It has been a real honor to witness your first week of your journeying through Adenthia. Our dev team has been busy all the while, getting our teeth into the game, watching the heated discussions on Discord, and fixing reported bugs. Still, all this bustle generated great delight because Travelers numbering beyond all expectations participated in Closed Beta Test II (hereafter referred to as CBT2). Your enthusiastic testing has helped immensely in locating multiple inconspicuous bugs; your likes and praise have fueled us with courage; your criticisms and suggestions have inspired us to consider the exacting details; your discussions brimming with kindness and the friendly atmosphere have made the Dragonheir community even more unique. On such a momentous occasion, the dev team would like to share with you some inspiring player feedback, our recent reflections, and future plans for Dragonheir. About Font Size and Colorblind Mode Through questionnaire surveys, we have received a number of suggestions from players of greater age, such as subtitles are too small, illegible text and UI, to name a few, which we believe are significant facets of player experience. It is our sincerest wish that players of all ages enjoy Dragonheir, thus we are now designing a UI customization function in order to enhance the gaming experience for players with visual impairments. We estimated this function to be available in Open Beta (hereafter referred as OB). We also realize that the colors of Aggro Lines are indiscernible for some colorblind players. We are now considering adjusting the colors, as well as planning the development of Colorblind Mode. Frankly speaking, this may take some time, but the dev team has already pinned it on our agenda. About Restriction on Journey Level As expected, restrictions on Journey Level have been met with some disapproval. Through several rounds of in-depth discussions within the dev team, and in view of the season mechanics and other features centered on RPG sandbox gameplay, we eventually decided to adopt this design. Dragonheir is a game measured by seasons. We hope that in one season, players will commence their journeys at approximately the same time, competing and cooperating at similar paces. If no restriction were placed on Journey Level, with enough time elapsed, early starters would quickly pull far away from later starters. From another aspect, Dragonheir is a game featuring a combination of hero development and RPG-style adventuring. We want players to alternate their gameplay experience between the main story and hero development, instead of going through all RPG elements and completing the main story within the first few days, then solely farming dungeons and upgrading heroes for the rest of the season. Such a split would essentially divide the game into two separate parts, ruining the sense of gameplay cohesion. In all honesty, SGRA is still a studio in its youth. Although we have so far done our utmost and completed development of four in-game regions (the Chaos Universum, the Forest, the Plains, and the fourth region to be launched in Global Launch), the quantity of in-game text totals almost 1 million words, not to mention our aspiration to support 8-10 languages in the near future. It is a huge challenge for us to develop RPG mechanics and main story content at a rapid tempo. Therefore, we would rather release playable content more steadily. About Free Gifts, Summoning, Legendary Heroes Dragonheir is distinct from other games in which only Epic and Legendary heroes matter. It is a multivariant RPG featuring strategy, elemental coordination, and hero composition. Every single hero, even the Common ones, has value, rather than simply being tossed out for materials or looking decorative. Naturally, we aim to give players free rein to try out many hero combos, using as many Rare and Epic heroes as possible in the first few seasons. This will in turn inspire us to discover more heroes and team compositions with exciting potential, helping us offer better builds for OB players. We understand that it is no mean feat to form a solid strategy for hero development and composition with a lack of tutorials and guides. Nevertheless, S0 (Season 0) heroes in CBT2 will be carried over to S1 (Season 1). As stated in the previous letter from the devs, staying highly active and involved by completing a full Season's check-ins will grant you 4-5 Legendary heroes which will greatly boost your early game in the next Season. Currently, we have no plan to increase the amount of obtainable Heliolite Dice. In order to guarantee free-to-play players acquire plenty of Epic heroes, we provide each player with hundreds of Starlight Stone Dice from various sources each season. If we increase the probability of summoning Legendary heroes, this may lead to many third parties creating new accounts for a chance to obtain Legendary heroes in an early stage. The existence of such accounts will doubtless lead to a devaluation of paying accounts, and critically harm the development of Dragonheir. That Dragonheir is still in the test phase is inarguable. We place huge importance on, and deliberate over, any problems you encounter in the game. Opinions and suggestions posted in our communities will be our consistent focus. We will also aim to devise better plans to optimize the experience of free gifts, summoning, and so forth. Other Replies and Development Preview Please Enable 4K Resolution Great idea! The dev team has already been preparing the necessary tech and resources to support 4K Resolution on PC. We believe we'll be able to offer optimized graphics on Windows and Mac devices during OB! About Simultaneous Arena We know that it is unrealistic for some players to join us in the simultaneous arena due to time zone issues. The opening time of the simultaneous arena will soon be adjusted from 24 hours to 12 hours to ensure accessibility for most time zones. Since currently we have a rather small number of players for testing, we can only guarantee matches with balanced opponents during specific periods of time. As the number of players increases, we will consider adding more of these periods. About Skill Scrolls All Skill Scrolls will be saved for the next season in recognition of your effort and accumulations. About Hero Reset We hope our players will be able to decide on development strategies and aims within 72 hours of familiarization with the heroes they have obtained, a source of fun during the season! However, regret will occasionally be the theme, but will also serve as the driving motivation for farming next season! It is worth mentioning that battles with elemental restrictions in place will be accessible 2-3 weeks after the season begins. Not a single hero you develop will go wasted! About Stamina Since the stamina sources will be reset at the end of the season, we do not want our players to spend too much time farming dungeons. As a result, Dragonheir's recoverable daily stamina is relatively low when compared with some other games. As various features and modes are unlocked as the season progresses, more stamina will become available through activities. About Server and Season We cannot promise all players will be able to create their characters on the exact same day, the season mechanic none-the-less requires players to start competing at the same time, thus we need to open a new server at certain points. Since the ranking rewards and seasonal points of a season are strictly limited, if the server is infinitely accessible with too many players online, it will result in the resources obtained by each player being reduced. At the same time, we are not able to set the difficulty of the Season Boss based on the server's population, otherwise the entire season's design will become far more complex. However, as mentioned previously, we will try our best to mitigate the sense of distance between different servers through various means, such as adding friends, in-game chat, the simultaneous arena and the alliance war. We kindly ask that you register your accounts at the same time if you want to build an alliance and play with your friends. About Optimization of Hero Descriptions Since multiple factors have an impact on the damage calculation, the damage ratio will sometimes mislead the direction of team builds. We don't expect players to spend a lot of time checking the ratio and damage value. Hence, we decided not to display said values in the game. About Walkthroughs and Official Support We have already heard appeals from players in our communities for sources of guides and walkthroughs, and we truly appreciate a great many content creators and walkthrough authors who have been contributing to Dragonheir's walkthrough site. We are now working on the development of game data API, in hopes of providing content creators with support, allowing them to guide new players through obstacles in the early stages of their game experience. Once again, we are much obliged to you all. Dragonheir is still in the CBT2 phase, and SGRA is still a young but dynamic studio. Your continuous support and patience are hugely appreciated by us. We truly hope that, together with our players, our dev team will make Dragonheir an unsurpassable and entirely unique strategy RPG game. Best wishes, Dragonheir: Silent Gods Team

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2023.06.01 13:05 snakesnake9 Diesel or petrol?

So I've been doing a lot of diesel vs petrol engine research recently, and am still getting to conflicting results.
Taking a step back, I will need a car that will be mostly used for shorter urban journeys, but on some/most weekends may see some longer trips out of town, and likely mileage is c10,000km per annum. On Reddit people keep telling me to get a petrol instead, and a lot of websites seem to recommend getting a petrol over a diesel if I'm not doing that many miles. However when doing additional research, I'm not quite getting to the same conclusion.
Diesel issue number 1: I read that the DPFs or diesel particulate filters that are fitted on modern cars need the vehicle to run at high speeds over longer distances to regenerate, and I won't be doing too many of those.
However I read that cars do have active DPF regeneration, so the problem fixes itself I think (combined with my own occasional longer trips, probably at least once every two weeks or so)?
https://www.championlubes.com/en-us/news/how-to-diagnose-a-dpf-regeneration-problem
Therefore question number 1: taking into account cars being fitted with active DPF regeneration, and the occasional trip out of town, do I really need to be worried about a clogged up DPF?
Diesel issue number 2: One of the main arguments for diesel engines is that they're more fuel efficient. I ran some calculations based on similar horsepower petrol vs diesel engines on the same model of car and taking into account their respective fuel economy figures. I conclude that at current prices I'm expecting to save me some €300-500 or so a year in fuel costs. While every penny saved is a positive, I don't think this number in and of itself is worth to weigh on the petrol vs diesel decision on its own.
Diesel issue number 3: this is becoming the biggest one, but looking at available cars (I'm targeting a roughly 3 year old mid-size slightly premium SUV) the available choices for diesel are far better. Like there's several times more diesel options available than petrol for otherwise the same parameters.
As an example if I want a BMW X3 2020, less than 125,000 km on the clock, less than €36K and searching Germany's largest used vehicle database:
Therefore it seems like to get a petrol (which is what everyone seems to recommend) instead of an equivalent diesel, I need to pay much more and choose from a much narrower field of options....and that's on top of slightly higher fuel costs as well. Therefore I'm really struggling to justify why I should get a petrol, but can someone perhaps offer some words of wisdom?
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2023.06.01 13:01 Such_Collar4667 Do nuclear families have regular babysitters for date nights? Would they want nightcare?

I am mother of a 3 year old. Starting a business from home. Partner also works from home. We also have built-in childcare since my mother lives with us and loves her role as nana. I also grew up in a multigenerational household so personally not familiar with seeking childcare outside of family.
We do at least one date night each week. None of our parent friends can ever hang out. They don’t have childcare. Or they have to bring their kids along. It seems like most of them can afford a babysitter but for some reason they don’t get one. In my experience, having a regular date night and even occasional weekend away is critical for a healthy marriage.
I’m thinking about starting a “date night” childcare business that provides casual childcare and a hot meal for similar to what you’d pay a babysitter ($15/hr min wage+ $20 for cost of preparing hot meal or $80/night). If I can keep the overhead low due to finding an affordable space, it should be viable—-(still targeting wealthier nuclear families as customers however since they’re the only ones that can afford to pay what is needed living wages 😭)
My thinking is it’s much easier to sign up for date night care than searching and vetting your own babysitter. I have a few friends that say they’d be interested but words are easy….I’d like more validation before pursuing this. Wonder if there are other things I should be thinking about. (Not worried about licensing since it would be exempt by my state standards with their approval)
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2023.06.01 12:57 Turtlecomuk can I sell laptop belonging to company that didn't pay me.

In October I started working for a firm part time doing data analysis. I was paid in November but 2 days before the December pay date we were told wages would be delayed by 2 weeks due to cash flow issues. 2 weeks cam and another story of how we would be paid before Xmas. Early January I left. I have taken her to an employment tribunal and am expecting a ruling in my favour soon. She has strung the process out as much as possible and made it clear that I will have to take her to court again as she will not pay on a tribunal ruling. I retained possession of her laptop and had intended to return it when I go paid but I don't have funds for the next court fees and am struggling still financially. Where do I stand with regards to selling the laptop, it would likely clear my bill arrears and give me some peace of mind but I don't want to end up in trouble myself, please help?!
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2023.06.01 12:57 gonnatopplemyself713 Would you consider this cheating? Are we doomed? Do I break things off with her?

For context, we are both non-binary and she uses she/they and j use they/them. I will be referring her as only she/her in this post for clarity.
We are both quite young (early twenties) and have been in a loly relationship since we began dating. She was in a relationship with someone else the first couple of weeks but that broke off and they are now good friends.
About 7 months into our relationship we both started dating the same person (not together, we both had oue own relationship with her) but all three of us realized we liked the fun but it wasn’t anything serious. Or mostly the 3rd person and I realized this, we both eanted ti be friends, but my gf was upset about it and didn’t see it coming.
For a few months we decided we would work on the relationship between us again because we were havjng some fights, brought on by stress in both our lives as well as bejng autistic and sometimes being very overstimulated.
During this time she didn’t keep to our agreement and started talking to other people and sexting them sending nudes etc. We both agreed this counted as cheating because she both didn’t keep to our agreement not to do it, plus for weeks she was lying in my face about it, telling me it was all in my head and nothing was going on, until I saw evidence at one point by accident. I confronted her and she came clean about it on her own and promised she wouldn’t lie anymore and be respectful. It was fine for her to be dating others, having sex with them and sexting etc, but she had to be honest about it.
Fast forward a couple mknths and we are sort if on a break. She was mentally unwell and not able to fully be in a relationship and wanted tk work in herself a bit before we would be fully together again and doing partner things like going on dates in public, holding hands, bejng intimate etc.
We agreed that she wouldn’t start any new relationships or have sex with others because of her not being ready for it and needing to work on herself. She suggested that, and we both agreed to it. We wouldn’t be doing that stuff, and would talk to each other honestly if we wanted to (I did go on a few dates and had sex with someone. It didn’t work out but from the moment I met them I kept my partner informed about it, about the dates, how it was going/I was feeling, and about wanting to have sex etc).
She kept telling me she wasn’t talking to anyone, that she wasn’t sexting or sending nudes etc. Until a few weeks ago when she told me she was talking to someone and they might start talking about dating and sex etc. Fine, I was happy for her that it was going well, and she was feeling better mentally. We have been doing a lot better and are pretty much back to how we used to be, we only haven’t had sex yet, the rest is all back.
I was asking how thjngs were going and if it was at dates/sexting/nudes etc yet and she was being weird, and saying that they had talked about skme things and did sext but weren’t doing nudes. She wasn’t taking or sending nudes to anyone or receiving of any kind. Okay cool. I reminded her that it was cool and she could do so, as lkng as she was bejng honest about it. She promised me she wasn’t.
But then I found out partially by accident and partially by snooping a little (I saw something on accident when she asked me to do something on her phone and then went into her phone to see her pictures for a bit). And there it was. For months she has been taking and sending nudes, and she has downloaded 10 more dating apps (we both agreed to only having the one and to talk to each other before downloading more, and now she had like 10???). So not only has she violated our agreement of being honesg and telling each other if we were gonna do stuff like that, she also lied to my face for months saying she wasn’t doing that stuff, she wasn’t lying to me, she would never lie to me agajn, and even pinky promised that she wasn’t doing anything.
She keeps saying how muhc she lives me and doesn’t wanna lose me but… she can’t even be honest? Quite frankly to me this feels like cheating. As far as Imm aware she hasn’t physically done stuff with other people, but the fact that she is having relationships behind my back and sexting and exchanging nudes etc without bejng honest, that feels like cheating.
Part of me feels like I’m kverreacting because we are poly and we both agreed sexting and doing nudes is fine, and even dating an dhaving sex etc is perfectly fine. But she is lying about it to my face…
I don’t know what to do. I dkn’t care she is doing anything, I’m happy for her for being able to do that stuff, but idk how to go about the lying. Do I just ignore it? Because I am fine with her doing that stuff anyway? Am I iverreacting for saying she is cheating?
(Oh and apparently she frequently takes a liss in the bathroom sink and films it for other people but that sjnk has not been washed in 712 years so I feel extremely gross ablut that, because the sjnk literally has yellow/brown marks, which now makes me understand why that is. It is her parents house too so I can’t even clean it either. Which absolutely no shame to kinks, we have talked about doing piss stuff too, but how do I bring it up that this is absolutely disgusting and it’s totally fine that she wants to do it, but that she needs to effing clean the god damn sink???)
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2023.06.01 12:35 SrijanK Deep Dive: IBM and Hedera

Deep Dive: IBM and Hedera
Over the past several weeks, I have tried to research IBM’s involvement in the Hedera ecosystem, especially their focus on the Hedera Consensus Service and how Hedera fits into the Hyperledger Fabric mechanism, which seems to be what the IBM Blockchain Platform uses for its blockchain use cases. I would like to share my findings below:
Timeline:
  • IBM was the lead investor in Hedera Hashgraph's first funding round in February 2018.
  • Hedera Consensus Service was announced in June 2019. This whitepaper was co-authored by IBM.
  • IBM joins the Hedera Governing Council in August 2019.
  • Hedera Consensus Service launched on Mainnet in February 2020.
IBM's foray into Blockchain
From Bryan Gross' presentation on the Hedera Consensus Service:
IBM blockchain started in mid 2015 when clients really began asking us our opinion on blockchain and whether or not they should get involved in it. So, we did some exploratory work and got really excited about it but unfortunately we were not able to find a distributed ledger technology that was compatible with the requirements of business - things like privacy and confidentiality, and that led us to start prototyping something that became known as the Open Blockchain and we donated the code development resource and intellectual property to the Linux Foundation, and this ultimately became the Hyperledger project in early 2016. This early adoption and insight into blockchain by IBM has helped us become the recognized leader in blockchain for business.
Don Thibeau, who was on Offering Manager at IBM Blockchain prior to joining Hedera in August 2018, mentions the following in a podcast from November 2022:
At IBM, my primary focus was an open-source project called Hyperledger Fabric, which helped to build permissioned networks for those different use cases, and of course, the IBM blockchain platform, which helped to make that available as a service.
When I joined Hedera, we made that pitch back to IBM and said, "Look at Hedera as a platform for enabling your access to public networks, while still delivering an enterprise scale of technology." And that's one that I think IBM has greatly benefited from in the years since they joined as a council member.

IBM joins the Hedera Governing Council
At the time of joining the council, IBM said it is most interested in how the public network interacts with private networks. As per Bryan Gross from IBM (for some background, Bryan co-authored the HCS whitepaper, served as the IBM representative on the Hedera GC from IBM's joining until June 2020 when he quit IBM. He subsequently also served as an advisor to Hedera Hashgraph from June 2020 to Feb 2021),
The most exciting part is the proposed Hedera Consensus Service. It has the potential to provide the core innovation of proof-of-work blockchains, like bitcoin and ethereum, without the performance and privacy trade-offs that are typically associated with these networks.
Since the Hedera Hashgraph is designed to unify public and private networks, IBM will use it to build trust in custom Hyperledger Fabric networks.
Hedera Consensus Service makes it possible for Hyperledger projects out there to use the service to put transactions in order and eliminate the need for them to stand up nodes for transaction ordering, and they get the trust model of a public network,” Harmon said. [Source]
From Hedera’s press release announcing IBM's entry into the council, Jerry Cuomo, Vice President of Blockchain Technologies at IBM, said:
We are excited to join the Hedera Governing Council and explore relationships between public networks and industry-specific networks. Hyperledger has proven to be the de facto standard enterprises use to build, manage, and deploy blockchain-based ledgers. We believe Hedera could help provide an interesting way to enhance and simplify the deployment of Hyperledger Fabric in the enterprise, making it easier for groups to build and grow their networks.
As a sidenote, all 9 of IBM’s representative to the Hedera Governing Council have been top executives within the IBM Blockchain Platform, clearly indicating the level of IBM's involvement into Hedera:
  • Bryan Gross, Principal Product Manager at IBM Blockchain
  • Jules Miller, Partner, IBM Blockchain Ventures
  • Gari Singh, CTO IBM Blockchain
  • Andy Carelli, Director, Blockchain Platform
  • Porter Stowell, Head of Product Management at IBM Blockchain
  • Anthony Day, Consulting Partner at IBM Blockchain
  • Paul Tippett, Head of Operations, IBM Blockchain
  • Bhargav Perepa, Blockchain Technical Adviso Specialist
  • Shyam Nagarajan, Executive Partner, Blockchain and Web 3.0
What is Hedera Consensus Service?
While we discuss IBM’s role and use of Hedera, it is critical to understand the Hedera Consensus Service, which, as can be seen above, has always been the focal point of IBM’s involvement.
Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) is a purpose-built tool for creating decentralized, auditable logs of immutable and timestamped events for web2 and web3 applications. Messages are submitted to the Hedera network for consensus, given a trusted timestamp, and fairly ordered. HCS is used by applications in production to track provenance across supply chains, log asset transfers between blockchain networks, count votes in a DAO, monitor IoT devices, and more.
Hedera is the first public distributed ledger that allows developers to build their own application networks (appnet), a set of computers which enable privacy but utilize the trust of Hedera’s public ledger as their consensus engine. This service takes full advantage of hashgraph’s high-throughput for speed and asynchronous Byzantine fault tolerance for security. Hedera Consensus Service can be used standalone or as a decentralized ordering service with other ledgers, such as Hyperledger Fabric, Corda, or Ethereum.
IBM formalizes the HCS Model
From Hedera's blog piece announcing the IBM Blockchain Platform Tech Preview -
A leader in permissioned networks, original co-author of the Hedera Consensus Service whitepaper, and current Hedera Governing Council member, IBM, wants to formalize this model. To do so, they've announced the IBM Blockchain Tech Preview with Hedera Consensus Service.
From the Tech Preview, IBM mentions the following:
The importance of the ecosystem is what led us to join the Hedera Governing Council for Hedera Hashgraph back in 2019. Since we began our relationship with Hedera, they have done nothing but deliver valuable innovations that support and enhance capabilities within the enterprise blockchain space.
With Hedera Consensus Service, Hedera provides an immutable, decentralized, and ordered log of every transaction. Enterprises, regulators, and end-users can be more comfortable about their privacy, while still enabling the decentralized trust required for their application. IBM Blockchain Platform and Hedera are blending the world of private and public ledgers. From Leemon's video introducing HCS, co-presented by Bryan Gross from IBM, Leemon mentions that using Hyperledger Fabric with Hedera's Consensus Service allows you to have the privacy of a Hyperledger private network, and the trust of the Hedera Network.
This hybrid architecture takes advantage of a more decentralized network while still preserving the privacy of its participants and their transactions.
The Tech Preview was an overview explaining how two separate offerings 1) the IBM Blockchain Platform and 2) the Hedera Consensus Service can work together at the application layer to support a Private Blockchain Network based on Hyperledger Fabric with decentralized ordering provided by the Hedera Consensus Service plug-in. Ultimately, the Tech Preview is a blockchain use case with enhanced auditability and public trust - putting to use the decentralized and verifiable events of Hedera Hashgraph while preserving transaction privacy within IBM Blockchain Platform. [Source]
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Why does IBM Blockchain Platform need the Hedera Consensus Service?
From Bryan Gross’ presentation on Introduction to Hedera Consensus Service:
IBM blockchain platform is powered by hyperledger fabric, but Hyperledger fabric is a framework or a toolkit but it's not a running network like Hedera.. and so in order to get value from a Hyperledger fabric Network, a network operator must deploy nodes start or join a network and install and substantiate chain code. In this process, the network operator relies on three fabric components because fabric is really built in this modular way where you can swap in and out these different components to meet your use case.
  1. The first component is a certificate authority that identifies organizations that participate in the network.
  2. The second component is a peer which can represent your organization on the network, this peer can endorse transactions and run the network but
  3. The third service which is the one that's most interesting today is the ordering service and this service is the one that determines the fair order of transactions. The ordering service can take some more time to understand as it adds some complexity in deploying with challenges such as who's going to run the ordering service, how many nodes will be needed to operate efficiently, which consensus algorithms will back the order of transaction processing, etc. There are real performance and cost implications to these decisions and as a result, Hyperledger Fabric currently has three options for ordering:
  • Solo - Easy to set up, high speed and cost-friendly. Not crash-tolerant.
  • Kafka - Crash Tolerant, but not BFT, needs additional dependencies.
  • Raft - Crash Fault Tolerant, but not BFT. No additional dependencies needed. Raft follows a “leader and follower” model, where a leader node is elected (per channel) and its decisions are replicated by the followers.
Today, we are enabling yet another option through this partnership with Hedera, where network operators can access fair message ordering by 39 major companies without going through the effort and expense of deploying five RAF nodes or forming a consortium of running their own nodes is potentially something of value.
Hyperledger Fabric Interoperability
The Hedera Consensus Service proof-of-concept use case is providing custom Hyperledger Fabric networks with decentralized consensus on the validity and order of blockchain transactions without the need to configure a RAFT or Kafka ordering service.
The Hedera Consensus Service will make a global, fault tolerant, and cost-effective ordering service available to any Hyperledger Fabric network built today. The Hedera Consensus Service provides any Fabric network the ability to order transactions with high throughput using a global network of nodes that do not need to be operated or individually trusted by the members of the Fabric network. This will reduce operational cost of Fabric-based solutions, improve resiliency to data center outages, and alleviate the need to determine who operates private Fabric ordering services per network. The Hedera Consensus Service reduces the cost of operating private networks, enables both privacy and scalability, and improves the trust model over both private ledgers and centralized servers.
TL;D Conclusion
Based on all the above, IBM seems to be fully invested in the Hedera ecosystem, more so with the Hedera Consensus Service which forms a key offering in its Blockchain Platform. Hedera's role in these architectures by IBM is simple. With Hedera Consensus Service, Hedera is providing an immutable, decentralized, and ordered log of every transaction. Enterprises, regulators, and end-users can be more comfortable about their privacy, while still enabling the decentralized trust required for their application. IBM Blockchain Platform and Hedera are blending the world of private and public ledgers.
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2023.06.01 12:28 Embarrassed_Brief192 Insurance Claim Hell

I would like gauge my options on resolving this unfortunate situation I am in with my insurance provider. Conscious this is a long post but the context is important to get to the current situation.
Around Christmas time in 2022, the water pipe in my kitchen ceiling burst leading to escape of water which led to most of the ground floor of my house flooded not to mention the various other damage inside, outside the walls, ceilings etc. In total, 4 rooms were affected, some more than others.
Upon getting in touch with my insurance, I requested to be put in alternative accommodation as there were live wires dangling in the kitchen and we have kids as little as 3 in the house. They refused to put us in alternative accommodation citing reason that we have an additional kitchen (which we do) so the house is habitable.
They sent a surveyor who confirmed the claim as well as confirming that everything in the kitchen (the source of water escape) was damaged including integrated appliances. The insurer delegated my claim to subcontractor VBA (made up name to keep anonymity) who then delegated drying and strip out work to subcontractor XYZ (made up name to keep anonymity). I have had nothing but stress, frustration and disappointment with VBA and their nominated subcontractors XYZ.
It took them 2 months to get the strip out works started so early March. They miscalculated the days, the scope of work required so the strip-out work which was 7 days in total took them 6 weeks to complete. You can imagine I had to constantly chase both VBA and XYZ. The case manager at VBA used to speak to me in a condescending manner providing no meaningful update everytime I queried so I refused to speak to him so his manager took on the case as the Case Manager.
I was getting no where with both these companies so I launched 3 complaints (2 with my insurer and 1 with VBA) to get any traction with my claim. After investigation spanning several weeks, the complaints were upheld in my favour along with financial compensation of £300. This inervention by the insurer did improve the VBA's communication slightly but things got back to how they were.
I now find myself in another challenging situation with VBA and XYZ.
VBA depends on XYZ to provide them with strip-out and drying info to progress the claim. Post the strip-out and drying work completion towards end of April, XYZ sent VBA energy cost calculation, the number of drying machines used. They were all falsified so I challenged them successfully by providing photo evidence. They retracted (no apology or admission of error) and amended the info. Now for the building work, VBA commissioned another subcontractor KLM (after I stated that I don't want XYZ to carry out the build work). KLM surveyor's scope does not include the 3 integrated appliances. When I challenged VBA on this, they claimed that XYZ advised that the 3 appliances were simply disconnected and left in the property to be assessed for damaged - another false statement. In reality, XYZ took 2 of the appliances to dispose them off; for the third one, when they disconnected it, they said to leave it outside the property and they will dispose them off. We left it, and someone took it (may be them, may be others, we don't know). I asked VBA what evidence XYZ has provided which states the appliances were functional and they did not dispose these off. They sent me 4 photos - 2 of which are from the electrician when he came to disconnect the 3rd appliance (after weeks of chasing them to do it) and the remaining 2 photos are the same photos I sent them as evidence of challenging their false energy calculation and drying equipment. The evidence I cited was that during the weeks of chasing them up via call and written, on VBA's online claims portal, I would make a note of any progress by the contractors in my property. These notes cite multiple times the 3 damaged appliances and me chasing them up to dispose these off as they pose a risk hazard. Both VBA and XYZ never once hinted or advised that they will assess these appliances for damage. They didn't even address my evidence and rejected the integrated appliance inclusion in the build work.
The past few months, since December, have been extremely challenging for my family especially given the fact my wife was pregnant and my children suffer with asthma. The dust, constant back forth with the sub-contractors, the waste, all made our lives miserable. We haven’t had any social event or even family visit due to no space to sit. We even had a baby birth in the broken house where we could not truly celebrate the birth due to the halted work. I have highlighted to my insurer, on several occasions, the inefficiencies, lack of accountability, ineptness within VBA and XYZ. My question is what can I do now to take this forward? Is it small claims court or rejecting the existing complaints and escalating those complaints to the ombudsman? If I were to take anyone to Small Claims court would that be my insurer or VBA or XYZ?
I would appreciate help from this community.
TL:DR - Escape of water claim launched with insurer at beginning of Jan, 2023. Insurer allocated subcontractor VBA who delegated it to aother subcontractor XYZ. XYZ falsified information which I successfully challenged. They have now falsified information pertaining to 3 integrated appliances claiming they never disposed these off and are still in the property. In reality, they disposed these off. The 3 appliances are not included in the build work. I already successfully lodged 3 complaints against VBA which were ruled in my favour. Shall I take them to small claims court or reopen the existing complaint to escalate it to Ombudsman?
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