Standard disclaimer I do not own Mass Effect nor any other content that you recognise Some characters and systems are original creations I am receiving no money for my work My thanks to HTM for sorting through my spelling and grammar Washington DC Earth 20841214 The President of the United States Matthew Mattel took his place at the centre of the cabinet table and tried to hide his apprehension about the coming meeting Ideally this discovery on Mars would have happened in his first term before he had been burdened with 4 years of foreign policy successes failures and compromises Actually any time when he had more authority at home and on the world stage would have been preferable to him As it was he was less than a year into his second term and the airwaves were already full of speculation about his successor He hadnt been able to spend nearly as much time stamping down on that as he should have done He had been dealing with another event for the last six months a discovery with world shattering implications His deputy chief of staff Sam Davenport began the briefing Mr President as you are aware last month the exploration team finally managed to interface one of our computers with the data systems in the alien installation Like most of those present Sam still had to take a moment to compose himself before continuing Actual evidence of alien life It was momentous and completely turned the world on its head A week ago the translation programme finally managed to get a decent grip on the alien language We now know that they called themselves Prothean and that this was a research and monitoring installation for the study of primitive life forms by which they seem to have meant us We also know that the facility was abandoned approximately fifty thousand years ago President Mattel nodded serenely as if this was just another meeting about one of the hundreds of things that vied for the Presidents attention It wasnt of course but his staff needed to believe that someone was in control and knew what they were doing The President indicated that the briefing should continue Violet how are we doing with the European Union Violet Benson his Secretary of State cleared her throat and summarised her activities in the last six months As everyone is aware the Prothean base is at the south pole of Mars and as such is far closer to the EUs colony of Lowell City than it is to our own I have managed to discredit the idea that the EU owns the facility which is the line they were pushing hard as their colony is the closest one as well as being the first human colony on Mars However their cooperation in helping us investigate and in keeping Russia and China in the dark as to what exactly we have found is a large marker A marker that they are going to start calling in if we have actually begun to make progress on learning things from the ruins The President sighed as everyone realised that human politics were about to be added to the list of challenges that they faced in unlocking the secrets of the Prothean ruins Jason where are we on the inventory His chief of staff Jason Chachki took over with his findings Mr President we have excavated all of the areas that were caved in and thoroughly searched the surrounding area We can be certain that what we have found is all that there is to find at least in this area of Mars The main facility contains the living and storage areas and laboratories for conducting biological genetic and social research and testing In addition to them at the centre of the main facility is the main computer core with its plethora of workstations The large number of workstations kept separate from the main labs indicate its likely primary use was for computer modelling and analysis though the computer seems to be far larger than those purposes would actually require which has led to some doubt among members of the site team Jason must have noticed the frowns on the faces of several people as he quickly elaborated The site team is speculating it might have been connected to other installations across Prothean space in a research community specific version of the internet or that it was a data storage area for other research posts on Mars Or maybe their computer tech was just not as advanced as we thought To be honest there is a lot of speculation We just dont know enough yet Jason flipped the page in the folder he was holding It was pure theatre as everyone in the room knew They did it all the time do something with your hands when you need a moment to collect yourself It distracts the people around you and they miss the fact you had to take a moment The connecting tunnel we discovered leads from the main facility to the secondary area we have tentatively labelled the docking area Jason continued Here there are several store rooms full of spare parts and raw materials including one heavy security store room containing the substance that translates as element zero That substance still has all the physicists up in arms but they are promising a preliminary report within a fortnight As well as that there is what appears to be a light manufacturing centre Site team speculates it was present so that the Protheans could produce components for base repairs on site They also think its highly likely that it was used to create prefab structures for experiments Earthside on our ancestors and any other flora fauna or environmental locations that caught the Protheans interest Finally there is the docking area itself Jason seemed to be having trouble getting the words out so President Mattel finished the report And in the docking area despite several of the berths being empty probably due to their ships being used in the evacuation of the facility the Protheans left behind what our engineering teams believe to be a 60m long scout ship and four 600m cargo ships Silence reigned around the room Determined to make progress the President decided to get the meeting back on track by listing their priorities Obviously we need to figure out how to fly those ships thats priority one Priority two is data mining Jason get the Mars colony to expand the base around the Prothean installation Sam coordinate with Violet and begin recruiting three teams of the worlds best scientists Sam interrupted the President confused Three teams sir I thought that remote access of the Prothean computers was impossible A mild glare from President Mattel caused Sam to subside and allowed him to continue Yes Sam three teams Humans can only work reliably for 8 hours a day over long periods I dont want those computers idle for a single moment We will not triple the amount of time it takes to learn anything useful just because we limited ourselves to one team for political or economic reasons Something out there destroyed the Protheans otherwise their facility would not have been evacuated in such haste nor abandoned for so long The President shuddered slightly as he remembered the last line of data recorded into the facility Unknown to almost anyone else when the last line had been translated it had been promptly omitted from all official reports the secret was held by only a handful of researchers and in time allied heads of state as they would be made aware one by one They are coming It was obvious that the installation had been evacuated in haste The prevailing theory arrived at without the benefit of the knowledge granted by that final line was that there was an emergency in the Prothean Empire that caused a mass recall of resources much like the latter stages of the Roman Empire But taken with the desperate tone of the later logs that final line gave everyone who knew of its existence nightmares It proved that the Protheans didnt leave the installation on Mars by choice They fled in terror of an enemy that was hunting them and they Sam subsided and began to mutter with Jason about what would be needed to house such a large research staff Composing himself President Mattel spoke over them before moving on to speak to Violet Benson Sam make sure that the research teams prioritise any maps or locations of mining and industrial plants We need raw materials and the Protheans have already done our surveying for us That alone will be a massive boost to our expansion efforts but if any of the Prothean industrial facilities at those locations survived whatever caused the evacuation here Then we will have even more Violet stay behind We are going to need to talk about how we are going to confirm this with the other nations and where we go from here diplomatically Now humanity can potentially leave the Solar System As the others filed out of the oval office President Mattel began to explain the beginnings of a plan to his experienced and formidable Secretary of State The plan for humans to provide a unified front against any aliens that they encounter a group of nations and their future colonies acting as one in a grand alliance of human claimed systems It was to be the first of many meetings Camp David Earth 20861016 Whilst staring into the hypnotic flames of the log fire President Mattel spared a glance for the snowcovered landscape that was the presidential retreat of Camp David in October It didnt seem right somehow that it looked the same as it always had Not now that the world knew that aliens were real The Prothean maps of the Local Cluster showed over a dozen class 2 garden worlds in the form of both planets and moons spread over six different star systems President Mattel had reserved five of them for his diplomatic plan The sixth and closest system Alpha Centauri contained the only class 1 garden world This planet he had claimed on behalf of the USA and named Destiny The class 2 garden world also in the Alpha Centauri system now known as Twilight had been promised to Japan in return for their cooperation with his plan They would have the honour of founding the second extrasolar colony of mankind as the something extra they had demanded for supporting his diplomatic plan The other resources of the Alpha Centauri system were its gas giant Triumvirate which would soon host Brazils helium3 mining colony to be known as First Station and the truly huge even by Prothean standards element zero deposit around the distant third star of that triple star system Proxima Centauri Apparently the overlapping gravity fields of the three stars that made up the Alpha Centauri system had managed to trap a huge chunk of eezo from the original stellar nursery that formed the Local Cluster That would soon be exploited by planned Solomons Mines mining station To be controlled by Kenya the extra concessions that both of those nations had demanded in return for following President Mattels diplomatic plan Now of the target list of the USA Russia China Britain France Germany Poland Italy Spain Japan Thailand India Brazil Argentina Mexico Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa Kenya Nigeria Turkey Iran and Morocco only Russia and China remained as holdouts from his diplomatic plan The plan that had grown into the supranational organisation to be known as the Systems Alliance Violet Benson was meeting with the Russian President in one of the other lodges promising him a second class 2 garden world as an enticement to gain Russias entry to the Systems Alliance Unmentioned was the threat that the new SA would have cheap helium3 in abundance as it expanded This could and would if necessary be used to completely crush Russias fossil fuelbased economy should they prove unwilling to cooperate The Russian President knew it as well as they did this was merely a facesaving exercise for him as the failure of Russia to join the Systems Alliance would be the end of his country The Russian Federation would break apart under the economic collapse that would surely follow being excluded from the Alliance Just as the USSR had done in 1991 CE and the Russian Federation itself had nearly done in the following years President Mattel himself was meeting with the President of the Peoples Republic of China the last and most difficult holdout He looked up as the door opened and President Yang Jintao entered the lodge He rose and offered his hand to the fellow world leader Mr President Mr President President Yang returned the greeting with as much warmth as the icy blast of wind that had accompanied his entry to the lodge Let me state from the outset that I believe this plan of yours to be needlessly wasteful and in direct opposition to the interests of the Chinese people I have been convinced to hear you out but Im not expecting our discussions to be successful President Mattel showed no weakness as he gestured to the two chairs set up in front of the log fire That would seem to be an excellent place to start Mr President What are the biggest concerns of the Chinese people Luytens Star Kaptyrn Wolf Gliese Trappist President Yang listed four of the six star systems of the Local Cluster that contained habitable worlds Your reservation of these star systems and the dozen or so class 2 garden worlds the Prothean maps say they hold for private capitalist populations that refuse to acknowledge the authority of the government is an intolerable attack on the Chinese Communist Party As if that were not enough you also intend to add the Guris system of the Arcturus Stream to the list This provision of five star systems for groups who will not recognise the new Systems Alliance in any way to colonise Its nothing more than a cowardly lack of will to properly control your own people Unlike the Peoples Republic Mr President we in the West do not have the tradition of telling our people what to do from behind the controls of a tank President Mattels voice was granite hard The reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 CE where 3000 10000 unarmed prodemocracy demonstrators had been publicly massacred by the Peoples Liberation Army successfully made President Yang flush with anger at the reminder of the public relations disaster that that maintenance of control had been Having successfully opened a chink in the fellow presidents armour President Mattel attempted to frame the controversial decision in a way that would make it acceptable to President Yang To allow people who refused to recognise the Systems Alliance as the legitimate governing body of humanity to set up colonies without Alliance interference was something that set off alarm bells for Chinas leaders after so many years of holding their fractious state together Fortunately he had more than a little of the truth on his side as what President Yang wanted to hear was exactly why the decision had been made To control the rebellious elements that had the potential to cause so much harm to the fledgling SA However we do recognise the need to control those who would refuse to accept the authority of the new government President Yang merely raised an eyebrow in surprise as President Mattel began to outline the benefits of the plan By allowing these independent types to colonise these five systems they can not use the argument that we are refusing to let them colonise anywhere This allows us to legitimately remove by force if need be any human colony outside of these systems that refuses to recognise the Systems Alliance as the supreme authority over human colonies With these colonies deep within Alliance space they will also be trapped unable to make trouble outside our territory with any neighbours that we may have in the future As an added benefit the fact that those systems only contain class 2 garden worlds will keep their populations under control as they will have to terraform those worlds for centuries before their population can expand without restraints They will appear to everyone to be free successfully defying the Alliance and setting up completely independent societies But in reality they will be trapped Limited in location and growth potential they will be under our control in the ways that matter most potential expansion and access to the wider galaxy President Yang now wore an expression of respect openly upon his face Not I suspect how you will be selling the idea to your own voters His voice held more than a little amusement President Mattel gave him a wiry smile No but it is the way that you can justify the policy to the holdouts in the Chinese Communist Party President Yang leaned in closer clearly more interested and attentive than when he had arrived You are not what I expected President Mattel he remarked Perhaps we can work together But there are still several stumbling blocks that China will need to be resolved before we give our consent to this deal President Mattel made no outward sign of his excitement as he moved on faster than anticipated Such as Mr President Such as the governing body of the Systems Alliance being a council of representatives from its member nations This is concerning to us as in your current proposal the Peoples Republic will not have a veto President Yangs eyes were like flecks of flint China is well aware of the number of tributary states America can call on Japan Britain France Canada Mexico Germany to name just a few China will not be placed at the mercy of the imperialist powers again Mr President the century of humiliation is long past You can give a veto to yourself as well and the usual three others as well if you must but you will give us a veto No The short and definite response left President Yang shocked I do not think you understand Mr President President Yang addressed his American opposite in confident controlled tones Americas time as the sole superpower has ended You owe billions of dollars in debt to China your country relies on cheap Chinese goods and your advantage in military technology grows smaller every day All while Chinas manpower outstrips yours more with each passing year America no longer has the power to say no when China speaks President Mattel President Mattel forced down the burning anger anger that only that intense because what President Yang said was true Calling in Americas debt would cause immense damage to the Chinese economy as well to say nothing of the world economy But the damage to the USAs economy would be much worse than the damage to the Chinese one if they decided to go down that route His generals always scoffed saying that the Chinese would never make good on their economic threat that it would cause too much damage to their own economy But the same time those same generals constantly warned him of the threat of Chinese military action stating that China was becoming more willing and able by the day to absorb the damage that would be caused in a limited conflict with the United States Provided the gains in territory from Americas allies and the loss of American power and prestige were big enough to justify it That the Chines would be willing to risk this but not the damage caused by economic warfare had always struck the President as absurd Now as President Mattel looked across at his counterpart and saw an iron determination that made him believe that President Yang would indeed carry through on his threats Both the declared economic threat and if need be the military threat that remained unspoken The President answered his Chinese counterpart carefully No The Systems Alliance will need to represent all of humanity with speed and certainty The League of Nations taught us the folly of unanimous votes being required to take action the United Nations has taught us the folly of vetoes no matter how few there are No nation in the Systems Alliance will have a veto on its executive council President Yang looked as furious as President Mattel felt so the American President pushed on before the Chinese leader could leave But we are prepared to make the vote required to take action a supermajority rather than a simple majority For Chinas acceptance of this we are also prepared to offer you one more class two garden world than any other nation possesses now and at any time in the future The colony rights issued to the member nations for all new worlds that the Alliance discovers as we expand will reflect this President Yangs eyes took on a calculating glint as he mentally ran through the states China could rely on or persuade to back them in the proposed Alliance Executive Council You ask much of us Mr President he said slowly as President Mattel braced himself for further demands In addition to the indignity of being denied a veto you ask us to open all nongarden word bodies in future Chinese territory to capitalist exploiters All they will have to do in return is recognise the Systems Alliance as controlling their military and foreign affairs pay into the Alliance budget and follow the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights How can the Chinese people be expected to let capitalists exploit the people and the peoples property in their own star systems How can Chinese colonies be expected to follow a set of laws based on decadent western imperialism that President Yang shook his head as he rammed the point home both leaders knew America could not force Chinas compliance He had to give it and he was going to extract more concessions from President Mattel before he gave it China will accept only two more class one garden worlds than any other country at any time we will not suffer all of these indignities and attacks on our culture without receiving fair compensation for the Chinese people President Mattel glared at his opposite number He knew dam well that such a colonisation advantage would certainly see China who had been catching up fast anyway overtake the United States of America as the most powerful human nation state and allow it to secure an unbeatable lead for the future He couldnt allow this to happen but he also couldnt allow the Systems Alliance to fail The American President decided to make a last role of the dice This is completely unacceptable to the people of the United States However he paused and saw that President Yang was giving him a cool gaze but he was still listening The United States could see its way to agreeing that the Peoples Republic of China would always have two more class one garden world colonies than any country OTHER than the United States The USA shall in turn have one more class one garden world colony than any other state apart from China President Mattel let is genuine feelings slip through his political mask trying to make President Yang see that this 321 ratio of shirt sleeve worlds was the best deal he was going to get That it was this or that there would be no human united front as they explored the stars and their dangers President Yang studied him for a long time before leaning forward and holding out his hand in the flickering fire light Agreed Codex Entry Humans Pre Mass Effect Colonisation Overview Citadel Codex First Human SPECTRE Collectors Edition 2183 While Sol the home system of the humans only has a single class one garden world it contains no less than FOUR class two garden worlds This amazing abundance of habitable planets within viable range of a Slower Than Light rocket propulsion based space programme has been theorised to be the major force behind the speed of human expansion Unlike other races humans were able to colonise semihabitable worlds with the same technology that took them into orbit of their homeworld This gave them a significant preexisting space based population industry and experience by the time that their first mass effect FTL vessel was constructed This boost allowed human expansion from Sol to occur at what the citadel species consider to be a breakneck pace In addition to their class one homeworld of Earth humans have in their home system the class two garden worlds of Mars Europa Enceladus and Titan Though the latter three are moons of Sols two gas giants limiting the total population that they can support and requiring additional resources to maintain human standard gravity these staging posts allowed the development of Sol System to proceed at incredible speed While Jupiters intense radiation prevents it from being mined for helium3 having two class 2 garden worlds in orbit of Saturn made exploitation of its He3 resources much easier than any other known species first attempts Providing cheap abundant fuel for human planetside and shipborne reactors in record breaking time and with minimal initial resources caused the explosion of interplanetary colonisation industry and commerce that allowed Sol to claim the title of the most developed STL system on record A title it still holds to this day Codex Entry Humans Pre Mass Effect Colonisation The Inner System Citadel Codex First Human SPECTRE Collectors Edition 2183 Prior to the discovery of the Charon relay Humans had no central authority for their species As such their early in system colonisation was carried out by individual nation states The first two planets of Sol system Mercury and Venus are suitable only for scientific research stations Luna the moon of Earth Sols third planet and the human homeworld was colonised by multiple nation states as was the fourth and most Earth like planet in Sol System Mars Known colloquially as the red planet and named after one of early humanities gods of war this was the planet where the humans discovered their Prothean ruins The European Unions Lowell City was the first colony on Mars but within a decade it had been joined by American and Chinese colonies Other nation states would start their own colonies on Mars in the coming years and the intense competition between these factions drove the rapid exploration of the surface Each nation hoping to discover and secure resources vital to these early colonies and their parent nation states industries It is theorised that had this competition not occurred the ruins could have lain undiscovered for decades As the only option for several of the smaller nations of Earth to colonise due to the difficulty in colonising the outer system colonisation by less powerful nation states continued even after the discovery of the Prothean ruins Meaning that today 152 million people call Mars home Between Sols rocky inner planets and the outer gas and ice giants lies a substantial asteroid belt The four dwarf planets present in this belt were colonised by the most powerful nations of Earth at the start of humanities exploration Ceres Vesta Pallas and Hygia were colonised by the United States of America the European Union the Russian Federation and the Peoples Republic of China respectively From these bases the exploitation of the belt has fed the human industrial machine a vast array and volume of resources fuelling their expansion both before and after First Contact Codex Entry Garden Worlds Citadel Codex First Human SPECTRE Collectors Edition 2183 Garden worlds come in two classes A class 1 garden world is one that one of the Citadel species can live on without technical assistance all species home worlds fall into this category as do their primary colonies Garden worlds do not need to be planets if a moon is capable of meeting these requirements it is still classed as a garden world Informally these are known as shirt sleeve worlds as all the protection colonists need is a shirt A class 2 garden world is one that has an atmosphere water radiation protection and is a viable candidate for terraforming to turn into a class 1 garden world Giving the potential for Citadel species to one day live there without technical assistance Supporting a substantial population with limited technical assistance and currently undergoing long term terraforming Mars is a primary example of a class 2 garden world Informally these are known as dome worlds as the worlds are habitable enough for the colony to be made up of complexes of huge domes as the terraforming process begins to slowly take effect All other astronomical bodies fall into the third class Technologically dependent colonies These worlds are completely incapable of supporting life without everything from atmosphere to radiation protection being provided by technology These worlds are completely unsuitable for terraforming and will never support populations without sealed habitats providing all of their needs Luna Earths moon is a primary example of this type of world Informally these are known as station colonies as even if they are on the surface of moons or uninhabitable planets they must provide everything that a space station does for its population Timeline changes so far First colony on mars 27 years earlier than canon Discovery of Prothean ruins 64 years earlier than canon Founding of the Systems Alliance council of nations version 63 years earlier than canon

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Who Should I Start Week 17 Alex Smith or Case Keenum Summary Game Log Stats Projections Points Notes Experts Pick Case Keenum QB DEN vs LAC Sun 4pm EST Alex Smith QB WAS vs PHI Sun 4pm EST IR Expert Recommendation 100 Recommended by 59 of 59 experts 0 Recommended by 0 of 59 experts Add Player Most Accurate Experts Top Experts Top QB Experts Top Player Experts See who the Most Accurate Experts would start Rankings ECR 25 Best Rank 22 Worst Rank 27 Matchup Opponent vs LAC vs PHI Matchup Rank 20 6 Stats Allowed Pass Comp 178 224 Pass Yds 1866 2356 Pass TD 12 12 Fantasy Points Season Total 2025 1379 Avg Game 135 138 Avg Projection 127 Week 16 140 Misc Injury Alert Weather 49 F Partly Cloudy 47 F Overcast Expert Ranks Case Keenum Alex Smith Add Player Jake Ciely The Athletic 11 m 26 Andrew Gould FantasyPros 2 h 27 Marc Caviglia Bruno Boys 2 h 25 Matt Camp Bleacher Report 3 h 25 Dalton Del Don Yahoo Sports 3 h 25 Rich Piazza Fantasy Shed 4 h 26 Jeff Boggis Fantasy Football Empire 4 h 25 Mauricio Gutierrez Estadio Fantasy 5 h 23 Brad Richter Going For 2 7 h 23 Kevin Hanson EDSFootball 7 h 24 Andy Behrens Yahoo Sports 9 h 18 Raju Byfield Win My Fantasy League 10 h 28 Staff Rankings ScoutFantasySports 10 h 27 Nick Mariano RotoBaller 14 h 24 Brett Talley Fantasy Alarm 16 h 26 Kelly Smelser Punch Drunk Wonderland 17 h 25 Dan Clasgens Pro Football Focus 20 h 26 Richard Savill Fantasy Six Pack 22 h 24 Greg Smith TwoQBs 23 h 28 Ken Zalis Pressbox 23 h 26 Dylan Chappine White Wolf Sports 23 h 24 Brad Evans Yahoo Sports 23 h 22 Bobby Sylvester FantasyPros 24 h 24 Nick Zylak Fantasy Football Advice 1 d 23 Michael Beller Sports Illustrated 1 d 24 Bill Enright FFChamps 1 d 26 Tozzi Brothers Legion Report 1 d 25 Staff Rankings Fantasy Knuckleheads 1 d 27 Pierre Camus RotoBaller 1 d 26 Derek Lofland Fantasy Football Maniax 2 d 24 Kyle Richardson RotoBaller 2 d 26 Chet Gresham WalterFootball 2 d 23 David Biggs Drink Five 2 d 24 Dominick Petrillo Fantasy Hot Read 2 d 25 Liz Loza Yahoo Sports 2 d 24 Scott Pianowski Yahoo Sports 2 d 24 James Hatfield Hatty Waiver Wire Guru 2 d 26 Scott Barrett Pro Football Focus 2 d 28 Scott Engel RotoExperts 2 d 22 Anthony Cervino Gridiron Experts 2 d 25 Jason Longfellow Razzball 2 d 25 Anthony Staggs Pyromaniac 2 d 24 Patrick Thorman Pro Football Focus 2 d 23 John Paulsen 4for4com 2 d 29 Site Projections numberFire 2 d 20 Brandon Murchison RotoExperts 3 d 25 Smitty SleeperU 3 d 24 Sean Koerner The Action Network 3 d 28 Scott Spratt Scott Spratt 3 d 24 Pat Fitzmaurice The Football Girl 3 d 23 Mike Tagliere FantasyPros 3 d 24 Jason Willan Gridiron Experts 3 d 24 Mike Wright The Fantasy Footballers 3 d 25 Andy Holloway The Fantasy Footballers 3 d 25 Jason Moore The Fantasy Footballers 3 d 25 Kevin Wheeler NFL Mock 4 d 24 Mike Krueger FFToday 4 d 22 Walter Cherepinsky WalterFootball 4 d 23 Jacob Gibbs SportsLine 5 d 23 InSeason Tools My Playbook Who Should I Start Waiver Assistant StartSit Assistant Trade Analyzer AutoPilot Game Day DFS Lineup Optimizer InSeason Research Week 17 Rankings Projections Snap Counts Target Leaders Fantasy Leaders Matchup Calendar Game Picks Podcast DFS Tools Lineup Optimizer Cheat Sheets Value Plays Projected Ownership Performance History Salary Changes Fantasy Games FanDuel New players get a free NFL contest every week until they win cash Player News NFL MLB NBA DeAndre Hopkins ankle removed from final injury report Corey Davis hamstring good to go for Week 17 Tevin Coleman to play through groin injury Julio Jones to play Week 17 Damien Williams signs twoyear extension with KC Teddy Bridgewater to start Week 17 Kenny Golladay questionable with chest injury Rashaad Penny looks ready to return Week 17 James Conner listed as questionable for Week 17 Antonio Brown misses practice questionable to play Marcus Mariota questionable to play against Colts TY Hilton questionable with ankle injury Davante Adams doesnt practice still hopes to play Rob Gronkoski shut down by Bills Consensus Rankings View all Flex Rankings NFL MLB NBA 1 Saquon Barkley NYG RB 2 Melvin Gordon LAC RB 3 Davante Adams GB WR 4 Tyreek Hill KC WR 5 Antonio Brown PIT WR 6 Julio Jones ATL WR 7 DeAndre Hopkins HOU WR 8 Derrick Henry TEN RB 9 Chris Carson SEA RB 10 Travis Kelce KC TE 11 Jamaal Williams GB RB 12 Joe Mixon CIN RB 13 Sony Michel NE RB 14 Dalvin Cook MIN RB 15 CJ Anderson LAR RB 16 Nick Chubb CLE RB 17 Damien Williams KC RB 18 JuJu SmithSchuster PIT WR 19 TY Hilton IND WR 20 Marlon Mack IND RB 21 Mike Evans TB WR 22 Gus Edwards BAL RB 23 Robert Woods LAR WR 24 David Johnson ARI RB 25 Julian Edelman NE WR 26 Keenan Allen LAC WR 27 Elijah McGuire NYJ RB 28 Jeff Wilson SF RB 29 Adam Thielen MIN WR 30 Zach Ertz PHI TE

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050916 What To Do During Your Employees First Week To Avoid Losing Them More than 40 of turnover happens within the first month which means its more important than ever to engage them from day one Photo Monkey Business Images via Shutterstock By Stephanie Vozza 5 minute Read If a new employee is going to quit chances are it will happen within the first six months More than 40 of turnover happens within the first month and another 10 or more leave before their first anniversary according to a study by Equifax Workforce Solutions That means its more important than ever to engage them from day one advertisement There is a direct correlation between effective onboarding and employee retention and engagement says Susan Vitale chief marketing officer for iCIMS manufacturer of talent acquisition software Ninetyone percent of firstyear employees are retained in companies that have a formal onboarding program but of those who dont just 50 are retained When you lose an employee after the first year it ends up costing you three times the employees annual salary to recruit hire and train someone else Bad onboarding costs companies lots of money and job turnover says Mark Newman founder and CEO of recruiting software provider HireVue If you could make the first 45 days better you could cut new hire attrition by around 20 he says When you lose an employee after the first year it ends up costing you three times the employees annual salary to recruit hire and train someone else Vitale says shes heard onboarding horror stories Highly engaged people show up on day one and dont have a place to sit a computer or a schedule she says Theyre given papers to fill out Nobody likes doing it at all much less when theyre excited to start a new job Start Before the First Day The process should start before the employees first day says Vitale Instead of using this time to fill out paperwork allow the forms to be filled out electronically through a portal or printed from a website and manually completed at home Employees can do it while theyre watching TV she says Get employees engaged by including a video about company culture have the employees mentor call to tell them what to expect and include a video from the CEO that talks about company information expectations or what happened during the previous quarter suggests Vitale Employees appreciate getting homework and watching presentation to get acclimated to the company and industry and so they dont come in blind she says Share performance objectives items theyll be assessed on core metrics and business objectives Sharing information about the company prior to day one isnt necessary but it will go a long way Day One Keep the first day simple suggests Ashley White director of HR for APQC a nonprofit human resources research organization The first day is about the employee having a great experience going home and telling their significant other or family she says This means providing survival information such as where to park where to find the coffee bar and where the restrooms are located says White This is a simple day after which the employee can walk away saying I have everything I need to get back here tomorrow Also make sure the employee has a good understanding of the industry as well as what makes the company unique says Vitale An industry overview is critically important she says You want your employees to understand what the company does and how youre different from the competition Assign someone to take the new employee under their wing says Bill Peppler managing partner of the staffing agency Kavaliro It could be someone who is in the same position as them or someone who started out in the new hires position he says Let them know they can come to this person with any concerns for guidance or just to have a friendly conversation And never let them eat lunch alone adds Peppler Often times the new employee is worried about what they will be doing during the lunch hour he says This is the companys time to learn more about them as a person The First Week It can be tempting to try to provide a lot of information to a new employee on his or her first day but Vitale suggests stretching it out into a longer period of time Dont be overzealous she says The reality is that for a lot of new hires they feel like their head will explode and its tough to retain Design the first week to provide the basics such as time spent shadowing others says Vitale Most importantly they should understand objectives she says Walk through strategic plans Heres what our business objectives are for the year for example And make sure they understand the larger mission Heres why were different and how we offer customers something special Give the employee a look at the company through the customers eyes White suggests doing a deeper dive into the who what where when and why of the company Communicate highlevel information about the organizations history structure and culture she says Dive into the core mission of the new hires team or department including who they will be working with and how to interact with coworkers Finally make sure the employee understands the organizational chart Who will play a role in their performance says Vitale Who those key people are and how a new hire can reach out For example who do they call about payroll or how do they reach IT for a computer question The First 90 Days The most crucial part of a successful onboarding process is checking in with the new employee regularly says Newman Managers may schedule formal daily meetings or they can simply stop by the employees workspace to part of a successful onboarding process is checking in with the new employee regularly he says Ask candid questions Do you feel you understand your job description Is what youre doing what you feel you were hired to do Vitale likes to create 30 60 and 90day plans The manager should go over expectations and provide touch points she says This should be a formal sitdown meeting with the new hires overall objectives broken down into digestible chunks At the meaningful intervals review what works well and what doesnt You can even do things like quizzes which terrify some but its helpful to understand where training need to be applied further says Vitale Metrics might change but make sure youre checking as the employee ramp progresses During those regular checkins ask candid questions Do you feel you understand your job description Is what youre doing what you feel you were hired to do Have there been any surprises This communication and support keeps employees engaged says Vitale When there is a disconnection its often because the employee think things should have been different than they are advertisement advertisement advertisement Leadership Daily Newsletter Receive special Fast Company offers See All Newsletters Video

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How to Successfully Parent Your College Student Elizabeth Hoyt June 13 2018 As a student prepares to leave for college parents generally fall into one of two categories My Baby is Leaving the Nest and Im Freaking Out and My Baby is Leaving the Nest Finally Some Alone Time Regardless of which category you fall under its common for parents to have worries about their student being on their own for the first time Once your student leaves for college it can become one of the most challenging times as a parent Your student will have plenty of newfound freedom and you wont be able to see him or her as often Let Go Letting go isnt easy Take confidence in the fact that you have raised a mature student who you can trust to make smart decisions Your student needs this to learn how to live independently and deal with life as it comes on his or her own That being said he or she will always know that you are just a phone call away should something become too difficult to handle Stay in Touch But Not Too Much Its important for your student to become immersed in college life without you calling every hour on the hour However he or she is adjusting to a new life also and will likely need someone to discuss all of the recent changes with Be open to talking to but dont force them about how they are adjusting If it seems like they arent opening up to you encourage them to talk to someone they trust Let them know that you are there to talk without judgment no matter what the issue may be Mistakes Happen Allow your student to make his or her own mistakes and be fully aware that he or she will make mistakes Obviously nobody is perfect Who your student was in grade school and high school may not necessarily determine who he or she becomes in college people make all sorts of decisions when independence is suddenly thrust upon them Simply encourage that he or she stay true to themselves and as you keep in contact with them try to check in on their grade progress and behavioral changes to ensure everything is under control without being controlling you just want to make sure theyre safe Many students have difficulty adjusting to college courses and their grades suffer as a result Students who are overachievers or who were straightA students in high school can have difficulty accepting such realities Focus on your students efforts and not on the grades letting him or her know that as long as he or she is trying her best you are always going to be proud More often than not the stress of disappointing a parent is at the root of a students anxieties without the parent even realizing it and a Dont Visit Too Often If your student happens to attend a school thats not too far away you will likely be tempted to visit frequently Limit your visits to not more than one per month and when you do visit ask what they would like to do Ensure that you make plans beforehand instead of just dropping by for a visit This shows that you respect their new lifestyle as you would any other adult who may have plans Dont Pressure Them to Come Home All the Time Similar to visiting too often you want your student to get the full college life experience You certainly will miss them but pressuring them to come home on weekends is not in his or her best interest If he or she wants to come home frequently on the weekends encourage that he or she stay on campus instead Students who stay on campus for classes only and constantly return home tend to enjoy college less because they arent as tied to the campus or the campus community As an alternative encourage that he or she join some campus clubs or Avoid Too Much Advice Your student will likely get frustrated and complain to you about a lot of different things in college from roommates to studying to finances and beyond Though you may have answers to it all mums the word unless they ask you what they should do They likely just want someone to listen and someone to vent to not someone to tell them what to do In order to avoid a fight lend an ear and let them know you are there to help should they ever need advice on dealing with any issues That way theyll know that youre ready to them and not at them the latter can cause anyone to shut out advice Hint Try thinking of how your parents gave you advice regarding raising kids etc What helped and what annoyed you most Take those factors into account when talking to your student Keep this rule of thumb in mind as long as theyre not in danger theres no reason to become meddlesome unless they ask Give Space Many students often feel that they actually have less space from their parents when they leave for college than when they lived at home While a parents constant concern is well intentioned the overbearing actions arent doing the students any favors and often result in tension in the relationship Allow your student to have the time and space necessary to adjust and make sure that he or she knows you are always there when needbe Check in every so often and schedule your visits ahead of time All of this compiled with unconditional love and perhaps some care packages and Need Money to Pay for College Every semester Fastweb helps thousands of students pay for school by matching them to scholarships grants and internships for which they actually qualify Youll find high value scholarships like the ScholarshipPoints 10000 Scholarship and easy to enter scholarships like Niche 2000 No Essay Scholarship and internships with companies like Apple Google Dreamworks and even NASA Join today to get matched to scholarships or internships for you You Might Also Like StudySoup Elite Notetaker Recruiting Easy Scholarship to Apply 1000 Niche January Scholarship Special Deals Offers Big student savings when you buy a Dell PC Focus on Parents Join the Discussion

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Which material should be selected for fatigue critical structures Posted on 11 July 2018 by Johannes Homan Which material should be selected to improve the fatigue behaviour of your structure Is it low strength or high strength material Is it steel or aluminium Very often materials are selected based on their static properties and obviously cost The stronger the material the better This may be the case if static strength is critical but for fatigue critical components this kind of material selection is at the least too simplified and in many cases just incorrect Material Groups At first lets have a look at the fatigue strength fatigue limit of different groups of materials The figure below shows the relation between the fatigue strength and ultimate strength for steel titanium and aluminium for unnotched specimens From the figure it can be seen that the fatigue strength increases with increasing ultimate strength but not proportional For strong materials the fatigue strength is relatively less good than for not so strong materials The figure also shows that there is a difference between titanium steel and aluminium with titanium performing the best Roughly following fatigue strengths can be found Steel S f 045 R m Titanium S f 05 R m Aluminium S f 03 R m However be aware that these values are prone to a very large amount of scatter Notch Sensitivity The above figure is valid for unnotched specimens with good quality surface A real structure however does have notches and certainly does not always have good quality surface As a consequence the fatigue strength of the structure will be reduced compared to the unnotched situation Further the notch sensitivity of a material should be taken into account as well The stronger the material the more sensitive it is for notches and also for surface roughness and for mean stress level which is disadvantageous for fatigue larger reduction of the fatigue limit An increasing ultimate tensile strength and increasing yield strength leads in general to a lower ductility higher ratio yield strengthultimate strength and lower strain to failure So with equal ratio between operational loads and ultimate strength ductile materials lower strength are always better in fatigue than brittle materials higher strength Material Selection in Aerospace Why Aluminium is better The ultimate strength vs fatigue strength diagram shown earlier suggest that aluminium is less good in fatigue than steel and titanium Still aluminium is the most applied metal for fatigue critical structures like aircraft So why as that It has to do with the density of the material The specific fatigue strength ie fatigue strength divided by density of aluminium is much better than that of steel and titanium So if weight is an important design criterium aluminium is a much better choice than steel and titanium This is true for fatigue initiation but in aerospace also crack growth and fracture toughness are important material properties Again aluminium performs better it has a superior fracture toughnessdensity ratio and much better specific crack growth properties Get the monthly newsletter with our fatigue blog and information about our services and courses in your mail box Posted in Fatigue Maintaining Structural Integrity What is the Difference between Low High Cycle Fatigue

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