ORCID is seeking a Finance Coordinator to support ORCID's operations in the caretaking of our core financial processes, books, and records. This includes processing invoices, managing our expense reporting and credit card procedures, and assisting with the maintenance of our financial records and finance software, Quickbooks Online (“QBO”). ResponsibilitiesSupporting the finance department by handling administrative tasks, maintaining financial records, preparing reports, and assisting with monthly and annual reporting and compliance, ensuring smooth and efficient financial operations. Record Keeping & Data Entry: Maintaining accurate and up-to-date financial records, entering data into accounting software, and updating supporting spreadsheets. Payment Processing: Processing vendor invoices, ensuring accurate documentation and accounting for transactions, and processing payroll and similar paymentsFinancial Reporting: Assisting with the preparation of financial reports, including statement of activities and statement of financial positionAccount Reconciliation: Reconciling accounts and bank statements, ensuring accuracy and identifying discrepanciesCompliance: Assisting with compliance with financial regulations and company policies. Communication: Communicating with vendors and providing excellent customer service. Audits: Assisting with audits, supplying information to auditors as neededRequirements and Qualifications Knowledge of Bookkeeping and Accounting Principles: Understanding of basic accounting principles and practices. Proficiency in Accounting Software: Familiarity with accounting software (QBO)Excellent Organizational Skills: Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively. Attention to Detail: Accuracy is crucial in financial work. Strong Communication Skills: Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, members, and vendors. Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to identify and resolve financial issues.Fluency in English required. Additional languages are a plus.Ability to travel based upon business needs (less than 10%)The position will be part of our Operations team and is full time (40 hours/week). Like all positions at ORCID, the role is fully remote. Candidates must be able to work during Europe or American standard business hours (Mon-Fri) with at least four hours daily between 1300-2000 UTC, with some recurring meetings between 1400 - 1700 UTC. Outside of these parameters, ORCID offers flexibility with your schedule.

The Minister for Building Safety, Fire and Local Growth will address Housing Today’s Building the Future Conference as a keynote speaker. Source: Flickr Alex Norris has been MP for Nottingham North and Kimberley since June 2017 and was appointed to the role last year, after a shift of responsibilities within the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government. The minister’s role includes building safety, regulations, the Grenfell Inquiry response, local and regional growth, investment zones. His keynote speech will be part of the conference’s deidcated building safety stream. The conference will also involve dedicated specification, sustainability and skills sessions. This year’s Building the Future Conference, which Building Design is co-hosting with sister titles Building and Housing Today, will take place on 2 October at a new venue, 155 Bishopsgate in the City of London. On top of bringing together the Building, Building Design and Housing Today audiences under one roof, there will also be exclusive content from industry partners such as Build UK, The Housing Forum, The G15, and UKGBC. >> Building the Future Conference: Buy your ticket today  The day-long conference will be followed by a shortlisting party for the 2025 Building Awards and Architect of the Year Awards.

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April 16, 20254 min readFuture Paleontologists Will Understand Modern Humans through Our ‘Technofossils’Discarded authors Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz, observers of the geological past, look into the futureBy Cody Cottier edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Klaus Vedfelt/Getty ImagesWe all wonder about our legacy—what will remain of us when we’re gone? Two paleontologists set out to answer that question for the whole of humankind in a new book that explores how the material abundance of modern life will be preserved in Earth’s geological strata.This Anthropocene rock layer will catch the eye of anyone digging around millions of years from now, according to Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz, both professors at the University of Leicester in England. Biological fossils will suddenly give way to a strange menagerie of what Gabbott and Zalasiewicz call technofossils: polyester sweaters, QWERTY keyboards, saxophones. These objects, if buried quickly in the right environment (such as a landfill, where they’re often safely entombed in plastic liners), stand a good chance of enduring.Scientific American talked with Gabbott and Zalasiewicz, authors of the book Discarded: How Technofossils Will Be Our Ultimate Legacy, about the things we’re leaving behind, the ways those items will live on in the environment and the impression that future paleontologists might have of us.On supporting science journalismIf you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.What do we know right now about the technofossils we’ll leave behind?GABBOTT: We’re making things that will be more durable than the stuff biology makes. By that reasoning, it’s probably going to last a long time. But [we don’t know] how long and what it’s going to do in that journey from being discarded to being a fossil.... It’s also fascinating to think about some future civilization or aliens visiting Earth. What the hell are they going to make of all this stuff? Those are the two big unknowns.Let’s start with the first one. How do you study fossilization that hasn’t happened yet?GABBOTT: We can’t do the experiments because there’s not enough time. So we learn some of these things by looking at analogues in the fossil record. There are these plasticlike polymers that some green algae make [that are] almost identical to polyethylene. And the same green algae have been found in rocks that are 48 million years old—this stuff hasn’t changed. Concrete is another one [that we’ve found analogues for]. It’s really just limestone and shale; we know that lasts forever. A lot of these technofossils, there’s no reason to assume that they’re going to be any different. They’re just going to be incredibly resilient.You describe our technofossil legacy as a “puzzle” for future paleontologists. Will they be able to solve it?ZALASIEWICZ: We’re making so many complicated structures that have no [equivalent] in the biological world. So the discoverers will have to realize this is technology, not some kind of biology. Then they have to try to work out what these things were used for. That won’t always be clear.GABBOTT: What I’m talking to you on now, my mobile phone—these things are just rectangles. They’re going to wonder, what is this? And when I was writing [the book], I hadn’t realized just how ephemeral our digital data can be. These big cloud storage bases, even if they survive, [decoding] that stuff is probably going to be impossible. So we have all this computer stuff..., and I think it’s going to be really hard to work out what it was for. [At least] it’s nice to think that paper actually preserves quite well.Maybe a fossilized copy of Discarded will become their field guide.ZALASIEWICZ: It’s a lovely idea. Books themselves [are] at least as fossilizable as your average leaf, and we know you go to the right strata and find fossil leaves by the lorry load. The trouble is the same as when you have many, many fossils piled up on top of each other: you just have a mess. But if you’re patient enough you could actually dissect it—the same, I think, with the pages of any book. It’s a tall order, but you never say anything’s impossible in geology because you get more and more weird and amazing fossils turning up all the time.What will be the most extraordinary technofossils?ZALASIEWICZ: We mention these [soccer]-pitch-length [wind turbine] blades, cut up into segments and stacked side by side [after they’ve been decommissioned]. It looks almost surreal. This pattern could preserve, let’s say, on a big cliffside—imagine one of these in a future Grand Canyon. [And] when you think of the bits of a city that are going to be preserved, [it’s] all the bits underground..., the subway systems, the electricity, the drains. Again, one can imagine a cliffside where the underground part of Amsterdam or New Orleans is outlined.Tomorrow’s marvels are, in many cases, today’s pollution. How do you think about that?ZALASIEWICZ: There really is a connection between the far future and the uncomfortable, dangerous, toxic present. We put stuff into a landfill because we have a problem. We put it into a hole—problem solved. But of course, that landfill site is subject to all the processes that affect any fossil. If it’s buried, it can easily be exhumed [by geological processes] and go back into the surface environment at intervals of tens of millions of years.GABBOTT: Because this stuff is going to last a long time, because this stuff is polluting now, we really need to start thinking: Do I need another pair of sunglasses? Do I need another mobile phone?Speaking of which, I know from a vague passage in the book that one of you still has a flip phone.ZALASIEWICZ: [Holds up some primitive, dimly familiar device] Me. I never quite caught up. My son is very tech-savvy, so perhaps he will guide me into this strange new world. But I still survive with it. It still gives me enough.What story will our technofossils tell about us?GABBOTT: They will tell that we were a complex society, that we were technologically able, intelligent. But also they will tell of a species that was profligate, that made things in vast numbers..., using up resources without knowing the downstream consequences.ZALASIEWICZ: The fact that all of this is being done while there is evidence of increasing environmental perturbation, I think, will strike them. The better angels and the worse angels of our nature will both be fairly obvious.

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You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games here Zenimax Online’s Elder Scrolls Online MMO has been a huge success, adapting the company’s brilliant fantasy RPG into a beloved online game. After the game’s rough launch in 2014, the MMORPG has seen some major improvements with awesome expansions and updates to keep the game fresh. To celebrate the game’s ten-year anniversary, the Bethesda Gear Store is selling off 2,000 commemorative pieces of the original Elder Scrolls Online servers for players to own and put on their shelves. Own a piece of the original Elder Scrolls Online servers Available to purchase on the Bethesda Gear Store here, slices of the game’s original server blades can be owned in a gorgeous decorative frame. “Those who wish for something truly meaningful to commemorate over a decade of adventure with friends can now have an actual physical piece of The Elder Scrolls Online history: a stick of RAM taken from the game’s original run of servers,” Bethesda said. Dubbed the Elder Scrolls Online 10-Year Anniversary Server Keepsake, each stick of RAM is kept in an MDF wood frame with antique gold plating. The frame can also be opened for you to take out the RAM and do whatever you want with it. Hell, shove the decade-old RAM stick in your own server if you really want. Oh my God, it’s beautiful. Of course, each slice of the server is individually numbered with a holographic sticker right on the RAM stick. As soon as I finish writing this article, I will be nabbing my own, which means I won’t be number one, and I’ll have a life-long beef with whoever gets number one. The commemorative ESO item is currently available for pre-sale at just $110, and they’re expected to be shipped sometime “in the month of July 2025”. God, I need it. The Elder Scrolls Online Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One Genre(s): Fantasy, Massively Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online, RPG 4 VideoGamer Related Topics Elder Scrolls Online Subscribe to our newsletters! By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime. Share

The best settees are the ones that give your space character, combining a sleek, high-back silhouette with a perch for a little tête-à-tête. These (usually) upholstered mini sofas typically have high arms too, but some modern versions go armless for a contemporary feel.Don’t confuse settees with loveseats or chaise lounges, as this silhouette has a more structured, compact profile that doesn’t skimp on style. If you need a refresher, you’ll likely spot a Regency-style settee on the set of Bridgerton.These petite sofas are a perfect addition to a reading nook, a spot for a quick chat in the entryway, or even a statement piece that anchors the art hanging above it. Here, eight settee styles that channel elegance without stuffiness.Our Top Picks for the Best SetteesBest Budget-Friendly Pick: Pottery Barn Josie Sofa, $499For Cottagecore Elegance: Stoffer Home x Cloth and Co. Thelma Settee, $1,770Best Outdoor Option: Anthropologie Sienna Rattan Wicker Settee, $1,898Best Classic Style: McGee & Co. Philippa Settee, $2,364Best Design Classic: Knoll Womb Settee, $8,995Stoffer Home x Cloth and Co. Thelma SetteeSpecsDimensions: 33'' H X 47'' W X 34'' DFabrics: Hand-upholstered cotton in all kinds of printsWe’ve been leaning into cottagecore, and this Cloth and Co. Thelma settee has all the right moves—stripes, hand-upholstered linen, ruffles, and a cloud-like cushion. Since this version doesn’t have arms, it has a more contemporary look that won’t make the piece look like it was dug up from your grandma’s basement.West Elm x Pierce & Ward Bentwood SofaSpecsDimensions: 30"H x 54"W x27.5"DFabrics: PolyesterA touch of Regency style never hurt anyone. For any room that lacks a little je ne sais quoi, look no further than Pierce & Ward’s new collection for West Elm. One highlight is this bentwood settee, a vintage-inspired piece that uses sustainably sourced wood for the curvy arms. Unlike other more structured settees, this one has a concave back with tufted detail.Anthropologie Sienna SetteeSpecsDimensions: 30"H x 54"W x27.5"DFabrics: PolyesterDon’t let the interiors have all the fun. The Anthropologie wicker rattan settee is just what your outdoor setup needs. Imagining the sculpted silhouette nestled against a rose bush is like something out of a Jane Austen novel. Toss on a few throw pillows for an alfresco nest where you hole up all summer long.Knoll Womb SetteeSpecsDimensions: 35.5" x 62¾" x 34"Fabrics: Boucle, velvet, leather, and beyondThe iconic Knoll Womb chair also comes in a cozy settee that adds a burst of personality to any room. It comes in more than 130 colorways that include lime ultrasuede, crimson boucle, and a small brigade of neutral and grey hues (should you want to tone down the design). We feel that it’s the perfect conversation piece to place in a spacious entryway or just beneath the stairway. Add a Saarinen side table, and you’ve got yourself a little midcentury modern oasis in the making.McGee & Co. Philippa SetteeSpecsDimensions: 68" W x 35" D x 32" HFabrics: LinenThe fringe detail of the McGee & Co. Philippa settee is subtle and special, pairing well with the oatmeal-and-ivory striped linen upholstery of the seating. One reviewer called it “stunning” and we are not one to disagree. Place it at the foot of the bed or create an artfully designed alcove by framing it with a standing lamp, a small occasional table, and a pillow or two. It’s all ready to ship, so what are you waiting for?Pottery Barn Josie SofaSpecsDimensions: 58"W x 37"D x 33.5"HFabrics: PolyesterThe Pottery Barn Josie, with its delicate roll arms, is elegance upholstered. You’ll sit prim and proper on the cushion supported by no-sag steel springs. We’re partial to performance casual chenille, which has a rub count of 50,000 so you can invite friend after friend after friend without worrying about it wearing out.Cobble Hill Saratoga SetteeSpecsDimensions: 64" W x 35" D x 34" HFabrics: PolyesterTextured velvet upholstery in mauve may be the way to go with this comfy gem of a settee named after Brooklyn’s historic Cobble Hill neighborhood, especially if you add it to a bedroom. The design will work particularly well in a large space that could use a bit of separation, creating a suite vibe, or in a breakfast nook as a dining bench.Blu Dot Bloke SofaSpecsDimensions: 63”W x 32”D x 34”HFabrics: Polyester and linenA settee with extra support for your back? Yes, please. The Blu Dot Bloke style mixes old-world design ideals with a modern silhouette that sees a curvy banquet-like back tacked onto powder-coated steel legs. It comes with high-resiliency foam seat cushions that give it just the right amount of bounce without feeling too stiff. It also comes in three neutral colorways (grey, blue, and stone), but if you want to make a statement, spring for the ochre velvet hue.

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Bloody Action Hands-on: Ninja Gaiden Ragebound is NES-inspired, retro ninja action done right, and the perfect entrée to whet your appetite for Ninja Gaiden 4 In a preview of The Game Kitchen's next title, Ninja Gaiden loses a dimension, but keeps the quality. Image credit: VG247 Article by Connor Makar Staff Writer Published on April 16, 2025 Some things are just better together. Wine and cheese. Salt and Pepper. Bass drum and hi-hat. All these are good, but having played through The Game Kitchen's next bloody action romp, Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, I'm convinced some of that one combination deserves a spot pretty high up the list of all-time best pairings: Ninja Gaiden and 2D. The Game Kitchen proves the combo is just as effective as it was in the NES days. For those who don't know, The Game Kitchen was responsible for the excellent Blasphemous and Blasphemous 2, which brought side-scrolling action gameplay, gorgeous art, and rich religious theming together in a wonderful blend I can't help but recommend. It seems the team, fresh from depicting rampant violence of a Catholic nature, has decided to put down the Mea Culpa and pick up the Ninjato. You couldn't have picked a better team to make Ragebound, as the gory combat, traversal, and deep-rooted challenge makes the transition seamlessly. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. When first discussing Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, there are three main topics of merit: the gameplay itself, the presentation, and the difficulty. The Game Kitchen smash all three, in a way that makes it hard to imagine truly old school Ninja Gaiden fans being upset with. Sure, you can't beat the classics, but as far as odes to the past go, this seems to me to be a pretty darn good one. The feel of gameplay in Ragebound is tight, responsive, and drenched in that visceral feedback that's downright mandatory in good side-scrollers. Hits feel good in Ragebound, which is important, because the game's bread-and-butter is high octane slicing and dicing. Playing through the tutorial and two missions, every weapon and ability I used felt responsive and cathartic. Even movement - itself key to the overall play experience in side-scrollers - felt fast and punchy. It's the kind of game that melts away in your hand, along with the hours you spend behind the controller. As you proceed through the story, you confront various oni (read: demons). These can be, broadly speaking, broken up into two categories of foe: small and large. Small enemies are killable in a single hit, while larger blokes take a few blows (or an enhanced strike) to take down. There's also a colour-coded mechanic that adjusts the flow of brawls. Occasionally, enemies will radiate a blue or red aura and through killing select softies with that same aura, you are granted a single hit of an enhanced attack in that colour, which you can use to fell a particularly powerful that shares the same hue. You soar through levels at a breakneck pace, granted you know what you're doing. | Image credit: The Game Kitchen Conseqently, fights in Ragebound are practically mini-puzzles in which you must quickly determine the optimal route through an encounter, making use of what opportunities arise to quickly dispose of the forces of evil. It's a restriction sure, but not burdensome. DmC: Devil May Cry this is not. I found myself engorged in the process. Seeing what you're about to face, and figuring out on the fly how best to make my way through in good time and health. Ninja Gaiden Ragebound is visually stunning. It perfectly captures that retro aesthetic, while also pushing things somewhat given the resources provided with modern hardware. The game loads quickly, and looks great. Each enemy is distinct and recognisable, variants present in different levels. When you kill an enemy with one of those aforementioned enhanced attacks, they fold into themselves in a puddle of blood and gore, collapsing pleasingly like a chocolate lava cake. Delicious. The most notable part of the game's presentation are the fantastic stage transitions and boss fights. You leap out a window from the tutorial right into mission one a massive encounter, with no load time whatsoever. The bosses are vast and bombastic affairs, set in vibrant arenas and shooting out massive attacks that capture the attention and summoned from my mouth audible sounds of approval throughout my time playing. Take a gander at this pixel work. The game is quite the looker. | Image credit: The Game Kitchen As is gospel for the Ninja Gaiden series, the game is hard. Hard, but not unfair. You're given all the tools you need to blast through levels fast and clean, and given ample information ahead of fights to determine how exactly to overcome challenges without having your ankles shattered. Still, hits you do take hurt, and you're lacking something like passive life regeneration, your life being a resource more than an area of constant worry. Checkpoints are present, though scarce, and it feels as though you're met with a choice in Ragebound: get good, or struggle. This is exactly what you'd want from any Ninja Gaiden game, and that feeling here adds all the more to my claim that this is a brilliant revival of classic Ninja Gaiden. You see, it's core to the fun. Enemies attack from awkward angles, perhaps they're positioned in such a way that forces you to leap over platforms or through a particular ability through a gap in the wall, but nothing is sprung on you without warning. Ragebound, like classic Castlevanias, Mega Man games, or other retro royalty, teaches you what you need to know with a soft and nurturing hand, before using that same hand to throw punches your way. You can dodge them (the game makes sure you know how) but a punch is a punch and the bruise-averse should keep this in mind. At the end of the tutorial, you fight Ryu Hayabusa. This is a fight you're meant to lose. Losing most of your health transitions you straight into the first real mission, as Ryu goes off to do Ninja Gaiden 1 stuff as you set off on your own new adventure. However, if you dodge well and strike where you can, you can whittle down his health! At roughly 70%, Ryu starts pulling out some nasty attacks that are incredibly hard to avoid with your starting kit. I confirmed with one of the devs present that this is a fight you can win, but it's extremely hard. I wasn't able to do it, the best I got in my short time playing was 60%. But you can do it. I can see your eyes widening, masochists. Even the first boss isn't exactly a pushover, setting the tone for the rest of my preview. | Image credit: The Game Kitchen The team at The Game Kitchen didn't need to add that, but they did because they understand what makes a game like Ragebound so appealing. The fight is filled with "oh sh*t" moments as Ryu pulls absurd aerial attacks out and throws them at you. It's hard, but the game knows you want to win that fight. On top of that, when you lose, he Izuna Drops you. It's exactly what I wanted from Ragebound, and there's a good reason I spent the last 30 minutes of my preview time trying to take him down. Ninja Gaiden Ragebound seems to me to be an absolutely fantastic addition to the Ninja Gaiden series, even if it isn't mainline. It represents everything I feel is important to the series, and fits nicely into the canon in a way that should be pleasing to old fans too. I would highly recommend keeping an eye on this one, it's a scorcher. Ninja Gaiden Ragebound is coming sometime in 2025, to PC. This game was previewed at the Dotemu offices in Paris, with travel and accommodation handled by Dotemu.