According to published reports, New York City’s Transit System Raises Fares, Tolls as MetroCard Nears End.

• New York City's transit system approved a fare and toll hike, with the base subway and bus fee increasing by 10 cents to $3.
• The MTA will phase out its decades-old MetroCard for a tap-and-go payment system, with the yellow MetroCard no longer being sold after Dec. 31.
• The additional revenue will help the MTA's operating budget as the transit provider grapples with inflation and rising labor costs.

 

Poly = Many + Ticks = Blood-sucking Parasites
Dominance displays are commonly observed in male animals—often primates—who seek to improve their social status. Behaviors like stamping, slapping the ground, dragging branches, and throwing rocks serve to intimidate rivals and impress onlookers, showing strength, boldness, and creativity. The core idea is that:
Spectacular and vigorous displays = greater social impact
This leads to faster ascent in the hierarchy and longer dominance
In evolutionary terms, such behaviors may be selected for because high status often brings better access to resources, including mates.

This means washing, drying, and often folding and putting away dirty clothes, linens, and other textiles to make them clean and ready to wear again. This common household chore involves gathering dirty items, loading them into a washing machine, transferring them to a dryer or hanging them to dry, and then folding and storing them in their proper places.
Gathering and Sorting: Collecting dirty clothes and separating them into piles based on color and fabric type.
Washing: Loading the sorted clothes into a washing machine with detergent and water, then running the washing cycle.
Drying: Transferring the washed items to a dryer or hanging them on a clothesline to dry.
Folding and Putting Away: Folding the dry clothes and placing them in drawers or closets completes the job.

Are you one of those people who tends to walk around with your eyes fixed on the ground? Or maybe you know someone who constantly does this. Well, you may not have realised that it can actually tell us something about that person. One common perception is that they may be shy, but psychologists and movement researchers say the answer isn’t that simple, although it can be part of the story. Let’s see what the data says.

In other developed nations, when a government shutdown is imminent, they revert to the existing budgets until a resolution is reached by all.

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