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There isn't any real reasoning for why I made this. Maybe because I already did something like this with 1-A? I just thought it'd be a fun scenario to imagine where these characters would be if they had real jobs. Instead of ending up in various levels of dead or damaged. I will ignore characters that I think are simply too evil to have any real chances, like Moonfish, or others I just don't think are interesting, like Mange. That and most MLA because they already have real jobs. Them being redeemed would just be them going back to work with ankle bracelets on.

Mustard-Fumigator: If his gas can knock out and poison people that quickly, I imagine that it can kill bugs just as well. And if he comes across any particularly bad bugs, he always has his gun.

Giran-Salesman: I mean, it'd be basically be what he was doing before. Now instead of seeing illegal weaponry, he'll be selling used cars so expensive it should be illegal.

Spinner-Streamer: He can still play games and not leave his house, but now he will hopefully have a more healthy outlet for everything he is going through. He doesn't even need a VTuber set up. He is the goofy model.

Tomura-Waste Management: This allows Tomura to let out his destructive tendencies and can help get rid of a lot of debris and trash that is just laying around. Now instead of leaving a destroy wasted, he can clean up the destroyed waste.

Mr. Compress-Street Mage: Probably the most obvious pick out of everyone on this list. Between his power, his gimmick, and his natural showmanship, it all fits right into this kind of job. He doesn't even need to change his outfit to make it work.

Muscular-Coach: Since he can't be trust in any fighting based sport. I'm not sure if this would be as a gym coach or personal couch, but either way, he is going to take all that sadisms and ideas of conflict and channeling that aggression for other people's benefit.

Kurogiri-Travel Agent: As much as hero may be on the table, I think there would be some optics issues with that. Still he could send people where ever they want to go on vacation with a fraction of the rates. Just as long as they give a way to send them back home.

Dabi-Lead Singer: Specifically something in the metal or rock genre. He's got that perfect mix of voice, look, and angst to fit right into that kind of culture. And considering how many songs are written for people who don't like their dads, he'd have plenty of material for songs.

Toga-Photographer: Toga was the hardest out of all of them. I just went with something that could express herself more healthy, maybe even being a crime scene photographer, and being in a job where stalking someone is considered worthwhile experience for the job.

Twice-Odd Jobs: As much as I want to say tailor for his sick measuring skills, he doesn't really have any definable skills. So having him be around and help people with his dozens of clones seems fitting. That and there is so much comedic potential in them doing odd jobs week to week.

Gigantomachia-Tourist Barge: Instead of demolishing cities, Gigantomachia can use his tough body to show people around normally hazardous areas like oceans or mountains. He can even use the cheers of the people he's carrying as encouragement to boost his power.

Geten-Ice Cream Man: I prefer to think that Geten's abilities would cover ice cream as well. As such, it is only a natural conclusion that he would become an ice cream man. And knowing him, he will fight and train to be the best ice cream man on the planet.

Kuin-Beekeeper: Considering how bad of a spot bees are in, Kuin could do a real service to the community be helping to spread out pollen with her power. And hey, leading a bunch of bees would come naturally to her as a living insect.

Number 6-Motivation Speaker: Forget the amount of social manipulation he did in his own story, I say this job fits because of the amount of spite Number 6 has. It's that spite that allowed him to get going and fulfil his dreams. Now that's inspiring.

Overhaul-Doctor: I've already gone over how useful "Overhaul" would be in medical work and he already has plenty of experience with medicine. Heck, we can even have the other yakuza guys around as nurses and other kinds of assistants. Beside manner may need work.

Stain-Bounty Hunter: I wanted Stain to end up somewhere where he could technically good, like a detective, but a bounty hunter fits way more within his skill set. Plus, there is a lot of comedy potential. Imagine a poster him in the bond office say "Pay your bond or else!"

Gentle and La Brava-Social Media Stars: Basically what they were doing before. Now with hopefully less crime in between videos. Gentle could even spin his whole redemption for more views, telling his sad story in prison and his time trying to rehabilitate himself. Take that as genuinely or facetiously as you want.

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Empowering Professionals in Texas: The Benefits of Therapy for Mental Wellness and Career Growth

In today’s fast-paced world, Texas professionals often face intense pressures—from high-stakes deadlines to the responsibilities of leadership and the demands of work-life balance. These pressures can lead to mental and emotional strain, affecting not only productivity but also personal well-being. Therapy For Professionals Texas has emerged as a valuable resource, providing a supportive space for professionals to address and manage these challenges while also fostering growth in their careers and personal lives.

The Unique Challenges Faced by Texas Professionals

Professionals in Texas work in diverse industries, from the bustling tech and healthcare sectors to oil and gas and finance. Each industry presents unique pressures, but across all fields, common stressors include long hours, high expectations, and the need to stay competitive. For many, this can lead to burnout, anxiety, and even physical health issues. Texas has a strong work culture, and while dedication is often celebrated, it can sometimes overshadow the importance of self-care and mental health.

How Therapy Can Help Professionals

Therapy offers a constructive outlet for professionals to navigate stress, build resilience, and cultivate emotional intelligence. Here are some ways therapy can benefit Texas professionals:

Stress Management and Resilience Building Therapy provides tools for managing stress effectively, helping individuals develop coping strategies to maintain mental clarity and focus. Through practices like mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral techniques, professionals learn to respond to challenges in healthy ways, building resilience for long-term success.

Improved Interpersonal Skills Success in the workplace often hinges on relationships, whether with colleagues, clients, or stakeholders. Therapy can help professionals enhance their communication skills, navigate conflict, and build stronger professional networks. These interpersonal skills foster a collaborative work environment and contribute to better career outcomes.

Enhanced Decision-Making and Goal Setting Therapy can aid in developing better decision-making skills by helping professionals understand their values, strengths, and long-term aspirations. Therapy offers a structured approach for setting realistic goals, both personal and professional, enabling individuals to work towards fulfilling and meaningful careers.

Work-Life Balance and Burnout Prevention For professionals with demanding schedules, maintaining a healthy work-life balance can be challenging. Therapy encourages individuals to set boundaries, prioritize self-care, and cultivate hobbies or interests outside of work. This balanced approach helps reduce burnout and contributes to overall well-being.

Types of Therapy Options Available in Texas

Texas professionals have access to various therapeutic approaches to support mental wellness:

Individual Therapy – Tailored, one-on-one sessions for personal growth and stress management.

Group Therapy – Provides a shared space for individuals with similar challenges to connect and learn from each other’s experiences.

Online Therapy – Virtual sessions offer flexibility, making therapy more accessible to those with busy schedules.

Executive Coaching – A hybrid approach that combines elements of therapy and career coaching, focused on professional development.

Finding the Right Therapist

Choosing a therapist who understands the unique pressures of professional life is crucial. In Texas, many therapists specialize in working with high-achieving professionals and can offer insights and strategies tailored to the demands of specific industries. Platforms like Psychology Today, Therapy For Perfectionism Nevada, and local Texas-based counseling centers are valuable resources for finding a licensed professional who meets these needs.

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bio - te.d las.so verse.

tw ; mentions of homophobia & abuse.

Katrina had never been happy in the small town she grew up in. Trapped in a strict and and at times even hostile household, within a town where it felt like if you wandered deep enough into the woods, you might just find Frau Perchta or some other fairy tale creature. She found safety in nature, in the woods and hills nearby. She found an outlet in football. 

As long as she could remember, she’d been watching the sport, reading the news. She watched with her eyes glued to the television screen to see her favorite team, Dortmund, win the league when she was 5 - and again when she was 15. As soon as she could, she joined her school’s team. She played hard and fast and fun. On the pitch was one of the only places she really felt like she was enjoying herself. It was certainly the only place she felt she was good at what she was doing - her grades may not be great, her parents might call her a brat, but nobody could deny that she was good out on that field. 

When she’s 15, she gets outed by her recently-ex boyfriend. When she’s 16, her parents catch word of it. 

Katrina had known for a long time that she needed to get out of that house, get out of that town, somewhere she wouldn't feel like she was suffocating. Somewhere away from her parents’ words and the town’s eyes. The day her parents found out those rumors - they weren��t rumors, but she tried to tell them they were, to no avail - she knew she needed to get out fast. Somewhere. Anywhere. Just as long as it was soon. 

She scrapes together the money she has, and within a month she books herself a one-way trip to Vienna. Aside from her best friend, she doesn’t tell anyone where she’s gone. She leaves no note. She doesn’t take much. She just runs. 

She finds herself a place at a youth shelter, far from luxurious but a place to stay nonetheless. As soon as she’s organized enough, she gets herself a job. It’s a shitty retail job at some store she honestly couldn’t care less about, but she has to make a living somehow. 

Her love for the game only increases - more than ever, she needs something familiar and solid, something she knows, something she’s confident in. When she can, she catches games on the TV. She steals newspapers and uses library computers to check scores, transfers, updates, strategies. On her days off - sometimes even after her shifts, even when it’s dark out - she finds her way to the nearest public park and practices on the pitch. When she has nothing to do at the shelter, she practices juggling and handling the ball - until someone else gets bothered by the noise and inevitably tells her to stop, that is. She runs solo drills, pores over plays, envisions shots in her head during slow moments at her work. 

This game is the only thing she knows she’s good at. The only thing she knows she could do professionally. She has no experience with any special coaches or clubs, no history with any sort of organizations. No current team games for scouts to spot her at. But this is the one shot she has. She’s not letting it go. 

She starts going down to the clubhouses of the nearest low-level teams on her off days, trying to secure herself a spot. With no manager or agent, she had to fight for that spot herself. All of these teams no doubt had prospects they were eyeing. When she walked into that room, she had to convince them that they needed her. And she needed to keep being convincing, even after rejections. 

Eventually, finally, someone said yes. And she made sure they didn’t regret it. She spent the season rushing between her job and her practices, working her schedule around games. It was hectic, and it felt like this whole thing was constantly about five seconds from falling apart completely and leaving her with nothing, but when she was out on that pitch, she knew exactly what to do. She’d been watching this game for as long as she could remember, kicking around the ball since she could walk. She knew this game, and she needed to win. And it showed. 

At the end of her first season, she’s 18, still picking up retail shifts when she can to try and cover some costs of living. As the off-season comes on, she goes back to her old routine - either working or practicing solo, keeping her mind busy with trying to get better. She needs to get better. She needs to get good enough to go somewhere with this. 

To her surprise, and delight, she’s contacted just a month after by a Regionalliga Süd team. Lowest level of the league, but it’s a step closer to where she needs to go. It means moving away from Vienna, away from the only country she’s called home her whole life, but she’s more than willing to do it if it means she has a better chance. So she moves, finds the cheapest place she can, a new part-time job, and puts on the purple kit for TSV Schwaben Augsburg. When the next season rolls around, she puts it all out on the field again. Her team may only come in third, but her efforts pay off. A few people start to notice. At the end of the season, she’s contacted by another team again. Another league up. Another move, her third in three years, but she’s happy to do it if it means getting closer to the top. 

As a lifelong Dortmund fan, she doesn’t love putting on a blue jersey, but if Saarbrücken is offering her a spot in the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga, she’ll take it. She’ll give it everything she’s got. Play hard. Play fast. All the anger, hurt, shame. Play like her life depends on it - it kind of does. 

The reserve league gets more publicity - Saarbrücken’s feisty new attacking midfielder, a previously-unknown hotshot from Austria. Her team may not place in the top 3, but her performance catches a few people’s notice. 

Namely, the recruiters at VfL Wolfsburg. 

When she gets the news, everything seems to stop for a second. Is she interested? How is that even a fucking question? The team that’s dominated the Frauen-Bundesliga for years? One of the best of the best? Of fucking course she’s interested, it’s everything she’s been daydreaming about since she was 5 years old (almost everything, at least, since Dortmund still doesn’t have a women’s team). When the phone call ends, she stands there for a moment in silence. And then she starts to laugh. And then, for a moment, she cries. 

When she steps into that clubhouse for her first day of training, It feels a bit surreal. Nervous, even. But she doesn’t dwell on that for long - focus up. She’s in the big leagues now, she needs to make sure they know picking her wasn’t a mistake. So, again, she pours herself into the game. She could run drills in her sleep at this point, but she won’t let herself fall into some mindless rhythm with it. She fucking fought tooth and nail for this spot for years, she needs to make sure it’s solid. There’s no room to get relaxed and lazy. 

If there’s one thing she doesn’t envy the men’s league for, it’s the publicity - the questions, the cameras, it always just annoys her. Makes her uncomfortable. Any time someone asks about her hometown, her childhood, she has to bite her tongue to keep from telling them to just fuck off already. She just wants to play the game. That’s what she’s here for. Not all this gossip-column PR garbage and pundit speculation bullshit. Luckily for her, the team at VfL seems to catch on to this resentment. 

She keeps her head down and plays. Wolfsburg’s secret weapon, a fast-rising and focused newcomer. Working on a team has always been a bit strange for her, with how much of her training has been solo, but it is a team sport. She knows it’s important. But that doesn’t mean she’s exactly a social butterfly. 

Nevertheless, it pays off - VfL takes four titles - three of them consecutive. It feels like a dream. Part of her still can’t believe it’s happening. 

And then, Richmond. 

To say her transfer was frustrating would be an understatement - she’s definitely bitter. She worked fucking hard to make it this far, and now she’s going from a team with four titles in five years to a team that hasn’t even played yet? Not to mention having to move to a whole new country, away from her best friend and her brother and her niece. To a place where nobody speaks her first language, let alone her dialect, and every announcer and pundit will no doubt pronounce her last name wrong. To some team that they let a fucking American football coach lead. But to Richmond and England she’s going. 

Yeah, it’s fair to say she isn’t thrilled.

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HARTFORD WOLF PACK ROLL TO 5-1 WIN OVER THE LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS

By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings ALLENTOWN, PA - Dylan Garand's strong effort in net and offense from Ryan Carpenter and Will Lockwood, each with a goal and an assist, paced the Hartford Wolf Pack to a 5-1 road victory over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. The third period was decisive for the Pack as their counter-attack led them to score three times and pull from the Phantoms. They have won four in a row, gone 7-3-1-0 in their last 11 are five points ahead of idle Bridgeport, but they have two games in hand and have gotten themselves to within one point of the fifth-place Phantoms. Lehigh Valley plays Bridgeport tomorrow afternoon. The Wolf Pack are off until Wednesday when the Toronto Marlies, coached by Pack captain/ex-Sound Tiger/ex-Springfield Falcon Greg Moore, comes to town. They host the Islanders next Friday on Calder Cup championship celebration night at the XL Center. The playoff sprint is on. The Wolf Pack of late has shown a late-game resilience that's been absent for a part of the season. Garand started it with four solid saves on Jackson Cates, Olle Lycksell, Elliott Desnoyers, and Tyson Foerster, keeping the Phantoms from tying it. They got the two-goal lead they sought as Tim Gettinger stripped Phantoms forward Bobby Brink of the puck, pushed the puck ahead, and Tanner Fritz motored his way down on the right wing and nailed one off the back bar in the net at 7:52 for his 11th and a 3-1 lead. The Pack didn't stop there as captain Jonny Brodzinski was on fire, scoring his 19th as his pass was too far for Jake Leschysyn. Brodzinski used his speed and smarts to get to the loose puck following the play. Then at the left side of the net put in his 19th, making it 4-1. Brodzinski, clearly a Player of the Week candidate, has 19 goals and 18 assists in 26 games since being reassigned by the Rangers. The icing on the cake came as Carpenter helped force a neutral zone turnover, then headed right to the Phantoms' zone. Lockwood made an intelligent outlet pass off the boards at center ice that set him free and Carpenter made no mistake with a shot over Nolan Maier's glove and under the crossbar for a hefty 5-1 lead that stayed there. There was no third-period collapse. In the last four periods at the PPL Center, the Wolf Pack have outscored the Phantoms 10-1, and in their previous four games have outscored their opponents  19-3. Who is this team? In the second period, pushback came Garand, who did his best stopping 11 of 12 shots in various ways, and just one eluded him all evening. In the two-game total, the Pack goalies faced 70 shots, and only one went in. Emil Andrae, a defenseman for the Phantoms, cruised in the Wolf Pack zone unchecked. Andare, a second pick by the Flyers three years ago, spent the year in Sweden, took the drop pass from Tyson Forester, and in just his third game with Phantoms, fired a perfect bar down shot for his first-ever AHL goal at 7:30 to cut the lead to just one goal. The Pack had early offense when Will Cullye hit the post at 2:02 off a pass from the left-wing wall from Brodzinski. Garand was sharp, stopping Ronnie Attard, Elliott Desnoyers, and Max Willam in one burst of shots at the net. Then with 4:56 left, Brodzinski, on the right wing, tried to set up Jake Leschyshyn. Nearly a minute later, Andrae almost tied the game on virtually the same play but hit the crossbar this time. Then with 59 seconds remaining in the period saw ex-Pack Alex Kile got around Adam Clendening and tested Garand down low, but the door remained closed with his paddle down on the ice. The Wolf Pack had a strong road game to start the hockey game. The Pack struck gold first. Anton Blidh fired a perfect outlet pass and found Lauri Pajuniemi open behind the defense. Then screaming in Nolan Maier, bear him on the breakaway for his 19th at 2:18. The Pack kept the foot on the gas pedal depressed and took advantage of a poor icing call by the officials that infuriated Phantoms coach Ian Laperriere and Carpenter won the ensuing offensive zone faceoff and alerted Gettinger on the forecheck got there first. His pass hit some skates and bounced to Carpenter in the left-wing circle, zipped a high shot that  Lockwood deflected perfectly over Maier's shoulder for a 2-0 lead at 5:38. Carpenter has nine points in the last nine games in this latest Pack surge. Then Brandon Scanlin threw an excellent hard, legal in the neutral zone on Max Willam, crushing him into the right-wing boards, and sadly, customarily, he had to battle ex-Pack Alex Kile. Still, the Pack was firing on all cylinders as he got into his second fight in as many games. They got help in the net as Garand made nine saves, including a big save, and then Elliott Desnoyers and Garrett Wilson were denied. The Pack got a four-minute powerplay on a high stick-on Wyatt Kalynuk by Jordie Bellerive. Zac Jones got plenty of ice with eight minutes of the 20 were on the man advantage. HARTFORD WOLF PACK HOME Read the full article

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Pod-Alization: Freakonomics Comes Clean; Brooklyn Podcast Festival; Football & Race

Freakonomics airs an episode about trying to clean up the world

Freakonomics recently introduced a miniseries podcast called The Economics Of Everyday Things. In the first episode: Gas stations. When gas prices skyrocket, do station owners get a windfall? And where do their profits really come from? This episode was enlightening and counterintuitive in some of its conclusions.

The podcast hosted is Zachary Crockett, who was a staff writer at Vox.com and Priceonomics.

In the fourth and final episode of the miniseries (although Freakonomics left the door open to more shows), host Crockett introduces us to an organization, Clean The World, that is trying to make the world a better place.

Clean The World had a novel idea. Collect used hotel soaps that had been partially used by hotel guests that are usually thrown away. By inventing a process that mixes all those different kinds of soaps and then using a “soap whisperer” to successfully create the right balance to make new soap bars. The organization distributes these newly constituted soap bars to people in need of help with hygiene and disease prevention.

This is especially commendable since our nation suffers from an empathy deficit for the disabled, disadvantaged, and downtrodden. Sadly, an “I got mine, so it’s your fault if you didn’t get yours” attitude pervades too many crevasses in our society. Some media outlets even pitch the fiction that the privileged in society are under assault from the disadvantaged.

Check out The Economics Of Everyday Things here.

On Air Fest Hits Brooklyn next week (Feb. 23–25)

From Feb 23–25 at Brooklyn’s Wythe Hotel, On Air Fest is hailed as ��the Coachella of podcast festivals.” The festival has just announced its next series of programming updates and additions.

Fast Company will now welcome a special session from Audible and Higher Ground Audio, on the making of Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast. Ahead of its March 7th release, the early preview of Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast will feature behind-the-scenes anecdotes about the inaugural project from Audible and Higher Ground’s multi-year partnership, focused on producing content that reflects the companies’ shared mission of telling meaningful stories to elevate diverse voices and experiences.

Also at On Air Fest, attendees will witness the debut of On Air: The Podcast Experience. The first-of-its-kind, interactive exhibit invites fans to step into their favorite shows and storytellers, as a floor of multiple rooms at the Wythe Hotel is taken over by the worlds of My Favorite Murder, On Being, Radiolab, Sonos’ Object of Sound with host Hanif Abdurraqib, and The Heart. The immersive installation will run from February 23–26 and is open to all festival attendees and independent ticket holders.

NYT’s Between The Lines Podcast premieres about the history of football and race

How has America’s biggest game failed to grapple with America’s biggest issue?

“Between the Lines,” a new podcast series from The Athletic, dives into what it means to be Black in the N.F.L. and explains how race impacts each level of the league’s organization chart.

Through a series of interviews with current and former NFL players, coaches, executives and league officials, host Tashan Reed takes listeners through the NFL’s past and present issues with race, as well as the changes that may be possible to make America’s biggest game more equitable.

From coaches who have quit their jobs due to a lack of advancement to players who have struggled to speak out for fear of being cut, Reed takes listeners through the N.F.L.’s past and present issues with race, as well as the changes that may be possible to make America’s biggest game more equitable.

“The N.F.L. is far from the only entity with a diversity problem — the media industry is another prime example — but it’s one of the most successful, prominent and influential businesses in America,” said Tashan Reed. “If it allows the issue to persist, it’s culpable in helping maintain the structure of systemic racism, discrimination, and oppression that’s held this country in its grip for centuries. But if it’s able to cultivate some sustained progress, it could become a beacon for change. This series was born and created over the course of 16 months from a desire to see the latter path come to fruition.”

Episode one of Between the Lines reviews the major moments in the 100-year history of race and activism in football, as well as the culture surrounding the sport. Voices in this episode include Doug Williams, Bomani Jones, Jim Trotter, Marcus Thompson II, Devin McCourty, and two of the originators of the Rooney Rule — Cyrus Mehri and Dr. Janice Madden.

The first episode of “Between the Lines” is available now, and new episodes drop weekly on Tuesdays.

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The Season of Everything Merry Has Begun with Black Friday Fest!

Phoenix Palladium, the most happening mall in Mumbai, is all set to bring you an array of exciting happenings this December. The ever-soothing lyrics and beats by Farhan Akhtar set the note high at the start of December. The Christmas Fete, with its line-up of pop-ups and events, await your presence to make all things merry! Visit the Christmas Fete to not miss out on the delectable Christmas treats from your favourite F&B outlets. Get ready to bite into the deliciousness of the Christmas spirit at Phoenix Palladium.

Palladium will be filled with loud cheers for favourite teams as FIFA Live Screenings happen on December 9th, 10th and 18th between 8 PM — 10:30 PM at the Courtyard at Phoenix Palladium. December is slated to be amazing, but November at Phoenix Palladium- the biggest mall in Mumbai, was undoubtedly a fun fete too.

Read on to know why:

Black Friday Magic

The Black Friday sale at Phoenix Palladium concluded between November 25–27, and it was a fab chance for all shoppers to dig into a slew of worthwhile deals. All shopping wishes were fulfilled this Black Friday at Phoenix Palladium. The “Out of this World” sale was live on Friday, with up to 50% off on luxury brands in all stores until midnight!

Indeed, a luxury splurging affair, Phoenix Palladium’s Black Friday Sale was truly out of this world! Patrons shopped for premium luxury items from international brands like Michael Kors, Emporio Armani, Victoria’s Secret, H&M, Home Centre, Marks & Spencer, Canali, Jimmy Choo, Coach, Salvatore Ferragamo, Boss, Armani Exchange, Mango, Superdry, Diesel, Pantaloons, Gas, Lifestyle, and many more. Alongside mind-blowing deals, and gifts, 3 lucky winners won a dreamy cruise trip on shopping worth ₹2 lakhs and scanning their bills on the Phoenix Nhance app, earning 2x reward points.

Children’s Day Celebration

Lots of cute smiles and faces were witnessed at Phoenix Palladium- Mumbai biggest mall, this Children’s Day. Between November 12th and 14th, a range of fun experiences were slated for the little ones. On shopping worth ₹5,000 and scanning bills on Phoenix Nhance shoppers received an assured F&B experience. Hamley’s, Timezone, Crossword, Flexa, Jack & Jones, Mothercare, Tommy Hilfiger Kids, Les Petits, and United Colors of Benetton were among brands that had specials just for the lil’ ones. Endless pop-ups, art, and craft activities, mascot visits, jugglers, a magic show, a bubble show, delicious food pop-ups, made the Kid’s Wonderland a memorable one for all shoppers and their kids.

Men’s Day Celebration

Phoenix Palladium raised a toast to celebrate all men, with a rewarding shopping spree. Assured gifts were lined up from Truefitt and Hill on men’s grooming services and shopping across men’s categories for ₹20,000 or more. The offer lasted between the 17th and 27th of November. Paul Smith, Boss, Armani Exchange, Gant, G-Star Raw, Scotch & Soda Amsterdam, Nautica, Pepe Jeans, Beverly Hills Polo Club, Hackett London, Zara store in Mumbai, Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, Massimo Dutti, Jack & Jones, The Collective, Lacoste, Celio, La Martina, Gas, Pantaloons Mumbai, and H&M were the brands that were part of the celebration.

Rise & Grind

Beans and Beats were popping at Phoenix Palladium at Rise and Grind. Desserts, music and caffeine flowed freely for all shoppers at this fab fest. Phoenix Palladium hosted the Rise and Grind: The Ultimate Coffee and Dessert Festival. At the coffee pop-up, patrons could select some of the best coffee they ever had as well as decadent desserts that satisfied their sweet tooth. There were fun latte art and live music, as well as the best coffee and dessert pop-ups, a latte art class, and more. Urvashi, Vidhur Kapoor, and The Gobble Diaries were among the influencers that added to the glam of the festival.

The evening of November 18th was dedicated to progressive rock, electronic, and jazz music by MaMoGi, Mark Dey Hartsuch, Mohini Dey Hartsuch, and Gino Banks. Adil Manuel’s best compositions swayed shoppers on the evening of 19th of November at the Courtyard concluding this fab fest.

Musical Weekender and The Alfresco Food Festival

The ongoing Alfresco Food Fest at Phoenix Palladium has been a hub for foodies to explore delish culinary delights on offer from the top F&B brands. From Pan-Asian, and Lebanese, to drool-worthy sizzlers and desserts, there’s something for every palate. To make the fest even more fun, Tirthankar Poddar, aka 2Blue, was spotted lighting up the stage with his hypnotic performance at The Drinks Festival on November 25th between 8 PM and 10 PM Patrons had free entry to this event in the Courtyard. Also, Nina Shah left people mesmerized with the foot-tapping tunes that she performed at the Food Festival in the Courtyard on November 26th between 8 PM and 10 PM.

Musical Treat

The Courtyard witnessed the biggest live music event of the year at the Musical Weekender. Mumbai’s newest band on the block, ONEmpire, played high-energy modern and retro pop tracks. The best way to unwind any day would be with a smile and a song and that’s exactly what the gorgeous music artist Smilee brought to the Musical Weekender. She performed her ultimate chartbusters that left the attendees swaying to the soothing beats.

Newly Opened

Fyole and Julius on the 2nd Floor, East Zone, TAB on the 1st Floor of Courtyard, and Happy 8 Salads on the 2nd Floor, East Zone, are the newest spots to indulge in scrumptious delicacies.

House of Pataudi, on the 3rd Floor, opened its doors for patrons to get their hands on everything premium, with native craftsmanship, and cultural heritage. For the opening of the first-ever outlet, Saif Ali Khan, the brand ambassador of House of Pataudi, visited Phoenix Palladium. where he met the 10 lucky winners who participated in the contest hosted on Instagram.

These latest additions at Phoenix Palladium are now open for the shoppers to shop and savor the finest across retail offerings.

Make-up Masterclass

Aafreen Makeup and Hair, a Bollywood celebrity makeup artist visited Phoenix Palladium for a fun and pleasant bridal makeup masterclass. Using products from Anastasia Beverly Hills India, Kiehl’s India, and Enrich, the makeup artist explained how to create flawless, hydrated day and night glam looks for the big day. The masterclass was enriching for all makeup enthusiasts that attended.

Priyanka Chopra at Palladium

The stunning Priyanka Chopra visited Phoenix Palladium for the launch of her new hair-care brand. The crowd went crazy after seeing their favorite diva on stage, where she interacted with the attendees that were present to welcome her. Three lucky winners who participated in the contest on Instagram earned a chance to meet and greet her while she signed autographs and shared selfies with them.

Master Chef Pop-up

Justin Narayan, the winner of MasterChef 2021, visited Phoenix Palladium where he hosted the ultimate cooking masterclass at the Courtyard on November 29. The Masterchef shared exquisite gastronomic skills and exceptional lifehacks. Also, winners who participated in the contest got a chance to interact with the Masterchef personally. The pop-up was every food lover’s dream.

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[blissfulparker]

After watching Tom golf all day, the reader and Tom were on their way home stuck in traffic and due to the boring traffic jam, the reader starts daydreaming about that beautiful day and watching Tom play golf. The reader snaps out of it and decide to reward tom with how good he did today, which lead them to spicing up the traffic jam. Plzzzz Smut :( this just sounds so good

Longest blurb I’ve ever written…

Smut under cut!!

“Oh fuck off!” Tom slams on his horn as his hand falls against his forehead. It was too hot, he was tired after a long day.

“Relax Tom.” You run your hand up and down his thigh. Trying to relax him as you too wanted to go home. Reaching over and planting a kiss over the stubble that grew over his jaw.

His hand came and wrapped around your thigh as well, reassuring you that you guys would be home soon. He gave a soft smile before reaching his other hand over to change the radio station.

You had never been so tired, so hot. It had been since early morning to evening that Tom competed in a golf tournament. He was all sweaty, pants dusty and exhausted from the long day but was overall at ease. You hadn’t seen so much joy and determination fill his eyes in such a long time.

“I swear to fuck (y/n) if this car doesn’t scoot up I’ll—“ he starts to let out all his pent up anger from today into traffic, specifically the red car in front of you guys driven by a clearly older person.

“Like I said,” your hand this time rubbed too far up, not intentionally but after you feel his body tense and his knuckles grip the wheel tighter, you have an idea. “Relax.” You pat his thigh.

“You did so good today.” You lean in and kiss again over the stubble, then you start to get ideas. “So proud of you.” You kiss below his ear, over the sweet spot he loves which makes him jump ever so slightly in his seat as your hand moves up.

His coach told him about a week before the games to not have sex, sex threw off the mind and made you weaker. So tom listened and man did he regret it as you tended to be an outlet for his stress.

“Was alright.” He takes in a deep breath. You cant help but to let out a soft laugh against his neck, He was so humble even after everything he did.

“Better than ‘alright’,” you use your second hand to come down and unzip his pants. Those pants, those pants that teased you all day. “Am I allowed to touch you now? I know coach said—“ you start and Tom can’t take it anymore. Another 20 minutes without this damned traffic and he needed you.

“Games are over. Fuck what coach said.” He takes his hand off the steering wheel for a moment to bring your lips up to his, feeling them against his with hunger.

Feeling like teenagers again, wrapped up in each other’s arms in a car. Windows tinted and daylight dim as you two made out in the middle of traffic. All that before you hear the sound of honking behind you. Tom grumbles but you’re not done.

“Watch the road.” You kiss his chin, trail down his neck and finally free him from his boxers as that’s what you were getting to before he interrupted.

”Shit.” He hissed as he this time grips both hands on the steering wheel, bucking his hips up hearing the sound of his cock hitting the back of your throat.

Your hand wrapping what can’t fit in your mouth, you take in as much as you can while he focuses on the road.

“Fuck, darling.” He bites down on his bottom lip, the last thing he needs is to explain to your parents how he crashed the car while their daughter was sucking his dick. “Baby, baby, I—“ you don’t want to hear it, he can multitask.

“Drive tom, quicker we get home the quicker you find out I’m not wearing a bra.” You warn him and he nearly slams on the breaks but he doesn’t, in fact, he steps on the gas.

“You weren’t wearing a bra all day?” If that was true it would make sense as to why everyone stared at you, why Harry kept smirking at him like some animal. “Fucking hell.” He pushes some of his hair back before sucking in a deep breath as you continue to suck him.

Your mouth moved quick, with every rock in the road, every bump, you only took him deeper. He was so lucky he had the windows tinted last summer, so extremely lucky. He feels his body tense, you feel it too. There’s a red light soon but he’s not sure if he can make it. One week without a proper orgasm, one week and he needed it.

“Fuck darling, fuck, fuck, fuck.” He nearly cries as he slams on the breaks for the red light. His eyes twist shut as he lets out the first orgasm of the week. The only sounds is your mouth on his cock, swallowing every last drop of him.

He’s not sure if he’s still breathing, still alive, you come up from his lap and wipe your lips with your thumb before opening the glove compartment for some proper napkins.

You lean your head back against the seat and grow a soft smile, taking your bottom lip in between your teeth as you try and hide it and Tom only looks over at you in shock.

“Are you fucking smiling?” He furrows his brows and you can’t help but to let out a laugh.

“Yeah.” Was all you said and the two of you sit in silence for the last two minutes of the car ride.

Tom opens the garage without saying a word and once the car is completely stopped he doesn’t turn it off but turns over to you, pulling the lever on the side of your seat letting you fall down with a gasp.

“Tom, t-the garage isn’t closed, our neighbors.” You tell him as he’s already on top of you and the both of you knew the moment he was inside you there was no being quiet.

“So? You didn’t care when half of bloody London was watching.” He kissed at your neck and his hand already attending to your boobs.

“Tom, they have children next door…” you warn feeling wrong, those kids were always out front.

“Well, were about to have some too if you stop talking.” He promises and before the gasp could leave your lips his mouth was on yours.

And so he took you in the car, fucked you against the wall in the hallway and then finally made it to the bed. Fucked you once more in the shower before making love to you on the bed again. 10 hours of golf was about to be nothing compared to the long night he planned

[xtruss]

Hypocrite, Liar and Double Faced West’s War Propaganda Skating on Thin Ice

©AP Photo/David J. Phillip

Finian Cunningham - Sputnik International | February 19, 2022

It’s disgusting how Kamila Valieva, the young Russian ice-skating prodigy, has been mangled by the Western media. This is what happens when the conceited, so-called “free press” descends into the gutter of peddling prejudice, smears and ultimately war propaganda.

The 15-year-old crashed out spectacularly from the Olympics despite previously being seen as the favorite to win the gold medal. The pressure on Kamila from a dubious doping result – conducted two months ago and amid ongoing inconclusiveness – caused her to break down during her normally flawless performance. It was the Western media prejudiced coverage impugning her that escalated the pressure on her to fail.

It was tragic to see such young, innocent talent being crucified. The heartbreaking feeling was also suffused with contempt and outrage. Because Kamila’s cruel downfall was no doubt a result of the current warmongering frenzy being orchestrated by the Western media.

The impropriety of the skater’s drug test is far from proven. She maintains it may have been due to accidental contamination. That remains to be investigated. But the US media, in particular, had already judged Kamila to be “another Russian athlete drug cheat”. (The irony of drug-infested US sports is too much for words!)

The walking out of the ice rink by Team USA just as she was about to begin her freestyle performance spoke of the prejudice engendered by the negative media coverage of Kamila. This wasn’t just about an individual. The drive to demonize the young Russian is part of a bigger drive to demonize her entire nation – as an aggressor in Europe that is about to “imminently invade” Ukraine.

"The Ad Hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued its decision in the arbitration procedures relating to the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva (the Athlete): the applications filed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and the International Skating Union (ISU) have been dismissed", CAS said in a statement.

Then there was the added Russophobic twist in the media which projected Kamila as the victim of heartless Russian adults. Her coaches were accused of being cold and callous when she finished her disastrous routine. It was implied that the youth from Kazan was being exploited for Russian political goals.

This is getting things upside down. Kamila is a victim of Western media pushing a narrative to justify confrontation against Russia.

For over two months, the Western media have been waging an unscrupulous, dirty campaign to whip up anti-Russia hysteria. The baseless claims that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine uttered by US President Joe Biden and his officials, and aided and abetted by the British, have been amplified unquestioningly by nearly the whole gamut of news media outlets.

Kamila Valieva. Russian Teen Figure Skater Kamila Valieva Comes 4th in Women's Single After Unprecedented Pressure. ©Sputnik/Grigory Sysoev/Go to the photo bank.

This is nothing short of a campaign to incite conflict in Ukraine against Russia, a conflict that would then serve to justify hitting Russia with economic sanctions, axing the Nord Stream 2 gas project and piling on international opprobrium. The United States is using the crisis over Ukraine to revive Cold War divisions between Russia and the rest of Europe.

It is obvious that the Western public is being conditioned to accept an image of Russia as a criminal aggressor. Years of media provocations from the downing of the Malaysian airliner in 2014, to the “annexation” of Crimea, to the alleged Novichok poisoning of the Skripals and Navalny, are just some of the subjects that have been orchestrated in order to demonize Russia. We could also add Russian President Vladimir Putin being character-assassinated as a “thug” and “killer”. Also, Russia’s military intervention in Syria to support that nation against a covert regime-change operation organized by the US and NATO allies using head-chopping, chemical weapons-wielding mercenaries. That last propaganda stunt was audaciously distorted to claim Russia was propping up a dictator using chemical weapons against his own people.

For the US and its NATO imperialist accomplices, Russia must at all costs be debased to the level of ghoulish and sub-human. That is the process necessary to make the Western public receptive to the idea that confrontation and ultimately war can be pursued against Russia.

This is the context for the tragic downfall of young Kamila Valieva. The skating genius had won millions of fans across the globe including in the US and Western countries with her sublime, balletic talent on the ice.

© Sputnik/Alexander Wilf/Go to the photo bank

Such a beauty could not be tolerated for it destroyed the US media campaign to otherwise demonize Russia and instill enmity towards that nation.

The odious thing is that if a 15-year-old girl can be so mercilessly mangled by the Western war machine and its media that tells the world that they will stoop to the gutter to do anything in order to push for conflict.

Right now the people of Ukraine’s southeast Donbass region are being shelled by a NATO-armed military that comprises Neo-Nazi brigades. There is a genocidal war being waged. And yet Russia is accused of being the aggressor.

The Western regimes and their media are skating on thin ice. Their provocations and distortions are transparent. But also they are rushing headlong towards disaster.

[rimouskis]

I think this is just me who thinks this, but I don't think it was noble of Sidney's parents to not pay the gas bill or miss mortgage payments. I think it was selfish and stupid. They were putting a sport one of their kids plays above their families welfare. IIRC there is an article about their heat or something being turned off during the winter. I don't know but whenever I read the stories like these I don’t think they should be celebrated.

I can see where you're coming from, anon, and I think it's okay that you feel that way. Personally I try to avoid passing judgement because we only know what we know from various media outlets, all of whom have (at various points) sensationalized things, and I don't actually know the family, of course.

I'm sympathetic because when they talk about needing to pay tournament fees, those tournaments could be game-changers for Sid. When he played in the Macs tournament, that was how he got onto the radar of the head coach of Shattuck, and where his dad was able to get the coach's contact information so they could help Sid apply so he could leave Canada and get away from the bullying he faced on the ice. I can't imagine what it's like to feel like you have to choose between utility bills and your child-prodigy's potential future. All I know is that Sid always talks about his childhood fondly and very clearly loves his parents, so I can only hope that the media stories were sensationalized or that, regardless of finances, he had a happy childhood.

I try to look at it more from a systemic perspective: it's deeply unfair that hockey as a sport is so difficult to access. There's a reason hockey is so white and so middle/upper class; it's because kids from lower socioeconomic backgrounds aren't able to afford it. I'm happy Sid recognizes his extreme luck as a child (even with his family's struggles) and is using his wealth now to try and make the sport more accessible.

Again, I think it's okay that you disagree with his family's choices as they were reported; we all have different notions of how we would cope with such financial pressures. I'm just grateful that Sid has put in work and money to help alleviate that burden for children today!

[healthandbeautythroughwater]

Difference between Alkaline Water Ionizers & Hydrogen Water Generators - Explained!

Difference between Alkaline Water Ionizers & Hydrogen Water Generators - Explained!

Many would fail to understand the difference between an alkaline ionizer and a hydrogen generator. Many-a-times, people tend to think of them as the same or as an extended version of one another. However, the fact is completely different. They work on completed different technologies altogether.

Alkaline water ionizers work on simple water electrolysis by breaking down the source or inputting water into alkaline and acidic components. Whereas, hydrogen water generators work on the principle of Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) alongside titanium and platinum electrodes.

In a conventional alkaline ionizer machine, approximately 40% of the water comes out as acidic and the rest as alkaline. There’s only one stream of water in a hydrogen water generator with zero wastage or drainage of water, known as hydrogen water!

It means that Hydrogen water generators do not have a secondary wastage/acidic outlet.

So if anyone tries to say that an alkaline water ionizer is the same as a hydrogen water generator, they are simply mistaken due to their limited knowledge in the context. The concept and mechanism of a hydrogen water generator are too complex, making it difficult for everyone to understand them correctly.

There are currently three determinants in this context:

pH (potential of hydrogen ions)

ORP (oxidation-reduction potential)

PPB of DH (parts per billion of dissolved molecular hydrogen)

Alkaline ionizers work on the concept of pH and ORP. It does not contain MOLECULAR Hydrogen above a certain amount due to its inability to remove the harmful ozone gas (a by-product while producing high PBP Hydrogen Water) A machine with a PEM separates this harmful ozone gas in the form of tiny water droplets and provides us with proper molecular hydrogen water having high therapeutic value.

Hydrogen water generators do not use the concept of “higher pH, higher ORP” which is very well followed in the conventional type of ionizers. In a hydrogen water generator, you can find 1,600 PPB of dissolved hydrogen and a -750 mV of ORP without ANY CHANGE in its pH value.

Confused?

Yes, it does seem a little confusing but it’s actually the truth. When ionizers were developed, the therapeutic benefits of molecular hydrogen were not known to scientists and researchers. They simply increased the pH of the water to produce a substantial amount of ORP. By doing so, some people increased the pH of the water to above human consumption levels ( >9.5 pH) to produce ORP. This kind of very high alkaline water is of no use and is actually harmful to the human body.

Not more than a decade ago it was researched and understood that the therapeutic value in alkaline ionized water was hydrogen gas! Or simply put, water with dissolved molecular hydrogen alone is far better and superior in terms of its ability to eliminate harmful free radicals (hydroxyl, peroxynitrite, and the like). It works without increasing the pH levels to be highly alkaline. Sometimes these machines are also known as neutral pH hydrogen water generators due to their characteristic of not altering the pH much!

Interestingly, one can find that a molecular hydrogen water generator can generate ORP and PPB without raising the pH of water!

Let us discuss 2 cases here:

Alkaline Water Ionizer with 7.3 pH Neutral water taken from it (Alkaline)

Hydrogen Water Generator with 7.3 pH water taken from it (Hydrogen)

One would try to say that the above 2 cases when compared, should yield the same exact results! Now, as a fact, the above two water samples should be completely different from one another.

The first case would have almost negligible ORP (-100 mV) and almost Zero PPB (Nil). The second case will have an ORP of -500 mV and a PPB level as high as 1,600 PPB. Shocking. Isn’t it?

The major reason is that Hydrogen Water Generators use a completely different technology as compared to conventional Alkaline Water Ionizers. The newer Hydrogen Water machines have been designed and optimized to produce high levels of Hydrogen water at almost neutral levels of pH.

KASIM BARAYIL

Certified Hydrogen Consultant | Entrepreneur | Franchise Coach | Business Strategy Trainer |

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[silent-era-of-cinema]

Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American Broadway and film actress whose career began in silent films in the 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s.

Arthur had feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1938), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), films that championed the "everyday heroine". Arthur was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1944 for her performance in The More the Merrier (1943).

James Harvey wrote in his history of the romantic comedy: "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur. So much was she part of it, so much was her star personality defined by it, that the screwball style itself seems almost unimaginable without her." She has been called "the quintessential comedic leading lady". Her last film performance was non-comedic, playing the homesteader's wife in George Stevens's Shane in 1953.

Arthur was known as a reclusive woman. News magazine Life observed in a 1940 article: "Next to Garbo, Jean Arthur is Hollywood's reigning mystery woman." As well as recoiling from interviews, she avoided photographers and refused to become a part of any kind of publicity.

Arthur was born Gladys Georgianna Greene in Plattsburgh, New York, to Protestant parents, Johanna Augusta Nelson (1871–1959) and Hubert Sidney Greene (1863–1944).[7] Gladys' Lutheran maternal grandparents immigrated from Norway to the American West after the Civil War. Her Congregationalist paternal ancestors immigrated from England to Rhode Island in the second half of the 1600s. During the 1790s, Nathaniel Greene helped found the town of St. Albans, Vermont, where his great-grandson, Hubert Greene, was born on September 1, 1863.

Johanna and Hubert were married in Billings, Montana, on July 7, 1890. Gladys's three older brothers—Donald Hubert Greene (1890–1967), Robert Brazier Greene (1892–1955) and Albert Sidney Greene (1894–1926)[8]—were born in the West. Around 1897, Hubert moved his wife and three sons from Billings to Plattsburgh, so he could work as a photographer at the Woodward Studios on Clinton Street. Johanna gave birth to stillborn twins on April 1, 1898.

Two and a half years later, Johanna gave birth to Gladys Georgianna. The product of a nomadic childhood, the future Jean Arthur lived at times in Saranac Lake, New York; Jacksonville, Florida, where George Woodward, Hubert's Plattsburgh employer, opened a second studio; and Schenectady, New York, where Hubert had grown up and where several members of his family still lived. The Greenes lived on and off in Westbrook, Maine, from 1908 to 1915 while Gladys's father worked at Lamson Studios in Portland, Maine. Relocating in 1915 to New York City, the family settled in the Washington Heights neighborhood – at 573 West 159th Street – of upper Manhattan, and Hubert worked at Ira L. Hill's photographic studio on Fifth Avenue.

Gladys dropped out of high school in her junior year due to a "change in family circumstances". Presaging many of her later film roles, she worked as a stenographer on Bond Street in lower Manhattan during and after World War I. Both her father (at age 55, claiming to be 45) and siblings registered for the draft. Her brother Albert died in 1926 as a result of respiratory injuries suffered during a mustard gas attack during World War I.

Discovered by Fox Film Studios while she was doing commercial modeling in New York City in the early 1920s, the newly named Jean Arthur landed a one-year contract and debuted in the silent film Cameo Kirby (1923), directed by John Ford. She reputedly took her stage name from two of her greatest heroes, Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) and King Arthur.[citation needed] The studio was at the time looking for new American sweethearts with sufficient sex appeal to interest the Jazz Age audiences. Arthur was remodeled as such a personality, a flapper. Following the small role in Cameo Kirby, she received her first female lead role in The Temple of Venus (1923), a plotless tale about a group of dancing nymphs. Dissatisfied with her lack of acting talent, the film's director Henry Otto replaced Arthur with actress Mary Philbin during the third day of shooting. Arthur agreed with the director: "There wasn't a spark from within. I was acting like a mechanical doll personality. I thought I was disgraced for life." She was planning on leaving the California film industry for good, but reluctantly stayed due to her contract, and appeared in comedy shorts instead. Despite lacking the required talent, Arthur liked acting, which she perceived as an "outlet". To acquire some fame, she registered herself in the Los Angeles city directory as a photo player operator, as well as appearing in a promotional film for a new Encino nightclub, but to no avail.

Change came when one day she showed up at the lot of Action Pictures, which produced B westerns, and impressed its owner Lester F. Scott Jr., with her presence. He decided to take a chance on a complete unknown, and she was cast in over twenty westerns in a two-year period. Only receiving $25 a picture, Arthur suffered from difficult working conditions: "The films were generally shot on location, often in the desert near Los Angeles, under a scorching sun that caused throats to parch and make-up to run. Running water was nowhere to be found, and even outhouses were a luxury not always present. The extras on these films were often real cowboys, tough men who were used to roughing it and who had little use for those who were not." The films were moderately successful in second-rate Midwestern theaters, though Arthur received no official attention. Aside from appearing in films for Action Pictures between 1924 and 1926, she worked in some independent westerns, including The Drug Store Cowboy (1925), and westerns for Poverty Row, as well as having an uncredited bit part in Buster Keaton's Seven Chances (1925).

In 1927, Arthur attracted more attention when she appeared opposite Mae Busch and Charles Delaney as a gold digging chorus girl in Husband Hunters. Subsequently, she was romanced by actor Monty Banks in Horse Shoes (1927), both a commercial and critical success. She was cast on Banks's insistence, and received a salary of $700. Next, director Richard Wallace ignored Fox's wishes to cast a more experienced actress by assigning Arthur to the female lead in The Poor Nut (1927), a college comedy which gave her wide exposure to audiences. A reviewer for Variety did not spare the actress in his review: "With everyone in Hollywood bragging about the tremendous overflow of charming young women all battering upon the directorial doors leading to an appearance in pictures, it seems strange that from all these should have been selected two flat specimens such as Jean Arthur and Jane Winton. Neither of the girls has screen presence. Even under the kindliest treatment from the camera they are far from attractive and in one or two side shots almost impossible." Fed up with the direction that her career was taking, Arthur expressed her desire for a big break in an interview at the time. She was skeptical when signed to a small role in Warming Up (1928), a film produced for a big studio, Famous Players-Lasky, and featuring major star Richard Dix. Promoted as the studio's first sound film, it received wide media attention, and Arthur earned praise for her portrayal of a club owner's daughter. Variety opined, "Dix and Arthur are splendid in spite of the wretched material", while Screenland wrote that Arthur "is one of the most charming young kissees who ever officiated in a Dix film. Jean is winsome; she neither looks nor acts like the regular movie heroine. She's a nice girl – but she has her moments." The success of Warming Up resulted in Arthur being signed to a three-year contract with the studio, soon to be known as Paramount Pictures, at $150 a week.

With the rise of the talkies in the late 1920s, Arthur was among the many silent screen actors of Paramount Pictures initially unwilling to adapt to sound films. Upon realizing that the craze for sound films was not a phase, she met with sound coach Roy Pomeroy. It was her distinctive, throaty voice – in addition to some stage training on Broadway in the early 1930s – that eventually helped make her a star in the talkies. However, it initially prevented directors from casting her in films.[19] In her early talkies, this "throaty" voice is still missing, and it remains unclear whether it has not yet emerged or whether she hid it. Her all-talking film debut was The Canary Murder Case (1929), in which she co-starred opposite William Powell and Louise Brooks. Arthur impressed only a few with the film and later claimed that at the time she was a "very poor actress ... awfully anxious to improve, but ... inexperienced so far as genuine training was concerned."

In the early years of talking pictures, Paramount was known for contracting Broadway actors with experienced vocals and impressive background references. Arthur was not among these actors, and she struggled for recognition in the film industry. Her personal involvement with rising Paramount executive David O. Selznick – despite his relationship with Irene Mayer Selznick – proved substantial; she was put on the map and became selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1929. Following a silent B-western called Stairs of Sand (1929), she received some positive notices when she played the female lead in the lavish production of The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929). Arthur was given more publicity assignments, which she carried out, even though she immensely disliked posing for photographers and giving interviews.

Through Selznick, Arthur received her "best role to date" opposite famous sex symbol Clara Bow in the early sound film The Saturday Night Kid (1929). Of the two female leads, Arthur was thought to have "the better part," and director Edward Sutherland claimed that "Arthur was so good that we had to cut and cut to keep her from stealing the picture" from Bow. While some argued that Bow resented Arthur for having the "better part," Bow encouraged Arthur to make the most of the production. Arthur later praised her working experience with Bow: "[Bow] was so generous, no snootiness or anything. She was wonderful to me." The film was a moderate success, and The New York Times wrote that the film would have been "merely commonplace, were it not for Jean Arthur, who plays the catty sister with a great deal of skill."

Following a role in Halfway to Heaven (1929) opposite popular actor Charles "Buddy" Rogers (of which Variety opined that her career could be heading somewhere if she acquired more sex appeal), Selznick assigned her to play William Powell's wife in Street of Chance (1930). She did not impress the film's director John Cromwell, who advised the actress to move back to New York because she would not make it in Hollywood. By 1930, her relationship with Selznick had ended, causing her career at Paramount to slip. Following a string of "lifeless ingenue roles" in mediocre films, she debuted on stage in December 1930 with a supporting role in Pasadena Playhouse's ten-day run production of Spring Song. Back in Hollywood, Arthur saw her career deteriorating, and she dyed her hair blonde in an attempt to boost her image and avoid comparison with more successful actress Mary Brian. Her effort did not pay off: when her three-year contract at Paramount expired in mid-1931, she was given her release with an announcement from Paramount that the decision was due to financial setbacks caused by the Great Depression.

In late 1931, Arthur returned to New York City, where a Broadway agent cast Arthur in an adaptation of Lysistrata, which opened at the Riviera Theater on January 24, 1932. A few months later, she made her Broadway debut in Foreign Affairs opposite Dorothy Gish and Osgood Perkins. Even though the play did not fare well and closed after twenty-three performances, critics were impressed by her work on stage. She next won the female lead in The Man Who Reclaimed His Head, which opened on September 8, 1932, at the Broadhurst Theatre to mostly mixed notices for Arthur, and negative reviews for the play caused the production to be halted quickly. Arthur returned to California for the holidays, and appeared in the RKO film The Past of Mary Holmes (1933), her first film in two years.

Back on Broadway, Arthur continued to appear in small plays that received little attention. Critics, however, continued to praise her in their reviews. It has been argued that in this period, Arthur developed confidence in her acting craft for the first time. On the contrast between films in Hollywood and plays in New York, Arthur commented:

I don't think Hollywood is the place to be yourself. The individual ought to find herself before coming to Hollywood. On the stage I found myself to be in a different world. The individual counted. The director encouraged me and I learned how to be myself.... I learned to face audiences and to forget them. To see the footlights and not to see them; to gauge the reactions of hundreds of people, and yet to throw myself so completely into a role that I was oblivious to their reaction.

The Curtain Rises, which ran from October to December 1933, was Arthur's first Broadway play in which she was the center of attention. With an improved résumé, she returned to Hollywood in late 1933, and turned down several contract offers until she was asked to meet with an executive from Columbia Pictures. Arthur agreed to star in a film, Whirlpool (1934), and during production she was offered a long-term contract that promised financial stability for both her and her parents. Even though hesitant to give up her stage career, Arthur signed the five-year contract on February 14, 1934.

In 1935, at age 34, Arthur starred opposite Edward G. Robinson in the gangster farce The Whole Town's Talking, also directed by Ford, and her popularity began to rise. It was the first time Arthur portrayed a hard-boiled working girl with a heart of gold, the type of role she would be associated with for the rest of her career. She enjoyed the acting experience and working opposite Robinson, who remarked in his biography that it was a "delight to work with and know" Arthur. By the time of the film's release, her hair, naturally brunette throughout the silent film portion of her career, was bleached blonde and would mostly stay that way. She was known for maneuvering to be photographed and filmed almost exclusively from the left; Arthur felt that her left was her best side, and worked hard to keep it in the fore. Director Frank Capra recalled producer Harry Cohn's description of Jean Arthur's imbalanced profile: "half of it's angel, and the other half horse." Her next few films, Party Wire (1935), Public Hero No. 1 (1935) and If You Could Only Cook (1935), did not match the success of The Whole Town's Talking, but they all brought the actress positive reviews. In his review for The New York Times, critic Andre Sennwald praised Arthur's performance in Public Hero No. 1, writing that she "is as refreshing a change from the routine it-girl as Joseph Calleia is in his own department." Another critic wrote of her performance in If You Could Only Cook that "[she is] outstanding as she effortlessly slips from charming comedienne to beautiful romantic." With her now apparent rise to fame, Arthur was able to extract several contractual concessions from Harry Cohn, such as script and director approval and the right to make films for other studios.

The turning point in Arthur's career came when she was chosen by Frank Capra to star in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Capra had spotted her in a daily rush from the film Whirlpool in 1934 and convinced Cohn to have Columbia Studios sign her for his next film as a tough newspaperwoman who falls in love with a country bumpkin millionaire. Even though several colleagues later recalled that Arthur was troubled by extreme stage fright during production, Mr. Deeds was critically acclaimed and propelled her to international stardom. In 1936 alone, she earned $119,000, more than the President of the United States and baseball player Lou Gehrig. With fame also came media attention, something Arthur greatly disliked. She did not attend any social gatherings, such as formal parties in Hollywood, and acted difficult when having to work with an interviewer. She was named the American Greta Garbo – who was also known for her reclusive life – and magazine Movie Classic wrote of her in 1937: "With Garbo talking right out loud in interviews, receiving the press and even welcoming an occasional chance to say her say in the public prints, the palm for elusiveness among screen stars now goes to Jean Arthur."

Arthur's next film was The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936), on loan to RKO Pictures, in which she starred opposite William Powell on his insistence, and hoped to take a long vacation afterwards. Cohn, however, rushed her into two more productions, Adventure in Manhattan (1936) and More Than a Secretary (1936). Neither film attracted much attention.[44] Next, again without pause, she was re-teamed with Cooper, playing Calamity Jane in Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman (1936) on another loan, this time for Paramount Pictures. Arthur, who was De Mille's second choice after Mae West, described Calamity Jane as her favorite role thus far. Afterwards, she appeared as a working girl, her typical role, in Mitchell Leisen's screwball comedy, Easy Living (1937), with Ray Milland. She followed this with another screwball comedy, Capra's You Can't Take It with You, which teamed her with James Stewart. The film won an Academy Award for Best Picture with Arthur getting top billing.

So strong was her box office appeal by now that she was one of four finalists for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). The film's producer, David O. Selznick, had briefly romanced Arthur in the late 1920s when they both were with Paramount Pictures. Arthur re-united with director Frank Capra and Stewart for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), with Arthur cast once again as a working woman, this time one who teaches the naive Mr. Smith the ways of Washington, D.C.

Arthur continued to star in films such as Howard Hawks's Only Angels Have Wings (also 1939), with love interest Cary Grant, The Talk of the Town (1942), directed by George Stevens (with Cary Grant and Ronald Colman, working together for the only time, as Arthur's two leading men), and again for Stevens as a government clerk in The More the Merrier (1943), for which Arthur was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (losing to Jennifer Jones for The Song of Bernadette). As a result of being in dispute with studio boss Harry Cohn, her fee for The Talk of the Town (1942) was only $50,000, while her male co-stars Grant and Colman received upwards of $100,000 each. Arthur remained Columbia's top star until the mid-1940s, when she left the studio, and Rita Hayworth took over as the studio's biggest name. Stevens famously called her "one of the greatest comediennes the screen has ever seen," while Capra credited her as "my favorite actress."

Arthur retired when her contract with Columbia Pictures expired in 1944. She reportedly ran through the studio's streets, shouting "I'm free, I'm free!"[46] For the next several years, she turned down virtually all film offers, the two exceptions being Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (1948), in which she played a congresswoman and rival of Marlene Dietrich, and as a homesteader's wife in the classic Western Shane (1953), which turned out to be the biggest box-office hit of her career. The latter was her final film, and the only color film in which she appeared.

Arthur's post-retirement work in theater was intermittent, somewhat curtailed by her unease and discomfort about working in public. Capra claimed she vomited in her dressing room between scenes, yet emerged each time to perform a flawless take. According to John Oller's biography, Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew (1997), Arthur developed a kind of stage fright punctuated with bouts of psychosomatic illnesses. A prime example was in 1945, when she was cast in the lead of the Garson Kanin play, Born Yesterday. Her nerves and insecurity got the better of her and she left the production before it reached Broadway, opening the door for a then-unknown Judy Holliday to take the part.

She did score a major triumph on Broadway in 1950, starring in Leonard Bernstein's adaptation of Peter Pan, playing the title character, when she was almost 50. She tackled the role of her eponym, Joan of Arc, in a 1954 stage production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, but she left the play after a nervous breakdown and battles with director Harold Clurman.

After Shane and the Broadway play Joan of Arc, Arthur went into retirement for 12 years. In 1965, she returned to show business in an episode of Gunsmoke. In 1966, the extremely reclusive Arthur took on the role of Patricia Marshall, an attorney, on her own television sitcom, The Jean Arthur Show, which was canceled mid-season by CBS after only 12 episodes. Ron Harper played her son, attorney Paul Marshall.

In 1967, Arthur was coaxed back to Broadway to appear as a midwestern spinster who falls in with a group of hippies in the play The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake. In his book The Season, William Goldman reconstructed the disastrous production, which eventually closed during previews when Arthur refused to go on.

Arthur next decided to teach drama, first at Vassar College and then the North Carolina School of the Arts. While teaching at Vassar, she stopped a rather stridently overacted scene performance and directed the students' attention to a large tree growing outside the window of the performance space, advising the students on the art of naturalistic acting: "I wish people knew how to be people as well as that tree knows how to be a tree."

Her students at Vassar included the young Meryl Streep. Arthur recognized Streep's talent and potential very early on and after watching her performance in a Vassar play, Arthur said it was "like watching a movie star."

While living in North Carolina, in 1973, Arthur made front-page news by being arrested and jailed for trespassing on a neighbor's property to console a dog she felt was being mistreated. An animal lover her entire life, Arthur said she trusted them more than people. She was convicted, fined $75 and given three years' probation.

Arthur turned down the role of the female missionary in Lost Horizon (1973), the unsuccessful musical remake of the 1937 Frank Capra film of the same name. Then, in 1975, the Broadway play First Monday in October, about the first woman to be a Supreme Court justice, was written especially with Arthur in mind, but once again she succumbed to extreme stage fright, and quit the production shortly into its out-of-town run after leaving the Cleveland Play House. The play went on with Jane Alexander playing the role intended for Arthur.

After the First Monday in October incident, Arthur then retired for good, retreating to her oceanside home in Carmel, California, steadfastly refusing interviews until her resistance was broken down by the author of a book about Capra. Arthur once famously said that she would rather have her throat slit than do an interview.

Arthur was a Democrat and supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.

Arthur died from heart failure June 19, 1991, at the age of 90. No funeral service was held. She was cremated, and her remains were scattered off the coast of Point Lobos, California.

Upon her death, film reviewer Charles Champlin wrote the following in the Los Angeles Times:

To at least one teenager in a small town (though I'm sure we were a multitude), Jean Arthur suggested strongly that the ideal woman could be – ought to be – judged by her spirit as well as her beauty … The notion of the woman as a friend and confidante, as well as someone you courted and were nuts about, someone whose true beauty was internal rather than external, became a full-blown possibility as we watched Jean Arthur.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Jean Arthur has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6333 Hollywood Blvd. The Jean Arthur Atrium was her gift to the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.

On May 2, 2015, the city of Plattsburgh, New York, honored her with a plaque in front of the house where she was born (94 Oak Street).

On October 9, 2019, Plattsburgh unveiled a large commissioned mural of the actress by artist Brendon Palmer-Angell on a wall behind the bank building at 30 Brinkerhoff Street.

As of 2019, the Adirondacks Welcome Center near Exit 18 on the northbound lanes of the Northway (I-87) in Queensbury, New York, featured a ground plaque of Jean Arthur, among other famous persons connected to the Adirondacks region, as part of the Adirondacks Walk of Fame, similar in style to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.

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1 Physician Workplaces

Medical professionals offer a needed function in all locations of society, developing a means for people to attend to both significant as well as small health and wellness complaints. Doctors can detect ailment, create personalized treatment plans, and also, if needed, admit individuals to regional health centers to deal with severe conditions. While the private practice climate has changed over the last several decades, relocating away from standard little offices to a consortium model, clinical offices can still provide a profitable company possibility.

Ordinary net profit margins for clinical methods been available in around 11.5 percent, showing substantial potential for interested business owners. While the obstacles to access are very high-- physicians must participate in four years of undergraduate education, four years of clinical college, a minimum of 3 years of residency, as well as pass all licensing examinations-- the price of service can offset high labour expenses. Insurance policy compensations can be tens of thousands of dollars for straightforward treatments, offering substantial income in exchange for on-demand services.

2 Food Vehicle Procedure 

Typically seen as the new frontier in food solution, food trucks are making a mark in virtually every significant metro area. Offering a hassle-free as well as an affordable alternative to sit-down dining establishments that typically surpass convenience food and fast-casual dining establishments in terms of high quality, food trucks are a trend that shows no sign of waning. Today, there more than 4,000 food trucks in operation, comprising a sector valued at $1.2 billion.

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From golf courses to property houses, landscapers play a vital duty in beautifying homes of all shapes and sizes. Offering solutions like mowing, plant food therapies, planting and cultivating new development, landscaping companies can discover jobs practically anywhere by supplying solutions that might not be feasible for homeowners and also local business owners to carry out individually.

The cost to start up a landscaping firm is tiny; with no modern room called for outside of storage space and a modest investment in landscape design equipment, it's feasible to get off the ground for $10,000 to $20,000. Thought about mainly unskilled work, human funding costs are usually reasonable in this market too.

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Electrical outlets for education exist in several kinds, giving a wide-open field for those interested in possibly educating or coaching developing minds. Professionals can operate in locations including:

While all academic models have different frameworks and goals, the sector's average web revenue margin is a respectable 10.5 percent. This is mostly due to the reduced requirements for the establishment in many of the much more secondary services in the industry; tutoring as well as examination prep companies, for example, do not necessarily need a physical area or significant assets.

While employing educators can mean dealing with those with training licenses as well as college education and learning, tutors and test preparation staff members are typically university students or recent grads, offering a pool of lower cost, active labour.

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There's no wrong time for an event, making the event services sector an excellent chance for those seeking security and also profitability. Even in times of economic depression, weddings, birthday celebration events, as well as company holiday parties, remain to play a role in social schedules, offering constant profits streams. On top of that, event solutions can be flexible as well as versatile, covering planning, event catering, bartending, and offers, to name a few functions.

Party-focused operations have considerable earning potential, boasting minimal expenses, the capability to costs virtually all outside costs, like alcohol, to customers, and also comprehensive services. This allows for employment opportunities in a wide variety of events. Furthermore, some solutions used by celebration firms, like offering alcohol or food service, require different licenses and certifications, making this a task most event hosts can not do alone. Even with this, labour costs are frequently reduced, as bartending, offering, and arranging do not demand formal education and learning.

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In taking a look at the most rewarding small companies, it is essential to check out the other side of the coin: those companies with limited margins that make maintaining profitability even more of an obstacle. By typical internet profit margins, these are the least lucrative small businesses of 2016.

Oil as well as gas extraction (-7.6%): With such high overhead expenses, even the profits available in this high-demand field can't make up the large equipment and human funding demands.

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Beverage manufacturing (0.8%): The combination of expensive manufacturing tools, storage facility room, and incredibly low-cost items makes it tough to begin in the beverage market.

Grocery as well as related item vendor dealers (1.9%): With many various item sources, consisting of large as well as small ranches and suppliers, sourcing and also supplying groceries leaves little room for big profits.

Grass and also Garden Supplies Stores (2.0%): While possibly lucrative in states like Florida as well as California, the majority of areas of the country do not need year-round access to grass as well as garden devices, making it hard to get ahead in this specific niche area.