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mangoshorthand · 1 year ago

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Thing of the Past- [Five Hargreeves x F Reader]. Ch3 (Hard Feelings Part 4)

SUMMARY: You can't avoid it any longer: Five has to meet your parents. It goes more wrong than you could possibly imagine, spiralling to bring up secrets he'd rather stay buried.

⚠️TRIGGER WARNINGS⚠️ Chapter One - Chapter Two - Chapter Three - Chapter Four - Chapter Five - Chapter Six - Chapter Seven - Chapter Eight - Chapter Nine - Chapter Ten - Chapter Eleven/Epilogue

A best man, a bachelor party and a game of 'Never Have I Ever'

It's weddin' time, motherfuckers.

⚠️Please heed content warning⚠️

Chapter Three: Gomez

Five chooses Luther as his best man. Yeah, he’s probably going to cry all through his speech, but it means the most to the big lug.

“Five…buddy. You don’t know how much this means!”

“Oh, I think I do. That’s the problem.”

Luther pulls Five into a bone-crushing hug which Five allows for a couple of seconds before pulling away.

“I’m going to be the best best man! I gotta tell Sloane!”

“Wait!” says Five, authoritatively, holding up a finger.

Luther turns to him, eyes alight like a happy golden retriever.

“You gotta run your speech past Diego and Viktor. And no crying, ok?”

“Sure.” Luther takes a deep breath and puts on his best expression of serious stoicism befitting 'Number One'.

But then he ruins the effect with an eager whisper:

“I’m so excited!”

You chose three bridesmaids, (although you hadn’t singled out a Maid of Honor): Your oldest friend Ellie, Lydia (the PhD chemist Five could have consulted during the JUICED incident) and Lila.

Five had met Ellie before and eventually liked her. She had been somewhat suspicious of him at first (He gave her weird vibes: it was something about you starting dating him after one home invasion and then before another that left you in the hospital for weeks) but he grew on her when she saw how naturally you fitted together, particularly after the birth of your daughter.

Various scheduling conflicts had made it impossible for him to meet Lydia before your shared bachelorx party. By coincidence, she had been a huge childhood fan of the Umbrella Academy comic books so was star struck on meeting them all. You had gently persuaded Five into showing her a blink and it made her look as if all her dreams came true. The little ego stroke had pleased him more than he cared to admit.

She looks around the room, sitting with you at the bar while Five laughs with his brothers. Several Mary Pickfords have got her to a place where she's fangirling without shame:

“I can’t believe you’re marrying NUMBER FIVE! Mom told me I had the biggest crush on him when I was a kid. Apparently I cried for a week when he disappeared."

You laugh, “Trust me, smell his sleep-farts and you start to wish he’d disappear again.”

She's not listening, too eager in looking around the bar:

“Is that Spaceboy?”

“Yep.”

“Cool! And that’s Diego with him? Kraken?”

You nod.

“So that must be… Séance?”

“Yup: Klaus. You’ll like him.”

“I can’t believe this!”

Then her eyes fall questioningly on Viktor.

“That’s Number Seven. Viktor.”

“There was a Number Seven?”

“Yeah. Long story.”

Five catches your eye, winks and approaches- although Lydia can’t see him.

“So where’s The Rumor?”

Five breaks in with a rueful sigh.

“Let’s just say she 'rumored' her way out of family gatherings.”

“Oh…I’m sorry.” Lydia looks embarrassed.

“Don’t sweat it."

And then Five remembers something. It's something he tried to make better, but still weighs on him. He wishes he could take the advice he once gave to Viktor and not try to do the equations when it came to the exchange rate of human life but, unfortunately, equations are what Five was made to do. When he's sure you're absorbed in conversation with Ellie, he gestures Lydia to the side with a small jerk of the head.

"You're at Columbia, right?"

"I was. I work in toxicology now."

"Did you know a Sarah McDowell? She would have been a PhD in your department."

"Yeah- not well, but we had the same supervisor."

He tries to sound casual,

"Is she...doing ok?"

Lydia rocks her head from side to side, considering.

"I know she had to take some time off. How do you know her?"

Five shifts uncomfortably. He thinks he has an inkling why Sarah would have needed to take the time off. It would be kind of hard to concentrate in a lab where you'd been tied down and held for eight hours.

"We crossed paths once. I liked her."

"I liked her too. She's carrying on studying. I think she's applying for post doc and then wants to go into the department herself."

"Good for her."

To change the subject, Five looks back up at Lydia with a grin.

"Hey, buy me another drink and I'll get Luther to lift you....and if you get me drunk enough, I'll think about blinking you to the next bar."

She laughs and turns to the bartender to order him a cocktail.

He'll have to see if his dad’s money can pull any more strings for Sarah. Make sure she gets the postdoc and opportunities for teaching experience. He can't erase what he did but, if he can anonymously make her life a little easier, he can stop his conscience pricking. He tears himself from the slight brood to watch you laughing with Ellie and Lila. His mouth twitches upwards in automatic empathy. All of this is your fault, really. He would never have let the fate of one PhD student bother him before he met you.

Soon, it’s the night before the wedding. You’re having the whole wedding in the hotel, so it makes sense to get ready and spend your wedding night there too. You sit in the bridal suite with your bridesmaids and Klaus, excitement squirming in your stomach. Five, in a slightly bizarre nod to tradition, insisted you spend the night before the wedding apart, citing the bad luck you’ll surely bring upon your marriage if you don't.

You’re playing a childish drinking game: ‘never have I ever’. As the bride, you are of course being ruthlessly victimized by everyone. Klaus has already tacitly revealed your threesome with the two versions of Five, making Lila look like the cat that got the cream. You’re getting steadily drunker and now it’s Lydia’s turn:

“Never have I ever…snuck into a frat house, cut my knee on barbed wire and STILL managed to steal their refrigerator.”

You sigh and take a swig of your Merlot.

“This isn’t fair.”

“Ooh my go, my go!” says Klaus, “Never have I ever… had sex in my dad’s office.”

You and Lila both drink and then catch each other’s eye.

“On the chair?” she winks,

“Nah, on the desk,” you reply.

“It’s what Dad would have wanted,” says Klaus with solemnity as you and Lila exchange a high-five.

Ellie doesn’t take wine too well.

“Ugh…I don’t know.” She waves away the burden of coming up with a good idea with a floppy hand, “Never has Five ever seen me naked.”

You, Klaus and Lila take a drink.

Ellie and Lydia laugh at the unexpected ubiquity of this experience.

“We used to shower together.” says Klaus, by way of an explanation that raises more questions than it answers to the uninitiated.

You’re looking at Lila, concerned and confused. She snorts at your expression:

“Don’t you worry, darling, I wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole. Unlike some people, I’m not into geriatric jailbait.”

“Hey!” you chide, “his body's twenty-two and his mind's...never mind. Anyway, I'll take geriatric jailbait over the guy who plays with knives and thinks Africa’s a country.”

Lila concedes this but you continue to look at her expectantly. She sighs and gives an explanation.

“Five walked in on me in the bath and tried to strangle me with a towel.”

She and Klaus laugh while Lydia and Ellie look at you in shock.

“Superhero stuff.” you try to explain, starting to smile now yourself.

“Oh yeah, don’t worry,” Lila keeps laughing, “I gave as good as I got. And I got my revenge too: hooked him up to the mains and electrocuted the puny fucker,” she laughs madly and then sighs reminiscently, “Ahhh…I miss trying to kill him.”

Lydia and Ellie still look horrified.

“Guys, you’re scaring my friends.”

“Sorry.” says Lila, her mad grin widening, “All the apocalypse-dodging and time travel stuff gives you a warped perspective.”

“I swear it’s not as weird as it sounds,” you say, trying to reassure them.

Klaus looks at them and mouths, ‘It’s pretty weird.’

There’s a knock at the door and Klaus opens the door to room service.

“This was sent compliments of the groom,” says the concierge.

It’s a bottle of wine and a note.

You look down at the bottle. It’s the Bordeaux he chose for you to drink on your first date.

Morning. He’s nervous…even with his brothers around him, already dressed in their groomsmen attire, he’s nervous. He can stroll into battle without turning a hair…but apparently getting married pushes his courage to the limit.

“How do I look?”

Diego considers.

“A little like Gomez Addams.”

Five looks at himself critically in the mirror, pulling at the sleeves and straightening the boutonniere.

“I wouldn’t expect you to recognize classic style, Diego.”

The suit is a navy three-piece, single-breasted jacket covering a subtly patterned waistcoat. The matching cravat is tied in traditional formal style and secured with a pearl-topped pin. The tailor had persuaded him into the cravat, but now Five isn’t so sure. Is Diego right: is it too much?

Luther puts his hands on Five’s shoulders and meets his eyes in the mirror. There are tears swimming in Luther's.

“You look…really great.”

“Pull yourself together.”

“Sorry buddy.” He wipes his eyes.

“You look real great, Five. It’s just right for you.”

Viktor’s steadier countenance convinces Five and he allows himself to relax.

Diego returns from the other side of the room with four glasses of good scotch on a tray: his wedding present to Five. Five takes one gratefully.

“Gomez Addams was a great husband, hermano.”

Five smiles as the four brothers toast each other.

Your bridesmaids and a few more friends chat quietly, sipping champagne. Klaus is playing with Aoife, making her laugh with grotesque funny faces and feeding her a chocolate-covered strawberry. You and Five were trying to avoid feeding her refined sugar for the first two years of her life, but you're turning a blind eye today. Your hair, always uncooperative, does not want to stay in the hairstyle you’d planned and you’re starting to panic. You have half an hour to spare and you’re not even in your dress. Your phone vibrating on and off on the dressing table in front of you is not helping your stress levels.

You have four missed calls from your Mom and three texts:

Where's the bridal suite? Hello??? ???

Lila turns your phone face down and puts her hands on your shoulders.

“Take a breath or two, kitten.”

“I don’t want her in here.”

“I know, I know.”

If anyone knows crazy mothers, it’s Lila. She takes your hair into her own hands, gently scrapes it back, pulling and twisting it into a low chignon, securing it quickly. Amazingly, it looks good. Even more amazingly, it actually stays in place.

“Look at me.”

You turn to her, and she pulls loose a few tendrils from around your face, creating loose, wispy curls with the heavy curling iron on the dressing table. Finally, she secures it with hairspray. When your phone begins to ring again, she clicks her fingers in front of your eyes as they dart towards it.

“Hey- hey. Don’t answer. It’s ok. Have some champagne.”

You take a mouthful and try to forget the insistent buzzing. When you’re ready to Lila’s satisfaction, she steps back.

“How’s that?”

You look. She’s managed to create something elegant from hair that never wants to stay in place. You breathe a sigh of relief.

“Thank you.”

“Come on, let’s get you into that dress.”

There’s a flurry of excited chatter as you step into the dress hung up on the wardrobe, helped by Lila, Ellie and Lydia. As they zip and slowly button you into the structured bodice and you glimpse yourself in the mirror, you feel the flutter of anticipation return.

Until you hear the knocking.

“I’m here!”

“Oh fuck,” you say, pleasant feeling replaced again by cramps of fear.

“What do you want us to do?” says Lila quickly as the knocking and your mother’s voice becomes more insistent, “Just say the word and I’ll get rid of her.”

You dither for under a second. At this point, you’d rather she was in here than constantly trying to get in here.

“Let her in.”

Ellie goes to the door, giving you an apologetic look. She knows your mother of old. She bursts into the room, talking a mile a minute. She’s wearing a lacy, mid length beaded dress with a matching chiffon coat. Her hat is the most extravagant monstrosity: feather quills curl from a gigantic flower. It adds a whole foot to her height. The whole ensemble is white because of course it is

“OH I had such a time finding the bridal suite. Check your PHONE missy! But don’t you worry, I’m here now.”

She practically elbows your three bridesmaids out of the way, starts to button your dress and clicks her fingers imperiously at the photographer currently photographing your shoes.

“Get a picture of this.”

Nonplussed, he obliges. Afterwards, she immediately steps away.

“How do I look, darling?”

“Very nice Mom.”

“Oh,” comes Lila’s voice, as she retakes her position behind you and continues with your buttons, “Is this your outfit?”

You notice that her accent has shifted from her usual East London to a more received-pronunciation queen’s-English style.

“Of course,” says your mother, testily.

“Oh. I see. Traditionally, white is reserved for the bride, but don’t you worry about it. Nobody will get you mixed up.”

She smiles in a most un-Lila-like way. Usually, she’s brash to the point of coarseness, but since your mother walked in, she’s projecting formidable passive aggression. Lila seems to have got the measure of her very quickly. She’s leveraging her Britishness with a skill that makes you smirk; this has got to be killing her. Mom loves to be the arbiter of what’s ‘proper’.

She blusters a little before marching towards the bed and wrestling a protesting Aoife out of her Uncle Klaus’s arms.

“Oh…you want a hold, hey? Sure thing.”

Klaus hands her over and she reaches back to him with chubby fists.

After bouncing and cooing at the baby, your Mom looks Klaus up and down. “Who are these two?”

“Mom, this is Klaus, he's my future Brother-in-law. And this is Lila, my other bridesmaid: she's Diego’s wife. Diego's another of Five's brothers so Lila’s my future Sister-in-law, I guess.”

She eyes Klaus down her nose. He’s wearing a neon pink velvet suit, jacket fastened over a bare chest and a black feather boa.

“Which one are you?”

“Well nice to meet you too. I'm the one who sees dead people.”

He fixes her with a thousand-yard stare for a second before grinning broadly.

“Which number?”

“Four.”

She turns to you while Aoife twists in her arms, trying to keep Klaus in view. He pulls a face at her and holds her hand over her grandmother’s shoulder.

“Why do all the others have real names?”

You falter. You don’t actually know this. Klaus answers for you,

“Because Five was a passive aggressive little shit even when we were kids. When he was really little, he was sore about being ranked five out of seven but then he decided to own it, just to stick it to Dad.”

You laugh, “Of course he did.”

“I think Mom gave him a few names to choose from and he couldn’t pick, so he just kept the number out of spite. It’s too late to change it now. Can you imagine calling him Steve or whatever?”

Lila finishes buttoning you and your mother looks at Klaus distastefully. As always, she considers anybody more animated than herself as a threat to her role as the center of attention. She has particular antipathy for (what she terms) 'flamboyant' men.

“Where’s Dad?” you ask, to distract her.

“Downstairs. He’s sitting in the lobby.”

“Oh.”

The fact he didn’t come up to see you is kind of hurtful. Sure, he’s frail, but there are elevators…

Klaus refills your champagne glass and kisses your cheek.

“We got twenty minutes so I’m going to go see Five and then I’ll see you down there. You look so hot it makes me sick.”

You laugh and give him a cautious hug, careful not to rumple your dress.

With his hand on the door handle, Klaus looks back. Should he tell Geri that Aoife has left chocolate-strawberry handprints all over her jacket?

Nah.

After tying Santi's bow tie, Diego passes Klaus the glass of whiskey saved for him. He winks thanks at his bother and sits heavily on Five's bed of the previous evening.

“I've just met your future Mother-in-law."

Five looks up at Klaus from the room’s armchair and gives him a sympathetic look.

"Did you manage to escape unmolested?"

"Yeah, but she's fucking crazy, right?"

“No arguments there," Five tilts his glass to tease out the last drop of fine scotch, "she sorta came onto me when I met her.”

“Well,” chimes in Diego, amid the general laughter, “she is closer to your age.”

“Don’t, Diego.”

Five doesn’t snap, he just sounds muted. Perhaps realizing that just as they’re about to go downstairs is not the time to be putting doubts in his head, Diego puts his hand on Five’s shoulder and gives it a gentle squeeze.

“Come on, you little shit, let’s get you married.”

Down in the library, ready for the ceremony, Klaus stands at the head of the aisle while guests file into their seats and the upper gallery. Five stands waiting with his three groomsmen lined beside him, eyeing the simple decorations. Good: everything appears to be in order.

“Feeling good Five?” Luther asks.

“Sure. Great. Feeling great.”

He goes to put his hands in his trouser pockets but realizes they’re still sewn shut from the tailors. They clasp behind his back instead.

Over the next few minutes, Five’s attention is called by various guests as they take their seats. He gives Herb and Dot a respectful nod as they edge their way into the gallery, looking down on the wedding. When Geri and Bert enter, he keeps his eyes front.

"Oh Five. You look so handsome."

He cringes, slaps on a smile and turns around.

"Thank you, Geri," he says, trying not to grit his teeth or stare too hard at her weird hat.

She fingers his cravat admiringly. "Very traditional; like an old-fashioned gentleman."

Diego, inexpertly trying to save his brother, captures Geri's attention:

"I said it's more Gomez Addams."

Geri meets Diego's eye and looks at him appraisingly, like he's one fillet of beef she's comparing to another, weighing one in her hand while considering the price of the other. She hooks a finger around Five's collar.

"You're a funny one." she smirks, not breaking eye contact with Diego as she slides her finger as far down Five’s collar as it will reach. She runs the finger across his neck, from below his ear to his Adam's apple. It takes all his strength not to jerk away, his flesh crawling.

The brothers stand in silence as Geri takes her seat.

"What the hell?" whispers Luther.

Five ignores him and turns to Klaus, “How long now?.”

And then the music begins and the guests give a little frisson. He forgets Geri temporarily and turns to see Lila, Lydia and Ellie walking down the aisle. Lila, holding a burbling Aoife, sticks out her tongue and gives him the finger as he catches her eye, making him smile. As all the guests turn their heads for their first glimpse of the bride, Five turns his eyes away, giving himself a second to prepare.

He’s getting married. The guy who thought the closest he’d get was a mannequin, (an amazing mannequin, but still a mannequin when all was said and done). And he’s marrying you. After everything he’s done to not deserve it. Luther taps him on the arm and gestures behind him, smiling broadly.

Five takes a deep breath and turns around.

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brightonashford123 · 8 months ago

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On February 20, 2024 the FDA released a letter titled “Fraudulent and Unreliable Laboratory Testing Data in Premarket Submissions … reminding sponsors to carefully evaluate the third parties they engage to conduct performance testing and to independently verify all testing results before submitting to the FDA.”

Third-party labs are going through a period of mergers and acquisitions. Equity groups Waters Street and Leonard Green purchased, and are struggling to integrate, labs to create entities capable of servicing the full phase of FD&C development and commercialization.

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These benchtop scientists work long hours repeating a variety of highly technical tasks. But with the variety of services offered by these labs, the recent graduate, hopefully, gets exposed to an array of experts and techniques. While the recent graduate gets a diversity of experience the labs get samples analyzed, projects billed, and, hopefully, monthly budget met.

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What this means is that when interacting with a third-party lab, if they are cGMP compliant, there will always be chaos lurking in the background. I’ve seen PhD principal chemists leave to play professional hockey, make kids video games, and open a dance club, all early in their careers. And so, in the middle of your project analysts, QA specialists, etc. will likely be leaving. How do you pick the right lab?

When interviewing a lab ask them about trends in their laboratory investigations, those required by cGMP compliance. All labs will have investigations, and analyst turnover will contribute to the total number of investigations. But, trend indicating an ongoing increase in investigations may be a sign that the lab you are interviewing lacks sufficient back end processes and support in targeting, recruiting, onboarding, training, and mentoring, and in the keeping of quality laboratory personnel.

Because your FD&C project is likely a years-long endeavor it would be wise to use a third-party lab with sufficient back end to support your project. Asking about trends in turnover and laboratory investigations is a good place to start as any.

Brent Ristow, PhD, JD

Founder, Brighton Ashford, LLC

Boutique Pharma & Med Device Consulting

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semperama · 2 years ago

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there are two people on ig who might have helpful (evidence-based) info re hair loss: at sciencemeetscosmetics (she is a cosmetic chemist phd i believe) and at amnah.mushtaq (consultant and very knowledgeable) <3 good luck

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mgmgroup · 4 years ago

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ecfandom · 6 years ago

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Okay, yet another future HC idea. I have to put them down here or I’ll forget them for ever. This one is still murky in my mind, but similar to the other NASA one. Obviously, space has been on my mind...

SO:

It’s a lots of years into the future. We (as in human kind) have successfully completed the first colonization mission to Mars. (Bleh colonization, I KNOW.) Lexa was a part of that first mission and has been living on Mars for 3 years now. Back on Earth, Clarke is an adorable, nerdy edaphologist (studier of how soil interacts with living things, especially plants) who has been following the Mars missions with borderline obsession. Twice, she submitted proposals to NASA for the Mars missions, but was always rejected for the “irrelevance of her specialty to the current phase of Mars missions.” AKA they think her theories are bonkers.

Well, when two years into the colonization of Mars and their crops start failing, NASA and the other three collaborating space agencies, start to panic. They employ the best plant scientists the world has to offer, millions of dollars in federal and international funding spent over the course of the third year, trying to find a solution, but none of the Botanists, Astrobotanists, Agronomists, Chemists, Geologists, farmers and other experts employed can figure it out.

The colonization team on Mars are starting to lose hope, knowing full well that their freeze-dried rations will only last so long once their fresh food sources completely die off. They’re on a conference call with NASA when the director officially tells them that they “don’t have anything yet, but are continuing to employ the best minds”...universal code language for: “You’re fucked.”

Cue colonization team lead, Mission Commander Lexa Woods who’s all: “I’ve been doing some research and...” This NERD. I mean, they’re all nerds, they’re in space for gays sake, but what always catches people off guard is that Commander Woods is so smoldering. Like stoic as Eurpoa and hotter than Venus smoldering. Nerds can look and act like anything, this has long been accepted, BUT everyone knows there are two sides to space missions: the scientists and the soldiers. Take one look at Lexa, and you’d immediately expect a military background. Most people tend to forget she’s got four degrees from MIT, Stanford and Princeton, two of which are PhDs.

So all heads turn when this sexy ass space sailor who normally says the minimum amount of words required to lead her team and get the job done, speaks up with an “forgive me but you’re fucking WRONG” tone and is all, “I’ve been doing some research and with all due respect, you’re not asking the right people. It’s not the plants and it’s not the atmosphere. We have contended for all those variables time and time again. We replicated all of it over and over again back home, and know exactly what’s it’s doing up here, and according to all of our data, it should be fine. So what’s the one thing we weren’t able to replicate exactly on Earth? The one thing we barely understand?”

Silence.

“The soil. It’s leaching into our compost. It has to be. I have a feeling it’s the perchlorate levels. If Martian soil is leaching into our terrestrial compost, we’re essentially trying to grow our food in rocket fuel.”

“We’ve already consulted with the world’s leading botonists, Commander, I think they would--”

“I don’t want a botanist. I don’t need a three-million dollar moron to tell me what I already know. No offense, Jim,” she says to the mission’s botanist sitting to her left.

“None taken,” he shrugs. He couldn’t figure out what the hell was wrong with their food either.

“If you’re worried about perchlorate levels,” the director says, his voice measured, “we’ll re-consult the chemists.”

“No. No, you’re not--” Lexa struggles to keep her temper in check. She takes a deep breath, willing herself not to shout. Though they’d long since figured out how to cut the travel time of radio frequencies between Earth and Mars down to something nearly resembling a phone call, Lexa had grown up in her NASA career accustomed to the minute-long, sometimes hour and day-long communication delays it took the radio signals to make it to Earth and back, and she’d learned it was always best to use that time to find your composure, regroup and get the point across.

“Look,” she starts in again, calmer this time, “We have a botanist and two chemists sitting right next to me as we speak. Three of the best, and they don’t know what’s going on. Your minds back home don’t know what’s going on. I want something else.”

“What, Lexa? What do you want? We can’t materialize scientists out of thin air. We have tried. Our best option is to send a supplies mission to you before your rations run out.”

“That’s not feasible, and you know it. We can’t subsist on freeze-dried green beans for the two years it takes you to get a supplies mission here. We need to fix what we’ve got.”

“What do you want, Lexa?” The director asks in defeat. “You want biologists? Geologists? They’re all going to say the same thing. There’s only so much they can do from here.”

“Exactly.”

“Exactly what?”

“I don’t want anymore radio consults. I want someone here.”

“Out of the question.”

“An edaphologist.”

“No.”

“30 seconds ago you were willing to spend 4 billion dollars to send us a bunch of freeze dried meat dust. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Fix what we already have, Phil, and do it soon. Otherwise...are you prepared to tell the world you let 15 global citizens starve to death on a planet no one wanted us to stay on? Is that really where you want this to go? The world asked for exploration, not colonization, and this is why. We don’t belong here. But as long as we are, I’d really like to not waste away on this red hellhole for the next 378 days that our rations last.”

“Charming, Lexa. That’s real nice, I’m sure your team loves to hear their commander talking like that.”

“My team aren’t ostriches with their heads in the sand! They all know what’s goin on here. They know what’s at stake. Don’t patronize them by acting like a supply mission that gets here in two years is going to solve our problems. Do what’s right, Phil, god dammit!”

The silence that follows is so long, Lexa almost thinks that the connection has been lost...or terminated. Her backs hits her chair in exhaustion and frustration as she rubs her hand over her face.

“Who.” Comes the equally exhausted, finally, voice over the radio.

Lexa sits ups, re-energized. “What?”

“Who do you want.”

It takes her less than a second. “Griffin. Clarke Griffin.”

“Lexa...”

“I know what NASA thinks of her, but I’ve read her proposals and she knows what she’s doing, and with all due respect sir, if you didn’t have your heads so far up your asses about her father, you’d know it too. She’s the one for this job. If I’m wrong, permission granted to launch me into the Kuiper belt.”

A long sigh echoes over the comms, then: “Of all the people in the world, you want the daughter of the man who intentionally tanked a 38 billion dollar mission citing a misplaced sense of moral high ground.”

“I want the solution, sir. And she’s it.”

*** Part 2? Should I?

#HC idea

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Full text of "SUPPRESSED HISTORY OF THE HORRIBLE TRUTH OF THE VACCINATION BUSINESS" . FIGHT AGAINST VACCINATION . 19TH CENTURY (1800s) "There does not exist one single fact, in all the experiments and improvements made in science, which can support the idea of vaccination. A vaccinated people will always be a sickly people, short lived and degenerate." —Dr. Alexander Wilder, MD

"Vaccination: A Medical Fallacy", vaccination literature. And if we could add to this all the suppressed facts, we would

have a mass of evidence before which no vaccinator would dare to hold up his head." —

Dr. Robert A. Gunn, MD, "Vaccination: Its Fallacies and Evils", 1882

"I have no faith in vaccination, nay, I look upon it with greatest disgust, and firmly

believe that it is often the medium of conveying many filthy and loathsome diseases

from one child to another, and it is no protection from smallpox." —Dr. William Collins,

MD, London, 1882

"Vaccination has made murder legal. Vaccination does not protect against smallpox, but

is followed by blindness and scrofula. Jennerism is the most colossal humbug which the

human race has been burdened with by FRAUD and DECEIT." —Mr. Mitchell, member

of the British House of Commons

"Of these dogmas, I believe the practice known as vaccination to be the most absurd

and most pernicious. I do not believe that a single person has ever been protected from

smallpox by it; while I know that many serious bodily evils and even deaths, have

resulted from its employment. The whole theory is founded upon assumption, contrary

to common sense and entirely opposed to all known principles of physiology. Every

physician of experience, has met with numerous cases of cutaneous eruptions,

erysipelas and syphilis, which were directly traceable to vaccination, and if these cases

could be collected and presented in one report, they would form a more terrible picture

than the worst that has ever been drawn of the horrors of smallpox." —Dr. Robert A.

Gunn, MD, Dean of the United States Medical College of New York

"Vaccination is a monstrosity, a misbegotten offspring of error and ignorance; and being

such, it should have no place in either hygiene or medicine...Believe not in vaccination,

it is a worldwide delusion, an unscientific practice, a fatal superstition with

consequences measured today by tears and sorrow without end." —Dr. Carlo Ruta,

Professor of Materia Medics at the University of Perugia, Italy, 1896

"Vaccination is a grotesque superstition." —Dr. Charles Creighton, MD, MA "Vaccination

is a gigantic delusion. It has never saved a single life. It has been the cause of so much

disease, so many deaths, such a vast amount of utterly needless and altogether

undeserved suffering, that it will be classed by the coming generation among the

greatest errors of an ignorant and prejudiced age, and its penal enforcement the foulest

blot." — Alfred R. Wallace,

LLD DUBL., DCLOXON., FRS, etc., 1895

20TH CENTURY (1900s)

"The great epidemics of deadly diseases, in animals and mankind, are caused by

vaccination." —Charles M. Higgins, "The Horrors of Vaccination: Exposed and

Illustrated", 1920

"1 believe vaccination has been the greatest delusion that has ensnared mankind in the

last three centuries. It originated in FRAUD, ignorance and error. It is unscientific and

impracticable. It has been promotive of very great evil, and I cannot accredit it any

good." —Dr. R. K. Noyse, MD, Resident Surgeon of the Boston City Hospital, "Self

Curability of Disease"

"The chief, if not the sole, cause of the monstrous increase in cancer has been

vaccination." —Dr. Robert Bell; Vice President, International Society for Cancer

Research, British Cancer Hospital, 1922

"Vaccination is the most outrageous insult that can be offered to any pure-minded man

or woman. It is the boldest and most impious attempt to mar the works of God that has

been attempted for ages. The stupid blunder of doctor-craft has wrought all the evil that

it ought, and it is time that free American citizens arise in their might and blot out the

whole

blood poisoning business." —Dr. J.M. Peebles, MD, MA, PhD, "Vaccination: A Curse

and Menace to Personal Liberty", 1900

"Cancer was practically unknown until the cowpox vaccination began to be introduced. I

have seen 200 cases of cancer, and never saw a case in an unvaccinated person." —

Dr. W.B. Clark, MD, Indiana, New York Times article, 1909

"At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law

now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination

of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by

vaccination than by smallpox." —George Bernard Shaw, 1944

"The English Ministry of Health omits to state that in 1872, when 05% of the infants born

were vaccinated, there were 19,000 deaths from smallpox in England and Wales. While

in 1925, when less than half the children born were vaccinated, there were only 6

deaths from that disease." —Dr. Eleanor McBean, PhD, ND, "The Poisoned Needle",

1957

"Vaccination causes miscarriage. A careful check showed that 47% of women who had

been vaccinated in the second or third month of pregnancy, failed to give birth to a

normal child." —

"Vaccination at Work", The Consulting Pediatrician of Lanarkshire County Council, The

Lancet (London), p.97, December 6, 1952

"My honest opinion is that vaccine is the cause of more disease and suffering than

anything I could name." —Dr. Harry R. Bybee

"Vaccination, instead of being the promised blessing to the world, has proved to be a

curse of such sweeping devastation that it has caused more death and disease than

war, pestilence, and plague combined. There is no scourge (with the possible exception

of atomic radiation) that is more destructive to our nation's health than this monument of

human deception—this slayer of the innocent—this crippler of body and brain—the

poisoned needle." —Dr. Eleanor McBean, PhD, ND, "The Poisoned Needle", 1957

"The greatest LIE ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective."—Dr. Leonard

Horowitz, MPH (Master of Public Health), DMD, MA, Harvard University graduate

21 ST CENTURY (2000s)

"The entire vaccine program is based on massive FRAUD." —Dr. Russell L Blaylock,

M.D., neurosurgeon, editorial staff of Journal of American

Physicians and Surgeons

“Vaccination is a business based on fear.” - Dr. Gerhard Buchwald, MD

"Vaccinations do not work. They don't work at all." —Dr. Lorraine Day, MD

"Vaccinations are now carried out for purely commercial reasons because they fetch

huge profits for the pharmaceutical industry. There is no scientific evidence that

vaccinations are of any benefit." —Dr. Gerhard Buchwald, MD, "Vaccination: A business

based on FEAR"

"Don't get your flu shot." —Dr. Raymond Francis, D.Sc., M.Sc., RNC, chemist, MIT

graduate

"My own personal view is that vaccines are unsafe and WORTHLESS. I will not allow

myself to be vaccinated again. Vaccines may be profitable but in my view, they are

neither safe nor effective." -Dr. Vernon Coleman, MB, ChB, DSc (Hon)

"Everyone who is vaccinated is vaccine injured—whether it shows up right away or later

in life." —Dr. Shiv Chopra, B.V.S., A.H., M.Sc., PhD, Fellow of the World Health

Organization, former senior scientist at Health Canada

"The pediatrician indoctrinates your child from birth into a lifelong dependency on

medical intervention. The first stage of indoctrination is the 'well-baby' visit. The well-

baby visit is a cherished ritual of the pediatrician that enhances their income and does

nothing constructive for your child. It's a worthless visit." —Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, MD,

board certified pediatrician

"Vaccines are the backbone of the entire Pharmaceutical Industry. If they can make

these children sick from a very early age, they become customers for life. The money

isn't really to be made in the vaccine industry. The money is made by Big Pharma with

all of the drugs that are given to treat and address all of the illnesses that are

subsequent to the side effects of vaccines."—Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, D.O. (osteopathic

medical doctor)

"Studies are increasingly pointing to the conclusion that vaccines represent a dangerous

assault to the immune system leading to autoimmune diseases like Multiple Sclerosis,

Lupus, juvenile Onset Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, and Cystic Fibrosis, as well as previously

rare disorders like brain cancer, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), childhood

leukemia, autism, and asthma."—Dr. Zoltan Rona, MD, "Natural Alternatives to

Vaccination"

'The vaccine industry is itself a FRAUD. I spent my whole career studying vaccines."—

Dr. Shiv Chopra, B.V.S., A.H., M.Sc., Ph.D., Fellow of the World Health Organization,

"Corrupt to the Core"

THE ONLY REASON FOR CONTINUED VACCINATION "The greatest danger to your

health is the doctor who practices modern medicine." —Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, MD,

board certified pediatrician

Follow the money. It will lead you to the truth. The primary reason For vaccination is the

assumption that vaccines prevent diseases. However, if historical data demonstrates

that vaccines do NOT prevent diseases, then what is the purpose of vaccination?

Moreover, you've probably heard stories of parents being coerced and bullied into

vaccinating their children and themselves at the pediatrician and doctor's offices. There

are reasons behind the coercion and bullying.

"There is a vaccination ring in England, receiving millions of the public money. It is in

their interest to favor the practice at all hazards and to falsify statistics in order to

conceal its failure and its evils. There are also armies of public vaccinators in every

large city all over Europe, who are supported from the public treasury, and every

practitioner who does not oppose the practice, derives a considerable

income from its continuance." —Dr. Robert A. Gunn, MD, "Vaccination: Its Fallacies and

Evils", 19th century

"Drug companies are not here to bring health to the population but to SCAM them on

one level for vast amounts of money." —Sir William Osier, MD, FRS, FRCP, widely

considered as the Father of Modern Medicine (1849-1919), 20th century

"Disease is more rampant because of commercial greed. When the Rockefeller-

Standard Oil crowd muscled into the drug and pharmaceutical business in such a big

way, 'scientific medicine' (if there is such a thing) was turned into a racket which

shortened many American lives from ten to twenty years." —Morris A. Beale, "The Drug

Story", 20th century

"Many doctors and some editors are making money by propagating the vaccination

curse." —Dr. Thomas Morgan, MD, "Medical Delusions", 20th century

"Vaccination is not scientific. Many of the world's greatest thinkers, scientists, statesmen

and even doctors have condemned vaccination as being a crime against humanity, a

FRAUD promoted for private gain, an insult to the race and a blot upon the name of

civilization. Yet, this treacherous practice of blood pollution, which was cradled in the lap

of ignorant savage tribes, has been adopted by, supposedly, enlightened government of

the present day and forced on the protesting population—for profit." —Dr. Eleanor

McBean, PhD, ND, 1957

"Vaccinations are now carried out for purely commercial reasons because they fetch

huge profits for the pharmaceutical industry. There is no scientific evidence that

vaccinations are of any benefit." —Dr. Gerhard Buchwald, MD, "Vaccination: A Business

Based on Fear", 21st century

"The vaccination myth is the most widespread superstition modern medicine has

managed to impose, but, being by the same token the most profitable, it will prove to be

also one of the most enduring, though there was never the slightest of scientific

evidence upholding it." —Hans Ruesch, "The Great Medical Fraud", 20th century

"Doctors are punished by insurance companies like Blue Cross and Blue Shield if

doctors don't get a certain percentage of their patients to comply with the vaccination

schedule. If 63% are non-compliant, they don't receive any of their bonuses." — Robert

F. Kennedy, Jr.

"Medicine is no longer a calling. It is a downright cut throat business." —Professor Dr.

Belle Monappa Hegde, MD, 21st century

"The current medical system is designed to create chronic disease. There is no money

in being healthy." —Dr. Irvin Sahni, MD, 21st century

"The bottom line is that the medical systems are controlled by financiers in order to

serve financiers. Since you cannot serve people unless they get sick, the whole medical

system is designed to make people sicker and sicker." —Dr. Guylaine Lanctot, MD, 21st

century

"It is difficult to get a person to understand something, when their salary depends on

them not understanding it." —Upton Sinclair, "The Jungle"

THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY MADE A LAW PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM

SUING THEM FOR VACCINATION DAMAGE

In 1986, US President Ronald Reagan passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury

Act (NCVIA). The act was drafted by the drug companies and shielded them from legal

liability resulting from vaccine injuries and deaths. Basically, NCVIA prevented parents

from directly suing the drug companies (vaccine makers). The parents have to file

claims in the vaccine injury court that was established through the act. About $0.75 of

every vaccine sold is used to fund the vaccine injury court. From 1986 to 2018, the court

paid over $4 billion to parents with vaccine injured children. It is estimated that the court,

due to budget constraints, dismisses about 66% of the cases, and some cases can take

up to 8 years to settle.

Furthermore, in one report US and Human Services estimated that only about 1% of

vaccine injuries are reported to VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System).

Most parents are unaware that the most common side effects of vaccines are allergies,

asthma, brain damage, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and death. In addition, from 1986

to 2017, the drug companies were fined nearly $25 billion—these fines were unrelated

to vaccines and most were for fraud, bribery, and false advertising.

"International bribery and corruption, fraud in the testing of drugs, criminal negligence in

the unsafe manufacture of drugs—the pharmaceutical industry has a worse record of

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How Fashion Stylist Charlene Lawson Went From Teen Mom to PhD Chemist And Created Her Dream Job

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About once every year or two someone, usually from China but occasionally from India, emails me their resume and asks if they can come work for me. This has been going on since a little before I graduated--in fact, about half the time the person in question would (if their resume is accurate) outrank me. In their cover letter they explain what they have a PhD in and what their research interests are, and I think only two or three times has it ever been even remotely related to my own work. Like, a lot of the time it isn’t even the same field, they’re geologists or chemists or something.

In addition, maybe three times (mostly while I was still in school myself) I’ve been emailed by random Indian undergrads who sent me one of their homework questions and asked if I would answer it for them. Mostly I don’t answer, because it’s not my job to be doing some kid’s homework for him on the other side of the world?? In one case it was actually really obvious why he emailed me, though, and I wrote back and forth a couple times. (His homework assignment was to write a term paper on a topic where the Wikipedia article was--at that time--not even a full paragraph long. (I just checked and it’s now about three paragraphs long but still not very helpful.) But the person who preceded me on my research project had taken the time to write a five-page webpage explaining the topic, and that was the first hit if you googled that topic. And since she had graduated, it was now my name prominently displayed on the research page linked to that tutorial. So a quick google search would have implied that I was probably the world expert on this topic, although a quick literature search would have indicated no such thing because there were actually probably about a hundred people working on that topic world-wide.)

The best, though, was the time some guy emailed me offering me an all-expenses-paid, plus like $2500 wages, trip to Brussels to do contract work for the EU a week. I tried and tried to figure out how that was a fishing scam. Some of my friends thought I was going to get kidnapped. But ultimately my boss said the deal allowed me complete freedom of movement (unless I got actually kidnapped) since it was up to me to book my own flight and hotel--like, no one was going to be waiting for me at the airport or something, and my sister was living just a few countries away at the time, so I should just show up and if it turned out to be a scam I could run away and go spend a week with my sister having a nice European vacation (...in December). So, I went, and it was actually real, and I made like $3k for a week’s (hard) work, and they gave us Belgian chocolate for breakfast every morning, it was ridiculous. If I’d been less paranoid I even could have been reimbursed for business-class plane tickets, but I hadn’t wanted to risk my own money on that. That was... just so weird... I still don’t even know. When I got there I found out there was apparently some weird confluence of EU laws about gender discrimination and rules about consulting outside experts, they actually literally needed an American woman with a PhD who was an expert in the subfield my PhD was in, and I’m sure you can imagine that description does not fit very many people.

#this post brought to you by #I got another resume from China today

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Here are awesome speakers for world’s biggest free startup event: Take Off Istanbul

Recently we are on a very busy schedule in Hackquarters. We are very excited to be a part of Take Off Istanbul, which is the biggest startup event in our region. Being a part of Teknofest Istanbul Aerospace and Technology Festival, Take Off is proudly the biggest free startup event in the world to announce the opening of the New Istanbul Airport.

We received more than 1000 applications from more than 40 countries in verticals such as education, energy, agriculture, food, logistics, space, defense and more. Take Off Istanbul will host more than 200 global startups in Istanbul for 4 days. We guarantee that we will have 3 days of non-stop startup action with pitching, investor meetings, educative panels and surprise events.

You can register for Take Off Istanbul and get latest updates!

As Take Of Istanbul is just one week away, our speakers for the panels have been declared. Here are a few of our awesome speakers;

Amr Awadallah, Founder at Cloudera : Amr Awadallah is a Founder at Cloudera Inc serving as its Chief Technology Officer. He received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2007. Before co-founding Cloudera in 2008, Amr was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners. Prior to joining Accel Partners, he served as Vice President of Product Intelligence Engineering at Yahoo!, and ran one of the very first organizations to use Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence. Amr joined Yahoo! after they acquired his first startup, VivaSmart, in July 2000.

Bandar M. H. Hajjar, President at Islamic Development Bank : Doctor Bandar Hajjar was awarded a bachelor’s degree with First-Class Honours in Economics and Political Sciences from King Saud University, Riyadh, and a master’s degree in Economics from Indiana University, USA. In 1982, he returned to Saudi Arabia, where he worked as a lecturer for four years. In 1986, he attended Loughborough University in the United Kingdom on a scholarship, where he received a Ph.D. in Economics. In his thesis titled “Financing Small Enterprises in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” he argued that Islamic financing is appropriate for small enterprises, which often lack collateral, administrative, and marketing expertise.

Benjamin Joffe, Partner at SOSV / HAX : Benjamin Joffe is a Partner at HAX, the world’s most active investor in hardware startups (>200 investments in robotics, IoT, consumer and health tech). HAX is part of SOSV, a global $400M early stage fund with a deep tech focus. Benjamin is a guest writer for Forbes, TechCrunch and VentureBeat, and was featured in numerous media such as Nature, Wall Street Journal and WIRED. He spoke at over 200 events across 30 countries, including TechCrunch Disrupt and two TEDx. His online presentations and annual “Hardware Trends” reports collected over 1 million online views. Trained as an aerospace engineer in France, Benjamin turned to corporate strategy and Asia (mostly China and Japan), where he lived from 2000 to 2017. He now splits his time between Europe, Asia and USA.

Kaan Terzioğlu, CEO at Turkcell : Kaan Terzioğlu was appointed Turkcell’s Chief Executive Officer on April 1 2015. He began his professional life in 1990 as an Independent Auditor and CPA at Arthur Andersen Turkey. In 1992, Mr. Terzioğlu joined Arthur Andersen USA as the IT Strategies and Security Specialist, and in 1994, began working at Arthur Andersen Belgium as the Leader of Information Management and Digital Strategy Services. In 1998, he was appointed Vice President of Consultancy Services Turkey Operations. Between 1999 and 2012, he served as the Team Leader of E-Commerce Strategies for the EMEA region, Sales Director of Advanced Technologies for the EMEA region, Managing Director of Technology Marketing Organization for the EMEA region, and Vice President of Central and Eastern Europe at the Cisco Systems Brussels branch, respectively. Between April 3, 2012 and April 1 2015, Mr. Terzioğlu was a Member of the Board of Directors at Akbank, Aksigorta A.Ş., Teknosa İç ve Dış Ticaret A.Ş. and Carrefoursa A.Ş. Kaan Terzioğlu graduated from the Department of Business Administration at Boğaziçi University.

John-Edward Butler-Ransohoff, VP, Global External Innovation & Alliances at Bayer : Dr. Butler-Ransohoff studied Chemistry at Heidelberg University and the MPI for Medical Research. After earning a doctorate in 1986, he worked for two years in Emil T Kaiser’s lab at Rockefeller University, he joined Bayer as Medicinal Chemist (1988). Since then he has had changing responsibilities such as Project Manager, bringing new compounds to clinical proof-of-concept, several corporate staff functions such as Head R&D Coordination of Bayer AG and leading a Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Program with Bayer Innovation GmbH. He is as a member of the Investment Committee of HTGF –Europe’s biggest seed fund- as part of his current role at Bayer Pharmaceuticals’s Global External Innovation and Alliances. He is a visiting Professor at the Department for Infection and Immunity, Saint George’s University of London.

Kamran Elahian, Founder and Chairman, Global Innovation Catalyst, LLC : As an Innovation Catalyst, Kamran advises various governments on the needed transition from fossil based economies to sustainable innovation economies. In the past, as a global high-tech entrepreneur, he cofounded ten companies, produced 6 exits, 3 of them Unicorn IPOs with a total market cap of over $8B. For 15 yrs., he was Chairman of Global Catalyst Partners, a global VC firm ($350M under management) with investments in the U.S., Japan, China, India, Israel and Singapore. Underlying his vision for global philanthropy is the conviction that modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be instrumental in dissolving barriers between nations and bridging the social and political differences among people. This vision was reflected in Schools-Online, a nonprofit he co-founded in 1996 to connect the world, one school at a time (6400 schools in 36 countries were provided with computers and access to the Internet) and merged with Relief International in 2003; Global Catalyst Foundation, co-founded in 2000 to improve lives through effective education and empowerment of the youth (with special emphasis on young women) using the leverage of ICT, and UN-GAID, a United Nations global forum that promotes ICT in developing countries where he served as Co-Chairman (2009-2011).

You can view rest of our awesome speakers at Take Off Istanbul website!

#hackquarters #startup #speakers #awesome #website

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Understanding the Wrinkle

The single worst threat to beauty and self-image perceived by Caucasian women in the Western world is the wrinkle, according to several surveys conducted in recent years. In contrast, Asian women are more worried by discoloration and brown spots, which will be detailed in an upcoming column.

As a matter of fact, the wrinkle not only alters the smoothness of the surface, it also betrays the age of the person; this is unacceptable in a world where appearing young is mandatory.

The personal care industry has developed a plethora of products aimed at fighting wrinkles, and yet the threat remains. Often, when a problem takes long to be solved, it is because the cause of the problem is only partially understood. So, let us ask again: what is a wrinkle?

It is quite remarkable that there are no wrinkles on “horizontal” parts of our body and that the wrinkles only are formed on the “vertical” parts of the body. Indeed, there are no wrinkles on the scalp and there are no wrinkles on the shoulders; wrinkles accumulate on the forehead, around the eyes, on the cheeks and around the lips.

In a moment of creative enthusiasm, somebody once suggested that the wrinkle is a wound. That assessment could not be further from reality. In a wound, skin cells multiply quickly and synthetize collagens, elastic fibers and ground substance to fill the gap. In a wrinkle, all of these activities are absent and there is no bleeding. For sure, it can be said that a wrinkle is a wound in someone’s beauty but, truth be told, wrinkles and wounds do not have anything in common.

Whereas a wrinkle is a groove in a healthy, intact skin, a wound is a bleeding opening. In a wound, collagen is produced at an accelerated rate and in order to quickly fill the gap, skin cells produce fibers and ground substance and scar tissue is formed, which is disorganized and not elastic. So, if to reduce wrinkles one were to use wound healing factors or other accelerators of the rate of synthesis of collagens, one might indeed generate a lot of scar-like tissue and make things worse.

The fact is, the damage in the skin is an ancillary cause in the onset of the wrinkle: the wrinkle is a neuro-muscular problem!

Surgeons, doctors and dermatologists all know that patients under general anesthesia do not have wrinkles and that hemiplegic patients do not have wrinkles on the paralyzed portion of their faces. And we all know that an injection of the neuro-muscular toxin Botox induces the removal of wrinkles for several weeks. A wrinkle is a neuro-muscular problem, which manifests itself as the appearance of grooves on the face. These grooves correspond to the sites where the skin is attached to the muscles via the nervous tissue.

With time and age, the skin’s network of elastic fibers gets disorganized. The skin gets thinner because of the loss of the water-retaining capability of the dermis. Aged skin is less resilient, less elastic, less firm and more deformable. Subjected to the stretch effect of the gravitational force, the surface of aged skin becomes larger. Aged skin does therefore “hang down” from the sites where it is attached to the muscles and grooves will appear on its surface. This is how we understand wrinkles are formed.1,2

What scientific frame should be adopted to design interventions to fight wrinkles? It is apparent that considering the wrinkle as the consequence of a purely dermal damage is an incomplete approach to the problem. Drawing a section of the dermis as if it were resting on a horizontal plane and representing the wrinkle as a concavity in the line separating the inside of the skin from the outside is not only wrong but also misleading. Such a schematic drawing could allow one to infer the existence of a “bottom” of the wrinkle and indeed some authors propose to eliminate wrinkles by filling the wrinkle from the bottom...quite difficult task to perform because a wrinkle does not have a bottom!

It has been reported in the past that topically treating postmenopausal skin with estrogen provoked the thickening of the dermis and the appearance of wrinkles was reduced.3 This is to be expected because estrogen promotes water retention. This result allowed one to understand that increasing the thickness of the dermis can be beneficial to the battle against wrinkles, and some dermatologists do actually inject “fillers” into the dermis. By doing so they are able to reduce the wrinkle’s visibility. It has been later understood that the presence of these “fillers” in the dermis is perceived by resident dermal fibroblasts as a “gap” in the tissue, and as a consequence, they produce new collagens, the dermis becomes more resilient and the skin “hangs down” from the sites where the cutaneous tissue is attached to the muscular system, in a less conspicuous manner.

When one wants to avoid invasive treatments and steer clear from using prescription drugs, one can approach the wrinkle problem by topical application of formulas that offer an immediate, albeit transient, solution—also called the “Cinderella Effect” because of its short duration. Such an effect can be obtained, for instance, by boosting the forces pulling epidermal keratinocytes toward one another, or by applying film formers with a tightening effect together with the appropriate additives to prolong this effect. Cosmetic chemists have a panoply of ingredients and a wealth of formulating experience that can be called upon to find the best solutions to the wrinkle problem.

References

Piérard GE, Lapière CM. (1989) The microanatomical basis of facial frown lines. Arch Dermatol. 125:1090-1092.

Piérard GE, Uhoda I, Piérard-Franchimont C. (2003) From skin microrelief to wrinkles. An area ripe for investigation. J Cosmet Dermatol. 2:21-28.

Brincat M, Moniz CJ, Studd JW, Darby A, Magos A, Emburey G, Versi E. (1985) Long-term effects of the menopause and sex hormones on skin thickness. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 92 : 256-259.

Paolo Giacomoni, PhD Insight Analysis Consulting [email protected] 516-769-6904

Paolo Giacomoni acts as an independent consultant to the skin care industry. He served as executive director of research at Estée Lauder and was head of the department of biology with L’Oréal. He has built a record of achievements through research on DNA damage and metabolic impairment induced by UV radiation as well as on the positive effects of vitamins and antioxidants. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and has more than 20 patents.

Source: https://www.happi.com/issues/2018-09-03/view_breaking-news/understanding-the-wrinkle/

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How to Start a Fitness Blog: The Ultimate Guide

Fitness blogs create fitness experts.

An intelligently conceived and well-executed blog gives you a world of opportunity:

To share your ideas

To build an audience

To attract customers to your brick-and-mortar business

To launch an online training business

To add passive income through affiliate commissions

To create and sell digital and physical products

To get the attention of industry leaders and gatekeepers

To grow your network and expand your influence

To open up opportunities as a speaker, writer, or consultant

To charge more for what you do

To achieve the kind of wealth that gives you control over your life and work

None of that is easy or automatic. None of it happens right away, or without hard, focused work, usually over many months. And none of it is guaranteed. If you’re a first-time fitness blogger, you’re building your audience one reader at a time.

My goal is to help you get started in a way that gives you the best chance to succeed. That includes the seven key steps I explain in this article.

You can click the links below to jump to the step that’s most important to you, or scroll down to see the entire process.

How to choose a good name for your fitness blog

How to set up hosting for your fitness blog

How to write a fitness blog

How to set up an email list for your fitness blog

How to offer an ethical bribe to promote your fitness blog

How to make money from your fitness blog

The secret to a successful fitness blog: Write less, and promote more

A final note about fitness blogging

1. How to choose a good name for your fitness blog

It’s not an exaggeration to say this is one of the most important decisions you’ll make in your career. The name of your blog is often the first piece of information a potential customer, client, or fan has about you. It tells them who you are (sometimes literally, as you’ll see), what you do, and for whom you do it.

If that’s not enough pressure, it’s also getting harder every day to find a good domain name that isn’t taken or only available at a premium price. Expect to spend some time using the domain search tool at Namecheap.

Let’s look at your options.

Option 1: Your name

Companies come and go, but your name is yours for life. As fitness writer John Romaniello once wrote about this option, “Your parents already did all the work for you, so it’s easy. And unless your name is John Smith, it’s unlikely that your name will be taken.”

Lots of well-known fitness pros have built personal brands online: Eric Cressey, Tony Gentilcore, Leigh Peele, PTDC editorial director Lou Schuler, and dozens more I could name off the top of my head. This is typically your best choice if your goal is to build a career as a writer, speaker, or consultant.

Even if you don’t plan to use your name on your blog, I recommend purchasing any available domains with your name. Start with yourname.com, if you can, along with .net and .org. I live in Canada, so I also have jonathangoodman.ca and several variations.

Option 2: Your name plus

Some people are named John Smith. Or Maria Rodriguez. Or James Johnson. The more common your name, the harder it’ll be to find a domain name that isn’t taken.

Other names are hard to spell or pronounce, or shared by a celebrity. That’s why Romaniello chose Roman Fitness Systems, Mike Boyle went with Body by Boyle, and Kelly Coffey branded herself as Strong Coffey.

As Romaniello has noted, the goal of your site’s domain name is to “create implicit understanding” of who you are and what you do, and from there “create explicit trustworthiness and value.”

Option 3: What you offer

What I’m not talking about here is a super-spammy-sounding name like getahotbodysostrangerswillnoticeyou.com. Nobody expects a site like that to have authoritative information. The one exception I can think of is Brad Schoenfeld, PhD, who calls his site Look Great Naked because that’s the name of one of the first books he wrote, and the URL was still available when it came out in 2001.

A cheeky name like SciBabe (chemist and writer Yvette D’Entremont) or Dumb Runner (runner and satirist Mark Remy) announces that you’re a fun person to hang out with online.

Or consider my own site, the Personal Trainer Development Center. I had three reasons for choosing it, instead of building the brand with my own name:

I wanted to show the site stands for something. “Personal trainer development” achieves that in a straightforward way.

Because I was asking well-known fitness pros to contribute, I wanted it to appear to be a bigger deal than it actually was at the time. “Center” makes it sound important.

I wanted a name that could be shortened to something simple and easy to remember. “PTDC” rolls off the tongue. More important, my only competition for the acronym was the Pakistani Tourism Development Corporation.

Option 4: All of the above

One other reason to get domains with your name, even if you won’t be using them for your blog: If you become well-known, someone else will snap them up. Same with variations and even misspellings of your name. That’s why I also have jongoodman.ca and johngoodman.ca.

I also recommend buying domains for any event you sponsor or intellectual property you own, or expect to create. Get URLs with the title of a book you plan to write or the name of a product you have in development, even if it’s years away.

Register each for a minimum of two years. (I usually register mine for five years at a time.) I’ve been told that Google frowns on domains with short-term registrations, since it’s a hallmark of spammers.

2. How to set up hosting for your fitness blog

WordPress is the best platform for fitness blogging. It’s the most versatile and customizable, and the one search engines are most likely to smile on.

If you’re going to blog with WordPress, you need a host that’s optimized for it. That’s why I use and highly recommend WP Engine. It’s more expensive than some other options, but it’s blazing fast, easy to use, and offers great customer service. (Although if you use the link in this article, you’ll get the first three months free.)

Most important of all, it’s secure. The system automatically backs up your site every night, meaning your content is always safe.

Even if you’re hacked, you can revert to your last backup—which, at most, will be 24 hours old—and the problem is solved.

WP Engine also offers a reasonable “overage” plan. So if one of your posts goes viral, and you suddenly have a thousand times your normal traffic, your site won’t crash (downtime costs me thousands of dollars on a normal day, and many thousands if we’re in the middle of a launch), and you won’t be charged a fortune to accommodate the sudden influx.

To me, the peace of mind is worth a higher price. But I say that knowing there are lots of companies that can host your blog without any of the problems I mentioned. (My worst experiences with other hosting companies were several years ago.)

Do your research and ask around. Look for recommendations based on what’s most important to you. If you plan to post a lot of images or videos, look for fast loading speeds. If you plan to sell products, look for reliability and security. If you’re technically unsure of yourself, look for great customer service.

Configure your site

After choosing a host, you’ll need to do three things:

Install WordPress

Configure your domain

Configure your domain name system (DNS) for your host

It can be a confusing process, but companies like Namecheap and WP Engine offer a lot of help, even if you need to be walked through it.

Choose and install a theme, or hire someone to design your site

Now you have to decide what you want your site to look like. WordPress has free themes you can install, and just about anybody under 30 should be able to follow the instructions and end up with a functioning site that works the way you expect it to.

If you’re not confident in your tech skills, and if you don’t want your site to look like countless others, you’ll need to hire someone to design it. I’ve never designed one of my own sites, so this is the option I recommend to anyone who can afford it.

What I don’t recommend is a dirt-cheap online freelancer. Your brand is too important to leave to chance. You should be able to find a competent, professional designer, preferably someone who has experience with fitness blogs.

That’s why I recommend My PT Website. Dan Salcumbe, the owner, has designed hundreds of fitness sites, and understands not just how they should look, but what you need your site to do for you. If you’re a local trainer, he’ll optimize it for local search. If you’re an online trainer, he’ll make it easier for potential clients to find you.

3. How to write a fitness blog

Your first job is to get in the habit of writing. Lou Schuler compares these initial blog posts to practicing free throws in your driveway. You don’t really want people watching as you figure out what you want to say and how you want to say it.

Fitness bloggers fall into two broad categories: innovators and simplifiers. Lots of bloggers want to be innovators, especially when they begin. A handful (Bret Contreras, for example) become brand-name fitness experts.

Most of those who succeed are simplifiers. Skilled simplifiers can explain complex ideas in the language of their audience, and clear up confusing and often contradictory information for their clients and readers. The best (like Dean Somerset) can do this in an entertaining way without wasting readers’ time or dumbing down the information.

But you can’t speak in the language of your audience until you know who that audience is. And if you don’t have an audience yet, there’s an even more fundamental question: Who do you want it to be?

GO DEEPER: Want to Write a Successful Fitness Blog? Start by Mastering This

Fight the urge to write for your fellow trainers. Unless you’re someone who’s already well-known and highly regarded by your peers, there’s little chance they’ll pay attention, and even less chance they’ll be impressed.

Write for an audience who doesn’t already know what you know. The information in your brain is valuable to someone who’s confused about how to lose fat, which diet is the best for them, or whether they need to use supplements.

You don’t have to add anything new to the conversation. Even if you wanted to, it would be really hard to pull off. Here’s how Romaniello describes the challenge:

“Nearly everything you ever write—anything you even think about writing—has been written about a million times before by a thousand people. We can’t help but cannibalize one another’s content.”

Rather than despairing over this basic fact of early-21st-century blogging, Romaniello says you should embrace it. Make a list of things you’d like to write about, see what your favorite fitness bloggers have already said, and then decide if there’s something you can add to the conversation.

Is there an angle you think is overlooked? Were others too quick to jump to conclusions, or too slow to change their minds about something when evidence suggests they were wrong? Do you have a personal story to illustrate a point others have made, or that casts doubt on the conventional wisdom?

Another strategy:

Let’s say your goal is to be an authoritative source of information for everyone who falls into a niche—postmenopausal women, powerlifters, wheelchair athletes, cancer survivors. Or maybe you want to create a complete resource for your clients and their friends and families.

If every fitness expert you know of has weighed in on a nutrition or exercise topic, you want to make sure you have it covered on your blog, in your voice, with information that matters to your audience.

Is the diet of the moment right for them? What are the benefits and risks for them? Should they do the exercise or workout system everyone is talking about right now? If you think your audience needs to know, you should be the one to tell them.

GO DEEPER: Fitness Blog Ideas: 10 Proven Ways to Win More Readers

4. How to set up an email list for your fitness blog

Let’s say you do the first three steps well, and you start to build an audience. Now you need a system to corral those readers and, eventually, monetize your blog. That’s where email marketing comes in.

Your email list is the most valuable asset you can have. The sooner you start one, the faster you can start making money from your fitness blog, and the more money you can make over time.

Here’s how to get started right.

GO DEEPER: How to Build an Online Following from Scratch

Step 1: Choose your email program

Your needs are simple in the beginning: send basic messages to people who sign up for your list. For that, I recommend ConvertKit. It’s a simple, clean, and powerful system for fitness bloggers. I definitely would’ve used it if it had been around when I started.

You can always switch to a more versatile program as your list grows and your needs change. I changed to Active Campaign when I needed more automation and audience segmentation.

My advice: Don’t overthink this initial foray into email marketing. There are several good options. Pick one and get started. You can always move your list to another platform.

Step 2: Set up a form on your website

Make sure each visitor to your site gets a chance to sign up for your list. Here’s the copy we put at the end of each article:

Did you like this story? Become a PTDC Insider and receive content like this delivered directly to your inbox every week. Every single story we create is designed to help you be a more successful fitness professional. The best part: It’s 100% free. Click here to sign up.

You’ll see we ask twice—once at the beginning of the copy, once at the end, using different language. But both are phrased as a call to action. We tell readers exactly what we want them to do.

When they click on one of the links, they go to this page, where they see this simple form:

We use it twice—once near the top, once at the bottom—but once is enough. Just give your readers a reason to sign up, and make it easy to do so.

When they do sign up, make sure you thank them. This is what you see when you sign up for our list:

It’s considered good form to use a double opt-in, so when someone gives you their email, they get a message with a link to confirm their subscription. Their email isn’t added to your list until they click that link. In some countries it’s a legal requirement, but in the U.S. and Canada it’s just a courtesy.

Step 3: Set up your email template

Email marketing platforms give you a lot of design options. I highly recommend keeping it simple. Basic black and white works fine. You don’t need to include your logo or any distracting designs. You want people to focus on what you’re saying, not on the background.

Use 14- to 15-point type in a font that’s easy to read, like Times New Roman, Arial, or Georgia.

In the address section of the template, most use their home address. But if that makes you nervous for any reason, you can rent a P.O. box and use that instead.

You also need to include an email address. I recommend creating and using an [email protected] account, rather than your personal account.

Step 4: Write an email

A solid email has four key parts:

A catchy title that entices subscribers to open the email

An opening line that acts synergistically with the title to pique the readers’ interest

A short message—maybe four to five paragraphs, with no more than four sentences per paragraph—that gets readers interested in the content you’re promoting (usually a blog post, but it could be a Facebook conversation, Twitter poll, or just about anything else)

At least two links to the content: one near the beginning of the message, one at the bottom with a call to action to click through and read it

GO DEEPER: Fitness Blog Post Titles: 7 Rules for Making Your Headlines Irresistible

There are no rules about how often to contact your list. Some do it every day, some do it weekly, some only do it when they have something important to share. Any of them can work.

What never works is wasting their time with content-free emails, or wasting your time by producing content that doesn’t bring back any benefits to you.

So let’s talk about that.

5. How to offer an ethical bribe to promote your fitness blog

Anybody who produces content on the web should create a free ebook—a digital download, usually a PDF, that you give away in exchange for signing up for your email list. It goes by lots of names: ethical bribe, tripwire, welcome mat, content upgrade. If you haven’t already produced one, you’ve seen lots of examples.

The easiest way to deliver it is through an email marketing service like ConvertKit. You can deliver it directly from the thank you page the reader goes to after opting in to your list, or in the first email you send automatically to each person who subscribes.

Don’t try to do too much with your ebook. It should offer a single, actionable step toward achieving something your audience wants. It should be a little longer than a blog post, perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 words, and take four to seven minutes to read.

A lead magnet should offer something that’s additive and easy to implement—not a complete training or nutrition plan, in other words. These all tend to work well:

Checklists

Sleep tips

Metabolic finishers

Recipes (protein shakes, protein-rich breakfasts, etc.)

Hire a contractor on UpWork or Fiverr to design a simple cover, and another one to edit your content and create the PDF. That’s it; you’re done. It should cost $50 or less.

How to market your free ebook

Before you release the ebook, announce it on your social media, and ask your followers to send you a message if they’re interested. Tag them when it’s live, or send a message with a link to opt in and get the book.

Post about it regularly on social media, keeping in mind the law of diminishing returns; even your most dedicated fans will eventually get tired of hearing about it.

Display it prominently on your website. Any new content you produce should include a call to action to download it.

How to benefit from your free ebook

Let’s review what you’ve done so far:

You’ve paid for domain names, web hosting, and whatever it cost to design your site.

You’ve paid for an email marketing service.

You’ve paid a copyeditor and designer to work on your ebook.

And you’ve done all this so you can deliver free content through your blog, emails, and ebook. At what point do you get something back?

Smart consumers—the ones you hope to attract—understand you have a reason for giving them so much information for free. If they like your material, they’ll be more likely to support you when you come up with a paid product.

In the meantime, there’s another way for you to benefit.

6. How to make money from your fitness blog

Commission, partner, or affiliate programs allow you to supplement your income while recommending products or services from people you trust, and that you believe can benefit your clients. Almost every major company has some sort of affiliate program. They all work the same way:

You sign up as an affiliate or partner and get a custom link.

You get paid when someone reaches the company’s website through your link and buys something.

What’s more, many of these links include cookies that identify someone who first reached the website through your link. You’ll get a commission on anything he buys on subsequent visits within a predetermined period, even if he doesn’t buy anything on that first visit.

You can easily embed these links in your blog posts. Someone who clicks on a link years later can still get you a commission.

Just keep in mind that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires you to disclose when you’re getting a commission for a product you recommend. My affiliate disclosure at the PTDC includes this statement:

In the PTDC newsletter and on the site I sometimes recommend products, other than ones we produce, and with those recommendations I often make a commission on referred sales. This commission is how I run the site and continue to keep the information free of cost and obtrusive ads.

Amazon Associates is the most popular affiliate program. I use it at the PTDC. Almost every book we recommend on the site uses my Associates link. You can do the same for any book, supplement, or piece of fitness equipment you mention on your blog or in your emails. You not only get a (small) percentage of the sale when someone uses your link to buy the product you recommended, you also get a percentage of anything else they buy on that visit to Amazon. (It can be surprisingly lucrative around the holidays.)

A lot of fitness equipment or supplement companies work the same way. After registering for their affiliate program, you get a custom link, which you can then embed on your site, include in emails, or share on social media.

But those are mostly nickel-and-dime commissions compared to the revenue you can bring in when you sell ebooks and information products. Commissions on sales are often in the range of 50 to 75 percent.

Here’s an example:

Let’s say you sign up as an affiliate for a cookbook that includes video lessons and sells for $67. You write a blog post about cooking that builds to a recommendation for the product. If your commission is 75 percent, you’d earn $50 per sale; you’ll receive around $48 after payment processing fees. If 10 people buy, that’s almost $500 for a single link in a single blog post or email.

Now imagine if you have an archive of material, all with links to products related to the subjects of the posts. If people buy, you get paid. It’s a nice, almost effortless way to supplement your income.

And with a little effort, you can increase the opportunity to make money from affiliate links, new and old. More traffic from search engines could mean more sales. Sharing older articles on social media could mean more sales. If somebody asks you a question, and you link to an article, you may get a sale. Even better, if a client asks you where she can learn how to cook healthier food, you can send her a direct recommendation with your affiliate link.

It might come out to a few dollars a week, or a few hundred, or even a few thousand if you build a substantial, responsive audience. Whatever it is, it’s easy money, and if you follow the rules and disclose your affiliation with the seller, it’s honest money.

Just make sure you perform your due diligence and only recommend products, services, and books you would stake your reputation on.

7. The secret to a successful fitness blog: Write less, and promote more

In the beginning, your goals are simple:

Get in the habit of writing and publishing your posts.

Discover what works for you in terms of voice, audience, and topics.

Focus more narrowly on what you like to write, and what your audience responds to.

You have to do a lot of writing to get there. That’s certainly what I did. At one point I was posting four times a week on the PTDC and attempting to post twice a week on my personal site. I was also writing occasional guest posts.

Not only was it exhausting, I was sacrificing quality for volume. I couldn’t put out my best work.

On top of all that, I ran out of ideas. I couldn’t come up with new and innovative solutions to my readers’ problems if I kept writing at that pace.

I made two big decisions:

Each article I wrote would be the best I could do, no matter how long it took. I wouldn’t compromise quality.

I’d repackage the material in as many ways as possible.

It’s all in the idea

Let’s say you have a unique solution to a problem experienced by a lot of people in your audience. That’s valuable, right? But you don’t know how valuable until you put it out on your blog and see what kind of reaction you get.

If it’s positive, you can then approach personal trainers with bigger blogs and offer them a guest post on the subject. Be transparent; share a link to your original article and tell them your guest post will cover the same basic territory.

When you do land a guest post, keep your author bio short—two or three sentences is plenty. The goal isn’t to tell them how great you are. It’s to sound interesting enough that they’ll click a link to learn more. That link should go to your squeeze page—the place where you squeeze emails out of readers.

Meanwhile, if the idea is getting traction, you can amplify it a few more ways:

Make a YouTube video talking about the idea, or demonstrating specific parts of it.

Talk about it on other trainers’ podcasts.

Expand on the idea for a short ebook, which you can sell via Kindle or give away as an ethical bribe.

When the book comes out, write about it again on your blog, incorporating new examples or detailing what you’ve learned since you published the original post.

Do another round of guest posts, videos, and podcasts.

My point is, you won’t have many great ideas. Don’t waste them. When you get one with appeal beyond your current audience, develop it as fully as you can. Use every channel you can to help the idea spread.

A final note about fitness blogging

The point of writing a fitness blog is to produce good content.

The better it is, the more benefit there is to you. More people will read it and share it, sign up for your email list, buy things from your affiliates based on your recommendation, and eventually buy things from you—from online training to ebooks, programs, or physical products.

Writing consistently good posts takes time and effort. It doesn’t happen by accident. You learn as you go. The longer you do it, the better you get:

At presenting information in a logical and entertaining way

At telling stories that reveal your personality but also get to the point without wasting your readers’ attention

At proofreading your work and double-checking your references

At persuading people to respond to your call to action at the end of each post

The best fitness bloggers are always a little insecure. They know they can do better, but at the same time don’t paralyze themselves by striving for perfection on a platform that’s designed for trial and error.

Not everyone can be great, but all of us can do well enough to make fitness blogging worthwhile.

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At a Glance – Occupation Changes for Re-opening of BSMQ Skilled Program 18 April 2019

Summary of occupation changes for ‘Working in Queensland’ and ‘Masters’ and ‘PhD’ QSOLs

Occupations added for subclass 489 and 190:

Arts Administrator or Manager (ANZSCO code 139911)

Dancer or Choreographer (ANZSCO code 211112)

Music Director (ANZSCO code 211212)

Artistic Director (ANZSCO code 212111)

Environmental Manager (ANZSCO code 139912)

Musician (Instrumental) (ANZSCO code 211213)

Statistician (ANZSCO code 224113)

Economist (ANZSCO code 224311)

Mining Engineer (excluding Petroleum) (ANZSCO code 233611)

Petroleum Engineer (ANZSCO code 233612)

Engineering Professionals nec (ANZSCO code 233999)

Chemist (ANZSCO code 234211)

Food Technologist (ANZSCO code 234212)

Environmental Consultant (ANZSCO code 234312)

Environmental Research Scientist (ANZSCO code 234313)

Environmental Scientists nec (ANZSCO code 234399)

Geophysicist (ANZSCO code 234412)

Hydrogeologist (ANZSCO code 234413)

Life Scientist (General) (ANZSCO code 234511)

Biochemist (ANZSCO code 234513)

Biotechnologist (ANZSCO code 234514)

Botanist (ANZSCO code 234515)

Marine Biologist (ANZSCO code 234516)

Microbiologist (ANZSCO code 234517)

Zoologist (ANZSCO code 234518)

Life Scientists nec (ANZSCO code 234599)

Conservator (ANZSCO code 234911)

Metallurgist (ANZSCO code 234912)

Meteorologist (ANZSCO code 234913)

Natural and Physical Science Professionals nec (ANZSCO code 234999)

University Lecturer (ANZSCO code 242111)

Multimedia Specialist (ANZSCO code 261211)

Telecommunications network planner (ANZSCO code 313213)

Pressure welder (ANZSCO code 322312)

Construction Project Manager (ANZSCO code 133111) (Re-added, formerly removed for this FY)

Quantity Surveyor (ANZSCO code 233213) (Re-added, formerly removed for this FY)

Registered Nurse (Aged Care) (ANZSCO code 254412) (Re-added, formerly removed for this FY)

Occupations added for subclass 489 only:

Registered Nurse (Critical Care and Emergency) (ANZSCO code 254415)

Dentist (ANZSCO code 252312)

Anaesthetist (ANZSCO code 253211)

Occupations removed:

Systems Analyst (ANZSCO code 261112)

Computer Network and Systems Engineer (ANZSCO code 263111)

Software Tester (ANZSCO code 261314)

PhD alumni:

Entire instrument LIN 19/051 is available

University Lecturer (ANZSCO code 242111) – must meet working in Queensland requirements

Please note that the below previously removed occupations for this FY are still unavailable:

ICT Business Analyst – 261111

Marketing Specialist – 225113

Finance Manager – 132211

Developer Programmer – 261312

Software Engineer – 261313

Civil Engineer – 233211

Electrical Engineer – 233311

Mechanical Engineer – 233512

Accountant (General) – 221111

Engineering Technologist – 233914

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