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ledlightingmanufacturer · 2 years ago

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LED Shoebox: The Ultimate Outdoor Lighting Fixtures in 2021

Have you ever wondered:

Does an energy-efficient, high-performance, durable, bright, and cost-effective outdoor lighting fixture exist to replace your HIDs and Metal Halides?

Well, two decades ago, the answer would have been No! But: Today, it a definite YES. And that’s all thanks to fixtures like the LED Shoebox. We are living in a much-advanced era where LED lights are replacing almost all of the inefficient lighting fixtures we’ve been using in the past. Now: As the world tries to learn more about the marvels and perks of upgrading to LED fixtures, many people are still undecided. And: If you are still stuck wondering whether you should upgrade your outdoor lighting to LED Shoebox fixtures, this post is for you. In this post, you’ll learn everything you need to know about these amazing fixtures and why you should switch to them ASAP.

What Is Led Shoebox Light?

Long story short: LED Shoebox Lights are the solution to all your outdoor lighting problems. How? These fixtures are known to be more reliable, efficient, durable, and ideal for lighting up vast spaces; that could be your home’s outdoors, streets, parking lots, and so on… Basically: LED Shoebox lamps are your best bet when looking for a suitable replacement to High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) lights, Metal Halides, HIDs, and even CFLs. And that’s not only because they can easily and properly light up vast spaces but also because they cost very little to run and maintain. And that’s not even the best part… LED Shoebox lamps have an aesthetic and durable design. That means that they’ll look good in your space while still being able to withstand the harshness and perils faced by exterior lighting fixtures including bad weather. Plus: You get to save up to 80% on your lighting costs when you switch to these awesome LED fixtures. Anyway, more on the benefits of using LED Shoebox lights later on in this article. Out of curiosity, you might also be wondering:

Why Are These Fixtures Called “Shoebox” LEDs?

Fun Fact: Like most LED fixtures (e.g. the Corn Bulb, UFO High Bay, and Disk LED lights), the LED Shoebox gets its name from its looks. How? Well, if you look at the old versions of these fixtures closely, you’ll notice that they were rectangular with an integrated heatsink at their centers for heat dissipation. So, what does it look like? LED Shoebox, right? This “Shoebox” design has been there for decades despite newer versions of the LED Shoebox being a bit sleeker. But, it’s still rectangular in shape. Moving on…

Where Are LED Shoebox Lights Used?

As far as application goes, you have a myriad of options and places where you can use LED Shoebox fixtures. For example, you can use them in: - Parking Lots. - Street Lighting. - On Building Entrances. - Indoor Sports Venues. - In the Universities. - For Car Dealerships. - Public Parks and Walkways. - Small Outdoor Sports Fields. - AsFlood Lighting and so on… That said, let’s take a look at the things and qualities that make these lighting systems worth buying…

What Are the Features of Best Shoebox LED Light?

Here, what you want to know is: What sets the best LED Shoebox Pole Light apart from all other outdoor lighting fixtures? Basically: LED lights were designed to make up for all the shortcomings of all the traditional lighting systems. Awesome, right? And despite their high initial cost, an LED can save you more money than any other lighting fixture in terms of durability, operation cost, and maintenance. And the best part is that these fixtures often come with added features. Here are some features you can expect to find in the best Shoebox LED Light: 1. High IP Ratings Ingress Progression (or IP) is the amount of protection a fixture has against damage by dust, moisture, and water. Basically: The IP determines how durable and tough the fixture will be against the harsh outdoor environment. An IP rating is always denoted in the form IPXY; where X and Y are numbers showing the lamps protection against dust and moisture/water respectively. So, for example, you might get a fixture labeled IP65. That means that: - It is rated6in terms of protection against intrusion and damage by dust particles. The number X from IPXY usually ranges from 0 to 6; with 6 being the best/most protected. - It is also rated5in terms of protection against intrusion and damage by water and moisture. The number Y from IPXY usually ranges from 0 to 8; with 8 being the best/most protected. Now: You should note that outdoor environments are filled with dust from roadways, construction works, human movement, wind, cars, exhaust fumes, and so on; plus, moisture from humidity, rain, snow, plants, cleaning, stagnated water, and large water bodies. All these can affect your outdoor lighting fixtures, therefore, the IP rating of the light you have in mind is important. In most cases: An IP65 fixture will do for outdoor lighting because it’s fully protected against dust intrusion and rainfall. 2. Photocell Sensors Another cool feature that LED Shoebox lights have to offer is the photocell sensor. What is a Photocell Sensor? Basically, it’s the “dusk to dawn sensor” that switches the fixture on and off to provide lighting only when it’s needed instead of keeping the light on at all times (day and night). Impressive, right? This feature is often ideal for street and parking lot lighting because it means you won’t have to hire someone to switch the lights on and off every day. Plus: With this feature, you can save up to 50% more energy per lamp. 3. Motion Sensors Despite not being a standard feature, motion sensors can come in handy at times. If the fixture you want is to light up an area that’s not frequently used, then an LED Shoebox fixture with a motion sensor will suffice. These sensors are awesome because they turn the light on automatically when motion is detected. It’s often a great feature to scare away burglars and stray/wild animals from coming into your home. Note: Be sure to check if the fixture you intend on buying has motion-sensing capabilities. 4. Dimmability Lastly: The best LED Shoebox lights are dimmable. This feature gives you more control over how much light your fixture gives out; hence, making it inexpensive, efficient, and more convenient for you. But not all LED Shoebox area light fixtures are dimmable, therefore, be sure to check that before buying the lamp.

Top 10 Advantages of LED Shoebox Light Fixture

Now: Much like any other LED fixture, the Shoebox comes with a ton of perks and benefits. And that’s why a lot of people have been switching to LEDs nowadays. So, what are these benefits? Well, here are 10 of the biggest Merits of using LED Shoebox Light Fixtures: 1. They are Highly Energy Efficient Efficiency is probably the biggest advantage of using LED area lighting fixtures. What do we mean by efficiency? This is, basically, the ability of a fixture to use less energy to produce more light. And that’s exactly what you get from using LED Shoebox lights. Now: Out of curiosity, you might find yourself asking… What makes LED fixtures so efficient? It is all in the design. LEDs are designed in a way that ensures most (if not all) of the energy is converted into light instead of heat. And that’s why you won’t have to worry about heating problems from an LED fixture too. Long story short: More efficiency = reduced operational costs = more value for your investment. 2. They are Quite Durable In terms of durability, no other lighting technology comes close to what LEDs have to offer. A typical LED Shoebox lamp has a lifespan ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 hours. Yes, you read that right. That’s over 5-times longer than a metal halide or HID lamp. This means that you can use an LED Shoebox for years without needing to replace it. 3. They Offer Better Lighting With LED lights, you not only get to enjoy better lighting due to its added features but also brighter illumination for a very small amount of energy. Plus: Depending on its intended usage, an LED Shoebox light can come in different color temperatures to ensure maximum user comfort while still meeting the room’s lighting needs. 4. They also Offer Better Light Efficacy What is light efficacy? It is a light fixture’s ability to produce more light without using so much energy. In lighting, efficacy is often measured in Lumens per Watt (lm/W). Basically, it’s the number of lumens of light you get for every watt of energy consumed. On average, an LED Shoebox street light has an efficacy of 130lm/W; with some going as high as 180lm/w. That’s impressive compared to the 85lm/W you get from a standard Metal halide lamp or the 75lm/W you get from fluorescents. 5. LED Shoebox Lights Have Low Maintenance and Operational Costs Another big advantage of using LED Shoebox lights is that they don’t have a lot of maintenance needs; a quality that’s very beneficial considering the fixture’s application areas. Now: This simply means that you can stay for longer without having to worry about the health of your street or parking lot lights. Obviously, little maintenance results in reduced operational costs; and those savings grow even bigger if you take into account the fixture’s durability and cost-effectiveness. 6. They are Eco-Friendly LED Shoebox fixtures are not made using any form of pollutant or hazardous materials. You won’t find any heavy metals like mercury or toxic substances like phosphor in LEDs as you would in metal halides, halogen bulbs, incandescent lights, and fluorescents. That means that LED fixtures are kinder to the environment and also easier to dispose of. 7. Safer Than Other Lighting Technologies Aside from enjoying the benefits of an eco-friendly lighting fixture, LEDs are the only lights that pose the least threat to human health. How? Well, unlike other fixtures that expose you to blue light, mercury, phosphor, broken glass, ultra-violet radiation, and so on, LEDs only major health risk is blue light. And that’s something that can be avoided by limiting your time under cool temperature LEDs. 8. Easy Installation and Multiple Mounting Options If you’ve been worried that switching to LED Shoebox lights might be labor-intensive and costly,don’t be. These fixtures are quite easy to install and can comfortably fit into fittings used by the outgoing traditional light fixtures. And the best part is that you have multiple mounting options to choose from when dealing with the LED shoebox (more on this later on in this post). 9. Offer You More Control With LED fixtures, it’s all about giving you more control over your lighting. Generally, you get to enjoy added control by: - Being able to dim the light as desired. - Buying a color temperature of your choosing. - Using the motion-sensing feature to ward off intruders even when you are not at home. Great, right? 10. Have a Higher CRI CRI is short for Color Rendering Index. Basically, it’s the measure of how many colors a light source can reveal correctly. For example: The Sun has a CRI of 100 since we can see all colors in their true form under the sun. Now: LED Shoeboxes boast of having some of the highest CRIs among all forms of artificial lighting. It’s usually a number between 70 and 85; which is great because it means that you’ll be able to easily make out colors when under illumination by a shoebox fixture. Anyway: The list of benefits is endless; these are just the most important ones. Moving on: Let’s take a look at how these fixtures compare to their biggest competition – Metal Halides. Want to know what the follow-up is? Please look forward to the LED Shoebox: The Ultimate Outdoor Lighting Fixtures in 2021-Part 2

1.Learn More About Led Shoebox Lightings-Ultimate Guide

2.Key Points to Choose the Right LED Shoebox Fixtures for your Parking Lot

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starofroselight · 4 years ago

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Title: He Calls You Theseus (Now Call Him Odysseus and Welcome Him Home)

Chapter 1: In Which Technoblade's Narrative Crumbles

Summary: Technoblade's language is the art of combat and weaponry. Tommy doesn't understand, so Technoblade speaks in a way they'll both understand. Or, Technoblade’s been having strange visions while taking care of Tommy.

Tags: Technoblade, TommyInnit, SBI fic, Introspection, Flashbacks, Found Family, Brothers, Trauma, Alternate Universe, References to Greek Myth, Sleepy Bois Inc. as Family, Sleepy Bois Inc. Angst, Chat as Ghosts, Rose AU

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28786947

Author’s Note: This is my baby. I’ve worked for this on a while, and it’s about 5.1k words. I hope you enjoy the first chapter, I plan for around five in all.

A flurry of snow buffeted the snow banks around Technoblade's retirement home.

Technoblade had decided teaching Tommy the art of arrow fletching was important. He had come to immediately regret that decision. Tommy’s loud mouth and shaky hands were something manageable in the best of times, but when the time came for work to be done they became hindrances. Liabilities.

Technoblade didn’t take in liabilities.

“How’s this, big man?” The tooth-gaped teen asked smugly, holding up a shoddily constructed arrow as if it were made of gold.

Technoblade briefly considered how much easier this would have had he cleaved Tommy’s head clean off in the hole under his house.

> You can’t!

> The most efficient way to grind out arrows is village trading. Make one of your downstairs hostages a fletcher, trade sticks, build rapport, then trade in for arrows.

> Tommy pog

> would’ve been funnier if you did

“Chat, do you see what I’m dealing with?” He mumbled to himself.

“Oi Chat! Hey Chat, do you think Technoblade is a big bitch?”

“Tommy, you’re giving me a headache.” That wasn’t all that was giving him a headache: voices, the thousands of voices which were riled up by his every interaction with another living soul. Each voice was vying for a spot to influence his words, to have any effect on the outside world like they once were able to.

And the voices really liked Tommy.

“All I want’s an answer.”

He wouldn’t get one.

"How am I better at this with hooves?! Here, let me show you one more time.” Techno squatted beside where Tommy was sitting on the stone brick floor. “Two ties on each side over the flint. Three sharp cuts into the wood. Feather goes in between. Look, perfectly functional arrows! What part of this aren’t you getting? It’s not that difficult!”

Tommy picked up the tools from the fletching table. He took one look at the sticks, then picked up a fistful of feathers.

“Right—”

“Okay, that’s enough, I’m not going to let you keep massacring my feathers like this. What even is this?" He picked up a feather from the floor. It hung limp between the heel of his hoof, frayed and torn. "These chickens died for nothing!"

“What am I supposed to do while you do all the work if I can’t help?” Tommy was pouting, his face so full of vibracity and energy it looked as if he was choking.

That was it. Techno's face twitched.

“Maybe if you sit down and stay quiet for a minute, I can come up with an idea!”

Surprisingly, Tommy did. His face flushed red with embarrassment.

And Technoblade realized he had screamed at a scared, struggling sixteen year old child covered in scars.

> do you feel powerful now

> OOOOOOO

> You should kill him

> Betray Tommy!

> betray tommy

He dragged a hoof over his face. The gesture was easier with hands.

"Look. . . Tommy. You're clearly not good at fletching arrows. Why don't you go lay down in your racoon hole?"

Technoblade’s plan had been, surprisingly, one of altruism. He wanted to teach Tommy how to make arrows so he could value the ammunition. He had a tendency to complain about. . . well, everything, but specifically running out of supplies. Techno hoped this would teach him how valuable they were. Not in resources, but as assets. In the heat of battle, every shot mattered.

After Tommy had made a quiverful of arrows, Technoblade planned on taking him out to his practice range. Inexperienced hands nocking an arrow were shaking and quick to flinch. Archery hurt. It was a difficult skill to master; the art of shooting an arrow required the fletching to run through the archer’s fingers. If their hands were smooth and uncalloused, the projectile would cut through their fingers like a blade in water. His hands (and hooves) were roughed up to the consistency of leather from arduous repetition. Tommy hadn’t had that experience.

Technoblade had made leather gloves for that exact reason.

And now that plan was ruined.

While his retirement home was the definition of picturesque, Tommy had come to ruin that as well. The foundation had made Techno's house uneven. The ground was unstable and it had started to sag north.

Tommy had literally dug up and unsettled his life.

Somewhere in there was a metaphor and a moment for some much-needed introspection. Technoblade ignored it.

Snow had sloped onto the roof heavy, the sound of monsters outside crunching feet of the stuff. The cold had choked out the will of any invaders at the cost of isolating them together. The house’s floor was insulated with stone, then covered with wood. The chimney doubled as a source of light, warmth, and a way to heat the floor. Technoblade had learned how to make heated floors from Chat. The quality of life improvement was immense.

Tommy hadn’t understood how, but he did enjoy it. Too often he had slept in his boots, curled up into a jacket or blanket or whatever he could find. But this? This was a luxury that could lull him into a rest like no other.

And Tommy needed a good sleep after Logsteadshire.

Still, his spirit reignited despite his body's protests. He stretched his arms upward in attempts to hide his yawn.

He stomped his foot.

"I'm not tired! We need supplies, we need—We need to get back the discs."

That was going to be a hard habit to kick. The kid needed a break; his eyes were ringed in black. He sat hunched over with awful posture, looking pitiful. Technoblade held back the urge to call him a racoon again.

Despite the warmth, Tommy was shivering.

Exhaustion. Techno knew it all too well.

The Piglin man took off his cape, folding it over his arm. It helped increase his bulk, his size when intimidation was necessary. When he was home its purpose became a blatant unnecessity. Still, he often found himself falling asleep in it, curled up in a tiny pile against the wall where no one could hurt him.

It was important.

And he tossed it to Tommy.

"We'll get back the discs after you go to sleep. If you fall asleep in the snow you'll freeze to death and die."

Then he stoked the fire with an iron pole, minding Edward's head. He couldn't be bothered to kill the creature just yet. The flames roared up, consuming the cold air in the room and up the chimney.

Tommy held the crimson cloak in his arms. He stared for a second, then twisted to wrap it around himself. It was enormous, swamping his thin figure in fabric and comfort unknown for weeks in exile. He pushed himself further into the corner with the fletching table, close to his hiding box.

"The 'and die' is kind of redundant, 'innit?" Tommy muttered, head poking up from the fluff of the cloak’s collar.

Technoblade sighed.

They were going to keep talking in circles. He would make a general statement, Tommy would overload him with non sequiturs and nonsense sentences until Technoblade tuned him out with Chat. However, he couldn’t ignore Tommy here. If he did, the boy would never go to sleep, and the cold of the night didn’t need a cold shoulder on top of it. A cranky Tommy and an annoyed Technoblade was a recipe for disaster, overthrowing governments or otherwise.

There was only one way he knew how to talk in times like this:

“Let me tell you a story.”

It was an offer more intimate than Tommy knew.

Naturally, he rejected it.

“What if I don’t want to hear a story?” Said teenager shifted in his cozy corner.

“Too bad.” He pushed the crown up from where it was slipping off his head. If he was going to coax the world's most energetic child to sleep, he needed to let down his guard.

“Why do you even wear that thing?”

“What, the crown? It’s not like I use it in combat or anything, it's just for fun. Fun is banned? You're banning fun now?" He laughed. "Good luck getting anyone on your side."

“I don’t have a side. Or rather, my side is your side? Now you’ve gone and got my head all confused.” Tommy’s voice had grown softer.

Techno couldn’t have that.

“There’s no ‘our side’. We are not a team.”

Tommy huffed. “Until we get the discs back.”

“Will you let go of the discs for a minute? They’re not going anywhere.”

“Could go into a fire.”

Techno huffed heavier. Puffs of true flame curled out from his snout. Not the metaphorical risk clouding Tommy’s mind. He was already headed towards the pitfall he wanted to avoid. It was time to change the subject.

“Considering your limited knowledge of Greek classics, you wouldn’t happen to know Homer?”

“Who what now?”

A solid ‘no’ would have sufficed, Techno thought.

“You probably haven’t heard of Odysseus, then.”

“With a name like that, I reckon I should of. Wait, this is one of your myths again, isn’t it?” Tommy kicked himself up, back against the wall to look at Technoblade as they spoke.

“I like a certain section of stories. Is that so wrong?”

“Is this story about you?”

The Blade tutted. “No, no, no. I don’t have any family. Orphans killed my parents. Family is useless, it slows you down unless you’re exacting revenge. In that case, family is excellent. Nothing better than dead family.”

"That doesn't make any sen—"

"Keep interrupting and I'll make you sleep in Carl's stable."

Tommy pouted. His hair stuck up in every which way, active as he was.

“Odysseus was a king of his own island. He lived in peace with his family on Ithaca, and he was known as a wise man.” It had been a while since Technoblade had told a story like this. His rhythm was lacking. “He was the favorite of Athena, the goddess of battle and wisdom.”

“Gods aren’t real.”

“You’re looking at one.”

Silence. “Yeah, right.”

"Moving on.” He wasn’t willing to indulge Tommy in that story when he was preoccupied with telling another. “While Odysseus was a king, he wasn’t the chief king. At that point Greece was broken up into various city states, other little countries that refused to be conquered. While it was all Greece, there was a difference between a Spartan and an Athenian. Too many fights for power and the geopolitical landscape had torn them apart. Odysseus had his friends, though it would be more accurate to call them his allies, his country with whom he had sworn an oath to fight alongside. Each of those kings would be headed out their own separate way.” That felt right to Technoblade. “They were brothers in arms, finally called to war for the sake of their nation. But Odysseus ended up alone.”

“Why?”

“The people around him broke the rules. They went up against the sun god, and so they were punished.”

“What’d they do?”

“Oh, uh. Ate his cows.”

Tommy gasped.

“No!”

“Okay, so you get it. The Pet Skirmishes but on a much, much bigger scale.”

“Where’s Sapnap?”

“Tommy, it’s a myth, it’s not about your friends. They’re gods.”

“Dunno why you’d tell a story about a bunch of boring, stuffy gods. Hey, why’re you such a bad storyteller?”

That was it. "I'm trying to monologue here! Chat, Chat see how impossible this is?"

“Tell chat that you’re a pussy! And I’m the coolest! TommyInnit is the coolest, got it?” Tommy’s eyes, which had held the murmurs of sleep, were now alive and vicious.

Undoing all of Technoblade’s work. And proving he didn’t understand Chat.

“Bruh.”

“I am!”

“For the third time now, if you will let me talk, I’m trying to tell the story.”

“Right, right, sorry.”

“Odysseus was the only one who knew the warning signs. He had encountered the gods before, and he would rather starve to death than offend them. Because sometimes, Tommy, not offending people is a good thing, and making needless enemies makes the situation ten times worse.”

Tommy bit his lip.

Techno continued.

“But no one ever listens to Odysseus. That’s one of the ironies of the story, Tommy. Often being right lets the hero escape with his life. Doesn’t mean he can save anyone else. Most of the time he doesn’t even save himself.”

“What?”

“I mean, I tried telling you. Heroes are doomed the moment they call themselves heroes. Odysseus never did, he was smart. It was the people that came later and told the story that did that. A hero is born through the crossing of the stars, something divine. Special. For all of his worth, the burden of expectation is put on his shoulders and then he battles with his pride. The Greeks had a word: hubris. It’s the hubris that strikes the killing blow. It’s never the beast or the gods themselves, it’s someone the hero has wronged. Odysseus wronged a monster, a cyclops, but even that was too far.”

Tommy was quiet. All of his focus was pooled into Technoblade.

“Odysseus played the part of warrior. Now it was time for him to be a survivor. See, it didn’t matter what the gods put him through, the trials or the tribulations or the meaningless delays. He had a mental image of what his home was. Ithaca. It had stopped being a real place. Instead it was an idea. A concept.”

“Oh.”

“And even when he was gone, trapped by witches and beasts, he kept that vision of home in his head. Because he was going to get there no matter what. It was all he had left of the world he knew. Even when he was offered another life, another world in what might have been a better place, he turned it down. Because it wasn’t what he wanted. He learned what being a hero meant, and now what he wanted was the opposite: to go home. To be normal. But the thing is, life doesn’t wait around for us to come back.”

Tommy glanced down to his neck. The lodestone compass shimmered in the dim light. His Tubbo.

“The world doesn’t care what your aspirations are, your nation, or your ideas. It doesn’t even care about your friends. The world doesn’t care if what you want does not want you. It doesn’t care, period. It’s cold. Survival is survival.”

"I want to be a hero when I grow up!"

"Oh, you do?" The man chuckled, furloughing his spade to sit down on the steps beside him.

"What's the point of having a name like Technoblade if you're not a hero?" He shut the book in his lap, face beaming.

The young man's mouth opened before a scream rang out from inside the house, followed by shouting and yelling.

The blond haired man sighed. He smiled back, then rolled his eyes. The man reached out and tousled his hair.

Techno laughed as the man’s voice echoed:

"How are ÿ̸̻͓́̑͐́͗̽͝͠ö̶̝͖̱̫̈́̑́͌͒̋ǜ̴͍͖̝̑̋ ̴̢̛̛̮̼̲͖̠̻̼̝̥̗̻̩̲̼̂̽͌̾̇͂̈́̾͐̅͘̚t̷̤͔̥̤̫̫̟̀̐̈́̿͐ḧ̴̡̘̦͔̠͎̰̬̼̜̺̮͎͚͛̈́ͅȩ̵̦̦̠̬̼͔̰̩̯̻̍̈́͐̌̓͆̀̉̑͗ ̸̪̤̣̏͒̚͜ͅm̸̗͇̘̮̥̮̪̤̯̤̞͉͗̾́͜ą̸̡̖̭̣̭͉͎̥̫̝̑̿̅̄̓͐̽̊̂͂̆͠͝ͅţ̶̮͚̰̂̀̈́̐͆͑̍͆͗͝͠ü̶̢̻͔̼͓̹͖̺̯͙̅̂̔̊̐̅ͅr̴͔̐̾͛ẽ̴̱̰̣̀̓̉̀̆̓̈̄ ̸̛̱͇̺̂̿͑̏̍̋͊͊͗̋̇̆͝o̴̬̙͚͇̳͎͆̇̌̐̿͂̓̄͛͝ͅn̵̨̈́̈́̂̋̐ͅe̷̛̟̱͖͙͙̩͆̊̆̓̂͒̈̍?̸͖̟̺͇̬̗̰̭̺͇͆͐̀͊́̄̍̀̅́͜

> home.

> Tommy's still looking at you, you haven't spoken in a minute

> do you feel sick?? whats going on i just got here

“Blade?” And there was Tommy, with a drop of concern in his voice.

Technoblade shook his head. Late joiners. The memory crumbled to dust.

He continued. “The Isle of Ogygia. That was where Odysseus’s survival took him. He stayed there, in the lull of the witch Circe, who wanted him for herself—”

“That’s sexist.”

“W-What?”

“The witch!”

“You think the witch is sexist?”

“No no no, the hero! He gets called upon—lured—by this woman just because he’s what, the hero?”

He could not believe this. “Tommy. I didn’t write it.”

“I’m just saying!”

“The Isle of Ogygia. Or Atlantis, some people think it could be Atlantis, it honestly depends on what version you’re reading but that’s not important. Odysseus spent countless years there, safe but soulless. His heart was gone from his body, kept at bay with thoughts of home. Of family, of kinship. He was out of his body and mind for seven years. He was at the gods’ mercy, but fortune smiled upon him and he escaped.”

Techno took a moment to return his attention to his listener.

Tommy was transfixed, eyes wide.

For some reason, that made him smile.

“He made his way to one of his allied kingdoms. The gods, though, had shifted his appearance. This was to know how he still stood in their eyes. When so much time passes, relationships and bonds fade. Only his dog recognized him. The home he’d wanted for so long was plundered, practically destroyed. His wife—”

“He had a wife? That’s unrealistic.”

Technoblade repeated, annoyed: “His wife and his son didn’t recognize him. Only the dog.”

Tommy continued to ignore his point.

“Well dogs are good like that. I reckon dogs are better than most people."

Moving for the first time since the beginning of the story, he took a step towards the corner.

“Tommy, I’m trying to tell you that even though he won—He got everything he wanted, he got to go home—He didn’t win. His home was different. And he wasn’t the same man.”

“That’s—That’s sad.”

Tommy stood up and Technoblade crossed his arms.

“It’s not a happy story.”

"Then why are you telling it?"

“Forget about it.” If Tommy didn't understand, he wasn't going to waste any more time explaining.

Tommy moved, shifting the cloak on his shoulders crooked. He opened the spruce doors, a strange expression on his face. Like a mixture of horror, fear, and anger. Technoblade recognized the anger first. Tommy looked back, stepped into the snow, then shut the door.

Techno thought, what? He’s going to throw a tantrum because a story doesn’t go how he wanted—

A white substance flitted down through the air like snow. Small, unburnt hands grasped upwards to try and catch it. They had only seen snow, never this new, fluffy, off-white plume.

The boy coughed up ash.

“Hello? D̸̫̦̳̰͐̉ã̸̲̦̞̺͆d̶̗̒̐̕̕?”

Technoblade grabbed the edge of the box, stumbling.

The memory—No, vision—was incompatible with reality. How would he have gotten to the Nether as a child? And Techno never had a father, never depended on anyone, never needed—

Before he could even begin to understand the implications, he was thrown back in.

He was lost.

He was alone.

And he couldn’t have known that enough inhaled ash will scar your lungs, burn your skin, and bury you beneath a mountain of suffocating fire the moment you stop moving. He couldn’t have known that the Nether contains biomes of this stuff.

Ash has suffocated him. It burns, searing his skin and cooking him alive. It’s like the fall of Pompeii. He read a book on Pompeii once. Perhaps in some distant time an archaeologist will discover the hollow shell of his remains and theorize what happened here, or a traveler, a survivalist happening along the same paths years later when he’s just a mound.

He read another book, once. About a volcano. It’s similar to that pyroclastic flow, a mix of awful molten core and heat. There’s no way to swim in lava, not truly. It doesn’t stop a thirteen year old boy from scraping for the surface in a pit.

He was going to die here.

It’s his coat that saves him. Handcrafted and made with love. The bottom half tears, and he loses a precious gift but gets to keep his life.

Everything is burning. Is he screaming? His clothes are torn and he’s burning, he’s burning—

As quickly as it had come, it was gone.

Technoblade was instantly brought to the sensation of cracklings coals. He jumped at the sound, then looked down at his hands.

Hooves, right. Hooves.

This was too much to process.

Techno looked up.

He watched Tommy waddle to the front of the house in front of Carl’s stable, trudging through the snow the most inefficient way Technoblade could imagine. He was wiping his face.

For some reason, he thought it was something his good friend Philza would have a laugh at.

> PHILZA!!!

> Philza Minecraft?

> Philza would love it here

> The child is annoying, I hope he freezes to death

> I miss Philza

> Countdown to Philza visiting!

“Chat, you’re screaming into my ear right now.” He needed clarity, not a thousand voices in unison chanting for a friend.

Even from here, he could see that tears were pooling in Tommy’s eyes.

Technoblade didn’t bother with a coat. He ignored the sounds of the fire and how the heat made him feel uneasy, instead opting to climb down the ladder and go out the front door. Tommy was muttering to himself, a hand petting Carl.

“‘s not a happy story—What’s the point of telling a story if it’s not happy? I reckon he’s just one big downer. Downing all the time.”

It was then Techno decided to speak.

“I’d say talking to yourself is a bad habit but since I can’t really do that without coming off like a hypocrite, I’ll tell you that being quieter usually means people can’t overhear sensitive, secret information.”

Tommy didn’t jump, but his shoulders hitched.

“I don’t care about secrets.” Tommy crossed his arms.

“Everything’s a secret when you can’t understand basic information people are telling you.”

“You don’t tell me anything!”

“I’m trying to tell you why people tell sad stories.”

“If I were his family, I would have recognized him.”

“No you wouldn’t have! That is literally the point of the story. You’re like five now, you think you’d recognize someone you saw as a baby?”

It happens a third time and Technoblade’s world spins.

> Recognize recognize recognize

> Is he finally remembering????

> idk, not yet?

> Ugh, someone get me when something interesting happens

> your dead, whats stopping you from watching all the time?

> It’s actually ‘you’re’

> where

> where?

> WHERE DID I ASK—

There is a house on a hill in the forest. It looks familiar, with a basement, a middle floor, and a top floor with stairs leading up from the outside.

There is a house beneath a hill in a fierce tundra.

There was a house on a hill in a forest. It was a home too, once.

Both can theoretically exist at the same time. The house on a hill in the forest is perfectly ingrained in his memory, enough for him to replicate it bit by bit.

There is a boy with a beanie, taller than him. He wears a scowl.

There is a boy smaller than him with a bandage on his cheek.

Sunlight flows through the curtains like honey, oozing in warm delight. There is something resting on the bridge of his nose, and his fingers fly to adjust it.

He laughs.

The tiny freckled boy smiles and it shows his tooth gap.

A deep, tenor voice calls from downstairs and they rush to where storage is, the chests the dining room.

Their father is tired. There are bags under his blue eyes, but his smile lights up the room like the honey-light and like his brothers’ faces. He takes off his hat to sit at the table, a cape swishing behind him.

They’re singing at the table. Four humans with perfect harmony. They sing together all the time, how could he forget?

The candles on the cake are flickering, and it’s a world away from the fires of the Nether.

“Happy birthday T̶̡͆̋́͝—”

Nothing else but static noise and Chat going wild.

“I’m sixteen! I am an adult man!” Tommy’s fists are balled as he stands, beating against his chest to each word and anger burns in his eyes until he sees his hero’s face. “Technoblade?”

His heart pounded.

The boy that Technoblade has been seeing through the eyes of is not an adult. Now he is a teenager. He is taller, the clothes more unfitting than before. There are stitches to fix the jacket, now forced to be a half-coat that tucks into his shirt.

He looks like the mockery of a man.

Actually, he doesn’t look like a man at all.

Technoblade remembered this part.

The rest had to be a daydream, the machinations of a tired mind. Separating his identity from his mask is impossible.

Literally.

He has forgotten what snow feels like. He has forgotten snow. There are many things Technoblade has forgotten, but the name of snow sticks. Snow. It sounds like a dream, like the deranged ramblings of a piglin who lost his mind, and like a fairy tale all at once.

He liked fairy tales, once.

Now they’re just unrealistic.

The piglin group he is trailing turn to look at him. He’s been following behind them, scavenging whatever food they decide to discard and bartering whatever he can get his hands on. Their eyes are vacant, white. His eyes are present, despite his appearance. Alert. He has to be, it’s one mistake and death.

The Nether is not forgiving.

He notices when their behavior shifts.

The piglins decide to attack.

Technoblade sighs.

He doesn’t want to attack this one. There have been too many packs, too many attempts at communication, too many tries at a family.

Technoblade has no tools. He’s forced to work with his fists and some metal the pigs scrapped, which with enough tempering he’s made into knuckles. Netherite knuckles, but that knowledge will evade him until years in the future.

He busts one of the pigs’ heads open, then shoves another’s head into the netherrack wall. Blood spills on his boots. A tusk is embedded in his hand; he puts pressure on the wound then yanks it out, stabbing it into the head of the third. The fourth pushes into his back, and Techno slams his head back into its skull until it fractures.

The fifth runs off.

And all at once, an uproar, a chant from a place and group he cannot see or hear.

It sings that Technoblade never dies.

All at once Chat was unanimous:

> Technoblade never dies.

> TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES

> technoblade never dies

> blood for the blood god!!!

> Techno never dies

> Technoblade never dies!

He nodded in agreement.

“Technoblade.”

Tommy laughed.

Techno realized he had convinced the child he was fine.

“Is that how you get the girls, Blade?”

“I’m not interested.” The art of combat and potato farming interested him more than girls. Or anyone, for that matter.

“Are you crying?”

“No.” Tommy sniffed.

“Here, let go of Carl.” Technoblade pulled Tommy away.

“But I wasn’t—”

“I killed everyone that ever touched that horse.”

“Okay, fine.” Tommy doesn’t move.

Techoblade can’t sigh because he’s already sighed too much and anything that exacerbates the situation will give him a headache. Instead, he picks Tommy up and lifts him over his shoulder. He chooses to say nothing in response as Techno headed inside and down, down, until they were both in Tommy’s little nest of shiny things and stolen goods.

Tommy struggled to stay on the bridge of consciousness. Technoblade takes his hand and walks him all the way there, staying down in the pitiful hole until Tommy has tired himself out from the sound of his own voice.

It was hours before he risked stepping away from the bed.

Snow fluttered down. It was cold and wet, but it was snow; a miracle all the same.

Technoblade stretched out a hoof. It was not the hand of a small child that was trapped in the Nether. It was a Piglin beast who had believed he'd never feel the cold again.

Technoblade glanced out the shutters. Tommy was inside, falling asleep. The silence of the home told him as much.

He pulled his hand back inside.

The fire of the top floor crackled. Techno dipped his head forward. His hands clasped around an invisible buckle, hidden underneath his hair.

As easy and simple as changing clothes, Technoblade the human stood in his retirement home. His height was the same, scars still present, but now a long unkempt braid of hair trailed down his back. It was ill-maintained, tangled and disgusting. A liability.

Without thinking twice, Technoblade took his sword and slashed the braid off.

“You don’t know when to quit, do you?!” Dream yells. It feels like the ground is shaking beneath them.

Techno stands firm. He’s towering above him, sword at his side.

“Nope. I’ve been told it’s one of my best qualities.” His voice is monotonous as always.

The green fiend stood hunched over his stomach, shoulders rising and falling to the tune of his ragged breaths. He knew that they didn’t need to breathe. It was all theatrics, even in the middle of a fight. Still, Dream’s voice was frantic, jittery, shaking, and loud; something Chat assured him they altogether had never seen in their combined existences.

Technoblade felt smug.

Technoblade made the grave mistake of hubris.

In a flash, the god is behind him. The god that can see the straps of his mask, the god that slices it off with a well-placed swordstrike and grabs him by his braid.

“Y’know, I really didn’t want to kill you. I’ve heard about you, a little bit. I just didn’t care.” He whispers into Techno’s ear as the pain tears into his scalp.

It only took a half-second for him to find a solution.

Dream was guarding from the left, expecting another hit to his mask.

Technoblade swiped at the right.

In a flash, he’s cut off his braid of pink hair and freed himself from the clutches of his enemy.

He smirks, and pulls out his axe. He doesn’t need the mask to fight, it’s already a part of him.

“C’mere, Dream.”

That one. That memory is real and he has all the proof he needs of that. He turned over his hand and pushed up the brass knuckles to see the gashes along his finger from where he held the grip. He sets the hand-to-hand weapon on the crafting table as he massages his hands.

Soaking his fingers in instant healing should alleviate the pain. Even for a moment.

Dream hit hard. The wounds never left.

But Technoblade hit harder.

A burned hand reached out to the snowfall.

The snow didn't burn back.

"He's not me, Chat. We're keeping it that way."

If there was one thing Technoblade was good at achieving, it was his goals.

#dream smp #dream smp fic #smpfic #sleepy bois fanfic #dsmp fic #Technoblade #tommyinnit #philza #wilbur soot #sbi #sbi fic

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listen I have so many questions about Stanford Sam, like this kid who was raised in the wild, barely aware of acceptable social conduct arrives with his 2 ectoplasm stained t-shirts at his dorm and like ????? is he very aware of it at first? or does he think he's hiding it well? and like moving in with Jessica?????? he doesn't know how to water plants and that you have to pay electricity bills ??? Like obviously he's not stupid, we know that!! But there are certain things about ordinary everyday life that are just impossible to pick up when you're raised like that. And this is just surface-level stuff, like I feel overwhelmed just thinking about how many tiny things I do in a day, just normal life stuff that I've always done, that Sam would be like ???? so weirded out by, or maybe creepily fascinated ??? Would he try and copy everyone around him maybe??? and then all the odd things that he'd probably do !!! like just basic marine survival nonsense he's dad probably taught him applied in mundane life situations that would make him stand out and he wouldn't even notice !!! And he thinks he's doing fine, people seem to accept him, but then suddenly someone mentions like... TRL or something and he's like ??? and then Dean picks him up and it all falls to pieces, because it's so EASY and ingrained and he doesn't have to pretend and it puts it into perspective how not okay he was doing at Stanford even when it felt like he was ?? god I'm just rambling, like I barely even have headcanons, I'm just so overwhelmed by all the possibilities of how this would play out !!!!

Holy crap, first I wanna apologize if this has been sitting here awhile. The Ask notification location in settings instead of notifications on the app is so weird and I get them so rarely I don’t think to check. (and the website shows that I have 4 but this one is the only one it’ll show? How does tumblr work? Oh yeah, it doesn’t lol.)

Anyway, I have so many thoughts on this! But they’re not necessarily cohesive?! Like first we all know Sam is super smart. He’s curious. He’s inquisitive. But he’s also sheltered in weird ways. There are things he’s known about the world that most people would never know about, let alone kids his age at any given time; yet the existence of those things--and the understanding that therefore potentially anything could be real--also lends itself to keeping him childlike--he had an “imaginary friend” at age nine and believed in the Easter bunny through age eleven, which is much later than the average probably???

By middle school, he definitely would’ve been feeling the strains of his otherness around his classmates, even if they weren’t constantly moving around, but of course the nomadic lifestyle just makes it even harder.

I think Sam is a very observant person, though. He figured out something was up with their dad and The Truth at age 8! So people watching is Sam’s saving grace for getting along in the mundane world. He definitely learns to mask his otherness by mimicking mundane people.

And I get sidetracked here because then I start thinking about exactly how their childhood went. We know John used Pastor Jim and Bobby as childcare/parenting support to some degree. I don’t think we really know anything about Caleb, maybe I’m forgetting something, but my headcanon is that Caleb functioned as a “fun younger uncle” type to Sam and Dean: cool, responsible in a pinch, but mostly not given childcare responsibilities because of his wilding tendencies. (they learn swears accidentally from Bobby and John, but Caleb TEACHES them.) Sam and Dean didn’t even know about Missouri until s1, so she’s off the caretaker list. They had that babysitter they met up with in uhh... Swap Meat! But largely we assume that Dean had a lot of the caretaking responsibilities; maybe with temporary babysitters in other places the same as Swap Meat.

And lbh you just can’t expect well-rounded, informed child-rearing from a kid only four years older. There’s a reason I associate a lot of weechester flashbacks with Sammy watching TV like in Something Wicked, because literally little siblings are A LOT and sometimes you just want them to sit still and quiet and leave you alone for a bit omg.(wait, give me a minute, I’m imagining little 6 year old Dean on the phone with Bobby because John ran out for food supplies and isn’t back yet and Sammy is still asleep but Dean’s creeped out in the longterm room they’re staying in because he KNOWS about the supernatural already. but then bobby gets on John’s case about it--and instead of never leaving Dean alone with baby Sam again, Dean learns from John’s belt not to call anyone when he’s left alone unless it’s an ACTUAL EMERGENCY. Or maybe, because marine, John doesn’t use his belt; maybe he uses PT instead and every time Dean thinks about calling Bobby for that reason again, his abs ache from the memory of punishment situps, or his arms get suddenly shaky thinking about doing pushups til he just couldn’t anymore.)

I haven’t read all of John’s Journal, and I know it’s not actually canon, but IIRC the bits that I’ve read from the wiki show John and the boys staying with a family friend in Lawrence for a few weeks, MAYBE a few months before John visits Missouri and everything STARTS. I think if he hadn’t picked up and left with them then, the family friends would’ve been contacting CPS because they’re starting to think John’s grief is making him unhinged. (I really want to read the journal tbh--there are bits I’ve seen that make me fantasize even more about boyking!sam storylines... but I’m getting even more off track.)

So we’ve got this weird/interesting dichotomy of kids that are groomed with these hyperspecialiizations, too weird to really fit in with other kids but sheltered from the actual hunter life also--like the fact that there ARE other hunters, like as a THING, not just their dad’s rando friends that, as kids, they may just assume know about the supernatural because their dad told them! (jfc they’re SO PRIMED to be each other’s entire world omg I’m gonna die)

So like, by being quiet and observant (an imaginative kid, by nature and by nurture as John starts to take Dean out more and leave Sam alone with his own thoughts), Sam would pick up a lot of things. But they’re never anywhere long enough for him to fully grasp everything and he would definitely suffer a bit from the Dunning-Kruger effect--not having enough knowledge about a thing, but having just enough that you don’t realize you don’t.

Let’s say Sam observes and picks up some things about normal residential life by being around a few mundane babysitters. The nature of John’s “work” would mean that, even if they were in a more in-home-daycare-like situation, they’d be likely to be the “after hours” kinds of kids that are still there when everyone else is picked up and the babysitter would normally be doing their normal life stuff: changing clothes, cleaning up from the daycare kids, making dinner, etc (sam and dean would definitely help, either out of kindness or duty or because it’s agreed that if they help out John will get a discount on their care costs--don’t mind me, just projecting my childhood onto the winchesters hahh. I’m NOT going to go off on a tangent about Dean already having so much experience caring for babies cuz of Sam. He definitely doesn’t have all the under-4s following him around begging for attention while he burps one of the three babies their babysitter cares for after a bottle. it DEFINITELY didn’t make Sam (age 4, 5, 6 maybe) jealous enough to repress the memory so that over a decade later he would claim that Dean doesn’t even LIKE kids.)

Uhh... what was I talking about? Oh yeah, Sam. Observing normal life. Anyway so maybe after things settle for the day, sometimes a babysitter will sit at the dining table with the weekly bills and their checkbook and do the bills. And Sam kind of loves things like this: it feels like something important; it feels like playing school before he was old enough to go (quick aside here: John totally enrolled Sam in school early, both because that’s the only way his age works with canon timeline and because it would make life easier if Sam was in school just like Dean--more cost-and-time efficient.) And maybe Sam goes and sits at the table and just. Watches.

And then he asks questions. When he’s curious, he doesn’t keep his questions to himself as a child (unless the subject is expressly forbidden: see Dean’s reaction when Sam brings up Mary). But his age would inevitably limit the scope and understanding of those questions. Adults are generally disinclined to fully explain the adult world to children, especially when it comes to finances, and in the 80s and early 90s?? With most of the adults of that time that I knew, those kinds of questions were considered rude and nosey. He might understand that adults have to pay bills; he may even understand something about utilities; but he wouldn’t necessarily understand all the requirements and frequency.

Though their nomadic lifestyle wasn’t stable by any “normal” definition, one thing to be said about mostly living out of motels is that your power is never cut off, or your water, or your heat. There’s always television, usually with cable. And the only form of payment you see going on is dad handing over cash or plastic at the front desk--one and done. My headcanon usually disallows the idea that they would’ve squatted in empty houses when Sam and Dean were kids (John makes plenty of bad decisions but I just don’t see him staying in a place without power or water with CHILDREN. Teenagers? SURE.) They would learn how to clean house and make proper beds even when it wasn’t always necessary with housekeeping available--both because of John’s military parenting style and because John would be most likely to opt out of daily housekeeping to lower the risk of having people ask questions.

So yeah, there are so many little intricacies of the mundane world that Sam wouldn’t be conditioned to even think about. Even the realization that he doesn’t know enough about regular life, as he grows up and longs more and more for that very thing because he’s never had more than a glimpse of it, wouldn’t necessarily be enough.

Would his natural curiosity lead him to ask those questions? He can’t ask John because he already asked Dean and got a dismissive answer because ‘what does any of that matter, Sam? we’ll never have to worry about that shit.’ and if Dean seems borderline offended by the sheer audacity of the questions in the first place, he knows John will be worse.

In the 90s, life skills were still kind of a thing in most U.S. schools. But in a really inconsistent way. Sometimes it was in health class curriculum; sometimes your math class would actually do a short focus on balancing a checkbook and banking if there was a chapter, but a lot of times those parts get skipped. You never use the whole textbook. Sometimes life skills was only in Home Ec, but H.E. was completely elective in my area when I was in middle school (the same exact years Sam would’ve been in middle school) and I’m assuming the same for most of the U.S. Sam may have taken it, or he may have taken something else instead (wood shop or computer class were the alternatives in my area). Maybe the nature of school hopping meant that he HAD to enroll in Home Ec, because resources for the other electives were finite, but somehow always managed to miss the bills and budgeting portion. Maybe he couldn’t even take Home Ec due to class size or resources and they just put him in a study hall for that period. (Maybe they put him in the computer class, where he mostly does book work until he gets a turn on the PC he has to share with his classmate.)

As an observant person, Sam totally would’ve known about TRL, I think. There’s no way at least one group of kids in the halls or lunchroom wasn’t talking about it every day in high school, especially with the advent of Britney Spears and Eminem and Jesse freakin Camp. Maybe he goes to someone’s house to try to hang out or to study and they turn it on and Sam watches raptly because it’s such a strange phenomenon and he hardly ever gets to hear new music, much less watch the videos. But he can’t actually get into it because the fangirls are annoying and his analytical mind won’t let him suspend his disbelief about how the voting works. (Maybe he tries giving it another shot in their motel room sometimes, but Dean vetoes that bubblegum pop shit IMMEDIATELY--no Sam, look, that shit isn’t REAL music; most of them don’t even play instruments. And it’s really not fair because Dean TOTALLY watched MTV’s The Grind in the early 90s for his fix of suggestively gyrating bodies before he figured out how to access porn without getting caught.)

Sam and Dean actually make a LOT of pop culture references, which always fascinates me. I imagine they did a lot of TV watching and VCR/movie renting in the times they weren’t working on a case with/for their dad (projecting again; my dad’s house was a very boring place on his weekends). The nature of Dean’s idolization of John and disinclination to let Sam have his own separate likes means they have a mix of age-appropriate pop culture knowledge and a lot of Boomer-era TV and movie knowledge--Dean more than Sam, maybe when it comes to things like cowboy movies and TV lol.

Anyway, as the realization that he doesn’t really know how anything works crept in, maybe Sam would try to lowkey create situations where he could ask his friends/his friends’ parents those normal life kind of questions. But maybe after his first few tries, he’s become so uncomfortably aware of how weird he is to even need to ask that he stops asking. Maybe he starts to tap into his specialized skills and starts snooping/creeping around their houses to try to glean knowledge. Maybe he scours the library for books on ‘what you need to know for life’--I have the urge now to do a google search on actual titles of books on this subject that may have existed at the time, but I’ve already spent a lot of time on this without going into research spirals. lol Maybe he can’t find exactly the things that are pertinent--still doesn’t fully realize that, though--and in the meantime his cache of esoteric knowledge continues to build.

So he gets to Stanford and he mostly understands how the financing works; enough to get by with enrollment and stuff. He understands that he’ll need to get a job of some sort to make ends meet because he’s there to be normal and normal people don’t pay for everything with scammed credit cards and billiards money; he knows that much. But he doesn’t really know about wages, minimum wage, freaking payroll taxes, etc. (I feel like Dean would’ve had odd jobs as a teen, some legit some under the table, but that the nature of John (and Dean) wanting to keep Sam home and safe would’ve made the subject of Sam working through high school a banned topic. And anyway, much as I’m not a fan of the characterization in Drag Me Away (From You), what Dean said to Sam about the impossibility of getting into college with the way his academic career would look is accurate. So Sam would’ve probably spent most of his free time on academics so he could get the fuck out, rather than trying to get a job.

Maybe having to buy his textbooks would be a surprise? John probably always qualified for Sam and Dean to be on free lunch/free book programs in public school, not to mention the likelihood of the records being at least partially counterfeit. But at the same time, John was probably very hands off with their school enrollment crap once the boys were old enough to handle it themselves, so Sam would at least have an inkling.

Sam would be a weird mix of no-boundaries and too-secretive, and his first attempts at acting normal would be a bit too put-on. He’s got experience acting per 1x16 (oh, maybe he did drama instead of home ec somewhere lol), but acting on stage is so much different to acting in a more personal setting. On stage you have to exaggerate your movements to project all the way to the back. Early-Stanford Sam, I guess, is a bit like Soulless Sam. He knows there’s something off about him compared to the people around him, and he just does his best to pretend he’s the same as them without calling attention to his differences, which ends up coming off robotic. A little Stepford. A little uncanny valley. He learns to bite his tongue every time he’s about to let something normal only to his family roll off it; learns to be even more vague than he used to be, because now he’s around strangers ALL THE TIME.

At some point, Sam has a little-but-big breakdown about a payment he missed or the fact that he had to steal shampoo because he didn’t even have toiletries in his budget and couldn’t even afford a bottle of White Rain or Suave, so since he was stealing anyway he got the special brand he really likes and then feels too awful to even use it and doesn’t wash his hair for a week. Brady takes pity on the cute but hapless puppy-boy who is a physical and academic behemoth but has obviously been living off-grid on some kind of militia commune for the past forever--at first the rumor was that he was Amish on rumspringa but the amount of times Sam has busted out some supremely random survival knowledge in casual conversation changes that rumor quickly--and has no understanding of the world. And by the time he moves off-campus with Jess, Sam has this masking thing down pretty well; he can almost forget he’s not normal sometimes and Jess only knows about his previous helplessness in a cute, anecdotal kind of way.

And then Dean comes and gets him and Sam’s all “you and Dad still doing credit card scams?” and Dean’s like “well hunting doesn’t pay the bills.”

AND SAM’S LIKE, NEITHER DO YOU DEAN! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT BILLS ARE?! BECAUSE I DIDN’T AND IT WOULD’VE BEEN NICE TO KNOW!

#ask #@princessconsuelapark #stanford era #sam winchester #pre-stanford era #sam n dean #john winchester's a+ parenting #long post

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angelrichsoft20 · 4 years ago

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Final words

Polyester has a substantial effect on the environment. In regard to the sky-high environmental cost of the vogue, poor quality polyester is likely the biggest culprit. If you are in favor of maintaining an eco-friendly closet, we advise you not to buy polyester made clothes unless the fabric is produced from recycled polyester.

Try to purchase garments that are made from natural fibers, including organic cotton and hemp. But if you still prefer polyester, try to limit your purchase to recycled rainwear or sportswear garments though the microfibres will still pollute the oceans. If you want to throw away the old and torn polyester clothes, make sure you first get it recycled. Recycling of old polyester is becoming prevalent; however, you will have to do your homework to find out whether or not you have a recycling program active in your neighborhood. Stick to these practices, and you can surely contribute to lowering the effect of polyester on the environment.

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rocketbrain53 · 4 years ago

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The entire procedure typically lasts around 2 hours, depending upon the dimension of the tumor as well as prostate. The patient is offered a basic anaesthetic for the treatment as well as whilst asleep, a surgeon inserts a probe right into the anus. It acts in such a targeted way that the chosen tissue heats up to 80C without hurting the bordering cells. The results of HIFU use up to 3 months to establish, during which time your body will certainly be developing brand-new collagen and also elastin within your skin.

This suggests there's no scalpels or needles involved as well as no healing time needed. Lots of people notice a distinction immediately after the Ultrasound Facial, with the most effective results noticeable at around 3 months when your body has actually had time to produce even more collagen.

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SMAS is the same layer which is tightened during traditional face surgical treatment. HIFU entails permeating ultrasound power to promote collagen production in the deeper facial and also sub-dermal degrees to trigger an injury healing response of the tissues. As a result, it boosts collagen manufacturing and creates a tighten up looking skin. Specifically helpful for those not ready for surgical procedure or for clients aiming to extend the impacts of cosmetic surgery. Our team, including a specialist physician and four highly educated aestheticians, is completely qualified, with a wide range of experience within aesthetics and skin care. These consist of body shaping therapies, non-surgical renovations, anti-ageing therapies and also products. We use the current most-advanced innovations from 3D-Lipo with our Ultimate Pro devices at both our Chorley and also Clitheroe centers.

A recognizable enhancement in face contouring and also fine lines as well as creases will show up within 4 weeks while more enhancement in face skin firm as well as wrinkles will be supposedly seen up to 6 months. HIFU makes use of high strength ultrasound to lift and tighten up skin without any requirement for cuts. Ultrasound is a type of power that is substantially various than light such as IPL and Lasers or Electric (Radio-Frequency) power. HIFU secures the surface of the skin, whilst likewise permeating at much deeper midsts as well as higher temperatures (roughly 64 ° C) than Superhigh Frequency. For Non surgical facelift Herefordshire , treating past the Dermis as well as Foundation layers, where architectural weakening starts.

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Several patients will certainly see an excellent enhancement in skin. laxity and tightening up after only 1 treatment, nonetheless some individuals will require a more therapy 3 months later on. The maximum variety of therapies an individual can have is 3 and need to not be repeated for 2 years after this. Like any kind of medical treatment, there are possible dangers that are related to having a HIFU therapy however most are mild in nature, such as pinkness to the skin for a few hrs and also a little sensitivity. As component of your examination with us, you will be suggested on these in more information prior to you choose to wage any kind of therapy. As a signed up Nurse Prescriber, Adrian Baker's training, competence and also experience indicates that he has the ability to assist you with negative effects ought to you experience them. potential side effects include mild bruising or swelling of the skin, and is generally referred to as light to moderate. You must prepare your treatments around gatherings in situation you do experience any results that might influence your appearance, such as bruising.

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Generally, small soreness and/or swelling post-treatment is seen on the treated area as well as one could really feel some prickling. While the results will certainly not be as dramatic similar to medical facelifts, HIFU skin tightening is clinically verified to be safe, with natural as well as gradual effects. The technology is special in its ability to permeate the dermis and also the surface muscular aponeurotic system layer. No other modern technology can target these layers deep within the skin in a non-invasive procedure.

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But it might also be used for males who only require treatment to one little location of cancer cells in the prostate. It may additionally trigger fewer side effects, due to the fact that less of the healthy and balanced cells is harmed. Focal therapy using high-intensity concentrated ultrasound for localised prostate cancer cells. You're most likely to obtain negative effects if you have greater than one HIFU treatment or if you have actually had various other therapies for prostate cancer prior to HIFU. This is since your initial treatment might have currently damaged the location around your prostate. One of the huge benefits of the HIFU Facial is that it's a non-surgical treatment.

Our clinical quality 3D Body HIFU treatments is perfect for treating persistent pockets of harder fat, such as on the thighs, hips, belly as well as flanks in the fastest feasible therapy time. High Intensity Focused Ultrasound also known as '3D SkinMed' or 'Ultrasound Facelift' has actually turned into one of one of the most in-demand lifting treatments for face and also neck. Collagen restoration Facelift Bedfordshire is specifically appropriate for therapy of moderate to moderate skin-looseness around the jaw, neck (i.e. dual chin) as well as cheeks (i.e. jowels). It also offers a light training and tightenting result and also is likewise appropriate for eyebrows as well as forehead.

HIFU stands for "High Intensity Concentrated Ultrasound" additionally called 'Ultrasound Facelift' or 'Ultherapy' has become one of the most demanded raising therapies for face and also neck. Touch-up therapies could be done in 1 year intervals, depending in the degree of lifting as well as tightening called for.

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This is all done specifically as well as securely to use wonderful results. HIFU makes use of sound energy, so unlike radiotherapy, the procedure can be duplicated without damaging or damaging flawlessly healthy cells. Many thanks to MRI modern technology and target biopsy, we can recognize the area of cancer cells as well as healthy tissue to aid target the areas that require therapy. Real-time pictures are made use of throughout the procedure which enables the physician to supply the ultrasound power to the prime focus in the prostate gland.

HIFU is most commonly known for its usage in dealing with cancer cells tumors, although it was reported how efficient the ultrasound energy can be for tightening up the skin. The very first reported HIFU facelift treatment for visual use was in 2008. Throughout treatment, ultrasound energy is made use of to target the deepest layers of the skin and also create a thermal effect, stimulating the manufacturing of collagen as well as elastin for a natural-looking solution to sagging skin. A surgical facelift can cost you six times as much, not to mention a 2-4 week healing time and also risks of infection, blood loss, discomfort as well as scarring. That being said, HIFU isn't for everyone so it is important to examine all of the alternatives that are offered to you. We advise that you reserve a consultation at our center to make sure that we can advise the most effective skin tightening therapy for you.

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Types of Branded mats available for any use

Branded door mats

Our branded door mats or welcome mats are perfect entrance mats for reinforcing your brand image to customers or visitors, therefore, creating a great first impression. These personalised door mats are durable, and safety is ensured with our logo mats due to the non-slip rubber backing and bevelled edges they have. The strong nitrile rubber backing that our outdoor mats have ensures that mat stays in one place and protects the floor beneath. Being durable and stain resistant means these personalised outdoor mats are perfect for entrances, reception areas and commercial locations with a high volume of foot traffic. Guaranteed to last for 5 years or more and available with a selection of up to 25 colours, a heavy-duty logo mat will surely uplift your brand by the entrance point.

Yoga mats

Custom printed yoga mats have become the status quo for sports functions and meditation. Some prefer to name them travel yoga mats as they are light in weight and easy to carry wherever you go. Rubber yoga mats are mostly used for outdoor activities and come in different thicknesses which of course depends on what an individual deems as apt for them. These foldable yoga mats come in different colours as well and are customized to suit your preference.

Spaghetti mats

Pvc spaghetti mats, also known as vinyl loop, cushion fall mats or contract fall mats are meant for the outside portion of entrances as they are not affected by wet weather. These spaghetti mats can either be branded or just plain, which can be cut to preferred size or as a spaghetti mat roll. These resilient spaghetti floor mats are very efficient in scraping dirt off shoes. The vinyl loops of this mat are very resilient and extremely comfortable to walk on, even with bare feet. The textured cushioned surface actively helps prevent slips. Constructed in a random mesh pattern, the spaghetti matting loops allows dirt and water to pass through while the mat surface stays clean. These spaghetti mats comes with a high resistant pvc edging to give it a nice and industrial finish and that is the reason it qualifies to be called an industrial mat or commercial mat which can be placed on very high foot traffic entrances such as hospitals, supermarkets and schools.

Personalised mats

Personalised door mats have become the trend as one would prefer to be welcomed with their name or company logo on a mat. Many people are opting for personalised Christmas door mats as gifts or for their own use during the festive season, personalised dog door mats for those who are fond of pets, personalised coir mats which are great as dirt scrapers and moisture retention from footwear as well as personalised bar mats for bar counters. Personalised yoga mats and personalised prayer mats are penetrating the market with exceptional demand as many people prefer meditating on a yoga mat or prayer mat. These personalised floor mats are cost effective and customized to desired size and branding.

Commercial mats

We design and manufacture commercial entrance mats of various sizes and uses. Our commercial door mats or commercial walk off mats normally incorporate a logo and we make sure that international quality standards are met. To create an effective tool for promoting the brand most customers normally ask for commercial runner mats, that can cover a bigger area to make sure that the brand is visible on the day or during the period of the event. We also have commercial gym mats which are used for as a perfect finish in gyms as well as commercial bathroom or shower mats for the gym bathrooms. Apart from these commercial office mats, we have commercial non slip kitchen mats which are also termed commercial restaurant kitchen mats specifically designed for kitchens and restaurants to cover slippery surfaces where too much oil is used.

Custom mats

Usually people have different preferences, and most know what they want and what they are looking for, hence we produce customised welcomes mats specially designed to desired size and design. A custom door mat is generally situated at an entrance to a business or shop and therefore is often the first point of contact that the customer has with your business, so why not custom brand it to give a good and lasting first impression. Several realty companies are resorting to purchasing customised residential door mats to give to their clients as souvenirs and we custom make these logo mats exactly as they want it. With all that said, we also give you a stylish creative way to walk-off on as we do custom printed mats normally called jet printed mats where there is a mixture of words and pantone colours on your carpet mats. We also specialise in manufacturing custom rubber mats, normally called Digi scrap or rubber mats which are all rubber type of heavy-duty mats that are extremely durable and non-fibre mats.

Industrial mats

Industrial rubber mats are specifically designed for industrial entrances or where there is very high foot traffic daily, for example shopping malls. These industrial floor mats can be branded as well but most are bought plain because the daily traffic means the industrial entrance mat needs to be washed everyday which is a lot of work for most clients. Industrial runner mats are usually very thick as most are placed in recessed areas to allow smooth flow of sliding doors if there are any.

Anti-fatigue mats

Anti-fatigue mats are ideal for bars and kitchens. Some would prefer to call them anti-fatigue bar mats or anti-fatigue kitchen mats which reduce the risk of slipping on wet or greasy surfaces. Ergonomics now play a very important aspect of employees and companies are now required by Labour regulations to provide industrial anti fatigue mats and that has led to most saloons, and barbers to adopt these types of mats.

Gym floor mats

If you are looking for a floor covering to prevent floor damage, then gym mat flooring will do the trick. The increased need for safety and comfort has led to almost every gym company to install heavy duty gym mats all over the world. Heavy duty gym mat is necessary for two roles, that is to beautify the floor and as a cushioning aspect. The installation for gym rubber mat is normally very easy and can be DIYed and in very few instances need for adhesive glue as they self-lock. Gym mats are commonly for sale online and anywhere.

Interlocking mats

Interlocking mats is a generic term for interlocking rubber tiles, interlocking rubber foam mats and interlocking pvc tile mats. These types of interlocking tiles are made from an injection Moulding machine and has a unique interlocking design that can join tiles to make up any length depending on the area you require. Interlocking floor mats comes in standard colours but mainly in black because of the cheaper cost of production. We do not brand these interlocking rubber mats as they burn under any form of excessive heat.

Rubber door mats

Rubber door mats are usually used in many entrances because of their low attrition properties and are used for commercial entrance systems. Most rubber mats are premade and can be supplied by chain stores like Builders warehouse, Makro Stores and Mr Price shop. We are one of the few rubber mats companies that do custom made industrial rubber mats and tiles. We make our black rubber flooring from recycled material hence their cost effectiveness. Most rubber mats are used as commercial mats or heavy industrial mats.

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powerenergy9 · 6 years ago

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Mark Edwards Power Efficiency Guide Swindle

Welcome and also make it possible for me to introduce myself on a really individual degree. I'm Grace Cinotti. I am a founder of Edwardspowerbook. I have at present been encoding a script designed to explore the occasionally murky arena of Clickbank products ( What's Clickbank? ). At this time my current statistical gaze continues to be transformed in the direction of Power Efficiency Guide. A very essential cause of us to take power efficiency considerably more seriously certainly is the result it might have on our finances. By preserving power many individuals is definitely not just performing a wonderful deed to the setting and also our environment, having said that most individuals may also be making a wide variety for our own families and also financial situation. Waste materials of energy contributes to drastically considerably more great-costed charges; the key good clarification that must you and in addition your house associates shell out considerably more for resources that you in no way involve to take advantage of as substantially, when you as well as your family can devote significantly less and in addition guideline preserve planet earth? There're a good several techniques in that you as well as all your family members may help to save lots of across the monthly bills through power efficiency, that a great deal of folks will articulate considerably more connected to in your guide below.

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espanadiarywriter · 6 years ago

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I’ve been thinking about this blog post all year—I’ve started and stopped so many times. It’s really like three different posts, but I need to put this all in one blog post even though this is LONG.

Imagine walking into a dentist’s office in the US, having them look at your kid’s teeth and say “They look really great. You don’t need a cleaning.” And then when they look at your puzzled expression, the dentist says “I mean, if you want a cleaning, we can do one. But if it were my kid, I wouldn’t. There isn’t anything to clean.” True story. They have no incentive to sell you on things you do not need because going to the doctor is affordable.

I have been amazed at how easy the whole process is to go to the doctor for anything here. For example, I went for routine blood tests (cholesterol, blood sugar, etc.), the doctored ordered them in a 10-minute long appointment. A week later I had results, scheduled a follow-up to discuss and everything was handled efficiently without a single bit of money out of pocket. You do show a health insurance card when you go to a doctor, but no one needs any other money from you for a visit. One American who has lived here 30 years said “What’s a co-pay?�� when we mentioned it in conversation.

It is surprising how soon they are ready to schedule an appointment. (I wasn’t ready to come in this week! Can I come next week?) There’s simply no hesitancy when a doctor needs you to see a specialist. The biggest obstacle to getting care is my Spanish skills (which limits which doctors I want to see).

And yet, as amazing as the healthcare is here from a system perspective, it still can’t fix my major medical problem of chronic pain. I’ve dealt with pain for many years. Everyone wants to know what’s wrong, what have you tried. It’s complicated and I’ve tried just about everything (Western, Eastern, woo stuff) except leeches. I won’t try leeches.

I went to an osteopath here, which was a new type of doctor for me. But it also had the same results: temporary relief, nothing to fix the limitation of not being able to walk more than 10 minutes. So even though I knew that Western medicine wasn’t likely to be dramatically different here, I decided I should at least ask about the pain in my hips. It is definitely aggravated by all the walking needed to live in (not to mention be a tourist in) Europe. I found a general doctor who spoke English. He very curtly and rapidly referred me to a specialist (a traumatologist) for my pain. So I went back to the reception counter on my way out and the receptionist got me an appointment for the following week— she was apologetic I had to wait so long, but wanted me to see the doctor who spoke English. He seemed to be like an orthopedist smashed together with a rheumatologist. His bedside manner was light years better than the curt guy and his English was excellent, even though he was apologetic about the quality of his English. He didn’t know a few technical words, but I told him to say it in Spanish, and I knew immediately the terms—medical terms are all based on Latin, yes? Anyway, none were a challenge to figure out in English from Spanish—it was like drop the final “a” and re-pronounce the vowels.

So he says I have two problems: my back and my hips (and also the sky is blue), and he orders X-rays and echography and another appointment with him after those. Then I go back to the receptionist area with these orders on a few pieces of paper. (By the way, how do people in medical offices and pharmacies even read these things? Seriously.) She looks at the pieces of paper. She is apologetic because she needs to schedule me two and a half weeks out. She asks if the time works for the radiologica appointment and I pick a time that works. Then she’s done scheduling. I ask, ‘When are the other two appointments?’ It’s all the same evening—go to the radiologica, then echografia, and then back to the same specialist. Boom, boom, boom. Efficient. By the way, I still haven’t paid anything extra to anyone.

I show up for my X-rays two and a half weeks later. I walk to the radiology door, and a nurse asks what I am there for. After a brief exchange, I realize I FORGOT the three pieces of paper I was suppose to bring—what I didn’t realize was these pieces of paper were the orders or prescription for the X-rays. Oy. So I go back to the receptionist and explain the situation. If I had a digital picture that would work (because, Spain), but I can’t get in touch with my husband who is at home. The receptionist says “tranquila” and she walks over to the other side of the floor where the traumatologica doctor is, and he rewrites the three pieces of paper I forgot, and back I go to X-rays. Problem solved. It probably took 10 minutes. (I can’t imagine this happening in the US.)

They take the X-rays, then I wait about 15 minutes for the echography. I have my appointment with the specialist maybe a half hour later as scheduled. He has the X-ray results electronically and I have a piece of paper with the echography results. Everything is super modern in the medical center and everyone seems very capable. By the way, I still have not paid any additional money. Spoiler alert: I never pay anything additional.

Based on the results, I am referred to a doctor at the rehabilitation center around the corner. So I make an appointment for later the same week, of course. This doctor doesn’t speak English, but she examines me and prescribes a course of treatment. Here my lack of Spanish has failed me because I actually have no idea what she said. I did ask her to repeat it more slowly, but I literally understood only the word “calor”. Anyway, I’ve tried PT before so I’m not too concerned. She sends me back out to the receptionist at the front desk; this part I understood because I am good at following directions.

The receptionist looks at the piece of paper from the doctor and starts filling out a form. Then she asked me if I had time to start the first session now and I had the first treatment that day. I wound up having two types of treatments: a magnet therapy and a shortwave heat therapy on my hips (photo below).

I was prescribed 15 sessions. The way it works is you just show up at the center any time they are open (weekdays, all day until 8pm) and walk to the back. They remember you and put you on the first machine, and then they ask your name. I never showed a healthcare card or ID there again—they had a record of my treatments. Anyhoo, long story short, the treatments helped a bit, but not much. This is the story of my hips and back in any language.

In summary, it was very easy and inexpensive to get the medical care that doesn’t really fix my pain. But now, because I work in healthcare in the US, I need to put this whole experience into a broader perspective.

The Spanish constitution requires the state to provide medical care. All Spaniards have access to the country’s universal healthcare system, called the Spanish National Health System (SNS), also known as seguridad social. That’s probably why 99% of the Spanish population is covered by health insurance. About 70% of people use publically funded insurance and 30% private insurance. Basic medical services are free, but if you have a surgery, stay overnight in a hospital, or receive extensive prescriptions, people need to pay a fee. However, an overnight hospital stay will cost you 200 Euros, not bankrupt you if you don’t have insurance. (But, hey, the US constitution allows a regulated militia. Isn’t that better? Sorry. Red herring.)

One problem with changing the US healthcare system is that people are convinced it is the best. When you talk about access to care, they immediately assume that will lower their quality. It’s very American to believe we have the best answer to everything, but let’s look at a few quality numbers. Spain ranked 6th on the Health Care Index (an estimation of the overall quality of the health care system, health care professionals, equipment, staff, doctors, cost, etc.) That was 8% more than the US (the US ranked 23rd) in 2014. Spain's single-payer health care system is ranked No. 5 on Bloomberg's efficiency list and seventh best in the world by the World Health Organization, according to NPR. Before you say it is expensive, we spend about 17% of our GDP on healthcare and Spain spends about 7% of its GDP on healthcare.

It’s very American to believe “you get what you pay for”; how could we possibly pay less for healthcare but not get worse outcomes or service? It’s simple. Centralized management reduces the need to spend money on overhead administration. In the US healthcare systems, delivering care to a patient involves numerous business entities and even non-profit health care systems need to at least break even. Also, we were not allowed to move here without proof that we had purchased health insurance for a year. It turns out it is more cost-effective for everyone to have health care instead of crisis-when-you-get-sick care. Nobody hesitates here to see a doctor because of cost. There is simply no cost for preventive care. Plus, because the state controls most of the healthcare market, it has the ability to manage costs (i.e., drugs, hospitals, doctor salaries).

And this is the crux of why I need to return home. My husband jokes that I worry about money and that’s why I want to get a job. But really, I have an intellectually challenging job that also works toward improving the US health care system. I do not know how to sell the best healthcare policy to the voting public—that’s not my area of expertise. I loathe politics. But I do know how to work towards communicating to doctors, scientists, and health care business leaders ways to change the US healthcare system, even if it’s only one step at a time. And I am excited to return to that. Who knows? Maybe someday they will invent the modern version of leeches that will fix my hip pain. I only hope I can afford the treatment if it’s only available in the US.

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xtruss · 2 years ago

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Fake Meat Produced by Genetically Engineered Fruit Flies?

The biotech company Future Fields notified Canadian regulators of its intention to commercialize EntoEngine, fruit flies genetically engineered to produce foreign proteins that would be used in the development of lab-grown meat.

— By Claire Robinson | January 13, 2023

The biotech company Future Fields has notified the Canadian authorities of its intention to commercialize EntoEngine, a genetically modified fly.

The flies are engineered to produce foreign proteins — in this case, growth factors, which are cell signaling molecules that play important roles in cell proliferation and development, for use in what Future Fields calls “cellular agriculture” — what we call lab-grown or fake meat.

The public can comment on the application until Jan. 28 and we encourage them to do so. In our view, EntoEngine flies pose serious environmental risks in the likely event that they will escape contained conditions.

The Details

The Company Says:

“The EntoEngine fly line has been genetically engineered to express a growth factor isolated from cows . … The gene sequence poses no known risks to either humans or animals. Expression of the gene encoding the growth factor is under the control of a gene expression regulator isolated from yeast.”

Future Fields argues that the genetically modified (GM) fly is needed to replace the usual way of producing growth factors — in bioreactors. The company confirms what GMWatch has long said — that bioreactor technology is expensive, resource and energy-hungry and produces vast quantities of problematic waste.

The company concludes, reasonably, that growth factors cannot be produced cost-effectively using bioreactor technology — so they aim to produce them in GM drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies.

The company makes grand claims for the fly’s sustainability and environmental friendliness, compared with bioreactor protein production, based on lower input use and less greenhouse emissions.

Drosophila, Future Fields says:

“do not have these large operation costs and require only modest environmental controls to ensure optimal rearing. … Drosophila can feed on organic side streams and byproducts from other processes (i.e. organic waste).

“In fact, insects are some of the most efficient organisms at converting nutrients into biomass.”

However, the problem with this “solution” is that even with a cheaper source of cell growth factors in the shape of the flies, lab-grown meat will still need to be produced in huge bioreactors, with the consequent vast running costs and environmental impacts.

Patent

Future Fields describes the status of the patent on EntoEngine as “pending.” Our patent search on the Espacenet and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office databases only found one patent on a GM insect with Future Fields as an applicant.

The patent, titled “Method for producing recombinant proteins in insects,” describes the general concept patent but lacks the experimental data to prove that the system actually works. It’s unclear whether other patents exist, but the details of this patent illustrate the types of processes that would be used for EntoEngine protein production.

The patent focuses on heat stress (taking the temperature up to 35-40 degrees C) as the trigger that will activate expression of the transgenes in the flies to produce the desired growth factors.

The expression of the transgenes encoding for the desired protein (in this case, mammalian cell growth factors) is under the control of a “gene expression regulator” derived from yeast.

So these flies would appear to contain two foreign transgenes: One encoding the desired protein to be expressed and isolated from the flies; and the other encoding the yeast gene expression regulator.

In all likelihood, the yeast-derived gene expression regulator is a member of the heat shock factor family of proteins. The function of these proteins is elevated upon heat stress and their role is to increase expression of genes that will help the organism protect itself from external stresses (e.g. heat, cold, ultraviolet light).

Torturing Fruit Flies

Regarding the heat stress trigger, the patent describes a gruesome and torturous process of gradually getting the flies used to the higher temperature of the heat stressor so that they don’t die from the shock of a sudden rise, by applying the stressor interspersed with ��rest” periods.

When the insects have exhausted their ability to produce growth factor, they are killed and “harvested,” in the words of the Future Fields patent, then ground up into a mass, and the desired protein is extracted and purified out.

It is unclear how well the purification process will work and GMWatch warns that native fly proteins could end up contaminating the final product.

Doubtful Ethics

The company’s patent and publicity make a big deal out of the supposedly superior ethics of using fruit flies to manufacture growth factors for “cellular agriculture,” as opposed to extracting them from fetal bovine serum (FBS) taken “from fetuses of pregnant cows prior to slaughter.”

The patent says that cattle-derived FBS gives rise to “ethical concerns regarding the production of cultured meat products.”

But the point on ethics is disingenuous and contradictory, as Future Fields itself justifies its GM flies approach as replacing growth factors produced in bioreactors, and not as replacing FBS, because FBS is not used by the lab-grown meat industry.

Along the same lines, Future Fields’ use of language in its patent seems manipulative. While the cattle from which FBS is derived are subject to “slaughter,” the GM fruit flies are merely “harvested,” just like the crop plants that even vegans would be happy to eat.

But anyone concerned with the ethics around animal use in agriculture is unlikely to be impressed by Future Fields’ description of its GM fly as a “standalone biofactory” — the ultimate reduction of a living creature to a machine.

At a time when prominent environmentalists, from Sussex University’s professor Dave Goulson to TV’s David Attenborough, are trying to persuade the public to give insects the respect they deserve as key regulators of ecosystems, genetically engineering fruit flies and then characterizing them as “biofactories” or as non-sentient beings on a par with a wheat or maize crop seems distasteful in the extreme.

By timely coincidence, recently published EU-funded research shows that fruit flies, though “tiny,” are “amazingly smart.” They are capable of attention, working memory and conscious awareness — abilities we usually only associate with mammals.

Environmental Risks

The main risk posed by the GM flies is environmental. Containment facilities for GM animals are notoriously insecure — GM glofish have escaped from tanks and are breeding in the wild in Brazil and a whistleblower report paints a damning picture of lax attitudes and neglect of protocols at AquaBounty’s GM salmon-producing facilities.

The risk with GM flies is that they could escape and breed in the environment or cross-breed with natural flies, leading to the escape of growth factor-producing genes into wild populations.

This wouldn’t pose a human health risk, as most of us don’t eat living fruit flies and the proteins in dead flies would quickly degrade. But plenty of animals, including mammals, fish, amphibians and birds, do eat living flies.

Because the growth factors in the GM flies are mammalian, they will to some degree be active in any animal that ingests them. This could cause uncontrolled cell division in the animal consumer — potentially leading to cancer.

In evaluating environmental risk in the case of an escape, much depends on what triggers are used to make the growth factor-producing genes express.

The heat stress triggers discussed in the patent are worrying because they are designed to spring into action at 35-40 degrees C — temperatures regularly reached in the climate conditions of many parts of the world. And this raises the question: What happens at 31 or 32 degrees? Nothing, or something? And if something, then what?

Conclusion:

Future Fields’ GM fly appears to be an invention of dubious utility that will do little to improve the sustainability of the environmental catastrophe-in-the-making that is lab-grown meat.

It poses unacceptable environmental risks in the event of an escape and the ethics around the GM fly’s grim life and grimmer death are dubious, to say the least.

— Technical advice for this article was provided by Michael Antoniou, Ph.D., a London-based molecular geneticist.

— Originally published by GMWatch | ChildrenHealthDefense.Com

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The human body is an exquisite specimen of an intricate, functioning quantum mechanism that has evolved successful interfaces to decode and utilize quantum inputs from the environment. But what happens when the primary interface is challenged by a sudden change in quantum inputs?

Vitamin C is probably one of the most well-known nutrients. Abundantly found in fruits and most vegetables, vitamin C confer myriads of health benefits, the most famous being its antioxidant, free radical scavenging attributes. Today, I will take you on a unique journey to discover the real role ascorbic acid plays in our bodies at the quantum level.

Ascorbate is Ubiquitous in all Eukaryotes

Ascorbate, also referred to as L-ascorbic acid or vitamin C, is essential for all eukaryoticalgae, plants and animals, but not for prokaryotic bacteria. All photosynthetic plants synthesize ascorbate, while some animals, including primates, cannot synthesize ascorbate due to the loss of a terminal enzyme in the GULO pathway that is responsible for the conversion of ascorbate from glucose. [1]

In the beginning, all eukaryotes used the GULO (l-gulonolactone oxidase) pathway for ascorbate biosynthesis. As time passed, photosynthetic organisms whose biological activities are solely dependent upon light for the conversion of light energy into chemical energy, evolved a more efficient GLDH (l-galactonolactone dehydrogenase) pathway that uncoupled hydrogen peroxide generation during ascorbate biosynthesis. [2] Ascorbate auxotrophs, unable to synthesize ascorbic acid, must obtain this essential nutrient from their diet. Primates and guinea pigs get their ascorbate from land plants; bats’ sources are land plants, insects and blood; whereas marine animals like teleost fish and crustaceans obtain their ascorbate from zooplankton and phytoplanktons. [1]

There are many speculations as to why ascorbate auxotrophs lost the ability to synthesize ascorbate. Some believed the successful evolution of the GLDH pathway in photosynthetic plants provided ample and constant supply of ascorbate. Primates in the wild that are unable to synthesize ascorbates consume high amounts of ascorbate. For example, gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) consume 20-30 mg/kg/day, howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) consume 88 mg/kg/day, and spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) consume 106 mg/kg/day. At that amount, it is equivalent to 8.46 g for a human weighing 80 kg! [27]. Others believed that a reduction in the "cost" of production, which is the generation of the reactive oxygen species, H2O2, balanced out the lost of production capability. [3] I believe there is another reason why a required nutrient in humans is not synthesized by our bodies because the role of ascorbate extends far beyond its redox capacities. It is also the same reason why prokaryotes do not synthesize ascorbate. Light.

Prokaryotes are Light Emitters

All living organisms release biophotons. Humans, animals and plants emit ultra-weak biophotons at intensities between 10 to 100 photons/cm2 /sec wavelengths between 200 nm and 800 nm. Prokaryotic bacteria emit over 1000 photons/cm2 /sec. The intensity is dramatically increased during their growth phase. It is well known that bacteria use quorum sensing communication signals to regulate their physiological activities, including symbiosis, virulence, conjugation, motility, sporulation, and biofilm formation. [4] One of these communication signals used by quorum sensing microbes is electromagnetic radiation in the visible (400–750 nm) and near-infrared (750–2500 nm) regions. [5] So what happens when you add ascorbate to quorum sensing bacteria like Escherichia coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae that uses light for cell to cell communication? Death is the result. [6] The ability of ascorbate to inhibit growth, sporulation and enterotoxin production is due to its anti-quorum sensing ability. [7] How does ascorbate disrupt quorum sensing?

Birefringence, Depolarization and Quantum Decoherence

Vitamin C, or ascorbate, is a birefringent molecule that is optically active.[7, 8] The word birefringence comes from the Latin ‘bi’ meaning ‘twice’, and ‘refringere’ meaning ‘to break up’. Birefringent and optically active materials are anisotropic, where the index of refraction varies with polarization direction. This quality is the exact opposite of isotropic materials like glass, liquids and amorphous mediums where direction of polarization does not matter. When a ray of light enters a birefringent material like calcium carbonate or ascorbate, it will be broken up into two rays going in different directions and velocities upon exit. That is why when you look through a birefringent crystal, you will see double. [9] After light passes through a birefringent medium, it will also be depolarized, meaning there is a reduction or even a complete loss of polarization. [10]

Can Light from the Sun be Depolarized?

We all know light from the sun is unpolarized. What exactly does the term ‘unpolarized’ mean?

The atoms on the surface of a heated surface generates light and these atoms act independently of one another. The electromagnetic waves emanating from the heated surface will each have its own polarization direction. The sum of these random orientations result in a wave whose direction of polarization changes rapidly and randomly. Such a wave is said to be unpolarized. Common sources of light, including the sun, incandescent, fluorescent lights, LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes), and flames, all produce unpolarized light. However, these unpolarized light often become partially polarized due to multiple scatterings and reflections. When sunlight passes through the Earth’s atmosphere, it is scattered by air molecules, rendering the light that reaches the ground partially linearly polarized. The reason the sky looks blue is because the blue spectrum being at a higher frequency, is scattered more by air molecules. [11] So one can say that due to the scattering effects, all light that passes through a birefringent medium will be depolarized upon exit to a certain extent.

Photons & Quantum Decoherence

Photons carry information. How much information is carried depends on whether you believe in a holographic, fractal universe.

Quantum information is commonly encoded in the polarization of single photons. When light passes through birefringent mediums, the depolarization of the photons is equivalent to the decoherence of the quantum information they encode. Depolarization of such photons acts as quantum noise on the stored information. [12] Quantum decoherence has been proven to be equivalent to the classical depolarization experienced by light. [13] Decoherence is regarded as a loss of information into the environment, [14]and decoherence can also degrade or terminate entanglement. [15]

Is it becoming clearer to you why quorum sensing prokaryotic bacteria do not synthesize ascorbate? Ascorbate is birefringent. The light used by bacteria for cell to cell communication will be depolarized and rendered decoherent by ascorbate. That is how ascorbate disrupts quorum sensing in prokaryotic bacteria. [7] How important is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) depolarization in the human body? I believe EMR depolarization is critical for maintaining optimum health, especially when you consider the fact that 33% of all the protein in the human body is collagen, and collagen is also birefringent!

Birefringence & Depolarization are Tissue Health Indicators

As early as 1975, birefringence or the ability to depolarize light, was already used to differentiate the state of health of underlying tissues being examined. In general, healthy tissues are more birefringent, whereas diseased or necrotic tissues display little to no birefringence, depending on the nature and degree of damage. When tendons were stressed in forced training exercises, the birefringence and the resistance to tear were both decreased. As tendons became completely detached due to stress, birefringence was completely lost. [16] Tissue birefringence is dependent on collagen fiber organisation and orientation. In osteoarthritis, the loss of birefringence is linked with the early stages of cartilage degeneration. The greater degree of loss in birefringence, the greater the increase in cartilage degeneration. [37]

Today, information about tissue structure can be extracted from how light is depolarized as it passes through the tissue being examined. The pathology of a tissue is correlated to the decrease of birefringence in the tissue. For example, myocardial infarction results in a decrease in the birefringence signals generated in the area of infarction, due to disorganization of collagen fibers formed in scar tissues [17]. This decrease in birefringence in unhealthy, damaged tissues, and the subsequent reduction in depolarization of light, can also be detected as an increase in biophoton emissions. In plants, unhealthy or injured areas display higher biophoton emission than healthy, uninjured areas. [18] In humans, cancerous cells emitted higher intensity of photons than non-cancerous cells mostly in the ultraviolet and blue wavelengths (370 nm, 420 nm, 500 nm), whereas non-cancerous, healthy cells emitted more biophotons than cancer cells in the infrared range (620 nm, 950 nm). [19]

Collagen Birefringence and Infrared Light

Healthy non-cancerous cells emit more biophotons in the infrared frequencies, yet contrary to unhealthy, necrotic cells that displayed reduced birefringence, these healthy tissues still exhibit strong birefringence and large degrees of depolarization. Why do healthy cells emit infrared range biophotons and still remain birefringent? Because infrared light has been proven and demonstrated to induce birefringence [20], and higher birefringence is associated with healthy tissues. In the regeneration of third degree burns in the skin of mice, areas treated with 632.8 nm low intensity laser showed higher birefringence than non-treated control areas in the same subjects. [21] The degree of depolarization is also dependent upon frequency of wavelengths. Pig skin, similar to human skin, is strongly birefringent. The degree of depolarization is strongest at longer infrared wavelengths, and decreases as wavelength is shortened. When pig skin is damaged by gamma ray irradiation, the ability of the skin to depolarize light (tested at 450 nm to 675 nm) is further reduced. [22]

The triple helix structure of collagen makes it optically birefringent. This birefringence is ubiquitous in all biological tissues. [23] However, the ability to depolarize light is dependent upon various factors, the most important one being the depth or thickness of the tissue involved. [24]

Infrared wavelengths between 600 and 1500 nm can penetrate up to 5 mm on the human skin, which would be slightly below the dermis. Whereas light waves in the ultraviolet frequencies generally do not penetrate beyond the epidermis of, or under 1 mm in tissues. [22] The ability of collagen to depolarize light at shorter wavelengths is affected by how the collagen fibers are aligned and limited by the depth of the tissues probed. Due to this limitation, collagen on its own is not the ideal primary interface with quantum signals from our environment. But combined with ascorbate, or vitamin C, nature has created the perfect quantum interface for eukaryotes.

Collagen & Ascorbate, an Exquisite Entanglement

Collagen cannot be synthesized without ascorbate. Collagen requires ascorbate for hydroxylation, a process that allows the molecules to achieve the best configuration, rendering structural stability to the collagen fibers, making them stronger and less susceptible to damage. When human skin cultures are exposed to ascorbate, collagen synthesis is increased by eightfold with no increase in other proteins. In human skin, collagen accounts for up to 75% of the weight of the dermis which is below the epidermis where infrared frequencies can penetrate. [23] Even though the concentration of collagen is lower in the epidermis, this is the very layer of our skin where the highest concentration of ascorbate is found, and the epidermis is also where ultraviolet wavelengths can penetrate.

Normal skin contains high quantities of ascorbate, well above plasma levels and comparable to other body tissues. The concentration in the epidermis is between 2 to 5-fold higherthan that found in the dermis. Ascorbate is found to be depleted in aged or photodamaged skin, and skin that has been exposed to pollution or irradiation. [26] Is this depletion of ascorbate in the epidermis cause or effect? To answer that question, first we need to understand why there is so much ascorbate in the epidermis.

Ascorbate is a Quantum Workhorse

The sodium-dependent vitamin C transporter 2, or SVCT2 for ascorbate is found in every cell of the human body, even in mitochondria. [74] This transporter is one of the most evolutionarily conserved molecules and no species lacks this key protein. [28] The SVCT2 transporter will pick up and transport ascorbate even when the concentration available is extremely low (high affinity), in contrast to the SVCT1 ascorbate transporter, which is high capacity, but low affinity. [74] Together, these two transporters with different capacities and affinities ensure adequate ascorbate levels in all cells in the body. The knockout of the SVCT2 high affinity transporter in mice is lethal on day 1 of life, and when the SVCT1 transporter is deleted, half of the mice without the SVCT1 transporter do not survive to weaning. [36] Most of the time cells have only one form of the transporters. In the epidermis, both forms of the transporters are expressed. [26] Why does nature want to make sure there is more than adequate ascorbate in the epidermis?

Science has been relentlessly uncovering the endless roles undertaken by the epidermis in critical biological functions. It is well established that the skin is the largest organ of the body, with neural, endocrine and immune functions that regulate local and global homeostasis of the various systems involved. [29] Just recently (October 2018), circadian clocks stronger than those in the blood have been identified in the human epidermis. [30]

Ascorbate, the Primary Quantum Interface

Ascorbate is birefringent. It will depolarize light and render the incoming photons decoherent. You can think of ascorbate as the first interface where incoming photon signals are being decoded before secondary interfaces receive and act upon those quantum signals. How does quantum biology interpret the properties of ascorbate? So far, ascorbate has been associated with three quantum properties. It is able to absorb UV-B photons and suppress fluorescence (or fluorescence quenching) of radiation below roughly 310 nm. The absorption maximum of ascorbate is below 270 nm, with some studies showing a peak at 220 nm. Ascorbate is also able to lower excitation signals and transform short UV-B wavelengths between 280 nm to 320 nm into longer UV-A radiation in the 320 nm to 400 nm range. With fluorescence quenching ascorbate is able to substantially reduce emissions to the UV-A range of between 320 nm to 400 nm. These mechanisms effectively shift high-energy light waves into longer wavelengths emitting lower energies. [31] These quantum effects exert immeasurable influence on all aspects of essential biological functions, most of which begin in the epidermis of our skin.

Ascorbate and Vitamin D Synthesis

The epidermis is an active site for hormone synthesis, the most important and well known is that of Vitamin D. It is well established that upon exposure to UVB radiation, the sterol 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC) is converted to pre-vitamin D3, which then is isomerized into vitamin D3. The biologically inert vitamin D3 then enters circulation and undergoes two successive hydroxylations in the liver and kidney to form the hormonally active metabolite calcitriol. [32]

The highest concentration of the sterol 7-DHC is found in the deepest two layers of the epidermis, the stratum spinosum and the stratum basale. These two layers also have the highest capacity for the conversion of 7-DHC into pre-vitamin D3. [33] The epidermis consists mostly of keratinocytes, and the bottom layer, stratum basale, is also where keratinocytes and melanocytes are formed. Ascorbate is highly concentrated in all layers of the epidermis. However, concentration of ascorbate has actually been found to increase with depth in the uppermost layer, the stratum corneum. [26] The stratum corneum is ABOVE the stratum spinosum and the stratum basale where 7-DHC is concentrated. So why is there such a high requirement for ascorbate in the epidermis that it expresses both forms of the SVCT transporters?

The sterol 7-DHC, precursor to vitamin D3, is extremely reactive to chain oxidationwhen exposed to exogenous radicals and oxygen. Oxysterols formed from the free radical chain oxidation of 7-DHC are cytotoxic. [33] Cholesterol and most oxysterols are excited by ultraviolet wavelengths below 200 nm. Ascorbate’s unique quantum ability to absorb UV-B and UV-C frequencies, and also to transform high energy short UV wavelengths into longer less energetic wavelengths is critical for metabolic processes in keratinocytes. [31] Why?

Keratinocytes Metabolize Calcitriol

Keratinocytes contain the entire metabolic pathway for the conversion of vitamin D3 to its active metabolite calcitriol, 1,25(OH)2D3, via the vitamin D-25 hydroxylase (CYP27A) and the 25OHD-1α-hydroxylase (CYP27B1). These are the same genes found in the liver and kidney that are responsible for the hydroxylation of vitamin D3 and its conversion into the active form calcitriol. In fact, the expression of CYP27B1 is HIGHER in keratinocytes than in any other cell in the body, including the cells of the proximal renal tubule in the kidney. CYP27B1 expression is the highest in the stratum basale of the epidermis in vivo. [34] The conversion of the highly reactive 7-DHC to calcitriol in keratinocytes is only activated in the presence of ultraviolet radiation in the ranges of 285 nm to 315 nm. [35] It is therefore reasonable to assume that the presence of the ascorbate as quantum interface would ensure minimal reactive chain oxidation by 7-DHC during the conversion processes.

In addition to negative feedback loops in keratinocytes, ascorbate also controls the level of calcitriol that can enter into circulation when the production by the liver and kidney is intact. [34] Acorbate not only has the ability to modulate the differentiation of keratinocytes [26], it is able to control the level of calcitriol production in keratinocytes via its effects on melanin synthesis.

L-DOPA, Melanin & Ascorbate

Melanin are chromophores that inhibit the conversion of 7-DHC by competing for the absorption of UV-B photons. An increase in melanin in human skin will increase the time required for exposure to UV radiation in the formation of pre-vitamin D3. [32]

Melanin is produced by melanocytes in the stratum basale, the last layer of the epidermis. Melanin is synthesized from its precursor L-tyrosine, with the aid of enzymatic reactions by tyrosinase. [38] Human keratinocytes have been demonstrated to synthesize catecholamines from L-tyrosine, and the human epidermis actually has the capacity for TOTAL catecholamine biosynthesis. Scientists have identified in keratinocytes, all the key enzymes for catecholamine synthesis including tyrosine hydroxylase, the rate limiting enzyme in the conversion of tyrosine into L-DOPA which is the important precursor to neurotransmitters like dopamine and norepinephrine. [39, 40] When L-DOPA is oxidized, melanin is formed. [41]

Ascorbate controls the formation of melanin by inhibiting the oxidation of L-DOPA. The presence of ascorbate can also increase the amount of L-DOPA synthesized by tyrosine in the presence or absence of UV-B irradiation. However, the amount of L-DOPA synthesized in the dark in the presence of ascorbate after exposure to ultraviolet is markedly higher than non-exposure to ultraviolet. Most importantly, ascorbate has the ability to reduce melanin. [42] The reduction of melanin is an area that is underexplored, but it has huge implications, considering fungi can use melanin to convert radiation into chemical energy.

Radiosynthesis & Ascorbate

Many eukaryotic fungal species produce melanin chromophores. These species have been found to be able to thrive in high-radiation environments, including the damaged nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. Melanin has the known capacity to absorb a wide spectrum of electromagnetic radiation and transduce these radiation into biologically useful energy. This phenomenon of radiation induced growth is called radiosynthesis. [43] The ability to transform radiation into electrical energy in fungi is substantially enhanced in the presence of ascorbate, or vitamin C. The oxidation of melanin as a result of irradiation produces electric current. The ability of ascorbate to reduce melanin through the transfer of electrons optimizes the redox capacity of melanin, resulting in enhanced electrical current synthesis. [44] Imagine a future world where humans have the capacity to turn electromagnetic radiation from natural and artificial sources into biologically useful energy by using our melanin biosynthetic pathways! But don’t get too excited over this prospect. Humans are ascorbate auxotrophs, meaning they are eukaryotes who have lost the ability to synthesize ascorbate. As such, our melanin biosynthetic pathways are different from that of fungi and far from perfect.

Melanoma, Melanin & Ascorbate

Melanoma is a dangerous form of skin cancer. The irradiation of melanin by ultraviolet rays has been shown to enhance free radical formation. Although melanin is protective at longer wavelengths, melanin enhances cell damage by radiation at shorter wavelengths. The induction of melanoma by ultraviolet A in the range between 320-400 nm requires the presence of melanin pigment, and is associated with oxidative DNA damage in melanocytes. On the other hand, no pigmentation is involved in the initiation of melanoma by ultraviolet B radiation in the range between 280-320 nm. This perhaps resolves the long standing conundrum why African albinos who have melanocytes but lack melanin, are highly susceptible to non-melanoma skin cancer, yet these same Africans are resistant to cutaneous malignant melanoma. [45] So how does the lack of ascorbate contribute to the melanoma-melanin equation? Why don’t we take a look at the difference between fish that can biosynthesize ascorbate and those that cannot.

Teleost are bony fish that have lost the ability to synthesize ascorbate. [46] Common examples of teleost are salmon, trout, cod, perch, herrings, catfish, carp, and minnows, to name a few. Teleosts produce melanin pigments and when exposed to high levels of ultraviolet radiation, these fish develop melanoma. The lesions on the skins of these fish with melanoma contained more melanin than in healthy cells. [47] Cartilaginous fish like hammerhead sharks, are able to biosynthesize ascorbate. [46] They too can ‘tan’ remarkably well under UV exposure. But unlike teleost fish, ascorbate producing sharks do not develop melanoma. “The juvenile shark's skin responded similarly to that observed in humans and other vertebrates in response to direct sunlight, turning from brown to black. Although a similar melanin response was seen in this study (i.e. increased melanin concentration), the sharks in this previous study showed no visible lesions or growths and were therefore not shown to contract melanomas or dermal carcinomas.” [47] The reduction of melanin by ascorbate in the skin of sharks could very well be the reason why sharks do not develop melanoma.

The epidermis is the first receptor of quantum signals from the environment. It makes perfect sense that ascorbate, the ultimate quantum interface, is found there in such high concentrations. The eye is the other important receptor for environmental quantum signals. How much birefringent ascorbate and collagen do you think can be found there?

Eye, Collagen and Ascorbate

The cornea has the highest concentration of ascorbate of all tissues in the body. As a primary quantum signal receptor for the body, the eye is where critical quantum entanglements are established. Quantum signals from light must be properly depolarized before they can be utilized by secondary biologic chromophore interfaces like melanopsin, melanin and hemoglobin. In humans, melanopsin is found in neurons in the retina, BEHIND the cornea. Before electromagnetic signals can reach chromophores and opsins like melanopsin, they are first depolarized by ascorbate and collagen in the cornea. The concentration of ascorbate in cornea is 14 times of that in the aqueous humor. The aqueous humor has 20 times the ascorbate in plasma. By this calculation, cornea would have about 300 times the amount of ascorbate when compared to plasma! The concentration of ascorbate in the corneal epithelium is perhaps the highest of any known and reported tissue in the human body. [48] It is interesting that of different animals examined, the highest concentration of ascorbate in the corneal epithelium are found in those diurnal species that encounter the highest environmental levels of ultraviolet radiation exposure. [48] And if this is not enough, don’t forget that collagen is also birefringent. The middle layer of the cornea is the stroma and accounts for nearly 90% of corneal thickness. The stroma is 71% collagen by dry weight, and contains three different types of collagen, [49] probably each with different birefringent qualities. How does the cornea get its ascorbate? Have you ever noticed that you may tear a lot when you are faced with strong sunlight? Tears also contain extremely high ascorbate, and it is believed that tears provide a continuous source of ascorbate for the corneal epithelium. [50]

It is without question that our high technology world is placing ever increasing demands on ascorbate availability. Humans can increase their ascorbate intake to keep up with demand, unlike plants and animals whose level of ascorbate biosynthesis may not keep pace with advances in technology.

Ascorbate in a 5G World

Human are unable to synthesize ascorbate. But our the ability to recycle certain amounts of ascorbate [51] combined with dietary intake allowed for optimal survival in environments that did not have excessive levels of artificial electromagnetic frequencies. Since the advent of technology, this ability to interface and depolarize ever-increasing electromagnetic frequencies began to decline exponentially in all eukaryotic plants and animals. For organisms that biosynthesize ascorbate, endogenous ascorbate production simply cannot keep up with the intensity of increasing radiation from man-made radio waves. For organisms that must obtain their ascorbate from diets, the decreased ascorbate levels in the food chain compounds the issue of deficiency.

A perfect example of this phenomena is the collapse of bee colonies as a result of increased electromagnetic frequencies. Increasing scientific evidence strongly support the theory of colony collapse disorder (CCD) among honey bees due to electromagnetic radiation from cell phones and cell towers. The massive amount of radiation produced by towers and mobile phones negatively affect honey bee behavior and biology. [52] Bee colonies are known to sustain a marked increase in loss rates during the winter as a result of decreased food sources that contain ascorbate. [53] Even though bees are able to biosynthesize ascorbate, the levels produced are obviously not enough to counter the effects of increased electromagnetic radiation that causes a significant reduction in endogenous antioxidants such as glutathione and catalase. The supplementation of ascorbate in diet of bees however, rescued colony loss rates during the winter by 33%, in parallel with increased antioxidant defense with elevated glutathione transferase and catalase activities. [54]

Birds on the other hand, appear to fare slightly better. Even though most birds do not synthesize ascorbate [46], breeding and migrating birds do not seem to be highly affected by electromagnetic radio waves.[55] Why? Feathers are made of keratin, and keratin is highly birefringent. [57] Feathers, therefore are able to depolarize electromagnetic radiation. The way birefringent feathers are arranged on the body of a bird is simply an exquisite display of nature at one of her better moments. [56]

How do plants protect themselves since they are exposed all the time to cosmic rays, irradiation from the sun and in the past half century, increased onslaught of electromagnetic frequencies in the form of artificial lights and Radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from a wide spectrum of radio waves? Plants, if you remember, have evolved a successful ascorbate biosynthetic pathway that does not generate reactive oxygen species. When exposed to varying levels of light intensities, plants usually respond by adjusting their ascorbate concentrations. [58] But the question remains, is the endogenous ascorbate production enough to counter the effects of EMR from cell towers? Trees grown in the direct vicinities of mobile phone base stations were found to show signs of damage that included stunted growth, brown leaves, irregular growth, dead branches, and color changes. Damage was usually the highest in locations with high radiation exposure and starts on the sides facing the source of radiofrequency radiation. Over time, the damage was extended to the entire plant. [59] A review of an extensive number of studies on the damaging effects of weak radio frequencies on plants showed mostly inhibition or reduced growth rates, whereas some studies actually did not find any negative response upon electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure. [60] How does EMR exposure reduce or inhibit growth in plants?

Ascorbate, Solar Energy Photoinhibition & Depolarization of Electromagnetic Radiation

Plants suffer reduced growth rates under photoinhibition when exposed to excessive solar irradiation. [61] Ascorbate provides photoinhibition protection to photosystem II in eukaryotic algae, plants, and prokaryotic cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria do not use light for quorum sensing, instead they use acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) as chemical signals in quorum sensing [62]. I propose the damage suffered by plants when exposed to EMR is a manifestation of reactions that are similar to solar irradiation induced photoinhibition. Both EMR and solar irradiation are electromagnetic frequencies, and both have been found to reduce photosynthetic capacities. Ascorbate attenuates photoinhibition by dissipating excess electrons and excitation energy via the water-water cycle in plants. [63] Ascorbate is now being viewed by science as indispensable for plant growth. [64] Ascorbate is birefringent. Birefringence causes depolarization. Electromagnetic radiation can be depolarized in the same way light is depolarized by birefringent mediums. When EMR undergoes depolarization, there is a redistribution of wave energy leading to a loss of the wave field energy. [65] Since radio waves can be depolarized, increased birefringence from ascorbate could very well protect plants that are affected by EMR exposure. Can ascorbate protect animals also?

Of Mice & Men, the Ascorbate Connection

In November 2018, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) released a report that demonstrated clear evidence that male rats exposed to high levels of radio frequency radiation (RFR) similar to that used in 2G and 3G cell phones developed cancerous heart tumors. The interesting part about this report is that although all rats received radiation across their entire bodies, female rats did NOT develop any tumor. In addition, longer lifespans were detected among MALE rats. [66] Are you intrigued? The explanation is really quite simple. It all has to do with how the birefringent, depolarizing ascorbate interfaces with the RFR on a quantum level in the male and female rats. In male rats, the level of ascorbate in heart muscle is low (5-10 mg per 100 g) when compared to the highest concentrations found in their adrenals (280-400 mg per 100g. If you will recall from the earlier section on birefringence and tissue health, lower birefringence equals less healthy tissues. In addition, the plasma content of ascorbate in male rats is an abysmal 1.6 mg per 100 g. At such low plasma ascorbate levels, very little ascorbate can be delivered to the epidermis to counter the high intensity radiation insults. [67] Female rats on the other hand, have extremely high levels of ascorbate in their plasma, ranging from 150 mg per 100 g to 165 mg per 100 g. [68] In comparison with ascorbate plasma level of male rats, that is a almost a 100-fold increase. With this level of circulating ascorbate in the plasma, the epidermis of the female rats should have more than adequate ascorbate to counter the effects of any amount of electromagnetic radiation. This is exactly what happened in the study. There was a complete absence of any tumor growth in the female rats treated with high intensity RFR. As for the inexplicable longevity observed in some male rats, the radiation exposure probably decreased ascorbate levels throughout the body. Decreased ascorbate is linked to the decrease in growth hormones [69 , 70], and a decrease in growth hormones has been linked to longevity [71].

The evidence for the birefringent ascorbate as the ultimate quantum interface certainly appears convincing. For those who may still be wondering, perhaps we should take a final look at how ascorbate relates to the one place where all quantum entanglements begin and end.

Mitochondria is an Ascorbate Hog

All eukaryotes have mitochondria. Mitochondria sustain life by providing energy. Being the final destination of all quantum interactions, it is no wonder ascorbate is found there in such high concentrations. However, judging by how mitochondria take in ascorbate, it is perhaps reasonable to assume that mitochondria are the first and last places where one would find ascorbate.

The study of mitochondria ascorbate uptake, regeneration and recycling is still an ongoing effort, with new ascorbate transporters, like the orphan transporter SVCT3, are being discovered. [72] The general consensus to date is that the high affinity SVCT2 transporter is used by mitochondria for uptake of ascorbate across all cells, tissues and species. More recently, mitochondria were demonstrated in the U937 cell to take up exponential amounts of ascorbate at the expense of cytosolic uptake. A fifteen minute exposure of 3 micromolar extracellular ascorbate concentration leads to an increase in ascorbate concentration in the cytosol to 45 micromolar. However, the mitochondria matrix concentration of ascorbate is 5000 micromolar. This means that during uptake the increase in the cytosolic concentration of ascorbate is disrupted by a more efficient mitochondrial uptake via the high affinity SVCT2 transporter. [73] On top of that, the requirement for transport across the SVCT2 transporter is set to a bare minimum in mitochondria. Unlike SVCT2s in plasma membrane which require 2 sodium ions per ascorbate molecule, sodium ion requirement is 100 fold less in mitochondria SVCT2 transporters. Ascorbate SVCT2 transporters in plasma membrane also require the presence of calcium and magnesium for transport of ascorbate. Mitochondria SVCT2 can take up ascorbate in the ABSENCE of calcium and magnesium. [74]

In plants, ascorbate is found to be synthesized by mitochondria between Complex III and Complex IV. [75] Mitochondria are where all quantum entanglements begin and end. Since ascorbate is the ultimate quantum interface, mitochondria will never be found without ascorbate in any living organism, plant nor animal.

The overwhelming evidence on ascorbate I have presented to you today is but a microscopic fraction of the portion of the iceberg that is visible to us currently. This iceberg is without doubt an important piece of the puzzle that will help us understand how we are entangled with our environment, natural or artificial. I cannot say whether ascorbate will be ‘the’ answer for survival and adaptation in the modern high tech world man has created. Having a better understanding of how the birefringent quantum properties of ascorbate can affect our adaptation is an excellent start though. Thank you for joining me on this important and exciting discovery. It would assist me greatly if you will take a moment to leave your impression or comments so I can plan my next article on ascorbate for you.

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