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kirythestitchwitch · 1 year ago

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assassin!Klaus/fence!Caroline au - Girl, buy a clue: he is flirting!

He was taking too long. Caroline did her best not to fidget, a bad tell at the best of times, but he brought it out in her. His careful hands–hands that could have belonged to a musician or maybe a sculptor–kept touching things and despite the gloves he wore, she would have to take a Lysol wipe to the knives after he left.

That was hardly a logical response but Klaus Mikaelson brought that out in her.

Sliding a knife from the velvet cloth they were kept rolled in when tucked out of sight, Klaus tested the weight of it in his hand. “You always have such an eye for a well-crafted blade.” The blue of his eyes was warm as he looked at her sidelong across the knife. “I appreciate you opening your private stock to me on such short notice.”

Caroline crossed her arms. “Well, you did promise to make it worth my while. Where’s this chip?” She made her voice sound skeptical out of habit. Annoyingly, Klaus had always come through on a promise, and he wasn’t likely to start being flaky now.

A sly little smile lingered around his mouth as he slid two fingers into an inner pocket of his casual yet stylish coat and pulled on the ends of a loop of bright blue ribbon. Soon a necklace slipped free and Klaus held it out towards her, like a temptation. Caroline hesitated a moment, then put out her hand for him to drop the necklace into. It pooled in her hand, slightly warm from being next to his skin, ribbon a satin tease against her fingers.

It was a locket, blue and white enamel forget-me-nots on the lid studded with tiny diamonds. The ribbon ended in a necklace clasp. Victorian, excellently cared for, and worth a pretty penny all on its own, the necklace shown in the lights of her cozy outer showroom. She could think of several buyers in the jewelry market who would coo over this, despite the lack of original chain.

“It’s very pretty,” she allowed, prying it open to reveal a Micro SD card inside where a picture probably once resided. Gingerly, she plucked it out of the necklace. “Are you looking to sell it?” Snapping it closed, Caroline wiggled it in her hand, yes or no.

“Sell? No. It’s a bit of a momento, you see.” Klaus set the knife back down on the velvet.

“Pity.” With an underhand throw, she tossed the locket back to him, and he predictably snatched it out of the air. From behind the counter she stood behind, she pulled out a tablet and pressed the SD card into a slot in the side. Tapping her finger on the screen, she opened up the password prompt from the predictably encrypted chip.

“Don’t suppose you’ll give me the password?” She joked, starting to turn the tablet towards him.

“Caroline,” he said simply, and she paused, waiting. After a moment, he clarified. “That’s the password. ‘Caroline.’”

She stared at him for a moment, face turning inexplicably rosey. “That’s a terrible password. Someone could brute-force hack that in like five minutes.”

Klaus looked extremely amused at this. “They’d have to take it off my person first, and after you kill the first dozen professional pickpockets, the rest tend to get the message. Still, there is the occasional stupid young one.”

Caroline shot him an appalled look as she turned the tablet back around to face her. “Please tell me you aren’t killing every teenager that tries to pickpocket you on the subway?” The mayor would have to declare another Son of Sam.

He shrugged unconcernedly. “A broken wrist seems to suffice as a deterrent,” he replied, as if he and that Ducati he had parked in the alleyway outside her showroom had any passing acquaintance with the subway. You probably couldn’t open her up in the city–although something told her that Klaus didn’t give much of a damn about speed limits–but maybe he got out of the city and let her go on the highways out of New York. She absolutely, positively, did not wish he would take her with him and let her feel that wind in her hair, nope.

Having those types of thoughts–or any others about Klaus–were off-limits. He was a client, nothing more.

#he's obvious right like my man is trying so hard right?#Caroline he is angling for a date so bad he is just trying not to cross your lines #kiry;literally notorious for happy endings: he's a client nothing more teehee #anyways WHO WANTS TO HIDE A DEAD BODY WITH KLAUS AND CAROLINE?#FUN TIMES #klaroline wip wed #tvd for ts #klaroline for ts #i'm sorry i haven't been participating #i'm currently WAY undermedicated and my brain don't work #so i haven't been writing much

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anjanettexcordonia · 3 years ago

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Drake

A/N: language

Word Count: 866

A/N: I have been MIA for about 6 months or so, so I have decided to start over with tags, so if you would like to be tagged just let me know or shoot me a message.

If you thought this story would be about one crazy person, unless you consider me crazy, we’ll even in that case you’re still wrong. There’s another. Yep another creepy stalker.

How did my life go from mediocre to absolutely nuts? In two days mind you! Fuck, I’m seething just writing this. My only solace is my little fur baby Chance. He keeps me grounded. If you're not a fur-mommy, you don’t get it. Just keep it moving. My little corgi baby is staring at me in confusion while I’m sitting at my desk right now.

Let’s just jump right in. No need for my zillion tangents.

Chance was barking at the sound of my keys clinking together as I unlocked my apartment door. I was breathing a sigh of relief that I wasn’t dragged into Central Park and decapitated. Note to self: stop listening to Crime Junkie at the gym. Chance was running around in circles and barking in excitement. “Chancey baby” I knelt down to give him love.

“Jesus Christ Chance.” I looked up to the smooth voice of my roommate and best friend Liv. Or Olivia Nevrakis, I met her in college and we’re exactly alike, mostly. “Must he constantly bark, Ri.” Olivia grabbed a water bottle from the refrigerator. “Oh here someone left this for you.” Olivia handed me a business card. “It was taped to the door when I got home last night.”

Call me +44 7911 65576 Drake Walker Special CSA His Majesty’s Department of International Defense and Affairs

“His majesty’s Department of international defense? What even is that?” Olivia asked, her annoyance of her interrupted sleep very prominent. “Are you in trouble Ri?”

“It’s probably some scammer. I bet they taped them to everyone’s door.” I tossed the card back on the counter and stood up. “I’m going to bed.” I couldn’t sleep. The weird guy at the bar on top of this weird card showing up just seemed like more intentional than a coincidence. And what do we do when we are curious? We Google. His majesty’s department of international defense and affairs and enter. I bit my lip in anticipation as the searches loaded. Cordonia Wikipedia.

Cordonia is a country in SouthEastern Europe the largest of one of the thousands of islands in Aegean and Ionian seas. I’ve never left the United States. Cordonia is a constitutional monarchy led by the House of Rhys with King William Rhys on the present throne. Explains his majesty. And then the picture.

That’s the guy. That.is.the.guy. Oh fuck oh fuck. “OLIVIAAAAA” I screamed. I swear to god my heart stopped beating. Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck.

“You better be dying, what's wrong?” Olivia rushed through my door, almost tripping on the carpet. “It’s him.” I pointed at the screen. I was on my feet now. I had jumped from my bed like I saw a ghost hiding under the blankets. “Him who?” Olivia clearly pissed snapped. “Tonight at work, this guy, and I mean THIS guy,” I pointed at the screen again, my voice a higher octave than usual, “he was there.” Olivia’s perfectly micro bladed eyebrow arched, “okay it’s New York. Celebrities are a dime a dozen.” Olivia leaned on the door frame crossing her thin arms. “No Liv, you’re not listening, he said he knew who I was. About my parents.�� My heart rate finally levelled out, I sat back down attempting to wrap my brain around the facts in front of me. “My real parents I think.” “What the fuck?” Olivia sat down next to me on the bed. “He knew I was adopted.” I told her. “How?” Her voice became curious. “I bolted Liv. Like I got out of there as fast as possible.” Olivia listened as I continued with the story. “So this guy on the business card is somehow related to a King of an entire country that was in your bar and happens to have personal information about you?” She questioned. “Pretty much.” She threw her copper hair back and belted out the loudest laugh, barely getting out her words, “you’re fucking with me.” My face was hard as stone. “I’m not Liv.” I’m not a very serious person, you’ll learn that about me. But this is the moment I felt my life changing. “I’m going to bed Ri.” And she stood and walked out of my room.

That night I learned everything there was to know about Cordonia and it’s king. But there was nothing familiar to me. Nothing that would link me to him or his country. Nothing. I slammed my laptop lid down and finally drifted to a restless sleep.

—

Olivia shut her bedroom door and twisted the lock. Something she rarely did. She grabbed her phone from the nightstand and went to her bathroom for extra security.

“Ocean Watch 0479” the line connected. “Phoenix made contact. Yes. Subject secure.”

—

A few miles away Agent Drake Walker laid his phone on the table. “Thanks Olivia.” He whispered and sipped his whiskey on the balcony. He could see directly into Riley’s room from this vantage point. But she was asleep now and he knew it was now or never.

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redinktattoo · 4 years ago

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dwindledglow · 5 years ago

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001. MEET HENRI

FULL NAME: henri phillippe leblanc. PREFERRED NAME: henri. NICKNAME/S: hen and h. DATE OF BIRTH: july 19th, 1998. GENDER & PRONOUNS: cis male & he/his. ORIENTATION: hetero. RELIGION: non-practising christian. RELATIONSHIP STATUS: engaged to alena cohen. OCCUPATION: full time university student. RESIDENCE: greenwich village, new york city.

002. CHECK HENRI’S BACKGROUND

HOMETOWN: nice, france. NATIONALITY: french. ETHNIC BACKGROUND: french LINGUISTICS: french which is his native languages, english and italian in a fluent level and he can understand portuguese and spanish. EDUCATION: he studies economics-mathematic with a special concentration in business management at columbia university. CRIMINAL RECORD: clean. BIRTH ORDER: first and only. FATHER: gérard leblanc, born on november 29th, 1973 in marseille, france, residing in montecarlo, monaco. he is the owner and CEO of leblanc group, a billionaire conglomerate operating all over the world in the luxury sector, with a specification on the airlines business and motorsports industry. MOTHER: liliane beauvalot, born on january 15th, 1974 in nice, france, residing in montecarlo, monaco. she is a french heiress, owner of an incalculable fortune, and businesswoman who, currently, works within the asset management business. SISTER/S: none. BROTHER/S: none. SIGNIFICANT OTHER: alena cohen. CHILDREN: none so far. OTHER RELEVANT FAMILY: none. EX/ES: miriam pinault. PETS: queenie, a bengal cat and luna, a german x australian shepherd mix.

003. GET UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

HEIGHT: 5′11″ or 180 cm. WEIGHT: between 165 lbs or 75 kg and 168 lbs or 76 kg. BODY BUILD: at first sight, he’s one more tall and slender guy walking around. whereas that doesn’t cease to be true when giving him a second glance, henri actually has a rather toned body. he’s not strict with his diet but he really enjoys working out and it shows by how fit he’s become. he’s not particularly athletic or buff but he has toned legs and defined abs, and you can tell by his more muscular arms that he does take care of himself. EYE COLOR: a dark shade of blue with grey speckles, making it a greyish-blue hue. EYESIGHT: his eyesight is perfect. HAIR COLOR & STYLE: his hair is dirty-blonde and well, the style probably can’t even be considered a hair style because henri can’t be bothered so his hair is usually styled in its messy, fluffed out way. DOMINANT HAND: right. NOTABLE PHYSICAL TRAITS: his blue eyes, or maybe it’s not so much his eyes as it is how expressive they are. besides it, his million-dollar smile always stands out when it makes an appearance and though it’s not so much a physical trait, often times than not, henri tends to stand out because of his wardrobe choices. SCARS AND MARKS: he has a scar on his left leg and another one extending from his right elbow down his right wrist due to the accident he was involved in back in abu dhabi. other than that, he has the average, every day scar and mark. nothing major. TATTOOS: on the inside of his left wrist, henri has a micro tattoo that consists in a pair of wings — reference —, something that he has gotten as homage to miriam, a few months after she passed away. as the result of a drunk night with his best friends - léo and jules -, he has a smiley face tattooed on his toe. on the inside of his left arm, he has the quote i was different then — reference — which is something to get him by, sort of like a personal reminder that what happened in the past doesn’t define him or his present, and that mistakes can happen. as an impulse, and also a response to all the media articles, all the shit written about him, all the unwanted advice and opinions, he has the sentence i know with a red strike over it, on the outer side of his right wrist. with no particular meaning and as something he just felt like getting one day, he has the word lumiére behind his left ear and an arrow on the underside of his right middle finger. he has the proverb qui vivra verra on his right shoulder blade, literally meaning the future will tell. his most recent tattoo, and also his last addition to his collection of ink, consists on a small shooting star which is placed a little above his right hipbone and, essentially, symbolizes alena and everything she means to him. PIERCINGS: none. VOICECLAIM: pierre gasly. ACCENT & INTENSITY: even though he’s been living in new york for a while now, his french accent remains intact and as intense as ever. it shines through the words and makes it rather obvious where henri comes from. a few years back, it bothered him because he felt as though people thought he couldn’t get around the new languages and that he just add what some would call ‘broken english’ but he’s really proud of it now. ALLERGIES: soy, brazil-nuts and dust. PHOBIAS & FEARS: solitude, he’s terrified of ending up alone. MENTAL & PHYSICAL ILLNESSES: none so far. ALCOHOL USE: sometimes, mostly on social situations. SMOKING: he doesn’t smoke. NARCOTICS USE: he doesn’t use anything. INDULGENT FOOD: sometimes, not all that often if we’re being honest. SPLURGE SPENDING: every now and then, when it’s on someone else. he prefers conscious spending over splurge spending. GAMBLING: no, never.

004. DIG DEEPER

CAN THEY DRIVE? yes, he can drive. CAN THEY COOK & BAKE? yes and yes. CAN THEY CHANGE A FLAT TIRE? yes. CAN THEY TIE A TIE? yes. CAN THEY SWIM? yes. CAN THEY RIDE A BICYCLE? yes. CAN THEY JUMP START A CAR? no. CAN THEY BRAID HAIR? no. CAN THEY PICK A LOCK? no. EXTROVERTED OR INTROVERTED? extroverted. DISORGANIZED OR ORGANIZED? organized. CLOSE OR OPEN MINDED? open minded. CALM OR ANXIOUS? depends on the situation, it can go both ways. PATIENT OR IMPATIENT? patient. OUTSPOKEN OR RESERVED? outspoken. LEADER OR FOLLOWER? leader. OPTIMISTIC OR PESSIMISTIC? he’s more on the pessimistic side. TRADITIONAL OR MODERN? modern. HARD-WORKING OR LAZY? hard-working. CULTURED OR UNCULTURED? cultured. LOYAL OR DISLOYAL? loyal. FAITHFUL OR UNFAITHFUL? faithful. NIGHT OWL OR EARLY BIRD? a mixture of both. HEAVY OR LIGHT SLEEPER? light sleeper. COFFEE OR TEA? coffee. DAY OR NIGHT? night. TAKING BATHS OR SHOWERS? showers. COCA COLA OR PEPSI? neither. CATS OR DOGS? both. NETFLIX OR CINEMA? cinema. SHOWS OR MOVIES? movies. LAPTOP OR GAMING CONSOLE? laptop. HEALTHY OR JUNK FOOD? both. ICE CREAM OR FROZEN YOGURT? ice cream. PIZZA OR HAMBURGER? both. LOLLIPOPS OR GUMMY WORMS? neither. BEACH OR POOL? beach. SNOWBALLS FIGHTING OR ICESKATING? iceskating. LITERATURE OR SCIENCE? science. HISTORY OR ART? art. CHOCOLATE BARS OR COTTON CANDY? chocolate bars. XBOX OR PLAYSTATION? playstation. FACE-TO-FACE OR PHONE INTERACTIONS? face-to-face interactions. DRAMA OR SCI-FI? both. HORROR OR COMEDY? comedy.

005. HENRI’S FAVORITES

FAVORITE ACTIVITY: traveling. FAVORITE ANIMAL: eurasian lynx. FAVORITE BOOK: the boy who harnessed the wind by william kamkwamba. FAVORITE COLOR/S: blue. FAVORITE CUISINE: french and italian cuisine. FAVORITE DISH/ES: ratatouille, salad niçoise, peach melba and tiramisu. FAVORITE DRINK/S: lemonade, negroni and flat white. FAVORITE FLOWER/S: peonies. FAVORITE GEM: zircon. FAVORITE MOVIE: nocturnal animals by tom ford. FAVORITE SONG: thru my hair by ¿téo? FAVORITE SCENT/S: lime, mint, coffee. FAVORITE SHOW/S: he doesn’t watch that much tv but he’s obsessed with black mirror. FAVORITE SPORT/S & TEAM THEY SUPPORT: formula1, motogp, soccer, he supports as monaco fc, and basketball. FAVORITE SEASON OF THE YEAR: summer. VACATION DESTINATION: japan, just about anywhere in japan.

#── ✰. ┊ henri : — HEADCANON. ❜

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browmuse-blog · 7 years ago

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How an Aesthetician is Different from Dermatologist

Whether you’re dealing with rosacea or acne, you have two choices when it comes to specialists—dermatologists or estheticians. How do you know which of these two skin experts is right for you?

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bobmccullochny · 3 years ago

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November History

November 15 1492 - Christopher Columbus' notes included the first recorded reference to tobacco.

1660 - First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) was licensed in New York City (New Amsterdam).

1791 - The first Catholic college in US, Georgetown University, opened

1806 - First US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, published its first issue

1894 - First newspaper Sunday color comic section was published (NY World)

1896 - The first long-distance transmission of hydroelectricity from the Niagara Falls Power Company flowed to Buffalo, N.Y., 26 miles away.

1904 - King Camp Gillette was issued a US patent (#775,134) for his invention of a safety razor using disposable blades.

1914 - Canton Bulldog Harry Turner became the first player to die from game-related injuries (spinal) in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.

1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva, Switzerland.

1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) launched with a radio network of 24 stations across the USA.

1956 - Li'l Abner opened at St James Theater New York City.

1959 - The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas occurred, which inspired Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.

1969 - Wendy's Hamburgers opened in Columbus, Ohio.

1971 - Intel advertised the 4004-processor, the first micro-processor.

1979 - The UnaBomber struck for the first time when a bomb exploded in the cargo cabin of an American Airlines 727 on its way from Chicago to Washington.

1984 - Baby Fae died, an infant born a month earlier, but lived for 20 days with a transplanted baboon heart.

1990 - The world discovered that Milli Vanilli, the hot, new Grammy winning pop duo, were lip synching in their songs, and resulted in losing the Grammy award for Best New Artist.

1993- Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera joined the cast of The New Mickey Mouse Club.

#Todays smile

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livingcorner · 3 years ago

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Midwest Gardening — Gardening Basics

Cultivating the soil in your gardens is very important for your plants. And there is a difference between cultivating and tilling.

The basic principle of cultivating the soil in your garden is simply to break up and loosen the soil in the garden. But do you really know why? and how? and when? and what is the difference between cultivating and tilling?

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Cultivating is actually a combination of two things, removing weeds from the garden and loosening the soil to improve the retention and penetration of air, water and nutrients. Both are accomplished at the same time.

Why You Need to Cultivate:

Sun and wind dries the soil surface into a crust. Cultivating breaks up the soil surface, allowing easier penetration of air, nutrients and water deep into the soil where plant roots can access them.

Air that is able to penetrate the soil surface is also important to the micro-organisms in the soil that perform all kinds of important tasks improving the soil and creating nutrients for the plants.

Cultivated soil makes it easy for newly germinated seeds to sprout through the soil surface.

Although cultivating will bring some weed seeds to the soil surface to germinate, cultivating will also pull up and expose young weed sprouts. These young seedlings will die when left exposed on the soil surface. Weed seed germination is also interrupted by cultivating.

The removal of weeds decreases competition for water and nutrients, leaving everything for your plants to feed as needed.

By improving moisture penetration and therefore retention, cultivating reduces the need for supplemental watering.

A cultivated garden looks neat and fresh.

How to Cultivate:

Loosen the soil only a couple of inches deep when you cultivate. Cultivating too deeply only encourages the surface to dry out faster. Hand tools are ideally suited to the job.

Do not disturb plant roots, causing damage to your plants. Cultivating between the rows and not getting too close to your plants will prevent damaging roots.

Specific methods of cultivation are explained along with appropriate tools below.

When to Cultivate:

Read more: 10 Golden Rules for Watering

Only surface cultivate as necessary, over working of the soil is of no benefit. If you can clearly see that the surface has crusted over and that many weeds have sprouted, it is time to shallow cultivate.

Do not cultivate when the soil is wet, it will only cause further compaction. The soil should be quite dry, more dry than you think it should be is better than too moist.

Before you seed a bed. In particular, small fine seeds will have an easier time sprouting in cultivated soil.

Before planting flowers and vegetables.

Whenever you top dress the soil with compost or organic fertilizers, shallow cultivating will loosen the top crust of soil and integrate the added nutrients, reducing runoff from rain. Let the earthworms and micro-organisms do the work of fully integrating the nutrients into the soil.

Tilling:

Deep tilling or double digging poor soil is deep cultivation necessary when preparing a new bed or when adding large amounts of organic amendments every few years. Tilling will cultivate the soil 8-10 inches deep, perhaps more if you are preparing a new bed in poor soil. Shallower tilling of 4-8 inches is necessary when you are mixing soil amendments into a garden bed. This is ideally accomplished at the end of the growing season. Fall tilling allows you to amend the soil with rough organic amendments that will decompose slowly the following season, an ideal feeding situation for your plants next season. However, do not till in fall unless your intention is to add relatively large amounts of organic amendments to improve the soil. Some gardeners prefer not to upset the natural building of micro-organisms and earthworms other than when preparing a new garden bed. But digging in soil amendments every few years in fall can be done to a rather shallow depth, allowing the soil critters to do most of the work. Then spring till to prepare for planting. See the article about preparing the garden for winter for more details.

Why You Need to Till:

Soil becomes compacted over a period of years from rain and foot traffic.

Air pockets created by the loosened soil allow for air and water to be held for the plants to use.

The air is also important to the micro-organisms in the soil that perform all kinds of important tasks creating nutrients for the plants.

Loosened soil makes it easy for roots, and root vegetables, to spread out and grow in the soil. This is especially important in clay soil.

Preparing the garden bed for spring planting.

Shred and turn under a cover crop.

Not all gardeners agree about the necessity, frequency and depth of cultivating and tilling. All the above are generally accepted practices. Recently some small farmers have adopted No-Till Methods to disturb the soil as little as possible. This may be more important in acreage farms to reduce erosion problems. Weeds are taken care of with either herbicides or cover crops. But it may not be practical for backyard gardeners without proper no-till drills or chisel plow equipment.

Cultivating Tools:

There is such a wide variety of cultivating tools available that you will be able to select what suits your best. Think about how you like to work, up on your feet or down in the dirt. Do you like a heavy substantial tool or do you prefer lightweight for small hands? Is your garden closely planted or spacious? Is your soil light and sandy or heavy with clay? Are your plants large and sturdy or small and delicate? As you think about these questions, the answers will help you select tools that are best suited to you, your gardens, and your plants.

You will likely want a little bit of an assortment of tools for different situations. When you first start gardening or if you only have a small garden, just a few basic tools should be necessary. Buy only one trowel, one hoe or fork and one pointed spade. But buy the best you can afford that is well suited to your needs. As your garden space grows larger, you can start adding variations on the basic tools. The more you garden, the better ideas you will have of which specific tools will be most useful to you.

Spades

Getting down to the basics, a spade is basically just a shovel. You can get a square edged or pointed shovel (spade), scoop shovel, long or short handle with or without a D-Handle. The blade or scoop can be wide or narrow.

Round point spades are best for digging planting holes, hand digging/tilling the garden, and moving soil. A tread across the top of the spade makes it easier to push with your foot. A long handle with no D is most versatile. A top quality spade can handle most any digging chore.

Short handled round point spade should be the second spade to add to your tool collection. A short handle will give you better leverage for certain situations, for example digging out and lifting a large perennial root ball for dividing. A D-Ring handle may be preferred for a more controlled grip.

Border spades are narrow spades, with a square nose, round point or sawtooth edge for tough digging in clay or rocky soil or through roots.

Square nose spades are handy for making straight edge cuts in sod or for edging.

Hand Tools

Hand Trowels are essential for a great deal of the planting you will do. You will use a trowel to dig holes for small bedding plants, seedlings and bulbs, and for running small furrows for seed planting. Hand trowels are also available in a variety of lengths, widths and grips. Long narrow trowels are also available with inches marked on the blade for easily planting bulbs to the correct depth.

Read more: Rooftop Garden: Definition, Misconceptions, and Benefits – New York Decks

Hand Forks are quite commonly called cultivators or three pronged forks. Like the long handled cultivator, they are used for breaking up the soil surface and dislodging weeds. But the small hand sized tool is best for working in small spaces and where close attention around plants is necessary. Many garden tools are made ergonomically, and there are some mid sized forks out there that look like they would be easily gripped and controlled, better than a hand fork or long handled cultivator. You might want to check them out. And of course, there are narrow or wide forks, usually three pronged.

Miscellaneous and multi purpose hand tools are widely available. You can find fork/hoe combinations, Dutch push-pull weeders, small pointed furrow hoes, and a some things that I don’t even know what they are but I know I would find a use for them if they were in my shed.

Manual Cultivators

Manual cultivators are not motor powered and are operated from a standing position. However, there are some manual cultivators whose parts are mechanically driven while you push it along the soil. The cultivation is usually wheel or gear driven, putting quite a bit of “power” into your cultivation without expending so much energy. The tool you select will depend on the size of your gardens, the condition of your soil, and perhaps your personal power or energy availability. Long handled manual cultivators can be found with ergonomic fist grips on the upper part of the handle. A fist grip can make cultivating tough soils easier by giving you a little extra leverage and control.

Three pronged cultivators or forks, or even more commonly called a hoe even though it really isn’t a hoe, is one of the essential tools to get started with. The long handle cultivator will be used for spring garden preparation, smoothing the bed, cultivating, weeding, spreading compost, spreading manure, etc. I carry mine around all summer, there is always something I want it for.

Hoe, a true pull hoe, is a long handled cultivator with a downward curved flat blade. The hoe can be used for cultivating, and is great for weeding. You may also use it for smoothing beds and spreading compost or manure. A hoe is an excellent tool for hilling up soil around plants or to hill up potatoes. You can also get a wheeled hoe with a double plow type handles that can make a big job a little easier. These are ideal for row planted larger gardens or community plots where tool portability is important.

Dutch Hoes are still available, with some variations on blade design. A basic Dutch hoe has a stirrup head with a flat bottom that is sharp on both edges, that may swivel or oscillate. It is operated with a push pull motion to cut down weeds. Dutch hoes are not used all that much anymore because they have only one use, weeding. Although it is an excellent weeder, many gardeners may prefer multi purpose tools.

Mechanical, non motorized cultivators can save a lot of work compared to manual cultivators. They are ideal for mid sized gardens that don’t justify motorized tiller/cultivators. The most widely known tools of this sort are ‘Garden Weasel’ tools. I have to say, these are great tools for small and medium sized gardens. The ‘Claw’ has deep forks in a circular head that is inserted in the soil, then you just grasp the handle and twist, ideal for deep cultivation when prepping in spring. Aslo great for aerating and mixing compost. Available in mini sizes to pro. The ‘Weasel’ cultivator has three rotating heads of star tines that quickly cultivates and weeds with little effort.

Garden forks are more commonly referred to as pitch forks. Like spades, you will find them long or short handled, with or without a D-Ring, and in various widths for working in different sized gardens and for handling different sized material loads. Your fork can and should be used a lot for simple aeration of your garden. Simply inserting the fork deeply between the plants will aerate with little soil disturbance. You will probably also use a fork for moving straw, mulch and compost, or just breaking up soil. A garden fork is also great for lifting perennials for division. A Potato Fork has wide flat prongs and a large head for easy lifting of potatoes.

Rake

You will probably want a rake for smoothing the surface after cultivating to create a level bed. It also does a good job of loosening just the soil surface over large areas and gathering plant debris. Get a steel head garden rake with short tines, not a leaf rake.

Motorized Tiller / Cultivator

At some point when your gardening has gotten out of control, you may want an engine powered deep tiller / cultivator. it is a great piece of equipment that will make quick work of deep tilling. but for most back yard gardens, you could have the work done manually by the time you get the tiller out, fired up and turned back and forth in tight spaces. But maybe someday!

Source: https://livingcorner.com.au Category: Garden

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Review: Marvel’s The Punisher on Netflix.

Jon Bernthal returns as a bloody, brutal and merciless Frank Castle. (Netflix)

(mild Punisher spoilers for the first two episodes)

Originally written in Danish for a magazine. Translation from Danish to English by me, for @kate-katiehawkeye & the rest of the @thisendsbadly squad.

FRANK CASTLE IS NOT A HIPSTER.

The only thing missing at the start of the Punisher is a man bun, because with it, Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) would be a picture perfect hipster.

That’s where the equation ends, though.

Frank Castle has grown a full facial beard six months after the events of season 2 of Daredevil (2016) and is now living life as the quiet construction worker Pete Castiglioni. Frank Castle is officially dead, killed by an explosion at the harbor when he blew himself and a boat filled with drugs up.

Pete Castiglioni, however, is very much alive.

He is haunted by nightmares though, and often hides behind the door to listen to what advice his good friend, veteran corspman Curtis Hoyle (Jason R. Moore), has to give to war veterans at anonymous meetings. Curtis Hoyle is one of the few people in New York who know that Frank Castle is still alive, and he is intent on helping Frank through his PTSD.

Frank’s brutal past catches up with him when the mysterious hacker Micro (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) suddenly rips open Frank’s fresh scars again. The murders of his family and his vigilante vendetta come back to haunt him. Again.

He draws Frank into a conspiracy-filled rabbit hole.

And that rabbit hole is deep- very deep.

Dinah Madani (Amber Rose Revah), a Homeland Security agent, is also poking around in the same hole. She wants to find out what happened in a basement, in Afghanistan, where her partner was mysteriously killed.

Scriptwriter Steve Lightfoot (Netflix's Narcos, NBC's Hannibal) addresses some very current American discourses. Weapon control, mass shootings and the (lack of) treatment of war veterans are recurring themes in each episode. The Punisher is strongest when Frank Castle's actions from Daredevil get distorted to fit into others' narratives. It’s a direct reflection of how the The Punisher character has become a myth in American military corps.

And there are a lot of war veterans in The Punisher: Billy Russo (Ben Barnes), founder of private security firm Anvil; Lewis Walcott (Daniel Webber), the PTSD-plagued soldier who digged a trench in his back yard; O’Connor (Delaney Williams), the stereotyped pro-gun Bible-quoting Vietnam veteran who knows best...

Unfortunately, the many side plots often steal the spotlight from the main protagonist.

Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle is eminent. He has repeatedly stated that he would do all he could to portray the cult character accurately, and he has managed to do just that. We got a small taste of it in Daredevil, but when he carries the lead on his own, it becomes something magical. A recurring tic is his fingertips rubbing together when his body feels the need for a weapon with a trigger to set his brutal fury lose. His cold and calculating eyes also master expressing kindness and humor in one of the best performances I have seen in years.

The blood sprays and splits mercilessly as bullets pierce flesh, as blades cut through skin and as fists connect with faces.

It fits the show so well. Especially when Tyler Bates’ music emphasizes every moment in a Western-worthy composition.

Marvel’s superheroes on Netflix have been plagued by mysticism, mutants and magic. The Punisher does not follow this trend. Instead, the series chooses to engage in conspiracies, PTSD in war veterans, and so called vigilante justice. It’s a fresh but bloody breath of fresh air in the Marvel Cinematic Universe- there are no secret Asian sects or invading aliens trying to destroy the world.

Only the very best and absolute worst human character traits.

And that’s worth the look.

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Living the Outdoor Life, Even From Inside

By Nancy Trent

Shortly after Outdoor Retailer Winter, the largest B2B trade event serving the outdoor industry, we were all told to stay inside and quarantine from COVID-19. Prior to these extenuating circumstances, it was rumored that only 99% of the innovations shown at the event ever made it to the destination intended…mountaintops, trails that turned to ice, avalanches…you get the picture. You see, the outdoorsy lifestyle is trendier than ever. The equipment and accessories are selling, however they are hardly being used exclusively by a hardcore audience. Instead, soft-core enthusiasts are becoming the more lucrative consumer, looking to dip their toes in the great outdoors.

According to New York magazine’s popular Strategist column, hammock sales in the city are on the rise, as people are desperate to bring the outdoors in. Trampolines are also making their way indoors. That’s because for many, outdoors is synonymous with active lifestyle. Movement boosts immunity and positivity and people are experimenting and seeking ways to re-create recreation.

Outdoor apparel, recovery products, and activities can also be used indoors.

Here are a few items we discovered and have been enjoying:

What to wear

Starting with the base: “The base-layer segment is witnessing exceptional growth as the number of consumers incorporating a base-layer for their leisure and outdoor activities continues to rise,” said Adrian Cory, Commercial Manager at Odlo. As the number one performance base-layer brand in a number of key European territories, and the original pioneer of functional sports underwear since 1946, Odlo has been introducing new styles into U.S. retail that are in response to new trends and demands from American consumers.

The Performance Blackcomb is an outstanding performance synthetic base-layer that has responded to the underwear/outerwear trend through functional design. Women, in particular, demand the first layer to be versatile enough to be worn as an outer piece when relaxing around the ski lodge or going out. The style is all important, but Blackcomb still offers all the functional attributes needed for skiing, running, working out at the gym, etc.

Odlo’s commitment to sustainability will further be witnessed when the fall/winter ranges hit stores. Odlo’s Performance Warm ECO and Active Warm ECO ranges will all be produced using recycled plastic, which, more importantly, is reclaimed plastic from the oceans. In total, 68% of Odlo’s fall/winter range will be recycled or sustainable in some fashion.

Be Aware of What You Wear is the campaign message for 2020 and beyond as Odlo strives for 100% sustainability across its entire inventory.

Kari Traa is another base layer brand for women only, founded by a Norwegian Olympics medalist. It started when Kari customized her own gear, adding color and lots of unique style and function. “We saw the trend of using nature both for activity and for mental recreation,” said Brianna Dean, Senior Marketing Coordinator, Active Brands North America. “We believe this is being reinforced now in these times. We have created a feminine collection for women who want to enjoy the great outdoors, whether it’s camping in the woods or skiing in the mountains.”

More than ever, it is important to take women in real-life and make clothing that is suitable for the shapes and expressions that are unique to us. There is a great need for feminine base-layers that don’t compromise design, color, and fit.

“Autumn/Winter ‘20 is all about mixing things up and doing the unexpected: having fun,” said Dean. “The colors, cuts and graphics are set to inspire women towards outdoor activities. Old classics are preserved, inherited material is resumed and twisted into a modern and outdoorsy expression. There is a goal in the industry to make long-lasting garments. We can preserve Mother Earth by being conscious when creating our clothes, both in design and choice of material. There is also a long-awaited need for female super-heroes who can inspire and give girls an extra voice in society. Here we have our own super woman in our founder, Kari Traa.”

Terramar, a base layer brand with 40 years of history has products with competitive features and prices, is ideal for people seeking micro adventures. More people will want to be get out and move more. That means base layers will be necessary in all seasons, and people will be seeking out the best possible price on product they aren’t assured they need until they try it.

Keeping warm, dry and comfortable: Hot Chillys continues to engineer advanced performance base-layers, socks and patented face masks for skiing that can be used for other sports after the snow melts.The company’s iconic “Original” is the first body fit base layer – a blend of wool and polypropylene and packaged in a bright yellow can.

Down with fashion: There’s a big movement of sustainability that has become a number-one priority, and outerwear needs to be light and warm. Furlux is a women’s luxury fashion company specializing in outwear and winter accessories. It brings fashion, fit and style to the outwear and winter world allowing you to express yourself no matter the weather. “Outerwear needs to be light and warm,” said Valery Geoffroy, Founder of Furlux. “Women don’t need to wear big heavy coats anymore to be stylish, they can have down that is ultra-warm and ultra-light.” And very fashionable!

A century of Merino wool: Minus33 Merino Wool Clothing is superior in quality and performance. It is a 5th generation family company that has over 104 years of history in the wool industry. They believe everyone should feel welcome, comfortable, and safe no matter the activity. That is why they create quality products that can be worn in all different weather and seasons. The sheep their wool comes from has had more time to evolve than engineered fabrics, which may be why it is more antimicrobial, anti-bacterial, is flame- and fire-resistant, softer, stays dry and captures scent.

Warm wearables: We may be cooped up inside ,but after a long day of working from home you may want to go for a walk to move your legs. Yet, it is still chilly outside in some areas, and we need some gear to ensure we stay warm and bundled. Gobi Heat is the perfect heated companion to keep you staying warm whether you’re venturing outside for some fresh air or need some extra warmth while you’re staying isolated inside. Whether it’s in their jackets, vests, pants, hats, socks or gloves, you will feel the heat in less than 30 seconds using their current technology and manufacturing processes, Gobi Heat continues to offer warmth, comfort, durable, trendy apparel for all your outdoor and everyday needs.

Weather-proof: People who want to bike, run, hike or climb will do so despite the elements. Companies such as Shower Pass make apparel and gear to make it easier to withstand the elements. The 22-year-old brand is known for its waterproof, breathable and functional rain gear and continues to broaden its line with sustainability in mind.

Preventing injury

Avoid chafing: If you experience any pain from skin-to-skin or skin-to-clothes contact, including chafing from protective facial masks, applying Body Glide Anti-Chafe balm before you move, will prevent redness, irritation, and chafing. Body Glide Body Balm is a glide-easy balm that protects skin from chafing by creating an invisible barrier on the skin. The balm does not leave any grease or mess – and is completely stain-free, leaving no mark on clothes and shoes.

Roll yourself well: Back pain is trending up and people like being able to take care of themselves at home. The two combined are upping the demand for simple pain relief from home. “Most people ride it out and hope their back or neck or hips just heal themselves,” said Tate Stock, creator of The Chirp Wheel.

The Chirp Wheel is designed to fit perfectly between your shoulder blades, targeting the muscles that go up and down your spine. It features a comfy mat design with a spinal canal to massage your muscles, relaxing your back and relieve pain. “Chirp’s goal is to be 100x better of an experience than going to a doctor’s office, waiting in the lobby forever, and then getting a bill a few weeks later for an amount you can never accurately estimate,” explained Stock.

What to take with you

Care how you carry: RIGWA Life is the most versatile bowl that is perfect for lunches, work, on the go, traveling, outdoors, etc. It keeps both hot and cold food fresh with its innovative design. It is vacuum insulated stainless steel, has a two-finger open design, BPA-Free insulated lid, double-walled food grade stainless steel and is spill proof. RIGWA Life was created to help reduce the use of single-use plastics, help you live a more sustainable life and eat healthier food how you want it, when you want it.

Things to do

The lightest step: Northern Lites is said to be the world’s lightest snowshoe, up to 75% lighter than competing snowshoes while still remaining durable as proven with a lifetime warranty. Northern Lites makes snowshoeing easy no matter your athletic ability, the weight makes it easy for beginners to succeed and allows pro’s to be able to increase speed. Northern Lites allows you to get outdoors in snow and explore nature.

Mining for profits: Minelab’s broad range of metal detectors finds metal materials on all kinds of terrain and through magnetic minerals, iron rich soil and deep water and provides purpose for a walk and encouraging family fun.

Expect to see more outdoor apparel, gear and activities for delivery online and more innovation on the market in 2021. Stay tuned to outdoorretailer.com for show updates.

As seen in WholeFoods Magazine

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Wild and Free

Digging Deep with Goddess Gardener, Cynthia Brian

Wild and Free By Cynthia Brian

"I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. " Henry David Thoreau

Mother Nature has an astounding way of rebounding. The blackened, charred hills behind my house from the October wildfire are now a carpet of emerald green grass accessorized by a super bloom of glorious orange California poppies, and tall, bright yellow mustard. My orchard is blanketed with a plethora of colorful wildflowers mixed with the blooms from seeds either scattered by the wind or me at the end of autumn when the first rains drizzled onto our parched earth. Nigella, morning glory, nasturtium, calendula, statice, euphorbia, chamomile, lupin, daisy, yarrow, and more. My fruit trees have been a succession of flowering petals and delicate fragrance, forecasting a bounty of fresh treats to come.

After six weeks of staying-at-home, my garden is more alive and gorgeous than ever. The sky is blue and free of jet streams. The heady perfume of jasmine, lilacs, and wisteria waft through the clean air. The birds are singing as they build their nests. Trotting turkeys “gobble gobble”, bowing to one another, then gobbling again in their quest for mates. Untamed vines tangle their tendrils up tree trunks, along wires, and onto fences. Tulip, rose, lavender, iris, azaleas geranium, pelargonium, cyclamen, vinca, bird of paradise, and a plethora of other plants are a parade of festivity. Drifts of daffodils and mounds of grape hyacinth continue to add color and liveliness. Herbs and leafy greens are harvested daily to add nutrition and zest to meals. Freshly picked as needed, oranges, tangerines, lemons, limes, and tangelos provide plenty of vitamin C to keep my family well. My spirits are soaring with gratitude for my garden. I am healthy and happy as I witness spring unfurl in all its glory. I may not be interacting with people, but I am intensely involved with living beings in every moment I spend outdoors. Hopefully, with people ensconced at home, our planet is healing and rebuilding its strength.

The natural world is wild and free. Humans have the power and the responsibility to save our planet. In this beautiful month, be grateful for everything we are and everything we have. Refocus and reclaim your positivity. Reduce stress and anxiety by going where the wild things are…hills, fields, and your garden. Grow yourself!

Cynthia Brian’s Gardening Guide for May

PROVIDE security for birds by building a nest box for the birds you want to attract. Place it in the shade with a clear flight path to the entrance. SOW for succession to provide pollinators a buffet throughout the growing season. SAVE your back and build a raised bed. It’s easy if you enjoy DIY projects. When you wire the bottom, you won’t have gophers or other diggers eating your crops. INVOLVE your kids in gardening by allowing them to grow seeds that feature a rainbow of colors to fill their plates. Red radishes, orange carrots, green peppers, purple beets, and an array of lettuces will sprout quickly. PLANT aromatic herbs and nutritious vegetables that will ensure the health of your family. Beans, peas, eggplant, broccoli, potatoes, cabbage, and turnips. Towards the end of the month, add tomatoes to your plot. TRELLIS your vining plants such as wisteria, jasmine, and bower plants. TOWER gardens are a great alternative if you have a small space. Find ready-made options online. CHECK sprinklers and irrigation systems for leaks. FERTILIZE containers as needed. Plants in pots lose nutrients more quickly than those planted in the ground. SPRUCE up your patio to prepare for entertaining. Power wash hard surfaces and get ready to celebrate a Mother’s Day picnic at home. SOW annuals now in a rich soil mixture. Marigolds, cosmos, zinnias, and bachelor buttons are excellent choices for a showy summer. MULCH your garden with grass clippings, chopped leaves, and other organic composts to reduce weeds. ELIMINATE any standing water from gutters, pot saucers, old tires, or puddles to reduce the breeding of mosquitoes. DEADHEAD spent blossoms from any annuals or perennials to encourage continuous blooming. PRUNE back daffodil leaves only when they are yellow and crispy. THROW bait to eradicate snails and slugs from devouring new sprouts. READ my books available from https://www.CynthiaBrian.com/online-store. To avoid shipping charges, I will leave your enhanced package outside my office door for you. There will be no personal contact. MOW your lawn without the bag at least every other week. This allows the nitrogen and nutrients that are in the grass to nurture the growing blades. EAT the flowers from nasturtiums, roses, arugula, cilantro, thyme, roses, basil, and sage. They add flavor and beauty to many dishes. CUT a branch from a flowering tree, like cherry, for a striking indoor statement. CREATE stunning aromatic bouquets with blooming lilacs, wisteria, jasmine, and roses, REGISTER your yard or garden as a Certified Wildlife Habitat at https://www.nwf.org/CertifiedWildlifeHabitat. The $20 fee supports wildlife. FOLLOW up ground fertilizing of flowers, perennials, vegetables, and fruits with foliar and micro-nutrients at appropriate times during the growing season. EAT fresh fruits and veggies, especially those you grow yourself. SLEEP seven to eight hours every day to keep your immune system strong. BREATHE and know that the sun is going to shine tomorrow.

It may take some months before we are social gathering again. For those of us who usually shake hands or hug, we may be wise to take the advice of the World Health Organization and begin bowing. Or do as I learned in India last year: clasp hands in prayer, bow, and whisper Namaste. Although we are apart, we are together, and we can view this time as a learning experience. Get thee into thy garden. Grow thyself! Be wild and free. Stay healthy. Stay safe. Stay home.

Happy Gardening. Happy Growing. Photos and more at http://www.lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue1405/Digging-Deep-with-Goddess-Gardener-Cynthia-Brian-Wild-and-free.html

Cynthia Brian, The Goddess Gardener, is available for hire to help you prepare for your spring garden. Raised in the vineyards of Napa County, Cynthia is a New York Times best-selling author, actor, radio personality, speaker, media and writing coach as well as the Founder and Executive Director of Be the Star You Are!® 501 c3. Tune into Cynthia’s StarStyle® Radio Broadcast at www.StarStyleRadio.com.

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Wild and Free

Digging Deep with Goddess Gardener, Cynthia Brian

Wild and Free By Cynthia Brian

Cynthia Brian’s Gardening Guide for May

Happy Gardening. Happy Growing. Photos and more at http://www.lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue1405/Digging-Deep-with-Goddess-Gardener-Cynthia-Brian-Wild-and-free.html

Cynthia is available for virtual writing projects, garden consults, and inspirational lectures. [email protected] www.GoddessGardener.com

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Pilates Exercises in New York City for Lower Back Pain:

The Neutral Spine position that's taught in Joseph Pilates Philosophy and emphasized in each Pilates classes used because of the most functionally ideal or “perfect” posture for our bodies. The curves in our spine are used to produce stability and mobility for taking on the load and pressure of our bodies in our daily life. The strong concentrate on the core strength creates stronger support muscles for the spine. By implementing these techniques into your daily life,��you start to fix the matter at the cause, instead of only treat the symptoms.

That is what we concentrate on, everything begins from the core. The following Pilates Exercises in New York City are some we do in nearly every class. And that we emphasize your type and make body awareness so you'll utilize these principles on your own as well. Type equals perform, therefore once your type is best, you'll really take advantage of each exercise to support your spine, and assist in lower back pain. 1. Pelvic Tilt or Imprinting:

This simple however effective Pilates Exercises in New York City gets the deep core muscle switched on and builds strength within the support system of the spine.

1. Lay on your back in Neutral Spine, knees bent and feet flat on the ground. 2. As you exhale, raise your pelvis, and think about “tilting” your pelvis back to flatten your back or “imprint” your spine. These are the right time to Kegel and interact your transverse abs, the deepest a part of your abdominals. These also are referred to as your pelvic floor muscles. 3. Inhale at the highest, and as you exhale, you may slowly articulate your spine, roll back down one vertebra at a time, flatten your back, and tilt your pelvis forward over again, to finish in your neutral spine. 2. Chest Lift:

This is an exercise (Pilates Exercises in New York City) to strengthen your core, which is able to support your lower back. 1. Lay on your back in Neutral spine, knees bent, feet flat on the ground and hands behind the head. Pelvic floor and other core muscles engaged. 2. Exhale as you raise your head and chest as you imagine pulling in your belly button into your spine, and creating your pelvis is still. 3. Inhale to lay your head back down. If you want to require this to the next level, you'll raise your legs into a tabletop, or move into hundreds. Which might be done at all levels: legs bent, legs in the work surface, or legs in forty-five degrees. 3. Supine Spinal Twist:

Rotation helps to stretch the back muscles and controlling this movement also helps to strengthen the oblique muscles to more support the spine. 1. Lay on your back, knees bent, feet flat on the ground in your correct grounding type together with your arms stretched out to the sides. 2. Keep knees squeezed together; slowly take the knees over to at least one side, keeping shoulder blades connected with the ground. 3. Take a breath pulling your navel into your spine and drag the knees back to the middle. Repeat the exercise 3-5 times to every side, alternating sides. You should try to hold the stretch position for 10-15 seconds so your body will really get into the stretch. 4. Hamstring and Hip Flexor Stretch:

There is a strong correlation between LBP and tight hamstrings and hip flexors. Our instructors at Archer are all right versed in tight hip flexors, therefore we know however can affect LBP! Stretching these muscles help to right away relief tension in the back and continued stretching over time will help improve the posture within the lower back.

Hamstring Stretch:1. Lay on back. One leg bent and other leg lifted straight towards the ceiling.

2. Try and keep your leg as straight as possible, however, keep a micro-bend if required. Pull your leg towards you as much as possible without twisting, till you're feeling a stretch throughout the entire back of your leg. 3. Keep breathes flowing and try to relax, use each inhales and exhales to go deeper into your stretch. Hold for 15-20 seconds so repeat with the opposite leg.

Hip Flexor Stretch: 1. Kneel on the bottom with one leg forward. Lift tall within the spine and keep the navel pulling into your spine, and then tuck the pelvis below.

2. You'll begin to feel a stretch within the front of the hip. Bring your weight forward at your own level to feel if you'll handle a deeper stretch. 5. Roll Backs:

Moving the spine using the abdominal muscles as done in this exercise (Pilates Exercises in New York City), helps to not solely stretch and relieve tension within the back muscles however also help to strengthen the core and abdominals. You’re strengthening your spine, and also making more quality as well.

1. Sit tall with the legs bent well to get into front and feet on the ground, hip bone distant apart, therefore your pelvis has the room to tild forward. Hands placed on the back of the thighs. 2. Exhale, scoop your belly and start curving the spine starting from the tailbone, rolling backward till arms are straight and also the whole spine is curved in a very C-shape. You should feel like the navel is that the furthest purpose pulling backward. 3. Hold there and inhale. Exhale and bring the body forward, keeping the C-curve, till shoulders are over the hips, then stack the spine up to a straight, tall position. Repeat 6-10 times.

6. Kneeling Arm and Leg Reach:

This exercise (Pilates Exercises in New York City) works the whole stabilizing muscle system for the torso and each part of your body should be engaged, for a full body exercise.

1. Kneel on all fours, ensuring your wrists are below the shoulders, the knees are beneath your hips, and also the spine is in neutral.

2. Whereas keeping your torso still and balance, reach one arm forward and also the opposite leg back keeping the fingertips and toes on the bottom.

3. Raise the extended arm and leg off the bottom, keeping the navel pulled into your spine facilitate stabilizes the torso. Check that you are doing not lean into your helpful arm. Hold for a number of seconds before bringing the hand and leg backtrack and to the beginning position. If you’ve had to readjust, you may apprehend if you have got emotional the trunk throughout the exercise. This can be an oblique exercise further, as they are the components of your core that are helping you to not lean into one side. Attempt to correct this with every repetition. Repeat 3-5 times each side. If you discover it too difficult to regulate the torso and spine once lifting the arm and leg, you'll omit the raise till you have got the strength within the core, or do the whole exercise however with arms and legs individually.

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Bigger Universe, Extended

The portal closes behind Tony while he's too busy staring at the explosion.

He's feeling – horror is not quite the right word for it. Something about the vastness of universe and the infinity of space and the fact that there are aliens and they have better tech than him and how small and fragile Earth is, all of it wrapped in micron thin layer of

holy shit holy shit holyshit

Cosmic horror maybe, because he feels cosmically horrified.

And the portal closes.

"Shit, " Tony gasps, trying to turn to look. He's flying forwards fast and the seam of the portal closing is already far behind him, vanishing fast. "JARVIS?"

"Connection with Tower Mainframe lost, sir. The portal is gone," JARVIS answers, while Tony looks at the HUD, desperate for facts. No atmospheric pressure, of course, no heat readings, no gasses – bit of radiation, wonderful.

The compass can't tell which way is up – which makes sense since Tony can't tell which way is up – because there is no up in space. What even is up?

It almost makes him laugh, hysterically. He shouldn't, because he's stranded in god knows where in space and it's not funny. "JARVIS, what's up?" he asks and giggles and oh god he's going to die.

"Well, good news is, with intake closed off and regulators off line, the suit can handle vacuum of space," JARVIS says somewhat sardonically. "Congratulations, sir, you have a viable space suit."

"And the bad news?" Tony asks.

"You have approximately 526 seconds of oxygen remaining."

"Shit," Tony answers. Under nine minutes. "What the hell do I – JARVIS, scan everything, scan the," he motions ahead, at the wreck of the Chitauri fleet. "Scan everything."

"Scanning," JARVIS answers dutifully and as the scanners come online Tony tries to figure out how to fly in space.

Answer: very fast.

"Hooly shit! Whoa, okay, okay, steering is – argh," Tony flails as the smallest repulsor burst send him into wild spins. "JARVIS, lower the output on hand repulsors!"

JARVIS does as asked and after some more flailing Tony manages to aim himself forward and at the wreck ahead. Though calling it a wreck is really putting it lightly.

It's an asteroid field of metal. There's the – station maybe? Which is now blown open thanks to a direct hit with a nuke. Then there are the masses, absolute masses of Chitauri everywhere.

"JARVIS," Tony says as they zoom past a inert group of the big metal whale things. "Are they dead?"

"I am registering energy and heat signatures from various devices – but no movements."

"Anything organic?"

"I am detecting organic matter, yes, however nothing living within the scanners reach, aside from you sir."

Tony looks at a group of Chitauri on their hover bike things. Their pilots are… hanging around, more or less some by only a loose grip still holding onto the controls of their vehicles. Some of the pilots were just floating there, above and around the still bikes.

They look dead. But they also look partially robotic, which throws a wrench into any logic one might apply to them. But dead or not – they're definitely out of the fight now. "They're like machines – it's a remote controlled cyborg army," Tony mutters. "That's a… that's pretty tough deal now that I think about it."

"Quite. And it seems you broke the remote, sir."

"Do you think that killed them?" Tony asks uneasily, looking around them, at the Chitauri bodies floating about.

"I am not registering any life signatures," JARVIS says simply, which is as good as yes.

Tony narrows his eyes. "They might be zombie space cyborgs. Could be that they never were alive in the first place."

"What a delightful concept, sir."

It's eerie to fly past these enormous clumps of a completely inert army – eerie and a little bit terrifying because all of these things had been aimed at Earth. And there was a lot of them, more and more every which way he looks. Only fraction of the actual invasion force had gotten through.

If the portal hadn't closed...

"Damn," Tony mutters. Soon he'd process through the whole thing – soon he'd be pissed off about being stranded in space. Right now he's just glad this force hadn't gotten to his planet. Just few more minutes and it would've been to much for Avengers to handle

"Fuck, we got lucky that the portal was so small," Tony sighs and then looks ahead – above, below? It's hard to tell, directions don't really work in zero gravity. The wreck of the control station ship thing is coming closer fast in any case – and with it, the radiation climbs.

Gamma rays all over the place. It had been one of SHIELD's juiced up Tesseract nukes, then. Damn. If it had hit New York, had hit where it'd been aimed – his tower smack in middle of Manhattan… the death toll would've been in the millions. Talk about fucking overkill.

"Sir, I am detecting a pocket of gasses inside the vessel," JARVIS says and a litany of gasses pop up on Tony's HUD.

"I can't breathe that," Tony says with a frown. There is nitrogen and oxygen though. "Can we filter it?"

"Debatable, sir. However, it is the best available option," JARVIS informs him.

"Right," Tony says and looks around. "Let's see if we can get in, then."

Behind the Chitauri command centre there are stars, painfully brilliant stars – a galactic core, Tony thinks vaguely, has to be. It shines like something out of a sci-fi movie, except better and worse because it's real, real and blinding. Its space, it's real honest to god space and he's seeing not on a screen but – well, on a screen but it's his HUD screen. Live image. Because it's real.

"I'm in space," Tony whispers.

"Yes, sir, and you have 253 seconds of oxygen remaining. So I'd suggest getting indoors."

"I'm in space, JARVIS. Actual space."

Oh god he's in space, looking at the centre of a galaxy and he doesn't even know if it's the Milky Way.

"Becoming part of a bigger universe," Tony murmurs. "Fury, you prophetic son of a bitch."

Finding a way into the space station thing is easy – finding a way easy without breaking the gas pocket inside is harder. Tony could blast his way in, easy enough – but then there would go the gas bubble and any use he might get out of it would be gone.

The place is a wreck of debris, bits of metal flying this way and that, and gaping holes where the nuke had torn into the station. Tony has to constantly evade to avoid being hit, and he's probably lucky that the fastest moving bits are already long gone, flung into space – there are no micro meteors around anymore to tear holes into his suit. It's still not exactly the safest place ever.

"I need an airlock, a section with bulkheads, something," Tony says. "JARVIS, do you have a map of the remains?"

"Given value of a map, sir," JARVIS answers and then brings up a simile of a one on the HUD screen. There are haphazard tunnels of gas inside the wrecked station, some of them broken by sections of no gas, others continuing for hundreds of feet before ending abruptly where the space station had been torn open.

There's no time to debate on which way would be the smartest – Tony is running out of air, fast. So, he picks a section which he hopes has been sealed into individual bits and then dives into the wreck, looking for a door of some kind to force open.

He finds it, with metal girders and walls collapsed all around it. The door is dilating door, which makes forcing the damn thing open harder than it has any reasonable right to be – but maybe that's the point. Harder for any potential hostile forces to break in.

Damn Chitauri and their surprisingly reasonable constructions.

"JARVIS, more power to boot repulsor," Tony grunts, while trying to take a grip of the edge of the metal door, right at the centre. JARVIS ups his propulsion and Tony is almost thrown off the door entirely, face planting against it – once again, steering in zero-G. "Fuck, okay, let me –" he quickly shifts his feet to different angles, one pushing him forwards while other pushes up. "Okay, another try."

It's all so strangely silent – Tony can only hear the whir of the suit and his own breath, but door itself is silent as it opens, bit by bit, dilating open at the middle. There is a sudden push – gas escaping – that almost throws Tony off the door entirely, but he hangs on for dear life, until the entire section inside is empty.

Tony checks the map – and thank god, he didn't blow the entire gas bubble, just about twenty feet section of it. The thing is divided into sealed sections, thank, fucking, god.

"Okay, now we just need to get in," Tony mutters. He finally gets the door open by levering his shoulder against the opening and pushing until the plates finally give away, and the door dilates enough for him to squeeze in.

"92 Seconds of oxygen remaining," JARVIS informs him with a note of alarm in his voice.

"Gotta close it," Tony answers and then they do the whole door thing in reverse, forcing the sickle-like blades of the door back inwards, to close the iris. Thankfully that is easier – the thing is made to shut easily and open hard. "JARVIS, is it sealed? Is it airtight?"

"I am not hundred percent certain, sir, it would need to be tested with gas," JARVIS answers. "But I believe so."

"Right, awesome, excellent," Tony says and then blasts off from the door. JARVIS has the oxygen timer on the screen now – 56 seconds, 55 seconds…

Now that he has the technique figured out, he gets the next dilating bulkhead open in just fifteen unbearable seconds, rather than thirty, and shut in four. He loses some oxygen to physical exertion and by the time he gets the second bulk head shut, he's sitting at 31 seconds.

The gas settles – the bulkheads hold.

"JARVIS, if we put all we have into filters, is there any way we can get something I can breath out of this crap?" Tony asks desperately. 28 seconds.

JARVIS calculates it – and he must be desperate too because the HUD bluescreens for a moment into code before clearing back into image. "It won't be pleasant, sir, and it will diminish the lifespan of the filters by approximately 60%.

"My lifespan is diminished by 100% if we don't – just do it!"

JARVIS is right. It's not pleasant. It's not pleasant at all. Even with the filters working at 150% the small puff of air JARVIS gives him smells like rotten eggs and instantly makes Tony's head spin – too much methane, too much ammonia.

"Oh holy fucking – oh no, erugh," Tony gags in his helmet and has to take a moment to try and breathe in calmly in order to stop himself from vomiting – which doesn't actually help. "Oh no, nope, nuh-uh, can't. Oh my god I'm going to hurl. I can't hurl into a sealed helmet, I'll drown – oh my god."

"Small breaths through, sir," JARVIS suggests helplessly.

"Small breaths don't help – I think I can feel my lungs trying to crawl out of my body," Tony says and gags again. The urge to vomit is overwhelming. Body, trying to expel poisons. Wonderful. "I need proper filters and I need them now. Or a tank of pure oxygen – JARVIS you wouldn't have possibly spotted anything like that? Please tell me you did."

"I'm afraid not, sir," JARVIS answers regretfully. "However I have scanned the vehicle and I believe I have discovered some form of atmospheric regulator system."

"... and it being a space ship type of thing, it would have gas control," Tony says, trying to swallow around the terrible taste in his mouth and with shudder quickly looks around.

The Chitauri space station is… well, it's alien. Tony supposes he's lucky it's not some ghastly uncanny valley amalgamation of organic and inorganic like the Chitauri themselves – no, thankfully the place is fully metal. But it's just… alien. It's weird sort of grandiose with metal that looks almost golden, with angles that look almost artistic – but it's all set against a sort of dirty, washed out black that then makes everything look a bit like bottom of a rusting barrel. It's hard to put a word for it.

It would make a nice set for an Alien movie.

"Still no life signals?" Tony asks, swallowing and trying to ignore the way his stomach roils while giving a nearby wall a uneasy look. He thinks he's seen photo filters with that gradient – the one that makes everything look post-apocalyptic.

"None, sir," JARVIS replies.

Around them place is quiet and eerie and empty – dead, except for the occasional distant crash of debris hitting the remaining walls and structures of the space station. Every sound echoes hollowly in the distance. It's like they're in a submarine. Which is sinking. And falling apart.

Its just creepy, all of it.

"Okay," Tony says and shudders again. "Ugh, right. Talk me through the atmospheric regulator and let's see if we can get the methane and ammonia at least out before I fucking choke to death."

"Gladly, sir," JARVIS says and with the scanners online and constantly sweeping the area surrounding them, they set to explore the space station.

Eventually, Tony starts running into bodies.

A lot of bodies.

It seems that it wasn't just the Chitauri outside that got – un-remote-controlled. The ones inside had just keeled over too, leaving their cooling bodies floating all over the place. Close up and in the empty, creepy space station, they're even worse than they'd been on Earth. At least in Earth there had been familiar homely things around them to distract from the sheer… creepiness of the Chitauri.

Their faces look a lot like skulls, with bit of alien skin stretched over them.

"You know, as far alien invasion armies go, these guys are up there with the best of them," Tony comments. "Please tell me we're getting somewhere near some kind of control centre because I am probably going to freak out soon. And hyperventilating in this shit is not my idea of good time."

"I," JARVIS says and then stops. "I suspect I might have made a miscalculation."

"Oh?" Tony asks, subtly lifting a hand in case he's about to be attacked.

"I judged by the design of the walls that they lead into some sort of centralised control centre, but we have not so far encountered any sort of user interfaces. It might be that there are no physical controls here."

Tony frowns and looks around them. All the walls so far have been smooth – there are no door controls, no controls for lights, no panels, nothing. There is nothing resembling an user interface anywhere he can see. "Oh," he says and then looks down at a near by Chitauri body, floating a foot or so from the floor.

A cybernetically enhanced Chitauri body.

"They interface with their brains," Tony says flatly. "Of course they do."

"Well, via their uplinks, however those work," JARVIS agrees.

Shaking his head, Tony lowers himself down to prod at the dead Chitauri. The alien doesn't as much as twitch. "Sure they're dead?" Tony asks while the body slowly turns after his prod

"I am detecting nothing resembling organic life signature," JARVIS says. "And I believe their implants are… fried."

"Hm," Tony answers and pushes the Chitauri over. "Scan it and give me a picture."

The picture is somewhat grim one. Of course Tony isn't entirely sure the Chitauri kept their brains in their heads – or that they even had brains. But something had blown up in their heads, turning the insides into a goopy mushy mess.

"A self destruct," Tony surmises. "When the control centre blew up and they lost their uplink, it triggered a self destruct. That's a… bit gruesome."

"I suppose Chitauri do not know the concept of surrender, sir," JARVIS says.

Tony stands up again. "Shit," he then says. "I was hoping we could hijack whatever's left of this place. At least enough to give me a viable atmosphere to breath in, for fuck's sake."

There's a moment of silence, during which the hopelessness of being stranded on an alien ship full of poisonous gas with bunch of dead aliens with no way back home and no idea where in the universe he even is licks at the edge of his sanity. Then Tony pushes it aside because – fuck it, he's not dying here.

"Can you – JARVIS do you think you can interface with the station?" He asks. "We got our own uplink, any chance it's at all like the one Chitauri use? I mean the electromagnetic spectrum is the same for everyone and that's what everyone uses, right?"

"We can only hope," JARVIS answers and falls quiet, testing it out.

Tony breathes shallowly as he waits, shutting his eyes for a moment. He thinks he's maybe getting used to the smell of rotting eggs. Or it might be that his olfactory sense is getting completely fucking fried here. He's getting light headed though, more and more as time goes on. Definitely not enough oxygen.

"I don't think they use the electromagnetic spectrum in their communications sir," JARVIS finally says. "However I think – the station can hear me?"

"AI?" Tony answers, swallowing. His tongue feels rotten.

"I'm not certain," JARVIS answers in strange tone of voice. "It is receiving my communication, but it is not responding. I am not certain it can understand me."

"It's alien. Why would it? We got different languages. If it even uses language," Tony says and breathes in and out, in and out. "Try and – I don't know. How do people do first contact with different languages in movies? Universal constants, uh, atomic weights, electromagnetic spectrum – π? Mathematics?"

"I do not think the station can comprehend my programming language," JARVIS admits.

Tony thinks about it for a moment. His head is starting to pound, and his brain is probably not working as fast as it should. "Yes and no, negative and positive," he says. It's an alien ship and Chitauri obviously mastered space travel – that should mean that their computers would be on bar with the likes of JARVIS, he hopes. "Try – protons vs. electrons? Isotopes?"

"And how do I convey that, sir, when there is no coherent medium of communication?" JARVIS asks, sarcastic. "It cannot understand my code – and everything I try to say to it is, at the base level, code."

"Shit, okay, give me a moment," Tony says and tries to think it through. Fuck, he really isn't the guy for first contact language barriers, even if it is between two AIs. If the station even has an AI. "Okay, forget that – numbers. Send it patches of sequences in increasing order, with corresponding number symbol. See if you can teach it our number system."

JARVIS falls quiet while Tony just drifts in the zero gravity and tries not to choke. The silence stretches. And stretches. Eventually, Tony frowns. "JARVIS?"

"I believe it understood me," the AI answers warily. "It's sending prime numbers at me. Also, sir, I believe I now know number of undiscovered prime numbers?"

"Okay, awesome, you just hang onto those in case we ever make it back to Earth, you'll get a prize," Tony says. "How about you move to atoms now? Because there's bunch of atoms hanging around here I'd like not to be hanging around here."

- - -

Uploading this here too because of well timed six hour downtime on ao3, like, damn. Anyway, continued this piece but it didn’t really turn how I wanted it to and I got bored and I’m just going to leave it here.

#fanfiction #mcu #au #tony stark #jarvis #space #cursing #etc #posting on tumblr due to ao3 downtime

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