#but there is a chance we could get our gp to arrange a shared care agreement with a private clinic

[tesco-finest-aromantics]

hhhrrrrrr why is medical transition so complicated in this country

[sombreboy]

Misguidance↬Soft!Dom!PJM

▎ 18+ ▎ pairing: Hired dom!Jimin x Y/N ▎ genre: smut, some fluff ▎ word count: 6.4k ▎ warnings: soft!dom!jimin, bdsm-esque themes, spanking/cropping, bruising, fingering both holes at once lol, some edging, cursing, biting/marking, restraints, some cockwarming, unprotected sex, cum eating, Jimin might catch some feels for his client lmao

Banner by @ppersonna​ whom also shall be the victim of Jimin’s soft dom shenanigans. ♡ I spent way too long writing this please praise me.

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You arrange a meeting with a hired dom for the night, whom (mis)guides you through the pleasures of pain.

You stood in front of the building, checking the GPS on your phone an extra three times before you finally accepted the fact that this was, indeed, the right address. Gathering all the courage you could muster, you took a deep breath before stepping inside of the luxurious hotel, earning your fair share of looks from people who clearly were of higher status, probably wondering what the hell you were doing there. With a backpack in your hands.

You’d arranged a meeting with a hired dom for a variety of reasons. One, you were single. Two, the times where you weren’t, nobody had ever been able to, or dared to do the things you wanted done to you. Three, one night stands wouldn’t do. You needed somebody experienced, somebody who knew what they were doing, and that you could trust.

Not that you could say for sure that you’d be able to feel fully comfortable, but the chances were high.

You’d kept in contact with Park Jimin for a while, he was incredibly patient and open to any questions or worries on your end. He was very comforting, and easily made you feel at ease. So, that’s where you finally decided to hire him as your daddy dom for the night.

The previous day he’d sent you a list of what to bring; If you had any preferred toys, a lingerie of your own choice (even though he gave his own opinion; slutty.), and of course, just yourself. He’d take care of the rest.

You quickly made your way towards the room with the number you were informed of, hovering outside the door for probably a minute. But it was the longest minute of your life, your nerves getting to you as it felt almost impossible to raise your hand to knock.

Another deep breath, you’d be fine, you could do this, manifesting the courage within to finally bring your knuckles against the door with a light tap.

A few seconds later, the door opened to reveal the very man himself in the flesh. The blonde had a soft smile on his face, dressed simple with a black v-neck and matching black ripped jeans, stepping aside to give you enough space to join him in the room. As you did so, he closed the door behind you, the click of the lock causing you to yelp quietly, turning to the man, who still looked incredibly soft. Was he really the dom he claimed to be?

‘’Y/N.’’ His smile grew as he stepped closer, however with just enough space between the two of you to extend a hand in a greeting. Weird. But you took his offer nonetheless, returning the smile, ‘’Hi… uh, Jimin?’’

‘’That’s right…’’ He let your smaller hand linger between his fingers, eyes roaming down your figure for a mere moment before he continued, ‘’Care for something to drink while we discuss the rules?’’

‘’Uh, water would be great, thank you..’’ 

Jimin glanced at you over his shoulder as he headed over to the kitchen, a lopsided smile on his lips when he noticed how your doe eyes are looking around the room. Was this really a hotel room? It looked more like a penthouse, it was probably double-- or even triple the size of your own apartment. You quietly followed him, still in awe by your surroundings. He turns to hand you the simple glass of water, his fingers softly grazing yours as you accept it, immediately chugging it down with a nervous gulp.

‘’First time?’’ Jimin suddenly asked, causing you to almost choke on the last mouthful of water-- luckily you were able to get it down with a tight swallow before you embarrassed yourself.

‘’W-why? Does that matter…’’

‘’Well, yeah,’’ the blonde kept his reassuring smile on his lips, taking the glass from you to set it on the counter before he guides you towards the couch in the living room, urging you to sit down next to him, ‘’I’d like to be aware of your level of experience, so I know what to discuss with you before we begin… So, is this your first time?’’ 

‘’It’s my first time with a professional,’’ You admit, shifting your weight in your seat, ‘’I’ve tried before with previous partners, but…’’

‘’But?’’ Jimin pushed, urging you to continue.

‘’They were too… nice?’’ 

‘’So, what is it that you want? For me to be unkind?’’ ‘’No,’’ Your gaze fell on Jimin, who’s unwavering eyes were piercing through you, causing a shiver to run down your spine, ‘’No but... I want you to hurt me .. I mean--  really hurt me.’’ ‘’I can do that.’’

For just a split second, Jimin swore he could see your eyes glaze over with an unnamed emotion. Excitement, or something within that realm, perhaps? You quickly gathered yourself, however, keeping your hands clasped together in your lap.

‘’I assume you’ve got a pain kink?’’ Jimin bluntly asked, he was getting genuinely curious about you. It was obvious to him that you did, but he couldn’t help but wonder what you’d answer. You were probably one of his most interesting clients so far-- if not ever. You seemed so reserved, and yet here you were, with a hired dom, asking for him to hurt you.

When you replied with nothing but a nod, Jimin continued, ‘’Does pain actually feel good to you, or is it simply the concept of being hurt that gets you off?’

‘’I… both, I suppose?’’ You felt your face heat up from answering the question, feeling a bit embarrassed, however you continued with your response, ‘’If the pain is sufficient enough, it’s like…. My mind shuts off, and my skin feels like it’s electrified all over.’’

Jimin hummed… He wondered if he’d be able to push you past that point during tonight's session. He was sure of it.

‘’So, you would like for us to focus on impact play during our time together?’’ Jimin kept his attentive eyes on you, tilting his head slightly to the side in question. He already knew this from previous interactions with you through the hiring process, of course, but he wanted to have it verbally confirmed so that there would be no misunderstandings.

‘’Yeah..’’ 

‘’Another thing I’d like to bring up…’’ Jimin seemed a little... surprised, to say the least, but kept his professional mask on as he continued, ‘’Is sex something you’re expecting?’’

Your leg anxiously bounces underneath your clasped hands, lower lip clamped between your teeth, ‘’If… If it’s on the table.’’

‘’Are you sure?’’ Jimin questions you once more, just to make sure that you’re certain of what you want. 

‘’Yes.’’ You nod, voice finally the most stable and confident it’s probably sounded since you got here.

‘’Okay, great!’’ Jimin smiles, leaning back into the couch comfortably, ‘’Then let’s go over do’s and don’ts before we begin, shall we?’’

He waits for your response, which simply once again was in the form of a nod.

‘’Spanking?’’ ‘’Yes.’’ ‘’Flogging?’’ You nod.

Jimin pauses for a second, his small smile reappearing, ‘’Restraints?’’

You hesitated, eyes flickering between Jimin’s before nodding.

‘’Okay,’’ The blonde replied, making a mental note of your answers, ‘’Any triggers?’’

Your eyebrows were drawn together, ‘’Huh?’’

‘’Like,’’ Jimin gestured with his hand in the air to find the right words for his elaboration, ‘’Is there anything I should avoid doing or saying that you’re not comfortable with?’’

You hummed, thinking for a moment before shaking your head, ‘’No.’’

Jimin mentally crooked an eyebrow at your answer, pursing his lips in thought, ‘’Are you sure?’’

‘’Yes.’’ You almost sighed out your reply, you didn’t want to admit it, but you were growing impatient, ‘’I’m sure.’’

‘’All right,’’ Jimin nods as he gets up from his seat, ‘’We’re almost done with the questions, be patient. Any pet names you’d prefer for me to call you?’’

‘’Uh…. Just, baby? I guess..’’ Your reply sounded more like a question, as if asking him for permission, to which Jimin gave an encouraging nod.

‘’Anything you’d like to call me other than my name? Sir? Daddy, perhaps?’’

‘’I’d rather.. Not talk that much,’’ You seemed less embarrassed by now, your voice growing more confident. Jimin nods once more, ‘’Of course, that’s okay.’’

‘’You mentioned that your previous partners were,’’ he quoted with his fingers in the air, ‘’too nice…. How far did you go with them?’’

‘’Just, spanking…. They always end up feeling too bad about hurting me, so it wouldn’t go much further than that.’’

Jimin tried to hide his growing curiosity behind his mask of professionalism, giving you another nod, ‘’One last thing,’’ he said as he gestured for you to get up from the couch and follow him towards the bedroom, to which you did without hesitation. He stood by the large bed, his grin growing before he spoke once more, ‘’Safeword?’’

‘’Apple.’’

‘Cute’ Jimin mused to himself, stretching his body as his eyes lingered on your smaller frame, ‘’Ready?’’

Finally.

‘’Get completely undressed, baby.’’ Jimin’s tone changed, the softness from earlier no longer existent. The blonde sat down at the foot of the bed, gesturing with his hand how he wanted you to lay down across his lap, ‘’And come.’’

You immediately obeyed his commands, embarrassment long gone after the tedious, but much appreciated, conversation had made you too impatient to care. You swiftly crawled up on the bed, bending over across his lap, giving him a full view of your, for now, unbruised ass.

‘’Pretty, baby,’’ Jimin cooed, smoothing the palm of his hand along with your spine, tracing the curve of your ass until he reaches the part where it meets your thighs, causing a shiver to run down your spine, ‘’Comfortable?’’

‘’Mhm.’’ You hum in response.

As a test, Jimin didn’t warn you before his palm landed on your ass with a light smack. It wasn’t hard at all, nothing compared to what he could, and most likely would, do. But he wanted to see your reaction, which was barely one at all; merely a jump in surprise rather than in pain.

‘’Continue?’’ He asked, a cheeky grin on his face.

‘’Yes.’’ You really, really, wanted more. The slow buildup in which he was going for was almost tortuous.

‘’Good girl,’’ Jimin murmured, surprised by how the petname earned a full body shudder from you, and he took full amusement in this fact. You were full of surprises, weren’t you?

‘’Remember to use the safeword if you can’t take it anymore, okay baby?’’ He reminded you, earning a small nod from you, which was just enough for him to urge him to continue.

And with that, his palm landed on the plump of your ass once more, this time hard enough to draw a gasp from you. But he didn’t stop, his hand striking the same spot over and over, the skin slowly turning into a red, beautiful shade underneath his ministrations.

His mouth was salivating at the gorgeous colour. He noticed how your breathing was quickening, getting heavier-- it was definitely affecting you, giving Jimin a reason to smirk at how easily he had you worked up. He stopped for a moment, noting how you almost whined at the loss, wiggling your ass to taunt him.

Jimin tugged your hair, pulling your head back to look at your face with a smirk evident on his own, ‘’Continue?’’

‘’Yes’’ you breathed out, eyes fluttering as they met his. You already started to look out of it, and it was rewarding to his eyes. He hadn’t even begun, and he had a feeling you’d let him continue until your ass was basically painted with bruises.

‘’Get comfortable on the bed for me, baby. Let’s take a short break.’’

And with that, he did mean a short break. You got off his lap to sit on the bed, watching him in confusion as he stood up to grab his bag, digging in it for the tools he needed for the next part, a small glance over his shoulder to check on you, ‘’Have you ever had a crop or a cane used on you?’’

You shook your head, curiosity and excitement evident in your eyes, which made Jimin’s smile widen as he approached you once more, with the two tools mentioned in his hand, ‘’Turn over for me, ass up. I want to make sure you can handle the sensation… It’s not the same as a hand.’’

Jimin relished in how much you seemed to trust him, scrambling to get on your knees on the bed, exposing your ass and already glistening cunt for him. He was basically a complete stranger to you, but here you were, giving yourself to him to take care of you. And oh, did he plan to.

He moved closer, his hand giving your ass a soft squeeze, drawing a small breath to push your lips. Jimin was testing you, even though you said it was okay to touch you-- even expected him to fuck you eventually, it almost felt like touching you was something forbidden. And that made it more intriguing. Jimin’s own breath was getting heavier, lower lip clamped between his teeth at the sight of your holes. It was a delicious sight, and he couldn’t wait for them to be spread open for him, bruised and completely blossomed with a reddish tone when he’s done with you.

Jimin opted to start off by using the crop, meaningly tapping it against the part where your ass meets your thighs, causing you to tense up just ever so slightly.

‘’This will sting.’’ He warned, but not giving you enough time to react before he swatted your ass. You nearly collapsed face down on the bed, forearms placed on the mattress, another gasp earned. But you could take it, you wanted more, wiggling your ass in the air for him as he watches the line of red form on the skin. Knowing you could handle it, he set down the crop to grasp the cane instead, ‘’And this will be a lot sharper than the previous one.’’

If you thought the crop hurt, then the cane would definitely, really hurt. But that’s exactly what you wanted. Jimin just wasn’t sure if you were really ready for that kind of pain, ‘’Ready?’’

You tensed up, hesitating to answer as you felt the hard material of the cane tap against your ass.

‘’We can stick with the crop if you’d like.’’ Jimin teased, letting the material smooth against the bruised part of your ass. You shook your head, ‘’I want to try.’’

‘’Are you certain?’’ He questioned, knowing you’d say yes, but he wanted confirmation.

You nod, positioning yourself more comfortably, adamant to take what Jimin had planned for you, body tensing up just a tad bit in preparation for the blow.

The cry that left your lips when the cane struck across your ass was a blessing to Jimin’s ears, your body jolting forward, clawing at the sheets. Your felt tears form in the corners of your eyes before tightly screwing them shut, pressing your cheek against the pillow underneath your head.

‘’Too much?’’ Jimin cooed, and your nod in response was enough for him to toss the cane aside, instead focusing on softly smooth his hands over your ass, soothing the stinging sensation on your bruised skin, ‘’You’re doing so well, baby, it’s okay..’’

‘’Y-you can still use the crop..’’ Your muffled voice surprised him, earning a chuckle from the gorgeous blonde,

‘’Yeah? You sure? Well, I guess.. The customer’s always right.’’ He smiles, ‘’Ready to continue, baby?’’

‘’C-could I have some water first?’’

‘’Certainly,’’ Jimin’s heart almost burst at the small request, ‘’Sit up.’’ He instructed as he headed to grab a water for you, handing it to your small, naked frame as he sat down next to you. He watched you drink, and Jimin couldn’t help but feel something stir in his stomach. But, why? He had no reason to feel anything. He’d done this countless times under much heavier circumstances… But never once, did he feel this. Maybe it was your innocence, yet devilish desires that intrigued him, but the purity surrounding you made him feel like he wanted to protect you from the bad in this world; not introduce you to new ones.

He shrugged his thoughts off, he was determined to give you everything you desired, and that’s it. Nothing more, nothing less.

When you were ready, you returned into position; thighs spread wide, ass up, ready once again for the crop to paint your beautiful skin in red.

‘’Such an obedient babygirl,’’ He praised, getting up and without a second to waste, the crop cut through the air with a whistle before it smacked across your ass once more, adding to the many lined bruises adorning your skin, ‘’Taking everything I give you so well.’’

You noticed that his dominant persona slowly grew, probably because he finally started to get a feel of what you could and couldn’t handle. You shuddered at the praise, he didn’t even need to touch you, but he decided to reward you with it anyway, letting his hand carefully smooth up the inside of your thigh up to your ass, letting his thumb gently brush over the delicate flesh between your plump cheeks.

He quickly withdrew his hand when you started to wiggle your hips, earning a needy whine from you at the loss of his touch. This was the first time he touched you like this, but it certainly wasn’t the last.

Jimin switched the crop into his other hand before he lashed at your skin again, this time at the back of your thighs, much harder and faster than previously, continuously whipping until your thighs were adorned with streaks of red.

The sounds you made were a swirling mix of sobs and grunts, unable to hold back your cries as your entire body was trembling with each impactful strike.

Jimin was honestly amazed by how well you took this, his own bulge straining against the fabrics of his pants. He wanted to force more noises and reactions out of you.. He wanted more of you, so much more. But there was time, he was patient. This night was all about you, after all.

‘’Reach back and spread yourself wide for me, baby.’’ He instructed, and you instantly obliged, feeling the embarrassment of exposing yourself further to his eyes as your hands tightly grasped the flesh of your cheeks to spread them, your soppy folds glistening in need for more.

He didn’t ask whether or not you were okay to continue, not wanting to break the immersion of the scene this time as he falls deeper into his role. He trusted you to use your safeword if needed from now on.

‘’If you’re a really, really good girl for me…’’ He paused for the mere intensity of the anticipation of his next words, ‘’I’ll let you cum tonight, play with you until you can’t take it anymore.’’

You obviously loved the sound of that, your body trembling and wiggling for him, causing his lips curl up into a smirk, ‘’I want you to count for me. Four spanks. Go on.’’

‘’One.’’ you breathed out as he this time opted to use his palm again, the sound of skin slapping skin echoing.

‘’T-two!’’ the blunt nails of your fingers dug into the skin of your ass, but managed to hold still nonetheless as the second spank striked.

‘’Three! A-ah fuck!’’ You cursed and hissed, the third strike landing directly on your wet cunt, catching you by surprise, body jolting forward at the impact, falling flat on your stomach as you broke the position you were told to stay still in. Tears started to trickle down your cheeks, but Jimin hadn’t heard you word out the safeword, so he didn’t break his cold, hard expression, maintaining his dominant persona.

‘’Ah, ah….’’ Jimin tutted, ‘’Back into position. You still owe me one more.’’

For a moment, Jimin almost believed that you’d use your safeword on him, maybe he’d pushed you too far. But when you eagerly moved back into position for him, hands quivering as they once more spread yourself for him, knowing exactly what you got yourself into.

The final strike was fast and punishing, not even giving you the chance to count before it landed on your sore skin, a content hum vibrating in Jimin’s chest.

‘’Good girl,’’ Jimin praised, gently soothing his palm over your abused ass, ‘’Take a moment to relax.’’, and as if on cue, your small frame collapsed on the mattress, letting the soft duvet soothe the stinging bruises when you rolled over to your back.

While giving you your well deserved break, Jimin dug through his bag for additional supplies, your curious eyes following his every move, squinting to see what he’d planned for you next.

Jimin came back to the bed, climbing up on it himself to sit on his knees as he instructed for you to get back into the original position he preferred you to be in, to which you didn’t waste any time in complying to his wishes. He placed a pillow underneath your head to ensure your comfort, your cheek pressing onto the soft duvet. He’d brought two pairs of handcuffs with him, and a bottle of lube that he placed on the bed by his knees as he got to work, cuffing your wrist and ankle together on one side, and once again on the other. He trailed his fingers down your spine before pushing down, forcing you to arch your back further for him.

‘’This okay?’’ Jimin tilted his head to glance down at you, referring to the cuffs mainly.

‘’Yeah,’’ You easily replied, the strain in your voice completely vanished by now. However, Jimin intended to get that right back.

‘’Good, want you to be as comfortable as possible for this next part.’’ Jimin smiled as he moved to sit behind you, gaze roaming over your bruised skin until it lands on your core, ‘’Gonna use my fingers now.’’ He whispered out the words just loud enough, watching your hole clench around nothing as he said so. His hand softly caressed the back of your thigh, slowly inching towards your middle before letting his thumb glide between your slick folds, ‘’Continue?’’

‘’Please,’’ You gasped, being deprived of such a simple sensation for this long was driving you mad, ‘’Continue, please.’’

Jimin’s thumb continuously teased your hole, spreading the wetness across your folds as he leaned in to place a soft kiss on the back of your thigh, drawing a gasp from you. Greedy for more reactions, he nipped at your skin with his teeth, testing the waters once more.

When your reactions were nothing but inviting, he bit down hard on your bruised skin, leaving in indent of his teeth on you as he pulled back to check on you, his finger now soaked from teasing you throughout.

You were practically crying, breath heavy as your cheek pressed against the pillow, tears soaking the cloth beneath you. Jimin considered whether he should clean this up, give you another break, but decides to leave it as is. You could use your safeword, and you could breathe, so Jimin ignored this continuous urge to treat you as if you were a fragile little flower.

Jimin slowly let the tip of his finger sink into your cunt without warning, just enough so that it was nail-length deep inside. From now on, there would be no breaks unless you told him so yourself.

Earning more whines from  you, fighting the urge to push yourself against his fingers-- luckily, you didn’t have to fight it for long as you felt the sudden stretch of him sinking two digits inside of you without a word, his greed for more reactions growing.

And just as he expected, maybe even hoped; you were already squirming in your restraints, the chain of the cuffs clicking as it was straining against your attempts to move, barely able to hold yourself up, causing Jimin to tightly hold your hip with his free hand as he’s using his other to fuck his fingers into you without mercy, forcing more cries and whimpers to push through your lips.

‘’Tell me when you’re close.’’ He utters, his voice incredibly calm in contrast to the way his fingers move in and out of you, the wet squelching noises nearly causing him to groan himself.

Jimin kept his rhythmical pumping of his fingers going until he felt your body tensing up, high-pitched strained wails caught in your throat in between your barely coherent words, ‘’Please…g-gonna ...cum…’’

Jimin suddenly pulled away, leaving you a trembling mess, whining at the loss of his fingers. He brought his fingers close to his face to inspect your juices coating them before bringing them to his mouth, licking them completely clean as he allows a low moan to escape his throat. God, how badly he wanted to just bury his face into your cunt right this second and eat you out until you passed out on him. But for now, this would do, he mused as he gave his fingers one last suck, ensuring he didn’t waste a single drop.

‘’Not yet.’’ Jimin cooed at you, but he knew he wanted you to soon. But first, he wanted to play with you a little more-- you deserved it. He reached for the bottle of lube on the bed, squirting a generous amount on his fingers before coating your other hole. The cold sensation of the liquid makes you yelp, body jerking slightly. But you liked it… Wanted more.

Jimin still didn’t give in to the urges to ask you whether or not it was okay to continue. He knew you’d let him know if it was too much.

‘’Relax.’’ He murmured as he slowly pushed one finger in, easily done with the help of lubrication. You exhaled the breath you didn’t even know you were holding until he forced it out of you, one digit now knuckle deep in you. He kept it still for a moment, circling his finger inside to get you used to the sensation, ‘’You’re doing so well, baby.’’

The praise earned a whine from you, and he was fighting the smile twitching on his lips. He had to maintain his stoic expression for the sake of the play, but you were not making it easy for him.

Sliding his finger back out, he added a second one, the tight fit causing a strained groan to erupt from his throat as he made it fit, gradually forcing them inside until he was once more knuckle deep, ‘’So tight for me.’’

Your breaths were heavy, small whines continuously rolling off your lips as he finally started to move his fingers in and out of you, the lube serving to the squelching noises that gradually became louder the faster he was pumping his fingers into you.

And when you thought it couldn’t get better, it did-- Jimin using his free hand to tease at your cunt. But not for long, as you felt two more fingers entering your soppy hole, drawing out a long, low moan from you. Jimin exhaled deeply at the sight, watching as he had two fingers in each of your holes, alternating in digging as deep into you as he was physically able to.

Jimin leaned to the side to get a glance of your face, tears streaming down your cheeks with eyes tightly screwed shut. It was truly a sight, and the sounds you made only added to his own aching erection pathetically remaining untouched.

‘’Want to hear you, baby,’’ He breathes out, ‘’Don’t hold it in.’’

Your jaw fell slack when he increased the speed, slamming his fingers into you as he pleased, leaning in closer to bite and kiss at the bruised skin of your ass.

Your body tensed up once more at the familiar feeling, both holes tightening around Jimin’s fingers, your moans growing louder and more shameless everytime he keeps his steady rhythm of fucking his digits into both of your clenching holes, ‘’G-god….Gonna..c-cum..’’ You whined, muffling your moans into the pillow, drool staining the duvet.

‘’Good,’’ Jimin purrs, ‘’Cum for me, baby, you’ve done so well..’’

Jimin pulled his fingers out of your ass to solemnly focus on fucking his fingers into your cunt, curling his fingers to hurl you over the edge faster, and he can tell you’re on the edge by the way your hole is gripping around his fingers like a vice grip. With a few more punishing strokes with his curled fingers, your orgasm hits you like a wave of white pleasure, back arching as you choke on a silent cry. He almost cursed out loud at how tightly you were clenching around his digits, keeping them deep inside of you to feel every single throb of your insides, sharp eyes fixated on your core pulsating.

He gives you a moment to catch your breath when he pulls his fingers out, licking them clean once more as he crawls next to you, craning his neck to be able to look at your face. He reaches out to stroke your hair, trying to get your attention, ‘’Good job, baby… Think you can take more?’’

He knows he told himself he wasn’t going to ask, but he wanted to make sure that you even wanted the next part. It wasn’t required, but you yourself had mentioned that you expected it.

You glance up at Jimin, eyes glazed over and drool trickling from the corner of your lips down on the duvet. A small nod served as a reply along with your quiet ‘Please’.

‘’Gonna make me come too, hm?’’ Jimin’s voice was playful, yet stern. It was an odd mix, how he was able to shift between the two different modes was beyond your knowledge. But he made it work. You don’t respond, but he didn’t expect a reply either way, knowing that you’re all in for him. He swiftly grabs your waist to flip you over on your back, crawling up to position himself between your legs, piercing gaze staring directly at you. His attention on you in this sense made you feel small, but you loved it.

Jimin scuffed closer until he was comfortable, lifting your feet up to hook them over his shoulders, one hand firmly grasping your hip as the other gives his throbbing erection a few pumps, eyes never wavering from your face, a cheeky grin growing on his lips as the now familiar question slipped through his teeth, ‘’Continue?’’

You nod, and without hesitation, Jimin aligned himself with your soppy entrance and pushed his cock inside, a drawn out, low groan vibrating in his throat. You let out a muffled cry, automatically turning your head to the side to try to hide your face in the pillow.

‘’What a good girl,’’ Jimin praised, advancing his hips even further until he was buried to the hilt inside of you. He remained still for a moment, relishing in the wet, tight warmth squeezing his throbbing cock, hips pressed against your ass. It took great effort on Jimin’s end to keep himself from moving, to just let himself indulge in his primal instinct screaming at him to fuck you dumb right then and there.

But this wasn’t about him. It was about you.

‘’Baby,’’ Jimin softly said as his hands grasped your thighs, gently rubbing your skin before squeezing the flesh between his fingers, ‘’I need you to help me cum, okay?’’

‘’H-how..?’’ You question, but the way his blunt nails dug into your thighs caused your cunt to tightly clench around his length, drawing a low groan from him.

‘’Like that… Just like that… You’re so good to me.’’ Jimin groaned once more. You whimpered quietly, clenching around him again, this time on purpose.

‘’Keep going, baby..’’ Jimin encouraged, but this time he started to rock his hips back and forth, instead earning a few gasps from you, quickly turning into moans. He was honestly surprised by how every little sound you made felt like a punch in his gut that only made him harder, greedier to hear more.

A groan in frustration left Jimin as his hands moved down to your hips, letting your legs fall from his shoulder as he leaned down closer to you, ‘’You want to be good for me, don’t you?’’ Sweat formed on his temples as he was now fucking into you, hips snapping againt your ass with every thrust, ‘’Come on baby, keep squeezing me tight, please.’’

So you did, desperately clenching around his cock as your body jerks in his hold, every thrust more powerful than the last. The once again familiar pool of heat formed in your lower abdomen, the purposeful tightening around his cock now less in your control, but a mere result of another orgasm building up in you, your jaw hanging open in silent cries.

He notices, pleased with your reactions as he reaches down to grasp your chin between his thumb and index finger, ‘’Gonna cum too, baby? Again?’’ Another moan leaves his lips, the rhythm of his hips never wavering, ‘’Come on, I know you can do it. One more.’’

‘’Can’t…’’ you whined, screwing your eyes shut tightly, but Jimin could tell you were already close. He changed up the rhythm, instead grinding his hips in circles against you, prodding and teasing the sweet spot inside of you that’d have you cumming around his cock in no time, ‘’You can, baby,’’ His low grunt didn’t go unnoticed, ‘’Need you to cum for me.’’

Your body felt like it locked in place, muscles tensing up as your hands claw at the sheets, all while crying out a choked sob. The second time around your orgasm was stronger, amplified by Jimin’s cock, his groans, and his hands in a bruising grip on your hips. It felt like your eyes would roll to the back of your head if he didn’t keep you grounded with his own moans.

‘’F-fuck..! So good to me, gonna cum..’’ Jimin’s eyebrows were drawn together in focus, the layer of sweat glistening on his body as he works you through your orgasm, quickly chasing his own with the help of your tight warmth throbbing around his length. As he finally reached his peak, he swiftly pulled out, wrapping his fingers around his cock to give it a few firm strokes, cum gushing out to pool at your stomach.

Jimin clamped his lower lip between his teeth, lazily stroking his cock to ensure he’s given you every single drop he could offer.

Giving the two of you a short second to catch your breath, he remains seated on his knees between your legs, using two fingers to swipe up some of his come, ‘’Look what a mess.’’ He said with mischief in his tone, bringing his digits to your mouth to let you clean it up. Once you cleaned his fingers properly, he kept collecting more onto his fingers, feeding his come to you until your stomach was clean. A satisfied hum vibrated in Jimin’s chest, his soft smile slowly resurfacing.

‘’Thirsty?’’ He suddenly asks as he rubs your thighs soothingly. Your nod in reply was enough for him, sitting up with a small groan as you watch him head over towards the kitchen to grab the two of you a fresh bottled water. You’d be lying if you said you weren’t checking him out in his post-sex glory as his hips swayed walking away from you.

He quickly returns, crawling up in the bed next to you as he hands you the water, leaving his own on the nightstand for now.

‘’We should get you cleaned up.’’ Jimin suggested.

‘’Yeah,’’ You agreed, but put no effort into moving. Your body was spent.

‘’Maybe later,’’ Jimin snickered, in no hurry whatsoever for you to actually leave as he scuffed up to lean against the headboard, urging for you to do the same, ‘’Come.’’

You crawled up to him, a small groan from the soreness in your body. But eventually, you made it up to settle in his embrace, his arms wrapping around you in a gentle hug. His hand combed through your hair, causing you to look up at him with your doe eyes.

‘’You don’t have to stay, technically.’’ Jimin gave you a crooked smile. A strong urge to just lean in a little further, to press his lips against yours overtook him. But he didn’t.

You ponder for a moment, squeezing yourself against his body further in a hug. It was comforting, ‘’Maybe I want to?’’

‘’Perfect,’’ Jimin’s smile grew wider, and instead of giving in to his urge to kiss your lips, he settles for pressing a peck on your forehead instead, ‘’I don’t want you to leave.’’

And the two of you stayed like that for a long time, just holding each other until you fell asleep in his arms.

♡   ♡   ♡

The following morning you woke up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee and roomservice pancakes, Jimin’s smile growing when he saw you slowly stroll over to the kitchen in a t-shirt and underwear. He was merely wearing a pair of sweats, looking awfully domestic for being… Well, for what he was really here to be.

‘’Breakfast?’’ He snickered, already seeing your attention focusing on the food placed on the table, ‘’Go on. All yours… Hm--’’ He hesitated, approaching to stand behind you as you sat down by the table, his hand gently stroking your hair, ‘’I actually have to go.. But, feel free to leave whenever you want.’’

Your eyes grew wider, already a mouthful of pancake stuffed into your mouth, only spurring his smile on to grow wider.

‘’Okay..uh..’’ You felt a little disappointed for some reason, wishing he could stay around for longer. Jimin leans down to press a kiss on your cheek, ‘’Will I see you again?’’

His question was blunt, and sounded innocent in a way-- but if it meant for another session... 

‘’Yeah.’’ You responded almost too quickly, a small smile on your lips. ‘’Good.’’ Jimin’s eyes squinted before he turned on his heels to go get ready,

‘’I left my number on a note by the table.’’

© sombreboy 2020. Do not edit, repost or translate.

[g00dberry]

this is me asking about your campaign

Anon, I am so fucking glad that you asked. Alight kiddies strap yourselves in and get ready to hear the story of Fortune’s Favor cause this is the hyper-fixation to end all hyper-fixations for me right now. (BTW, all art for the party members was done by @Tallinier on Twitter! She’s amazing and you all should go check her out right now!). Anyways:

See that? That’s Ar’De. The main continent that our D&D campaign takes place on. You might have noticed that huge white sprawl right in the middle there. That’s called The Conflict Zone. That also happens to be the name of our campaign itself, The Conflict Zone.

The Conflict Zone is an area of the continent that has existed since the dawn of recorded history. It has always contained things that do not make sense and is home to creatures not of the material plane. The topography of it is constantly shifting, changing, re-arranging. It is impossible to map out. Portals to thousands of other realms are constantly opening and closing within its borders, and creatures from these other realms have recently begun to take notice of these portals in larger numbers. The Orcs, Humans, Elves, and Dwarves have all made a pact to do their best to contain this threat on their shared borders, but something is happening... While the shared governments are trying to keep it under wraps, The Conflict Zone is expanding. More and more things are coming through those portals, and those who live closest to it have been facing grave dangers and strange occurrences more and more lately.

However, our story doesn’t begin with The Conflict Zone. It actually begins with a man. A man known only as Gaust. 20 years before the events of this campaign, a powerful man known as Gaust led a violent uprising centered in the human country of Empiria that killed many people. Gaust himself supposedly had powers that were evil and astounding. On top of his own abilities, he had the power to give other people arcane abilities. It was said that his mere presence was enough to make those around him just as bad as he was. However, nobody really knows for sure, as nobody ever claimed to have truly met the man in person. That is, until the current king of Empiria, Ryborn Hauzer -

(That guy) - slayed Gaust himself, and put an end to his 5 year reign of terror. Things were pretty okay for 20 years after that, and that’s where our heroes meet each other.

Why don’t we get to know our heroes? They’ve recently started to garner a reputation for themselves, and have decided to call their little group Fortune’s Favor (It’s a miracle none of us are dead yet, so we’ve gotta be somewhat lucky, right? Right?). They weren’t always a recognizable group of heroes though. In fact, they started out sleeping in the haymow of some guy’s barn, just outside the human capital of Union. With only a few coins to their name and a shared goal of joining the legendary Pathfinder’s Guild for various reasons, they decided to team up to try and earn some coin together, attempting to get past the nasty 500 GP application fee to even try out for the Pathfinders.

But enough about that, why don’t we finally talk about these lovable losers?

First up is Sarrali Farseer, a Tiefling Hunter Ranger 5 / Wild Magic Sorcerer 2:

Sarrali found herself designated as the leader of the group rather quickly which was really concerning for her (especially considering that she’s the youngest at the ripe age of 21!). She’s never seen herself as much of a people person. She grew up on the rugged streets of Vandis, Empiria’s military capital in the harsh North. With her human mother in mental institutions, her father completely unknown, and a childhood full of horribly unfortunate mishaps and distrust from others due to her Tiefling blood, Sarrali grew used to the idea that her father might actually have somehow been the god of shadow, twilight, misfortune, and chaos - Vayn. After deciding to ditch civilization entirely at the ripe age of 16 with only a pewter charm of a bird in flight left by her mother to her name, Sarrali fled South to the Northern forests of Empiria with no idea how to survive on her own. She was found and taken in by an old human bounty hunter, Mordecai Swift, who taught her everything he could before he met his untimely demise at the hands of some slaver pirates when Sarrali was 18. Out for vengeance, Sarrali made the unwise decision to try and take on an entire camp of slavers on her own after finding her master’s decapitated head not too far outside the camp. She managed to take down 7 of them all on her own before she was captured. She spent a horrific month in a Port Des’Sali warehouse run by the cruel leader of the slaver pirates, a wretched dragonborn named Bodac the Blue. Sarrali survived many horrible things, including torture and receiving a mysterious brand on her right shoulder blade before she and all of the other slaves were freed when a mysterious man entered the warehouse one day, the right half of his body glowing with red flames. He proceeded to torch the place, ripping Bodac’s head clear off his body, and burning right through the cages holding the slaves. Sarrali ran away from the others and spent the next 3 years working for a morally decent smuggling ring in Port Des’Sali, recovering and steeling herself for the future. She had heard that some people believed the gods themselves might reside within The Conflict Zone, and she finally wanted to confront Vayn. Unfortunately for her, the only ones allowed within The Conflict Zone were high ranking Pathfinder guild members and other decorated soldiers. So, she had no choice but to arm herself with her master’s hunting knife, her trusty bow, and head out to Union to achieve her goals. 6 months down the line and things are going arguably well for Sarrali. She’s got people who care about whether she gets out alive at the end of the day, she’s started learning some ritual magic (including how to cast Find Familiar). She returned to her supposed birthplace, a mountain town named Overlook, in search of her mother and discovered that she has an older sister, a tiefling named Brandia.

She also discovered that she was apparently human when she was born, as was her older sister. She learned that her father apparently wasn’t Vayn, but instead a human man known as Jaxon Farseer. Someone who’s family line is millenia old. Full of heroes, legendary dragon riders, and masterful archers. Her father disappeared shortly after her birth, and her mother apparently made a deal with a tall dark man who appeared in her dreams, allowing him to give her and her children his “blessing” to ensure that Jaxon would one day be rescued. Her mother accepted, and was immediately cast into madness as her daughters were changed in ways she couldn’t imagine. Odd, Sarrali’s been seeing a tall dark man in her dreams as well recently. In fact, he keeps telling her she’ll be the one to end the world someday, and he gifted her the use of Wild Magic... Hm.

Next up is Teael of house Arren, a Half-Elf Grassland Druid 5 / Hexblade Warlock 2:

Teael is the bastard daughter of Chancellor Arren, a noble High Elf who lives down river from the Spring of Len. Teael Is an incredibly caring person, though her childhood was very lonely. Her step mother was kind, teaching her druidic magic like any of her other children, but her step sister was cruel to her and her father was rather indifferent, refusing to tell Teael anything about her birth mother. Tired of spending her life being ignored and mistreated in what was essentially a gilded cage, Teael fled her father’s estate and headed North with something to prove. Through fate or misfortune, she ended up at the same barn as Sarrali and decided to stick close to the rugged tiefling girl who seemed to know her way around a weapon a little better than she herself did. 

6 months later and 24 year old Teael has sort of adopted Sarali as the little sister she never had. The two get along well and care for each other in ways they haven’t really had the chance to experience before. Teael finally has someone who will stand up for her, and Sarrali has someone who cares about how she’s really doing. Someone who wants to help her through the trauma she’s endured. Someone who cares. One of Teael’s main points of interest is that she somehow possesses the ability to summon 2 familiars at once. A grumpy large blue gecko named Nigel and a posh white Weasel named Eloise. On a rather.... improvised trip to the Shadowfell, Teael recovered the mangled body of a Drow servant who called her Lady Velodora (which also happens to be the name of the Goddess of Darkness, Death, Sleep, and the Moon... She’s also one of Vayn’s twin sisters!). After escaping the Shadowfell, Teael paid a good amount of money to have her new friend attended to by a revolutionary doctor and a high level cleric. The Drow has made a decent recovery, but is suffering from horrible amnesia. So, Teael gave him the name Vega. 

He later proved himself to be a rather accomplished wizard. He lives on a plot of land owned by Teael now, and he restored a broken down wizard tower there. His favorite pastimes include listening to Teael sing for him, reading, and studying new arcane affects. He isn’t the only friend Teael’s made recently though. On a mission into Orc territory, Teael recovered a strange black rod. After a dream that the party still doesn’t really know all the details of, Teael’s got a wicked looking new quarterstaff, and seems to have made some sort of deal with a woman (entity?) named Ebony. Before we set off on our latest adventure, Teael wrote to her father for the first time since leaving his estate to boast about how fine she’s doing on her own, and is eagerly waiting to hear back from him. She’s also a complete bi-sexual disaster, but the party loves her anyways. Oh, and one last thing. She also learned that if people found out who her mother was, she’d supposedly be killed on the spot. So that’s fun!

Third up is Rhak,  a Dragonborn Bear-Totem Barbarian 5 / Champion Fighter 2:

Teael and Sarrali met up with Rhak once they were already knee deep in a mission back in Union. They needed some extra muscle, and just happened to see a very stocky dragonborn writing something down in a book and petting a small kitten on their way into the sewers. His common wasn’t that good, but he seemed so happy that someone had offered him work without being mean that he decided to protect his new friends on the spot. He’s been with the group ever since. Rhak was the runt of his litter back in the Dragonborn territory of The Free Isles. Though he still exemplified the traits that the Platinum Dragon, Bahamut, tried to preach. Rhak had never really been one to turn to violence. He preferred to read and try talking through his issues with others. Unfortunately for him that meant that he was bullied mercilessly as a child. Though the kindness of a half elf woman named Lucia, a sorceress in the Free Isles seeking the wisdoms of the Platinum Dragon, inspired him to stick to his own ideals. One day, when he saw some bullies picking on a much younger runt, he accidentally let his anger get the better of him and ended up killing one of the bullies. Thus, he was exiled from his homeland at the age of 15. Forced to wander parts of the world that he was tragically unfamiliar with, places where he was seen as an oddity, and forced to live a cripplingly lonely life. Lucky for both him and us, we found each other though, and he’s finally got true friends that care deeply for him.

Though he had to leave his lovely kitten friend Steve at an orphanage in Union before we set out on a larger adventure, Rhak is going strong today. He has a bear spirit named Ursula that gives him the strength to protect his friends and keep pushing forward. After an untimely demise in the stomach of a Rhemorahz, Rahk was saved by a very close Revivify and brought back. Though, not before he got to have a nice chat with Bahamut himself. Bahamut explained to Rhak that he was Silver Prime, and that he needed to help usher in the era of The New King if the world was to be saved from calamity. We were already carrying a dragon egg with us (taken from a bunch of kobolds months ago in some old mine). But after breaking open an artifact from the Shadowfell, the egg was transformed. After reaching Sarrali’s hometown of Overlook, we learned that it was home to The Roost. The former breeding ground of Empiria’s human-allied dragons. However, The Roost had been destroyed years ago in Gaust’s uprising, and the only dragon left there now was a Silver Dragon named Orphyrah. She gave Rhak her blessing, explaining that she needed to sacrifice herself if he was supposed to reach his true potential as silver prime. She breathed all of her life essence into a single scale necklace, which Rhak now wears and can use to call upon her spirit in times of need. While at The Roost, we were able to hatch the new king of the dragons, a platinum hatchling named Justifax. Rhak has been tasked with protecting him and uniting the other primes, and he seems to be taking that duty very seriously. Only time will tell how Rhak’s destiny affects the fate of the world...

Last but certainly not least, we have Theren Greybend. A Human Knowledge Cleric 7:

Theren is the newest member of our group. We quite literally ran into him while fighting for our lives in the North recently, while on our way to Sarrali’s birthplace. Theren is a cleric of Magus, the God of Magic, Knowledge, and Secrets. The rest of the party doesn’t know too much about him yet, but we were in desperate need of a healer, and he got to witness the hatching of a new Dragon king with us, so he’s kind of stuck with us at the moment. Theren is a huge book nerd. He craves learning about any and all strange anomalies, and agreed to travel with the party on the pretense that we seem to run into stuff involving The Conflict Zone (his research specialty) a lot. We’ve basically become his latest research project, but that’s alright. He seems nice enough, and wants to help in any way that he can. Theren recently revealed that he possesses the odd ability to connect telepathically with a willing creature once a day, but who knows what else this guy can do? As far as we can tell, Theren is from one of the Western parts of Empiria, rather close to The Conflict Zone itself. 

Now finally, you might be wondering: Alright, but how did all that crazy stuff start?

Well, the intro arc was far too long to append on to this post, but let’s just say that in an unfortunate mix up involving Dynamite, Sewer Zombies, and a Burning Lighthouse. Our rag tag group was pinned as prime suspects, and then later were offered a deal by this shady motherfucker - 

Ekkard, the right hand man to the King of Empiria. If we could investigate those three issues for him on the down low, he wouldn’t just waive our Pathfinder application fee, he would ensure that we were accepted, and would become one of the King’s personally invested in teams. Of course, he didn’t give us much of a choice, since he told us we had a month to figure it out or face exile from Union as a cautionary action. 

So, on the job to clear our names and earn our stripes, we faced down more zombies, a flesh golem, an assassin, terrorist threats, bandits, exploding zombies, a re-kindled uprising of Gaust, and finally a huge bone serpent to save the city of Union and earn our freedom. 

Long story short - we succeed, and thus, Fortune’s Favor was born.

-I’m always down to talk about this campaign, so if anyone has any other questions, please don’t hesitate to send them.

@icarus-undying (Teael’s Player)

[darkdevasofdestruction]

Chisaki’s fem!S/O being kidnapped

Someone please stop me from writing for the villains. I think I have an obsession or something-

Okay so, first of all, he most likely had an arranged marriage with his S/O as a way to make a contract with her father who was an amazing underground Quirk researcher, so of course, Chisaki wanted to make sure the man only helps HIM and nobody else, so what better way?

The girl, he later found out, was much of a genius in many ways, like hacking, seducing, information gathering, science and so on, which she self-taught, having been locked up in her house for so long by her father who only ever wanted to use her as a deal-breaker.

It all started when she saw Mimic, the first person she got along with really well from the very beginning, struggling while trying to hack into an important database, so she offered her help and easily hacked into the program and explained everything in detail so her could understand the more abstract ways of coding, and since then, Chisaki let those two go out of the hideout  together so the girl could see and enjoy the freedom that she deserves but never got the chance to have.

It took a long time for the both of them to become truly attached to one another, but it was the cute, subtle ways in which they showed their love that was truly attractive. It was the caring looks they gave each other, the protective hand-holding and the warm hugs they shared that made a strong bond between their once cold as ice, frozen hearts that knew nothing of the warm feeling of love.

On one lovely day of Spring she went out to the Starbucks in the town center with her childhood friend, a girl with whom she hasn’t been in contact with for a long time, but they got along really well back in the days and decided to catch up and gossip all day long.

As she was drinking her beverage, she spilled a bit of cake on herself, so laughing, she excused herself from the table and went to the bathroom to clean herself up. There, she looked at her phone to check for any missed calls or messages, which she saw were flooding, from both Chisaki and Mimic. Curious, she called Mimic back since he seemed the most frantic to get a hold of her, for some reason.

Y/N: Yes, Raffa? Mimic: GOODNESS GRACIOUS, WOMAN, WHY DO YOU HAVE A PHONE IF YOU DON’T USE IT?! Y/N: Uhh Sorry, it was on silent mode. I forgot to change that this morning. Mimic: Arrghhh nevermind!! Are you okay?! Y/N: Yes, of course, why wouldn’t I be? Mimic: There’s a killer on the loose, dammit!! Y/N: Like...You and Chisaki? Mimic: I’M NOT JOKING, Y/N-

But he was cut off by Chisaki calling and the girl accepted the call, making that a group-call.

Chisaki: Where are you? Y/N: The local Starbucks. Wait, I’ll share my location with you- Chisaki: Keep the GPS on at all costs and make sure to hide your phone and have it at you at all times. Y/N: Yes, okay, but guys, can you tell me what’s going on?! Mimic: There’s this serial killer chick that is targeting some super boss yakuza leaders and one of them is- Chisaki: Me. Y/N: And what does it have to do with me? Mimic: We...We think that she knows of your connection to us and especially Chisaki. Y/N: How could she? We’ve never been out in the public or anything of the sort. Besides, I’ve always been extra careful when posting stuff on my social media. Mimic: I know, I was there to check them with you, but we don’t know why or how, but she might be targeting you. Y/N: Do you have a picture with her or something so I can be on the lookout? Or please make it fast, my friend might suspect something. Chisaki: Friend...? You are not alone? Y/N: Goodness, no, it’d have been boring to go out alone. An old friend contacted me again and asked to meet up. Mimic: Uh...Does this picture look famili- Y/N: *gasps* Th-That’s...That’s...M-My... Chisaki: That is your friend, isn’t she? Y/N: Y-Yeah...B-But...Do you know if she’s affiliated with anyone? Mimic: She might be affiliated with some underground people. Y/N: Only my father knew of our arrangements...My father...My father wants me dead. Just great! Freaking fantastic! Chisaki: Keep calm, Y/N. If she finds out that you know about her plan, she’s going to proceed with her plan much faster. Y/N: Yeah...Just great. Now I’m scared to think that she might have poisoned my drink. Chisaki: She wouldn’t. She needs you alive if she wants to blackmail me and use you as a bait. Y/N: That’s far more reassuring. Chisaki: Can you jump out of the window? Y/N: No...It’s much too tiny.  Chisaki: Then go back to her and act as if nothing happened. We are on our way there. Y/N: Yeah, sure, no problem. Totally not freaking out. Mimic: Y/N you taught me how to be a better gangster and refine my skills, okay? You are far better than me at this, so use your skills of deceiving people and act as natural as possible so she won’t pick up on anything. Y/N: *sighs* Okay, fine. The GPS is on. I’ll hide my phone and keep this group convo on going so you can hear what we’re saying, but I’ll be putting it on mute so no sounds from your end will be heard around here and make it suspicious, okay? I’ll tell her I let my phone at home to charge. Chisaki: That’s my smart girl. Stay strong, we’re going to be there soon. Y/N: *nods* Roger that.

Sighing and running a hand through her hair, she closed her phone’s screen and hid it in her bra, thanking whatever possessed her to wear a nice and large sweater so the phone won’t be visible no matter what.

She put on her vixen face and acted as natural as she could and went to ramble about how annoying it is to get the stains off such a nice cardigan, but what surprised her was when her friend asked her if she could use her phone to call someone. She blinked in confusion and smiled at her apologetically, saying how she forgot to charge it the previous night and that she left without it, letting it plugged for the day. 

What was a bit shocking, however, was how her friend’s face twisted in rage for a split second before she gripped the girl’s wrist weirdly tight and forcefully dragged her out of Starbucks, saying how they need to leave for the day. The girl only gulped and tried to struggle, saying how she doesn’t understand her friend’s unexpected behaviour, but the friend only got angrier and slapped her friend before putting a chloroform napkin on her face, making her faint since she couldn’t hold her breath for too long.

Of course, by the time she woke up she was in a dark cell, only a lamp above her lighting up the sombre place. She got up quickly and rushed to the bar door, trying to see if it was locked or if she could somehow unlock it with a hair pin... No chance.

Chisaki, Mimic and Chrono found themselves in front of the enemy hideout and strode inside nonchalantly, pissed off beyond belief, as Chisaki looked as stoic as ever, only unleashing his rage by using his Quirk on everyone who dared stay in his path.

As he got in front of the cage, he easily destroyed the bars, only to see his semi-conscious S/O, several cuts on her face, who knows how many other bruises on her body, being held by her hair, on her knees, by the person she once called a friend, a knife at her throat.

“Now, now, look who decided to show up! How did you find us, young Yakuza leader~?” asked the enemy with a sly grin on her face. “Her phone GPS, of course.” Chrono replied in a low, threatening voice as if it was as clear as the day light. “Phone...? What phone?! She has no phone at her! I checked her bag and pockets!” she yelled, enraged. “My bra, you idiot...Why do you think I kept...Crossing my arms to my chest...? If you somehow hit the phone with you...Stupid boots then it was bye-bye for me...” the victim tried so say in a weak voice, occasionally stopping to cough some blood. “You...! YOU LITTLE BITCH! YOU LIED TO ME!!” the kidnapper shouted at her, putting a hand on her throat and squeezing it, making the poor girl gasp for air. “S-So did...You...” she managed to choke out. “It’s over now. Give up and return her to me.” Chisaki said, his eyes holding a burning fire, barely able to keep himself composed. “You think I got through all this trouble to just peacefully return her? How stupid can you be?! I think I’d like to have a little more fun with dear Y/N here-” she said, but was quickly interrupted when she tried to move but realised her movements were extremely lethargic and it confused her to no end.

At the same time, her knife suddenly jumped out of her grasp and went next to Chisaki, making it obvious that Chrono’s and Mimic’s jobs were done there. “Wh-What did you do to me?! Freaks!” the enemy asked, her hand still around the girl’s throat, but no longer posing as a danger. “As I said, it’s over. You were so busy letting anger take over you that you lost focus of your surroundings. Chrono touched you with his hair and Mimic’s mind went inside the knife. Now...It’s my turn.” with that, he went to the two girls and grabbed a fistful of the enemy’s hair, dragging her away from her beloved and kicked her in the face with his combat book as hard as he could, slamming her in the wall in the process.

“Chrono, Mimic, bring this unclean filth to the base. If I use my Quirk on her it’d be meaningless. Also...Arrange a meeting with Y/N’s father. I think a discussion between a husband and his father-in-law would be very important now.” “It shall be done” said Chrono, as he dragged the unconscious one away.

Chisaki grabbed a napkin from his pocket and kneeled in front of his wife, one hand on her face and the other trying to wipe away the dirt and blood from it, tenderly.

“Thanks for saving me, Chisaki. I’d be dead without you.” she whispered, a small smile on her face. “You got involved because of me. It shouldn’t have happened.” he said, closing his eyes. “Sorry for the trouble. I’ll try to be more careful.” she said, leaning in his touch. “I’ll make sure that never happens again. Let’s go home for now.” with that, he picked her up bridal style, making her smile softly and snuggling to him all the way back to their own hideout, where he made sure to make her as comfortable as possible as she healed herself, thanks to her amazing Healing-Water Quirk.

When night came and the girl was in her nightgown, messing around on social media on her phone, Chisaki went in their room, putting his mask carefully on the table and changing in his sleeping wear before getting in bed next to her, thing that never happened before since he was always too busy and preferred to stay alone with his work.

He said nothing as he watched her looking at him, surprised to see him there and putting her phone on the nightstand.

“Chisaki? Are you okay?” she asked, worry dripping from her sweet, angelic voice. “You seem to have completely healed. Your Quirk is something useful in this world.” he muttered, examining every inch of her body to see if he could spot any little bruise. “It is,I suppose. But if I were in your place, I wouldn’t have been able to save you.” she said with a half-grin. “Come here.” he mumbled, his eyes boring deep into her soul.

She complied, scuttering over to him, but to her surprise, he got her into a very tight embrace, stroking her hair, his heartbeat visibly calming down. She then realised that he was worried sick and this was his way of being 100% certain that what was happening was real and that she was really safe and sound, in his arms, a pulse still beating. She could only grin and cuddle to him, putting the blanket over them and kissing him lightly on the lips, saying soothing, reassuring words to him.

For the first time since they got married they slept in the same room, together, two heartbeats forming into one as he continued stroking her hair, not being able to sleep that night in fear that something might happen and she will be snatched away from his grasp once again.

He won’t ever let that happen again. His angel will never ever be stolen away from him. He made a mistake that almost endangered her, but no more. He knew what was to be done and made sure either Chrono or Mimic were with her at all times when she was to go out of the hideout, no matter what.

He will protect his beloved wife, Y/N, at all costs. Y/N is his.

Forever.

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

Info about me and my ME work over the years: -- Frustratingly, my profile for the Wego Health awards is still not showing up on the page. I have been told the problem will be fixed in July 8. Anyway, here is the text of my profile.

If you want to endorse me in any or all of the 4 categories, I have been nominated for, here is the link: https://awards.wegohealth.com/nominees/230 -- I have had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.)* since February 1989, when I was just 16. I wasn't diagnosed till autumn 1994 by which time I was severely affected. Although I am not as ill as I was for the first few months, when I was basically bedbound, only able to read & understand cartoons, I remain severely affected 24 years on, only leaving the home for important appointments or to go to our holiday home for the summer. I blame the late diagnosis, & following advice to exercise, for the severity of my illness as in the early years I was only mildly affected (able to study full-time, once I cut out most extracurricular activities).

After being diagnosed for over a year, I realised there was a good chance I was going to be stuck being quite ill & disabled for a long period, possibly indefinitely, a prospect that wasn't appealing. Moreover, I realised that there wasn't a huge effort to research the illness well; it wasn't on the radar the way many other conditions were.

I have been busy for the last 23 years working away as a (voluntary) ME activist. Much of what I concentrated on in the early years was raising awareness & understanding in Ireland with the Irish ME/CFS Association. I have done around 50 media interviews & have been featured in most of the national newspapers in Ireland. I have written dozens of press releases & have helped arrange for around 130 Irish families affected with ME to tell their story over the years in over 400 interviews. A lot more people are diagnosed here now & attitudes have improved.

When I became involved, there were only 45 people on the Irish ME/CFS Association mailing list. This made it difficult to respond to some media requests for interviewees. So one of the things I concentrated on was building up the membership. It reached over 450 one stage, though has gradually dropped back now, possibly due to the Internet.

I set up a research fund within the Association in 1996 & gradually with a lot of ground-level fundraising & small donations (I think the largest have been a few donations of €1000 each), we have now raised over €300,000 for much needed research.

We have done mail-outs of information bundles to various information sources incl. to all Irish GPs twice & we are more than 50% through the third one. I was involved in organising our first medical education event for GPs this year.

When I became involved the Association’s newsletter was one or two pages long. As the editor over 22 years, I’ve gradually built it up to a more substantial newsletter which has reached on occasion 80 pages long. I also edit an e-mail bulletin, usually with 10 items that goes out to members around once a week.

I have helped arrange dozens of Irish ME/CFS Association meetings with Irish & international medical & scientific speakers along with dozens of other meetings such as screenings of documentaries on the illness.

I’ve coordinated the Association’s helpline volunteer team for 20 years, dealing with many of the more challenging calls myself. I’ve also dealt with a lot of other enquiries to the Association.

In the mid-2000s, my concentration levels improved & allowed me to read a lot of research papers in the field. I realised a lot of rubbish was going unchallenged & the pool of people who were trying to respond ever was small, so have spent quite a bit of time responding to papers: I've authored or coauthored 7 papers & 17 letters published in various peer-reviewed journals along with over 100 e-letters. Probably my proudest achievement was the publication of my paper, "Reporting of Harms Associated with Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) & Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". I had previously been quite academically able but things are more difficult now with M.E. so it took a lot of work & sacrifice over more around 15 months. I was also involved with the critique of the £5 million PACE Trial, which was supposed to be the “definitive” of GET & CBT for CFS. In various publications, I or teams I was involved with highlighted flaws in what had been published and eventually reanalysed the data to show that the results were very unimpressive, particularly when objective comes were looked at.

I still live at home with my parents who take care of most of the practical stuff, which frees me up to use the energy I have on ME matters. I follow ME news closely & try to help the ME cause, in Ireland and internationally, as best I can. Twitter, Facebook & other platforms allow me to share what I find to a wider audience. I believe there is power in numbers and together we can make a difference; conversely, I feel that if I & others don't try, we could be ignored and fobbed off indefinitely with rehabilitative therapies like GET & CBT based on scheduling increased activity.

*Perhaps better known in some countries as "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" (CFS), although some CFS definitions are overly broad -- Hopefully people won't be too unkind if they have some problems with what it includes. I could only fit in info on some of the work I've been involved with in the Irish ME/CFS Association.

[garym23-blog]

Sharing my experience of Prostatitis- I hope it helps somebody..

Hello, my name is Gary Mehmet. I am a 43 year old man who has over the past two years, been suffering with prostatitis. I am now in a position where I feel much better than since this illness began- about 85-90% better. I still have the odd relapse, which can cause pain for a few days, but I can see huge signs of progress and so in the spirit of wanting to pass something on that might help somebody else looking for help in this area, maybe somebody who does not have any idea how this may have come about or where to go for help or what to ask, I wanted to type something about my experience. I am just an ordinary man, average intelligence and definitely no writer, So I cannot promise you an exciting or super witty read, but if you can get through what I have written in one piece, then I hope you find something helpful in getting the help you need. so here goes, I am going to try and share something of my experience..1,2,3.

How I believe this started:

It was early March 2017. We were away for a few days on the Isle of Wight with our newborn son, Jamie. The first I knew, was overnight, waking to go to the toilet and physically being unable to. I sat and waited and waited and I pushed as far as I could but nothing. I could not pee. That was really the only sign.

There was a lot of stress in my life at this time, not really too interesting; usual things really, divorce in 2014 after 16 years together, an unhappy career in hotel corporate sales lasting 15 years on and off, an altercation with a bully in 2013, which sent my life into a spiral that I am still trying to recover from. That's not normal, you say? Really? Well, there you go. We are all different. I have faced some challenges and made my decisions, some of which I regret but none of which I can change. And I have experienced my share of pain, like anybody else. I am doing my best to move on and to grow as a Man. But looking back on where Prostatitis fits into all of this, it seems to me that this particular illness followed this period of time, so stress may have brought this condition on..

My experience with the NHS

I have been to see a few doctors in the UK. initially, we rushed from the Isle of Wight to visit a drop in 24 hour emergency centre in Hastings. I was seen by a nurse who asked for a sample. I was amazed that I was able to produce this, but I did manage to pee a little and it hurt to do so. The feeling was a like a burning sensation. The sample was screened under something like an ultra violet coloured lamp and the nurse said, this was definitely a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). I was soon after seen by a doctor, who said that this type of infection was very uncommon for a man because of the length of our ……. Apparently this doctor did not believe in bedside manner. He got straight to the point and I will be honest, I did worry.

I was sent off from this appointment with my urine sample and asked to bring it to a local hospital for further testing. I handed my sample to a member of staff at the department of the hospital, as advised. And that was that. I was told the results would be with my local GP in about a few days time.

I went to see my local GP, in Ashford, Kent and my sample had been lost... But a message later came back saying everything was clear..(which seemed strange to me because no further explanation was given as to the connection between the sample being lost and everything now being okay) So, not sure what to make of that, but that was that.

The doctor prescribed antibiotics and I took antibiotics for a good few weeks. I think I went through 2-3 courses of  antibiotics. When I ran out, I would make a new appointment and ask a doctor for another. Each doctor said something a little different, like it might be in my mind, ‘you need to stop worrying..’ ‘this is an aftershock in the body after a UTI and it will settle on its own..’ and ‘your prostate feels a little enlarged, we can arrange for you to see a urologist..’ a process, I discovered would take around 12-16 weeks. The NHS is not the best system, but I experienced care by a variety of doctors who were all doing their best to help me.

I cannot remember exactly how long antibiotics seemed to help me for.. I remember feeling better taking them than not, otherwise I would not have asked for more, but it never took the pain away and when the course ran out, the pain would return fully. For me, this mostly meant pain at night, in the centre of my groin (I cannot describe it better than that) just a deep and low- medium level pain that I imagine like a storm brewing... I was unable to lie on either side and would wake several times at night sometimes 2-4 times an hour and I remember having a very difficult time trying to go. In the day time, I would feel the need to go, try to go and then be sitting for up to 45 minutes trying to..you know..go... I could not sleep well, I could not wake up and slowly, I started losing all energy and becoming anxious and tense.

Before, I got the chance to see the Urologist via the NHS referral system, My wife and I had decided to move to Germany for a few years, a bit of space from the pain of the past few years and a transfer opportunity that had come up for my wife, meaning we could go immediately. My wife had friends and family near Munich.. So, we decided we would rent our home and go… And that was July 2017.

It is now March 6th 2019, we are still here. I am having a challenge learning German, but I have learnt a lot and continue to learn as the weeks go by. I have been approached by companies out here for work, which is great, but mostly sales roles and I am trying not to do this. I have spent a period looking after my son, until we could get him into a local Kita (early stage nursery) and a period sorting my health out, because up until the last 2 months, I have not been able to get through a single day consistently well. (Oh and top of prostatitis, I have developed a new chronic allergy to Birch Pollen and as luck would have it, we have a huge collection of said trees right outside our apartment.. I wheeze at night and cannot sleep; either because of wheezing or prostate problems... It has been a strange and uncomfortable experience. I am not saying it is worse than anybody else's only that for me, I have found this very difficult to manage my health day to day, steaming every surface my wife and son touch as they come home, tablets to lessen allergic reactions, asthma inhalers, nasal sprays, (in the past few months, I have also been through a course of injections (‘desensibilisierung’) to help my body), humidifiers to help clean the air and various air purifiers We have recently found a good one and it is really helping, but it is early days. Hell broke loose when the birch pollen exploded mid-late last march.. It is only the 6th March..

Anyway, sorry back on track.. What next?

‘Urologists and Doctors a plenty’ in Germany

It is easy to see doctors out here, in Wolfratshausen and Munich. Everything is private but affordable. I have seen several doctors and the experience has been mixed. in this time, I have seen urologists both old school and an homeopathic urologist. I have had the cystoscopy, which actually really hurt.. Sorry if you don't know what that is-- well..It involved a tube with a camera on the end of it and that is inserted into the tip of your urethra and pushed on and on and on (it seemed) until they (the doctor and nurse) could see what was going on in the bladder and prostate areas.  A numbing jelly is applied to the tip of your penis and then comes the tube. It should not be painful and foremost I dont think it is. Why was it  painful for me then? I’ll come back to that in a minute. Anyway, this examination revealed nothing. I was then sent to a local General Doctor, who also could not think how to help me. No signs of cancer, my prostate did not seem ‘interesting’ to the Urologist anyway, normal for my age not big, not small, but fine.. And as I said, the doctor had little help to offer, at all, in fact. My wife and i came out of the appointment both shaking our heads in disbelief.

But, I think it is worth noting that I was not offered more antibiotics by this urologist or any other doctor, which actually, I appreciated. At the urologist, the first thing you do other than show your health insurance card and say I have an appointment.. Is go and pee in a cup and leave it for a nurse or other professional to check for signs of infection.. This happens before you walk into your actual appointment..

Online Learning..

My wife and I were doing a lot of research on the type of Urologist, we thought could help us. Normally, I understand that we should not as untrained professionals do our own research and self-diagnose.. My experience so far, was that this was not a simple matter and I needed to try and educate myself a little- I found a book, which I will come to, a little later and that helped me to learn some things but otherwise the research was to really find a doctor we believe could help us.

From the doctors, we had seen until now, it seemed to us, like we needed a certain sort of doctor to do that. It had felt for a while like we were being talked to but not listened to. I would prepare my notes on what I was experiencing, thinking this might provide clues that would help the doctor in identifying meaningful signs that would lead to a clear diagnosis. But nobody seemed to listen to us, until this point.. So we started searching through the websites of any urologists we could find until we found somebody we thought looked or sounded like they might be interested in listening to us.

Through this research, we found a nice female Urologist in Munich and we went to see her a few times. She did ask us questions, not to me, of course, (Deutsch ist sehr Schwierig..) but to my wife. And to her credit, she listened. Every doctor tests the urine sample but this lady asked for a semen sample.. She said I could go home to do this but I offered to assist, for the sake of expediency of course, after excusing myself for a short break to the toilet. This seemed to make her nervous as her face flushed, so my wife offered to bring a sample in the next day.

This test result was again clear. So no luck there. But after explaining my symptoms, this doctor prescribed a course of three tablets:

Tamulosin

Trospiumcholrid

Diclofenac

This combination seemed to create a whole new set of problems. I seemed to develop severe symptoms, which I did not understand. It feels really strange to admit that I could not at this time make the connection, in my mind, between these new symptoms and the new medication. I thought my illness had just taken a turn. It took several weeks before I started to question the medication being perhaps harmful and not helpful. 

In this time, I had become highly sensitive to eating almost anything- of course foods like Sauerkraut were off limits (far too acidic) but so seemed most meats, vegetables (Peppers for example), fruit (no more apples or strawberries) and even, can you believe it, beer!!!! (my weekend treat, was gone!), jam, sugar, apfelsaft/Juice even tea.

After nearly two months, I felt likei was on my knees and I asked my wife, sorry, will refer to her by name (veronika or Vroni for short), Vroni set up the appointment and we went back to see her a few days later. I brought my notes and the doctor seemed keen to hear but after listening to me, encouraged me to stay on the medication..

I was not comfortable doing this, so off we went again in search of a new doctor, to help.

Back to Wolfrathausen..

We went to a Urologist in Wolfratshausen (a different man within the same clinic as my first appointment here). This man was part English and had spent time living in England and it was for these reasons, where I knew I stood a better chance of communicating directly with the doctor and not through my wife, that we chose to see him). He was a straight talking old man, who spoke very directly and told me that I should not expect a full examination on seeing him(we had called and made an appointment to see a urologist and had explained our symptoms..) and that were other patients waiting.. In the short time, we were with him though,  the usual tests were conducted ie on my urine, a manual prostate exam (don't ask... okay, you lie on your side and the man wears a very thin plastic glove, applies some lubricant and.... Yep, you guessed it :) ) and he asked about the medication I had been taking. On hearing of the mecication I mentioned earlier, he very quickly told me that this sort of medication was only given to elderly men who are too old to be operated on and that this was far too heavy for me and strongly advised me to come off them immediately. He also told me that he did not believe diet had anything to do with my condition and that was just voodoo nonsense..

Great off the tablets then... but I still think diet is part of the problem..

Up until now, i had been trying to approach every doctor with an open mind and willing to try whatever was asked of me. But over time, I was starting to realise that I had to listen to my body and sometimes challenge advice given and because I was doing this and because there are more than one urologist available here in Bavaria, Germany, I eventually found my way to the doctor I have just mentioned and I felt confident now to come off the tablets. And it helped me. A lot. The food sensitivities eased within a few days and I was now back to where I was before with just a ‘straightforward’ set of prostate related problems.. taking too long to pee in the day, unable to sleep at night and waking to go between 2-11 times per night, trying to go, pushing, only able to go standing not sitting, never feeling emptied.

Looking into Homeopathy..

I had been reading as much as i could. I had come across the idea of an alkaline diet possibly helping- the concept of helping reduce the body’s acidity level being helpful for inflammation, so I thought there might be something in that.. After reading very briefly, I decided it was definitely not for me- the diet seemed so restrictive, like I would not be able to eat anything again- okay bit of an overstatement- but my meaning- it was not for me to be so restrictive with my eating ie no milk, no sugar, no meat, no bread, no pasta, no alcohol.. So I said no to that and we moved on. There had to be another way..

But looking into diet and connection with prostatitis got me thinking about other natural ways to help the body recover rather than the harsh chemicals/tablets I had been exposing myself to, so far. As luck would have it, we found an homeopathic urologist (again a lady) in Wolfratshausen.

This doctor did an ultrasound (like for a pregnant lady) of my bladder/prostate area and this was the first time, something more specific about my problem was shared with us.. She told us that the lining to my urethra looks damaged and that this was part of the problem.. Not quite sure how it happened, though... I came to thinking about a period in summer 2016, I had worn the same (yes, I am ashamed to admit this, but in the spirit of disclosure and trying to help somebody else, here it is..), the same pair of sports shorts for a few days without underwear. To ride my bicycle to the gym, have a workout, take a quick dip in the pool and a few minutes in the sauna and then even showering with my shorts on before riding home… I know, yuck!

I still don't know why I did this. The shorts were very comfortable and with a quick drying material.. I might not have the best personal habits but when I go out, I am quite serious about hygiene. This episode was an unusual one for me and perhaps in this time, an infection found its way into my urethra. When I really do think back to that time, my penis did seem to itch a little after a few days, I just did not think anything of it at the time so… I guess there it is… maybe that is where it started..

Natural treatments… From this point, we just trusted this doctor implicitly and did everything she said. She did not seem to want to ask me any questions, only tell me what to do, don't eat apples, no apple cider vinegar, drink lots of water, Fresh espresso is fine (phew!!), pineapples warm- are good, lemon water is especially good- to alkalise the body and so on.

We went home with a list of foods that were good or not good for me and we started making some changes. I don't remember them all, but a few habits that stuck-

Out

Apples

Strawberries

Kiwis

Wine

Weiss bier

Fruit juice

Fruit teas

Instant coffee

Vinegar (ie balsamic)

In

Lemon water

Espresso (mild)

Pineapple (warm)

Monitoring my water intake and especially the colour of my urine- looking for a nice bright yellow or clear colour- this actually really helped. I had much more comfortable days when my urine was light yellow/clear- that for me was from drinking 2-2.5L water per day.

Several weeks went by and it definitely felt like we were seeing progress I was getting more sleep and though still having difficulties when I did wake, in the day time, going to the toilet was starting to ease. I still could not go comfortably sitting down, but I was going easier than I had for a long time and that was great.

But things got worse. Again.. After several weeks, things seemed to get worse again. Not sure why. I was following the guidelines.. I was not happy being home alone and often deeply upset over not being able to see my children in England and other things but otherwise, not sure- though perhaps there is exactly the problem- stress/depression..?

We returned to the Urologist, again with a set of notes on how we were experiencing things. The doctor listened for a short time then interrupted us and gave us a new set of guidelines including a homeopathic - suppository (another thing to stick up the …. I think you know.. But if not, look it up.. )

I was advised when I awoke at night, in pain, to come away from bed and drink a cup of lemon water (hot/cold are both fine- I like mine hot- 1 whole lemon freshly squeezed with some chopped fresh ginger and honey- delicious!!) and if that did not help, then I should take the suppository.

I tried this a few times and I have promised myself to never, ever do it again. I am not going to describe anything further about it only to say, no. never again. Discomfort not worth it.

At this point, we felt we had again reached a limit with a doctor because again this doctor, as nice as she was, wanted to talk to us more than listen and when we did, we were often interrupted and we were just given a random list of new things to try when she saw us back at her door. I truly appreciate and respect this particular doctor. She helped us see that diet was a key in all of this, to limiting symptoms (not curing them) and that natural treatments could help us.

We wanted to keep following this line of enquiry and see if we could still make further progress because I was still living in pain and not ready to accept that this is how it will be, indefinitely.

The help we needed was right under our noses, so to speak..

As it turned out, my father in law had been also suffering with problems in the bladder/prostate area. He had been experiencing ‘spotting’ (blood) in his urine. This was tested and it was found that he had signs of cancer. He is a former teacher and has a very extensive health cover policy, far greater than the basic one I have. Teachers out here are all very well looked after out here. My father in law had been in and out of a well known private hospital (Klinikum Grosshadern) in Munich, where he had been treated and operated on. After several months, he has had the tumours/growths cut out and is reported to be completely cancer free, which is great news. After so much time when we were both seeing doctors about the same area of the body, finally, we talked about the doctor he was seeing. A specialist called Dr.Magestro.

Ordinarily, I would not have been able to see him because of our policy not covering his services. But, there was an opporutnity to go along to an open ‘surgery’ style session where I could share my experiences with an admin lady who would see if I fit some sort of criteria to be seen by this doctor. I did go along and was given an appointment and that was the start of a breakthrough, for me.

A breakthrough. Finally.. I remember seeing Dr.Magestro, very nervous and scared he would not waste much time with me. Of course, I took a lot of notes with me. I had also recently come across a book entitled- ‘A headache in the pelvis’ by David Wise and Rodney Anderson Which was very, very interesting to me- it is a massive book though at over 600 pages and as motivated as i am, I am also regrettably quite lazy when it comes to reading (okay, Vroni I admit it, yes I like buying books and lining them all up to read but, am very slow in getting round to reading them.. Conscious clear.). Anyway, I had been reading for a few weeks as much as I could before arranging to meet this doctor, in order to try and appear a little more knowledgeable because I thought that would make me less of a time waster and perhaps more of an interesting patient.. (I did not know any better at the time. I only knew this was an opportunity and I did not want to waste ie)

In a short time, I read about how doctors conventionally trained in Urology do not get much, if at all modern training on Prostatitis. It has long been suffered by people and there are different types ie:

Bacterial Prostatitis

Non bacterial prostatitis

Chronic Prostatitis

Pelvic pain syndrome

(Sometimes the problem is even NOT THE PROSTATE!)

I saw through what I read that the ideal situation for a doctor in this area is that they find an infection and throw some antibiotics at it- which wil help clear the infection, mostly. But the problem is where there is no sign of infection.. Doctors have limited time and resources at their disposal to try and investigate this matter further. It is complicated. (The book talks about a meeting point between mind and body often being in the Pelvis region.)

I have read anecdotes about doctors who will tell patients they are fine, to go home and make love to their wife because they are okay, as a placebo technique that can in itself create a reduction of symptoms- showing the power of the mind. But I read that this is also a limited strategy that only removes the symptoms for a short period- maybe a few weeks or months.  I also read about doctors who, as part of a study, deliberately told patients during examinations that they had the signs of cancer, to then note how the body of that patient would start to show signs of stress and an increase in certain symptoms, to then tell the patient they had made a mistake.. Sneaky, eh?! But also reinforcing the power of the mind to heal or hurt itself.

I learnt that prostatitis is often but not always connected with a UTI. I learnt that pharmaceutical companies and health insurance companies do not invest much in prostatitis and that this has a knock on effect on the priority that Urologists may give to patients with this condition. I read how people whose analogy includes the remains of a tailbone, in the same way as a dog will tuck in its tail when stressed, people can clench this area and over time this can give way to prostatitis like symptoms. Stress seems to be definitely involved.

Pain leads to anxiety, which leads to tension and this becomes a cycle.. Treatment has to focus on breaking that cycle and only in the past 30 or so years have a few specialised doctors at Stanford University been at the centre of pioneering treatments focused on a sort of three way treatment system involving a urologists care, physiotherapy to help loosen the tightened areas of the pelvis and psychologist/counselling to help with stress and other underlying issues. That is mostly what I recall from my reading. But please see the book yourself and do not take my word for it. I am just an ordinary guy with average intelligence..

But I hope you get some idea here, that I really tried to educate myself on this area, at least as much as I could.

Back to the appointment..

Okay, after the introductions, Dr. Magestro patiently invited me to explain my symptoms and he really listened- finally!! And more importantly, he asked questions back to me and made notes… He went through the usual examinations on my urine, manually checking my prostate and then asking for a further sample after the prostate examination, to get this time a sample from the actual prostate (sorry, cannot explain better than that) which would, he said shed some more light on what had been going on the past several months. The doctor was going to carry out some extensive tests to find the problem.

I remember at this point, feeling quite tearful, that we were finally in front of a doctor who really wanted to listen and help. The doctor was going to see me, as continued research into this area that he was involved in. We were invited back in 2 weeks time for the results..

The results..

We were nervous and for some reason a little excited to go in and find out what was wrong and how to put it right.. So you can imagine how we felt when the Doctor said he found… nothing…. I remember him asking questions at the beginning of the appointment about what we thought might be wrong, listening and nodding as I tried to explain my thoughts and memories only to then say, that he found nothing..

Keep calm and keep moving forwards..

We discussed this revelation and we brought up many memories of other doctors who had said the same thing but that we were still suffering and we needed help. The doctor assured us and told us that this was actually not uncommon and that he treated many people of all ages in all walks of life including politicians, sports stars, pilots and that he was going to put together a plan to help find a cure involving (and it was so good to hear him say this..) his care to oversee things, a physiotherapist and maybe a psychologist.  I knew I had found somebody special in this doctor, who listened and wanted to keep going to find a solution. He also labelled my condition as non bacterial prostatitis.

Because I did not have health cover for access to this doctor, we agreed on a flexible 6 weekly appointment. Dr. Magistro offered to try different treatments with me and to see after a period of 6 weeks how things were going and then review and change as necessary. He said he would do as much as he could to help and if necessary, pass me on to other colleagues to focus on other areas of care that might help. He also said that he was sure within 6 months, we can fix this problem (that was such beautiful music to my ears)..

And...?

We were initially prescribe a Verikur and Quercetin. One of these medications was supposed to relax the bladder, the other to reduce the urgency or frequency I felt, to go..After a few weeks, I made a decision to cut out the Verikur because I felt I was having a hard time with it. I stayed with just the Quercetin and I cut that down from 2 tablets x2 per day (after breakfast and dinner) to just one dose a day, I chose that to be in the evening after my main meal and a few hours before bedtime.- when my problems start to kick in.

From the start the feeling was great. I got a good night sleep and mostly only woke only once. That for me, was the biggest sign I have seen, since this whole thing began, that allowed me to believe that I could get better...

How are things going now? It has been about 3-4 months now since our first appointment with Dr.Magestro. I have found that Quercetin, has really helped me. I still have a few occasional nights where I wake 3-4 times they tend to be when I am stressed - I am working on that- but otherwise, I might wake 1 or 2 times and… get this… I am able to sit down and pee.. Should I admit that?! Too late.. And I can go while seated.. And in the middle of the night when I can hardly keep my eyes open, this is really helpful (I can remember swaying on my feet in times gone by, eyes closed because I was so tired and pushing myself to go)

So early days, but this simple supplement has made a positive difference. I just wanted to share this with you- so you can discuss with your urologist or doctor.

I am still going through my recovery process and of the three pillars of therapy, I have only looked at one, so this is really early stage but of course, I still hope one day to be completely free of prostatitis. I cannot pretend to be an expert in any of this, but I know more than I did when I first developed this problem and I know how difficult it was back then to find helpful information and that is why I wanted to try and share something of my experience. I hope it may help somebody to have a better idea where to look (with the help of a good doctor/urologist) for their own answers. But, if you have got this far, I am sorry to take such a long time to make my point. Conciseness and me do not seem to go together. My wife and last wife, do have an ability to switch off and on, while I talk so.. there is that..

You may feel like nobody understands you suffering in this way, especially if you are younger than 45 years old. Just please know that you are not alone and that lots of people have had and will have this condition but that urologists (and definitely not GP’s) are not all very well trained in this area. There are however very good doctors and urologists out there. Your mission is to find that doctor, for you; someody who

has experience in the area

wants to help you- Of course all doctors want to help- but in my experience, I have to say some more than others..

will listen as well as talk with you

you feel comfortable with. 

But I would stress the first three points- beggars cant be choosers, afterall! 

I hope one day prostatitis is a better understood and more easily treated condition. Until then, all we can do is try to help each other.

Wishing you health and happiness

All my best

Gary Mehmet

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7 Tips for International Students Coming to the UK for Study

All very well may be overpowering to going to the UK to concentrate as a global understudy. You may be feeling energized yet anxious simultaneously. There is a ton to consider in planning, for example, educational expenses, visas, and financial balances so to make it simpler for you here is our examination abroad arrangement agenda for the UK.

1. Discovering grants and subsidizing your degree

Ensuring you have the money to Study in UK subsidize your degree ought to be the primary activity. You should give documentation to demonstrate that you can take care of your examination costs alongside your everyday costs for your understudy visa to get endorsed.

On the off chance that you are an EU understudy, you are qualified for Student Finance in the UK which implies the expense of your educational expenses will be covered by an advance which you'll need to take care of later on. Understudies from outside of the EU should finance their degrees themselves as they are not qualified for the credit. Likewise, they need to pay higher charges than UK understudies which would be from £10,000 – £35,000 every year.

There are different choices accessible on the off chance that you can't finance your schooling, for example, worldwide wellsprings of subsidizing and there are additionally training credits or trade programs that you could take a gander at.

2. Orchestrate your understudy visa

To have the option to concentrate in the UK you need the right visas and put together other administrative work required. Even though it's not convoluted to get and the UK energizes worldwide understudies, you need to ensure you have the visa.

The visas required to Study Abroad in UK change contingent upon the nation you are from. Yet, on the off chance that you are from a European Union (EU) part nation you don't have to apply for a visa to concentrate in the UK. If you are from a nation that is out of the EU, at that point you should apply for a visa to concentrate in the UK. At certain colleges, there is extraordinary staff to assist understudies with their visas so if you have a particular college at the top of the priority list that you'd prefer to join in, simply ask them for help.

Studies for under a half year, you can apply for a transient understudy visa. In any case, if you are wanting to read for over a half year, you'll need Tier 4 understudy visa.

3. Prepare for British life

The UK invites individuals from all around the globe and has an extremely different culture. So you will meet a great deal of worldwide understudies for Study In UK for Indian Students After 12th in a similar circumstance as you. You will likewise discover understudy networks that will help you meet similar individuals. At the point when you choose which college you will examine, it is useful to discover related Facebook gatherings so you can pose your inquiries and make some new companions.

On the off chance that you weren't at that point mindful, the UK is known for its wet and now and then very chilly climate. The climate in the UK can likewise be unforeseen and stormy days are very normal. Remember to pack heaps of comfortable garments and don't anticipate that the late spring should be that hot. At the point when the colleges start in September, it's the start of fall which could be colder than most places. Be that as it may since the UK has incredible shops you can decide to not pack everything and get a few pieces when you arrive.

4. Sort your understudy convenience

As a worldwide understudy, convenience is quite possibly the main interesting points as it will be the place where you will invest the vast majority of your energy. There are numerous alternatives for understudy convenience in the UK relying upon your financial plan with Study in UK With Scholarship. Most understudies either live in college convenience (called 'lobbies of home' or 'corridors' for short) or decide to lease a room from a private landowner. Numerous colleges regularly offer house certifications to their understudies who apply before a specific date so you should contact your college first.

College lobbies can either act naturally cooked where you approach a shared kitchen or cooked where your dinners will be given at the container. Having your own kitchen or utilizing a shared kitchen to cook for yourself will help you set aside cash. Large numbers of our rooms at London Nest accompany shared or private kitchens.

Investigating the positives and negatives of your choices on whether to remain in lobbies or leasing private convenience ought to be the primary activity. You should pay somewhat more and get your own en-suite. At London Nest, you can discover both reasonable for Study in UK Cost for Indian Students and extravagance choices in focal areas. We offer an assortment of rooms which all come completely outfitted and with numerous offices in the areas, for example, a private kitchen, game rooms, en-suite restrooms. Our extravagance facilities alternatives are comprehensive which covers all the bills so you don't need to stress over them.

You can contact your college staff to assist you with choosing the staff there will be more capable and exhort on the best convenience dependent on what you need.

5. Medical problems during your investigations

At the point when you show up in the UK, you should enlist with a specialist at a medical procedure or wellbeing focus in the neighborhood soon as could reasonably be expected. The nearby specialist otherwise called a 'GP' (General Practitioner) will be your first purpose of contact on the off chance that you are sick and require clinical therapy.

On the off chance that you are from the EU, you'll simply require a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), which will qualify you for utilize the National Health Service (NHS) while you're here in the UK. In case you're an understudy from a nation outside the EU, to gain admittance to the NHS you'll need to pay a wellbeing overcharge as a feature of your visa application.

Additionally, if you have any medical coverage as of now, verify whether it covers you while you're abroad. In any case, recollect that any additional costs or misfortunes caused because of sickness or injury won't be covered by EHIC or wellbeing overcharge.

6. Instructions to set up an understudy financial balance in the UK

Consider setting up a UK ledger in case you will remain in the UK for more than a couple of months. It will make it simpler for you to keep your cash safe and cover any tabs. Be that as it may, it can require a long time to get a ledger set up so you should take cash with you to cover the principal month of your visit.

It's standard practice for understudies to have an understudy financial balance in the UK. There are loads of banks in the UK that you can open a record with including HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander, Halifax, and Barclays. To open a record, you will require suitable recognizable proof and documentation.

Do investigate before opening your financial balance as each bank has various choices for understudies as far as credits and ATM utilizations. You can discover more data on the banks at the British Banker's Association site. Verify whether your present bank has any connections to the UK banks as you may have the option to have a simple cycle.

7. Stay associated universally

At the point when you show up in the UK, you'll likely need to call your loved ones to tell them you showed up securely. Your cell phone will work in the UK fine and dandy however on the off chance that you utilize your neighborhood versatile specialist co-op undoubtedly you will be charged at incredibly significant expenses. The UK works on a similar GSM band as the vast majority of the world, however in case you're coming from Japan or North/South America, your telephone may not work in the UK, so this merits checking.

So if you will remain in the UK long haul, you should buy a UK SIM. You have alternatives to either get Pay As You Go (PAYG) or pursue a month-to-month agreement and pay a set sum every month. Suppliers, for example, LycaMobile and RebTel offer less expensive administrations and ease global calls so you should utilize one of them.

In case you're remaining with us at one of our London Nest areas you can utilize free web and Wi-Fi gave in all rooms and all through the structures to settle on decisions utilizing Skype, WhatsApp, or FaceTime.

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Covid19 Guidance Update

New national restrictions announced

On Monday 4 January the UK prime minister announced a new lockdown in England, running from 5 January to at least mid-February. The lockdown measures are necessary to reduce levels of COVID-19 which are high nationally and locally and to protect against the new variant of COVID-19 that is more easily transmissible.

The measures mean that with few exceptions we must all now stay at home to protect each other and stop the spread of the virus. The COVID vaccination programme is underway, however, it will take time before this becomes effective at a community level. In the meantime, by following the Government guidelines we can protect our friends, families and communities. Our actions will also ease pressure on our NHS enabling them to treat both covid patients and those suffering from other conditions. We realise this will be difficult for many people but please be aware that support is available. We can help with advice on how to protect your mental health and wellbeing, help getting food items if you have no one else to turn to or financial support through government grants. 

Visit our website www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council/coronavirus/coronavirus-support-for-residents for advice or email c19support@leicester.gov.uk giving a contact telephone number if possible. If you are telling us about another person, please get their permission before giving us their phone number or address.

Protect yourself and your loved ones. Stay at home.

And remember to

wash ours hands regularly for 20 seconds with soap and water

always wear a face covering in enclosed spaces such as shops and where social distancing is difficult, for example when queuing

keep two metres apart from anyone you don’t live with.

Education

Schools and colleges have all closed with students (apart from children of key workers and those considered vulnerable) now being taught remotely.

The scheduled 2021 A-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled with guidance issued soon about how awards will be given.

Students studying certain degrees (e.g. medicine and veterinary science) will be returning for face to face lectures but other university students will access their lectures online.

Early years provision is unaffected, but you are advised to check with your childcare provider for individual arrangements

Places of worship

You are able to visit a place of worship for communal worship (social distancing and other measures will apply). You are permitted to attend a funeral or other event related to a death and attend a wedding (subject to guidance and maximum numbers). Please note that weddings are subject to strict guidance and permitted in exceptional circumstances.

Exercise

Gyms, leisure centres and outdoor facilities including outdoor gyms are closed. You may exercise outdoors but are only allowed to do so if you are:

·         On your own

·         With someone that you live with

·         With someone from your bubble

·         With one other person (if you are on your own)

Bubbles

You are only allowed to form a bubble under certain circumstances. You can only form a support bubble if:

you live alone

you are the only adult in your     household who does not need continuous care as a result of a disability

your household includes a child who     is under the age of one (as of 2 December 2020)

your household includes a child with     a disability who requires continuous care and is under the age of 5 (as of     2 December 2020)

you are aged 16 or 17 living with     others of the same age and without any adults

you are a single adult living with     one or more children who are under the age of 18 (as of 12 June 2020) – if     you share custody of your children with someone who you don’t live with     then your children can move freely between both households. You do not     need to form a support bubble to do this.

You must not form a support bubble with a household that is part of another support bubble.

You can form a childcare bubble if you provide or receive childcare from one other household if you live with someone under the age of 14 - you must not meet socially with your childcare bubble.

For more information visit the government’s website www.gov.uk/guidance/making-a-support-bubble-with-another-household.

Seeking medical help

If you need medical treatment, then please do not hesitate to contact your doctor. Your GP may offer a telephone appointment service which means that you will not have to leave your home. Alternatively, you can call NHS 111 for medical advice over the phone.

You must still attend your routine appointments.

For more information and details of all of the restrictions go to the gov.uk website www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home

New Strain of Coronavirus

As you will have seen in the media a new strain of Coronavirus has been identified.

There is no evidence to say that this new strain affects people more severely, but it is transmitted more easily. This is why it’s is extremely important that we continue to follow the guidelines and stay at home.

Remember the less contact with other people that you have the lower the risk of catching it and passing it on to others.

Testing

Testing is really important to help us find out who has coronavirus so they can isolate and reduce the risk of it spreading.

There are two types of tests available:

·         Rapid test (lateral flow tests) – these will give you a result in less than an hour. Some residents without symptoms are choosing to get tested at our rapid testing centre at Fosse Neighbourhood Centre. There is no need to book and you get your results within an hour. Please remember to wear a face covering if you go. If you get a positive result you will need to self-isolate along with the rest of your household.

·         PCR tests – these are the bookable tests for those with symptoms. You will get your results within 48 hours. You must self isolate whilst you are waiting for the test results, as must anyone that you live with.

There are many testing centres in Leicester – for more information about where they are please go to our website – www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council/coronavirus/coronavirus-in-leicester-latest-news.

Isolation

If you have symptoms of coronavirus, or you have tested positive, you must self-isolate at home, even if you are a key worker. Everyone you live with must also stay at home.

This is because if you have coronavirus there is a high chance you could pass it to other people. By staying in your home, and away from others (you must not leave your home for any reason at all this includes going to work, daily exercise or shopping), you reduce the risk of passing the virus on to other people. This is the most important thing we can all do to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

If you are self-isolating because you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus or who has symptoms, then you will be pleased to know that the isolation period has reduced from 14 days to 10 days. This is because you are at risk of having caught the virus from that person and need to reduce the risk of passing it on to others.

Current self isolation guidelines*

If you have  symptoms of coronavirus - Isolate  for at least 10 days or until you feel better – this may be longer  than 10 days (check the NHS website for latest guidance)

If you have  tested positive for coronavirus - Isolate  for at least 10 days or until you feel better – this may be longer  than 10 days (check the NHS website for latest guidance)

If you are  waiting for the results of a coronavirus test - If you  have symptoms you must self-isolate whilst waiting for the result. If the  test is positive you must isolate for 10 days from the start of symptoms or  date of positive test

If you live  with someone who has symptoms of coronavirus - You must  isolate for 10 days from the start of their symptoms

If you live  with someone who is waiting for coronavirus test results - If they  have symptoms, you must isolate whilst they are waiting for the test  results.  If the test is positive you  must isolate for 10 days from the start of their symptoms

If you have  been identified as a close contact of someone who has coronavirus - You must  isolate for as long as you have been advised to by your school or workplace  or the NHS test and trace service

For the latest guidance visit the NHS website:  www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/how-long-to-self-isolate/

If you're on a low income and cannot work while you self-isolate, you may be able to get a support payment of £500 and you may be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay (for more information visit the government’s website www.gov.uk/statutory-sick-pay/what-youll-get); or you may be eligible for Employment Support Allowance www.gov.uk/employment-support-allowance/eligibility

If you need any help whilst you isolate you could ask friends or neighbours to help you; or, if you don't have anyone to do this then visit our website or email c19support@leicester.gov.uk

Contact Tracing

If you test positive for coronavirus you will be contacted by the Test and Trace team (this could be either the national or local Leicester City Council team), they will ask if you understand what this means and if you need any support. They will also ask you for details of who have been in close contact with so that they can contact them and advise them to self isolate for 10 days.

The test and trace team will keep calling you for a period of time until they get this information so its really important that you give them as much information as you can. Your details will be kept anonymous.

Coronavirus Vaccine

The coronavirus vaccine continues to be administered in Leicester. The first groups to be vaccinated are people over 80, health and social care staff and care home residents. The priority groups for vaccination have been set by the government.

You do not need to contact your GP to arrange your covid vaccination - you will be contacted directly to book your vaccine. For more information visit the NHS website -  www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/coronavirus-vaccine

Care homes

We know how hard this year has been for those with family and loved ones in care homes and we know that you are anxious to visit them as soon as you can. Unfortunately, due to the high risks involved the majority of care homes are not able to have visitors just yet.

As elderly people and care home staff are amongst the first to be vaccinated, hopefully we will not have to wait much longer to see our loved ones.

For more information:

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Continue to follow Leicester City Council on social media Facebook Leicester City Council and Twitter @Leicester_News

There is a range of videos that can be shared on our Your Tube channel Leicester City Council

They continue to update our translated materials on the webpages here

For the latest data on the situation in Leicester go to their website here

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Do You Need a Business Plan for Apartment Investing?

Apartment Investing Business Plans: What You Should Know 

While to some, apartment investing may sound like a passive hobby, for most successful real estate investors, it’s a highly involved business endeavor. So, if you want to give yourself the greatest chance of succeeding in the multifamily investing game, writing an effective business plan is key. No matter the size of your potential investment, a business plan can help clarify your goals, as well as bringing potential obstacles to your attention. 

However, if you plan to purchase multiple properties, or if you’re considering bringing in business partners or outside investors, creating a business plan is even more important, as you’ll likely need to share it with them in order to get their approval. Plus, the simple act of creating a business plan may help you gain ideas and insights that can make your investments even more lucrative. And, if you already own a multifamily property and are looking to upgrade it, refinance it, or simply make it more profitable, having a solid business plan is equally essential. While some of the below, such as choosing the market you want to invest in, may be redundant, most of the information is still highly relevant.

Elements of a Successful Apartment Investing Business Plan

Depending on the nature of your investment goals, you may want to have a specific business plan for each property you acquire, as well as an overarching business plan for acquiring a larger number of properties. While multifamily business plans can vary significantly in nature, they generally have a few shared components. These include: 

Mission Statement

Investment Strategy

Target Market (Geographic and Demographic)

Property Financing

Marketing Strategy

Financial Projections

Exit Strategy

Legal, Accounting, and Asset Management

Mission Statement: A mission statement is generally a one to two sentence explanation of why you are doing business. Ideally, this statement should include both what you plan to get out of the business arrangement, as well as what you hope to provide others. For an individual apartment building, a mission statement could be “Our building will generate wealth for my investors and I while creating a safe, comfortable, and enjoyable place to live for our residents.” For a larger-scale investment plan, a mission statement could be “I will utilize multifamily investing to generate wealth for my investors and I by acquiring 200 units over the next 5 years, while providing residents great places to live and excellent customer service.”

Investment Strategy: In essence, the investment strategy summarizes what type of property you will invest in and how you will make it profitable. This is a bird’s eye view, and can also include mentions of your plans for financing, property management, renovations, exit strategies, and other important elements, which you can elaborate on in future sections. 

For instance, a specific plan could say “We plan to acquire a class C 15-25 unit property in the Atlanta, Charlotte, or Charleston markets, upgrade it to a class B property, and raise rents by 10-15%. We will hire an outside property management company to take care of management responsibilities, and plan to finance the property with a 70% LTV loan.”  

Target Market (Geographic and Demographic): Choosing a target market, or markets is essential, both from a geographic and demographic standpoint. Geographically, you’ll want to answer questions such as: What markets do I want to invest in? What submarkets? Which are the best neighborhoods to invest in those locations? Demographically, you’ll want to answer questions such as: Who is our ideal customer? How old are they? How much money do they make? What do they look for in a place to rent? How do we best market to them? 

For instance, a plan could say “We will be investing in a property in the Dallas, Texas market, in the Arts District submarket. Our target demographic will be singles and young couples making between $65,000 and $85,000 per year. We plan to reach them with targeted online video ads, local morning radio ads, and posters throughout the local community.” 

Property Financing: This section should describe how you will finance your property using debt and equity. Equity includes all sources of cash that will be used to finance the property, and should include details any GP/LP investments and/or joint ventures that are planned. In terms of debt, details could include the amount and type(s) of debt that an investor plans to use on the property, the anticipated LTV, and the expected interest rate of the debt. For instance, a plan to purchase a $4 million apartment building might say “I, as GP, will contribute $100,000 of equity. LP investors are expected to contribute an additional $900,000 of equity, for a total of $1 million. We plan to take out CMBS or small agency loan of $3 million at 75% LTV, with an expected interest rate of around 5%.” 

Marketing Strategy: Marketing is very important to the apartment investment process, especially if the property you want to acquire currently has occupancy issues, or you want to rehabilitate and rebrand it in order to raise rents. Potential marketing efforts could include online paid advertising and social media, local radio and television ads, fliers, and sponsorships of local organizations and events. For apartments geared toward college students, campus-wide promotions may also be ideal. 

A good business plan should include which marketing efforts you plan to use, how much you plan to spend, and what your expected/desired result is. A plan might say “We will use paid online advertising and local fliers, posters, and banners, some which may be the result of sponsorships. We plan to spend $10,000 on paid online ads and $5,000 for fliers, banners, posters and associated ad costs over a 3-month period until we reach 98% occupancy.” 

Financial Projections: Without making financial projections, you won’t be able to measure your profitability goals against your actual progress. Even more importantly, lenders generally require detailed financial plans before approving a borrower for a loan, so if you want financing, you’ll need to create a reasonable estimate of what the future may hold. This typically takes the form of a pro-forma profit and loss (P&L) statement that you will present to your lender. However, for your own purposes, you may wish to create both best and worst case scenarios of your statement, in order to create backup plans and determine how to best respond to various opportunities or setbacks. In addition, you will want to list the basic assumptions you have made in your projections (i.e. rents will increase by 1% over the next 5 years, occupancy will stay at approximately 95%, etc.). 

Exit Strategy: How long do you intend to hold your property or portfolio of properties? If you’re the GP, and you have LP investors, how and when will you return their funds? Will you engage in tax deferral strategies, such as utilizing a 1031 exchange to exchange your property for another piece of multifamily or commercial real estate? The exit strategy part of your business plan should answer all these questions and more. 

Property Management: Property management is another essential part of the apartment investing process. For very small properties (i.e. 5-10 units), some investors will take care of this themselves. However, most investors hire an external property management company to take care of this. In other cases, the owner or GP (or one of them) already owns a property management company and that company will take care of the management. Your business plan should state which of these options will be used and how much property management is expected to cost. 

If you’re involved in a deal where one of the other partners will be using their company for property management, beware of overcharging and make sure that all fees and financial arrangements are specifically detailed in writing. 

Legal, Accounting, and Asset Management: Every apartment investor needs both a good real estate attorney and an experienced accountant. In addition, larger investors with multiple properties may also want to retain the services of an asset manager, who can take a high-level view of an investment portfolio, monitor its health, and suggest ways to cut costs and increase profitability. So, who will you use? If you don’t know, how will you locate them and decide? How much will they cost, and are these costs reflected in your financial projections? Answering these questions will help put you on solid footing when it comes to assembling a professional team to assist you with your investment. 

The Best Multifamily Business Plans Are Flexible 

In the same way that 19th century Prussian military commander Helmuth von Moltke said “No plan survives first contact with the enemy,” no multifamily business plan will ‘survive’ contact with the real world. Markets change, lenders change requirements, and service providers adjust their costs all the time-- and your apartment investing business plan should reflect that. If you’ve realized that a new type of marketing could benefit your property, or that you want to look for properties in an entirely different market-- simply change your plan. Having a business plan is great, but it’s a template, not a stone carving, so allow it to guide you on your journey while not letting it restrict your choices. 

from Loan News https://www.multifamily.loans/apartment-finance-blog/do-you-need-a-business-plan-for-apartment-investing

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Data Ethics

You've most likely run over this previously:

A merchant skews a chart that contrasts their item and a rival's in the market.

A review advantageously demonstrates that most respondents collectively concede to an issue. or on the other hand, a corrective organization asserts their new "wonder cream" has been "experimentally tried."

While these models may appear to be senseless to a few, misdirecting examination is a major issue that frequently has genuine outcomes. moral concerns emerge when information researchers don't pursue great practices when gathering, taking care of, displaying, and demonstrating information.

As a hopeful expert in information science, your own perspective ought not make any difference.

yours. individual. perspective. should. not. matter.

As information researchers, we are all in this to seek after the goal truth, or near it. this is the place information morals come in. we need to discover and find things that enhance our comprehension of the world and the general population around us, and to all the more likely anticipate our future. this isn't just a mantra: it's a state of mind that each datum researcher ought to receive on the off chance that she or he will be effective in their job. your own abstract perspective can hinder being a decent information researcher.

There's an adage that your model is just tantamount to your information. this additionally implies any ends you make about specific gatherings of individuals or how the world functions relies upon whether great information morals accumulation rehearses were utilized.

For instance, you may go over a model that depended on "race" just like a vigorously weighted indicator variable.

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There are two issues with this:

Right off the bat, the model just so happens to arrange individuals of a specific race as all being high credit chance candidates for a home advance at a bank. in any case, when taking a gander at the real information, it's evident that dominant part of cases are from one racial gathering, with every one of these cases living in a similar piece of the city or area.

How extraordinary the outcomes may be if there was a more assorted arbitrary example of cases, over all areas? imagine a scenario in which there were numerous instances of this racial gathering living in different areas with a decent record that simply didn't make it into the dataset. likewise, with regards to order errands, if there is extraordinary lopsidedness of classes in the dataset, the model will have a tendency to effectively foresee the larger part class more often than not, however will battle to anticipate the under-spoke to classes.

Also, for what reason did the bank choose to place such a substantial weight on the indicator variable "race"? are the outcomes distinctive when race isn't intensely weighted? was this choice driven by an individual perspective, or was there a non-abstract purpose for setting an overwhelming weight on race? it may be the case that the purpose for this choice is simply abstract and skews the outcomes, along these lines making any ends immaterial.

Bad Data Ethics

Ponders that make decisions about wrongdoing rates among certain ethnic or financial status bunches are another precedent where information morals are a worry. can any anyone explain why a few examinations just utilize information on specific urban communities and not others? would it be able to be that wrongdoing in these painstakingly chosen urban areas are probably going to dishonestly demonstrate an abstract perspective and make wrong decisions about a gathering in general? what at any point happened to the great old routine with regards to getting an arbitrary example over the entire populace before you even think about utilizing the information to make decisions about the whole gathering?

Therefore, purposely barring certain cases from the investigation, with no motivation to trust the information is mistaken or off base is an issue. likewise, wrangling the information in an approach to attempt and demonstrate a perspective is another moral major issue.

For instance, suppose you ran over a factual criticalness test that shows people math understudies are altogether extraordinary with regards to learning arithmetic. in any case, the test depends on all men incorporated into the dataset, and all ladies barring a couple of anomalies, with a few instances of ladies converged into one case with their figured normal. it's critical, in light of the fact that this could result in erroneously dismissing the invalid speculation of there being no genuine contrast for the fake case that one sexual orientation is preferable at math over the other.

The takeaway

Taking everything into account, these precedents of awful information morals ought to be front of mind when gathering, cleaning, wrangling and demonstrating information, with the goal that our decisions are not founded on false "truth."'

At last, consider it thusly: how might you feel on the off chance that somebody illustrated you dependent on an emotional perspective and attempted to name it as "certainty"?

Data and Big Data Ethics

Information science is changing the diversion with regards to controlling informational indexes and picturing enormous information. knowing how to direct a fruitful information science explore is basic for organizations in the event that they need to adequately target and comprehend their clients. with these tests, comes a duty regarding seeing enormous information morals.

There is such a great amount of information out on the planet that numerous individuals are overpowered by its sheer greatness. likewise, the vast majority have no clue how intense that data genuinely is. truly, information tests can possibly enhance their lives. in the meantime, how do organizations not advance on toes with their information utilization and application?

Information science tests are ordinarily used to answer addresses a business may have, as well as encourages organizations to make those inquiries regardless. we've arranged a rundown of the absolute most dubious information science analyzes that have brought up issues about the utilization (and abuse) of huge information.

1. Target's pregnancy forecast

Allows first take a gander at a standout amongst the most infamous models of the capability of prescient investigation. it's notable that each time you go shopping, retailers are observing what you purchase and when you're getting it. your shopping propensities are followed and investigated dependent on what time you go shopping, in the event that you utilize advanced coupons versus paper coupons, purchase mark name or nonexclusive, thus substantially more. your information is put away in inside databases where it's being dismantled with an end goal to discover drifts between your socioeconomics and purchasing propensities (as far as anyone knows with an end goal to serve your requirements better).

Your retailer apparently find out about your utilization propensities than you do – or they are certain attempting to. one minneapolis man educated of his girl's pregnancy since target successfully focused on his little girl with coupons for infant items once her purchasing propensities relegated her a high "pregnancy expectation" score. this caused an online life firestorm, since target did not damage any protection strategies, but rather did that mean this private, life-occasion was suitably focused on? the prescient examination venture was fruitful, however general society thought the focused on advertising was excessively obtrusive and coordinate. this was a standout amongst the most known instances of huge information morals, and the potential abuse.

2. Allstate telemetry packages

Allstate information morals

Second, lets talk protection. auto protection premiums can represent the moment of truth the bank. this is particularly evident relying upon one's driving record. generally, it's anything but difficult to discover an insurance agency to safeguard you (regardless of whether your driving record is not as much as alluring). inside the following decade, hope to see significant changes in how protection premiums are resolved. one of the main organizations in this change is allstate.

Allstate's drivewise bundle offers (for the most part great) drivers the opportunity to set aside some cash dependent on their driving propensities. the main proviso here is that allstate will introduce a telematics GPS beacon in your vehicle to get this data. your braking, speeding, and even call focus information can conceivably be utilized to decide your premiums. in case you're a decent driver, this may be awesome news for you, yet a few concerns get raised with regards to gps following. how morally stable is this routine with regards to utilizing your driving information? this conceivably identifiable data should be constantly defended, yet the genuine concern is the manner by which gps following will influence individuals from poorer regions.

Auto insurance agencies can rate streets by how safe they are. in the event that individuals from poorer territories are encompassed by streets with a less "protected" rating, and they invest 60% of their energy driving on this, what amount of will this contrarily influence their protection premiums? will their great driving record be sufficient to spare them from silly premiums? what other information will be utilized tweets and other online networking posts? every single great inquiry to consider, when taking a gander at enormous information morals.

3. Okcupid information scrape

Okcupid enormous information morals rub

In 2016, very nearly 70,000 okcupid profiles had their information discharged onto the open science structure. this place is an online network where individuals share crude information and team up with one another over informational collections. two danish scientists, emil kirkegaard and julius daugbjerg-bjerrekaer, scratched the information with a bot profile on okcupid and discharged freely identifiable data, for example, age, sex, sexual introduction, and individual reactions to the review addresses the site approaches when individuals agree to accept a profile.

All the more imperatively, the two specialists didn't feel their activities were expressly or morally wrong, since "information is now open." this tremendous information discharge cocked eyebrows and constrained inquiries regarding the morals of discharging "officially open" information. what does huge information morals need to say in regards to officially open information? what's untouchable? the primary concern raised was that despite the fact that information might be open, that doesn't mean somebody agrees to by and by identifiable information being distributed on an online gathering. morally, not alright in the general population's eyes.

4. The wikipedia probability of success

Previous google information researcher, seth stephens-davidowitz, needed to investigate what factors prompt fruitful individuals getting to be effective. stephens-davidowitz was occupied with discovering parts in people groups' lives that made them fruitful (or sufficiently noticeable to have wikipedia pages). to dive into this issue, he downloaded more than 150,000 wikipedia pages to contain his underlying arrangement of information.

His discoveries were that individuals who experienced childhood in bigger populace towns close colleges will probably be effective, and those towns required a considerable measure of assorted variety; more fruitful individuals left towns that had high populaces of foreigners and where imagination managing expressions of the human experience was profoundly upheld. for a few people, advancing expressions of the human experience, financing training, and advancing more migration may not be things on their high need list. this model is somewhat unique in relation to a portion of alternate precedents. it doesn't cause unrest in the realm of enormous information morals, however its finding weren't really settled upon.

5. Big Data and the Credit Gap

A major piece of the "american dream" is having the capacity to ascend the stepping stool of accomplishment and fiscally accommodate yourself and your friends and family. your credit report and history will influence enormous budgetary choices throughout your life; it's a number that will tail you whatever is left of your life, and its extension comes to a long ways past what sort of financing costs you can get for advances. most americans don't fathom everything that goes into their FICO assessment cosmetics, and as per a yale diary of law and innovation article, "conventional, computerized credit scoring devices raise longstanding worries of precision and decency." in the approach of huge information morals, elective methods for credit scoring are ascending—yet with their very a lot of moral concerns.

The developing attitude of "all information is credit information" endeavors to profit underserved purchasers, by utilizing calculations to distinguish designs in conduct. sadly, the "all information is credit information" pulls information focuses from purchasers' conduct on the web and disconnected. the issue with this, is nobody knows precisely how they are being scored, only that any information focuses are reasonable amusement. this represents the danger of being given an uncalled for FICO rating, with little establishment to remain on with regards to debating off base scoring information.

The absence of straightforwardness makes individuals think about how target credit scoring truly is: will I be made a decision about dependent on my internet based life nearness, companions, church participation, ethnicity or sex? odds are, you as of now are. with respect to huge information morals, the generalpublic doesn't care for this utilization of their information. another worry is the precision of the information, which can influence major monetary choices and offers throughout your life, in a few examples off base information can extremely ruin your capacity to advance monetarily.

6. Big Data Ethics and AI “Beauty Contest”

In 2016, the principal ai (man-made brainpower) made a decision about magnificence challenge chosen 44 champs from the web. the determination of victors raised concerns due to the 6,000 submitted photographs from more than 100 nations, just a bunch were non-white. one minority was chosen as a champ, and whatever remains of the non-white victors were asian. the conspicuous issue with this, was a greater part of photograph entries originated from africa and india.

The organization who put on this web excellence challenge, beauty.ai said this undertaking was a "profound learning" venture that was supported partially by microsoft. boss science officer, alex zhavoronkov of beauty.ai guaranteed the calculation utilized was one-sided in light of the fact that the information they prepared it on was not sufficiently assorted. for future ventures, the expectation is to adjust the issue of predisposition by utilizing more arrangements of information and planning calculations that can clarify any inclination.

7. Self-driving vehicles

Driverless autos and huge information morals

Prior in 2018, a uber self-driving vehicle struck and slaughtered an arizona lady, and immediately internet based life was ready to fight. self-driving vehicles are deliberately being composed and made to maintain a strategic distance from mishaps like this, and this mischance (the first of its kind) raised genuine moral predicaments with respect to the calculations being intended for these vehicles.

 It's not simply uber that is trying the innovation for these self-driving vehicles; many organizations and new companies are dashing to be the first to convey these vehicles to the majority, matched with the guarantee of these vehicles being more secure and more vitality effective. tragically, these machines are being customized to settle on conceivably last chance choices.

What is the job of the vehicle, if the vehicle is going to be associated with an accident? does the vehicle secure the general population within it no matter what? does the vehicle stay away from the person on foot no matter what (regardless of whether it implies threat for the vehicle travelers)? does the quantity of individuals in the vehicle versus the quantity of people on foot going to be hit say something? these inquiries should be replied before self-driving vehicles can participate in the public arena.

8. Northpointe's hazard assessment

Imprison and huge information morals

In the assembled states, the court frameworks are progressively getting to be dependent upon calculations to decide the probability of recidivism among lawbreakers. northpointe, inc. has a program called compas (restorative guilty party administration profiling for elective endorses) that is utilized in different states, and is utilized to give a "chance appraisal" score.

Basically, compas scores hoodlums on the probability of them being reoffenders later on; the higher the score, the higher the probability to reoffend. in a 2016 examination done by propublica, in the wake of taking a gander at 10,000 hoodlums in broward co. florida, dark litigants were erroneously given higher "scores" more regularly than their white partners. further, white culprits were regularly given a score lower than they ought to have been (they ended up being increasingly "unsafe" than they were seen to be). northpointe has since denied any racial predisposition that might be available in their calculations, however the discussion in utilizing a possibly supremacist calculation raises concerns. concerning enormous information morals, this case is extraordinarily disliked.

9. 23andme genomics

23andme is an organization that propelled in 2006 with the objective of helping individuals comprehend their dna and hereditary cosmetics on an individual level that has never been open. for $100 and a smidgen of salivation, individuals could get data on regardless of whether they had at least one of the 100 hazard factors 23andme had distinguished. as per a 2015 quick organization article, clients who select in can agree to have their information imparted to medication and protection partnerships, or even scholarly labs. as indicated by a statement from matthew herper's forbes article, "23andme can just sweep the genome for known varieties," however their ongoing association with the individual hereditary qualities organization, genentech, might want to pay for access to the majority of the information 23andme has (that individuals have agreed to, obviously).

Organizations with these paying enterprises and labs have the ability to information mine and discover designs in groupings in information at an expense far less expensive than conventional trials, however the genuine expense is security. the worry is that these pharmaceutical organizations, scholastic labs, and government elements can conceivably find out about you on a cell level, than you would ever think about yourself. some vibe this is an overextend the extent that huge information morals go. it can possibly be abused on a huge scale.

10. Microsoft tay bot

In walk 2016, microsoft discharged a visit bot named "tay" on twitter. tay wasmeant to talk like a young person, however endured not as much as multi day, after tay began tweeting scornful and bigot content via web-based networking media. as a man-made reasoning machine, tay figured out how to speak with individuals dependent on her identity conversing with. in the wake of closing tay down for her bigot remarks, microsoft contended that the supremacist tweets were expected to some degree to online "trolls" who were attempting to drive tay into supremacist discussions.

Since 2016, microsoft has made acclimations to their ai models, and has discharged another "legal counselor bot" that can assist individuals with lawful guidance on the web. as per a representative, the issue with tay needed to do with the "content unbiased calculation," and imperative inquiries, for example, "in what capacity would this be able to hurt somebody?" should be solicited before sending these sorts from ai ventures.

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As should be obvious, the utilization of huge information morals is changing the scene of how organizations collaborate, reach, and effectively target buyer gatherings. while these seemingly dubious information science tests are driving innovation and information knowledge to the following level, there is as yet far to go. organizations should get some information about the profound quality of calculations, the motivation behind their machine learning, and regardless of whether their trial is morally stable.

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Can be your Articles Method Heading within the Suitable Direction? Some-Actions to be certain It Will.

Let?s imagine your Marketing Company Miami group survived an aircraft collision additionally laundered ashore over the warm excellent beach sand of your Pacific isle. You might have simply just no road map, compass, or Gps navigation. You happen to be not certain where to find freshwater, kindling, or simply shelter. While you trudge uphill to your jungle inside, each of your buddies needs, ?Are you sure we?re heading the appropriate way? ?

Just how would you know?! What?s the ?right? path when you?re missing on an exotic isle?

The situation tells any person of the articles your staff has actually been cranking out well before your fateful visit. This content study perfectly. This looked sharp. It sometimes racked upward LinkedIn likes?

Unfortunately he this content steering in the right path? How would you know?

My staff at Enlarge not too long ago looked into our jungle area connected with information data? securely from Madison, Wisconsin? to choose a perfect track. Any time site visitors enter an e-mail address as a way to download and install content material from your site, that may measures kicks away from a multiweek e-send take care of promotion with just one e-send each week. But , like lots of B2B tech entrepreneurs, we assist an extended sales cycle, and knew we?re capable of greater with our foster advertising campaign. For that reason my teammates Nina Brakel-Schutt additionally Nate Holmes led a written content review.

Originally, we wanted to discover what our data says? almost like 0s and 1s would reveal where to go. But there?s way too much details to review! As well as its explanation is just as our queries.

We all devised a fresh written content auditing method making use of info from CRM, marketing strategies automation, and electronic digital investment management (DAM) resources. Other piles will work very. That content review preserved our content and e-mail marketing procedure from perishing at a wilderness island? and it may possibly help save your own, likewise.

1 . Type your problem

Variety a subject that problems your most entrenched assumptions. For example , B2B internet marketers are proud of knowing additionally serving their purchasers. No internet marketer brags, ?We do not know who?s buying our things and why! in . Direct by using a concern just like, ?Who are our consumers and what articles or blog posts would remedy their problems throughout the acquiring encounter? ?

Start off the inquiry just by mapping the journey of the closing 10 shoppers you finalized. Which our maps looked like:

Let?s take note numerous things:

very first, the acquiring pattern was longer plus much more unknown than we possessed presumed. We possessed material queued up for a dozen weeks, even so the experience lasted 9 months.

Second, several customers jumped in at four weeks, six months time, and eight months, and we also couldn?t have delivered the ideal written content on the proper time. The picture getting company can have received written content across the concepts of DAM ahead of applying your trademark over the arrangement.

third, for the reason that written content was static additionally directed in the direction of online marketers, the customers that are IT persons simply had to research or demand specialized material if they wanted it.

Around potential prospective buyers, the specific available prices about this mail marketing strategy decreased by a single-3rd amongst the primary and twelfth full week. That preserved correct even with we improved functionality with new inventive and announcements (resembled from the azure trendline):

Regressing available price tags definitely weren?t the correct direction. There were to re-examine the things we supplied, who we sent it to, and also why.

2 . Reveal your content

The next task is to find out what exactly content material you have and how it operates. For the presented advertising campaign, paste exactly what they are classified as of the section of material (with hyperlinks) inside of a spreadsheet in chronological obtain. Then, categorize every piece of written content by its point inside the client trip: attention, consideration, or choice.

Let?s unpack the 3 product labels. At the understanding point, consumers try to define their own personal task or chance. Within the imagined point, purchasers have distinctive concentrates on and investigate how you can accomplish these. Via the choice level, the purchaser gives picked out a class of solutions furthermore evaluates them to find the best match. The actual driving a vehicle problem passes from why in an effort to tips on how to what .

Right after categorizing the content by path phase, include your engagement facts. That could include downloading, perspectives, organically grown search queries, private (y/n), community shares? all depends by yourself advertising and marketing pile. A web template could seem like this:

Immediately after prepping the spreadsheet, that you just ready to take a look at if your posts fulfilled buyers? wants.

3. Consider abilities and failings

In the aged B2B martech bunch, you usually analyze engagement metrics including views, public offers, organic search queries, in addition downloads. The metrics may possibly find an audience?s response to articles, nonetheless they neglect other features.

Everybody in our e mail advertising campaign received a similar articles for the exact pace. Thus, the winners within the spreadsheet experienced attraction all over personas (much more on people soon). Having said that , it might extremely hard to pin down lead to and results in material information and facts. The best-executing parts did actually own self-explanatory benefit, but could be that encountered practically nothing related to their being successful.

When evaluating written content, try and grab qualitative capabilities inside of volumes. While using the proposal metrics and also your personal looking at of the content material, you can actually position the following over a 1-5 measurements or use letter levels. Contain those to the spreadsheet:

Brand name. Study the composing design with regards to sound, develop, and text messaging. Investigate the graphic concept for picture taking layout, shades, and fonts. How correctly can they reflect your brand name?

Lucidity. Perform the creating and structure current the info evidently and concisely?

Precision. Does your posts reveal the present condition of your market and organization? Is definitely the data precise and up dated?

Online business worth. How closely truly does the content refer to your enterprise goals?

Application. The amount value does it present towards viewer?

Look for patterns. Maybe your very best self written content ranks at the top of electricity however seems away-brand. Potentially clarity separates your personal most effective-executing portions from your most awful. These styles explain to this content tactic you can produce within the next step.

4. Upgrade given that required

The material that excelled should always get to each and every persona. Improve this when necessary and make it throughout perform. Nevertheless , it?s enough time to substitute this content that conducted negatively.

Personas will help you locate a proper direction to the new articles you?ll use. Personas are caricatures of the excellent buyers or give attention to audiences. They are like charts for the reason that they?re not ?reality. ? By utilizing personas we attempt to predict who also shoppers are as well as how they take part in the shopping process and we can items information to the needs.

My organization applied to pay attention to several personas? Very creative, THIS, and yet they were definitely too vast. We extrapolated 8-10 gentes from these several, but producing personalized articles for seven gentes was far too burdensome for the company our measurements. So we began the ?persona-off? using this records (gathered through marketing and advertising automation, CRM, and DAM applications):

Existing personas traveling to our website

Career titles involving those going through our buying process

Our primary reason for speak to at each client firm (title in addition label)

Typical client close time

Content fed by Sales vs posts shoppers take themselves

From that information, we diagnosed the 4 most effective personas. Then we interviewed people today on the buying process concerning their own personal roles, objectives, and discomfort things. We possessed two goals: evaluate actuality to our personas, and recognize specifically what material every persona would like. Most of us requested questions on these:

Operate goals

Every day responsibilities and obligations

Problems at the office

Preferred data places

Character traits in connection with the products or services

The interviews brought us all the material to generate empathetic information as well as articles tips for every single persona. Every persona report includes half a dozen factors and replies each individual level in addition to two to six bullets:

Who happen to be they?

Just how do they locate we all?

Exactly what do they want to fully understand?

What don?t they demand?

Exactly what are their pain things?

Why conduct they buy from us?

From that facts, we launched a content strategy for just about every persona. The template is divided by step on the shopping for getaway and looks like this:

* * *

Our information overview has clarified who the buyers are and what questions content need to response throughout the obtaining practical experience.

Is our content articles steering within the right motion? We have now an effective way to take a look at well before we make investment strategies serious amounts of assets in creation.

The evaluation prepared us to (re)generate e-mail taking care of plans per persona and commence them where ever the customer holders inside the experience.

Recovery yourself

When your articles method would seem missing, employ a identical material critique to locate a perfect track (there?s not really merely one).

?Is our information heading around the right path? ? will end up simpler to reply to with time. On the very first circular, you could possibly upgrade personas or cause them to be from the beginning. In future designs, when you know this tropical isle ground, search for new shortcuts and concealed jewels. Attempt to get lost again (safely and securely, inside of your place of work).

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How to spy on someones cell phone without installing software on target phone

Best way to spy on someone’s cell phone without installing software on the target phone

Time Dilemma is a considerable problem nowadays. A great deal of mother and fathers continue to be active making every effort regularly in offices to get appropriate cash to maintain their lifestyle. They aim to make sure that they could preserve in life and also maintain their living along with a classy lifestyle. What our youngsters do when we’re out? If they are discovering or misusing their time to play a video game constantly on their wise gadgets may affect our behaviour quiet. They could remain chaotic using WhatsApp, Facebook and also various other considerable social media networks account sharing the message, pictures as well as video clips. All such activities which we can not watch on physical eternity.

Best way to spy on someone’s cell phone without installing software on the target phone

Therefore, making certain that our youngsters are truly utilizing their duration as well as not moving any incorrect details over the cellphone, a PhoneSpying comes comfortably. It obtains incredibly crucial for mother and fathers to check the features on their child’s mobile. Currently, most of you could presently be thinking that exactly how is it viable to view on our youngster’s mobile at all times 24/7. The response to all such phone monitoring issues related to your youngsters is standard, try a spy software program application now. The spy applications are the absolute best monitoring applications created to keep track of the phone jobs of a person without getting to it.

Although snooping could get here out as a damaging term, the situation is continuously not so. There are chances when you merely should track someone’s text as well as activities to protect proof of their area. For instance, suppose you have to recognize where your child goes after institution? She or he is postponed each day, and also you have nothing else method to uncover this out relaxing in your house. Or it could take place which your employee has immediately been deceitful relating to his/her telephone calls and also spends extreme time outside the office. Exactly how do you take care of such situations?

You could not follow them and also continually preserve a watch. It is where you obtain the aid of advancement to watch on the stressed person. Just what you need to carry out is get a software program application, developed a relate to the phone you want to keep track of which’s it. You obtain pertaining to each telephone call the private makes, each message they obtain in addition to the web links he/she merely looked. The absolute best location of such software program application is that you do not need accessibility to that phone to develop the web link. PhoneSpying is such a software program application that is currently getting some allure instead.

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PhoneSpying- spy any Android phones

It is potentially the most effective response to your query – the very best methods to spy on Smart phone without having the mobile. It deals with your Desktop computer or any Android gizmo as well as can keep an eye on virtually anything on the desired gizmo.

In simple words, if someone makes telephone calls from the designated phone, the software program application on your Computer or cellphone instantaneously educates you along with the duration and also a telephone number. If the phone is used to take a picture or document a video, you similarly comprehend that. You might check any type of location the phone goes as well as identify the exact location is making use of GPS. As well as the greatest component is all these will certainly take place without the understanding of the phone’s individual.

Ways to spy on a cellphone without accessibility to the phone using the PhoneSpying application

Ways to spy on a cellphone without accessibility to the phone using the PhoneSpying application

Both the connected device must have PhoneSpying established in them. After that, no concern what does it cost? Of both gizmos are, you can from another location keep an eye on each task which is occurring on the desired device. To develop a link, you could have to adhere to the Methods talked about here.

Step 1: Download and Install PhoneSpying on Target Devices

Step 2: Register New Account with Email/Password

Step 3: Login to PhoneSpying Control Panel to view all tracking data.

When achieved, the link is developed. PhoneSpying will certainly transfer your information concerning this brand-new consisted of gizmo. You might currently access as well as monitor virtually every little thing which is proceeding due to the phone.

See your account as well as select the device you desire to track. On the control board, you might have a variety of choices where you can choose.

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Features of PhoneSpying

Call Recording– The first feature offered by AppSpy is not offered majorly by various other cellphone tracking applications. AppSpy can tape all telephone calls made to the designated android cellphone. It will certainly aid you keeping an eye on people where your kids are chatting with a phone call.

Call log monitoring- Call log monitoring feature on AppSpy uses you the ability to snoop the entire document of phone calls made to the designated android device. The get in touches with appear with complete name, so you might have a better idea about the specific they’re talking.

Establish Application Tracking- Application monitoring is amongst the absolute best operates supplied by AppSpy. Sometimes, children obtain applications that could transform dangerous to them, in such circumstances you can make sure that they simply make use of applications why might not transform unsafe to them or home by any means. You could have a look at all the setup application; it will certainly supply you significant efficiency to monitor phone jobs without also touching their gizmo.

Call Tracking-As promptly as they update a get in touch with on their cellphone, you could maintain a take a look at them. It will certainly assist you in evaluating the entire get in touch with a checklist and also preserve you updated relating to the call info as well as phone number details.

TEXT Spying-There was a duration when the message was amongst one of the most famous techniques of remaining gotten in touch with our such as ones. Nonetheless, it has ended up being dated currently; text is still a crucial device in cellphones. SMS is sleuthing aid you monitor all incoming along with the outgoing message.

Gallery tracking-Mobile gallery is the area where all pictures as well as video of your wise gadget are disclosed. If you acquire the capacity to get to a gallery of your kid’ smart phone, you can recognize which pictures and also a video they are hiding in their cellphone. The images that are being sent in addition to the video that is being gotten on their wise gadget.

GPS location tracking– AppSpy along with its various other significant features uses the quality of GPS area tracking which may wind up valuable in conditions of phone shed when your youngsters are travelling outstation.

Immediate Carrier tracking- There are a range of immediate carriers that AppSpy could track containing Walking, WhatsApp, IMO, Facebook, Skype as well as Extra. AppSpy phone surveillance application covers a great deal of various other social carriers additionally.

All these accumulated features provide you skilled snooping knowledge being in your home. Making use of AppSpy, you might determine all the activities which are being done on the desired android device. You might enjoy on your youngsters as long as you want, except a month, day, nevertheless the entire year. Furthermore, the employers can assist you with phone surveillance of team member at the office centres.

In addition to these, with PhoneSpying, you could block applications which are established on the designated device. Developed as a grown-up control software program application, PhoneSpying allows you to access any application as well as restrict its efficiency from one more area. So, you might not simply keep an eye on someone’s task. Nonetheless, you might limit them.

The unique feature concerning PhoneSpying is easy to the arrangement and also you can consist of some gizmos to a solitary account one place to keep an eye on all. It’s straightforward to establish, straightforward to make use of as well as take merely a few clicks to keep an eye on each edge of your phone. Also, its efficiency is not restricted to phones. Virtually any kind of device clambering the ideal Os could be tracked.

As a result, you are making use of that particular gadget to spy on people that they never lost. On this ground, you complete lose your phone; you might promptly check it down making use of PhoneSpying. It’s adaptable and also could be made use of in a series of techniques to spy on an additional individual’s tasks. PhoneSpying is the feedback to your query – methods to spy on Cellphone without having the mobile. Remote ease of access in the perfect camouflage which you need as well as the software program application provides you with this capacity. Use this development and also protect your privacy.

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AppSpy Android Spy Application free of charge

Presently, AppSpy is easily offered for all substantial Android devices. You can make use of the application by Android Smartphones together with Android tablet computers.

Method for utilizing the AppSpy application

When you most likely to our website, transfer to the “acquisition currently” tab and also get the application. You might evaluate the demo web pages to have a far better idea about the spy application. After making the purchase, login info will certainly be revealed you over email. Make use of the reasoning certifications and also login right into your control panel as well as start making use of the application.

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Why use AppSpy Free Mobile Spy Application

The standard response all your phone monitoring problems are that AppSpy consists of all the features and also top quality of a terrific spy application. AppSpy lots all that you prefer for efficiently snooping a person’s mobile phone. Moreover, AppSpy is placed baiting the listing of finest Spy Application that makes it an also better choice among the various other options conveniently offered in the market. AppSpy is leading the phone spy applications for over a year currently as well as has obtained beneficial examinations with over 500,000 clients. Great deals of individuals saved their children making use of AppSpy.

AppSpy phone spy application is furthermore the absolute best phone spy easily offered in India as various other applications might not run in Indian scenarios.

Just what are the features conveniently offered in AppSpy

– Call log monitoring Call recording.

– Establish Application monitoring.

– Get in touch with monitoring.

– SMS sleuthing.

– Gallery monitoring.

– GPS location monitoring.

– Immediate Carrier Snooping such as IMO, Skype, WhatsApp, Strolling, Line and also others.

Features of AppSpy

AppSpy Mobile Tracker Application is an excellent tool for cellphone sleuthing and also cellphone monitoring. The application could be made use of for two features:

– Youngsters.

– Employees.

You might track your youngsters as well as the jobs they are carrying out on their clever tool. You might keep an eye on the duration for that they remain energetic on socials media. You might discover people they are talking to or exactly what they see on their smart phone. You could make use of the surveillance application to make sure rightful applications as well as make inquiries to quit using hazardous applications. Also, you can enjoy on their area when they’re not within your house. You can get the benefit to monitoring their cellphone tasks throughout the day on their clever tools. In your lack, you might guarantee they do not consist of threatening jobs.

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One more point which you could carry out with PhoneSpying Free Phone Tracker is that you can maintain a screen on your employees’ smart phones. This specific feature provides security to the firms, as well as they could restrict the actions of their employees at the click of a switch. By doing this, you could make certain if the employee is sharing any major details with any private outdoors office. You could guarantee that company details remain safeguarded in work environment buildings simply as well as will certainly not be made use of for the specific purpose of an employee.

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10 Ways Artificial Intelligence Could Make Me a Better Doctor

Automation through AI, robotics or 3D-printing will make healthcare more efficient and more sustainable. These new digital technologies will improve healthcare processes resulting in the earlier and more efficient treatment of patients. It will eventually shift the focus in medicine from treatment to prevention. Moreover, medical professionals will get the chance to move from repetitive, monotonous tasks to the challenging, creative assignments.

AI has certainly more revolutionary potential than simply optimizing processes: it can mine medical records or medical images in order to come up with previously unknown implications or signals; design treatment plans for cancer patients or create drugs from existing pills or re-use old drugs for new purposes. But imagine how much time you as a GP would have if the administrative process would be taken care of by an AI-powered system. Your only task would be to concentrate on the patient’s problem! Imagine how much time you as a GP could spare if healthcare chatbots and instant messaging health apps would give answers to simple patient questions, which do not necessarily need the intervention of a medical professional!

She could have been a great doctor!

These were exactly the thoughts in my head when I was watching the movie Her for the second time. I was fascinated again about the scene in which the main character played by Joaquin Phoenix got his new, AI operating system and started working with it. I could not stop thinking about the ways I could use such an AI system in my life and how it actually could make me a better doctor.

Don’t get me wrong, I think empathy and great communication with patients can make a doctor better primarily, but as the amount of medical information out there is exponentially growing; as the time for dealing with patients and information is getting shorter, it is becoming humanly impossible to keep up with everything. If I could devote the time it takes now to deal with technology (inputting information, looking for papers, etc.) to patients, that would be a huge step towards becoming better.

Through the following 10 ways, AI could make me a better doctor.

1) Eradicate waiting time

You would think that waiting time is the exclusive “privilege” of patients and doctors do not have any free moment during their overpacked days. However, suboptimal health care processes not only result in patients sometimes waiting for hours in front of doctors’ offices but also medical professionals losing a lot of time every day waiting for something (a patient, a lab result, etc.). An AI system that makes my schedule as efficient as possible directing me to the next logical task would be a jackpot.

2) Prioritize my emails

The digital tsunami is upon us. Our inboxes are full of unread messages and it is an everyday challenge not to drown into the ocean of new letters. I deal with about 200 e-mails every single day. I try to teach Gmail how to mark an email important or categorize them automatically into social media messages, newsletters, and personal emails, it’s still a challenge. In Her, the AI system prioritized all the 3000 unread emails in a second. Imagine if we could streamline digital communication completely in line with our needs and if we could share and receive information more efficiently and more accurately without too much effort.

According to a recent report in the New Scientist, half a million people have professed their love for Alexa, Amazon’s intelligent personal assistant and more than 250,000 have proposed marriage to it. I have to say, I would probably do the same if it could organize my emails that way. (Also, if Scarlett Johansson were to be the voice of the assistant.)

3) Find me the information I need

I think I have mastered the skill of searching for information online using dozens of Google search operators and different kinds of search engines for different tasks, but it still takes time. What if an AI OS could answer my questions immediately by looking up the answer online?

More and more intelligent personal assistants, such as Siri on iOS or Alexa for Amazon lead us into the future, and there will be soon highly capable, specialized AI-powered chatbots also in the field of healthcare. Bots like HealthTap or Your.Md already aim to help patients find a solution to the most common symptoms through AI. Safedrugbot embodies a chat messaging service that offers assistant-like support to health professionals, doctors who need appropriate information about the use of drugs during breastfeeding.

4) Keep me up-to-date

There is too much information out there. Without an appropriate compass, we are lost in the jungle of data. It is even more important to find the most accurate, relevant and up-to-date information when it comes to such a sensitive area as healthcare. That’s why I started Webicina, which collects the latest news from the best, most reliable sources into one, easily manageable magazine.

On Pubmed, there are 23 million papers. If I could read 3-4 studies of my field of interest per week, I could not finish it in a lifetime and meanwhile millions of new studies would come out. I need an AI to process the pile of information for me and show me the most relevant papers – and we will get there soon. IBM Watson can already process a million pages in seconds. This remarkable speed has led to trying Watson in oncology centers to see how helpful it is in making treatment decisions in cancer care.

5) Work when I don’t

I can fulfill my online tasks (emails, reading papers, searching for information) when I use my PC or laptop, and I can do most of these on my smartphone. When I don’t use any of these, I obviously cannot work. An AI system could work on these when I don’t have any device in hand.

Imagine that you are playing tennis or doing the dishes at home when an important message comes in. With the help of an AI, you could respond to your boss without the need to touch any devices – a toned down version of Joaquin Phoenix’s AI, that arranged the whole publishing process of his book without the need for him to lift a finger.

6) Help me make hard decisions rational

A doctor must face a series of hard decisions every day. The best we can do is to make those decisions as informed as possible. I can ask people whose opinion I value, but basically, that’s it. Unfortunately, you would search the world wide web in vain for certain answers.

But AI-powered algorithms could help in the future. For example, IBM Watson launched its special program for oncologists – and I interviewed one of the professors working with it – which is able to provide clinicians evidence-based treatment options. Watson for Oncology has an advanced ability to analyze the meaning and context of structured and unstructured data in clinical notes and reports that may be critical to selecting a treatment pathway. So, AI is not making the decision per se but offers you the most rational options.

7) Help patients with urgent matters reach me

A doctor has a lot of calls, in-person questions, emails and even messages from social media channels on a daily basis. In this noise of information, not every urgent matter can reach you. What if an AI OS could select the crucial ones out of the mess and direct your attention to it when it’s actually needed.

Moreover, if you look at the patient side, you will see how long is the route from recognizing symptoms at home until reaching out to a specialist. For example, in the Hungarian county of Kaposvár, the average time from the discovery of a cancerous disease until the actual medical consultation about the treatment plan was 54 days. This alarming number has been drastically reduced to 21 days with the help of a special software and by optimizing patient management practices since November 2015. Imagine, though, what earthquake-like changes AI could bring into patient management if the usage of a simpler process management tool and follow-up system could halve the waiting time!

8) Help me improve over time

People, even those who work on becoming better at their job, make the same mistakes over and over again. What if by discussing every challenging task or decision with an AI, I could improve the quality of my job. Just look at the following:

97% of healthcare invoices in the Netherlands are digital containing data regarding the treatment, the doctor, and the hospital. These invoices could be easily retrieved. A local company, Zorgprisma Publiek analyzes the invoices and uses IBM Watson in the cloud to mine the data. They can tell if a doctor, clinic or hospital makes mistakes repetitively in treating a certain type of condition in order to help them improve and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations of patients.

9) Help me collaborate more

Sometimes I’m wondering how many researchers, doctors, nurses or patients are thinking about the same issues in healthcare as I do. At those times, I imagine that I have an AI by my side, which helps me find the most potential collaborators and invite them to work together with me for a better future.

Clinical and research collaborations are crucial to find the best solutions for arising problems, however, more often than not, it is difficult to find the most relevant partners. There are already efforts to change this. For example, in the field of clinical trials, TrialReachtries to bridge the gap between patients and researchers who are developing new drugs. If more patients have a chance to participate in trials, they might become more engaged with potential treatments or even be able to access new treatments before they become FDA approved and freely available.

10) Do administrative work

Quite an essential percentage of an average day of a doctor is spent with administrative stuff. An AI could learn how to do it properly and do it better than me by time. This is the area where AI could impact healthcare the most. Repetitive, monotonous tasks without the slightest need for creativity could and should be done by artificial intelligence. There are already great examples leaning towards this trend.

IBM launched another algorithm called Medical Sieve. It is an ambitious long-term exploratory project to build a next generation “cognitive assistant” with analytical, reasoning capabilities and a wide range of clinical knowledge. Medical Sieve is qualified to assist in clinical decision making in radiology and cardiology.

 Many fear that algorithms and artificial intelligence will take the jobs of medical professionals in the future. I highly doubt it. Instead of replacing doctors, AI will augment them and make them better at their jobs. Without the day-to-day treadmill of administrative and repetitive tasks, the medical community could again turn to its most important task with full attention: healing.

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