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airiat · 4 years ago

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Boy with the Sun Song (VIII.)

iorveth/f!oc | m | friends to lovers, tooth-rotting fluff, hurt/comfort | no warnings apply

vesta aep maghenn knows iorveth (iorveth aep mirbrach, to her) in a way that no one else can claim: they grew up together in the blue mountains and have been the closest of friends ever since. when iorveth’s unit is wiped out in an ambush by a powerful but unknown adversary, he seeks shelter with vesta until it’s safe for him to rebuild.

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A storm had blown in from the South. The rain pelted against the windows, wind shrieking bedlam through the trees. Every so often, thunder would rattle the walls and lightning would streak across the dark skies.

Iorveth and I had spent the whole day indoors--this was fine for me, but a less than ideal situation for him.

He’d been restless and irritable, though I told him he could still work on the bow, just in the kitchen. It didn’t seem to help much. His energy crackled like the electricity of the storm outside, set even me on edge. I couldn’t get much writing done today because of it, not as if he would have even sat for that in the first place.

So, we’d taken to drinking. I had a few dusty old bottles of vodka in my larder that had been met with great joy from Iorveth when I’d produced one. It sat half-full between us where we lounged on the floor in front of the fireplace, backs resting against the chairs behind us.

Iorveth strummed some soft, mournful melody on my lute, the notes coming out crisp and smooth despite his drunkenness. It had been a gift from a friend, and I once had every intention of learning how to play, but it became quite apparent that the instrument was really meant for his hands.

He’d always something of an affinity for music. Aside from his flute, which had been weaponized into something threatening--it was the last thing many people heard before they died--this was something little known about him, probably by his own design. Nothing good in revealing any bit of gentleness he might have.

I looked at him for a moment, took in the dark brown hair that brushed against his sharp jaw, his long fingers moving deftly over the lute’s strings, the curve of his shoulder dipping into the music. Closing my eyes, I tipped my head back against the seat of the chair.

“Do you ever think about how life could be different?” I asked.

“I do,” Iorveth answered. “A world without dh’oine in it.”

I shook my head, smiling at the tickle of my curls against my cheek.

So maybe it hadn’t been just vodka. Iorveth had an herb blend he liked to smoke and that night I’d tried it. The effects were mesmerizing: I could see the slow swim of time passing around me, the brilliance of every flickering flame, and soft, so soft, was every brush of anything against my skin.

“No, not like that,” I said. “I mean for you...for us.”

He seemed to falter for a moment, one discordant note rising above the other perfect ones before he collected himself again.

“What about us?”

“You could have come to Oxenfurt with me,” I said. “We could have gone to the academy together.”

“Mmm,” he hummed. “Two problems with that, though.”

“They’re so much more open-minded there,” I say. “No one ever cared that I was Aen Seidhe. All they cared about was my willingness to learn.”

“Then, the second problem.”

“Music, obviously,” I answered, looking over to grin at him.“You’re very good at it.”

Iorveth glanced up to meet my eyes for just a moment. “And you’re very idealistic.”

“Don’t try to pretend like you aren’t, too. Your entire life has been spent chasing an ideal.”

He sighed, turning back to the lute. “Mine isn’t frivolous.”

There was a slight pang of hurt in my chest at that, but I understood what he meant by it. I often felt the same way about the way my own life had panned out. There was guilt, even, over the way that I had always seemed to avoid any of the pitfalls that came with being an Aen Seidhe. That I had gotten everything I wanted in life.

Almost everything.

“Just imagine for a minute that your life could be anything you wanted. Nothing is off-limits,” I said. “What would it look like?”

Iorveth opened his mouth to speak. Too quickly.

“Nothing about dh’oine,” I interrupted.

“Fine,” he said. He feigned annoyance, but there was laughter on his tongue. “Why don’t you tell me your version, instead? Seeing as how you seem to know so much.”

I nodded, the story already ready to spring forth from my lips.

“We’d have to go far back: a hundred and twenty-six years ago,” I began.

With a sharp twang of the lute, Iorveth once more stumbled in his playing. But he picked back up, quickly, as though nothing had even happened.

“There are no dh’oine in the woods that night or any night. Your parents, your sister, are all still alive.”

That time, he did stop playing. There was a quiet anger bubbling up within him, but it was overtaken by a long-held sadness. “I thought this was meant to be your fairytale life.”

“You are inextricably part of that life, Iorveth,” I responded. “Just listen.”

That quelled his volatile emotions, washing them away like waves in the sea. He looked back down at the lute and began strumming again, but the melody that time was different. It tasted like lavender flowers, foggy mornings, and deep, rich earth. Like the old pine forests of the Blue Mountains. Like home.

“You’ve never known loss, never felt that particular kind of brutal, savage pain, so you never become angry or vengeful. You resent dh’oine an average amount, about as much as the rest of us do.”

He snorted softly with bitter mirth, but his playing remained uninterrupted.

I continued. “Maybe you join the Blue Mountain commando for a while if you still feel that spark for battle, but you never, ever join the Scoia’tael.”

“Oh, so I get to keep my eye in this timeline too, then?” Iorveth asked. “Vesta, you spoil me.”

“Nothing but the best for you, my friend,” I responded.

“Hm, it would be nice,” he murmured. “Relearning how to shoot with only one eye was a pain in the ploughing ass.”

I laughed, but the sound was forced. I knew what the next brushstroke was in this picture that I was painting. It was a ragged red that slashed over everything else, marring the perfection of the rest of the piece, but still beautiful in its own raw, vulnerable way. My throat tightened at the pain that began to well up inside me, something that I’d long kept hidden from him. I tipped my head forward and closed my eyes again.

Bloede herbs, bloede vodka.

“You don’t join the Scoia’tael and I don’t spend every waking moment of my life fearing for yours, wondering if the next time I see you will be the last,” I said, taking a shaky breath, tears already leaking past my squeezed-shut eyes. “This is my fairytale: you are safe, happy, and whole.”

At that, his music ceased completely. All was still and quiet aside from my deep breaths as I tried to stop myself from truly crying. But soon came the sound of Iorveth setting down the lute, a faint rustling, and then the warmth of him as he sat next to me, an arm around my shoulders that nestled me into his side. Without me asking it to, my head found the comfortable space in the crook of his neck.

His concern floated high above all other emotions, like the sun in the sky.

“Surely that’s not all there is,” he murmured. “You can have anything you want, remember?”

I sniffed, wiping away the tears that had tracked down my cheeks. “There’s more, yes, but it’d be so greedy to ask for anything else.”

“Greed doesn’t find a place in this fairytale,” he insisted. “You can have everything you want.”

I took one more deep breath. “You come to Oxenfurt with me. It doesn’t have to be for music. If you still wanted to champion our rights, through diplomatic means, I would support you in any way I could.”

“Me in a doublet,” Iorveth remarked. “Now that would be a sight.”

I gave a short, hiccuping laugh. “A sight for sore eyes, indeed.”

“Is that all?” he asked. “What about the rest of our lives?”

“After we finish at Oxenfurt, we spend a few decades traveling the Continent,” I said. “There are so many places I’d love to visit, but I’ve always been too afraid to go.”

His answering laugh rumbled against me. “Ah, I see now. So, it’s all just your master plan to have me as your bodyguard.”

I nudged him with my shoulder. “Don’t be ridiculous. If I only wanted a bodyguard, I could have hired one a long time ago. I want to see these places with you.”

“They say Touissant is like a living fairytale. Would be a sight to behold.”

I let my mind be swept away by thoughts of whiling away our time on the banks of the river Blessure, wine glasses in hand, so blessedly alone with each other, our only company the birds and their sweet song. We would never have that, would we?

“And then, once we’ve seen beauty we didn’t even know was possible, we would go home and we’d grow old together. And I think...that’s everything I could possibly want.”

Iorveth and I were silent for a long stretch of time. There was comfort in how his body was warm against mine, solace in the weight of his arm around my shoulders. I wanted to take this feeling and write ballads of it until I exhausted every word I knew so that I would not forget it. For one day all too soon this moment would become nothing more than a precious memory. While he was out orchestrating battle amongst the trees, blood on his hands, throat raw with the words of his command, I would be here in my home with only those memories to fill the shape of my solitude.

“You know, it’s not too late for the second half of that,” Iorveth said after a while.

I stiffened in his hold, fending off the temptation I had to let myself be taken by the fantasy.

“What about the Scoia’tael?” I asked without fanfare, a reminder of reality as cruel as an arrow right to the heart. For him and for me.

Iorveth winced as if struck. “I could just decide not to rebuild,” he answered, but the words were without conviction.

“You wouldn’t do that. You couldn’t do that. Your fight’s not over yet.”

He sighed his defeat. “I know.”

I looked up at him with a sad smile. “A fairytale is just a fairytale. I would know. I write them.”

“Will you write this one?”

“If I knew I could do it justice.”

“You could. You better than anyone else.”

I paused, let the force of his certainty wash over me. I could. I could do anything so long as he believed in me.

“What would it be called?”

Iorveth thought for a moment then replied, “A Perfect and Necessary Darkness.”

“Why that?”

He shook his head, smiled. “That’s for you to discover.”

#this gets a bit meta at the end #iorveth #iorweth #iorveth/oc #the witcher #my posts #my writing #bwtss #tag: iorveth

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thirstyforred · 4 years ago

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ok so it's an abandoned first attempt at Roderick de Wett x Nathaniel Pastodi (some portmanteaus would be valid lol) but definitely not the last one! also it may be kinda vague but yes it takes place in this case fic universe

literally no warnings apply here, other than my attempts at building tension, but somewhere around checking spelling of 'ordained' and 'penance' I was like hah nope, can't do that, there are some bad vibes in that way, abort the mission, bc turns out im sensitive even to fantasy religion talks lol

"Aen iarean nyald aep kroofeir…" murmured Roderick and returned yet another psalm book back at its place on the bookshelf.

Going here, jumping over the fence and sneaking inside through the left open window, he hoped to be proven right. That there's nothing to worry about. But now, standing in the middle of Nathaniel Pastodi's study he didn't feel so sure anymore. There was nothing on bookshelves, desks, or even in personal correspondence that would raise any red flags. Anything that would point at the reverend as one the culprits.

But maybe there doesn't need to be anything written, any journal describing the excitement the only killer could feel. So Roderick looked into the bedroom as well, every basket, chest, and dark corner, looking for blooded clothes or murder weapons. Something, anything that would make sense.

But there was of course nothing - Nathaniel wasn't the killer, only suspect. And a feeling of uneasiness Roderick felt in his house was... Just that, a feeling. One that hadn't much to do with thirteen copies of Legend of Saint Gregory filling space on different shelves all around the house, or the torturer's outfit hidden in a chest under the bed. Nathaniel was very religious, and it wasn't a secret that in the past his work for the Eternal Church looked a bit different.

"What are you doing here?"

Roderick stumbled and hit the side of the old sturdy desk with his hip upon hearing the voice from behind. He looked to the softly closing doors, and there he was, reverend Nathaniel Pastodi himself. Tall, bald, and with pupils of his eyes blown so wide it was almost impossible to see the blue on them.

"Looking for something."

Roderick put on the desk yet another psalm book he found, while his right hand, almost unconsciously, rested near the handle of his sword.

"Did you find it?"

"No." he answered, watching Nathaniel slowly approaching. "Hopefully, because there was nothing to find."

Pastodi hummed and started taking many rings from his fingers, putting them one by one on the silver tray on the other edge of the desk.

"Are you often hoping to be mistaken, count de Wett?"

"No," and after a second, as if after consideration, he added "Reverend."

"No." Pastodi echoed and placed the last ring on the tray. "What then prompted you to look here in the first place?"

"Suspicion."

"What kind of suspicion?"

"Is this my confession, Reverend?"

Pastodi looked up at him, and once again Roderick was hit with how blown wide and just plain crazy his eyes were. Roderick swallowed audibly, but the other man just smiled widely.

"Aren't you ordained yourself, Roderick? I would imagine you would prefer to choose your penance for yourself."

#rastodi #apparently there's just so much of sexy priesthood my mind can deal with and anything more makes it go nope!#roderick de wett #nathaniel pastodi #the witcher fanfiction #my writing #Schadenfreude fic

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maxwellyjordan · 6 years ago

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Andrew Grossman on municipal climate suits

In a recent Cato Daily Podcast with Caleb Brown, Cato adjunct scholar Andrew Grossman of Baker & Hostetler discusses the “legally aggressive” new round of climate change litigation, in which municipalities in California and Colorado, as well as New York City, have sued energy producers and distributors seeking to recover damages over the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

As Grossman notes, the idea of suing over the role of carbon emissions in climate change has by this point been tried many times. The most obvious approach would be to sue large industrial emitters of carbon, which is what some state governments did in one of the most prominent cases, filed against electric utilities. In its 2011 AEP v. Connecticut decision, however, the Supreme Court ruled that such outputs were regulated comprehensively and exclusively at the federal level through enactments like the Clean Air Act, and were not subject to an additional level of state regulation through public nuisance claims. Suits on other theories, such as Comer v. Murphy Oilfrom the Fifth Circuit and the Kivalina case in the Northern District of California, have been launched “to enormous bombast and press attention and they have all bombed out��. Those cases were the low-hanging fruit. Those were the more obvious legal theories if you were going to try to bring this kind of case,” he says.

Now the question is whether litigants can accomplish an end run by instead attacking upstream, pre-emissions activity, specifically the extraction and distribution of fossil fuels destined to be burned. Ambitiously, some of the new suits attempt to apply state common law to activities occurring around the world – to the doings of worldwide corporations such as Royal Dutch-Shell, for example, and to oil production from places like the coast of Norway and its subsequent use by European motorists. Needless to say, many of these processes are comprehensively regulated by the laws of the European Union and its member countries. Doctrinally, then, the new efforts get into even deeper water (so to speak) than strictly domestic claims. From the podcast:

If a court in California is going to go around telling Norway what to do, well, gosh, Norway may not really like that. And what do you do in that instance? It’s not apparent to me how this works. How does the court figure out what Norway’s regulations are and what Norway is doing about this? Who’s going to tell them? I don’t know. What if Norway disagrees with whatever it is that the court decides needs to be done in this case? Does Norway complain to the court? Do they send an ambassador to file a brief or something? I don’t know. This has never happened before. And what if Norway decides that they don’t like whatever it is the court is doing and they’re going to impose, say, reciprocal trade tariffs, or something like that, against the United States on the basis of one of these rulings? Does the court hold them in contempt?

Listen to the whole thing here (cross-posted from Cato at Liberty).

Tags: climate change, extraterritoriality, oil industry, WO writings

Andrew Grossman on municipal climate suits is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

from Law https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/06/andrew-grossman-on-the-new-round-of-climate-litigation/ via http://www.rssmix.com/

#law #justice

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medicaresupplementinsuranceplans · 4 years ago

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What is AEP?

Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) is every year from October 15th to December 7th. This is the time to really see what the following year may bring in terms of changes to your plan. There are a multitude of misconceptions surrounding this enrollment period, mainly due to the numerous other enrollment periods Medicare has available. Below are some common questions you might be asking:

What can I do during AEP?

Apply for a new prescription drug plan (Part D). The majority of these plans change your copays (the portion you pay) and what tiers certain medications are in on a yearly basis. Make sure to evaluate the new plans each year to ensure you are paying the best prices!

Apply for a new Medicare Advantage plan (Part C). These plans are also able to change copays as well as networks on a yearly basis. This means that doctors can change which Medicare Advantage plans they accept as well. So make sure to check the plans!

If you decide to leave your Medicare Advantage plan, you can apply for Original Medicare (Parts A & B). You may decide to also pick up a Medicare Supplement plan, but you will have to go through underwriting to be accepted onto a plan. Underwriting is a series of medical questions that will determine if a company will accept your application for coverage.

When does the coverage start?

All new plans will be in effect starting January 1st of the following year.

What do I not need to do during AEP?

You do not have to change your Medicare Supplement plan during this time. As a matter a fact, there is no specific enrollment period to change from one Medicare Supplement plan to another. You can make this change at any time during the year! Just give a quick phone call or email to your Plan Medigap agent to see which Medicare Supplement Plans are competitive in your area.

I like my drug plan. Why should I even bother looking at the new plans?

While the coverage on Medicare Supplement plans stay consistent throughout the years, both prescription drug and Medicare Advantage plans can drastically change from one year to the next. The name, premium, copays, covered medications, and preferred pharmacies can all change. Sometimes you might get lucky, but it never hurts to double check that you have a plan that matches your needs.

There are 40-50 prescription drug plans to choose from! How do I know which one is best for me?

That is what we are here for! We are available from open to close over the phone, or you can email us 24/7 with any questions you may have. Contact your Plan Medigap agent beginning in early October to review your 2021 prescription drug plan options. We look forward to hearing from you!

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astaldis · 1 year ago

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Hot Hooch, Hot Hansa

@cake-shop-rarepair-bingo

Prompts: Spin the bottle, First kiss

Challenge: Write a ship tag with four or more participants, Let’s heat things up

Chapter: 2/2 of “A Night to Remember”

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, Gen, Multi

Fandoms: The Witcher

Relationships: Angoulême & Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach & Emiel Regis & Geralt of Rivia & Jaskier & Milva, Maria Barring | Milva/Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach

Summary: It's Litha, the longest day of the year, and Geralt is throwing a garden party at his newly acquired estate, Corvo Bianco, the old vineyard in the Sansretour Valley. Milva cannot dance, but Cahir is a good teacher. The delicious wine and Jaskier's newest song also help. And then there are Angoulême's Hansa Games ... (Post-Canon AU)

Angoulême leads Milva and Cahir past the bonfire and towards a more secluded part of the garden. Geralt, Jaskier and Regis are already sitting in a semi-circle on the ground inside a bower overgrown with richly blooming honeysuckle and lit by colourful lanterns.

"Sit!" Angoulême orders. "And let the Hansa Games begin!" She produces an empty wine bottle from the low table standing behind her and flops down between Milva and Geralt. "It's easy. We spin the bottle. Whoever its tip is pointing to when it stops spinning must kiss the person at the rear end of the bottle."

"What?" Geralt and Cahir, who happen to sit opposite each other, exclaim in unison.

"I'd propose a little variation," Regis says quickly, "it appears a bit repetitive that the same people have to kiss every each time the bottle points at them. Why don't we—"

"I wasn't finished," Angoulême interrupts the higher vampire. "There're more rules, of course. Or why do you think I had you bring the hooch, n'uncle? If you don't want to kiss," she elaborates, "both of you drink a shot. Next time you take off a piece of clothing. Third time you'll have to kiss, no excuses. And whenever the bottle does not point at somebody but somewhere in between, you'll have to jump up and exchange places. Whoever sits down last, has to kiss the person to their left. Got it? Oh, and I almost forgot. If you're not done within ten seconds, you'll have to tongue kiss." She smirks mischievously at her friends, the legendary Hansa.

"And why again are we doing this?" Geralt asks, still not happy with the rules even though, to his great relief, he might be anble to get around having to kiss Cahir.

"It's my birthday!"

"No, it's not Angoulême. You said your sixteenth birthday was back in October, remember? When I didn't want to let you drink a glass of beer back at that pub in Beauclair."

"Guess I lied?" Angoulême shrugs her shoulders, grinning at the White Wolf. "Now shut up, company. The game is on!" She spins the bottle. It turns and turns, then slows down. Finally it comes to a halt. Of course, the bottle's tip is pointing at the Witcher and its rear end at Cahir, how could it be otherwise.

"Shot!" both Geralt and Cahir demand in unison. Angoulême passes each of them a glass from the table. They down the hooch with a grimace. It is damnably hot and feels like you could spit fire from just drinking a single swallow of it. Their eyes well up with tears and they gasp for air.

"Fuck, did you make this, Regis?" Geralt asks when he has recovered his breath.

"Guilty," the barber-surgeon-vampire says with a chuckle. "It's called Dragon breath, distilled from wheat dosed with a special hybrid of Capsicum frutescens and Capsicum dragensis. It's said to be the hottest chili pepper on the continent. Nevertheless, I found it rather mediocre when I tried a few fruits, just a little prickle on my tongue. Could be a vampire thing, though."

"Definitely a vampire thing," Cahir agrees, still panting for breath, his face flushed from the hot drink. "Feels like it's burned holes in my tongue."

"Hell, yes. Mine, too," Geralt affirms, his face only marginally less flushed.

"Don't whine, you could've kissed," Angoulême says with a mischievous smirk. "Geralt, your turn to spin the bottle!" she then urges. The Witcher grasps the bottle and gives it a try. It stops, pointing at the in-between. As fast as they can, they all jump up and change places.

"Geralt, you're last!" Angoulême cackles when the Witcher is still standing pondering where best to sit while everybody else has already flopped down on the ground. Fuck. Who's the person to his left? Jaskier. He'd have to kiss Jaskier. Maybe not as bad as Cahir, but still ...

Continue reading on Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47960446/chapters/121017691

#the hansa #the witcher rarepair #the witcher fanfiction #cake shop rarepair bingo #milva barring #cahir mawr dyffryn aep ceallach #emiel regis #jaskier #angoulême #geralt of rivia #cahir x milva #kissing #spin the bottle #hot #post-canon #alternate universe #everybody lives/nobody dies

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topfygad · 5 years ago

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How to Apply for an Argentina Visa for Filipino Tourists or Visitors – I am Aileen

If you’ve been following my updates lately, you would know by now that I am soon going on my biggest adventure (yet): a trip to Antarctica! Of course, no single country or government owns Antarctica so visitors do not necessarily need visas to go there — however, if you’re sailing to this ‘White Continent’, most ships would depart from ports such as Argentina, Chile, Falkland Islands, New Zealand and South Africa. For my case, I’ll be sailing on an expedition with Hurtigruten that’s starting from Argentina, and as a Philippine passport-holder, I needed an Argentina visa.

Now… I gotta be frank: getting an Argentina visa has been the most difficult and most expensive tourist visa that I’ve ever applied and paid for (so far). But despite that fact, the process can be fast and hassle-free given the right preparation and know-how; so with my experience and knowledge, I hope this guide will help you get that visa ASAP should Argentina be in your upcoming travel plans!

But first, a disclaimer:

NO ONE can give you a guarantee on your Argentinian visa’s approval: not even a lawyer, a consultant, a travel agent, or an embassy employee. Anyone who says otherwise is most likely going to be a scammer. That being said, what I can offer you here is a comprehensive guide with helpful tips to increase your chances of getting that Argentina tourist visa.

Top photo of Iguazu Falls from Shutterstock.com.

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How to Apply for an Argentina Visa

Step 1: Determine the type of Argentina visa that you need to apply for . .

There are, of course, various types of Argentina visas out there that you can apply for: a visa for studying, a visa for business, a visa for being an Argentinian’s fiancé, etc.

For this particular guide though, I will only be discussing the requirements for a tourist visa since it’s an experience that I’ve gone through myself.

If, however, you have a different situation or purpose of visit, it’s best that you contact the Argentina embassy for more information and for the complete requirements via this email: [email protected]

Step 2: Prepare the required documents for your application . .

Depending on your circumstance, click the symbol ‘+‘ below to view the corresponding requirements for each section. Make sure that you have authentic, original, and complete documents at all times!

(A) Argentina Tourist Visa WITHOUT Any Guarantor/Sponsor

Philippine Passport. Other than providing your passport itself, you need to provide a photocopy of the information pages on A4 paper. Make sure as well that your passport is valid for 6 months beyond your intended travel date, it has your signature, and has at least two (2) blank pages. .

A duly accomplished Argentina Visa Application Form.

Print this Argentina Visa Application Form in A4 size.

Download the application form from here (it contains English translations on the 1st two pages because the form is in Spanish).

Properly fill the form with your information in CAPITAL LETTERS (even your email address).

Erasures are NOT allowed and you should also NOT write outside the boxes.

Put a long dash line “—” in all spaces that are not applicable to you.

Ensure that you have signed it with your signature. On this section, it will ask a date: this must be the date when you submit your requirements to the Embassy. It’s best to leave it blank just in case — otherwise, they will make you redo the form (which is still not a problem, but to save time, it’s preferable to be careful).

There are sections here that ask for your flight dates and hotel in Argentina…

This does NOT mean that you are required to book your airline and hotel beforehand because the embassy does not necessarily require applicants to book it before approval — as a standard, they only need proof of reservation first. That being said, for your flight, it’s best to acquire a reservation which can be done via an airline (directly) or with a travel agent. And in case you’re wondering where to look for the best flight deals, my go-to platforms are Momondo, Kayak, and Skyscanner.

Meanwhile, for hotel bookings, it’s best to do it with Booking.com or Agoda.com. With them, you can reserve a hotel with NO pre-payment and you can even cancel the booking a day before your arrival with NO cancellation charges at all.

4 cm x 4 cm Photo (white background). Photos that are pixelated or of low resolution will NOT be accepted. .

Cover Letter with Daily Itinerary Details. This is for explaining why you are applying for an Argentina visa. Along with this letter, you must also provide your day-to-day itinerary.

If you want to see a sample, here was the letter I submitted.

You must sign the cover letter at the bottom (with your FULL name — including your middle name — in capital letters). .

Flight Reservation. This should be a round trip ticket confirmation or reservation. It’s best to secure a reservation via an airline (directly) or with a travel agent.

In case you’re wondering where to look for the best flight deals, my go-to platforms are Momondo, Kayak, and Skyscanner.

Ensure that the flight document shows your name and that it is extracted from the airline directly (meaning that for example, if you book via Skyscanner, the e-Ticket you’ll typically receive is from the platform; however, the Embassy wants it to be from the airline directly. So just use the booking reference code and extract the data from the airline’s website). .

Certificate of Employment (COE). Submit the original COE document that is duly notarized, and it should properly indicate your full name, passport number, your position, start date of your work, a brief description of the duties that you do, your monthly salary, and your approved duration of leave.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your COE must be notarized in the country in which the letterhead of your certificate indicates. So if for example you work for a company that’s located overseas, the Certificate of Employment that they will provide for you must be notarized in that particular country address — and NOT the Philippines.

For self-employed / business persons.

If you’re a freelancer, submit your Certificate of Registration and latest ITR (original, and photocopy in A4 paper).

If you own a business, submit your Business Registration issued by DTI / SEC (including all the Articles of Incorporation and latest General Information Sheet) and the company ITR. (Original, and photocopy in A4 paper).

For unemployed persons.

Given the way the Embassy of Argentina presents its requirements for visa application, it’s best that you acquire a guarantor/sponsor if you’re unemployed. (See section B below for details). .

Bank Certificate and Bank Statements (or Passbook). These must be an original copies from your bank encompassing information for the last three (3) months of the current year.

How much should you have in your bank account? The Argentina Embassy did NOT mention any minimum balance requirement, but after a bit of research, I found out that you must at least have $100 (Php 5,000~) per day of your stay — you can use this as a standard but of course it’s always best if you have more. .

Hotel Reservation.

If you’re planning on staying with a friend in Argentina, a notarized letter of invitation must be submitted (more details of this in section (B) below.

For hotel bookings, it’s best to do it with Booking.com or Agoda.com. With them, you can reserve a hotel with NO pre-payment, and you can even cancel the booking a day before your arrival with NO cancellation charges at all.

Once you’re done researching, please remember that the hotel reservation you must present to the Argentina Embassy is a direct confirmation from the hotel — not just the document you got from Booking.com or Agoda. (So for this, you can just email the hotel to ask for a document confirming the booking). » TRAVEL TIP: When booking your accommodation with Agoda, use my promo code ‘AILEEN7’ to get a 7% discount! .

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(B) Argentina Tourist Visa WITH Guarantor/Sponsor

This kind of application is applicable for students, minors, unemployed persons, husband/wife (if one of you will be supporting the other), self-employed persons/freelancers* and others. This also applies to anyone who would have a company/agency to sponsor the trip.

For submitting the necessary requirements, simply submit the requirements listed in section (A), numbers #1 to #5, as well as #8.

When it comes to (#7) Bank Certificate and Bank Statements, you should ask these from your guarantor/sponsor — such could be your mom, dad, brother, sister, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, relative, company, etc. (Technically, anyone can be your sponsor). In addition, you should submit…

Guarantee Letter. An informal letter written by your sponsor and guarantor certifying that he/she will be funding or sponsoring your travel expenses. This should be signed by him/her, and notarized in the country that he/she resides in. ..

Photocopy of Guarantor/Sponsor’s Passport. Provide a photocopy of the bio page only; if not, it can be a photocopy of any Visa page or any government-issued ID.

If your guarantor/sponsor is a foreigner or foreign national, please also provide a photocopy of his/her identity card (I-CARD) or AEP (Alien Employment Permit). .

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

If you’re a student or minor…

You should provide:

Affidavit of Support from your parents

DSWD Permit (must be authenticated by the Department of Foreign Affairs)

Birth certificate

Parent’s government-issued ID with picture (this can be their passport, Driver’s License, etc.) .

If your guarantor/sponsor is a foreigner or foreign national…

If he has NO account in any of the local banks in the Philippines, he/she can provide a photocopy of his/her bank statement with contact details.

Providing pay slips will help. .

If you’re going to stay in the address of an Argentine resident and NOT a hotel…

Your host must write a letter of invitation and send the original copy to the Embassy. This serves the sole purpose of initiating the visa application process and does not guarantee, under any circumstances, the granting of visa abroad. The letter is informal and shall meet the following requirements:

The letter must be written in Spanish.

It must be addressed to the intervening consular authority (e.g. .Al Sr. Cónsul de la Republica en…)

Contain all personal and contact details of the inviting person in Argentina: name and surname, DNI, address,telephone or mobile number, and email address.

Contain all personal and contact details of the foreigner invited to Argentina (in short, YOU): name and surname, nationality, date of birth, type and passport number, telephone or mobile number, email address and any other contact details)

Explain the reason for traveling, relationship of the invited person with the host, duration of stay in the country, the place of stay and estimated dates of arrival and departure.

Express that the signatory will be responsible for the departure of the said foreigner once the permitted length of stay expires.

Include this paragraph: “Como invitante de extranjeros, he leído y comprendo los términos de establecidos en el Capítulo VI dde la Ley 25.871, artículos 116, 117, 118, 119, 120 y 121.”

It must contain the signature of the host, certified by the corresponding Notary Public and relevant Public Notaries Association.

This original document of letter of invitation must be sent by the host to the Embassy of the Argentine Republic in Manila by post.

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NOTE: Additional requirements may be needed as deemed necessary by the Consulate of the Embassy of Argentina – Manila.

Step 3: Process your Argentina Visa application and pay the processing fee . .

Thankfully, you can just walk in to the Embassy of Argentina in Makati (from 9AM to 12PM) in order to submit your Argentina Visa application. The consular section’s details are as follows:

Embassy of the Argentine Republic in Manila – Consular Section 8th Floor, Liberty Center, 104 H.V. de la Costa St., Salcedo Village, Makati City Tel: 845.3218/3219/3238 Fax: 845.3220 E-mail: [email protected]

Filing Hours: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Monday- Friday) Visa Release Hours: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Monday – Friday)

Once you reach the 8th floor, the entrance of the Embassy has a doorbell button on the left side — just push this and when you hear a beep, it means that you can proceed to open the door. Head directly to the counter and express your purpose. The officer will scrutinize your documents and ensure that everything is complete and in order.

If they deem your documents to be enough, they will give you a deposit slip indicating the visa fee that you will have to pay. As of October 2017, the fee is at $150 (or Php 7,600~). For payment, you just need to head to the BPI branch in Leviste street which is just a few blocks away from the Embassy — afterwards, you need to go back to the Embassy to provide the proof of payment/deposit.

NOTE: Be reminded that this visa fee payment is non-refundable and it does NOT guarantee the approval of your Argentina visa.

The officer will then advise you that they will call or email you within 10 days about the schedule of your interview.

Step 4: Attend your interview appointment . .

They told me to wait for 10 days for a notification as to when I’ll be scheduled for an interview — however, they e-mailed me 2 days after and scheduled my interview the next day.

Don’t forget to bring your passport for the interview (and any other documents that can help support your application). After submitting your passport at the counter, you will have to wait a bit until your name is called… I was scheduled for a 10AM interview but they only started the interviews at around 11AM, so it’s best that you bring something to entertain yourself with (you’re asked not to use your cellphone inside so maybe bring a book or a Kindle).

Now for the actual interview itself, mine only took about a minute, and I think it’s mostly because I wasn’t really staying in Argentina as much given that the main purpose of my trip was for Antarctica. The interviewer was the Ambassador himself and he was quite friendly — we spent a bit of time talking about Antarctica, as well Argentina itself!

Once we were done talking, the Ambassador said that I got the visa, and then the officer assisting him told me to get a claim stub at the counter which will show the date as to when I can claim my passport with visa.

If you’re curious about the possible interview questions that they will ask you, naturally, it will vary depending on your situation and background. Nevertheless, I can assure you that there won’t be any tricky questions! This is NOT a quiz but just a simple background check.

Besides, I even had the chance to hear some of the other interviews (since the walls were thin haha) so to give you an idea, it will typically cover the following aspects:

– Your background: proof of strong ties with the Philippines, your job, your financial capacity, etc. – Details & purpose of your trip: where are you going to, why you’re going, how long, where you’re staying, if you have relatives/family in Argentina, if you prepared your itinerary, etc. – Your relationship with your sponsor: only if you’re applying with a guarantor/sponsor – Your travel history – Etc.

Again: there really are no difficult questions since they only want to know more about you and your trip. So just be honest and concise.

Step 5: Claim your Argentina visa . .

My claim stub indicated that my passport with Argentina visa will be ready after 1 working day, so I just headed back to the Embassy on the date mentioned. You bet that I was relieved when I finally saw the visa with my very own eyes!

When your Argentina visa is not granted, I’m NOT sure if the Embassy will give you reasons for the denial, nor do I know if they will let you appeal (since it’s an experience I haven’t [thankfully] gone through).

That being said, I have a feeling that since the Embassy is so meticulous with the requirements, their acceptance of your application at Step #3 above might most likely mean that you already have a strong chance of getting your visa approved (but don’t take my word for it — all in all, I wish you the best of luck!)

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F.A.Q. (Frequently Asked Questions)

◘◘ When is the earliest time that I can apply for an Argentina visa? You can apply as early as three (3) months or 90 days before your planned trip date departure. Anyhow, the Embassy advises that you must apply at least 30 days before your intended date of departure from the Philippines.

◘◘ How long is the duration of a tourist Argentina visa? All tourist visa holders are permitted to stay in Argentina for a maximum period of 3 months or 90 days. If there’s a need to stay longer than 90 days, an extension can be requested from the National Immigration Office prior to expiration of the period originally granted.

◘◘ How much money should I show in my bank account? The Argentina Embassy did NOT mention any minimum balance requirement, but after a bit of research, I found out that you must at least have $100 (Php 5,000~) per day of your stay — you can use this as a standard but of course it’s always best if you have more.

◘◘ How long does the Argentina visa process take? The tourist visa application has a turn-around time of about ten (10) working days, however due to the volume of applicants as well as due to your circumstance, it could be longer or shorter than the aforementioned. For my case, mine took about only 5 days in total to process.

◘◘ How can I follow up on my application? If you haven’t heard back from the Embassy in 10 days, feel free to call or email them to follow up. .

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Though the Embassy officers might give you a hard time on your Argentina visa application, always remember that they just mean well. In fact, with their help and this guide’s help, you’ll surely increase your chances of getting that coveted approval!

All in all, I hope that the tips and info that I’ve shared here will help guide you.

Good luck!

Do you have any other info or tips to add?

If you’ve already applied for an Argentina visa before, how was your experience?

Were you approved or denied? Please feel free to share your story!

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smoothshift · 5 years ago

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I've been getting shitty fuel economy, so I tried driving 55 mph everywhere. via /r/cars

I've been getting shitty fuel economy, so I tried driving 55 mph everywhere.

So last year, I bought a Ford Focus ST. Great car, I love it, but the fuel economy kind of sucks. I was coming from a 2016 Malibu, and was aware the extra horsepower and premium fuel requirement would mean I'd be spending more on gas. All in all, I figured the difference between the vehicles would amount to maybe ten bucks a week. A relatively small price to have my (attainable) dream car. After six months of ownership, I can safely say my calculations were off. Waaay off.

Due to my mostly highway commute, I anticipated getting somewhere in the mid to upper twenty mile per gallon range. Nope. First month, I achieved just over twenty-one. That led me to spend the subsequent month granny shifting and coasting as much as possible. After two weeks of blue-balling my car with this tactic, I calculated my fuel economy improved by a mere three additional miles per gallon. At that point, I was spending roughly $75 more on gas each month than I with my Malibu. I did the math; that is enough to buy approximately seventy-five $1 scratch-off tickets.

In analyzing my driving habits, I came to the conclusion that it was actually my time on the highway that was killing average mpg. Apparently the Focus ST has a relatively short sixth gear. I typically drive about ninety or so on the highway (unless I'm passing someone), which means my engine is spinning at around 3500-4000 rpm. I don't know much about the EPA, other than the fact that rearranging their letters spells out "AEP," but I imagine their fuel consumption findings are achieved at somewhat lower speeds.

And so it was that I adopted a radical new approach to extending each tank of premium unleaded: I would simply drive fifty-five miles per hour. I would achieve that velocity only as quickly as was necessary. But once there, I would keep my speed constant, no matter how many people I pissed off.

I lasted just one day. Here's how it went.

The first part of my commute is a state highway, which I live directly beside. Conveniently enough, its speed limit is fifty-five. At that rate, I was doing about five to ten miles per hour under what most of my fellow rush hour commuters wanted to travel. Occasionally, I caught a glimpse of an exasperated driver in my rearview mirror, but my self-imposed speed was generally met with acceptance.

An interstate highway makes up the next - and largest - bit of my commute. For most of the way, it is sixty-five miles per hour. Obviously, nearly everyone travels much faster. Usually around eighty. Never is this more apparent than when one sits in the center lane while going ten under the limit, as I did. Most of the cars on that stretch of highway belong to state workers. During the high volume drive times is when they are at their most aggressive. Even more so than during holiday sales, karaoke tournaments, or when standing in the express line at Shop-Rite and the person in front of them is two items over the limit. Needless to say, instances of extended middle fingers zooming past me in late-model crossovers were a common sight. Still, I persisted.

Just before arriving to work, I drive along a wide avenue within the city limits. It has a thirty mile per hour limit and consists of two lanes of travel in either direction, with the occasional right or left turning lanes, used for negotiating intersections or entrances to shopping plazas. Rush hour traffic being what it is, people on this stretch typically move at or slightly below the speed limit. As the turning lanes are generally less congested, I decided they were my best chance of reaching fifty-five miles per hour. Not going to lie, this pissed off a lot of folks. Especially those coming in the opposite direction. You see, there were times when the only open passing lane was on the opposite side of the avenue. As a result, I was left with no choice but to cross the median and hold faith that my aftermarket high beams and their four thousand lumens would give oncoming traffic ample warning to remove themselves from my path. I definitely got the stink eye from more than a few motorists, but I expected as much when I set out on this journey. At least I didn't have to mount a sidewalk in order to maintain speed.

After work, I like to unwind with one or two pitchers of beer before heading home. More often than not, the aforementioned bar stop provides me with the strength I need to go home and listen to my wife complain about her day. Her typical grievances run the gamut from holiday sales to karaoke tournaments to standing in the express line at Shop-Rite and the person in front of them is two items over the limit. On the day of my experiment, however, I needed that strength to face the other woman in my life: my grandmother. It is important that I maintain a positive relationship with the old girl. Apparently, my mother died while my grandmother was giving birth do her, which left me as her last living relative. That alone should have cemented my inheritance into cement. Still, if I don't put in regular appearances at the swanky golf cart community she now calls home, she'll start talking about how all her money and jewels will go to the Committee to Re-elect Walter Mondale after she passes. I don't have the heart to tell her that Mondale isn't on the ticket this year. In fact, he was never elected in the first place. Also, he's dead.

To get to get to the golf cart community where my grandmother resides, I not only have to contend with the wide avenue mentioned in the previous section, but a school zone as well. The speed limit there is fifteen, and people generally observe it quite closely for some reason. As such, I was forced to mount a sidewalk near the school so as to maintain a steady fifty-five miles per hour. Fortunately, at the time I was passing through, the bulk of the student body had already left the school grounds. Only a few remained, most likely those having just completed detention or chess club. Despite being a pudgy, flat-footed lot - seemingly more interested in their phones than with pedestrian safety - they proved quite adept at diving for the cover as I sped down the sidewalk towards them. Perhaps there is hope for millennials after all?

After arriving at the golf cart community was where the most challenging part of my experiment took place. The only way to navigate it was by using various paved cart paths which snaked from building to building. These paths were rather narrow, as if designed so that only small, golf cart sized vehicles could fit. Making matters worse, the paths had numerous sudden and sharp turns semenly better suited for speeds much lower than my fifty-five. Because of this, I ended up taking a turn a little too wide. That was right about where my experiment concluded. It turns out, the Pirelli P Zero Nero all-season tires on my Focus ST are not suitable for driving on landscaped surfaces. As a result, I was unable to avoid missing that pool. On a side note, Ford did not make the Focus ST seaworthy. Also, the so-called "no-fault" insurance in my state apparently doesn't apply to criminal trespassing and reckless endangerment. That point would prove to be moot, however, as I am currently uninsured (can't afford it with the fuel economy I'm getting lol).

At the end of the day, I have mixed feelings about the whole thing. When I set out on my quest to maximize fuel economy, I knew it would ruffle a few feathers. I also ended up broke, sopping wet, and arrested. But that's always been the case with pioneers. I never heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Steve Shubin complain, and neither will I. But even though I no longer have a drivers license and my Focus ST had "flood damage" reported to Carfax, I can say it felt really good to saving the environment, with the added bonus of taking a bite out of Big Oil in the process. Thanks for reading.

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Op-ed | NASA must shift its focus to infrastructure and capabilities that support dynamic missions

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Op-ed | NASA must shift its focus to infrastructure and capabilities that support dynamic missions

This op-ed originally appeared in the August 19, 2019 issue of SpaceNews magazine.

During Apollo’s heyday, large organizations like NASA ran on programmatic, linear planning models. MBAs were taught to develop business plans and boards held management accountable to the predefined objectives and milestones within them. “Deviation from plan” was equated with failure.

Five decades after Apollo, NASA — burdened with an old-school management culture — originally offered a linear, programmatic solution to its most recent White House mandate to return Americans sustainably to the moon. That was a mistake, but it need not be a fatal one.

The current goal of sustainably returning to the moon and then moving on to Mars was originally crafted by the 2016-2017 NASA transition team on which I served. It was reinforced and given an aggressive 2024 deadline by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in an inspirational speech in Huntsville, Alabama, in March. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, speaking in June at the International Space Development Conference, praised the clear deadline as an effective tool for reducing the political risk. Political changes have wrecked several previous NASA exploration programs, including Constellation, Journey to Mars and the Asteroid Redirect Mission. These missions were developed by NASA’s human exploration team, a talented group burdened with 1960s-style management. Not surprisingly, the first solution to the new goal that came out of NASA’s traditional thought processes was to throw more money at the old plan, execute it with the usual people and hope for different results. Also not surprisingly, that effort generated more slippages and stirred up new political risk. Thankfully, that phase has clearly been ended.

NASA Ames Lunar Commercial Operations & Transfer Services concept is envisioned as a way to provide lunar explorers with power, communications and navigation infrastructure at bargain prices via competitive commercial proposals. Credit:

In today’s business world, a new dynamism has vanquished linear thinking everywhere that organizations are driven to achieve audacious results via innovation in a changing environment. Modern, high-performing organizations eschew old-school business plans as they gather flexible resources and work to establish a diverse set of capabilities that will allow them to innovate and iteratively pursue current and unknown future organizational goals. When necessary, they are ready to pivot, making a swift and substantial change away from their original path. Pivoting requires accepting failure frequently and openly, while allowing for quick, recrimination-free moves back to the path of success, reducing the impact of these failures. “Fail early, fail often,” as they say in Silicon Valley.

SUCCEEDING WITH WHAT WE HAVE

How might modern management be applied to NASA’s current situation? It would be absurd to imagine that anyone at NASA has been given a blank slate and asked to craft an innovative space program from whole cloth; this is not a fresh start. While the Trump administrations’ goal of returning to the moon in a permanent and economically sustainable manner has received bipartisan support and kudos from both traditional and commercial space interests, NASA’s available kit of spacecraft was crafted for other, less realistic objectives. Specifically, we have systems left over from the nebulous Journey to Mars and the uninspiring Asteroid Redirect Mission. Many people at NASA and even members of the last administration’s space team privately admit they never actually expected either of those programs to succeed, but today’s incomplete space systems nevertheless were designed for them.

Today’s reality is that NASA has a new launch vehicle, the Space Launch System, approaching testing. SLS currently suffers from the lack of a reasonably powered upper stage engine. We also have Orion, a very capable deep space crew capsule that while twice the capacity and weight of an Apollo Command Module is saddled with a service module offering about one-fourth the thrust. The combined SLS Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage and Service Module are frustratingly incapable of delivering an Orion crew to low lunar orbit and returning them to Earth, making a direct moon landing impossible. Further distressing is the fact that SLS and Orion seem to be perennially “nearly ready to fly” and over budget, prompting a scathing review by the U.S. Government Accountability Office that surely spurred recent moves of key personnel.

On the commercial side, NASA under the Obama administration, wisely built upon the successful Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program with Commercial Crew. SpaceX and Boeing have designed and are testing capsules that will ride on flight-proven Atlas 5 and Falcon 9 rockets. However, both capsules have encountered delays and frustrating test failures. They will both miss the oft-bragged upon goal of flying Americans astronauts on American rockets from American soil this year. Further, neither commercial capsule is suitable for a lunar voyage. So how in heaven’s name do we get to the moon in a timely manner with this fleet?

Bill Gerstenmaier testifying July 10 at a House hearing. Hours later, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Gerstenmaier and another top exploration systems official were being reassigned. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

BRINGING NEW MINDS TO BEAR

Under the leadership of Bill Gerstenmaier, a brilliant engineer for whom I will always have the deepest personal respect, NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate put forward an ingenious solution based on previous work, the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway. While I supported that solution, I personally argued against the name Gateway because I felt it was a limiting description of a very versatile vehicle. Worse, Gateway allowed this resource to be incorrectly framed as a choke point by the inevitable detractors. I felt “Deep Space Ship” would better highlight the mobility and flexibility of this platform which can move to a variety of cislunar orbits, including leaving the moon to swing through accessible Earth orbits (geostationary transfer orbit, for instance) and back to the moon. The propulsion that makes this possible is the Advanced Electric Propulsion System. AEPS is solar-powered Hall thruster originally developed by NASA Glenn Research Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Asteroid Redirect Mission that NASA pursued under Obama. To the further credit of Gerst and his team, most of the ARM spending was directed at this generally useful technology.

NASA’s specific plan for utilizing the Gateway in support of a 2024 lunar landing has been to position the Gateway in a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO), which stretches between circling the moon and L1 or L2 points in space 50,000 miles from the moon. This position allows the Gateway to achieve a location and vector that permit a current SLS-launched Orion to dock with it as well as swinging near the lunar pole to deposit crew in a lander. Moving to other interesting lunar orbits from the NRHOs requires very little energy. All the moon’s a playground with the Gateway and a versatile lander. This is a realistic and daring solution to the demands of engineering, budgets and politics.

The Gateway has, however, garnered significant criticism from some space advocates who would scrap our entire investment in existing systems and develop new, primarily commercial architectures to go directly to the surface of the moon. Notable among these critics are Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and The Mars Society founder and president Robert Zubrin, two people I have also had the pleasure to work with and greatly admire. Zubrin has focused on in-situ resource utilization on the lunar surface as a means for reducing the surface payloads necessary to support habitation and the ascent stage of the lander. Aldrin argues the Gateway should be positioned in Earth orbit for a number of reasons and that a refuelable tug be used to deploy assets to the moon for the landing. These are good ideas that also offer dynamic thinking utilizing existing, commercial rockets.

The Gateway doesn’t care where it is sent, and United Launch Alliance has proposed converting upper stages into tugs using their innovative ACES design. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has similar ideas and has had a lunar lander design under development for several years; I first saw the Blue Moon proposal in December 2016. While they are simpler, these commercial-based proposals do lack components that the traditional teams have nearly completed, notably a deep space capsule. They are also based on programmatic thinking, full of linear dependencies that recent history suggests will also experience failures and slippages.

Consequently, the correct route forward for NASA is a multilinear one, free of dependence on any one component and focused on building useful infrastructure. A successful, 21st century space agency must gather resources and establish capabilities that can be reconfigured to address changing technical and political climates for years to come. Building such a dynamic kit need not be more expensive and will offer multiple paths to the lunar surface in a competitive process that drives vendors to move quickly at lower costs, rather than embracing caution and seeking higher budgets.

GATEWAY’S VERSATILITY

The Gateway is useful for either of these paths. It is, in fact, a backup transportation system in itself. With a robust habitation module, the Gateway could take a commercially delivered crew from a geostationary transfer orbit to the moon and back. The round trip would take a couple months, a shorter duration than many stays on the International Space Station, albeit in a higher radiation environment. Answering questions about biological exposure to deep space radiation levels and testing shielding materials is part of the Gateway’s mission.

NASA awarded a sole source contract to Northrop Gumman in July to build a lunar orbit habitat based on the Cygnus cargo tug shown above docked at ISS to the left of a Russian Progress resupply ship. Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center

That knowledge is critical to determining how we will send humans to Mars and beyond and knowing if our children might live in the O’Neill style orbital habitats that the National Space Society has been advocating for years. The Gateway is a fundamental piece of space infrastructure for our expansion into the cislunar environment. Maxar Technologies, the winner of the bidding for the first module, the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), came in 20% lower than the competition in a testament to NASA’s performance-based proposal. It also means the module is much more likely to be delivered in a timely manner and that the vendor will be able to incorporate learning and new technologies. The traditional, specification-driven approach crushed learning and innovation, delivered systems that were behind the technology curve and taught vendors little.

The swift award to Northrup Grumman for the habitation module was equally bold. The decision to base the module on the proven Cygnus cargo capsule was brilliant. Cygnus has been through the NASA scrutiny required to dock with ISS and has flown on three different rockets (Atlas 5 and the Antares 100 and 200 series). The award was done swiftly and while there are legitimate concerns about the sole-source selection, it reflects a badly needed sense of urgency and decision making at the agency. If that sort of active thinking had been available at NASA Headquarters in 2017, we’d be launching Gateway components on commercial rockets early next year. Another recent spate of awards includes one to SpaceX for on-orbit refueling, an equally brilliant, capabilities-focused choice.

The president has also made it clear that delivering humans to Mars remains a national goal. Disruptive thinkers like Zubrin, Aldrin and Elon Musk share this goal with competing ideas on how to achieve it. The Gateway offers a real first step to Mars, not just a proving ground. A Gateway-derived system could be placed in Martian orbit, with components delivered by existing commercial rockets, equipped with a refuelable upper stage engine and aerobraking to enter orbit. Once assembled, a two-person crew could travel in an Orion equipped with an improved service module and refuelable upper stage to occupy such a Mars-based station and explore the Martian moons using solar electric propulsion.

Such missions may very well depart form Aldrin’s Earth Orbit Gateway, because as he correctly notes, the moon is rarely where you want it to be for a timely Martian rendezvous. Very significant research can be conducted at Phobos, as that moon is visibly coated in red material blasted from the Martian surface by meteor strikes. This Martian material could be collected by astronauts and then analyzed immediately in the Martian Gateway, directing further optimized collection for return to labs on Earth. The questions of Martian life could very well be answered at this point, and the value of real Martian regolith for insitu resource utilization operations can be directly validated.

All this could be done at a Mars Gateway for a reasonable price and within the next decade. No budget breaking Mars Ascent Vehicle or unproven in-situ resource utilization capabilities would be required. This is the sort of dynamic, multi-option mission made possible through gathering resources and establishing capabilities rather than defining programs.

LUNAR COTS’ DYNAMISM

Economic development of the moon requires a sustainable presence. Accordingly, sustained presences has been a major component of the space policy directives produced by National Space Council. Achieving that singularly important requirement will require creative and flexible infrastructure on the ground. The Space Portal team at NASA Ames Research Center have developed some of the most practical ideas for lunar surface exploration and development. This innovative group originated the highly successful Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program that has kept the International Space Station operational after the retirement of the space shuttle. COTS did far more than that by funding the development of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket Dragon capsule as well as adding the Antares rocket and Cygnus capsule to the growing stable of U.S. spacecraft.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine testifies July 17 before the Senate Commerce Committee about U.S. plans for sending humans back to the moon and eventually to Mars. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

The Space Portal team’s proposed Lunar Commercial Operations & Transfer Services — aka LunarCOTS, or LCOTS — promises to do much of the same for the moon. LunarCOTS is a three-phased approach aimed at providing a full range of assets at bargain prices via competitive commercial proposals. LCOTS Phase One includes the installation of surface infrastructure in the form of robotic landers equipped with deployable solar panel towers and power storage systems. These systems, launchable on existing commercial rockets, will allow for the speedy placement of “stakes in the ground” at important sites near the lunar poles. Just as importantly, an expanding array of these towers will act as navigation aids and communications relays across the lunar terrain for robotic and human exploration. LCOTS Phase One towers could be deployed for significantly less than production budget of the latest installment of the Star Wars movie franchise. Exploration and extraction rovers will utilize these towers for recharging, providing up to 1,600 watts during the day and 70 watts at night. The systems will support the important thermal control needs for these rovers during the lunar night. Phase Two will involve demonstrating the production of significant amounts of propellant from lunar water ice.

The third and final LCOTS phase is the critical handoff to commercial operations, where NASA will contract with multiple vendors for expansion and maintenance of these services, similar to how COTS demo missions laid the foundation for the Cargo Resupply Services contracts under which SpaceX and Northrop Grumman resupply the ISS.

LCOTS vendors can make this same infrastructure available to independent, commercial operators for a fee, in much the same way Falcon 9 has become a workhorse launcher for the broader space industry and Cygnus has morphed into a satellite-servicing vehicle for commercial customers. Eventually, larger versions of LCOTS power, navigation and communications towers will support NASA and, ultimately, privately crewed lunar vehicles. All the envisioned LCOTS capabilities fit into the current Gateway-based plan as well as the alternative direct-to-the-surface scenarios. It also offers solid applications to future Mars’ surface operations as well.

The good news is that by embracing a capabilities-based approach, NASA does not have to choose any one path or start over when politically driven objectives shift. Two years ago, in these same pages, Buzz Aldrin and I endorsed the nomination of Jim Bridenstine for NASA administrator. Bridenstine’s diverse educational background, including three bachelor’s degrees and an MBA along with his experience as a military pilot, museum director and U.S. congressman will serve him well in transforming NASA’s culture from linearity to dynamism. He’s also got youth on his side. At 44, he’s the first NASA administrator born after the Apollo program. Whenever the next administrator comes along, they will benefit from the useful set of tools Bridenstine put in place and NASA will move smoothly toward its new missions, without the fits and starts inherent in transitions under the old programmatic approach.

Greg Autry is director of the Commercial Spaceflight Initiative at the University of Southern California. He served as a member of the Trump administration’s NASA transition team and as the White House liaison to NASA. He is vice president of space development at the National Space Society.

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raychelramble · 5 years ago

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The government authorities of India has made it mandatory for people to link their Aadhaar Card with their bank accounts. If you want to make sure that the benefits offered through different government schemes are transferred immediately to the account, then linking your Aadhaar details with your bank account is imperative.

Linking Aadhaar card with HDFC bank account is simple as you have got seven methods to complete the procedure

Link Aadhaar Card to HDFC Bank Account through Offline Mode

Prior to linking your Aadhaar Card with your HDFC bank account through the offline process, you should have certain documents ready including your bank passbook, your E-Aadhaar or Aadhaar card, and the form for linking your Aadhaar card to your HDFC bank account.

Step 1: The utility form can be downloaded from the bank’s official website, and you'll have to take a print out of the same and fill it up with the necessary data, which includes your bank details, your Aadhaar number, etc.

Step 2: As soon as you have filled out the form, you should go to a branch of HDFC bank and submit the application form as well as a photocopy of your Aadhaar card to a representative of the bank

Step 3: The bank will carry the form along with a photocopy of the Aadhaar Card to perform their verification process

Step 4: Once the bank has validated all your facts, your Aadhaar card will be linked with your HDFC bank account, and you'll be notified by the bank

Link Aadhaar and HDFC Account via Internet Banking

Link Your Aadhaar and HDFC Account through Mobile Banking

Link Aadhaar with HDFC account by visiting the nearest ATM

Step 1: Once you initiate your transaction, a message prompts on the screen that says “link Aadhaar to your bank account"

Step 2: Choose “yes” to continue further

Step 3: Enter your 12-digit Aadhaar number to complete the linking of Aadhaar with HDFC account

Link Aadhaar Card with HDFC Bank Account Online

Step 1: Once you login to your HDFC internet Banking account, click on “link Aadhaar card details”

Step 2: You'll be directed to an online form, where you have to enter the necessary details

Link Aadhaar and HDFC Account through Phone Banking

For Linking Aadhaar and HDFC bank via mobile banking, you need to activate the mobile banking IVR and subsequently choose 'bank account' option on IVR.

Step 1: Choose the language, after which, select “choice 1”

Step 2: You need to validate through “customer identification and TIN” or “Debit Card and PIN”

Step three: Next, select “alternative 6”, and then “alternative 2” for requests

Step four: Then, for updating Aadhaar number, select “choice eight” and then re-enter the Aadhaar number

Step 5: IVR will send you a message that your Aadhaar has been updated in subsequent three-four days

Step 6: After you complete these steps, you'll receive a confirmation message regarding the request and the date

Link Aadhaar with HDFC bank Account through SMS

Follow these steps to complete the linking:

Step 1: In your Aadhaar registered mobile, type AS space account number

Step 2: Send the SMS to 5676712

When you send the message, you will receive a confirmation message to your mobile.

Advantages of Linking Aadhaar with HDFC Bank Account

Mentioned below are the advantages of linking aadhaar with the bank account:

Direct transfer of LPG subsidy into the bank account

Receive the advantages of scholarships and pension credited to the HDFC account

Take the benefits of Aadhaar-Enabled Paying Systems (AEPS)

How to test if Aadhaar is linked to the bank account?

HDFC customers now have the additional option to cross-check if their bank account is connected to their 12-digit Aadhaar number. There are three approaches to test if the account is connected to the aadhaar through Netbanking, mobile banking and visiting the branch.

Checking through internet banking:

Checking the status of Aadhaar linking with the bank account can be completed seamlessly. Here are the steps that will help you test the linking:

Step 1: First, login to your net banking account by typing the username and password

Step 2: Select 'account,' after which, click on “Request”

Step 3: Subsequently, click on “View/replace Aadhaar number” to check the current status of linking

Checking through mobile banking:

Step 1: Login to your mobile banking portal with the username and password

Step 2: Choose “accounts” from the list

Step 3: Click on “Request” and then pick out “View/update Aadhaar number” to know your Aadhaar and bank account linking

Verification through telephone banking:

Customers who need to verify their application through mobile banking should contact the 24/7 customer care or can write to [email protected]

FAQs on Linking Aadhaar with HDFC Account

I have recently applied for my Aadhaar Card, what do have to do in that situation?

When you have applied for an Aadhaar card, then you will surely have an enrolment or acknowledgment slip. Details mentioned in the slip, can be used to download e-Aadhaar from UIDAI internet site.

I have my Aadhaar connected to other banks. Do I have to do the same for HDFC bank account as well?

As per the government guidelines, all of the bank accounts need to be linked to Aadhaar. In case you fail to do so, the account could be non-operational until the linking is finished.

I have a joint account - what technique must I use with to link it with Aadhaar?

If you have a joint account, then updating the both the account-holder's Aadhaar is important.

For minor accounts, do I have to link Aadhaar info?

Yes, linking Aadhaar to minor account is also mandatory. Customers can complete the process through smartphone banking, mobile banking or by visiting the nearest branch.

I’m an NRI with an HDFC account. Do I have to link Aadhaar to my account?

No, Aadhaar linking isn't mandatory for NRIs.

I am a foreign national and in India for a quick time. Do I have to link Aadhaar and my HDFC account?

No.

What’s non-individual account? Is Aadhaar card mandatory for non-individual citizens?

The account that are opened under partnerships, personal Ltd, Public Ltd., societies, clubs, sole proprietorship or trust are called non-individual accounts. Yes, the Aadhaar linking is mandatory for non-individual accounts.

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airiat · 4 years ago

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Boy with the Sun Song (VII.)

iorveth/f!oc | m | friends to lovers, tooth-rotting fluff, hurt/comfort | no warnings apply

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“Something the matter?”

I looked up from the notebook I had been writing in over to where Iorveth sat on a tree stump in the grass, shaping a length of wood for my new bow. Soon after our first lesson, he sent me into Vengerberg with a pouch of coin, some mine, some his, and a very detailed, carefully curated list of the supplies I was to get. He told me that this was not how he’d normally liked to do things--his Scoia’tael had their own sources for materials--but such was the condition of his new position in life.

Still, he’d become much more content after he’d taken on this project, the feel of his energy now resembling something more like the music he plays on his flute.

While I was endlessly happy to see him in higher spirits, Iorveth’s constant presence was a damper on my creativity. I still wrote relentlessly, as I always did, but every time I put ink to paper, the only words that seemed to come were ones about him.

“What?” I asked.

“The looks you’ve been giving your paper…” Iorveth responded. “I might have to use some of them in my next fight.”

“Shouldn’t you be whittling your ploughing wood instead of watching me?” I retorted.

The scarred side of his lips tilted into a half-smile. “I was, in fact, ‘whittling my ploughing wood’ but all your huffing distracted me.”

“Sorry,” I muttered, returning my gaze to the accursed words on the page before me. Something about a scar ‘like red lightning across a pale sky.’ Abysmal. A disgrace to the Common tongue.

“What is it, Vesta?” Iorveth pressed.

“Nothing,” I answered without lifting my eyes from the paper. “I don’t think you could help.”

“Perhaps I could,” he said. “Why don’t you give me a chance?”

Perched in my hammock strung up high between two tall trees, I had an excellent view of him sitting below me. So plain, so unassuming he looked in his simple green tunic, the tangle of leaves and branches inked on his neck rising past the collar.

He’d stopped wearing his scarf as often, choosing instead to brush his hair over the disfigurement in a dark, but less intense covering. In that very way, he looked so much like the Iorveth I’d always known--Iorveth aep Mirbrach--not Iorveth the Scoia’tael, Iorveth the criminal.

And then it hit me.

“What if I wrote your story?”

He looked at me like I had suddenly sprouted wings and started squawking like a bird. “My story? What bloede story could there possibly be to tell?”

It was my turn to look at him with the same bewilderment. “Are you kidding me? You’re a living legend, Iorveth.”

He muttered something that sounded like ‘son of a whore’, but I couldn’t hear him clearly enough from where I sat to be sure. Regardless, he scowled and his energy began to churn like storm clouds on the horizon.

“I’m no legend,” he said, loud enough for me to hear that time. “I’ve simply been doing what needs to be done. Nothing more.”

“And building a legacy in the process,” I persisted.

“If that’s how you want to look at it, then fine,” he said. “But that’s not the way I do. I have no story to tell.”

“I have an audience, Iorveth. When I speak--write--people listen. My work has reached all across the Continent.”

“That’s wonderful,” he replied, raising his hands to give me a fake round of applause. “I’m so happy for you, Vesta.”

I rolled my eyes. “I know you understand the power of a story,” I said. “Look at how much of our culture is built upon them. Look at what your story did for Saskia.”

“Some ploughing good that did,” he snapped. “For any of it.”

“Iorveth, could you hold your tongue for one godsdamn minute?” I snapped right back at him.

“Fine, fine,” he relented, inclining his head as if to tell me to continue. “I’m listening.”

“I could write you as a hero,” I began. “I could paint all your deeds under the most beautiful, noble light. I could make people sympathize with you, wonder how they’d ever hated you. Look at everything they’ve taken from you after everything you’ve done for them--we could say that you lost your eye defending Vergen, a haven for humans and nonhumans alike. Do you understand what I’m saying?”

“But why should I care about what a bunch of filthy dh’oine think of me?”

“Don’t be so dense,” I responded. “To further your cause, of course.”

Iorveth didn’t seem to be appeased by that. In fact, it brought the winds of his anger back to a gale force when they had begun to die down. “Why should I whore myself out to become some dh’oine’s infantile little fantasy of what an Aen Seidhe ought to be like?”

“I know,” I admitted. “I know that part of it isn’t ideal.”

“If you know, then why even suggest it?”

“Because I had hoped that for once in your life, you could set aside your pride and do something for the greater good.”

“My pride,” he scoffed. “What about my honor?”

“The honor is that your sacrifice will make life better for all of us,” I answered. “Your actions have done some good for us, but your reputation still precedes you. Whether you intended for it to or not, your image is what the dh’oine see when they think of us.”

Iorveth didn’t say anything for a long time, returning instead to work on my bow. His attention was not entirely on it, however. I closed my eyes, sat back against my hammock, and felt him cycle through the stages of grief in rapid succession until he finally stopped on resignation. I would have preferred acceptance, but I settled for that.

“If I did agree to let you write this, what would I need to do?” he asked.

I remained exactly as I was, trying not to betray my excitement. “You would have to tell me about everything you’ve done and I would figure out how to best shape it to suit our purposes.”

“You do realize the nature of my past, yes?”

“I’ve heard bits and pieces of it,” I said lightly.

“And it won’t change the way you think of me? You won’t see me as a monster the way everyone else does?”

I sat up and opened my eyes, locking my gaze with his. “No. It won’t. You’re the dearest friend I have, Iorveth. Nothing could change that.”

The tips of his ears reddened, a light flush sweeping across his face as he looked away from me. “We’ll see if you’re still saying that by the end of this.”

“I have the utmost faith.”

“If you say so…” he hedged, but I knew he wasn’t convinced.

“When would you like to begin?” I asked.

Iorveth shrugged. “Right now, I suppose. Not as if you were having any luck with whatever you were writing earlier.”

“Hey,” I protested. “You don’t know that.”

“Oh, I’m quite certain I do,” he said, cracking a small smile. “Your huffing and puffing was so loud I could hardly hear myself think.”

“Fine,” I said, reaching for my notebook and holding my pen to it. “Whenever you’re ready.”

#this chapter became the basis for my main fic #iorveth #iorweth #iorveth/oc #the witcher #my writing #my posts #tag: iorveth #bwtss

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Summer is here: what to take to the beach when you go with babies and small children

It seemed that the heat was never going to come, but now that it is here, there is a desire for sun, beach and, above all, to enjoy the baby’s first summers.

Going to the beach with babies or small children requires extra planning. The most important thing is to protect them from the sunand prevent them from becoming dehydrated , but otherwise you do not need to be loaded like mules because the sand and the sea are the best toy for them. Now that summer is here, we propose what to take to the beach to spend a perfect day with babies or small children.

Umbrella “pro”

The colorful umbrellas are a classic of all life on the beaches (if they are advertising, it is a plus), but the parents have long since adopted the concept of refuge for our shore excursions. Advantage? It is not necessary to make the hole in the sand, there is no risk of it flying, it also protects from the sun in the late afternoon and, the best: it has soil. I do not know why but the babies seem to escape less from this limited space when we do not want the sun to shine, and with a little shake, we already have a space free of sand to take a nap.

There are many models, some with sun protection, but the most important thing is that it has good ventilation and that it is light and easy to assemble and disassemble, like this one from Kiddus that you can buy through Amazon for 21.95 euros.

Clothes and complements

Here the important thing is to make sure to put barriers between the sun and the delicate skin of the little ones. Remember that the National Association of Pediatrics ( here its recommendations) indicates that children under six months should not use sunscreen, so you have to keep them always in the shade. Children who already walk are practically impossible to keep under the umbrella, so it’s time to protect them and try to avoid the central hours of the day (between 12 and 16 hours).

The sun protective clothing is a great choice because it is very effective in protecting the skin from ultraviolet rays (we can find hats, shirts, swimsuits two pieces or whole …) is very practical because it protects the small also when it is Bathing and drying in a moment. If we do not have this type of garments, your hat (the best wide-brimmed or safari type caps that cover the neck) and a shirt is always better than being with the back to the air (although they carry cream).

Remember also the “mirror effect” that both sand and sea water have, which reflect solar radiation . The best thing to do is to accustom them from little ones to wearing sunglasses with UV protection and the most comfortable ones, made of flexible material and with an elastic band to prevent them from being easily removed.

You will find clothes and swimsuits with sun protection , glasses and hats on Amazon. The swimsuit in the photo is from Tuc Tuc and is sold in El corte inglés .

Solar filter

After six months we can apply cream to the baby. According to the recommendations of the AEP, these would be the recommendations to choose it:

Use a broad spectrum sunscreen with a protection factor (SPF) of 15+ in abundance and as many times as necessary. This must protect, at least, against UVB radiation (which causes sunburn) and UVA (the main cause of premature aging of the skin).

For small children , physical filter creams are recommended , which reflect the sun’s rays without using chemical components that are absorbed through the skin. The downside is that these creams are harder to spread than normal ones and leave a white layer on top. They are also called mineral filter.

The one in the photo is from the brand Alga maris and you can find it in Easyparapharmacie for 14.90 euros.

A LARGE PLASTIC BASKET (LIKE THOSE USED TO TRANSPORT DEBRIS IN THE WORKS) WILL BE USED TO TAKE THE TOYS TO THE BEACH AND AS A POOL FOR THE BABY

Toys

For babies, a pool with a few toys is the best way to keep them in the shade. The one in the photo (47.89 euros in Amazon ) combines shelter with solar protection and you just have to make a hole in the ground and put a little water to keep the baby cool.

Nor do we need to take a lot of things: sand is the best toy and, when they discover everything that can be done when mixed with water, it is the pump. A bucket, a shovel and the imagination to power. The older ones will enjoy kites, water pistols, tractors to take sand from one place to another …

More beach toys at Toys’RUs

Water and something to eat

Babies, especially the smallest ones, do not have the mature thermoregulation mechanisms and are more sensitive to dehydration, so, after six months (until that age, only breast milk or formula), we will have to offer them water every so often

The fruit also hydrates them, so a few pieces of watermelon or melon are the best snack we can offer our baby during the day.

The bottle of the photo on Amazon for 26.46 euros.

And those little things …

Details that make your day at the beach more comfortable:

Two bags of garbage: One to put in everything wet and another to throw the garbage and save trips to the bin or nearest container.

A spray to water the plants: Because I love the sensation of refreshing myself with water sprayed when it is very hot and because it serves as an emergency toy.

A handkerchief or large chiffon + clip XL: The cloth is used to put it on the sand or to mount a larger area of shade (holding it with the clips), for example using the stroller.

A bandolier that can get wet (like the one they sell on Amazon ) will allow you to enjoy the first baths with your baby without fear of running off.

And most importantly, do not forget in our beach bag the camera or the battery-powered cell phone to portray how our baby deserves on the beach. Now that summer has arrived, these are our ideas on what to take to the beach to spend a perfect day with your baby. Do you share yours?

#baby care #baby under the sun #beach #parents #sea #solar protection #sun

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