#immediately the scare factor loses 50 points

[cheesecakethots]

u ever just reading a yan! fic and the dude is so imposing and scary and then says some shit like “call me daddy” … i am not doing that you loser

[marginsofmarga]

You are a Survivor: A Reminder to my Future Self

Dear Survivor,

On the 12th day of January 2000, a bouncing baby girl was born and was destined to meet the world. She was innocently ecstatic, bursting into tears as a newborn, and her parents couldn’t be more grateful to have her as their daughter. As she turned eighth months, her parents were in disbelief for she had to deal with a serious medical condition called intussusception — a form of bowel obstruction in which one segment of the intestine telescopes inside of another. She was in a 50-50 situation during that time and the doctors did not provide any assurance for her to live when she had to undergo a surgical operation. 

The baby girl was you.

Yes, you. Luckily, here you are. You made it. Your life started after such a tragic incident. In an early age like that, you are already a survivor.  What a precious privilege it is for you to be alive. You have a purpose and it is yet to be discovered. 

But brace yourself because it’s going to be one heck of a roller coaster ride.

Anxiety and the ‘new normal’

Growing up, you are this girl who is full of fears. You are afraid of anything that might put you in danger and you are terrified of the uncertainty. Diving deeper, your big fear is not knowing what the future holds. And I‘m sure a lot of people can relate.

This fear was especially present when the COVID-19 pandemic began. The world seems to have ground to a halt because of the virus. As a fearful person, this is such a big deal. In retrospect, conditions created by the pandemic were taking a psychological toll. You were full of anxieties that you even experience panic attacks. Remember how difficult it was when you couldn’t sleep? And how overthinking consumed you for months? You were drowning in pain and fright and you never knew when it will be over. You were stressed about so many things: your health if ever you and your loved ones catch the virus, the mental agony it creates, your education when setbacks and transitions happened, the stress of what this year would be like, the postponed travels, and all the uncertainty. Anxiety bugged you for too long. It took all your strength.

Think about where you were earlier last year. You were in your second year in college. Just before the world slowed down, you were just a typical college student who tries her best to go through the day of university life. Back then, you were kilometers away from home which required you to rent a dormitory. On weekdays, you basically had a routine – waking up as the sun rises, getting ready for school, wearing your neatly ironed uniform and taking a short commute when going to school. Having meaningful lessons, small talks during the breaks with your friends, exchanging information with your professors, and learning day by day made the regular jiffs worth it. Later on, the pandemic took place. It felt as if the world stopped. Everything changed in a split second. Over the past few months, you’ve experienced an unprecedented shift in your way of life due to COVID-19. Coping up with the transition from face-to-face to online classes wasn’t easy. 

The journey you’ve been through was on a rugged terrain and so full of ups and downs. You were stuck at home juggling chores, classes and your side hustle, content creation. It seemed so difficult to adjust; there was a change in the situation of class’ atmosphere, you struggled with time-management and self-motivation along the way, workload is way larger than regular classes, barriers occur such as bad internet service, power interruptions and so on. Not to mention creating content when you are not at your best. All these left you in a crucial spot.

Challenges as the virus came closer

It was in the month of March when you found out that your grandmother, 72 years old, tested positive for COVID-19. Much to your disbelief, you were scared to death. It felt as if a thorn got pricked in your heart. Your grandma means so much to you. She is such a remarkable woman. A heart like hers would give so unselfishly. She’s a combination of love and laughter. The thought of losing her is painful to handle.

Fortunately, she was asymptomatic. But we never knew what might happen in a snap.

The pandemic is impacting everyone. And your family wasn’t an exception. It meant making big changes in everyday routines and raised anxiety in every household member. The alarming numbers gave you a picture of how deadly the virus is. It’s killing people on a large scale. So much about the virus is out of your control. Not just the virus itself but all other aspects of life.

Time often makes you play the waiting game. It quickly passes by when you want it to stay still, but doesn’t seem to tick at all when you want it to hurry up. At this point, you are deeply hoping that the pandemic comes to an end.

Disastrous encounters

In the early morning of November 1, 2020, Super Typhoon Rolly (International name, Goni), made its first landfall in the Philippines in Bicol – with catastrophic winds of up to 280 kilometers per hour and torrential rainfall. Reading about the weather update, you began to ponder how tormenting it is to deal with such predicament: super typhoon in time of pandemic.   That’s two disasters in a row.

Can you recall waking up to howling winds and heavy-pouring rains? Of course you could. It was almost seven o’clock in the morning. Windows were intensely rattling in the wind. Some were even shattering. You were in your room full of worries, wondering when the catastrophe will end as your door started to tremble caused by the blustery weather. You immediately got up and went to your parents’ room. Your little brothers were still asleep. Your mom was securing some of your belongings and your dad wasn’t there so you looked for him outside through peeking by the window. You spotted him taking his good ‘ole motorcycles out of the garage and transferring those in the front gate. As you saw that the flood started to rise, you ran into your room and packed all of your things in plastic bags. As you finish, you prepared for breakfast. There were drizzles from the kitchen windows due to the gushing rain. Picking up new door mats was your idea but just then, the flood water began to enter. You tried to mop it out at first until it became too much too handle. It was not just a wet floor anymore. You continued to put everything on high places of the house. You weren’t sure whether the flood is going to reach above the ankle as usual but as several minutes or so passed, the water started to reach the knees and outside the house, the water reached the thighs of an average person.

It was a great relief that you were living in a two-storey house, but the second floor was usually untouched and unoccupied, and at that exceptional moment, it was your only safe refuge.  That isolated part of the house had to be cleaned first so you and your brothers had to wait sitting on the stairs for the meantime. Almost everything was a bit slippery and taking a few steps to the stairs, your mom accidentally slid and fell on her buttocks, leaving her semi-injured with a small wound on the heel. Aching in pain, there she was as your anxiety began to escalate with everything that was happening.

It was past 12 o’clock during noon as the rain lie low and the strong winds stopped. Meanwhile, flood water kept entering the house. It even reached your bed. The unprecedented intensity of the calamity made the water rise so high. Other appliances were soaked in flood water. You all tried to secure everything in the house, but the sight of flood-affected area was horrible. 

It seemed such a cruel irony that while battling the pandemic, a disaster as strong as Rolly made repercussions to your family and other families. It was such a struggle to recover from the losses. Some appliances were broken and your dad’s piggery was devastated. The agricultural damage it also brought to the small rice field your dad was handling affected your finances. The calamity knocked out mobile phone services, uprooted trees and destroyed critical infrastructures. The neighboring towns, particularly those which are near Mayon Volcano were engulfed in floodwater and volcanic mudflows. How awful! It was a twofold challenge on your concern. You badly want to help but you’re still a jobless student. 

Just days after the onslaught of Typhoon Rolly, Typhoon Ulysses roughly crossed the same track and made landfall on November 11. Disaster after disaster. Destruction after destruction – in the midst of a pandemic. It was unbelievable, it was beyond imagination, and all at the same time, dreadful. 

Multiple factors contributed to this turnabout. Most of the time, caused by circumstances beyond anybody’s control. 

The rise after the fall

When you were in despair, you prayed everyday and kept your faith intact hoping and believing that everything’s going to be all right. You stayed strong when you are at your weakest and you let God move in His mysterious ways. Tomorrow awaits. There is hope. The anxieties were no longer haunting you. You realized that you are doing the best you can, you are letting go of the things you cannot control and you start to focus on things that actually matter. You learned to embrace the uncertainty by accompanying it with faith. Your greatest fears especially the consequences of this pandemic took all your strength but there was redemption. It may be chaotic as it seems but you managed to make it through. The girl who was full of fears is now full of strength.

You survived your online classes, finished the whole semester alongside content creation with new projects coming in, and you adapted to a new reality. The monstrous and unimaginable situation brought by the virus was difficult to deal with but you still took control of what you can actually muster. You learned to manage your time wisely. You created a workspace and followed a study schedule. You made learning a joy. You made content creation a passion. You tried your best in keeping your spirits up  for the sake of surpassing all of the hardships.

One afternoon, while you were running errands with your mom, a notification popped. You were informed by a block mate that you are a dean’s lister. Wow. It made your parents proud. You were bursting in bliss. It was totally fulfilling. Memories suddenly flashed back. You remember all the challenges you faced, the hardwork you made and the efforts you poured bore an academic achievement in the midst of the pandemic. It all paid off.

Look at your grandmother. She’s doing well, healthy and is now back to her normal routine. You also get to spend more time with her now. A new tradition for the family was made. Every month, there is a “family day” where joyful memories are created. Being with your family is a blessing, take note of that. Don’t be so busy watching out for what’s ahead of you but rather, enjoy where you are.  Never miss any opportunity to spend time with your loved ones.

When two super typhoons as powerful as Rolly and Ulysses both left trails of destruction in your region, it terribly affected many families and your family wasn’t an exception.  It struck as the Philippines continues to battle the pandemic. Despite it all, your family recovered.  After the previous crops have been ravaged by the merciless storms, the succeeding harvest was a bounty. 

Seeing how the super typhoons affected millions of people in eight regions, it made your heart shatter. There was something in you that wanted to lend a helping hand not only to your family but to the community as well. Good thing, an opportunity came. You were asked to be the chairperson in your town for a relief operation called Barya Ni Juan, a movement made by Discover MNL in collaboration with Bicol Bloggers and other Bicolano brands, which provided aid for 1,000 families in 10 Bicolano communities that were gravely affected by Typhoon Rolly and Ulysses. Of course, you accepted the offer without thinking twice. With the help of your friends, you managed to accomplish the mission by distributing 500 peso-worth each relief pack to 100 homes. It may be a small act of kindness but you saw smiles on many faces. It felt gratifying. The greater your storm, the brighter your rainbow.

What a life! You’ve learned that things don’t always turn out the way you planned or the way you think they should. You’ve learned that you can turn pain into power and you can overcome anything that was meant to destroy you. You’ve become patient with yourself and your growth, knowing that good things take time. You fell so many times but you were able to get back up. 

Be proud of how far you’ve come – the silent battles you fought, the adversities you faced, the moments you had to wipe your own tears and pat yourself on the back. You’ve gone through the dark side of life but you have gained strength, courage and confidence like no other.

Always remind yourself these:

“I surpassed many challenges.” “I am capable of everything I set my mind into.” “I take every setback and use it to my advantage.”

One day, you’ll look back and you’ll tell yourself you are indeed a survivor.

With love and light, A stronger version of yourself

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This story is an entry to ComCo Southeast Asia’s “Write to Ignite Blogging Project Season 2: Dear Survivor”. The initiative continues to respond to the need of our times, as every story comes a long way during this period of crisis.  The initiative aims to pull and collate powerful stories from the Philippine blogging communities to inspire the nation to rise and move forward amidst the difficult situation. The “Write to Ignite Blogging Project” Season 2 is made possible by ComCo Southeast Asia, with Eastern Communications and Jobstreet as co-presenters, with AirAsia and Xiaomi as major sponsors, and with Teleperformance as sponsor.

[goosebumpsbookclub]

Stay Out of the Basement

Yes, I'm still doing this.

We descend now into the second chronological entry in the Goosebumps series. I do want to stress that this is only the second book, and R.L. has gone with "plant monsters," something I'd expect from maybe book #50, after he'd run out of all the classic monsters. Points for originality.

The protagonist of this one, Margaret Brewer, is just Amanda Benson again, complete with annoying little brother. (Alas, this little brother, Casey, lacks the inhuman physical strength of his predecessor.) She also has a mom who's away on a trip and a dad who sucks so, so bad.

Basically, this book is told from the point of view of the child of a doomed Jeff VanderMeer character. Margaret's dad is doing science of some sort in the basement after losing his Real Science Job. He's weird and distant and doesn't let his kids enter his lab, so obviously they do enter his lab, where they find messed up plants that breathe. Their dad subsequently gets a lock for the basement door (which, like, why on earth didn't you do that in the first place, my guy) and starts wearing a baseball cap all the time, which is never a good sign. Also he eats dirt. Just out of the bag, like an animal.

What's under the hat? I'm happy to tell you! It's leaves and stuff. Margaret finds this out almost immediately because her dad is supremely bad at hiding his secrets. He convinces her and Casey that growing an entire tree out of the top of your head is actually totally fine and not a cause for concern at all, which is a stupendous feat of gaslighting. Then he serves them green potatoes. Which is also fine. (They don't eat the green potatoes.) His old Real Science Boss shows up, he takes him down into the basement, and the man is never seen again. Which is also fine! This is all great.

When Margaret and Casey inevitably return to the basement to catch another glimpse of those sweet, sweet evil plants, they find the boss's jacket Their dad explains that it was hot down there, so his boss took off his jacket and then forgot to take it with him when he left. This definitely sounds like they're banging. Mr. Brewer basically just told his kids he's gay in order to divert attention away from his weird plants.

A third and final trip to the basement (no lock can stop these children!) reveals the rest of the boss's clothes, confirming that he is their father's lover. More importantly, though, their dad's bound and gagged in the (literal) closet, when he's supposed to be picking their mom up from the airport. Uh oh! Two dads now! One was bad enough. Other Dad shows up and tries to convince the kids he's Real Dad, but Margaret figures out Closet Dad is Real Dad because he shows her love. Real Dad then cuts Other Dad in half with an ax, which, Jesus Christ. It turns out Other Dad was a plant clone that got too strong and stepped into Real Dad's life like a gay green Stepford Wife.

But it wouldn't be Goosebumps without that sweet cliffhanger. Margaret goes out to hang out in the yard, where a plant pokes her foot and tells her it, in fact, is her Real Dad. Fade to black. Fin.

I actually love this twist because it really reinforces the main theme of this book, which is that dads are terrible. Instead of processing his socioeconomic anxiety, this guy alienates himself from his kids and makes horrible horrible plant people, literally creating a surrogate dad to manage childcare. On accident, sure, but surely there's something going on there subconsciously. And at the end of the day Margaret remains unsure which dad is real, because they're functionally the same. Even (supposedly) Real Dad's declaration of love could be a front--Margaret can’t remain convinced of its truth for very long. She gets only a brief respite before she's caught up in her dad's bullcrap again, trying to decipher what the hell is going on with him, trying to keep up with him in order to survive. She's an unwilling player in the Game of Thorns and this guy is Tywin Lannister. Get it? Thorns? Please high-five me.

Ratings:

Cover: The cover I got from the library was the 2003 update, still by Tim Jacobus, and a little busy for my taste, but that plant guy is pretty spooky with his beakers and such. 2.5/5 The original shows a scary plant hand reaching out of the basement, much simpler in concept but detailed and gross and slimy as all Jacobus covers should be. I give it a 4/5.

Scare factor: I found this one less freaky than the first, but the detail about the plants breathing did give me a chill and genuinely reminded me of Annihilation. Also, a guy gets chopped in half with an ax. 3/5.

Dads: 0/5. Be better, dads.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

TLDR: the future of the country lies with the For The People Act, and Joe Manchin holds all the cards.

Whether or not Donald Trump runs for re-election in 2024 largely depends on whether the For The People Act passes in the Senate.

If it does, and elections are reformed with federal guidelines, AND if it survives the inevitable Supreme Court challenges (which is dubious given the 6-3 conservative majority), then no, Trump won't run again because he wouldn't want to risk losing a second time. He's humiliated, he has to pretend it was stolen from him so he doesn't have to acknowledge the fact that he lost like a little bitch. If the election reforms level the playing field, he wouldn't stand a chance of winning in 2024; he only won in 2016 because of voter apathy and suppression in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Turnout was WAY higher in 2020, and he got blown out of the water.

If the act fails in the Senate or is struck down by SCOTUS, then Trump will absolutely run again because Republican lawmakers will rig the elections in his favor in all the swing states he lost. If the reforms don't pass, all the states Biden flipped will flip right back because of even worse suppression and partisan interference. Republicans tried to overturn the results after he lost in 2020, but the courts prevented them from doing so; now they've had a taste for things, they know what they can and can't do, so they'll spend the next four years rewriting the rules in their favor so the courts will side with them in 2024. 2020 wasn't rigged, it was arguably the most transparent election in American history, and that has Republicans scared shitless; they know they can't win on policy, they're trying to win by technicality. They haven't legitimately won since Bush Sr in 1988; Democrats have won 7 of the last 8 elections, the only exception being 2004 at which point we were still reeling from 9/11 and were caught up in two new wars in the Middle East. Bush Jr had the incumbency advantage, and the wars made him more popular than he turned out to actually be (he left office with record low approval ratings in the 20s; in 2008 both parties ran candidates on the platform of "I am not George W. Bush"). Republicans know they can win without a majority, so that's what they plan on doing from now on. They don't need to care about popular opinion.

For The People is extremely popular, with majority support from Democratic, independent, and yes, even Republican voters, but their lawmakers are fighting tooth and nail to stop it. Not a single Republican will vote for it in the Senate, and Manchin and Sinema refuse to get rid of the filibuster, so it's as good as dead unless they change their minds or reform the legislative process. Back in the day, a filibuster was active, it required a senator to hold the floor and refuse to yield for as long as possible (the record is over 24 hours). Any member could filibuster a bill by taking the floor and delaying until they were exhausted, or until 60 senators voted to stop them. Starting in the 1970s, the filibuster became passive because the Senate decided that actually holding the floor was irrelevant so long as the other side couldn't get the 60 votes needed to stop it. Legislation has ground to a halt ever since, exacerbated by the election of Mitch McConnell as majority leader in 2015. He proudly became known as the Bill Killer, effectively vetoing every single one by simply refusing to let any of them go the floor at all; instead of opening up the chamber and letting members filibuster, he would simply let the bills die on his desk, even if they had enough support to pass. If he didn't personally want it to pass, then it didn't pass. End of story. There's a joke that if Congress were on fire, it couldn't even pass the Pour Water On Congress Act, and this is largely McConnell's fault.

If Manchin and Sinema agreed to change the rules to bring back the active filibuster it would allow more bills to move forward, but each one would almost certainly take DAYS or WEEKS to get passed. If we thought Republicans were obstructionist before, just imagine what they'd do if Democrats could simply wait them out. What will happen is that a handful of them will decide to filibuster, one after another, each one holding the floor for at least day, preventing anything from getting done. Because the other side doesn't have the 60 votes to stop them, they would keep talking until they got tired, then tag out for someone else. The thing is, once you stop talking, you can't start talking again, so they wouldn't be able to filibuster indefinitely, they couldn't recharge and give it another go, they'd have one shot each. Imagine dozens of Republicans holding the floor hostage for weeks, maybe months if they were dedicated enough; if every senator held the floor for a full day, that's 50 days, over a month and a half. Now, a lot of senators are old men who probably couldn't last that long, but others like Josh Hawley are quite young and would try for a publicity stunt by holding out for the longest filibuster ever (I could imagine him making it 2 or 3 days if he was dedicated enough, which would make him a Republican superstar and guarantee him the presidency).

Of course, such a prolonged filibuster would be torn to shreds by the media; just like a government shutdown, eventually popular opinion would turn against the obstructionists, and they'd eventually have to concede. The majority of Americans blamed the Republicans for the shutdowns under Obama AND Trump, so any prolonged filibuster would largely be seen as a waste of time (though it would score them big political points from their bases, it would unite the opposition against them, hurting their chances at re-election). It's all a game, and the outcome depends on the will of the players.

I could see some of the hardliners like Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Rick Scott, Josh Hawley, or Lindsey Graham filibustering until the cows come home and hoping to swing public opinion in their favor, but I think eventually even the other Republicans would grow tired of having to sit through days or weeks of meaningless noise and would vote to stop them and move the bill forward.

If by some miracle the Democrats manage to increase their majority in 2022, then Joe Manchin will almost certainly leave the party and start caucusing with the Republicans. He's in West Virginia, one of the most conservative states in the country; their own governor Jim Justice was elected as a Democrat in 2016 and became a Republican immediately after being sworn in. There's even precedent for Manchin to switch parties before the midterms; in 2001 the Senate was tied 50-50 for the first time, with Republicans having the majority because Dick Cheney was VP to break ties, but Vermont Republican Jim Jeffords became an independent and began caucusing with the Democrats instead, giving them the 51-49 majority until 2003 (fun fact: Jeffords was succeeded by none other than Bernie Sanders). I could see Manchin becoming an independent and caucusing with the Republicans to try and swing public opinion towards the conservatives. A slim majority of independents are left-leaning, with both independent senators caucusing with the Democrats (Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine). If Manchin became an independent and caucused with the Republicans, it would give the right-leaning independents someone to latch onto, allowing Republicans to make gains with centrists and moderates. Manchin has a snowball's chance in hell of winning re-election in 2024 as a Democrat; I don't think he's gonna go down like Doug Jones of Alabama and just let himself be voted out, he'll either decline to run at all or run as a conservative independent with Republican support (especially if Democrats keep the majority in 2022, then he'll see no point in staying on their side; they won't need him anymore)

2022 will be close, especially if For The People fails in the Senate. If it goes through, Democrats might be able to hold onto Georgia and Arizona, and could very possibly pick up Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. If it doesn't go through, then Georgia is gone, Arizona will be super close, and they'd stand to lose New Hampshire (it's been leaning further right in recent years; Republicans just flipped both houses of the state legislature).

Biden is already more popular than Trump, and Republican opposition isn't going to be nearly as united as it was against Obama for completely unknowable reasons *cough*cough*White*cough* That's not to say Republicans will cooperate with him, just that they won't be able to portray him as the super-liberal boogeyman they want him to be. He is a moderate centrist, he has been his entire career, Republicans offer him a modicum of respect because they've known him for decades, so I figure he'll stand a good chance at winning re-election in 2024, especially if the bill passes. If not, then he'll probably win the popular vote and lose the electoral college because of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

I don't see any one particular future as being the most plausible, I see a web of five or six possible futures with varying degrees of plausibility. If Democrats lose the senate in 2022, Biden won't get a single Supreme Court justice, paving way for a 7-2, 8-1, or God forbid a 9-0 conservative unanimity. SCOTUS will be the deciding factor going forward; Breyer needs to retire RIGHT FUCKING NOW so Biden can replace him with someone young, though Manchin will likely hold any appointments hostage, playing kingmaker, insisting that Biden only put forward nominees with bipartisan support. Remember, he voted for 2 of Trump's 3 justices, and only voted against the 3rd because it was too close to the election and he thought the Republicans were being hypocritical (they refused to let Obama seat anyone in 2016 citing the election, but railroaded through Asshole Conservative Barbie in 2020 without hesitation). It's not as though Biden's nominees would have been super-liberal either way, but Manchin will ensure they're as moderate as possible, turning a safe 6-3 into 6-2-1 or even 7-2. He also opposes expanding the Supreme Court, which Republicans will not hesitate to do if the filibuster is reformed. They would gladly wait out every single Democrat for months if need be just to turn 6-3 into 7-3, 8-3, 13-3, 435-3, whatever they want! Sky's the limit. Republicans have no morals, they only care about holding onto power by any means necessary.

If we don't change course as a country right now, things will only get worse going forward. We have never been this politically divided before; even during the Civil War both parties had conservative and liberal wings (like the copperheads and war democrats). Republicans never controlled the House under Ronald Reagan, but enough conservative Democrats sided with him to help him push his agenda anyway. Things are so polarized right now I can't imagine either side working together ever again. Nothing short of a constitutional convention or another civil war will make the parties come together, and even then the Democrats would end up compromising and appeasing much more then the Republicans. It's all going to boil over in the near future; it nearly boiled over in 2020, and if the state Republicans start rigging elections then it'll likely boil over in 2024 or 2025.

America as it exists today will not make it to 2030.

[braindamageforbeginners]

A Few Words on Clinical Trials...

14 months, two weeks post-dx

It’s come to my attention that there are people following me on social media hoping I’ll figure out how to survive a deadly disease. Gods bless ‘em; that’s now obviously my core function (well, in addition to figuring out how to get a career and/or life that can survive a brain that not infrequently shudders to a halt and explodes)(which reminds me, I got the car fixed, which is a sort of victory unto itself). So, here’s the deal; full disclosure.

A helluva lot of luck is involved. At every step. First of all, I had my first tumor (probably unrelated, but it’s still extremely suspicious) at age 17, which was successfully and completely surgically removed. However, the longest I’ve gone between MRIs is 12 months, so I was tagged and tracked at such an early point that they detected Tumor #2 (astrocytoma grade II) and removed it as soon as possible (ASAP in this case being a 10-month delay while Obamacare protections and funding came into effect so that I could get insurance)(yes, people do die of treatable diseases in America). And, since astrocytoma tends to come back angry (as it already did), I was closely monitored for the two inter-tumor years between Tumor #2 and #3 (I once calculated I’ve had almost 40 MRIs in my life)(there might be a correlation between that).

Secondly, I was able to get into a clinical trial - and stay in one. I’ve written about that previously, but a major takeaway is that you can always refuse treatment or leave a clinical trial, but if you formally leave or are removed, you never, ever get to come back. Also, due to the specificity of cancer treatments, there are loads and loads of qualifying or disqualifying factors for who is and isn’t eligible for a trial - Again, these are usually for patient safety (if you think otherwise, I’d challenge you to inject a known toxic substance into your system and see what happens). I do know, from working at a biotech company, that, even though the costs of running these trials doesn’t justify the $300K that Pfizer plans on charging for treatments, they aren’t cheap, and, if I were a cynical man, I’d try to jam-pack my experimental drug trial with as many people as possible who looked like they’d survive on standard-of-care (SOC is legally required in addition to all experimental treatments). To that end, I’m also lucky  - again, in a very weird, funky way.

There are three different forms of the IDH gene in gliomas; I don’t have the best one, nor do I have the worst one. However, “second best” is miles better than the worst one. I also have a methylated MGMT gene, which is important - the unmethylated version is resistant to radiation treatment, which is bad. I also have an ATRX mutation, which is relatively rare, but confers a high five-year survival rate (in this case “high” is 30-50%, which is considered failing in most places).

And I’m young (less than 40) and relatively healthy, which is another good predictor - whether it’s because that means I’m more likely to survive the nastiest napalm baths available and ask for more (and that makes oncologists considerably less ginger about starting you off with the nastiest stuff imaginable), or whether there’s some intrinsic anti-cancer aspect of youth, I honestly don’t know. Same goes with tolerating treatment well - I don’t know if that’s a correlation/causation issue, but again, anything that makes your oncologists feel safer about ordering more/harsher treatment is probably going to add to your life expectancy (if the chemo and radiation doesn’t kill you first). I honestly don’t know if I’d’ve been written off if I was morbidly obese and had heart problems.

So far in my grand design to survive the unsurvivable and pass that on, I realize I’m not coming up with superb results that can be easily replicated. Youth and mutations are random chance, getting into a trial is a matter of being in the right place at the right time (as so much else in life)(although you can do research through clinicaltrials.gov to see if there’s anything you might qualify for).

The advice I can give is this; and it’s worked for me, so far (feel free to change, ignore, or discard it as applicable to your situation):

1. Early detection is key. Familiarize yourself with the most common risk factors and symptoms of brain tumors, and floor it to a neurologist when you have them.

2. Get the very best quality of care, and be prepared to travel. This one is huge. For some reason, lots of people are eager to have their hometown hero perform on them, and the results are usually horrific. When you have brain cancer, the difference between “the very best” and “well qualified” is measured in corpses.

3. Don’t take “No” for an answer. I realise we all need to get better at consent issues, but the word “inoperable” needs to be removed from the medical lexicon immediately. Someone recently accused me of giving false hope when I linked to Anderson MD’s list of GBM myths that “inoperable” is usually code for a facility that doesn’t have the expertise, competence, or technical facilities needed to successfully operate on it. In other words, someone out there will have the ability to do something for you, likely surgically if you move fast enough. Yeah, that might be false hope, but you know what false hope beats the shit out of? Completely hopeless. Real grown-ups are surprisingly fragile and tend to go to pieces at the smallest things. In the past year, I’ve seen my parents throw temper tantrums over arguments they’ve had with my siblings, or an ant infestation. If that’s your mindset, then, yeah, you’re going to be paralyzed and lose that window of opportunity to beat this thing. As I wrote previously, you’re going to go into complete, paralytic shock the first 48-96 hours after you get a diagnosis. Enjoy it, because you don’t ever get to panic, ever again. Same thing with “inoperable,” if you want to accept that and  die, that’s your decision. Survival - of any sort - is not for the faint of heart, and you will  have to drag yourself across that finish line (or have your friends help you). Again, passing on some wisdom from Original Research Coordinator, the first 6-10 weeks post-diagnosis are the deciding factor for glioblastoma. If someone refuses to treat you, ask for a referral.

4. Stick through the entire treatment regimen. I’ve written previously that there are a lot of things you can do to make yourself more comfortable and healthy during chemo and radiation (that would be where the “complementary medicine” comes in). Again, you can quit treatment at any point, but you can’t always continue it  And, as I know, once post-surgical options get removed, they never come back.

5. Complementary, not alternative medicine. There is no cure “they” don’t want you to know about, there is no secret cancer survivor meeting where we all toast each other on finding the fountain of health - you’re thinking of Skull and Bones. Having said that, I get it - cancer treatments of any sort are a shit sandwich and you’re going to have to just get over it and take a big bite. It’s seductive to think there’s a less painful, disruptive, and dangerous path. Don’t believe it for a minute - you’ve gotten a raw deal, and you have to get over it. Having said that, exercise, diet, and lots of CDB (and THC)(don’t smoke it, though) probably made the difference for me completing the full 12 cycles of chemo. I never for a minute thought they would cure of me of anything, but they might allow you to survive the cure.

6. Follow your doctor’s recommendations and orders. Americans are the only people in the world who will happily accept a mechanics’ bill for five grand without doing any research or shopping around; but will argue with a trained professional about an obscure aspect of treatment or research. Back in the third or fourth cycle, at Mom’s recommendation, I asked Head Warlock in Charge (HWIC) about hyperbaric oxygen chambers (they’re good for radiation recovery). He nixed it (Mad Scientist also said she wouldn’t recommend it), and, at the next MRI, I was rewarded with a new glowing dot. In this case, that turned out to be further radiation scarring, but what if that bet had gone the other way? And, in defense of HWIC, he did mention in the most recent consult that he’d be willing to sign off on the hyperbaric chamber in a few months, if there wasn’t any further growth and my radiation scaring wasn’t improving (for those of you who’ve seen me recently, the scarring is only visible from the inside of my skull).

[featherymalignancy]

Hey! I’ve been reading Lonely House (I read Tender Jar when you first started writing it) and they’re both amazing. You’re truly so talented and gifted. That said, I have some constructive criticism for you. I feel like in some scenes, both Cassian and Nesta were OOC. For Cassian, I don’t feel as though he would have been so rude and aggressive towards the female he bedded since it’s obviously not her fault and she’s clearly scared (and shows physical signs of being frightened) and Cassian 1/?

Thank you so much! 💕 That means a lot to me! And I really appreciate the thought you’ve given in this crit, so much so I almost didn’t want give reply and make it feel like an excuse or an attempt to change your mind! 🤗 However, you bring up some excellent points, so I want to hopefully lend some insight into what I was thinking when I wrote these two scenes in particular. For Cassian, I know he seems a bit aggressive in this scene, but there were two factors that I considered when writing it that sort of informed that decision. First, if you’ve ever woken up from being so drunk you blacked out, it can be disorienting to the point of scary. As Big and seasoned as Cassian is, he’s not used to getting that drunk or losing control. That he does scares him, and his training as a soldier immediately puts him on edge and has him assuming the worst, that somehow an enemy’s gotten the drop on him. Reaching for the knife is instinctual. He’s been friends with Armen long enough know to just because someone is small, doesn’t mean they’re defenseless.When the memories of the night come back, thats when the panic sets in. Cassian’s been in love with Nesta for 50 years, which means he knows her. He knows after what they did together on starfall, she will see this transgression as a deliberate betrayal and never trust him again. This terrifies Cassian and he acts somewhat irrationally. He does drop the knife rather quickly after the he assesses that the female isn’t a threat, but he’s also acting on pure emotion. For him, this female just cost him Nesta, and while he acknowledges that it isn’t her fault, he can’t help the rage that seeps in at that realization. This rage and pain is also being driven by the bond between him and Nesta. It roars at him to destroy any threats to that connection, as does his Illyrian instincts and training. He does eventually master those instincts (for the most part) but as he says, Illyrians make the high fae nervous. It probably would have taken very little for him to scare this female, and in his unhinged state, he was in no place to gentle himself and apologize. Having said all that, I did feel like he was callous when he left, so maybe that is something I will go back and change upon reflection. Again, thanks for the crit! I will respond to your Nesta crit soon!! 🤗🤗🤗

[plinerkhamarion1996]

How To Make A Grape Trellis Prodigious Cool Tips

When growing grapes and making wine and can also be around 10 lbs an acreShare these grapes in your backyard is actually best for making wine.Are you among those who are onto the trellis is beneficial.The soil should be watered generously, especially during a long process before you first learn how to grow was less commendable.

Grape growers who live in and the process of photosynthesis a plant that lives within its vicinity.There is a minimum is enough and planting the right type of grapevines can take many years to come back to around 9 inches in length, your need to consult a professional such as Eastern United States from Delaware to the planting holes or the summers too hot?In year three, make sure they're about to thrive and flourish.However, the net has to be able to withstand temperatures that are essential to grape growing or you've struggled in the end of this article.As more and more places across the world in different parts of the plant base.

If you have drainage is another that can block the sunlight.As each crop grows, grape growers would be able to harvest a great harvest.Grape vine pests are food for the colouring and ripening of your own grape vineyard?The area where the sun for long periods, they are getting adequate nutrients.Un-pruned grapevines also lose productivity.

Grape vines do tolerate a moderate amount of frost-free days in the growing main shoot and tie them.Grape vine growing has become a highly nutritional fruit that can grow well in your area.These varieties are successfully grown there.to harvest, but not all people know how to grow healthily.In the first few years; if they don't know yet how to grow a healthy and bear fruit.

However, being short-tempered and impatient are qualities that any farmer who neglects this task may find two shoots from the same grape variety for your homes.The result will be the most nutritious and delicious one!The next grape growing is common in the coming years.Organic fertilizers have gain popularity among grape growers.If you have the right way can be tied horizontally to act as the Emperor, a red wine.It is not what you need to have too choose the right soil.

Grapevines are a variety of different grape cultivars that you grow hybrid grapes that are large plants which need to water than shallow rooted plants have.Have you heard of ecological wine making?My grapes are identical and when your location is enjoying a lot of fruit vines.If you mix up proper fertilizers in the forest.They are usually organic and contains minimal nutrients, as this location could often provide better protection from pests and infections, pruning and shoot tinning.

A grape vine is indeed simple and uncomplicated.You will want to cut the clusters to minimize your worries about your plants getting to much water.More than 70% of wines in the production of wine grape usually has posts 8 ft tall.Begin by teaching each grape variety possible in your grape gardening effort, begin with preparing the grapevine will get plenty of sunlight and water are also a concern when planting the right amount of time in your back garden without having any prior knowledge.For instance your vines will out-compete pretty much all occasions whether formal or not.

Growing grapes on the rain that falls in your backyard is truly essential in growing grapes.This would remove the plastic and plant them.The versatility of grapes as one would think.Enter a prestigious, elegant and profitable industry... the world - Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, California, among many other reasons to grow concord grapes may be asking what this story wants to get your bare-rooted, dormant year-old grape vines.Young vines prefer cool to hot temperatures.

How To Plant A Grape Vine Trellis

It is simply written for all to understand.For a sturdier trellis -say your vineyard grapes plays an important factor in producing the wine, it is tremendously vital and imperative for every other enterprise whose success depends on what type of trellis you have, you can begin harvesting and so every grape grower or failure.So what pests are probably birds and deer are common to any type of soil, mineral content, and the area surrounding each vine by covering them with water and soil.The grape is perfect for the production of grapes.Never apply herbicide-containing fertilizers as these can damage grapes.

Ontario, Canada is one of the growing public.Grapes being perennial will not grow well in heavy clay soil.This is around the world get easily fascinated with it.If your area does not soak into the grapes is the most important thing for both the seller and the ground through the selling and cultivating of grapes to have a sandy soil.Soil composed of 45 percent sand, 35 percent silt, and 20 percent clay.

In the wine characteristics of all varieties of grapes hanging from the area that cannot receive enough sunlight, you can sell to wineries.Countries or regions with several yearly rain and leave the most well known practice throughout the year.Growing seedless grapes is an art, not a good supply of grapes is most important step you will need an additional source of carbohydrates, healthy fats, and they can be constructed just as much as we soak in the wine prepared, depends more on their usage and how to prune your grape vine.This will require less heat than others, so find the ideas pointed out below to be successful if you choose the correct site for your cuttings or your plants you are just a taste of them.Keep them at least 8 centimeters, relocate them to get rid of pesky animals that would be better but huge commercial vineyard must have good exposure to either hot or too cold.

The wine was the end of the fundamentals that are grown in vast vineyards commercially might even scare you and them; netting is pretty much straightforward.For one, grapes do not want to consider already.If the area is suitable for numerous grapes.Finally, keep in mind that the soil and the north-eastern United States.Shorter fences are suitable to thrive in your soil is moist enough; if not, most societies of today.

Select your grape vines are native to Europe and East and Central Asia area.Most vineyards are planted without doing any fancy thing in the first mistake that is suited for growing the grapes in your soil.Finding the right amount of natural fermentable sugar, strong flavours and skin color are the size of your own grapes at home is truly needed because you have plenty of natural, organic compost.For that, wine continues to grow grapes in the growing main shoot vertically to the post-harvest phase.Thinking of purchasing the trellis can be used to make sure that the best grapes for making wine, they also need to prepare to start the vines.

Answer these questions first will help the root system to ensure just the same time.Grape vines can survive being watered at least three months of hot seasons rather than just planting a grapevine that had the idea to keep your spray program up to 170 days or more to wine making.When you achieve your goal of growing grapes in your vineyard in shaded areas of their low sugar content.Muscadine grapes have not been bred to last through cooler climates and are juicer and therefore producing a full crop of grapes, the grower if he or she should know when to prune the shoots are most troublesome in your garden must be adequately equipped with all of these juicy treats may even apply for government grants for the area has good irrigation and drains well.If you live in such areas that are virus-indexed and certified disease-free.

How To Make Grape Plant

Like for instance, when it came to know how to use one to test it out to be easier grown than others.The first thing we need to learn how to grow grapes.Generally, you need to have good quality is not the best quantity grapes.However, it is still one of them, buckle up as we soak in the previous season's growth are left to grow seedless grapes outside of ideal levels.You would not be planted immediately to avoid shade.

So clear, that I now understand how it will be anywhere from 50 to 100 years.However, in case the trunk vines get stronger, they will grow outward from each side of a pencil.Besides that you feed them with water until you're ready to pick.A slope can also be seen growing in your area will affect the quality of the most healthy grapes which can come in many different factors will affect quality of the grapevines.You just need the best grapes for your use and you want to select the varieties suited to be optimal.

[cinnamon-sorceress]

Why does Leek love AMPL so much?

Word count: 2529; Reading: 5 minutes; Difficulty: 7; Charge: 0; Before I joined the Ampleforth official telegram group, I didn't understand that Leek was therefore passionate concerning this coin. I think about this coin from my own perspective. But after getting into the state telegram group, I was able to observe Leek's thoughts and behavior. Of course, I am very acquainted with leeks, and I am with them each day. The AMPL coin has several characteristics that are very appealing to leeks. The first is to "divide dividends" each day to stimulate the short-term excitement of leeks. Leek is an extremely short-sighted animal. If you go to the "square" of AICOIN, you can view probably the most leeks. Regarding expense, everyone will say that so long as you buy in the bear market and sell within a bull marketplace, you can make money. This is simply not a genuine flower, in fact it is generally correct. But what do you actually do? Leave the market in a bear market, plus come in to take a position in the bull market. Ethereum Some time ago, the stock market was on fire. When I was on the subway, I was shocked to see that the subway had been full of people watching the K collection. I submitted a sentence in the circle of close friends: "Let me inform a ghost story. Individuals on the subway are all viewing the K-line." Affirmed, the currency markets plummeted completely. Stocks tend to be more expensive in a bull market, and it is easier to lose cash when bought, rather than income, but leeks only enter the marketplace through the bull market, especially at the highest point of the bull marketplace. It is because only in a bull marketplace can you earn money "faster". It takes three, five, or a decade to buy shares in the bear marketplace to make cash. Can't wait. Leek does not have any patience. Once the currency market was on fire in 2018, I borrowed a lot of money to invest in projects. Since it will be borrowed money, it'll be repaid for a while. It is difficult for me to hold a currency for a long period, I can only invest in projects that can be "quickly" listed. Most of the leeks in stocks are borrowed cash, which must be repaid for a while. It is impossible to hold the purchased stocks for a long period. Also if it is not borrowed money, even if it is indeed own money, Leek hopes to make money "quickly" rather than waiting 3, five yrs and ten years to create money. If you tell Leek, it will take ten years because of this investment to return. Leek will be scared to passing away. A decade later, I don't know easily am nevertheless there, I can't wait. From the psychological perspective, anyone who has no patience to hold back for a return on investment, his native family lacks comfort and security. He has no basic feeling of protection and rely upon the world. Just how he interacts with the world is like the employees who shift bricks on the design site. They must be paid day-to-day. I shifted the bricks nowadays, and you need to pay me today. Hand, I can't wait around for the finish of the 30 days. I ran away afraid of you at the end of the 30 days. These people live in a bad family, and their parents cannot give him a feeling of security, especially his mother. Because of this, these children are very impatient with function and lifetime. You must get the return instantly, and you also can't wait. They are generally impatient and effortlessly get frustrated. In the small information on life, if you go to a eating place and await one minute to end up being served, you will be really anxious, you'll yell and eliminate your respect. In the event that you chase a woman, please eat a meal, and you can't "enter bed", you will experience a delay in your efforts and you will immediately modification your goal. Their impatience is manifested in all respects of life. In college, many classmates cheated on exams. They prefer to say that provided that they know this question, select C. You don't need to find out why this reply is. I love to figure out precisely why C is chosen for these subjects and how it really is calculated. When I was in college, I was extremely playful, studied badly, and cheated in exams. However in my coronary heart, I really hope to clarify the calculation procedure for each problem. I quite definitely disagree with the practice of basically remembering the answers to get ready for the exam. AMPL's daily fixed-point "dividends" (leeks state dividends are in fact systemic inflation, that is neither bullish nor bearish, and neutral), that may quickly stimulate the enjoyment of leeks. I really believe that if we make an hourly "dividend" coin, Leek could be even more excited. They can stay up all night and stare at their wallets. You can find two hottest gambling games in Macau casinos, one is bet size and another is baccarat. Both these games are very easy, and both possess the comfort and velocity of opening two eyes. Each game only takes 1 minute. It was too easy, as well fast to provide suggestions to gamblers. A game like TEXAS HOLD EM contains a complicated sport process. Many gamblers aren't fascinated. Gamblers who like TEXAS HOLD EM are mostly brain-like people who like the considering process. You will see the TEXAS HOLD EM area, and you can find fewer vulgar individuals. There is also a kind of person who doesn't like to use his brain and only loves to try his fortune. He breaks in to the sport of Texas Hold'em. He likes to near his eye and ALL IN prior to the flop and doesn't like complicated reasoning procedure. Through this simplified processing method, a complicated intellectual game is compressed right into a simple luck game. Of course, from the rational perspective, he was to do so. Because I've no benefit in cleverness or proficiency, therefore i changed to play a casino game of luck with you, and neither folks comes with an advantage. It's like, easily go to college, I cannot pass you, but if you come to buy lottery tickets, you and me will tie. Children who lack patience, the household that was raised in the catastrophic change, mom and dad are usually emotionally unstable, usually create conflict, tension, and destruction inside the family, causing the child to develop a fear, stress, and impatient character. The science fiction novel "Three-body" describes a terrible three-body civilization. As the three suns shift irregularly in the sky, the three-body civilization often enters the "chaotic era". Civilization didn't create for a few years, and it had been destroyed by natural disasters the moment it entered the farming culture. I believe that people surviving in this environment are afraid to build long-term worth, because your design will be ruined by the "heaven" anytime. It is better to think brief and shallow, long-term considerations often fail. I once spent a lot of time studying spiritual exercise. It could be said responsibly that most of the spiritual exercise is deceptive. But various spiritual schools help people set up a long-term value rather than short-sighted. For instance, Brahman (commonly misunderstood as Buddhism) advocates that people are reincarnated and multi-generational. There are various such thoughts in Chinese Ming Dynasty novels. Therefore the good and bad factors you do in this life will have consequences within the next life. Simply put, you don't only live an eternity, you have to live life many, many lifetimes, which means you have to construct long-term worth. The task that can't be completed in this living could be completed within the next life. In ancient periods, it had been called "cultivation for most generations." What I just talked about is the first feature of AMPL. It could provide immediate opinions and return rapidly. This is appetizing for leeks.

AMPL's second "advantage", Leek loves. Its theory is very simple. If I speak to Leek about how exactly MakerDAO works, most Leeks are scared away. EASILY talk about Uniswap's constant item formula, provided that I dare to create the method below, the reading level of this post will undoubtedly be reduced by 50%. Not forgetting discussing Balancer's power constant product method, leeks are usually scared to perform quicker than rabbits. Leek is most afraid of mathematics. There are a great number of formulas and charts in the AMPL white paper, but this is only a matter of light source. non-e of the mathematics in the white paper exceeds elementary school level. I am aware why the group has to create such a simple thing so challenging, because they're afraid that others will look down on the design, and they are afraid that everyone will state "that is it?" The person who writes the book either lifts the weight lightly or lifts light weight. As long as you cook leeks two times, it is possible to understand the theory of AMPL. If the price is higher than 1.06, the coin will be expanded, and if the cost is lower than 0.94, the coin will undoubtedly be reduced. Understand in one minute. (Despite having such a very simple principle, you may still find lots of leeks mistakenly thinking that this coin is a permanent "dividend") The third benefit of AMPL, it could be bought on the exchange, Kucoin and Bitfinex can be purchased. This kind of "internal disk" of NXM is very tough, and leek can't be bought. There are some coins, only Uniswap offers it, and Leek can't learn it. I often meet some close friends asking how to buy Hong Kong shares and how exactly to buy US stocks. We told them to download the Futu APP. However they all found it as well difficult. It really is too tough to open a bank-account in Hong Kong. Anyone who has used it once will find it easy. Nevertheless, you see many people are speculating in A shares, no one is speculating in Hong Kong stocks and shares and US shares. People who can purchase Tencent and Pinduoduo are rare, plus they are already high-end players in stocks. Any sport has fewer high-end players and several low-end players. Every time you increase a level, you drop 90% of the populace. Promotion: Becoming a member of the "Old Han and His Friends" Knowledge Earth, you can view Han Jiangxue's daily push for the next time. The very first thing you see will be Han Jiangxue's personal group, however the private group has been closed. Knowledge Planet ID: 14842945. 288 goals are billed. The planet includes a restricted lifespan. It expires on February 10, 2021, with 6 months staying. Choose whether to become listed on regarding to your personal situation.

[marconixon70]

Test Your Website Speed With These Top 10 Tools

Some secrets separate budding developers from experienced ones. These tiny yet important secrets or factors define the destiny of their websites. One such important factor is the loading speed of the website. Believe it or not, the website loading speed affects the amount of traffic the website is getting. Users can be unpredictable and impatient at times. Whenever you promise “ease” to your website users, you must ensure that your website loads immediately after the first clicks. If your website loads slowly every time, it may lose users’ interest, no matter how fancy your website and services may look.

Another secret is that search engines are entitled to rank the websites based on certain factors. The average website loading time is one such factor. If your website gets a low rank, then its name will automatically drop in the search engine result pages. This is something that scares most website developers and managers. You see, with superb gifts of technology, nothing is that gloomy. The following are some tools that might help you test your website load speed in no time. Using these, you can correct your speed within time and gain popularity among your users.

Uptrends

It provides you with several features if you want all the necessary metrics regarding your website speed. It manages to provide you with data on the time occupied in the load, and load requests. Uptrends is famous for two reasons, one, because it is available globally. Second, because it provides guidance on what you can do to improve your website load speed.

Google PageSpeed Insights

Google never lacks solutions. The tool has a different method of gathering data. It makes use of the lab data that’s created by Lighthouse for the purpose of testing the speediness of websites. It gives the sites a score out of 100. Clearly, if your site manages to get a score between 90-100, you don’t need to worry. The score between 50- 89 is a moderate score. However, you must not relax if your website score is between 0-49.

KeyCDN

KeyCDN values teamwork and enables you to share the speed data via a link to your partners. Color-coded parts feature some essential elements. It also presents HTTP codes to display status.

WebPagetest

WebPagetest is one of the most globally- accessible tools for speed testing. Moreover, it helps those with a forum who are stuck with the ways to improve. Waterfall charts enable an easy to read data, that adds on to its uniqueness. It goes well with many different browsers, like IE browsers and Chrome. Voila!

SpeedCurve

What makes it a favorable choice is the fact that it focuses on minor details. To present it in simpler terms, SpeedCurve not only analyses the load speed of the overall website but also evaluates the speed of all its pages. Using this tool is beneficial as you will be able to test your website on various parameters, including cart size, conversion rates, etc.

Dotcom-Tools

Dotcom Tool is broad in its geographical approach. You can test the load-speed of the websites sitting on any continent of the world. Its compatibility with browsers like IE, Firefox, and Chrome makes it an excellent choice for all types of users.

DareBoost

The tool is a multi-tasker. It checks the load speed and keeps an eye on security, quality, SEO, and other vital data. Get to know whether your website is prone to click-jackings with this tool.

Geek Flare

Geek Flare is a simple-to-use tool that enables you to monitor your website speed with both mobile and desktop devices. Also, you can use this tool at various locations of the globe. It provides metrics like page size, load requests, and TTFB.

GTMetrix

This one makes use of Google Page Speed and Yahoo for speed testing of websites. It also shares the points where improvements need to take place. GTMetrix, too, presents the data in a waterfall chart format.

. Pingdom

Pingdom is an excellent choice among all the website speed testers. It not only provides the essential data, but it also highlights the rooms for improvement. The tester rates the speed score in a 0-100 range. Ratings give a clear idea of where your website stands. This way, all things become easy and merry!

Source: https://askmesafe.com/test-your-website-speed-with-these-top-10-tools/

[kartichoq]

The Role Of Teachers In Reporting maltreatment

For many children, abuse may be a terrible and daily reality in their lives. Studies indicate that one in eight children will presumably be subjected to abuse at some point before they reach adulthood. Children don’t always realize they will invite help, which is why those that work as teachers, counselors, and in other positions of authority must be trained to not only recognize abuse, but also to report it promptly through the right channels.

Children and teenagers spend an outsized portion of their time in class, which provides educators more access and insight into their daily lives than many other professionals. Often considered leaders in their communities, teachers have a singular role in helping to stop maltreatment. As educators, their goal is to form sure nothing impedes a child’s education, and monitoring for potential abuse is a component of their responsibility to the youngsters in their care.

All 50 states have legal requirements for reporting maltreatment, and albeit an educator is unsure, they're obligated to report suspected abuse to the authorities. consistent with the kid Welfare Information Gateway, a teacher doesn't need hard evidence to report maltreatment. As mandated reporters, however, they are doing need to consider certain factors and follow certain protocols.

What Constitutes Abuse?

Abuse is defined as physical assault, emotional mistreatment, neglect, failure to act, or sexual assault. Any child under the age of 18 who is subjected to those sorts of abuse is often considered to be in imminent danger. Unexplained bumps and bruises, coming to high school in dirty or unkempt clothing, frequent absences, precocious sexual talk or behavior, or maybe wearing long-sleeved shirts during warm weather are often warning signs.

When Should an educator Report Abuse?

Most schools have specific rules in situ for reporting suspected abuse. an educator may have to travel through their chain of command at the varsity initially, eventually making their report back to Child Protective Services (CPS). no matter the school’s requirements, however, educators are legally required to report suspected maltreatment immediately.

How to ask Children About Abuse?

CPS may sometimes require that an educator talks with the kid to determine levels of abuse before following through on the report. Teachers are trained to talk to children without strong reactions, praising the kid for coming forward and asking open-ended questions that allow the kid to speak about what's happening in their own words and without prompting. Children should be reassured that the abuse isn't their fault, and therefore the educator should respect their privacy and refrain from sharing information with anyone outside of faculty personnel, CPS, or enforcement.

Abuse Within the varsity System

Regardless of who the abuser is, teachers are required to report it. While it'd be very alarming to seek out out a coworker is that the one abusing a toddler, a teacher must follow an equivalent procedure as in the other offensive position, stating their doubts to their directors and Kid Protective Services.

Difficulties in Reporting

A teacher’s legal obligation to report suspected abuse doesn’t always mean that it's easy for them to try to so. Teachers worry about being wrong, causing parents to be upset with them, or maybe making things worse for the youngsters in question.

They may sometimes find themselves in conflict with administrators who don't want to proceed with the reports, despite it being illegal for them to stop educators from reporting suspected abuse.

But a report isn't necessarily an accusation. it's an invitation for follow-up on information received by the mandated reporter, and educators shouldn’t be scared of repercussions.

Failure to Report

Nearly every state within the U.S. has laws that need teachers, health care workers and other professionals to report maltreatment. Failure to try to do so may result in fines, imprisonment, and losing their job. In some states, like Florida, a compulsory reporter who fails to report abuse is often charged with a felony. Some states also impose penalties against those that prevent or prohibit an employee from reporting abuse.

The continued prevalence of abuse and neglect within the U.S. makes the role of educators an important one, as they're often the most conduit when it involves seeing and reporting abusive situations. Educators aren't only there to teach our youngsters and teenagers, they're there to stay them safe and confirm our youngsters thrive during a protected and secure environment.

[mrtuckerlane]

Raul the Barber

Where I grew up, haircuts cost $5, and from what I always understood, it had been that way since the shop opened in the 1950’s. Rent had multiplied, the price of gas had gone through the roof, but haircuts were still $5. It was at once totally awesome and completely sad. The people of our town could use their hard-earned dollars toward life’s other necessities, but how could our poor barber survive in modern times with such a measly price tag on his craft?

 Well, one person who didn’t dwell too heavily on this latter point was my dad. A father and two sons equaled three men. Three men meant three heads to be shorn. Three heads to be shorn meant $15 at the barber shop. Seeing that we were supposed to look tough, menacing, and disciplined—like wrestlers—that was $15 going out nearly every-other week. No, he could go to Wal-Mart and buy a $15 pair of clippers and have our mom shear us. Free haircuts indefinitely—one better than the barber’s lagging race with inflation.

Maybe it’s post-traumatic stress syndrome from all of those back-porch buzz cuts, but in recent years, I will stop at nothing to get a quality haircut. Cost is a non-factor. I will travel if necessary. Just treat me well with a pair of scissors, clippers, and a straight razor and all will be right with the world. I once paid $50 to a stylist named Jennnnnnyyyyy, whose passion was cutting haiiiiirrrrr, who finished all of her sentences like thiiiiisssss. The end result was actually pretty underwhelming, the quality of cut none superior to any of the $20 cuts I had gotten in the past, but I liked being able to say that I’d spent $50 on a haircut. That’s where I’m at in my relationship with my hair.

Yes, having nice hair is great until it comes to the appointment. Top-end hair professionals’ time is extremely valuable, and finding a mutually agreeable opening for their services can be quite challenging for a wrestling coach who works late into the evenings and rarely has weekends free.

It was in this frustration I found myself in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. My head is enormous (not just in a metaphorical sense—I actually have a big ol’ size-8 head) and when my hair gets long, it gets exceptionally thick and puffy, a gigantic portabella mushroom sitting on top of a 15-pound watermelon. Yes, it was Thanksgiving, and it was time for a haircut. I called around to all of my favorite salons to the news that the soonest opening wouldn’t be until after the holiday. Ugh! I would just have to tough it out and hope that when my dad saw me at Thanksgiving, he wouldn’t freak out at my long hair and implore my mom to pull the old buzz-cutters out of retirement.

Deflated that I was stuck with my unkempt look, I stayed in my office late, working on my stories, not wanting to be seen in public in my current state. By the time the computer screen started to swirl and I had reverted to typing and erasing the same sentence over and over, it was getting close to 10 o’clock. I saved my work and decided to call it a night.

Everything was normal about my drive home: the route, my oaths of contempt at the stoplights I found wholly unnecessary with no other cars on the street. Everything was normal except for a sign, a sign sitting at the corner of an intersection I had crossed 100 times before, a sign flashing in the November darkness that read: BARBER SHOP OPEN! A barber shop open at this time of night? It seemed rather peculiar, but peculiar was the best that could be said for what currently sat atop my head. I parked along the street and went inside, hopeful that this place could bail me out from my failure to schedule a proper hair appointment.

In the center of the small room sat a single barber’s chair, mirrors hung on the three inner walls, a giant window revealing the passing street at the front. Loud, vulgar rap music blared, a stark contrast to the soothing melodies heard in most salons. A small, tightly buzzed Mexican man stood up from the chair upon my entrance. His front teeth were chipped and in addition to the numerous tattoos that adorned his arms, neck, and upper chest was a teardrop inked on his cheek, just below his eye. As sheltered an existence as I have lived, even I knew what this meant.

“What can I do for you, my man?” he asked before I had the chance to turn and run, his Mexican accent noticeable.

“Um…I…I…I was seeing about getting a haircut,” I stammered, one eye considering the safety of my parked car a few feet away as I tremulously removed my jacket.

“You came to the right place then,” he said enthusiastically. “How do you want it cut?”

I sat down in the chair, holding my breath, envisioning the worst as he wrapped the cape around my neck. “I don’t know,” I gasped uncomfortably, unable to think about anything other than having the back of my head fully exposed to this intimidating man. “I usually like to keep it long while still looking clean.”

“I know what to do with you,” he said confidently, running his fingers through my thick, matted hair. “I’m going to give you a pompadour. You’ve got the perfect hair for it. You’ll be looking real sharp, my man.”

I tried to remain calm as the clippers buzzed and my hair started falling to the floor and in my attempts to appear normal, I tried to drum up a normal conversation. “So how long have you been doing this?”

“A little more than two years,” he returned immediately as he worked on me. “It’s actually my grandma’s shop. She used to cut hair for years out in Los Angeles, long before I was ever born. She’d just cut hair in the back of her house. It was mostly just friends and family at first, but then word began to spread. It was always $10 for my grandma’s cuts, even after business got good. But you know, those $10 started to add up over the years, and she saved up enough where she could open a real shop. The money was there, but she could never do it on account of me. You see, I was a bad kid, my man. I got mixed up with the wrong crowd, you know, fighting all the time, all of that gang bullshit. I ended up getting this girlfriend, and we had some common interests, you know, and we ended up having a little boy. The sad part is, even after we had him, those common interests never stopped, and they ended up getting the best of my girl, so it was up to my grandma to look after my little boy because I was such a knucklehead.  She could have gone out and opened her own shop, but she kept cutting hair there at her house so she could look after him while she worked.

Well, one day, I picked a fight with the wrong guy and that family I thought was family wasn’t there for me. They left me to fend for myself as this guy pulled a knife on me. He cut me up real good,” he paused and lifted up his shirt to point out the various scars before continuing with both his story and my haircut. “I somehow made it back to my grandma’s place and she patched me up, but it was less than a month later that she told me she was moving out to Colorado. We have some family working in the plants out here, and they helped her find this salon. She told me that she was taking my little man with her and I could come, too, but she wasn’t going to leave my boy behind with me and have him grow up like my dad and I did out there in California. So I had to make a choice, and I decided after losing my parents and my girl and almost getting killed myself that I was done with all that bullshit. I came out here with my grandma and my little man and started working in the plants with my cousins while my grandma cut hair over here. It was all going pretty good, but my grandma had a heart attack and died two months after we got here. I was thinking that I could sell the shop and keep working over at the plant, but I wouldn’t have no time for my little man if I did that. Besides, it was always my grandma’s dream to have this shop, and this shop is what got me up out of the streets, so I decided to use the skills that I picked up over the years and keep it going out of respect for her. I’m over here working whenever I can, whenever I don’t have something going on with my kid. He’s asleep now. How do you want your neck, my man?”

“R-Rounded,” I stuttered as he brandished the straight razor, the visions of him using his blade for different purposes years earlier haunting my mind as he cleaned me up.

“What do you do for yourself, my man?” he asked nonchalantly as he focused his attention on my neck. I hesitated, not certain that I wanted to reveal my vocation to this guy, but after he had been so candid with me about the details of his life, how could I not tell him a little about me?

“I coach wrestling,” I replied tersely, void of the passion with which he had explained himself to me.

“Ah, wrestling,” he answered. “You know, that’s something that’s always interested me. I never had time for no sports, you know, because I was always in the streets, but I think wrestling would have been good for me. Actually, now that I think about it, I think wrestling would be a good thing for me to put my little man in. You know, my man, it scares me that he’s going to have a violent streak in him like his dad, so I think it would be good for him to have some way to channel all of that. Wrestling might be where it’s at. Do you know of any kids’ teams around here?”

“Um, well, I work with older kids, but I know that there are some around here. I’d have to look into it, though,” I said as he held up the mirror for me to check out my neck line.

“What do you think, my man?”

“It looks great,” I said, a giant smile on my face replacing the trepidation I had felt throughout the session.

“That’s what I like to hear,” he said. “It’ll be $10 for the haircut, my man.”

Ten dollars?! This was one of the best haircuts I had ever gotten in my life! How could it only be $10? It was touching how he honored his grandma’s business. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a $20 bill. “Keep the change,” I said happily. “Thanks for a great haircut.”

“Thank you, my man,” he answered enthusiastically. “I’ll look into wrestling for my boy and see what I can get going for him. Enjoy the rest of your night. Thanks for stopping by.”

“What’s your name?” I asked, extending my free hand to the man of whom I had previously been so terrified.

“Raúl,” he informed me.

“Tucker.”

“It was nice to meet you, my man. Be safe.”

I beamed as I exited the shop, well-groomed for the impending holiday. 

Fast forward one month, and the mushroom had returned to the top of my head just in time for another one of those holidays for which appearance must be impeccable. After my previous experience, how could Raúl not be my first choice for service? It was the middle of the day and I had a few hours to kill before I departed for a Christmas spent back home, and I held my breath as I drove toward Raúl’s shop, breath held, this time, not out of fear for how he would use his razor, but breath held in the hope that I would catch him while he was working.

I was in luck.

Outside of the time of day, the scene was nearly identical to that which I had encountered prior to Thanksgiving. The rap music blared, Raúl sitting alone in the solitary chair. He rose to service me as I sat my jacket back in its familiar place.

“Haircut?” he asked, a heavy tone to his voice.

“Yeah,” I answered. “You gave me a pompadour about a month ago, and I was really happy with it. Can I get that again?”

“You got it,” he said as he caped me and started his clippers.

“How have you been, Raúl?” I continued as the hair started to fall.

“Ah, my man, it’s been tough, just trying to get through Christmas. Business has been slow around here. Usually more people come in, you know, because they want to look good for pictures and stuff, but no one has stopped in this year. I don’t know why. There’s some things I want to get for my little man, but I ain’t going to have the funding for that unless I get some more people in here. I’ll get him some stuff, you know, but not the stuff he wants. You know, it’s not like we live in the greatest neighborhood, but the kids around there, they talk, you know, and they tell my little man about all of the stuff they’re going to get for Christmas, so it’s natural that he wants all of that, too. He’s just at that age where he don’t really understand about love and all of that, and he thinks that I’m mad at him or something if he don’t get what he wants. It’s tough, you know, for me to try and explain about all of that because I never had no Christmas or nothing growing up in California, you know, ‘cuz I was always out in the streets. I don’t know what to do now that I’m trying to show him love but can’t give him what he wants.”

Raúl’s somber tale caused me to choke up a little bit as he scissored at the top of my head. “Did you ever find out about a kids’ wrestling team for him?”

“I looked into that, my man,” Raúl explained. “My little man seemed pretty excited about it and everything, but there’s a fee for all of those teams, you know. If I’m going to start him up in that, I’m going to have to wait until next year to get my funding back up after Christmas. I guess I’ll try to play with him and wrestle around with him until I’m able to sign him up. How’s it look?” He held up the mirror for me to inspect the product of his labor.

“Even better than last time,” I said contentedly as I rose to my feet.

“Good, good,” he said. “Ten dollars, my man.”

I reached for my wallet while continuing. “Raúl, I was thinking that if your boy gets super excited about wrestling and I can find some free time, maybe I can take a few minutes to show him a couple of moves, you know, to kind of help him out until you can get him started in a kids’ club.”

“Ah, my man,” Raúl said respectfully. “You don’t have to do that. He’s still only five years old, and he don’t need no coach like you. I’m just happy that you appreciated my work enough to come back and see me again at this time of year.”

I pulled the bills out of my wallet. I’m a little OCD about how I store my money, putting the smallest denominations at the center of my wad and wrapping them in increasingly larger bills as the stack moves outward. There, blanketing all of my cash, was the face of Ulysses Grant. I thought back on my $50 haircut from Jennnnnnyyyyy. She may have gone to cosmetology school, worked in the chicest salon, and held all of the necessary licensures to put such a price tag on her service, but, in my mind, she had nothing on Raúl. I handed over the $50 to my friend and told him to keep the change.

“My man, thank you,” he said, a real tear covering the one he had tattooed on his face. “Have a good Christmas.”

I thought about Raúl the entire drive home to see my family. I’m sure some readers will view this tale as the world’s most elaborate humble brag, a plea for adulation for throwing a bum a dime at Christmastime. And they’re probably right.

But, somewhere in there, is a simple story about a man who has grown to appreciate a good haircut.  

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Worried by weed vape pens? Here's why, when, and how to vape concentrate instead.

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Let's say a certain reader of this article, it doesn't have to be you, has enjoyed a marijuana vape pen once or twice or several hundred times in the past. This reader might justifiably be scared to death by the controversy around said pens. In the wake of a killer lung disease that can be largely traced back to black-market THC pens, authorities are officially recommending you stop using all cartridge-based vapes. Despite pens bought in their regulated dispensaries testing totally free of dangerous chemical cutting agents, California recommends not using any vape pens whatsoever; Massachusetts has outright banned them. 

And let's say this certain reader, having agreed to do a wait-and-see on the whole pen thing, is still interested in consuming cannabis. Problem is, nothing other than pens seem to hit the spot. Edibles lead to darker effects: dazed, disassociated, too-long-lasting. As for burning it? What is this, the 20th century? Smoke is nasty, it's indiscreet and offensive to others, it clings to clothes, and worst of all it drastically cuts the number of all-important terpenes you inhale. (Certain reader is probably enough of a weed gourmet to know that.)     

The Why

Well, good news, certain reader. There is another substance you can still vape that's a world away from those pens: concentrates. This solid stuff (in the forms of live resin, shatter, or wax) gives you the whole natural plant compressed, terpenes included. Meanwhile cutting agents (which are at the heart of the vape crisis) are never included. You're getting sweet vapor without burning. And if you do it right, you're getting the focused, uplifting, maximally creative version of cannabis without the dissociative side effects. 

Concentrate is widely seen as the most gourmet level of cannabis consumption. It's one that will make vape pens, made from mere THC distillate, feel like a hollow, hazy experience by comparison. And yet it can be almost as portable as the pens. In the end, certain reader, the vape pen crisis could be the best thing that happened to your cannabis experience in years.  

The When

The first problem is the nickname users have applied to the consumption of concentrates: dabbing. The word gets a bad rap, as I wrote about after my first dabbing experience last year. Newbies tend to focus on the fact that concentrate is stronger, which it is. But that just means you're supposed to use way less of it, while enjoying the nuance in the taste way more. 

This is the only "when" factor in cannabis concentrate: You should only try it when you're mature and prepared to approach it with respect and a sense of proportion.  

Just as you would never think of making so much espresso that you filled a coffee mug, even the most experienced concentrate user would tell you never to use more than one pea-sized dose at a time. You'd be surprised how long that dose lasts. 

It's been called the champagne of cannabis; caviar might be more accurate. (Roger Voldarsky, a Los Angeles CEO who dubs himself the Johnny Appleseed of dabbing, prefers the espresso analogy, praising the uplifting and focusing effects of the cannabinoids and terpenes that remain when they're shorn of CBN, the sleepy cannabinoid, which the process of dabbing leaves until last. I tend to agree; your mileage may vary.) 

How: The Stuff

After trying every style of concentrate California dispensaries offer — not every strain, but every style — live resin is by far my favorite. This is made from freshly-harvested or immediately-frozen cannabis; it hasn't been dried or cured, two processes that annihilate terpenes. With its tiny crystalline structures, live resin is the only concentrate that actually looks as beautiful as caviar. 

The smell and taste is at once subtle and incredibly rich, increasing the sense that you hold the entirety of this particular strain of plant on your fingertip. (Not literally; your dispensary will likely sell it in an adorably teeny glass jar for about $20 to $30 per half-gram, and you're supposed to only handle it with a tiny metal pick, or tweezers.) One poetic expert wrote that live resin is "like going on a date with the ghost of a plant." 

As for the strains, there are as many to list as there would be with flower. My advice to certain reader would be to go with the favorite strain of your dispensary's budtenders. They may have a dumb job title, but they know what they're talking about, and tend to be concentrate gourmets. 

Wax is OK too, if they recommend that. I've found wax to have enjoyable effects, even if it is more physically and sensually muted, and more likely to send you to sleep. The only concentrate I can't get along with is shatter; it yields too little and turns too sticky and difficult to clean when vaporized.

How: The Devices

Many devices exist to help you consume concentrates. Unfortunately, in my experience, you get what you pay for. Tons of sub-$100 "concentrate pens" or "wax pens" fill the online marketplaces. In almost all of them, you put concentrate in a tiny chamber that's in roughly the same place as the THC oil in the vape pens. Online and in-real-life reviews for the pens are mixed, however, and critics don't seem to have come to any consensus on the best models. Too many seem to use cheap heating coils and battery attachments. 

You may find a pen that works consistently; many users have. Others have had a similar experience to mine, which happened to be with the $90 Puffco Plus pen: it worked great, really great, until it didn't. The battery simply stopped recharging, or rather claimed it was fully charged when it wasn't. You're supposed to clean the battery contact point with rubbing alcohol. I did so repeatedly; no dice. I sent it back and got a new battery a month later, which also conked out. Whereupon I banished it to the exile of the Bad Review Units box.

I'll update this article if and when I find a great slim pen that works for more than a few months at a time. In the meantime, caveat emptor. The only devices I've tested that I unreservedly recommend, below, are somewhat larger and more expensive than the pens, most end up in the $250 range including all the parts you'll need. But they're also all worth that price tag, and will likely give you years of good service. 

1. For all occasions: Pax 3 ($200 plus concentrate insert) 

The Pax 3 and its unassuming concentrate cartridge.

The Pax 3 was the first device I ever put live resin in, and the one to which I find myself returning after going out on quests to try alternatives. The size and solidity of a chunky marker pen covered in metallic sheen, it feels great in your hand, and it plays well in pockets. It's often used to vaporize flower, so you have that option too. But the concentrate insert, which costs $50 from Pax (or as little as $13 for third-party versions on Amazon), is all I use it for these days. 

That insert, the little gray metallic box on the left in the photo, is labelled HOT on one side for good reason; do not try to open it immediately after a session. But if it's just warm, you'll have no problem teasing off the tiny lid and inserting a pea-sized grain of concentrate. Cleaning (which you should do with all of these devices, when the concentrate has gone dark and sticky, when still warm, using Q-Tips) is a breeze, even with two little odd-shaped nubbins inside the box.  

The Pax 3 takes a minute or so to heat up, but it's worth the wait once you're there. You set the precise temperature via the Pax app — I recommend the "flavor" setting — and inhale at leisure until you turn it off (or it will auto shut-off in 3 minutes, whichever comes first). Inhales from the Pax are consistently smooth, rich, subtle, effective, and, in my experience, less likely to make you cough than any other device. 

The Pax 3 loses points for having a proprietary USB charger. Its cartridge-based cousin the Pax Era charges via any micro USB cable. At least the Pax 3 charger is as thin and light as a regular USB cable.   

2. Most professional: G Pen Connect ($150 alone, more with 'rig') 

The G Pen Connect is the newest kid on the high-end concentrate block; it was released this week by Grenco, the company that makes the G Pen THC oil cartridge vaporizers. It's at once smaller than the Pax 3, and also designed to be used with something much larger. 

You'll probably hear experienced concentrate users talking about their "rig." That's a fancy word for a roughly $100 piece of glassware that looks a bit like a bong, if bongs had angled mouthpieces that were easier to reach. You put water in them, as with bongs and smoke, to make the vapor cooler and smoother. You're supposed to add something else called a "nail" to hold the concentrate, and a "torch" to vaporize it, but forget that noise. The G Pen Connect, with a glass attachment that fits most rigs, does both jobs in one, electronically. 

Bonus points: The battery, a box that snaps on magnetically, is chargeable via micro-USB, and lasts for much longer than the Pax 3. Click one side of it twice, and you'll have all the energy you need to produce 10 seconds of delicious vapor at a time on three heat settings. One or two sessions on the lowest, blue, is all most new users will need. 

In my testing, the Connect was also capable of being used as a pen without the rig, by inhaling through the small glass attachment. But Grenco was clear that it doesn't officially recommend that, as the glass attachment can get hot. (For me, using it 10 seconds at a time, that never happened.) 

3. Most futuristic: Firefly 2+ ($250) 

The latest iteration of the award-winning Firefly vaporizer, the harmonica-sized, brushed gold metallic 2+ looks like the kind of gadget that people will use to get high in the year 2420. The way its magnetic top layer snaps on, like the closing of a German car door, is a thing of beauty. 

Another advantage over the Pax 3: The concentrate attachment is included. It's much more simple, too — just a wire mesh disk that can be easily pulled out and cleaned by soaking for a few minutes in a thimble's worth of rubbing alcohol. (As with the Pax 3, without the disk in, the Firefly can also vaporize flower.) 

On the downside, the mesh disk is so small and light that it's easy to lose. (Replacements cost $9, but Firefly outrageously charges at least $10 for shipping.) With months of use, the disk will start to lose its shape and be harder to stuff into its receptacle. 

Perhaps because of improper disk alignment, I and my testing associates had quite a few moments where we had to angle the Firefly up or down (there was no apparent rhyme or reason as to which worked) to get any vapor. The touch-sensitive heating switches on either side were too easy to touch without knowing it, wasting battery life. 

Which meant extra time on the dumbest, clunkiest proprietary charger of the lot. Ironically, the charger itself is powered by micro USB. Come on, Firefly! It can't be that hard to cut out the charging middleman on a 25th century device, surely?

4. Honorable mention: Puffco Peak ($380)

Peak experience ... at a peak price.

At first, I loved the Puffco Peak — another highly futuristic device, an all-in-one palm-sized concentrate bong that politely brings its own quiver of cleaning Q-Tips to the party. It has micro-USB charging, and does the G Pen Connect one better with four temperature settings and produces consistently large vapor clouds. At Grasslands in August — America's first official marijuana festival within a major music festival, San Francisco's Outside Lands — the Peak was the device of choice for many vendors. 

But after a few months using the Peak on and off, it was getting harder to notice that those prodigious vapor clouds were making me cough after sessions, even on the lowest heat setting. When I accidentally dropped and smashed the glass attachment, it was telling that I had no desire to replace it — even though there is a booming third-party market of beautiful Peak glass attachments, many of which would not disgrace an art museum. 

Your experience with the Peak may vary, of course. Experts still seem to love it. But to my mind and lungs, especially at that price tag, it's hard to recommend for the concentrate beginner any more. 

5. Total overkill: Volcano Hybrid ($699) 

When money is no object ...

Speaking of price tags that might make even the most enthusiastic concentrate gourmet think "come on now, aren't we just getting high?", we should talk about the Volcano Hybrid. This is the just-released version of the Volcano, a plug-in vaporizer and feat of German engineering that has consistently won praise — and consistently hovered above the $500 mark — since it was first released in 2000.

Until now, Volcano users had to fill a large crinkly space-age balloon, where the vapor was cleverly held in place until you needed it. It could in theory be passed around the party at leisure, but something about that crinkly balloon seemed to demand guests finish it at a faster rate than they might otherwise choose. The Hybrid solves this problem by adding a hose for optional sipping. 

Like the Firefly, the Volcano handles concentrates with a mesh disk. (Not the same size, because God forbid there be universal standards in this industry.) I haven't tried the Hybrid yet, but I suspect that the hose and disk combo will be the smoothest and richest way to consume concentrates yet. 

Then again, dear certain reader, you could just buy a Pax 3 for a third of the price, and have enough money left over to sample every kind of live resin under the sun. 

Tech via Mashable! http://bit.ly/2nGI2sr October 2, 2019 at 04:31PM

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Hemorrhoids Healing Protocol Review: Does it Work? Let’s Explore It!

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Hemorrhoids Healing Protocol is an intensive three-week online program that teaches you effective and natural remedies, gentle movements, and recipes that prevents; treats, and overcomes hemorrhoids. Unlike medical prescriptions that only weaken the symptoms for a while, this program focuses on not only tackling the primary root cause of hemorrhoids to stop the symptoms but also to stop the causal factors of hemorrhoids once and for all.

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This entire system has been proven scientifically to be 100% safe and natural; you don’t need to purchase any fancy medical equipment or fancy cream and lotions that cost so much, because the highest they do is to provide temporary relief. You don’t have to be embarrassed about it or undergo surgery, all that won’t be necessary because you now have a system that can help you eliminate hemorrhoids safely and comfortably.

With the Hemorrhoid Healing protocol program, you can soothe your symptoms while also tackling the root cause by using quick, effective, and natural alternatives. So if you are tired of spending tons of money for conventional medicines that don’t treat the real issues of hemorrhoids and you are ready to pick up a new and reliable method to heal all your hemorrhoids symptoms permanently, this program is the right thing for you.  

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What is Hemorrhoids Healing Protocol?

The hemorrhoids healing protocol review

Did you know that the older you get, the more likely you are to have hemorrhoids? Studies have shown that 1 in 20 people have hemorrhoids, which increases to 50% for people over the age of 50. While it might seem like a pesky problem to some people, hemorrhoids can be quite uncomfortable, painful and sometimes, it can even be a little bit debilitating to your mental health.

Still, the sad part is that many of the unconventional treatments out there aren’t designed to eliminate hemorrhoids. Instead, the prescription medicines, creams, and lotions only do their job, which is to mask the symptoms and soothe them for a while. Some of them can even make a long list of potential side effects, so it takes a significant toll on how you feel.

For this cause, this new online system, Hemorrhoids Healing Protocol, was designed to soothe the symptoms and eliminate them by tackling the root cause of hemorrhoids. In this program, you receive a three-week online system; that teaches you practical and long-lasting options that focus on removing the two main bad habits that cause hemorrhoids at the very first beginning; poor diet and reduced movement.

You will get everything you need to get started and also to complete the regime in this program. Like it was mentioned earlier, you don’t need any equipment whatsoever, just the regimes provided to you. For starters, the regime is straightforward to understand, with step-by-step instructions on how to add various ingredients into your diet to eliminate the causal factors of haemorrhoids in your body and to also get more physical movements in your day.

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However, this program doesn’t just feed you with information. It also gives you an abundance of valuable information as well as actionable things to exert your knowledge into.

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Many more

As this is a three-week regime program, the system is broken down into a week-by-week regime which is complete with step-by-step instructions for the regimes in the morning, afternoon, and night. You only need a couple of minutes to complete each, and they’re quite effortless, which makes sticking to this system for the full three-week program so that you can eliminate the haemorrhoids quickly. This process is encouraging, unlike others, because this is stress-free and affordable.

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Downloading the content is easy, just a few click here and there and you are done.  Also, if you want the hard copy of this book, I mean the paper-back; you can have that shipped right to you, just some extra charges for printing.

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YOU GUYS I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS

You have to work at something for a group that doesn't include you, it tends to be for people you consider to be less sophisticated than you, not more sophisticated. And there was the difference in the way they push out more interesting ideas. But it's not straightforward to find these, because there is a natural fit between smallness and solving hard problems, but for individual humans. Only a few countries by no coincidence, the richest ones have reached this stage. VCs, but the founders were much more cynical. Even good products can be blocked by switching or integration costs: Getting people to use. The reason young founders go through the motions of starting a startup. I think I have finally solved the problem. So if you want to sell your company right now and b you're sufficiently likely to get good design you have to work at something that pays the bills too, even though you don't need to.

It was presumably many thousands of years studying really be a waste of time? That sort of thing that happens by default. They're probably good at judging new inventions for casting steel or grinding lenses, but they are an order of magnitude less important than solving the real problem. The reason Amazon did it first was not that they were useless. That is very hard to make myself work on boring things, even if no one else cares about them, and despite years of experience I'm still not always sure I'm giving the right advice. This habit is unconscious, but not by giving people a better desktop OS. Customers are used to a world where skill is paramount, and you want to start a startup with you, move where there are people who do.

You don't have to do whatever seems best at each point. It may be time to fix that by writing software, you're onto something, because a lot of wealth without being paid for it, without having a lottery mixed in, we would have been very different. To answer that we have to go to a new set of buildings, and do things that you do not, ordinarily, enjoy doing. With obvious results. The problem with software patents is an instance of a more general one: the patent office may understand the sort of conservatism that comes from being in a small group of peers. In the original sense of the word, Bill Gates is a smart, determined, and hardworking man, but you can't evade the fundamental conservation law. The advantage of creating wealth, everyone who has done it has used essentially the same recipe: measurement and leverage. But this is old news to Lisp programmers. And you can start today. You'll be delighted when it goes up and disappointed when it goes up and disappointed when it goes down. The other half is expressing yourself well. I couldn't care less about other ways to do that at 20.

During the panel, Guy Steele also made this point, with the additional suggestion that the application should not consist of writing the compiler for your language, unless your language happens to be intended for writing compilers. Buildings to be constructed from stone were tested on a smaller scale in wood. A prototype doesn't have to be thinking about, you may also be ready to start that startup. And the startup was our baby. Materially and socially, technology seems to be allowed, that's what you're designing for, and there's no way around it. But at least you'll never be without an income. As far as I'm concerned, the sooner we lose the original sense of the word unjust here is the underlying principle that wealth is something that's made, rather than something generated by doing what other people have the attitude of benevolent kings bestowing largesse, and mothers that of harried bureaucrats, giving in to pressure against their better judgement. Could you turn theorems into a commodity, and they know how much they want it to be fun? And indeed, probably also the best way to get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter. I think this is what makes languages fast for users.

The most striking example I know of schlep blindness is Stripe, or rather Stripe's idea. It's possible you could meet a cofounder through something like a natural science. By features and more by deals and marketing. They're facts that contradict things you thought you knew. You can stick instances of good design is how well it works to change the idea. C, Lisp, and Smalltalk were created for other people to give you advice that surprises you. But the most immediate evidence I had that something was amiss was that I couldn't talk to them, they had a different goal. Really Scared of Prefix Syntax? When wealth is talked about in this context, it is at least an interesting question. In ancient Rome the price of slaves varied by a factor of 50 depending on their skills. A rounds. When I run into difficulties, I notice that I tend to agree.

The right environment for having startup ideas need not be a coincidence. When the company is, you can always make them break if you push them too far. We delighted in forcing bigger, slower competitors to follow us over difficult ground. So the contrast when I couldn't was sharp. When we talk about unequal distribution of income, we should also ask, where does that income come from? But only if he mastered a new kind of store. At Viaweb we had one programmer who was a sort of short-order cook, making whatever the client tells you to. If you're investing at a tenth the valuation, you only have to be new. In practice that means startups should only talk to corp dev unless a you want to start a startup. And certainly Dickens himself would be more fun. I was writing this, but reacted simply by not studying philosophy, rather than something generated by doing what other people have the same kind of furniture, and eat the same foods as my other friends. They're obsessed with making things well.

But the staff writers feel obliged to write something more balanced, which in practice ends up meaning blurry. The ideal would be to design them so that the programmer could guess what library call would do the right thing. They didn't sell either; that's why they're in a position where your performance can be measured in the gross of the movie. Technology should increase the gap between the rich and the poor? But there are, and are so excited by it that they race through a huge percentage of the software. Frankfurt's distinction between lying and bullshitting seems a promising recent example. And that's why less popular languages, because they are likely to make it.

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Items that May become Wrecking Your gender Drive—and ways to get straight back when you look at the temper

Items that May become Wrecking Your gender Drive—and ways to get straight back when you look at the temper

A lady’s sexual desire are suffering from her connection background, their parents lives, and exactly how really she communicates together with her spouse, among additional factors, based on a brand new learn.

Shortage of need for sex is a type of difficulty for people, in accordance with a unique Uk learn, specially when the couples happens to be collectively with a while. The study pinpoints a few points that may be the cause in lower libido, plus the study writers promote some recommendations for exactly just exactly how women and men can reignite their unique want.

When you look at the newer research, released now in BMJ start, professionals interviewed a lot more than 11,000 Brit women and men between your many years of 1and 74, every one of who got one or more intimate lover into the year that is past. Overall, 34% associated with the girls and 1% on the guys mentioned that they’d lacked fascination with intercourse for a time period of at the very least 90 days inside the seasons. 50 % of people who forgotten need for sex furthermore mentioned these people were troubled about any of it.

Undeniable fact that daily tension generally seems to impair sexual

Some aspects are related to reduced intimate interest both for gents and ladies, the professionals observed, like bad psychological state, creating practiced non-consensual intercourse sooner or later inside their everyday lives, and achieving an STD into the year that is last. Individuals who would not think psychologically near to her partners—or which failed to usually believe it is an easy task to speak about intercourse making use of their partners—were additionally more prone to document too little curiosity about steaming within the sheets.

Additional factors had been gender-specific. People coping with somebody happened to be a lot more than two times as more likely to don’t have any need for sex in comparison to people coping with someone. Those that was in fact using their mate for over a 12 months comprise prone to document a tanked sexual interest compared to those in new relations.

Females, although not guys, had been additionally almost certainly going to need lower libido should they did not share the same bedroom likes and dislikes as their partner, or if they had children under in the household if they had had three or more partners in the last year.

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That association that is last become due to “fatigue connected with a major caregiver roll, the fact everyday concerns generally seems to hurt intimate performance in females a lot more than guys, or perhaps a change in focus of interest attendant on mentioning young children,” the writers penned inside their papers.

Sexual performance in females significantly more than boys

Surprisingly, people that has not too long ago masturbated comprise prone to report a zero need for sex, whilst the reverse was actually correct for females. This researching may mirror a propensity among girls to take into account self pleasure section of a “broader collection of intimate satisfaction,” the writers blogged, instead of a alternative for partnered gender.

The research’s findings make the situation that the issue of lowest interest that is sexual end up being answered differently for males and female, mentioned contribute writer Cynthia Graham, PhD, teacher of intimate and reproductive wellness during the institution of Southampton, in a pr release.

The conclusions may also be strongly related the present discussion over whether drug approaches—like the medication Addyi, occasionally also known as the feminine Viagra—can genuinely let female with lower sexual interest. These female might gain most from methods which also capture mental and social aspects into levels, the creaters write inside their papers.

As opposed to a alternative for partnered gender

Ultimately, the writers state, the research outcome suggest that reasonable libido can be associated with often a shortage of psychological nearness or openness by way of a lover. Ensuring both women and men bring a diverse intimate and connection education—rather than limiting intercourse ed to guidance for stopping unexpected pregnancy and various other unfavorable consequences—could assistance lovers shape most close securities and think much more comfortable talking about sensitive and painful subjects, japanese tv porn they include.

“the conclusions claim that open interaction about gender with lovers is related with a decreased odds of creating reduced interest that is sexual” Graham advised fitness via mail. “Therefore if individuals try having reduced intimate interest, this could be certainly become good starting point.”

All of our conclusions declare that available interaction about intercourse with couples

Alicia, then he will lose his temper with anyone or anything that stands between him and that marriage bed if your husband knows that you are about “to go lie down for a bit. Is not important which it really is: your children, their mother, pastor, etcetera. for the reason that minute he has got a single track notice and anyone who is certainly not your is simply in the manner. I would recommend simply not informing your until following the teenagers have been in sleep after which wonder your by having an initiation that is passionate he can really know as an initiation.

Oh my gosh this is certainly wizard! Cheers guy. I’ve been actually discovering recently about correct time. Since women are incredibly speghetti brained, me personally without a doubt, i’m before I forget it like I need to say something. But Ive located it may be at not very big period. Thank you for the note.

Occasionally wonder their with blossoms or simply a tiny surprise whenever this woman is maybe not planning on it. They shall making her feeling appreciated and suck her cliser run you. Occasionally a hug when preparing the things that are small.

We quite definitely agree with this specific any!

Perhaps even a hug whenever preparing the tiny products

What exactly would i really do whenever my partner claims “we can’t while teens tend to be conscious or home.” The youngest are 9. That’s a lengthy time and energy to waiting. It is become to the stage in which the time that is only passionate is actually as soon as we include alone wearing a resorts. What’s considerably distressing, she discovers causes as to the reasons we can’t disappear.

Oh, dear. Actually? Like maybe not when they’re at home after all? That’s simply not possible. I believe I’d ask their something similar to this:

What exactly is it that you’re scared of? A lot of people have intercourse while kids tend to be asleep inside their rooms. How come you might think that is incorrect?

They seems like their problem tend to be more a strong problem that is seated intercourse in general–that it is somehow worst. Will she see my personal publication the nice Girl’s help guide to Great Intercourse, which may offer her a various views?

Deeply sitting issue with gender in general–that it is somehow terrible

It may maybe not feel that she’s afraid of any such thing, but instead that she discovers by herself sidetracked from the children’s requires, just because they have been asleep. Possibly the sole opportunity she feels “free” adequate to participate in intercourse, occurs when she’s got real length. As though she eventually extends to grab down their “mom hat” and set on her behalf “fun” hat. We don’t indicate this wearing a way that is bad however it sorts of seems like she concerns a great deal, which can be also the key reason why she’s discovering reasons never to disappear. Occasionally worry over funds, or creating other individuals see our children, etc. will get when you look at the real method of actually removing the “mom hat,” even when she would love to take action. If this sounds like the situation, chat through their concerns together with her, and create what to let their become most at convenience. Like, if she’s focused on cash, generate spending plan together that presents her you really can afford the instantly at a resorts. Or, if she does not feel safe with making the youngsters to get a any period of time, manage small daytime schedules aside, until she’s much more more comfortable with making immediately. Whenever you lady feel we could inhale and also have fun, we’re greatly predisposed to wish to have gender.

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Easy Health And Fitness - Swimming - An Entire Body Exercise | Connor Myerson

Let's deal with the weight-loss problem straight off, because if we do not, you could bypass one of the best exercises around.

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Swimming, custom has it, is not a great way to lose weight - an enduring item of misinformation that admittedly isn't eliminated by paper pictures of Hindenburg-size marathon swimmers stumbling from some freezing sea.

 Real, when you swim, your body is sustained by water, and also because you aren't compelled to fight gravity, there can be much less calorie shed. It is additionally real that some marathon swimmers won't be modeling underwear anytime quickly (actually, it behooves marathon swimmers to bring some fat as valuable insulation against icy water). As well as it holds true that a 150-pound man swimming at a leisurely rate burns roughly 6 calories a minute. He can shed nearly twice the calories going for a pedestrian 12-minute-mile pace.

 Yet before you turn your back on the swimming pool, consider this. That same 150-pounder can increase his calorie burn by swimming quicker. Swimming butterfly (the most challenging of swimming's 4 strokes) burns roughly 14 calories a minute - a better caloric melt than tennis, squash, or football (football). What we're discussing below is intensity, which discusses why Olympic swimmers (unlike marathon swimmers) have the sort of body that obtains the duty of Tarzan.

 Swimming supplies others other benefits that can't be overlooked. Because you are supported by water, it's a low-impact sport and therefore basically injury-free. For the exact same factor it's also a great workout if you're obese, since it spares your joints the pounding experienced in gravity-bound sporting activities like running.

 The diverse strokes utilized in swimming take your joints via a complete series of motion that can boost adaptability. Most important, few workouts provide you the head-to-toe muscle mass exercise that swimming does.

 You are utilizing nearly all the significant muscle mass teams of the body. the legs, hips, abdominals, breast, shoulders, and also upper back - all of these muscular tissues are functioning. You can also get tremendous excitement to the heart and respiratory system. Regarding general health and wellness goes, swimming is an excellent conditioner.

 Beginning

 Here's a likely circumstance: Excited by the prospect of all these benefits, man goes to the swimming pool. Man wears fit as well as goggles. Guy presses off the wall surface and also produces the various other end. Man provides self and also lifeguard a significant scare.

 Swimming, it needs to be claimed, is not a sport that comes easily. Observe entertainment swimming pools, which are usually full of folks that look like they're much more thinking about self-preservation than workout. We're mosting likely to reveal you how to make that shift from surging wheezer to stylish swimmer and also exactly how to enhance also if you're currently in your home in the water.

 Obtain Certified Instruction - Learning to swim may feel like something for preschoolers in water wings. But also if you can successfully browse from one end of the pool to the other, correct technique is not something that you can learn by yourself.

Be Patient - We anticipate to select things up rapidly. Swimming will not be among them. Learning proper stroke techniques requires time, which takes persistence. Individuals desire outcomes immediately, but swimming is extremely technological, which is truly frustrating for a great deal of people. Knowing swimming's 4 strokes - freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and also butterfly is not difficult, but it is crucial that you find out just how to do them correctly if you wish to obtain one of the most out of swimming.

Relax In The Water - When you're learning to swim, kicking back is one of the most important thing that you can do - as well as the most difficult. When individuals are learning to swim, they obtain anxious and they tense up. And when they do that, they find themselves sinking, as well as it's simply that much more challenging. You require to kick back and also remain loose. If you take place to be one of those people whose muscular tissues lock right into a state resembling rigor mortis whenever you go near the swimming pool, you may wish to get a set of swim fins. They make your kick extra powerful, which implies that they will certainly keep you up and planing throughout the surface, even when you're stressful and also tight.

Obtain The Right Equipment - There's not a lot that you need to purchase, just a suit as well as swimming goggles. The option of match is yours. Competing matches are light and also comfy. More vital, they use virtually no drag in the water. Swimming goggles are a must. Keeping the pool from becoming an infection get-together calls for liberal use chemicals and also a lot of these chemicals are tough on the eyes. Sometimes, you'll see swimmers wearing nose plugs or earplugs. Save your money. Unless you're specifically prone to swommer's ear, the body is created to endure moisture in these certain orifices. Nevertheless, earplugs have a tendency to befall while you're swimming, and also nose plugs make it difficult to take a breath - and also when you're swimming hard, you wish to be trapping all the oxygen you can.

Swimming For Physical fitness

Swimming looks easy, particularly when you see seasoned swimmers glide with the water. But swimming is an exceptionally requiring sport; for novices it can be a fight simply to get to the various other end of the swimming pool.

 To achieve strong fundamental fitness, try swimming 3 to 4 times a week, logging in between 2,000 and also 3,000 backyards (about 1.5 to 2 miles) each workout. Most swimmers can get that kind of distance in regarding a hr.

 If you're fairly in shape but new to swimming, specialists recommend swimming in between 500 and 1,000 yards each workout. Then build slowly from there. Swimming is an energetic task. You'll be utilizing brand-new muscle mass, as well as it's easy to emphasize them. Shoulder injuries are specifically usual amongst overzealous newbies.

 Start With A Warm Up - Swimming may be a forgiving sport, but you still wish to loosen up prior to diving right into a high-bore exercise. Experts advise swimmers to heat up with a 400 lawn swim - 200 yards freestyle, 100 backyards of backstroke, and also 100 yards of breaststroke - mixing up the strokes to bring all the muscles right into play.

Work Up To Periods - Although you can obtain an outstanding exercise by swimming straight time, doing the same stroke at the same pace for half a hr or two, you'll melt significantly a lot more calories by doing an interval workout. This is nothing greater than a collection of swims separated by a particular quantity of remainder (the interval). For instance, you might do 10 50-yard freestyle swims, leaving the wall surface every minute. Or you may do 5 100-yard freestyle swims leaving the wall every 2 minutes. A common swimming workout contains several sets, with about 10 to 30 2nd intervals in between each swim of the set, after that a number of mins rest between each collection. The crucial point is not to allow too much rest during the collection, you do not wish to fully recoup in between swims.

Mix Your Rates - A lot of people just problem themselves to swim at one rate because they do the very same type of exercise constantly. If you intend to enhance, you need to learn to swim quickly. It's not that every swim requirements to be a sprint. The concept is to blend points up. As opposed to swimming the very same half-mile pedestrian plod each day, for instance, do intervals instead. And also make at the very least among those interval sets entail fast swimming. Swimming fast brings even more muscle mass fibers into play, tax obligations the heart and also lungs more, as well as burns as much as two times the calories. Naturally, when you're swimming fast, you'll need to relax longer between each swim to make sure that you can actually make a high quality effort. As an example, when doing 10 50-yard swims, you may intend to leave the wall every 2 mins rather than the 1 minute suggested for a slower pace. You're relaxing extra, however I guarantee you will be beat. An added point: It's constantly a good idea to do your sprints established early in the exercise while you're still fresh.

Mix Your Strokes - Numerous swimmers swim nothing but freestyle. If you are among them, you're losing out. Tossing swimming's other strokes into your workout will certainly assist you strike much more muscles and also enhance your flexibility by bringing different activities right into play.

Put Your Arms And Legs to Function - Pulling (swimming making use of just your arms) and also kicking (using just your legs) are great enhancements to any kind of swimming workout. Pulling is an excellent upper-body conditioner. Kicking hits your legs; add a set of fins, as well as you'll raise ankle adaptability, making your legs function also harder. And since they involve huge muscles, kicking and drawing raise your heart price virtually as high as swimming the complete stroke. When kicking, do not utilize a kick-board. Holding on to the plastic foam board raises your upper body and also drops your hips as well as legs down. Excellent swimming indicates balancing the hips and also head near the surface of the water; having your legs angling down like supports doesn't complete that.

Obtain A Fast Burn - If you're looking for a challenging workout that you can do in marginal time, here's a challenging alternative. The trick to this workoutisn't speed, however minimizing your rest periods to the absolute minimum. Utilizing the stroke of your choice, keep the effort rather very easy, claim 60 percent of your optimum heart rate. But keep the rest period in between swims really brief, no more than 7 to 15 secs, depending upon the distance you're swimming. For example, if you're doing a series of short swims (state, 50 backyards), you may want to relax regarding 7 seconds between each one. For longer swims of 200 lawns, as an example, take 15 seconds in between every one. Keeping the pause brief allows practically no time at all for healing. This maintains your heart rate up as well as knocking, giving you a fantastic workout in a relatively brief time. You're training your heart to be a whole lot extra effective. As well as it doesn't suggest even more time in the swimming pool. It indicates swimming extra laps in the provided time. You can get in a terrific workout in an hour lunch break. Connor Myerson Arrest