#serious mass 3 lbs

[fox-bright]

Watching the H5N1 stuff get worse and worse--I'm hoping we have until late next year before it goes reliably human-human, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was this winter--and not being able to do much makes me anxious, so I've been composing lists of stuff to do. I keep thinking, if this were August, 2019, and I knew covid was coming, what would I prepare? If this one goes off like the scientists think it might, it'll be much worse than covid.

Right now, I'm concentrating on food. My plan is to have enough hunker down supplies by mid-September that if things go bad in the normally-scheduled October-February flu season, we'll be okay simply not leaving the house at all. There are only two of us here now, and if things go bad there may be as many as four (as I have two separate friends I'd push hard to come stay here with us), so I need to make sure we have 4 meals x howevermany days I choose. I'm building up to six months, but I'm beginning the plan at three. While a lot of Serious Prepper lists have pretty generous caloric allowances, the MFH and I eat pretty light, and we're both smaller than the average adult human, which does give us even more squeak room here.

We started out with dry staples--bread flour, AP flour, semolina, rice, beans, pasta, lentils, powdered milk--though I have still to get powdered eggs (I'll dehydrate those myself), more dry beans (I'm going to use up a lot of what we have when I do my canning run for the winter, and so far I haven't been able to get my hands on kidney beans in any decent amounts), quinoa, and one more kind of pasta. Right now we have about 2/3 of what I'd want; we'll be holding things at this level, replacing staples as we use them, and if things look more serious we'll do another big shop and give ourselves additional stock of the AP flour, the bread flour, the rice (which we already buy in 40-50 lb bags anyway, we're Asian), the dry milk.

Then there's the perishable stuff; yesterday, the MFH and I took advantage of some very nice sales and got seventy pounds of meat for two hundred and twelve dollars. Beef brisket for stew, pork butt for sweet molasses chili, ground beef for hotter chili, pork loin for white bean soup. Still have to get chicken (which was pretty much sold out at our bulk place) for chicken soup (to be pressure canned), chicken and mushroom cream soup (to be vacuum-packed and frozen).

Very very soon it'll be time to harvest my leeks and my butternut squashes, for leek and potato soup (either finished with cream, blended to a smooth-ish consistency and frozen, or *not* blended down, and just socked away in pressure-canned Ball jars without the cream added; will it take me longer to thaw it, or to take my immersion blender to the hot individual meals later on?) and canned butternut for baking with or making soup or chili or making pasta sauce.

I might can a bunch of just potatoes, too, to keep 'em shelf stable (plus that front-loads a lot of the work of producing a meal later).

So I need to buy onions and carrots and potatoes and celery and garlic and mushrooms and corn, cream, red wine, tomato paste (because my vines got blight this year, sigh--I've managed to can one single run of tomato sauce and that's IT), ten dozen fresh eggs to dehydrate and powder and store in the fridge in case of egg shortages, several pounds of beans to be thrown into the chilis and...hm...fifteen pounds more, twenty pounds more, to have on hand? And then for non-canning purposes we'll need butter, oil, white vinegar (I've used a lot of it for pickles this year), various Asian food staples like black and rice vinegars, oyster sauce, black mushrooms and so on. As for pre-made, mass-produced foods, I'll probably make another post about them later.

While this is more than I'd generally stock in a single season, I do generally put about 100 quarts of home-canned food by a year, and I never keep less than 75-100lb of flour on hand anyway because of how frequently I make bread. So though it sounds like a lot up front, it's not hoarder level; everything I stock will be eaten, some of it pretty much immediately (the beef stew is so good). And putting it all by now means that we'll be less of a burden on our community safety net, if push comes to shove. When the covid pandemic hit I had dozens of jars of food on the shelf already, which gave me a little peace when things were looking scary. We were able to share some of our stores with people who hadn't had the great privilege of long afternoons spent seeing to the personal stores. That's a better option, to my mind, than needing to panic-shop right as things start getting a little wild.

Basically, if things go bad, we'll have food for a while. And if things don't go bad, we'll have food for a while. It's win-win. And it keeps the floor under my feet when I'm feeling unsteady, to be able to sneak down into the cool, still basement and look at row on row of gently gleaming jars of food security.

[karriethemechtech]

@navcommrelay

Hey Nate! Wish I were with you in person to be able to carry out the refit myself, but I wanted to give you something nice and light to address a couple of the issues you were having with modernizing your Emperor.

Turns out, stripping out those jump jets you don't want saves me 6 tons! ...unfortunately, I physically can't add more armor like you asked, and I'm guessing nobody's got Hardened armor compounds lying around (not that I'd recommend piloting something covered in that stuff without serious practive--yikes, it's like running through molasses), so instead I set about solving your ammo and heat issues.

New armament is the same, but I've added two more tons of LB10-X ammunition (specs call for slug since that's the most applicable ammo in the most scenarios but I figure you can probably switch that up if you really want to do AA duty or just like huge shotguns, and who's to blame you there?), swapped the CASE for CASE II (IS-spec so we don't have to deal with Clan-spec supply lines out to you), and replaced the heat sinks with Clan-spec freezers (ok, I lied, but there's enough folks around Islington toting clan tech around and I'm sure they could spare a few of those--tell 'em Karrie sent you), so you're not overheating unless you run and Alpha Strike (but even then the heat scale only goes up by...I think the sims said 3? So you can do it twice in a row without even stressing the internal components).

I've sent along detailed instructions to your techs, and I'm still on-call for whatever questions they might have--I get the feeling this might be some of your folks' first times working with a piece of clantech. That all being said, let me know what you think!

Emperor EMP-6A (Lindsborg)

Mass: 90 tons Chassis: Standard Biped Power Plant: 270 XL Cruising Speed: 32.4 kph Maximum Speed: 54 kph Jump Jets: None Jump Capacity: 0 meters Armor: Standard Armament: 1 Medium Laser 2 LB 10-X AC 2 Large Laser 2 Medium Pulse Laser Manufacturer: Unknown Primary Factory: Unknown Communication System: Unknown Targeting & Tracking System: Unknown Introduction Year: 3153 Tech Rating/Availability: F/X-X-X-D Cost: 18,960,100 C-bills

Type: Emperor Technology Base: Mixed (Standard) Tonnage: 90 Battle Value: 1,903

Equipment Mass Internal Structure 9 Engine 270 XL 7.5 Walking MP: 3 Running MP: 5 Jumping MP: 0 Double Heat Sink 15 [30] 5 Gyro 3 Cockpit 3 Armor Factor 279 17.5 Internal Armor Structure Value Head 3 9 Center Torso 29 48 Center Torso (rear) 10 R/L Torso 19 30 R/L Torso (rear) 8 R/L Arm 15 30 R/L Leg 19 38

Right Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm Left Arm Actuators: Shoulder, Upper Arm, Lower Arm

Weapons and Ammo Location Critical Heat Tonnage Double Heat Sink CT 2 - 1.0 Medium Pulse Laser RT 1 4 2.0 LB 10-X Cluster Ammo (10) RT 1 - 1.0 CASE II RT 1 - 1.0 2 Double Heat Sink RT 4 - 2.0 LB 10-X AC Ammo (20) RT 2 - 2.0 LB 10-X AC LA 6 2 11.0 Large Laser LA 2 8 5.0 Medium Pulse Laser LT 1 4 2.0 LB 10-X Cluster Ammo (10) LT 1 - 1.0 CASE II LT 1 - 1.0 2 Double Heat Sink LT 4 - 2.0 LB 10-X AC Ammo (20) LT 2 - 2.0 Medium Laser HD 1 3 1.0 LB 10-X AC RA 6 2 11.0 Large Laser RA 2 8 5.0

Features the following design quirks: Command Mek

[hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon]

re: kickboxing being a great anger management tool EXACTLY that was the whole reason i wanted to take it during my final months of school cause i had nothing to do and everyone pissed me off lol, didnt get the opportunity yet but def doing it in college <3

Lemme tell you, I think I worked through like a year or two of repressed anger literally just from three months of kickboxing. I cried once in the studio but like in the good way of "holy shit I am here and my body does what I ask of it and the anger turned to pain turned into I know how to defend myself, this bone-deep RELIEF" it's absolutely wild and I intend to write a song about it.

most important thing to remember and a thing I learned the hard way: you cannot and should not hit as hard as you want to. unless you are fairly tall and heavy, you almost certainly should not be throwing punches with the full force of your anger behind them right away, because that is how you fuck up your knuckles. I say this as a dude who is 5'3 and 160 lbs, my first few times I went in swinging and I simply did not have the training or muscle mass to back up the power I was trying to swing with. I hurt my hands a lot. Yes use punching as anger management, but work up to hitting really hard if you don't wanna fuck up your hands this has been a PSA.

That said, it took about three months to build some serious shoulder muscle, and then I was really able to go ham on the bag, beating the shit outta that thing felt GOOD.

[bunnyboymoobs]

my high-calorie food replacement smoothie

1.5 cups whole milk- fat and protein content

1/2 cup ice cream - fat and carb content.

1 banana - fibre, other carbs, and nutrients

1/2 cup quick oats - powder, soak, or cook prior to use, to allow them to incorporate better. used for fibre content.

1 tbsp Oil - i use canola, bc it's low in saturated fat and not very expensive. used to up fat content.

3 tbsp peanut butter - primarily used for fat. also contains protein.

17g of optimum nutrition's serious mass protein powder - i'm using about 1/20th the recommended volume of this, bc it's designed to be used in large amounts, this protein is very cheap per weight, but won't help much in muscle gain bc of the low protein content. it's a lower protein by volume powder, which is great for me, because i'm trying to gain more fat than muscle. this powder has a lot of vitamins and minerals added to it, which helps me keep a good balance of them when i'm using it for meal replacement. used to slightly up protein content as well as for nutrients.

i just add everything to a blender (making sure to do the protein and peanut butter last), blend, and drink.

this is almost 1,000 calories with the ingredients i use. this plus 1 or 2 meals allows me to break the calories i need easily. sometimes i double it to be almost 2,000 calories.

the proportions used are to prioritise fat (which converts to body fat the easiest), then carbs, then protein (i want to stay around 10-15% of my calories per protein a day, as lower amounts of protein promote fat gain).

i have two primary uses for this smoothie- meal replacement, as i struggle to eat often bc of my chronic pain and adhd, and weight gain. i was using this smoothie for about a month and gained like 2 or 3 lbs.

[tare2k-blog]

ON SERIOUS MASS 12 Lb

Serious Mass 12 lb

 من Optimum Nutrition هو مكمل غذائي غني بالبروتين والكربوهيدرات والسعرات الحرارية، مصمم خصيصًا لدعم زيادة الوزن وبناء العضلات.

مواصفات المنتج:

السعرات الحرارية: 1252 سعرة حرارية في الحصة (2 سكوب)

البروتين: 50 جرام من مزيج بروتينات متعدد المصادر (بروتين مصل اللبن، كاسينات الكالسيوم، ألبومين البيض)

الكاربوهيدرات: 254 جرام من مزيج الكربوهيدرات المعقدة (دقيق الشوفان، مالتوديكسترين)

الدهون الصحية: 4 جرام من الدهون الصحية (بما في ذلك الأحماض الدهنية الأساسية)

السكر: 24 جرام من السكريات البسيطة

الكرياتين: 3 جرام من الكرياتين مونوهيدرات

فوائد Serious Mass 12 lb:

يدعم زيادة الوزن وبناء العضلات: بفضل محتواه العالي من البروتين والكربوهيدرات والسعرات الحرارية، يساعد على توفير الطاقة اللازمة لبناء العضلات وإصلاحها بعد التمرين.

يعزز الأداء الرياضي: الكرياتين الموجود في يساعد على تحسين القوة والقدرة على التحمل، مما يعزز الأداء الرياضي بشكل عام.

يدعم صحة الجهاز الهضمي: يحتوي على إنزيمات هضمية تساعد على امتصاص العناصر الغذائية بشكل أفضل.

غني بالفيتامينات والمعادن: يحتوي Serious Mass على مجموعة متنوعة من الفيتامينات والمعادن الأساسية لصحة جيدة.

مناسب لأي فئة:

الرياضيون: مثالي للرياضيين الذين يسعون إلى زيادة الوزن وبناء العضلات وتحسين أدائهم الرياضي.

الأشخاص النحيفون: يمكن أن يساعد الأشخاص النحيفين على زيادة الوزن بطريقة صحية.

كبار السن: يمكن أن يساعد كبار السن على الحفاظ على كتلة العضلات ومنع فقدان العضلات المرتبط بالعمر.

طريقة الاستخدام:

امزج سكوبين (63 جرام) من مع 240 مل من الحليب أو الماء أو عصير الفاكهة.

تناول بعد التمرين أو بين الوجبات.

[mineofilms]

Fitness Tips: 2023

Fitness Tips: 2023 My History in/with Fitness, specifically WEIGHT-TRAINING…

From the time I was 13 till I was about 25; pretty much everyone that knew me or knew of my reputation in the SWFL area would praise me for my weightliting efforts. Not just the look but the numbers I could throw up for a small statured person. I was never even challenged in powerlifting till I went to State in my high school run and I still fared better than most being in the Top 5 twice out of 3 years in the state of FL. When I got older drinking, chasing girls, working with bands, film school, computer systems/networking school, took up a lot of my time; but when I finally got back into fitness I was going the bodybuilding route, due to the amount of weight I put on over the years. I didn’t know much about bodybuilding or using weight training to lose weight being into powerlifting most of my life. I was partying heavily and on ever OTC (Over the Counter) supplement I could find.

I was taking a heavy stim preworkout and drinking with it sometimes. Between all that my body decided to go into a diabetic state that just progressively got worse. I couldn't manage it. I still cannot manage it. The reason why I think the supplement had more to do with this than the lifestyle is because that is the great common denominator. I was always living this life. When I started adding these stimulant preworkouts is when I started to have problems and my dumbass just kept doubling down, like CNN on a given broadcast lol.

Eventually, my lifestyle was too much for my diabetic state and my body crashed several times over an 8 year span. Now I have even more problems. When you look at pics from those earlier years of my diabetic state you can see what my body was actually doing. It was literally eating my insides out from the inside out. Almost like a parasite would operate. First it went for all my fat reserves, then it started working on my physical strength, then it literally started to eat away my muscle mass. I was 188lbs in early 2012, by mid-2012 I was down to 150 lbs and even got down to 138 a year or so later. Sure I was working out, I wasn't dieting all that much but had choose better quality of foods. 2013-2014 my body leveled off a little because I eased up on the drinking; but that only lasted a year before I went back to hitting the bottle hard along with whatever female was around at the time to keep me, um, “occupied.” I was still taking heavy stim preworkouts. I was hospitalized in 2017 for an infection on my right middle finger. They wanted to chop it off, I wasn’t having any of that, nope... Then Covid happened. I got Covid halfway through the pandemic and it aggravated my diabetes to such a level that my body went into ketoshock and I had almost died. I have had serious and complex issues ever since.

So, yeah, if you look at pics of me from 2014, I am ripped, six pack, shredded but my strength was way down and getting worse. Now since I quit drinking, the drinking was making my condition worse, I was able to get my weight back up to around 157-162 on a given day. So, not ripped anymore but still pack a good punch. I am somewhere between fit dad bod and a natural bulldog look. I am happy with that. If I had a car and a better money situation I would be at a controlled environment like a gym. Right now I am training in my @home Garage Gym Life with what I have to work with, which is a decent setup for home gym. With the weather down here it is hard for me to really get after it. I cannot handle the heat very well anymore and the garage is not insulated. It gets hot in there even when it’s only in the 70s-80s. It will feel like 100+ in there. I have had to condense my training efforts significantly.

Some of you have ask for some general tips. So here are some…

TIPS: Some of this might sound basic as fuck but it’s important:

1)   Consistency – A steady balance of: Diet, Rest, Training and Repeat. All of these are equally difficult but Repeat is the hardest. You do not have to train every day. Actually you shouldn’t train every day but you should train 4-5 days a week and hit at least every body part once or twice pending on your schedule.

2)   Eat a well-balanced diet. If you want your body to grow you have to feed it. Protein based foods. You can never fail with meats and veggies people. No matter what all the articles, YouTube channels, professionals say about diet. You have to eat protein based meals. You cannot replace food with shakes. Shakes are not a meal replacement but are meal enhancements. You drink a shake with your meal if the meal doesn’t have the protein you need to sustain both muscle repair and muscle growth. You can/should have a protein shake or a BCAA drink after your workout. There is no magic number here. You need 60 grams of protein for breakfast alone to sustain muscular growth. You will have to look up what your bodyweight/height, all that stuff, and find a number that works for you per meal that triggers the body to respond to this stimulus.

3)   You need to rest your body. Your body grows/loses weight during rest/sleep. Do not short change yourself in that arena if your plan is to grow more. Your brain and body both need rest, so sleep… Even losing weight, the body needs to rest to repair what work you did to it.

4)   This goes back to consistency… Repeat… If you do all this you must make it habitual. If you are constantly breaking your routine of diet, rest, exercise and skip the repeat button your results will show this.

5)   Do not over train. Over training is a real thing but what “they” do not tell you is what that actually means. Over training simply means your diet/rest are not matching your effort in the gym. You might go in the gym and bust ass for 3 hour workouts and that is fine but you have to do both rest and eat at that same intensity or your body will not build upon itself as you expect it will.

6)   If your body feels flat, tired and your results are becoming hindered, most likely that is because your body isn’t getting enough nutrients and rest to match the breakdown of your body in the gym. Be mindful. This is the one single reason people quit their fitness journey. The science is real, however, it is not a one size fits all and trainers/coaches will treat you like it is, it isn’t, everyone is different. Everyone’s body is different and what triggers their own stimulus is different. It is a trainer’s/coach’s job to sell you on the premise that you cannot achieve your fitness goals without their help/guidance. That is only partially true. You can absolutely get in shape without paying the obscene amounts of money that trainers/coaches charge people. Especially in group training establishments. However, not all coaches/trainers are like this and you personally may need that extra help. Just know that this is doable on your own if you are willing to put in the time, energy, research, diet, rest, exercise, attention, acceptance, repeat onto yourself. It is more than just projecting this on yourself. You must actually DO IT… No level of belief will do this for you. You must comply and do the work or nothing that is wanted will be achieved.

7)   Look up split routines. Look up HITT training. Look up Hypertrophy or the process of how muscles are broken down and built back up. Look up the differences for training for power, endurance and growth. All 3 are different but share common attributes. They are also not all mutually exclusive.

8)   Supplements… Be careful with these. If you are gonna use supplementation do your research. Most supplements and/or companies are not regulated by the FDA. They have labels, sure, but what is on the label is not literally monitored by the FDA. You may buy protein and realize the protein has a bunch of fillers in there to make it taste better, but may be a substance that your digestive tract cannot process. I would also stay away from Stimulant based preworkouts. They make you feel great, but what they do not tell you, in a lot of cases, they are using one of like 30 different chemicals that are considered and/or in the meth family tree. You are not ingesting literal meth, but it will pop you as a positive drug test for meth. This is because your standard drug test for meth covers ALL of the whole family of meth-based-chemicals. Not all of them are illegal but they are still considered “meth.” You have to get a comprehensive drug test done so they can see the exact chemical make-up of what is in your urine/bloodstream. It costs more so they do not usually do that. Also if you are taking drug tests regularly you should bring in all the supplements you are taking and let the lab people see it for themselves. I almost got into trouble with probation when I was on probation because I got popped for meth and had to bring in the supplement I was taking that had that meth-family-chemical in it. That is how I know this lol. You can use protein freely for the most part. Plant based is better on the gut than others. There are all sorts of things you can take that are good. You can use a non-stim preworkout or just get Beta-Alanine which is the reason why most people take preworkout to begin with. Just do your research and do not trust that the supplement companies have your best interests in mind. They don’t. They just want you to buy their stuff. If that stuff hurts you or causes sickness or worse they will not help you or even show they care. ALL supplement companies should not be trusted with your health, but you can use supplementation to help garner a better diet and workout recovery. Just do your homework and research on the chemical make-up of the substance you are putting into your body. You should be mindful and doing this anyway…

9)   If you want better workout tips follow some of these channels and/or mine on YouTube. I can recommend a few. My channel mostly just shows some creative workouts you can do but I do not cover a lot of the things I have mentioned here. That is why I put this together for you all. You can always message me with your questions. I am not taking clients because to be honest I cannot give you what you really need and that is time, attention; plus I cannot literally monitor what you do on a given day.

Me – https://www.youtube.com/@mineofilms ATHLEAN-X™ - https://www.youtube.com/@athleanx BodyBuilding.com - https://www.youtube.com/bodybuildingcom BroScienceLife - https://www.youtube.com/@BroScienceLife FitnessBlender - https://www.youtube.com/@fitnessblender Tiger Fitness - https://www.youtube.com/@TigerFitness Mike O'Hearn - https://www.youtube.com/@MikeOHearnTitan

Hope this helps…. Mineo (pronounced Mini-O)

Fitness Tips: 2023 By David-Angelo Mineo 1/13/2023 1,918 Words

[adolescenthearts-blog1]

xyrem and human growth hormone

[huron132]

Ok, the last 7 years of my life have been an absolute hell hole. My health, my jobs, my relationships, my partnership, all have been wrecked. My health has been a runaway train, I've have sleeping issues, mental issues, I ended up with cirrhosis of the liver NASH. Somehow got cellulitis in my right calf. It took less than a week to escalate to surgery. I had surgery and they removed infection the size of a softball in my leg. Down to the muscle and bone. The infection went to my liver and I started to become so sick.

There were days I couldn't get up out of the bed literally asi had no strength to help myself up. I was stranded in my bath tub a couple of times with no way of getting help. I had fluid in my lungs and through out my body I would have to go to the hospital 2-3 times a month to have it removed. At times they would remove 6-26 liters of fluid from my body. I at one time was a mass of a human, I blew up to 400 lbs. Fluid would leak out of my body because it couldn't contain the fluid. I wore diapers because of the fluid and that I couldn't get up or move fast enough to go to the bathroom.

Now previous to this my boyfriend, partner, friend left me. He couldn't stay to help me with my illness. So this whole time I had to move to a new place . Clear my old home by myself as I had no one to help me and move.

Then the fun started. The plauge. Being a compromised person I had to isolate on my own, I lost my job, I had no money coming in for 6 months. The tax rebates we received paid for my rent, some on my utilities and groceries. My car was falling apart and I never could be sure it could get me to the hospital, or a Dr's appointment. My family couldn't help as they would either get me sick or get sick themselves. I go into the hospital and stay for 2-4 days, even up to 2 weeks and no one could visit me.

Thanks to the hospital they helped me get medical coverage through Medicare. My liver was shutting down on me. I was on a 2 year wait for a new liver. I got the transplant and still no one could be there for me due to restrictions. I could have anyone come in and help me after the transplant.

As I was healing I ended up getting a hernia. The bloating I had caused my umbilical, or bellybutton to expand. There was a void there and had to make sure no heavy lifting was done. But as I said I was alone. Some how I herniated and my intestines were sucked into my bellybutton. I was taken by emergency squad to the hospital were I had emergency surgery to remove my intestines as they were strangled and had to remove a section of them and reattached.

During all of this I had to give up my dog/companion of 12 years to the shelter. But she died in there about 4 weeks after I dropped her off. My father was getting sick,plus the stress of him worrying about me didn't help. After I had healed enough to see my family and a few friends. I ended up helping my dad. Taking him to appointments and such. The timing was the right time as I was able to be there for him. My sister would organize all of his appointments and such. I was the driver and waiting room buddy. The he just kept getting worse. Eventually I had to take him to the hospital and he passed a week later.

My reason to write all of this down is that through all of this the world has gone to hell. I'm so hurt in this time and day that we have all reverted to over a 100 years ago. As Americans I don't know when the last time we moved forward. It's all been backwards.

Americans we need to stand up to the shit show we are in and make a difference. I myself have grown as a human the last 7 years. If I can do it, and I am serious you all can to. Get out and vote, show you are not happy make the politicians we voted for to work for us. Make them accountable for their jobs. We as a working force are held accountable for what we do at our jobs.

Let's stop going backwards. The countries we assume that are worse than us are really not. They don't live with the fear of health, guns, or who they are. They know they are people who see things different. We need to do the same thing. Help you, help your families and friends. Please please make the difference.

Thanks for reading this if you got this far. Make a change today. Be nice to others be accountable for you. That way you can make others be accountable to do the right thing. We are all different and we all live lives that others will not accept. Make the change

[greatworldwar2]

• Bofors 40 mm gun

The Bofors 40 mm gun, often referred to simply as the Bofors gun, is an anti-aircraft autocannon designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. It was one of the most popular medium-weight anti-aircraft systems during World War II, used by most of the western Allies.

The Swedish Navy purchased a number of 2-pounder Pom-Poms from Vickers as anti-aircraft guns in 1922. The Navy approached Bofors about the development of a more capable replacement. Bofors signed a contract in late 1928. Bofors produced a gun that was a smaller version of a 57 mm (6-pounder) semi-automatic gun developed as an anti-torpedo boat weapon in the late 19th century by Finspång. Their first test gun was a re-barreled Nordenfelt version of the Finspång gun, to which was added a semi-automatic loading mechanism. Testing of this gun in 1929 demonstrated that a problem existed feeding the weapon in order to maintain a reasonable rate of fire. A mechanism that was strong enough to handle the stresses of moving the large round was too heavy to move quickly enough to fire rapidly. One attempt to solve this problem used zinc shell cases that burned up when fired. This proved to leave heavy zinc deposits in the barrel, and had to be abandoned. In the summer of 1930 experiments were made with a new test gun that did away with controlled feed and instead flicked the spent casing out the rear whereafter a second mechanism reloaded the gun by "throwing" a fresh round from the magazine into the open breech. This seemed to be the solution they needed, improving firing rates to an acceptable level, and the work on a prototype commenced soon after.

During this period Krupp purchased a one-third share of Bofors. Krupp engineers started the process of updating the Bofors factories to use modern equipment and metallurgy, but the 40 mm project was kept secret. The prototype was completed and fired in November 1931, and by the middle of the month it was firing strings of two and three rounds. Changes to the feed mechanism were all that remained, and by the end of the year it was operating at 130 rounds per minute. Continued development was needed to turn it into a weapon suitable for production, which was completed in October 1933. Since acceptance trials had been passed the year before, this became known as the "40 mm akan M/32". Most forces referred to it as the "Bofors 40 mm L/60", although the barrel was actually 56.25 calibres in length, not the 60 calibres. The gun fired a 900 g (2.0 lb) high explosive 40 × 311R (rimmed) shell at 2,960 ft/s (900 m/s). The rate of fire was normally about 120 rounds per minute (2.0 rounds per second), which improved slightly when the barrels were closer to the horizon as gravity assisted the feeding from the top-mounted magazine. In practice firing rates were closer to 80–100 rpm (1.3–1.7 rounds per second), as the rounds were fed into the breech from four round clips which had to be replaced by hand. The maximum attainable ceiling was 7,200 m (23,600 ft), but the practical maximum was about 3,800 m (12,500 ft).

The gun was provided with an advanced sighting system. The trainer and layer were both provided with reflector sights for aiming, while a third crew-member standing behind them "adjusted" for lead using a simple mechanical computer. Power for the sights was supplied from a 6V battery. The first version of the 40 mm the Navy ordered was intended for use on submarines, where the larger calibre allowed the gun to be used for both AA and against smaller ships. The barrel was shorter at 42 calibers long, with the effect of reducing the muzzle velocity to about 700 m/s (2,300 ft/s). When not in use, the gun was pointed directly up and retracted into a watertight cylinder. The only known submarines that used this arrangement was the Sjölejonet-class boats. The guns were later removed. The first order for the "real" L/60 was made by the Dutch Navy, who ordered five twin-gun mounts for the cruiser De Ruyter in August 1934. These guns were stabilized using the Hazemeyer mount, in which one set of layers aimed the gun, while a second manually stabilized the platform the gun sat on. Bofors also developed a towable carriage which they displayed in April 1935 at a show in Belgium. This mount allowed the gun to be fired from the carriage with no setup required, although with limited accuracy. Orders for the land based versions were immediate, starting with an order for eight weapons from Belgium in August 1935, and followed by a flood of orders from other forces including Poland, Norway, and Finland. The Swedish Navy adopted the weapon as the m/36 in hand-worked single air-cooled, and power operated twin water-cooled version. A twin air-cooled mounting, probably hand-worked was also used by the navies of Sweden and Argentina and a twin air-cooled wet mounting was developed for Polish submarines.

The British Army had first examined the weapon when they received a number of Polish-built examples in 1937 for testing, known as the "QF 40 mm Mark I" (QF standing for "quick firing"), or "Mark I/2" after a minor change to the flash hider. A licence was acquired and the gun was converted from metric to imperial measurements. They also made numerous changes to the design to make it more suitable for mass production, as the original Bofors design was intended to be hand-assembled, and many parts were labeled "file to fit on assembly", requiring many man-hours of work to complete. Testing showed that aiming the guns against high-speed aircraft was a serious problem. Although the gun could be trained quickly, aiming accurately while doing so proved difficult. In order to address this, the British introduced a complex mechanical analogue computer, the Kerrison Director, which drove the laying electrically. A three-man team operated the director simply by pointing it at the target whilst dialing in estimates for speed, range, and various atmospheric conditions. The director then aimed the guns directly through powered mounts, as the gunners loaded the clips. This eliminated the need for the lead-correcting reflector sights, which were replaced with a backup system consisting of a simple ring-and-post sight known as a "pancake". In this form, the "QF 40 mm Mark III" (Mk II was a designation used for a Vickers "pom-pom"), became the Army's standard light AA (anti-aircraft) weapon, operating alongside their 3-inch and 3.7-inch heavy weapons. The gun was considered so important to the defence of Britain after the fall of France in 1940 that a movie, The Gun, was produced to encourage machinists to work harder and complete more of them. British production started slowly: by September 1939 only 233 equipments had been produced; but by the end of the war total production from British, Canadian and Australian factories was over 19,000. Peak production year was 1942 when British factories produced 5,025 and Canadian factories produced 1,311.

In combat it was found that the Kerrison was difficult to set up to use in many situations, as well as making logistics more complex due to the need to keep its electrical generator supplied with fuel. In most engagements only the pancake sights were used, without any form of correction, making the British versions less capable than those used by other forces. Eventually an anti-aircraft gunnery school on the range at Stiffkey on the Norfolk coast delivered a workable solution, a trapeze-like arrangement that moved the pancake sights to offer lead correction, operated by a new crew-member standing behind the left-hand layer. The "Stiffkey Sight" was sent out to units in 1943, arriving in Canadian units in the midst of the Battle of the Aleutian Islands. A final wartime change to the elevation mechanism resulted in the "QF 40 mm Mark XII". They also designed a much lighter two-wheeled carriage for airborne use. The Army also experimented with various self-propelled anti-aircraft systems based on various tank chassis. Changes to the breech for this role created the "QF 40 mm Mark VI", which was used on the Crusader to produce the Crusader III AA Mark I. The main self-propelled version of the Bofors used the gun set on the chassis of a Morris Commercial four-wheel drive lorry, this was known as the "Carrier, SP, 4x4 40mm, AA (Bofors) 30cwt". Such guns were used in support of Army divisions to provide swift protection against air attack without the need to unlimber. They saw service in North West Europe, where six SP Bofors of 92nd (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, landed with the British 3rd Infantry Division on Sword Beach on D-Day to protect the vital bridges over the Caen Canal and Orne River (Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge), shooting down 17 German planes. Later in the campaign, SP Bofors were used extensively for ground shoots as well as in an anti-aircraft role. In British army service the Bofors found a highly specialised role: during the North Africa Campaign at the Second Battle of El Alamein, they were used to fire tracer horizontally to mark safe paths for units through the German minefields. This practice was further developed during operations in North-West Europe, where bursts of colour-coded tracer were used to define the axis of advance of the different formations in large-scale night attacks.

The Royal Navy also made extensive use of the Bofors. Their first examples were air-cooled versions quickly adapted to ships during the withdrawal from Norway. Locally produced examples started arriving in 1942, known as the "QF 40 mm Mark IV" for use in twin-mounts, or the "QF 40 mm Mark V" for single mounts. The Navy ran through a variety of versions of the basic Bofors gun over the war, including the Mark VII to Mark XI. The Royal Navy's home-grown light anti-aircraft weapon, the QF 2-pounder gun, also had a caliber of 40 mm, but was referred to as the QF 2-pdr. The final British Bofors mounting that saw service was the "stabilized tachymetric anti-aircraft gun" (STAAG) which was twin-barrelled, stabilised, and carried its own tachymetric (i.e. predictive) fire control system, based around the centimeter Radar Type 262, capable of "locking on" to a target. This mounting was heavy (17.5 tons) and the high-vibration environment of the gun mounting was poor location for sensitive valve electronics and mechanical computers. STAAG Mark I carried the radar dish over the gun barrels where it was subject to damage during firing, therefore STAAG Mark II shifted the set to the roof of the control cabin. STAAG was ultimately too difficult to maintain in the harsh environment of a warship and was later replaced by the Mounting Mark V with the fire control equipment located remotely.

In order to supply both the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy with much greater numbers of the guns, Chrysler built 60,000 of the guns and 120,000 barrels through the war, at half the original projected cost, and filling the Army's needs by 1943. Over the lifetime of the production, their engineers introduced numerous additional changes to improve mass production, eventually reducing the overall time needed to build a gun by half; most of these changes were in production methods rather than the design of the gun itself. There were many difficulties in producing the guns within the United States, beyond their complexity (illustrated by the use of 2,000 subcontractors in 330 cities and 12 Chrysler factories to make and assemble the parts). The drawings were metric, in Swedish and read from the first angle of projection. Chrysler had to translate to English, fix absolute dimensions, and switch to the third angle of projection. Chrysler engineers also tried to simplify the gun, unsuccessfully, and to take high speed movies to find possible improvements, but this was not possible until near the end of the war. The United States Navy's Bureau of Ordnance purchased a twin-mount air-cooled example, spare parts and 3,000 rounds of ammunition directly from Bofors, which arrived in New York on August 28th, 1940 aboard the Army transport USAT American Legion, which had evacuated 897 people, including members of the Norwegian royal family, through the Finnish port of Petsamo. The gun was quickly chosen as the Navy's standard anti-aircraft weapon over the British 40mm calibre, 2-pounder pom-pom; however, negotiations with Bofors for licensed production stalled when the Swedes requested airplane export and manufacturing licenses in return. Reportedly, the Navy secretly imported a set of imperial designs from Britain and started production illegally. A formal contract with Bofors was reached in June 1941. The resulting Mark 1 and Mark 2 weapons were intended for the left and right side of a twin mount, respectively, and were adapted by Chrysler for water cooling.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, the existing 1.1" (28 mm) quad mount and .50 caliber machine guns were determined to be inadequate against modern aircraft, and their replacement by 40 mm Bofors and 20 mm Oerlikon weapons was accelerated. The water-cooled version was used almost exclusively by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. In 1938 the United States Army introduced a 37 mm gun of their own design, but found it to be of limited performance. In early World War II, six British Bofors were imported for testing, along with Kerrison Predictor directors, and they proved to be superior in all areas. By the middle part of the war, most of the 37 mm guns had been replaced by the 40 mm. In U.S. Army and Marine Corps service, the single mount Bofors was known as the 40 mm Automatic Gun M1. The U.S. version of the gun fired three variants of the British Mk. II high-explosive shell as well as the M81A1 armor-piercing round, which was capable of penetrating some 50 mm of homogeneous armor plate at a range of 500 yards. In the Army, each Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) auto-weapons battalion was authorized a total of thirty-two 40 mm guns in its four firing batteries. During World War II, the twin mount version of the gun was mounted on an M24 Chaffee tank chassis as the M19 Gun Motor Carriage. In the 1950s, the M41 Walker Bulldog tank was heavily modified into the M42 Duster with the same twin 40 mm mounting. After being largely withdrawn from service in the early 1960s, the M42 was re-introduced beginning in 1966 for the Vietnam War, where it was mostly used for ground fire support. The U.S Airforce created the Bofors 40 mm gun § AC-130 Gunship.

In World War II Germany, the Wehrmacht used a number of Bofors guns which had been captured in Poland and France. The Kriegsmarine also operated some guns obtained from Norway. In German naval use, the gun was designated the "4 cm Flak 28", and was used aboard the cruisers Admiral Hipper and Prinz Eugen toward the end of the war. Germany also purchased a large number (200+) of Hungarian made Bofors guns. In return, Hungary received 75 mm PAK guns for every 4-5 Bofors. Then Wehrmacht used Hungarian guns after German occupation of Hungary from late 1944. Most of them lost during the fights in Budapest and Trandanubia. Japan captured a number of Bofors guns in Singapore and put them into production as the Type 5. Both Japan and West Germany continued to use the Bofors gun throughout the Cold War. The Federal German navy used it in destroyers, frigates, and fast patrol boats until 1984, and in minesweepers to the present day.

The Bofors 40mm post-war service has endured through the cold war and into the modern era. In the post-war era, the original design was not suitable for action against jet-powered aircraft, so Bofors introduced a new model of significantly more power, the 40 mm L/70. In spite of sharing almost nothing with the original design other than the calibre and the distinctive conical flash hider, this weapon is also widely known simply as "the Bofors". Although not as popular as the original L/60 model, the L/70 remains in service, especially as a multi-purpose weapon for light armoured vehicles, as on the CV 90. Bofors has been part of BAE Systems AB since March 2005.

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Daemonic Harbinger, Shagrath

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[Commissioned by @crazytrain48​. Shagrath the Red Moon Spyder was first mentioned in the original Arduin Grimoire but never got much elaboration, beyond being Chaotic and Evil and having a holiday devoted to him. The 90s “Compleat Arduin” edition misspelled his name with 2 Gs, and that’s what I have used previously in the spiga entry. The Arduin Eternal version from the 2000s made him a creator god, but that information never made it into any of their published books, and their website is only available via Wayback Machine. So this version merges him with another spider-themed archfiend from Arduin, Calyandagg, but incorporates some of my own personal interests in making evil deities based on real-world evils. The idea that conspiracy theories are authored by a giant spider who lives on the moon sounds like a conspiracy theory in and of itself.]

Daemonic Harbinger, Shagrath CR 22 NE Outsider (extraplanar) This immense creature looks vaguely arachnid, with thirteen legs and thirteen eyes. Its carapace is a metallic red, with a mantle of bristling fur on it. Alien runes decorate its legs and abdomen.

Shagrath The Red Moon Spider, The Second Opinion Concerns alternate history, misinformation, torture Domains Darkness, Destruction, Evil, Knowledge Subdomains Daemon, Moon, Thought, Torture Worshipers conspiracy theorists, interrogators, spiga Minions crucidaemons, fiendish giant spiders, piscodaemons Unholy Symbol a ring of twelve red moons showing the lunar cycle Favored Weapon heavy pick Devotion Spend one hour promulgating an alternative version of a commonly held idea or belief. It does not matter whether you believe what you say, or if it is true, only that the information is spread. Gain a +4 profane bonus to saving throws against confusion effects and mind-influencing effects that deal damage (such as mind thrust). Boons: 1: web 2/day; 2: freedom of movement 2/day; 3: extended true seeing 2/day

Shagrath the Red Moon Spider is an ancient being, the first of the race of fiends known as spiga. When first formed, Shagrath lacked magical power, but he realized that belief was a strong enough force to shape the cosmos. By viewing himself as a god, he gained the ability to cast divine spells, and eventually forced his way into the courts of the daemonic harbingers through sheer force of will. His ultimate goal is to achieve full divinity, and his primary means to accomplish this is to expand his cult—if enough mortals believe him to become a god, he will be one.

As part of this agenda of apotheosis, Shagrath tells outrageous falsehoods: that he wove a planet out of his webs; that he can see everything that transpires in moonlight; that he knows literally everything. It matters not to him that the majority of his lies do not stick. If repeated forcefully enough, to enough people, they will take root and become history. His worshipers gleefully create and distribute “alternate facts”, particularly those that demonize a vulnerable group or that promote selfishness and disunity. Of course, Shagrath does enjoy inflicting pain in a more direct sense as well. He is a master of torture, and is especially interested at how the application of pain can cause mortals to weave extravagant falsehoods or completely change their beliefs.

Shagrath has all of the abilities of a spiga, and uses them in similar fashion in combat. He enhances his combat prowess with divine magic, entraps foes in his webs, and then paralyzes them with his claws and venomous bite. Shagrath can create new spiga by implanting eggs inside of paralyzed victims, which he keeps helpless but alive long enough for the spiga to grow inside them. Shagrath has access to many powerful clerical abilities, which he uses in combat as much to impress upon enemies his divine powers as much as to injure and kill.

Shagrath is about thirty feet long and weighs ten tons. He spends little time in Abaddon, perhaps because his interests in divinity make him distrusted by the Horsemen.  He typically lairs on a moon of the planet in the Material Plane he is currently interested in. From this vantage point, he descends earthward to spread lies and torture, and returns to his airless abode to avoid retribution.

Shagrath                CR 22 XP 615,000 NE Gargantuan outsider (daemon, evil, extraplanar) Init +11; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +39, tremorsense 120 ft., true seeing Aura fear (30 ft., Will DC 33), unholy (DC 29) Defense AC 38, touch 18, flat-footed 30 (-4 size, +7 Dex, +20 natural, +1 dodge, +4 deflection) hp 420 (24d10+288); fast healing 10 Fort +30, Ref +21, Will +30 DR 20/good; Immune acid, death effects, disease, electricity, fire, mind-influencing effects, paralysis poison; Resist cold 30; SR 33; Weakness vulnerable to cold Defensive Abilities freedom of movement Offense Speed 50 ft., climb 40 ft.; air walk Melee bite +33 (2d12+13 plus poison), 3 claws +33 (4d6+13 plus paralysis) Space 20 ft.; Reach 15 ft. Special Attacks breath weapon (80 ft. cone, Ref DC 34, 20d10 piercing plus entrap, 1d4 round), entrap (hardness 10, 30 hp, 1 hour), implant, paralysis (DC 34, 1 round), rend (2 claws, 4d6+19), tortuous rend Spell-like Abilities CL 24th, concentration +35 (+39 casting defensively) Constant—air walk, true seeing, unholy aura (DC 29) At will—greater scrying (DC 28), greater teleport (self plus 50 lbs. objects only), harm (DC 27) 3/day—glibness, empowered greater shadow evocation (DC 29), plane shift (DC 28) 1/day—interplanetary teleport, mind blank, power word kill, summon (9th, 100%, any CR 20 or lower daemon) Spells CL 20th, concentration +32 9th—energy drain (DC 31, x2), mass heal (DC 31), shades (DC 31)D, quickened slay living (DC 27), quickened wall of stone 8th—quickened blessing of fervor, quickened cure critical wounds (DC 26), demand (DC 30)D, discern location, quickened divine power, fire storm (DC 30) greater spell immunity 7th—blasphemy (DC 29), quickened blindness/deafness (DC 24), destruction (DC 29, x2), disintegrate (DC 29)D, greater restoration, repulsion (DC 29) 6th—banishment (DC 28), blade barrier (DC 28), dreamD, greater dispel magic (x2), heal, quickened owl’s wisdom 5th—cleanse, quickened divine favor, dispel good (DC 27), quickened entropic shield, flame strike (DC 27), greater command (DC 27), shout (DC 27)D  4th—cure critical wounds (DC 26), death ward, dimensional anchor (x2), moonstruck (DC 26)D, sending, spiritual ally (+36/+31/+26/+21, 1d10+5 force), tongues 3rd—bestow curse (DC 25), contagion (DC 25), cure serious wounds (DC 25), deeper darkness, prayer, protection from elements, seek thoughts (DC 25)D, stone shape 2nd—bear’s endurance, bull’s strength, death knell (DC 24, x2), make whole, pain strike (DC 24)D, silence (DC 24), spiritual weapon (+36/+31/+26/+21, 1d8+5) 1st—cure light wounds (DC 23, x3), detect good (x3), faerie fireD, sanctuary (DC 23) 0th—detect magic, guidance, read magic, stabilize D = domain spell Statistics Str 36, Dex 25, Con 35, Int 35, Wis 34, Cha 32 Base Atk +24; CMB +41; CMD 63 (73 vs. trip) Feats Combat Expertise, Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Empower SLA (greater shadow evocation) Improved Critical (claw), Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes, Mobility, Quicken Spell, Spring Attack, Stand Still, Whirlwind Attack Skills Acrobatics +34 (+42 when jumping), Bluff +38, Climb +53, Diplomacy +38, Intimidate +38, Knowledge (arcana, dungeoneering, engineering, geography +, history, local, nature, nobility) +31, Knowledge (planes, religion) +35, Perception +39, Sense Motive +39, Spellcraft +36, Stealth +22, Use Magic Device +35 Languages Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Draconic, Infernal, telepathy 300 ft. SQ daemonic harbinger traits, expert climber, no breath Ecology Environment any land or underground (Abaddon) Organization unique Treasure double standard Special Abilities Aura of Fear (Su) A creature that fails its save against Shagrath’s aura of fear is panicked for 1 minute. A creature that succeeds its save is immune to Shagrath’s aura of fear for the next 24 hours. The save DC is Charisma based. Daemonic Harbinger Traits (Ex/Su) Shagrath is a daemonic harbinger, a powerful unique fiend. This grants him the following traits:

Immunity to acid, charm and compulsion effects, death effects, disease and poison

Resistance to cold, electricity and fire 30

Telepathy 300 ft.

Shagrath’s natural weapons, as well as any weapons he wields, count as evil and epic weapons for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction

Shagrath can grant spells to his worshippers.

Expert Climber (Ex) Shagrath can climb on any surface. Treat this as a non-magical spider climb effect, and this ability doubles its racial bonus on Climb checks to +16. Freedom of Movement (Su) Shagrath is constantly protected by a freedom of movement effect as a supernatural ability. Implant (Ex) As a standard action, Shagrath can implant an egg inside a helpless or paralyzed creature. This creature must succeed a DC 34 Fortitude save or the egg begins to grow inside its body for 1d4+1 days. Every day a creature has an egg incubating inside it, it takes 2 points of Constitution drain. Attempts to remove this larva require a DC 30 Heal check, or any magic that removes disease with a successful DC 34 caster level check. Once the duration elapses, the egg bursts free as a squirming larva, dealing 10d10 points of damage as it goes (Fortitude DC 34 halves). The larva is treated as a giant maggot with a spiga’s immunities, spell resistance and defensive abilities. It grows into a full-sized spiga in 13 days. The save DC is Constitution based. Poison (Ex) Bite—injury; save Fort DC 34; duration 1/round for 6 rounds; effect 1d6 Dex damage; cure 2 consecutive saves. The save DC is Constitution based. Spells Shagrath casts spells as a 20th level cleric. Shagrath gets a bonus spell prepared each day for his domains, and can choose between all of his domains and subdomains for that spell. He does not gain the ability to spontaneously cast inflict spells. He treats his own body as a holy symbol for the purposes of spell components. Torturous Rend (Su) A creature affected by Shagrath’s rend ability must succeed a DC 33 Fortitude save or be overcome with intense pain, suffering a -4 penalty to attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, skill and ability checks for the next 1d4+1 rounds. Multiple failed saves cause the duration to stack. The save DC is Charisma based.

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Kinetic Energy-Magical Sniper Railgun* KR-LV** "Karma"

That weapon is used only against the most dangerous, violent and serious enemies.

Without the modifications in the software of the on-board computer, you have to lock on the target and let the computer correct the position of the weapon before you shoot. That's necessary because this weapon is primarily used on tremendously long distances and even the smallest mistake could make the bullet miss the target.

Standart configuration: Length: 175 cm \ 69 in. (nice) Mass: 10 kg \ 22 lbs. Caliber: 15х100 mm \ .60 RG Bullet speed: 2500 m/s \ 5500 mph Max theoretical shooting range: 25 km \ 15 miles Clip capacity: 3 bullets, 2 MJ

Standart modules: On-board computer 64x adjustable sniper scope Subspace kinetic bipods, controlled by the on-board computer(4 pieces) Heavy stock with the built-in recoil compensator

Ammo types: Kinetic(K) Armor-Piercing, Capped, Ballistic Cap(APCBC) High-Explosive(HE) Magical Explosive(ME) High-Explosive Armor-Piercing(HEAP) Magical Armor-Piercing(MAP) EMP-Plasma(EMPP) Magical Plasma(MPW) Project "Comet"(MIPT) Project "Radiant"(EDPW) Project "ERASE"(AMAW)

* Kinetic Energy-Magical Sniper Railgun - a type of the sniper railguns that uses telekinesis to accelerate the bullets. * KR-LV - Kinetic Railgun 55. Acronym "KR" means "Karmic Retribution". Acronym "LV" means "Level of Violence". Together they mean "Karmic Retribution for your Level of Violence".

[bai-zewarrior]

So I finally nailed down my designs for the black heart characters (except colossus, perry/predator and Madusa I'm still massing with them) along with some head canons! The characters might look a bit weird next to each other, I didn't draw them all on the same canvas. I know I'm suppose to but I was lazy and didn't want to re draw the refs on one canvas. I also appologize for this being so long.

I'm hoping to start a comic with these guys. I always end up saying no to projects like this because I don't think my art is good enough but I think I'm going to put my foot down this time!

Hal:

Can talk(unlike my version of Cyan)

Pretty laid back but knows when he needs to be serious

Will curse you out

Thinks Aura and Nautilus are cute together

His cape works as his "soul meter"(idk what to call it). It has 3 squares on the back that represent Hal's souls. The cape becomes tattered and ripped when souls are taken.

He just wants 5 minutes of peace without someone trying to take his souls, please give him his 5 minutes of peace.

Really hates colossus

In the context of black heart I don't consider him a nano bot. He can bleed and stuff like that.

When he sleeps his body starts to heal any wounds and mend his cloths. This leaves him defenseless as he will remain unconscious until it's finished. He tries not to sleep out in the open and often uses caves and trees as temporary shelters when he needs to sleep. This can also activate when he is knocked unconscious but in cases like with Colossus the healing part is stopped.

He can change colors but he prefers red. His cloths don't change colors with him. Just his skin and his cape.

Again, in he context of black heart, I imagine Hal just kinda woke up somewhere with a bit of knowlage about himself and that's about it. Shortly after works he ran into Aura and Nautilus for the first time. He considered the battle a joke.

Nautilus:

Has glowing markings all over his body. He can cause them to glow at will

Can only breath air for around 10 minutes( this time can decrease with some conditions such as heat or cold. This is because his gills need to be wet for him to breath air, so if it's really hot out his gills will dry out faster)

Has a stutter due to the N.A.T.U thing, among other things. Like trust issues when Xero is around

Is euryhalinr(this just means he can breath any kind of water)

His suit adds about 100lbs to him (material, water, and special boots to help with balance when moving around in the suit)

Likes to make jewlary with shells and stuff

Loves Aura to death. Would litterally die for her.

His teeth work like a shark's. One falls out? You've got plenty more to fill the gap! He has given pretty much all his friends breif heart attacks when he casually spits one out after they hear the loud bone cracking noise of a tooth braking. He keeps all the teeth.

Runs on all fours for some reason. No one knows why, including Aura.

Aura:

Learned all her magic from her parents

Her parents lived like hermits because they believed people still hold witch hunts. Aura hated this because she snuck out a lot and knew that this wasn't the case.

Can be a bit forgetful with spells so she always keeps her book with her at all times

Love Nautilus to death, would die for him too.

Can't swim, her body it denser then water so she just sinks. Nautilus is almost always with her when she's near water for this reason.

Aura's wand is broken but she just keeps fixing it with tape because she doesn't know how to make a new one. She also doesn't want to ask her parents because they wouldn't let her live it down.

Made the headphones Puffer wears so he doesn't have to worry about Siren trying to mind control him, again.

Aura has a secret garden. She uses it to grow her magic plants. It has a defense system that even Jestar can't get past. Only those she has given permission can enter, but those people can give temporary permission to others. Only Nautilus, Puffer and Solario have permission to go into the garden.

Has gotten use to the weird things Natalie can do.

Puffer:

A bit of a hermit, but will open up when he trusts someone

Always has his eyes closed because he thinks his eyes look scary. He can still see for some reason? (Like Brock from pokemon, idk how he could see but he traveled like 3-4 regions like that)

Changes colors depending on emotions. Blue is calm and happy, purple is upset and sad and red is anger and frustration.

Puffer can create lots of spikes all over his body if needed as well as a set of claws. He doesn't do this often.

Likes to cook but keeps it a secret from everyone. (Aura and Nautilus found out though, they just kept the secret)

He really doesn't like Siren after what she did to him, but he will talk to her and hang out with her if someone else he trusts is around.

Really wants to apologize to Hal but he hasn't gotten the chance to yet.

Is really self conscious.

He's not very good at swimming but Nautilus teaches him when Siren isn't around or in Aura's secret garden.

Siren:

Likes to sing for no reason

Has a not so small army of skeleton fish

Is litterally heartless (she doesn't like to talk about it)

Has a crush on Puffer but she doesn't know how to fix the bridge she burned with him

Plays chess with Myst a lot(and wins a lot, much to Myst's dismay)

She can shape shift her tail into a pair of legs. This was a "gift" from Jestar to help her be a better assassin for him

Thinks Xero is a prick

Likes to steal Xero's alcohol sometimes

Can water bend. She can't blood bend though. She's tried.

Likes rock and country music for some reason

Nautilus likes to play with her fish some times.

Knows a bit about necromancy. She doesn't like to talk about it though. She never does it in front of anyone besides her fish army

Myst:

Doesn't like to talk about his life outside work

Is well over 100 years old( he lost count)

Is very protective when it comes to Shade

Doesn't really understand Shade but will support her regardless

Likes to smoke when he thinks no one is around

Can create an umbrella to protect himself if he is caught outside when the sun comes up

Likes to play chess

Is basically a dad to the other assassins

Rarely opens his third eye. This usually only happens when he gets frantic, scared or extreamly angry

Does not have any remorse over killing Parry

He doesn't eat in front of others if it can be helped

Myst told Nautilus about Shade once. He had a bad feeling and asked that if anything happened to him Nautilus would take care of her. Only problem was no one thought about the address of Myst and Shade's mansion. He found her though, don't worry.

When he is exposed to sunlight it will immediately cause him to get sunburned. If he doesn't leave after about 30 seconds- 1 minute he will start to die slowly and painfully. He has taken a lot of tea baths because of the sun

Solario:

A big dork

Very loud and bubbly

Is a prince from a kingdom galaxies away from where black heart takes place in

Was suppose to marry the moon from the moon is getting away level (haven't given her a name yet) but she unknowingly broke Sol's heart so he left. He wanted her to be happy and he clearly couldn't give her that happiness.

Doesn't understand "mortal" things but wants to learn.

Nautilus taught him the word yeet and now he won't stop using it

I headcanon that his voice actor would Gary LeVox(lead singer of Rascal Flatts)(don't ask why, I can't change what has happened in my brain)

Will stop at nothing to see his friends happy

Likes hanging out with Aura, Nautilus and Puffer

Can make himself hotter or colder at will. He tends to stay at a heat that won't hurt others when the go near him, but not cold enough to cause himself harm.

If he gets to cold he can die. He also starts to become extreamly cold or extremely hot before death. The direction his tempature goes in is dependent on what he was doing before hand. (Example: reading a book, gets shot, starts to get colder and colder. Attacking Hal trying to get his soul, shapeshifts so much he almost blows himself up, gets hotter and hotter)

Can be a bit over dramatic sometimes

He is incredibly strong. He can lift both Puffer(who whieghs roughly 230 lbs) and Nautilus when he's in his suit(so about 250 lbs) with no trouble. He forgets about his stranghth some times and has accidentally thrown a few things before quickly trying to fix it.

His shapeshifting isn't limited to just objects, he can shape shift small things about him self like his cloths or his entire body into something like a dinosaur. He doesn't do it often though. Mostly just the cloths thing.

Jestar:

Yells a lot

Thinks everyone is incompetent except Xero, for some reason

Accidentally took Puffer when Siren joined do to a confusion about Sirens powers. He refused to send Puffer home.

Colossus is basically just his pet

Xero is the only one who can get away with yelling at Jestar. No one really knows why but they hold really long arguments about all sorts of stupid stuff

Did I mention he yells a lot? I did? Well I’m saying it again. He yells A LOT.

Can shapeshift in to anything

Does not know how to handle baby Madusa. He doesn't know how to handle people in general, and he thought creating a baby was a good idea.

Xero:

Smokes and drinks a lot

Has a German accent(I can’t un heard it, I’m sorry)

Has a wrapped sense of humor

Calls Natilus “shark boy” after natilus bit him(this is related to what happened before N.A.T.U)

Calls everyone a nicknames besides Jestar.

Makes more robots then he needs and holds robot death battles at night.

Wants to dissect Siran after he found out she’s litterally heartless.

Is drunk 90% of the time but that's when he works best. He doesn't care that he has a problem either

Dressed Madusa up is costumes a lot during the 2 weeks it took him to grow up. He created a scrap book with photos of them too.

Can actually be a really nice dude when he wants to be. He doesn't normally want to be nice

90% of his robots are idiots

He's left handed

Colossus:

Is basically Jestar’s pet

Doesn’t speak a language anyone knows

Is basically a king without a kingdom

Starts out really tiny but gets really big for a short period of time once he has infected someone

Shade:

Has trust issues

Is only like 16 years old

Has normal(ish) ghost powers because she was born a ghost

Drives Myst nuts with her edgy stuff

Likes talking to Perry(she meets him after the Funk Hole level)

Can bounce between having a ghost tail to having normal legs.

Her flower is technically apart of her but she doesn't consider it part of her.

Perry:

Kinda skittish around people who look scary to him(so 90% of the black heart cast)

Has a crush on Shade but won't admit it out loud because he's scared of getting bitten in half by Myst, again.

Around 18 years old

Left home because his mom and brother suck and he wanted to be a ghost hunter like the ones he saw on tv. He got his wish for like 2 hours?

Transforms into Predator during the full moons and special moons. Special moons can have different effects on his transformation and mental state. Like a blood moon causes him to become more blood thirsty but a blue moon causes him to actually retain his normal mental state.

He has a habit of spiraling about everything

Predator:

Can't say anything understandable

Each part of his head has a brain so they agrue sometimes

Around 5X the size of Parry

Acts like a dog sometimes

Would have probably just ate Hal instead of taking the souls.

Madusa:

Can breath underwater and air without issue

Doesn't like the fact that he looks like Nautilus

Hasn't figured out how to swim fast like nautilus yet but won't admit it

Calls Jestar dad

Actually gets along well with Xero

Xero calls him Moccasin

Has markings like Nautilus but they only glow in the dark and they aren't as bright

He's allergic to shell fish

Actually had about a 2 week period where he was a kid. Xero and Jestar just gave him a special serum that caused I'm to grow up faster.

Most of his teeth ended up like Aura's but his canines are significantly sharper then they would be. Xero also found an extra set of teeth under Madusa's adult teeth.

Doesn't like the idea that his whole life rests on a tiny, easy to brake, stone on his head but just rolls with it.

Scared Jestar and Xero a lot during his first few days of life. He not only descovered his allergy to shell fish but almost got himself caught by the others a bunch of times.

All these guys belong to OL666 except Hal, he belongs to vitamin games

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The topic of the day:  Edward Elric is crazy strong.  

Hi I’m back! Here to ramble about the manga again, so I put it under cuts for image heaviness.  

I just need to point out that beyond having to lift over-weighted automail every single day.  

We’ve seen Ed do some crazy shit and not thought twice about it. 

He has lifted two members of the cast with little to no effort. 

Exhibit A:   Winry Rockbell 

She’s already taller than him at 5′ and I want to guess she weighs at least 110-120 lbs.  And he’s holding her there by supporting her with one arm.  

He’s not breaking a sweat carrying someone taller than him either. 

Exhibit B: Ling Yao

Edward dead lifted Ling from the ground onto his shoulder, to carry him while injured, through an ocean of blood.  At this point, Ed is already tired, already hungry, and already in pain and he still dead lifted Ling who could not get up himself. 

I have no doubt, considering his substantial height on Edward->

and the muscle mass from being trained in both martial arts and swordsmanship Ling weighs 150 / 160 lbs easy.  And Edward dead lifted that from the ground with only a bloody ocean beneath him for balance while injured.  And I’d like to mention that Edward only dropped Ling because he tripped not because he was too heavy. 

Which brings me back to this official image art I’ve rambled about before: 

I just wanna to throw out there that Ed has a serious amount of weight balanced on one shoulder. Balanced. He’s not even holding it. 

The bar is probably a standard bar (non-Olympic) so it weighs about 33lbs on it’s own.

Now I’m guessing but comparing the sizes of the weights to the ones pictured on this page he’s probably got a 45lbs and a  35lbs on each side.  So he’s got 80lbs on each side, and 160lbs in just weights. 

All together (including the bar) he’s balancing 193lbs on his shoulder.

(potentially more if those larger weights are 100lbs weights instead)

This is more than his entire body weight with his automail. (Which I have at about 170lbs due to each automail limb weighing roughly 25lbs each)  

So the take away from this?  More than likely, Ed can lift your muse. More than likely, Ed flip your muse in a fight. He might have a small body and almost no height to his name but he’s crazy fucking strong.  He has to be to jump 7 feet straight in the air and then springboard off his brother’s blocking arms.  

I also just want you guys to know: 

So to make that fair - Ed’s jumping 87 inches straight up. (7′3″)

Edward Elric is crazy fucking strong and can do some near inhuman things. 

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i'm very into sustainable transportation & i read a lot of articles on it (like, several-per-day a lot). the general consensus is that the future of transportation is the bike - ebikes in particular. and i don't disagree with this precisely (i'm all about bikes! i'm building a custom recumbent tricycle to experiment with sail propulsion! i think velomobiles are the greatest thing since sliced bread!). bikes are certainly the most efficient form of human-powered transportation, and especially with electric assist for steep hills, they are a powerful addition to a sustainable transportation infrastructure

however, i firmly believe that bikes are not the be-all and end-all of personal mobility, particularly if you live in a big city & use public transportation

i lived in chicago for six years and a bike was not the right fit for me there. don't get me wrong! a car is DEFINITELY not right for chicago (if you drive in chicago you're a fool), but bikes have some serious downsides when you're in a big city.

public transportation doesn't mesh well with mass bicycle use

if you bike to the bus, you'll put your bike on the fold-out rack on front. this works for two or three people, but if everyone on a crowded city bus has a bicycle, there's simply not room. you could chain your bike near the bus stop, but this leaves it vulnerable to theft (see below) and means you can't bike from the bus to your destination. not a great solution!

also, bikes can be heavy, ebikes more so, and many people are not strong enough to lift their bike onto the rack

if your city has a rail system like chicago, bikes may not be allowed on board at all, or may cost an additional fee

bicycles are vulnerable

bicycles are bulky and are difficult to store inside a small city apartment and impossible to store inside at most workplaces

when left outside, they are relatively easy to steal, even with multiple bike locks. this is partly an infrastructure problem - there are ways to store bicycles in special storage units, or they can be locked in garages where they are less accessible - but when i lived in chicago, my bike was stolen from a garage, so it's not a perfect solution

when left outside, they are also vulnerable to weather - i volunteer at a bike shops & refurbish a ton of donated bikes, and they get so rusty!

with their high price tags, ebikes are even more tempting targets to thieves.

bicycles can be overkill

if you live a ten-minute walk from the train station, as i did, a bicycle isn't necessary. the time spent unlocking and wheeling out your bike then locking it securely at the station means that you don't save that much time

bike chains and brakes easily tangle up long skirts or loose pants, and bike seats are uncomfortable and chafe

additionally, bikes move so much faster than pedestrians (on a flat, 4-5x as fast, 12-15 mph as opposed to 3 mph) that it's often unsafe to bike in pedestrian-heavy areas, and unsafe to walk in bike-heavy areas. this forces cyclists to use roads (unsafe due to car traffic) or special bike paths (requires an additional infrastructure investment) rather than sidewalks

i propose that the better option for personal transportation to mesh with existing mass transit with minimal infrastructure changes is the simple kick scooter, popularized by the company Razor.

scooters are light and small enough to fold, carry onto a bus or train, and put under your seat, even during rush hour

they are light and small enough to carry into your studio apartment or workplace and leave by the door or in the break room without tracking mud in or blocking the area, making them much less vulnerable to theft and the ravages of the weather

they are much cheaper than bikes. my heavy-duty Razor scooter with a capacity of 200 lbs cost $80 new, as opposed to $200+ for a low-end bike, or $1000+ for an ebike. there exist even heavier-duty kick scooters with suspension, pneumatic tires, and lever brakes for ~$125. this low price point makes them more accessible to lower-income users and less attractive to thieves.

their lower speeds and better maneuverability make them better suited for pedestrian areas. the average pedestrian walking speed is 3 mph. on a scooter, minimal effort on a flat will take you 5-6 mph. kicking all-out will take you 9-10 mph - still an impressive improvement over walking!

there are no parts that can entangle loose and flowing clothing. it's not necessary to dress for scooting the way it can be for cycling.

there are, of course, notable downsides to scooters as compared to bicycles

they don't go nearly as fast or as efficiently. for most short-distance city use, this is fine, but if you plan on commuting exclusively with human power & eschewing public transportation, a bike is definitely a better choice

the "kick" is not as ergonomic as pedaling. with practice, it's not difficult to switch feet while in motion, but you do get worn out quicker.

there's no way to use a scooter for cargo carrying. there are cargo bikes that are very well suited to carrying groceries or passengers, and even a normal bike can have panniers for moderately sized cargo, but scooters cannot have cargo racks, and adding a front basket makes them bulkier and more difficult to fold and carry. hanging grocery bags from the handlebars is possible if moving at low speeds but difficult and not ergonomic or suitable for delicate contents

they are only suited for smooth surfaces and flat/downhill use. in st louis, many sidewalks are concrete with a fairly large pebbly aggregate. with hard rubber tires like most scooters, this is a difficult and uncomfortably vibrate-y surface. even asphalt is not great. concrete is the best. pneumatic tires may mitigate this somewhat. when going uphill, you're generally better off walking.

even on a smooth surface, the vibration is much more noticeable than on a bike. due to the smaller wheels and hard rubber tires, shocks are transmitted directly to your body. if you have hand or wrist issues, this is a serious problem.

due to scooter construction, it's not possible to have any "caster" angle. this means the front wheel will not self-center under most conditions, making it impossible to ride with no hands and very very difficult to ride even one-handed. this is inconvenient but in my experience generally not a huge deal

it's very easy to "pitchpole" (capsize forwards over the handlebars) if you hit even a small obstruction such as a stick, a pebble or piece of gravel, or a mid-sized crack in the sidewalk. with practice, it's not difficult to "jump" your front wheel over cracks by yanking upwards sharply at the right time, but this does take practice and it's still relatively easy to crash, especially when traveling at higher speeds. a helmet is recommended and elbow- or wrist-guards can be helpful

scooting in the snow is very very difficult

despite these warnings, i'm convinced that a simple kick scooter is generally very well-suited to use in large cities, especially when paired with heavy public transit use, and can meet the needs of many people for whom a bicycle may not be a perfect fit.

(NB: bicycle use & transportation generally speaking with regards to disability is also an important issue but is beyond the scope of this post & my personal experiences as an able-bodied person)

[slimcat42-blog]

Weight-loss Remedies - How frequently Should You Weigh You?

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ou action on the scale, oh no, your fat is up. Quickly you begin berating you. "I am so pathetic. Why are unable to I control my pounds? I just retain having fatter. I am so frustrated."

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You just weighed your self-worth and that isn't really what scales are for.

Scales can be a opinions resource. Comments is essential to monitor your gap, where you are vs . where you choose to be. A instrument is one thing we use to create our existence a lot easier. A scale can be a opinions software. Intelligent utilization of the scale is likely to make your life less complicated and allow you to definitely reach your objective extra speedily.

Sensible Scale Use

What exactly is "wise" usage of the scale? How frequently should you weigh by yourself? That relies upon on in which you are in the fat loss method.

Any time you have shed all of the body weight you wish and therefore are in your upkeep phase I recommend weighing oneself once per week. At the time per week is commonly more than enough to efficiently keep track of and manage your weight.

Once you are already in routine maintenance for 6 months I recommend you weigh oneself at the time a month. By now you can have produced the lifestyle patterns necessary to maintain your excess weight.

Within the starting, when you're just starting off your weight reduction software I recommend weighing yourself 2 to three situations on a daily basis. Of course, you read through the right way, weigh your self 2-3 periods every day.

Do you think you're Serious?

Sure! What exactly is a scale? It is a opinions software. It tells you how efficient (or ineffective) your system is. The greater frequently you get opinions the greater often it is possible to modify your system to consistently supply the final results you desire. You are making a life-style transform as a consequence of the adore and respect you've on your own. Weigh yourself for suggestions, not self-esteem.

Let's go on holiday!

What about a highway vacation? After you go on the street vacation you are taking the time to plot out your class and decide with a sensible time frame for arriving at your destination. Let us go! You can get inside the car and start driving. How frequently do you want feed-back on your own development? Continually.

You might be continually examining for making positive you will be being over the highway. You are usually building micro corrections to take care of your system. You would not look at sleeping in the wheel. It might be disastrous; you'd probably be location yourself up for a main wreck.

You will be over a excursion. Your own individual fat loss and wellness journey. You certainly must produce suggestions on how your program is going numerous times per day otherwise you are sleeping on the wheel. You can haven't any clue plus a will be environment your self up for the main fat loss and wellness wreck.

Keep in mind...

The dimensions just isn't a spot to face to remind your self to begin self communicate re-runs about what a horrible individual that you are. You're a amazing particular person!

The dimensions unquestionably is a unit utilized to offer you normal responses and make it easier to continue to be on approach. Like oneself by offering oneself proper suggestions. I'm sure, you continue to have some trepidation about weighing on your own 2-3 times on a daily basis. You happen to be fearful you may just conquer you up each and every time you stand to the scale. You won't. You may shift past unfavorable self chat.

You are shifting ahead with constructive intention and positive self speak. The size doesn't evaluate your well worth, only you are doing. Weighing you 2-3 times/day should help you defeat your panic of the scale. The greater normally you are doing one thing you panic without having negative success, the much less you are going to panic it!

When Should really I Weigh Myself?

You may want to weigh yourself while in the morning prior to deciding to consume breakfast. This will provide you with the minimal conclude of the personalized pounds fluctuation and may supply you with the data you must set your day by day calorie target. When you have obtain to the scale, we suggest weighing you appropriate ahead of lunch. Finally, weigh you correct before you decide to consume evening meal. This measurement does two factors. It provides you with an additional information place for measuring your pounds over time and it reminds you never to overeat at evening meal.

Fluctuations

Your bodyweight could fluctuate 2-8 lbs each day. Weighing yourself usually (2-3 moments) will educate you the way your body's bodyweight variations throughout the day.

The number of calories in a pound of body fat? 3,500 energy. So, after you stand within the scale and see your pounds has gone up two lbs because the final time you weighed oneself 4 hours back; talk to, have I eaten seven,000 added energy from the last 4 hours. More than likely you have not (primarily if you're sticking in your program). In the event you haven't eaten an extra seven,000 energy how did you achieve 2 lbs .?

You've had some foodstuff and water. Food items and h2o weigh something. A quart of drinking water weighs about two lbs. In the event you weighed yourself then had a gallon of h2o and hopped ideal back again within the scale, your weight might be practically 9 kilos heavier. However it was just drinking water. Who cares about h2o fat? We care about fat--losing it, and muscle-- maintaining it.

Your-Weight Loss-Wellness-Solution is centered on maximizing excess fat reduction even though preserving your lean, captivating muscle tissues. Knowing how your pounds adjustments whenever you try to eat and drink, and being ready to evaluate how many calories you've eaten because the last time you weighed lets you to definitely fearlessly stand about the scale and acquire responses. Just what type of feed-back can we get from the scale? That depends on what type of scale you have got.

What sort of Scale?

You can find effectively two diverse forms of scales accessible.

The fundamental toilet scale. It just lets you know exactly how much you weigh.

Then there may be our favorite type-- An digital scale that tells you exactly how much you weigh, and, far more importantly, what your system unwanted fat percentage and also your hydration level are.

We adore such a scale for the reason that it actions far more. It offers you far more information to track the success of your program. Ought to you treatment about your overall body excess fat proportion and hydration level? Certainly! They're important items of responses for your personal achievement.

Let's say you eliminate 20 lbs and half of anything you have shed, ten lbs, is muscle mass? You have got correctly lowered your rate of metabolism by almost five hundred energy! That is a big step backwards within your quest to get rid of extra fat.

Observe Your body Fats Percentage

Checking your entire body fat percentage enables you to definitely modify your diet program and exercise program for max unwanted fat decline while keeping your gorgeous, calorie burning muscle. Why must you treatment regarding your hydration degree? Keep in mind, your entire body can only metabolize unwanted fat optimally if you are effectively hydrated and an correct hydration amount offers you a far more accurate entire body excess fat percentage looking at.

The dimensions is your close friend. It enables you to evaluate your progress with a each day basis. Established you up for success by anticipating compact, dependable alter.

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Weigh by yourself 2-3 situations each day. In the morning in advance of breakfast, at lunch when you have obtain into a scale and correct prior to deciding to consume dinner. Utilize the scale to track progress and also to keep you on approach. By measuring your development frequently you can make actual time adjustments towards your method as a way to insure you're burning just as much fats as you can. Figuring out your body fats proportion plus your hydration stage supply you with supplemental opinions enabling you to good tune your unwanted fat reduction

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