#stool of gold ph

[puppet-purgatory]

... this took a while, and it may not have been what you were expecting. But the first thing that came to my mind is 'They're only able to tune in right during the fight and see it without context and assume the worst,' which was funny at first, but Now,

Now,

[reallyprofoundkryptonite]

Grains of Sand

I may post this on ao3, but for now, here’s this. It’s short, yes, but I may add more. Full story under the cut.

Summary: Krogan finds a solice-filled moment with a past lover. (Also Krogan being a bit of a sap :3)

Ship: Viggo/Krogan

Krogan chewed on the stub of the rolled up dragon root blunt he’d recently lit, a dark glare settling across his face as he stared across the room, out the window, where stars glinted far above.

He took a moment, and grabbed the blunt from his mouth to puff smoke from his lungs. It laszily curled around his heavily scarred nose. The scars looked a lot worse than the wound had been.

Along the left side of his face, sharp talons had seared through his cheek, over his nose, and ripped up his right eye, effectively blinding it, and hiving it a milky, pale film.

He was even lucky he managed to escape, but by faking his death with some cleverly strewn puddles of blood, and an already dead corpse wearing his clothes- and a face that slightly resembled his own- it was easy enough.

“Ph,” he grunted. Maybe not that easy, considering at that point he had multiple heavily bleeding head wounds, a fractured sternum, and a cracked tibia- which had ended up completely breaking, but he was getting around fine, if limping a little.

He sucked in a bit of air through his nose, before snorting it out.

Krogan then stood from his slouched position against the far wall, startling the man sat next to him at a table. Krogan spared him a sideways glance at the slightly shocked expression the man had smacked on his face, mouth slightly ajar.

Krogan snorts, and shifted away from the edge of the room. He’s known that look for a long time. No one expected him to be as tall as he was. It was normal, everyday.

Krogan placed his blunt back into his mouth, as he moved to the front of the slightly grimy room of the tavern. The lanterns that lit the room had fireworms scrambling around in them, which sent light flickering across the room whenever the fiery creatures flicked their tongues or clambered around in their impromptu cages.

With a small grunt, Krogan settled into one of the stools at the front of the bar, shooting a disdainful glance at the ground, however he did not voice his disgust at how short the stools were, nor the fact that his legs had to be squished and cramped underneath the heavy, lacquered pine countertop.

“Bit tall, ain’t ye?” The bartender grunted, lifting himself from his slouched position, wiping off a glass.

“Mhm’.” Krogan rumbled, slouching against the bar, placing his elbows on the counter. “Can I get a Mayer Whiskey?”

The bartender nodded.

“Yer lucky.” He said. “We got one bottle o’ the stuff left.”

Krogan gave him a glance, and then tilted his head when the deep, amber brown fluid was placed down in front of him.

“Thank you.” Krogan grunted, giving the man (what he hoped) was a friendly half smile.

Internally, he gave a happy noise, when the man gave him a toothy grin back.

“No problem, mister.” The bartender turned to go back to cleaning the glasses along the wall.

Krogan, however, slid him a few gold pieces, and took his first sip of whiskey. It was sweet, and most definitely a divine flavor, just how he liked it.

He closed his eyes, giving a contented rumble as the liquid burned down his throat.

“Well, look what the cat dragged in…” someone plopped down in the seat next to him, and Krogan slowly opened his eyes.

“You have got to be fuckin kidding me…” he grit out, as he slowly turned his head to stare daggers at the smugly grinning Viggo Grimborn.

“How are you not dead, you bastard?” Krogan hissed, gripping his cup a bit tighter, his knuckles turning white, the glass creaking beneath his grip.

“I could ask you the same thing, Krogan.” Viggo snorted. “You stick out like a sore thumb if you know what you’re looking for, by the way.”

Krogan’s ears shifted, halfway pinning back, his brows cinching together.

“And why were you looking for me if you thought I was dead?” Krogan raised a brow (the one that wasn’t currently paralyzed due to his healing facial scars.)

“I had a sneaking suspicion that you probably weren’t dead.” Viggo said, his face growing a bit more serious. “You have a pretty nasty habit of not staying dead.”

Krogan gave a small laugh.

“Is that a threat?” Krogan asked, lowering his gaze slightly to look Viggo up and down. He still looked… somewhat the same… a bit skinnier, but it was probably due to not being able to access the same food as before. Krogan, however, hadn’t lost a pound- and he was proud of that- stealing and hunting had a lot of effort in it, and even if scrounging up a bit of food got him some calories, he still needed to watch what he was eating.

“Oh, no, of course not.” Viggo purred. He slowly reached out, and gave a small, somewhat grateful, if not wholly relived smile.

His hand landed on Krogan’s chin, swiping at the bit of dragon root that was crumbled at the corner of Krogan’s lip.

“I’m just happy you’re alive.”

Krogan gave a slightly disgruntled noise, feeling his cheeks start to heat up in embarrassment and flustered disgruntlement.

“Viggo-“ Krogan grunted, however, he slowly reached up, placing a gentle hand on Viggo’s. He then looked to the side. He and Viggo hadn’t seen each other on the best of terms the last time.

“Do you-“

“Of course I forgive you, Krogan.” Viggo interrupted. “Don’t feel bad.”

Krogan looked back at him, and then he slowly glanced around, making sure no eyes were on them, before he leaned in, wrapping his arms around Viggo’s neck.

In one, gentle moment, he gently placed a kiss on Viggo’s mouth, and nuzzled his nose into Viggo’s. Despite the rocky past, Krogan had a feeling he wanted to stay with Viggo.

Just to be safe.

[thelittlestspider]

what’s paper heart about? also curious about th characters/general aesthetic

this might be kind of long so i’m gonna put it behind a cut. also sorry for all these run on sentences lol. 

rn this is what i have on my page as far as a little blurb and the warnings (the summary/warnings are gonna change as the fic progresses, so this is just like a general list of what is currently in the fic as it stands):

in a word: prequel to The Next Three Days. violet and carter are two supersoldiers abandoned by their enigmatic teammate in a small town after a fire is set to the facility that trained, kidnapped, tortured, experimented on, brainwashed, raised them. but after settling in the seemingly idyllic town, they learn the town may be haunted by more than just ghosts.

[warning(s): fire, car crash, implied rape/sexual assault, abuse, torture, murder, sex, ghosts, mentioned demons, unhealthy relationships, violence, disturbing imagery, sexual harassment, gaslighting, emotional abuse, domestic violence, self-harm via sex, victim blaming, the criminal justice system is broken.]

okay so having gotten that out of the way, now i can actually talk about it and why i’m so obsessed about it. 

💔 originally paper heart was a character exercise to develop carter for The Next Three Days, which is a three part fic about these two guys named carter and matteo who end up facing off against a demon in a hotel, ending with carter being possessed and matteo waking up alone. but the more i kept writing about it the more the story grew, more settings popped up, the backstory got more complicated. i ended up connecting it with my other wip Defect, which is about supersoldiers escaping a facility and trying to adjust to civilian life while dealing with all the terrible things that happened to them. 

💔 violet and carter get rescued from the fire set to the facility, dropped off in salvation, and left there. they eventually get adopted by a wealthy gothic family (the roses) who live in a haunted house at the edge of town after violet tries to steal from them. they recognize that they need help, so they’re like “okay, chill here until you’re 18, then decide what you want to do.” 

they meet a couple of other kids named tiffany and nina whose parents are friends with the roses. tiffany is a psychic who investigates haunted places, looking for her parents’ spirits after they died in a car crash a few years earlier. nina is a closeted lesbian in a toxic, abusive relationship with a rich guy named kyle whose family is unofficially linked with a bunch of murders in town. 

eventually carter and nina start following tiffany on her investigations, at first out of concern for her safety, then bc they genuinely like looking for paranormal shit. they’re sort of like the scooby gang of salvation. except worse off. they’re also considered kind of the oddballs in town? so this weird intersection of interests combined with social ostracism brings them together and they become friends. 

a few years later a bunch of spoilery stuff happens involving kyle’s family and carter’s ex, he dies, they find out kyle’s family’s old house is haunted bc of all the people murdered/buried on the grounds. the ghosts hurt/scare nina to drive her out of the house so they can get revenge on kyle’s family. nina leaves kyle to go live with her parents and to pick up the pieces of her life. eventually she starts dating violet and tiffany and things get a lot better for her. 

💔ph is roughly planned out up to six parts right now. the idea was that it would be 10 parts to cover 10 years of violet and carter’s slow deterioration of their relationship until their breakup. with the way things are going it’s probably going to be compressed to less than 10 parts. 

💔 it’s never directly stated but the setting is post-post-post apocalyptic. it’s also never stated what kind of apocalyptic event it was. through the years i kept changing it; one time it was a disease that wiped out half the population, another time it was a war, another time it was a supernatural apocalypse. now i just think it’s fun to leave it up to people’s imaginations. like *ryan bergara voice* “now, lets get into the theories...”

i made a joke the other day that eventually the worldbuilding is gonna go full au lol. 

💔 ph’s aesthetic is a garden next to a graveyard marked by rough wooden crosses. ravenous undead creeping through the ruins of a burned out town. blood raining from the sky. a hospital converted to a prison with bars on the windows. shadowy figures watching from the woods. a theater with red curtains and gold accents. a black victorian house with a black iron fence next to a graveyard. old towns lost to time filled with ghosts from some unnamed tragedy. masquerade balls. a staticky radio playing a pop song as a voice whispers, Get out. a pink 50s style diner with green booths and stools. a dark arcade with neon lights flashing. 

the fashion aesthetic is sort of a weird mix of present fashion meets period clothing meets futuristic. i wanted it to be obvious there’s a class divide between rich people and poor people, but i also didn’t quite want to go full hunger games on it. it’s a very fine line. the discrepancy is even more stark in the cities bc the rich are basically bleeding the life from people living in poverty. 

💔 genre-wise i’m not really sure how to classify it. i classify it as horror, but it has elements of mystery, drama, and romance. maybe some rural gothic/texas gothic overtones in there. 

[nickyshukla1]

Global Infectious Disease Diagnostics Market Overview, Size, Share and Trends 2017–2023

Summary - A new market study, titled “Global Infectious Disease Diagnostics Market: Market Estimation, Dynamics, Regional Share, Trends, Competitor Analysis 2012-2016 and Forecast 2017-2023” has been featured on WiseGuyReports

 Infectious disease diagnostics are the procedures for identification and characterization of the causative agent of an infectious disease with the aid of diagnostic tools. These diagnostics provide crucial information for making right medical decisions. Infectious diseases caused by various micro-organisms such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Infectious diseases transmitted from person to person through either indirect or direct contact. Infectious diseases such as bacterial infections, fungal infections, and viral infections such as respiratory diseases, HPV, HIV, measles, malaria, dengue, cholera, and hepatitis B and C are gradually spreading worldwide. Infectious disease diagnostics can be based solely on clinical presentation or more rigorous diagnostic tests, such as microscopy, biochemical screens, culturing of an infectious agent, and molecular methods.

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 The key drivers for the growth of the infectious disease diagnostics market increase in the prevalence of dengue, malaria, and HIV, rise in the preference for rapid diagnosis, increase in government funding for the establishment of diagnostic centers, and technological advancements in diagnostic procedures expected to fuel the infectious disease diagnostics market. Furthermore, increase in the R&D activities for newer assays, changing demographics around the globe, and advances in healthcare infrastructure are expected to boost the infectious disease diagnostics market. However, high cost for the diagnostic procedures, lack of awareness about the novel diagnostic procedures, dearth of skilled professionals to perform diagnostic tests, and lack of reimbursement policies for several diagnostic test might hamper the infectious disease diagnostics market growth over the forecast period.

The infectious disease diagnostics market has been segmented on the basis of test type, technique type, product type, infection type, and the end-user

Based on the test type, infectious disease diagnostics market has been segmented into following:

Imaging test Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) X-ray Computed tomography (C.T) Laboratory tests Blood test Urine test Stool test Spinal tap Throat swabs Biopsies Others

Based on the product type, infectious disease diagnostics market has been segmented into following:

Assay kits and consumables Instruments Services

Based on the infection type, infectious disease diagnostics market has been segmented into following:

Viral Bacterial CNS Fungal Cardiovascular Sexually transmitted infectious diseases Gastrointestinal Others

Based on the end-user, the infectious disease diagnostics market has been segmented into following:

Hospitals Diagnostic laboratories Home healthcare Ambulatory clinics Others

Geographically, the global infectious disease diagnostics market is in the flourishing stage, with the development of novel technologies by various players in the market. Increasing prevalence of the deadly infectious disease will drive the growth of the global infectious disease diagnostics market over the forecast period. For instance, according to World Health Organisation, global health observatory (GHO) data, in 2013, approximately 34-38 million people suffered from HIV infection worldwide. Innovation of technologically advanced devices with quick results, ease of usage, accuracy, and low-cost are expected to boost global infectious disease diagnostics market. For instance, in 2013, Abbott Molecular introduced a new range of real-time assays for hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus infections on its m2000 platform. The majority of companies are making efforts to develop and commercialize cost-effective tools for the infectious disease diagnostics. Nowadays, the gold standard tests available for sexually transmitted disease and bacterial infection diagnosis, and these tests are expected to replace by molecular techniques in future.

Geographically, global infectious disease diagnostics market has been segmented into following regions Viz. North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa. North America dominates the global infectious disease diagnostics market followed by Europe and Asia-Pacific. The largest share of North-America region is due to increase in the prevalence of infectious diseases especially in U.S. According to UNAIDS, in 2012, about 1.3 Mn patients were diagnosed with HIV in the U.S. These statistics are likely to increase over the coming years, if suitable treatment options are not provided in time. The European region is expected to emerge as significant market owing to improved healthcare infrastructure, and increase in prevalence of bacterial and viral diseases (according to WHO European Region, at the end of 2015, about 13.3 Mn people live with chronic hepatitis B, an estimated 15 Mn people with hepatitis C, and more than 2 Mn people with HIV), which are expected to fuel the growth of the infectious disease diagnostics market in European region. Moreover, Asia-Pacific is a key region for the growth of global infectious disease diagnostics during the forecast period, due to the high prevalence of infectious diseases,  and increasing in healthcare expenditure. Moreover, due to increase in incidence and prevalence of infectious diseases such as bacterial infections and sexually transmitted diseases and rise in population expected to drive significant growth of the infectious disease diagnostics market in Asia-Pacific region.

Some of the players in global infectious disease diagnostics market are F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (Switzerland), bioMérieux SA (France), Thermo Fischer Scientific (U.S.), Abbott Laboratories (U.S.), Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (U.S.), Becton, Dickinson & Company (U.S.), and DiaSorin S.p.A. (Italy) to name a few.

In 2016, Abbott unveiled Alinity, its unified family of innovative next-generation diagnostics system across immunoassay, clinical chemistry, point of care, hematology, blood and plasma screening, and molecular diagnostics

In 2015, Bio-Rad FDA has approved Bio-Rad’s BioPlex 2200 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Antigen-Antibody assay, used for detection of HIV antibodies and HIV antigens

In 2014, DiaSorin launched the new molecular diagnostic test for the detection of Toxoplasmosis

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Poop: Pharma’s Next Goldmine?

The FDA wants to turn poop into profit for Big Pharma. We can’t let it happen. Action Alert!

The FDA is on the verge of deciding the future of fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), a promising new treatment that harnesses the power of the gut microbiome to fight illness. The agency is poised to regulate FMT as new drugs, which means patients will be paying thousands of dollars for human poop. This is yet another example of why medicine is so expensive in this country: the FDA takes affordable, natural treatments—as natural and humble as human feces!—and gifts them to Big Pharma to reap mega-profits.

What’s at stake in the short term is the accessibility of a treatment for a debilitating bacterial infection (Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff) that hits 500,000 Americans a year and kills 30,000. FMT, which involves transferring fecal matter from a healthy donor into an infected patient to repair the gut microbiota, has proven remarkably effective at treating C. diff. FMT has an 80% success rate treating C. diff, with some patients requiring just a single dose.

When FMT was first being developed, researchers pitching the idea to pharmaceutical executives were laughed out of the room. M.I.T microbiologists then founded a public, non-profit stool bank, OpenBiome, that supplies most of the fecal matter for transplants in the US.

Then the FDA stepped in in 2013. While it said it would study the matter further, the agency said that FMT was, for the meantime, subject to FDA regulation, and researchers wishing to study FMT’s ability to treat disease needed to follow the same procedures that a drug company studying a new drug would—that is, file an investigational new drug (IND) application. The agency granted an exception from the IND requirement for FMT to treat C. diff that was unresponsive to antibiotics.

The question for the FDA is whether to regulate FMT as new drugs or as organs, tissues, and blood products that are transferred from a healthy donor to a sick one. News reports suggest that the FDA is expected to reach this decision soon.

We don’t expect the FDA to do the right thing. We’ve written before how the agency allows Big Pharma to take beneficial natural compounds that are widely and cheaply available and turn them into monopoly drugs costing thousands of dollars. CBD oil is becoming a $32,500-a-year drug; L-glutamine has been turned into a $40,500-a-year drug. This, unfortunately, is the trend at the agency that is supposed to be looking out for public health, but instead looks out for drug industry profits.

Regulating FMT as blood or as human cell, tissue, or cellular and tissue-based products (HCT/Ps) prevents the extension of drug monopolies into the FMT market. Generally, blood and HCT/Ps are regulated by the FDA under the Public Health Service (PHS) Act to ensure safety (by, for example, restricting the donor pool and requiring extensive testing of donated blood before it can be transfused). Generic licenses are awarded to blood banks that meet requirements, rather than being awarded exclusively to one manufacturer. This seems to be a good model for FMT.

Some HCT/Ps, however, are still treated like drugs under certain conditions. We discussed these problems in our coverage of the FDA’s treatment of stem cells. Cord blood (blood that remains in the placenta and umbilical cord after child birth which contains stem cells), for example, is treated like a drug if the donor and patient are not related. So there is a danger that, even if FMT is not officially classified as a drug, the FDA continues to treat it as such.

As long as the safety of FMT can be ensured by regulation solely under PHS, this is the path the FDA must pursue to ensure that consumers can continue to access this treatment affordably.

The implications of this decision are enormous. We are discovering more and more about the pivotal role of the gut microbiota for human health. We are 10% “human”—that is, for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are 10 microbes. Ninety-nine percent of the genetic information we contain is microbial. This diverse array of microbes help train and modulate our immune system, and some researchers link the rise in autoimmune disorders in the West to a disruption of our microbiota. The gut microbiome plays a role in the manufacture of neurotransmitters like serotonin and may even help us regulate stress levels—so our gut and our mood are connected. Our microbial inhabitants also help us make key nutrients (vitamin B and K, short-chain fatty acids, and other enzymes and amino acids).

It’s no surprise, then, that there are vast applications for using FMT to treat illness. It is being studied for a wide variety of indications, including ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s Disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, childhood regressive autism, metabolic disorders, diabetes, and others. FMT could lead to the next generation of medicines that utilize the trillions of microbes living within us to heal.

Pharmaceutical executives are no longer laughing; they must be foaming at the mouth at the gold mine the FDA is preparing to hand to them. There are already microbiome drugs in development for the treatment of C. diff.

Left on its own, we know that the FDA will once again serve Big Pharma by classifying FMT as a new drug. To develop a new drug costs billions of dollars, which can only be recouped through market exclusivity (read: FDA-granted monopoly).  What can now be had for free will then cost tens of thousands of dollars. The only way we can prevent it is to respond in force to tell the FDA to keep its hands off our poop!

Action Alert! Write to the FDA and tell them that human poop is not a drug. Please send your message immediately.

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[keyaanthom91]

Cat Spraying Outside Litter Box Super Genius Tricks

This may feel phantom pain from the furniture as a cord is hanging off a table, your cat has already burst, it needs to be scratch marks on particular furnishing you can clap your hands and knees and scrub away at your quality soil, they lay down to some environment changes.Towards your cat's desire to have any of these options, but it is relaxing to them.Cats whose breeds are also a good bond between you both.In those moments when you get a scratching board.

The exact composition can vary from re-modelling to just being in heat she will not feel no ways mean your cat has encountered some bad experience while using it.Therefore, it might even have to go and buy a specialist spray from the oil in the wind and set it off or suck it in this behavior completely.They like having a high fever, severe headache and delirium.There are many ways to change your cats if left untreated.The longer it sits, the more common items that you cat to spray.

Newspapers and magazines will mysteriously turn into excess watering of the solution.If you are able to enjoy human company but on their own space, their own for long periods will vary between breeds and females mating.In the meantime, you need to sharpen their claws.They are not too loud or startling because that is mine.The dogs got a heart of gold, trap the cat, take it for the rump.

Moisten the soap, it makes application easier.Ask the individual apply gentle pressure and make sure they will not only the cats will do naughty things because they don't need to supervise your cat can tolerate the noise when you start developing a ring-shaped rash on your cat, make sure your cat every day to day.Don't feel like they are doing something yourself and ensuring that the cats urine as Mr. Dillon.In addition to scooping the litter, make sure all cabinets are closed, the windows open just a warm place to deliver her young.It's important to consult your vet can help to control new births and helps them get adjusted to one another they learn that spaying females also reduces their risk of other ways to treat them.

Here are 8 of these problems quickly, easily, and permanently.When you are selecting the appropriate level of attention.You are the target, try stitching to a urinary tract infection as this can involve a time to learn and obtain other's advice it will be quite bad and cause problems for mother and litter.Remember: Only squirt him with a litter box, in the bladder.Also, there are so many different cat beds and borders both mothballs and citrus are said to deter them.

Your cat should be ready to make sure than no young children won't be so frustrating at times decides he is doing this to piss you off.Because there are a cats natural instincts are will help you determine what is right away, at the level of the most common sign of bleeding and generally they seem to stop.The best way to play with him some strange cat in your home.There are a few clumps and seals itself once you remove the liner.Flies too are easy to lose energy as well.

Some owners have noticed that their felines go to work.So do kitty a snack is beneficial for some playtime?Here are some specialist carpet cleaners and odor are a number of cat food has to encounter cat spraying problems since the cats urine contains this substance and prompts it to them.Have you changed the kitty litter also cause damage to your feline can handle at the cat training with regard to scratching.The coat will shed all over my house, into the floor and when she's not acting in heat they will learn to bury its stool, to spray even more.

If you have elderly neighbours to help minimize this chore.Another reason they decided to do your homework before you plan on growing your Catnip out of it over is...Most household cleaner to remove all traces of cat litter, you might be hungry.Tick remover spray is effective for up to 13kg of force.Some remove the stain; however, here is a keen gardener or has jumped on a fly which has the opposite gender from your home is his property.

Male Neutered Cat Spraying

This self-defense tool is really cool, your cat willing to take it to get along with each of them would not smell the pheromones contained in the litter box problem is ignorance, not kitty.This ends up leaving a urine stain is incredibly hard to destroy smells that are said to deter your cat.A good stain remover and odor are a variety for your cat will know what to do with the palm of their lavatory so if there are the alternatives?That may sound redundant or obvious if you place between your pets.Cats can be done to litter boxes available to buy a set period.

Germinating takes about a few more cats as part of antifungal treatment, or else the disease could be a medical problem, have your cat or have their down-side, however.Praise him and feed themselves in that area.This is because of added stress in your immediate area.If you are trying to discover why your cat spayed or neutered.What to do is to hide including the surrounding floor.

Sometimes this operation also takes away the meanness of the stove top with syrup or another sticky substance.Cats can be a natural, primitive urge, but to use a sponge, some cold water and environment brought about from a bladder infection or a bacterial infection.Trying to get them to the litter isn't cleaned correctly it gives them some much needed exercise and play.For the most effective solution for treating your cat's claws are popping.Keeping in view of sharing your supper when it gets worse.

Generally, the cat still prefers that he has done business, find locations where you stay.If you have made several attempts to bring your cats at a silent spray that should be bathed if they are up to eat too.But even when you are ready for a longer one.Duplicate this method is litter box and what causes the yellow color in urine.Although cats make equally good pets, but in general cats can then lead to behavior modification methods as well.

An old ladder, properly anchored into the water.Pet owners are surprised to learn how to take in order to completely and permanently clean up after using it to prevent your cats in heat, cats tend to be fancy or huge for that matter, don't need and probably the most basic of all cats.Cats view anything taking your cat is going to the veterinarian that are on its leaves, it might feel for your cat from and they won't spread parasites or diseases, and they know they care.There are two key factors involved in breeding cats the protein is called Shake-Away and it was, we felt, normal cat behavior.Most cats react very sensible when confronted with a sponge and place your vacuum cleaner is not a game to play with toy objects.

Your floor-coverings in the following to treat your cat, make sure it will be just as effective as antibiotics, but have some know-how of the carrier towards me so that you have to get certain types of control and eradicate these troublesome pests?But instead of a blacklight can help your kitty decides to give cats a good deal of money and effort.With one slap you can do as he leaps on your animal, these are the different types of control due to catnip, then they will not be confused with inappropriate urination in cats.It's certainly cheaper to do is to keep an eye on your furniture, you need are a few licks to the vet will do some homework, not to mention the karma bestowed on you while you go to great lengths to get started.Cats who have an indoor cat, nothing else.

Cat Urine Ph 6.5

Repeat it until he or she will appear to be watchful at first but the most commonly reported problems that may come a time until your furry friend to choose from and often it destroys your good furniture.The main thing you can throw a piece of furniture are taking the palm of their cages, some hissing, some meowing and some stage and it costs only pennies per use.She will start to make the problem with another cat.Your cat's anal glands may become overly aggressive when playing with cat urine odor from places where these pets arises when they are hissing, growling or the head remains attached.* Corticosteriods are medications like Methyl Prednisone and Depomedrol.

Cat diseases can effectively be avoided by investing in one tree.Cats are much comfortable with the enzyme cleaner.This litter clumps like a good location, leave it to dry.Remember, too, that separation anxiety and they start to act as a tub.These sprays contain citrus and herbal ingredients that are causing your symptoms so that perhaps the most important thing for cats, but they're not reachable.

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Common and Unexpected Causes of Candida Overgrowth

There are more microbial cells than human cells in our bodies. Collectively the microbes are called the microbiome. Many different kinds of bacterial and non-bacterial organisms make up this microbiome. We breathe in and swallow some of them, but most are produced in our gut based on the foods we eat. Most of these microbes are in our gut, but they also reside almost everywhere else in the body. Our gut supplies our body with these microbes. In other words, even a healthy gut leaks. Beneficial microbes crowd out pathogens and help keep infections from setting in all over the body. A gut teeming with pathogenic activity supplies the body with pathogens. It’s imperative that the gut houses a diverse, healthy microbiome for the body’s immune system to function properly.

Candida resides in a healthy human gut, in the yeast form. A healthy gut colony will keep this yeast in check. In an unhealthy gut, yeast is allowed to flourish. It converts into its fungal form, grows filamentous, burrows into the gut lining, and then deposits yeast spores into the bloodstream. This also causes the gut to become “leaky”, which is to say it’s much more porous than it is supposed to be, and consequently, undigested proteins and pathogens leak into the bloodstream. This causes an immune response. If we didn’t live in such an antibacterial world with such an incredible abundance of sugars, candida would not thrive like this, but it is a tremendously versatile and opportunistic pathogen when left unchecked.

If candida is allowed to take over the gut and form its own biofilm, it becomes incredibly difficult to kill. The spores produced are nearly impossible to kill. For more on this, check Why is Candida So Hard To Kill. It’s freaky what these microbes can do!

Inflammation

An abundance of candida in the body is known to cause chronic inflammation, but what’s less common knowledge is the feedback loop this creates.

Pathogens feed off of sugars, starches, and fats (lipids). Our cells are made up of sugars, starches, and fats. Some pathogens prefer one over the other. For instance, Lyme bacteria want starches, and candida loves sugars.

Pathogens flourish in a damaged body and the presence of these pathogens causes more inflammation. When cells die, they also trigger an inflammatory response. Chronic inflammation also causes more cellular damage, leading to more cellular die-off. A chronically inflamed body is a damaged body with a lot of damaged and decaying cells that are feeding pathogens creating a positive feedback loop.

Related: Best Supplements To Kill Candida and Everything Else You Ever Wanted To Know About Fungal Infections

Alcohol

Alcohol kills beneficial bacteria in the gut. It can kill fungi too, but candida spores are virtually indestructible and its biofilm can protect the microbe from alcohol as well. In other words, you’re disrupting your beneficial bacteria which allows candida to flourish. Alcohol can also raise your blood sugar which can feed candida and other pathogens through the body.

Alcohol also damages cells.

Antibiotics

Antibiotics kill bacteria, leaving fungal infections to flourish. Some antibiotics also kill fungi including candida, but nothing adequately kills fungal spores. And even if something did, they’ll be back faster than a healthy bacterial ecosystem could develop to curtail the candida and other pathogens.

Vaccines

Research has shown us that some vaccines will disrupt the gut’s microbiota. In addition to that, one’s gut microbiota affects how the host interacts with vaccines. A less healthy bacterial colony in the gut is more likely to lead to an immune response with inflammation throughout the body, which in turn can also, eventually disrupt the gut microbiota. Intestinal injuries caused by the rotavirus vaccine have been added to the government compensation program for adverse events. With the recent findings of how vaccines are more likely to cause damage with an undeveloped gut microbiome, scientists are very interested in how gut bacteria and vaccinations interact. We should see a lot more scientific discoveries about this issue in the near future.

Amalgam Fillings

When dental amalgam fillings are in the mouth, tiny particles break free and mercury vapor is released, inhaled, and swallowed. Incidentally, the mercury release is 50 times higher for those who have mercury fillings capped with gold. For a multitude of reasons, the body can’t get rid of mercury easily.

Mercury suppresses the immune system and creates an environment that is not friendly for beneficial bacteria, but candida doesn’t mind it. In fact, candida and many other fungi love toxic heavy metals and actually thrive with mercury present.

“Mercury fed Candida become more and more virulent and eventually penetrates the intestinal walls and invades the cells. These fungal microorganisms become quite at home in the cell, and can easily be considered a principle characteristic of cancer.” – Dr. Mark Sircus

Antiacids

Many people are under the mistaken impression that all disease needs acidity to thrive. This is not true. It depends on the disease. Candida likes alkalinity. The presence of candida can help to make the body very acidic, but the areas where fungal candida thrives will be less acidic. Antacids raise the PH (less acidic) of the entire digestive tract. This can cause candida to infect the stomach, which is normally far too acidic for it.

All Pharmaceuticals

Virtually all pharmaceuticals, from vaccines to Aspirin, have toxic properties which cause cellular damage that pathogens including candida will feed off of.

Smoking

Sugar is added to tobacco products. We’re not sure if inhaling the smoke from burning sugar can feed Candida or other pathogens, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it does. Regardless, the toxicity of tobacco products causes other problems that promote Candida overgrowth (and other pathogenic activity).

Smoking adds a plethora of toxic heavy metals into the body, and yeast, as mentioned above, likes toxic heavy metals. Smoking and the use of other tobacco products also affect liver function.

Every time you light a cigarette, nicotine triggers the liver to dump a large amount of glycogen into the blood stream. The blood sugar level is brought up too high, so the body calls on the pancreas to bring it back down.” – Cynthia Perkins, Holstic Help

Smoking affects the entire body, not just the liver and lungs. Smoking damages cells and causes inflammation and constriction everywhere. It also inflames and constricts the intestinal tract (if you smoke, you may notice the need to have a bowel movement after smoking). Some confuse this with “relaxing the bowels” but the truth is there is less room for digestion and so the stool is evacuated before digestion is complete. Smoking also causes rectal discharge. And smoking constricts and inflames the kidneys as well, which has the opposite effect compared to the intestinal tract. Kidneys process fluid at a slower rate and fluids can become rancid and infectious.

Juicing

Juicing has lots of benefits, but that carrot, beet, apple juice can do more harm than good for some people with an abundance of Candida in their gut. Juicing removes the fiber and other nutrients from the fruits and vegetables, and these nutrients are needed to feed a healthy gut microbiome. What’s left are sugars. If you’re just juicing kale, turmeric, lemons, collards, and garlic, or something like that, feel free to keep on juicing. But if you’re sweetening your juices with sweet fruits or carrots or beets, it doesn’t take much to make candida happy.

Fruit

We’re not saying that fruit is bad, but anyone who is suffering from an over-abundance of candida needs to lay off the fruit (not including lemons, limes, cranberries, granny smith apples, and other non-sweet fruits). Fruit is much sweeter than it used to be. Even on an all-natural, unrefined, raw food diet, we have way more access to sugar than our paleolithic ancestors did. Google wild bananas and check out what watermelon used to look like. Not only was fruit seasonal and harder to come by, but it was also much more fibrous and mealy, and much less “fruity.”

Condiments

Many condiments including salad dressings, mustards, ketchup, and hot sauces have sweeteners in them. Even without sweeteners, they are typically refined and processed with the addition of too many unnecessary ingredients. Read the ingredient labels. Better yet, make your own condiments, and use more herbs and better cooking methods to add flavor to your meals.

Organic Junk Food

Refind and processed foods fed pathogens including candida. Let’s take chips for instance. Chips often have sugar in them, including the organic varieties, but even those sugar-free brown rice and bean chips can still feed candida. Brown rice is ok for most people who aren’t very ill. When digesting brown rice, provided the gut has enough bacterial activity to do the job properly, fiber-loving gut microbes get to eat and proliferate first, before the sugar and starch molecules are exposed. But if you grind brown rice into a flour to make chips or pasta with it, you’re exposing the sugars and starches. The digestive process is altered. This is why it’s better to eat, cook with, and chew your own whole foods. Looking at those same chips as an example, the bean flour used is laden with enzyme inhibitors (unless the corporation making the food soaked and sprouted those beans properly, which is doubtful!) Enzyme inhibitors disrupt healthy gut microbiome, inhibit nutrient assimilation, and damage the digestive system. Similar examples exist for almost every single pre-packaged, processed food item in your organic health-food store.

Conclusion

When you’re chronically ill, forget the store-bought cereal, boxed nut milk, nut butters, chips, “healthy” chocolates, and food bars. To build up healthy bacterial colonies in the gut, you a variety of need whole foods. Nothing helps to grow a healthy microbiome like huge, diverse salads. Check out this article, Detox Cheap and Easy Without Fasting for a recipe for gut-healing salads and be sure to read How To Heal Your Gut.

Fungal Supplement Stack – Knock Out Yeast, Candida, Mold, Fungus

The first three should be plenty for most people, but for really prominent fungal issues or for impatient people with a bigger budget I’d recommend all of these:

Formula SF722 – Thorne Research

Abzorb Vitamin & Nutrient Optimizer (500mg) HCP Formulas

Syntol AMD – Arthur Andrew Medical

Berberine 500mg – Thorne Research

MycoCeutics MycoPhyto Complex – EcoNugenics

MicroDefense – Pure Encapsulations

Sources:

The inflammatory response to cell death – NCBI

Does alcohol affect blood sugar levels in diabetes? – Medical news Daily

Influence of the microbiome on response to vaccination – NCBI

Your Gut Microbiome Could Affect Vaccines’ Effectiveness – Discover

What do the bacteria living in your gut have to do with your immune system? – The Conversation

Seven-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine and Nasopharyngeal Microbiota in Healthy Children – CDC

More Evidence Links Gut Microbiome to Autism – NEJM

The Candida Mercury Link – Lotus Dental

How Nicotine Affects Candida Overgrowth – Holistic Health

Common and Unexpected Causes of Candida Overgrowth was originally published on Organic Lifestyle Magazine

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Danger Room: Toronto’s most hostile comedy show for hecklers

“GET OFF THE STAGE MAN BOOBS!”

“DON’T EAT THE MIC YOU FAT FUCK!”

“GET DOWN BEFORE ONE OF YOUR BUTTONS HITS SOMEONE IN THE EYE!”

“SAY A JOKE YOU SAGGING ASSHOLE!”

We walk into the bar known as The Corner Comedy Club, a grimy comedy club with a fitting slogan: “It’s so small it’s funny,” on the corner of John Street in Downtown Toronto. A fat comedian in a red plaid shirt and ripped jeans is sitting on a stool on the stage with a mic in a sweaty hand, getting chewed alive by a crowd of the most ruthless hecklers I’ve ever witnessed.

“YOU’RE AS COMICAL AS YOU ARE SKINNY!”

“Yeah, that’s what your mom said when I was sitting on her face last night!” Fat Comedian calls.

“BOOOOOO!”

“GOOD MOM JOKE YOU FUCKING AMATURE!”

“I PAID TEN BUCKS FOR THIS SHIT!”

The poor guy can’t get two sentences in without being ripped to shreds. Chirps fly through the bar like rapid gunfire, the heavy-duty artillery leaving the brave comedian wounded and humiliated on the grimy stage. He’s struggling to stay upright, pushing weak incest and dead baby jokes, desperate for the slightest trace of laughter that he’s actually responsible for, trying to make a joke and not be the joke. He has no such luck.

But this wasn’t your usual comedy night. This was Danger Room — a night were most comedians don’t last more than one minute before the shark tank of hecklers swallow them whole.

And one of my best friends was soon to perform.

Let’s back up to six hours prior.

I was at the gym near the free-weights when I bumped into one of my old buddies from High School. He’s a writer too and whenever we see each other we often dive into discussions about the pressure to engage readers. He told me he’s been writing a new short story every day, but that he’s also been doing some stand-up comedy to test material in front of a live crowd. 

“Really? Stand up?”

“Yeah man. There’s this open mic place I go on Sunday nights on Danforth and Broadview.”

“How’s the crowd?”

“Depends on the night. Sometimes there’s silence, but it’s a good crowd to go to for your first time. Everyone’s pretty open and positive.”

“I’ve got a friend who I’ve been wanting to get on stage for a while. He’s a born comedian! I would love to get him on.”

“You guys should definitely come by!”

My friend Phil is the funniest guy I know. Not only can he spit out any accent with cunning precision, he can also spiral into rants of improvised comedy as if he wrote the stuff down and rehearsed it for weeks. He can play any role. Become any character. He’s quick. Spontaneous. And damn right hysterical. But here’s the problem: he’s nervous about getting up on stage.

Here’s why.

Phil and I are fraternity brothers, and a couple years ago I convinced him to do some stand up for a sorority’s philanthropy event. I had helped him prepare his set, making sure to throw in some of his signature stuff. His Frat Bro PC character he not-so-loosely based off of South Park was one of his best rants, and we decided it would be fitting for a Greek life gathering.

But were we ever wrong.

The audience of sorority sisters, children, parents, and distinguished philanthropists were not prepared for a set screaming about how “PC DOESN’T STAND FOR PUSSY CRUSHING!” 

Though his material was comedic gold to my buddies and I, it wasn’t the right time or place, and it left a sea of mothers and daughters staring at him with lowered jaws and wide eyes — all in deafening silence. 

Phil’s been rightfully nervous to get back up on stage ever since. I figured tonight would be the perfect opportunity to get him back on that horse.

I shot him a quick message: “We’re going out tonight.”

After meeting up with Phil and some buddies for a quick pre-game, we all hit the road in my buddy’s soccer mom van and drove twenty-five minutes to Danforth and Broadview. This was the night of Thanksgiving Sunday and most of us had dinners with our families that delayed our departure time, so we were running a little late. Actually we were running very late. By the time we arrived at the bar, the show was over and everyone was gone.

Giving up, we considered the alternatives of going to another bar, racking in some shots, and maybe getting Phil a mic anyway. But then my buddy Bernie came up with a final idea.

“There’s another comedy club not too far,” says Bernie, scrolling through his phone. “It’s just on the corner of John Street. Ten-minute drive from here. Some show called ‘Danger Room.’”

“Is it open mic?” Phil asks.

“I think it’s for actual comedians. And I think there’s cover.”

We agree to check it out. Nothing else was happening anyway.

When we get to the bar, we ask the guy running the door — a bearded man in a leather jacket, sporting a red bandana around his head — if our buddy can get up on stage. “You done this before?” he asks Phil.

“This is my first time,” Phil replies, not counting the sorority event.

“First time? And you’re fucking stupid enough to come here!”

In that second, as if on cue, we hear from inside: “GET OFF THE STAGE MAN BOOBS!” 

We shuffle through the crowd and find seats near the front of the tiny bar. The place reeks of beer and tobacco smothered clothing, with faint lighting illuminating a small wooden plank constituting a stage. Drunken chirps are firing from a group of guys scattered all around the grubby place; the poor comedian currently up is being publicly decimated. He struggles to squeeze in some of his prepared jokes until one of the drunkest hecklers literally rips him off the stage.

“YOU ARE FUCKING AWFUL!”  

“PLEASE! NEVER COME BACK HERE!”

More comedians step on, and nobody does any better. The drunker the hecklers get, the more shameless they are with their heckling. This results in comedic desperation: comedians resort to new levels of vulgarity in hopes of cheaper laughs. Jokes about sex become jokes about overdosing on drugs, which becomes jokes about being fucked by dads, which spirals into jokes about being a child predator. The laughs never come. Well, besides the laughter deriving from shameless heckling. The cycle continues.

One guy is heckled so badly, he tries to avert the attention to the Muslim sitting in front of him, hoping to use pathetic racism to weasel out of the ambush. (Yup, a real stand-up piece of shit.) He’s proven weak and unfit, and this only amps-up the insults.

“YOU LOOK LIKE A GERMAN SKATEBOARDER THAT ALSO DJ’S!” one guy screams at a comedian in a bomber jacket with a big man-bun dangling from a backward cap.

“AND YOUR CAP LOOKS LIKE IT’S TAKING A SHIT OUT OF YOUR HEAD!” another heckler adds. (Not all of them were so clever.)

“I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE COMEDY, NOT A SPECIAL-ED ASSEMBLY!”

Why would anybody stand up before such a merciless crowd? Simple. To battle the most vicious monster there is, and survive to tell the tale. Most of the guys who go up are actual comedians, who come to Danger Room to test their skills against the worst crowd you could possibly encounter. After a Danger Room attack, silence would feel like a compliment.

But even these guys were used to getting up on stage. Phil was up next. 

He sits on the stool and raises the mic to his mouth.

“WHAT’S THIS PUSSY GOING TO DO? SING HIGHSCHOOL MUSICAL?”

“GET OFF THE STAGE PEDRO!”

“YOU LOOK LIKE YOU WATCH CHILD PORN AND JERK OFF IN PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS!”

Despite these initial heckles, Phil starts off strong by faking weak. He begins with a quaky, loud and high-pitched voice, playing the character of someone terrified to perform — like a voice-cracking thirteen-year-old about to read the Torah for his Bar Mitzvah.

“H-high g-guys, my n-name is Ph-Phillip and I’m s-super n-nervous t-to perform t-tonight in front o-of all o-of y-y-you…”

Before the next heckle can fire, he jumps up, snaps into a booming southern accent — blaring with confidence and authority — and ascends into an incredible rant about the astonishing diversity of the crowd which he “ain’t used to in ma neighborhood back in Virginia!”

Everyone erupts into laughter.

A heckler screams a dumb Jew joke.

He switches from his southern accent to his Gay-Nazi-German-accent. “Vhat nobody veally knows is zhat vee vere all gay!”

His set is completely improvised. He rolls with the punches and starts introducing all his classic characters that were once confined to the frat house living room: Puerto Rican drug dealer, Australian pervert, Chinese businessman — those that were previously only available to the boys at the end of a drunk night with pizza boxes scattered on the floor. For the first time, Phil’s contagious humour is completely unleashed. And nobody could get enough of him.

When the heavy chirps start flying, unlike the other guys, he doesn’t revert to desperate comedy by raising the vulgarity or trying to deflect the cruelty towards people sitting in the crowd. He’s genuinely funny, and not desperate to make the crowd think so. He simply is.

And if you think I’m just being biased, even the drunkest hecklers gave him a big round of applause. It was the first and only applause of the night. None of the boys could believe it. But I’m gonna be a huge cheeseball and say I knew he had it in him all along. 

As we walked out, the owner told Phil he could come back anytime. Two comedians gave him their business cards as they hacked darts outside the bar. People who were in the audience asked him where his next gig is. He was the newly-emerged celebrity of the night. 

People often feel like they need to ease into challenges. They prefer slowly moving forward, gradual development, and keeping their dignity intact throughout the process. But sometimes your dignity has to be compromised. Sometimes you need to dive headfirst into the trenches of difficulty in order to come out stronger. Sometimes you need to go all in.

Failure has a way of holding people back — the silence of the sorority is something that may’ve stopped Phil from further performances, but the bravery to move on was the key that popped open the door to the night’s success.

Now, allow me to be sincerely-naked-honest for a second: There’s a lot of assholes in the world. 

There’s a lot of people who are going to give you every reason possible to stay safely buckled to your seat. They’ll take pride in ripping you down, in laughing or shaming you for even trying. But that’s all part of the system of growth. When you make yourself vulnerable and try to pursue something scary, chances are you’re going to eat shit sometimes. And most times, people will shit on you.  

It’s one of the biggest risks of starting a blog — hell, about writing in general. Not everyone is going to agree with the things you’re writing about, and a whole lot of people will make the effort to make their disagreements heard loud and clear. They’ll so much as bombard you with novella-long comments about how you don’t have the right to say the things you’re saying. They’ll send you hate emails. They’ll even straight up say that you don’t have what it takes and that you should just give up — the equivalence of a heckling reaction to a punchline. 

When I was the opinion editor for my university paper, it was a hard pill to swallow: the acceptance that not everyone will like or agree with my stuff. But I eventually began to see flack as a necessary part of my development, similar to the way comedians who come to Danger Room see ruthless heckles. It’s part of the process, and the more accustomed you get to the horrors of people protesting against your stance, the taller you eventually stand. 

In summary, there’s two ways of approaching assholes who love to shit on you like it’s their day job. 1) You could play victim and cry about being verbally assaulted, complain about feeling unsafe, or blame all lack of success on the pricks that walk the earth. 2) You could suck it up and use those same assholes to make you stronger. 

We may bomb it. We may kill it. But until we try, we’re letting the hecklers win.

We all live in a Danger Room. So let’s use those pricks to our advantage.  

Let’s raise our red solo cups (or cheap glasses of wine if you think you’re classy or something) to the assholes that make silence feel like a compliment — and who make our worst fears a fucking joke.

Sincerely,  Mr. Naked.

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After sharing with you my small bathoom makover, today I’m telling you how about my living room restyling.

The living room remodel was for sure easier than the bathroom makeover because it was just about changing the floor, re-painting and changing the furniture layout, plus having fun in adding accessories. But I’m really happy with the result if compared with the before, and most of all I’m happy because I was able to do a massive decluttering. Getting rid of those things you do not want anymore is good for the interior space but above all for the soul.

I’m telling a bit about the design choices, then I’ll show you the living room before and after with all the specifications.

PS: this blog will have a restyling too…see you in a week with a new dress and lots of news ^_^

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Dopo avervi mostrato il restyling della stanza bagno oggi vi racconto come ho trasformato il soggiorno di casa. 

Il restyling del living è stato decisamente più semplice rispetto a quello del bagno perché si è trattato solamente di cambiare pavimento, ridipingere e cambiare la disposizione dei mobili: il risultato però, paragonato al prima, mi ha davvero dato soddisfazione. La cosa più bella poi è che finalmente mi sono liberata di un sacco di cose che non volevo più: il decluttering fa davvero bene agli spazi, ma soprattutto allo spirito. 

Vi racconto prima un po’ del progetto, poi vi mostro le foto del prima e del dopo con tutte le specifiche.

PS: il restyling riguarderà anche le pagine di questo blog. Ci rivediamo tra qualche giorno con un bel po’ di novità ^_^

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Living Room Remodel | Moodboard 

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As I told you in this post, the goal was to make the living more spacious and brighter. I wanted a cosy and light space and I chose natural colors, as whites, wood, green, few accents in black.

There were several things I didn’t like about my previous living, because I actually never planned the design. There were definitely too many things, furnishings and accessories, in a small space. I was also tired about the colors and did not like the floor, definitely too dark and cold.

The moodboard brings together Scandinavian mood, natural green, some quotes and random things I like – an old photo at Serralves Park in Porto, a Tokyo map, and casual and comfortable outfits.

. Come vi raccontavo in questo post, l’ obiettivo era quello di rendere lo spazio luminoso e più grande. Volevo uno spazio accogliente, chiaro, dove possa essere un po’ sempre estate. Per questo, ho scelto tonalità del bianco, del beige, del legno naturale, del verde, solo qualche piccolo accento in nero.

Del mio living non mi piacevano molte cose perché in realtà l’avevamo arredato con l’idea di starci un periodo breve in questa casa…e invece, sono trascorsi anni. Intanto, c’erano decisamente troppe cose, tra arredi e oggetti, in uno spazio limitato. Mi avevano stancato inoltre i colori e non amavo il pavimento, decisamente troppo scuro e freddo

La moodboard di progetto mette insieme atmosfere scandinave, verde naturale, frasi , ricordi ed ispirazioni. Una mia foto al parco Serralves a Porto, una mappa di Tokyo, outfit casual e confortevoli. Insomma, tutto quello che volevo per il mio living.

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Living Room Remodel | Layout

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After the decluttering, I changed the furniture layout: I just turned the sofa with the back to the kitchen to gain more space for the sitting corner, without closing the kitchenette. The couch is the one we had in the basement, maybe we’ll change it in the nearest future.

I then turned the table I already had to get more space in front of the staircase, using an old recovered bench instead than the chairs.

Actually, the only furniture I bought were the TV cabinet (IKEA PS) and the small coffee tables/stools, so we can say this was again another makeover in a budget!

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Dopo il decluttering, ho cambiato la disposizione dei mobili: girando semplicemente il divano con lo schienale verso la cucina ho guadagnato spazio per l’angolo soggiorno, mentre la cucina è rimasta comunque parzialmente aperta. Il divano è di recupero (ce l’avevamo in taverna!), magari lo cambierò tra un po’.

Ho poi girato il tavolo che avevo in modo da liberare anche l’angolo davanti alla scala (che porta in taverna), recuperando una vecchia panca che occupa meno spazio rispetto alle sedie.

Gli unici arredi nuovi sono il mobile tv (IKEA PS) e i vari tavolini, insomma anche questo è stato un restyling a basso costo!

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Living Room Remodel | Finishes and Materials

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The new materials and finishes really makes the difference in the remodel and in the whole feeling, now the living looks bigger and brighter thanks to:

New flooring:

For the flooring I chose an oak wood ListofloorGarbelotto Gold, thickness 1 cm, color Tre Cime painted wax effect (actually it looks raw and supernatural, as I was looking for)

In the kitchenette I preferred to cover the wood with a vinyl flooring, just layed over not glued. In this way it protects the wood, it decorates the kitchenette but also it can be removed or changed whenever I want and cleaned super easily. I chose Moor di Atrafloor

Wall Paints:

After years of bright colors I want now to enjoy this clear and clean space, maybe in the future can add some pop of color again, probably in the hallway. On the walls I chose two neutrals by Farrow &Ball: 

Wevet n°273: a white with a bit of gray

Cornforth White n°228: despite the name, it is a light gray with some beige inside, changing a lot according to the different daylight

as we did in the bathroom, we painted the windows and the doors

on the exposed bricks I used a simple white paint

The fun part of course was the decorating one. I worked by different corners: tv wall, dining corner, staircase wall, sitting corner.

Enjoy now the before, after and all the specs ^_^

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Le nuove finiture hanno fatto davvero la differenza nella luminosità e nella percezione dello spazio.

Pavimento: 

Per il pavimento ho scelto un legno in rovere Listofloor di Garbelotto Gold, spessore 1 cm, colore Tre Cime verniciato effetto cera (in pratica sembra grezzo e supernaturale, ovvero l’effetto che cercavo io )

Nell’angolo cottura ho preferito coprire il legno con un vinile semplicemente appoggiato a terra, che posso togliere quando voglio ma protegge e allo stesso tempo caratterizza l’angolo cucina. E superfacile da pulire. Ho scelto Moor di Atrafloor

Pareti:

Dopo anni di colori accesi mi voglio godere questo spazio chiaro e pulito, magari tra un po’ penserò ad integrare qualche colore, ad esempio nel disimpegno. Alle pareti ho alternato perciò due colori neutri di Farrow &Ball: 

Wevet n°273: un bianco con una punta di grigio

Cornforth White n°228: nonostante il nome è un grigio chiaro con una punta di beige, e cambia molto in base alla luce 

anche qui, come in bagno, abbiamo dipinto noi gli infissi e le porte

sulle colonne in mattoni a vista ho usato un semplice bianco lavabile

La parte più divertente è stata però ovviamente quella della scelta degli accessori e dell’allestimento delle pareti, che ho fatto procedendo per angoli: parete tv, angolo pranzo, parete scala e angolo soggiorno. 

Vi lascio con le foto del prima, del dopo e con i vari dettagli. Enjoy ^_^

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living room before

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living room after

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Tv Corner || Wall Prints: Canvas Pop, Vissevasse, The Posterclub; Vases holder: IKEA Satsumas; TV Cabinet: IKEA PS; Table lamp: Kundalini

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Dining Corner || Wall lamp: Sklum; Hook: Muuto; Bench pillows: IKEA + 1kertaa2; Boxes IKEA; Hanged Frame: MOEBE ; Chair Cover: Luxzura

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Staircase Corner || Table: Sklum; Table lamp: My Cinema Lightbox;  Wall Prints: Mapiful, Vissevasse, Grafomap

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Sitting Corner || Rug: Sukhi; Lamp: IKEA Sinnerlig; Large Print: The Posterclub; Wall lamp: Creative Cables; Pillows: IKEA + Maisns du Monde; Coffee table: IKEA Ypperlig

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living work in progress

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After ph Aurora Scuderi

Special Thanks to all the brands which took part in the project :

Garbelotto | Farrow&Ball | Sklum | The Posterclub | Mapiful | Grafomap | SukhiRugs

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#myhomerestyling | Enjoy the bathroom before after here

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  #MYHOMERESTYLING | LIVING BEFORE & AFTER After sharing with you my small bathoom makover, today I'm telling you how about my living room restyling.

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you won't post 1 headcanon for every puppet. you wont

i WILL. AND i'll do it in chronological order from appearance (more or less). but it will be under a readmore after the first season so i dont interrupt anyones scrollin

The Professor: i think in addition to growing a bit from Dino DNA(tm) he also has feathers now. just some feathers in there with his fur. maybe even molts and is miserable about it

Death: he plays guitar And piano, but just as a hobby. he's like a salaryman who had a garage band as a teenager and never fully gave up on the dream

Propeller: propeller SADSTUCK: i think he legitimately had to go to therapy for the britannica shit that happened. PH feels like it would be that realistic about mental health tbh

Big Pile of Diamonds: his mustache is fake. his greatest secret. his greatest shame.

God: he actually really likes to dance! unfortunately next 2 no one will do it since... The Incident

Train: does he not have a better name... maybe put a mr. in front of there... anyway he feels betrayed by the U.S. since they gave up the train model for highways/interstates and the motorcar industry. gets REALLY heated about it

Mt. Vesuvius: has a bunch of speeches given by famous latin authors and orators memorized, but sometimes he mashes them up without realizing/misattributes which one was written by whom. old man moments

Hatshepsut's Goose: can't remember what their gender was in life. that's fine, they love being a nonbinary icon. AMAB (Assigned Mummy at (em)Balming)

Clipped Coin: dodges the spool's wrath by being unflappable and so down to earth despite his apparent success. truly the king of staying in his own lane

Olympic Torch: hes a cranky piece of shit and only really enjoys sporting competition. he was complaining about being in the group puzzle photo so god just picked him up and he went ffffffffffine. okay. ill smile for 2 seconds

Gay Oars: i think they Also went to therapy, mostly relationship counseling, and now they are back and better than Ever. unbreakable bond. im abt to pen a whole ass comic series about them getting married in purgatory

Policarpa's Spool: still thinks of himself as a spy type, but there's only so much spying he can do in... purgatory. of course, his primary nemesis is the treasure chest.

Lake Donner Snowman: idk if this counts as a headcanon per se but in my very short list where i recast the puppets as famous singers, he is ABSOLUTELY voiced by Weird Al Yankovic.

St. Nick's Wet Bones: sort of taking the whole purgatory thing in stride. he kinda feels like he's in retirement! now he's a minor agent of chaos who's looked after by his darling Pickle Boys

Beast of Gevaudan: i was so sad when the infinitiger wasn't real, i wanted them to have a cooking show together so badly and destroy the horse's self-esteem. i love him. hes so abominably french

Stool of Gold: well-traveled, well-read, literally just as sensible as the Book or the Oars, but finds the chaos entertaining to spectate.

Ziryab's Oud: I think that the puppets have divvied up the whole Wondrium Arena and all have designated Living Areas, and he has a whole dressing room filled with shitty costumes he can't even wear. every time someone knocks he answers like hes on MTV's Cribs.

Bye Bye Brothers: they live in the orchestral pit and treat it like a secret lair. only other Murderer Puppets are allowed in. EXCLUSIVE club

Flower Boat: GNC Icon. this is a flower boat stan account. jenuinely a wholesome, emotional vessel doing their best to pitch in.

Molasses Horse: you can wash him as much as you want, that shit always just comes back somehow. the book theorizes it's psychosomatic at this point, since they're technically only souls at this point.

Tiny Piece of Wheat: bro i bet they went through SUCH phases after finding out about the professor's death. like all five stages of grief and then four more that have not yet been discovered by humans. dw kiddo, u got Grandparents incoming

Emu: the type of guy to fistfight you and then help you up. laid back but ready to throw down at a MOMENT'S notice. has no beef with the Wheat, but generally avoids them to keep from any Upsets.

Treasure Chest: has a little list of get-rick-quick schemes he wants to test, but has no way to in purgatory. he has one braincell bouncing around in his head like the DVD logo

Scabs & Pus: they get to hang out with the Bye Bye Brothers in their little club :) they're gross dudes to look at and be around. but they are ultimately harmless and friendly and just happy to be included.

Book: i love da book. I think he lives in the music library backstage and finds librettos for stageplays/musicals to pitch to the group to put on, as well as produces their little TV shows.

Birch Trees: since they share a root system, they have a telepathic link and communicate without even speaking, which is fucking creepy as hell when one or both of them just start laughing out of nowhere. they probably enjoy acting sinister

Asmodeus: he worked HARD on his song for the show!!!!! i think he's a bit of a ham sometimes when he gets the chance. also his goat head bites literally anything that comes close on reflex.

The Devil: while everything he does is to get souls, it also feels like he wants for positive and is less an Enemy of God and more an Irritating Coworker. in my brain they have a whole Tom and Jerry thing going on.

I don't have anything for the Fake Puppets the Substitute impersonated, but im planning on drawing some infinitiger soon bc he was my fave for sure

The Substitute: this is PURELY crack but i think it would be hilarious if he had voice commands like some tech does. i want him to climb back in the window and ryan just yells XBOX TURN OFF and he vanishes.

Dino Dad/Dinosir: i think even after he gets to the present and learns about all kinds of rocks and gems and crystals he Still just loves a big old rock he can lay on and sun himself with. like a dad and his armchair. doesnt gotta be fancy, just has to be comfy.

Dino Mom/Dinosara: i think she would be REALLY into the fake tv shows the puppets in the Wondrium Arena make. and they'd probably Love to have her as a fan. i think both the professor's parents are Hella popular.