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venomous-soliloquy · 4 days ago

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Some things I've realized since I started mainly drawing OCs again:

I was putting too much of an expectation on myself to churn out fanart and it was both debilitating me and stagnating my growth

I was too worried about validation, if a certain piece of fanart didn't preform well I would question if I was even that good of an artist when I constantly saw other fanart getting sometimes 500+ or 1000+ notes - Worth noting, that yes, when I post my OCs on Bluesky in particular I do hope they do well and people enjoy my art. But, I no longer care if they 'do numbers' because at the end of the day I'm actually enjoying myself while creating art and that's what counts

The StonyLovesSteve event forced me to stop drawing for nearly a month after it, I was in horrific pain from my hand to my elbow after spending hours every day working on the animation. Despite that, the pause in creating helped me to reevaluate what I was doing and why. - I am still suffering ramifications from doing that animation. I spent a month working on it, still barely finished it. I now am consistently forced to take breaks in the middle of creating art because of the hand and arm cramps that pop up.

I'm growing artistically by leaps and bounds and because I don't feel the weight of 'having to get the characters right' or 'having to draw something that appeals to the fandom at large'. This is not a weight that the fandom itself put on me, but one I put on myself. But, in the past few months I've gotten faster and because I'm not constantly stressed about 'doing it right', my muscle memory is being set free and shit that I struggled to draw before just comes so easy now it's ridiculous.

All this being said; yes, I will still be drawing Stony stuff in the future. However, to grow as an artist and a creator and if I ever want to get any of my dreams off of the ground, I definitely need to lean further in the opposite direction. After all, how am I supposed to write a webcomic about a 15+ year old story with my OCs if I'm just drawing fanart all the time? Do I always want to contend with copyright over popular IPs by only selling prints and stickers of them, or is it wiser to also work on original/personal designs along side that?

I'll keep making fanart, 100%, but it's going to slow down to a veritable crawl.

The biggest thing is, I'm a little leery about posting my OCs here, because this blog was first built on my Stony fanart. I'm not going to pretend like all 400+ followers I have here didn't come for Stony first and maybe my OC work second. Still, this blog was always intended to be an art gallery of sorts... So, yeah, I'm gonna keep posting my art here. And most of it is going to be OCs, studies, personal work that has nothing to do with fanart.

I absolutely understand if people need to unfollow me because of it, because you came to watch me for one thing and I switched it up on you.

Love ya guys.

#syan rants #syan rambles #admittedly freeing up my muscle memory by drawing OC stuff only has helped what Stony fanart I've done recently #but I can't even share that fanart until the event is officially posted by the person running it #But I remember starting the sketch of one piece with Steve's back visible and immediately went 'when the hell did I learn how to do this??'#Because every time previously when I've tried to draw backs or back muscles it's been absolute hell and yet somehow I was doing it #almost effortlessly

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immemorymag · 2 years ago

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My name is Elena Litvinova, I am Russian living in Spain for past 18 years. I have been doing photography for 6 years. Trying to see what is invisible otherwise, this is what photography means to me.

There is a great film about photography and not just about that, called “The salt of the Earth”, featuring Sebastião Salgado. There are many memorable ideas mentioned, but today I would quote the one that stuck with me the most and which I agree with.

“The eyes speak volumes, the expression of the face. When you are taking a picture, it’s not just you who’s doing the job, it’s the person in front of you who’s letting you take a photo, the person offers a photo.”

Related to that on a metaphysical level is a story from my grandfather regarding photography maybe 100 years ago, when people in his small Russian village believed that one shouldn’t go overboard about letting oneself being photographed, since every time one gives a part of oneself away and cannot do so indefinitely. This idea of offering, giving oneself away to a photographer is what unites these two ideas. And I believe in that.

There were many times when I couldn’t understand what was wrong with a picture I took, everything seemed fine, but something was missing. I reckon that the person being photographed influences the outcome. One can shut oneself off completely and whereas you will capture perfectly the looks, there will be nothing more, just a superficial depiction.

There is no active participation on behalf of the subject, the only thing he/she needs to do is to relax and open oneself just as if it was a silent conversation. Then pictures speak.

I started using film when my friend Victoria Ilina , a talented photographer, who was also one of my mentors in its’ day, suggested almost offhandedly that I should have tried it to see if I liked it. Another thing that played its’ part is that my father was always using the film, well, there was no other way of taking photos anyway, so I was growing up observing him using his Zenith and FED cameras. So I tried and got into it.

Gradually I have grown to actually prefer analogue photography. For me it is more about implicit things rather than the explicit ones, for example, the look of the photos (grain, etc) taken using a film camera is not a decisive factor.

Logically it was stressing me out since I just had to see the result straight away, but slowly I have learned to let it go. In the end I enjoyed more looking through the photos after actually disconnecting from the session completed. It allowed me to view the images more objectively and profoundly, as if they were not mine.

It is about limitations coming with usage of a film camera, some self imposed, some that I have no influence over. With that comes discipline, patience and improvement.

I remember spending time with my father in the darkroom, helping him with the film development and printing, however it was long ago. So about 4 years ago I decided to acquire necessary skills but instead of going trial and error route I opted for an intensive course with an experienced Spanish photographer Juan Carlos Marugán and I learnt from him everything I needed to know related both to the development process and to the photography itself. Now I feel in the darkroom as if at home. Also, I knew how to shoot before, but he gave me invaluable insights into details. He is an old school perfectionist and I really like his photos. They are, as they say, picture perfect).

I have seen so many wonderful photographs made by the photographers I like and respect, using digital cameras or even phones. I have discovered that using film perfectly matches my goals and way of working, it has been very beneficial to me. There are times when using an analogue camera is not convenient due to the session particularities, but apart from those singular times I clearly prefer using film. However, this is on a personal, even more intuitive rather than calculated, basis, it doesn’t mean that it would work for anyone who tries it.

In parallel to regular secondary school I attended an arts school in Sevastopol, the town where I was born. Then it was time for a pragmatic university economics degree in Moscow, followed by a masters degree in Spain, where I worked in the export department for a few years. However, I have never lost appreciation for art and as soon as I could I co founded with my friend an arts school-workshop in Barcelona specialising in Japanese sculpture and handcraft techniques.

Some years passed by and I gave birth to my first son, which made me leave that project and consider something which would enable me to manage maternity and professional development. That was how my interest in photography began, for then as an observer.

I watched, admired, watched again and analysed. Some images I liked, some didn’t. Some reached out to me, some left me untouched. Dozens of photographers, hundreds of images. Gradually I was discovering a new world. At a certain point I couldn’t stay put and started a project , which would let me share this new world with other people. Texts accompanied by photographs. Photographs intensified with texts.

Then I started trying myself. Heavy handedly I tried to reproduce beauty. I learnt simple things, wondered, got upset, uplifted by little revelations and success, I studied

So by now I have been doing photography for 6 years. People, their portraits are what attracts and interests me the most.

#women photographers #support female artists #female photographers #film photograhers #fine art photography #analog photography

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mbdailynews · 2 years ago

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WSJ Print Edition Readers Struggle to Make Sense of It All

We asked WSJ Print Edition readers how they are juggling streaming services, or whether they’ve found a simpler way to just watch TV. Cut cord, no regrets I cut the cord when I realized that I hardly watched anything on cable, so why pay for it? I do not miss it at all. Instead, I juggle streaming services and love the option of mixing, matching and dropping services repeatedly. Therefore, I stick with providers like Amazon, which connects me to services like Paramount+ which I’ll watch until a couple of favorite shows are done, then switch to Acorn for a couple of months, then move on to PBS. However, I also enjoy other providers like Netflix and HBO because of their original content. One thing is certain, I will never pay for cable again said to WSJ Print Edition. 100 channels of tedium We still have basic cable for local stations and currently subscribe to seven or eight streaming services and split our time between them fairly equally. A lot of what we watch is recommendations from friends and co-workers. Far and away, “Yellowstone” is our favorite must-watch. I really enjoy the streaming format that encapsulates a story in eight to 10 episodes and that I can watch entirely over the course of a few days. It seems to lend itself to much more dynamic storytelling than the old 22-episode season from the heyday of networks. This format leads to dull repetition, in my opinion. Much of cable TV is so boring. A hundred channels of tedium. The only time we watch the legacy networks is for local morning news and live sports. IT support for Mom We’re still trying to figure this out. We cut our DirecTV service and opted for YouTube TV. We also have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Apple TV. When “House of the Dragon” launched, I added HBO Max but then dropped it. I’ve also been helping my mother (who is 70) with her decisions for these services and recently convinced her to drop cable for YouTube TV. I let her use my subscription until she was more comfortable with it. I even helped her and her husband (age 80) buy two smart TVs and helped them load all of their streaming services. It was a lot of work, and I’m regularly on call for IT support. - Regan Fackrell, St. George, Utah Missing the old days We’re definitely juggling services and, frankly, I’ve lost track of the whole thing. Trying to find where/how to watch a particular football game makes me feel like I’m in a bad sequel to “The Da Vinci Code.” I actually had to research why “Yellowstone” season 5 wasn’t showing up anywhere even though we apparently have Paramount+, I guess through our Prime subscription? And I seem to remember watching it on Peacock (Why? Who knows?) but, of course, it’s on Paramount Network (what even is that?) and doesn’t show up on streaming until after the whole season (but not on Paramount’s service…huh?). This is all starting to make me pine for the days of cable. I used to complain about the lack of choice and the cost of cable. Ahh, how naive we all were! - Scott Campbell, Friendswood, Texas Generational divide We primarily use streaming declare Charles to WSJ Print Edition. We have a cable bundle for an older family member who isn’t comfortable using streaming as their primary video source. On the other end of the spectrum, our 10-year-old daughter has no concept of linear programming—her entire experience has been one of on-demand via streaming. - Charles Simonds, Los Angeles The cost is right…for now My wife and I juggle five streaming services at the moment, and we do not have cable TV as it is cost-prohibitive. In a situation like with the recent World Cup, we temporarily subscribed to a sixth service, but that is our limit. If at the end of streaming wars subscription prices rise, we would need to re-evaluate as right now the monthly prices for the services are quite reasonable, and we share the costs between us. - Bradley Collier, Daly City, Calif. On my parents’ dime As a young adult in my mid-20s, I have moved away from my parents and now live with a roommate. Still, we still take advantage of my parents’ cable account to enjoy sports and other television shows. To access local sports events, I utilize a VPN to pretend I am still in my parents’ state. I also have access to HBO through our family’s AT&T plan and still use my parents’ Netflix account. My only paid streaming subscriptions are for Spotify and Amazon Prime, as I receive Hulu through Spotify. If there are any other shows I want to watch, I simply sign up for a one-week free trial said to WSJ Print Edition. The only inconvenience is that I need to use a website to keep track of my progress, as I refuse to pay for numerous subscriptions. For now, I plan to stay on my parents’ accounts as long as possible. - William Pflueger, New York Limits of rural living Local TV is a dinosaur living out its last days, but I live in a rural area, 5 miles away from the end of high-speed internet lines so I have to pay for satellite TV and subpar internet. I love streaming. If I ever get good internet, I won’t ever watch regular TV again, said to WSJ Print Edition. - George Dean, Kittrell, N.C. Can I get a bundle? I hate all the different streaming services and separate logins and user interfaces. It would be nice if some of them bundled together in a master bundle. As much as I hate juggling so many services, I think it’s a much better value than most theater experiences in this day and age. - Jeff Vojta, Durham, N.C. A TV junkie I’m kind of a junkie. I have wired cable plus satellite TV subscriptions, and also a plethora of streaming services—all the big ones plus a few little subscription services that are hiding in the couch cushions. I also have Roku, Chromecast and at least two Apple TV boxes. - John Collins, Greenwich, Conn. Give me a la carte I dumped cable early on because the price was constantly marching upward and we were being forced to pay for channels we do not watch. Sadly, every one of the live-TV streamers also now keeps jumping the price and adding unwanted content. I, for one, would like to see if there is cartel-like activity going on. It sure looks like it from the consumer standpoint. I want an a la carte approach and have no problem with signing a contract to help the companies with churn. There are about 4-5 channels I actually watch, and I do not want or need the others. It is quite ridiculous in the streaming era to force bundles of unwatched and unwanted channels on consumers. It would be really nice to be able to pay a set fee and pick a limited number of channels that we actually watch instead of paying outrageous fees for dozens of channels of worthless drivel we do not. - David Gregory, Marion, Ark. Streaming for Star Trek We were early adopters of streaming, mostly Netflix and Amazon Prime, but there’s one additional service that’s a special exception. I recently subscribed to Paramount+ because all of the Star Trek series were pulled from the other streaming outlets. Each episode is about 40 minutes long, the perfect length of time for me to work out on my rowing machine. I am watching them in chronological order (by series), and this practice keeps me consistent and helps me row longer. I look at it as a healthcare expense! Since starting in 2019, I have completed 592 episodes, with 126 more to go before finishing the pre-2000 series. By then, several of Paramount’s more recent series will be available. - Bob McLeod, Orlando, Fla. Ad-free above all Baby boomer here. I cut the cord some time ago. Not a sports fan, but I subscribe to about six streaming services. I hate commercials, so I really enjoy streaming. Prior to the streaming era, I had a DVR to skip commercials. I’m always willing to pay for no-ad content. My cost per month? Still cheaper than Dish was. - Christopher M. White, Idaho Falls, Idaho Cost creep reafirmed WSJ Print Edition When we moved in ’21 we left cable for Xfinity internet and Hulu Live. The introductory rate for internet was $40 per month with another $60 per month for Hulu Live. This saved us $86 per month over our previous cable package. Now costs have risen, so we’re paying $84 a month for internet and $75 for Hulu Live. Time to reassess and find a new viewing solution. Somebody needs to go. - Gerry McCann, Manchester Township, N.J. Give me a good book I have not used a television per se for years. We never had a cable subscription. My kids only watched a few shows growing up. During Covid I watched all the great shows I missed for the last 20 years, but I watched them on my MacBook Pro, declared to WSJ Print Edition. I only have Netflix and Amazon Prime, but would sign up for others for a short period if there was a show I wanted to see. I still read three books a week, so I am not the usual suspect. - Peg O’Donnell, Kensington, Md. Progress? Not for me. The promise of a la carte was that the consumer could pick and choose the channels, content and services they wanted as opposed to the “all in one” cable buffet. What people are quickly learning is it now will cost MORE to receive LESS than we enjoyed with the traditional cable bundle, while adding complexity. It is not enjoyable to switch inputs, dongles and services in order to watch different things on different streaming services. Have you tried watching Amazon Thursday Night Football? It takes multiple buttons to be pushed to launch, and then the viewer must wait for it to buffer and display on screen. This is progress? With cable, you simply tune into a channel and the viewer gets immediate instant gratification. Be careful what you wish for… - Connor McOwen, State College, Pa. Serendipity of cable I have Xfinity cable and am pleased. I’m low-maintenance. I have multiple movie channels and enjoy catching movies I’ve watched for years. I don’t necessarily need them to start at the beginning. Therefore, I don’t like streaming, where I have to allocate a fixed amount of time. - Rick Spell, Memphis Need more old movies said to WSJ Print Edition I’m still relying solely on Netflix and Prime, but am getting increasingly frustrated at how few older films are available on these two streamers. Almost every title search provides results that require another subscription or an ad-supported service. - Ramond Ford, Hockessin, Del. Turned off the TV I cut the cord in February 2015 when I moved out of my home for a major renovation. I moved back four months later and never reconnected the cable. The TV is still in the box eight years later. So no streaming, no cable and I don’t watch many videos. I get my news via WSJ Print Subscription, online websites and talk radio. I go to a friend’s or family member’s house or to a bar to catch major sporting events, presidential debates, etc. So I used a major disruption in my life—the renovation—to live more intentionally. Since I have to go somewhere to watch TV, I’m much more selective about what I watch. And it gets me out into the world, rather than keeping me home in front of the screen. Nancy Nicodemus, Dunwoody, Ga. Read the full article

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alitheamateur · 6 years ago

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The Grind- Chapter 22

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All my perpetual fretting over Tia’s reaction to the news of my reconciliation with Colton was all for…well…. It was all 100% necessary. She yelled phrases such as “if you wanna let the asshole back in your bed, you can clean up the mess he’s gonna make,” and “what did the dickhead do to convince you?” Both valid, however brutally honest they may have seemed. I made up my mind not to push it on her just yet, but to tip-toe through the tulips, if you will, until she warmed up to him. The two of them were quite similar in more ways than one, so they were bound to fall into at least a civil relationship sooner or later. Or, there unpredictable, combusting similarities would eventually just explode like the boom of a nuke.

As for progression on the Ritter/Elliott home front, things were moving along nicely. We were back to our morning coffee routine at The Grind, and our running schedule had been carefully decided for Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. One of those particular Sunday workouts had navigated us to the new home Colton had purchased as of late, so he could give me the tour. He’d met me at my apartment that morning, carless, but I hadn’t considered where he’d began his run from.

He’d moved in a little over 5 months ago, and judging at first glances the deposit was heavy for a place like this. The brick front, two story structure must have been newly built on the street because the miniscule grassy path he did have in his side yard, was just ever so slightly sprouting from the clumpy, muddy surface. He led me up a black painted front porch through the front door, seemingly eager to show off his purchase from a successful years earnings.

“Home sweet home. Here we are!” He remarked before breaking the plain into his den. “Whatddya think?”

I thought it wasn’t the place I pictured him in, for starters. Not in pessimistic manner or anything, the space was merely more modern, and suburban for what I imagined his quarters to be like. The cabinets of a kitchen just to the right of the main entrance, were bright white, and stealthy black appliances accentuated more bleach white on the walls. Upon trailing deeper into the area, we entered a hardwood floor living room, where the navy of his leather couch shined under the natural light blazing in from a large window.

“It’s super nice, Colt! You keep it so… clean.” Seriously, there wasn’t a stich of the rug out of place. No molding take-out boxes on his countertops, or discarded shoes strung wildly about.

“Give it time,” he pointed at me with a wide smile. “I ain’t been here long enough to destroy it yet.”

“Don’t expect me to come over and clean the place, mister. This girl is no maid,” I said overlapping my arms in a forewarning.

“You could be. Hey, we could get you one of those little outfits and everything,” Colton said wagging his eyebrows in suggestion. “I’m gonna go shower real quick, then we’ll take the bike back to your apartment. Just hang out here, and give me 20. Unless of course, you’d like the tour of my shower too..”

Okay, yes please! I need to get a good luck at the tub. Inspect the plumbing, and the drains or whatever..

“I don’t have a change of clean clothes, silly. But, you get all squeaky clean, then I’ll take you on the tour of my new place. The bedroom is to die for...” He dropped his head back in a cantankerous huff as if I was torturing him for my own pleasure.

While he left me unsupervised, fidgeting on the couch, I decided some friendly, not at all psychotic girlfriend snooping would be harmless. Wandering aimlessly in my sock feet about the sitting area and kitchenette, something in particular sparked my interest plastered on the double doors of his refrigerator. In carefully executed newspaper snippets, were all of my published works from the last three years held up on display by small, coinlike magnets. One piece I’d written on an injured All-American local boy who had withdrawn his commitment to Pitt due to apparent substance issues. Various tidbits from the usual Steelers coverage, and my article from his fight with Mendez.

Thin, chalky newspaper nearly covered the entire spread of the left side freezer door. He appeared to have saved nearly every published work that had my name attached to it. What made the gesture even more monumentally romantic, was that The Pilot wasn’t available for subscription, nor a newsprint you could grab at any local convenient store on your morning milk run. It was only available for purchase at two outdoor newsstands in the city, one being a small cart on the sidewalk at the front entrance of our main office. The other was easily a 20-minute commute from any of the local businesses he frequented. Neither spot being one he’d cross by coincidence on his morning jog through downtown, or even the closest grocery store, or Mac’s. Meaning the man had made a specific trip, every Thursday morning to spend $3.75 on a paper that he could’ve searched the internet for. I sketched a feathery finger over the printed words, hearing a single dolloped tear drip below at my feet to the crisp tile of his kitchen floor. He really had never sincerely left me, just like he said only a handful of days ago.

“There’s more in an old cardboard box on the rack under the coffee table.” His stealthy, barefoot approach behind me was completely undetected, or I had just been so preoccupied with my discovery that any background noise was hushed.

I faced him, startled, carelessly forgetting to wipe the still running stream of tears, and hiccupped to repress audibly weeping.

“Oh, woah. Woah, baby. Hey, what’s wrong?” Colt stepped once to reach me, and cloaked me into the embrace of his grey tee, blotched with undried remnants of his shower. He placed both hands to my cheeks, leaving my face trapped between his scuffed, worked palms. Eyes searching over my face, like he was looking for the reason of my tears written somewhere across my forehead.

“I’m fine, seriously. It’s nothing.” I nearly snorted to sniff the running of my nose. Yeah, that was convincing. He’ll be right off your back now.

“Talk to me, Livvy. What’s goin’ on, huh? I know tears when I see ‘em. Especially yours.”

“You did this? You kept them? All, of them?”

A hesitant, “U” shape danced over his lips at my question. “Of course I did, babe. Well, I almost missed one week, but I told the guy at the stand I’d give him 20 bucks if he could get me a copy.”

It drew a laugh from both of us, mine still mixed with some joyful tears.

“It’s got your name on it, Liv. Hell, I woulda paid all the money in my wallet if you had written the alphabet down and had it published. I told you once I was proud a’ ya’, and I meant it.”

“I just didn’t… I never thought… I didn’t know you cared this much. I’m surprised you went through that trouble, especially since we weren’t even together for over half of these.” I looked back for the tenth time over the collection marked with my signature.

“I think that’s when I started to care so much. When we weren’t together, I mean. Because y’know, that’s the weird, twisted fucker I am,” he said rolling his eyes.

His hands departed from my face, and one was now pinching the bridge of his masculine nose in frustrated contemplation. I didn’t see the normal abundance of equanimity in his eyes now that normally dwelled there, and I was well aware that he was struggling for the words he sought. “I’m a head case, Liv. I find the love of my life, and talk to her like dog shit, because that’s obviously what a sensible man would do? God… What fuckin’ sense does that make?”

“Honest? It makes perfect sense, actually.” I comforted him, trying to distinguish the fires of aggravation, and self-loathing I could see kindling behind his eyes. “It’s the typical reaction of a man who’s never been in love before, and doesn’t have a damn clue how to handle all the things his feeling all of a sudden.”

“I know exactly how t’ handle it now though.” Colton said snatching me like a flimsy sack of potatoes into his grips, and reaching for a sly kiss.

When his arms outreached though, one of the tattoo additions I had been suspicious of when we bumped into each other at the Temple that fateful day, revealed itself like a shiny penny catching the beams of the sun. Carefully placed on the tender, hairless skin of the underside of his bicep amongst his dedication to the Andy Warhol bridge, and a Latin phrase “Fortis Passioni deditus” translating to “strong willed”, was a small 21 needled in varsity print.

I immediately locked a grip around the evidence in question, raising it further into the light to investigate whether my eyes had been viciously deceiving me. He didn’t dispute, either from downright perplexity, or for the simple fact that he knew exactly what had won my attention and wanted me to snoop it out a little more closely.

Once I had wiped sternly over the numbers with a thumb, seeing they were indeed permanently etched onto his smooth skin, I looked intently upward to his waiting face. I wanted to smile in cheesy satisfaction, I wanted to cry in earnest adoration, and I wanted to claw the very ink out of his skin as backlash for his silly, erratic decision. But no, not really. The sensible, rational Liv rallied admirably to find a way to veto what he had done and hammer him with venomous disapproval. Thankfully, my fanatical love for the man eclipsed the once “safe” nature I carried, and all I wanted to do was fall at his feet.

“Took ya’ long enough, 2-1.” He smiled barely showing a top row of teeth.

“Wh..when?” I tripped over my tongue.

“Few months after the Mendez fight, I think. Was gonna put it on my chest, next to ma’s date of remission. But my guy down at the parlor said here looked better.” The man explained so coolly as if a shrine to my basketball number, and his pet name for me drawn onto his flesh was just something people did so commonly. Seriously, it sounded as if he was just reading off the lottery numbers in the Sunday paper.

“A few months? So, you did this after you dumped me? We weren’t even together and you got this tattoo?”

“Are you mad? Like…seriously upset with me, Liv? I mean, yeah, it was a little reckless, but that shoudn’t surprise you, baby,” he snickered. “But I knew I’d get you back, Livvy. Or I was gonna damn die tryin’. The way I saw it, it would either end up being something meaningful to our story that we could tell our babies in 10 years. Or, if I didn’t win you back, I’d have to look at it every fuckin’ day and think of the colossal mistake I made.”

10 years? Babies? DON’T FAINT. DO NOT.

“Lucky for you then, huh? Your plan played out for the better, I suppose.” I stretched on my small toes to pat my nose to his.

“So, you like it then?”

I didn’t bother to reward him with praise, instead just sucked a hearty kiss from the thin part in his opened mouth, humming sensually.

“Colton?”

“Yeah, babe?”

“Take me to bed. Now.”

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rlewis342-blog · 6 years ago

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Movers Tips and Secrets to Prepare You Before for the Moving Companies Arrival for a Pain Free Move

When choosing a moving company, get at three to five estimates from reputable, licensed and insured movers. They should be registered with the State as movers and have a registration number, which means they are insured and meet all legal requirements to operate. If they only have an MC, ICC or DOT number they may sometimes be just brokers or middlemen who contract your move to others and an occupational license # is not sufficient either.

Have a representative from their company come to your home and give you an onsite visual price quote. Do your homework before choosing. Do an internet search of their address and phone number. If they operate from their apartment or use a cell phone they are probably not your best choice. If they only own one truck they are probably not your best choice. If they cannot provide a copy of their State Mover Registration they probably are not your best choice. If they are in another State or hours away on the other side of your State they are probably not your best choice. If they just started their company that year they are probably not your best choice. If they have opened and closed under other company names they are probably not your best choice. Simple division of corporation searches to find the company owners and associated partners name and simple web searches of their names sometimes results in mugshots and all sorts of reasons for them to probably not be your best choice.

With a poor economy there has been a recent outbreak of rogue movers. The moving industry in itself has received a tarnished image over the years from unethical moving and Vanline trucking companies using bait and switch tactics with vague fine print to increase prices which double and sometimes triple the original price. Most other companies and local competition fall short of customer expectations. With the current unemployment market we have also seen a recent increase of rogue movers who out of work in their particular industry such as let's say construction and are now illegally operating by renting trucks and placing ads on the internet. These inexperienced individuals are unlicensed, uninsured and the nightmare stories and unprofessional results continue to grow. The old saying you get what you pay for unfortunately holds true when it comes to the moving industry.

Legitimate companies hourly rates may normally average from $90 to $110 per hour. Most reputable companies pricing by a flat rate inventory quote will be priced within an average range of $150 higher or lower of each other. The extremely high price quote and unrealistic low price quote will always stand out for you to be leary of. The low price is sometimes a bait and switch. They offer low rates to earn your business, load the items then ask for a higher price or they won't unload your items. They have hidden fees and add on charges in the fine print. The highest price sometimes comes from inexperience or just plain greed. Whether it is a flat inventory rate or an hourly rate a good rule of thumb you will pay for a quality move is $100 per hour. If you or they estimate it will take three hours to load and three hours to unload your paying $600 and so on. Don't be fooled by cubic square feet or weight as those estimates almost always increase substantially. Additionally these large trucking companies will normally not guarantee your unload date if out of area or out of state and normally will not guarantee the same movers that loaded will be the same movers that unload. Trucking and Vanline companies that use tractor trailers sometimes mix your items with other peoples and with the German cockroach and bed bug problems spreading through the US it sometimes may not your best choice to go with that type of company.

Don't be fooled by non binding or binding estimate. An estimate is an estimate. If they offer a flat rate price total make them put in writing the words all inclusive, no hidden fees and guaranteed not to exceed this price. Don't let them fool you into thinking that the hourly rate is no good. The hourly rate works great for most people because you get to control your move. The clock doesn't lie. You can pay for just the services you need that way. Just make sure on an hourly rate there is no fine print that everything must be wrapped. We have seen recent videos on the internet where they blanket and shrink wrap everything turning what should have been a six hour move into a ten hour move. If they ask for payment prior to unloading they are probably not your best choice.

All of these things I mentioned will weed out most of the let's say less than perfect companies. Oh and I almost forgot always ask for references that you can contact. Don't just settle for what is on the internet. Most companies post their own positive reviews and although a great deal of the bad reviews may be true for some companies. Other legitimate companies sometimes suffer because it is normally only the angry customer that takes the time to post a review to begin with. It does not mean that the review is accurate or true as there are two sides to every story and the bad review sometimes only gets to tell one side.

Anticipate the exact date of the move as far in advance as possible. Arrange for the telephone to remain connected the whole day of the move. Arrange for kids and pets to stay with friends or neighbors the day of the move, so they do not impede the moving process. True professionals won't need direction. Let them do their job and don't try helping as most times you will be getting in the way. Most movers are like machines from start to finish. They don't stop moving and know exactly what to take to the truck and when. Prepare before they arrive by getting plastic/shrink wrap, bubble wrap, boxes, packing paper, tape, labels, heavy duty large trash bags and permanent marker to write with. Safely secure and pack every small item in a box, tape and write area or room you want it placed at your new home. Bubble wrap or blanket and tape all of your pictures, mirrors or artwork, lamps and label fragile and what the item is. Stack all boxes in one area of each room and be sure not to block access or walking areas. Empty any loose miscellaneous items out of any drawers. Clothing can normally be left in drawers. Place all loose clothing, shoes, sheets, kids toys etc. in black trash bags and label. Put hanger hole in bottom center of bag and slip over each two feet of hanging clothing. Disassemble any items you can yourself such as beds, mirrors on dressers and washer/dryer hoses.

Make sure you have at least cold bottles of water for the movers at both locations. When the movers arrive do a walk through pointing out any special requests and details and tip them at least ten dollars each. Let them know that if they take good care of your items there will be an additional tip at the end of the move. Both the cold water and minimal tip goes along way with movers. You don't have to take my advice but trust me when I say that the movers will be more careful, work harder and quicker for you with a small gesture.

Gather the following valuables to keep with you at all times: bank books, keys, passport, lease, will, jewelry, precious stones, stamp and coin collections, school transcripts, medical/dental records, vehicle registration and furs. After all items have been removed from the home, a final inspection should be conducted. Closets, crawl spaces, basement and attic areas should be checked. A second person can make the same inspection separately Best Moving Companies.

Clean your new home thoroughly before moving in. It's easier and less time consuming. Decide in advance where large items of furniture will be located. This will avoid the need to make changes after the movers have departed.

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The Micro Factory, a workshop where they share more than tools

In Anderlecht –one of the municipalities of the region of Brussels-Capital-, the Micro Factory offers a space for inspiration and co-creation to professional craftsmen or Sunday DIYers. The opportunity to share equipment, wishes and skills. And to relocate the production of objects in cities.

A little bit of sandpaper here, a final adjustment there. Against a backdrop of jazzy music, Olivier is putting the finishing touches to the assembly of the Victor Fund[1] book boxes which are about to be placed in two Brussels restaurants. In the metal workshop, a few meters away, Sébastien for his part is finishing the welding of elements for the manufacture of bookshelves for a literary café which will soon open its doors in the centre of the capital. In another room, right next to the common table where we spend as much time "designing on the computer as eating pretzels", Rima shapes table accessories using techniques from the jewellery store.

We are in Anderlecht, a stone's throw from the Brussels-Charleroi canal, where the Micro Factory[2] has established its quarters in an old building of Bruxelles-Propreté[3]. A vast space of 650 square meters where both experienced craftsmen and Sunday handymen and artists come together.

"Here, we are in the soft zone. This partition made with salvaged glass separates what is noisier and dustier from what is less. There is a corner dedicated to textile work. Overthere, these are the screen printing and printing equipment. There, a table for the electronics. There again, a booth for painting and stuff that smells bad ... ", explains Gilles Pinault, taking us around, punctuated by an impressive list of tools that can be found there: 3D printer, thermoforming machine, laser cutting machine, digital milling machine for metal, wood lathe… There are many.

"We could point the finger in any direction, I could tell you a story about the machine," he smiles.

A place to go from idea to realization

While some of this equipment belongs to the Micro Factory, most of it is the property of its users who leave them at the disposal of the community. “The deal is that people can leave their tools in their personal space or in the common. If they're in the common, it's for common use. It works a lot on trust. But people meet there because it is a free hosting of their machines. This saves them having to rent a clean place ", continues Gilles.

Born in the bubbling spirit of our guide, this shared workshop project took a few years to build. "I am an architect by training, I did a little virtual reality and I am rather a handyman in everything", he summarizes. Entrepreneur too, since he was one of the co-founders of Softkinetic,[4] this small Belgian company specializing in 3D imaging and motion analysis software, sold to the giant Sony in 2016. "The archetype of the start-up who has grown up and who is doing the rounds of investors. I saw that what the company needed now was more management and processes, than developing new ideas. “,says Gilles. His thing is to do things. And, obviously, he's rarely lacking in imagination.

Three years earlier, he had set up with his wife and a few friends regular meetings to materialize "lots of ideas that we have always had in mind without taking the time to realize them". DIY workshops, therefore, organized in each other's salons. The embryo of the Micro Factory was born.

But the participants quickly felt cramped. Inspired by American "makerspaces", they therefore set out to find a place where they could more widely express their creativity while sharing their tools. Together, they will thus occupy "a somewhat rotten squat of artists" in Saint-Gilles, then a building on temporary rental in the city centre.

In 2016, the day of Softkinetic's sale, he decided to take the plunge and devote himself completely to the Micro Factory project. He then sets out in search of a "real" building where it could develop and structure itself over time. Renovated as part of projects supported by the European EFRD fund[5], the Bruxelles-Propreté building offers it an ideal base. "We got a reduced rent and a ten-year lease. It is important because we could not cope with the market price. This allowed us to make somewhat ambitious arrangements."

Switch to a cooperative and gain impact

If it functions a bit like a de facto association, the Micro Factory has in practice been created on the basis of an Limited company (Ltd) linked to the former activities of Gilles Pinault. "It was easier to start. Technically, I am the manager, but in practice not at all", explains the person who now has the wish to switch the project under the status of cooperative. A status which corresponds more to the spirit of sharing that he wants to encourage. "This will make it possible in particular to carry out the purchase of machines in common and to involve everyone in the decisions. Today, I still have a limiting effect. People do not dare to do certain things without 'asking Gilles '. It will help them feel at home. "

The project, which he financed largely on his own funds with a few other contributors, must also evolve to achieve economic equilibrium, which is not the case as it stands. "Our break-even point is 9000 euros per month, which means about 200 users. The cooperative will collectively take new directions. Do we want to limit ourselves to 30 hyper professional members who pay € 300 per month or 200 members who pay 45 €? Should we not operate other than by subscription mode and try to remunerate the Micro Factory on the basis of the projects that are carried out there, by highlighting the diversity of skills that are offered? We can take these decisions together, ” he argues.

Pass the series threshold

Currently, most of the creations that come out of these workshops are prototypes or unique pieces. The goal is to move towards a professional production of objects in small series, adds Gilles Pinault. "How to make twenty tables a month rather than three? To have a local impact beyond ideas, we must achieve a more affordable economic dimension. If we want to bring back work and the production of products to the cities, transmit skills, this involves production accessible to as many people as possible without switching to the Ikea model. "

A workshop subscription rather than fitness

Two years later, the Micro Factory has 100 to 150 users, who have subscribed to its subscription system. "It's a bit like in a fitness room. We offer a monthly subscription system that offers flexible access ranges for 50 to 150 euros per month", continues Gilles Pinault, who insists on the continued group dynamic.

"Someone who comes for just an hour to use the machines doesn't really fit into the intended philosophy," which consists of facilitating links and collaboration between participants. It is, for example, the regulars who welcome new visitors and accompany their first steps. The "pros" also advise the "amateurs" and generally speaking, each other's creativity and skills feed on each other.

It is this spirit that excited Olivier who, alongside his work in the field of opinion polls, chose to embark on an activity of craftsman-cabinetmaker. "Rather than settling in my small basement or renting a workshop alone, it was obvious to come here on my first visit", he says, emphasizing the conviviality and the atmosphere that reigns. at the Micro Factory.

"Everyone works on their projects, but there is an exchange of ideas which takes place during the discussions and even in the practical realization. Multidisciplinarity is another interesting aspect that attracted me: being able to move from one area to the next. I am particularly in the process of training myself in metalwork, which will allow me, for example, to offer a table combining two materials. It is really a breath of fresh air to come and work here. "

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Gilles Toussaint, La Micro Factory, un atelier où on partage plus que des outils, in La Libre Belgique, 11-02-21, https://stories.lalibre.be/inspire/numero80/index.html

[1] The Victor Fund was created in memory of Victor Van de Woestyne who died accidentally in Brussels on November 4, 2016. In memory of Victor and to give sense to what does not have, his parents decided to create a Fund whose objective is to encourage young people between the ages of 12 and 15 to read. At this age, adolescents discover a new school environment, new friends, new activities. And even good readers often reduce the time they spend exploring books. Through its concrete and targeted actions, the Victor Fund wants to participate in an active, fun and radiant approach in favor of reading. https://www.lefondsvictor.be/ [2] The Micro Factory is a shared manufacturing workshop, based on participation and pooling. It's like a co-working space, but for makers. http://microfactory.be/ [3] Bruxelles-Propreté is a para-regional entity. It acts under the direct authority of the Minister of the Government of the Region of Brussels-Capital in charge of Climate Transition, Environment, of Energy and Participatory Democracy. Bruxelles-Propreté employs about 2,400 people. https://www.arp-gan.be/en/who-whe-are.html [4] https://www.sony-depthsensing.com/ [5] https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/funding/erdf/

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Can Trump and McConnell get through the 4 steps to seat a Supreme Court justice in just 6 weeks?

A political battle is shaping up over the affirmation of the following Supreme Courtroom Justice. Jose Luis Magana / AFP/Getty Pictures

United States Supreme Courtroom Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Sept. 18, thrusting the acrimonious battle for management of the Supreme Courtroom into public view.

President Trump and Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnell have already vowed to appoint and ensure a alternative for the 87-year-old justice and ladies’s rights icon.

This contradicts the justification the Republican-controlled Senate used once they refused to think about the nomination of Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s decide for the Courtroom after the loss of life of Antonin Scalia in February 2016.

Garland, a average decide on the D.C. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals, was nominated in March 2016, however McConnell balked on the idea that it was an election yr.

“The American individuals are about to weigh in on who’s going to be the president,” stated McConnell in March 2016. “And that’s the individual, whoever that could be, who must be making this appointment.”

Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnell and Sen. Lindsey Graham each have consequential roles within the affirmation of a brand new Supreme Courtroom justice. Drew Angerer/Getty Pictures

The 2020 presidential election was simply 46 days away on the day of Bader Ginsburg’s loss of life, however McConnell has apparently deserted such concerns this time round. Trump tweeted on Sept. 19 that he would nominate a alternative “immediately.”

Because the 1990s, the Supreme Courtroom has more and more cut up 5-Four alongside ideological traces on many vital instances, together with selections on voting rights, affirmative motion, homosexual marriage, the Reasonably priced Care Act, gerrymandering and gun rights.

With the ability to change a dependable liberal voice on the Courtroom with a conservative justice would entrench a 6-Three tilt in the direction of the suitable for years. There’s certain to be vehement opposition from the Democrats.

Nevertheless the politics play out, there’s a course of for Supreme Courtroom nominations and confirmations. Listed below are the 4 steps:

Step 1: The presidential decide

The very first thing to know is that the Structure of the US provides the ability of nomination to the president.

Article II, part 2 supplies that the president “shall nominate, and by and with the recommendation and consent of the Senate, shall appoint … judges of the Supreme Courtroom.”

By legislation, as long as he’s within the White Home, President Trump can nominate whomever he needs to exchange Justice Ginsburg. Appointment is mostly a three-step course of: nomination (by the president), affirmation (by the Senate), and appointment (by the president once more).

Issues can get tough someplace between nomination and affirmation. However modifications made within the Senate – particularly, the rule change in 2017 that permits a Supreme Courtroom Justice to be confirmed with 51 votes, as a substitute of 60 – are prone to clean the best way significantly.

Will the Republican-dominated Senate be capable to affirm a alternative for Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Nikki Kahn/The Washington Publish through Getty Pictures

Step 2: The Senate Judiciary Committee

As soon as the president has made a selection, the nomination is referred to the US Senate.

Because the early 19th century, this has meant that the nomination will first be thought of by a smaller group throughout the Senate, the Senate Judiciary Committee. The one exception was in 2016, when the Judiciary Committee refused to think about President Obama’s nomination of Decide Garland.

The Judiciary Committee at the moment has 22 members – 12 Republicans and 10 Democrats – and has a three-step means of its personal.

First, it conducts an investigation into the nominee’s background. This course of can take 30 to 45 days, but it surely’s simple to think about it going rather a lot sooner.

Second, the committee holds a public listening to, wherein the nominee is questioned and should give testimony about every part from her judicial philosophy to her stand on abortion. This will likely give voters an opportunity to see the democratic Vice Presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, who additionally serves on the Judiciary Committee, show her prosecutorial expertise throughout questioning of the nominee.

Lastly, the committee will report its suggestion to the complete Senate as both favorable, destructive, or no suggestion.

The 10 Democratic members of the committee have already despatched a letter to the chairman, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, calling on him to “state unequivocally and publicly that you’ll not contemplate any nominee to fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat till after the following President is inaugurated.”

However that appears extremely unlikely, given Graham’s new statements backtracking from his 2018 assertions that he wouldn’t need a affirmation vote on a Supreme Courtroom appointment in a presidential election yr.

“I would like you to make use of my phrases in opposition to me,” stated Graham on the time, “[if] a emptiness happens within the final yr of the primary time period, you may say Lindsey Graham stated let’s let the following president, whoever it could be, make that nomination.”

As soon as the general public hearings have concluded, if the Democrats wish to purchase time, they’ll delay the committee vote for per week. However after that, it’s on to the primary flooring of the Senate.

So let’s transfer on to the following stage, lets?

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden and others query Ruth Bader Ginsburg throughout her 1993 Supreme Courtroom affirmation hearings.

Step 3: The total Senate

There are 100 senators in the US Senate – two for every state. At the moment, the Senate is majority Republican, with 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and two Independents, who each caucus with the Democrats.

Whereas the Senate has traditionally adopted guidelines so arcane and incomprehensible that in any other case affordable writers freely consult with them as “insane,” they’ll now be modified by a easy majority vote, which simplifies issues for almost all get together significantly.

If the movement that the nomination be thought of is made throughout a particular “government” session of the Senate, then the movement itself is debatable and might be blocked by filibuster – that movie-ready delay tactic wherein which a senator recites Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss or recipes for fried oysters till everybody provides up and goes dwelling.

However closing debate on the movement in order that the Senate may transfer on to a vote now not requires a supermajority of 60 votes, only a naked 51-Senator majority. So filibustering is prone to be about as efficient as a paper hammer.

After that, the Democrats can insist on a minimal of 30 hours of debate, after which, they are going to be out of choices to delay or cease a affirmation vote.

Not all nominees get confirmed by the Senate. In 1987, Reagan nominee Robert Bork was not confirmed. Bork, heart, is launched firstly of his affirmation hearings by former President Gerald Ford, to his proper. Charles Tasnadi/AP

Step 4: The vote

The vote to substantiate requires a easy majority of the senators current and voting. If the nominee is confirmed, the secretary of the Senate will transmit the affirmation vote to the president.

The president then will signal a fee appointing the individual to the Supreme Courtroom.

The timing

The actual query is whether or not all of this may be completed earlier than the election on Nov. 3, or if it can roll over into the lame-duck session of Congress after the election.

Both approach, it is going to be a primary. The one time there was a Senate vote on a Supreme Courtroom nominee in an election yr was in 1916, when Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes resigned from the Courtroom to run for president. And that was 150 days earlier than the election.

This story incorporates materials from an article initially printed on Feb. 14, 2016.

Caren Morrison doesn’t work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or obtain funding from any firm or group that may profit from this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their tutorial appointment.

from Growth News https://growthnews.in/can-trump-and-mcconnell-get-through-the-4-steps-to-seat-a-supreme-court-justice-in-just-6-weeks/ via https://growthnews.in

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Third party systems are usually extremely secure and they are updated on a regular basis by the security team of the company you are dealing with. You can easily change the look of your website and add products. You are normally charged a monthly or annual fee to set up shop, but it’s well worth the money.

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With these systems, you have total control of them and you can make changes to these systems whenever you wish. However, you need to keep your ecommerce system maintained and secure with the latest security updates.

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Mediavine The product is then shipped to your customer by the dropshipping company. Your profit is the difference between the price you charge your customer for the item sold and the price the dropshipper charges you to fulfill the order.

Auction Websites Since eBay was established, a huge number of auction websites have emerged. They can be a great place to pick up a bargain if you’re a shopper, and these websites are also the perfect places to sell all kinds of physical items because thousands of shoppers flock to auction websites every day.

Amazon And Other Leading Marketplaces Sometimes it pays to piggyback off the popularity of other websites, instead of going it alone. Many of the world’s biggest marketplaces like Amazon allow retailers to sell their products on these huge websites. In some cases, these companies even store and fulfill all of your orders, so that you can focus on promoting your products to more shoppers and customers.

It’s never been as easy as it is now to set up an online store. ecommerce technologies keep improving and more shoppers want to buy items online, so you should seriously consider each of the options above.

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22 Rising Artists on the First Record They Ever Bought

Crinkly reverbs, satisfying vibrations, and blissful tenderness are all essential to the intoxicating experience of playing a vinyl record. Even just watching the spiral groove spin around the needle is utterly gratifying, and it’s a tradition we here at Ones To Watch think should be kept alive.

In honor of Record Store Day, we asked 22 rising artists to tell us about the first record they ever bought and their answers are definitely taking us back to the days when vinyl was the talk of the town. Keep reading for responses from FINNEAS, grandson, Olivia O’Brien, and many more!

Ashe - John Mayer’s Continuum (LP 2006) or Carole King’s Tapestry (LP 1971)

“It was either John Mayer’s ‘Continuum’ or Carole King’s ‘Tapestry.’ Both those albums feel like coming home.”

AUGUST 08 - Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (LP 2010)

“First Fridays before the album dropped, they put out a bunch of songs leading up to the album.”

Cautious Clay - Lenny Kravitz’s Greatest Hits (LP 2000)

"The first album I bought was a Lenny Kravitz’ greatest hits album. I remember listening to it on repeat and loving the sax solo on the record ‘Let Love Rule.’ The melodic and chordal structure around this song felt perfect as well."

Dennis Lloyd - Linkin Park’s Meteora (LP 2003)

“It is still one of my all time favorite albums and was a massive part of my childhood.”

DUCKWRTH - Ludacris’ Word of Mouf (LP 2001)

“Going to my first public school. Wearing uniform (dark blue dickies, white button up). The little homie was selling bootleg CDs with legitimate printed covers. I still wasn’t allowed to listen to rap, so this was my chance to gain entry to hip hop. I copped it, threw it on my CD player, and I remember hearing the phrase, ‘The royal penis is clean, your highness,’ and started dying laughing.”

Ella Vos - TLC’s CrazySexyCool (LP 1994)

“The first record I bought… was TLC’s ‘CrazySexyCool’ on TAPE! I remember feeling so cool that I owned my own music and that it was not my parents�� music! My cousin came over not long after I’d gotten it and we drew “crazy sexy cool” on our underwear, sagged our jeans, and danced in front of the mirror to the whole album front to back.”

FINNEAS - Leon Bridges’ Coming Home (LP 2015)

“First vinyl I ever bought was ‘Coming Home’ by Leon Bridges. To me, that album sounds like it was made to be played on vinyl.”

grandson - James Taylor’s Sweet Baby James (LP 1970)

“I found a used copy of James Taylor’s first album, ‘Sweet Baby James,’ in Amoeba on Sunset Boulevard. I had just moved to Los Angeles and was getting into sampling old records so I bought myself a terrible Crosley record player with a janky built-in speaker and started digging. I grew up with James Taylor and older folk music around me, so it connected me to home and to my father in some way. I had been digging for old soul and jazz records for a while and finding that record reminded me why I’m doing this in the first place. Connection, family.”

Greyson Chance - Coldplay’s Parachutes (LP 2000)

“The first album I ever bought was Coldplay’s ‘Parachutes.’ I remember my older brother driving me to the record store to get it after I had expressed a strong liking to ‘Yellow.’ I have distinct memories of my brother and I blasting that song anytime it came on the radio when we were in the car. I remember thinking that Chris Martin was an actual God after listening to the album a few weeks after buying it. Even at a young age (I think I was eight or nine at the time), there was something mesmerizing about his lyrics and the piano lines on that album. Favorite tracks include ‘Shiver,’ ‘Sparks,’ and ‘Don’t Panic.’”

HONNE - Radiohead’s OK Computer (LP 1997)

“The first record I ever bought was ‘OK Computer’ by Radiohead--which I still believe, to this day, is one of the best albums ever made. I have so many memories of putting it on and just sitting and taking it all in. No other distractions, no phones, eyes closed, wondering how they made everything sound like it did.”

Jasmine Thompson - The Ting Tings’ We Started Nothing (LP 2008)

“The first record I ever bought was The Ting Tings’ ‘We Started Nothing.’ I remember singing loudly to each song with my brother in a car for hours as we traveled from London to the Lake District. I knew all the lyrics!”

KALLITECHNIS - Sade’s The Best of Sade (LP 1994)

“The first record I ever bought was Sade’s ‘The Best of Sade.’ My dad had been playing her music my entire childhood, and buying this particular record felt like a musical torch had been passed onto me. It marked the start of my own musical identity--with Sade’s unmatched soulfulness being the foundation.”

Kodie Shane - Ashanti’s Ashanti (LP 2002)

“The first record I purchased was Ashanti’s self-titled. ‘Ashanti…’ my strongest memory is that I was only five years old and I asked my mom and dad for it. We purchased the album in cassette form and a Walkman. And that became the background music of my little pre-K life and on… (I loved Ashanti and JaRule. Lowkey, I still do.) When I think about it, I miss the feeling of anticipating a record you really want and having to wait to get it, the pleasure you feel at the counter paying for the music of the artist you support, excitedly unwrapping the packaging popping it in and pressing play!”

Olivia O’Brien - Miley Cyrus’ Breakout (LP 2008)

“I remember playing it in this white bulky CD player that my mom gave me… I had drawn all over it with Sharpie and colored the speakers with green and pink highlighter markers. I would sit in my room and play it over and over.”

Phony Ppl - *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached (LP 2000)

“My first album that I ever bought with my own money for my eighth birthday was *NSYNC’s ‘No Strings Attached.’ I remember buying it with a couple other albums at the time because my dad wanted me to pick some music for my birthday party, but that was definitely the first one I went for and in 2019, I gotta say it still slaps stupidly. I actually just heard Ariana Grande sample one of their songs on the radio the other day.” - Elijah Rawk

Pink Sweat$ - Mario’s Mario (LP 2002)

“No particular memories come to mind - other than my mom loving it and buying it for me.”

Role Model - The Notorious B.I.G.’s Life After Death (LP 1997)

“I honestly don’t remember if I’ve ever bought a record in my life, but I used to go through my brother’s car and steal shit when he wasn’t home. And I remember the first CD I ever had was ‘Life After Death’ because I took it from his car. I think hearing that album at such a young age made me hit puberty instantly and I became a big boy. I learned all my bad words that day.”

slenderbodies - Aaron Carter’s Aaron’s Party (LP 2000)

“The only story I can offer is actually based on a CD that I bought at Tower Records, so not technically a record itself. When I was young, for my fourth or fifth birthday I was given a small Walkman-style blue CD player. My mom had tons of CDs so The Beatles and Paul Simon were covered. The first record I remember picking out and buying was Aaron Carter’s ‘Aaron’s Party’ purely off of seeing ads for it on TV. This was the first pop record I ever bought and I listened to it pretty religiously. I took out the inside insert and unfolded it and hung it on my wall as a makeshift poster--a habit I’d continue well into being a teenager. In a strange way, I think buying that record and wanting to listen through all of it because I had bought the whole album inspired a persevering kind of attachment to appreciating albums as whole pieces of work.” - Benji Cormack

SWMRS - *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached (LP 2000)

“*NSYNC - ‘No Strings Attached.’ Was my first concert. And it changed my life.” - Max Becker

UMI - Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life (LP 1976)

“First vinyl I got was Stevie Wonder’s ‘Songs in the Key of Life!’ I found it at the thrift store and bought it before I even had a record player because I knew future Umi would be happy to have it. Now I have a record player and it’s one of my favorite records to play in the morning.”

Valentina - Kanye West’s Late Registration (LP 2005)

“The first record I bought was ‘Late Registration,’ and I’m 100% sure that every single time I cried in high school I listened to that album. It was the soundtrack to all my happy and sad moments, and still is.”

Yoke Lore - Green Day’s Dookie (LP 1994)

“My first album was ‘Dookie’ by Green Day. And it changed my life. The first song I learned with my middle school band was ‘When I Come Around,’ and I learned to play drums listening to Tré Cool.”

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The Myth of the Archive of Everything

"The Web was not designed to be preserved," says Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, a non-profit library of millions of free books, film, software, music, websites and more. "The average life of a Web page is about 100 days," he adds. Kahle is currently on the lookout for an old optical disc drive containing a copy the first ever webpage. It was lost at a conference in California in 1990. Around about the same time, the archaeologist George Xourmouziadis was digging at the site of a Neolithic lake settlement in Northern Greece. In 1993, he found the earliest known example of written text in the world, the Dispillio tablet, a chunk of inscribed wood that had lay buried in the mud for 7,500 years.

The tablet, however, in the absence of some sort of Rosetta stone, is indecipherable. In a way, it is like one of those old floppy discs you might find at the back of a drawer or in a box you stored at your dad’s if you went to university in the late 90s. It’s a strange yet familiar object, and you know it contains information, but you have no way of accessing it, of reading it. Of course, whilst it has taken many thousands of years for the text on the Dispillio tablet to become unreadable, my dissertation hasn’t even made it twenty years, unless I had access to what would by now be pretty specialist equipment.

“He went a long journey, was weary, worn out with labour, and returning engraved on a stone the whole story.”

So goes the world’s oldest known written story, the “Epic of Gilgamesh”, fragments of which have been dated to 2000 BCE. Perhaps other weary travellers returned home and told their story to a friend, which may seem less durable than stone. And yet, research has shown that some Pawnee stories document events that took place during the last glaciation, at least 11,000 years ago, and linguists and geographers have proven that Aboriginal Australians have stories that contain accurate oral histories stretching back 400 generations to over 10,000 years ago. It is therefore important to listen for stories that cannot be physically held in our hands, but that survive nonetheless, perhaps by virtue of the fact they can’t become buried in mud or lost at the back of a drawer. However, these stories do not survive by accident. Oral history keepers are not just saying whatever comes into their head. In Aboriginal Australian communities, for example, complex system of inter-generational kin-based responsibility and cross-checking of stories ensures they are retold and retold verbatim, much in the same way that a Babylonian scribe had to be trained to accurately write the complex cuneiform script.

But in ancient Babylonia, even if a scribe transcribed a text accurately, decisions made by archivists could still render a document unstable. Texts deemed important by the ruling class, such as legal documents, were recorded on clay tablets, while even more ‘important’ texts, such as royal decrees, were written on stone or precious metal. Meanwhile, the Babylonian language and the cuneiform script were generally used for stone or clay inscriptions, whereas Aramaic texts, used in day-to-day trade throughout the region, tended to be written on more perishable material such as parchment and leather. How documents were stored—in jars, boxes or bags or within stone temples, or on specially designed shelves within a royal compound, for example—also affected their longevity. However, even once-important clay tablets were often eventually disposed of, being written over or recycled into floor filling when they were deemed to be no longer of use. In fact, it is thought that many of the texts that survive to this day do so only because they were hidden in times of war by owners unable to ever return to them, grow bored of them, and use them as filler in the foundations of their new extension…

They say that the most important years of a person’s life are their first three years, during which time the very foundation of our being is formed; and yet during that time we are almost universally illiterate. What do babies dream about? What stories do they tell themselves? My six-year-old son is learning to read. “What does that say?” he asks, pointing to an advert for an investment bank. “See More, Be More,” I tell him, and then we unpick the meaning of the text in great detail until we get to Govan. I feel suddenly sad at his new desire to discover the world through text when only 4 years ago he felt it out with tongue and spit, took it into his mouth or fingered it greedily. Of course there are limits to what you can understand in this way, and so language; and there is something particular about written language, even in the way it reaches for a sort of representative neutrality which, of course, it can never contain.

This seeming neutrality is no more evident than on the internet, where we are presented with never-ending feeds of black text on white screens that seem to issue more from the ether than from any mouth. Web content is now overwhelmingly created by non-professionals—by people who go on a journey and returning, weary, worn out with labour, blog about it, tweet about it, write an email to their mother about it, post it on Facebook or Insta. Would they had chiselled it in stone! Because even though these stories and ideas, these projects and diaries, these poems and love letters appear on a screen and have the potential, indeed, to appear on any screen throughout the world, that doesn’t mean they are safely archived. As Jason Scott, an archivist and historian at the Internet Archive says of web-based material: “when it goes, it really goes[…] there is just zero recourse.”

Then there are the silences. In order to archive, an archivist must have material to work with. Yet 45% of the world has no internet access. And whereas in the past, anonymous was a woman, now they are more likely to be a middle-class, white Western man. The seemingly neutral black text on your screen that appears to have been almost communally created by a hive mentality, representative of everyone, leading some to argue that the internet is a platform that can break down barriers to communication, challenging, say, the classed and gendered world of publishing, the facts of the matter say otherwise. A recent American study showed that there are far fewer female bloggers, hackers and Wikipedia editors than there are male ones. Wiki is one of the most used websites in the world and often the first place people go for information, and yet in America only 25% of editors are female, and globally the figure drops to 20%. Women use the Internet much less than men too: globally 12% less, but in places like Africa, 25% less. Men publish more tutorials, podcasts comments and reviews than women and launch more petitions. Only 11% of open-source programmers are female. Class, race and nationality intersect to make these figures far starker in countries such as Palestine, Turkey or Brunei.[1]

The barriers to women’s online participation are multiple and include lower incomes as well as lower literacy and computer-literacy levels globally. Online discrimination, hate speech and harassment also makes it harder for women to participate, with a recent study showing more than 50% of women have received unsolicited offensive images. Much like in the world of paper journalism, online comments regarding female-generated content tends to focus less on the facts of the matter and more of the physical appearance of the women concerned. The Guardian reported that “articles written by women attract more abuse and dismissive trolling than those written by men, regardless of what the article is about.”

People of colour also face increased levels of harassment online. As Hannah Pool, a British-Eritrean journalist and blogger, commented, “I could post my shopping list and I’m pretty sure the thread beneath would include some variants of “go back to Africa”. Two recent studies looking at reactions to similar comments on race by both black and white authors showed that black authors faced significantly higher levels of negative reactions than white ones.[1] Another report showed that British Muslim women faced high levels of online trolling for wearing hijabs or other religious garments. In his book, Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide, Henry Jenkins states that online content creators are, ‘‘disproportionately white, male, middle-class and college-educated’’.

But we shouldn’t be surprised. After all, there has only been a digital revolution, rather than the cultural, philosophical, political and economic revolution that would bring genuine change. The biggest lie we are sold is that technology in and of itself can free us—that it is in the process of liberating us and of breaking down class, gender and racial inequalities. Meanwhile, Google promises us the ‘archive of everything’, insisting that if they develop the technology to capture and archive all digital content, alongside projects to digitise print books en-masse, they will have created an archive of the whole wide world. We must then question what is meant by ‘everything’, who is archiving it, and why. For even if issues of production were addressed, and we all became content providers, and even if Google managed to capture all of that content, and record every single story ever told, from the first to the last, someone or something still has to guide us to that content, sift through it, present it to us. As Walter Benjamin pointed out:

“Perhaps the most deeply hidden motive of the person who collects can be described this way: “he [sic] takes up the struggle against dispersion [Zerstreuung]. Right from the start, the great collecter is struck by the confusion, by the scatter [Zerstreutheit] in which the things in the world are found.”

The archive is therefore more about ordering than hoarding. Yet the archive of everything pretends to an objectivity that does not exist. It pretends that in collecting everything it makes everything available, or potentially available, and even that it records our history and culture in a fair and objective manner. It masks the politics of production on multiple levels: the production of knowledge (culture, education, language), of content (writers, speakers, listeners, readers), and of consumption (algorithms, advertising, canons).

For the world already contains ‘everything’, and this ‘everything’ is continually archived through language and stories, culture and memory, networks and systems, and currently, overwhelmingly, this ordering is filtered through process of valourisation in a world dominated by capitalism. We must therefore see every attempt to collect and order as a political act, one that is intricately tied up with power struggles: how do you produce, record and represent the history of a nation, a people, a language, a culture, a world, in an archive?

As people and institutions large and small—from the government and the BBC to your local labour history group; from Google, to your 15-year-old daughter—grapple with the Babelian project of how to capture everything, there is a further shift from a focus on (intellectual) production to that of consumption. And this shift imagines that archivists are now involved merely in a technical project of trying to collect the whole wide world, risking subsuming the politics of the archive, and the space therein for resistance, to the illusion of a totalising objectivity. It is only by re-politicising the productive function of the archive—its capacity to generate culture, ideas and history—that we can show that the archive of everything is nothing more than a myth about how stories are told, and about how they are remembered, or forgotten.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/media-spotlight/201703/race-and-the-internet

[2] https://www.alumniportal-deutschland.org/en/global-goals/sdg-05-gender-equality/women-internet-digital-gap/ [accessed 19/02/19]

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How To Make A Reiki Crystal Grid Jolting Cool Ideas

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Bitcoin Halving 2020 THE BULL CASE & THE BEAR CASE | 1.6 BILLION USDT MINTED

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Hey, everybody, Mattie here with coin buys. Happy Sunday. Hope you’re having a great weekend. We’re talking today, of course, about the upcoming Bitcoin having it’s now just over a week away. Old coin Buzz News is tweeting about it on Twitter. We’ll take a look at. All right. Up here on the Web site as well, Bitcoin having the good, the bad and the ugly specifically were going to bring you four reasons why this having may be different. I think it’s always a lagging indicator. As I’ve argued, but for particular reasons why at least a few months down the road, we can expect some very positive price action. Many people are predicting that some good things are going to happen. Will also take a look here on Quain desk dot com. At the oil industry and their ETF, how commodity prices have gone negative. Krypto long and short. How oil going negative could open up the door for Bitcoin ETF exchange-traded funds. And finally, we’ll also look here on crypto potato dot com at the fact that Teather has now printed one point six billion U.S. D.T. excuse me, they’ve minted a democracy printed. That’s not really possible, is it? Teather has minted one point six billion USD t. This is largely been a boon for the crypto sector in April, making up for some of those losses that we saw, some very violent numbers and abrupt drops that we saw back in March. We’ll take a look at those stories. Guys, if you’d like this kind of bitcoin cryptocurrency and blockchain content. Be sure to like and subscribe. Let’s have a look at the market now on Coingate go dot com. We are up one point three percent overall. Two hundred and fifty-three point six billion dollars. Things more or less flat since yesterday. Roughly speaking, Bitcoin at the time of this recording sits at eight thousand nine hundred eighteen dollars with a dominance of 65 percent flat at Outpoint Buzz News tweeting here. The countdown has begun and the excitement around Bitcoin having is growing. Do we have all the cards set? Right. This is what might happen and you can read more about it. We linked to our story here on altcoin buzz dot io bitcoin having the good, the bad and the ugly article here by DPA. We’re under fifteen hundred blocks to be mined before having hits. Will this paint another bookcase for bitcoin or is trouble brewing potentially for minors. The bitcoin having is, of course, a highly anticipated quadrennial event, meaning it happens every four years and there is a lot of optimism in the air. Let’s begin with some optimistic predictions. Firstly by Tim Draper, the billionaire Bitcoin BOE who has predicted Bitcoin will touch 250000 dollars in 2020. Preston pish, Buffett’s books founder says Bitcoin would touch three hundred thousand dollars post. Having Raul Pao, Goldman Sachs G.S. hedge fund manager predicts one million dollars. That’s by 2030. But nevertheless, still an important prediction. And Bobby Li, BTC CEO predicts in 2020, Bitcoin could grow and reach three hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. However, to be fair and to round things out, we have some pessimistic predictions as well. Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University economist, believes by 2028, Bitcoin’s value will be one hundred dollars. Now, look, everybody is entitled to their opinions, but for a Harvard economist to make that prediction 100 dollars, it seems like they have to be almost ignorant to some of the mathematics, to the fact that so many Bitcoin wallets and passwords and hard drive storing the information have been lost for all time. So to me, 100 dollars is never going to be possible. Could it be lower than where it is now in 2028? That, OK, I’ll concede, is possible. But one hundred dollars just is impossible. And that’s that saying nothing of the fact that interest would swell for every thousand dollar drop in Bitcoin. You have people coming in and scooping up the deals, trying to buy more. I don’t see that as being likely. So everybody’s entitled to their opinion. I don’t think that’s a good one. You also have Joseph Stiglitz, the Columbia University economist, who’s predicting similarly by 2028. Bitcoin is going to dump to 100 bucks. Not likely, but just my opinion. Well, we’ve seen the first and the second having as we’ve done the numbers, we’ve looked at all those before down the line. Now, several months down the line, there is always a noticeable uptick in the price performance of Bitcoin. But more than anything, what we’re seeing today in the context of Coronavirus, in the context of social distancing and quarantine and isolation, is the fact that that Kofod is really painting a very different picture with the Coronavirus. You’re also having a lot of economic activity, a lot of monetary and fiscal policy that people are kind of clueing into. In many cases, people are disagreeing with actions being taken by central banks like the Federal Reserve. And that’s kind of creating the backdrop now and creating the flavour that we’re seeing in the world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency during this upcoming May 2020 having. We’re also seeing that since earlier in this year, Bitcoin has, you know, perhaps not totally dis correlated itself from some of the traditional markets, but it’s begun to decouple from things like the S&P 500 from things like the NASDAQ, the Dow Jones and from the Footsie and other traditional financial indices where we’re not quite all the way there just yet. But again. The initial portion of that decoupling has begun. Let’s not, however, look at for specific reasons why this Bitcoin having may be different and why it may suggest some very positive price action in this next cycle. The first reason is, of course, the fact that we’ve had this Federal Reserve Act in response to the crisis that I mentioned. So the world’s strongest economy just witnessed record money printing. And while this was important to stimulate the collapsing U.S. economy, the accompanying debt injected by these six-point five trillion dollar printing cannot be ignored. As soon as the dust settles, inflation and pressure on dollar value will engulf the market. And these unpredictable cycles of deflation and hyperinflation of the U.S. dollar have shaken people’s trust in traditional economic models. More and more poor people, rather, are turning an eye to Bitcoin, perhaps in response to some of these measures being taken. The second reason why Bitcoin is having this time around is going to be even more significant. Bitcoin having an interest is higher than ever. The search volume of, quote, Bitcoin having as of April 16th are 16 percent higher than the ones witnessed in 2016. And this continues to grow every passing day. Guys, don’t forget that. I would say ever since about maybe 2017, Bitcoin really has become a household name because at that time we were battling on a daily basis. And we still do. By the way, we were battling on daily basis publications, media outlets that were coming up with all kinds of FUD. Right, fear, uncertainty, doubt. They were just hammering Bitcoin in the hopes that we’d forget about it. As if that were ever possible. So really, since 2017, that means now we’re in the fourth year where Bitcoin has just become something that’s part of the public conversation. And it’s gotten a lot of press and media attention in a very organic way. And some of the negative press and media attention has not worked. It’s only made us stronger because effectively we’ve been battling those criticisms now for years and are still here, are still representing ourselves. We’re still alive. We would be swimming upstream. That’s the analogy I’ll use. We’ve been swimming upstream for all of these years against adversity and obstacles, getting stronger in the process. Reason number three, why this having is going to be different, flaring micro bitcoin accumulations. We’re seeing many, many more wallets with small amounts, relatively small amounts of Bitcoin are popping up and the numbers support it. So in March of 2020, the number of unique addresses holding at least one Bitcoin dropped from seven hundred ninety-five thousand to seven hundred eighty-nine thousand. But fast forward about a month to April 16th, and the number rose to new highs of eight hundred and 5000. Meanwhile, the number of unique addresses holding at least zero point one bitcoin also soared, and these touched a record of two million nine hundred eighty-four thousand nearly three million. Finally here, the fourth reason why this Bitcoin having is going to be different. We have bullish on-chain indicators that chart by crypto quanta below reveals that since January of 2020, miners have been holding Bitcoin. And that’s because they strongly believe that Bitcoin’s price is up for a massive post having a pump. In simple terms, strong hands are holding onto their bitcoin because collectively there is an anticipation of positive price action and they don’t want to get rid of it just yet. They don’t want to get rid of it prematurely. I’ve made the point before, guys, and I’ll continue to do so that I think mining is what’s going to suffer the most. And you may have a few people that will be shaken out of the system because profitability is already very difficult. Let’s be honest right now for most people. However, this is the challenge ultimately is what makes Bitcoin valuable. If you are, people are able to participate in the mining process, at least really look at the highest levels. You’re going to see that this affects the perceived scarcity of the asset. And the more scarce something gets as a commodity, real as anything, the more value we attribute to it with our collective psychology. So this is part of the formula really. This is part of the economic laws that dictate the price of something like Bitcoin. Let us know your thoughts about the having members of the Outpoint coin buzz army in the comments below. I’m going to continue to contend that it’ll probably take about three, four, five, maybe six months or more to really see some positive price action. It is a lagging indicator, in my opinion. However, once, you know, we resettle, we find a new rhythm. Once the miners get into the new groove, then I think that’s when the numbers start to be more reflective of the reality. And I think that’s when the scarcity factor kicks in. However, that’s just my opinion. Let us know what yours is in the comments below. Let’s take a look at this piece now on desk dot com Krypto long in short, how oil going negative could open the door for Bitcoin ETF exchange-traded funds. We’ve been talking recently about how oil prices, in particular, have gone negative and this has had a major impact. People are using much, much, much less oil right now, pretty much zero oil. Obviously, planes are grounded in most parts of the world. People aren’t really commuting with their vehicles anymore and therefore demand for this commodity, which has been like Ubiquiti. And it’s just been a part of our lives for the longest time. All of a sudden that demand for it has plummeted. And you have a lot of these oil producers that perhaps they’re unable to fully shut off production and they just have these excess barrels, this excess supply of oil, which costs them a lot of money to store. There are costs associated with storing a surplus of oil, hence the negative commodity prices for that good. And in this article here, which is a good one by the author, Noel, the argument is made that if you have an exchange-traded fund, an ETF like U.S. oil, which is the United States oil fund, if that can go down to negative and we can live through sort of what we’re seeing here, which is just blatant manipulation of that ETF, I think there’s a very strong reason to suggest that a Bitcoin ETF is really not at all as bad as we were being told. We are being scared into submission. Effectively. So, as Noel writes, it turns out that commodity prices don’t have a floor. Who knew? To be fair, this is not the first time a commodity has traded below zero. Natural gas prices, for example, have gone negative in the past as logistical problems make it hard to get to buyers. And many refineries see it as a waste byproduct of oil production. And outside the energy sector, dairy farmers across the U.S. are currently dumping excess milk rather than paying consumers to take it away. So U.S. O. United States Oil Fund is the largest exchange-traded fund ETF in the energy sector and holds near dated WTI futures. This week, those futures were trading below zero since they involve physical delivery of oil that no one knows where to store. But the ETF is a financial commodity and cannot be traded below zero. Therefore, it cannot reflect its underlying assets. So this week and this is attesting to the mismanagement and the chaos that we’re seeing, the U.S. so scrambled to save its listing. It announced a reverse share split to push its price back above the Nasdaq minimum requirement. And it changed its investment strategy to focus on slightly longer-term futures. It also applied for authorization to issue more shares since money is pouring in, reportedly from retail investors who hope to ride the recovery all the way up. So here you have an ETF whose value does not necessarily reflect the underlying asset manoeuvring to be able to sell more shares to retail investors in a dislocated market. That is one of the most blatantly manipulated in the world. And yet they say that a Bitcoin ETF and its proposals are rejected for the reason of being too risky to a pake and manipulable absolute nonsense. And we’re seeing it being borne out here in the real world with another example. USL, particularly a Bitcoin ETF, would be based on a financial commodity that runs on a global network accessible to all. Most of the main exchanges have market surveillance, and improvements in market liquidity should enable the ETF price to closely track the market value of the underlying asset, giving investors reassuring clarity and transparency. The same cannot be said of the most liquid listed Bitcoin tracking instruments today, which have lock-in periods during which investors cannot sell and which trade at a significant premium to Bitcoin. This is largely a result of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissions reluctance to approve liquid and easily redeemable investment vehicles suitable for all types of investors. It’s a very good article, guys, and it goes on to suggest that if the oil industry and the energy sector, an ETF such as USO can get away with the blatant manipulation that they’re doing. There are many different mechanisms. There are many different variables and tweaks and that we can employ here to make sure that Bitcoin is an effective and transparent exchange-traded fund. And there’s no reason to believe that it would be once approved, that it would perform any worse that were then. We’re already seeing here with some of the commodities in the world. It’s a little bit more technical as the article goes along. But I do have to give kudos to Newel for this piece on Coin Desk. Once again, check it out. If you’re so inclined and interested in this kind of content, we’ll link to it, of course, in the description below. And finally today, guys, just in passing on crypto potatoes today, Teather printer goes br. One point six billion USD team have been minted in April as Bitcoin recovers from March loss. So we saw some rather stunning numbers, some very violent drops, of course, going back to about six, seven weeks ago in March of 2020. Largely, we’ve pretty much recovered from those lows and that’s been due in no small part to that. Not Gasca say printing a canut printing has been due in large part to the minting of USDOT, in fact, one point six billion USD. Now the argument could be made that this is reflective of the cryptocurrency problem. The quantitative easing, if you will, in our very own sector, there’s still some debate as to how correlated the price of Bitcoin is with USDOT. However, I will grant that for some of those more outspoken voices. Yes, the minting of billions of USDOT does have an impact. Check out this article for the full information and further analytics. But that about wraps it up for today, everybody. Hey, to be sure, you’re following us on all the regular social media channels and keep checking back into old coin buys. BUZZCUT. Oh, for all the latest, go ahead. Like subscribe, share and hit the belt. Receive notifications if you’ve enjoyed today’s video. Best of luck, guys. If he chooses to invest on this Sunday but have a great tail end to your weekend. Be safe out there. And as always, we do hope to see you again soon in our next video. Take care.

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