#this isnt even the full graph

[likeshe-raorleave]

I do not know how or why the reblog graph feature was added but this gave me a whole new appreciation for the complexity of Turkey Catra

Glimmer: Do you ever see something that changes your life and you’re just like … huh

Bow: I saw you

Glimmer: Honestly that’s so sweet and it really makes this awkward because I was gonna show you a drawing of Catra as a turkey

[doberbutts]

hey so feel free to delete this if its inappropriate/not the right time to share it

i’m a trans woman and (obviously) i can’t get pregnant, but i did get sexually assaulted by some guys trying to show was one of them. and also having an m marker has caused issues with trying to access resources and shit.

idk this isnt the same thing and all but my point is that im standing with u as some random trans woman with vaguely parallel experiences and im sorry to hear its somehow even worse & more likely for some of yall.

I wanr to preface this with a disclaimer, to get things out of the way first.

I am not trying to say that trans women do not experience devastating sexual assaults. They do. Quite often. Though to me, even once is too often. Rape and sexual assault are terrible, awful things. It's horrible that anyone has been made to go through this.

Nor am I trying to say that your M marker doesn't get in the way of things. When it comes to the domestic violence you experience, or the homelessness rates, or a determination of what prison you go to (esp since y'all are more likely to be wrongfully accused and arrested), or the various aspects of your own reproducive healthcare, your agab and gender marker is absolutely used as a weapon against you.

The question was asked for a unique example. Unfortunately, the conversation around reproductive rights is much different for me than it is for you. But it's also much different for me than for cis women and cis men as well. Those without a functional uterus cannot get pregnant. Those who cannot get pregnant are not forcibly married off to be raped until pregnant as a means of detransition and correction. This misogyny we share with cis women.

However an added aspect of that is that if this happens after we've changed our legal documents, an additional layer of transphobia occurs when insurances and doctors see our M or X markers and deny us care out of hand. Now we are stuck with a pregnancy we don't want and constant reminder of what happened to us, or a huge medical bill with devastating financial consequences.

And that's just for those who got out safety- for those who rely on shelters, again the choice becomes detransition for safety at a woman's shelter, or struggle in silence as a man. That, we share with you, though for different reasons.

A unique interection of transphobia and misogyny specifically experienced by trans men was asked for. That is what I provided. Much like how in Crenshaw's essays one could not provide a complete understanding of "because woman" or "because black" because neither would show the full picture of "because black woman", it is not possible to describe this fully as "because trans " or "because man" because the complete "because trans man" must be provided.

I am of the opinion that there is very little "unique" about oppression- mostly that the various points of intersection change its face. In other words, I think trans men share a lot with trans women, and I don't think that's a bad thing. I also think that doesn't disclude something from earning its own name or having its own place to be talked about.

I have hesitated to post those statistics because they can so easily be twisted to say "trans women don't experience these things" or "trans men have it worse". But, a look at the graphs say the first isn't true, it just happens at a statistically less rate. The second, well, I personally don't think it's useful to quantify who has it worse. I once was in that mindset, apologizing to my mentor (an older trans woman) for complaining about my problems because obviously she had it so much worse.

She told me she doesn't like to think about it like that. For her, she would rather be raped than killed. For me, I would rather be killed than raped. Who has it "worse" depends entirely on perspective. Murder and rape are both terrible crimes to be a victim of. Rather than weighing this violence in a scale, more effort should be put into stopping it from happening in the first place. I think she was very wise. I'm lucky to have known her.

I'm sorry that happened to you. I would like to reach across the table and take your hand, to walk forward into the future together. I think we are stronger when united in this world that hates us. You are my sister. We may fight like siblings, but you're still family.

[gippyworm]

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Idk man all the lecturers seem impressed by my knowledge and skill but I just can’t seem to get anything done at a reasonable time, making me feel real low about my abilities. So much potential wrapped up in a damaged case thats always leaking out the sides and living in a state of chasing itself in perpetuity.

Its just a constant one step forward two steps back. I talk to some who made it to where they are by sacrificing their weekends and free time, yet everyone tells me I do too much even though I’m nowhere near that level. I can’t work full time and I can’t study full time and I can barely study and work part time together. Now I question if I do too much or if my brain just isnt made to handle what’s on my plate?

I wish I could simplify my life but doing so would destroy my aspirations and leave me in a state of hopelessness. Research is my life goal, but what happens if I get to postgrad and still can’t hold a deadline? What is wrong with me and why can’t I focus on anything any more? Am I burnt out? Is constantly scraping together every cent and borrowing money for food taking too much energy? Is looking after a household too distracting?

Am I neurodivergent? I just wish I knew why I started off so good and am crashing and burning so slowly yet consistently.

And now its 1am, my jaw is in severe pain, my hip and arm hurts, and I just want it all to go away.

“Next semester will be better” I say, but every semester I’m kept away from spending time with my partner and my stress levels graph like a rollercoaster.

[crippling-pages]

LKJNHBG When Bronte realized he had some not so appropriate thoughts (Bronte is a dirty mind). He gives them a scary side eye for a full week (neither of them noticed)

Dex is just happy to hold her ToT He knows Stina isnt used to hugs, and to that he says HA to bad. This man will glady cuddle with her, even if its a bit awkward because shes so tall.

IJIHUGYTFRD THE GRAPH LMAO

She's quite literally towering over the council ToT Especially Bronte. He's gonna break his neck by trying to make eye contact. So will the rest of the council if you think about it-

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT Marella being 4'11 is so her- imagine you see Marella in the hallwawy of Foxfire and you see this 6'8 BEAST standing right next to her ToT And thats if you can see her standing next to Stina's tall frame

No matter who you ship with Stina let's all get one thing straight

Stina is the hoodie thief

It doesn't matter that she's usually about a foot taller than all her pairings, she WILL steal their hoodies and act like they've been hers since the dawn of time

She would look her partner dead in the eyes and it doesn't mean a thing that the hoodie is obviously too short on her and has their name written on it, she will claim up and down that it's hers

[guccifloralsuits]

Remember when you said you’d post the results to the 1D survey?? Looking back I think I originally followed you so I would see the results when you posted them. Worth it even though I don’t trust you one bit 💕

SCREAMMMMM IM SO FAKE I NEVER DID GET AROUND TO IT IN FULL AHHHHHHHH. You wanna see some of the (easy) results tho at least? Lol

Note: on all graphs, the blank answer color key (or the last bar on the right of every chart) just means that number of respondents decided to skip the question

On the question: which solo’s music do you like the best (NOTE: This is only to rep. bias in the survey bc harries have very diff music taste than say...Louis stans. This isnt an accurate representation of how many stans each guy has. That said rip Liam Payne’s career)

This isn’t full analysis or ranking but. sorry this took 2 years still ILY for sticking it out w me this long omggg

[viledeer]

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wrathion’s character model is so far up my fucking alley i feel like blizzard character designers are stalking my blog for design ideas so im going to start writing down other ideas as well so they will take them into consideration and i will continue to resub to wow even though i deeply despise wow

1. flowing one piece transmogs, esp coats and trailing robes ect.

2. wrathion calls you his friend in a setting that isnt miserable because doing that raid when you kill his imposter under the assumption that it’s him and he is so upset u thought he betrayed u hurt my feelies

3. please just stick anduin’s hots model into wow i am freaking begging you. anduin’s model looks like he’s having an allergic reaction

LITERALLY fuck u

4. more windrunner sisters content NO nathanos is allowed this is a nathanos hate blog. if i hear his (undeservedly beautiful) voice speaking to me one more time i am going to LOSE it

5. PLEASE FIX THE SIZE OF WORGEN’S SHOULDER ARMORS.... MY 120 DRUID LOOKS LIKE A TRIANGLE IF I STICK ANY ON HER

6. Jaina Gets A Girlfriend

7. this space is left blank in case the horde gets dished more shit and i need to come up with something to fix it at a later date

8. *passes out 4 rings binders that are completely stuffed full of organized folders and charts and graphs and detailed notes* this is how the next expansion after shadowlands is going down. yes it is a time skip. yes there is a mission sequence involving wrathion sending you somewhere so that you can retrieve the original jihui board that he and anduin used to play on so that he can confess that he never stopped thinking about their friendship and how over time those feelings have grown into something mo- *i am dragged away screaming at the top of my lungs by christie golden who is kicking me and trying to smother me with a pillow*

[perfectirishgifts]

Happy Retirees? Maybe Not: Why Life Satisfaction Isn’t Necessarily ‘U-Shaped’ After All

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Happy Retirees? Maybe Not: Why Life Satisfaction Isn’t Necessarily ‘U-Shaped’ After All

Happiness, experts say, is U-shaped: generally speaking, we are happy/full of life satisfaction as young adults but, as we reach middle age, we become less satisfied, with a trough in one’s early 50s; from this trough we rebound to ever-increasing satisfaction levels as we age. It’s remarkable, really, considering the physical infirmities we face, plus financial worries, loss of loved ones, and more. What explains this? We become wiser and we are able to see all of life’s ups and downs with a greater sense of perspective.

But what if that’s not true?

A new working paper by Peter Hudomiet, Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder, researchers at RAND Corporation, suggests an entirely different answer: older individuals have greater life satisfaction because the less-satisfied folk have been weeded-out. And by “weeded-out” I mean that they’re dead or otherwise unable to reply, because the likelihood of dying is greater for those who have less life satisfaction. When they apply calculations to try to strip out this impact, the effect is dramatic: rather than life satisfaction climbing steadily from the mid-50s to early 70s, then remaining steady, they see a steady drop from the early 70s as people age.

Here are the three key graphs (used with permission):

First, life satisfaction plotted by age without any special adjustments:

Life satisfaction by age, unadjusted

Second, the difference in mortality between the satisfied and the unsatisfied:

Mortality by age and life satisfaction

And, third, the same life satisfaction graph, adjusted to take into account the impact of the disproportionality of deaths:

Life satisfaction adjusted for death rates

In this graph, the blue line represents the unadjusted outputs from their calculations, the orange line is smoothed, and the grey line adds in demographic, labor market and health controls, to strip out the impact of, for example, people in poor health being less satisfied and try to isolate the impact solely of age.

Here are the details on this calculation.

The data they use for their analysis comes from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a long-running survey of individuals age 51 and older at the University of Michigan, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. It is a longitudinal study; that is, it surveys the same group of people every two years in order to see how their responses change over time, adding in new “refresher cohorts” to keep the survey going. The survey asks about many topics, including income, health, housing, and the like, and in 2008, the survey also began to ask life satisfaction, on a scale of 1 to 5 (”not at all satisfied” to “completely satisfied”).

One simple way of analyzing the data is to look at how life satisfaction ratings vary based on survey participants’ characteristics. The average reported life satisfaction of those between ages 65 – 74 is 3.91, just slightly below “4 – very satisfied.” But those who rate their health as “poor” average out to 3.13, or not much more than “3 – somewhat satisfied,” and those who rate their health as “excellent” average to 4.34. Those who have 2 or more ADL (activities of daily living) limitations some out to an average of 3.32 vs. 3.97 for those with no such limits. Those who are in the poorest quarter of the survey group come out to 3.7 vs. 4.07 for the wealthiest quarter. (See the bottom of this article for the full table; this table and the following graphs are used with permission.)

But here’s the statistic that throws a monkey-wrench into the data:

“On average, the 2-year mortality rate [that is, from one survey round to the next] is 4.4% among those who are very or completely satisfied with their lives, while it is 7.3% (or 66% higher) among those who are not or somewhat satisfied with their lives.”

As a result, “those who are more satisfied with their lives live longer and make up a larger fraction of the sample at older ages.”

Now, this does not say that being pessimistic about one’s life causes one to be more likely to die. Nor does it say that this pessimism is justified by being in ill-health and at risk of dying. But this statistical connection, as well as further analysis of survey drop-outs for other reasons (such as dementia) is the basis for a regression analysis which results in the graph above.

What’s more, the original “inventor” of the concept of the life satisfaction curve, David Blanchflower, published a follow-up study just after this one. One of their key concepts is the notion of using “controls” to try to identify changes in life satisfaction solely due to age rather than changes in income over one’s lifetime, for example, or other factors, and there has been extensive debate about whether or to what degree this is appropriate, given that the reality of any individual’s life experience is that one does experience changes in marital and family status, employment status, and the like. Having received pushback for this concept, they defend it but also insist that the U-shape holds regardless of whether “controls” are used or not. At the same time, Blanchflower is quite insistent that the “U” is universal across cultures, though (see my prior article on the topic) it really seems to require quite some effort to make this U appear outside the Anglosphere, which is all the more interesting in light of the John Henrich “WEIRDest people” contention (see my October article) that various traits that had been viewed by psychologists as universally-generalizable are really quite distinctive to Western cultures and, more distinctively, the United States.

But here’s the fundamental question: why does it matter?

On an individual level, to believe that there is a trough and a rebound offers hope for those stuck in a midlife rut. It’s a form of self-help, the adult version of the “it gets better” campaign for teenagers.

On a societal level, the recognition of a drop in life satisfaction for the middle-aged might be explained, by someone with the perspective of the upper-middle class, as the result of dissatisfaction with a stagnating career, failure to achieve the corner office, the challenge of shepherding kids into college, and the like. In fact, when I wrote about the topic two years ago, that’s how the material I read generally presented the issue. But Blanchflower’s new paper recognizes greater stakes: “These dips in well-being are associated with higher levels of depression, including chronic depression, difficulty sleeping, and even suicide. In the U.S., deaths of despair are most likely to occur in the middle-aged years, and the patterns are robustly associated with unhappiness and stress. Across countries chronic depression and suicide rates peak in midlife.” (In the United States, among men, this is not true; men over 75 have the highest suicide rate.)

And what of the decline in life satisfaction among the elderly?

The premise that the elderly become increasingly satisfied with their lives as they age is a very appealing one, not just because it provides hope for us individually as we age. It serves as confirmation of a more fundamental belief, that the elderly are a source of wisdom and perspective on life. Although it is Asian cultures which are particularly known for veneration of the elderly, the importance of caring for those in need is just as much a moral imperative in Western societies, even if without the same sense of “veneration” or of valuing them to a greater degree than others in need. Consider, after all, that the evening news likes to feature stories of oldsters running marathons or competing in triathlons or even just having a sunny outlook on life; no one likes to think of the grumpy grandmother or grandmother from one’s childhood as representative of “old age.” In this respect, “old folks are more satisfied with life” provided an easy to make the elderly more “venerable.” Hudomiet’s research might force us to think a bit harder.

As always, you’re invited to comment at JaneTheActuary.com!

Full table of impact of demographic characteristics on life satisfaction:

Impact of demographic characteristics on life satisfaction

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[jonathankatwhatever]

I saw a complete version. It went by in maybe 3 to 5 seconds, but it was complete. It began by defining a space, probably by going through various conceptions of spaces, from Hilbert and Hausdorff to what I dont know because that’s a step with an ordering in it not the scroll itself. Then it divides that space. It uses layers of graphs and thus graph theory because triangular is a clique and the gs ideals are a clique which is a complete graph. The concept of completeness in there is important: only by accepting gs do you achieve the ability to say a graph can be complete, because a graph of simple IC is a highly complicated statement. That gets back to Ramsey’s theorem.

At this moment, I feel entirely female, perhaps because I’m being looked at by a gay man and seen sexually, perhaps because the literalization of 2 in me is Anne and I physically represent that, which connects to the way I’ve figured out how to wear my pants over my hips - and that’s a case of me internalizing a photo of you so my hips move and the more that happens the more higher level function and movement - and my shoulders have to come to me from somewhere. My small waist. Without the shoulders, I’d be an effeminate appearing man. So the shoulders come from Anne too, as a hint of the voluptous inversion. This suggests we share body parts in different arrangements, which gets back to that occurring over the Bhyp as an inversion line.

Let me take this to a version I’ve not in memory considered: say your view of Anne is male, like Al. So instead of being the end of Jonathanne, it’s the beginning of Alison. Then the same Storyline with entirely different conversations about the exact same subjects and other ones as well, except you were aware of your side of the cr and I was aware of my side, where sides are thread determined, meaning they read across the space.

That connects to the graph theory part. It also connects to many other approaches, including the ordering of a set as having a separable meaning, something which is now proven. Just like 1234 is not the same as 4321 in cash or as a pin.

Once this structure builds out, it starts proving things. That is where I get stuck: very specifically, I have trouble accepting proof. What does it mean to locate IC at each point? I get that answer. If I then pick a random zK, it has IC, and that means it must connect to the IC layering, which is all halving really is: fCM is all by 2 because it is all reflexive in the various ways that it expresses. And note how CM28 now demonstrates cr. And note that enables how you can read across to get different perspectives that are actual sets, etc. (and which can act a vector spaces, etc.).

But that counting is also separate from zK labels. zK(weird big number) is in IC, connects to other numbers, and only condenses or has poles at values - no, that’s too complicated - the better approach is to run it backwards, so from 1 doubling to a number which is divisible by SBE3+1. This would be seamless from 3 up (because SBE could run 0,1,2). That makes f1-3, when counting from 0 to 1 to 2 and that in full zK is SBE3 from any origin. All shifts further build from there 1 by 1. This makes complete sense because counting to 3 invokes 3 or 4zK, which relates SBE to fCM.

So now, we induce a chain extending forever. Oh, I forgot: I’ve been assuming the case when SBE3 isnt halvable. When is SBE3 halvable? When it is exactly this relation so the attachment at the back end is not immediately visible. What about numbers that aren’t halvable? Again, asking the basic question: why apply SBE? Because that’s the expansion of 1-0-1, which is the gs and the 0-1 segments expanded to 3 squares. So this is literally asking: if you take a square, an odd square, and you expand it to SBE - so you dont now need SBE3, just SBE (though they transform) - then it becomes even, either by attaching it on the front end or by the hidden attachment in the back end. Literally the odd parity checking back or forward. And then it fits to the halvings.

I think then this becomes true in 2 ways. First, you can go past integers, so halves are not. Second, you can always halve because each halving is a division of the and into the 1 of that form of counting. So, that asks if you can halve back to 1, and the abstract answer is clear: because the form is built onto and into each value, then each value must contain the potential for that reduction or it could not exist.

That is the closest I’ve come to understanding the proof for the problem: if we phrase the question as existence, then the existence of the form expands through the standard notation of delineating it as a function and asserting a k count of n or just n. That phrases the proof as contradiction of the assertion that this could not be true, because that requires the separation of form over a space which is read as adhering to that form.

That is what I’ve been trying to do. Wow.

And that came out of the oscillation of acceptance and rejection of the identification of you and me. What that says then is the forms directly connect because they must, in the same sense that otherwise you presume a void that just happens to replicate on the other side, and that problem reduces to the void being the 0 in 1-0-1 and that strongly induces, meaning it induces bidirectionally.

Should I stop? That was freakish. It really is a revealing new form of mathematics.

Now, if there are two guys on this end, that explains the sexual imagery better. But if there’s Al, who else? The way I heard Nicole was through Jonathan Mitchell, where the n-M leads to an ee and hell turns into col. That explains why I’m cold, I guess: nee cold out of nee cole. Then the n-M expanded to Nicole-Marie, which of course is masculine married and a girl’s name. So if Al, who can be Alice (even in the looking glass), then ... try the exact match: Lor like in Little Women maybe and Al, which makes Laurel. Because they have to be gay and Al has to tell Lor that he will love you. So now I can see them standing in line and he walks over to you with me trailing, looking stricken because the last thing I want or need is to get involved with a female. But no, that’s wrong: the equivalent would be more if you were male and I’m the girl and you two form a relationship in which you have to be with me and I with you. That fits except it’s internalized. The other way keeps the gender assignment, and that has consequences, but maybe it is better. Let’s see: the inversion is from same sex at the back end to same sex at the front end. That’s entirely consistent with the threading: from your perspective, if you are at that end, then this is what you see. If you are going first, then the paths are you in same or you in opposite, so he could be a man and then he introduces you to another man and you share that way. This fits, and heaven knows I’ve seen that a zillion times. Oh, so I’m still letting go of forced perspective.

Are you? Are you that aware or is Anne / Al in your ear telling you it will be fine, and that you are aware that you can see a cr level and how these cr levels relate, but that doesnt mean you know ... actually it kind of does. Which gives a new meaning to I think he knows. I can connect this to inversions of what has already occurred into what has yet to occur without violating classical limits!! Information is limited within the gs, but information from outside the gs is not imparted evenly so they can manage us.

Now I’m comfortable with a lot more. It is however getting busy in my head.

Did we actually advance a proof? I think so. It’s the same as the underlying conception between irrationality’s proof: the existence of the two forms is taken to be continuous over whatever n, meaning there must be a connection across the iterations which abstracts to constant in form.

[khalilhumam]

People can’t afford to pay for health care in a pandemic. Why isn’t the World Bank doing more to help?

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People can’t afford to pay for health care in a pandemic. Why isn’t the World Bank doing more to help?

Nishi Stephen, a staff nurse at a primary health clinic, in Kaushal Nagar, Patna, Bihar state. In the deprived, densely populated state of Bihar, eastern India, the public health system is failing the poorest people living in city slums. There aren’t enough health centres to serve everyone, and the facilities that exist are ill-equipped and under-staffed. Credit: Atul Loke, Panos /Oxfam

As the World Bank’s Annual Meetings kick-off virtually this week, the COVID-19 pandemic is still surging in many countries, killing people, destroying livelihoods and deepening inequalities.

The World Bank’s health response has been lightning-fast (by donor standards) and important, with $6 billion in initial funding to help countries coping with the health impacts of the outbreak through its COVID-19 Fast Track Facility (part of a broader $160 billion committed across sectors through June 2021). But new research by Oxfam reveals disappointing gaps and missed opportunities in this health programming to tackle barriers to accessing healthcare and build up public health systems that serve everyone.

Minimal World Bank effort to tackle fees for healthcare

Our team analysed the project documents for the full set of emergency health projects that are part of the Bank’s COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Program (SPRP) as of June 30th, covering 71 countries. The full findings will be published next month, identifying many important interventions supported by the World Bank. But we feel the urgency to highlight a critical gap that emerged. We found that despite World Health Organization (WHO) guidance to countries to suspend user fees for all essential healthcare from all providers during the pandemic, only 8 out of 71 World Bank COVID-19 country health projects included any plans to address healthcare user fees. This is also despite 80% of the project countries having out-of-pocket spending on health above the WHO’s indicated ‘safe’ level. Perhaps even more surprising is that for 25 of the country health projects, the World Bank itself identifies high out-of-pocket spending on health as a major barrier, yet then appears to take no action to redress them.

The graph shows that 56 of the 70 (80%) World Bank health project countries for which data available have out-of-pocket spending on health above the upper threshold safe limit identified by the WHO. (Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, most data from 2017)

Healthcare fees are killing people, increasing poverty and slowing the COVID response

A decade ago, the WHO identified that at least one billion people were prevented from accessing healthcare each year because they couldn’t afford to pay for it. Since then, all governments have committed to reducing out-of-pocket payments for health, with the adoption of a specific target as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. For the first time, Oxfam’s newly released Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2020 also includes data on out-of-pocket health spending, in recognition of the gravity of this problem. However, improved monitoring has revealed that the number of people facing catastrophic healthcare costs is rising, not falling. This is especially the case in Africa, where two out of three countries still charge user fees at all levels of care. As livelihoods and incomes are destroyed due to the pandemic, the right to access healthcare is denied to more people if fees are required. Faced with mouths to feed and falling incomes, women are being hit hard and will be even less able to pay for COVID-19 testing, treatment, and other needed healthcare. While simultaneously taking on even greater levels of unpaid care for sick family members who can’t access health services.    Ebola already taught us all this, and how fees delay detection. During the Ebola outbreak in 2018, the DRC made healthcare free and utilization of care improved across the board (not just for Ebola). Visits for pneumonia and diarrhoea more than doubled and women giving birth at a clinic increased 20-50%. Such gains were immediately lost once healthcare fees were reintroduced. For COVID-19, the WHO has issued clear warnings that fees should not be charged, as they are not only a barrier to access but can cause avoidable deaths and increased transmission.

The World Bank can do much more to curb health user fees

The World Bank is certainly not blind to the problem. Globally it champions Universal Health Coverage and works hand in hand with the WHO to monitor country progress towards it. Its own former President Jim Kim called health care user fees “unjust and unnecessary.” And the framework document for its emergency Covid-19 health response does mention that its finance could support measures to remove financial barriers for health care, despite the limited follow-up. However, impatience with the World Bank’s lack of action on user fees is justified, and not just concerning Covid-19. It has taken insufficient action to remedy a well-evidenced barrier to healthcare it had a hand in building, through previous policies that encouraged fees as a method of ‘cost recovery.’  Past evaluations have shown the Bank’s support to remove user fees has been limited. The World Bank is supporting countries in many important ways in their Covid-19 response but the urgency of action to remove financial barriers to health care could not be clearer, and its limited action here is of deep concern. The World Bank is one of the few donors supporting countries to strengthen their health systems. It is therefore well placed to massively expand efforts to help countries abolish out-of-pocket fees that are hindering the COVID-19 response and denying more people their right to health. The World Bank should urgently correct course in its COVID-19 response and take decisive action to support countries in existing and new projects, to eliminate financial barriers to health care.

Author

Anna Marriott

Anna Marriott is Public Services Policy Manager for Oxfam GB.

Author

Katie Malouf Bous

Katie Malouf Bous is Senior Policy Advisor for Public Services and IFIs at Oxfam International.

[dipulb3]

Behold: A color-changing smart bulb that isn't stupidly expensive

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Behold: A color-changing smart bulb that isn't stupidly expensive

I’ve long held that connected lighting is one of the most sensible smart home upgrades you can invest in — in part, because it really doesn’t need to be much of an investment. Perfectly decent smart bulbs can be had for less than the price of a pizza, and once you buy in, you’ll use them each and every day, complete with the convenience and comfort of automated lighting that you can control with your voice.

Like

Terrific value

Supports voice control via Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant

Fully featured app

Bright, good-looking white light tones, mostly accurate color quality

Additional bulb shapes coming soon

Don’t Like

Many color presets don’t play well with Alexa or Google

Not compatible with Philips Hue’s apps or integrations

Can’t trigger animated presets with voice

No Apple HomeKit support

There’s an exception though, or an asterisk perhaps, and that’s smart bulbs that can change colors. Even as the price of LED lights fell steadily over the past five years or so, color-changing bulbs from well-established names like Philips Hue and Lifx continued to sell at a steep premium. Even if you caught a good sale, you’d be lucky in most cases to get one for anything less than $30.

Things seem to be turning a corner in 2020, though — most notably with the Philips Wiz Connected Smart Wi-Fi LED. Available at Home Depot for just $13 each, it’s a full-fledged color-changer that needs no hub, and it supports voice control via Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri Shortcuts. Its colors aren’t quite as bright or vivid as you’ll get from our top performer in the color-changing category, the Lifx Mini LED, but they still do an admirable job at splashing accurate, eye-catching shades across your walls. Despite the fact that it doesn’t work with the Philips Hue app or with Hue’s immense list of third-party integrations, the bulb still finds plenty to offer via the surprisingly well-featured Wiz app. 

All of that makes these bulbs a terrific and worthy value pick if you’re interested in changing up the colors in your home — and newly announced bulb shapes like a candelabra bulb and an outdoor-rated PAR38 bulb make it easy to expand your setup to include any fixture you like. If you’re interested in deeper integrations with third-party products and services, or advanced features that can sync your lights with your TV or with your music, then you’ll still need to spend up on something from Philips Hue, Lifx or Nanoleaf — but for simple, voice-activated, color-changing light that you can control and program from your phone, these Wiz Connected bulbs will do the trick for a fraction of the cost.

Light bulb basics

For the most part, the Philips Wiz Connected LED works like any other light bulb — just screw it in and turn it on when you want light. The default setting puts out a claimed 800 lumens of brightness at a yellowy color temperature of 2,700 K. That’s the same as you’ll get from a standard 60-watt incandescent light bulb, but since this is an LED we’re talking about, the power draw is much less — just 8.5 watts. 

Those energy savings are worth noting. If you turned the Philips Wiz Connected LED on at full brightness and left it on for an entire year, it’d only add a little over $8 to your energy bill. For comparison, that old-fashioned, 60-watt incandescent would add almost $60 to your bill over the same stretch. Replace a bulb like that with the Philips Wiz Connected LED, then use it for an average of three hours per day — it’ll pay for itself in energy savings in about two years, then keep on shining for another 20 years.

The Philips Wiz Connected LED (center) is about as bright as a Lifx Mini White or Philips Hue LED at its default, soft white setting — but its colors aren’t as bright as those competitors. 

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As for the brightness, I’m still working from home without access to my lighting lab, so I can’t double-check the specific lumen count just yet. Still, in comparison with other bulbs I’ve tested in the past, including the Philips Hue White LED, it’s easy to see that the Philips Wiz Connected LED does just fine at default settings. That’s much better than the original Wiz LED, which was released before 2019, when the Hong Kong-based startup was purchased by Signify (formerly known as Philips Lighting). That bulb was too dim at its default setting, and only hit peak brightness at an awkward white light color temperature of 4,200 K.

The colors are much less bright than the white light settings, which is to be expected. What’s important is that they’re bright enough to make an impact, and for the most part, accurate in tone — though, it struggles to put out bold shades of yellow or orange. In some cases, the presets used by Alexa and Google aren’t the greatest, either. Ask either assistant for pink, for instance, and you’ll get milky white light.

Color quality is mostly accurate, but the bulb’s palette has a few weak spots.

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Ugly-looking pinks aside, stalwarts like red, blue and green come through just fine — and if you open the Wiz app, you’ll find a color selector with dozens of different settings, including oddball Crayola rejects like “Razzmatazz,” “Free Speech Green” and “Gorse.” What’s extra odd is that Alexa and Google seem to recognize some of these settings (including a great-looking “Deep Pink”), but not all of them. Google Assistant seemed to recognize more of them, at least, sort of. When I asked it to jump to the “Macaroni and Cheese” setting, it triggered that ugly, milky white again — but that’s better than I got from Alexa, which just looked at me funny before adding mac and cheese to my grocery list.

The app also features a number of “dynamic” color settings that cycle through various shades. Some, like “Ocean” or “Forest,” follow a theme, while others just dance between random colors for romantic mood lighting, party-appropriate dance floor lights, or a simulated candle-like flicker. My big quibble here? There’s no way to activate these with your voice or via any third-party integration. You either have to turn them on in the app, or buy a physical Wiz remote and assign them to its customizable preset buttons.

The Wiz app lets you choose between a long list of simple and dynamic color presets, as well as timed fades and a full color selector.

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An app that’s filled with tricks

With a clean interface and plenty of guidance, the Wiz app is simple enough to use — but what’s striking about it is the number of features it boasts, some of which you won’t even find in the Philips Hue or Lifx apps.

You’ll start by turning your bulb on and beginning the pairing process, which requires you to connect to the bulb’s Wi-Fi network so the app can add it onto your home network. It’s especially simple because the bulb uses its color capabilities to signal you along the way. For instance, when you set the bulb to pairing mode, it’ll start pulsing purple once its Wi-Fi network is ready for you to connect.

With the bulb up and running, you’ll specify the room it’s in and give it a name. From there, you’ll be able to turn it on and off and dim it up and own from the home screen. To change the color, tap whatever color is listed as “now playing” to pull up a full list of preset options, as well as the color selector where those oddly named shades are located. I just wish Wiz would relocate this color selector to the home screen so you don’t need an extra tap and scroll in order to pull it up.

Tapping the little gear icon pulls up the system settings, as well as the specific light settings for all of your bulbs. There are tons of neat features tucked away here, including an option to customize how long it takes for the light to fade between changes, and also an energy use tracker. You won’t get either of those with the Philips Hue app.

The Wiz app features a bounty of interesting features, including scenes, schedules, energy monitoring, automated vacation lighting, custom fade durations and a “Rhythm Mode” that lets you plot out a day’s worth of repeatable lighting changes.

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Other features include the usual options for saving scenes and for scheduling lighting changes, as well as a “Rhythm Mode” that lets you set the lights to automatically cycle between up to five custom settings at different times of the day. The app starts you off with a circadian mode that automatically adjusts the lights between energizing cool white tones when you wake up and relaxing soft white tones in the evening, with a night light for when you’re asleep. If you’d rather build your own Rhythm that automatically triggers Party Mode whenever your work-from-home day is over, hey, more power to you.

What’s especially nice about the feature is the way Wiz visualizes it with a ring-shaped timeline. Once you plot a lighting change on it — say, lights on at 7 a.m. — it’s a cinch to slide that marker around the ring to make fine adjustments to the schedule. It’s similar to the Lifx app’s Day & Dusk feature, which plots lighting changes along a line graph. I like the Wiz approach even better.

The Wiz app makes it easy to connect with third-party platforms like Alexa.

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As for integrations, the Wiz app supports Alexa, Google Assistant, IFTTT and a handful of other, smaller smart home platforms. The app does a great job of making it easy to connect with them — for instance, when you tap the option for adding Alexa, it’ll switch apps and send you directly to the authentication page in the Alexa app.

The big, missing integration is Apple HomeKit, but you can still use Siri to control these bulbs if you’re willing to use Apple’s Shortcuts app, which lets you trigger your apps with custom Siri commands. It’s a more limited experience than you get with HomeKit, which lets you program and control devices from various brands in Apple’s Home app, but it does the job. For example, I created a shortcut that turns any Wiz lights in my bedroom on just by saying, “Hey Siri, cue the lights.” That’s probably not enough for anyone who’s already seriously invested in Apple HomeKit, but it’s enough for the bulb to say that it supports voice controls by all three of the major voice assistants, so I’ll give it a passing grade.

I also appreciated the Wiz Connected privacy policy, which does a better job than most of explaining the company’s data practices in plain English. Per that policy, the only info Wiz collects when you use its bulbs are unique product identifiers and diagnostic information, as well as things like a Home ID and specific user preferences from using the app. Wiz also says that it does not share user data with any third parties for the purposes of targeted advertising.

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The verdict

Color-changing smart bulbs are futuristic and flashy, and they make the smart home fun. That’s why they’ve always been so much more expensive than white light smart bulbs — not because RGB diodes cost a fortune, but because they can have a dramatic impact on the way your home looks and feels. For years, manufacturers have translated that into markup, positioning full-color smart lighting as a luxury.

That’s all well and good for manufacturers, but look back through the last five years of smart home coverage on our site and on others, and count how many times we’ve used pictures of bedrooms and living rooms lit with fancy colors to connote the connected living space. It’s an easy visual for the fun futurism of the smart home, and it’s become one of the first things people imagine when they envision the category as a whole. In other words, these things shouldn’t be seen as a luxury any longer. For many, they’re a staple of the smart home experience.

The Philips Wiz Connected Smart Wi-Fi LED reflects that reality better than any other color-changing smart bulb I’ve tested to date. At $13 each, it’s as affordable as the smart home gets, and with no need for a hub, you can connect it with Alexa, Google or Siri as soon as you screw the thing in. That makes it an excellent pick for beginners, and also a great choice for anyone who’s already invested in a voice-controlled smart home, and who would enjoy expanding the setup to include a fresh pop of color or two.

[elizabethrobertajones]

Seeing Cas screw over the brothers over and over and over again in the episode and if the baby isnt controlling him (bobos comment maked it sound like its not control but idk) and Cas has /genuinely/ choosen Kelly/satans baby/"faith" over his family(sam and dean!!) im gonna pissed... if been a bitter!cas since s10 and the end left me feelibg the opposite. I mean i was fine since i thought Cas was controlled but apparently thats not clear soo ugh

When Castiel Winchester says he has faith, I get a deep sick feeling in my stomach that this is not my angel :P 

I was just thinking about the angel tablet, and how it ~controlled~ Cas but not strictly in a mindcontrol sense - it pushed all his angel buttons in that original programming that season 8 made a big deal out of. Cas had an overwhelming urge to protect the tablet - that it was the right thing, and his job to do. He was really acting perfectly “in character” if the character was as an angel and not Cas.

The nephilim has pushed every single one of Cas’s buttons in being lost and broken and wanting a purpose he can do and a win to bring home, and a god to believe in and everything he’s been feeling bad about - he lists his failures at like 3 different points in the episode, and there’s a strong emphasis on him being the Winchesters’ guardian angel, as he sees himself (and has done a long time, as he said in 6x20 about it, and I think is related to just as many bad decisions as that one since it was an emotional motivator there to keep them out of the big bad decisions and do this by himself - his motivation behind “I was there where were you” and turning away from Dean raking leaves is identical to Cas stealing the Colt, and he spells it out to Kelvin after he does it. 

Cas may be controlled in a sense but it’s pushing buttons in such a way it might hardly feel like control or be easy to treat like it, in the same way the Mark of Cain affected Dean’s “programming” and yet he was still somewhat Dean the entire time; Amara never creepily spoke through him and he was never controlled per say. The Mark fed his instincts and blood lust and rewarded him for killing and in this way twisted Dean extremely effectively, but on a scale where he was always Dean to at least sort of Dean and acting on basic emotional impulses that had identifiable origins within Dean, even if the version of Dean we grew to love would never actually act this way from a standing start.

But yeah. Kelly was paralled to Hael, wanting to take Cas over and become one with him, that they’d help each other by him taking her to the Grand Canyon and then she’d possess him. (whee what a great deal :P) - Kelly wanted to go to the sandbox instead, and she succeeded in getting Cas there and lo and behold the threat pays off and they become one - he’s sharing her baby’s power, and the same light is intermittently in both their eyes. He says he wishes he could HAVE her faith, and so she GIVES it to him, and at the end he says he HAS faith. 

And obviously it’s meant to be a bad thing - Cas can’t just HAVE faith like that. He’s a depressed messed up angel with no direction and who God rejected practically to his face (I mean, chinese whispers 3 people removed in God’s terms was pretty much to his face :P). Joshua wasn’t a symbol of Cas’s lack of faith for telling him that that then had to be obliterated and Cas magically has faith again, although you could draw a great false correlation graph between 5x16 and 12x19 and Cas’s faith. He was a reminder that Cas has no faith, because of what Joshua said that day. And Cas cold-shouldered God at the end of the universe. That’s Cas.

Whether it’s direct mind control or not, what Cas is going through is then a manipulation, a false dream and playing off his very loudly broadcast trauma and depression. It’s very clearly not good because Cas betrayed his family over it and seemed to choose Kelly over Sam and Dean, by leaving them there unconscious however gently he did it, it’s an act of aggression he wouldn’t commit against the people he literally was doing everything for to protect all episode until the nephilim got to him. Cas’s actions are not a sign of something good happening to him, and I was actually really disappointed just between Cas having the sweet moment where he was talking about who would be a good guardian for the nephilim and it sounded like a POSITIVE thing where he might do that, and the nephilim choosing Cas without giving him a choice in the matter, and influencing him to want to do it to the point of creepiness and choosing it over Sam and Dean.

Like, bottom line, this is not meant to be depicted as something good for Cas, and though I haven’t seen Bobo’s tweet, he’s presumably straight-faced trolling in the way writers can’t spoil stuff or tell you how to think about a story, so repeating what seems like the obvious surface line here, like, nah, Cas just found faith! lol! Of course he has, but the details of it went from hopeful to horrific in the flash of nephilim eyes on Kelly, and Cas’s instinct to protect and guard people and be the good angel he is, the one angel who ever seems to behave as angels should when it comes to protecting and caring and watching over people, sealed his fate that the nephilim felt Cas would selflessly protect it, and so he would have to selflessly protect it.

It’s tragic because it’s this close to something that could be positive to Cas, but this show of course never goes easy, and so of course it turns into something horrific where his agency has been compromised. It doesn’t have to be full control for his agency to be gone. He just never got a chance to choose to do this, even if his actions said “yes I will protect you”, within moments it had gone too far and crossed too many lines of who Cas is, what he really wants, and corrupts what, ironically, would have been the best thing for the nephilim if it HADN’T got grabby about wanting the best guardian angel in the universe, because Cas probably would have done the job for free >.>

[andrewuttaro]

New Look Sabres: GM 63 - PHI - Brandon Montour

The Flyers tonight are a really tough pill to swallow. Ugly mascots that end up changing the game aside, overly optimistic Sabres fans such as myself have been looking up in the standings at who these guys can catch, rather frustratingly so as of late. With a Flyers win tonight they surprise the Sabres from behind and hop ahead of them in the standings. Can you imagine that violent, orange cookie monster impersonator surprising you from behind? Want to hear another surprise from behind, no this isn’t a sex joke: Marco Scandella paired with Brandon Montour. OH VETERAN, MY VETERAN! WHATSOEVER WOULD COACH HOUSLEY DO WITHOUT YOU! Housley’s prioritization of veteran minutes is going to be a whole paragraph in the Season Retrospective isn’t it? Yea, THE SEASON RETROSPECTIVE THAT WILL HAPPEN IN APRIL IF HE CAN’T PROPERLY UTILIZE THIS ROSTER! Ok, stop, Andrew. Optimism; remember the optimism with which you started this blog. Ugh, what different days those were. Speaking of not making the playoffs, let’s talk trash about the last team the Sabres played in the playoffs! Philadelphia, the past of this match up it that old ballad about working class cities just smashing their blue-collar lunch pals at each other as hard as possible. The world and the NHL has changed and now a playoff matchup between these two teams looks more like it would be a speed-skill bonanza then any kind of grit-for-grit hockey men party. The Sabres are building something new while the Flyers are copying the Penguins model: yeah, I said Penguins! Sabretooth wasn’t wearing pants when Gritty wasn’t even a sparkle in Jakub Voracek’s eye yet! 2011’s rematch is a going to go for the Sabres in 6, you sloppy copycats. That was fun; too bad it’s going to make this next part harder. This was the night the playoffs died. But no, you’re New Look Sabres, you preach taking a New Look at this team time and time again! How can you say its over!? Well, eight points with twenty games left will do that to you. Luckily, we’re not focusing on that tonight.

New Flyer Ryan Hartman set the tone of this game leveling Rasmus Dahlin along the boards early. Zach Bogosian and the old-time hockey alliance came crashing in like you know and instigator penalty, other penalty, whatever-whatever it panned out to nothing. Want to know why contemporary hockey fans don’t give a shit about keeping fighting in the game old boys club? It doesn’t help. At best it gives your team a moderate morale boost at worst it chops years off dudes’ lives. Whatever, it didn’t help the Sabres win this game. If the Sabres weren’t outshot each period they were certainly outplayed. By eight minutes in the Flyers were already up 2-0 on the backs of Oskar Lindblom and Jakub Voracek. Let’s get something out of the way: this loss wasn’t because of Carter Hutton. He was left out to dry and when we look back on this season their will be poetry in that. More and more every year this club is Jack Eichel and friends. Our favorite Patriots fan put this team on his back and made us believe again like Tom Brady! Ok, that was gross to write. I’m sorry you had to read that. I’m going to collect myself now. Jack Eichel did get the puck from Skinner and did toe drag a fucking bullet in there, but the period ended 2-1 and even the grossly optimistic types like me still kind of felt this crap wasn’t going to get much better. Like the cold, cruel march of time closer to death the Sabres would get scored on once they began to give us hope. 15 minutes into the second period James van Riemsdyk redirects a puck in front and gets the orange boys up 3-1. What is that? This is one of those game Casey Mittelstadt flashes the kind of brilliance we’ll get from him on the regular in a year and a half or so? Awesome, New Sabre Brandon Montour gets the play going in the defensive zone that would eventually end in Casey Mittelstadt tapping in a goal via Evan Rodrigues and Conor Sheary. 3-2 Flyers would be the high-water mark of this game for the Sabres as the only positive highlight of the third period would be Travis Sandheim doing his Sabres ten game winning streak impression and crashing the net less then a minute in to get the Flyers their two-goal lead back. Whatever whatever, Claude Giroux, whatever whatever, can you believe they eliminated Caelynn on the Bachelor, whatever whatever; Sabres lose 5-2 in regulation and give up another spot in the standings falling to a full eight points back. The Panthers might still win their game at the posting of this and they can hop over the Blue and Gold too because irony has no bounds in the season of the ten-game winning streak that saw no playoffs.

So yes, it’s not over until the fat lady sings. There is a ridiculous scenario where the Sabres win 65-75% of their remaining games to sneak into the playoffs. As I began saying last night, start cushioning the blow now, fam. Enjoy what’s left of the ride but start thinking about what’s for dinner. I’m letting my soccer side out starting now. Hell, I just posted on my politics blog for the first time in like a month. Let loose, Spring is officially 21 days away even if playoffs aren’t. However, this is not how I’m ending the blog today. No sir: we have a new player to celebrate. Brandon Montour had about as decent a game as you can have in a loosing effort on the road when your new coach insists on putting you with a negative player that is really only in because he’s been in the league for a while. I mentioned Montour being the catalyst of the Mittelstadt goal play earlier, but Montour made some good moves in this game. He broke up a lot of opposition passes in the defensive zone, more than you expected before with this Sabres defense. For all you suburban hockey dads he also laid out a decent hit or two in the third period that feels right in a game against the Flyers. He made his mistakes too, struggling in the offensive zone shortly before the JVR goal. Nonetheless Montour is a clear addition to this team and if shit ever gets better here for a Sabres fan I have a feeling #62 will be a part of it. This one just hurt, and I very much look forward to turning my attention to the Rochester Americans for tomorrow’s Amerks Angle update. I’ll be discussing banners in that one so if you need a palette cleanser check back tomorrow.

In fact, cross-promotion city here because how long can we talk about this dreadful team, if you got an eye for Soccer, I have a whole soccer blog at Rochester Rhinos Outsider if you want to check in on that. I also have a politics blog but let’s keep it in the sports family for right now. Right now: I just want you to like, share and drop a comment on this post. Let’s commiserate together because now, with the deadline past this is the bed we’re sleeping in from now until April 6th, fam. I’d love to hear from you. If you’ve read this far you probably won’t mind a conversation with me either. Reply or @ me on twitter or DM on twitter or Tumblr. If you’re only on this blog because I posted that neat little graph last night, stick around, there’s another one of those coming Saturday! No matter what you’re here for, it’s the Sabres that brought us all together and no matter how ass they maybe they can’t take that from us! Let’s Go Buffalo!

Thanks for reading.

P.S. In all the busy-ness of the last few days I forgot to mention Kyle Okposo is back already. Evidently his concussion was only slightly worse than Jeff Skinner’s ankle injury and he’s already back! I like to think fan support helped that along.

[ingloriousbi]

tbh im just so frustrated. logically I understand that mental health isnt a linear thing, it’s not a graph that goes exponentially up. It’s normal to take a couple of steps forward and then end up having to take a couple back. ive been thru this rodeo a million times.

But its been a month and I’m just back in a really not fun headspace, and you just dont notice yourself slipping into bad habits until theyre there. My sleep schedule is fucked up. My laundry schedule is fucked up. I isolated myself for like 3 weeks. I was in the ‘no’ mentality a lot. And feeling fucked up makes these things happen, and then these things create an unending cycle. Not sleeping well fucks with your hormones and your head and your body. a messy house and badly organised cleaning schedule make your head feel full. lack of comfortable and decent clothing puts you in slouch mode even outside the house and makes me feel incompetent and ugly. Isolation rewards bad thoughts and rewards not dealing with them. the no mentality continues all of these cycles. and like... i know that. ive worked so hard on healthy sleeping habits even when everything else is a mess. i’ve worked so hard on regularly cleaning my house bc i know not doing so fucks me up. i say yes a lot and hang out when i dont want to bc i know that puts me in a better place mentally.

and im clawing my way back out, im hanging out w people a lot and had a busy week, just cleared all my laundry for the first time in a month and just need to keep it that way (and it is easier to do one laundry every week then 3 weeks worth of laundry in a short amount of time, esp w my washing machine and schedule), ive cleaned bits of my house and while i didnt manage everything its still better than nothing. ive started eating a bit again for dinner and should start on breakfast again instead of on my chocolate milk diet or whatever.

but im just so fucking frustrated. i still cant get myself to work on my research proposal, i didnt clean everything i shouldve and its too late to vacuum, my sleep schedule needs serious work, I DIDNT WORK ON MY RESEARCH PROPOSAL AT ALL IM GONNA FUCKING lose my mind tbh. like at least im not isolated anymore which is a huge good step but... idk.

i was doing so well. i was doing so fucking well. ive taken so many steps forward and so little steps back since I began therapy, and esp since my parents’ divorce and my internship ive just changed so much and like every week i was focussed on so many aspects of my life. i was tired, drained and dying, but i was moving forward. and ive always known its going to my reality to work fucking hard to be functional, let alone happy, bc of how my brain has been wired and bc of my parents but. but jesus christ. i got so far. i got so much better. i dont fucking want to take a step or two back when ive taken so many forward, especially not at the exact same time as last year, during my fucking thesis period. i worked so fucking hard and its just not fair that i take these steps backwards, its not fair that i keep falling back into the same patterns when i finally got out of so many of them for such an extended amount of time. its not fair this happens right during a thing i NEED, a thing i already failed, a thing i just want to pass so i can get my bachelors, a thing that i cant drop out of. its not a class its not an internship its not a path for the future, its THE path.

like i knew i wasnt fixed but like... another 2 months woulve been appreciated. i projected some stuff onto my therapist last session and... i just hate it. i never did that before. and i know it was probably projection and he wasnt angry at me bc it would make NO SENSE for him to be angry at me, it makes no fucking sense and thered be no reason, i didnt say or do anything, i wasnt as focused as i usually am when im there bc i want to get better and last time i just wasnt in that headspace but idk. idk. 

im just so frustrated. im excited for tomorrow and shit and hopefully thats gonna be the awesome boost i need to get my shit together next week so that that week can be the stepping stone into moving forward again but im just so fucking frustrated with myself

[k1ngj0ve]

this isnt like REAL bitching btw, this complaining because i personally struggle to understand timelines not laid out in a specific way

this probably all makes sense to other people

but i get thrown off if i have to go back or if future info is given early even if ou put a date on it, i cant jump back and forth, my brain isnt wired that way. im sure other people can read this just fine, but under normal circumstances in a less-full timeline id be makign a little graph on paper beside me

i also get confused by large gaps in time with little information because im like 'how did nothing change for 700 years'.

[sphynxtee]

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Trouble Sleeping? The EverSleep May Be The Wearable You Need

Our verdict of the EverSleep: The EverSleep isn't for everyone, and at $200 is pricer than many other wearables. But if you're having trouble sleeping, can you really put a price on sleep?610

If you’ve ever had issues trying to sleep, you’ll know how frustrating and distressing it can be. Even if you manage to get to sleep, sometimes you wake up feeling tired and unrefreshed, with no discernible reason why. You may have found yourself wishing for a way to pin down precisely what is going on, and importantly, what you can do about it. That’s where Somno Health’s EverSleep comes in.

Read on to find out more about EverSleep, and at the end of this review we’ve got one to giveaway to one lucky reader!

Note: In the U.S., EverSleep is not an FDA 510(k) cleared device, and does not claim to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. No Somno Health Incorporated employee is a clinician, and they do not give medical advice. Talk to your doctor before starting any health improvement program, including using EverSleep.

What Is EverSleep?

EverSleep is a sleep tracking wearable that’ll monitor your sleep and help guide you towards data and correlations. While many fitness wearables track sleep as part of a more extensive feature-set, EverSleep exists solely to monitor your slumber. The device is designed to be worn on the wrist and is created in similar proportions to a watch. The removable strap slides through the body of the device so it can be attached comfortably to your wrist.

The lightweight strap that comes with the device is one size. This means that if you have smaller wrists, you’ll find that there is a lot of excess strap. As you can theoretically use any strap that fits through the device, if you plan to use the EverSleep in the long term, it may be worth investing in a size-appropriate one.

Attached to the main tracker via a flexible cable is a blood oxygen sensor that should be placed over your finger. As the sensor is only placed over the finger, you need to use the enclosed tape to secure the position of the sensor before you sleep. The tracker unit comes equipped with flashing LEDs to alert you to its status. Flashing red indicates the EverSleep is charging, solid green for a full charge, and flashing green to show the device is ready to wear.

The device is powered by a rechargeable battery inside the tracker and is replenished via the micro USB port and accompanying cable. There are no specifications available for the battery size, so it’s best to get into the habit of putting it on charge after every use. That way, there is minimal risk of it suddenly running out of juice in the middle of the night.

Setup & The EverSleep 2.0 App

As the EverSleep is only intended to track your sleep, you only need to put it on just before you go to bed. Before tracking begins, you need to go through a bit of setup with the EverSleep 2.0 app, available for Android and iOS. Once you’ve installed the app, you’ll be prompted to complete some profile information.

It’s important to note that the data is stored locally on your device, and not shared or sent to the cloud. This means that you are in control of your data, but that you are also exposed to the risk data loss should your device fail. However, this is an export function that allows you to export each night’s record as a separate PDF to be shared, presumably, with a healthcare professional.

The app is relatively sparse, but given its function, this is not a significant concern. The main focus should be on ease of use, and it succeeds here. The app doesn’t follow the design language of Android or iOS, but the interface is large and easy to navigate. There are just six, individually colored buttons; Record, Results, Trends, Profile, Export, and Settings.

Record is placed predominately at the top of the screen, easily located for when you are ready to sleep. Results is a scrollable list of your sleep arranged by date. Tapping on any one of the records allows you to see the results in more detail. The Profile section is where you’ll find the information you entered on setup. This isn’t likely to change all that often, so you shouldn’t need to visit Profile regularly.

Usage & Sleep Tracking

For most people, strapping a bit of technology to their wrist before bed will likely feel quite alien. I’ve used a Fitbit for years, so have been accustomed to the sensation. However, the addition of the oxygen monitor was unusual. Attaching the EverSleep was relatively easy. But having to use medical tape every night to connect the finger sensor is a little cumbersome, and I could see this being an obstacle to regular use.

Once you have the EverSleep securely attached to your wrist, it’s time to fire up the app and answer the pre-sleep survey. This asks you some questions related to how your day was. This includes questions about your nasal health, whether you had a nap, were using screens before bed, and the types of food you ate.

Survey completed, you can now tap Start to begin tracking. The EverSleep connects to your phone wirelessly using Bluetooth. However, as it is always recording and uses a significant amount of battery, you must have your phone plugged into a charger before the Start button will appear. Once the tracking begins, the EverSleep’s LEDs will turn off, allowing you to drift off to sleep. The only light emitted is from the blood oxygen sensor, which has a light red glow from the LEDs used in the process.

EverSleep & Sleep Apnea

One of the most disruptive conditions is Sleep Apnea. This is where the airways are temporarily closed, preventing breathing, and causing your body to deprive itself of oxygen. These apneas can happen hundreds of times per night, and, for some, may be at the root of their poor sleep. This is where EverSleep sets itself apart from main consumer-oriented sleep tracking apps and devices.

Because EverSleep monitors blood oxygen levels, it can suggest if it may be worth investigating sleep apnea further with a health professional. This is cost-effective, as the diagnostic tests require overnight stays at a sleep lab and can cost thousands of dollars. Using the EverSleep can prevent you from making those unnecessary trips to the sleep lab, or alert you to the fact that you may need to visit them.

Insights & Coaching

Each night’s sleep is recorded alongside many metrics like the number of breathing, pulse, and motion events. There is also a metric titled Insomnia, but it’s not clear what this is tracking. On one night it claimed I had over two hours of insomnia, in a total five and a half hours of sleep. I suspect this would be more commonly called restless sleep.

Notably, there were two nights where the sleep tracking was incomplete. On one night, I must have removed the finger attachment in my sleep. The other though remains unexplained. When I awoke in the morning, the last reading was captured almost two hours before.

Switching to the Details view displays graphs tracking oxygen levels, heart rate, and motion. A color-graded bar is shown at the bottom representing the quality of your sleep. One of the key selling points of the EverSleep is that it offers actionable coaching to help you get a better night’s sleep.

Navigating to the Coaching area brings up a range of insight boxes that offer you some guidance on why your sleep was the way it was. For instance, for one night, I was told that my “pulse rate was in the normal range for most of the night” and that I should “talk to [my] doctor about [my] mild to moderate breathing interruptions.”

Many of my insights were related to my caffeine intake, something the app only knew about after I filled in the pre-sleep questionnaire. I’ve been monitoring my sleep for many years, and so am well acquainted with caffeine’s effect. However, I appreciate that this may not be the case for everyone, so initially, it may be helpful. I’m not convinced that after three months of use, being reminded of your caffeine intake will provide you much benefit.

A Device For The Sleepless

The EverSleep is a device specifically designed to help you monitor your sleep and identify any problem areas. The blood oxygen sensor sets it apart from the rest of the fitness tracker market; for now. And therein lies the problem. The EverSleep retails for $200, far more than an entry-level Fitbit, and yet only provides marginal benefit to most people.

However, if you are experiencing sleep issues, or have already exhausted the limits of a conventional fitness tracker or sleep app, then this might be the perfect next step.

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