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[freckleslikestars]

Anyone else ever read a fic where they’re doing something that you have knowledge/experience of and they’re doing it wrong and every time it’s mentioned it pulls you out of it?

[lavareview]

THE FIRST LAVA LAMP...?

The history of the lava lamp can be quite muddled and confusing to approach. From its original invention to its manufacturing and sale, who exactly “did it first” is often unclear. Two lava lamp companies, Lava Lite and Mathmos, are said to be the originators of the lava lamp, and both draw their histories back to inventor Edward Craven Walker… Who himself is disputed as the true inventor of the lava lamp.

So, what’s the real story?

Well, it starts sometime in the 1940s with a Scot by the name of Donald Dunnet, a motor engineer living in South East England. Little information is available on Dunnet, and the most helpful source on him and his inventions is his great-grandson Charlie Leverett, who along with his father and aunt have tried to piece together accurate information on Dunnet and his invention.

According to an old (unfortunately dateless) newspaper article, which the family uses as a source, the original invention came about when Felicity, Dunnet’s youngest daughter and Charlie Leverett’s grandmother, broke the family’s egg-timer, coincidentally while there was a wartime shortage of egg-timers in the UK. Dunnet, who was described as a part-time inventor, set out to build a replacement – imagining, instead of sand falling down to measure time, a controlled rising of oil to the surface of water. This “inverted egg-timer” would therefore be the very first lava lamp prototype.

It would not, however, be the last prototype created by Donald Dunnet. In December 1950, Dunnet applied for a patent granted in 1954 for “a display device using liquid bubbles in another liquid” – making no reference to time measurement, it can be assumed that at this point the invention no longer had anything to do with egg-timers and was instead meant to be an aesthetically pleasing display.

The abstract further describes the invention as “a display device [which] comprises an upper layer of liquid 2 and a lower layer of liquid 3 in a transparent container 1, the two liquids being non-miscible and the upper layer being of lower specific gravity than the lower layer and means 9 for heating the lower layer so that it rises through the upper layer in the form of liquid bubbles […], the bubbles being cooled by the upper layer so that they return to the lower layer.”

Further technical detail is added, but with this initial description, you may already have recognized the basic workings of a lava lamp: wax or oil heated by a light bulb at the bottom of the lamp bubbles up through the fluid filling the container (typically water); the bubbles cool down as they reach the top of the lamp and fall back to the bottom, creating a continuous flow of 'lava'.

While there are no other patents I could find for further iterations on this invention, Dunnet continued to improve on his design. The family was able to find one picture of various models created by Dunnet: one resembles a large glass jug, one a long-necked, bulbous bottle, and three resemble lanterns (interestingly, lantern designs would later be sold by both Lava Lite and Crestworth). The picture is dated "Easter 1960".

Dunnet was even featured on “The BBC Inventors Club” (date of broadcast unknown) for another of his inventions, seemingly his “cleaner for flat surfaces” patented in 1955, pictured here:

According to Dunnet’s grandson, in the 1960s, the family still owned and used one of Dunnet’s lamps, which he says “worked really well and was well developed, quite far removed from his original ‘egg timer��� based design”. He further describes this lamp as using “a Grant’s whiskey bottle with Red lava”. He also declared his intention to create a replica of this prototype based on his memories of it, but it seems pictures of such a replica never materialized.

Sadly, Donald Dunnet passed away sometime between 1960 and 1964, and would never market his invention himself. According to his grandson, his widow had his workshop completely cleared after his death, and no surviving prototypes remain. Still – thanks to newspaper articles, family testimony, the 1950s patent, and the surviving photographs of Donald Dunnet and his inventions, it seems clear that he was the true original inventor of the lava lamp, though not the one who would come to market it to the public.

Unfortunately, Dunnet seems to have been widely forgotten from lava lamp history, with many sources not mentioning him at all, and only his initial egg-timer prototype being briefly credited as inspiring Edward Craven Walker in other sources. It seems Dunnet’s family passed on his story through generations and often spoke of his invention as being stolen, though his granddaughter Linda Leverett is “not sure what really happened”, and the family primarily expresses wishing that he was better known and recognized for his creations. You can take a look at various other patents held by Dunnet here.

So then, who is this Edward Craven Walker we keep hearing about?

Edward Craven Walker (1918-2000) was a British inventor, now known as the creator of the lava lamp. In 1963, Craven Walker found himself at the Queen’s Head pub in Dorset, England. There, he spotted a “blob light” on the bar, described as “a glass cocktail shaker full of oil and water with a light bulb beneath”. This was one iteration of Dunnet’s invention – already no longer an egg-timer as is often claimed, but instead a decorative item.

Craven Walker, learning that Dunnet had died, decided to take on the further development of the lamp himself. He hired British inventor David George Smith to further develop the device. In 1964, Smith applied for a patent assigned to Craven Walker’s company ‘Crestworth Limited’ and granted in 1968, for “a display device comprising a container having two substances therein, with one of the substances being of a heavier specific gravity and immiscible with the other substance […] and when heat is applied to the container, the first substance will become flowable and move about in the other substance”.

Craven Walker named this lamp the “Astro Lamp”, and this model was sold by Crestworth starting in 1963, making it the first commercial lava lamp.

The Crestworth Astro and its variations (such as the Astro Mini) have defined the classic look of lava lamps ever since. They were greatly successful throughout the 1960s and 1970s and are now icons of the era. Crestworth would be renamed Mathmos in 1992, and Mathmos is still one of the two best-known lava lamp companies in the world.

So, what’s with Lava Lite and its claim of being “the original lava lamp company”?

In the end, it’s simply a case of international manufacturing rights. In 1965, Craven Walker sold the US manufacturing rights of his Astro Lamp to two American entrepreneurs, Adolph Wertheimer and Hy Spector, who saw the lamp at a novelty convention in Hamburg, West Germany. Wertheimer and Spector founded the Lava Manufacturing Corporation in Chicago, Illinois, and the Astro Lamp was renamed the Lava Lite and brought to the US market. In the 1970s, the rights to the Lava Lite were sold to Haggerty Enterprises, and it would be distributed by a subsidiary called Lava World International. Lava World International was later renamed Lava Lite LLC. Finally, the Lava Lamp brand was acquired by toy manufacturer Schylling in 2018. This brand, often referred to as “Lava Lite”, is the other big player in the lava lamp world. Because both Mathmos and Lava Lite originate from Craven Walker’s initial Astro Lamp, both brands still lay claim to “the original lava lamp”.

So that’s the story of the lava lamp, as best as I’ve been able to piece it together! An original invention by Donald Dunnet, developed by Edward Craven Walker, and sold in the US by Lava Lite and internationally by Mathmos. A simple but ingenious device, originally only meant as an egg-timer, which would become an icon of the 60s and the 70s, and remains popular to this day.

Did I get something wrong? Am I missing details? Do you have more information on lava lamp history? Feel free to reach out with an ask or submission!

Sources:

The History of the Astro Lamp - Designs by Donald Dunnet - FlowOfLava

The History of the Lava Lamp - Smithsonian Magazine

Donald Dunnet - Original Lava Lamps Inventor by Charlie Leverett on OozingGoo

The Mystique of the Lava Lamps - BBC

Craven Walker - The Telegraph

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[peter-parcoeur]

Smut - Tom finally meets his hot neighbor during quarantine that he’s had his eye on for awhile.

CABIN FEVER (Request)

TOM HOLLAND x READER Warning : smut, swearing

It was fun for a while. Well, for about two weeks. Then Cabin Fever hit him hard.

Tom could tell he was getting a little more insane every day. Keeping himself busy for a week was definitely okay since he had been away for so long, there were always things to do around the house, but being the control freak he was, everything was fixed, tidied and cleaned in about two days. Then he would exercise, catch up with movies and TV Shows he had missed while being on location for his own movies and finally, there was Tessa, entertaining him daily by running around in the garden.

Eat. Sleep. Repeat.

All of this for weeks, but today was day 34 of Quarantine and Tom had reached his own limits.  

With nothing left to do throughout the day, he had also fucked up his sleeping schedule by staying up all night and getting up around midday. Things could only go downhill from there.

It was 3am when he heard a knock on his door, something that would already be unusual if things were back to normal, but right now, it just felt odd. Getting up from his couch where he’d been trying to fall asleep to the most random TV program, Tom grabbed a baseball bat from the corner of the room. After all, there had been tons of robbery attempts lately around the UK and though it was a nice neighborhood, Tom knew that desperate times often called for desperate measures.

“It’s alright Tess, go back to sleep” he hushed his beloved dog, petting the top of her head as he opened the door.

He was quite taken aback to see his neighbor standing there with an apologetic smile on her face.

“Hi… I know it’s ridiculously late and I’m so sorry!”

         “Is it though?“ Tom laughed, mostly so she would relax.

  “Looks like I’m not the only one who’s lost track of time?” She smiled back

     “  I genuinely have no idea what day it is… what can I help you with?”

She had moved into the neighborhood just a couple months after him. Tom remembered vividly that day. It was like the Universe knew he had to be home then, allowing him some well-deserved time to rest and the best opportunity to have his heart shattered at the sight of the most insanely hot woman he had ever laid his eyes on. It was a hot summer day and she had been wearing over-cut jeans shorts that left nothing to his imagination. Since then, Tom had been secretly fantasizing over her every time he was back home, keeping his head, hand and heartbeat at a steady pace on the loneliest nights.

“Err, hello?” she brought her back to reality, waving her hand in front of his eyes. He must have passed out thinking about the steamy dreams she had filled his brain with.

“Sorry, you were saying”

-          It’s quite ridiculous really, I’m usually… quite handy but I just had this power cut and I can’t get it back on… I thought it was the entire neighborhood but then I saw some lights from your living room and so, here I am, awkwardly asking for help at 3am.”

Her smile was terribly endearing, which actually helped him not to focus on her chest. She was wearing what he assumed was her bed time outfit: black cotton shorts and an oversized hoodie above a white tank top so thin he couldn’t miss her generous cleavage. Trying to hide his arousal would soon become impossible. He had been dying to talk to her, to stand so close he would get to smell the delicate sugary perfume from her neck.

“Annnnd… I failed to introduce myself, I’m Y/N, by the way”

          “ I’m Tom, it’s great to finally meet you, Y/N.”

There was something refreshing with this entire situation. It had been years since Tom introduced himself without people giving him an obvious “I know who you are” kind of look. Somehow, Y/N didn’t flinch one bit when he opened the door. It was also definitely nice to put a name on that face, it would turn out useful for whatever fantasy was next. Now he’d get to moan her actual name.

“I can give it a try?” he said, following her through his front yard and up to hers.

When he walked into her home, Tom actually asked himself if he was imagining this. Maybe this Quarantine had went straight to his head and he was now losing it for good. After all this time dreaming about her, here he was, standing in her living room bare chest like at the start of the most cliché porn movies he could think of.

All around the place were hints of an obvious passion for ballet and all sorts of dancing. Tom had seen her dance a couple time from his window. Not that he was a stalker but it was hard to ignore a body like hers when it was spiraling and flexing in front of his eyes. That explained the breathtaking ass he was now staring at, as she walked him to the place where the electric meter actually was.

“It’s kind of crazy we’ve never met, I mean, our houses are literally attached?” she said while opening the door to a small closet where a single person could barely fit.

“I’m not here often, I travel a lot for work”

“You’re so lucky! I wish I traveled a bit more, now more than ever!” she joked, clearly stating the fact she was struggling with a serious case of Cabin Fever herself.

Tom couldn’t help but think of the places he had been traveling to while on location. To have her by his side would make things so much easier. Not to mention the incredible places he would love to fuck her.

Switching a few buttons up and down, trying to locate the issue as Y/N held a flashlight so he could see what he was actually doing, Tom could feel the warmth of her body touching his as they stood closer than ever in a limited space. Being isolated for so long mixed with his unspeakable thoughts about his neighbor made him quite obviously stiffen against his grey sweatpants.

“So? Any suggestion?” Y/N asked after a couple minutes

“Well, yes. Do you have any candles?”

********************************************************

“I can’t believe you’ve never seen Star Wars!” Tom shrieked, offended.

They were now sat in the middle of the living room, bathed in the cozy warmth of a dozen of tiny candles all around them. Y/N had insisted on offering Tom a drink for trying to help though they both knew they needed an excuse to socialize for the first time in weeks. Then one drink turned into two, three and a couple more until the bottle of Gin was laying empty on the carpeted floor.

“I just don’t see the point, it bores me really!”

Y/N took off her hoodie and fell on her back to the floor, using it as a pillow. From above, Tom could catch a glimpse at her breast, her nipples pointing at the ceiling from under the soft cotton of her top.

“I don’t know if it’s the Gin kicking in or this Quarantine stuff but… I feel like we’re stuck into this alternative universe where anything could happen” she started, turning her head so she could stare into his eyes. “What do you think?”

“I think Gin and isolation make a terrible cocktail” he joked.

“What would you do if tonight wasn’t real?”

“What do you mean?”

“Let’s say… anything’s possible, no consequences, what’s your next move?”

Tom hesitated. He knew exactly what he would do, but he wasn’t too sure Y/N would like the sound of it. Yet again, she had mentioned the “no consequences” card as an exit.

“Can I be completely blunt?” he dared, at last.

“Sure, that’s the point”

“I would probably fuck you senseless right here, right now, on the floor”

There was a silence where none of them looked at each other. Y/N was staring at the ceiling with a barely hidden smirk in the corner of her lips while Tom was considering his options if she took offence at his unholy confession. She interrupted his thought before he even figured out how to bail.

Crawling back on all fours, she reached for his lap and straddled him, both their gin tinted breath melting with one another’s. His hands found her hips, resting on her lower back as she downed herself against his now obvious hard-on.

“So, what are you waiting for?” she smiled, grinding herself up and down his shaft through his pants.

Tom’s thoughts were all over the place as he tried to handle his growing boner as she pushed herself against his abdomen while reaching for her lips so he could nibble at it softly, getting a proper taste of that mouth he had been dreaming about. As his hands traveled up her back, taking off her top and throwing it to the side of the room, Tom started to deepen the kiss, brushing his tongue against hers at a torturing slow pace. Her fingers were digging deeper into his scalp, holding on to the soft curls at the back of his neck as she pushed herself harder against his erection.

“Fuck…” he moaned at the sight of her now exposed chest, wasting no time in capturing one of her nipple between his lips, sucking at it until it went hard enough for her to moan softly against his hair. He couldn’t believe just how turned on he was just from dry humping her. Her insane body mixed with her begging voice could be enough for him to go nuts but there was no way he would ruin this moment, he had been dreaming about this, about her, naked in his arms, their bodies collapsing together, their hips thrusting harder until she begged him to stop. This moment seemed like he had been extracted from his filthiest, darkest wet dream.

Pushing himself up so he would lay down on top for her, Tom attacked her neck with hot, hungry kisses all over her skin while his hand found its way down her shorts. He was pleasantly surprised to realize she had no panties on. Another shock came to him when he noticed just how wet she was for him.

His lips traveled down her body, from her throat to her chest, biting her nipple, licking down her stomach, pecking her inner thigh as he pulled her shorts down her legs. Pushing her thighs apart, he gave her soft skins a few sloppy kisses until his lips found her most sensitive parts, teasing her slit with the tip of his tongue. When she begged for more, tugging at his hair a bit harder, Tom opened her folds like the juiciest fruit while burying his tongue inside of her, circling at her clit at an insufferable pace.

She came a few seconds later, shaking, pulling at his hair and bouncing her hips up and down like she was being possessed by some sort of demon.

Wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, Tom kissed her throbbing skin one last time and straightening himself so he would lay on top of her again. She was out of breath, cheeks burning red, and her hair all over the place and yet, she still looked incredible.

To see her in that state had brought Tom to another dimension. His throbbing cock was out of control, pushing against his sweatpants harder than ever while he could still taste her on his own lips. Pushing himself down to kiss her, teasing her tongue with hunger, Tom quickly pulled down his pants to set himself free as he could tell he could no longer wait.

“Get on your hands and knees, now” he said, so firmly he almost surprised himself. He didn’t know if it was the alcohol speaking or the fact he was about to fuck his long-time dream girl, but something about all of this made him eager and hungry for more.

Y/N didn’t complain one bit about his bossy attitude and turned around on all fours.

Kneeling behind her, Tom aligned himself with her slit with one hand holding himself and the other on her lower back for support. When he felt his tip getting damped with her arousal, he pushed himself hard and deep inside of her, holding her hips with both hands until her ass collapsed against his abdomen. Y/N screamed with each thrust as he pushed himself harder and faster, the sound of their skins slapping together echoing through the room.

“Oh my god” Tom grunted as he could feel her tightening against his swollen cock every time he pushed himself out and back in. He loved the way she called his name, her voice chanting through her moans like the sweetest melody as she squealed through another orgasm. His hand grabbed her ass with one hard smack, leaving a bright print on her sweaty skin. He was getting closer and closer with each push of his hips into her soaked core.

“Uhhh! Y/N!” he grunted one more time, his thrust getting messier and sloppier as he reached climax, his fingers digging into her hips as he felt that inevitable relief.

Out of breath, he rolled her on her back again, collapsing on top of her, their skins sticking together like glue. His hair was wet and curlier than ever, some of it falling down his forehead as he looked up to catch her eyes, both struggling to catch some air.

“So…” he started “no consequences, uh?”

“Well, if one thing it’ll make this Quarantine much easier to go through…” she laughed, pecking the top of his head with a mischievous smile on her lips.

[niccirobertson]

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve made a concerted effort to distance myself from just about every news feed and platform that has nothing better to do than report the latest covid statistics. The reason for this is quite honestly, like many people I have had enough. Despite my best efforts, the media bombardment is so pervasive that an update got through, and instead of deleting it, I did the math.

In South Africa at the time of receiving that update there were supposedly 1 039 161 positive cases counted, with 20 033 deaths. I am no maths genius but it wasn’t a stretch to figure out that this was around 2%. I then looked for the data for the United States which is also around 2% and the UK which is around 3%. On average this virus has a mortality rate of 2.5% with the majority of those deaths affecting the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions, otherwise known as co-morbidities. Except that the data reflected is questionable. 


When you sift through the conspiracy theories and start talking to credible professionals in the medical industry you begin to see a pattern emerging. Looking at the data of years gone by, pneumonia and flu viruses year on year have also resulted in between a 1% and 2% death rate. So why the hysteria? 


According to the WHO: A pandemic is defined as “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people”. The classical definition includes nothing about population immunity, virology or disease severity. By this definition, pandemics can be said to occur annually in each of the temperate southern and northern hemispheres, given that seasonal epidemics cross international boundaries and affect a large number of people. This happens every year but the world doesn’t come to a grinding halt because of it. 


According to the British Medical Journal the PCR test is inaccurate, picking up dead and ineffective virus particles that may be found on most people, most of the time. It states that the PCR test, never designed for this kind of testing has an error margin of 97%. That’s insanity no matter how you want to spin it. If the widely accepted method for determining whether or not a person is infected is fundamentally flawed, the resulting data is completely inaccurate. 

Added to which, the death statistics are also questionable. They do not define who died because of the virus or with the virus. For example, a colleague’s mother passed away from pancreatic cancer in July, yet the death certificate states covid19 as cause of death. This is not an isolated incident. 

The World Health Organisation guidelines state that “COVID-19 should be recorded on the medical certificate of cause of death for ALL decedents where the disease, or is assumed to have caused, or contributed to death, i.e. COVID-19 is the underlying cause of death”. This means no one really knows how many have died directly from a covid infection.
The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine has shown that one in thirteen (7.8%) deaths with COVID-19 on the death certificate did not have the disease as the underlying cause of death, further distorting the data. 

The decisions directly related to our lives and livelihoods are based on inaccurate or distorted data and no one is doing anything about it. 

Enough about the deliberate distortion of the facts. The question is why is this happening?
There is a frenetic urgency to get the world vaccinated. Bill Gates began pushing the vaccination agenda way back in 2013 if not earlier. And naturally people, at least people who can still think for themselves are extremely wary of this vaccine. At the time of writing this, the vaccine has only been available for a couple of weeks, and in this short window the significant adverse effects in those already having received the vaccination is 3% based on recent published information. Higher than the death rate of the virus. If you were to go by statistics alone, the vaccine will kill more people than the virus. 

The pharmaceutical companies and their stakeholders are naturally elated that the powers that be are enforcing and coercing people into having to accept this vaccine, creating the illusion that their freedom lies on the other side of a needle. And further perpetuating the myth that drugs are going to save you. Bearing in mind that the manufacturers of this technology are free of any kind of liability arising from death or damage caused by a substance that is being trialed simultaneously on millions of people. In simple terms, if the vaccine harms you or renders you infertile you have no recourse. 

Recently a second strain of the virus has emerged, This is nothing new - viruses mutate. This is why there is a different flu strain each season. It has been a year since the first strain emerged and as viruses seem to be excellent timekeepers, its right on schedule for an upgrade. This is further going to throw a spanner into the vaccine works. Will the current vaccine work with the new strain or create other complications? If people have indeed contracted the original virus, will taking the vaccine have immune suppressing effects rendering them more vulnerable to other strains? Pregnant women and women of “child bearing age” have been warned by the NHS  not to take the vaccine because it may render them sterile or have deleterious effects on the foetus. But its ok to give this unknown quantity to the elderly or your child? I think not. 

What happened to freedom of choice? What happened to autonomy? What happened to informed consent? What happened to common sense? 
For me personally, the most disturbing part of this experience is how people I thought of as free thinking, intelligent individuals are simply kowtowing, going with the flow because they don’t want to be seen as outliers. It baffles me how so many people are afraid of voicing an opinion. It wasn’t so long ago that the Nazis used this kind of brainwashing and propaganda to commit genocide. And we are going down this path again with our eyes wide open. 


Back in early 2020 governments the world over were advised by the WHO to impose widespread lockdown measures in order to curb the spread of the virus. The media were so distracted with whether or not the virus came from a bat or a pangolin that no one thought to ask if these counter measures at controlling people was the best option for the economies of the world in the first place. No one gave any thought to the destruction that would ensue. How many people would lose their jobs, livelihoods and minds in the process. Because we trusted the people we vote for to do what is in our best interest.


The second-largest funder of the WHO is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provides 9.8% of the WHO’s funds, effectively calling the shots! After Trump pulled funding, The World Health Organisation is now effectively owned by Microsoft and China. Bloody terrifying thought that is!


It is now too late to put the genie back in the bottle. For governments to admit that they acted without a full understanding of the facts or unable to foresee the chaos and destruction that would ensue, going back and admitting they were wrong will result in chaos, crippling class actions and people in power being forced to step down. There will be anarchy. Confidence in governments the world over has been severely compromised not to mention the unstable public option of giant pharmaceutical companies. 

The puppet masters at the WHO (Gates) is also a major shareholder in Pfizer. Incidentally the Gates foundation funded the development of the Pfizer owned sterilisation contraceptive Sayana, targeting specifically third world countries. At the risk of joining the ranks of the conspiracy theorists, it seems that the company who gave birth to computer viruses has also given birth to a means of enforced sterilisation. 

Getting rid of the elderly and ill, controlling those who are young and able though fear and ensuring that those who can have children are stopped in their tracks. The facts really do speak for themselves, but you can connect the dots?

Perhaps people do nothing and say nothing because they feel that their opinions don’t count? They they won’t be heard amongst the noise created by the media and the hysteria? People don’t speak up because they are afraid of what there peers may think of them. And this is why the greatest tragedies throughout human history happen. People who do nothing. People who say nothing. In the face of glaring evidence that the emperor is wearing no clothes, the average person waits for someone else to take action.  We are in a mess and in the hands of people who do not have anyones best interest at heart except for themselves and their own agendas. 


So what good can possibly come from this situation? Thankfully some have realised that their health is in their own hands and no one can save them except for themselves. If you take the steps to stay healthy - eat real food, get decent sleep, surround yourself with positive people and exercise - preferably in the sunlight, chances are you won’t even know if you catch a virus because your body is innately geared towards protecting you from getting seriously ill.


It has hopefully brought to light the logical realisation that if you aren’t feeling well, stay at home. Wash your hands and don’t sneeze on people.


With luck, more of us will wake up and realise that no vaccine or drug can save you from bad decisions. Giant corporations are not creating vaccines because they care about you, they care about their profits. If they engineered medicine for altruistic purposes they would be non-profits not multibillion dollar organisations. And perhaps more people will realise that governments and government institutions are controlled by the private sector who are the giants they are, because we, the public created them. 

We buy their products, whether the product is software, insurance, junk food or drugs. We created these organisations who are controlling the governments who are controlling us - with fear.  With hope more people we will start to see the self perpetuating, destructive cycle that we have come to think of as normal, or maybe not.


My greatest wish for you in 2021 who ever you are, wherever you are, is to wake up and take responsibility for you own health, your own choices and your own autonomy. Speak up when something doesn’t add up and stop feeding the fear.


https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4916

https://www.icd10monitor.com/false-positives-in-pcr-tests-for-covid-19

https://www.chiropractic.org/informed-consent-and-freedom-of-choice-on-vaccination-issues/
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/death-certificate-data-covid-19-as-the-underlying-cause-of-death/

https://sif.gatesfoundation.org/investments/pfizer/

https://www.devex.com/news/big-concerns-over-gates-foundation-s-potential-to-become-largest-who-donor-97377

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Smoke and Mirrors

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Chapter 11: Hestia II - The Lost Boys (link to full story on FF.net) 

Warnings: Reference to Suicide and Rape

Featuring: Hestia Jones & Jordan Turner (OC)

Hestia looked down at her list.

The name read “J TURNER – MGL – 18 – 07/05/1990”

This was the last one of the day.

Jordan Turner was only just eighteen years old when Hestia had first spoken to him at the tail end of last week, a mere few days following his birthday.

By both muggle and wizarding law standards he was now a man, but with his swept over greasy hair, fearful, mistrusting eyes and skinny frame he had seemed far more like a boy. A much worn and faded brown leather belt was the only thing that ensured his oversized, ill-fitting trousers sat near to his waist and did not fall down to his ankles.

It was difficult to believe that he was in-fact older than Harry Potter, who less than a fortnight prior had ended You Know Who’s reign of terror on Great Britain.

It had been You Know Who that had inadvertently destroyed the life of Turner, who had been taken in for questioning with a host of other captured snatchers and Death Eater associates following The Battle of Hogwarts.

Jordan had spent the vast majority of his life working on his father’s farm, which was situated in a sleepy village town a few miles south of Yeovil in Somerset.

From what Hestia had managed to gather from him in his interrogation, he would often do various chores for his father in the field late at night – and it was one fateful night last November when he’d been in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

Fenrir Greyback and his pack of hungry, disgruntled werewolves had been prowling the British countryside for the best part of two decades. For the vast majority of the time their disruption had been kept to a minimum, with Greyback himself often in and out of Azkaban for various offences, primarily resolving around breaking the statute of secrecy by illegally recruiting new victims.

However, both in the years prior and during You Know Who’s rise to power, Greyback had, for want of a better phrase, had his leash unshackled.

It seemed that his reward for unblinking loyalty to The Dark Lord had been free reign to more or less indulge in whatever recreational activity he felt like. This was bad news for British farmers, as his werewolf pack preyed mercilessly on livestock all over Britain.

Hestia had suspected as much even when she was in hiding with Dedalus and the Dursley family. Where they were stationed in Wrexham picked up all of the local regional news, which for many months focused on the extraordinary story of wild wolves supposedly ravaging sheep farms all across Wales.

There were all manner of eccentric oddball farmers and locals getting interviewed by BBC, ITV and Channel 4 presenters, with each interviewee adamantly proclaiming they’d seen a giant wolf or multiple wolves going after one flock or another. One crazed man even professed he’d seen a werewolf.

Needless to say, muggles across the country, excluding the farmers and locals unlucky enough to grab a sighting themselves, did not take it altogether too seriously.

In-fact, much of the coverage was framed in such a manner that the presenters back in the metropolitan London-based studios were downright laughing at the ludicrous tales from the backwards country-folk.

Hestia even recalled Vernon Dursley, in-between laughing along at the coverage with his wife, making several offhand remarks about the Welsh being a load of ‘stupid bloody sheep shaggers’.

But the Welsh farmers and locals had not been stupid at all.

They’d simply seen and witnessed things that no sane muggle would ever be able to comprehend or understand.

Jordan Turner had been one of these poor muggles.

His only problem had been that he hadn’t simply spied or eavesdropped on Greyback’s gang from a distance, no, he’d actually been brave enough, or indeed, foolish enough to try and take them on.

Once the werewolf pack had pillaged their way through Wales it seemed they’d headed out to Bristol, Bath and then eventually made their way south to Yeovil and stumbled upon the Turner family farm.

Jordan had been bottling up some fresh cow’s milk ready for the morning Sunday market when he’d heard a commotion coming from their sheep herd. At first he had not been too concerned, assuming it was probably just a fox, or maybe even a badger.

But as he peered out into the distance he saw several large shadows on the sheep field, which was followed by a blood-curdling howl and a scream of pure terror from a sheep, which caused the others to quickly disperse.

The Turner family had followed the news for the last few months and knew all about the rumoured wolf-pack preying on local farms.

At first his father had laughed it off like most of the rest of the country, but in the last few weeks he had grown slightly concerned. There had been reports from other farmers, ones that he trusted, who were based in Bristol that had given more credible reports of something very strange and sinister happening.

Jordan had thought of running back to the main house and calling for his father when he’d heard that first sheep scream, but he’d thought better of it, as it was a good five minute run. By the time they’d both come back the wolves could’ve been long gone and taken or killed half of their herd.

He’d instead reached for the shotgun in the outhouse and fearlessly sprinted towards the defenceless sheep.

What he had seen when he’d got there had horrified him to the bone.

A big, vicious looking brown wolf with teeth as big as knives was sinking its teeth into the side of a terrified sheep.

Luckily for Jordan the wolf had been so preoccupied in feasting on its flesh that it hadn’t notice he was watching it.

The beast hadn’t noticed when Jordan had raised the gun, nor when he had taken his aim and it was only when the deafening shot had been fired that Jordan’s presence was finally known to it.

It had been too late for the wolf though, as Jordan’s shot had penetrated straight through its neck and fatally wounded it.

The blast had been so loud that it had caused Jordan’s hearing to be temporarily reduced to nothing more than a loud ringing noise, so he was unsure whether the wolf had let out a whimper or not, but after a few moments it fell to the ground, dead.

Jordan had momentarily been quite proud of himself.

His Dad would be happy with him when he ran back to the house and told him that he’d caught a wolf in the act – and put a bullet right through it for good measure, but Jordan never got to tell his Dad what he had done.

As his hearing had returned he had been greeted by the sound of fierce, loud growling behind him, which was coming from the rest of the fallen wolf’s pack – and needless to say, they were not best pleased.

He had thought that the wolf he had shot dead had been big, but many of the other wolves that surrounded him after that had absolutely dwarfed the one that he had just killed.

It had been the one in the middle that had been the most terrifying.

It looked more like a bear than a wolf.

This wolf had been massive.

This wolf had been menacing.

This wolf had been Fenrir Greyback - and he had dived for Jordan Turner, knocked him unconscious and then sunk his teeth deep inside his neck, thus forever cursing the young muggle boy with the blood of a werewolf.

Jordan had recounted to Hestia how Greyback had explained everything to him in the morning when he’d come back around.

She thought how it must be bad enough for a wizard who is aware of werewolves to be bitten and then turned into one, but she sympathised with Turner who had previously never even known they existed outside of horror movies and folk tales.

It was one thing to be told all about the magical word as an excited muggle-born receiving a Hogwarts letter on your 11th birthday, but Jordan’s sorry entry into the magical world had been the polar opposite of that happy childhood experience.  

Greyback had bullied the young muggle into joining his pack, under the guise that he was one of them now – a monster, who his family would ostracise should they ever find out the truth. Unable to fend for himself, Jordan was left with little choice but to enlist within Greyback’s ranks and do his bidding for the indefinite future.

The young farmer and many others would join a growing portion of teenage boys and young men reported as missing in the UK. The police would launch various man-hunts and missing person investigations, but to no avail, as the families would be left forever wondering what happened to their lost boys.

The next six months had seen the pack continue to ravage the country as Fenrir Greyback, quite literally, raped and pillaged his way through it. A few lost sheep paled in comparison to the number of teenage muggle girls who also began to go missing, with Turner reporting that Greyback, much like a black widow spider, would feast on and kill his helpless victims after he was finished with them. A corpse would often wind up in a local ditch, forest or river, with the police generally left baffled as to what cruel fate had fallen upon the deceased.

Turner had not understood why Greyback hadn’t held any interest in recruiting the females to join the pack, but Hestia had studied werewolves enough to have a good understanding of what his probable reasoning had been.

A female werewolf, unlike a male, can morph their body to almost three times its normal size during a full moon, as well as that they often develop twice as much of a lust for death and destruction. A she-wolf in the pack could have certainly threatened Greyback, especially if younger males within it lacking a mother-figure possibly gravitated towards her. An Alpha such as Fenrir would have never risked the possibility of having his pack taken over from within.

But now Greyback was behind bars – and, if the whispered rumours were true, he was first in line for execution following what would eventually become the Wizarding equivalent of the Nuremberg trials.

This had left many of the young and newly recruited werewolves without a leader.

A decent percentage of the werewolves that Greyback had turned in the last year were already dead of course, with many being killed in various skirmishes that their Alpha’s snatchers had encountered whilst parading around the countryside.

Those that had survived those battles, like Jordan, were then enlisted in as The Dark Lord took Hogwarts. Nothing could’ve prepared them for such a battle and with just knives, bats or their bare hands to defend themselves it was no surprise that a great number of them had fallen in the fray.

Yet just shy of 100 of them had managed to survive, which had given The Ministry a bit of a problem.

Hestia’s makeshift team had been given the job of at least partially dealing with it, as if they didn’t already have enough on their plate.

The short-term initial plan for these muggle werewolves was fairly simple. They were to have all memory of their previous life as a muggle erased.

At first it had seemed quite a drastic and harsh policy, to have them completely forget all of their family and friends, but it was deemed a necessary precaution to maintain the integrity of the secrecy act.

Hestia thought it may also in some ways be quite cathartic for the misguided young men, as they would no longer be as depressed about their fate. They could not long for the warmth of their previously loving families if they did not remember them.

The art of erasing the memory of a loved one from someone’s mind is a difficult craft to master, but Hestia had a fair amount of practice in the discipline. She had once spent 3 months on an internship in Ohio at the illustrious Munroe Hills Mind Centre, which controversially specialised in just that very branch of memory magic.

Munroe Hills’ team of highly trained, and indeed, highly paid, privately contracted Obliviators spent their time removing memories of former lovers, as well as helping people forget abusive experiences or traumatic events that they had witnessed.

There was good money to be made in the memory game in America, Canada and even closer to home in Switzerland, but Hestia was too much of a homely girl to want to move that far away. She would miss her Mother too much, even if she was only just an international Portkey away.

Hestia knocked on the door to the room that Jordan Turner had been allocated, noting that there was a bit of a foul smell lingering in the hallway.

A whole mini apartment complex had been knocked up temporarily whilst they decided upon where they would rehouse or base the remaining pack, yet, given the smell, it seemed that the former muggles had not taken to life back indoors too comfortably.

The door remained shut and there was no hint of noise emitted from inside.

Hestia knocked once more, with more power this time, but yet again, no response.

It hadn’t been a full moon the previous night, so it wasn’t as if the young wolf would be tired after being up all night.

They generally brought them their evening meal in around half an hour, so Hestia couldn’t have imagined that he would’ve wandered off anywhere.

She gave the door one last try, but still nothing.

The nasty smell felt a little more pronounced now, with Hestia guessing that it was actually coming from inside Jordan’s room.

He hadn’t seemed particularly unhygienic when she had spoken to him earlier in the week, in-fact despite his greasy hair and generally unkempt appearance, he had probably been one of the most civilised and reasonable of those that she spoke to.

“Jordan!” Hestia requested. “Jordan – It’s Hestia. Remember we spoke last week?”

Jones gave the door several further thuds, which, much like her earlier knocks, were once again met with no reply. She pulled on the knob but it seemed that Turner had locked the door.

“Jordan! Please don’t make me force my way in there!” she pleaded, but to no avail and thus she was left with little choice.

“Okay I’m coming in – I hope you’re wearing some clothes….Alohomora!”

The door swung open and Hestia saw him immediately.

He was wearing the same clothes that she had seen him in last week, save for the worn and faded brown leather belt, which was not holding up his trousers to his waist, but instead held up his snapped neck and the rest of his limp, dead body from the coat-hook on the back of the door.

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I keep seeing posts by people (mostly Americans, I assume) with unrealistic ideas of how things are measured in the UK. They seem to think it’s All Metric, All The Time.

To summarise, Britain has an... uneven relationship with the metric system (why d’you think the main alternative is called ‘Imperial’?). How it works here in practice:

Things that come in different quantities are usually sold with metric units - e.g. bags of sugar will have their weight in grammes, bottles or cartons of juice will have their volume in litres or millilitres.

The weather forecasts give temperatures in degrees Celsius. Some older people might still think in Fahrenheit first but this is definitely less common.

However, if asked most people will generally give their height in feet and inches and their weight in stone. Assuming the answer isn’t ‘None of your business’, which is also a definite possibility.

The distances on road signs and accordingly the speed limits are in miles and mph. Anybody who insists on measuring the speed of something in km/h outside of scientific pursuits and maths textbooks will probably get looked at funny and/or told they’re being pretentious.

Measuring the heights of anything bigger than a person could go either way. For a ballpark estimate they might use either feet or metres, though if a precise measurement is important metric probably edges slightly ahead.

OK? OK.

(As to why I consistently use Imperial measurements in my writing, I just think Imperial feels more fantasy. I remember getting very pulled out of a story - one of Tamora Pierce’s books IIRC - when the height of a character was given in centimetres. I’m guessing that was at the behest of a publisher or editor, considering that Ms Pierce is American.)

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Is Dollar General Owned By Walmart?

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In any case, in 2007, Dollar General was obtained by a private value firm that involves associates from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, GS Capital Partners, and Citigroup Private Equity.

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To find out about the two organizations, you can see our posts on Dollar General measurements, Walmart insights, and assuming that Walmart is an establishment.

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The global market of post-consumer plastics recycling reached REDACTED in 2017. The market is created by recycling more than REDACTED of post-consumer plastics, which costs approximate REDACTED before processing. The average price of unprocessed post-consumer plastic waste was at approximately REDACTED in 2017.

Weight loss happens in waste plastic processing, reducing the total volume to REDACTED in 2017.The average price of recycled plastics sold to the end users was at REDACTED.

In 2018, the global market will decline mainly due to China’s ban on post-consumer plastics import. The Chinese market will go down by REDACTED in 2018, resulting in a global decline of REDACTED after being offset by growth from Europe, North America and Southeast Asia. Plastic collectors in Europe, North America and Japan have to turn their exports to Southeast Asia or process more domestically. There will, however, be many new opportunities in this big decline. The global market will re-grow and be back to the 2017 level by 2019. Future growth is expected to reach REDACTED by 2023.

There are two major sources of post-consumer plastics for recycling: non-durable products and durable products. Non-durable products are mostly plastic bottles, containers and films. Durable products include plastics used in electronics, carpet, automotive products, and other industrial and commercial products.Report Scope:

For the purposes of this report, the term “recycling” refers to the removal of products from the waste stream for uses not including incineration or energy recovery. Any secondary uses or reuse of the material is assumed to have already taken place. The term “recovery” is taken to include all disposal methods except land disposal (i.e., recycling, incineration, waste-to-energy [WTE]).

The term “chemical recycling” will be used to describe the return to chemical units originally used to make resins. Nylon can be depolymerized to caprolactam. The term “feedstock recycling” will be used to denote the process of decomposing plastics to a mix of organic chemicals, some used in the manufacture of plastics and some not. Feedstock recycling products are more akin to the raw materials used to produce plastics (e.g., petroleum, natural gas).

Mechanical recycling methods include those that involve physical modifications to the recovered plastic only, such as separation, grinding and classifying.

The report will be concerned with activities in four regions: North America, Europe, the Asia region and the Rest of the World (ROW). All figures are reported to the nearest million dollars or million or billion pounds. Growth rates given are compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) for the period from 2017 to 2023. All value figures noted are in constant 2017 U.S. dollars.

The market data in the tables of this report only cover post-consumer plastics. Post-industrial plastics are not included.

The report is divided into several sections. The Introductory section summarizes the study’s goals and objectives, the reasons for doing the study and scopes. The Summary and Highlights section provides a brief summary of estimates and forecasts of the global plastics recycling market from 2017 through 2023 and highlights of largest and fastest-growing markets and important trends.

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The Overview section describes the manufacture of plastics, the major types of plastics used, the ways in which plastics are disposed after use and a summary of recycling methods.

The Global Market section describes existing markets by product sources. Recycled waste products include bottles, vehicles, carpet and electronics. This section covers topics such as the amount of plastic annually collected and recycled from these sources, and when possible, it offers a prediction regarding the probable growth rate over the next five years.

The Global Market section also looks at plastics recycling by resin, summarizing the sources and end uses for recycled materials that are available. Most recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) comes from PET bottles, and the main end market for recycled PET bottle resin is fibers.

The Global Market section also profiles products made with recycled plastics, including applications such as plastic lumber and plastic composites (e.g., wood, fibers, cement, glass). Products are covered separately, as they may be made from plastic from a combination of sources. Wood/fiber plastic composites may be made from several different resin types, each possibly derived from several different products.

After the global market sections, there will be four chapters that discuss the regional plastics recycling markets: North America, Europe, the Asia region and ROW.

The Company Profiles section lists relevant organizations and companies.

The Appendix provides definitions of abbreviations and acronyms.

Market values and volumes have specific measurements.

- Market values are measured at the level of plastic recycled, such as the values of recycled resin pellets.

- The market volumes by end use or application are measured at the levels of both the amount of plastic available for recycling and the amount of plastic that is recycled.

- The market volumes by sources of waste (e.g., bottles, films.) are measured at the level of the amount of plastic available for recycling.

- The market volume is segmented by resin types of waste (e.g., PET, PE.) and measured at the level of the amount of plastic available for recycling.

Report Includes:

- 96 data tables

- An overview of the global markets for plastic recycling

- Analyses of global market trends, with data from 2017, 2018, and projections of compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) through 2023

- Discussion on the history and current state of plastic recycling market, and future trends

- Insight into the government regulations and targets of the plastic recycling industry

- Company profiles of the industry including JK Plastics Pty. Ltd., PET Recycling Company (PETCO), LyondellBasell, Geo-Tech Polymers, Phoenix Technologies International, LLC and MBA Polymers Inc.

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Season 1 Episode 2: Scones

I was not wildly enthusiastic for challenge number 2, because I’ve never really been a big fan of scones - I tend to find them dry and bland. Still, the bake must go on, and maybe Paul Hollywood’s recipe would prove to me once and for all that scones are just as delicious as the Brits seem to think they are. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/paul_hollywoods_scones_70005

Right off the bat here I was faced with a new challenge: “strong flour.” A quick Google informed me that UK strong flour = US bread flour. As a strong proponent of classic all-purpose flour for every occasion, I was reluctant to shell out for specialty flour when I didn’t really know how much of a difference I would see. However, I when I realized that next week is bread week and I would probably want bread flour for that, I decided to take the plunge. This was my first-ever time baking with non-all purpose flour. It was a big moment. 

Also, this recipe features my old friend caster sugar. Once again, I just used regular granulated sugar in the dough. If there was a tiny bit of extra grit, my unrefined American taste buds were none the wiser. 

The dough for the scones required more technique than the previous Victoria sandwich challenge. I first had to rub the butter and flour together to create a “breadcrumb-like texture.” Then I added my sugar, eggs, and baking powder, and started incorporating the milk. This is where things got subjective - the recipe specified that I “might not need to add all of the milk,” but also that the dough should be “very soft and wet.” But just how soft and wet is soft enough? When I’d added all my milk, I felt like my dough had the consistency of oatmeal, which I found concerning. Would this really somehow turn into scones?

Dough or mush? You decide.

Next, I had to sprinkle my remaining flour on a cutting board and work it into my soft sticky mess. I then had to “chaff” my dough by folding and turning it to incorporate it into a fully formed slab. Once again, I was at the mercy of subjectivity: I needed to form a “smooth dough,” but I was also warned to be “careful not to overwork the dough.” So many conflicting instructions! I think this is where my recipe went a little wrong - I was very focused on getting every bit of precisely measured flour into the dough, so I think i did indeed overwork it. Sorry, Paul. 

When it came time to roll my dough out, I came to a terrible realization: I do not in fact own a rolling pin. (Did I mention that I am very much an amateur baker?) Rather than give up now and dash my hopes of scone-y goodness, I decided to employ an old trick from college. I used a wine bottle as a rolling pin. You heard it here first, people!

I feel like Mary Berry would approve of this method.

It’s maybe worth mentioning that a white wine bottle works better than a red one because of the longer, more consistent shape. Or you could just be a real adult and buy a rolling pin. You do you. 

My unsophisticated self also does not own a pastry cutter, so the next step of cutting out the scones was also a challenge. I used a metal measuring cup and a knife to sort of finagle vaguely round-ish shapes out of my dough. It was... unscientific, to say the least. I started to realize that a lot of baking like a professional requires owning professional equipment. 

I’m not going to win any points for consistency with these.

Finally my haphazard batch of scones was ready for the oven! Except not, because about a minute after putting them in I realized I’d forgotten to glaze them. I was really on a roll during this bake. 

With my now-glazed scones finally in the oven, it was time to check in on the competition. First off, here’s Paul Hollywood explaining that his scone recipe has been served to royalty and is “fool-proof” - meaning that if my scones were less than perfect, I would indeed be a fool. 

I love you Paul, but you are one arrogant son-of-a-bitch. 

Mel and Sue remind the bakers that as they are turning in a full batch of scones, consistency across the batch is key. Here’s where I would definitely lose points in this challenge. I can’t help but notice that my competitors are using actual cutting implements to ensure even shapes and sizes. But hey, they have the advantage of the GBBO tent’s massive equipment stockpile!

Damn you Edd and your perfectly round scones.

When the bakes come out of the oven, I’m concerned that they look far browner than I’m aiming for with my batch. Will my scones be underbaked? My fears are alleviated however when Paul criticizes many of the bakers for overbaking and praises those with a “light golden brown colour.” He and Mary are massive sticklers for consistency though, as predicted. 

In the end, Jonathan of last week’s sunken cakes wins the challenge, and I have to say, his scones look goddamn delicious:

Nom.

After about 15 minutes, my kitchen smelled AMAZING and I decided my scones were ready to come out. Here’s Paul’s example:

And here’s my finished product:

They’re a little.... rustic, but I actually do think they look pretty “inviting,” as Mary would say. It’s worth noting that my scones turned out HUGE, as compared to the ones the bakers made on the show. Like, I could just barely fit one of these in my hand. The recipe did say it would make 8 large or 15 small scones. I guess I inadvertently went the large route. 

Paul’s recipe suggested serving with clotted cream, whatever that is. A quick perusal of my local Whole Foods turned up empty, so I did look up how to make my own. Basically, you stick cream in an oven for 12 hours and let it do its thing. But hey, ain’t nobody got time for that. My scones would be served as is.

(If for some reason you do have time for that, here’s a recipe for clotted cream: http://www.cupcakeproject.com/2009/09/clotted-cream-recipe-making-clotted.html)

Now the moment of truth: would my scones be dry and boring as I’d feared, or did I achieve light fluffy magic? I take you now to Matt’s review:

Matt’s Review: I like scones a lot because you can put bacon and jam on them and that’s the sort of versatility I can get into. I don’t know if it skews my review in any way but I bought (or rather, made my roommate buy) raspberry jam ahead of time. Jenna didn’t seem upset that’d I’d tampered with the purity of her bake, but if I’m found dead soon you’ll know why. The scones were pretty. Had I only seen one I would assume it was supposed to look the way it did. But when viewed together, the scones were clearly all different. While I appreciate the diversity I am told that they’re all meant to look the same—I’m sure Jenna will be tinkering with that as the weeks go on. Taste-wise, they were delicious (especially with the jam!). If I had these in front of me before dinner, I would 100% spoil that dinner. I will say that their texture was a tad on the chewy side—Jenna said something about them being over-worked, a metric that both impressed me and reminded me why I am not the baker. Still, didn’t keep me from eating a lot of scone. All-in-all, I’d call them a success, but there were definitely issues that Jenna can learn from. A side note: I’ve been getting my Jenna pastry fix right before Game of Thrones and now talking fan-theories makes my mouth water. Thanks for that. 

tl;dr: There was no soggy bottom.

***

Final thoughts: I think Matt enjoyed the scones more than I did. I definitely found them to be on the dense side, and Paul would probably proclaimed the texture “rubbery.” I also didn’t think they had a ton of flavor, but I think I just still don’t like scones. They were definitely not dry though, so I’ll call that a win. My parents both texted me independently to say they loved them, and while they’re biased because they’re my parents, they’re usually pretty good about critiquing my baked goods and letting me know if they’re really worth the calories. I will say that I brought one to work and heated it up in the microwave before adding butter and jam, and I enjoyed that a lot more. 

Also, baking is turning out to be an EXPENSIVE hobby. You really need a ton of specialized equipment and ingredients to bake like a pro. My kitchen is way more well stocked than that of the average millennial, but I’m still missing a lot of necessary items to achieve baking perfection. There’s no excuse for the lack of rolling pin, though. I really need to get on that. 

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Weekend reading: New year, old habits

What caught my eye this week.

The New Year is the day we all start behaving better – whether it be quitting smoking, eating more vegetables, jogging, or simply resolving to stop putting your dog’s waste in a plastic bag and then flinging it up into a nearby tree to hang like a toxic fruit bat. (Okay, perhaps nobody resolves to stop doing that. They should!)

Do we keep behaving better? Rarely.

I sometimes make New Year’s Resolutions and they seldom work. I’ve been resolving to read more books for as long as I remember. But whatever method I try, the instant delights of the Internet have soon sucked me back under and I’m lucky if I’ve finished a novel by February.

I read a book a day in university!

In another universe, I’m incredibly well-read now. In this one, well, at least you guys benefit via this weekly link list.

Ready, steady, gain

Perhaps one reason I do badly with New Year’s Resolutions is because I invariably start the year off on a naughty foot.

No, I don’t smoke cigars whilst quaffing champagne from the bottle. That’s all out my system by Boxing Day.

However I do lovingly re-set various aspects of my active portfolio tracking spreadsheet back to zero. By doing this, I start the year with a clean slate and a fresh chance to beat the market by December 31st.

This is only half bad. As part of my ongoing active investing experiments, I track my returns precisely. My portfolio is unitized – there’s none of this “I assume dividends cover expenses, and I guess I should count that bonus money I put into an ISA in April but it’s a faff” that you see in some online portfolio reviews.

No, I count every penny in and out like some miserly Noah. I track all my gains, losses, and costs, and I compare myself to four real-world benchmarks, over the short and long-term.

So far so reasonable.

Precisely tracking your returns can be a bad idea if you’re a passive investor. In fact I think most investors would be better off following a sensible passive strategy and not tracking their returns at all if the alternative is getting too obsessed and fiddling with their portfolios. It’ll probably only harm their results.

However if you’re an active investor, tracking is vital. Many private investors delude themselves about their performance, because they don’t know it. They see some winning shares in their broker accounts and think they’re not half-bad at picking stocks. They never work out where they’d be if they had just lobbed the lot into a global tracker fund.

Even if you’re actively investing for fun as much as profit, you need to know your returns. A dartboard without any numbers to score by is just a wall you throw darts at.

With that said, there’s very little to justify overly-focusing on returns over any particular single year. And there’s even less reason to do so from January to December. (At least for American investors that matches their tax year! April to April would make a little more sense in Britain.)

Of course you do need to know annual returns if you want to compare yourself to active funds; something that was very important to me for a while.

But even then it would be better to calculate the appropriate figures once a year, rather than watching as I do my performance versus my benchmarks with every passing day. Now a little ahead, now a little behind, now back in the lead again – it’s like one of those plastic horse racing games you used to find at seaside arcades.

Nevertheless I’ve resigned myself to this procedure for as long as I’m active investing. It’s part of my process now, however irrational. It may even be marginally beneficial that I reset the annual return column on each of my holdings (obviously I track the long-term loss/gain on purchase in another column) as a way to avoid any anchoring biases.

Human error

I know I shouldn’t watching things too closely; the knowledge is strong, but the flesh is weak.

As a result I’ve tried a lot of different ways to obfuscate my portfolio performance in the short-term, or on a quick view. I’ve experimented with everything from hiding the real pound values of holdings in my master spreadsheet to hiding the gains and losses, to creating ‘layers’ that blend the moving parts of the portfolio to try to stop me focusing on short-term winners or losers.

I’d write about all this, but I don’t want to encourage anyone. Perhaps when my passively pure co-blogger The Accumulator is back full-time I can indulge this side of things again.

For now: It’s a new year, and the game is afoot! Exciting. Yes I should change my habits… but then again I should probably read more books, too.

Happy new year and good luck with all your resolutions – except for that silly one to read fewer investing blog posts.

Pfft! A little of what you fancy does you good.

From Monevator

Nine underrated tools to help you achieve Financial Independence – Monevator

From the archive-ator: Estimating expected returns in your financial plan – Monevator

News

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UK CEOs make more in first three days of 2019 than average worker’s salary – Guardian

House price growth weakest in six years due to Brexit fears… – ThisIsMoney

…though sales of £10m+ homes tripled after Referendum, on weak pound – Guardian

London divorce judges are curbing ‘meal ticket for life’ rulings [Search result] – FT

Bereaved partners are unnecessarily paying tax on inherited ISA savings – ThisIsMoney

Hedge funds’ hopes for 2018 dashed amid closures – Financial News

Reckless caution: 56% of savers say their risk appetite is low or zero – Money Marketing

UK trains packed to near double capacity, disruption hits 17-year high – Guardian

Long-term US bonds beat the US stock market over past 20 years – Financial Samurai

Products and services

Millennials queue for hours for the new 26-30 Millennial Railcard – BBC

Why overpaying your mortgage is a better bet than saving in 2019 – ThisIsMoney

Ratesetter will pay you £100 [and me a cash bonus] if you invest £1,000 for a year – Ratesetter

Annual household bills rise on average £150 after a year of hikes – ThisIsMoney

The cost of childcare across the UK – ThisIsMoney

Homes for New Year’s renovation projections: In pictures – Guardian

Comment and opinion

Larry Swedroe: There are no safety flags in investing – ETF.com

Forgotten bear markets – A Wealth of Common Sense

10 valuable personal finance lessons learned in 2018 – The Simple Dollar

Sequence of returns revisited, and other uncertainties – The Retirement Cafe

Merryn S-W: The best financial advice hasn’t changed in 300 years [Search result] – FT

Wunderwaffen: Part II – Demonetized (via Abnormal Returns)

Rich People’s Problems: How to fly first class for free [Sort of. Search result] – FT

A reminder that equities are risky [US markets but relevant] – Musings on Markets

Dividend income portfolio reviews – Fire V London & Retirement Investing Today

For stock pickers: There’s still a case for owning quality tech shares – GMO

Brexit

Prices rising at fastest rate in six years; BRC warns of worse if no-deal Brexit – Reuters

Kindle book bargains

Creativity, Inc. [Must read!] by Ed Catmull – £1.99 on Kindle

Barbarians at the Gate by Brian Burrough and John Helyar – £1.99 on Kindle

Start Now, Get Perfect Later by Rob Moore – £0.99 on Kindle

Turning the Tide on Plastic by Lucy Siegle – £0.99 on Kindle

Off our beat

How not to be stupid – Farnham Street

Chinese censors are first taught the truth so they know what to ban – New York Times

“I met my boyfriend 12 years after giving birth to his child” – BBC

How to develop better habits in 2019 – Ryan Holiday

Five books that explain why it seems the world is so fucked – Mark Manson

And finally…

“He gave a talk in which he argued that the way they measured risk was completely idiotic. They measured risk by volatility: how much a stock or bond happened to have jumped around in the past few years. Real risk was not volatility; real risk was stupid investment decisions.” – Michael Lewis, The Big Short

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