#cleaning up after yourself. being considerate in shared spaces. communicating in general ?

[alteredbeast]

i am so over. living with another person

#i washed the cover for our 2-seater beanbag (BIG. VERY BIG) and had to put it back on alone bc i thought my roommate wasn't home #he was! he was just on his phone in the other room so he definitely heard me struggle for like. 20 minutes doing that and chose not to help #how tf do u spend like 6 hours a day watching childrens television and not pick up any of the morals in those shows about kindness... #cleaning up after yourself. being considerate in shared spaces. communicating in general ?

[fuckyeahharryhart]

THE ART OF SEDUCTION Reader Insert

After working months at his side, whether it be in the field, during training, debriefing in his office, or simply occupying the same space in quieter moments- reading in the lounge with a cup of tea, enjoying a few precious moments of peace, you were no closer at deciphering the gorgeous mystery that was Harry Hart. Your time with him merely reinforced what you already knew. And what you knew had, much to your chagrin, become increasingly and disconcertingly distracting with every moment you shared space with him. Harry was beautiful, obviously. You determined that the moment you saw him. Even from a distance, he cut a striking figure. But it was the understated way he acknowledged his own appearance, knew that it was pleasing and accepted it with grace, dignity and a matter-of-factness, that only made him more attractive.

Harry Hart’s appeal wasn’t just based on his good looks. There were other men who had more classically balanced features. It was significantly more than good genes or the symmetry of bone structure. Not that his purely physical attributes were lacking in any regard. You had already committed to memory every aspect of his form and figure, from his hair, with a distinguished flurry of silver, all the way down to his feet in their gleaming oxfords. No doubt polished with every wearing; they carried him with purposeful movement and long measured strides.

Harry Hart was a tall man. Often folding his legs as gracefully as possible under tables and desks that were just a breath too short to accommodate a man of his stature. He carried himself differently. Always with a posture, walk, a gait, that had a purpose.  Never rushed unnecessarily, he possessed the ease of someone in full control of his physical body. His movements were light, sharp, and kinetic. When he was still, he held himself straight and tall, without strain. In more casual moments, his weight would shift to one side or the other, or he might lean against a support, breaking up the long, precise lines of his full height.

Mostly, this had to do with a hyper awareness of his environment and his place in it. If Harry needed to calm a new recruit, he might stand with authority, but tuck his hands in his pockets, conveying a sense of ease and familiarity. When confronting an adversary, his stature seemed to grow as he pulled himself to his full height.  In those rare moments where he was free from personal and professional obligations responsibilities, as much as he could ever be, his figure would take on smooth curves and relaxed angles. The space he occupied was his to claim, mould, and manipulate. And Harry Hart did so with his body, his voice, his gaze, his way of dress.

Surprisingly, you discovered that Harry was a man who often communicated through physical touch. As a man of few words, who often guarded his privacy and personal life, you expected him to be even more reserved with his body language, to be even more wary of close physical contact. Quite the contrary, he was often more generous with a hand on the shoulder or a gentle pat on the back as a form of approval or encouragement. Sometimes, he would place his hand over yours as gesture of support and understanding. Harry was more demonstrative with contact and touch than he was with using words of praise or comfort. Even his proximity, whether it be as a figure in the distance or his physical closeness, could affect the energy of the room.

Rolling it over in your mind, you realised that it made sense that Harry would be comfortable communicating through touch. In some regards, he was a very tactile man, a sensual man, if not overtly so. He was a man that celebrated the senses.

In his office, though minimalist by Kingsman standards, austere even, there were touches of extravagance not influenced by tradition. All the furniture, as well as being beautifully made, focused on designs that were hospitable as well as functional. The chairs were comfortable. The lounge was upholstered in a dark, rich leather, well oiled and worn smooth by years of use. It was masculine, but also soft and inviting, a piece that you could relax and sink into.  A sumptuous throw. Pillows covered in dark velvet that were actually soft, not just decorative.

The items that did adorn his office were obviously selected thoughtfully and with care. The enticingly smooth curves of a vase, seemingly out of place, brilliant jade against the subdued tones of hunter green, tartans and plaid and the deep tones of polished wood and leather. The delicate lines and breathtaking color of a framed butterfly.  A small, sterling silver paperweight in the shape of a terrier. A cut crystal decanter, with matching tumblers, no doubt holding an insanely old and very expensive scotch.

There was an emphasis, not on the prestige or price of an object, but on its, color, texture, lines that were pleasing or challenging to the eye. Not as a flaunting of wealth, but a source of pleasure. It wasn’t an ostentatious display of the rich, it was the luxury of selection and taste. Any piece of clothing or fabric that touched his body directly was often luxurious, as well, scarfs, gloves, fine cashmere or calfskin leather. Though you had no way of knowing, you assumed his sheets would be of the highest thread count.

Harry’s manner of dress was immaculate and as precise as the polished, clipped tones of his aristocratic accent. He presented himself as a man who was self-assured with his appearance. Whatever he wore, he wore with confidence. He wore it well, without vanity, pretension, ego or conceit. Not that he needed the help of his wardrobe to face the world. His manner of dress seemed to highlight, magnify his innate sense of self.  He was not a flashy man, but he appreciated the expert craftsmanship that went into a finely cut suit. That good clean lines, quality materials, understated but interesting details could be the final polish on an already finely honed presentation.   

His clothing was the other area where he allowed himself some extravagance. A firm believer in the principle that if one’s self and surroundings are not only presentable, but impeccable, then one will always be prepared for what surprises life may decide to throw in one’s direction. In his line of work, unpredictability was as predictable as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. His wardrobe countered the erratic nature of life as an agent.  Thus, his was a look of man who had his life in order.

Harry Hart was a man of consistency. His tie was an unfailing full Windsor, tucked under the spread collar of a pristine white shirt. An equally crisp pocket square, folded neatly, peeked from his breast pocket. French cuffs were secured with custom gold links, bearing the Kingsman insignia. His suits were mostly double breasted, in classic shades of black, charcoal, navy and grey and cut in a wool that was appropriate for the occasion, whether solid, pinstriped, or woven with a pattern such as herringbone, or houndstooth. After years as a Kingsman agent, he had amassed a considerable and varied wardrobe that consisted of classic suits, formal wear, overcoats, ties, scarves, for any occasion or any type of mission. Each Kingsman agent also wore a gold signet ring on the pinky of their dominant hand. Harry wore the ring on his right.

Kingsman suits were cut close to the body, but designed with allowances made to accommodate weapons, ensure maneuvrability and flexibility in all types of action. They were also bulletproof. It was a feature created after decades of experimenting with different textiles and weaves and exploring processes and techniques that would result in a material that could withstand the velocity and impact of of a bullet shot at close range. The lightweight, flexible lining was sewn into every Kingsman suit and many times proved to be a lifesaver.

Shoulder harnesses were used for carrying. Not belt clips. Belts constricted the body whereas a harness allowed freedom of movement. They were also easily and quickly detachable in case they needed to be removed. Belts, on the other hand, though they had their uses, could also cost valuable seconds when needed to be taken off. The carry position prevented printing and maintained the lines of Kingsman’s suits.

The fine, bespoke tailoring emphasized Harry’s height and build. Trousers were slim cut, long and hemmed with a perfect mid break. He preferred the simple Oxford rather than brogues. He styled his hair in a classic, handsome cut, and was always clean shaven, (unless in the field where there was no opportunity for a straight razor shave). His aftershave and cologne were unobtrusive but memorable. Rather than preceding him, the warm and masculine sent of woods and spices, with hints of cardamon, bergamot, the tactile sensuality of rich leather and suede, would linger after his departure, like a layer of warm dark velvet. Even his hands were beautiful. Beautiful but not delicate. Large wide palms, long elegant fingers, his nails were neat and clipped. They sometimes bore the marks of time spent in the field. They were strong and capable.

Overall, Harry Hart had the appearance of a man who embraced classics, honoured tradition, but defined his look with his own individual aesthetic personality and sense of style.

In quieter moments, when you had the opportunity to watch him without being too obvious or call attention to yourself, you allowed your curiosity to wonder over all the small details and mannerism that were unique to Harry. How his fingertips would gently find the arm of his glasses and rest lightly there, when he was thoughtful or pondering a question, as if it helped him focus or think.  The automatic gesture probably developed after years of transmitting information through the eyeglasses, which also functioned as communication devices.  Through your experience in human psychology, you recognised this as a self soothing gesture. Finding the comfort of something familiar. You were fairly sure that Harry was aware of this gesture and allowed himself some habits, that were, not particularly productive but, helpful nonetheless. Rubbing his thumb along the band of his signet ring. The way he would always shoot his cuffs when rising from his seat. Or run the palm of his hand along the back of his head, smoothing down the already polished hair.

Never had you met someone who had the ability to asses and evaluate any given situation as throughly and unerringly as Harry. Whether it entailed clearing a room, identifying a mark, or even just something as simple as slowing his pace when you walked along side him so you wouldn’t have to struggle to keep up. He was constantly aware of his surroundings and deconstructing what needed to happen to make the environment more pleasing, the conversation more engaging, the meeting more productive, the mission more likely to succeed. He was nothing if not thoughtful. Thus, when you walked with him, he always slowed and allowed you to maintain your own graceful stride.

His physical appearance, his exacting nature, his precise moments, his carefully maintained wardrobe, his formal patterns of speech, his refined accent, not to mention his good looks could intimidate even the most confident agent, let alone a green one.  That was until the person in question realised that this outward perfection was merely the layer that he presented to the world.

It would seem impossible for man to be blessed with so many gifts, but Harry Hart proved to be the exception to the rule, for he was as charming and gracious as he was handsome. His quick wit, his clever way with words, as well as his dry, incisive sense of humor could enthrall even the most unwilling participant.

He could placate the most difficult handler, assuage the most reluctant agent, enchant the most reserved target, or ingratiate himself into the most inhospitable of circumstances. When Harry turned on the full force of his charm, the people he met, let alone the men and women who worked with him, frequently found themselves elevated in his presence, their own experience heightened by his vitality and charisma. They left the experience a little breathless, a little awestruck, a little seduced by Harry Hart. You were no exception. And you had been spending a lot of time with him.

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You found yourselves alone one evening at the manor. In the lounge, when you both happened to desire a drink at the same time. Most of the Kingsman had already departed for the shop if they were returning to the city. The rest had dispersed to their own private quarters, or were participating in whatever activity they had planned for the evening. The lounge was quiet. They way he liked it. Apparently, it was the way you preferred it as well.

Harry spotted you the same moment you lifted your gaze at the new arrival. Your eyes narrowed slightly in pleasure at the sight of him. You gave him a small, but welcoming smile. The musical clink of crystal against glass as he poured a scotch from the fully stocked bar was the only sound aside from the cracking logs in the grand fireplace.

The club was a vast space with a vaulted ceiling. The stately fireplace stood on the far wall. Like most of the manor, it was dressed in masculine shades of dark brown and hunter greens, tartan and plaids. Polished hardwood furniture, mostly antique, and historical paintings, displaying the rich history of Kingsman, whispered class and wealth. In the center was an arrangement to accommodate a more substantial group with larger sofas and chaises surrounding a massive polished low wooden table.

Around the room were smaller clusters of tables and leather club chairs tucked into alcoves for smaller gatherings or intimate conversations. 

It was at one these clusters that he found you, tucked in a quiet corner near the fireplace.

In the most relaxed arrangement Harry allowed himself while still on Kingsman property, he had his coat draped over his arm. Dressed in his shirtsleeves, tie and shoulder holster, tumbler in hand, he approached you, also with a pleasant but small smile. Pleased that you were the one that was sharing this space with him.

You were dressed quite differently from how Harry first remembered you. Well, your clothes hadn’t been memorable, but you had been. Since you were not a knighted agent, they weren’t quite sure how to classify you yet, you took the freedom to dress beyond the Kingsman uniform. Though always appropriate and surprisingly on brand, you were not quite regulation. If you were out in the field, you were in tactical, or the women’s version of the kingsman suits. You even had the shop tailor some custom pieces so you could have more diversity. When you were at Kingsman HQ or at the shop in support, you dressed appropriately, but in your own style. There were handfuls of fashionable men at Kingsman. You couldn’t turn around and not run into a gentleman turned out in Kingsman’s finest. But an attractive, stylish woman was a rarer sight. Even Harry noticed the heads that turned when you walked by.

Walking toward you, Harry took the time to observe your appearance, he told himself as spies always did out of habit. Today, you remained on the property. Without the need for being in the field, this would be your most proper look. You were dressed in a way that was very elegant, but sexy at the same time. Or, perhaps it wasn’t supposed to look sexy. Harry set that observation aside. Not the time nor the place, he thought to himself.

You were dressed in a slim, knee length pencil skirt in a very deep shade of oxblood red. It was velvet he noted when he saw the sheen of the fabric as you shifted your knees in his direction. A matching tailored jacket, that, like him, you had removed and draped over the back of your chair. Topped with a delicate, almost sheer silk blouse the color of sun bleached bone. It had tiny pearl buttons down the front, and lace detailing at the collar, cuffs and similar detailing along the button placket. A narrow dark brown leather belt circled your waist with a gold clasp rather than a prong buckle.  Dark brown suede court shoes with a tall, but reasonable heel. Your makeup was minimal and natural. You looked like you had just somehow heightened your features, but in no discernible way he could describe.

As Harry got closer, he was able to notice even smaller details. Your beautiful hair, was twisted up and away from your face and secured in some secret way women have where it would stay perfectly in place by means he could never quite see. Your accessories were feminine and understated. Small gold earrings in the shape of teardrops, a simple gold cuff around your wrist, a Kingsman issue watch on the other. A signet ring on your own pinkie. Your nails were trimmed short and clean, either no polish or something bare. A thin gold chain around your neck with a small solid gold version of the Kingsman pendant.

Harry didn’t know what he wanted a woman to look like until he first saw you. The first time, on that first chaotic night, he had the same thought. He could give you a basic description of what you were wearing, but he could describe every feature of your face. The way you looked when you were reflective. The line of your jaw when you were determined.

And then, for the very first time he saw you, dressed, properly, walking down the long marble corridor of the HQ manor, when you had the opportunity to present yourself on your own terms. Harry thought, this is what I want a woman to look like. It wasn’t that you were model beautiful, or that your features were perfect. In London, on the streets, you could see plenty of models. They were beautiful, no doubt, and pleasing to look at, but once you were done, you were able to go about your day without a second thought. 

Your beauty had substance. The fact that Harry knew what your skill set included, to know what you had overcome to be where you were, to be the person you were, made your beauty a real tangible thing, regardless of what you were wearing. Perhaps it was that, whatever you wore, you made it part of you. It wasn’t just a pretty skirt or a flattering blouse, it was the way you wore it that made him notice you. You could have looked completely different, with completely opposite features. Harry would have still have felt the same. And he would still say, this is what I want a woman to look like.

You posessed the capacity to stir his heart. Something that had been quiet and still for a very long time. Even something that Harry thought no longer had the desire to be moved. It was certainly not something he was seeking. He, long ago, had accepted the fact that the life of agent isn’t one that fosters lasting relationships. Relationships were based on communication and he had far too many secrets as a Kingsman.

Harry was beyond the time in his life for these kinds of thoughts. He knew he had been handsome in his youth. He had his fair share of relationships and much more than his fair share of sexual encounters. He was aware that his looks had carried him quite well as he got older and that if he wanted, there were women, very desirable ones, that would be more than willing to engage in a casual relationship. Harry was by no means vanilla. It wasn’t that he was prudish in the least, or one to deny himself physical pleasure. If you were not exactly who you were, then he would have most likely allowed himself to pursue you and enjoyed whatever that relationship had to offer. The crux of it was, that he would not be as attracted to you, or charmed by you if you weren’t exactly who you were. He would not want your as much as he did if you were any different. 

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Harry set these thoughts aside as he approached you. Even though it was obvious you were alone, Kingsman manners never failed. Never ask a lady directly if she’d like your company. Give her a polite way to refuse without making her say no. She will indicate if your presence if desired.

“Excuse me, miss.” he opened. “Is this seat taken?”

You awarded him with an amused smile. You always enjoyed his little game of manners.

You nodded toward the chair. Please.

Draping his coat on the back of his chair, just as you did, He adjusted his slacks so he could sit down comfortably and gracefully. The club chairs were low and designed to sink back into. Harry took his seat, adjusted a little until he, too, was settled in.

Since both of you were now relatively stuck in your respective positions, where you couldn’t move without significant effort, Harry simply raised his glass in your direction. You followed suit.

You were pleased when he was comfortable enough to sit in silence with you. It was one of the first tells you would look for in asset or mark. Did they have enough self assurance to be silent? Were they uncomfortable, awkward, fidgety? Did they try to fill the silence? Most often, if they lacked confidence, you would notice these tells immediately. One of your favourite activities was to sit in silence.

It was also one of your favourite activities to look at Harry Hart. The fact that he was handsome was no surprise. When you initially started at Kingsman, this was simply an objective observation, like masterful way he handled weaponry. Or the fact that he was right handed.  The more you were partnered in the field, the closer you became, both in proximity and as colleagues, his physical attributes began to affect you in ways that continued to make you increasingly uncomfortable.

You were aware his body was that of a man that you admired and looked up to. Tall, broad shouldered, slim hipped. Strong, driven, powerful. You became aware of all the things that his body could do. You had the opportunity to observe him every time you were in the field, in combat, in action.

But you also began to discern a softness, a gentleness that he could convey when he gathered you up after a surprising blast had knocked you off your feet. Hands that smoothed back your hair from your forehead upon waking up in medical after a particularly dangerous mission. A warm hand on your shoulder as you successfully accomplished a challenging task. 

You were aware that as your mentor, Harry had a responsibility to maintain a professional relationship. But with escalating frequency, you imagined how it would feel to have him pressed up against you, to feel his body, purposeful and confident. 

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The evening was relaxed. Both of you, without the urgency of an upcoming mission to prepare, took the opportunity to simply rest and unwind. A seldom occasion. Feeling more and more at ease when both of you were together, you allowed yourself a little space to test the waters. When engaging targets, if they seemed comfortable sitting in silence in your company, would they make direct eye contact? You took another small sip of your drink, savoured it for a moment, and swallowed.

Hmmm. You were very curious about HarryHart and you were feeling surprisingly playful. You wanted to try something. Let’s say an experiment in tradecraft. You waited until you caught his eye. Harry seemed amused and matched your eye contact with equal directness. You were pleased that he made eye contact and even more pleased when he maintained it. But he was a spy, after all. Making and maintaining eye contact would be elementary for him.

With a little cheekiness on your part, you raised your glass to your lips again and took a small sip. He did not waver. His eyes even took on a little bit of curious amusement. You held the scotch on your tongue, pulled it to the back of your mouth, rolled the scotch around a little bit longer than necessary, before you swallowed.

Neither of you would look away first. You gave him a half smile, half smirk, crinkled your eyes a bit in amusement. You seemed to be saying. Ok. Your turn.

Harry had never seen your in this kind of playful mood and he suddenly found himself enjoying this little match immensely.

He could more than participate in this game. He, literally, had decades more experience than you. An agent may be able to seduce. But a gentleman agent was a master at the art of seduction. And Harry Hart was the consummate gentleman agent. One did not get to where he was in life without knowing how to pleasure a woman. He was often told he had beautiful and talented hands. That may have been years ago, but those kinds of skills, they stayed with a man.

A quick raise of his brow. Darling, challenge accepted.

Holding your eyes with his, he lowered his glass just enough to where it was in your sight line, but slightly off to the side, at the edge of your peripheral vision. You would still be able to hold eye contact, but would have to make an effort not to glance down at his glass. Especially, when you saw what he was going to do with it.

Harry held your gaze suddenly with an intense focus you were unprepared for. Out of the corner of your eye you saw that he was holding his glass, cupping it in the palm of one hand. He began to simply roll it around gently, as one would while enjoying a proper scotch. He rolled it around harmlessly, in a slow, lazy, rhythmic pattern.

You had to concentrate a little harder not to look away, but you kept his gaze. If you were uncomfortable, you didn’t show it. You hoped your gaze held a similar intensity as Harry’s. His felt, well, piercing, for lack of a more appropriate word.

This was certainly turning out to be an interesting evening, Harry thought. You seemed determined to stick this through. He would be required to dial his technique up a notch. He nested the heavy base in the center of his palm and let it rest there for awhile without moving. Then, once again, he started rolling the glass in his hand, not to stir the liquid, but to feel the surface of glass itself. He bounced the glass, lightly, as if testing the weight and feeling the heaviness.

The movement was subtle, slow, and sensuous. He let his hand explore the texture of the smooth surface. The base of his thumb pressed against the glass in slow, languid circles, sometimes rolling on to the pad of his thumb, sometimes to his finger tip. But he did this as if he were doing it unconsciously, because he was staring at you with a focus and intensity that said you were the only woman on earth, and that he wanted you.

There was truth to the term, the male gaze. It was not looking at something through a man’s eyes, it was seeing into something as a man. There was a reason why they called this particular look penetrating. It was a gaze of desire, a singularly male want and need. If done properly, it was a way to make love to a woman without touching her. It was far beyond physical contact. It wasn’t hard for him to harness his essential masculine energy. Harry had done it for years on countless honey traps in his younger days with the agency.  He hadn’t thrown the full force of himself to seduce in quite awhile and found that he was enjoying a little flex of his muscle.  If desire had a name, at that moment, it would be called Harry Hart. He let his desire roll off of him in waves.

What you didn’t quite understand, was that the game you were playing with him, wasn’t about who could keep eye contact the longest. It was a question of who was going to be seduced and who was going to be the seducer. You were approaching what you thought was a staring contest as a battle of the wills, which was why you were going to fail. Making eye contact may be a test of power and confidence, but that was a quick, brief test. A simple meeting or a darting of the eyes. It was very easy to find out who was going to be able to make and hold contact. However, eye contact for a prolonged period of time, especially between a man and a woman? It became something quite different. It was a game of seduction. It wasn’t a test of power. It was a test of control. Control of two things in this case, the seducer’s own desire, and the desire of the other person. Could the seducer harness his own desire to control the seduced.

You had not faltered yet. He raised to single brow. Would you like me to keep going?

You narrowed your gaze. Please, do.

The expression on his face all but said out loud. “You asked for it.”

Harry saw the flush in your cheeks when you noticed what he was doing with his glass. Your breathing intensified. Your pupils dilated and there was nothing you could do to stop it. 

They were very small movements, but very deliberate movements. He cupped the bottom of the glass in one palm, fingers spread as if he were holding up a small tray. Using only his middle finger, the rest of his hand now cupping the base, he began to stroke the center of the glass. Like he was using his finger to say, come here. In very slow, very deliberate, beyond suggestive movements. His other hand simply rested on the top rim of the glass. Gently holding it in place while he moved his bottom hand. He did this without twitching another muscle in his body, as if nothing had changed.

Your eyes widened. Holy fuck, you thought. With very exact and explicit movements of his hands, Harry was not just implying, but overtly demonstrating how he used them to give pleasure to a woman. The shock of seeing him within the frame of something so blatantly sexual, all the while looking at you the entire time? It was intensely arousing.

Harry was not only looking at you, he was positively devouring you with his gaze. You could feel him, his energy in pulses of heat. This wasn’t merely eye contact. This was something unexpected and you were not prepared for it. Harry was suddenly changed, maybe not changed, but different. He was harder, stronger, more demanding. He was more of everything. The polite, honorable, considerate gentleman was still there,  but now he added an aspect of himself that you had never seen or experienced before. The man was still Harry Hart, but it was also as if a part of him had been unleashed, whatever primal energy that was held in check by the handsome suits and the manners and the chivalry, had been released.

You fought to maintain your composure. He knew exactly what he was doing. His hands moved expertly, and with ease. His gaze, became even more intense, if that was even possible.

Harry continued to play and to tease as he held the glass in his palm. You knew where he had his hand. You could feel the exact placement as if it were on your own body. The base of his palm would cup your center, with the rest of his fingers spreading between your legs. His middle finger was still moving in achingly slow circles, one direction, then slowly moving in the other direction. He curled his finger under, using his knuckle, rolling it in tiny circles. Not even really moving just shifting the pressure moving from one side to the other, from top to bottom.

You saw in his eyes, that he knew, that you were not only being affected by his movements, but you were feeling sensations as if he were touching you directly.

It was the most erotic experience of your life.

Here was this beautiful man, still dressed as properly as ever in his dress shirt and tie, his shoulder holster with his side arm. His perfect hair, his perfect face. With all his dignity and respect, relaxing comfortably back into his chair, his legs spread wide, an ankle crossed over his knee, one elbow resting casually on the arm of his leather chair. Radiating such a profound sexual energy, that without even touching you, had the ability to control your body with only his eyes and the the way he moved a glass in his hand. He was so confident in his movements. His expression said, however brief this moment, that he owned you, that you were his, and he knows that you wants it that way. He can see it all over your face. He can see it in your eyes.

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Harry wasn’t even close to being done.

He took his other hand, laying his palm over the glass, as if it was resting there. On the other side of the glass, where his thumb fell, he began to roll it around in very explicit, very familiar circles.

He felt himself harden as his own arousal grew. He didn’t try to stop it. Instead of letting it distract him, he channeled that energy through him and into you. Allowing you to witness the physical evidence of his own desire would strengthen his hold. Never underestimate the power of the imagination. You would see it. Your mind would do the rest.

Harry saw your lips part, even the slightest bit. Your chest rising and falling under your ladylike blouse as your breath quickened. Your knees pressed tightly together. He watched your face very, very carefully and intently, watching the subtle changes in your expressions as he shifted the movements of his hands, knowing that you were feeling his movements in your body. Every time your brow would furrow, or you took a sharp intake of breath, or would clench your pretty hands, as he moved his own, he knew you were feeling pleasure. And that he was the source of that pleasure.

Harry knew that there were men who were turned on by violence. For him, however, there was nothing more erotic than the sight of a woman experiencing the pleasure that you were giving her. So, he was especially aroused when he was free to look at the nuances of your face and body freely and openly. Your pleasure had reached a constant as you moved almost imperceptibly to the consistent rhythm of his hand.

And you still did not drop your gaze. Harry knew, now that you were fully aroused, you would not break eye contact. You probably couldn’t at this point if you tried. For, half of your pleasure was a result of seeing the man who was controlling your pleasure. And seeing that you pleased him, that he was also sexually aroused, intensified your pleasure. And you wanted to offer that to him, very willingly. Harry was finding out much about you in these few moments. Things that he wasn’t even sure you knew about yourself. Very few women would have been comfortable enough with their sexuality to be purely on the receiving end of pleasure. In the intimacy of their own bedroom in a committed relationship. Let alone in an extremely public and therefore vulnerable way. With a man who may be, slightly off limits. Which, in fact, probably added to your pleasure.

To see just how much you were under his thumb, pun aside, Harry paused for a moment. He kept his hand, his fingers in the exact same place. He just stilled. And watched you. After a few moments he could see the tiniest furrow of your brow. When he continued to remain still, he saw the movement he waiting for. You probably didn’t even know you had made it. It was the slightest lifting and rolling of your hips. He didn’t realize he could be more turned on, but he felt himself grow harder. It was the motion every woman made, in his experience, when they wanted more, when they were asking for more, and when they were begging for more.  The ability to actively listen and comprehend another person was the most profound influencing tactic one could hone in communication, and therefore seduction.  Which is exactly what he was doing. In a very non verbal, very physical way.

Harry began his movements again, with more intensity and purpose. He let his finger, for the first time, slide all the way up the side of the glass, even letting it lift with the upward movement of his palm. He saw your body move as if you were receiving him.

He knew you were experiencing waves of intense pleasure. He could tell you wanted to close your eyes and tip your head back. As Harry witnessed your need, he went in for his last movements. His palm pressing up into the base of the glass, his thumb rolling in small firm circles and his entire middle finger along the entire length of the glass, the tip almost reaching the top of the rim.  As if his finger were deep inside you, he made deliberate strokes while pressing into the glass, slow, but then gradually increasing in speed and pressure.

Harry knew, that you knew, the exact two parts he was pleasuring.

You lips parted, your breathing grew heavier. You had no idea what was going to happen next, all you felt were waves of pleasure. The only thing you could concentrate on was not losing eye contact with the man in front of you.

Harry knew at this point, he had let what was a silly, flirtatious game, go too far. He also knew this began as a challenge, and Harry Hart was never one to back down from a challenge. He also knew that he never purposely lost a game. If it took climaxing for you to break eye contact, then so be it.

Harry also knew he was mesmerized by the sight of you. He didn’t know if he could stop. But it didn’t matter because he didn’t want to. This moment had to hit the list of the top most erotic experiences of his life. Both fully clothed, siting in separate chairs, more than six feet apart. With only eye contact between you. He didn’t know if he’d experienced something more intensely arousing, knowing that he was the one you were feeling when you made yourself come.

Harry began to see the tell tale tremors, the quickening breath, your lips parting with cries that you desperately wanted to make that you would not let yourself, and still, you were trying to hold on. Psychologically you were making it harder for yourself, denying your own release would only make it that much more physically intense when you had to give in.

It was at that moment, that a door banged within the manor and someone appeared at the large entrance of the club room.

“Harry. That you?”

Damn it. It was Eggsy.

“Just headin’ out.” Eggsy called over. “What’s up? Looks like you two’re having a staring contest. Whose winning?”

“It’s a tie” Harry replied.

Eggsy held up his hand in a quick wave and left.

Harry gave you a quick glance, where you were still trying to maintain eye contact, wait no, you were just staring into the space behind him, concentrating on something he could not see.

——

You knew you had to stop staring at Harry, so you looked past his shoulder into the empty space behind him. At this point, even the sight of him might set you off. You were still right at the cusp of your climax and your body was still so aroused you were afraid that any movement could push your over the edge. You wanted to tell Harry to leave, but you couldn’t think of a way without embarrassing or offending one or both of you. All you could do at the moment was sit quietly. So that’s what you did. You were waiting for your body to catch up with the rest of you and settle down. Harry was waiting patiently until you were ready to move or speak.

After a bit of time, you glanced over at him, made sure it was safe. It was, and you began to relax a little, though your body still felt like a flame that was ready to ignite with any hint of friction. You just needed to stay still for awhile.

You saw Harry watching you, his face both concerned and amused.

He broke the silence.

 “And that, my darling,” Harry said pointedly. “Is how one create’s an effective honey trap.”

In an attempt to further diffuse the situation, he wanted to be frank and direct with you and not to brush what just happened under the rug. That would be awkward for both of you.  He did not want you to feel embarrassed or ashamed or uncomfortable with him or what had happened. The best way was to be as blunt as possible. He pushed down on his palms and rose out of his chair with minimal effort.

“My dear, I’ve been in the spy business for over 30 years. One does not get this far without knowing how to pleasure a woman.”

He winked at you.

“Not to worry, you’ll get there.”

Harry reached behind him for his coat, draped it over his arm, but not before you clearly noticed his own erection. Which before had just been a suggestion in the shadows. He’s hard.

The thought made you flame all over again.

“I need to take my leave. Will you be alright, here?”

All you could do is nod. You didn’t trust your voice yet.

Always the gentleman, he leaned over and brushed his lips against the top of your hair.

“Thank you for the lovely evening.”

You still couldn’t look directly at him so you turned your head slightly to the side and gave him a small nod. With a quick squeeze of your arm, you heard his departing footsteps. He was heading to the tunnels. He was going back into the city, He wouldn’t be staying at he manor. You didn’t know if you were glad or disappointed.

You were grateful to him for providing at least a somewhat graceful way to exit the situation, referring to the seduction technique that ALL agents are trained in. Harry was letting you chalk it up to a learning experience.

You opened your mouth. Nothing came out. You tried again.

“Fuck.”

It was the first word that you had said all evening.

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“Fuck.”

Harry thought as he boarded the train back into the city. He had actually planned on staying at the manor, but with what just happened with you, he wasn’t sure if that would be the best course of action. It took all of his self control to remove himself from any temptation by leaving the place entirely. Making it impossible for him to act in a way that was inappropriate. Not that what had just happened would qualify as appropriate. At least it had the veil of a lesson on seduction. He wasn’t sure it would convince judges, but he found it a weak, but passable excuse.

No, the problem for the moment was that all Harry could see was your face as he pleasured you. How your lips parted, your breasts underneath your blouse, the flush of your cheeks. He wanted to hear what your cries would’ve sounded like. He wanted to be the one to make you cry out. His sex drive, always healthy, may have had a prolonged dormant period in recent times. But now it was raging like a fire that he unleashed and now he couldn’t put out. By letting the full force of it out this evening, it was fully awake and needed something to do. Harry had feared that if he had stayed at the manor even a moment longer, he wouldn’t have been able to help himself and would’ve taken you and had you right there.

If he could do that to you with his eyes and just the suggestion of his hands, he couldn’t imaging what it would be like pleasuring you with his entire body. Harry knew he wouldn’t be able to sleep until he took care of himself, and when he did, he would allow himself the sight of your trembling, responsive, body underneath his own as he gave you the pleasure he knew you so desperately wanted, joined together as he felt your body shudder around him when you climaxed, feeling his own release as he heard you cry out his name in pleasure.

#harry hart #harryhart #kingsman #kingsman the golden circle #kingsman the secret service #ardent #kingsman fanfic #colinfirth #colin firth #kingsman fanfiction #kingsmanmovie #kingsman ff #kingsman fan fiction #harryhartfanfiction #harry hart fan fiction

[simple-heroics]

Class 1-A Girls as Roommates

Oh, my god, they were roommates

Momo Yaoyorozu

First of all, you lucky bastard I hate you. Secondly, I’d like to make the point that Momo is wealthy af and has no financial need of a roommate. So, if you two are living, you’re probably already great friends with her or more. 

Momo loves to share. She is an extremely generous person, so she'll totally offer you some of her food when she cooks and even some of her shower products. 

Totally lets you borrow her clothes. Different sizes? She's gotchoo! Can and will create the best clothes for you. This is especially helpful if you have a date.

Speaking of her Quirk, its usefulness becomes really apparent when you two first move in and are still figuring out where things are or what you still need for the house. Bought that knife set but somehow forgot a can opener? Momo’s gotchoo again. 

A great communicator and takes the initiative to make sure you guys are on the same page about chores. Despite her busy hero career, Momo still does a great job keeping up with her fair share.

Please sit and drink tea with her. She'd love it. Probably the best thing about being Momo's roommate is coming home at the end of the day to this beautiful woman omg are you're okay with just being roommates and catching up over cups of freshly brewed tea. 

If something happens and you’re unable to pa your rent one month, Momo can cover it. Will not guilt or shame you over this. No matter what kind of petty roommate argument you two might have, she will never hold that over your head. Ever. Things happen, and Momo understands that.

The not so great...

Yaomomo is such a sweetie but...she's also a rich girl who is used to a lot space. Her furniture will fill up the whole apartment. An entire kitchen cabinet is stuffed to the brim with her teas, so you'd have to find some other space to shove your cereal.

Nonetheless, she tries very hard to be a good roommate - especially if it's her first place after moving out of her parents' house/school dorms - and this sometimes leads to her being overly accommodating. That and the above can lead to some tension between you two. 

Momo has such long, beautiful hair...and it absolutely gets clogged in y'all's shower. Good luck.

Mina Ashido

Mina is the fun roommate! I’m talking late nights spent goofing off, playing video games and watching movies or even just talking if you want. If you two weren’t best friends before moving in together, guess what?

You’re best friends now. or more?

Alien Queen is also Snack Queen. Our pink homegirl buys lots of snacks and is more than happy to share.

Um, garbage? What garbage? Her Quirk dissolves it and that’s one utility y’all are saving money on now to get Kaminari to help with the electricity

No matter how bad your day was, how shitty your boss, how long your commute, Mina can always make you laugh. Which is a nice way to end an otherwise completely shit day.

Actually pretty good about keeping the apartment tidy! Living in the UA dorm taught her a lot about being considerate of shared spaces and she’s always out and about anyway. So almost no worries about messes 

Because she’s either out and about or doing patrols, you actually get the apartment to yourself quite a bit?? Ummm, SCORE! Until you start missing your pink roomie/bestie

That is, if she’s not inviting/dragging you out to do stuff with her! If you’re someone who needs a bit of prompting to get out of the house, Mina is great for that!

Also...the roommate who is constantly trying to hook you up with her friends. Like, I’m serious. If you’re not already seeing anyone, this die hard romantic will constantly try to set you up with people hey, roomie, pls introduce me to Kirishima. You won’t need a dating app ‘cause Mina Ashido is your roommate and girl knows everybody.

The not so great...

If you're pretty introverted or just really prefer quiet at home, being roommates with Mina can be hard. Mina is a social butterfly - loud and bubbly and all these other wonderful qualities that simultaneously don't mesh well with most introverts.

Speaking of social butterfly, she invites her friends over. A lot. And y’all know that the Bakusquad spells c h a o s

It would also not surprise me if Mina had a number of...ahem, overnight guests. So prepare for extra (awkward) company at breakfast.

Sometimes gets so caught up in her social life, all those hobbies, and hero work that...she forgets that rent or utilities are due. Whoops. You’ll have to remind her sometimes. 😬

Good luck if you have wooden floorboards. Mina loves to dance and this means a lot of scuff marks.

Ochaco Uraraka

This cutie! 12/10 would room with her if I could

When she first started UA, Ochaco had to move to Musutafu and live on her on which I'm sure was a little scary for a 15-year-old girl and definitely lonely. She wasn't looking forward to being alone again after graduation but wait! She has you!

Really appreciates your presence in your shared home and will undoubtedly cherish you, even treating you like family. It makes her so happy when she comes home after a long day of patrols and having someone respond when she says, "I'm home!" Ochaco, lemme be your housewife

Video game nights with Dekusquad? Video game nights with Dekusquad! 

Pretty clean and always does her dishes which automatically puts her the top tier of roommate categories, let’s be real. 

She knows where all the deals are, when certain sales are happening, and where to go for the best discounts. And she shares all this hard-earned knowledge with her precious roomie (that's you, boo). Grocery shopping with her is intense because she gets super competitive about getting those deals before everyone else but it's also so much fun.

Master couponer. You knows those ladies that clip so many coupons that they sort them into little bags and actually sell them in bundles? That's Ochaco. She's even part of some online couponing groups. 

But she always hands you the coupons for your favorite snacks.

The not so great..

Ochaco works really, really hard and takes on a lot of missions. So, when she gets home, the usually upbeat hero can be a little...grouchy. By grouchy, I mean snappy and sulky and -- who is this woman and what did she do to your sweet, adorable roommate? 

Seriously, just don’t talk to her or make a lot of noise until she sleeps for 10+ hours and eats or she might send you floating to your shared ceiling.

That roommate who will get on you if you leave any of the lights on or stay in the shower for too long. She is NOT shelling out extra cash on utilities next month because of you!! honestly same

Toru Hagakure

Another fun roommate! 

We’ve seen her room, and we can tell by looking at it that she loves to decorate. If you (probably) have different tastes than hers, Toru will find ways to compromise and combine both your preferences to decorate your shared apartment! You know what that means?

Ikea trips. Toru’s enthusiasm alone makes it so much fun but it’s not as fun when you inevitably lose her in that Swedish labyrinth. (Hint: Check the various kids’ sections. She got distracted by the cute plushies.) 

If you two are not constantly updating your interior design, you’re at least adding to it. it makes the space just uniquely yours and feel so homey.

Toru has some real 👌👌 taste in movies. Her movie collection makes for some awesome movie nights. Bring all the blankets, plushies, and the like and you’re in for a chill night.

Out of everyone on this list, I feel like she’ll be the easiest to convince to get a pet. She skips the “well, who is gonna pay for food?” talk and doesn’t spend any too much time deliberating over her busy hero schedule - just jumps right on in to the nearest adoption agency.

Congrats, you’re now parents of an adorable, slightly grumpy rescue cat. Which - bonus - actually makes it so much easier keeping track of Toru because it’s almost always brushing against her legs or on her lap.

The not so great...

Definitely the nosy roommates. She wants to know all the details about your life and is the type to peak into your room because she's curious. Her Quirk only makes all the easier for her.

She likes to leave cute or funny messages on the fogged up bathroom mirror or with magnets on the fridge which is cute but...unnerving when an invisible being sends you random messages in your apartment.

....and according to the wiki, she loves hidden-camera prank shows? Welcome to Jackass, roomie. You’re gonna get pranked.

Also because of her Quirk, she often has to remove her clothes to make full use of her invisibility but this has also lead to a bad habit of leaving articles of clothing throughout the apartment. You often find random socks and gloves and even shirts out throughout the apartment.

Tsuyu Asui

A+ roomie. Seriously, give this girl all a gold star.

Super tidy, super considerate, and super stoked to live with you. She’s used to a full house and honestly wasn’t so sure about living on her own straight after graduation. Then came you!

Tsuyu looooves to cook with you. If your cooking skills need work, she’ll happily teach you. Out of everyone else on this list, you share the most meals together. 

Soooo many blankets and pillows in your apartment! Tsu needs the extra layers during winter and honestly, just build a blanket fort for you two. It’s great. just roommates huh?

Absolutely will text you just to check in if she makes it home before you and has no problem either waiting up for you or even walking to meet if it’s dark. And honestly, what’s better than 

Being super straightforward, Tsuyu always lets you know if there’s something up with the apartment or just if she’d like you to be a little quieter coming home. Also an observant person and checks in on your needs/preferences as well. Y’all rarely have any typical roommate spats because she’s direct and makes sure to communicate.

We stan a sweet, considerate frog roommate in this household.

The not so great...

Because she grew up taking care of two younger siblings and then lived with the entire 1-A class (19 teenagers in one building -- that's insane) in the dorms, Tsuyu actually has little tolerance for messes in common spaces. 

Tsuya Asui ain’t your momma. You're both adults and you both pay rent, so she expects you clean up after yourself and will call you out if you don't.

Especially about those dishes left in the sink. You can say that you just left the pots in there "to soak", but Tsuyu ain't buying it. And she tells you as much.

Not above shaming your messes on her Snap story i’m that petty roommate or bringing up that you forgot to take out the trash in front of other people.

Kyouka Jirou

She's the cool roommate. By that, I mean the one you’re lowkey bragging about when you describe her to your friends. Girl is a hero, plays pretty much every instrument, and is just a cool person in general. It’s hard not to brag.

Seriously, just her mere presence alone makes your place at least 70% cooler than it would have been if you lived by yourself. That’s how cool she is.

Super respectful of your privacy. Like, she won’t even know what your room actually looks like unless you actually invite her in.

Great roommate banter. Kyouka has a great dry sense of humor and likes to tease people, so you two can go back and forth all day.

Great texter. She always gives you a heads up when people are over or if you guys need anything for the apartment. Bonus: lots of hilarious pics of Bakusquad being idiots.

Don't tell her that you can hear her when she sings in the shower; it'd just fluster her and make her self-conscious. But being able to listen to that amazing voice in your own home?👌👌👌

If you're someone who doesn't necessarily need or even want a tight knit relationship with a roommate, Kyouka is your best bet. She's generally really chill and won't get hyped over being best friends. 

That said, she’s a pretty empathetic person and easy to talk to. She’ll absolutely stay up late with you just to talk if you need it. Gives great advice.

The not so great...

You will lose track over how many times you ask her to turn the music down. 

Like Mina, Kyouka comes as a package deal with the Bakusquad. Kyouka doesn’t invite them over often because even she doesn’t want that chaos in her home but sometimes it’s inevitable.

She’s not much of a cook. Plus she’s pretty busy keeping up with her hero career, music, and group of friends, so she doesn’t have much free time anyway. This means she orders out - a lot. Good news? Hardly any friction over cleaning dishes. Bad news? Her take out boxes leave little room in the fridge for your food.

BONUS: Regardless of who you room with, you’ll hardly ever worry about a break-in or any crime in your neighborhood because your roommate is a professional hero and will kick any home intruder stupid enough to try anything.

#bnha #bnha imagines #bnha headcanons #bnha imagine blog #x reader #reader insert #platonic headcanons #momo yaoyozoru #yaoyorozu momo #creati #ochaco uraraka #uraraka ochaco #uravity #tsuyu asui #asui tsuyu #froppy #mina ashido #ashido mina #pinky #toru hakagure #hagakure toru #invisible girl #jirou kyouka #kyouka jirou #earphone jack #kay so maybe i just wanna be someone's housewife #namley momo's #or even ochaco's #she'd be such a good provider for me and our plant children omg #oh my god they were roommates

[llama-of-pangea]

Staying healthy & helping others in this weird time we live in

(updated March 31, 2020 for more up-to-date links and information)

I’m not normally one for serious posts, but I did want to make a post about the present situation (mostly in the US, but elsewhere too!) -- because it’s important to stay informed about COVID-19/novel coronavirus, especially when there’s so much misinformation out there:

Wash your hands. I know everyone keeps saying this, but it really is one of the most effective things you can do for reducing the spread of disease. Wash your hands with soap, often, for at least 20 seconds. Soap breaks up oil, destroys the cells of many viruses and bacteria, and gloms on to other particles on your hands, helping to get them really clean. It’s worth doing. Social distancing, not touching your face, staying home as much as possible, changing and washing clothes right away when you do come home, and disinfecting commonly-used spaces and surfaces in your home as often as possible are other things you can and should do. [source: CDC guidelines]

Be mindful of others. Many of us on tumblr here are young and so are less likely to suffer a serious case of COVID-19. But just because you’re not experiencing symptoms, or have mild symptoms, does not mean you should not be thinking of others’ wellbeing. Grandparents, older parents, the immune-comprimised (such as those with cancer or other immune-deficiencies), and those with certain health conditions are at risk more than the rest of us. So protect them as much as you can. Practice those good health tips always, but especially in spaces you may share with those who may be at greater risk. And also, be considerate of those with jobs that don’t allow them to isolate, like grocery store employees and bus drivers; this is extra hard for them, so do what you can to be kind, courteous, and considerate to them for all they’re doing for the rest of us [source: CDC at-risk statement].

Be responsible when shopping. If you can, have some food and necessities at home -- ideally enough to get through a week or two. Don’t panic-buy, and don’t hoard. A package of disinfectant wipes or spray, and some soap, will get you through; if you’re unable to find these items, you can often find soaps for refillable bottles at natural stores or online. Don’t fill your cart with toilet paper or sanitizer, which just denies others these items and stops them from protecting the community. And practice good health practices while in the store (remember, this is a common area! be considerate of hardworking employees, and other shoppers).

Help as much as you can. The elderly and people with weakened immune systems may be scared right now. You might be scared. Your parents or siblings or friends or coworkers might be scared. Stay in touch with people -- find ways to connect remotely so you and those you care about don’t feel isolated. Be supportive of those who are struggling to handle this. Donate blood through the Red Cross, or supplies like masks and gloves to hospitals, if you’re able to. And if you can, help those who need it; do a grocery run for someone who’s at risk, help them disinfect, or just call someone who may need cheering up. And don’t be afraid to ask for help if you need it.

Don’t panic. But also, don’t ignore the situation. Try to stay up to date with things, and be aware of your local situation. There’s so much misinformation out there, so be critical of what you see. Avoid falling into pitfalls of prejudice. And take care, and be kind! Everything’s going to be okay if we all look after ourselves and one another.

Check under the cut for links to helpful health & safety advice, news, and discussions about COVID-19:

Where to find updates and well-sourced information:

updates from the CDC and WHO

for those in the US and Canada, this website has done an incredible job of monitoring cases, news, school closings, and other information in real-time

Helpful discussions with reliable information:

reporting by Last Week Tonight -- part 1 || part 2 || part 3

the Sawbones podcast (hosted by Dr. Sydney McElroy & Justin McElroy) has 3 really good episodes discussing the origin of the virus, the role of quarantine in containing the spread of illnesses, and the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic as of March 22nd

tips for talking to your kids about COVID-19

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How to determine if something is bullshit (a short guide): ask the following questions: 

(1) Are there sources included with the statement? (2) Are the sources credible (namely, are they from a primary source, such as a research group, recognized health agency, or other medical institution)? (3) Can I find more than one account of the information? (4) Is the statement objective (meaning ‘based on fact’, rather than subjective or ‘based on emotion or feeling’, which creates a bias)?

If the answer to any of those 4 questions is “no”, there’s a chance the information could be bullshit, OR, at the very least, it may be incomplete.

In health news, be skeptical of things involving very small test groups (a test on 12 people does not speak for the general public!) or made by for-profit laboratories. Big pharma can make great things, but it can also be unethical. Read the literature from sources that are not invested in the product (again, the CDC, WHO, and FDA are good places to start) to get a better sense of how reliable, safe, or effective a thing is.

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Speaking of misinformation...:

There is not yet a vaccine or official treatment for COVID-19, though work is in progress around the world.

No, you can’t protect yourself with a detox treatment (and shame on the influencers pushing this).

No, you cannot “self-test” for COVID-19 by holding your breath. The claim that you can self-test by attempting to hold your breath for 10 seconds is a social media hoax which gained some traction when it was perpetuated on Fox News. It has been completely debunked.

Be skeptical of home tests. Produced primarily by Everlywell, they are expensive, and the chance for a false negative is very high (they require swabbing VERY far up your own nose, which is painful and difficult to do on yourself if you’re not a medical professional or someone with experience doing so). If you’re worried that you may be sick, call your doctor; there are also lots of drive-in testing locations around the country.

Hand sanitizers made with only essential oils do not work -- essential oils do not disinfect. Beware of DIY hand sanitizer, as it is easy to make an ineffective one. Soap and water are the most effective means of disinfecting your hands.

It’s unclear if ibuprofen can worsen cases of COVID-19 -- this information was circulated by the French Health Minister, but there is no scientific data to support their claim. Ibuprofen is probably still safe to take. If you have any doubts, then you can take Tylenol, paracetamol, naproxen sodium, or aspirin instead.

COVID-19 has nothing to do with beer or eating meat.

Beware of conspiracy theories in general.

Beware of phishing scams pretending to be official press releases. Many appear from fake CDC emails.

Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites are struggling to stop misinformation campaigns. Don’t consider these sites a reliable source of information -- look for the primary source to confirm what you see online, and do what you can to report or remove false information.

Beware articles or sources that use the current situation to excuse discrimination or prejudice. It is wrong to blame Asians and Asian culture for COVID-19 -- that’s just racism. Similarly, stories blaming migrants are just as wrongly biased.

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*** Note: I’m not a doctor or any other type of medical professional. I am a geologist who knows a lot about source evaluation and is worried about people being misinformed

#covid #covid2019 #covid19 #coronavirus #misinformation #please do what you can to be informed #and take care of each other! #i'm just trying to help #health and safety #public health #CDC #WHO #fake news #updated #self reblob

[topmediatvip]

Media Conference Minutiae - The Art of Delivering an Effective Media Conference

You have a spectacular event organized that everybody in the world will want to attend as soon as they hear about it. The media are clambering to get an exclusive interview with you. Your event rockets you to unimaginable levels of fame and fortune. It could happen!... maybe... well probably not... but it is possible to work with the media and have a successful media conference.

Media conferences are an excellent way to get the word out about your event or cause, perhaps to boost ticket sales. Probably the best advice to meeting planner types who like to control every little detail... you can't control the media. You can only work with them and hope for the best!

Gone are the days that local media are actively looking for human interest stories in and around their communities. Or so it would seem. All too often we see syndicated articles of drivel, originating from elsewhere in the continent, taking up valuable space in our local newspapers. Local journalists struggle to eke out a living within the confines of their employing editor's supervision.

News isn't something that is new anymore. It can be entertaining, tragic, pseudo educating and attempt to manipulate you in a direction that you hadn't considered moving before. It can be blatantly self-promoting or oppositional to something they don't believe in and don't want you to believe in either. They being the editorial department of a media outlet who follow their directions from the owners and they in turn from... who, us the viewer/reader? Not likely! More likely their sponsors who pay big bucks to get their message spread via their favorite form of media.

So if any of this rant is true, why would we possibly want to rely on a news conference to spread our word? We don't necessarily want to rely on them but we do want to take advantage of what they can offer, if they do what they are good at.

As in any event planning scenario, the bulk of the activity takes place before in preparation for the media conference. Here are some practical tips to consider as part of your planning process.

Considerations:

Be honest with yourself, is your event truly news worthy? When we put a lot of hours and the proverbial blood, sweat and tears into organizing an event, it's easy to lose site of what is truly important and what isn't. Journalists are looking for something different. The better your cause, the better the chance they can create a memorable and effective piece on your behalf.

Media relations... is not advertising! You are not paying the journalist to create publicity for you.

You need to decide in advance what the "take away" is for the journalist and what do you hope will be done with it?

Helpful Tips:

Before the media conference:

If you are a frequent event organizer or at least see a few more in your future, it is worthwhile developing a "Media List." Start off by developing a list with the headings of local newspapers, radio, television, local on-line news websites and locally produced magazines and circulations.

Next step is to flesh out your list. Which of the above media have featured similar publications to yours? Using a newspaper as an example and your event relates to seniors or business, does it have a regular Senior's section or a Business one? Targeting a media outlet that doesn't cater to your topic is a waste of both your time and theirs.

If they do have a particular person assigned to the "beat" that you are trying to market to, who are they and how can you contact them?

Create and distribute a media advisory bulletin outlining the details that you want the media to be aware of about your event. This is their invite to the birthday party. It gives them enough information to foster a curiosity about the event but not enough that they could pass on your conference and write about it by proxy i.e. without having to show up.

Create a media kit to be distributed to each media contact on the day of the event. The media kit should contain the details of your announcement i.e. your media release. Providing additional background information such as who they can contact for further info, your website address and your organization's purpose for existing. Basically, spoon feed them with any details that they would likely go searching for in order to complete their article. Make it easy for them!

Cross promote! Take advantage of your social media venues. Local Facebook and LinkedIn groups are excellent places to promote your upcoming media conference and your cause in general. You can post in your own groups as well as others.

Choose a location for your media event that is conducive to being seen and heard. A recent media event that I attended at my local City Hall's front street entrance was marred by an enthusiastic City worker who chose the exact moment of the main presenter's opening comments to use a gas-powered leaf-blower to clean the sidewalk off a mere few feet away from the event. I intervened and encouraged the worker to take a well-deserved unscheduled coffee break.

If you will be holding your media conference in an area that may challenge you being heard by your audience, give careful thought to securing a public address system i.e. microphone and speakers. Outside locations with nearby traffic can take away from your event's effectiveness if you haven't made yourself hearable. The amplified sound from the speakers will assist any video recording that you do on your own behalf. The extra expense of renting the sound equipment will be well worth the expense.

At the Media Conference:

Your professionalism is on display so you should be on your best behaviour. It is best to develop a plan in advance and work the plan on the day of your event. Yes, your media conference is an event in its own right. Your plan should include who will be making the "official" announcement.

While you as the official announcer are readying the lectern/podium for the announcement, you should have others to distribute the media kits and be generally schmoozing.

If at all possible, have other members of your organization attend the event. Have you ever noticed that many politicians when holding a media conference surround themselves with happy, smiling supporters?

If you are planning on sharing the limelight with other presenters, ensure that they have the speaking and presenting skills to add to your message, not take away from it. Work with them in advance of the event to fine-tune their content so that it reinforces your message. Personal testimonials can be an excellent way to add credence to your message.

Think "sound bites." If there is any value to your cause, the media will likely want to capture the essence of what your media conference is about, condensed to a few second sound bite. Plan ahead for potential questions that the media may pose. Prepare short and to the point answers. Fight the urge to go on and on about the topic. You may be excited about the topic and have lots to say but you are working on a timer. The media's... not yours.

Have your own photographer taking pictures and video so that you can use the content for marketing purposes without having to receive permission from the media outlets. You can always link to the on-line version of their media release on your website.

After the Media Conference:

Upon completion of your media event and hopefully the coverage that you are seeking, send a thank-you message to those that participated and worked on your behalf.

Undertake an event review when the event is completed. What worked? What didn't? Make note of what you discover to improve the effectiveness of your next event.

Don't be surprised when watching your local news telecast that your story has been pre-empted by a story of a cat being rescued from a tree by the local fire department. You can't control the media. You can only work with them and hope for the best! Hey, that sounds like a sound bite...

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New Moon in Aquarius II

At this New Moon, the Sun and Moon will be together at 4º ♒️22',  exactly at the degree of the longest Aquarius Lunar Eclipse on July 27, 2018. People born with the Sun or any other planet in the first decan of Aquarius, will be impacted more strongly.  Since the planets and cosmic bodies work in cycles, and as this New Moon closes another cycle at the same degree, it activates it once more. You will certainly remember something special that you experienced around the time of that Lunar Eclipse. Something related or around the same theme may happen for you to make one step higher in your soul's evolution. The Moon squares Uranus earlier in the day (12:34 pm), and sextiles Chiron at the same time. The unexpected emotions carry a healing power that makes you feel confident about who you are. But once the Moon meets the Sun, they both square Uranus, Aquarius ruler. Even though Mercury is not conjunct, it's close by, which adds more electrical energy to the chart. The chart's dominant element is Air, even though the other elements are also present.  This makes for a lot of intellectual activity, flow and exchange of ideas, sudden flashes of understanding or insight, and a lot of communication. The Aquarian energy promotes rebellion, radical changes, eccentricity, erratic movement (windy weather for example), disruption in communications and media, unorthodox ideas, excitement, stimulation, irritability, and possible distraction. Look at the houses where Aquarius and Taurus are to find out the area affected in your personal life. In the World, there may be more earthquakes, people protesting asking for liberation from the material and financial restrictions, and freedom of movement. More people are needing to migrate because of violence, famine, or war. While Saturn and Pluto on their respective planetary South Nodes hang on to the past, build walls and close frontiers; Eris in Aries, and the Aquarius New Moon fight for liberation from limiting and obtuse traditions. The Chart lacks Water energy, which can make you overcompensate by making artificial efforts to give an emotional response to your environment, look for excitement in intense dramatic news, or prove sensitivity by showing excessive concern about the circumstances. On the other hand, there is also a lot of Earth energy, which makes you practical, realistic, to the point, organized, and maybe too much materialistic. You may feel the need to be methodical, follow a plan, make a schedule, clean the house, and provide security for your family. The 'Benefics' Mercury makes the waning semi-sextile to Venus. As he enters the balsamic stage, they're about to finish their cycle started at the end of October in Scorpio. It has been a cycle of learning more, find out the deeper truth about love and money. With the Scorpio inprint, love has been a psychological research of oneself and of the other. Do we have now a better understanding about how we function, our power dynamics in relationships, romantic or not? What truth did you discover about your money and your personal values or your self worth?   This is the time to come to the conclusions that you will communicate with your significant other or your business partner once Mercury meets Venus again on May 22, 2020. Venus makes her waxing sextile to Jupiter, which makes you feel attractive, optimistic, lucky, popular, generous, sensual, and very much sociable. You want to party, meet and chat with people, make love. You have great satisfaction sharing your appreciation, affection, making new friends. Love expands your heart! You may be attracted to a foreigner, to other cultures... maybe thinking of a vacation in an exotic place or buy your plane tickets!

The Bad Guy Now, this is the discordant note. Mars is just 36' away from a square to Venus Neptune midpoint! No good, no good! On the Pisces side, you may be building romantic castles in the air. You may have escaped to the ninth cloud in a wine-cup carriage, or in your way to Love Nirvana with your Metta meditation. So the warrior takes advantage! This is the soup that makes secret attacks possible. Shootings, secret enemies, obscure sexual secret affairs and such appeared in the news on February 17, 2018 when Mars in Sagittarius and Neptune in Pisces squared at 13º.  On August 26, 2016 when they squared at 10º, the news talked about a ship attacked in the ocean, earthquakes, a religious extremists' martyrdom, car bombings, politicians harshly attack each other, a strike ended up in murder, people attacked while sleeping, and false incriminations. Mars will exactly square Neptune on Sunday which we can soundly predict it as 'explosive'. A gas tank may blow up, pirates may attack a ship in the ocean, someone may be killed by a sniper.  Neptune is associated with sleep, islands in the ocean, navigation, gas, any liquid, addiction to liquid substances, vacations in far away countries, retreats, hospitals, hospice, secret enemies, all kinds of germs (virus, bacteria, but especially fungi), poisons, refugees, prisons, charity, churches, secluded spaces, bedrooms and bed pleasures. Any of those may be under attack or become aggressive. At home, make sure you check your boiler, gas furnace, gas stove, and check for possible hot water leaks. If you fear illness, remember to buy masks to protect yourself from the coronavirus. Another consideration is that, on Sunday, Mars is at 17º where Jupiter was September 21, 2019 squaring Neptune. Try to remember the theme that Jupiter Neptune square represented in your life when they were dancing in conflict  back and forth during 2019 (at 14, 17 and 18 degrees), because Mars may revive it. The delusion we experienced all 2019 may be the subjacent aggressive force that triggers the event on Sunday with Mars Neptune square. Do you have a secret enemy of any kind? Mars and Neptune can be beneficial for us as well, depending on your personal level of vibration. The square may present the necessary challenge to roll up your sleeves and work for your dreams, your ideals, or develop your spiritual connection with a Supreme Being. With Neptune and Venus in Pisces you are inspired to create, to love unconditionally. You have the potential to elevate your spirituality, to improve your spiritual perception, to awaken your intuition. You may find the perfect kind of spiritual practice for you. Conclusion This is certainly a New Moon of sudden changes. After the heavy restraint we endured with Saturn and Co. in Capricorn, this New Moon brings a breeze of fresh air. We may recover the optimism, and the vision for a better future. Dare to break the chains of anything that holds you back from being who you want to be, and reaching your dreams. Don't lose your anchor though, keep the good things you've built in your life, use them as your foundation to launch your new life. Create, innovate, inspire, build, but just be yourself! Blessings! Sat Nam. NOTE: Planetary transits only affect us personally to the extent they make contact with our Natal or Progressed planets and points on our chart. To order your personal astrological reading, energy healing or Kundalini yoga practice/teaching, please email me [email protected] or [email protected]

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[bstudies]

Health

You should be drinking at least 2 liters of water per day to keep your body hydrated and properly working! Buy a reusable bottle of water and keep it next to you when studying or even on your nightstand, so you can drink as soon as you wake up. There are plenty of apps that help those who forget to drink (x, x, x). If the problem is that you don’t like the taste of water, flavor it with strawberries, blueberries, lemon or even some herbs.

Don’t skip meals! Food is so important to you. Give your body the vitamins and energy it needs. Remember to stay healthy. Keep healthy and delicious snacks in the fridge, cook some delicious food and make your body happy. Here are some teas and coffee drinks.

Get fresh air and exercise. This helps with mental alertness, concentration, an efficient memory and a positive mood.

@semistudies compiled some tips for studying on your period and @zibliedraws shared how to alleviate menstrual cramps.

If you need to survive a hangover, here are some tips.

Asking for help is not a weakness. Self-care is not selfish.

Don’t  forget to take your meds! Write it on a board, set up a phone alarm, download an app (x, x).    

If you are struggling with depression, here are some tips to study. And another nine tips. If you suffer from anxiety or are an ADHD student,     here are some masterposts to help you out. @themkneesocks also compiled a list of chrome extensions for disabilities.

Teenagers (13 to 17 years old) ought to sleep from 8 to 10 hours every day, while young adults (18 to 25) only need 7 to 9. Sleep easy when it’s time to do so.

If nevertheless, you need to stay awake, here are some things that are not coffee that keep you awake and tips to stay awake during an all-nighter.

 Stationery

Here are some stationery basics. And some school essentials.

Broke? What about some stationery under $5? Here’s another one.

Need some shops and materials recs?

What about a stationery crash course on pens?

Planning

Keeping everything on a schedule is important. And for that, you need somewhere to plan. There are dozens of options nowadays. You can choose to buy a planner, set up a bullet journal or even print some free printables.

@learnal and @lifewithnerdyglasses wrote two masterposts about their favorite printables, which I’d recommend taking a look (x, x). You can also check out the printables tag on Tumblr.

The bullet journal system was created by Ryder Carroll, but has since then suffered considerable changes in the studyblr community. Here is a guide to bullet journaling, how students can take advantage of the system and how to set up a digital bullet journal.

Here are some spreadsheet ideas.

@kuroristudies even has a post explaining how she makes her weekly views.

Classes

Register for classes that are useful, that interest you or even that you know will help you out with your chosen career path. Keep in mind that you study best when you have at least some kind of interest in the subjects.

·Learn how to study from textbooks, how to give amazing presentations and take useful notes in class. Get the most out of your lecture. Annotate effectively.

Buy different colour highlighters and color code your notes.

@plannerdy came up with a low-stress college study strategy.

Record yourself talking. Explain the topics you’re covering out loud, to your family, your friends, your pets or even an inanimate object.

You need to write an essay? I’ve got you covered.

Plan on always getting the best marks you can in each test you take. Measure yourself against yourself.

STAY ON TOP OF YOUR HOMEWORK!

Review your notes every day. At the end of the week, grab the notes you took during the week, organise them by concept and consolidate it all onto 1 SHEET OF PAPER.

Sometimes you just need to study all day.

Overlearn whenever you can. You know you’re prepared when someone asks you about a topic and you can answer them in a thorough and accurate way.

Time management is key.

Come up with a study plan and stick with it! Be productive: complete the 100 days of productivity, gather your battle gear and set up a helpful school mindset.

Make use of small pockets of time to work on assignments. Don’t underestimate the amount of work you can get done at the end of the week by taking advantages of those precious minutes.

It is possible to get hard A’s in college and still have a life.

Set up goals. Monthly, weekly, daily.

MOTIVATION IS BULLSHIT. Rely on self-discipline. It is not the aesthetic part of things that will get you out of bed to exercise or study. Work harder than you think you did yesterday.

Avoid burning out!

Prioritize keeping yourself organised. Keep your study space and your house cleaned. After your first day of class go through all your syllabi and put any major due dates in your planner. Make into a study guide things your teachers emphasize in class. Make flashcards.

Here are some tips for when you’re tired and/or need to focus.

Don’t worry if you mess up your notes. And be careful with flashcards mistakes.

Achieve your full academic potential, even when you don’t want to study.

Need to catch up? I’ve got you. School just got hard for the first time? Guess what. Not anymore.

Don’t take criticism personally. Learn what you can from any comments that are made – and discard the rest as being useless information. Develop a positive mindset. Set some goals and achieve them.

STOP. PROCRASTINATING. RIGHT. NOW.

Estimate the number of study hours based on course difficulty. Rather than focusing on the arbitrary two hours of study for every hour in class method for determining your needed study hours per week, follow these steps.

Column 1 – Enter each of your semester course names.

Column 2 – Determine the difficulty (for you) of each course:

§  High Difficulty = 3 hours of study

§  Medium Difficulty = 2 hours of study

§  Low Difficulty = 1 hour of study.

Column 3 – Enter the number of hours per week you attend each class.

Column 4 – Enter the number of hours study hours associated with high, medium, or low difficulty.

Column 5 – Multiply the number of hours in class (Column 3) by the number of predicted study hours (Column 4).

Then, add all the study hours in Column 5 for the approximate total hours you need to study per week.

Revision

When revising you should use different methods. Learn effectively. Study actively, never passively. You have no excuses. Raise that B (or C) to an A.

Didn’t have enough time to study? Here’s a guide to last minute studying, some last minute revision tips, a 3 day study plan, how to study for a big test and how to do so based on your learning type. Don’t worry if you don’t understand a concept.

@sic-transit-pizza shared her study method. So did abby-learns (twice!).

Just pick up your pencil for 2 minutes. That’s all it takes to get the groove back.

Here, have some memorisation tips to get those grades!

NEVER GIVE UP! Be patient and realistic. Keep in mind you are stronger than you think and remember that if others have done it so can you.

Do you need music while studying? Here are some study sounds, film scores and Harry Potter ambience sounds!

 General advice

How to be a studyblr (and how to utilize it!)

A reminder for girls with big plans

How to get your shit together

How to grow the fuck up

8 things vegans and meat eaters can agree on

Tiny ways to survive in a white male dominated field as a women of colour

#studyblr #studyign #studyspo #studyrose #studyspiration #* #masterposts

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GUIDELINES & CONSIDERATIONS FOR SAFER ORTHODOX CHURCH SERVICES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

JUNE 2020 PREPARED BY COVID-19 ASSEMBLY OF BISHOPS TASK FORCE

The majority of measures are supported by common sense and evidence from other, similar pathogens. However, not all is known about COVID‐19 and some may not ultimately be found to reduce the risk of transmission. We will not reiterate all the general risk‐reduction measures, but would also recommend as many of these measures be implemented as possible to lower risks. The more recommendations that are combined the lower the risk would be expected to be, and in some cases, combination would be expected to be synergistic. In addition, we would like to highlight the following risk‐reducing measures specific to Orthodox services.

For Church Leadership

Communication - Consider posting signs at entryways reminding all to return home if ill and to practice physical distancing and healthy hygiene measures such as handwashing.

- Provide physical guides (such as tape on floors or walkways and signs on walls) to ensure people remain at least 6 feet apart in lines and at other times. Consider one‐way routes in aisles and hallways where possible.

- Communicate clearly about actions being taken to protect their health.

Building Operations

- Ensure that ventilation systems operate properly and increase circulation of outdoor air as much as possible by opening windows and doors, using fans, etc., but do not open windows and doors if they pose a safety risk to children using the facility.

- Take steps to ensure that all buildings and water systems and features (for example, drinking fountains, decorative fountains) are safe to use after a prolonged facility shutdown to minimize the risk of Legionnaires’ disease and other diseases (1).

- Consider holding services and gatherings in a large, well‐ventilated area or outdoors, as circumstances allow.

- Consider temporarily limiting the sharing of frequently touched objects, such as prayer books, hymnals, or other items passed or among congregants by encouraging congregants to bring their own such items, if possible, or by photocopying materials.

- If a nursery or childcare will be provided during services and events, refer to CDC's information on preventing the spread of COVID‐19 in childcare settings and adapt as needed for your setting.

Cleaning

- Have adequate supplies to support healthy hygiene behaviors, including: o Soap o Hand sanitizer with at least 60 percent alcohol (for those who can safely use hand sanitizer) o Tissues o No‐touch trash cans o Wipes

- If your church offers multiple services in one day, consider scheduling services far enough apart to allow time for cleaning and disinfecting high‐touch surfaces between services.

Precautions

- Consider having someone wearing appropriate PPE to take the temperature of parishioners as they enter the church. o Anyone with a recorded temperature of equal to or greater than 100.3 degrees should be sent home.

- Have at least 6 feet of distance between persons not living in the same household.

o Help to enforce by considering closing and marking off every other row of pews, etc. o Encourage people to sit/stand as far apart as possible (use colored tape to designate sitting positions in the pews).

- Wear cloth face coverings / masks unless there is a contraindication (e.g., claustrophobia, breathing issue, communication difficulty, or very young age) when physical distancing may not be possible, e.g., entering / exiting the building, queuing for Communion, receipt of antidoron, etc. Consider suggesting cloth face coverings / masks at all times as tolerated when in enclosed spaces.

- Modify the methods used to receive financial contributions.

o Consider a stationary collection box or electronic methods of collection as the main means of regular financial contributions instead of shared collection trays or baskets. o With regard to the collections, even if they are stationary, those who will count the currency are strongly encouraged to wear masks and gloves while performing their duty.

- Discourage interpersonal physical contact (e.g., shaking hands, hugging, or kissing).

After Exposure

- Develop a plan should someone become sick during a service (e.g., a separate area until the person can be transported home or to a healthcare facility).

- Notify local health officials if a person diagnosed with COVID‐19 has been in the facility and communicate with staff and congregants about potential exposure while maintaining confidentiality as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or other applicable laws.

- Advise those with exposure to a person diagnosed with COVID‐19 to stay home, self‐monitor for symptoms, and follow CDC guidance if symptoms develop.

- Close off areas used by the sick person and do not use the area until after cleaning and disinfection.

o Ensure safe and correct application of disinfectants and keep disinfectant products away from children.

- Advise those with symptoms of COVID‐19 or who have tested positive for COVID‐19 not to return to the facility until they have met CDC’s criteria to discontinue home isolation.

For Clergy & Servers

- As much as possible, create small, stable groups of clergy and servers who serve together exclusively since these persons will be not be able to maintain physical distancing at all times.

- Consider having non‐clergy servers wear cloth face coverings / masks especially when unable to physically distance.

- If any of the serving group becomes ill (fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, or diarrhea (1)) the planned service should canceled and future services should not be held until after consultation with local health authorities and completion of their recommended course of action.

- Monitor local public health notices daily for status changes.

- Consider providing exclusive services for those at higher risk of severe outcomes from COVID‐19.

For Chanters & Singers

- Recommend no choirs, but if they are used, singers should be much greater than 6 feet apart from each other and from other congregants.

- Recommend at most two chanters separated opposed each other on different sides of the solea from each other.

- Even with a reduced number of singers, the director or leader should consider not facing the singers but rather face forward or be at the side.

Appendix: General risk-reducing measures

(From CDC’s How to Protect Yourself & Others (2))

- Wash your hands often.

- Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds especially after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.

- If soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and rub them together until they feel dry.

- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.

- Avoid close contact.

- Avoid close contact with people who are sick, even inside your home. If possible, maintain 6 feet between the person who is sick and other household members.

- Put distance between yourself and other people outside of your home.

- Remember that some people without symptoms may be able to spread virus.

- Stay at least 6 feet (about 2 arms’ length) from other people.

- Do not gather in groups.

- Stay out of crowded places and avoid mass gatherings.

- Keeping distance from others is especially important for people who are at higher risk of getting very sick.

- Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth face cover when around others

- You could spread COVID‐19 to others even if you do not feel sick.

- Everyone should wear a cloth face cover when they have to go out in public, for example to the grocery store or to pick up other necessities.

- Cloth face coverings should not be placed on young children under age 2, anyone who has trouble breathing, or is unconscious, incapacitated or otherwise unable to remove the mask without assistance.

- The cloth face cover is meant to protect other people in case you are infected.

- Do NOT use a facemask meant for a healthcare worker.

- Continue to keep about 6 feet between yourself and others. The cloth face cover is not a substitute for social distancing.

- Cover coughs and sneezes.

- If you are in a private setting and do not have on your cloth face covering, remember to always cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze or use the inside of your elbow.

- Throw used tissues in the trash.

- Immediately wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not readily available, clean your hands with a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol.

- Clean and disinfect.

- Clean AND disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily. This includes tables, doorknobs, light switches, countertops, handles, desks, phones, keyboards, toilets, faucets, and sinks.

- If surfaces are dirty, clean them. Use detergent or soap and water prior to disinfection.

- Then, use a household disinfectant. Most common EPA‐registered household disinfectants will work.

- Monitor Your Health.

- Be alert for symptoms. Watch for fever, cough, shortness of breath, or other symptoms of COVID‐19.

- Especially important if you are running essential errands, going into the office or workplace, and in settings where it may be difficult to keep a physical distance of six feet.

- Take your temperature if symptoms develop.

- Don’t take your temperature within 30 minutes of exercising or after taking medications that could lower your temperature, like acetaminophen.

References

1. CDC. Symptoms of Coronavirus. [Online] 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019‐ncov/symptoms‐testing/symptoms.html.

2. How to Protect Yourself and Others. [Online] 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019‐ncov/prevent‐getting‐sick/prevention.html.

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8 Actionable Tips to Use Social Media for eCommerce Sales

Social media and eCommerce are now inseparable regardless of your industry, product, or service. If you want to make sales, setting up an online store isn't enough. The “build it and they will fade long ago”. Today you have to go where your customers are active, social media.

With an average of 3 hours are spent per day per person on social networks and messaging, being in the social space can put your eCommerce store at an advance. Social media offers opportunities that allow you to grow your email list, attract and retain new customers, and solidify your brand presence.

There are plenty of tips on how you can use social media to increase sales, but where they fall short is that most of these popular tips apply to companies with massive online budgets and brands that have already acquired a considerable following.

Instead, I'll be sharing eight actionable tips to use social media for eCommerce sales, whether you're just starting or a do-it-yourself marketer looking for helpful tips.

1. Create a Social Media Strategy for Your eCommerce Store

Before suggesting influencer marketing, ads, and ideas for content, let's talk about the most ignored yet crucial part of your eCommerce store's social media success, a social media strategy.

Most brands fail at social media because they have no social media or content strategy. They're mostly playing it by ear, throwing content out, hoping that someone might buy from them or go viral.

Using social media for your eCommerce store without a strategy is like taking a megaphone out into an empty lot and shouting "Sale" hoping that someone might hear you. You may think this is crazy, but many brands (and maybe you) have been guilty of doing this.

Stop, take a step back, and start creating a social media plan. At Wishpond, we've seen first hand the power of a great social media strategy, bringing results and recognition for eCommerce brands looking to connect with customers truly.

If you're not sure where to start, here are some social media strategy resources we know are sure to help and get you on the right track.

How to Create a Social Media Marketing Plan: An 11-Step Template

How to Make a Social Media Checklist (Free Template)

50 Essential Social Media Tools For the Modern Marketer

2. Update Your Social Media Profiles

Blow off the dust from your outdated social media profiles and keep them up to date. Customers are relying on you to provide them with up to date information so that they can:

Get in contact with you

Find out if you're a credible eCommerce brand

Learn how to shop from you

If you have an old phone number or outdated link in your bio, then it's time to do some spring cleaning on social media profiles. Here's a quick checklist to help you go through what needs to be updated and what needs to be added if it's missing from your profile.

Update Your Bio Picture: Your eCommerce social media bio is a direct representation of your brand. When searching, followers tend to look at the profile picture before reading the username. We gravitate towards visuals more than words. It's human nature. If you have an old logo or outdated image as your profile bio, then it's time to update it with something new and professional.

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Update Your Social Media Cover Images: Remember that first impressions count, so be sure to have an updated cover image on your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Pinterest page. If followers see that you haven't updated your cover image since 2016, you'll give the impression that you are unprofessional and out of touch.

Drunk Elephant

Update Old Pinned Posts: Facebook and Twitter allow you to pin a post that will always appear at the top of your profile feed. When was the last time you refreshed that pin? Takedown that event or sale from last year and update it with something fresh to start pushing new sales.

Wishpond

Update & Track Your URL link: Update any old links and be sure to use UTM or google analytics to track your eCommerce sales and customer activities. If you’re not sure where to start here are 8 Amazing Ways to Use Google Analytics for E-Commerce.

3. Make Use of Your Social Media Real Estate

Let's talk about real estate, social media real estate to be specific. Social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter have limited spaces for you to add information and content about your eCommerce brand.

So you should use every feature to your advantage. This means adding your website to your bio, CTA buttons and [link in bio features] to help push customers to your eCommerce store.

Here are prime social media real estate features you should always take advantage of with Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter:

Instagram

Instagram Bio (Always pitch your eCommerce brand)

Add Links in Stories

Select CTA and Contact Button on Your Profile

Use and Encourage Hashtags & Tagging

Use IGTV for Sell Products

Use Instagram Live Features to Update Fans

Use Instagram Close Friends to Share Exclusive Content

Facebook:

Fill Out Business Contact Information Section

Organize & Optimize Facebook Tab Options

Pin Important Facebook Post

Upload Cover Image/Video

Set Your Business Category

Add Your Website/ Store Location

Add Opening Hours

Use Automated Replies/Welcome Messages

Upload Content to Facebook Stories

YouTube

Upload Banner Image

Create Eye-Catching Banner Images

Add Website & Social Media Links to Profile

Use YouTube Premiere Feature

Go Live on YouTube

Create Stories & Post on YouTube

Use Keywords in Your YouTube Videos

Utilize the Sharing Options After Publishing Your Videos

Twitter:

Upload a Banner Image

Add Your Website URL

Use Hashtags in Your Tweets

Pin Important Tweets

Use Periscope to Go Live

Use Tweet Polls & Q&A Features

4. Push Discount Landing Pages for Lead Generation & Email Marketing

Earlier, we spoke about social media real estate, but let's zoom into that little link you place in your bio.

Create a landing page offering your eCommerce followers discounts and deals to capture emails for retargeting and lead generation. Instead of sending them straight to the sit, gate it by providing a free 10-20% discount on their first order. If they browse your website without making a sale, you can use the email to retarget them back to your website.

Color Theory Design Co

With Wishpond's latest landing page builder Canvas, you can create landing pages in minutes (15-minutes to be exact). Unlike traditional landing page builders that force you to create landing pages in fixed grids, templates, and boxes. With Canvas, you're no longer boxed in!

Canvas allows you to move objects and text where you want on a page! Simply select an element and drag it wherever you'd like. Plus added features and tools you won't find anywhere else:

5. Improve Your Social Media Customer Service

About 86% of people will hesitate to purchase from a business that has negative online reviews. Negative reviews come from customers who either don't like your products or customer service.

Customer service on social media is now expected. Your online customers decide when to shop, so why is your customer service team offline?

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Not answering a complaint decreases customer advocacy by as much as 50%.When it comes to social media, people check followers' unanswered comments on your post and how fast a brand responds to direct messages. This will influence them to either think you're unreliable or safely make a purchase knowing that your team is there to help.

Take time to answer direct messages, tweets, inboxes, comment, and actively listen. Take up social listening, and this is taking inventory of what's being said about your brand by followers, customers, and brands.

For more help on how customer service and negative reviews can affect your business, check out the 4 Best Ways Brands Can Respond to Haters on Instagram.

6. Host a Giveaway or Content Online

Hosting a giveaway or contest on your eCommerce social media platform is much more than just giving away free things. It's the ability to gain brand awareness, increase sales, and allow your brand to fast track into your niche community.

For instance, did you know that hashtag contests have higher conversion rates when compared to 25 other contest methods?

Not to mention, we found that approximately 89% of industries are using video contests to promote their products and services. Contests and giveaway have proven to be an essential part of any social media strategy.

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Here's an overview of your contest and giveaway rules to help you map out your first social media contest:

Use the Correct Terms

Choose a Goal for Your Instagram Giveaway

Write Clear Guidelines on How to Enter

Include the Start and End Date of the Giveaway

Follow Instagram & Facebook Contest Guidelines

Include participation restrictions

Decide How to Announce the Winner

State How the Prize Will Be Delivered

Need a step by step guide to help you host your contest and giveaway? Here are some helpful guides:

20 Clever Social Media Giveaway Ideas You Can Use Today

24 Amazing, Real-World Facebook Giveaway Examples

How to Run An Instagram Giveaway: 5-Step Guide

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Book a free call to learn how our team of contest experts can help you create high converting social media contests today.

7. Post Content People Want to See (Consistently)

Most people will tell you to share content that your followers will love, which is right, but first, you have to make sure you share content you love first.

Create content that speaks to your brand's lifestyle, products, and services, mission, or long term goals.

Never limit yourself to only a few content types. Here are a couple of different categories of content you can share on your social media account:

Behind the scenes images

Product images

Customer reviews

Social Contests or Giveaway

Sale or Promotion

UGC (User Generated Content)

If you're not sure what type of content to post, look for other brand’s social media accounts like Instagram similar to yours to see what kinds of content they're posting for inspiration. You can look at these 10 Amazing eCommerce Instagram Accounts and Examples We Learned From and see which works best for you.

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If you're using photos for your content, take a look at how Etsy shares product images with their seller. They have a community of creative crafters, ensuring that the content they produce highlights or connects with them.

8. Invest in Social Media Ads to Boost Sales

As great as organic traffic and growth are, we can't deny the fact that they’re slow, and when you're trying to make x amount of purchases per month slow just doesn't seem to work.

On the other hand, leaning heavily on paid growth can lead to a high follower count, but low engagement and periodic sales. Experienced social media managers suggest that you keep a healthy balance of paid and organic growth for your social media strategy.

Before creating an ad or boosting a boost, establish your ad budget to measure your social media ROI. Each social media platform has its own tips and tricks to get the best results for your Money. Take the time to learn the social media ad landscape, especially for platforms like Facebook, which ranks as one of the highest pay to play social media platforms.

Here are some popular ad guides we know that can help you get the most ROI for your social media ad spend:

13 Facebook Ads We Got That Were Right on the Money (and Why)

For the Gram: The Anatomy of a Perfect Instagram Ad

Top 9 Most Common Pinterest Marketing Mistakes

How to Setup a YouTube Ads Campaign in 10 Easy Steps

Summary

Maintaining your eCommerce social media pays off in the long run. With proper planning and consistency, you can increase sales, connect to customers, and solidify your brand presence on social media.

Here's a quick recap of the eight actionable tips to use social media for eCommerce sales:

Create a Social Media Strategy for Your eCommerce Store

Update Your Social Media Profiles

Make Use of Your Social Media Real Estate

Push Discount Landing Pages for Lead Generation & Email Marketing

Improve Your Social Media Customer Service

Host a Giveaway or Content Online

Post Content People Want to See (Consistently)

Invest in Social Media Ads to Boost Sales

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“Cleaning” in Housekeeping Department of Hotel

THE HOUSEKEEPING DAY

The “housekeeping day” refers to that part of the 24 hours in a day when housekeeping operations are in full swing. The daily routine may differ slightly from one hotel to other, and the shift timings may wary considerably, depending on their location and target clientele.

For systematic management of the daily routine of the housekeeping department, the housekeeping day is divided into different activities which are carried out by the employee in their respective shifts.

Following are the activities:

 1.     Briefing: The executive housekeeper, being the managerial staff, will hold the briefing session for all employees at the beginning of a work shift. This process facilitates a two-way communication between the management and the staff. Usually this is the time at which grooming standards are checked, before allocating jobs to the staff. The following may be communicated in the course of a briefing session of 10 minutes:

a)     Any VIP in the house.

b)    Policies and new procedures to be followed by the staff or the hotel in the general.

c)     Job allocations

d)    Immediate reporting relationships for the shift.

e)     Checking of grooming standards and personal hygiene.

f)      Appreciation for work well done on the earlier shifts.

g)    Rectification required

h)    Banquets or other events to be held in the hotel.

 2.     Room assignments: After briefing, the floor supervisors hand over the room assignment sheet to the GRAs. These GRAs are the ones who will be servicing these rooms in that particular shift.

 3.     Handover of keys: Once the GRAs have received their room assignment sheets, they are handed the floor master keys for their particular floors by the deputy housekeeper.

 4.     Readying the cart: The GRAs, armed with the master keys, and then proceed to the floor pantries on their individual floors, where they make additions and alterations to the room attendants cart according to the room occupancy.

 5.     Room status check: At this stage, one of the most important morning shift activities to be undertaken by the housekeeping staff is the physical checking of the room status.

 6.     Clean-up, reporting, and handover: The GRAs now send all the soiled linen to the laundry in a linen trolley. The floor supervisor collect and file away all forms and reports the GRAs submit at the control desk. After completing the document submission the GRAs hand over the keys to the control desk, sign the key control and assemble for their debriefing.

 7.     Debriefing: This session, similar and complementary to the briefing at the start of a shift, may include the following:

a)     Discussing problems faced by any staff member.

b)    Sharing experiences and inviting ideas or practical solutions to tackle any particular common problem.

c)     Handover of any incomplete work to the staff on the next shift.

d)    Checking the next day’s duty roster.

Methods of Cleaning/Types of Cleaning procedures in Hotel Housekeeping

The Executive Housekeeper is responsible for seeing that the housekeeping staff follow the standard cleaning procedures and methods. He/She should also oversee that proper tools (mechanized or non-mechanized) are used to carry out their assigned tasks. 

Floors and carpets in the hotel require regular cleaning and finishing to retain their appearance and durability. Deciding when and how carpets and floors should be cleaning is an important task and this important task is further complicated by the different available cleaning procedures, machines and solutions. 

Cleaning processes in housekeeping can be either manual or mechanical. They may involve different methods like washing (using water as a cleaning and rinsing agent), friction (as in using an abrasive), static electricity (by using a static mop), suction (by using a vacuum cleaner), or by force (by using pressurized water). The various types of cleaning processes are summarized in this section.

                         A. Manual Cleaning Methods - Which do not require mechanized or electronic equipment:-

  1)    Sweeping:

 What is the process involved in sweeping?

Sweeping is done to collect dust when the floor surface is too rough for a dust mop.

 What is the Equipment required for sweeping?

A broom, a dustpan, a trash bag and a stocked     pubic-space cleaning cart.

  2)    Dusting:

 What is the process involved in dusting?

·         This task requires a systematic and orderly approach for efficiency & ease.

·         Room attendants should start dusting articles at the door & work clockwise around the room.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for dusting?

Cloth duster, Micro Fiber Cloths, Feather duster     & dusting solution if necessary.

  3)    Damp dusting:

 What is the process of damp dusting?

·         This is the most preferred way of cleaning in hotels as surfaces can be wiped as well as dusted, removing any sticky or dirty marks at the same time.

·         A suitable lint-free cloth at the correct level of dampness should be used so as to avoid leaving any smears.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for damp dusting?

Cloth duster, water,     plastic bowl, & a neutral detergent if necessary.

 4)    Dust Mopping / Dry Mopping/ Mop Sweeping:

 What is the process of Floor Dust Mopping?

·         This is the preferred way to remove dust, sand or grit from the floor.

·         If the dust and other substances are not removed from the floor on a daily basis, they will continually scratch the surface finish, diminishing its lustre, & will eventually penetrate down to the floor itself.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Dry Mopping the Floor?

Dust control mop, dust pan, dust- collecting bag, &     dustbin.

  5)    Spot Mopping:

 What is the process of Spot Mopping?

·         Spot mopping is essential to the preservation of floor surface.

·         Liquids & solids that are spilt on the floor, if left for any length of time, may penetrate the finish & stain the floor.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Spot Mopping the Floor?

Mop & bucket or a mop- wringer trolley, cold water,     & a very dilute solution of neutral detergent if necessary.

  6)    Wet mopping / Damp mopping:

 What is the process of Wet Mopping?

·         A damp mop is used to remove spills & adhered soil that was not removed during the dry removal process.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Damp Mopping?

Caution signs, floor cleaner, wet mop & bucket or     mop- wringer trolley, squeegee, & detergent solution.

  7)    Manual Scrubbing:

 What is the process of Manual Scrubbing?

·         For modern surfaces, very little hand -scrubbing is required.

·         Scrub gently in straight lines away from yourself, working backwards.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Manual Scrubbing?

Long-handled scrubbing     brush, mild detergent, bucket, squeegee, water, & mop.

  8)    Manual polishing:

 What is the process of Manual Polishing?

·         Apply the polish sparingly.

·         Use cotton rags to apply polish & a cloth for buffing.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Manual Polishing?

Use proprietary polish     for each type of floor or surface, clean cotton rags.

  9)    Spot Cleaning:

 What is the process of Spot Cleaning?

·         This refers to the removal of stains from different kinds of hard & soft surfaces.

·         To remove a localized stain, the whole surface need not be treated with stain-removal reagents.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Spot Cleaning?

Cleaning Cloths,     solvents, cleaning agents, brushes etc.

  B. Mechanised Cleaning Methods - These utilize equipment powered by electricity as well as mechanical equipment:-

  1)    Suction Cleaning:

 What is the process of Suction Cleaning or Vaccum cleaning?

·         This is the basic & preparatory step to all other mechanized procedures & should be performed regularly.

·         The goal is to remove as much dry soil as possible so that it does not spread, scratch the finish, or damage the surface.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Cleaning or Vaccum cleaning?

Caution signs, a stiff broom, wet/dry vacuum cleaner     with attachments & a mild detergent for wet cleaning if necessary.

  2)    Spray buffing:

 What is the process of Spray Buffing?

·         This process uses a 175- or 300-rpm (revolutions per minute) floor machine & a soft pad or brush.

·         As the machine goes over the area, soil, scuffs, light scratches, & marks are removed & the shine is restored to the surface.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Spray Buffing?

The equipment &     agents required are a 175 –or 300-rpm buffing machine with beige pad,     spray bottle, detergent, & finishing solution.

  3)    Polishing:

 What is the process of:

·         This process uses a 175- 1500-rpm floor machine & a soft pad or brush to remove some soil & brush to remove some soil & put the shine back in the finish.

·         Vacuuming or dust- mopping should be carried out as a follow- up step to remove loosened dirt.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Spot Cleaning?

A 1500 – 2500 rpm floor     machine.

  4)    Scrubbing:

 What is the process of Scrubbing?

·         This process removes embedded dirt, marks, deeper scuffs, & scratches from the floor along with some of the finish.

·         The pad or brush, the type of detergent, the water temperature, & the weight & speed of the machine all determine whether the process is considered light or heavy scrubbing.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Scrubbing?

Floor- maintenance     machines with a green pad.

  5)    Stripping:

 What is the process of Stripping?

·         This is a very aggressive process that requires removing all of the floor finish & sealer, leaving a bare floor ready for refinishing.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Stripping?

A floor-maintenance     machine with a black pad.

  6)    Laundering:

 What is the process of Laundry?

·         This is the cleaning method used for washable fabrics.

·         It is a process in which soil & stains are removed from textiles in an aqueous medium.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Laundering?

Washing Machines,     Drying Machines, Steam Cabinets and     Tunnels, Flatwork Irons, Folding Machine, Washing     Chemicals and Detergents.

7)    Dry Cleaning:

 What is the process of Dry Cleaning?

This is the method in which soil & stains are     removed from textiles in a non-aqueous medium.

Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and     textiles using a chemical solvent other than water.

 What are the Equipment & agents required for Dry Cleaning?

Chemical Solvents, Dry Cleaning Machine

Methods of Organizing Cleaning

1.  Orthodox/ Traditional cleaning: In this method, the Guest Room attendant completes all the cleaning tasks in one room before proceeding to another room. On average, a GRA may be required to clean about 12-20 room in 8 hours duty.

ADVANTAGES:

Ø  Improved security.

Ø  More job satisfaction.

Ø  Standard of work is higher if the individual is efficient.

Ø  Training is simplified.

 DISADVANTAGES:

Ø  Each area takes longer to get cleaned.

Ø  Maybe more expensive.

Ø  Each staff will have to be given equipment, hence more equipment required.

Ø  May be too rigid.

 2.  Block cleaning: In this method, GRA moves from one dirty room to another and completes the same task in every room before returning for starting the next task on the list. This involves blocking several rooms at a time and usually, more than 1 GRA are involved in cleaning at a time. Different GRA’s pick up different tasks. (Bed making, Toilet Cleaning, Room cleaning, replenishing supplies).

 ADVANTAGES:

Ø  Less equipment is required.

Ø  Is cheaper to operate.

 DISADVANTAGES:

Ø  Security is weakened as lots of people enter the room.

Ø  More disturbances to the guest if he’s in the room during room cleaning.

Ø  May-be monotonous for staff.

 3.  Team cleaning: This is a combination of the two methods mentioned above. In this method two or more GRA’s work in the same room taking up different tasks so that room is cleaned quickly before moving on to the same room. A team of 3 GRA’s may be assigned 30-35 rooms in a day.

ADVANTAGES:

Ø  Equipments can be shared.

Ø  Heavy work can be carried with ease.

Ø  New staff can be trained easily.

Ø  Increased productivity.

 DISADVANTAGES:

Ø  In case of any damage to the equipment, no one can be held responsible.

Ø  Standards can get lowered if proper supervision is missing.

Ø  While training, new staff can pick up bad habits.

Ø  Due to mis-understanding some work can get left out.

Ø  If there are any clashes between staff, working together can be a disadvantage.  

FREQUENCY OF CLEANING

Cleaning tasks may be divided according to the frequency of their scheduling, which depends upon the level of soiling, the type of surface, the amount of traffic, the type of hotel and the cleaning standards. Employees should be given the procedures and frequencies for carrying out various tasks outlined in the book or manual. This information may also be displayed in the floor pantries.

 1.  DAILY CLEANING:

 These are routing operations carried out on a day-to-day basis by the staff of the housekeeping department. These include the regular servicing of guestrooms, cleaning of bathrooms and toilets, suction cleaning of floors and the floor coverings and so on.

 2.  PERIODIC CLEANING:

 A.   WEEKLY CLEANING:

These, as term implies, are routine tasks carried out on a weekly basis. Mostly the time consuming tasks are placed under this category which, must be done at least once in a week and cannot be undertaken on a daily basis. Some of the weekly jobs are as follows:

a)    Polishing of brass ware, metal work, fitting and fixtures.

b)   Scrubbing of bathroom tiles.

c)    pest control of the rooms and floors

d)   laundering of the shower curtains

 B.   SPRING CLEANING:

This is a term used for annual cleaning of guestrooms and public areas in offseason periods and low occupancy periods. This involves a complete overhaul of the rooms by undertaking a few steps as:

a)    Removal of carpets from the room for shampooing

b)   Polishing wooden furniture, shampooing upholstery (sofas)

c)    Painting on walls

d)   Cleaning air conditioning vents

e)    Airing the room Redecoration

 C.   Deep cleaning:

It refers to the intensive cleaning schedule in which periodic cleaning tasks are scheduled for monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annual frequency. This is done for areas and surfaces which cannot be cleaned on a daily basis. This kind of cleaning is conducted in close coordination with the maintenance department. Some of the deep cleaning jobs are as follows:

a)    carpet shampooing

b)   Rotating and cleaning mattresses

c)    Cleaning of Ceilings, light fittings, fans, signage boards

d)   Laundering of soft furnishings.

Apart from the above cleaning there can be:

1.    Evening service (Or Turn- Down Service): This is the service given to room in the evening to prepare the room for the night. This service should be done prior to the guest retiring for the night.

 2.    Second Service: this is service given to the VIP guest staying in the hotel or on the guest request. This normally happens when a guest has/ had a party or meeting in his room & would like his room to be put in order as a consequence. This may be charged by the hotel.

Hotel Guest Room Cleaning

A.ENTERING THE GUEST ROOM:

 Procedure followed in entering the guest room

1.    During Hotel Guest Room Cleaning always knock the door announcing Housekeeping.

2.    If there is no answer, after 15 seconds knock the door again the second time announcing Housekeeping.

3.    If there is still no answer, use the master key to open the door announcing Housekeeping and enter the room while knocking.

  B.PREPARE GUEST ROOM FOR CLEANING:  

1.    Remove room service equipment's from room:

 1.     Pickup all room service equipment and move it to the floor pantry.

2.     Move the room service cart / trolley to the floor pantry.

3.     Inform the room service / IRD department to clear the trays / trolley from guest room / floor pantry.

4.     Never place the room service trays or trolleys on the guest corridor or the service elevator.

 2.    Removing rubbish:

 1.     Collect recyclable items such as (Newspapers / Aluminum cans, glass bottles, News paper bags etc.) and place them either in the bag or on the floor pantry.

2.     Empty the waste paper basket and ashtray on to the garbage bag.

3.     Pick up all the rubbish and put it in the rubbish bag.       

4.     All rubbish removed from room upon entering that room, and placed in rubbish bag on trolley.

5.     Extra care should be taken with broken glass, razor etc.

6.     Remove all disposal items like ash, cigarette buds etc. into the dustbin.

7.     Keep ashtrays and glassware under washbasin tap to wash.

8.     With lukewarm water and teepol, clean the ashtrays and glassware with the help of sponge.

9.     Wash liberally with water.

10.  Wipe with a lint free cloth.

11.  After drying, place back the items in the appropriate place.      

12.  Ashtrays and glassware are spotless and clean.

13.  Use a dry tissue to collect hair from the vanity, toilet, bath tub and floor.

14.  Do not throw away any guest property that may be wrapped in a tissue.

15.  Cleaning of ashtrays and glassware.

16.  Collect all ashtrays and glassware.

 3.    Emptying dirty linen:

 1.     Remove any guest clothing from the bed and neatly lay it across the back of the chair.

2.     If there is any personal items on the bed then remove them and place it neatly on the table.

3.     If it’s a departure dirty room then if you find any guest items and record the same as lost and found item.

4.     Remove all dirty linen from the room and put everything in the space provided for storing soiled linen in the R/A trolley.

5.     When the dirty linen is at level with the top of the trolley, empty the linen and collect in the pantry.

6.     All the dirty linen removed from room and put in linen bag in the trolley.

7.     Do not use guest linen and towels for cleaning the guest rooms.

  C. 

v  SERVICING OF OCCUPIED ROOMS:

 1.    All occupied rooms are serviced twice daily and as and when requested by the guest.

2.    Enter the room according to the procedure of entry to guestrooms.

3.    Clear the garbage according to the procedure of removal of garbage from dustbins.

4.    Collect the soiled linen and throw in the linen bag.

5.    Make the bed, follow the bed making procedure.

6.    Perform dusting of the room.

7.    Vacuuming of carpet and the upholstery maintenance.

8.    Clean Bathroom.

9.    All amenities are replenished in bathroom. (Maintain photograph for standard amenity placement)

10.  After servicing the room following facilities function to be checked.

11.  Television

12.  All Telephones

13.  All Bulbs.

14.  Any in room Entertainment system.

 v  SERVICING OF VACANT ROOM:

 1.     Room has to be spic and span at every given time.

2.     Knock the door.

3.     Switch on all lights.

4.     Open heavy and sheer curtains.

5.     Remove turn down service.

6.     Put bed cover.

7.     Do the dusting.

8.     Replenish water and ice.

9.     Mop bathroom flooring with disinfectant.

10.  Vacuum the carpet if necessary.

11.  Close sheer curtain.

12.  Heavy curtain should be half closed.

13.  Put of all the lights.

14.  Give final looks and shut the door.

 v  SERVICING OF VACANT DIRTY ROOM:

 1.     Vacant dirty rooms cleaned thoroughly and all used items/ amenities are changed with fresh ones. Left guest items to be deposited at Housekeeping control Desk.

2.     Knock and enter the room.

3.     All drawers and cupboards are checked for any lost and found of guest.

4.     All dustbins are cleared of garbage.

5.     Soiled linen to be removed.

6.     Bed is made according to procedure for bed making.

7.     Dusting of room is done.

8.     Vacuum upholstery and carpet.

9.     All glassware and Ashtrays have to be cleaned.

10.  All guest amenities in room have to be replenished.

11.  Bathroom is cleaned according to procedure.

12.  Replenished  amenities in the bathroom.

13.  All items used by the previous guest are changed with fresh ones.

14.  All maintenance work are noted and given to the Engineering department.

15.  Inform room status to the Housekeeping control desk.

 v  SERVICING OF DEPARTURE ROOM:

 When a guest releases a room and leaves the hotel that particular room is known as ‘departure room or check-out room.’ The housekeeping department has to clean the room, get the room ready so that the hotel can sell that particular room to some other guest also.

The following are the steps how to clean a departure room for guest room cleaning;

1.     Switch off the room air- conditioner or heating. Remove all the curtains and open the windows for airing the room

2.     Remove soiled linens from bed and bath. Shake out the linen to ensure that guest articles are lost in the folds of the linens.

3.     Check for maintenance requirements and report the same to the control desk and enter in the room checklist.

4.     Contact room service to remove extra trays and glasses.

5.     Turn the mattress side –to side on succeeding days followed by end –to end turning. Smooth out the mattress and air it.

6.     Clean the carpet with the help of vacuum cleaner or carpet brush.

7.     Empty all the ashtrays and waste paper baskets.

8.     Clean the bathroom and replenish all the required supplies is also a part of guest room cleaning.

9.     Collect all the old news paper and magazines which the guest has left over and keep in chamber maid’s trolley.

10.  Use stiff upholstery brush or vacuum cleaner on upholstered furniture arms backs and seats.

11.  Replace all the stationery as prescribed by the management. The number of items must exactly be as per standard.

12.  Dust and replace each item on the dresser and desk. Special attention must be given to the display of publicity materials as prescribed by the management.

13.  Clean lamp shades with a clean duster. Lift lamp and clean under the base.. Replace lamp if damaged and adjust the shade.

14.  Disinfect the telephone in the room and bathroom with the Dettol Wipe balance of the telephone with a damp cloth. Then check for dial tone.

15.  Clean mirrors with a dry cloth first then with a damp news paper, to make it sparkling.

16.  Dust all the closet, shelves hangers and rods. Brush the closet floor. Supply new laundry bags and replace the missing hangers

17.  Dust both sides of the room doors, head boards, window sills inside and outside the window rails air conditioning unit.

18.  Close all the windows.

19.  Change the bed linens and bath linens.

20.  Arrange the furniture if necessary.

21.  Have a final look at the room.

22.  Inform the desk control the room is ready and guest room cleaning is done.

 Hotel Public area cleaning

Public areas are the common places and facilitates accessible to in house guest and non-resident guest. Guest requires common areas to meet, sit and carry other activities. The place comes under the are lobby, restaurants, bars, banquets, and other Food and Beverage Outlets. Public area cleaning is the most important and challenging task for hotel / hospitality housekeeping. Since most of the public areas are highly traffic area, housekeeping maintains a deep cleaning schedule for those areas at night and regular cleaning and maintenance during the day time.

Public area cleaning:

 1.    Entrance:

Guest get their 1st impression of hotel from the entrance lobby. Entrances which arecnot cleaned and maintained daily, it will become unpleasant for the guest due to heavy traffic and exposure. The maintenance and cleaning of the entrance and the door is important . So proper and daily cleaning is required in this areas. Normally cleaning is done at night.

 2.    Lobbies:

These are the common meeting points of the guest near the reception. Many lobbies are carpeted while others are hard flooring. Floors in the lobbies are need to be cleaned frequently., since these are spaces where guest interact., relax etc. Lobbies may have high ceilings elaborate chandelier which are difficult to clean so it is cleaned at night. The daily cleaning tasks involves

Public area cleaning of waste     paper bins and ashtrays at

Flower arrangement should be     done daily as a part of Public area cleaning.

Glass surface and windows to be     cleaned daily.

Doors and door knobs to be     dusters and cleaned daily.

Any stain on the carpets and     upholstery should be cleaned immediately.

Hard floor should be mopped     regularly.

 3.    Front office:

Housekeeping department is responsible for this Public area cleaning and maintaining of front office because front office is the face of the hotel. So daily cleaning of the department is required. Mopping of the floor, dusting of the furniture and fixture and vacuuming of carpets are essentials.

 4.    Elevators:

Elevators must be cleaned at the time of day when it is least used. The necessary boards indicating the cleaning is carried out must be displayed promptly. Elevators doors are made of steel. In steel door shows lots of grease marks from finger easily. Elevators should be cleaned daily and more through cleaning may be done on periodic basic.

 5.    Stair case:

Stair case should be cleaned when there is less traffic. While cleaning of staircase care should be taken that dart and dust do not fall down words.

 6.    Guest corridors:

While cleaning of the corridors necessary boards indicating the public area cleaning is carried on must be displayed prominently. Carpets in the corridors should be vacuumed daily. The cleaning tasks of the guest corridors are as follows

Carpets should be vacuumed     regularly.

The wall skirting should be     cleaned regularly.

Any finger marks on the walls     should be cleaned immediately.

All the wall painting should be     dusted every day.

 7.    Banquet hall:

Banquet hall mainly used for conferences, weddings exhibition etc. So proper public area cleaning is required for this department. The cleaning includes mopping of floor, vacuuming of the floor carpets regular dusting of fixture and furniture are required.

 8.    Health club:

Health club is another hotel facility provided to the guest to exercise and work out. So proper cleaning of machine is required daily because it is the busiest ares. The cleaning tasks of the health club are as follows

Proper dusting of equipments.

Damp dusting of furniture

Cleaning of glass and window     panel.

Cleaning of carpet floor

Removing of soil linens and     replacing with the fresh linen for future use.

 9.    Swimming Pool:

Regular Public area cleaning and disinfecting of swimming pool is important for the point of hygiene. If is not regularly cleaned swimming pool may becomes carries of water borne disease.

Maid’s Cart/ Room Attendants’ Trolley

Also called a room attendants’ trolley, maid’s cart, or chambermaids’ trolley, this is perhaps the most significant piece of equipment in the housekeeping department. It is like a giant toolbox, stocked with everything necessary to service a guestroom effectively. Most such carts available now are made of metal, but sometimes wooden cart may be used. The cart should be spacious enough to carry all supplies needed for a GRA to complete half a day’s room assignments. Since the cart is large and may be heavily loaded, it must be easily movable as well. The cart should be well organized so that the GRAs do not have to waste time in searching for supplies or make frequent trips back to the supply room. Also, if the cart is not stacked neatly, it will look very unsightly when in guests view. There is usually one such cart for each room section and it is stored in the floor pantry along with other housekeeping supplies.

           Most of these carts have 3 deep shelves-the lower two for linen and the top, portioned shelf for small supplies. The carts also have a sack for soiled linen, detachable trash bags, and storage space for vacuum cleaner and a hand caddy. While arranging the linen on the cart, it should be kept in mind that the heavier linen must be placed on the lowermost shelf and the smaller, lighter ones on the top shelf.

Following is an organized room attendants’ cart:

  1.    Water tumblers and trays

2.    Water bottles/jugs

3.    Ashtrays and matchboxes

4.    Shoe mitts, Sewing kits, Bible/Gita

5.    Service directories, telephone books, business kits

6.    Guest stationery, ball point pens and pencils, scribbling pads

7.    DND cards, guest house rules, breakfast knob cards, “polish my shoe” cards, room service menu, tent cards, “clean my room” cards, telegraph forms

8.    Laundry forms, Laundry bags

9.    Cloth hangers

10.  Light bulbs

11.  Toilet roils, toilet tissues, blade dispensers, shower caps

12.  Shampoo Bottles, soap bars, soap buds, foam bath, loofah pads, cotton wool, dental kit, cologne, after shave

13.  Toilet strips, sanitary pads

14.  Soiled linen bag

15.  Trash bag

16.  Vacuum cleaner

17.  Broom

18.  Hand caddy: all purpose cleaner, window cleaner, bowl brush, cloths and sponges, rubber gloves, disinfectants, naphthalene balls, room fresheners, deodoriser, basso, wax polish, scrubber

 Linen

19.  Face towels-2/room

20.  Hand towels-2/room

21.  King pillowcases-2/bed(fold in pairs)

22.  Standards pillowcases-2/bed(fold in pairs)

23.  Bath towels-2/bathroom

24.  Standard sheet-2/twin bed(fold in pairs)

25.  Double sheets-2/double bed(fold in pairs)

26.  King shets-2/king bed(fold in pairs)

27.  Mattress protectors

28.  Bath mats

29.  Bed spreads (a few to replace if necessary)

30.  Guest key box

  Housekeeping supplies found in a room attendants’ cart:

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Tips on How to Increase Waste Management Efficiency for a Small Business or Corporate Office

Every business creates waste. Even companies who plant trees create waste products in their efforts. Your average Toronto corporate office generally fixates on other priorities above management of their waste. That doesn’t mean it isn’t important.

A lot of offices in Toronto want ways to reduce waste, increase recycling, and manage the waste they have to create. As a waste disposal company, there are two pieces of advice we give on this – properly dispose of the waste you’re already creating and use alternatives to reduce the waste created.

Where are there opportunities to purpose and reuse your office business waste?

An office that wants to be smart about their waste needs relationships. A lot of larger multi-national corporations launch initiatives based off these relationships that focus on recycling and/or repurposing waste.

As a small business or independent business, the biggest opportunity there is to develop relationships that allow you to repurpose waste is by hiring a waste disposal company. Waste disposal, junk removal, dumpster, and mini bin rental companies all have partners in waste management and recycling facilities. They do this on a daily basis. They also know where to take things like electronics and furniture which can be donated.

How do I make a waste management strategy for my business?

Every corporate office, small business, or commercial establishment of any kind should have some sort of a waste disposal plan in place. A business can’t get by without it. If you want to control your office waste better, get to know the waste you’re creating and where it’s going.

A key component of a waste management plan is where you’re going to put the waste. Dumpster rentals and mini bin rentals can be advantageous for this reason. If you don’t have space for a dumpster, consider assigning a room to be your ‘waste room’ ensuring it doesn’t conflict with fire safety standards.

Throughout your office, you want to have the necessary garbage cans to collect and keep separate the waste and recycling as well.

What is the value of a waste disposal service for my business?

Core Mini Bins is a top Toronto waste disposal service with dumpsters, mini bins, junk removal, and other business-friendly services. There are several benefits to working with a waste management company like our own.

 Convenience.  Find better ways to manage your waste.  Reduce your impact on the environment and get the numbers to show it.  Have a way to separate hazardous materials to ensure proper disposal.  Have strategies to safely dispose of or recycle electronics, metals, and chemicals.  Cost-effectiveness.  Receive customized suggestions on a waste management plan that prioritizes landfill waste reduction.  Get more space in your office to work with, after removing broken equipment and instituting a waste collection area.  Ensure no fines relating to waste disposal are assigned to your business.

How can I maximize the affordability of a waste disposal plan for a business?

If you find that it’s going to cost you more to successfully manage waste through a dumpster rental, one strategy is to try and split these costs between other businesses. If you’re fortunate enough to have a business neighbour, ask to see if they want to share the expense with you.

Depending on the situation, you may need to ask a neighbour for their permission to install a dumpster on the premises anyways. If they do agree to split the costs with you, that’s instant savings on your wallet and without compromising the efficiency of your office waste management strategy.

Do I need junk removal for my Toronto business?

Increasing waste management efficiency can sometimes mean starting with a clean slate. Decluttering an office is a great way to get out the things you don’t need and start anew. Assuming there’s equipment you’re not using, computer or electronics waste that hasn’t yet been addressed, and other objects you want gone, schedule a small business Toronto junk removal.

A junk removal service will drop in and pick up everything you want to part with. Before scheduling the pick-up, give yourself the time to sort through everything in the office. Some office managers may want to allow themselves a weekend to do this. If you have office electronics, chemicals, hazardous materials, or other special items that require special consideration, mention this to the company.

What waste can be recycled in an office?

A lot of what offices produce in waste is recyclable but some waste understandably isn’t. Efforts to reduce waste in landfills from your office involve replacing non-recyclables with recyclable alternatives. Here is a quick list of office recyclables in Toronto.

 Paper products, including newspapers, cardboard, flyers, and shredded documents.  Aluminum.  Electronics such as televisions, computers, monitors, printers, tablets, and phones.  Paints including most aerosols, varnishes, and stains.  Batteries can be recycled through Home Depot or Staples.  Fluorescent light tubes require special handling but can be recycled.

What are some strategies to use to increase office recycling?

The more you recycle, the less landfill waste you create – that’s the bottom line. If you want to own an eco-friendly, environmentally sustainable business, pro-recycling strategies should be a focus of your waste management plan. Here are our best tips on how to increase office recycling.

 Separate organics. If you have an office kitchen, have a separate trash can for food scraps, paper towels and napkins, coffee grinds and tea bags, and compostable plates and cutlery.

 Purchase inventory that is recyclable. Eliminate waste that isn’t. For example, single-use plastics relating to food packaging, straws, and plastic bags have alternatives. Be mindful of what you’re buying for the office. Ask if there’s a pro-recycling alternative that can replace it.

 Have systems in place to collect more recycling so that recyclables aren’t ending up in the trash because of there being no place to put them. Common recycling materials mistaken as waste in offices include electronics, light bulbs, batteries, printer and toner cartridges, cardboard, aluminum cans, and magazines.

 Stop buying disposable coffee cups. The average office worker in Canada uses 500 disposable cups a year. Instead of disposables, provide reusable coffee mugs and water bottles. This cuts out a huge amount of waste going into your waste stream on a daily basis.

 Encourage a paperless office environment. While few offices can go fully paperless, opt for digital communications whenever possible. Edit and proof any documents on the computer before printing. Try to print on both sides of the paper, when you do have to print. Try to switch all paperwork relating to purchasing and invoicing, memos, announcements, and internal communications to email.

Opportunities to increase office recycling exist. Are you ready to take your office waste management to the next level – call Core Mini Bins today.

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Challenges of Travel Writing: Sharing My Experiences

Living out and about

Expounding on places you see, as and go gaga for right now world is an intriguing encounter for any essayist. Proficient or essentially enthusiastic about words, with an abstract foundation or only a devoted and explorer, we frequently want to impart our emotions and impressions to the others - family, companions or mysterious perusers. Based on our immediate encounters we may be enticed to make proposals about spots or to depict with our own words the sentiments and delights animated by a specific corner we were sufficiently fortunate to find Penwell Safaris The least demanding and most reasonable approach to do it is by taking pictures. They are only a single tick away and, except if you don't expect to make after a show or to distribute in a lustrous audit, you don't require uncommon aptitudes. The across the board utilization of computerized cameras offers to anyone, up to the record and interests, the likelihood to fix your memory in pictures, simple to download and simple to share - off or on the web. An image may talk the language of thousand of expressions of a potential book. Also, you don't require an excessive amount of motivation for taking them: be in the opportune spot, at the correct minute and snap. It is all you need - not, as on account of composing, a unique space, quiet, a scratch pad or a PC.

In any case, in the event that you need to accomplish more than posting or printing some photographs on the Internet, and you are aching for transforming into an incidental or committed travel essayist, you open the correct cabinet. This book is for you: a short non-comprehensive and open to conversation manage about how to all the more likely utilize your words for recounting to great anecdotes about spots you visited.

Possibly you don't plan presently to transform into an expert essayist. Furthermore, it is conceivable that your contacts with the composing scene are sporadic. In any case, in a similar time, you accept that you need to share some way or another to the universe of thoughts your own rendition of the truth. It may be accessible for any sort of composing exercises, climate is about news coverage, writing, verse, youngsters books or...the subject of our book: travel composing. On the off chance that you feel profoundly satisfied when you compose, it is an explanation enough to proceed to clean and refine your style. It isn't your calling and the wellspring of your pay. Be that as it may, more than your every day plan, we have to depend on our fantasies and interests. Also, if travel composing is one of them, be certain that you will discover enough time in your day by day program to work to your fantasies.

In the event that your interest and intrigue are sufficiently greater, we plan to offer you in the accompanying pages top notch headings for a subjective included an incentive into your composing profession. Moreover, if the title of our booklet is responding to certain inquiries and distractions you previously communicated, we want to offer a bigger as conceivable help for your aims. Our expectation is offering you the best rules for progress of your composing plans. You are allowed to settle on further the decisions you think about the most right, by distinguishing the satisfactory publication plans. What's more, obviously, I completely ask you to make your own commitments, by sharing your own composing encounters.

As an energetic essayist myself, I find the joy of movement composing generally later in my composing profession. In examination with different tasks I was included - as political reporting, for example, - the test of explicitly stating my own special travel encounters not as simple as I anticipated. Right now, was more than relating stripped statistical data points, it was tied in with sharing a novel inclination motivated by a spot, an individual involvement with certainty. Furthermore, I should admit that toward the starting I was hesitant to do it, just in light of the fact that in my discernment, the genuine reporting and the immediate, individual comprehension were at an extraordinary degree inconsistent. In any case, I was overlooking a straightforward truth: I was confronting a totally different composition and journalistic class. What's more, it set aside me a touch of effort to enter an alternate shape and style.

The contemplations remembered for the accompanying pages are only a short paper in sharing my experience of explorer and essayist, exercises that are for quite a while part of my every day life. There are down to earth advices - as, how to make your compositions known to a more extensive open utilizing the internet based life apparatuses - or elaborate contemplations - about the most fitting approaches to talk about the subject - or even authoritative angles - concerning arranging and archiving your excursions.

Our point is extremely basic: helping you to appreciate however much as could be expected both the delight of composing and of voyaging.

For those keen on tasting the expressions of exceptionally assessed proficient journalists, I arranged an all-inclusive rundown of writing suggestions, going a long ways past the old style touristic guides you are purchasing before going into an outing.

I might want to end this initial section with another couple of individual contemplations about both travel and composing. As I composed, for a long time as of now, travel is a piece of my day by day life. Possibly I am finding the spots of the town I am living in - not generally the equivalent - or I am pressing to see another mainland and nation, I am continually feeling the euphoria of finding out about new places, new societies and to meet new individuals. IT is an important piece of my school-of-life training. Without this standard crazy ride plan, I feel less myself. This is the explanation I am playing out this custom as frequently as could reasonably be expected. I had the brilliant opportunity to live and go in intriguing spots far and wide and I am persuaded that astonishing different spots are as yet hanging tight for me. In the blink of an eye: I love to travel.

The Never Ending Task of Polishing the Words

You may be a characteristic conceived essayist, yet without exercise and order of your day by day program your ability would be squandered effectively.

Composing could be a charming movement, however in a similar time, as any educated action, it isn't easy. Obviously, you don't have to run or to put your wellbeing on preliminary, however the scholarly consideration and exertion required could liken now and again the groundwork for a long distance race. As on account of running, you need exercise and experience for effectively arriving at your objectives.

The typical composing action looks at times as a ceaseless story: composing, modifying, altering, altering once more. This is the sweet tedium of each one of those for whom playing with words is the fundamental employment or enthusiasm. Toward the finish of the procedure, it may happen to lose the joy to peruse again - or ever - your words. Be that as it may, years after, it may be an exceptionally charming shock.

Two or three viable contemplations will facilitate your work, accessible when all is said in done for any sort of compositions:

- Polishing your words may be an extremely debilitating and hostile to motivational phase of your composing ventures, yet never abstain from doing this in any event twice. Indeed, even your thoughts are splendid, a terrible language structure or different incorrect spelling will demoralize any editorial manager or distributing house to think about your works for distributing

- Before beginning your day by day composing program, be certain that you have a simple access to a lexicon - of equivalent words, of expressions of the language you are writing in - a sentence structure rules, on the web or disconnected Internet assets - for quick checking of the right spelling of the names of spots or for getting to different authentic and social references fundamental in making setting of your works. Your validity made by various little subtleties and specialized components part of your movement, among which the precision of the data sent to your perusers or the abstract nature of the composed content. It isn't in every case simple and you need lasting endeavors for improving and updating yourself. Demeanor accessible for some other sort of expert exercises.

- Take your time and attempt to concentrate however much as could reasonably be expected regarding your matter. At the point when you are beginning to compose, anything besides your works matters. It is possible that you have 20 minutes or 2 days, concentrating on your composing must be the most significant piece of your day, during which put on-pause some other tedious exercises - as, forever checking your email or internet based life accounts.

- Read however much as could be expected writing important to your subjects. Be refreshed with the fundamental patterns and worries in the region, by partaking to different on the web or genuine courses and conversations. Be dynamic and bring up your issues and issues by participating to different conversation gatherings - on Google or Facebook.

Arranging your Writing

Along these lines, before beginning another section be certain that you have a general calendar of your composing program - an inexact arranging of the outcomes you plan to make, as of the principle thoughts you need remember for your work. What's more, obviously, get ready of being basic enough with your compositions.

Prior to beginning to compose, attempt to ask yourself several inquiries:

- What I need to expound on? You may be enticed to cover huge and liberal themes as: Paris, travel. Be that as it may, your inventiveness and imagination comprise in finding new edges and viewpoints. Subsequently, by being increasingly explicit - as, the morning from the window of my lodging - you will focus new and intriguing data.

- How I need to expound on? An exchange, an individual memoire, a short story, a portrayal of a particular touristic administration - as, an inn or methods for transportation.

- For whom would I like to compose? It may sound trade, yet you generally need to envision how your crowd looks like and thinks. It is a sightseeing publication, a blog for companions - case in which, for instance, referencing a few experiences of individuals every one of you realize will add a well-known note to your works, a short story for kids and so forth. In the event that you are composing for a magazine, your undertaking is simpler, as you have as of now the general depiction of the market.

- How much time I have available to me? Once more, in the event that you need to manage magazines' cutoff times, your whole work must be deliberately composed to cover all the three phases I referenced previously: documentation, writ

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Nothing Could Compare

Note to self : Needs to be proofread again

A/N : Sorry guys! I know its been a while since I’ve posted but I was lying in bed and this idea just came to me. I thought it was a good prompt and rushed to write it out for you guys to read so here you go~! I hope you guys like it c: (Please excuse it if it absolutely horrible, I haven’t wrote for Newt in a while)

- Newt is stressed about finishing his book and has been ignoring Y/N by spending more time in his case and with his creatures rather than with her. Y/N was ok with it for a while but soon it becomes too much. -

It’s been a whole two weeks and you were starting to lose faith in your relationship with Newt. The stability you felt was crumbling from underneath your feet as you continued to avoid confronting him about it. 

You knew better than to do so though. You understood that it was no one’s fault other than your own. Communication was one of the most important factors in a relationship and if you were feeling like this way, it was up to you to speak up about it. 

You knew you had to do it but you just wanted to try to figure out why first. You didn’t know what had happened for him to be acting like this. The only time you’d see him out of the case was to grab something then he’d rush back inside without a single glance or word. You had tried to start dozens of conversations with him either when you’d bring him something to eat or with a cup of his favorite tea but he’d just brush you off and walk in the other direction. 

You knew that you needed to voice your concerns and communicate instead of waiting for something to magically happen but you were scared of what he’d say to you. After pacing around the room for a few more minutes, you came to understand that one of the main reasons you were reluctant to say anything were to spare your feelings.

It hurt seeing your relationship become like this. Your heart basically cracked and crumbled under all the anxiety and stress this was causing you. With every cold shoulder and if you got lucky an emotionless reply, it felt like he was talking another step away from you and soon you’d be alone. 

The flat the two of you shared and started to call home after settling from your travels didn’t give you as much comfort as it was before. It had grown cold without Newt there, smiling and laughing. You tried to keep busy by cleaning up and running errands to keep Newt’s supplies up to stock but your mind would always drift back to him.

You missed him though. You missed seeing him smile, hearing him laugh, and curling your fingers through his soft auburn hair while the two of you lied down on the couch. 

The pacing stopped and you soon found yourself planted on to the floor. Searching through your mind, you looked for anything that may have caused him to act this way but as usual, nothing.

What happened? You seemed to have asked yourself that question dozens of times now. You had to be overlooking something… You continued to beat yourself up until something new popped into your mind. 

What if he lost interest in you? 

The sudden new thought nailed you to the floor. Maybe that was it and he didn’t know how to break it to you. Newt was never the one to express his thoughts or feelings about people if he knew that it would cause a problem or upset them. So perhaps that was why he was avoiding you, to give himself time to think of a way to break it you. 

“I can’t be bloody perfect for you, Y/N!” Newt threw down the paperwork in his hand on the desk before whipping around to face you. His disheveled hair acting like a curtain that hid a portion of his tense expression. 

“You haven’t been listening to anything I’ve been saying, have you?” Your voice rose to match the frustration you felt towards the magizoologist. Having a shouting contest with Newt was definitely not how you wanted to go about this. Unfortunately your frustration had gotten the best of you and it had blown totally out of proportion but you were too worked up to care at the moment to think rationally. “I’m not asking you to be perfect, Newt! I’m asking for a little bit of consideration!” You shouted at him.

Newt seemed to have been taken back by your comment and took a second to just look at you until his face grew a darker shade of red. “You don’t think I’m being considerate? I’ve been working myself to the bone over this book!” He grabbed the paper off of the desk, crinkling the paper in between his fingers and practically jabbed it in front of your face. It was almost as if he thought you didn’t know and that you’d been completely oblivious. “This book is paying for the roof over your head! It’s paying for the food on the table! It’s paying for everything you see around you now! I’m losing sleep over this book, trying to finish it before the deadline so we don’t lose everything. All I ask is for peace and quiet while I work and collect my thoughts but all you can do is bother me! Constantly disrupting my work space and interrupting my train of thought. Go do me a favor, go back to doing nothing and leave me alone, Y/N, because you’re honestly a bloody nuisance. I don’t need you here…” 

You were lost for words. You had no idea that he felt this way towards you. As his words sunk into you, it felt like your heart had shattered into a million pieces. 

You couldn’t look at him anymore, you couldn’t bear to. Tearing your eyes away from him, you couldn’t do anything but nodding once to let him know that you understood and he didn’t need to continue on stomping on your heart. In the end, you were right and he did lose feelings for you, just it was much more worse that you had thought. By now, Newt had turned away from you and was leaning over his desk with both hands gripping the edges. The soft little chirps from Pickett the only thing that filled the silence. 

Taking a step back towards the ladder and away from Newt, you twisted your hands together as if to wring out the remains of your love for him. “I suppose you’re right, Newt...” You answered back with a shaky breath, not totally sure how you were suppose to answer to his confession. “I am pretty useless huh?” An uneasy laugh left your lips as a single tear ran down your cheek. You quickly used the back of your sleeve to wipe it away before it could fall from your chin. You had opened your mouth to say something else but you only started to sob. Clamping a hand your mouth to muffled the sounds, you whispered a weak apology and swiftly climbed out of the case. Tears streamed down your cheeks as your emotions got the best of you. 

Slamming the case shut, you immediately rushed into the kitchen to retrieve your wand off of the counter. 

You didn’t belong here. You didn’t belong in a place where you were hated.  The flat was almost suffocating, caving in on you as Newt’s words echoed through your mind. 

You wanted to leave. You needed to leave. You tried your best to calm yourself enough to apparate somewhere, anywhere when you heard rushed down the hallway and soon Newt emerged out of your room. 

Panicked and very much so overwhelmed, you apparated out of his line of sight. You were absolutely terrified of what else he was going to say to you. With black mist and smoke shrouding your vision, you decided to close your eyes and let yourself disappear away from Newt. 

It was hard to know how long it took but eventually you felt a hard surface under your feet. Hastily you steadied yourself from falling over before taking a look at your surroundings. 

“Y/N!” The sound of a cup shattering against the floor echoed through the living room, remind you of your heart moments ago.

“Hello…” You tried your best to give your mother a small smile but couldn’t even muster up enough energy to even do that. 

“Y/N honey, is something the matter? I wasn’t expecting you to come and visit-” Her sentence was cut short as you raced towards her, tears streaming down your cheeks. You clung on to her with all your might as heavy sobs took over. 

“I can not believe that that git said that to you!” Your friend angrily walked back and forth in front of your bed with steam whistling out of her ears. “Does he not realize what you had to give up to go with him and help finish that book! The book that is so apparently more important that you! I can not- I can’t believe that he said that to you.” She stopped pacing to look at you dead in the eye.“Y/N, if it wasn’t for him, you could have been a potions master by now . Think of all the jobs you were offered! Think about the life you could be living right now instead of crying over him!” She slapped her hands over her face and just groaned, frustrated and outraged. You were really sure you heard a muffled ‘idiot’ somewhere in between.

It’s been a few days since your fall out with Newt and you’ve been staying with your mother for the time being until you figured out the next steps of your life. The pain you felt had dulled down to a numbness the more you thought about it. As much as you wanted to lie somewhere and mop, you knew better. You gave yourself time to just think about what had happened and you could somewhat see where he was coming from. However you weren’t going to say that it was all his fault and that you had done nothing wrong. You could have tried to help him a little more with his book or maybe help tend to his creatures and generally be out of his way. Newt didn’t need someone that was going to be hindrance to something he was passionate about.  He needed something better than you.

You’ve come to understand that not everything was forever and your relationship with Newt unfortunately fell under that category.

“Yes…I know, Y/B/F/N but that’s not my biggest concern right now.” You replied quietly to her. You knew fully well of what you gave up to be with Newt but it didn’t matter right now did it? You frowned, staring down into your cup of tea that was cradled in your hands. Newt hated you and what’s done is done. The only thing you should be thinking about was what you were going to do now. You couldn’t exactly stay with your mother forever, no matter how much she insisted. “Do you think Mrs.Jacobson still needs help at her shop?” Your friend snorted and crossed her arms over her chest. “That old bat needs all the help she can get, charging 2 galleons for the smallest lump of bezoar!” And for the first time since Newt, you cracked smile.

“Are you sure you want to leave, honey? It could be dangerous. What if you got hurt?” Your mother hovered over you as you double checked your suitcase one more time. You decided a small trip traveling around the country would be a nice experience. It would give you time to find what you wanted to do next.

“Mhm, I think some time for myself will do me some good. Give me some time to be alone and find myself.” You barely heard the knock at the door while you put a few more items into your case. 

“But what about Newt, Y/N? Don’t you want to fix your relationship with him?” Your mother asked as she walked around you to answer the door.

“I-I honestly don’t know. I haven’t really thought about him.” 

“I’d like to change that.” You stopped trying to secure the latches on your suitcase and looked up to see Newt standing at the front door. The tall man stood nervously looking right back at you. He turned to your mother with a polite smile. “I’m sorry but may I speak to you for a minute, Y/N?” She nodded ,understanding the situation, and excused herself to give you some privacy. “May I come in?” You wordlessly nodded and led Newt over to the couch so you two could sit down.You were kind of taken back, you haven’t expected him to show up at your mother’s house to talk to you. You figured that the two of you would drift apart and one day you’d see his book in bookstores across the nation. Newt followed close behind you and set his case down before taking the seat next to you. During the silence, you took the chance to absorb his current state. He looked tired. There were bags under his eyes, his hair was unkempt, and his clothes were all out of place. 

You started to worry if he’s been taking care of himself over the last couple days. 

“How have you been, Newt?” You stared at your hands on your lap, not totally sure of how to talk to him. 

Newt sighed. “To be honest, awful.” You nodded your head as a high of acknowledgment. He gently parted your hands from each other and took them in his. “Please look at me, Y/N. I’d like to make this right while I look into your beautiful eyes.” You  slowly lifted your head up to look into Newt’s eyes. Slightly taken back by the emotion in his eyes, you patiently waited for him to say something. “I wanted apologize for what I said and my behavior. It was absolutely unacceptable and quite dreadful.” He gave your hands a light squeeze as he spoke. “In the time I spent without you, I had come to realized how truly important you are to me. I was wrong to call you useless and I’m nothing while you are absolutely everything. I’ve come to realize that I can only be at my best when I’m with you, Y/N. Nothing could compared to you. Will you ever find it in your heart to forgive me?” Newt looked at you with hopeful eyes, his hands held yours tight as if he was scared you’d pull away from him.

Once his words sunk in, you could feel the tears collecting in your eyes. “You want me by your side again?” Your voice was shaky when you asked him. 

“Of course! I’d want nothing more…only of you’re ok with it. I understand-” Leaning forward, you closed the distance between you and Newt. Putting your hands on both of his cheeks, you pressed your lips against his. Newt frozen for a second before his arms wrapped around your waist. Pulling you on to his lap, Newt held you close. 

Pulling back, you locked eyes with Newt for a moment with a small smile spreading on to your face. “I missed you, Newt.”

- The End - 

Soo what did you guys think? Did it seem a lil rushed because I was trying to finished before bed and I was getting tired xD haha Please let me know what you thought~! ♥ Its been quite a while since I’ve written for Mr.Scamander. I kinda feel like I’m out of practice and didn’t get his character right. Your feedback is always welcomed with open arms! 

I’m so sorry, I believe there was one lovely person that wanted to be tagged in every Newt imagine I did. I tried to find the note I had written your name on so I would remember to tagged you but couldn’t find it so if you’re still out there please message me if you still want to be tagged Q.Q  I’m awful I know and I’m sorry but if anyone else wanted to be tagged as well please shoot me a message♥

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TLDR: meditations on how to be with other people and deal with obstacles and grow yourself “like humans do” in theatre-life and whatever the other “real”-life thing is. (THAT POOR GIRL - week 2.)

It’s hard to believe only two weeks of rehearsal have gone by.

I feel like I’ve known these people forever.

And that’s the first thing that occurs to me.

I actually don’t know much factually about most of them. What do I know?  I know that I find them highly endearing; that I think of them in fondness.  And I know something more intuitive (more intuitive than fondness? or, the thing that allows for that), something about the way each of their presences feels in the room.  I wonder if they feel this, or what they feel.  (It’s a distinctive sort of process in that there are usually only two actors onstage or in the rehearsal space at a time.)

 I had forgotten that this was a thing.  Not really forgotten – not like a big ol’ eraser ran over my memory – but had lost the sensation of it, in all its significant immediacy.  The last time I was part of a cast was over two years ago.  And now, well, I’m still not part of the cast (I’m this strange, strange bystander), but I find my body seated many hours per week in one place, amongst one group of people. Almost as though I belonged to something. Or that I didn’t belong, but it still had made itself my home, not much choice on either of our ends. We grew around each other. Or the rock settled into the soil. (That would make me: the rock. The soil this fertile thing happening to be around me.)

 You spend approximately 42 hours per week with a group of fellow students in a classroom over the course of a semester (3 hours per week in each other’s presence x 14 weeks).  In a matter of 2 weeks, I’ve spent approximately 52 hours amidst a group of the same people in various combinations in two spaces (rehearsal studio and stage/theatre space).

 It’s highly condensed, but an inevitable degree of bonding. A natural phenomenon.

Even as I simply sit there and silently watch.

 (n.b. though this is, you see, why I do not and cannot know how the actors feel, as their level and mode of engagement with the process and with each other is considerably different.  Or the [beloved] [crazy committed] crew folks, for that matter, as they would seem likewise more intricately engaged.  …But, you see, this distanced perspective of observation is actually not dissimilar at all from my own usual idiosyncratic mode of participating in [social] life…)

 Okie dokie.

Maybe I’ll get back to this interpersonal mushy gushy intense stuff.

But I wanted to tell you about something else intense.

And that is the rake.

(In case you have not been checking out my awed posts on the one and only Instagram.)

 One thing I wanted to tell you about the rake is that it is steep.

Yeah. That’s the main thing, actually.  Yup.

Like…you look at it…and you’re like, “Um. Hi, there. Steep architectural entity. Hill?  Oh, sorry, nope, mountain.  Uh…wow.  So…Like…that’s…a stage?  DOPE. I’m still bewildered, I think? But – that’s lit!”

It’s got immediate visual impact, is what I’m getting at.

 And the other thing I wanted to tell you, which is, in fact, not unrelated to the former statement, is that I realized recently the extent of my fear of steep things.  It’s not exactly a fear of heights, but it’s something like that. For those who do not experience this fear [read: COMPLETE TERROR], I tried to go skiing with my family this winter, and (having managed it without too much difficulty throughout my childhood, i.e. having learned to ski, only in the past few years beginning to struggle with it) I could barely make it down the mountain.  The anxiety was entire; all I could think about was how much I wanted to cry; stress fills the body, fills crevices you might not have known existed and wish you didn’t come to know the existence of.

 The feeling is one of being stuck somewhere from which you cannot escape.  The fear of heights may be more like a fear of falling.  The fear of steep places is like claustrophobia exacerbated by a simultaneous perception of in fact a tremendous depth of space around you (like a camera zooming in and out, repeatedly?).

And the only way out is down the mountain.

You see the problem.

The only way out is down – or rather, intensely through the dimensions of the space – of this thing which is triggering in you an at least metaphorically existential style of terror.

Your objective is clear.  Your obstacle: no less so.

 I tell you all this in order to more fully communicate the appreciation I gained for the actors over the past week.  You would think it’d be all fine and dandy to have a playground like this.  It genuinely looks like fun.  It is the play of shapes. (Hence, a thing of beauty, at least to me.)

But I ran up the first couple yards of the set,

then got to the midway point and

froze.

(I almost wonder now how I got down.)

 Sure, sure, I sound melodramatic, and I get it.  I’m totally an overemotional person, except for when I’m trying to channel my inner zen, and then I’m emotional about how invested I am in my zen. So.

 But we’re at that stage in the rehearsal process when the characters and their words and their actions threaten to become too comfortable.  When all the scenes are blocked, and the actors are mostly off-book, and the profound thing about which to wonder is how to be new and real people to each other and to oneself again, and now, and then again.

 What occurred to me within a short span after transitioning to the stage space is that the rake provides a natural obstacle for the actor in pursuit of his/her objective.  So I admire the actors for the flexibility suddenly required of them, to physically adjust, to occupy space in a new way.  And I admire the design for the instant magic it cannot help but generate. With the floor coming at you at a 30-degree angle, or going away from you by the same measure, however it unleashes itself upon you, you have no choice but to become real again.  Your character, in a very material way, is forced to encounter the activity of living, in all its tangible experiential terrain, and the spontaneity of one’s responsivity to that terrain.

 In other words:

I dig the rake.

 Even if I might have cried for a hot minute if I was the one acting on it.

 Also – it just creates (again, magically, instantly) this unceasing sense of movement.  It allows for stillness, but it’s a tenuous stillness, so that not just the actors but the audience (I think, it seems) must be aware, newly aware, of the space they are in, and the way particles vibrate between one corner or plane and another.  It’s pretty.  And it’s aesthetically appealing in an intense way.  It’s modern for even the space we think we rest on to be on the go.

 As I watch Knud continue to direct the actors, I think of clay. His work is to be attuned to those very vibrations, and to shift them as subtly as possible to yield the greatest resonances possible.  You work with the material, you knead and knead what is in front of you, what is present, until it somehow becomes somehow more present.

 He urges the actors to be “nimble” (ever more relevant on the rake).  He’s been reminding them of clarity, specificity, energy, given circumstances, the real-clean-no-in-between of decision making, the “carving out history with sharpness,” the “delicious” quality of knowledge and of obtaining and sharing that knowledge. Now that there is a “shape” to the piece, he challenges them to “fill” it “organically.”  How can you use the precision of choreographed blocking to help you? With clear intentions – moment by moment – how much can you earn? How can you relax into your, and the character’s, body?  How “easy” and “capable” can you be?

 I’m thinking about all this, hearing it, as I (frequently) chew gum.  Theme and variations: tension.  Particularly: constructive tension.  I like chewing gum because it can relocate tension from, say, my neck to this resonance in the material between my teeth.  I like texture.  (In general, I’m just, I don’t know, into texture, hyped up about it, it sets my aesthetic and taste into full gear.)  A minty flavor is also of course good for de-stressing.  And that flavor, re-centering me, combined with the continuity of the motion of chewing, restores a naturalness to breathing.  The energy of the tension is guided towards the creative.

 It’s a leap, I know, and it’s an eye-gouging mixture of metaphors;

but this gum-chewing is not so far from

the directing-actors-like-they-are-clay-to-be-molded

is not so far from

how to exist on a steep floor

and further

to move on it.

 If there’s been a tagline for rehearsals this past week, it’s been to act “like humans do.”  It makes me laugh every time.  And I adore it.  Because it’s hard to act.  It’s hard to remember.  It’s hard to recall then embody and express what it is to be a human in this reconstructed environment.  And it’s also hard to be a human.  In general. In daily life.

 The questions a director asks of actors are (embarrassingly? frighteningly? Poignantly) close to those I ask myself on a regular basis. How does one talk with and/or for another?  What do we let others see?  How do we “hang out” (what does that even mean?)?  How do we be there for each other?  How can I listen? Respond?  I think often of Stanislavski’s exploration of “public solitude”… An eternally private person, how do we [manage to] live or come to life on the various stages we land upon or within?

 Knud has recently been probing the actors to “lean into the flaws of the characters” rather than “boxing with pillows on their hands.”  It’s a great image.

It probably says a lot about some cross between the zen and the overly emotional.

It definitely says something like what my mother has often said to me about not trying to ski against the mountain.

Beautifully, it evokes the potential for empathy for even those with whom our own integrity insists we disagree.

 This is what it means to discover tenderness.

 This is what it means for me to sit in the rehearsal room and seem to do nothing.

I only see pieces of people, but there are so many pieces, and there is, in the end, only fondness for what is seen. Glimpses.  It’s so hard to be with other people, to know the moves to make, to know their effects, to learn about another person and to learn about oneself in the same breath.  As far as I’m concerned (in all my admitted idiosyncrasy), it’s acting on a raked stage. But you chew, chew, chew…you let the people around you be real…you make a mask only to drop it, to let yourself find the real both in and under it…  Constant motion.  Kneading. And the strange stillness, eventual, of that.

 This is: two weeks.

 “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” (James Baldwin)

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presents for a reduction of a household pet - acknowledgement present for reduction of pet

presents for a reduction of a household pet - acknowledgement present for reduction of pet

 Pet dog reduction presents are good to provide to somebody that has recently had their beloved animal pass away. We weep as well as grieve the death of pets as high as our company do our individual liked ones. Animals could be every thing to a private spouseless or even handicapped. To experience household pet's fatality is commonly agonizing as well as emotional. If you are actually fascinated in helping a close friend or even enjoyed one who is looking at this change, consider providing a present.

 Right here are actually some suggestions: Give a family pet memorial headstone, a framed image of their pet, or produce a pet memorial memory card for all of them. You may find any kind of one of these presents from on the web information. Offering something that is actually each helpful as well as remembrance is actually an ideal encouragement for anyone. Developing a remembrance memory card is actually something you may do your own self. Pet Friendly Outdoor Perennials

 Acquisition a family pet remembrance card theme and the layout as well as style is defeated you! After that you may have command over the publishing of the exclusive memento. You can imprint it yourself or take it to an office supply retail store to receive printed. They could be laminated too for a much longer lasting keepsake!

 The recipient ensures to enjoy it due to the fact that it will certainly be actually one thing they can easily remember their family pet by and they will certainly regularly value it. Crying a fatality of a household pet can be found in stages for some people, depending on the length of time they've had their pet. A dog reduction present can easily be just about anything that reminds them or even maintains the mind of their dog.

 Are you wondering what you can possibly do or point out to condole a buddy or even loved one that has shed a family pet? Are you worried you might mistakenly claim the wrong trait?

 Simply acknowledging that the loss of a household pet could be as ravaging as the loss of a family members participant will go a very long way in your potential to provide your close friend comfort at this mental time.

 Family Pet Loss Comfort - Five Simple Ways To Show You Care

 Listen- Just sympathize all of them. Perform not judge them for feeling therefore horribly regarding the reduction of a household pet, regardless of whether you may certainly never have experienced this emotion. It is vital for the individual crying their animal to be able to refer to their experience. Frequently, a family pet proprietor might possess needed to bring in the decision to euthanize their pet, which can intensify their feelings of reduction as well as agony. Or even possibly it assists to say to all the terrific stories of the lifestyle they discussed. Perform certainly not be actually amazed to experience splits as well as chuckling all within the period of minutes.

 Be Actually Sympathetic - Often folks really feel that perform not know their pain. They might feel determined, or that they need to act like they are actually alright. For those in the workforce, it is actually commonly certainly not even referred to for worry it are going to make them show up poor. The information may be, "only acquire over it." The greatest comfort you can deliver is actually to let all of them recognize it is actually ok to experience in this manner. If you have gone with a similar expertise you may be compassionate, yet carry out not take control of the talk. If you understood their family pet, allotment tales of just how their animal made your smile. Always keep the concentrate on their feelings.

 Silence is actually Okay - Sometimes the greatest convenience you can easily give is muteness. Carry out not fear to simply sit with your pal and also mention nothing. Grief can create you think numb, yet that performs certainly not indicate they desire to be alone.

 Provide to Help - Let your close friend understand you are actually offered to aid all of them. Some of the hardest aspects of shedding a pet can be actually set up assisted suicide. Be actually powerful and promotion to drive or even wait in the gateway. You can give to help clean their residence, as reminders of their family pet, such as toys, bedding or even products, may be as well challenging to manage at to begin with. Determine if they prefer these items saved or even given away to a local area home in honor of their household pet.

 Prolong Condolences - Just as in human reduction, the comfort of letters, cards, presents, florals and/or a donation to a nearby home will certainly indicate the world to your pal. Get the word out to various other pals that can also communicate. Usually, these memory cards and notices of comfort are going to be a treasured memento for years to find.

 The perseverance, comfort as well as support your provide your good friend in the course of this opportunity will go a lengthy means in their potential to refine their despair successfully. You are a good close friend. No 2 individuals will manage the reduction of their pet precisely similarly, yet all people looking for pet reduction convenience will definitely appreciate those pals that sympathized all of them when they required all of them the best.

 The loss of a pet is a destructive knowledge. Fatality or even ailment of the creatures may have a drastic influence on the everyday lives of the proprietors. At times the death of the family pet is actually looked at to be even worse than the loss of a human loved ones participant. Grieving for the family pet can possess agonizing repercussions, where the owner is likely to cease progressing in lifestyle. Pet dog understanding gifts are a good tool to share acknowledgements.

 The commiseration presents especially address the requirements of a grieving household pet owner. The idea is to supply a considerate notification of help as well as convenience, and also legitimize the pain of an individual that has lost a pet. These gifts are intended certainly not at minimizing a person's sorrow, but they send a message of comfort as well as assure the recipient that individuals acknowledge his trouble.

 A decorative memento container, gourmet hen noodle soup, warm fudge sundae covered, natural gourmet tea and honey straws, objective memory card or even present room card are actually a few of the generally made use of gifts a person may offer to a mourning proprietor.

 A funeral ritual can take relief to the grieving animal proprietor. Visuals or even pictures of the pet dog may be a terrific killer at the same time. Photo frames, collections, and customized photograph urns may create excellent presents. A number of the sympathy packages may additionally include flowers, garlands, and also clean fruit product containers to lift their sens. Animal remembrance items such as keepsake packages make the proprietor experience closer to their dropped companion. A number of the various other presents include individualized angel paints, a pendant or trinket, popular music CD, an individualized book of rhymes, a gift basket customized to the household, a photograph album or even scrapbook of good opportunities discussed, a memorial backyard tipping stone or seat, a Bible or even a rosary, among others.

 A perfect gift that one can easily give after a space is actually along with yet another tiny animal. This will alleviate his sadness and would additionally assist him beat the trouble of his misused pet.

 Animal Sympathy presents are actually available for all styles of pets that folks maintain. It is very important to bear in mind that folks ended up being thus connected to their household pets that the family pet actually finds yourself sensation like an aspect of the household and also when that family pet perishes it is vital to discover something to provide to the grieving family to reveal your acknowledgements.

 Pet dog Sympathy presents might be acquired for pets, kitties, steeds, birds and almost any type of pet that a person opts for to maintain as a pet.

 One sort of Pet Sympathy gifts is actually to offer all of them a personalized household pet remembrance. These could be suches as serious indicators, rocks, landscape rocks, and tombstones. All of these may be actually engraved along with the pets' name, year of their birth and also death. All of these been available in many different shapes, dimensions, patterns, shades and also components.

 Another kind of Pet Sympathy present is customized containers. Some households desire to keep their dogs close to all of them even in death and also this would certainly be a perfect gift to offer all of them, A customized container to keep their loved pet dogs' ashes.

 There are actually many sorts of remembrance image structures that could be provided as Pet Sympathy presents. These frameworks possess an area for the pets photo, poems, knowledgeables, or can come imprinted with the family pet's name and the year of birth and death on all of them.

 Yet another fantastic gift idea for someone who lost a dog is actually a remembrance landscape rock. Often the household may make use of as though it was a burial place stone, even though the creature is actually not buried on their property. It aids always keep the minds to life.

 One very special thing that would be excellent to offer an individual when they have lost a dog is a wind chime. These wind chimes possessed a pet dog or even a pet cat for the chime as well as may stand up as a memorial for the loved pet dog. The recipient are going to have a tip of their cherished pet every single time the wind blows.

 There are additionally excellent present containers offered to provide the mourning loved ones at the loss of a dog. These containers feature traits like sodium and pepper hands shaped like the animal, cleansing soaps, as well as photo structures. These baskets come in containers that can be recycled if you select, similar to many baskets.

 Providing a gift to the family members that has lost their loved ones pet might be a difficult duty however it is actually one that ought to be done. The fatality of an enjoyed one greatly affects everyone that enjoyed it; also if that loved one is the household animal.

 If you understand of a close friend or even a loved one that has actually recently dropped a pet, then you know that they are actually in a sad state. Some individuals could not know why an individual might have such solid feelings for a pet animal. But what these individuals don't recognize, is that the pet is actually a relative. Numerous youngsters specify their youths through their times along with the family members animal. Perhaps the pet dog was actually a preventive friend when the little one took place long walks. Possibly the family pet acted as a hugging toy for the kid. A lot of little ones enjoy to lay alongside, or even in addition to the pet dog for comfort, convenience, as well as for assistance.

 Or even, if the household pet owner is single, they rely upon the pet for a source of loving, non-judgmental assistance. Many household pet owners expect returning by the end of a long time, and also having their family pet greet all of them at the door. After managing the pressures of work and also lifestyle, nothing at all believes better than to begin a relaxing night off along with love as well as acknowledgment from one's pet dog.

 These are things that acquire shed when a family pet proprietor sheds their animal. They actually shed an aspect of themselves. They think dropped. So, it will be an excellent tip to be actually there certainly for them in their time of despair, and also to deliver them some of a selection of household pet remembrance presents. Here is actually an appearance at a variety of pet memorial gifts that could be provided to a mourning animal owner that could prefer dog memorials:

 A dog collage or memorial: Do you take place to have any sort of photos of you, your pal, as well as the pet dog? If you possess any type of photos around along with the dead animal in all of them, utilize all of them as component of a collage or even a remembrance. Search for a rhyme, or even compose one yourself. You can easily place one thing all together, and also existing this to your buddy as a tender present that they will definitely love and value.

 A remembrance package: This will be a jewel carton of types, for the family pet. You can provide all of them with a wooden or glass container that is actually especially fantastic for household pet memorial gifts. You can receive it etched with the label of the household pet on a plate that will definitely be attached to the box. In the technique, the family pet owner may always keep the household pet's small valuables, like their dog collar, their name tags, maybe lost hairs, notes, or even everything else to hang on to bits and parts of their pets.

 A household pet urn: Pet containers create fantastic household pet memorial gifts. They aren't costly, and also they will definitely spare an expense as well as a particular for your buddy. They could be so confused along with agony, they can not bear to pick an urn themselves. Containers arrive in an assortment of shapes, and components, and they do a wonderful task as pet memorials that final for a lengthy time.

 A care deal: Again, your friend may be actually confused with enormous quantities of agony. If the pet manager is actually a little one, their hearts are going to be actually cracked. It will certainly be an excellent suggestion to produce a treatment plan for them to ensure they can easily consume convenience manages, as well as maybe assess the great times that they had with their dogs. By doing this, care bundles make excellent dog remembrance presents.

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My Bad Marriage: Why I’m Not Leaving…Yet

  Why I’ll “wait and see” about my marriage (even though we don’t have sex!).

Marriage is not going so well for my husband Tod and me. Our fifth anniversary approaches, and we haven’t had sex in more than a year. We’ve buried our feelings about that deep. We also avoid talking about finances and children, and anything else you could file under the category “future hopes.”

Outside of an hour of couple’s therapy every week, we go about our lives as if nothing were amiss—running our household, dining out with friends, and catching new movie releases on Friday nights. We’re good pals. (Yawn!)

When marriage promises so much more—stability, growth, intimacy—why am I content to stay put? In short, there’s work to do, and I’m not talking about forever anyway. For the near future—six months, a year, maybe two—here are the ties that bind.

My Bad Marriage: Why I’m Staying, For Now

1. I’m giving myself a break. 

I wasn’t always content to wait and see. In fact, I was nearly out the door earlier this year. Frustrated with our deteriorating rapport and needing space where I could think straight about the future I wanted for myself, I set out looking for an apartment of my own, crunching and re-crunching numbers to see what I could afford and worrying about breaking the news of separation to family and friends.

The worst two months of my life ensued. Stress, broken-record thinking, and fear of loneliness—and about what others might think—had me crying every night. I couldn’t get out of bed to face each new day. Figuring out how to rip apart a union, even an imperfect one, is agony. Needing a rest, I decided to focus instead on the silver lining of our relationship and to gather my reserves for another go at serious contemplation later. 2. He makes life easier and even sometimes more fun. 

Tod may not be my ideal life partner, but he’s a sweet guy who would give you the shirt off his back… or clean the bathroom even if he thinks it’s clean enough but you’re hell-bent on sparkling tiles in time for your visitors yet have no energy left to scrub them yourself. He’s also enthusiastic about checking out new restaurants with me, or just catching the ball game on TV from the couch, cold beer in hand.

While for better or worse we ignore our deep-seated issues around sex and money, we enjoy laughs together and keep each other amused. Life without him would require me to find new fun. If that sounds lazy, and you wonder just how much the bigger issues matter to me, remember, I’m giving myself a break at the moment. (See #1.) 3. It would be arrogant to think there’s no hope. 

The work Tod has done to improve himself in the last year is amazing. He went from avoiding any sort of therapeutic situation to undertaking both individual and couples therapy. And while I say I’m sitting back and relaxing at the moment, that’s relative. I always strive to make each day happier for us than the last. And in couples therapy we’re learning to communicate better. There’s potential, and to refuse it some time to reveal itself fully would not be fair.

4. I need to save some money of my own. 

Due to my admittedly insane and overblown need to “pay my own way” and not depend on a man, we’ve always kept our money separate. The thing is, Tod, earns three times as much as I do, and so after paying our bills, his disposable income is considerably higher. He is a generous guy, and he supports me in ways that remain well enough below the radar to avoid offending my independent sensibilities—he unassumingly picks up the check at dinner and forgets to ask for my share of the grocery bill.

If I leave, however, that’s the end of his help, and with no family to count on, it’s also the end of my safety net. It will be some months before I can save up for an apartment of my own. I’m not in any danger at home with Tod, so I have the luxury of being practical about this and can wait until I have more funds available.

5. Life is hard. 

Let’s face it: Life isn’t easy. Separating would be hard, but so would staying together forever. To think we can make it through life and without effort is naïve. So which challenge is the right one for me—rework this partnership into something more fulfilling, or separate and start anew?

If I’m at all uncertain (which I am), a bold move would be foolish indeed. With all the challenges life throws at us—for me, an alcoholic brother and father with rapidly progressing Alzheimer’s Disease come to mind—perhaps a supportive friend is more important than an intimate partner. Not sure I’d take that in the long term, but it’s something to think about.

So I’m biding my time, and meanwhile being kind to myself and gentle with Tod. After I’ve put in a good-faith effort in couples therapy and saved a bit more of my own money, I’ll reassess. If there’s a chance at all that in the next year or so I’ll be starting the long, painful process of extricating myself from a life lived together with Tod, I’d like to enjoy the calm before the storm.

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