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boxchewr · 3 months
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im not really a homestuck fan anymore nor do i ever have the patience or time to reread it properly but. i will still fight tooth and nail for the fact that there's still a lot of value to that comic
#text#it lands solidly in 'good' category to me it does a lot of things i like but a lot i can't stand#what it does well it does so so well and tho it's very obviously a thing that started in 2009 by someone from newgrounds#and by the end you can tell everyone was tired of it going including the author#and then the fucking. shitty ass followups that seem to actively mock and loathe the fact that theyre homestuck followups#i think the meat and potatoes of the comic itself can be incredibly good more often than it's bad#its Long As Fuck but you know every facet of the significant characters. you grow and bond with them so much#absurdly long stretches of nearly pure dialogue back and forth between characters on a page#and then the next page with even more dialogue back and forth them just talking going on rambles and making jokes#but its so natural and most of the main cast feel super real like these are just some kids having a conversation on skype or smth#also it's still one of the funniest things i've ever read no cap. some of the jokes still stay in my mind forever#its not at all for everyone. not whatsoever. its 85% dependent on you liking these characters enough to see more of them#and just wanting to spend time with these little losers and their dumb overly complicated game#but i did like them! i think abt these characters a lot in my random life still despite not interacting significantly with it in years#and i feel like people are kinda a bit too mean abt it nowadays. acting like it was all a waste of time and there wasn't anything good#when no i still like a good amount of it up until beginning-middle of act 6 onwards when it just gets too confusing to keep up with#i still suggest reading it if you have time. can look past a lot of the early acts saying slurs and such. and have interest in it#at least try to get to act 5 if not beginning of 6 and then go thru 6 until u can't stomach anymore of it or if u reach the end#bc yeah act 6 being a nightmare confusion world is a lot of why i think ppl think it sucks#plus the first acts being a bit. 2009 newgrounds core#but even in those acts there's still some good stuff i wish ppl didn't shrug the whole thing off#Just give it a try see if its for u or not#it was one of the biggest Things on the internet for a while for a good reason#and i think it's a shame that it's mainly just considered. something shameful to like and stupid and has no inherent value to it#when there really is still a lot to like#give it a whirl see how you feel#i'm still never personally touching it again bc of. Generally who i was when i was hyperfixated on it#so. lmao
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every odd number for the weird asks, darling 🥂
Hey darling :) always happy to see you in my notes
1. coffee mugs, teacups, wine glasses, water bottles, or soda cans? Coffee mugs... Coffee addict here and my addiction also applies to coffee mugs
3. bubblegum or cotton candy? Bubblegum :)
5. do you prefer to drink soda from soda cans, soda bottles, plastic cups or glass cups? I don't really drink soda in general but when I do I prefer in glass cups :)
7. earbuds or headphones? Headphones :)
9. favorite smell in the summer? Hmm... That's a good one. I'll say sea side and rain? I don't know haha maybe my apple trees too
11. what you have for breakfast on an average day? On average? coffee which isn't really breakfast but yeah... Sometimes smoothies
13. lanyard or key ring? Lanyard. I always lost my keys so I actually have three lanyards just so I won't lose them or let them out of my sight
15. favorite book you read as a school assignment? As a school assignment? Either Mrs Dalloway or a book from Québec called Marie-Tempête
17. most frequently worn pair of shoes? Cheap black shoes from walmart. They are really comfortable but nothing special
19. sleeping position? On my left side? BUt I do move a lot in my sleep so yeah
21. obsession from childhood? Harry Potter, Anne of Green Gables and Princess Diaries
23. strange habits? I don't know ? NOthing comes to mind right now haha Bringing a book with me at all times?
25. first song you remember hearing? Either Bed of Roses or Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi... It definitely was a BOn Jovi song
27. favorite activity to do in cold weather? Staying inside with my blanket, a good book and hot cocoa. I shouldn't be Canadian.... I absolutely hate the cold. Can't stand it
29. best way to bond with you? Sharing music, book, movies :)
31. what outfit do you wear to kick ass and take names? Oh dear... Hmm power suits? I absolutely love suits. I probably have too many of them tbh
33. most used phrase in your phone? Probably "idk" haha or like sorry. Something like that
35. average time you fall asleep? When do I ever fall asleep? haha probably 2 am if I had to say an hour but my sleep schedule is a little messed up
37. suitcase or duffel bag? Suitcase
39. lemon cake or lemon meringue pie? Lemon meringue pie :)
41. last person you texted? My friend about a book she told me to read a while back
43. hoodie, leather jacket, cardigan, jean jacket or bomber jacket? Can I say two? hahah I mean I am more often wearing hoodies because it's considered more appropriate to wear inside and I am always cold... But when I am outside I always have one of my leather jackets
45. which genre: sci-fi, fantasy or superhero? All three? But if I had to pick only one absolutely? Fantasy
47. favorite type of cheese? I don't think I have a favourite type of cheese? I don't eat that much of it tbh
49. what saying or quote do you live by? It's actually a A.A Milne quote from Winnie the Pooh. Please don't judge. My mum surrounded me with Winnie stuff when I was younger. It's " You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." Something I try to remind myself everyday.
51. current stresses? Life hahah Nah but seriously a bunch of little nothings. My flat, I am stressed my grades won'T be good this semester. My car ( which is fine and has been for over a month), my cat having difficulties getting used to the new place... Loads of small little things.
53. what is the current state of your hands? They are clean and I just put lotion on them so they smell like vanilla. B But also A mess? Haha Up until two weeks ago I was working not only a very physical job but also one that messed up my hands. I have cuts everywhere on them and even a new scar cause of it. They will be fine in a week or two :)
55. favorite fairy tale? Oh gosh that is a difficult one.... I would probably go with... The little mermaid tho? But it changes depending my mood
57. the three biggest struggles you’ve overcome? Hmm.... That's a good one. Accepting who I am is one of them for sure. Standing up for myself ( I am better at it but still I could improve). Choosing my health over what I was expecting of myself. OVer my plans when I dropped out of uni
59. if you were a video game character, what would your catchphrase be? :O No idea, I don't feel I have any real catchphrase? I'D probably the sude character who curses a lot tho hahah
61. favorite line you heard from a book/movie/tv show/etc.? Again good one. There's so many. I love quotes. I'll go with... " We accept the love we think we deserve" from Perks of being a wallflower. I mean... It's true. Anyways... In my experience it is. When my self esteem was at its lowest.... I dumped my very good girlfriend cause I thought I didn't deserve her love. That she was too good for me.. To end up with a guy who was a violent narcissistic asshole... I didn't wanna leave him cause I thought that was exactly what I deserved that I could never do better. I did leave him in the end. but yeah...
63. five songs that would play in your club? - Dancing Queen by Abba -Poor Some Sugar on me - Def Leppard -Every Time We Touch - Cascada ( Don't judge I have good party memories with that song ahah ) - The Ketchup Song - Las Ketchup (Cause memories hahah) - Believe - Cher
65. any permanent scars? Loads ahah I have a big one on my back that almost goes from side to side from my heart surgery. I have one on my right side... again that surgery. It almost looks like a star. I have on my lip from when I was learning how to climb table when Mum wasn't looking. One on my finger from work when I was working in dried cranberries factory. One on my ankle from whe I fell in the ditch when learning how to bike without the little wheels. One on my knee cause I am just that talented that I fall over nothing x) A new one on my hand from work... Seriously the list goes on hahha but I do have scars.
67. good luck charms? My necklace. I never take it off unless I absolutely have to. It used to be my mum's but she gave it to me when I was going through a rough patch in high school.
69. a fun fact that you don’t know how you learned? Hmm... Nothing comes to mind? Sorry If I ever think of something I will be sure to let you know
71. least favorite pattern? Polka dot? I don't know hahha
73. favorite weird flavor combo? Cheese and maple syrup? haha
75. when did you lose your first tooth? I don't remember? I was in elementary school for sure... But I do remember the dentist had to take it out himself cause I had waited too much before I told anyone my tooth was moving hahha
77. best plant to grow on a windowsill? My cacti? haha
79. which looks better, your school id photo or your driver’s license photo? School. On my Driver's license I look like a murderer
81. fireflies or lightning bugs? Fireflies
83. writing or drawing? Both? hahaha BUt writing if I have to choose
85. fairy tales or mythology? Mythology. Both are great but... Mythology is the best
87. your greatest fear? Spiders? But if we're talking about like... Life fears? NOt being enough
89. who would you put before everyone else? My little brother. My little sister ( sometimes) and my parents.
91. boxes or bags? Boxes
93. nicknames? Fae, Fa, Fancy, Fancy Rodger, Roger.
95. favorite app on your phone? Music app haha I mean I cannot live without music soooo
97. how many phone numbers do you have memorized? At least a dozen? Mostly cause everyone in the family has the same phone number since forever.... I have no memory whatsoever so I am even surprised I know these ones.
Thank you for these asks Darling :) There was a lot but I enjoyed writing them haha Took me a while. I had an hectic week but I promise I love these things I am just very bad at timing my stuff haha
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radramblog · 3 years
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Pokemon Singles Meme Draft
Among certain parts of my friend group, plans get made and end up falling through more often than you’d expect. I’m sure it happens to a lot of people, but it always kinda sucks when it does, and you come up with all these ideas and they just don’t get to come to fruition. Especially when people are getting hammered with university and work and the grim reality of living in 2021.
An example of this is a friendly Pokemon Draft League conducted by myself and some friends, with the express purpose of memes and dreams only. What that meant was only using the bottom few tiers of mons, and encouraging extremely silly sets with them all the time.
We got through the actual draft, and I built some sets, so that’s what I’m going to discuss today. I have no fear of my secrets being spilled, because at this point I don’t really think it matters.
While I could probably go back and get all the pick orders from several months ago, I frankly cannot be arsed whatsoever. Instead I’m going to go by tiers, where we got 3 tier 3s, 4 tier 4s, and 4 tier 5s. Tiers 1 and 2 were banned entirely, to make sure we weren’t going to see any actually good Pokemon. Memes only, after all.
Tier 3:
Lapras: I’m 90% certain this was my first pick anyway, as Lapras being available at all felt like a steal- it’s Gigantamax form wasn’t banned because we aren’t cowards, and Lapras can take absurd advantage of such. It’s got a great typing and dummy thick defenses, along with solid enough offenses, not to mention the nonsense movepool it has access to.
I ended up building 3 different Lapras sets as tests.
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The first was the Perish-Trap set, taking advantage of all those juicy support moves along with Perish Song to actually secure the KO. I…don’t know what I was thinking not putting Leftovers on this set, especially since I already had Protect and didn’t have access to a good recovery move (Rest or Life Dew aren’t going to cut it). But this set would likely just be incredibly rude. It has also just occurred to me that this is a Lapras-Gmax that can’t actually use G-Max Resonance, and that’s a bit of an oopsie.
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Set 2 was a pretty vanilla Dragon Dance set, because people apparently forget two things- Lapras gets Dragon Dance, and Lapras’s Physical and Special Attack are the same, at 85 base apiece. As beefy as Lapras is, 85 often not enough to secure KOs, so DDance is a good way to mitigate this. The coverage it gets is also surprisingly decent, and I could adapt this depending on what my opponent’s options are looking like.
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The final Lapras set I made is what I called “Blindpras”, or, the Lapras with a bunch of very inaccurate moves. I’ll get into it later, but I did have the ability to use Baton Pass to give some Accuracy boosts to it, but unsupported, this set would be a meme at best. Hella status though, between Sing and Zap Cannon. If it hit them. Frustratingly, Wide Lens is a 1.1x accuracy boost rather than the flat 10% I thought it was, so it’s actually only adding 5% to, say, Zap Cannon.
 Mienshao: I don’t know that much about Singles, but I do know two things are good: Regnerator and U-Turn effects. And this bad boy gets both, so I took it. It also added a Fighting type to my list, which I felt was needed.
I only made two Mienshao sets, but one of them was just Life Orb, so who cares.
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This one is the real sauce. It’s not clear there, but this Mienshao has 0IVs in HP, Defense, and Special Defense- the intent being to get near-OHKO’d to pop the sash, and then shred things with Acrobatics. Alternatively, it can Baton Pass off a 2x Attack or 2x Speed, or both if they assume it’s an offensive threat and switch out. This is probably one of the sillier sets, but I would have loved to see it go off- Acrobatics hasn’t been as good ever since Flying Gem went away.
Guzzlord: I wish I had a copy of the rant I went off on for the Guzzlord pick, because it is truly the edgiest, vilest shit I’ve ever written. I was thinking about it at work, so. Guzzlord was the Dragon for the Dragon/Steel/Fairy core I was working on, and it’s also a giant idiot who I really like, so.
Much like Mienshao, I made two sets, but one’s just boring Assault Vest, so.
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Spice only. The thing with Guzzlord is that it’s HP is huge, but it’s actual defenses are a meagre 53, so if you want to do builk you put them all in those stats. But it’s still an Attack boosting nature, because that still gives the most raw stats. This set is basically here to take a hit and crack back, with a monstrous Gyro Ball due to the rather sad Speed on this thing, a disruptive Knock Off or Dragon Tail, or just a 130 base power Fling. It could also Dynamax for even more bulk off of Max Steelspike. It’s just a beefy boi.
Tier 4:
Unfezant: After enjoying it in a Nuzlocke, the Love Dove was back in action. It has access to Super Luck, which is probably all it needs, right? Well, not quite, because it doesn’t get any STAB high crit rate moves save the mediocre Air Cutter and Razor Wind, and those both also come off it’s rather shite Special Attack. But we make do around here.
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Crit Bird still gets Night Slash as useful coverage, and Dual Wingbeat doesn’t have a high crit ratio, but it does hit twice, and that’s still twice the chance to crit. Feather Dance is also here because everyone underrates it, and U-Turn is just nutty as always. Velocity is good, and that’s what the Love Dove has in spades. At least in this mediocre environment.
 Magneton: A former powerhouse, Magneton was the Steel in the Steel/Dragon/Fairy core and either a tank with Eviolite or a hard-hitter with something else
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Or both, as it happens, because Analytic is a cool and good ability. This was definitely an unfinished set, I think, because it feels kind of confused. Like, why Rain Dance? I’m not really abusing that anywhere? Very confused. Anyway.
 Shiinotic: One of the fairies for that core, and the Grass for the Fire/Water/Grass core. Shiinotic was the only thing in Gen VIII that got Spore until the DLCs came out, but that didn’t necessarily make it great. It’s still slow as fuck and not super bulky. And it doesn’t hit super hard.
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But, it can be the ULTRASUCC. Big Root works for Shiinotic either on an offensive set via Giga Drain and Draining Kiss, or defensively via Leech Seed or Strength Sap. And Spore is still here because, you know, it’s bonkers nutso if you can take a hit to set it up. And then Big Root helps you get that HP back afterwards. It’s decent enough, I think. If you don’t invest in HP, you can can get relatively more back!
 Mr. Mime: Here as an alternate Fairy and also because I wanted a Psychic type. I didn’t realise how awkward this creepy fuck was until after I actually drafted it. It gets Technician but barely anything to use it with, it gets much less useful support options than I had assumed, and it’s best defensive ability, Soundproof, makes it also immune to my own Lapras’s Heal Bell.
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This was some of the best I could come up with. Trick in case Mime needs to neuter a support thing, otherwise just spam Psychic or Charge Beam. Or Magical Leaf, I guess. If you’re into that. I dunno, we were kind of getting to the dregs at this point. Shoulda taken Claydol.
 Tier 5:
Oricorio: I have a penchant for Versatility in my drafts, and since I couldn’t get Silvally, Oricorio had to do. Except…it kind of sucks ass, as it turns out. This was a National Dex league, meaning that we could use Pokemon that didn’t make the Dexit cut into Galar, which unfortunately means they don’t get the expanded movesets that came with the addition of TRs and the Isle of Armor tutor moves. And Oricorio is no exception, having been mercilessly slashed, leaving it very lacking for moves. At least it can be 4 types…?
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I actually came up with 4 sets for Oricorio, because it has 4 types, and it is once again a thing that gets Baton Pass, so it has some decent enough options. This one is the Hateful set- the type basically doesn’t matter, but I put it as Pa’u and it would probably actually be best as Sensu for the immunities. Either way, this one is the troll fucker that passes Double Teams, in case I want someone to dislike me. Or it’ll just die, like this things stats are Not Good.
Aerodactyl: On the other hand, my 3rd flying type has actually very fucking good stats. Aerodactyl was OU for a few generations, and I don’t actually know why it wasn’t a higher tier. No complaints, though!
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This set is literally one I lifted from Gen 4 Overused, updated with Unnerve because it’s less useless than Pressure here. Apparently OU back then was fucking wild, like, Power Herb Sky Attack on a support lead? I guess it’s fast enough that Sash isn’t something you really need, and if they pick wrong you do just nuke something. It’s a dedicated lead, from an era when that was still a relevant concept.
Camerupt: Another dex-cut species, which is a shame, because I love this idiot. It also lost its Mega, and as a result, is just kind of mediocre. But it was what I thought was the best option left for a Fire type, so.
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An alternative lead for Stealth Rock, or just to Burn’n’Boom, Camerupt is here and ready to party. The camel that burns twice as bright burns half as long, except we don’t have a damaging Fire move, so………
Huntail: I considered this one kind of my masterstroke. I was so chuffed when I realised what this fucker could do, and that no-one could stop me- if they picked Huntail, I could just take Gorebyss! Easy money baby!
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Huntail’s main purpose was as an opener for Baton Pass. Even though it didn’t make Gen VIII, it’s moveset was just good enough to make this work, with the ability to pass Shell Smash, Coil, or just Iron Defense and Double Team. And with Sucker Punch, it can surprise things or just sweep instead off Shell Smash. No one was going to look at this mans, nobody was going to see it coming.
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Which is what set 2 was for. After I’d played my slippery, snakelike hand, I needed an alternative to catch people expecting the pass off-guard. Thus, the rudest set I could think of. Bulky, Toxic in more ways than one, Sticky and impolite.
 At the end of the day, I think I came up with more troll sets than I did actual meme sets. But that’s how it be sometimes, baby, can’t help what I’m made of.
I don’t know how to make actually good sets anyway.
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gathering-storm · 6 years
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For the OC meme: 1, 5, 7, 10, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 29, 33, 34, 35, 36, 42, 50, 59, 62, 69, 71, 74, 75, 83, 85, 87, 90, 94, 96, 97, 98 and 99 for Casias and Heridan (was that his name? I forgot Dx But the one I drew you for Christmas)
Heridan
1. What do they smell like?
a mixture of burning embers, cave moisture and berry bushes
5. How do they deal with/react to pain?
he tends to conceal it until it becomes too much, after that it angers him
7. Which relationship has impacted them most positively?
that would be his bond with Luminari, the first full-blooded dragon he ever took under his care. Their connection, as is the case with all the creatures under his care, transcends owner/pet and is in fact extremely familial. unlike the rest however, Luminari has guided and advised him on matters ranging from the caretaking of other beings to importantaàa decisions in his own life. She is as much his mother as she is his friend.
10. What is their favorite food?
he enjoys venison seasoned with wild garlic
15. What is their greatest achievement?
after saving a pregnant and heavily wounded Aquis (water dragon) from a group of human hunters, he not only managed to mend wounds that would have normally been fatal or in the least crippling, but also succeeded in delivering their eggs the following day despite several getting stuck in the birth canal.
16. what’re they like when they’ve had too much sleep?
grouchy and ill-tempered but controlled
19. right or left handed?
left
21. what’s their favorite kind of weather?
he prefers sunny days
22. What’s his favorite color?
orange
29. Do they collect anything?
yes, he collects rare gemstones
33. Do they own any significant objects of personal importance?
he has two, a lock of black hair he assumes belonged to his birth mother and a crimson scale he doesn’t know why he treasures as much as he does
34. Least favourite food
he hates the taste of spinach almost to the point of vomiting
35. Least favourite color
magenta
36. Least favourite smell
blood or Sangui root
42. do they have any bad habits?well, in terms of drugs/self destructive behavior, no, but he does have a habit of judging humans based on what they are without really getting to know them at first.50. when is their birthday?June 30th59. what are their views on death?thought he sees it as inevitable, its not something he particularly relishes the idea of, 62. do they enjoy being outside?very much so69. is there anything they find really gross?not really71.   do they enjoy helping people?honestly, yes, whenever he helps someone in need, it makes him feel useful and accomplished74. are they quick to anger/what are they like when they loose their temper?
unless one of he or his family is directly attacked he’s almost impossible to anger. but once it happens, may whatever god you believe in help your doomed soul as he becomes an inconsolable engine of wrath.75. how patient are they?when it comes to the creatures he cares for, immovably so. when dealing with most humans....almost not at all.83. are they comfortable with how they look?none whatsoever, he sees himself as a freak.85. what kind of personality do they find attractive?kindhearted, motherly, caring, compassionate and affectionate87. what is their age? physically, he’s 27, chronologically he’s nearly 30090. do they consider themselves attractive?not even remotely94.   what is their outlook on life?it can best be summed up by the phrase “we are each here to care for our kind, mine is simply more powerful than most.”96. what is their greatest weakness?that title goes to how dense he can be97. what is their greatest strength?I would say its his fierce  and nearly unbreakable determination98. what is something they regret?never getting the chance to meet either of his parents99. what is his biggest accomplishmenthe has successfully built and terraformed a multi-environmental sanctuary within a sprawling cave system inside of a mountain lined with gold.   Casias1. What do they smell like?old books, bergamot or lavender tea and wine, with a hint of high-dollar cologne 5. how do they deal with/react to pain?depending on severity, he will either ignore it or, if it is intense enough, he flinches, faints or asks for help7. which relationship has impacted them the most positively? in-canon, that’s indisputably  the romance he had with his first wife, that woman changed what was a psychopathic remote controlled killer into one of the sweetest gentlemen ever to call Britain home.10. what’s their favorite food?German chocolate lava cake with red wine reduction infused strawberry icing, sprinkled with confectioner’s sugar and decorated with angel’s food cake roses.15. what is their greatest achievement? depending on timeline, that’s either the rescuing of his children and the related death of Makaida, finding the love of his life, and/or opening his own restaurant/winery.16. what are they like when they’ve had too little sleep?mentally foggy, confused and, if he tries to be romantic while in that condition, almost drunken.19. are they right or left handed?naturally a lefty, but he’s trained himself to be ambidextrous 21. whats his favorite kind of weather?either gentle spring rains or powder coatings of snow22. whats his favorite color?blue29. does he collect anything?he has a rather extensive collection of vintage wines and rare books33. does he own any objects of personal significance?three, a picture of his first wife still kept in its cracked frame, his first house key, and his honorary teaching degree34. what is his least favorite food?burgoo, he outright hates it35. what is his least favorite color?steel grey36. what is his least favorite smell?either factory smoke or foxtail pollen42. do they have any bad habits?he occasionally smokes a cigarette or two, but only when under great stress or trying to forget something50. When is their birthday?July 1st 59. what are their views on death?“death is merely the gateway to what lays beyond, no matter what that may be.”62. do they enjoy being outside?"more than the finest of dances, the soft breeze of summer or cool refrain of fall embraces my soul as an angels arms.”69. is there anything they find really gross?he abhors the sight of harsh physical deformations (i.e. large tumors)71.  does he enjoy helping people?there’s honestly very little he likes more74. is he quick to anger/what is he like when he looses his temper?under normal circumstances he’s nearly impossible to seriously enrage, but when it does happen he either becomes an exceptionally snarky smartass or, if the anger is caused by a threat to himself/those he cares for, a master combat humiliator75. how patient is he?extremely so, to everyone but Makaida83. is he comfortable with how he looks?
very much so, in fact, he’s proud of his unique appearance85. what kind of personality does he find attractive?caring, romantic, hardworking, fun loving, creative87.  how old is he?depending on timeline, between 42 and 57, though due to how well he cares for himself he looks to be around 2390. does he consider himself attractive?he doesn’t really see himself as sexually attractive, at least, not moreso than the average person94. what is his outlook on life? “Life is meant to be lived to the fullest, each moment a chance to live, learn and love as much as our hearts are capable of.”96. what is his greatest weakness?physically its the fact he’s actually majority blind while his eye-patch is on, personality wise his willingness to sacrifice himself for his loved ones without hesitation could be considered a weakness97. what is his greatest strength?his unshakable courage98. what is something he regrets?he has a multitude of regrets, but most prevalent is not being home when his wife was killed and his kids abducted99. what is his biggest accomplishment?transforming not only his life but also himself from what he was to who he is now.@tatzebea @onyx-rose88 @echoing-night @healingmemories @lil-brown-furred-boi
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maddymayobsesses · 7 years
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Tagged!
@dead-nightingal tagged me to answer a crap ton of questions!
So I hope you’re ready to learn more about me than you ever wanted to know!
THE LAST… 1. Drink: iced coffee
2. Phone call: I had to call to see if this place in town would do fingerprinting 
3. Text message: @fearlots
4. Song you listened to: Uhhhhh I don’t remember but it was something on my anime songs playlist
5. Time you cried: Ah crap this is such a bad story. My friend’s dad bought do it yourself mini bombs to explode on the 4th of July (Yeah some people are THAT crazy) and he didn’t warn anyone before he set them off and the sound shocked me so bad I froze up and started bawling.
HAVE YOU EVER… 6. Dated someone twice: I’ve never dated anyone period.
7. Been cheated on: No
8. Kissed someone and regretted it: No
9. Lost someone special: Yes…
10. Been depressed: Not as far as I’m aware but my dad has depression and I did inherit his anxiety so who knows?
11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: I’ve never even gotten drunk
LIST 3 FAVOURITE COLORS:
12. Violet 
13. Electric blue
14. Dark red
IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU… 15. Made new friends: Yep!
16. Fallen out of love: No
17. Laughed until you cried: Nope
18. Found out someone was talking about you: no
19. Met someone who changed you: I don’t think so
20. Found out who your true friends are: Nah 
21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list: I’ve never kissed anyone ever
22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: I don’t even know who I’m friends with on Facebook cuz I never go on there.
23. Do you have any pets: Yes! Five lovely cats :)
24. Do you want to change your name: Not particularly
25. What did you do for your last birthday: I was doing homework all day :(
26. What time did you wake up: 8:00 AM
27. What were you doing at midnight last night: sleeping cuz I’m lame
28. Name something you cannot wait for: Voltron season 3! 
29. When was the last time you saw your mother: Seven and a half years….she passed away when I was 13
30. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life: I don’t like to answer these because I think if I changed something about my life it wouldn’t be MY life anymore. 
31. What are you listening to right now: Nothing
32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: Several actually. Tom is the guy who bought the FREAKING BOMBS
33. Something that is getting on your nerves: Does the entire Voltron fandom count?
34. Most visited website: tumblr
35. Elementary: I’m not sure what this is asking? It was alright.
36. High School: Ah yes, the time when I failed to develop any social skills whatsoever because everyone was fine with letting me sit at the back of the room saying nothing.
37. College/university: It’s going great! I love y campus and my department and my professors! I’m ready to graduate next year but it’s also gonna be hard to leave.
38. Hair colour: Dark brown, like to the point that in the wrong lighting people swear it’s black
39. Long or short hair: short, above my shoulders currently
40. Do you have a crush on someone: Hmmmmmm I wonder ;)
41. What do you like about yourself: I like plenty of things about myself
42. Piercings: nope
43. Blood type: Who knows? Not me!
44. Nickname: Maddy
45. Relationship status: Perpetually single
46. Zodiac sign: Taurus
47. Pronouns: she/her
48. Favourite TV show: Voltron for now but its always changing
49. Tattoos: Nah
50. Right or left hand: I’m better with my right hand but I’m actually ambidextrous!
FIRST… 51. Surgery: Never had one
52. Piercing: never had one
54. Sport: Does playing one soccer game as a sub in kindergarten count? If not, then cheerleading
55. Vacation: Freshman year of high school I got to go on a trip to texas with the school band 
56. Pair of trainers: What?
57. Eating: I assume it was baby formula????
58. Drinking: I don’t drink
59. I’m about to: take a shower
60. Listening to: still watching youtube
61. Waiting for: the time when I can’t put off getting ready for work anymore
62. Want: more free time
63. Get married: maybe? hard to say when you’re 21 and never even dated XD
64. Career: teaching! Though tbh its not my dream occupation…mostly the safe backup that I know I’ll still enjoy
YOUR TYPE… 65. Hugs or kisses: yes?
66. Lips or eyes: eyes
67. Shorter or taller: no preference
68. Older or younger: It really depends on the person
70. Nice arms or nice stomach: I don’t like this question
71. Sensitive or loud: sensitive
72. Hook up or relationship: Relationship…I don’t see myself “hooking up” ever
73. Troublemaker or hesitant: Depends on who you ask lol (probably hesitant)
HAVE YOU EVER… 74. Kissed a stranger?: No
75. Drank hard liquor?: No
76. Lost glasses contact/lenses: My glasses are always on my face but if I drop them on the floor they are lost to the void and I have to have someone else get them for me
77. Turned someone down: Never had the chance
78. Sex on first date: This assumes I’ve had a first date, which I have not
79. Broken someone’s heart: If so I don’t know about it
80. Had your heart broken: Nah
81. Been arrested: No
82. Cried when someone died: Yeah…
83. Fallen for a friend: Yes
DO YOU BELIEVE IN… 84. Yourself: For the most part
85. Miracles: I suppose
86. Love at first sight: Nah
87. Santa Claus: You mean current fictional representation or the original real guy?
88. Kiss on the first date: Probably not I’m super shy
89. Angels: I dunno
OTHER… 90. Current best friend’s name: Gabe
91. Eye colour: Hazel
92. Favourite movie: Idk man
Uhhhh Idk who to tag…. @l1nkp1t @chibi-n00b @hashtag-grapewood I suppose? Though you guys 100% don’t have to
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1. Whats the real reason i’m confused right now? 
uhm theres a lot of things that are confusing me like basically what the fuck is going on with my life and why i can’t leave or lose feelings for my abuser who just so happens to be my boyfriend.
2. Do i ever get good morning texts?
lol no
3. If your significant other smoked pot would you care?
it'd honestly be preferable 
4. Do you find it easy to trust others?
absolutely. until they give me reasonable cause not to, in that case, i may never trust them again. 
5. what were you doing at 11pm last night?
falling asleep w my headphones in
6. You're drunk and lost walking down a road, who is with you?
probably @shez-a-goner
7. What would you do if you found out you had been cheated on?
welp. funny you should ask. theres not much you can do except exist in a permanently soul-shattered state. 
8. are you close with your dad?
no. i don’t know my real dad whatsoever and my adoptive dad and me never talk.
9. I bet you kissed someone last night, right?
yes
10. What are you listening to?
currently, the sound of alex flushing the toilet.
11. You can only drink one liquid for the rest of your life- what is it?
Uhm? what the fuck else would it be? water obviously
12. do you like hickeys?
the idea, yes. i don't like getting them, they kinda hurt.
13. what time do you go to bed?
mainly before midnight. like around 11 ish.
14. is there someone who constantly lets you down?
yes
15. can you text as quickly with one hand as you do both?
no
16. do you always answer texts?
no
17. Do the hate the person you fell the hardest for? 
its complicated
18. when was the last time you talked to your best friends?
last night
19. is there someone that make you happy everytime you see them? 
yes @shez-a-goner
20. what was the last thought you had before you went to bed last night?
i fucking love xanax
21. is anyone else in the room with you?
my boyfriend
22. do you believe what goes around comes around?
yeah
23. where you happier four months ago than you are now?
nah it was winter dude. i don't fucks with winter.
24. is there someone you wish you could fix things with?
no
25. in the past week have you cried?
yeah
26. what color is the shirt you're wearing?
blue
27. do people ever call you by your last name?
no and they better not i hate that shit.
28. is anyone ignoring you right now?
probably god.
29. do you have a best friend?
yes
30. would it be hard seeing someone else kiss the last person you kissed?
yes. I've imagined him kissing her a billion trillion times in my head though so its whatever.
31. who was your last call from?
my probation officer
32. are you mad at anyone?
always and forever
33. have you ever kissed someone older than you?
yeah
34. how old will the last person you kissed be on his/her next birthday?
21 
35. how many more days till your birthday? idk. its on october 29th.
36. do you have summer plans yet?
no
37. do you have any good friends of the opposite sex?
yeah
38. are you keeping anything from your best friend now?
no
39. do you have a secret you've never told anyone?
yeah
40. have you ever regretted kissing someone?
yeah
41. do you think age matters in relationships? 
yes and no, if its some predator shit then yes. if you're both other than like 20 and you have a few years between you it doesn't matter at all.
42. are you available?
for what
43. how many people have you had real, strong feelings for since high school ended? 
one
44. if you had to get a piercing(not ears) what would you get?
nose or belly button
45. do you believe exes can be friends?
depends
46. do you regret anything?
of course. 
47. honestly whats on your mind right now?
everything. I'm overwhelmed with my life right now and i wish i could just run away.
48. did you ever lose a best friend?
yeah
49. was your last kiss a mistake?
not really.
50. why arent you pursuing the person you like?
they're taken 
51. has the person you last kissed ever seen you cry? 
considering the fact that they're primarily the reason i cry, yes
52. do you still talk to the person you last kissed?
duh, i live with them
54. what was the last thing you ate?
the CARS movie shaped mac and cheese
55. where are you going on your next vacation?
hell.
56. do you own anything from other countries?
most likely.
57. are most of your friends girls or guys?
girls
58. where have you lived most of your life?
the state of despair.hahahah uh, michigan
59. when was the last time you took a long drive?
considering the fact that alex fucking just randomly drives around forever and ever, probs recently. 
60. have you ever played spin the bottle?
yeah. at a bonfire and in ninth grade at the end of the year school picnic.
61. have you ever TP’d someones house?
uhm no but i had this huge crush on a girl when i was like 13. and my friends preston, cara, and i snuck out of their house at night and walked over to her house and poured cans of peaches and cream of mushroom soup all over her parents cars because she didn't like me back. #wild
62. who do you text the most?
alex and vickii
63. what was the last movie you saw?
bad santa 2
64. whats preventing your current boyfriend/girlfriend from going back to their ex?
HAAAAA. the fact that he cheated on her(with me....even though technically me and him were dating first) AND SHE HATES HIS FUCKING gUts. he broke her fuckin heart i highly doubt she ever wants to see his faggot face ever again.
65. how many bf/gfs did you have in 2010?
none lmao i was like 12.
66. is the last person you kissed younger than you?
HE ACTS IT. (but no)
67. do you curse around your parents?
fuck no.
68. are you happy with where you live?
no
69. pic of myself? 
no
70. are you a monogamous person or do you believe in open ended relationships?
hum if we're fucking dating i better be the only fucking one bitch
71, have you ever been dumped?
no
72. what do you like the most about making out?
I've never really....made out.. with someone. to me its more intimate than like sex itself. and I'm really uncomfortable. i don't know how to kiss. if i ever make out with someone ill probably have to ask them to marry me because to me thats a Big Deal. 
73. have you ever casually made out with someone?
no bitch
74. when you kiss someone for the first time is it you who initiates it?
id rather die than make the first move
75. what part of a person body do you find the most attractive?
eyes. but i also like the underside of peoples wrists,,,like where their veins are. 
76. who was the last person you talked to before you went to bed?
alex
77. had sex with someone you knew less than an hour? 
yes. for drugs lol.
78. had sex with someone you didn't know their name?
uhm at the time i knew his name but I've forgotten it so when i go through my body count i just refer to him as john 
79. what makes your heart flutter and brings a big cheesy smile to your face?
i once had a big ass crush on this girl i used to work with at kroger and i always wanted to be her bagger cuz everything she did had me like motherfucking heart eyes lmao. 
80. would you get involved w someone who had a child already?
thats a question i do not know the answer to.
81. has someone who had a crush on you ever confessed to you?
no one has ever had a crush on me.
82. do you tell a lot of people when you have a crush?
literally like everyone EXCEPT for that person. when i have a crush on someone I'm like completely obsessed and wanna shout it from the mountains.
83. do you miss your last sweetie?
i miss Kroger cashier girl lol kinda i haven't had too many crushes. also this girl i was crushing on, but she like low-key doesn't like me and had a girlfriend the whole time lol
84. last time you slow danced with someone? 
probs prom 2015
85. have you ever dated someone you've never met?
no. thats fuckin Stupit
86. how can i win your heart?
uhmmmmmmmmm idk. i fall in love with people who make me laugh and people who are completely unavailable. so just make sure theres absolutely no way for us to ever come together and ill probably get down on one knee for the fuck of it. i love a good never-ending chase.
87. whats your sign?
S C O R P I O. and yes. i love being a scorpio. 
88. What were you doing last night at 12 am?
sleeping. 
89. do you cook?
not to brag but fuck yeah. i ran the kitchen at a small family restaurant called the yum yum tree. one thing I'm definitely great at.
90. have you ever gotten back in touch with an old flame after a time of more than three months of no communication?
no
91. if you're single right now, do you wish you were in a relationship?
switch that question around and it would be a yes. 
92. do you prefer to date various people or do you pretty much fall into monogamous relationships quickly?
i want the real deal and nothing less. i don't like to play around with peoples feelings. 
93. what physical traits do you look for in a potential interest?
idk. i don't have a type. if all the things you have on your body come together in a cute way, you're cute, and i think you're cute, and thats that 
94. name four things you wish you had:
love
stability
happiness
my dream body
95. are you a player? 
no
96. have you ever kissed two people in one day?
yes
97. are you a tease?
yeah. i like to send nudes and shit to guys and then never respond to them after they compliment me:)
98. ever meet anyone you met on tumblr?
no
99. have you ever been deeply in love with someone?
i don't know. at this point in my life i don't think i really grasp what love is. its always me having strong feelings for someone and never having it returned....isnt that just infatuation?
100. anyone on tumblr you'd go on a date with?
theres like a billion people on this site I'm sure theres someone id go on a date with
101. hugs or kisses.
depends
102. are you too shy to ask someone out?
id rather die than ask someone out
103. the first thing i notice about the opposite sex?
probably their hair, facial features
104. is it cute when a boy/girl calls you babe?
yeah
105. if a sexy person was pursuing you, but you knew she/he was in a relationship, would you go for it?
fuck off. 
106. do you flirt a lot?
like never
107. your last kiss?
like twenty mins ago
108. have you kissed more than five people since the start of 2011?
maybe close but maybe not. idk
109. have you kissed anyone in the past month?
uh yeah. whats with the intense interest in kissing?
110. if you could kiss anyone who would it be?
a girl
111. do you know who you'll kiss next? 
i have an idea..
112. does someone like you currently.
well I'm in a relationship buttttttt i....doubt....it
113. do you currently have feelings for someone?
yes
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8 Health Hacks for Longevity and Vitality: Simple Tricks for Better You
Ever notice people who don’t follow the perfect diet and live until they are 90 with no health issues whatsoever. What’s the secret to their vitality?
Want to know the secret health hacks for longevity?
Happiness, positivity, and feeling whole is an incredibly important part of health, we’d say it accounts for 80% of your health. The rest is eating well, exercising, and getting some shut-eye. Now we are not saying to go out and eat donuts and pizza every day.
However, learning to manage your stress and living your life to the fullest is a sure way of boosting your health and wellbeing!
In this article, we will explore the 7 lifestyle changes you can start implementing today that will help you feel better on the inside and out!
These simple recommendations are not substitutions for medical advice. Rather, they are a few hacks based on our experience and scientific data that have increased our own health and vitality.
If you’re needing a boost or even kick in the bum, continue reading about our best health hacks for longevity…
  Silence the Noise: Meditate
I bet you weren’t expecting my first tip to be non-food related did ya?
Biology has programmed our bodies to respond to stress to protect us from dangerous predators. Since our stress responses have not evolved, our brains respond to everyday stressors as if we were being chased by a lion or a tiger. This is called the “fight or flight” or sympathetic response.
Because our modern-day lives expose us to so much noise and chaos, we live in a loop of this sympathetic response. Faced with stressors like unpaid bills, annoying bosses, family guilt, and traffic – we are chronically stressed! This can wreak havoc on our health.
Science is increasingly finding that many chronic health conditions are associated with stress, putting us at risk of developing depression, insomnia, heart problems, poor digestion, and impaired concentration. [1]
Instead of letting stress control our lives, we can take the driver’s seat and learn to manage it. We may not be able to silence the noise on our planet, we can, however, quiet our minds.
The first step, remove the toxic individuals or situations out of your life when possible. Next, change your mindset and work on accepting the things you cannot control.
Finally, and most importantly, start incorporating a meditative practice which will help you deal with step 1 and 2.
The positive effects of meditation go beyond the mind as it is now scientifically proven to affect your health in many ways. In fact, daily meditating has been found to lower blood pressure, aid with pain management, and increase concentration. [2]
You don’t need to be sitting in a cross-legged position chanting OM to be meditating. You’ll get the same benefits from practicing moving meditations like yoga or solo walks in the park.
Whatever your preferred style, try carving up 10 or 20 minutes every day and watch the magic unfold! This is probably one of the easiest and most effective on our list of health hacks!
  Spend time in Nature
Spending time in nature has been proven time and time again to strengthen the immune system. Studies have found that areas surrounded by greenery had a lower incidence of criminal activity and anti-depressant consumption.
What’s more, the world is catching on to the wonders of mother nature. Two of Norway’s largest hospitals have recently built woodland cabins as part of a project to heal young patients with nature. [3]
We feel the difference when we spend time in the outdoors as opposed to locked up in our office. Considering not everyone can live by the beach, taking your lunch break outside or going for an early jog would be a fair solution. At least, we think so!
  Spend time with loved ones
Connection is so important to our mental health. This is a big one guys. The human is built to connect with others. There are literally chemical hormones that are released when you build bonds with other people.
I know how easy it is to retrieve and hide behind our Netflix sessions and our workload, afraid to share a piece of our vulnerable selves. We urge you to get out there more and speak to others. Share your fears and your joy. The good, the bad, and even the ugly!
Spending quality time with friends/family has been shown to release stress and improve health!
A recent Harvard study demonstrated friendships can boost longevity and well-being.[4]
So please, get off your computer and start chatting with people. Crazy we’d need to tell you that on a list of health hacks, right?
  Stay Hydrated
Yup. You heard me. It’s so simple, yet so overlooked. If our bodies are made of 60-70% water, isn’t common sense that it needs just as much or more to function?
Nearly all the major body systems depend on proper water intake to function.[5] Not to mention
your memory, cognitive function, and energy levels are impaired when dehydrated. Your body depends on water for everything. From lubricating joints to regulating body temperature, eliminating waste, to filtering out toxins and excess minerals through your kidneys [6] [7]
The reality is that most people either don’t drink enough water or have a highly acidic diet causing them to lose a lot of the water they do drink.
Moreover, the body’s queue for thirst and hunger is the same and often we tend to confuse the two. When you think you are still hungry after having a huge lunch, think again. That’s your body telling you I’m thirsty mate!
  How much water do you need?
According to experts, the amount of water you need to drink every day varies by weight, level of activity, gender, and location. Generally, it is recommended to drink half of your body weight of water in ounces. For instance, if you weigh 150 pounds, you need to drink 75 ounces of water per day.
Moreover, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables is another great way to get hydrated as most contain up to 90% water content, so you’re basically eating water and vitamins, yay!
The bottom line is: drink. more. water.
  Health Hack: Eat a Nutrient-Dense Diet
With all the fad diets out there, its easy to get caught up and confused, wondering if your sugar-free, carb-free, dairy-free, meat-free, food-free diet is working.
You don’t need to be a brain surgeon to figure out that a carrot is good for you and French fries and coke are not. Get back to basics. Stop counting calories, and start counting nutrients.
Eat plenty of whole plant foods and drink water. Consume loads of fresh fruits and vegetables, legumes, whole fibrous grains, and healthy fats like coconut, avocado, and omega 3s such as nuts, flax seeds, walnuts, and chia seeds.
Having adequate levels of vitamins in the body is necessary. These can be found largely in fruits and vegetables which are high in antioxidants and anti-inflammatories.
The most important part of your nutrition is that you love what you eat and it makes you feel happy and energetic. If you are constantly stressing about your next meal, it will be hard to sustain a healthy lifestyle as stress is the biggest inhibitor of healing!
Our outlook is to live by the 80-20 rule, eat clean 80% of the time and leave a little wiggle room for some treats. Because at the end of the day, you need to enjoy your life!
We know how hectic life can get, and although supplements should not replace food, you can also opt to add some antioxidant-rich supplements to your diet. Great sources of bioflavonoids and anti-inflammatories include Rutin, Piperine, GABA, Curcumin, to name a few.
Of course, before starting any new supplement, always consult your doctor to avoid any interactions or side effects.
  Eat Less Sugar
We all know that sugar is bad for us.
Researchers found a diet high in sugar can significantly increase inflammation in the body. Inflammation is the body’s natural defense response to foreign entities such as bacteria and viruses.
In periods of infection or injury, your immune system responds to the attacks by sending healing chemicals to the affected areas. This can result in swelling, redness, and heat.[8]
A little inflammation is healthy as it indicates the feedback systems in the body are working. It becomes problematic when inflammation is chronic, putting you at risk for serious health conditions including diabetes, obesity, and allergies. [9] [10]
The best way to fight off sugar cravings is to ensure you have balanced meals every day. This includes having fresh fruits.
Do not fear the fruits people. They are rich in a variety of superpowers and phytonutrients. The soluble fiber in fruits can slow the absorption of sugar which helps to improve blood sugar levels. In fact, a diet rich in fiber has been shown to provide a variety of health benefits including maintaining a healthy weight and reducing the risk of chronic lifestyle diseases. [11]
Also, make sure you eat adequate amounts of healthy fats and proteins. Our brain will naturally gravitate towards sugar when it is lacking energy, glucose being the quickest source of energy.
Without adequate fats, proteins, nutrients, and fiber, your body turns to sugar first for an energy boost. This explains why when you’re eating a bag of chips or cookies, you can’t stop at one, your body is screaming out “give me real food”!
Another great tip to stave off the sugar cravings is to have whole grains such as quinoa, oats, millet, buckwheat, or starchy vegetables with your meals like sweet potatoes and pumpkin. The sweetness and resistant starch will keep you full for hours, leaving no room for snacks.
If that doesn’t do the trick, we at Liftmode love this healthy treat:
Take 1 or 2 frozen unpitted dates, Medjool is best
+          Open the date and fill it with 1 teaspoon of almond butter
(optional: add a square of 85% dark chocolate)
  Get Sufficient Restful Sleep
Sleep is the pillar of our well-being, and yet it is so elusive. When we can’t sleep, everything else in our life seems chaotic and miserable. We feel irritated, hungry, angry, and forgetful. [12]
In simple terms, without adequate rest (at least 7 hours, 8 hours is best) your body just doesn’t function optimally. Chronic conditions are worsened, energy and focus are impaired and hormones are out of whack.
Even the healthiest people seem to sacrifice sleep. The go-getter sleep-deprived mentality is a sure way of burning you out, leading to several other health issues.
On top of that, sleep deprivation is a major cause of weight gain. Losing sleep causes an imbalance in the hormones responsible for appetite regulation, leptin, and ghrelin. Leptin is a hormone that suppresses appetite[13] whereas Ghrelin is a peptide that stimulates appetite.[14] When Leptin decreases, and ghrelin increases, we feel constantly hungry.
One study looked at the effects of sleep deprivation in 2 groups, one with 5 hours of sleep and one with 8 hours of sleep. The participants with short sleep had a decrease in leptin levels and an increase in ghrelin which resulted in a higher BMI and slower metabolism. [15]
That being said, some of us have a harder time falling asleep than others. If you need extra help falling asleep, consider these following tips:
avoid electronics 1-2 hours before bed: exposure to blue light from screens hinders the release of the sleep hormone melatonin [16]
eat foods that induce sleep: almonds, goji berries, kiwi, walnuts [17]
avoid sugar/caffeine before bed
supplement with Magnesium or L-tryptophan: both induce relaxation and sleep
sun exposure: boosts melatonin production via an increase of serotonin
sex or spending time with loved ones: several studies indicate sex releases certain hormones which help you sleep better[18], a sleep physician suggested the act of connecting with a loved one releases stress and enhances sleep quality[19]
herbal teas: valerian, chamomile, peppermint are all great for their calming effects.
  Exercise
Health hacks for vitality and wellness… This blog post simply couldn’t be complete without mentioning the importance of regular exercise.
We all know moving our bodies is good for us. Exercising has incredibly positive effects on our body. From boosting energy levels, making you happier, and increasing cognitive function to eliminating toxins, exercising is so crucial to health and well-being.
We believe you working out should be fun, that way you can keep at it. Find an activity you enjoy. Whether it be swimming, surfing, running, walking, jumping on a trampoline. Just make sure you get your sweat on every day. Recent studies suggest 30 minutes a day is really all you need! [20]
  Health Hacks for Vitality and Longevity… 
Living a healthy life can be confusing, and for some, overwhelming. With the internet, we are constantly bombarded with information overload. The next gadget, the next diet or the next pair of shoes you need to buy.
We are here to tell you that the recipe for health is quite simple. With a few simple health hacks for longevity, you’re on your way to a better you! Get enough sleep, quit smoking, spend time outdoors, and with loved ones, eat to feel nourished not to be skinny, and drink plenty of water!
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8 Health Hacks for Longevity and Vitality: Simple Tricks for Better You
Ever notice people who don’t follow the perfect diet and live until they are 90 with no health issues whatsoever. What’s the secret to their vitality?
Want to know the secret health hacks for longevity?
Happiness, positivity, and feeling whole is an incredibly important part of health, we’d say it accounts for 80% of your health. The rest is eating well, exercising, and getting some shut-eye. Now we are not saying to go out and eat donuts and pizza every day.
However, learning to manage your stress and living your life to the fullest is a sure way of boosting your health and wellbeing!
In this article, we will explore the 7 lifestyle changes you can start implementing today that will help you feel better on the inside and out!
These simple recommendations are not substitutions for medical advice. Rather, they are a few hacks based on our experience and scientific data that have increased our own health and vitality.
If you’re needing a boost or even kick in the bum, continue reading about our best health hacks for longevity...
  Silence the Noise: Meditate
I bet you weren’t expecting my first tip to be non-food related did ya?
Biology has programmed our bodies to respond to stress to protect us from dangerous predators. Since our stress responses have not evolved, our brains respond to everyday stressors as if we were being chased by a lion or a tiger. This is called the “fight or flight” or sympathetic response.
Because our modern-day lives expose us to so much noise and chaos, we live in a loop of this sympathetic response. Faced with stressors like unpaid bills, annoying bosses, family guilt, and traffic – we are chronically stressed! This can wreak havoc on our health.
Science is increasingly finding that many chronic health conditions are associated with stress, putting us at risk of developing depression, insomnia, heart problems, poor digestion, and impaired concentration. [1]
Instead of letting stress control our lives, we can take the driver’s seat and learn to manage it. We may not be able to silence the noise on our planet, we can, however, quiet our minds.
The first step, remove the toxic individuals or situations out of your life when possible. Next, change your mindset and work on accepting the things you cannot control.
Finally, and most importantly, start incorporating a meditative practice which will help you deal with step 1 and 2.
The positive effects of meditation go beyond the mind as it is now scientifically proven to affect your health in many ways. In fact, daily meditating has been found to lower blood pressure, aid with pain management, and increase concentration. [2]
You don’t need to be sitting in a cross-legged position chanting OM to be meditating. You’ll get the same benefits from practicing moving meditations like yoga or solo walks in the park.
Whatever your preferred style, try carving up 10 or 20 minutes every day and watch the magic unfold! This is probably one of the easiest and most effective on our list of health hacks!
  Spend time in Nature
Spending time in nature has been proven time and time again to strengthen the immune system. Studies have found that areas surrounded by greenery had a lower incidence of criminal activity and anti-depressant consumption.
What’s more, the world is catching on to the wonders of mother nature. Two of Norway’s largest hospitals have recently built woodland cabins as part of a project to heal young patients with nature. [3]
We feel the difference when we spend time in the outdoors as opposed to locked up in our office. Considering not everyone can live by the beach, taking your lunch break outside or going for an early jog would be a fair solution. At least, we think so!
  Spend time with loved ones
Connection is so important to our mental health. This is a big one guys. The human is built to connect with others. There are literally chemical hormones that are released when you build bonds with other people.
I know how easy it is to retrieve and hide behind our Netflix sessions and our workload, afraid to share a piece of our vulnerable selves. We urge you to get out there more and speak to others. Share your fears and your joy. The good, the bad, and even the ugly!
Spending quality time with friends/family has been shown to release stress and improve health!
A recent Harvard study demonstrated friendships can boost longevity and well-being.[4]
So please, get off your computer and start chatting with people. Crazy we'd need to tell you that on a list of health hacks, right?
  Stay Hydrated
Yup. You heard me. It’s so simple, yet so overlooked. If our bodies are made of 60-70% water, isn’t common sense that it needs just as much or more to function?
Nearly all the major body systems depend on proper water intake to function.[5] Not to mention
your memory, cognitive function, and energy levels are impaired when dehydrated. Your body depends on water for everything. From lubricating joints to regulating body temperature, eliminating waste, to filtering out toxins and excess minerals through your kidneys [6] [7]
The reality is that most people either don’t drink enough water or have a highly acidic diet causing them to lose a lot of the water they do drink.
Moreover, the body’s queue for thirst and hunger is the same and often we tend to confuse the two. When you think you are still hungry after having a huge lunch, think again. That’s your body telling you I’m thirsty mate!
  How much water do you need?
According to experts, the amount of water you need to drink every day varies by weight, level of activity, gender, and location. Generally, it is recommended to drink half of your body weight of water in ounces. For instance, if you weigh 150 pounds, you need to drink 75 ounces of water per day.
Moreover, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables is another great way to get hydrated as most contain up to 90% water content, so you’re basically eating water and vitamins, yay!
The bottom line is: drink. more. water.
  Health Hack: Eat a Nutrient-Dense Diet
With all the fad diets out there, its easy to get caught up and confused, wondering if your sugar-free, carb-free, dairy-free, meat-free, food-free diet is working.
You don’t need to be a brain surgeon to figure out that a carrot is good for you and French fries and coke are not. Get back to basics. Stop counting calories, and start counting nutrients.
Eat plenty of whole plant foods and drink water. Consume loads of fresh fruits and vegetables, legumes, whole fibrous grains, and healthy fats like coconut, avocado, and omega 3s such as nuts, flax seeds, walnuts, and chia seeds.
Having adequate levels of vitamins in the body is necessary. These can be found largely in fruits and vegetables which are high in antioxidants and anti-inflammatories.
The most important part of your nutrition is that you love what you eat and it makes you feel happy and energetic. If you are constantly stressing about your next meal, it will be hard to sustain a healthy lifestyle as stress is the biggest inhibitor of healing!
Our outlook is to live by the 80-20 rule, eat clean 80% of the time and leave a little wiggle room for some treats. Because at the end of the day, you need to enjoy your life!
We know how hectic life can get, and although supplements should not replace food, you can also opt to add some antioxidant-rich supplements to your diet. Great sources of bioflavonoids and anti-inflammatories include Rutin, Piperine, GABA, Curcumin, to name a few.
Of course, before starting any new supplement, always consult your doctor to avoid any interactions or side effects.
  Eat Less Sugar
We all know that sugar is bad for us.
Researchers found a diet high in sugar can significantly increase inflammation in the body. Inflammation is the body’s natural defense response to foreign entities such as bacteria and viruses.
In periods of infection or injury, your immune system responds to the attacks by sending healing chemicals to the affected areas. This can result in swelling, redness, and heat.[8]
A little inflammation is healthy as it indicates the feedback systems in the body are working. It becomes problematic when inflammation is chronic, putting you at risk for serious health conditions including diabetes, obesity, and allergies. [9] [10]
The best way to fight off sugar cravings is to ensure you have balanced meals every day. This includes having fresh fruits.
Do not fear the fruits people. They are rich in a variety of superpowers and phytonutrients. The soluble fiber in fruits can slow the absorption of sugar which helps to improve blood sugar levels. In fact, a diet rich in fiber has been shown to provide a variety of health benefits including maintaining a healthy weight and reducing the risk of chronic lifestyle diseases. [11]
Also, make sure you eat adequate amounts of healthy fats and proteins. Our brain will naturally gravitate towards sugar when it is lacking energy, glucose being the quickest source of energy.
Without adequate fats, proteins, nutrients, and fiber, your body turns to sugar first for an energy boost. This explains why when you’re eating a bag of chips or cookies, you can’t stop at one, your body is screaming out “give me real food”!
Another great tip to stave off the sugar cravings is to have whole grains such as quinoa, oats, millet, buckwheat, or starchy vegetables with your meals like sweet potatoes and pumpkin. The sweetness and resistant starch will keep you full for hours, leaving no room for snacks.
If that doesn’t do the trick, we at Liftmode love this healthy treat:
Take 1 or 2 frozen unpitted dates, Medjool is best
+          Open the date and fill it with 1 teaspoon of almond butter
(optional: add a square of 85% dark chocolate)
  Get Sufficient Restful Sleep
Sleep is the pillar of our well-being, and yet it is so elusive. When we can’t sleep, everything else in our life seems chaotic and miserable. We feel irritated, hungry, angry, and forgetful. [12]
In simple terms, without adequate rest (at least 7 hours, 8 hours is best) your body just doesn’t function optimally. Chronic conditions are worsened, energy and focus are impaired and hormones are out of whack.
Even the healthiest people seem to sacrifice sleep. The go-getter sleep-deprived mentality is a sure way of burning you out, leading to several other health issues.
On top of that, sleep deprivation is a major cause of weight gain. Losing sleep causes an imbalance in the hormones responsible for appetite regulation, leptin, and ghrelin. Leptin is a hormone that suppresses appetite[13] whereas Ghrelin is a peptide that stimulates appetite.[14] When Leptin decreases, and ghrelin increases, we feel constantly hungry.
One study looked at the effects of sleep deprivation in 2 groups, one with 5 hours of sleep and one with 8 hours of sleep. The participants with short sleep had a decrease in leptin levels and an increase in ghrelin which resulted in a higher BMI and slower metabolism. [15]
That being said, some of us have a harder time falling asleep than others. If you need extra help falling asleep, consider these following tips:
avoid electronics 1-2 hours before bed: exposure to blue light from screens hinders the release of the sleep hormone melatonin [16]
eat foods that induce sleep: almonds, goji berries, kiwi, walnuts [17]
avoid sugar/caffeine before bed
supplement with Magnesium or L-tryptophan: both induce relaxation and sleep
sun exposure: boosts melatonin production via an increase of serotonin
sex or spending time with loved ones: several studies indicate sex releases certain hormones which help you sleep better[18], a sleep physician suggested the act of connecting with a loved one releases stress and enhances sleep quality[19]
herbal teas: valerian, chamomile, peppermint are all great for their calming effects.
  Exercise
Health hacks for vitality and wellness... This blog post simply couldn't be complete without mentioning the importance of regular exercise.
We all know moving our bodies is good for us. Exercising has incredibly positive effects on our body. From boosting energy levels, making you happier, and increasing cognitive function to eliminating toxins, exercising is so crucial to health and well-being.
We believe you working out should be fun, that way you can keep at it. Find an activity you enjoy. Whether it be swimming, surfing, running, walking, jumping on a trampoline. Just make sure you get your sweat on every day. Recent studies suggest 30 minutes a day is really all you need! [20]
  Health Hacks for Vitality and Longevity... 
Living a healthy life can be confusing, and for some, overwhelming. With the internet, we are constantly bombarded with information overload. The next gadget, the next diet or the next pair of shoes you need to buy.
We are here to tell you that the recipe for health is quite simple. With a few simple health hacks for longevity, you're on your way to a better you! Get enough sleep, quit smoking, spend time outdoors, and with loved ones, eat to feel nourished not to be skinny, and drink plenty of water!
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America is heading into the July 4 weekend with a reckless disregard for the health and safety of airline passengers.Across large parts of the country a surge in coronavirus cases is combining with a sudden surge in domestic air travel, encouraged by heavily discounted seat prices.The Trump administration’s abdication of responsibility for promoting recommended guidelines to contain the spread of the pandemic has left airlines and airports without coherent national standards to minimize the risks to passengers.As a result, this holiday weekend could spawn a nightmare scenario in which the virus is able to repeat the original pattern of its spread via air travel, but instead of flying in from abroad it now has an open pathway to cities across North America.The ultimate responsibility for the safety of passengers lies with Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. For months now it has been evident that Chao has been keeping faith with the Trump do-nothing policy toward national health safety standards. Like her husband, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, corporate interests have always had more influence with her than those of consumers.Chao has frustrated every attempt by lawmakers, aviation industry leaders and passenger rights advocates to carefully control the return of domestic air travel with specific guidelines for social distancing, mask wearing and the deep cleaning of airports and airplanes.Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut who, with Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has been demanding action from Secretary Chao, told the Daily Beast: “Six months into this pandemic there are still no federal standards or federal enforcement in air safety. This total lack of leadership in the midst of an ongoing crisis is unconscionable.”Faced with mounting pressure for action and the prospect of far higher passenger numbers at airports this weekend, Chao issued a last-minute list of recommendations for action by airports and airlines.These included the wearing of face masks “everywhere in the air transportation environment” and “promoting social distancing.”Senators Blumenthal and Markey responded, calling the recommendations “unenforceable and woefully inadequate. We need federally enforceable mandates to keep the travelling public safe.”None of the measures were made mandatory, and one of the recommendations was so lacking in specifics or in any understanding of the resources needed to implement it that it looked half-baked: “Collecting passenger contact information to enable notification in the event of suspected or confirmed exposure to COVID-19, a process known as contact tracing.”Paul Hudson, the president of the activist group FlyersRights, told The Daily Beast: “President Trump has said that we are in a war with a silent enemy, the coronavirus. That war is now in its sixth month, and under Secretary Chao’s leadership at the Department of Transportation the virus has thrived.“Unrestricted air travel has been the way the virus spread globally. Secretary Chao has so far refused to mandate the adoption of the basic CDC guidelines for masking, social distancing and sanitizing. Airlines can do whatever they want and the result has been confusion, chaos and fear.”Airline analysts are surprised by the sudden strength of the rebound in demand for domestic air travel in America—reflecting, in part, the pent-up frustration of a population used to easy mobility and keen to reclaim it, regardless of the risks involved.A key measure of passenger demand is the number of seats available. This has become especially significant as U.S. airlines, with many thousands of their airplanes parked, assess how quickly they should get them back in the skies.According to the international airline data bank OAG, during June the number of seats for sale per week by U.S. airlines leapt from just over six million to just over nine million. The last pre-pandemic high point was in March, with a seasonal norm of nearly 22 and a half million seats available. In other words, demand was suddenly surging past 40 percent of normal.John Grant, an OAG analyst, told the Daily Beast, “This week Delta alone have added back another 400,000 plus seats, mainly from their hubs.”Improbably, a summer boom now looks possible: Southwest, with the most domestic flights, now expects to be flying 62 percent of its pre-virus schedule in July and American Airlines 55 percent.(In China, where the shut down of domestic flights occurred earlier, scheduled seats were back at around 80 percent of normal by the end of May.)Alarmingly, what nobody foresaw was that if virus outbreaks started spiking in states that had been casual in their public health precautions it would coincide with Americans being ready again to get back in the air in those same states, creating the potential for a perfect storm.The willingness to fly again is being fueled in part by extraordinarily low fares as the airlines resume intercity schedules. For example:In Dallas, where new cases of the coronavirus are accelerating to nearly 600 a day, direct flights to New York from July 9 thru July 15 are on sale by American Airlines for $197 round trip and to Chicago for $89 round trip.In Houston, now experiencing a “severe” outbreak that is on the verge of overwhelming hospitals, direct flights to New York are available on United for around $300 round trip and to Chicago, also on United, as low as $75 round trip.In Arizona, where new cases are approaching 5,000 a day, the hospitals are overwhelmed and the governor was forced to reverse policy and order bars, pools, gyms, and theaters to close, direct flights from Phoenix to New York are averaging around $300 round trip on both United and American, and from Phoenix to Chicago flights on American are on sale for between $217 and $357. In Florida, where counties have been left to set their own safeguards as cases soar and where, for example, the beaches and bars in Palm Beach county will be closed for the July 4 weekend, people could be tempted to head to beaches in the northeast by the offers of round trip flights from Fort Lauderdale to New York on United at $97, or to the northern lakes with trips to Chicago on Jet Blue, United and American at prices below $100.The pandemic struck as the major U.S. carriers were enjoying nearly a decade of soaring demand and record profits. Part of that success was the result of innovative smart technology better able to match supply with demand. They were operating a new kind of oligopoly in which old-fashioned price fixing by humans was replaced by algorithms. When all the airline bean counters had the same software it didn’t require human collusion to find the optimal price for a seat—at any time of the day or night looking months ahead.That comity is now over as each airline fights for market share. And they are doing that in a space ungoverned by limits to enforce health safety, with potentially disastrous results. Airports and airlines are setting their own rules in a haphazard rush.Two of the major airlines, Delta and Southwest, are guaranteeing empty middle seats until the end of September. United is not capping the number of seats sold but is notifying passengers if more than 70 percent of the seats are booked and offering no-cost changes to less densely-packed flights.American Airlines has emerged as the bare-knuckle player. American has been shedding overseas routes, particularly in Asia, and depending more on domestic routes for profits. They are selling up to 85 percent of the seats on any flight—which to most passengers feels full.American’s pilots are clearly not happy with this. Their union has proposed that the government should buy enough seats to guarantee nobody should have to sit next to somebody they are not traveling with. That idea fell on deaf ears.The Daily Beast asked why these packed flights could not be boarded from the rear forward to avoid dangerously intimate logjams in the aisle. An American spokesperson responded, “that really only works if everyone is present at the start of boarding, and that is generally not the case.”The logic of that is bewildering—unless the real reason is the extra revenue generated by priority boarding. And, as if that were not enough they added, “As more people continue to travel customers may notice that flights are booked to capacity starting July 1.” Passengers may re-book on less crowded flights “when available.” “May notice” indeed: we can only imagine what it feels like to reach a gate and find out. Never mind how these caveats are going to be transacted—and litigated.That brings us back to the indifference of secretary Chao to the games played by airlines. As Paul Hudson says, “Passenger rights have suffered under secretary Chao as the few passenger protections are now only enforced—if at all—in cases of ‘egregious and repetitive’ violations.”Consumer Reports, the independent consumer rights watchdog, has made repeated public appeals to Secretary Chao to act on both passenger health security and getting support against sharp practices in the crisis like the attempt by airlines to offer vouchers for future flights rather than pay cash refunds for flights they cancel.William J. McGee, aviation adviser to CR, told the Daily Beast: “Secretary Chao’s lack of action is troubling, particularly since past secretaries have acted swiftly during crises, as after 9/11.“Her most critical responsibility is to ensure the safety of the traveling public and all those who work in the travel industry, and she is failing in that regard.”Like so many in the failing Trump administration, Chao is a disciple of benign neglect, happy to do nothing whatsoever to tackle grave risks to the public—apparently for ideological reasons that only people who live in their own bubble of comforts can afford. Chao’s own private wealth has made husband Mitch one of the wealthiest senators. Mitch, aka the Grim Reaper, once boasted that 395 bills are sitting on his desk that have no chance of passing while he’s controlling the Senate. Today, that includes a new stimulus package to help families stricken by the pandemic that was passed by the House. Happily together in the world of do-nothings, the McConnells are a deadly duo. They’re not in charge. The virus is.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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America is heading into the July 4 weekend with a reckless disregard for the health and safety of airline passengers.Across large parts of the country a surge in coronavirus cases is combining with a sudden surge in domestic air travel, encouraged by heavily discounted seat prices.The Trump administration’s abdication of responsibility for promoting recommended guidelines to contain the spread of the pandemic has left airlines and airports without coherent national standards to minimize the risks to passengers.As a result, this holiday weekend could spawn a nightmare scenario in which the virus is able to repeat the original pattern of its spread via air travel, but instead of flying in from abroad it now has an open pathway to cities across North America.The ultimate responsibility for the safety of passengers lies with Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. For months now it has been evident that Chao has been keeping faith with the Trump do-nothing policy toward national health safety standards. Like her husband, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, corporate interests have always had more influence with her than those of consumers.Chao has frustrated every attempt by lawmakers, aviation industry leaders and passenger rights advocates to carefully control the return of domestic air travel with specific guidelines for social distancing, mask wearing and the deep cleaning of airports and airplanes.Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut who, with Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has been demanding action from Secretary Chao, told the Daily Beast: “Six months into this pandemic there are still no federal standards or federal enforcement in air safety. This total lack of leadership in the midst of an ongoing crisis is unconscionable.”Faced with mounting pressure for action and the prospect of far higher passenger numbers at airports this weekend, Chao issued a last-minute list of recommendations for action by airports and airlines.These included the wearing of face masks “everywhere in the air transportation environment” and “promoting social distancing.”Senators Blumenthal and Markey responded, calling the recommendations “unenforceable and woefully inadequate. We need federally enforceable mandates to keep the travelling public safe.”None of the measures were made mandatory, and one of the recommendations was so lacking in specifics or in any understanding of the resources needed to implement it that it looked half-baked: “Collecting passenger contact information to enable notification in the event of suspected or confirmed exposure to COVID-19, a process known as contact tracing.”Paul Hudson, the president of the activist group FlyersRights, told The Daily Beast: “President Trump has said that we are in a war with a silent enemy, the coronavirus. That war is now in its sixth month, and under Secretary Chao’s leadership at the Department of Transportation the virus has thrived.“Unrestricted air travel has been the way the virus spread globally. Secretary Chao has so far refused to mandate the adoption of the basic CDC guidelines for masking, social distancing and sanitizing. Airlines can do whatever they want and the result has been confusion, chaos and fear.”Airline analysts are surprised by the sudden strength of the rebound in demand for domestic air travel in America—reflecting, in part, the pent-up frustration of a population used to easy mobility and keen to reclaim it, regardless of the risks involved.A key measure of passenger demand is the number of seats available. This has become especially significant as U.S. airlines, with many thousands of their airplanes parked, assess how quickly they should get them back in the skies.According to the international airline data bank OAG, during June the number of seats for sale per week by U.S. airlines leapt from just over six million to just over nine million. The last pre-pandemic high point was in March, with a seasonal norm of nearly 22 and a half million seats available. In other words, demand was suddenly surging past 40 percent of normal.John Grant, an OAG analyst, told the Daily Beast, “This week Delta alone have added back another 400,000 plus seats, mainly from their hubs.”Improbably, a summer boom now looks possible: Southwest, with the most domestic flights, now expects to be flying 62 percent of its pre-virus schedule in July and American Airlines 55 percent.(In China, where the shut down of domestic flights occurred earlier, scheduled seats were back at around 80 percent of normal by the end of May.)Alarmingly, what nobody foresaw was that if virus outbreaks started spiking in states that had been casual in their public health precautions it would coincide with Americans being ready again to get back in the air in those same states, creating the potential for a perfect storm.The willingness to fly again is being fueled in part by extraordinarily low fares as the airlines resume intercity schedules. For example:In Dallas, where new cases of the coronavirus are accelerating to nearly 600 a day, direct flights to New York from July 9 thru July 15 are on sale by American Airlines for $197 round trip and to Chicago for $89 round trip.In Houston, now experiencing a “severe” outbreak that is on the verge of overwhelming hospitals, direct flights to New York are available on United for around $300 round trip and to Chicago, also on United, as low as $75 round trip.In Arizona, where new cases are approaching 5,000 a day, the hospitals are overwhelmed and the governor was forced to reverse policy and order bars, pools, gyms, and theaters to close, direct flights from Phoenix to New York are averaging around $300 round trip on both United and American, and from Phoenix to Chicago flights on American are on sale for between $217 and $357. In Florida, where counties have been left to set their own safeguards as cases soar and where, for example, the beaches and bars in Palm Beach county will be closed for the July 4 weekend, people could be tempted to head to beaches in the northeast by the offers of round trip flights from Fort Lauderdale to New York on United at $97, or to the northern lakes with trips to Chicago on Jet Blue, United and American at prices below $100.The pandemic struck as the major U.S. carriers were enjoying nearly a decade of soaring demand and record profits. Part of that success was the result of innovative smart technology better able to match supply with demand. They were operating a new kind of oligopoly in which old-fashioned price fixing by humans was replaced by algorithms. When all the airline bean counters had the same software it didn’t require human collusion to find the optimal price for a seat—at any time of the day or night looking months ahead.That comity is now over as each airline fights for market share. And they are doing that in a space ungoverned by limits to enforce health safety, with potentially disastrous results. Airports and airlines are setting their own rules in a haphazard rush.Two of the major airlines, Delta and Southwest, are guaranteeing empty middle seats until the end of September. United is not capping the number of seats sold but is notifying passengers if more than 70 percent of the seats are booked and offering no-cost changes to less densely-packed flights.American Airlines has emerged as the bare-knuckle player. American has been shedding overseas routes, particularly in Asia, and depending more on domestic routes for profits. They are selling up to 85 percent of the seats on any flight—which to most passengers feels full.American’s pilots are clearly not happy with this. Their union has proposed that the government should buy enough seats to guarantee nobody should have to sit next to somebody they are not traveling with. That idea fell on deaf ears.The Daily Beast asked why these packed flights could not be boarded from the rear forward to avoid dangerously intimate logjams in the aisle. An American spokesperson responded, “that really only works if everyone is present at the start of boarding, and that is generally not the case.”The logic of that is bewildering—unless the real reason is the extra revenue generated by priority boarding. And, as if that were not enough they added, “As more people continue to travel customers may notice that flights are booked to capacity starting July 1.” Passengers may re-book on less crowded flights “when available.” “May notice” indeed: we can only imagine what it feels like to reach a gate and find out. Never mind how these caveats are going to be transacted—and litigated.That brings us back to the indifference of secretary Chao to the games played by airlines. As Paul Hudson says, “Passenger rights have suffered under secretary Chao as the few passenger protections are now only enforced—if at all—in cases of ‘egregious and repetitive’ violations.”Consumer Reports, the independent consumer rights watchdog, has made repeated public appeals to Secretary Chao to act on both passenger health security and getting support against sharp practices in the crisis like the attempt by airlines to offer vouchers for future flights rather than pay cash refunds for flights they cancel.William J. McGee, aviation adviser to CR, told the Daily Beast: “Secretary Chao’s lack of action is troubling, particularly since past secretaries have acted swiftly during crises, as after 9/11.“Her most critical responsibility is to ensure the safety of the traveling public and all those who work in the travel industry, and she is failing in that regard.”Like so many in the failing Trump administration, Chao is a disciple of benign neglect, happy to do nothing whatsoever to tackle grave risks to the public—apparently for ideological reasons that only people who live in their own bubble of comforts can afford. Chao’s own private wealth has made husband Mitch one of the wealthiest senators. Mitch, aka the Grim Reaper, once boasted that 395 bills are sitting on his desk that have no chance of passing while he’s controlling the Senate. Today, that includes a new stimulus package to help families stricken by the pandemic that was passed by the House. Happily together in the world of do-nothings, the McConnells are a deadly duo. They’re not in charge. The virus is.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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 You will manage to maintain company growth. This is due to the fact that when you have dependable translation solutions you require certainly not think about missed out on deadlines and oversights that can be pricey for your company. Along with appropriate handlings, you may be sure to always keep up with the demands of your business as it increases without necessarily being overwhelmed. You may have the services tailored to match your necessities and continue to be adaptable to satisfy any improvements as they take place.
 On Standard of Professional Translation Service
 The statistics presents that there were about 28,500 translation operates posted throughout China, along with around 2192 every year coming from 1978 to 1990. Then the information from 1995 to 2003 is just about 9 opportunities of that coming from 1978 to 1990, which were actually 94400 as well as 10489 respectively. There is actually no uncertainty that China is actually a big interpretation country. Nevertheless, it can certainly not be taken into consideration as a highly effective translation nation as a result of to the existing condition Banqiao District.
 To start with, the total translation amount is actually not as significant as that in other countries. Lots of firms surface in powerful a huge number as well as different degrees of interpretation companies.
 Also, both of the amount as well as high quality of explainers are actually extremely needed to have to improve. In even with of that the amount of specialist translators has actually reached 60 1000, there have to do with 500 thousand part-time linguists in China, and the premium is still in a low amount New Taipei City.
 Thirdly, there is actually no mature regulation to guide and take care of the interpretation field.
 It is obvious that translation service needs to be actually improved to create China an interpretation energy. In reality reasonable stamina of a firm depends upon its own translation service. Translation service is actually a satisfying service habits which delivers clients along with transforming solution of even more than two languages. Due to the irregularity in this industry, competitions are actually coming to be ferocious significantly. Only specialist service may create a company in an unyielding posture and also impressive amongst plenty of competitions.
 Most of all, the core to attain specialist translation service exists in the standard. Initially, it requests the help of translation administration. To put it simply, it is actually not conducted through an individual, but by an outstanding team, in which staff member comply in a logical technique. The team is composed of project supervisor, explainers, high quality affirmation division (QA division), publisher, proofreader, etymological expert as well as technological pro. The skill filtering system is particularly important so that the entailed persons are actually qualified to their work. Take Soven Trans for instance, the skill filtering system process is somewhat challenging. Simply 3 away from 1000 persons will be used. Besides, cooperation as well as coordination one of group members is a crucial to get expert company. Everyone should be accountable for his/her jobs New Taipei City.
 At that point a complete and prompt interaction with the clients creates the task in really good improvement. It is actually simple to clearly think out the interpretation material, high quality, design, purpose, making up criteria of intended source, personal phrase etc at the start of call. When the linguists come across problems and posture inquiries, the project supervisor must get in touch with the customers to obtain the services asap. Then task supervisor must say to all explainers interesting in the challenges and services.
Ultimately, feedback picked up from clients and also premium outlining can reveal the weak spot and support to enhance service premium next time. The group will certainly make quick progression in professional translation service consistently through uncovering its weak spots as well as remedying all of them without delay New Taipei City.
 Located on the requirement of expert translation service, some recommendations are actually offered as adheres to:
 1. QA department is firmly recommended to capitalize on interpretation resources, such as Trados, which can easily keep track of the tasks of each translator. Besides, resources may be discussed by means of the resource so that the explainers usually tend to function effectively. It is encouraged to develop a device that is distinct to others.
 2. Each customer can easily assess the credit as well as company quality of an interpretation crew. After the crew hands in the completed work to the clients, the last might provide the staff an assessment through ranking on the website of the provider. Stress places onward quality Taiwan.
 3. The associated companies ought to put importance on the law of translation sector to develop a healthy and balanced market.
 There is a very long way to always keep the translation industry so as, but providing qualified translation service is actually an inescapable pattern in the future. It is actually opportunity to point out specialist company now.
 How to Select a Professional Translation Service
 As organisations are going global, qualified interpretation services have become an important component of the sector. If you conduct an internet search, you will happen all over thousands of such firms that provide specialist translation service. With therefore a lot of alternatives accessible, it ends up being hard to select the best service provider for your service? Therefore, our experts will go over the ways to identify the appropriate carrier for you.
 You must keep in mind that simply an initial course translation agency can easily provide you top quality job. Therefore, extra care and also investigation are important for picking the correct firm. There are several free-lance translators working available who deliver translations at budget-friendly costs. Having said that, a specialist interpretation agency will certainly always makes sure that premium is actually kept, like no other freelance linguists can. Why professional interpretation companies give much better quality than independent translators? The solution to this would certainly be actually the hiring criteria and criteria for the explainers. These interpretation providers work with only those people who are actually certified as effectively as licensed and have years of expertise in the filed of analysis as well as translation. You may be actually ensured about the accuracy as well as immediate translation work, when you hire a specialist organization for your project Taiwan.
 The following crucial factor to take into consideration is the price of the translation service. Don't forget, quality work possesses its cost. But, a specialist translation provider provides top quality job at budget friendly costs.
 You can determine the abilities of the agency by looking into their specialist certification company logos as well as credentials on the Website. You can additionally receive relevant information about their standard of job from their profiles as well as testimonies.
 Thus, it is very clear to our company that to work with a qualified interpretation organization, there are actually numerous traits that should be actually considered, for example experience, top quality, credential as well as price. Perform not ever presume that by paying affordable price for your job you are actually nabbing the most effective offers. However you will certainly finish in paying more to renovate the very same job Taiwan.
 It is actually extremely essential to discover the correct translation company for your company, due to the fact that wrong or even poor interpretation can easily put your business's credibility and reputation at stake. So, take substantial quantity of time for complete research and also employ the right interpretation business for your work.
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 When you operate for a provider that has many papers come in with a various foreign language on them, you will likely be actually inquired to comprehend the process of either equating all of them yourself or finding a translator to alter them coming from this unfamiliar foreign language in to a vernacular. Either method, this is actually an exceptionally recurring procedure that happens in practically any type of company or even specialist setting, with or even without the expertise of most of the workers.
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 Professional translation service is typically booked for companies, the government, museums, and attorney. While public translation is also given with a number of these companies, many of all of them are going to pay attention to their expert clients, as they will give them with a stable stream of job consistently. Localization Translation
 These professional interpretation services are actually comprised of several different explainers along with various language functionalities. While most of all of them will be actually fluent in one of the most common foreign languages spoken throughout the planet, others will definitely possess an overall grip of your even more uncommon foreign languages, making it achievable for practically any sort of paper worldwide to be actually converted for these primary enterprises as well as companies Minsheng Road.
 If you haven't actually suspected, interpretation is the ways of taking a document that is filled in one foreign language right into one more. There are various causes that a specialist enterprise would certainly need translation companies, however, one of the most popular being mergings or possible business offers with providers in an additional country. Using this foreign language barricade in between the 2 providers, they are going to typically seek a translation service of lawful documents that each celebrations will definitely need to sign and know. While one firm may have their very own personal explainer on staff, this isn't constantly mosting likely to be actually the most ideal course. In reality, a lot of mergings among foreign firms demand a third-party translator, yet why? Properly, it is namely considering that they intend to always keep the translators straightforward. With translation, it is effortless to mislead someone, therefore in an initiative to stop these dubious transactions, most providers will definitely introduce a 3rd party translation service.
 These qualified translation solutions may be found almost anywhere. Specialist translators are actually accessible both online by means of telecommuting or in your area, offering every possibility to obtain pretty much any kind of record you can easily assume of equated coming from one language and also right into an additional.
 Just like some other service, a specialist translation service firm are going to intend to guarantee that they have the best of the greatest. They usually times will certainly call for a minimum required of a couple of years of university under the belt as well as in addition to that, they will definitely need a married couple years of job experience. However, because there may not be nearly as lots of people taking part in translation in these times, they have actually ended up being more and a lot more ready to provide an opening of paid or unpaid internships throughout the different degrees of the business Minsheng Road.
 Why Hire Professional Translation Services?
 If you are a service that has damaged out into the world in that you continuously get involved in worldwide transactions, then you definitely possess a client base that might certainly not be actually English speaking. To keep your company network expanding, you need to locate a way of serving all your customers, no matter the foreign language and this means acquiring trustworthy interpretation services to give both celebrations plain sailing through the transactions.
 The translation solutions may either be actually clinical, specialized, economic or lawful, all of it relies on the type of service you enjoy and also the type of deals you acquire involved in. Utilizing a specialist translator is actually a good step. When working with or even utilizing the companies of an explainer, there is need to make certain that you opt for an expert who is going to definitely deliver to your requirements and assist you sustain a really good connection with your clients coming from all histories. Here are actually some factors why you should think of translation companies for your organisation Banqiao District.
 You reach appreciate quality job. A qualified linguist supplies accurate interpretations you may depend on without suffering your company whatsoever. The professionals are actually efficient and provide services for the location so you can easily be certain that your business components are actually revised many opportunities through a number of experts, thus minimizing the possibilities of misconception or uncertainty of the relevant information. When you employ somebody that understands what they are actually performing, you may be certain that you will obtain just high quality job in completion.
 You receive specialists for your industry. Translation firms possess professionals who deal with various regions. If for occasion you are an economic organizations calling for monetary translation, at that point you get a professional who is actually certified especially for that. The translators consult specialists in the industry like IT specialists, legal representatives and also medical professionals relying on the location of interest to ensure that they provide quality and also reliability in your unique region.
 You have the ability to sustain congruity. Expert interpretation companies help you preserve consistency in phrases of communication. A qualified and competitive translator will definitely utilize terminologies that are very easy to find out thus your customers and also clients do certainly not require to always keep relearning to comprehend. For this, it is advisable that you stay with one agency or even explainer to ensure that communication and also term consumption remain constant for your clients as well as clients Banqiao District.
 You will definitely manage to stay on par with business development. This is due to the fact that when you possess trustworthy interpretation solutions you require not bother with missed deadlines and also mistakes that can be costly for your service. With suitable managings, you may be certain to always keep up along with the demands of your company as it increases without necessarily being actually swamped. You can possess the companies customized to match your necessities and stay adaptable to accommodate any kind of adjustments as they happen.
 On Standard of Professional Translation Service
 The statistics presents that there were actually about 28,500 interpretation operates posted throughout China, with approximately 2192 every year coming from 1978 to 1990. At that point the data from 1995 to 2003 is actually practically nine times of that from 1978 to 1990, which were actually 94400 and also 10489 respectively. There is no question that China is actually a major translation nation. Nevertheless, it can not be actually looked at as a powerful interpretation nation because of the present scenario Banqiao District.
 Firstly, the total interpretation degree is actually certainly not as significant as that in various other nations. Numerous providers emerge in powerful a lot and numerous levels of interpretation companies.
 The second thing is, each of the amount as well as top quality of linguists are terribly needed to raise. In even with of that the lot of qualified explainers has reached 60 1000, there concern 500 many thousand part time translators in China, and also the premium is actually still in a reduced amount New Taipei City.
 Finally, there is no fully grown rule to manual as well as take care of the translation field.
 It is evident that translation service requires to become improved in order to create China an interpretation energy. As a matter of fact very competitive stamina of a business depends on its translation service. Translation service is a rewarding service behavior which offers customers along with improving service of more than pair of foreign languages. Due to the irregularity in this particular business, competitions are coming to be fierce increasingly. Simply professional company can create a provider in an invincible position and also impressive among a lot of rivals.
 Over all, the core to obtain qualified translation service depends on the requirement. To start with, it asks for the support of interpretation monitoring. In short, it is certainly not carried out through a personal, however through an excellent team, through which staff member participate in a well-organized method. The group includes job supervisor, translators, quality control department (QA team), publisher, reader, etymological professional as well as technical pro. The ability filtering is actually particularly crucial so that the entailed individuals are qualified to their job. Take Soven Trans for example, the skill filtering method is somewhat difficult. Only 3 away from 1000 persons would be actually worked with. Besides, teamwork as well as balance one of staff member is a key to get expert company. Everyone needs to be in charge of his or her works New Taipei City.
 After that a detailed as well as prompt communication with the customers makes the job in good progression. It is actually very easy to plainly think out the interpretation material, top quality, type, function, comprising requirement of aim at source, classified condition and thus on at the beginning of get in touch with. When the linguists encounter problems as well as position concerns, the task manager need to call the customers to secure the solutions immediately. After that venture manager need to talk translators interesting in the problems and also services.
Lastly, feedback gathered from clients as well as top quality tracing can reveal the weakness as well as support to strengthen solution premium upcoming opportunity. The team will create rapid development in professional translation service regularly through finding its own weaknesses and also remedying them instantly New Taipei City.
 Based on the standard of professional translation service, some pointers are actually offered as complies with:
 1. QA division is actually firmly suggested to benefit from interpretation tools, such as Trados, which can check the activities of each translator. Besides, resources could be shared via the resource to make sure that the linguists usually tend to operate successfully. It is actually motivated to generate a device that is special to others.
 2. Each customer may evaluate the credit rating and also solution top quality of a translation staff. After the crew submit the completed job to the clients, the second could offer the group an assessment through score on the web site of the provider. Stress produces quality Taiwan.
 3. The relevant companies need to place focus on the law of translation sector to establish a well-balanced market.
 There is actually a very long way to maintain the translation market in purchase, however giving qualified translation service is an inescapable style in the near future. It is time to specify professional service now.
 Just how to Select a Professional Translation Service
 As businesses are actually going global, expert interpretation companies have become an integral aspect of the industry. If you carry out an on the internet hunt, you are going to find lots of such organizations that use expert translation service. With many possibilities readily available, it comes to be tough to opt for the appropriate company for your company? Thus, our experts will discuss the means to pinpoint the correct service provider for you.
 You must bear in mind that just a very first lesson interpretation firm can easily provide you premium work. Therefore, additional care and research study are necessary for choosing the right organization. There are actually a lot of self-employed linguists operating out there who provide interpretations at inexpensive costs. Nevertheless, a professional translation organization will certainly regularly ensures that quality is actually sustained, like nothing else freelance linguists can. Why specialist interpretation companies deliver much better top quality than self-employed translators? The solution to this would be the hiring specifications as well as requirements for the linguists. These interpretation firms choose only those individuals that are qualified along with accredited and possess years of knowledge in the submitted of interpretation and also translation. You may be actually ensured concerning the precision and timely translation job, when you tap the services of a qualified agency for your venture Taiwan.
 The following vital factor to look at is actually the cost of the translation service. Always remember, premium job possesses its own cost. But, a professional translation company offers top quality work at inexpensive costs.
 You can determine the abilities of the firm through browsing through their specialist accreditation logos and also qualifications on the Website. You may further obtain details concerning their specification of work coming from their collections and also recommendations.
 Thus, it is crystal clear to us that in purchase to choose a professional translation company, there are actually many points that need to be thought about, as an example adventure, top quality, abilities and cost. Perform never believe that through paying low cost for your job you are actually getting the most ideal deals. As a matter of fact you are going to finish in paying even more to remodel the very same work Taiwan.
 It is actually remarkably critical to find the ideal translation company for your organisation, considering that incorrect or shabby interpretation can easily place your provider's image at stake. Thus, take sizable amount of time for detailed study and hire the correct translation business for your job.
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