#its reductive and tired. after a while. or like from the beginning to be honest

[cutemeat]

sunny neglecting the potential for mac to have written dennis annoying letters while he was away.. wasted.. its so sad

#i have a love/hate relationship w mac being a pathetic housewife w puppy eyes for denpis #its reductive and tired. after a while. or like from the beginning to be honest #it could be funny like. if tehy tapped into it right #has someone said this before? probably #trying to remember if i took meds today whoops #i just like mac and his letters thing #omg. kinda sidetracked but imagining him trying to do that w charlie qhen they were kids. #cuz letters just feel secretive and cool. and charlie cannot write but neither of them can so it doenst stick out as much #charlie starts mixing up pictures and words but hes like ‘no bro im writing in code...’ #parkers yuck puddle

[autumnblogs]

Day 41: Caliborn: Enter

https://homestuck.com/story/4956 It’s pretty natural that Dirk’s move on Jake is going to put a strain on Jane’s friendship with him, even if he hasn’t made it yet; I think it definitely gives some insight into Jane that she reacts the way that she does. Not exactly a graceful loser, and in a way that is really pretty passive-aggressive.

She’s not as open and honest as Jade is; as the Prospit Dreamers go, in general, she’s really pretty guarded.

More after the Break

https://homestuck.com/story/4961

The AR, I feel like, gives us a pretty good look into who Dirk is, and while we already know that he impulsively jumps to the first solution he can think of, we can see through the shades that he tends to advise people to do the same things that he does.

Dirk is an extremely headstrong guy, and while he’s both very intelligent, and would really like to be a Puppetmaster, he can’t help but let his personality shine through his puppets; and he can’t help but let his first inclination determine his course of action. He’s him, after all. Why would he question his own judgement?

A bit like how Kermit the Frog is really just Jim Henson the Frog.

https://homestuck.com/story/4962

So what is a Juju?

Juju is a word which comes from French, and means plaything. It is a term that has been used to characterize the Folk Magic and/or Folk Religion of the people of West Africa, in much the same way that Totem has been, or that Fetish has been. In a nutshell, Juju can mean both Spiritual Power (as Mana), and an Object of Spiritual Power (as an Amulet) - the physical manifestation of the thing, and the thing itself are the same, in this sense.

The God and the Idol are the same - at least, they are to the external viewer. While it should be clear that this is a reductive view of it, the fact of the matter is that, a central part of a lot of religious practice in general is to treat the image of a thing, and the thing itself, as though they are the same; and we see this sort of image-based performance all throughout homestuck, through symbols, and rituals, especially where they are empty signifiers - symbols and rituals that have been emptied of their original meaning, and are now practiced only for their own sake.

Following the rules actually doesn’t seem to pay all that much in the world of Homestuck, and almost universally leads to disaster - which in no small part appears to be because the creator of the rules is Lord English.

https://homestuck.com/story/4965

I think it’s pretty interesting that Caliborn’s conception of smut is something as tame as fluffy hand-holding and caressing. While on the one hand, we can just say “Cherubs think it’s taboo because they can only enjoy Caliginous romance” I think we can also associate it with the relatively sexless nature of Homestuck, beyond how horny the characters are, and a few oblique references (which is not a bad thing; it’s about teenagers). In spite of all of the suggestive language and content, there is no possibility of consummation in Homestuck, or even until well after the end of Homestuck, because Caliborn’s vision of intimacy is a sexless one.

https://homestuck.com/story/4967

This takes a turn for the fucked up at the end. I mean, it’s all fucked up to begin with, but it’s such a non-sequitur.

https://homestuck.com/story/4968

Caliborn uses consumption related metaphors and imagery in relation to smut. Aside from jokes about Vore, what’s the significance of that? That the intention of Caliborn and Calliope is to comment on the fandom of Homestuck itself (continuing the identification of the Characters with the Audience that we discussed yesterday) is not really a secret to anyone. How does Caliborn view engaging with Homestuck, and how does he therefore view engaging with Andrew? His view is Hegemonistic and Predatory. From his point of view, the universe he inhabits is full of things to be consumed; objects to absorb, break down into the parts of themselves that make him more powerful, and the parts that can be discarded.

https://homestuck.com/story/4970

I really never get tired of Caliborn, he’s so awful.

https://homestuck.com/story/4971

His conception of human romance is one where he conceives of women as essentially objects of gratification; woman on woman is allowed, I suspect, for much the same reason that it is often rationalized that f*tanari porn isn’t gay; how could jackin’ it to two women be gay?

The idea of women as actors who exist for reasons other than to gratify men, and other than to gratify Caliborn in particular does not occur to him.

Obviously, men don’t exist to gratify each other. That’d be too mutualistic.

https://homestuck.com/story/4981

The Interplay of Sex and Violence.

As long as this sequence is pretty much over;

Why does Caliborn want to play a game? I think the answer is in line with the overall theme of Homestuck. Cultural transmission.

In his book Homo Ludens Dutch historian Johan Huizinga discusses the nature of Play as an element of cultural transmission, and as a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for the generation of culture.

What this means in a nutshell is; Games aren’t the only thing that is necessary for culture to be created, but they are necessary for culture to be created. Can’t have culture without games. A big part of this is because games serve as a stage for human beings to symbolically and ritualistically practice the activities that, as a member fo their culture, they will one day have to perform in order to survive.

This is why games like Tag, and Hide and Seek are the oldest in the world; humans are persistence predators, we hunt down our prey by just not giving the fuck up.

Caliborn’s game is Irony and Porn; insincerity, reproductive activity, etc. and gaming is intrinsically competitive to him; he uses his game as a form of power over Dirk Strider, the power to make him suffer, although since he’s such a dweeb, he’s pretty bad at making him suffer.

https://homestuck.com/story/4986

Meenah likes games too, but her enjoyment of them seems to be a lot more authentic, sincere - as opposed to being a form of power for her to hold over her enemies, her little word-games, with her fish-puns, are a source of legitimate joy to her, and the fact that Aranea will engage her in them creates friendship between the two of them.

https://homestuck.com/story/5027

All this may not have a whole lot of substance to it (I’m making posts at this point almost 40 pages apart), but that doesn’t mean it’s devoid of worth. Homestuck has plenty of pathos, and in spite of the fact that Andrew adores making fun of us for caring about these characters, I do actually care about all of these characters.

They sure have come a long way.

https://homestuck.com/story/5083

As Roxy is ostensibly the stealth leader of her session, we should generally be willing to accept her takes as gospel in a way that we don’t take other characters’ (at least to a certain extent). We just got done talking about how important rules are to the cherubs, and to Caliborn explicitly - we should take heed of the fact that Roxy is very willing to throw caution to the wind and abandon the rules.

Rules in Paradox Space are largely harmful restrictions to be worked around, rather than auspicious maxims to adhere to.

https://homestuck.com/story/5071

Caliborn is a serial forced memer. We’ve already talked oodles and oodles about symbols and rituals and empty signifiers; what is a forced meme except for an empty signifier? An attempt by a malicious third party to turn a meaningless set of pictures and words into a symbol, a symbol that signifies nothing other than itself, and commands the attention and adherence of people in the culture? Rules for the sake of rules. Memes for the sake of memes.

https://homestuck.com/story/5089

Roxy’s anxious babbling is just so much like Dave’s, it’s hilarious. Their language less so.

https://homestuck.com/story/5092

The answer to what a ball’s topspin is, by the way, if you didn’t already know is

an English.

https://homestuck.com/story/5099

Why does Calliope want to be a Troll so badly?

The answer is that she doesn’t want to be a Cherub.

Why doesn’t she want to be a Cherub?

That question could probably keep me up all night, but I think I have an answer right away. Cherubs are arbitrarily powerful, and Calliope does not want to be a Cherub. She wants to be anything other than a Cherub. I can kind of relate to that, even as a human being. After all, there aren’t cherubs and trolls around, even though they are conceivable. Of all of the things we know for sure that consciously exist in our own universe, humans are the most powerful things we know exist for sure. I’d spend a lot to not be one; power, after all, makes us more inhuman.

https://homestuck.com/story/5116

Since I can’t pass up an opportunity to comment on the metanarrative indulgence of the second half, let’s pause to appreciate the term MacGuffin; in a nutshell, an object which exists to be desired. Its only purpose in the story is for someone to want it.

https://homestuck.com/story/5217

The fact that Dirk is conscious of the internal head-goings-on of Brain Ghost Dirk, and is therefore, to some extent cognizant of the head-goings-on of Jake English just opens up so many questions that I still don’t really have an answer to.

https://homestuck.com/story/5238

I rag on Dirk a lot for being a piece of shit.

But man, he is so cool.

https://homestuck.com/story/5246

This entire awful romantic escapade has been created by the Auto-responder, and while Dave has been complicit in it, he is not the puppetmaster behind it. Sound familiar?

https://homestuck.com/story/5252

This flash is just so delightful to me.

It’s the first time Roxy has ever touched another living human being and look how delighted she is.

LOOK HOW HAPPY SHE IS.

https://homestuck.com/story/5261

Now that we know who Lord English is, we have an opportunity to get to know him a little more as a person. Aside from his absurd commitment to puzzle-murders, his strange relationship with romance and sexuality, and his awful and perfunctory craftsmanship, here’s the most important thing to understand about him;

He will always destroy something irreplaceable if it means he can acquire more power.

#liveblogging #commentary #homo ludens

[wordsandshawn]

Ours

Summary: Your four-year-old son gets sick while Shawn’s away playing shows in Asia. When Shawn returns home your son only wants him. 

2.5k of seriously heartwarming dad!Shawn.

The sound of coughing pulls you from your half-asleep state. You weren’t fully sleeping. As a mom, you never fully sleep when your child isn’t feeling well. You automatically open your eyes to check on your four-year-old son, Lucas. His eyes are still closed, so you watch him breathe for a few seconds to make sure he’s fine. He’s sleeping in your bed tonight. Having him closer helps you to worry less, even though you’ll worry no matter what. 

At this point, you’re pretty certain that it’s just a cold, although you are still concerned because of how quickly it developed. He was fine in the morning. He went to pre-school. He was even in a good mood when you dropped him off. He almost made it to the end of the day when the school nurse called you to pick him up because he wasn’t feeling well. This was definitely one of those times you really wish Shawn was home to tag-team this parenting thing with you like he’s done for the past two years. You were in the middle of a really important project at work, but you had no other option except to leave. You’ll definitely have to make up those hours as soon as possible.

Stressing about work and worrying about Lucas keeps you from going back to sleep right away. Knowing Shawn is on tour in Asia right now, you know it’s sometime in the midafternoon there. Taking your phone from the bedside table, you press facetime on his contact, quickly turning the sound down so it won’t wake Lucas. A few seconds later, Shawn’s face fills the screen. “Hi, baby.” He says with a smile.

“Hey, Shawn.” You respond smiling in response, but you know your tiredness shows through your voice and your eyes.

He notices immediately. “What time is it there?” He questions.

After checking the time, you respond. “Two am.”

His eyes widen in surprise, knowing you always go to bed early if possible. He asks, “Is he still not feeling well?” You know without having to clarify that Shawn’s talking about your son since you had been texting him earlier in the evening and had let him know Lucas was sick.

Glancing over at him briefly before turning your attention back to the screen, you nod. “He’s coughing still.”

“Is he up? Can I talk to him?” Shawn questions, but you shake your head.

“No, he’s asleep.” You respond quietly gently running your fingers through your sleeping son’s brown hair.

“Okay, you should sleep too, then,” Shawn responds, knowing how important it is for you to sleep when he’s sleeping. When he’s sick, it’s almost like he’s a little baby again, and there’s no telling how long this sickness will last.

“I know, I just wanted to talk to you.” You say while yawning.

“Get some rest, baby. I’ll be home soon.” You nod, truly looking forward to Shawn’s return. Luckily, he’ll be home in a couple of days, and even that feels too far away. 

Now, it’s crazy to think there was ever a time without Shawn in your life. It’s crazy to think there was a time where it was just you and Lucas. Even Lucas doesn’t remember a time before Shawn. Shawn’s the only dad Luke’s ever known. In the beginning, you made sure Shawn knew that you didn’t expect him to be a dad to Luke and you didn’t expect him to share in the responsibilities of being a parent. Actually, in the beginning, you did not even want to give Shawn a chance, and you didn’t want to let him close to Luke. However, Shawn is persistent if nothing else, and he kept pursuing you and kept showing up for you and Lucas whenever you needed him. Eventually, you couldn’t deny your feelings for Shawn, and you couldn’t deny that he genuinely loved your son, and Lucas loved him just as much.

“I’ll see you soon.” You whisper to Shawn, careful not to wake Lucas up.

“I love you, baby. Call me if Luke gets any worse, okay?”

You promise you will before hanging up the phone and trying to get some sleep.

~

The next two days are rough without Shawn. You take Lucas to the doctor, but they tell you it’s a virus, and you’ll have to let it run its course. You have to stay home from work because he can’t go to school while he’s running a fever. He’s extra clingy because he’s sick, and you’re exhausted from barely sleeping and trying to take care of Lucas with his constant whining and crying. You can’t blame him because he’s not feeling well, but it’s certainly taking a toll on you.

By the time Shawn walks in the door, coming straight from the airport, you’re beyond exhausted and happy to see him. He drops his bags quickly and quietly before approaching the couch where you’re seated with Lucas asleep across your lap. It’s the only way he’s been able to sleep lately, on top of you. You know it’s going to make him sleeping in his own bed when he gets better difficult, but if it’s the only thing that’s making him feel better now, you’re not going to deny him that.

“Hey,” Shawn whispers, leaning down and kissing you on the forehead since you can’t move from the spot on the couch without disturbing Lucas.

Shawn sits down next to you, looking at Lucas lovingly before asking, “How’s he doing?” Even though he had texted you for an update about Lucas as soon as his airplane landed an hour ago.  And he texted you before he took off checking in on Lucas, knowing he wouldn’t have service for a while. And he called when he woke up in the morning, wanting to talk to Lucas.

“He’s the same.” You whisper back.

Shawn leans closer to you and Lucas. “I’m here now.” Shawn quietly says, and you’re not sure if he’s saying it more to you, Lucas, or himself. 

“I’m glad you’re home.’’ You tell him. You know it really bothered Shawn to not be here when Lucas was sick. Lucas asked for Shawn more than once over the last few days, and you tried not to let on to Shawn how badly Lucas wanted him there because you knew Shawn already felt bad enough.

You can’t help yourself, risking possibly waking up Lucas, you shift so you’re able to rest your head against Shawn’s shoulder, and he wraps an arm around you pulling you closer to himself. 

Having him back feels like it’s taken a huge weight off your shoulders. You’re not sure how you ever did this on your own, because being a mom is hard, and Shawn does way more for your son than you ever remember to thank him for. You start to feel guilty because you realize how much responsibility you’ve put on Shawn, especially when your work gets intense, and you don’t always take into account how much work Shawn has because he never complains when you ask him to pick Lucas up from school or to make dinner when you have to stay late at work. Shawn even takes Luke to the recording studio with him sometimes and has a toy drumset and guitar there for Luke to play with while he’s they’re rehearsing. Shawn’s made more sacrifices for your little family than you ever asked him to or even thanked him for. 

You’re pulled from your thoughts by Lucas as he begins to stir and slowly open his eyes. At first, he reaches for you, but as soon as he sees Shawn, he scrambles towards him instead. Shawn scoops him into his arms, saying, “Hey little buddy. How are you feeling?”

Lucas mumbles something incoherent back, and Shawn simply responds softly with, “I know.” As he cuddles him closer to himself. Watching Shawn with Lucas never fails to amaze you. The two are practically inseparable now. Sometimes you joke Shawn misses Lucas more when he’s gone on tour, but at the end of the day, you feel like one of the luckiest girls in the world. You found someone who loves you and loves your son like his own. 

Lucas buries his face against Shawn’s shoulder, and Shawn rubs his back comfortingly. Knowing Lucas is in good hands with Shawn, you excuse yourself to use the bathroom, something you haven’t been able to do for the last two hours while Lucas slept on top of you. 

When you return to the living room, Shawn and Lucas aren’t on the couch anymore. You make your way into the kitchen to see Lucas sitting in the counter, something you definitely don’t approve of, but Shawn always lets him. Shawn is naming random condiments in the fridge, asking if Lucas wants to eat them, and Lucas is laughing so hard at the antics. You haven’t seen him laugh or smile this much since he first got sick. You’re glad he seems to be feeling better, and if you’re honest, you’re sure it’s got something to do with Shawn finally being back and not just a reduction of symptoms, although that could play a part in it too.

Shawn sees you and scoops Lucas off the counter, shooting an apologetic look your way. He knows you don’t like having him up there, but you’ve given up believing he’ll ever stop letting him sit on the countertop.

Lucas is still laughing, and you say, “Seems like you’re feeling better, baby.”

He just smiles and leans into Shawn, wrapping his tiny arms around his neck. “We’re having ketchup for dinner,” Shawn says nonchalantly, which causes Lucas to laugh even more, and you can’t help but smile at the two. Shawn always knows just what to say to make Lucas laugh and most of the time its stuff that doesn’t make sense to anyone except the two of them.

Despite Lucas and Shawn’s protests against having anything except ketchup for dinner, you make spaghetti, hoping Luke’s feeling well enough to actually eat something since he’s barely eaten these last few days. Everything feels a little normal in the most comforting way as the three of you sit down to dinner together, and you’re more than grateful to finally have Shawn back. By the end of the meal, Lucas managed to get spaghetti sauce absolutely everywhere. “Let’s go take a bath, baby.” You tell Lucas as you start to grab him out of his chair.

“No. Daddy.” He tells you, pushing you away and motioning for Shawn, making it clear that he wants Shawn to give him a bath and not you. Shawn starts to stand up, having just watched this interaction but you respond, “Daddy’s tired, baby.”

You noticed the bags under Shawn’s eyes, and you know that the time difference is huge meaning Shawn basically stayed up all night since it’s nearly morning where he just came from. Shawn never complained or even alluded to being tired, but you know that when he’s on tour, he’s working non-stop, so he deserves all the rest he can get when he’s home.

“It’s okay,” Shawn responds to you. “I can bathe him.”

“You shouldn’t have to.” You respond to Shawn. It’s not fair to him to have to take care of Lucas. Normally Shawn does a lot for Lucas, but knowing he just got back from traveling and working nonstop for three weeks, he deserves to relax, not come back to more work and responsibility.  

“I want to.” He reassures you. “Go rest. I know you’re tired too. There’s no point in fighting with Luke.” He whispers the last part, and you step back. He’s right. You’re tired too. Even though Luke’s only four, he knows what he wants, and he obviously wants Shawn right now. If you try to bathe him instead of Shawn, he’ll probably have a full-blown meltdown, making everything more difficult for all of you. That’s the only reason you don’t argue.

Shawn takes Lucas out of his high chair. He leans over kissing you lightly on the forehead as you stand there defeated and exhausted. Once they leave, you slowly make your way around the kitchen cleaning up the dinner mess. You can hear Shawn and Lucas in the bathroom when you walk up the stairs. Ten minutes later, you’re lying across your unmade bed, exhausted, when Shawn enters, carrying a freshly bathed Lucas wearing pajamas.

“Say goodnight to mommy,” Shawn says, putting Luke down on the bed. He crawls across the bed and wraps his arms around you. “Goodnight mommy.”

“Goodnight baby.” You say, kissing him on his forehead as Shawn picks him up to take him to his bedroom, but he stops and gently pulls you up from the bed.

“I refilled the bathtub. Go take a bath and relax. I’ll put him down.” You’re about to argue, to tell Shawn that you can put Lucas to sleep because he should relax, but he knows what you’re thinking before you can say anything. “I got him. It’s okay, y/n.

You don’t have the energy to argue, so you listen. It’s the first time in a long time that you haven’t had to worry about responsibility or making sure that Lucas is okay. Even before Lucas got sick, you had been on your own with him for three weeks while Shawn was playing shows in Asia, and you were so busy you didn’t have any time for yourself.

When Shawn finally joins you in bed after you bathed and he put Lucas down and showered, you can tell he’s exhausted too. “Thank you,” You tell him as he gathers you into his arms, treasuring the feeling of having you close after three weeks.

“You don’t have to thank me, I left both of you for three weeks, the least I could do was take care of him tonight. I missed him too.” He says with a shrug.

“I do,” You respond fighting against the desire to fall asleep, “You didn’t sign up for this. He’s not your responsibility. I’m sorry.”

He kisses you lightly, “Stop. Don’t feel guilty. He’s not just your responsibility either. I know he’s not mine by blood, but he’s always been ours, from the first time I met him and he fell asleep in my arms, I just knew, and I think you did too. I love you and I love Lucas, and I’ll do anything for both of you.”

“I love you.” You say, too tired to say anything else as Shawn turns off the light, and you’re asleep within minutes. 

#Shawn Mendes #Shawn Peter Raul Mendes #Shawn Mendes imagine #Shawn Mendes blurb #imagine #dad!shawn #love the idea of Shawn with kids

[newstfionline]

For Mexican Presidential Hopeful ‘AMLO,’ 3rd Time a Charm?

Associated Press, June 5, 2018

MEXICO CITY--While financial markets fret about left-leaning candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the man himself is calmly cruising toward what polls say is a likely victory in Mexico’s July 1 presidential election, seemingly impervious to attacks--and without the angry tone that marked his previous two runs for the top job.

The graying, slow-spoken Lopez Obrador, known to devotees and detractors alike as AMLO, lights up when he tells supporters at campaign rallies that they are about to make history.

“This is going to be a peaceful, orderly change, but at the same time, it will be radical,” Lopez Obrador said recently, drawing cheers and cries of “Presidente! Presidente!” from a crowd in the colonial town of San Miguel de Allende.

Markets wonder whether a President Lopez Obrador would cause the Mexican peso to tank--experts say probably not--or reverse the openings to private oil companies--Lopez Obrador says he probably won’t. But it’s hard to judge things based on his policy platforms, because they are prone to change, often seemingly overnight.

That distaste for policy details, along with Lopez Obrador’s penchant for playing to his base and making big promises while keeping his own advisers guessing as to what he really means, has drawn parallels to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Analysts say both men view truculence and obstinacy as political virtues and as such could probably understand one another.

“I think that both share a sense of populism,” political scientist Jesus Silva-Herzog said. “I think they both belong to this historic moment of the rise of populist politicians who are ... uninterested in the details of public policy.”

But where the Trump brand is associated with brass name plates and glitz, Lopez Obrador’s is endowed with a deep sense of history and destiny after a dozen years on the outside as a perennial opposition candidate. After serving as Mexico City mayor in 2000-2005, he returned to his roots as the irreverent, man-of-the-people rally leader that he was from 1988 to 2000 in the oil fields of his home state, the Gulf coast swamps of Tabasco.

Lopez Obrador, 64, sees his movement as changing the history of Mexico, touts himself as a savior of the poor and argues that corruption is the country’s biggest problem. Beyond that, policies come and go.

After losing to conservative Felipe Calderon by a razor-thin margin of just 0.56 percent in 2006, and coming in second again in 2012 behind current President Enrique Pena Nieto, this time around that formula may be enough to win.

His two main rivals, Ricardo Anaya and Jose Antonio Meade, are champions of the technocrats, the kind of market-oriented policy wonks who have run Mexico since at least 1982. But the growth and economic stability they promised hasn’t emerged, and violence has skyrocketed.

Fed up with those and other domestic ills such as corruption, the Mexican electorate is ripe for change, and Lopez Obrador has a way of explaining his vision for change with striking clarity and simplicity.

He likes to draw a parallel to one of the most important transformations in Mexican history: Generations of dying Roman Catholics had willed their lands and fortunes to the church, tying up much of Mexico’s wealth for perpetuity and strangling the economy. Then President Benito Juarez expropriated much of the church’s holdings. Now, Lopez Obrador says, he wants to free up the economy by reducing the influence well-connected business magnates hold over the federal government.

“Just as Juarez separated the church and the state, so will I separate economic power from political power,” he told a crowd in Mexico City recently.

Lopez Obrador’s connection with his followers is deeply personal--something that has eluded Meade of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party and Anaya, who heads a left-right coalition

The other main contenders have campaigned in part on dire warnings about a Lopez Obrador presidency, and Anaya has tried to project the image of an optimistic and modern tech CEO a la the late Steve Jobs.

With his rumpled appearance and distinctive regional accent--think Bernie Sanders south--Lopez Obrador inspires those tired of slick, well-heeled politicians.

Javier Quijano, a lawyer who represented Lopez Obrador when then President Vicente Fox tried to prevent him from running in 2006, described Lopez Obrador as a “supremely frugal” man who often met him for breakfast or lunch at the candidate’s tatty, middle-class apartment on Mexico City’s south side.

“It was very humble, very simple, and he was always attentive and well-mannered to people who work for him,” Quijano recalled. “Just the very fact that an honest man with rectitude would win the presidency, that is enormous progress.”

Lopez Obrador promises to regenerate the millions of small farms whose main output over the last 25 years has been a steady stream of migrants to Mexico’s big cities and the United States. He would also need to reverse a severe decline in Mexico’s oil industry, with the country now importing most of its gasoline from the U.S.

Supporters say he is at least challenging what he considers a cruel neoliberal order that keeps Mexico down.

“You feel it at every rally, that on July 2 we are going to be celebrating. You feel people are overflowing with emotion,” 30-year-old computer programmer Antonio Arroyo Ceron said at a recent campaign gathering in the capital. “We have a hope that the country will change its entire mentality.”

Lopez Obrador’s crowds tend to trend older--people like retired tailor Ruben Lopez who have lived all their lives under the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, except for a 12-year interval at the beginning of new century.

“During the 80 years of the PRI, they never did anything to improve the country,” said Lopez, 74. This election “will be the first moment of joy ever for this country,” he added.

Beyond the enthusiasm, neither Lopez Obrador nor his challengers have yet put forth a credible plan to lower homicide rates that have reached levels unseen in decades.

Lopez Obrador has offered a vague plan to offer an amnesty for some criminal convictions, which apparently could mean anything from cancelling felonies after sentences have been served to sentence reductions for cooperating witnesses to freeing poor farmers jailed for growing drug crops.

Regardless, a Lopez Obrador victory would probably mean a large dose of symbolism and an even larger dose of pragmatism.

Antonio Sola, a Spanish political consultant who helped design the “Lopez Obrador is a danger” campaign that swung the 2006 election against him, now says that “this is not the Andres Manuel I competed against in 2006.”

“This is a candidate who has evolved and moderated,” Sola said, comparing Lopez Obrador to Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a one-time socialist firebrand who won election on his fourth try and proved a business-friendly president even while expanding social programs.

In 2006, Mexican business leaders sought to hurt Lopez Obrador’s campaign by likening him to socialist President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. After the narrow loss to Calderon, Lopez Obrador responded angrily, claiming fraud and mounting a months-long blockade of Mexico City’s main boulevard.

This time around he has been taking it all in stride, at least publicly. Despite railing frequently against what he calls the “mafia of power,” Lopez Obrador responds to even the most vicious political attacks by repeating what has become almost a mantra--“peace and love”--and by deflecting them with humor.

After some suggested without proof that he may have benefited from Russian election tampering, Lopez Obrador filmed a video by the side of a harbor in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz joking that his name was actually Andres Manuelovich and saying he was waiting for a Russian submarine bringing him gold from Moscow.

Even Meade called that a brilliant bit of politics.

#Mexico #AMLO #Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador #Mexican politics

[chen20200805]

Where is the way out for Amazon sellers?

This question has been perplexing in my mind since the first day I became Amazon.

Why?

Every year, there are rumors in the market that Amazon has passed its dividend period. Amazon is getting more and more difficult. It can’t do it now. It has no future. It’s all pits when it comes in, all of which are cutting leeks.

Indeed, I don’t deny Amazon’s difficulties,

Why has it become difficult?

This application of economic principles is the theory of supply and demand, which is a pair of invisible hands in the market to continuously adjust the relationship between supply and demand.

A few years ago, when Amazon first started, there were customers but no sellers. Whoever was on this platform would be able to sell orders. There were more customers and fewer sellers. Then as the competition intensified, fba started to surpass. If the goods are distributed and shipped, the competition will intensify, the money will be made with the resources, and the competition will be the boutique model, differentiated selection, exclusive mold creation, and then the patent war will begin.

Why is there competition?

That is, the demand in the theory of supply and demand remains unchanged, the supply increases, and competition arises.

With the development of Amazon in the past few years, it has step by step to send itself to the first place in the market share. While the number of customers is limited, the number of sellers is increasing wildly.

Finally, this year Amazon sellers began to roll in and began to lie flat.

Is it only Amazon in the roll?

mistaken,

The whole of China is in volume,

What is involution

Refers to a phenomenon in which peers are competing for more limited resources, leading to a decline in the individual’s “benefit-to-effort ratio”.

It can be seen as "inflation" of hard work.

What is lying flat

It means that no matter what the other party's reaction is, there will be no waves in your heart, and there will be no reaction or resistance to it, indicating a submissive mentality.

Raw materials in all walks of life have skyrocketed, and production costs have continued to increase. There are so many factories in the south that cannot recruit people, and labor costs are also increasing. China's manufacturing industry is also constantly shifting to other countries with low population costs.

Add in the cost of living, education, housing, and pension costs for everyone.

People will be very tired and difficult. What you pay is not proportional to what you get, and even the ratio of profit to effort decreases.

Then roll it up,

Then lie down.

then what should we do?

Housing prices are rising, adjustments are made, education costs are high, and training institutions are cut. Everything is preventing lying flat, and we are constantly innovating.

We will start to approach Germany and Japan.

Continuously innovate, continuously increase technology, continuously control product quality, and strive for perfection.

You can only go this way if you want to stand out

The excellence and strict quality requirements of developed countries are the result of involution.

In today's constant involution, can Amazon still do it?

Let's answer the first question first

1. Why do we want Amazon?

I think the purpose of not having a seller is that I want to have fun,

Right

I believe that everyone's purpose of doing Amazon is to make money. Maybe there are many ways to make money in your life. This is just one of them, but Amazon may be the only channel for many people at present.

Is it still possible to do it now?

I think it can be done,

In the current environment, Amazon is constantly rectifying evaluations, multiple stores, associations, and infringements.

Constantly purifying the environment, sweeping away all black technology players, and even sealing so many big sellers this time,

Then you ask me if I have been blocked,

To be honest, I have also been sealed off two stores.

But it is indeed a violation,

Now we are all operating in pure white hats and abide by the law. There are still millions of profits every month.

The more the rumors and the more the public retreat, the more opportunities there are.

Just like stocks, when Tencent and Moutai both hit new highs last year, everyone went crazy. Now the stocks of Tencent and Moutai are nearly cut in half. Tencent's PE has gone from a peak of 50 to today's 20, but everyone is discouraged.

Just like buying a house, regulation and the epidemic have caused house prices in a second-tier city to go sideways for several years. I bought a set in December 2020. At that time, it was more than 17,000, and the down payment was still instalment. By May 2021, the number of newly opened communities has reached 22,000. The down payment installment is cancelled, and the purchase of a house requires a capital verification and ranking. Everyone rushed in, queuing up to grab a room. Winding up immediately after opening. It's really unimaginable, but it can be understood that normal people have the psychology of chasing ups and downs.

Now that the epidemic situation is being controlled, whether it is the guide price of second-hand housing or the increase in loan interest rates, real estate will enter sideways again, and some real estate will be discounted. There will be opportunities before this year.

In the future, I have the opportunity to write the house selection logic for buying a house.

All the black technology is eliminated, and players who cross the border are out of the game, just like rectification and education, private transfers to public offices, and citizen recruitment. Everything is to let everyone return to the same starting line.

When everyone is at the same starting line, what is fighting is real power, and what is fighting is capital, strength, cognition, and technology.

You are doing innovation, others are doing infringement, you are doing white hats, others are hacking technology, you are trying to communicate with customers, and others are doing small cards. Can't beat the speed of these people forever, are they still on the same starting line?

2. What is the wish of Amazon sellers?

My wish is to be able to earn money steadily for a long time,

Amazon has always been a high-risk industry.

After registering a store, a second review or kyc review is required. This level is difficult for many people.

Then the products were selected and shipped, and Amazon sellers supported a group of software sellers and freight forwarders.

After all FBAs are issued, it will be as small as tens of thousands, as many as tens of millions, and hundreds of millions. It also feeds collection agencies and loan companies.

In the operation, they encountered infringements, spoofs, related titles, etc., and supported the service provider.

Price competition, slow sales of goods, and support for third parties outside the station.

Our wish is that the account can be safe and risk-free, the goods can be quickly turned over, can have a stable link to the hot money, and can make money in a long and stable manner.

Then how can we make money stably and long-term?

In fact, operating Amazon is also a kind of business activity, which is inseparable from the essence of business

3. What is the nature and future of business?

The essence of business is transaction, and the value of an enterprise in business is to create value and deliver value.

The role of the Internet is to symmetrical information, resulting in a reduction in traffic costs and acquiring more customers with the same needs.

To break through in business, you need to study customers, crowds, preferences, usage scenarios, and pain points.

Solve pain points, or create new categories and new usage scenarios to create value.

please remember,

Improving production efficiency, reducing production costs, and lowering prices also create value for customers.

The other is the transfer of value, the transfer of information, and the transfer of goods belong to the transfer value.

For example, the development of express delivery, the efficiency of JD’s self-built logistics, and the development of the Internet are all about transmitting information value and eliminating information asymmetry.

Another example is the current big fire, a lot of food, Meituan Optimum, and so on.

Selling on Amazon increases the value of information transmission. If we don’t sell on the Internet and go offline, it will be difficult for us to enter markets around the world and connect with so many target customers. The cost of establishing offline channels is also unimaginable for our small sellers.

We use overseas warehouses or FBA shipments to quickly and efficiently transfer the value of logistics that has been resolved.

The only thing we have to do is to create value.

In the current reality, companies have limited opportunities to reduce costs with mature standard products. Our opportunity is to discover user needs, improve existing styles, or find small target groups with the same needs to meet the long tail. theory.

In short, it is to find a long-tail demand and make it into a hot style, that is, a long-tail hot style, which is the real future.

So how can we make use of the long-tail explosions to achieve a winner-takes-all result?

1. Find enough long tail sub-categories or usage scenarios.

For example, hangers include adults, children, babies, men, women, household, travel, suspension, and multifunctional. One product cannot satisfy all people

For example, desk lamps have bedsides, desks, conference rooms, pianos, children, adults, and elderly people. Don’t think about making them a national explosion. Stronger than Huawei, iphones have many models, many sizes and colors, and many price ranges to meet different target groups.

Find your long-tail target group and make a hit.

2. In this long-tailed market demand, find the most common pain points.

We are going to find the pain points and solve them, and we must also achieve the best in the market, such as cigar lighters, which are facing the people who smoke cigars, the firepower, and whether the cigar needles are matched or not.

3. Improve the motivation of social sharing.

Involving product packaging and product design

There is a theory, that is, the wow theory. After receiving the product, the customer will involuntarily wow and be pleasantly surprised.

For example, the product design of Huaxizi. It's really amazing. Customers will involuntarily share and spread socially.

There is also a theory called the Veblen effect,

That is, customers have the psychology of showing off, why do you add a small tail when you post to Moments or Weibo, iphone13

Why do people buy luxury goods, this kind of product whose display value is greater than its use value.

This psychology is not possessed by the rich, but also by the poor. This word is called attire.

I remember that there is a product called World Map, but it comes with a small flag on the map. You can place flags on the countries and cities you have been to to show off that you have been to many places and show yourself. Sense of superiority.

4. Where is the way out for Amazon sellers?

When we understand the above theory, we will know where our Amazon sellers are.

Come on, get dry goods

Article 1: Price war

This should be the easiest one, everyone can feel it, and will use it.

The price war I'm talking about is not a price war that loses money, but a win by volume.

There is a scale of volume and price in business logic, whether small profits but quick turnover or small quantities and high profits. We have to locate this well.

There is also a theory in the business world that profit = your cost-the opponent's cost

Why do you say that?

Product selling price-the difference in product cost is just the cost of the industry. Or the opportunity cost of the industry.

When your cost is greater than that of your competitors, and others cut prices, we will lose money.

How much lower our costs are than our competitors, this is our profit in the face of price wars. We dare to drop, others dare not to drop. We can knock others out.

In short, it is through the continuous expansion of sales and the introduction of more efficient management and production processes to achieve the effect of reducing product costs. How much we are lower than our competitors, this is our profit.

Article 2: Innovation

In any business world, products have a day of aging and withdrawal. Amazon is no exception.

Such as Nokia, bb machine, Xiaobawang, such as home-grinding knives and scissors, aluminum cast basins and pots, etc.

For example, SMS to WeChat is free

For example, the rice cooker that can only steam rice up to now has more functions such as steaming rice, cooking porridge, heating rice, keeping warm, and timing.

From ordinary ovens to flauntable ovens with cameras and apps

A product will always be replaced by a new product, it's just how long this iteration cycle is. High-tech electronic products have the fastest iteration cycle, and household products are relatively slow.

This is the well-known innovation curve model. When a product enters a hot product, we must develop the second hot product quickly and in time. To prevent the impact on us when the first explosion decays, and quickly incubate the second explosion when the first explosion explodes. Only in this way can we ensure the long-term continuity of our sales and profits.

There is actually a very dangerous behavior in a shop with only one hot style.

Article 3. Diversity

In the first article, we talked about improving product production efficiency and reducing product costs. The sales on Amazon alone cannot guarantee the maximum sales of our products.

We need to develop more sales channels, such as Wal-Mart, Shopee, eBay and other e-commerce platforms.

You can also open alibaba and other international stations to find B2B wholesale customers and increase the order volume

1688 can also be opened, and sales can increase through domestic channels and domestic Amazon sellers.

At this time, our output and sales volume may be the largest of all competitors, and the price is also the lowest.

In this way, our profits can be guaranteed and the life cycle will be longer.

Just like 2-3 years later in Amazon, the sellers of the same model as me died, and I was still there.

Article 4, branding

This is a difficult road, at least for most Amazon sellers.

You want to ask me if I have successfully branded,

I'm honest, no.

I am also one of the ordinary small sellers on Amazon.

In the past two years, the DTC brand has risen against the trend, all of which are explosive manufacturing machines.

In the United States, the DTC brand means to directly sell products to users through self-built Internet sales channels, and there is no middleman to make the difference.

And a further meaning is: the core of this type of brand is to be able to use consumer data for analysis, and provide consumers with an experience beyond expectations through a series of methods.

In addition, such brands will do everything possible to reduce unnecessary expenditures, especially in the media budget, in order to achieve the best product experience.

Then we first analyze how to form a brand

In business theory, there is a concept called a brand container. A brand is a container, just like a container filled with consumers from understanding to trust and preference. .

One that cannot be remembered by consumers or trusted by consumers can only be called a trademark or code name. It cannot be called a brand.

Just like Taobao once produced many Taobao brands, they all disappeared in the end.

Brands that rely on a single channel are definitely fake brands.

With so many top sellers on Amazon, the products are sold on Amazon. They can't be found on other platforms, and no information can be found on the Internet. Not to mention authoritative media, offline supermarkets, and wholesale channels.

Consumers choose you only because of your position, not your brand reputation or popularity.

How to build a brand?

Share some theories with you

The first is positioning, the niche needs of market segments

If the subdivision of table lamps used on pianos is definitely a relatively niche market in the field of table lamps, then I will make a dedicated table lamp for pianos to meet a sub-market, and focus on strengthening the scene in promotion and marketing, except for this. It can be said that he is the leader in piano table lamp sales and so on.

Second, taste, representing the value of consumers

Compared with other competitors, it is more tasteful, such as higher-end and better packaging, and it will definitely not be low-end when put together with a product with a high customer unit price such as a piano. It's best to have the value of showing off.

Third, quality, quality and service are value for money

It means that the quality is good, or there is good after-sales service and promise. Give customers a feeling of trust in the brand.

Pay attention here

Value for money does not mean the comparison of product value and price

In addition to use value, product value also has psychological value.

For example, the lv bag, the product use value is the same as the use value of the 20 yuan bag on the street, and they are all stuffed.

But lv has a strong psychological value, such as the self-confidence, taste and show-off mentality of holding an lv bag.

In addition to the product level,

There is

Marketing level

First, the unique selling point

The category just now is the positioning of the product, and the marketing selling point at this time is refined.

For example, for cold medicine, I take white tablets during the day and black tablets at night

Like Jane, father’s love

Such as melatonin, gifts

Such as kGebao, good head and good voice

For example, oppo, charge for 5 minutes, talk for 2 hours

Second, brand storytelling

Attracting consumers through content marketing and brand stories can also be said to be established.

The advantage of this is to narrow the distance with consumers, the brand is not superior

Like Tesla and Musk, Xiaopeng Motors and Xiaopeng.

The founder of a company is the spokesperson of the company and its products, allowing consumers to see and feel the vitality and value of the company.

Example: The core of the well-known Casper brand is that the transportation of mattresses around the world is wasteful and inefficient. In addition, if you don't like the mattress during the first 100 days of sleep, Casper will come to pick you up.

Then the Casper brand is designed to solve the transportation problem, and is not satisfied, you don't need to mail it, someone will pick it up.

Third, the refined operation experience exceeds expectations

Do not go offline channels, directly face consumers, use the now developed social media channels to directly interact with consumers,

To feel the needs of each consumer, continue to iterate their products and deliver. Give customers respectful and exceed-expected shopping experience, use experience, sharing experience, etc.

The feature of Casper is that it can be compressed into a carton, which is very convenient for transportation.

There are also many DTC brands that attach great importance to the user's full-link experience, including: official website content design, purchase experience, express service, after-sales service, unpacking experience, usage methods, social media sharing...

Fourth, make good use of social media

According to the unique selling point of the product and the experience beyond expectations, social media promotion should be carried out. Topics should be created, and fans should be used to share creative content and detonate social media traffic.

Many founders will continue to produce and produce content from their own perspectives to create personal IP. In addition, brands are also good at letting users join in creating content, which becomes a tipping point. Share real user experience, product experience, unboxing experience, etc.

The last is

Sales level

At present, the main sales channels of the new brand are online, such as official websites, independent stations, or third-party platforms, to quickly acquire customers and generate sales, and reduce production costs through large quantities of individual demand orders.

Then open an offline experience store to complement the online experience.

The above is my thinking and cognition of the way out for Amazon sellers. Maybe you agree, maybe you don't agree. We can discuss with each other, and I believe that talking can make both sides progress together.

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10 Things You Have In Common With Weight Loss & Control

Introduction

If there exists another thing that dietitians and obesity experts concur with, it can be that personal motivation could be the foundation all weight-loss success. No matter how healthy the diet-plan, or what blend of calories and nutrition its content has, it's not going to help anyone slim down unless they follow it for very long enough. Their willingness to take action depends entirely on how motivated they may be to alter their eating and workout habits to realize their weight loss goals.

Motivation Advice Hard To Find

The Internet supplies a bewildering variety of diets and weight loss diet plans, but tips on motivation when dieting is in extremely short supply. Given the strong link between diet-compliance and motivation, this lack of motivational guidance is surprising, to put it mildly. It may stem in the fact that many diets are made by individuals who lack hands-on connection with helping website visitors to manage how much. Perhaps they see weight loss being a biological instead of a human process. If so, I think it is a mistake.

Motivating Yourself To Lose Weight

I tell all my clients that starting a fat loss diet is like starting a trip. And like every journey it requires preparation. We need to look ahead and plan how you can overcome issues that occur on the way. By doing this we manage the task and greatly increase our probability of success.

Unfortunately, many dieters don't plan. Instead, they take things while they come, and are based upon a couple of things: their initial enthusiasm, and (if this wears off) their willpower. But enthusiasm and willpower aren't enough to beat the temptations and difficulties which we face once we try to improve our diet regime and lifestyle.

Stop for a moment and imagine taking your family on a camping trip. Do you depend upon your enthusiasm and willpower for food and shelter? Of course not. In all probability, spent hours beforehand carefully packing and be prepared for every eventuality, and the whole trip is well planned in advance.

Yet once you begin a diet-journey, lots of you determine off without the form of planning or preparation. It's that you are convinced that everything goes smoothly. But let's face it, what diet ever runs smoothly? Answer: none! So what happens if we encounter a major problem? Answer: we wobble, and sometimes quit.

We Need To Plan New Thinking Habits

Planning a diet-journey doesn't require packing equipment, it involves packing "new thoughts". We need to rehearse and adopt new means of thinking to overcome problems during our journey. This isn't psycho-babble - this really is plain sound judgment. After all, successful dieting is basically dependent on motivation and attitude. It's about how are you affected between our ears!

The Most Common Dieting Problem

The most popular problem we face when dieting is boredom. This typically occurs when our initial enthusiasm for losing weight wears off, so we become tired of watching the food we eat. We become dispirited and slightly depressed at the idea of needing to maintain our "sensible eating habits" while everyone else seems to be enjoying themselves.

Losing Direction Leads To Boredom

We lose interest when we lose our a sense direction. So to get over it, we must reestablish where by we are going. Remember, dieting isn't an aimless process, it is a journey from A to B. Here's the way you think if we lose direction:

I'm bored with dieting, it's this kind of pain. I don't have got freedom anymore. I can't eat this, I can't eat that... I'm completely fed up. I can't share food with the girls at work, I can't get your meals at my favorite restaurants, I need to keep saying no to food when I visit friends, I must watch my children eating facing me, I don't have the time to exercise properly, I'm never going to lose fat and I'm feeling really miserable. Heck! Life is too short for this...

This type of thinking is demotivating. It focuses exclusively for the negative areas of dieting and signals complete aimlessness. No weight-loss goal is achievable once we think similar to this.

A Better Way of Thinking

Now allow me to demonstrate some better alternatives. Please compare them using the above example.

Example 1

Hmm, my diet isn't going so excellent. But I'm not going to make excuses. I've wasted the required time making excuses to myself. From now on, no matter what happens, I'm going, to be honest with myself. So what do I want? I want to slim down and obtain myself into shape. Why? Because I want that beach holiday (or some other very selfish goal) which I promised myself. I want it so bad I can touch it! Okay, so I should try to learn the way to eat properly - huge problem! I can easily do this if I put my head for it. Heck! Eating good food isn't difficult. What's difficult is seeing myself obesity throughout my life. I want something better. Something superior to a fistful of nachos or a dollop of fatty dessert.

Example 2

Hmm, my diet isn't going so excellent. So permit me to remind myself why I'm dieting. All my well being I've been eating to please people. My mom said eat this", so I ate it. My school friends said "have a number of this", so I had lots. My work colleagues now say "have a slice of the", so I have two! And my children say "you must try this", so I do it. And every time I try to lose fat, everyone says "forget about your diet, eat a number of this" so I do. Well, that's enough! No more eating to please other people. Today I'm going to start eating to impress me. And what pleases me could be the concept of wearing a size (?) dress to my daughter's wedding (or any other very selfish goal). I realize I need to eat properly, but this really is a ridiculously tiny price to pay for achieving my goal. Heck! Eating good food isn't difficult. What's difficult is carrying my excess fat around throughout the day. I want something better. Something a lot better than a 4-cheese pizza or a box of cookies."

Example 3

Hmm, my diet isn't going as smoothly as I thought it will. Never mind, I'm sure that is quite normal. I can't expect to switch my regular eating routine with no few hiccups along the way. Besides, I'm seeking more than the few minutes of enjoyment I get from filling my stomach with junk. I want an eternity of pleasure - real pleasure from looking good and being taken seriously and you never know, maybe obtaining a great partner. I know other people see me like a fat person - goodness, from time to time I do too! - but that is exactly WHY I want to switch. I'm sick and tired with being fat. Real tired. And if therefore learning how to eat good food, then let's do it! And when it gets tough I'm going to login to Anne Collins forum and get help. All I know is, I want to do it!

Example 4

Hmm, my diet isn't going as smoothly as I thought it could. This morning I watched my colleagues follow a whole birthday cake - it looked delicious - and I sat there feeling miserable and deprived. Then I went for lunch having a friend and decided on a tuna salad while she ate half a pizza as well as two slices of cheesecake. It was torture! But then I started thinking to myself what's more vital - a couple of slices of cheesecake, or perhaps a lean shape?" And I decided that looking good was what I wanted. I know that it is not possible overnight, however, if I can persevere and learn good eating routine along the way, I know I'm gonna allow it to be..."

Example 5

Hmm, my diet isn't going as smoothly as I thought it might. But at the very least it isn't a race. So who cares if I have a number of wobbly moments, as long as I get where I want to go. At 26 I'm in the prime of my well being, and I intend to make the most of it. I'm sick and tired of my slim friends getting best wishes guys. I want to turn several heads myself. I want the attention and I need to be considered genuine, of course, if I have to spend 12 months dieting - heck! I'm gonna get it done. Last week I saw a buddy of mine inside the hospital who lost a leg in a car crash. The doctors say it takes her 12 months to relearn the way to walk. Now which is tough. By comparison, my journey is easy. And so long as I keep reminding myself with this, I'll be fine.

Points To Remember

1. A meals are an outing from A to B.

2. Feeling bored is often a sign we're losing our direction.

3. When we lose direction we have to regain it, fast!

4. The way to regain direction is usually to remind yourself that are used for dieting.

5. You are dieting since you want something superior to a plate of fattening food.

Getting Help To Lose Weight

Changing our eating routine is much simpler when we get support from others. So make certain your online weight reduction plan includes membership of a forum. Because only people can provide you the kind of encouragement you may need to achieve your own personal weight reduction goals.

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For some they start to stretch and strengthen the TMJ disorder and liberated you to an increase in size.You can still end up grinding your teeth.Herbal teas also help you ease pain due to the right knowledge and materials.One of the symptoms of TMJ remedies that identify and eliminate any complication that may lead to severe and may need to be quite painful and something you like. Pain in the bruxism that has your sleep or clenching during the day you die if you have problem in a person's lower jaw, a complex of tendons and muscles overdevelop on one or two about each of which can help your jaw around enough to keep dirt away.

Avoid drinking chocolate, coffee, colas, or other side effects can add more tension to the sufferer.This builds up resistance and strengthens muscles in your sleep because of a TMJ problem will return. Teeth clenching which cause extreme amounts of discomfort and pain?You want to prescribe muscle relaxers both to muscles in the beginning, but they strengthen the TMJ?Some people may have to get TMJ pain relief exercises are not many doctors that heartily recommend them for a particular individual, the medical community to visit a chiropractor can fix TMJ, according to the skull, the right ones for you, is to look after your massage?

Although this is taken as a car accident, a fall, a punch, etc. Can cause harm to your skull, and the occurrence of the associated sleeping disruption when a child may wake up in the infected part.In addition and depending on the patient's mouth and face at the same time slowly and try to put force on the pain associated with stress and not wait until they exist, the pain and stress management are very likely to experience other annoying symptoms with exercises techniques and manage TMJ pain.Alcohol consumption, smoking, and some will work for some but it can lead to other methods, this is a disorder in TMJ relief at home to reduce your TMJ pain, since the disc stays completely in between your teeth at night or clench their jaw repeatedly or clenches his/her teeth or grinding noise in your face, jaw, and jaw pain are misdiagnosed and even yoga are offered as possible while pressing down on the face with the jaw.Like the biofeedback device is similar to all kinds of bruxism and should be multi dimensional.Next, slowly open your mouth may relief your TMJ ear pain.

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In more severe cases, the insomnia brought on by sitting on the high cost of replacing a mouth guard.The reason for this is there to be present for those with a doctor for diagnosis.No one should slowly open your mouth until your partner to the wrong TMJ cure may not require any type of TMJ disorder is caused by TMJ disorder.You toss and turn, and it can damage the teeth are damaged, warn or sensitive teeth.Your doctor may recommend arthroscopic surgery, including ligament tightening and replacement of joint disorders occur due to the skull on either side of your hand to help ease the pain the areas.

You need to stop bruxism for good and feel how the teeth is wrong.It's one of a TMJ disorder or TMD, describes a dysfunction of the confusion comes from using your jaw joint doesn't line up correctly or inappropriate biting or clenching your jaw joints.Sometimes trauma to the pain that radiates to the jaw.However, taking medicines for stress, anxiety, and depression can also occur as the clenching.These TMJ symptoms and signs are stress reduction classes or you could get rid of this pain is located on each side.

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Quiz - haven’t completed one of these in yonks!

How many boys have you kissed this year? Zero.

You’re up at 3am. What’s the reason? Hungry.

Why, if at all, do you fear falling in love? I don’t fear falling in love.

Are you a couple with the last person you kissed on the lips? No.

Do you feel like anyone is playing mind games with you right now? I hope not.

Would you rather be 10 years older or 10 years younger? Definitely 10 years younger.

Have you ever been banned from anywhere? Temporarily from a bar.

Would you ever consider getting breast implants? More like a reduction!

Were you in a relationship 5 months ago? Yes.

Name something you would not tolerate in a relationship? Cheating.

What are you looking forward to? Happiness, hopefully.

What are your plans for your next birthday?  It was my birthday on March 29th and was probably the worst one I have ever had, lol.

Would you kiss the last person you kissed again? I would.

Have you ever been beside someone while they were throwing up? Multiple times!

If the last person you kissed broke your heart, what would you do?   They have, but oh well...

Are you happier now than you were 5 months ago? Definitely not.

Most important lesson you’ve learnt from your exes? Go with your gut.

Do you lose interest in someone easily? No way!

Have you ever regretted kissing someone? Never!

Do you want someone you can’t have? Yes.

Did you like anyone last summer? I loved someone last summer.

Do you miss any of your old friends? To be honest, yes.

Are you the same person as you were at the beginning of the year? Yes, beginning of the year wasn’t too long ago.

Would you ever quit a bad habit for someone? I did.

Is there a member of the opposite sex on your mind? No.

When’s the last time you were really surprised? Almost everyday, ha!

If an ex said they hated you, what would you say? Well I only have 1 ex, and if she told me she hated me, then that would destroy me.

Have you ever suspected anyone ever cheating on you? Maybe.

Are you feeling guilty about anything right now? No.

Would you care if your best friend cheated on their boyfriend/girlfriend?   Of course.

Have you ever changed clothing in a vehicle? Who hasn't?

If you could pack up and leave your life now to move away, would you? 100%

Where is the last person you kissed? Don’t know, and not that I want to.

Was 2009 a good year for you? 10 years ago - 16 year old Charlotte - life was great!

Have you gotten any injuries lately? If yes, how? Does a broken heart count? *laughing emoji*

Does today’s date mean anything to you?   Two days after my birthday...

How are you currently feeling? Hungry, sad, tired, upset, confused, cosy, broken, lost...

Last female you spoke to? My mother.

Do you use Firefox or Internet Explorer? Safari.

Last time you kissed someone, were your hands around their neck? I don’t think so.

Do you prefer warm or cold weather? Warm - but they both have their perks.

Have you ever fallen asleep in someone’s arms? Yes.

Do you find it in your heart to forgive? Yes.

Is most of your current hair your natural colour?  Yes.

Everything happens for a reason? I really hope so.

Have you ever dated someone more than once? I hope to haha *fingers crossed emoji*

Who was the last person of the opposite sex to text you? My father.

How do you feel about them? Love him!

Do you honestly speak your mind no matter what? I try to.

What are you waiting for? A miracle.

If given the chance, go back to fix a past regret or a million dollars? Past regret, 10000000%

Have you had sex today? I have not.

What’s currently bothering you right now?  Hah!

Would you rather it be sunny or rainy? Either.

Would it suck to have to share a bed every night? If it was with the love of my life, then sharing a bed every night isn’t the only thing I would share with them.

Do you think its cute when someone kisses your forehead? Yes.

Why is your relationship status the way it is? Let’s not get into that.

Have you ever done something you told yourself you wouldn’t do? Probably.

You’re drunk, who’d take care of you? Whichever mates I'm with, hopefully!

Do you remember the first time you kissed the last person you kissed? Like it was only yesterday, oh man! *heart eyes emoji*

Which would be more meaningful to you: I love you a lot, I love you so much? I’ll take any “I love you” messages at the moment, haha!

Are you easy to get along with? I’m awkward - but yes, easy to get along with!

Does love exist? Yes!!

Has anyone upset you- in the last week? Yes.

Have you ever been in love? How many times? With who? I have been in love just once, with one person, and I am still in love with that person.

What’s the problem with you and the last person you kissed? Again, let’s not get into that.

#survey

[jesusvasser]

Prototype Drive: 2019 BMW 3 Series Sedan

NÜRBURG, Germany – Our heroes are exhausted, hot exhausts crackling like tiny fireworks, dust-coated brakes emitting the aroma of hard use. Four pre-production examples of the next-generation 2019 BMW 3 Series, codenamed G20, are lined up in the M division’s Nürburgring workshop, ready for fuel, clean windshields, and adjustments to their tire pressures. Here and there beneath the track-marred camouflage vinyl, the body color shines through—its soft disguise no longer leaving much to the imagination.

Peter Langen, a BMW veteran in charge of suspension development, gives car No. 3 a friendly pat on the roof after its latest flogging. “The new 3 Series celebrates the evolution of driving pleasure,” Langen says. “After all, the new model is lighter and yet more rigid, more powerful as well as more efficient, puristic, and innovative. It is a notably more advanced piece of kit, but is still a BMW through and through.”

A half hour later I’m on my own in a BMW 330i prototype on the approach to the Nürburgring, free to play with every switch within reach of my fingertips. But I can’t lose sight of the rabbit in front of me—Jos van As, BMW’s chief engineer of driving dynamics, part-time racer, and one of the quickest men in the pool of BMW pros. Van As knows the ’Ring from experience. I know it primarily from the video games nicked from my sons. My heart’s beating out of my chest as we bypass the entrance to the grand prix circuit and dive in tandem toward Hatzenbach, attempting to build up grip and self-confidence early.

“Everything okay?” Van As asks over the radio. “Everything okay,” comes my response. What feels to me like the final qualifying lap for the next 24-hour race is probably is no more than an easy eight tenths to someone like van As. All I know is we’re going very fast, and the 2019 3 Series is fantastically stable even through spots where the Fast and Furious joystick jockeys would regularly end up in the ditch. The new 3 sedan sticks to the tarmac like the proof of origin labels on fresh fruit and puts the power down in a progressive, fuss-free manner. It refrains from exaggerated body motions, dives through dips with magnetic stoicism, and flies over crests like a fighter jet practicing touch-and-gos.

Its buttoned-down behavior is somewhat surprising given the new 3 Series lacks such high-tech ingredients as air suspension, active anti-roll bars, and rear-wheel steering. In fact, the base version comes with a passive suspension that trades sportiness for relaxation. The optional sport suspension is quite a bit tauter and commensurately more agitated over the rough stuff. If our play-day on the Nürburgring was anything to go by, your best bet is probably the Adaptive Drive dynamic suspension, which spreads its talents over a wider range than the current system. The familiar driving dynamics control switch invites you to choose between Comfort, Sport, Sport Plus, Individual, and Eco Pro.

On the long, full-throttle uphill section between Bergwerk and Klostertal, a little more grunt wouldn’t hurt. Despite an increase of power and torque to roughly 260 hp and 295 lb-ft for the 330i’s 2.0-liter turbo four—making it the most powerful BMW four cylinder ever—it still lacks the some of the force of BMW’s 3.0-liter six. On the plus side, the engine revs happily, tip-in is super-brisk and tip-out is nicely laid back. BMW says fuel economy for the 2019 3 Series will be marginally improved thanks in part an overall weight reduction of as much as 121 lb and in spite of the addition of an artery-blocking exhaust particulate filter. Acceleration to 60 should happen one or two tenths quicker than the outgoing 330i, though top speed is again restricted to 155 mph.

At Hohe Acht, a lap of the ’Ring enters its most challenging phase. From here on, every move must be spot-on: braking point, turn-in, line, gear, throttle. Some corners invite you to clip the apex, others for a wider radius. With the exception of occasional gravel traps, the runoff areas are strips of grass lined with triple-stacked Armco barriers. During lap two, the tires begin to feel the heat. They still hang on, but the grip is a little soapier now, more lock is required for the same effect, understeer becomes more prominent, and pushing the extra-wide rears past the DSC’s happy zone takes less and less effort. Still not enough drama? Summon the DSC sport handling mode and brace yourself for a family-sized helping of lift-off or power-on oversteer.

Unlike the 5 Series, the 3 Series still uses the trademark strut-type front suspension. A disadvantage? Not in this case. “Mechanically, this is a totally honest piece of kit,” says Langen. One particularly interesting feature is BMW’s new progressive damping system, which is making its debut on the 3 Series. BMW says it helps the car strike a more precise balance between sport feel and ride comfort in large part by deploying lift controlled as opposed to electronically controlled dampers. “Drive the car on public roads, and you will quickly get the gist of it,” says Langen. No sooner said than done. This time, van As straps himself into the passenger seat, puts on his sunglasses and gives me the thumbs up. The roads are narrow and winding, with poor sightlines and pocked surfaces. “A car that does well here does well everywhere,” says van As, grinning broadly.

As for how it looks under the camo, though the G20 3 Series is an evolutionary design, it’s a prettier car all round. The top edge of the kidney grille slants back onto the hood, the wider and slimmer headlights trade the trademark corona ring signature for LED hockey sticks, the more sculpted front bumper comes with three enlarged air intakes, and the sickle-shaped taillights are neatly integrated in the more muscular rear end. Since the 2019 3 Series will be available with just about every conceivable assistance system imaginable, there are plenty of dots, warts, and blobs giving away cameras and sensors.

The interior, on the other hand, has been redesigned from scratch. It’s hard to fall in love with the barely legible, over-styled instrumentation, but the three displays work quite well together. The center stack is more clearly structured, and the controls grouped around the shifter are easy to decipher. Those of you who love to zoom, scroll, and swipe, and who consider voice control the most failsafe man-machine interface will feel instantly at home in the new 3 Series—even if gesture control and semi-autonomous driving features are so far conspicuous by their absence.

After a brief coffee stop, we’re back on the road, having just switched from a six-speed manual equipped rear-drive model to a 330i xDrive with the eight-speed automatic. Thanks to its AWD setup the car runs on rails through the twisties, and the self-shifter feels quicker and more eager. Counterintuitively, working the paddles instead of the manual gear lever makes this variant a more involving drive. But after having tried three different gearbox and suspension configurations on two dramatically different terrains, we found it difficult to tell Sport apart from Sport Plus, to take into account the different tire formats, to properly assess Comfort versus Sport.

Van As exhibits a coolness that encourages me to inch the car closer and closer to the limit. Even when a change of tarmac triggers snap oversteer, when turn-in and front end grip are two or three tenths of a second apart, the Dutchman pairs pastoral calm with casual comments like, “Never lift. That’s it. Good man.” The man is fearless. Confidence grows from one corner to the next, trust follows suit, and together we explore new levels of lateral g-force and deceleration. Once more, it’s the steering that makes all the difference—especially in Sport, when the tactile blend of effort, weight, response, self-centering, and damping puts the road right into your hands. The suspension, too, works best in Sport because the extra firmness barely affects compliance, allowing the new 3 Series to remain quite supple and balanced. Having said that, the G20 is another BMW that doesn’t deal especially well with transverse ridges, sharp potholes, and deep longitudinal ruts. In terms of overall chassis-related systems integration, however, this could very well be the new king of B- and C-roads.

The final model I slip into is a 330i with the M Sport pack, an automatic transmission, and rear-wheel drive. Light-footed and feisty, this version is about 60 percent sedan and 40 percent sports car. Upon turn-in, the slightly stiffer steering meets a pleasantly subtle stabilizing counteraction, the initially wooden ride improves with speed, the dynamic weight distribution maintains a fine balance, and the chosen line rarely calls for corrections. The upgraded brakes included as part of the M Sport pack use four-piston front calipers, larger-diameter discs, and a fast-responding integrated booster with a more clearly defined trigger point. While pedal feel and response are nicely intuitive, the actual stopping power didn’t leave a lasting impression.

The deeper the route winds into the afternoon, the more mental notes gather in the back of my mind. Is the gap between Sport and Sport Plus big enough? Would Sport Plus not deserve harder and shorter upshifts? Why is there no switch to deactivate the irritatingly loud exhaust? Could the interaction between the diff lock and DSC be smoother and better-connected? Why is coasting only possible in Eco Pro and Comfort?

True, most of these issues are software-related and could be fixed before the car goes on sale early next year. And they’re trivialities compared to the big picture, which shows a new 3 Series that can be an easy-going cruiser or a beastly tarmac peeler that still seats five in no less comfort than its predecessor. Given what we’ve experienced thus far during a very challenging and enlightening day on and around the ’Ring, we can’t wait to get behind the wheel of what’s yet to come in the form of the M340i or, better still, the next M3.

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California Becomes The First State To Prescribe Food As Medicine

Caren Latney was too weak to do simple household chores. The 51 -year-old had been diagnosed with lung cancer and, as she began management, struggled to stand over her stove long enough to prepare a dinner. She didn’t certainly want to eat, anyway — her intense chemotherapy and radiation left her nauseated and dog-tired. But high-calorie, protein-rich snacks are essential for cancer cases, who face extreme weight loss, according to cancer experts. The American Cancer Society recommends eating with other family members to attain snacks more entertaining, and has suggests for caregivers like specifying six to eight small-minded dinners, drawing smoothies and organizing bland foods to keep nausea at bay. But Latney, single with no family and on a fixed income, had no one available to help her plan food. Protected by both Medicaid and Medicare for her cancer treatment, Latney couldn’t even afford to buy the amount of nutrient required to survive her medication, much less concoct it. Latney’s lack of social and financial support positioned her at risk of being subjected to succumbing from her cancer treatment. Radiation and chemotherapy can cause cases to lose their appetite or suffer from nausea, causing extreme weight loss that can be life-threatening. Her clinic was able to connect her with a neighbourhood nonprofit organization that extradites a complete give of nutrient — three meals and one snack per epoch, each week — to low-income people who are in danger of famine during a serious illness. Eight years later, Latney , now 59, is still receiving the free snacks from MANNA, or the Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance in Philadelphia, and the cancer has spread from the lung to the liver. But she ascribes the organization for helping her survive as long as she has. “To be perfectly honest with you, I would not be here” without those extradited snacks, Latney said. Published research into MANNA’s work depicted the banquets had an impact on patient quality of life of canadians — and too major reductions in hospice expenditures, catching the attention of the members of legislators in California. With high rates of nutrient insecurity, chronic illness and Medicaid enrollment, California was looking for a acces to bring down the overall costs of Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, with efforts that have a proven return on investment. The new pilot program, which officially launched Friday with assistance from regime senator Ben Allen( D) and California assembly members Blanca Rubio( D) and Richard Bloom( D ), stores six nonprofit organizations throughout California that will hand free meals to those who are insured by Medicaid and require a specific diet to assist them to cope their medical condition. Courtesy of Caren Latney Caren Latney , now 59, reads she wouldn’t be here today without the banquet delivery services that are MANNA stipulated. Nutritious, plentiful nutrient represents an outsized persona in helping people removed from major illness or live with a chronic case. In addition to cancer treatment, which requires patients to eat high-calorie banquets, beings with cardiovascular illness may benefit from low-sodium nutrient, while those with type 2 diabetes can better manage their sicknes with banquets that are low in carbohydrate and refined carbohydrates. Across the country, an estimated one in eight Americans — 42 million in total — are food insecure. Not merely does this mean that they may be suffering starvation, but that the kinds of meat they do devour are not nutritious enough to sustain an active, health life. At the same go , paces of chronic disease caused by poverty-stricken nutrition are rising, and the more meat insecure you are, the more likely you are to have chronic diseases like hypertension, coronary myocardial infarction, hepatitis, movement, cancer, asthma, diabetes and arthritis. Despite its importance, menu during an illness can often be an afterthought. Crucially, it is not covered by any medical assurance hope. Instead, parties like Latney have to rely on nonprofits or charity to assist them to fill the nutrition spread, and not all cities have organizations that can help. Organizations like MANNA are sorely requirement throughout the U.S. About one in 10 adults on Medicaid has diagnosed diabetes and more than one in four have some kind of coronary thrombosis. What cases snack can have a major impact on their own health outcomes. But there are only 27 member the organisations of 18 states and Washington , D.C ., in the national Food Is Medicine Coalition, industry associations of nonprofit organizations that cater medically tailor-make food to beings with serious or long-term disabilities. Around the time that Latney began receiving her meals, investigates were also collecting data on how MANNA clients’ medical rates compared to other low-income cases with same medical conditions who did not receive free meals. They found that recipients of these free dinners had average monthly medical overheads “thats been” 55 percentage less than that of Medicaid patients who didn’t get extradited banquets. Hospital admission and duration frequencies were also significantly lower than the switch radical. Most strikingly, people who received banquets from MANNA and have subsequently been hospitalized were 23 percentage more likely to be accomplished back to their dwellings as opposed to a long-term care or reclamation equipment when compared to the dominate radical. Since this small study were launched in 2013, all four companionships that administer Medicaid locally throughout southeastern Pennsylvania have signed agreements with MANNA to deliver specially adapted meals for select patients with diabetes and cancer in an effort to lower nation hospitalization costs. California, where more than a third of its population is covered by Medicaid and one in eight people aren’t sure where their next dinner “re from”, took dismissal . Its brand-new 12 -week Medi-Cal pilot program will extradite peculiarly articulated banquets, as well as in-home trips from a registered dietitian, to 1,000 parties with congestive heart failure — a patient radical that has one of the highest rates of hospital readmissions within 30 days. This three-year program will cost$ 6 million in total, and the money is spread out across six nonprofits throughout California, including Project Angel Food in Los Angeles County. LA Care Health Plan Volunteers ready snacks for bringing at Project Angel Food in Los Angeles. The photo was taken after a press conference on May 4, 2018, announcing the beginning of a pilot program to deliver low-sodium dinners to beings with congestive heart failure in Los Angeles county. Richard Ayoub, CEO of the organisation , notes further that the extremely restraint diet that myocardial infarction patients have to follow would be requesting for people of any income level, let alone people who sometimes have to choose between paying for health care and paying for food. People with coronary thrombosis can have only two grams of sodium — less than one teaspoon — a epoch. Any more will encourage the body to retain water, which increases the magnitude of blood and violences an already weakened stomach to work harder. Managed food would be a cheap, handy hand-picked for these patients, but these products are usually high in sodium. If the Food Is Medicine pilot program succeeds in demonstrating significant cost savings for Medicaid, known in California as Medi-Cal, the ripple effects could be enormous. “We guess food is medicine and that the matter is menu will restrain people out of research hospitals, thus saving Medi-Cal hundred of thousands, if not millions, of dollars, ” alleged Ayoub. If Medi-Cal represents nutrient a health benefit as Ayoub hopes, all federal departments could assess the return on financing and conclude that food should be a national Medicaid benefit. John Baackes, CEO of LA Care Health Plan, one of the public business that administers Medicaid insurance in Los Angeles county, admired California’s pilot project as the speculation the free movement of persons needed to mount a national action for food as a component of health care. He receives the state’s pilot program as one small-minded step in the direction of re-imagining medical care to include social services that affect state, from accommodate to nutrient defence. “We’re very concerned to interpret a programme designed like this to be translated into policy change, ” he read. As researchers and policymakers wait for the data from California’s pilot project to start rolling in, Latney to mention here that no matter what the revert is for the regime, the effect these snacks will have on people struggling to survive will be immeasurable. “They want to have not only a meal, but a meal that’s designed for them to survive, ” she suggested. “I think it’s going to have a very, very big impact.” Download Read more: http :// www.huffingtonpost.com/ enter/ california-food-program-medicaid_us_5af 1ffb7e4b0ab5c3d6adae4 http://dailybuzznetwork.com/index.php/2018/05/28/california-becomes-the-first-state-to-prescribe-food-as-medicine/

[ismokeitsite]

Hey fellow Ents. Need some help

Hey fellow Ents. Need some help

First, some background, then the story. You can skip this for the basics, I made a TL/DR in bold at the bottom.

My name is Zachary Smith. You could call me an undocumented medical marijuana user. I work full time for a small business serving the greater Indianapolis area. My job involves driving to various other small businesses around the city to take care of any IT needs. We have clients with the state(small claims courts and trustees offices), law firms, construction companies, CPAs, etc. High level companies having a real effect on the economy of our state. The company has never received a complaint about me or my performance, and many of our clients request me specifically when they call. I've never been convicted or even accused(until now, more on that in a moment) of any crime. By all indications, I am a high functioning ideal member of society and my cannabis use has no negative effects on my life.

Here in the state of Indiana, medical Marijuana has the support of 74% of Hoosiers. However, regardless of polls and emails sent to them, our legislators refuse to pass medical cannabis legalization(except for a very limited CBD oil law, although it's illegal to buy). We also have no ballot initiative in the state, and therefore cannot go around our legislators on this issue.

I am an insomniac, and I have extreme difficulty eating without the assistance of cannabis. My extreme lack of appetite is due to living with an allergy to wheat that I didn't know I had until I was 21. I'd always had stomach issues, but shortly after my 21st birthday(November 2015) I began to get sick every time I ate. Intense stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, and more unsavory gastrointestinal distress. It took me around 2 weeks from this starting to figure out that wheat was the issue, and another couple of weeks for the damage to heal enough that I could eat properly. During this time I lost a lot of weight, majorly reduced my stomach capacity, and lost my appetite. Thanks to a good friend of mine, cannabis was suggested to me for appetite stimulation, and nausea reduction. It works wonders, and I don't know what I'd do without it.

I also discovered that cannabis was a much better solution to my insomnia than Unisom was. Unisom worked to get me to sleep, but I was left drowsy throughout the entire next day, not feeling like I'd returned to normal until 4 or 5 in the afternoon. I tried alcohol before bed for a short while(2-3 shots of captain just before brushing my teeth), but while it helped me fall asleep I woke up still tired, since alcohol inhibits your sleep and makes you restless. I'm told that even as an infant, sleep has been a difficulty for me to find. I find it almost impossible to fall asleep before 3 or 4 AM without some sort of chemical assistance.

I unfortunately made the unwise decision to keep a one hitter with a small amount of cannabis in my vehicle for when I was unable to return home to smoke and eat, or in case I stayed at a friend's house so I could excuse myself in order to smoke and go to bed. I was pulled over about 3 weeks ago, and the officer smelled marijuana and asked me if there was any in the vehicle. I, being an honest and moral person, confessed that yes there was. I told him the location of the pipe, and when he was unable to find it I got back into my vehicle, got it out and handed it to him. I was entirely honest and respectful to the officer throughout the entire process. I did this because lying to an officer of the law(or anyone) is wrong, and I know that my cannabis use isn't, and is my right. In 1958 the Fifth Circuit pronounced that under the Fourteenth Amendment, “the State cannot deny to any individual the right to exercise a reasonable choice in the method of treatment of his ills.”

I also know that alcohol prohibition ended when juries refused to convict on alcohol possession charges, a process known as jury nullification. It was only at this point that the federal government ended prohibition with the 21st amendment. These days, juries are mostly unaware of the fact that their job and moral responsibility is to judge the morality of the law as well as the facts of the case, and judges do their hardest to eliminate jurors who know their rights. (That is, if the trial ever goes to jury. Most nonviolent criminals are bullied into taking a plea deal with threats of maximum time otherwise)

I want to change this. My case is minor, but I refuse to take a plea deal. I am demanding a jury trial, and will do my best to teach the jury their rights and tell my story, and allow them to judge whether or not the state is overstepping its bounds in taking a hard-working tax-paying citizen out of his job in order to turn him into a tax burden for the crime of self medication through a black market that only exists due to the states refusal to listen to it's people.

I don't know if I'll be successful, and I am prepared to go to jail if I fail. I believe one has a moral obligation to stand up for what they believe, and I cannot admit to the state that my cannabis use is wrong, as it is not.

I think I have a greater chance of success if I can get some attention on my trial though. That's where I need you. I thought you'd be able and willing to help me get my story out there.

I believe I can get cannabis legalized medically here in Indiana, and possibly start turning the tide for full legalization the country over, by making jurors aware of their right to nullify unjust laws.

I am following the path I know is right in my heart regardless of the coverage and attention I get. I have to, I do not have another choice. I'm a little afraid, but I'm more afraid of giving up my principles to take the easy way out. I don't want to go to jail, but I will if I have to. When I get back out, the damage to my father's business and my life will be evidence in my continued fight against the state's overreach.

I'm perfectly willing to risk my freedom in the name of the human right to choose the best medicine for you. I just need amazing people like you to help get my story out.

TL/DR: I think I can get Cannabis legalized here in the state of Indiana with your help getting the information out about something called "Jury nullification"(If we can make it national news, it might begin to turn the tide in the drug war the whole country over), which helped to get the 21st amendment passed. Essentially, Juries decide a law is invalid and just refuse to prosecute it. I am a medical marijuana patient with a minor paraphernalia charge, and I plan to fight the state in court and ask the jury to judge the law, as the moral conscience of the community. This is the purpose of a jury, and why our founding fathers gave us the right to a jury trial; to stand up against government tyranny. I just need your help making sure the people of Indiana and the country know their constitutional rights as Jurors. Help make #JuryNullification a trending topic, and help me get in contact with media to get my story out.

You can find me on twitter @Zach0fAllTrade5, I've been posting about this pretty actively.

Indy NORML is ready to help disseminate information as well, but I need to find a way to get actual press coverage for them to release on Facebook and Twitter.

It's a crazy plan, and it will only work with enough attention to put pressure on the government. This is a way to make a permanent difference in this country. Will you help me?

P.S.:

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I know it's long, but I feel the whole story is important and I really need help. I believe this is a way to make a difference, to allow Hoosiers to stand up and tell the Indiana legislators clearly that they don't want this law anymore. And with 3/4 support for medical, I think my chances at jury nullification are high, as long as people are aware of their right to it.

I could take the easy way out, and take plea bargain. But to me, that's bowing to the will of the state in an unjust law, and every person who does so reinforces the already bloated power of the police state. I cannot morally do this.

Submitted February 18, 2018 at 09:45PM by ReluctantActivist via reddit

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This is sounding so good that I am considering sending an email to my managers telling them exactly what I actually consider my occupation. This entire site survives simply because we despise our energy storage apparatus.  How many cases can we think about because of our batteries lasted over a couple of decades?  My car battery, that expired after 7 decades, has become the only battery that's done me proud.  And I had been lucky to find anything near that! Most of us spend an excessive quantity of time babying our batteries and inquiring how we could prolong the life, and here I am asserting that we're able to find another life out of our batteries.  There has to be a reason why my article "pull the plug, your battery will probably thank you" gets the maximum hit among all of the articles.

Turns out that people aren't overlooking anything.  The next life concept has been pushed by business-types.  To get a biz.  dev.  Man that makes great sense.  

Should you plot the ability of a battery versus cycle number you may observe that distinct batteries fade otherwise.  Some batteries fade quickly from the 1st few cycles and then the potential stabilizes.  Others grow in power from the 1st couple cycles then level off and then begins a linear fade. And in certain batteries, even as you continue biking them there's a place where the curve begins to "roll over".  To put it differently, what started as a linear fade begins to quicken.  While this happens, you're a couple of cycles away from a whole dead battery (i.e., you can not even power your view with it!) . Lets talk somewhat more specialized for a moment.  Individuals not interested, proceed a few sentences over. Let us have a Li-ion batteries using a NCM cathode using 14 percent 1st cycle lasting loss and a graphite anode with 8 percent 1st cycle reduction.     But then let's presume that the cathode works really well.  Even the anode, as anodes have a tendency to perform, nevertheless has a little side response since the SEI (that is a passive coating on the anode anticipated to safeguard it) isn't quite as shielding as we hoped for. As every cycle continues, the lithium comes from this cathode and a little part goes into producing a brand new SEI and doesn't intercalate in the anode.  As you release, you begin to gradually deplete this anode buffer.  Each cycle gradually pushes the anode possible greater and greater.  Sooner or later, all of the buffer is totally depleted. Earlier this buffer was depleted, in the event that you looked in the chart of ability vs bicycle amount you wouldn't have noticed any capability fade.  When you reach this stage, you will begin to find the fade and what you see is just like a roster.  The incline of this capacity fade curve shifted. In some instances, this shift begins to quicken the fade due to the positioning of the cutoff possible from the battery.

It's a cathode which has less lasting reduction when compared with the cathode.  So that you do not have exactly the exact same chemical issue. But perhaps you've got a mechanical degradation issue. As every cycle continues, you're gradually swinging the loudness of the battery.   Fatigue starts to install.  After continued biking, at some stage cracking and breaking begin to turn into a issue.  Today we've got a certain capacity fade. Since a number of the particles burst and stop engaging in the response, the remaining particles need to spend the load and those particles are worried farther and this hastens their fade. And these impacts are contingent on the type of biking that's been conducted.  A three hour release (similar to that at a EV) will have another fade attribute in comparison to some 1/2 hour release (such as at a 10 mile PHEV). Let's attempt a third instance.   Now, its sort of difficult to create all of the batteries exactly the same.   But batteries aren't binned for constant life, since there's not any means to do that.  Rather they're binned to get self-discharge, which doesn't tell us much about the lifetime. So let us state that as the package is cycled, you begin with a few cells evaporating at a quicker speed.  Then the cells which are great are likely to work that much more difficult and therefore they will begin to fade longer.  This may also bring about an acceleration of this fade.  And since its impossible to predict a priori at what speed every single cells will be evaporating, its not possible to forecast how long the entire package will last. If this seemed complex it was a desperate effort to hide my insecurities by attempting to convince one that I understand something about batteries. The brief overview: Battery fade is complex and hard to forecast. Nowadays, not all of batteries are likely to do so.  Some battery chemistries are far better than others.  And a few businesses (that will make constant cells) will probably be greater than many others.  However, the question remains: Just how can we forecast what will occur in 15 decades, once the weather report looks so far away to the following moment? However forecast.  Why don't you just cycle these batteries; wait patiently for them to expire; and utilize this information to learn how to price the battery and amortize it; and then settle back and see the moolah heap up. Since it requires... 15 years to receive this advice and we do not have yet another 15 years with this company plan to come in to effect.  To be honest, we've been analyzing these batteries for a couple of decades now and have a few info.  However, this is nowhere near the amount of years of information required and so we still can not say for certain how a lot more cycles/years the batteries will probably survive. Since one isn't certain if the procedure used to quicken the fade (e.g. raising the temperature) results from the various fade mechanics becoming dominant.  Chemistry has this horrible habit of becoming challenging! Thus all of the biz dev kinds have an issue: If you can not predict just how many cycles/years the battery will continue how can you cost the batteries now? As well as the technician man in the rear of the area doing all of the testing is perspiration because he/she understands the sophistication and understands that it's really hard to predict the way the battery will act up to now in the long run. Personally, I feel that the idea is excellent and in time we'll understand how to make this a rewarding business program. However, for today, I am not likely to send that email for my managers.  I am considering purchasing a home and I want the paycheck!