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Ask Dr. Sears: Nursing During Pregnancy

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Ask Dr. Sears: Nursing During Pregnancy

Q  I’m newly pregnant and still nursing our 18-month-old. Is it okay to continue breastfeeding through my pregnancy?

A Mothers were once cautioned against breastfeeding during pregnancy because it stimulates the secretion of oxytocin, the hormone that can also cause contractions of the uterus. It was feared that these contractions could cause a miscarriage. Yet new insights show that the uterus is not sensitive to the hormone until around the 24th week of pregnancy. So, unless you have an obstetrical condition that might place you at risk for miscarriage – your obstetrician will tell you if you do – you can safely breastfeed during the first half of your pregnancy. If you have a history of miscarriage or you’re noticing strong contractions while you nurse, it’s wise to stop.

Eventually, your body will tell you when it’s time to wean. Sometime during the second trimester, pregnancy hormones will overrule your milk-making hormones – your milk will change to colostrum, your milk supply will decrease, and the milk will likely develop a salty, less pleasant taste, which may encourage your toddler to want to wean. Your nipples will also become tender during pregnancy, making nursing uncomfortable. Finally, you could find that a growing belly makes for awkward nursing with a squirming toddler. Listen to your body’s signals about when is the right time to wean. If you’re beginning to feel increasingly drained – physically, emotionally, and perhaps nutritionally – then it’s time to find other ways to feed and nurture your first-born. While many toddlers wean halfway through the pregnancy because of the change in milk, some actually increase their demands on Mom because they sense that she’s different somehow. It’s natural for you to be tuning in to your changing body and the baby growing inside and to sometimes subconsciously tune out your toddler. But while these feelings are normal, your toddler may still sense them and feel that you’re different, in turn becoming more clingy and demanding. Some nursing toddlers between 2 and 3 years of age are even smart enough to be aware of what’s happening with Mom’s milk and what’s going to happen after baby is born. During Martha’s fifth pregnancy, our 3-year-old Hayden, said, “Mommy, I don’t like your milk anymore. I’ll wait until after the baby comes, when it’s good again.” Taking frequent naps together and easing your child into accepting more care from Dad can help ease this transition.

During pregnancy your need for rest and your preborn baby’s need for good nutrition takes priority over your toddler’s desire to breastfeed. This may be a difficult decision to make, but remember that nursing means more than just breastfeeding – it’s all about comforting your child. So that’s where extra hugs from you, “nursing” from your husband (especially at night), and lots of time with you both can be especially important.


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Growing the Church in Cambodia

Baptism in Cambodia’s West Region.

Each week, church planters with River of Life church, Cambodia, go out by Regions into their communities to witness the Gospel to the people of various beliefs such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Animism and local traditions. The church planters work in groups to help strengthen existing churches in the districts in their communities. They do outreach in the remote places as well.

Last year alone, 1,500 people put their trust in Jesus through the ministry of our church planters. They started 18 new churches and established 65 new small groups.

Our church in the western region near the Thai border has been doing outreach through a monthly children’s feeding program. The people there are very poor. We teach the children personal hygiene, distribute clothing and witness of God’s love through Jesus Christ in these poor rural areas.

A number of people accepted the Lord during one event, and a cell group was formed. Once the cell group is established in this new location, our church planters continue to teach the Word, and encourage and strengthen the new believers.

All the while, the church planters are looking for a potential Christian leader they can train to assume responsibility for the new cell group. The church planters will continue to oversee and encourage the cell group until it becomes a full functioning church.

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How To Get The Money You Need To Start Your Business

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Most people who have a great business idea do little about it, even if they research the idea a little deeper and find that it has an excellent chance of doing well. They fail to launch not because they are fickle, timid, or indecisive, but because they don’t know where to get the money they need to start their business.

Often a great business idea and a well-thought-out business plan aren’t enough. Many businesses can’t start on a shoestring budget because they require office space, a multi-talented technical team, and an online business infrastructure. Moreover, it sometimes takes a little time for the sales to start coming in.

Before the financial crash of 2007, it might have been possible to get a small business loan, but since then banks have become nervous about putting their faith in new, untested business ideas launched by new entrepreneurs.

Still, the situation isn’t entirely hopeless. There is still a way for entrepreneurs to get the funding they need to start a business venture, whether it’s based on a proven business model, like opening up an eatery, or a novel business idea, like inventing a new business app.

3 Ways to Raise the Money You Need

You can raise the money you need by starting a fundraising campaign, bootstrapping your company, or asking family and friends.

1. Start a fundraising campaign.

An increasingly popular way of raising money is by launching a fundraising campaign. There are many interesting ways to organize a fundraiser. One idea is to start selling fundraising bricks. You would honor your donors by engraving their names on bricks using a using unique patented laser engraving process.

Another idea is to use a crowd-funding raising site, which will give you a platform to create a digital marketing campaign to raise money from many small supporters.

2. Bootstrap your company.

If you’re starting your business with some partners, you could bootstrap the funds you need. Essentially, everyone would scrape together their personal funds to contribute. For instance, some partners might be able to contribute some money from their saving accounts while others might be able to contribute by liquidating assets.

The upside is that all partners will be highly motivated to ensure that the enterprise is a success because they have some skin in the game. The downside, of course, is that not all partners may be in a position to make a contribution because they simply don’t have the personal resources.

3. Ask family and friends.

Although it can be somewhat embarrassing asking family and friends, many businesses have launched in this way. This, for example, is how Harry Wayne Huizenga, a billionaire who is often considered one of the greatest entrepreneurs in the history of American business, started in business. According to an article about Huizenga in Entrepreneur: “In 1962, at the age of 25, Huizenga started the Southern Sanitation Service by borrowing $5,000 from his father and coaxing a local trash hauler in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, into selling him a used truck and a few accounts.”

From these humble beginnings, Huizinga then went on to found no less than 3 Fortune 500 corporations and owning 3 big league professional sports franchises.

Before asking family and friends for money, however, you need to prepare a comprehensive briefing. This way your request for money is backed up by an explanation about what it is that you’re planning to sell, how much you’re planning to charge, how you will be able to make money, and why your business idea has a good chance of being successful. Also, be clear whether you’re asking for a donation or a loan. If it’s a donation, family and friends will be aware that they may not get any money back, and if it’s a loan, give them some idea of how soon they can get their money back and how much profit it might be reasonable to expect.

In closing, it’s important to note that these are just a few sample ideas on how you can raise money. There are many more. For instance, you might also be able to raise money by using alternative lenders, getting support from the Small Business Administration, finding an angel investor, or getting backing from a venture capital firm.


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Why Bigger is Not Always Better for Blogging

As I have been trying to narrow in on my specific strategy to making a living from my online efforts, I keep coming up with this notion that bigger is not always better. On Monday, I mentioned that I keep building and buying more blogs. It was an addict’s first confession. I have bought into the belief that if I start a lot of projects now and continue to build them up over time, eventually my online income will take off like never before – and that’s saying a lot considering my most recent income report. Yet, even as I build up my online portfolio of blogs or empire (as many call it), I have a strong conviction that many are over-doing it. Here’s what I mean…

Maximizing Your Return, Minimizing Expenses

I often talk about the ideal business model. This is mostly due to the fact that I plan to make my living from income that I can turn into passive income instead of working the 9-to-5 my whole life. I know it sounds crazy to many, but it seems like it would offer me a lot of benefits and will be hard to turn down. As a result of being motivated, I know that I have to keep my expenses low in order to maximize my return. As I have talked about, one of the benefits of blogging is the low overhead costs. This allows for a smaller risk and more net income.

Passive Income Report – February 2012

For all of those who are faithfully following my progress on this site, you know reporting my income is a tradition at Passive Income to Retire. My goal is to have enough income to more than replace my income from my day job. I want to make sure that I can sustain a steady income before I do something crazy like retire at the age of 27, so I am building up my income now to see if I can maintain it for a while before pulling the plug on the traditional job. My goal is to build up a stream of steady income that I can sustain by working less than my day job.

Proof Owning Blogs is More Profitable than Staff Writing

A few months ago I wrote a post about the benefits of owning blogs vs. staff writing. In the post, I came to the conclusion that my strategy is going to be owning multiple blogs. I do staff write for one site, but I am starting to think it isn’t worth my time. The truth is that when you start earning hundreds and then thousands of dollars from a single blog each month, the extra $40 for about 3 hours of work (to write 2 staff posts) hardly seems worth it. Over the past 3-4 months, I have been writing for my two blogs (as well as others I have been developing).

My Blog Owning Strategy

Have you ever wondered about the best strategy to owning multiple blogs? Maybe you have create a successful blog, but have not been able to go beyond that one blog? While I have yet to prove that my strategy is going to pay off, I am really confident that it will show some results soon.… Read More »


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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star Elizabeth Henstridge Talks This Week’s Stellar, (Almost) Solo Episode

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When did Elizabeth Henstridge become one of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s true stars? Originally a supporting player, her budding romance with Ian De Caestecker’s Leo Fitz has thrust her to the top of the show’s food chain, and her (pardon the pun) out-of-this-world performance on this week’s episode, built entirely around her time stranded across the galaxy, will likely launch her to an entirely new level. Paste chatted with Henstridge about the pressure of carrying an entire show, potential backlash against her new potential paramour, and where Gemma Simmons goes from here.

Paste Magazine: This episode finally answered the biggest question that viewers have had since Simmons was sucked into the monolith at the end of last season’s finale. During all of those months between filming that scene and this week’s episode, were you clued into what the heck happened to you?
Elizabeth Henstridge: No, I didn’t know what the portal was. At the end of Season Two, I had no idea what had happened to her, where she was, or what the monolith was, and so the same old theories were running through my brain as much as everybody else’s. Then, coming into Season Three, I knew that she would be back from the planet, and I knew that she’d be back fairly quickly. I knew that she would be suffering from PTSD, and I knew the environment of the planet—that there would be no light, no sunlight, and that the properties of that planet would be different to the properties of earth.

That was pretty much it. Until I was privy to the script of episode five, I concentrated on what it does to a body to be without sunlight, and to be in isolation and the day-to-day activities that she would really struggle with. A couple weeks before, we were due to start preparations for episode five, I was told the ideas and what they were planning on doing with them. I was just blown away. I thought it was just so cool, and I was hoping and praying that it would all happen, but I was definitely shocked when we were on the first day of set, and it was like, “No one’s told us we can’t do this yet. I guess we’re doing it.”

Paste:This episode broke new ground for the show, being the first bottle episode for what is usually a huge ensemble program. Did you feel some pressure, being the first cast member to be tasked with carrying an entire episode on your back?
Henstridge: Oh my gosh, tons of pressure… I just didn’t want to let them down. I can’t tell you how much I love everybody involved in the show, and our executive producers are just really great friends. We’re family, and I just thought, “Oh, what if I mess this up? What is this going to do?” But then as soon as I read the script, It became so apparent that this was a huge team effort, and the ensemble might not have been onscreen, but it was offscreen in a huge way. I just thought the script was so beautiful, that all I had to do was remember my lines and I knew that we’d be fine.

Paste: Showcasing Simmons in this very unique, life-altering situation allowed us to see her in a truly desperate state for the first time, something that you portrayed so beautifully. What did you do to tap into these emotions that might come with being stranded on another planet?
Henstridge: Thank you. I start everything with the script, and I think all the answers you ever need are in there as long as it’s a good script. Then I researched what happens, what it’s like to be in isolation. I read different people’s accounts about battling with survival and different things like that. But honestly, when we were filming out in the desert—110 degrees—we had so much work to get done, and we were fighting the light, it kind of felt much more like method acting. I was instantly transported to survival mode anyway.

Paste: Of course, the curveball this episode threw at all of us was the revelation that there was another human stranded on that planet with you, Will. He and Simmons are driven together by their circumstances, and while Will seems like a great guy and all, it’s going to be tough for a S.H.I.E.L.D. fan to warm up to anyone getting in the way of Simmons and Fitz being together. What do you expect the fan reaction to be when the dust settles?
Henstridge: My first reaction to the episode was, “Oh my gosh, that’s so cool. I promise I’ll work very hard.” My second reaction was, “What the F about the Simmons fans?” I was kind of mad at her at first. I thought, “How could she do that?” I never thought she would do anything like that, and then reading the episode and going through that, I think it totally makes sense, because of the moment that the connection between the two of them commences. It’s like she’s lost all hope, and she’s absolutely at rock bottom, and he says exactly the right thing.

It’s more of a visceral reaction to just how hard and painful this whole situation is. They get together in an explosion, rather than in the kind of a friendship that’s been the story of Fitz and Simmons. I definitely think it’s justified. And hey, humans are messy. Nothing is ever exactly how you envision it. So yeah, I was anxious about how hardcore Fitzsimmons fans are probably going to react, for sure. I get it. I get their frustration, and get the anger, and that’s part of us telling good stories—that people are going to have conflicting reactions.

Paste: Beyond the romantic complications, this experience has undoubtedly been life-changing for Simmons in many other ways. We’ve always loved her pure passion for scientific discovery, but the hopelessness of her interplanetary experience seems to have squashed that. Is it altered forever, or will she find it again, as we saw glimpses of this week?
Henstridge: Definitely, it will come back, and ultimately that’s what saves her. She was swimming and loving the oasis of the water, and then she’s pulled underneath. And then she figures out a way to escape, but then she also goes back in there because she’s curious as to what that was. Her curiosity saved her. I think the wonderment and the naiveté is potentially gone, but then Will helps to give her that back and she gets super excited about how they are going on this picnic to see the sunrise, and it has nothing to do with getting home. It’s just seeing it in wonderment.

So I think it’s been jolted, obviously, when she is back on earth without Will, but she definitely still has that. And I hope she gets to a place where that comes as freely as it did before.

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Some People Want the Pandemic Over so Quickly that They Are Hostile to Caution

One doctor in Italy says Covid has lost its lethal punch—https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-virus-idUSKBN2370OQ [1] — and bloggers declare the pandemic over.

Chile says it is far from over for them and demands more stringent measures from thegovernment—https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Chilean-Scientists-Call-on-President-to-Change-COVID-Strategy-20200531-0002.html?utm_source=planisys&utm_medium=NewsletterIngles&utm_campaign=NewsletterIngles&utm_content=7 [2]

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Given the possibility of an impending health catastrophe in Chile, scientists from that country ask Piñera for a change of focus in the strategy to deal with Covid-19.

Chilean scientists and medical organizations asked President Sebastián Piñera to implement new strategies immediately to avoid a national catastrophe in Chile due to the spread of Covid-19.

Chile’s COVID-19 Cases Surpass 90,000 [3]

In a petition signed by dozens of researchers and entities of the Health Guild, Piñera asked to urgently require preventive and non-reactive action. “This is also crucial for public health actions and for preparing a national humanitarian strategy.”

The applicants recalled that the official figures, as of Saturday, May 30, 2020, alert us again: 997 deaths are registered, 94,858 total confirmed cases in the country, and about 4,000 new cases every day.

“We have surpassed China in number of infections and exceeded the global average of world mortality with 46.3 deaths per million inhabitants, with no signs of slowing the outbreak,” they said.

The Intensive Care Units are at 100 percent occupancy in Santiago, while, nationwide, the occupancy rate is 87 percent and is increasing, according to the daily report of the Chilean Society of Intensive Medicine (SOCHIMI) .

The document specified that a change in strategy is urgently needed, seeking to cut the chain of contagion and that includes massive and systematic testing, with a broad, comprehensive, intersectoral and interdisciplinary social approach, putting the protection and well-being of community.

“The international scientific evidence is clear: the basis of the confrontation must be a timely and active strategy in testing, detecting, searching for cases, reporting, tracing, isolating infections and following up on all of them,” it added.

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Yaro Le Wa Ve Fio

English version on 20 May 2020

Y Yaro Le Wa Vè Fio is a rhythm of the Bwa(ba) from Burkina Faso and Mali. In the song, the (unmarried) youth is called to work. Young men are called on to work and earn some money for their marriage. Young women are called upon to work with the carité nuts to make ‘beurre de carité‘ (shea butter), pump up some water, look for wood, grind grain, etc. To earn some money for some nice fabric for your clothes (if you don’t wear nice clothes, your beauty will not be reflected). There are many (working) variations that are sung in the song. Here a few:

Yaya ho, arujipa bona lé, yaya ho, yaro le wa vè fio
Young men, come and work on the land and earn money for your marriage

Yaya ho, arujipa bona lé, yaya ho Ty a le wa san ouwo
young women, stamp the carité nuts and earn money for your marriage

Other couplets are created by naming other activities (fetching water, grinding grain, etc.). In this song it is standard that after playing the melody one time, it is subsequently switched to pattern A.
The number is widely used during work; three women who are three pounding (on one mortar) are supported with singing by a griot woman. The women always sing the answer to the griot woman’s chant during work. Yaro = young people, fio = piece of land nearby, mwa = pieces of land far away, le wa = come !, ti a = young woman, ouwo = shea butter, san = harvesting.

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Youssouf Keïta, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, February 2018.

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Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) arrives for a House Democratic Caucus meeting to choose leaders for the 116th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 28, 2018. Photo by Joshua Roberts/Reuters

House Judiciary Chair issues subpoena for Mueller report

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena Friday for special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report as Democrats intensified their investigation of President Donald Trump, but leaders stopped short of liberal demands for impeachment proceedings.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has insisted on a methodical, step-by-step approach to the House’s oversight of the Trump administration, and she refuses to consider impeachment without public support, including from Republicans, which seems unlikely. But in light of Mueller’s findings , Democratic leaders are under mounting pressure from the party’s rising stars, deep-pocketed donors and even a presidential contender to seize the moment as a jumping-off point for trying to remove Trump from office.

MORE: Read the redacted Mueller report

Speaking Friday in Belfast as Pelosi wrapped up a congressional visit to Ireland, she declined to signal action beyond Congress’ role as a check and balance for the White House.

“Let me assure you that whatever the issue and challenge we face, the Congress of the United States will honor its oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States to protect our democracy,” she told reporters. “We believe that the first article — Article 1, the legislative branch — has the responsibility of oversight of our democracy, and we will exercise that.”

That approach isn’t enough for some liberals who see in Trump’s actions not just a president unfit for office but evidence of obstruction serious enough that Mueller said he could not declare Trump exonerated.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is now signed on to an impeachment resolution from fellow Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, bringing new energy to the effort. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a presidential candidate, said Friday the House “should initiate impeachment proceedings against the president.” And billionaire Tom Steyer, a leading advocate of impeachment, has grown impatient with the House’s pace of investigations and wants televised hearings to focus Americans’ attention on Trump.

“Let’s get the show on the road,” Steyer said in an interview Friday. “The Mueller report very clearly outlined obstruction by the president and basically said, I can’t do anything about it, it’s up to Congress to hold the president accountable.”

Democrats, though, may see greater power in pursuing an investigative effort, leaving impeachment on the shelf as a break-glass option.

The Judiciary chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., says he expects the Justice Department to comply with the committee’s subpoena for the full report by May 1.

That’s the same day Attorney General William Barr is to testify before a Senate committee and one day before Barr is to appear before Nadler’s panel. Nadler also has summoned Mueller to testify by May 23.

“It now falls to Congress to determine the full scope of that alleged misconduct and to decide what steps we must take going forward,” Nadler said.

A Justice Department spokeswoman, Kerri Kupac, called Nadler’s move “premature and unnecessary.”

Barr sent Congress a redacted version of the Mueller report, blacking out several types of material, including classified information, material pertaining to ongoing investigations and grand jury evidence.

Nadler said he was open to working with the department on accommodations, but he also said the committee “needs and is entitled to the full version of the report and the underlying evidence consistent with past practice.”

But the committee’s top Republican, Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, said the subpoena was “wildly overbroad” and that Trump already had declined to assert executive privilege over the Mueller report in a move of “unprecedented openness.”

“This is politically convenient,” Collins said, allowing the chairman “to grandstand and rail against the attorney general for not cooperating on an impossible timeline.”

Mueller’s report provides fresh evidence of Trump’s interference in the Russia investigation and challenges lawmakers to respond.

For Congress, though, organizing an immediate response been complicated by the spring recess that left leadership in both parties away from Washington and rank-and-file lawmakers.

GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy has been on a delegation trip to South America, and GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been in Africa.

One Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah was one of the few who spoke out Friday, saying he was “sickened” by the report’s findings of dishonesty at the highest levels of the administration, “including the president,” and appalled that some Americans were working with Russians during the 2016 election.

Pelosi will convene House Democrats for a conference call Monday, after the holiday weekend when many lawmakers are celebrating Easter and Passover.

With Barr, Democrats expect a long battle ahead. The attorney general has come under intense scrutiny over his handling of the Mueller report and subsequent comments that have left him exposed to criticism he is acting in Trump’s interest.

Late Friday Democrats rejected an offer from Barr for a limited number of congressional leaders to view some of the redacted materials in a confidential setting. They said it was inadequate.

It’s unlikely that the full Mueller report or the special counsel’s public testimony will untangle the dilemma that Democrats face. Mueller laid out multiple episodes in which Trump directed others to influence or curtail the Russia investigation after the special counsel’s appointment in May 2017, and Trump made clear that he viewed the probe as a potential mortal blow — “the end of my presidency.”

Democratic leaders are walking a delicate line on what to do with Mueller’s findings.

The No. 2 Democrat, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, drew criticism for refusing to consider impeachment, and quickly revised his comments to say “all options ought to remain on the table.”

And Pelosi, in an interview last week, before the report’s release, reiterated her “high bar” for impeachment. But she also didn’t close the door on the option.

“The fact is the president has engaged in activities that are unethical, un-American. … In every way he is unfit to be president of the United States. Does that make it — is that an impeachable offense? Well it depends on what we see in the report.”

Associated Press reporters Mary Clare Jalonick and Padmananda Rama in Washington, Jennifer Peltz in New York and Dylan Lovan in LaGrange, Kentucky, contributed to this report.

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Does Nier: Automata just aim to titillate, or does it have something to say about sex?

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Concerned with a trio of androids who gradually become more human in a world now devoid of actual people, Nier: Automata ostensibly expresses its character’s growing humanity by having them explore sexuality. 9S, for example, the apparently male and apparently younger robot has feelings for the more experienced female, 2B. The androids’ handlers, back at base, talk in broad terms about relationships. More abstractly, the third protagonist, A2, has her clothing ripped as the game progresses – as more of her body is revealed at the beginning of Automata’s final part, it almost signals that some great insight or revelation pertaining to sex and sexuality is about to be uncovered.

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As an audience, we are certainly invited by Nier: Automata to feel aroused. 2B’s short, ruffled skirt is an invitation to look. As it dances like a leaf in a breeze, not only does it seem designed to pique our sexual interest, it teases a question: if these androids aspire to be like people, are they biologically disposed, or even equipped, to love, lust and breed like us? Full frontal nudity would both provide too tangible proof of 2B’s personhood and too straightforwardly gratify what are supposed to be our own complex urges.

But despite such a graceful affectation, Nier: Automata generally steps back from any actual depictions of sex, what it means, and how it feels to lust – considering the game’s overall simplification of love and relationships, to call 2B’s skirt anything but a brazen effort to arouse teenage boys starts to feel charitable.

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When in the game’s first act we encounter several robots uselessly slamming against one another, in a vain effort to recreate intercourse, we almost laugh. Mechanical and fruitless, their ‘sex’ betrays an absurd absence of emotion. But while the game is capable of showing us what sex and lust don’t look like, it is unable or unwilling to show us what they do. Encouraged to gaze up 2B’s skirt, we are positioned as voyeurs, outside the world of sex.

Similarly, when one of 2B’s handlers makes reference to having a crush on another, it’s with such glee (or, during a quest when we talk with a couple who have split up, overwrought morbidity) that we are encouraged to regard their relationships as adolescent. Despite his apparent attraction to 2B, 9S resembles a schoolboy much more than an adult, and the entailed lust or love between these two characters comes across more like a flimsy crush.

And when we gaze at 2B, a perfect, smooth robot, Nier seems to be encouraging an attraction not to a person, with blemishes and bumps, but a facsimile, and a smooth, inauthentic body. What we’re asked to find stimulating in Nier: Automata are brief unveilings of a sleek computer. It may be framed using signifiers of personhood (legs, buttocks, clothing) but the game still asks us to regard, from forensic distance, a simple and pleasing approximation of a human body.

Potentially, these things comprise an invitation to ignore the androids and think of actual people. If the voyeur’s secret fantasy is being caught and punished for their lechery, Nier: Automata might be deliberately positioning us as a pervert then admonishing us for lusting after something so inhuman. We are drawn to look up 2B’s skirt, to wonder if she and 9S will get together, to expect A2 to be stripped nude, and when none of these things come to fruition seems to be mocking us for expecting them in the first place; rather than these characters, we should get our sexual kicks from elsewhere.

Also, 2B’s exasperation toward both her excitable handler and 9S’s meek affections might express a longing in Nier: Automata’s central character for more substantive relationships. Rather than incapable of emotion, she instead seems unfulfilled – at the end of the first part, after defeating Adam and Eve, the two machines prodigiously exploring consciousness, she laments: “The final screams they summoned on the edge of death, they still echo within me.”

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Its decision not to put sex, kissing or even a genuine, lustful embrace on-screen makes Nier: Automata hard to take seriously as a story of human love, or even robots coming to terms with human love. But in a moment such as this, when something within 2B has been awakened but goes unsatiated, we can at least share one emotion with the game’s characters: frustration. The scream that echoes inside 2B is a plea for intimate contact in Nier: Automata’s seemingly sexless world. When Adam and Eve later mock 9S, berating him for wanting “to fuck 2B,” it seems they are privy to the coarse and emotionally complex nature of human relations – like 2B, we are stirred by their language, the game’s timidity regarding sex seems suddenly more stark and we imagine something more passionate.

Ultimately, however, Adam and Eve themselves are created asexually and lack genitals. Nevertheless conscious above all the other characters, they are like Nier: Automata itself, caught between fearing the naked, anatomical truths of humankind while also wanting to be regarded as humane. Their language is a promise, of the on-screen revelation of something tangibly sexual, but that promise goes unfulfilled. Like 2B’s short skirt, flapping in the wind, Nier: Automata teases opinions about sex and our bodies but never truly bares them. A game about robots which are immaculate from their conception and never seem to truly touch or feel one another, even after a spiritual awakening, Nier: Automata ostensibly wants to tell us about human passion, but dodges around its physical and emotional details – the very things that define it.


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The starting point for a redundancy procedure should always be a written business case. This does not need to be overly complicated, but you should consider exactly what has brought about the need to make redundancies.
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In general, I'm afraid that this piece stikes me as an extended rationalization for being lazy about documentation and writing uncommented code... my personal experience is that if the programmer is under the delusion that the code is "self-documenting" you might as well throw it away and re-write it than attempt to figure out what's going on with it.

One of the strengths of the perl programming culture is that so many of it's programmers are also fluent in English, and have no problem with writing comments, pod, web pages, articles, books, etc... One of my slogans these days is that "perl is the best documented language in history". If this approach bothers you, maybe you should be looking into a language with a culture that's more suspicious of words.

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One of the high priority goals in programming is the removal/avoidance of codependencies. We avoid using parallel data structures (eg.parallel arrays), because it becomes a nightmare to maintain those parallel arrays in synchronisation as algorithms and projects evolve. One of the key attributes of well designed classes (and other abstractions), is that they are as fully independent of their peers as possible. As decoupled as is possible to achieve.

This is a clever line of argument, but I don't think it applies to the subject at hand. Nearly every workable methodology for verifying the correctness of code involves comparisons between multiple implementations of the logic: the code isn't complete without documentation (and specs?), and these days most of us would say that it isn't complete without automated tests.

Note that automated tests have the same problems you're complaining about with comments and documentation: when you make changes it's likely you're going to need to make changes in all of these roughly-parallel structures: code, comments, docs and tests.

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Can fleas or flea eggs live on clothing?
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Will just washing something kill the fleas and eggs on that item?

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  1. Suzy Cutes

    Flea eggs can survive decades of arctic temperatures, so a little wash water is no biggie to flea eggs. Flea eggs and fleas will survive washings, which is one of the things that make them so insidious. Once the meds on your cat start working, your flea problems will diminish, but the vacuum is going to be your biggest friend. Not only will it help get up any residual eggs that have gotten scattered all over the place, but the noise will prompt any dormant eggs to hatch so they can be vacuumed up or killed with the cat’s flea med. I had moved into a house that came alive with fleas when we moved there, and it took about 3 months to get flea free (and the cats did most of the work with their meds). Don’t be surprised if you still see fleas for a while. Just keep up with the meds that that will end.
    ADDED: Youch, don’t use Borax. While effective, it can be deadly to your cats. If you want to do something similar to sprinkling Borax, use Diatomateous Earth — it is a natural, non-toxic powder that is razor sharp to fleas and their, cuts them, and they die of dehydration. In fact, I put some in the vacuum’s dirt well when I vacuum, and keep it stuffed in crevices, corners, under things where fleas and flea eggs can hide until they are ready for a blood meal. As a thought, two of my cats had some anemia issues because of the fleas, and as cats replace red blood cells slowly, you might want to give her some kitty vitamins until you are sure the fleas are handled.

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    By washing everything, you can get rid of the ones that are ON it, however MANY MORE EGGS will be down in your carpets / rugs, under your furniture, etc. You MUST get those, too….The fleas you see NOW, were EGGS 3 WEEKS AGO!! They hatch out in “cycles”, so, unless you TREAT your home, they’ll just continue to hatch!
    Sprays don’t work very well and are hard on the lungs of everyone…..and the environment! So…….
    Go to the grocery store, get some 20 Mule Team Borax powder ( in soap aisle ), sprinkle it ALL OVER your carpets, etc, then using a broom, BRUSH IT DOWN INTO THE NAP……until it disappears. Leave it there for a couple of days (give the borax time to dry up the fleas), then vacuum thoroughly and get rid of the vacuum cleaner BAG. Don’t want any fleas that might still be alive to get back out into your home.
    In a few days, RETREAT the WHOLE PROCESS…..and wait again. Depending on the extent of your flea infestation, you may have to retreat 3-4 times. This will work…….just takes TIME and COMMITMENT !!
    Meantime, go to vet and get some GOOD flea preventative for your animals. The OTC ( over the counter ) stuff doesn’t work as well, and collars don’t work AT ALL………
    Hope this helps, and you rid your animals AND HOME of fleas SOON.
    Good luck.

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    You have gotten some excellent advice here already. I simply want to add: please do NOT use a flea collar on your cat. They are not only less effective than other methods, but a cat can actually work the collar loose and get it caught in his/her mouth. Happened to me one time. Very scary. All those chemicals in her mouth ….
    There are superb liquid products that you apply to the back of the neck once a month, like Revolution and Advantage. You can research them online (I use Revolution because it kills so many unwanted “varmints”), and your vet will tell you which are best for your cat. Tip: you can find them online for much less $$ than your vet charges, but most vets will match the online price, plus shipping – you simply have to print out an order sheet from the company and present it to your vet. They will request a same-day printout.

  4. Valkyrie C

    Yes, they can.
    You should treat your pets once every fortnight for the next month, and comb their fur to find fleas.
    Yes, washing everything will kill the eggs and fleas. To stop it from happening again, you could get your pets a flea collar.

    yes wash everything in STRAIGHT hot water, they can survive in warm and cold water, and as for spraying your house the cheap stuff doesnt work, go to petsmart and get some good house spray for fleas

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  7. Ark Lady

    To eradicate fleas you need to treat the animal, yard, and home.

    If you use something like eucalyptus or lavender laundry additive you can get rid of fleas.

    Contrary to popular belief, this oils or herbs are not ideal for use on the animal or animal bedding.

    Also, please note the different stages of flea development do not survive temperatures under 55 degrees F.

    If you dry out the environment and keep cleaning diligently you can usually get rid of fleas within eight weeks.

    Washing is effective when combined with other flea control aids and using sheets to cover furniture and the favorite places where pets rest will help you get this under control and make clean up a bit easier.

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Canonsburg and McMurray Chiropractor talks a lot about the importance of reaching a goal weight and how to stay motivated. Sometimes, though, it still seems like a laborious task. If you're carrying extra weight, you probably already know there are a myriad of health-related reasons to slim down. While it may seem impossible, little steps will carry you bit by bit down your weight loss path to your ultimate goal. While keeping your eyes on the big prize, it may help you to realize that even small changes in your weight may improve blood sugar, blood pressure, heart health, reduce cholesterol, and decrease your chances of developing diabetes.

I've shared many motivational tips, but did you know that when you lose 10% of your bodyweight, you are instantly healthier? There's no doubt that dropping weight will make you look and feel better, but there are numerous other benefits that you can realize while on your weight loss journey, which have nothing to do with how you look in your skinny jeans.

Fewer Asthma and Allergy Symptoms

The link may not be immediately obvious, but new research has found that for some people, being overweight can make their asthma and allergy symptoms worse. Carrying excess weight on your body puts a burden on the adrenal glands, and your adrenal glands help manage asthma and allergies. In addition, being overweight strains your respiratory system and can make allergy symptoms worse.

Arthritis Relief

Not only does losing weight help relieve arthritis pain, it can also help keep you from developing arthritis-the less you weigh, the less stress on the joints. In addition, recent studies have shown that when you have arthritis and you lose weight, your pain is reduced and your joint functionality significantly improves.

Less Foot Pain

You may not really think about it, but excess weight can put a lot of pressure on your feet, even if you don't have arthritis. In a recent study, people who had lost an average of 90 pounds found that their incidence of foot pain lowered by 83%. This is understandable because your feet support your entire body, and therefore your entire body's weight. Relief from foot pain is motivation enough for losing weight.

Glowing Skin

There are numerous ways being overweight may affect your skin, which is the body's largest organ. Both skin elasticity and color can be altered by lack of proper nutrition, and a diet high in carbohydrates and sugar can cause pale skin and skin tags. Darkness around the eyes can also signal poor nutrition, such as iron deficiency, diabetes, protein anemia, or stress.

Better Mood

When you are overweight, your entire system will be out of balance, including the hormones that affect your mood. Losing weight may increase your overall sense of well-being and decrease feelings of depression. Many overweight people suffer from extreme depression, and depression may increase a person's chances of being overweight, setting up a cycle that is hard to break.

Improved Cognition and Memory

A recent study found that older adults who were overweight scored worse on cognition tests than adults who were at a healthy weight. Past studies have linked excess weight in animals to cognitive decline, but little has been previously understood about the interaction between obesity and the brain. However, new research suggests that being overweight weakens the blood-brain barrier, and this allows substances manufactured by fat to flow to the brain. Researchers also discovered that 12 weeks after weight loss, memory significantly improves.

Sounder Sleep

If you've ever suffered from insomnia, you understand the benefits of a good night's sleep. During sleep, your cells are repaired and your brain processes and remembers the day's events. In fact, the most common prescription for sleep apnea is weight loss. In studies involving people with diabetes and sleep apnea, those who lost a greater amount of weight had the most significant drop in sleep apnea symptoms. It only takes a weight loss of 5% in obese people to start seeing results.

Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

Almost everyone has either heard or read about the global epidemic of type 2 diabetes and its link to obesity. It may be a surprise for many to learn how effective losing weight can be at reversing the impact of type 2 diabetes. In fact, many people can avoid the disease altogether by achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Studies have shown that type 2 diabetes patients on a restricted eating plan, such as the doctor-supervised ChiroThin Weight Loss Program, were able to lower their blood sugar and insulin levels to normal within seven days. If you have type 2 diabetes, reversing the condition and avoiding future complications could just be the best benefit of your weight-loss journey.

Economic Savings

Many complain that eating a healthy diet is costly, and sometimes it does seem like fast food, junk food, and convenience food is cheaper. However, in the long run, slimming your waist can plump up your wallet. When you calculate the cost of medical bills, missed days at work, short-term disability, low-productivity, workers' compensation, and more, there is a real difference between the financial health of obese people and their peers who have healthier weights. There's nothing wrong with wanting to look good in your clothes, but the harsh reality is that being overweight can take up to 20 years off your life. Reducing your weight by even 5% can have a positive effect on your health, and it is a great beginning for your transformation.

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Phab Nottingham Residential 2019!

12 July 2019

Phab Nottingham headed up to the Lake District for a weekend of fun and adventure! Here is a peak at what we got up to

On Friday we all met in Nottingham and made the journey North to Kendall in the Lake District. The journey was so fun, with singing, games and silliness. We even had our own competition of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". Some showed off their colouring skills and others taught makaton singing to songs.

When we got to Bendrigg Lodge, we got settled in, had dinner and headed outside to enjoy the sunshine! We had a campfire and roasted marshmallows, before playing on the low-ropes course and wheelchair-accessible swings and buggies. Then we got settled into our dorm rooms, ready for a day of activities the next day.

Saturday started off with a cooked breakfast, before getting into our groups, ready for activities. We had so much to do! We rotated activities including abseiling down a real quarry, canoeing and a sensory swing; each group had the option to do such exciting activities. Members really pushed themselves to try something new, and grow in confidence in doing so. We also had an on-site artist, who ran felting and a sensory room, for those looking for a more relaxed activity.

That evening, we put on our dancing shoes (and our amazing fancy dress!) and had a disco! We party-ed the night away, dancing to Abba, one direction and other pop classics. The photo-booth was also a hit. Our members showed off their creative flair, with t-shirt decorating. We had the most amazing designs! Watch out Gucci!

We had time for one more activity, before heading back to Nottingham. The weather held off, and we had a great time canoeing, zip-lining and playing on the low-ropes course.

The Phab Nottingham awards ceremony celebrated the achievements of our members over the weekend. They had pushed themselves to do new things, grow in confidence and make new friends. Achievements included spending their first night away from home, trying out activities despite being nervous and helping teach each other new skills.

We headed back to Nottingham, after the most amazing weekend.

Thank you to everyone who came on the trip and made it so special.

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Intel-owned AI startup Habana Labs is working on expanding their "Gaudi" support to now include the NIC network interface found on this AI training accelerator hardware.

Back for Linux 5.8 there was Gaudi support added to the Habana Labs accelerator driver. Previously the Hababa Labs open-source Linux driver only supported their Goya AI inference accelerator but now with the latest stable Linux kernel release there is support for the Gaudi AI training accelerator.

One important missing piece though with the current driver support was lacking NIC support for scaling out in connecting multiple accelerators. But now in patch form there is Gaudi NIC support and it could be mainlined for Linux 5.10.

The 15 patches allow for the NIC support to handle scale-out interconnect for distributed deep learning training. As many as "tens of thousands" of Gaudi accelerators can be connected using RDMA-over-converged-Ethernet for this distributed deep learning training.

Upstream driver maintainer Oded Gabbay of Habana Labs explained, "Each GAUDI exposes 10x100GbE ports that are designed to scale-out the inter-GAUDI communication by integrating a complete communication engine on-die. This native integration allows users to use the same scaling technology, both inside the server and rack (termed as scale-up), as well as for scaling across racks (scale-out). The racks can be connected directly between GAUDI processors, or through any number of standard Ethernet switches. The driver exposes the NIC ports to the user as standard Ethernet ports by registering each port to the networking subsystem. This allows the user to manage the ports with standard tools such as ifconfig, ethtool, etc. It also enables us to connect to the Linux networking stack and thus support standard networking protocols, such as IPv4, IPv6, TCP, etc. In addition, we can also leverage protocols such as DCB for dynamically configuring priorities to avoid congestion."

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Physical Restoration and Sports medicine, in Sterling Virginia, specializes on therapy for orthopedic and sports related injuries. With a long history of treating local athletes and patients experiencing a diversity of orthopedic injuries from low back and neck pain, to shoulder and knee pain. From the Temporomandibular joint to the foot and ankle, our licensed therapists have more than 30 years experience in getting you better, getting you back, to your life.

Our goal is to provide an atmosphere to optimize your healing and recovery. Through prompt and appropriate treatment using hand on care as well as state of the art technology, we can contribute to a faster and more full return to work, daily activities, hobbies, sports, generally…physical living

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Physical Restoration uses the knowledge and insight as licensed therapists to minimize or remove the compensatory responses of the body to daily activity. Often, this inherent compensatory activity gets in the way of full function and/ or recovery of the body to stress and injury.

We treat a wide range of injuries and ailments, from ankle sprains and lumbar pain to shoulder and rotator cuff injuries and post surgical rehabilitation. With a long history of education, training, and research

We seek to minimize the time from, providing an optimal state for recovery.  This means “getting you back, getting you better.” For an injured athlete, it is ensuring a thorough, safe, and quick recovery. For the non-athlete, it means a quicker, thorough recovery, minimizing the debilitation. It is about “finding” your place and being on the journey to regain it.

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Our highly trained staff treats every patient as if he or she is a family member or personal friend. We realize that as a consumer, you have a choice as to where you receive your rehabilitation care. We would be grateful for the opportunity to assist in your recovery.

After initial training and certification as an athletic trainer, involving 5 years in minor league baseball, Marc graduated in 1987 from the Temple University physical therapy program. He has been practicing in Sterling since 1990 and involving himself in the local high school athletic programs.

While his recent research has followed a focus on the injured throwing arm, he treats not only a wide range of competitive and recreational athletes, but has restored the function of countless spine, lower extremity and jaw injuries. He takes an integrated approach, appreciating the “inter connectedness of the human body and its demands for mobility, function, and movement utilizing neuromuscular reeducation and strengthening to restore lost normal function.

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Mary Waibel's FAERY MARKED Coming May 2014 @mewtweety14 @BookFishBooks

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No one ever warned her magic came with a price.

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When Callie Rycroft wakes to purple flames on the ceiling, she discovers that not only does the Faery realm exist, but she is the human who must save it. Chosen as Champion by the Faery Queen, Callie is tasked with finding the Cordial, a magical elixir to strengthen the portal between the Human and Faery realms.

The upside? Reece Michaels, the boy she's been crushing on for years, is assigned as her Guardian. Callie hopes by spending time together, he'll start to see her as more than just his best friend's sister.

The downside? She's in a race not only against time, but another Champion and Guardian-a Guardian who stands to threaten her developing relationship with Reece.

Magic, mistaken identities, and hidden agendas are the least of Callie's worries when she learns the Cordial requires a sacrifice. Will Callie be willing to risk all, even Reece, to complete her task as Champion, or will she let the portal fall, destroying both realms?

How did the idea for Faery Marked come to you?
Ironically, it started with me wanting to write a story about a girl highwayman. Except when I sat down to write I kept seeing a girl waking up to purple flames on the ceiling. As I wrote the opening scene, it finally came to me that she was waking to her magic. I thought about going the sorceress route, but then thought, what if she was gifted magic-but by who and why? And from that, FAERY MARKED was born.

I see Faery Marked is Book One of a series. How many books do you have plotted out and how many do you think will ultimately be in the Faery Series?

I planned it to be a trilogy (FAERY MARKED, FAERY CURSED FAERY BOUND). Although I do have a character asking for his own story, which I am happy to do, but it will probably fall in the NA range, rather than YA- mostly due to his age.

Was the title an easy one to come up with or was it one you tossed around?

The title came pretty easy. At first I was going to call it FAERY KISSED, but I found that title was already used, so I changed it to FAERY MARKED. Book two was going to be MAGIC BOUND, but as I got thinking about things, I decided to use FAERY in each title, and given the story lines, I pushed the title of book 2 to book 3.

How different is this series from your Princess of Valendria series?
It is quite different. For starters, it's set in the real world and in Faery. It's told mostly in 1st peron POV by Callie, with chapters set in 3rd person POV from the Faery Queen interspersed through out.

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  2. That is a beautiful cover, Mary. I love all the purple tones, and how the white accent makes everything pop. Wonderfully done!

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It's been 4 months now since I left my job (which I always thought was perfect for me) and has been mostly at home either enjoying a bowl of nachos with Netflix or consuming content or writing (lately). Creating content has been difficult. I often feel demotivated and low on energy. And during this time, a bit of makeup and a comfortable yet fancy outfit just bolster my energy. And I've been amused how this has helped me with writing during the lockdown.

Although I was never very keen on putting makeup every day, of late I've been enjoying it and look forward to pampering myself every morning. I have oily skin which is mostly tanned as travel was something which I could never avoid. Be it going to work or exploring places to capture them in my lens, is what I always look forward to. So, I like to keep my makeup basic and natural that I can easily carry especially during summers. With the products that I've been using, it takes me about 5 minutes to get ready and doesn't require any touchups throughout the day.

I've been swapping and testing beauty products over a year and it's been a few months now that I have finally discovered a consistent routine. So I wanted to share some of these products with you that have become a regular part of my life.

Matte Foundation For A Natural Look

I believe that imperfection is the new perfection and so, I use only a foundation on my face. Clinique Anti Blemish Solutions Liquid Makeup is one of the best lightweight foundations I've used so far. With a small amount, it gives full matte coverage without making the face look cakey and you don't even need a blender for applying it. It blends easily using fingers. It's been over a year now and I am largely happy with the results. I would suggest whatever foundation you use, keep your base light, and skip a concealer for a natural look.

A Tinted Lip Balm For Cheeks

I don't remember how or when I discovered this product, but since then I have been a loyal user. People who know me well, are aware of how much I love this balm. This is a 100% natural product and even on days when I don't put any makeup, I use only this on the go. With some makeup, I prefer using nothing or this at times as a blush. I know you must be wondering how can a lip balm be used as a blush, but believe me this trick has been easy and helpful for me. I recommend you to try it with any tinted lip balm to get natural flawless pink cheeks.

Eyes and Brows

This is one part of the makeup that I feel can either be tiring and time taking or the easiest. As I prefer a subtle look, my eye makeup includes only 2 products on a daily basis - A Mascara and a Liner. I never skip a mascara in my routine. I feel it makes my lashes look plumper and opens up my eye. A while back I came across this Extreme Volume Mascara by Clinique and have been quite happy with it. It is great for giving a natural volume to your lashes without making them messy and sticky. This mascara is smudge-proof and water-resistant to some extent. However, if you are looking for a waterproof Mascara then try Clinique Lash Power Mascara or Roller Lash Curling Mascara by benefit.

Along with it, I've been using Clinique's quick liner in the shade ebony for adding some depth. I recently came across this trick of using a liner and have been following it. Always put a liner after mascara and apply it on the surface between your lashes instead of your eyelids. Avoid applying eyeliner in the inner corner and, apply it mainly along the middle and outer corner. Add a wing to give a more glamorous effect to the eye.

Also, check out Clinique Pretty Easy Liquid Eyelining Pen if you planning to buy one.

This is another step that I am always careful about. I feel that an eyebrow can change the look of your face and can make small eyes look bigger. The right shape and length can add definition to your face. I have a long face also known as a rectangular one and the ideal brow shape for it is flat and horizontal. While doing my brows, I make sure to fill only the empty places in between to make it look neutral and not too heavy. I've been using Sephora's eyebrow pencil that comes with a small brow comb. I wouldn't say that it is the best product available, but it serves the purpose for me. In case you are looking for one, I would recommend you to try Precisely My Brow Pencil by benefit.

I am very particular when it comes to choosing a lip color. Around a year back I discovered this #lipstick from Clinique. After constantly trying a few lip colors, when my cupid's bow started to look more like a lipstick pallet (lol), I picked up Mocha Pop which is one of the neutral terracotta shade in their collection. This is one color that I believe can look good on anyone. There are times when I use this lipstick as the only makeup product during the day.

And that's it! This has been my easy and natural go-to routine. Let me know in the comments section below if you like this blog and are interested in more such content.

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