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8 Unexpected Female Masturbation Lessons We Learned From Pop Divas
ByMelissa Hugel
Remember Hailee Steinfeld, the little girl from True Grit? The 18-year-old actress just released her first single, "Love Myself," which has a theme that's not often celebrated in pop music: female masturbation.
At first blush, "Love Myself" seems like a conventional female self-empowerment anthem. But with lyrics like "When I get chills at night/ I feel it deep inside without you/ Know how to satisfy/ keeping that tempo right without you," it's pretty obvious that Steinfeld is referring to good old-fashioned self-love.
While it's somewhat surprising that the child actress would launch her solo career with a self-pleasure anthem, it's also not unprecedented. Steinfeld is one of many female pop stars who have celebrated solo sex and its numerous health benefits. Here are nine lessons we learned about female masturbation from music — whether we realized it or not.
1. Don't be ashamed.
Britney Spears has a history of risqué songs, but "Touch of my Hand" is about as unsubtle an ode to female masturbation as you can get. With lyrics like "I love myself/ It's not a sin," the song doesn't just celebrate female masturbation — it also tells us not to be ashamed of it. Considering that studies on masturbation have found that less than half as many women as men had recently masturbated, that's an important message to take to heart.
2. Masturbation is sexy.
The Divinyls' 1990 classic "I Touch Myself" is essentially about telling a partner they're so desirable, you can't help but touch yourself when you think about them. What could be sexier than that?
3. Finding yourself sexy is OK.
What happens when you come home from a night out and catch a glimpse of how hot you look? If you're early aughts R&B artist Tweet, who recorded the 2002 single "Oops (Oh My)" with Missy Elliot, you hop in the sack for an extended solo session. Considering that more than 90% of women in some studies admit to having "I hate my body" moments, masturbation is a novel (not to mention awesome) way to boost your self-esteem.
4. Everybody does it.
According to the legendary Ms. Cyndi Lauper in the 1983 song "She-Bop," "she-bopping" and "he-bopping" (her very-1980s code words for diddling the fiddle) is the hottest trend in town. That's probably why the song was put on the conservative Parents Music Resource Centre's Filthy Fifteen. But even though Reagan-era parents might have tried to stop their teens from touching themselves, thanks to the power of Lauper's music, they continued to she-bop and he-bop nonetheless.
5. It's OK to do it frequently — and by frequently, we mean "a lot."
If "She Bop" taught us that everyone masturbates, then Janet Jackson's "If" is proof that there are some women who do it frequently. "I've closed my eyes and thought of us a hundred different ways," Janet sings in the 1993 song. "I've gotten there so many times I wonder/ how about you." And while the stigma around masturbation suggests that only sluts or bad girls touch themselves regularly, if Janet can do it "day and night, night and day," then there's probably nothing wrong with it.
6. Masturbation isn't just for single girls.
Self-love isn't just for the single ladies. That's the argument put forth by Pink's 2010 song "Fingers," in which she engages in a little late-night spelunking while her partner is beside her, singing: "When it's late at night and you're fast asleep/ I let my fingers do the walking." Lesson learned: Even if you have a partner who pushes all your buttons, that doesn't mean that you don't want to masturbate. In fact, according to some researchers, masturbation can actually help you and your partner figure out what turns you on in the bedroom.
7. Your vibrator can be your best friend.
Who else but Macy Gray would sing a love song to her vibrator? In the 2015 song "B.O.B.," the "I Try" singer warbles an ode to her favorite sex toy, featuring the chorus: "B. is for battery/ O. operated/ B. is for better 'cause he's not complicated." The tune is catchy and the video adorable, but most importantly, the song normalizes the idea that masturbating with a sex toy is awesome. And according to recent polls about vibrator use, more than 50% of American women agree with the sentiment.
8. Guess what? It's normal!
St. Vincent's "Birth in Reverse" isn't all about masturbation, but with the lyrics "Oh, what an ordinary day/ Take out the garbage, masturbate," that's sort of the point: Women touching themselves shouldn't be a taboo act that's shrouded in secrecy. In fact, it's something you can do between errands, right after emptying the trash.
According to a 2002 study from Pennsylvania State University, women speak openly about masturbation far less often than men do. So the fact that St. Vincent casually refers to it in passing as part of her daily routine is incredibly empowering. Maybe the next time you have a few minutes between doing the dishes and cleaning the bathroom, you should put on some Cyndi, Janet or Britney and give yourself a little love.


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Lakers News: LeBron James praises Lonzo Ball, relates to the pressure on him
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LeBron James and Lonzo Ball shared the basketball court for the first time in their careers, and there's certainly hope within the Los Angeles Lakers franchise that it will be far from the last time they do. The Cleveland Cavaliers were able to finish off the Lakers smoothly Thursday night, with LeBron adding another triple-double to his career total.
The narrative surrounding the game was all about Lonzo and LeBron, with the nationally televised game putting an even brighter spotlight on the two. That's the kind of attention James has had his entire career, even when he was making a name for himself as that-high-school-kid-with-a-shoe-deal.
"I can't relate to that. I've never had any type of pressure coming into the league before," James deadpanned after the game when asked if he feels he can "relate" to the expectations surrounding Lonzo.
"Of course I can. I know everything that he's going through, so of course I can relate."
Ball put up a strong showing in front of the player he grew up idolizing and wanting to play like, just two rebounds away from adding in a triple-double of his own. There's plenty for Lonzo to be happy about after tallying 13 points, 11 assists and eight boards against one of the top teams in the league, with plenty of pressure to perform being applied, all while ending the night with some big compliments from James.
"It's always team. Passes the ball, pushes the ball up the floor, someone that you want to play with," James said of what he likes about Lonzo as a basketball player. "This is a team game, everybody gets so caught up in this whole individual thing so the team game gets so overlooked...
"I'm not going to go there, he's a really good player," LeBron said, abruptly halting his train of thought.
The link between James and Ball is thin-at-most in reality, but the perception that there's more to it than that in the grand scheme persists. When LeBron showed up to watch Lonzo play during Las Vegas Summer League. When LeBron wished Lonzo a happy birthday approximately 400,000 custom "JAMES" Lakers jerseys* were ordered (*not really).
Everything James does is put under a microscope, especially when it comes to Lonzo and the Lakers. That's something LeBron has put in the furthest recesses of his mind.
"I don't see the reaction, because I don't get involved in it. I don't do to it to get a reaction, I do it because he's said over and over since he was growing up who he modeled his game after, and who was his favorite player, and it was me, and I was humbled by that. So me wishing him a happy birthday was kind of a salute back to him.
"I see all the stupid noise that happens, I can't buy a place in LA, I can't live in LA, it's funny noise, but I don't get involved in it because when I post things I don't look at comments. I'm so far removed from the white noise," James said.
Much like Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant shared a few short weeks ago, LeBron is the latest NBA superstar with a very optimistic and positive outlook on Lonzo's career.
Not a bad way for Ball and the Lakers to wrap up their four-game road trip. Not bad at all.
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Joey Wong (Taipei, 31 juli 1967) is een Taiwanese zangeres en actrice.

Ze werd geboren in Taipei en heeft twee broers en een zuster. Ze is gestopt met acteren en woont momeneel in Canada, waar ze Engels studeert. Ze is 1,73 meter lang. Ze heeft lang bruin haar en bruine ogen.

Enkele films van Joey Wong
 A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
 God of Gamblers (1989)
 Web of Deception (1989)
 A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990)
 A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)
 White Snake, Green Snake (1993)
 Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993)
 Swordsmen 3: The East is Red (1993)

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With our Christmas Sensory Bin, Wild Thing explored how Christmas sounds, feels, tastes, smells and looks, and we made it for basically $4 using items we already had as well as few things from the dollar store.
I rarely introduce food into play in non-edible ways, for various reasons, but did select to use colored pasta in this bin to represent pine needles.
With our Fall Sensory Bins (when I made 3 for $5), I discovered how fun it was to include Wild Thing in the process of making the bin, so I had him help this time, too, particularly with making the colored pasta.
Our 50 cent bag of pasta, food coloring and some peppermint soap I happened to have.
Wild Thing put several drops of food coloring and soap in this container and shook it.
Then he spread the pasta out on parchment paper on a cookie sheet.
He did not get every piece of pasta turned green, but he did have lots of fun and actually liked seeing the different shades - yellow, light green and a darker green of the pasta. Using soap is not common when dying pasta, but I wanted our bin to have the peppermint smell, so I decided to add it as the binder rather than vinegar or hand sanitizer or some of the other items typically used. Love Play and Learn and Nurture Store both have useful details on coloring pasta and ended up with better results than we did.
Scented Cinnamon Candles to represent the smell and lights (look) of Christmas (I got a packet of four of these candles for $1 at the dollar store).
Cotton Balls and super-mini marshmallows to represent snow - the soft feel of Christmas with the cotton balls and the mini marshmallows were great for a tweezer transferring exercise for fine motor skills (and in decorating the cookie cutter tree that I switched with my initial foam tree because I realized it could be filled for decorating).
Rosemary Sprigs another item added to represent the look and smell of Christmas, since they look a bit like pine trees.
A Painted Pine Cone leftover from a previous painting activity to also represent the unique look, smell and feel of Christmas as pine cones have a look, feel and smell all their own and have been major decorations in our house this Christmas.
Wild Thing had lots of fun exploring this bin - moving around the pine needles, having me light the candles for him to blow out over and over, tasting the candy canes (he had never had one before), decorating the tree, seeing how many snowballs (Cotton Balls) would fit in the mitten (9 is the answer by the way), shaking the jingle bells and singing songs, having a snowball fight with the Cotton Balls (which does not hurt at all), and ultimately making a mountain.
The snowball fight and mountain were inspired by two books we have been reading lately that Wild Thing absolutely loves: Snowmen at Night and Trouble with Trolls. In Snowmen at Night, the snowmen have a big snowball fight. Trouble with Trolls we discovered through the Virtual Book Club for Kids with Jan Brett being the author for December. In this fun book, the lead character travels up a mountain, so Wild Thing wanted to create the mountain that all of the adventure happens on -- we will be sharing more activities inspired by this great book on the blog later today!
I LOVE the dollar stores. So many bargains. Thanks for sharing. Looks like fun at your house.
What wonderful elements to add to the bin! I love the dollar store too.
What a neat bin! I love both of those books!
I think the Dollar Store is my favourite store! There is SO MUCH GOOD STUFF there!
I love how you included items to be explored with all five senses. I've never thought to use scented candles before but I'll definitely be using them for our next bin.
Hi there, all the way from the Middle East!
I just read up on your Christmas sensory experience and tried coloring angel hair pasta (we call it vermicilli) here - turns out my 1 1/2 year old enjoyed the experience of dyeing it green, so thank you for the idea!
What a thoughtful and creative Christmas sensory bin!
Busy, Young, Single Momma Sanity here! Just had to check out your Christmas Sensory bin. I absolutely adore it, and the fact that its filled with dollar store items!
Looks like fun! Green pasta, did you get to eat it? Just kidding! My son would love it, he's obsessed with the color green. Thank you for joining the Learn Through Play hop!
Great idea of a Christmas sensory bin - and at minimal costs - for young kids.


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Q: Indefenite Integral requiring substitution Can someone please help me find a useful substitution for the following integral:
$$\int \frac{1}{\sqrt{x}(1+\sqrt{x})^2}dx$$
I tried letting $ u = \sqrt{x} $ But I couldn't proceed. Please help.

A: Setting $1+\sqrt x=u$ gives you
$$\frac{dx}{\sqrt x}=2du.$$
So,
$$\int\frac{1}{(1+\sqrt x)^2}\cdot\color{red}{\frac{dx}{\sqrt x}}=\int\frac{1}{u^2}\cdot \color{red}{2du}.$$

A: That's certainly a workable solution, as you can absorb the factor of $\sqrt{x}$ in the denominator when you write $du$, but you may as well take care of the constant in the parenthetical quantity and substitute
$$u = 1 + \sqrt{x},$$
so that $du = \frac{1}{2 \sqrt{x}}dx$, and your integral becomes
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Best places to bag a buy-to-let bargain for under £65,000
Abigail Fenton
Yahoo Finance UK 13 September 2019
Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire/PA Images
Research by property investment portal One and Only Pro has identified the best places in England and Wales to find a buy-to-let property for under £65,000.
The site's AI algorithm identifies the "diamond" properties most likely to increase in value, which means that even the most inexperienced investors are guaranteed a healthy return whatever their budget.
Darlington in in County Durham takes the top spot. More than a fifth (22%) of properties in Darlington with a price tag under £65,000 have been awarded diamond status. The average price of a diamond property in this market town is £56,468.
Best places to find a buy-to-let property for under £65,000. Source: One and Only Pro
In second place is Burnley, Lancashire, where a similarly impressive 21% of properties within this price bracket achieve the highest score, and the average diamond property costs just £37,210.
Meanwhile, in Bootle, Merseyside, 21% of properties receive top marks for investment potential, and buyers can secure one for about £53,278.
Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire comes fourth, with 19% of properties being awarded diamond status, and the average cost of a property coming to £56,188.
READ MORE: Why UK property price growth in southern cities is so low
Fifth place goes to Bradford, where 17% of properties achieve the highest score, at an average price of £64,681.
The north-east continues to dominate the remainder of the table, with Sunderland, Middlesbrough, South Shields and Hartlepool, securing the next four spots.
Keighley, where the average price of a Diamond property is £64,268, took the final place in the top ten.
READ MORE: Why it's good to buy a UK property before Brexit
Henri Sant-Cassia, property expert at One and Only Pro, said: "For any deal, don't forget to take into consideration the market. External factors, such as Brexit, could help you find a perfect property at the best price.
Never feel pressurised to increase your offer if you aren't comfortable with the figure. Sit tight and wait for another opportunity to arise.
"Finally, as the results from our recent study show, always remember location, location, location!"
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Is Africa's Lake Kivu also a huge complex energy storage device?
The Leader of the Sabyinho Family in the Virunga Mountains
Adjacent to this lake, Lake Victoria is like a gigantic hydro-power battery. But Kivu's not just a hydro battery, it contains the world's biggest bio-digester. It's doing a double storage job with water and renewable gas. The combination enables 40 megatons of carbon emission reductions every year, while Kivu can also generate 1.2 GW of power on demand.
So how does hydro with carbon negative renewable natural gas (RNG) become a real big climate changer? Has nature provided the potential to get the countries around the lake to beyond carbon neutral? Is it in the "really-good-for-the-planet" category of climate solutions? How can it also help this gorilla's habitat survive and thrive?
We illustrate this as a leading example of how "Carbon negative" projects can be the super-achievers in the great climate challenge of our times.
The renewable natural gas contribution
Even methane from cattle can become part of the solution. Let's break this argument down further. RNG is known for providing carbon-neutral energy. Take biogas from agricultural waste, where the USA is targeting 40 megatons of carbon reduction by 2030. This one project on Lake Kivu in Rwanda and DRC achieves the USA's RNG target by itself.
So how does gas recovery prevent gigatons of natural background carbon emissions? What if we can add a side benefit of reversing destruction of vast equatorial forests to keep that carbon sink viable? In reality these benefits are a step-up, adding to being carbon negative. So "RNG Neg" can be a vital, although commonly overlooked climate change solution. The solution has huge scale-ability by reducing similar methane emissions.
Let's look at this specific methane source, created by nature without human intervention. Importantly, this a case is where one can both extract natural gas and reverse carbon emissions. As the add-on in this special case, it can replace forest biomass as the region's primary domestic fuel within 10 – 15 years. This change in fuel takes deforestation pressure off the mountain gorilla habitat in the Virunga Mountains in Africa. So RNG is an opportunity helping to buy time for the gorilla habitat and recreating a vast carbon sink.
More than that, the graphic below shows how we get to the hoped-for impact of buying time in the Climate Change context. Compare it to other methods listed for negative carbon emissions. Most lack much capacity or even credence. Well, this unusual one wasn't on the list. It should be in time, not just as a one-off.
How carbon-negative is this renewable solution?
The need to pull carbon dioxide from atmosphere to buy time (Inside Climate News)
Climate activists commonly advocate that natural gas is not "low-carbon" enough and not part of the climate solution. Natural gas suppliers field demands to remove any claim of having real "low-carbon" investments. The louder calls are to advocate the use of hydrogen, or PV or wind. But while hydrogen is in many ways an ideal fuel, it comes with user difficulties, dangers of explosion and higher supply and distribution cost. It's costly to transport, has low energy density and is near impossible to move by pipeline.
We should differentiate clean methane sources from conventional natural gas though. Some of them, like ours, can even be strongly negative on carbon emissions. That's a long way better for the planet than neutral.
Purpose for Kivu gas extraction is evolving
The original Hydragas solution was needs-driven. It was created to deal with a threat at unprecedented humanitarian and environmental levels. Without acting on this threat in our lifetimes, millions of lives were at risk. It comes also with a one-time, catastrophic environmental hit. We can avert a one-day, 2-6 gigaton carbon emission by preventing lake Kivu erupting. In a relative sense, the climate impact is a bonus on top of all the lives saved, but still meaningful on a global scale.
Now sometimes we may think we have a great invention to talk about. But more importantly to market it, should we frame it in terms that resonate ? Ours has been a 20-year pioneering pursuit. So it isn't just any cleantech project using available innovative technology. We now know it to be carbon negative. So it stands out as a high-impact climate changer with added carbon credits value.
It took decades to figure out how to do this project safely and effectively. We filled a need where effective recovery technology did not exist. It overtook an older extraction idea that never had such impact. We turned it around with an inventive breakthrough. Our motivation was at first about solving a gas extraction problem. Then it became about saving lives. Then it grew to be about turning around carbon emissions. The line must now be: "It saves millions of lives, averting gigatons of carbon emissions, making a country or two carbon-negative". How is that going to sell the concept to investors?
Labeling is key; Can we call it a grid-scale battery?
So should we re-frame it further? We can make it focused on the climate change problem of the day – energy storage. Should we now claim how; "We see Lake Kivu as a giant battery with 263 TWh of renewable energy storage." We can add that; "This battery trickle-charges itself at 2,600 GWh per year." What is the key data to place with that label? Renewable gas can produce 600 MW of clean power for next fifty years.
Like a good battery we can stretch it out longer though. After the need to drop the danger level of gas build-up, for say 25 years, we can then produce over 200 MW of renewable, clean power for centuries.
Add a 576 MW hydro-power investment to the same lake
But there's more to add to this battery. This same lake has been producing hydro power, from an old run-of-river station at its outlet, for over 50 years. The Ruzizi river cascade drops another 700 metres to Lake Tanganyika just 50km south of the lake's outlet. A series of dam-free hydropower projects on this cascade can also deliver 576 MW. So the two projects in combination can yield 1200 MW for the next 25-50 years. The longer view is perhaps for over 800 MW in perpetuity. That's one big, long-life battery!
An equatorial lake and a volcano, a recipe for an energy opportunity or a nightmare?
So "whose definition is this definition?"
As we hear in the climate debate, any "natural gas" is placed in a basket of contentious climate value. It is grouped and assumed to be formed with its fossil relatives coal and oil. Let's flex a defining piece of that narrative. In talking of semantics and messaging, what of biogenic gas? Does Mesozoic-age fossil-formed gas rank the same as "fresh" biogas from cow manure in bio-digesters? They are both GHGs. Its formation followed similar pathways, millions of years apart. I studied this comparison with some global experts. Today our conclusion must be that RNG categorises itself best as carbon negative renewable gas.
For this lake, we can specify and design systems to avoid any leaks in production and most delivery systems. This is where conventional natural gas has a poor record with leaks and emissions. The conventional gas supply chain has historically been a major source of fugitive emissions.
The carbon dioxide and methane in Lake Kivu in Africa is biogenic. It's freshly brewed. Algae consumes dissolved carbon dioxide to grow biomass. Biomass biodegrades in anoxic depths to make methane and carbon dioxide. It uses the acetate process and also methanogens. The world's largest bio-digester is part of a cycle making carbon-negative, renewable gas. Can we continue down this defining path and call it a bio-battery, powered by carbon-negative renewable gas?
You may be looking at the world's largest rechargeable battery, with 263 TWh of charge and still charging
CCUS: Is it a bio-battery or bio-digester?
Most of the gas in Lake Kivu now in situ is less than a hundred years old. A resource of tow gigatons of CO2e is already present. The bio-digester accumulates more new gas at another 0.5% a year. I verified this storage calculation by doing the formal calculation, as defined, while writing up a proposal for Breakthrough Energy Ventures competition. It is one of a number of initiatives where I was looking for funding for the Lake Kivu project.
The essential action on us now, with a GHG reserve building up, is to first harvest it to make it safe. The second it is to combust that methane in power generation or in home cooking. A third action can be to re-absorb the carbon dioxide made, into the deep lake. Here it is substrate for microbiology that can turn back to methane. A virtuous green cycle is thus possible. Again, it sounds like it works as a battery. Like any battery, its design and operation have room for enhancement. We could speed it up, but with due caution.
So we can treat it like a giant battery. We keep it in reserve and deplete it when we choose to and we are able to. We are now capable to do it safely, finally. Now is the time we must do it urgently to constrain climate change.
Defining CCUS
Must we prove to skeptics that it's renewable and it has negative emissions? I met recently with Foresight, a group that champions clean energy solutions. I had this question: "If the gas is naturally biogenic, but not extracted continuously, is it still renewable?" The answer is yes, becasue it can be stored. But that answer would not be so if it leaks out to atmosphere. But it's fully trapped. This is a huge, natural CCUS reservoir that can store 450 bcm of gas (at the safe-side limit). It is the definition of Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS).
What is the risk if we don't harvest this gas?
Actually, we must first deplete this reservoir (or battery) by 50% now for safety reasons. That is why we must extract methane for the next 25 years to use up half the partial pressure (or volume) of gas in place. Thereafter we can discharge it indefinitely at a lower rate, closer to its natural recharge rate. That would be sensible. But our first order of business lowers the risk of eruption by a factor of two. It makes the lake 100 times safer. We do this by depleting gas from the upper portions of the layered lake's depths. These portions give rise to the most risk as they have the highest partial pressure.
With some caution we can research further into "farming" gas generation. We understand the micro-biology and bio-chemical engineering pathways of using the returned CO2 to generate new methane faster. Key to these actions will be in managing the nutrients flowing to the shallow biozone to enhance algae growth. This is done by water lifted from the nutrient-rich depths. That is the key to multiplying the energy potential in the long-term.
Safety Action: Preventing a catastrophic lake eruption
This is a very high-stakes resource management game. Those gigatons of gas, if left until they saturate the lake's capacity, will erupt. The world's limnology experts describe the mechanism as a limnic eruption. It's much quieter, almost silent, but could be 50 times more deadly than Krakatoa's explosion in 1883. Many casualties may result from lake tsunamis caused by a giant, surging column of gas and water. But it's the toxic and asphyxiating blanket of cloud emanating from that eruption that is much more deadly.
So, gas extraction is our pre-emptive action to mitigate the chance of a catastrophe. It has to be done properly though. Some amateurish and ill-considered methods were used and more were planned. These are worse than doing nothing. They break all the safety rules and bring danger forward.
The safety plan is still built on a concept of removing the bulk of the lake's methane in 50 years. After the first harvest, we would have then paused for perhaps 100 – 150 years to allow gas to regenerate. As the methane gas inventory would reach a viable concentration again, we can begin to extract once more. That's still in the harvesting plan. The concept is written up in the rules for how Lake Kivu must be developed. But a review commencing in 2019 may revisit some of these options.
What's in the envelope we evaluate?
The gases are produced biogenically in the world's largest, contained bio-digester. Lake Kivu became one of the largest, manageable carbon sinks over millennia. I wrote it up in a breakthrough ventures application. I worked out the data in a painfully complex spreadsheet. It is a government-designed calculator to determine the carbon SSRs. There were guidelines. i.e. Use ISO 14064-2 Section 5.3 "Identifying GHG sources, sinks and reservoirs relevant to the project". It was highly explicit about every value to be used.
I had already worked out the answer in 20 minutes by normal means. It took 150 hours using this standardized government-style spreadsheet. The answers were 1.01% different. The specified calculator gave the modestly higher answer. This is miniscule compared to the arguable range of tons CO2 per ton of CH4; the currently published range is between 25 and 103. There is a long explanation about which number applies when, based on when the reduction is most needed. For simplicity the calculator used 28. Using this range the averted carbon emissions varies from 1.9 to 6.3 gigatons. The high end of this range is very close to the total annual US emissions in 2014, published by the EPA, of 6.89 gigatons.
Why make it so complicated? Was it to ensure one didn't cheat? In essence it defines the full envelope. It assesses GHGs and SSRs with a cumbersome methodology. One even includes the GHG impact of building and then demolishing the equipment. One must account for displaced energy when switching to a new source. It presents the data in a spreadsheet common for all applicants. But getting it done is way worse than doing your taxes. The outcome still shows this renewable gas is carbon negative.
Proving renewable gas is carbon negative
Net carbon output from generation of 1 kWh of power
The adjacent figure (click on it to expand) shows L-R the improving trend of power generation from coal to natural gas. Hausfather presented the data to show the US power industry gains from replacing coal with natural gas. I added the final bar to show how the proposed Lake Kivu project outperforms. The linked article questions if natural gas is a bridge fuel to renewables. I would argue that RNG is itself a game changer that goes much further than carbon neutrality. But how can these special cases be replicated on a global scale? There are opportunities for scale-up of averting major emissions in my next post.
I added the final bar to show how the proposed Lake Kivu project outperforms. The linked article questions if natural gas is a bridge fuel to renewables. I would argue that RNG is itself a game changer that goes much further than carbon neutrality. It transforms from being a clean gas source to the most powerful, renewable battery out there.
But how can these special cases be replicated on a global scale? There are opportunities for scale-up of averting major emissions in my next post. That means going after the biggest resource of all, methane in the oceans.
But let's not forget the gorillas. Before even considering deforestation, Africa's equatorial forests are under threat and so is the gorilla's mountain domain. Apart from land pressures, the region uses firewood and charcoal for 80% of its non-transport energy needs. Any action that reduces deforestation is also about protecting their shrinking domain. RNG will help, so let's make carbon negative renewable gas.
What message sells to investors?
This project needs investment. This type and scale of project is desperately needed. People need to be assured of safety where they live. The gorillas need their forest back. So now we need to pitch the investment, but also the story to investors. The question is how? It's a great impact investment with high returns. But they're a skeptical lot, as they must be. Any claim we can make to amp up a valuation has to be discounted or countered by them when negotiating an investment deal.
This much carbon mitigation (whether 40 or up to 130 megatons per year) can be worth a lot. So, inevitably as founders, we should get quizzed on this point. And so it has been. We like to appeal to the investors' better selves too, with the humanitarian and environmental impacts. The Lake Kivu project has huge impact. The priorities are first to people safety, then to the environment and finally to the community's bottom lines.
How to sell "carbon negative renewable gas"?
As an aside, I would be interested in the stats on this. How many pledges are made to fund renewables? As many as are calling on others to do the funding? How many are calling for funding negative carbon projects? I have seen hundreds. Is it a cheap way to get position on the bandwagon? What ever came of Canada's Prime Minister's 2015 pledge at COP-21 in Paris to fund $2.6 B of clean energy projects in the developing world? How much more is being promised at COP-25 in Madrid?
Cleantech Finance – Two "Valleys of Death" facing entrepreneurs – FCA
On the other hand, how many of the valid start-ups with projects eventually do get funded? Worse still, how many are not? Who, among many innovators and developers, crosses the proverbial "valley of death" illustrated here by FCA? Where do these developers, looking and pitching for these funds, get the money? Their enthusiasm is more evident than that of corresponding investment funds. For that answer, it's probably from intermediaries.
I should rather be an intermediary
This clean energy funding marketplace has seen a proliferation of financing intermediaries. They are aggregators of new project prospects, those that can't afford to attend all the conferences. They're not there to raise funds as start-ups, but to raise bigger tranches of funds to fund them. They step in, providing aggregating vehicles that can spend hard-to-pitch-for funds. They are able charge fees for their disbursement of other people's money to projects. In doing so they are earning a 5% slice of the investment without carrying all the downsides of failed investments. It's a sweet gig.
Perhaps the tactic for start-ups and developers lies in how to frame our projects for both primary or intermediary investors. What do they want to invest in? We need to connect with them in any way that works. So let's present the options. Let's label it a giant energy storage system or series of clean projects with gigatons of carbon-negative emissions reduction.We'll colour it any way the market wishes, as long as we get to fund it. Some ways just cost more than others, but that's still way better than zero investment.


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package main

import (
	"bytes"
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	"io/ioutil"
	"sort"
	"strconv"
	"text/template"
	"unicode"
)

// BEGIN CONFIGURATION

const (
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	eventLoopMethodName          = "RunEventLoop"
	initialPriorityQueueCapacity = 100000
)

var supportedEvents = []EventType{
	NewEventType("TimeTick", 1),
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	NewEventType("ProjectileFired", 2),
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	NewEventType("UserInput", 3),
	NewEventType("TargetAngle", 3),
	NewEventType("ScoreSent", 3),
}

// END CONFIGURATION

func pascalCaseToCamel(str string) string {
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}

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}

// sort.Interface implementation

type Priorites []Priority

func (slice Priorites) Len() int {
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}

func (slice Priorites) Less(i, j int) bool {
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}

func (slice Priorites) Swap(i, j int) {
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}

// sort.Interface implementation end

func (priority *Priority) QueueName() string {
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}

type EventType struct {
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}

func NewEventType(typeName string, priority uint) EventType {
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}

func (et *EventType) TypeName() string {
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func (et *EventType) ListenerTypeName() string {
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}

func (et *EventType) HandlerTypeName() string {
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}

func (et *EventType) ListenerListName() string {
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}

func (et *EventType) ListenerHandleMethodName() string {
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func (et *EventType) RegisterMethodName() string {
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}

func (et *EventType) FireMethodName() string {
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}

func (et *EventType) EventsQueueName() string {
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}

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	EventHandlerInterfaceName    string
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func checkError(err error) {
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		import (
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		type QueueFilling struct {
			CurrentLength int
			Capacity int
		}

		func (dispatcher *{{ $.TypeName }}) QueuesFilling() map[int]QueueFilling {
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	var buffer bytes.Buffer
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		EventLoopMethodName:          eventLoopMethodName,
		InitialPriorityQueueCapacity: initialPriorityQueueCapacity,
		EventHandlerInterfaceName:    "eventHandler",
		EventTypes:                   supportedEvents,
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	checkError(err)

	formatted_code, err := format.Source(buffer.Bytes())

	err = ioutil.WriteFile(targetFilePath, formatted_code, 0644)
	checkError(err)
}


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Home/American Idol/Season 12/Episode 28/News/Page 1
News for Episode 28: Finalists Compete
'American Idol' interviews: Amber, Angie, Candice, Janelle and Kree talk about the all-girl Top 5
Apr 18, 2013 | By Zap2It | 0
This is a historic week in the life of "American Idol." For the first time ever, the Top 5 is made up of all girls! After the Top 5 performances, we caught up with Kree Harrison, Janelle Arthur, Candice Glover, Angie Miller and Amber Holcomb to find out how they felt about their all-female competition.Of all of the girls, Amber seemed to be having the most trouble adjusting to the loss of the boys. Although technically she was mostly missing Burnell Taylor and Lazaro Arbos. "Laz, he is my boo. I love him to death," Amber said. "He was always there for me. We would sing each other's songs in our rooms until 1 in the morning.It's not like Amber can't get along with the girls though. "We all eat together and stuff but I feel half my heart is missing," she explained. "We really don't have any drama. You'd think with five girls... //blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/04/american-idol-interviews-amber-angie-candice-janelle-and-kree-talk-about-the-all-girl-top-5.html
'American Idol' interview: Angie Miller talks about singing after the Boston Marathon tragedy
This has been a tough week for everybody, but things have been especially hard for the people of Boston. Angie Miller, one of the five singers remaining on "American Idol" Season 12, comes from the city and had to compete soon after hearing news of the Boston Marathon bombing. After the Top 5 performance show, we talked to Angie about the tragedy and her week.Although Ryan Seacrest had started the "Idol" broadcast with a general message from the show to the city of Boston, Angie repeated the sentiment right before her first performance, dedicating the song to the people of her hometown. She then launched into a passionate rendition of "I'll Stand By You" by The Pretenders, accompanying herself on piano.What was she thinking about at the time? "I have lots of family, lots of friends who ran it and were there," Angie said. "I wish ... It's so weird but I wish I... //blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/04/american-idol-interview-angie-miller-talks-about-singing-after-the-boston-marathon-tragedy.html
'American Idol': Nicki Minaj Tells Mariah Carey To 'Simmer Down, Sir'
Apr 18, 2013 | By HuffingtonPost | 0
The judges haven't been interacting with one another that much at all this season on " American Idol ." Perhaps that's because when they do, things get contentious as they did this week when Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey disagreed on a critique. It all went down after Kree Harrison's performance when Nicki said she didn't agree with what Mariah was saying. Mariah interjected into Nicki's comments to try and clarify how they disagreed, because she didn't see it. "So, you don't really disagree with me," she surmised at one point, but Nicki said she did. "I'll explain," she said. "Oh, Okay. Because i disagree with your disagreement," Mariah said. "What? Okay. Simmer down, sir," Nicki responded, and that comment certainly got a reaction from the crowd. Did she just call Mariah Carey a "sir"? Yes, she did. Jimmy Iovine said it was nice to see the women communicating on the show. Maybe these are the baby steps toward a more healthy line of communication. The press seemed to side more with Mariah on this one, with The Hollywood Reporter shocked that Nicki "went there." All Hollywood Life could say about the mini-fued was, "Mmmkay." The drama -- and singing -- continues on "American Idol," Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox. TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser. //feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/HP/Entertainment/~3/16713l85-hc/american-idol-feud-nicki-mariah-sir-video_n_3106520.html
American Idol's Top 5 Girls Channel Their Inner Divas
Apr 18, 2013 | By Tv Guide Breaking News | 0
It was Ladies' Night on American Idol Wednesday, with the Top 5 females each performing two songs — one from the year of their birth (get ready to feel old, Idol viewers) and one by a diva. The competition is now officially on, with none of those pesky guys hogging votes in what has been universally acknowledged as a girl's year. So who became the front-runner going into Thursday's results show? Here's a breakdown of the performances: //www.tvguide.com/News/American-Idol-Top-5-Girls-Divas-Night-1064171.aspx?rss=breakingnews
'American Idol' Top 5: Has Amber Holcomb done enough to stay?
Here we go -- it's on like Donkey Kong on "American Idol" now. Janelle Arthur has lagged behind the other women some weeks, so we'd love to see her make smart song choices and make this a real dogfight for who moves on. For theme, Round 1 is Year of Birth and Round 2 is Divas. Year of Birth has ceased to be that much fun anymore, now that everybody is like 12 years old. Kidding, kidding -- but not really.1. Candice Glover, 1989, "Straight Up"She's doing the slow-jam, R&B-bordering-on-reggae version of Paula Abdul's big hit. It's ... interesting. We don't hate it and her voice is smooth as butter, as per usual, but for that year, we wouldn't have minded Candice having a nice ballad moment on "If You Don't Know Me by Now." Yeah, we wish she had done that Simply Red number. That was a great vocal, we just weren't in love... //blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/04/american-idol-top-5-has-amber-holcomb-done-enough-to-stay.html
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With this blog I really want to try and educate myself on how to love everything about myself (but not in a narcissistic way). I think that it's crucial that people become educated in their nutritional health, physical health and their mental health.
I am using a WordPress blog to educate people on how to live a healthier life by informing them on healthy eating tips and recipes, workout tips and body-image tips. Learning easy ways to have a healthier life is important because will improve one's life as a whole and I think that a blog will help me set the tone and personalize my posts and easily facilitate the information.
Having access to food ranging from pizza to burgers to fries seemed like a dream come true, but I found out that after eating these kinds of meals on the daily that I was breaking out and my body felt sluggish. I barely ate fruit and veggies (sorry, Mom) and ate loads of carbs and sugar.
Throughout this project I have gained 14 new followers, which makes me believe that my blog posts have had a positive reaction from my readers.
Although there were things that I followed through fully in my project proposal, there were a few things that I changed as I wrote blog posts. One of these changes is that I said that I was only going to use SkinnyTaste, Self, and Health as my online sites that I would use to find articles for my blog posts. When I looked back at my blog posts I noticed that I used more than these three sites in order to write my blogs from the very first week, though I only used a larger variety of websites to find articles because I couldn't find much information just on these sites that went very in-depth on the things I wanted to write about. In addition to the sites listed above, I also used sites like Teen Vogue, WebMD, Student Health 101 and the Huffington Post.
After I submitted the project proposal, my professor brought up a great idea of possibly writing blog posts targeting college students. I incorporated his idea of a specific target audience into the first weeks of my blogging project, although as my blogging progressed I opened up my target audience to individuals who want to live a healthier lifestyle rather than just focusing on college students. Here is one of my blog posts where I targeting college students as my audience and here is one of my blog posts where I opened up the target audience and made it more general. Though as a whole, my blog didn't target a specific audience.
Over these five weeks, I have learned more about a healthy lifestyle than I thought that I would, mostly because a lot of the information and tips that I wrote about had been new information to me that I didn't know before I had done research on the different aspects. An example of this can be seen in this blog post. I thought that it was interesting that I found more new information about body image during the last week of blogging rather than during the first week of this project. I also learned a lot more information when I was researching for this blog post. I have never been very knowledgeable about what I should eat before and after working out before I wrote that post and I liked that I was able to summarize the information into a simpler form for my readers.
I believe that since I picked "Healthy Lifestyle" as my blog topic that readers were interested in reading my work because they were on a mission to be healthy, too. I always tried to write encouraging things for the readers like I was actually talking to them and I tried to write blog posts that would help them with their healthy lifestyle. I only had one interaction with a reader and that was to say that they were going to do an eating journal to keep track of their food intake after reading one of my eating tip blog posts.
Overall, when I first started blogging I didn't dig as deep in my topics and link as much as I should have. Compared to my very first blog post, I think that my last blog post for this project had more information and hypertext than previous blogs. My blogs have gotten stronger throughout these five weeks and the sites that I have linked to have become stronger in terms of giving the readers additional information that wasn't fully talked about in my writing. This blog post exemplifies this change because I incorporated a Buzzfeed video and research articles, like this one, into my blogs, rather than articles from popular magazines that didn't have the same certification.
For the most part, writing blogs for this project came easy to me until the last two weeks. I was struggling with finding new information about eating tips and body-image tips. It was really frustrating at the end of each of those weeks to try and write blog posts about body-image because a lot of the articles that I came across in my research repeated the same things. Examples of the lack of new information can be seen in this blog post in relation with this blog post. Other than running into repeated information, I didn't struggle with anything else, other than picking healthy recipes that I ended up not liking, like this one.
This project meant a lot to me. Not only did it educate me on the different aspects of creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, but it also really challenged me as a writer. Instead of not writing blog posts because I didn't have time or couldn't find any interesting information, I still put out blogs because I wanted to follow the project proposal contract that I picked for my grade. I followed my contract fully to earn the grade I picked.
Overall, this project showed me that not all writing and academic studying comes easy, but that my writing probably wouldn't have been as meaningful and informational without struggling throughout parts of it. I do believe that blogging is becoming a big part of literacy because the posts become instantly available to readers in a second once I press "Publish". I think that since technology and the Internet is so prominent in a majority of people's everyday lives that there is more traffic and readers to something posted online, like this blog, rather than a physical copy of a book that people have to wait to be released because people nowadays want things instantaneously. Writing and literacy is evolving and blogging and other web-writing is becoming more prominent.
Lets face it. All of us went through a time in our lives where we weren't happy with our bodies and wanted to change something about it, whether it be gaining or losing weight. We're human. Everyone deals with comparing themselves to others and not always feeling as though they are good enough, so just know that you are not alone.
Although negative body image is common among a majority of people, I came across this article that talked about how having a negative body image can actually negatively impact one's body weight. It then went on to say that if people started to love their body and self-image that they would actually have a healthier life for themselves.
Now, when I first read this statement I thought that the article was wrong. I mean, wouldn't you have a healthier life if you wanted to change something about yourself, like lose weight? Personally, if I was content with how I looked I probably wouldn't go to the gym as much as I do.
Feeling the need to fact-check them, I searched to see if there was other research that proved this point. Surprisingly, I did. This article talked about a research study that occurred where there were two experiment groups: one that worked out and one that read a magazine (it should be noted that the groups did not consist of anyone who was overweight or had health issues).
A small study published this month in the journal Psychology of Sport and Exercise found that just 30 minutes of exercise can have a positive affect on a woman's body image. Women felt both slimmer and stronger immediately after they finished their workout and the feeling lasted for at least 20 minutes post-workout.
I knew that it was scientifically proven for people to feel better after a workout, but I never thought that it would have a positive impact on someone's body image (even if only for a little bit).
With that being said, the research concluded that just by working out for just 30 minutes can improve a person's body image even if there wasn't any physical change and they looked the same.
I think that it's crazy what exercise can do to a person's opinions on themselves. I think it's really great and something that everyone should do. I mean, if working out for only 30 minutes would make you love yourself and appreciate your body a little more, wouldn't you want to do that?
If you can't go to the gym, try to listen to others when they tell you positive things about you. I know a lot of people roll their eyes when people give them compliments about things that they are insecure about, but accepting these compliments will help your self-confidence in yourself grow and might even help you love the things that you were once insecure about.
While I was writing this blog post I remembered a Buzzfeed video that I had previously watched and I thought that you might enjoy seeing how people go from being insecure about something about themselves or their body to becoming a little more positive about their self-image.
I know that loving yourself is hard, but by working out and accepting others compliments I think that you might find yourself closer to a positive body image.
In the rest of my blog posts on eating tips, I always focused on things that anyone could do in order to eat healthier but this week I wanted to focus on different things that college students can do to eat healthy.
I came across this Buzzfeed article that stated easy and simple things that college kids can do to move their eating habits towards a healthier direction (even if only by a little bit).
Think of what you should add to your meals.
A lot of healthy eating articles that I have came across in the past weeks made it seem like people needed to cut all of their unhealthy food and to just eat healthy food, like fruits and vegetables. This is false. When people are starting to eat healthy they shouldn't stop eating their normal food all at once. I know that if I did that I would be more likely to miss processed and unhealthy food (the normal) way more than I would if I ate the same (while trying to eat less junk) and adding more nutritional food into my diet. A balanced diet is key.
Instead of thinking about what you shouldn't eat, think about what you should eat.
You don't have to eat all healthy food items.
When I first started getting into the whole "health-craze" thing I thought that every single healthy food item was something that I had to get when I went grocery shopping. I've recently found out that I don't have to eat every healthy thing to be healthy. In order to eat healthy (and actually stick with it) I needed to find food items that I actually enjoy and make my body feel good. If you feel good, you're more likely to eat the same food again than the food that makes you feel bad.
Emergency granola bars will save you.
Have you ever been in a class when you were hungry and you didn't care what you ate as long as you had some kind of food in your stomach right after class? No? Maybe it's just me, but when I'm hungry I need to eat something ASAP. Packing a granola bar in your backpack, purse, etc. will seriously save your nutritional intake for the day and will hold you over until you have access to a nice (and hopefully healthy) meal, because you're not going to have that luxury at the campus food court that's filled with greasy and fried food (minus the solo salad stand).
Water should become your new BFF.
It seems like everywhere you go on a college camps there is pop, juice and energy drinks at every corner. I know that it'll be a constant struggle to avoid these drinks but your body will definitely thank you. An easy thing to do in order to stay strong in avoiding these sugary drinks is to carry a water bottle with you everywhere you go, that way you'll always have something to drink and it will hopefully help you stay hydrated…It's a plus-plus.
Adapting to a crazy and hectic lifestyle makes it hard to be healthy (and stick to it) and it's even harder when you're possibly living by yourself for the first time.
Changing your daily eating habits is tough but with little changes like the ones that I mentioned above and the many more tips that can be found here, I think that you'll be one step closer to a healthier lifestyle.
After weeks and weeks of staying motivated and working out I think that it gets harder to go to the gym, especially since I usually workout by myself (minus a few times).
I've always been torn when it comes to working out with other people or whether I should just work out solo. I always have a lot of fun when I'm working out with my friends and family, but at the same time I feel as though I'm not as focused on why I came to the gym in the first place.
After working out by myself these past two weeks I've realized that although working out with other people can be somewhat distracting, it makes it enjoyable (and that's saying something).
This article lists a few different benefits of working out with friends, but I'm only going to talk about the few that I think are very important.
I know what you're thinking…why does working out with someone else determine if I'll show up or not? Well, I personally know that if someone else has scheduled me into their day with a workout I feel like I can't back out. I don't like to cancel plans (and I hate when people cancel plans with me). Also, if I know that someone else is going to be doing the same workout as me, I don't dread it as much because at least someone else will be struggling along with me.
You'll get a free therapy session.
The gym is suppose to be a time where you focus on yourself and your body, but I've noticed that whenever I'm working out with someone else I talk a lot more, especially if I'm with my best friend or cousin. With all of the talking you may not get as much out of your workout, but you will help your emotional health by venting!
They're a free support system.
The best thing about having friends to work out with is that they want to see you succeed in your workouts. According to this article, having a support system is one of the most important thing that a person can do to have a successful long-term success in their health and fitness. This support leads to accountability and motivation and sometimes a little bit of friendly competition, like seeing who can do the most crunches.
"They can play the role of teammate, co-coach and cheerleader — all while working out," says Michelle P. Maidenberg, PhD, MPH, and clinical director of Westchester Group Works in Harrison, N.Y in this article.
The article also discussed that it is wise to choose a workout partner that has similar fitness or health levels as yourself. It says that if you work out with someone who is at a different fitness level, that it might be a distraction and negatively affect your own workout.
Although working out with other people can have negative affects on your workout, I think that having a physical person that you know be around you when you are working out will help you stay motivated. Two is better than one as the saying goes.
Last week I didn't have a weekly reflection posted because we had to do studio tours of other classmates final projects, which was really fun and interesting. So, onto reflecting on the work done this week. It was fun and I learned a lot!
My first blog post of the week was on workout tips. This blog consisted of workouts that people could do at home. I thought that the articles that I read and linked within the blog post were really interesting because it listed off several things people can do at home to exercise (without equipment) and tips that could potentially keep people motivated to continue working out at home. I learned a lot from writing this post and thought it was beneficial to know because I like to do some home-workouts and think that the information I gathered for this post will help me become more successful.
My second blog post of the week was on eating tips. This blog consisted of different things that people can do to not only save money but to live healthier lives. This blog mostly talked about different things that people can do when they are shopping in order to save a little bit of money and avoid the temptations of unhealthy food. I thought this blog was informative and a lot of fun to read and write about because I get to share the information I found with other people while also learning it myself.
My third blog post of the week was on a healthy recipe. I've learned to love this blog segment each week. I was able to cook and experiment a new recipe that was a healthier alternative for chicken nuggets. It didn't even feel like an assignment and I loved that. A huge plus was that this recipe was easy and actually tasted good, too!
My last post of the week was on body image. When I first started this segment of my blog I thought that there would be so much information to talk about, but since writing about it for a few weeks (for 500+ words at a time) it's become boring and hard to find information that doesn't seem repetitive. I struggled this week, but I made it through! I still found interesting information that I think will help my readers and myself on a journey to a better body image, but I'm worried about finding information for this next week's blog.
Overall, I really have enjoyed working on this final project. It hasn't really felt like something that I had to do which is refreshing from other class assignments. I like that I'm learning more about having a healthy lifestyle because it is something that I am currently working on for myself and I love that I get to work on a project while also learning about things that will hopefully help me out in life. Though I've ran into some bumps in the road with finding information or doing recipes that don't turn out quite how I think they will, I have enjoyed writing these blog posts.
I know that a lot of us like to spend time focusing on what others are doing at the gym, what they look like and how they act, but we need to stop doing that. At the time we may think that these acts are harmless, but they actually affect us more than we know.
According to this Body and Soul online article, we are hurting ourselves mentally when we focus on others. By focusing on others, we start to compare ourselves to them. Now, I truly believe that we should never compare ourselves to others, because we are all meant to be different and unique and looking at our differences can be self-destructive.
The article stated a few things that people can do to create a better body image for themselves.
I know that it's hard (because I find myself doing this on a daily basis) to not compare yourself to others when the thoughts seem to come so naturally to you, but you need to stop. It's not healthy to compare yourself to someone else, but if you do find yourself comparing yourself to others make sure to ask yourself a few questions about the thoughts you have when you are comparing.
Is it fair? Is it realistic? How do these comparisons make me feel? What thoughts may be more helpful to me?
I've never thought about asking myself these questions before but I will from now on. By reflecting on your emotions and your thoughts I think that you'll understand yourself more and see what you have to change to become a better person (even if it's just to create a positive mentality).
I think that we often make assumptions or compare ourselves to people so quickly that we don't really see how the negative self-talk is affecting our well-being. I think that in order to get closer to a better body image, people need to really reflect on their thoughts and see if what they were thinking was rational or just irrational.
It's easier to tear yourself down than to build yourself up.
I know that this is another tough thing to do since it seems like we have been conditioned to compare ourselves to others and want to continuously change how we look due to society's standards, but just know that if you stop doing these things and stop constantly checking on other people or yourself you'll find more peace.
Don't be tough on yourself if you aren't making progress at the gym as quickly as you planned to. Everybody's body reacts differently to different workouts. It's okay.
Don't worry about your weight. I'm not saying that you have to throw away your scale, but don't let your weight determine your worth.
Your body is more than just a measurement or a weight, it's powerful and can do great things. Your body is unique and different and that's a good thing. Focus on the positives instead of the negatives. Life is too short to allow your body and other people to determine your happiness and worth.
As a college student, I know that not everyone has money to buy the healthiest food items for their meals, but I think that if we focus on what we are spending our money on and change our buying habits that we could eat healthier.
This Greatest online article lists 22 cheap and easy things that people can do to eat healthier, but I'm only going to talk about a few of them.
I know that this should be obvious, but I struggle with this almost every time that I go grocery shopping. Usually I never plan when I'm going to shopping and it's usually spontaneous (and on an empty stomach). My mind tells me to only get the things that I absolutely need, but my stomach tells me to go down the snack and ice cream aisle. Now, don't be like me. Eat a meal or a filling snack before you shop for food. Your wallet will thank you.
I think that this is possibly one of the most important thing a person can do in preparation for when they go and buy groceries. Not only will you not forget items that you need, but you'll be less likely to go down aisles that you don't need to. Having a physical list in front of you keeps you focused on the things that you need to do. Now, making a shopping list will only help you save money if you stick to only buying the items on the list! If not, why even have a shopping list?
Buying in bulk has definitely saved me some money! At first I thought that the idea of buying in bulk was dumb (because I thought it was a waste of my money because I didn't think I would eat that much), but after portioning these items out I learned that I saved more money than I would have if I would have bought smaller versions of the products.
This was a struggle for me this last year. I would always go out and buy coffee (well, sugared and chocolate-syrup coffee) and pop to keep me up when I was working on homework or big assignments. At the time, I didn't think much of my well-being and health and instead only focused on my academics and my grades. Now I know better.
Sweetened drinks are so bad for you. There are several articles, like this one, on the Internet that agree with me. It might be hard to cut yourself off from sweetened drinks cold-turkey, but you'll feel so much better if you do and you'll save money!
I say this all the time, but you'll create healthy eating habits if you don't buy things that are bad for your body. I know that you want the cookies, the ice cream, or the pizzas, but these things aren't going to help you better yourself on your fitness journey. The only way to not be tempted by this type of food is to not buy it in the first place.
These tips aren't crazy or outrageously hard to do, so do them! I swear your body and wallet will thank you.
I know that some weeks are hectic and you feel like you don't have any time for the gym, but I've got good news… the gym can come to you! There are easy exercises that you can do at home (or in your dorm room, if you're like me).
Did I mention the exercises are easy and that you don't have to leave the comfort of your own home?
I figured it might get your attention, because it sure caught mine when I first read it.
This Fitness Blender article has a huge list of workouts that you can do at home, varying on what you want to focus on and how long you want your workout to be (I personally like this exercise that I found on YouTube. It really works on toning and creating lean legs).
There are a lot of different exercises listed on the Internet in general, and I think that the only way that you're going to know if a certain exercise works for you is to try it out. There's no harm doing that! Though, before doing any exercises online, I do advise to read the comments to see how the workout went for other people (it can help you save some time in the long run and I know how important time is)!
Finding workouts online are easy, but will actually doing the workouts be?
If you're anything like me, you have little to no patience when it comes to working out. One common mistake that I keep making time after time again is pushing myself too much right away. When you're just starting a workout it's okay to take your time.
Just keep reminding yourself that you don't have to push yourself right away and that you're journey to fitness and a healthier life is a long-term thing, so you don't need to rush. You have time!
I know that sometimes it's easier to complete workouts or different exercises when you are at the gym because you feel like you're held accountable by all of the other people working out around you. Even if this might not be the case, many people (including myself) think that everyone else around them is watching their every move and will judge them if they don't workout long. This helps some people stay motivated.
When you're alone at home, you don't have anyone to hold you accountable. Without anyone to keep you motivated into doing or continuing your workouts, it's easy not want to do a workout. But don't do it! Commitment is key to creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Think about all of the progress that you would lose if you gave up now… you've done too much!
Try letting your friends and family know about your workouts and what you want to gain from them. This not only allows them to encourage you, but it holds you accountable to do your workouts!
At home workouts are easy and convenient, just hold yourself accountable to do your workouts. You're not going to see any progress if you don't get up and move!


Masked parties, Savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Wild West parties, Russian parties, Circus parties, parties where one had to dress as somebody else, almost naked parties in St John's Wood, parties in flats and studios and houses and ships and hotels and night clubs, in windmills and swimming-baths, tea parties at school where one ate muffins and meringues and tinned crab, parties at Oxford where one drank brown sherry and smoked Turkish cigarettes, dull dances in London and comic dances in Scotland and disgusting dances in Paris – all that succession and repetition of massed humanity.
own times. He soon got a song out of it.
At a London press conference in the summer of 1972, just as Ziggy Stardust broke, Bowie seemed unnerved by his success, though he had been trying to be a pop star for nearly a decade. Something disturbed him about his rise, he said, along with Lou Reed's new prominence ("Walk on the Wild Side" would hit the Top 10) and the Glam boom. Once there had been well-groomed boys in matching suits on Top of the Pops. Now there was Roxy Music, who looked like extraterrestrials in a witness relocation program, or Slade and Roy Wood, hill trolls in Halloween costumes, or The Sweet, a bubblegum group who leered at their audience and seemed to be sharing a private joke. It was a sign that modern civilization had reached the point of absurdity – its entertainments had become bizarre and sordid, even menacing.
People like Lou [Reed] and I are probably predicting the end of an era. Any society that allows people like Lou and me to become rampant is pretty well lost. We're both pretty mixed-up, paranoid people – absolute walking messes. If we're the spearhead of anything, we're not necessarily the spearhead of anything good.
In Waugh's novel, ridiculous young people dress up in costumes, sleep with each other, have treasure hunts on city streets at midnight, drink and drug themselves to oblivion; it ends on a battlefield. "Aladdin Sane" was Bowie's parallel sequel: a premature epitaph for his own lost generation. Though this time the party would end with a nuclear holocaust (hence the song's (1913-1938-197?) subhead – Bowie seemed to really think that the world would end before 1980).
There's a sadness and frailty to "Aladdin Sane," set in B minor, with its lyric a meager collection of fragmented images – glissando strings, bouquets of faded roses. It's as though Bowie realized the decadence of Waugh's era had a panache his own time lacked. Bowie had just come off a months-long rock tour of America in 1972, and had endured/enjoyed the debauchery, the loud fashions, the noise, the bad food. It was a flyblown existence and Bowie wanted a nobler victim: in "Aladdin Sane" he invented a more glittering world to snuff out.


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Since then, The Hum has popped up in Largs, Scotland, Windsor, Ontario, Bondi in Sydney, Australia, and Leeds in England. The Hum was detected in Kokomo, Indiana. In 2003, researchers blamed that one on on two industrial sites — one a Daimler Chrysler plant — producing noise at specific frequencies. Noise-abatement measures were instituted, but The Hum remains.
What exactly it is is unknown. The Hum is estimated to only be detectable by about 2% of the population. Tinnitus was initially blamed, but tests on people who heard The Hum found no diagnosis, their hearing was perfectly fine (some may be people who can hear outside the normal human audio range, which is possible and has happened). Besides, researches have confirmed The Hum exists, so it's not human reaction. It's usually stronger at nighttime in rural and suburban areas (it's possible cities have so much ambient noise it cancels The Hum out), and is only heard indoors.
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I Asked For A Hummer, And All I Got Was Spectral Disruption
Hello, readers, and welcome to another installment of The Mystic, The Divine, And The Just Plain Weird. Today, we are going to look at a strange phenomena called The Hum.
Reports of The Hum first started appearing in the 1950's. People who had never heard anything unusual before started hearing a weird, droning hum, sometimes described as sounding like a diesel engine idling nearby. Because so few people heard it, they were dismissed as crackpots or other such things, blaming mass hysteria or hypochondria.
But in the 1970's, The Hum started to spread.
Bristol, England became the first confirmed instance of The Hum. About 800 people reported hearing The Hum, causing nosebleeds, headaches, nausea, sleep disturbance, and at least one suicide. Eventually, The Hum was blamed on local factories working 24 hours a day and the resulting traffic.
Then, in 1991, Taos, New Mexico, got The Hum. Starting that spring, people started complaining about it. Realizing the chance to put SCIENCE! in action, a bunch of people from Los Alamos National Laboratory teamed up with the University of New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories, and other regional scientists. They detected The Hum and proved it existed. But they couldn't find anything that was causing it.
Want to know what you're missing? Here ya go:
Either way, The Hum appears to be spreading. Sleep tight.
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Q: How are weapons enhanced by multiple Spirit cubes? Like other smelted cubes, Spirit can modify your weapons to add additional effects to your special attacks.
When adding multiple Spirit cubes, do the effects increase with the number of Spirit cubes? Can different kinds of Spirit cubes be mixed to provide multiple additional effects?

A: You can put as many spirit cubes on your weapon up to the customization limit (so be careful about loading up on simple cubes).
all of the spirits can be put on a weapon and all effects will be achieved. You can have a fire ice weapon that deals extra damage and slows.
You can only put spirits of the power level or slightly lower.
With 1 unholy spirit cube on my crossbow, I got additional .1HP back per hit every 20th combo (so 200 combo is 1hp per hit). With 2, this effect doubled. I havent been able to test more because usable spirit cubes are a bit rare.
http://www.cubeworldwiki.net/index.php/Spirit


Some BlackBerry Classic owners on Canada's Rogers network are getting a new update this morning that bumps up their software to OS 10.3.1.2072. While the bigger, larger 10.3.1 roll out is not expect until next month, Classic owners can at least get an earlier look at what's to be expected with this new OS.
We've reached out to BlackBerry to see if this update was scheduled or not, and will update accordingly.
Are you seeing an OS 10.3.1 update on your Rogers' BlackBerry Classic this morning? Let us know in the comments!