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kittasune · 3 years

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“winter warmth”

“WINTER WARMTH”

“WINTER WARMTH”

📘┊pairing. akaashi keiji x gn!reader

🔖┊tags. post-time skip, fluff, co-worker friends to lovers, mutual pinning, holidays, seasons abloom

📚┊wc. 4.3k

📖┊note. I wrote this for akaashi’s birthday but i’ve been meaning to write this fic for a long time now. well, here’s my first fic posted on tumblr! feel free to message me your thoughts! i plan to make this an on-going series of small one-shots so… please expect more in the future.

The biting cold that accompanies the change in seasons looms over the metropolitan city of Tokyo, the city where Akaasji Keiji was born, where his career is, and most importantly; where the love of his life is – the International Library of Children’s Literature. Literature has always been one of Akaashi’s passions to pursue as it opens endless doors of opportunities that could grant him success in the future. The majority of his stress stems from his work,

“Having a job and a stable career makes you successful!”

“You should have a steady income first before you pursue your passions so you have a stable foundation to fall back on just in case things don’t work out, Akaashi-san.”

He can hear the string of back-handed compliments and empty advice he’s received from co-workers and relatives alike echo in the back of his mind, clouding his thoughts and possible future realities he wishes to envision. Literature is one of his hobbies that became his career due to his love that caused him to become attached. Manga, novels, plays, poetry, and even textbooks sometimes caught Akaashi’s attention and he couldn’t help but consume the knowledge and navigate the uncharted waters that flow through the pages in inky waves. The beautiful thought of literature that had once been untouched and pure in Akaashi’s child-like wondrous mind has now become something as lifeless as house-hold chores to check off a list.

Now, as he sits at his desk in his office cubicle eying the unsurmountable manga panels that consume more than half of his desk with their shiny patent ink and crisp lines framing the edges of each page – he can’t help but sigh.

“You know, I’ve always been told that it’s bad luck to sigh.” Akaashi perked up at the sound of ceramic hitting the surface of his white acrylic desk. He looks up to see you holding a matching mug brimming with the café nectar that he so desperately needs.

“Is that so? You sound so sure of yourself considering that your break ended 5 minutes ago.” Akaashi hid his face in his hands to mask the upturned corners of his lips pulling into a smirk.

“Thank you for the coffee, I know that I’ll need it considering that Hide x Seek’s 100th Chapter is going to be released in this edition of Shonen Jump.”

“I heard that from Udai-san, he seemed so excited that he wanted to make this chapter special by making it holiday-themed with all the holidays being piled all together at the end of the year.” You said with a look of contemplation as you sipped the burning liquid in your mug.

“Have you read Hide x Seek before?” Akaashi leans back in his office chair and sets his gaze upon you while placing the cup next to his lips, the creaky sound apparent from the quality of wornness and evidence of sleepless nights he’s spent hunched over reviewing and editing the work assigned to him.

“I think I’ve read it once before, it’s the one where the high school students hide from an intruder but they don’t know who’s the intruder… but it ends up being the ghost of a former student that seeks to kill out of revenge and spite the higher-ups who have wronged her, right?” You said while fixating your gaze to the edge of his desk as if to recall the synopsis from memory, your coffee mug was left forgotten on Akaashi’s desk as you appear lost in your thoughts.

“Not quite, you just said the plot summary of Peek-a-boo? not Hide x Seek.”

Akaashi said while looking pointedly at your mug on his desk that would surely leave a faint circle as he knows you tend to haphazardly spill its contents as you “vigorously” stir your coffee to ensure that all additives are well-mixed. He recalls asking as to why making a vortex in a cup smaller than his hand is necessary, to which, you responded,

“I need everyone to get along harmoniously and seamlessly blend with one another, imagine drinking a cup of coffee that you’ve prepared and longed for only for it to have lumps and chunks at the bottom, no-thank-you!”

The dim grimace on your face spoke volumes of a less-than-happy experience you must have gone through and as a result, the chaotic meticulousness of your coffee shenanigans intrigued Akaashi to befriend you.

He was so lost in his thoughts that he doesn’t notice you flush red at the realization that you’ve embarrassed yourself in front of your co-worker, friend, and “potential suitor” as your friend lightly put as a shallow jab at your private love-life *hint – it’s practically non-existent.

You sigh. “Maybe I’ll give Hide x Seek a read during a vacation or something.” You mumble the words, cursing yourself for looking like a fool in front of your longtime friend, Akaashi Keiji.

The image of you grumbling and lamenting in front of Akaashi mirrors a panel sitting on his desk that has him fondly reminiscing the same image of you from last spring about how you had no one to accompany you to the Hanami Festival and so, he acquiesced to your invitation thus, establishing a tradition in your friendly relationship.

“I think it would be best to return to your desk, y/n, wouldn’t want to lose the privilege of seeing you every day and being the object of your admiration.” Akaashi propped himself up on his desk, resting his head on his forearms in a lazy slouch peering up at you with one eyebrow raised and a ghost of a smile playing upon his lips.

“You should really stop flirting with me at work, Akaashi. One of these days I might get the wrong idea and think you’re into me or something…” You chastise him while walking back to your desk which is conveniently next to Akaashi’s.

“I’m hopelessly enamored at the thought of you and it frightens me to think of a day where you’ll be missing from my side…” Akaashi thought as he proceeded to leaf through the panels laid out strategically on his desk. He looked over at you as you started to situate yourself with your work and said, “I wouldn’t sigh if I were you, I heard that if you sigh it brings you bad luck.”

“Stop mocking me and go do your work!”

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The clock struck at 5:00 P.M., then at 6:00 P.M., just right before the clock struck at 7:00 P.M. you blearily glance at the time blaring in the corner of your monitor and drift your eyes to the decorative hourglass sitting on your desk. The intricate gold timepiece hid tucked away in the corner of your desk hiding behind a framed picture of you and Akaashi posed in front of a bookstore where a work-related event took place. A faint memory surfaces from the back of your subconscious from earlier this year.

“Akaashi, why do you have a plastic apple on your desk?” You glare at the object as a red plastic apple seems so peculiar to associate with Akaashi, in your mind at least, so you questioned its purpose. Is it for sentimental reasons? Are apples his favorite type of fruit? Do apples have an artistic appeal or is it just a trend?

“It’s a tomato.” He responded, not once looking up to acknowledge your effort to engage in conversation. As Akaashi is seemingly focused on the task at hand, you further prodded with your innocent questions wanting his attention so you could lose yourself in the oceans that reside in his deep blue eyes.

“Then, why do you have a tomato on your desk?”

“Keeps me focused on the task at hand. Have you heard of the Pomodoro technique before, y/n?” Akaashi still focused on his work while you continued questioning.

“The time management one, right? I think I’ve read about it somewhere before if I’m being honest…” You lose yourself in your thoughts as you attempted to recall the correct definition from an online blog you briefly glanced at.

“Then you should know about how it helps you complete your work in a timely manner while balancing the efficacy and quality of the work produced.” Akaashi stopped in his ministrations and averts his attention to the now glaringly pointless object occupying space on his desk that was a prize Bokuto won at the Momiji-gari festival they attended together last October.

“Yes, that’s the time management aspect after all.”

“If I may then, why is it you stress about not having enough seconds in a minute, enough minutes in an hour, and not enough hours in a day to complete your work and yet have all the time to talk to me well over your allotted break time?” he swivels around in his chair to face you, steel blue eyes locked in a heated rage-ridden gaze with yours.

Too stunned to talk from the blunt harshness of his words, you reply, “Quite snappy today are we? At least I know now you pay attention when I mindlessly make a fuss about my workload.”

“I didn’t mean to offend you with my statement, I was going for light-hearted banter at best… I guess I can blame it on the weather. The heatwave must be getting the better of me.” Akaashi said while pulling at his necktie, an excuse to keep his hands preoccupied and mind distracted in avoidance from the awkward silence beginning to build between the two of you.

“Tell me about it, I never really liked summer as a season or the heat.” You crinkle your upturned nose in an act of disdain as you face the glass windows doing nothing to shield you from the overbearing sunlight pouring into the office.

“With summer comes the sun, with the sun comes light, and with light comes warmth,” Akaashi says so matter-of-factly that makes you wonder what’s his favorite holiday. He interrupts your train of thought by asking, “What’s your favorite holiday, y/n- san?”

“Winter, I like the snow. Or more of what snow symbolizes…” you trail off towards the end of your sentence deep in thought.

“Usually people like winter because of the holidays and spending time with their loved ones under a kotatsu. What’s so enchanting about snow? When you touch it, it just melts… not to mention it’s cold.” Akaashi looks over at you inquisitively that could almost be mistaken for scrutiny if a stranger were to eavesdrop between you two.

“If you are out in the first snowfall of the season with someone you like, true love will blossom between you.” You recite from memory what the old woman who owned the corner store grocery near your place told you during your times as a highschooler.

“Besides love, if you make a wish when the first snow blankets the city your wish will come true.” You swing your legs to-and-fro underneath your desk covered from the public’s eye but Akaashi can tell it’s one of your habits you do when you’re excited. The sparkle in your eye accompanied by the ecstatic hand gestures would also giveaway your feelings of excitement but Akaashi knows better. You stop in your motions and jerk towards him almost like you’ve had an epiphany, the sparkle in your eye flashed again mimicking that of a light-bulb going off.

“Snow also signifies that all lies will be forgotten, isn’t that refreshing? The thought of new beginnings with the first snow sounds so romantic! I wish I had someone to enjoy it with…” You take a chance and glance at Akaashi to gauge his reaction to your statement, he already beat your intentions by turning back to face his desk at lightning speed so you wouldn’t see the faint flush of red on his cheeks that bloomed after your profession of love for snow. He didn’t want you to know he was flustered because of the way you turned to him and uttered the words ‘besides love,’ to his face, and the realization that he was going to respond with a simple, ‘hm?’ had him leaning further into his desk in embarrassment.

“Akaashi, what’s your favorite season? You know mine and my reason now.”

“Same as you, I like winter.”

“Why?”

“The holidays.”

“Boring!”

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You shake your head in strong efforts to clear the fog that clouded your mind during that flashback.

“Nodding off so soon?” Akaashi’s voice startled you back to reality as you whip your head towards him.

“It’s almost 7:00, we were supposed to get off work an hour ago like someone said..” you fix your steely gaze on his figure hoping he could feel the mock-resentment radiating off you in waves. “I hope we get overtime pay for this as this isn’t the first time this has happened.” You lean against the back of your chair raising your arms above your head in a half-stretch with valiant efforts to hear the satisfying pop of your back.

“I made no promises, I was going to tell you this when we got off but Udai-san said we have the day-off tomorrow. The reason behind it ‘to reward you guys for your dedication to the company’ were his exact words.” Akaashi said as he began to clear his desk wanting to get to his apartment as soon as possible to sleep. This week took more of a toll on him than he would like to admit, the endless piles of work, deadlines to meet, and the cold that accompanied the winter months were taking a toll on him. The holiday season’s cold seeped into the bitterness of Akaashi’s hidden emotions, like an ice pick scratching the surface of Akaashi’s lonesome facade he tried to hide under cool indifference. In stark contrast, you acted as sunshine that brought the warmth that he desired to thaw his endless winters.

“Done with your work, too? Let’s go home.” His sunshine that spread light and illuminated the darkness that clouds his mind.

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The walk from the subway station to the shared apartment complex was only a 10-minute walk but tonight it seemed never-ending to Akaashi. The time was almost 8:00 and the streets seemed less deserted than usual. The city lights glimmer looked dim in comparison to past nights and the mood almost felt too solemn with the holidays around the corner. Akaashi was lost in his thoughts that he failed to notice the crosswalk light flickered to red signaling the oncoming traffic to cross the road, if it wasn’t for you pulling him by the back of his jacket… he ignores the thought that briefly filters across his mind.

“Akaashi, are you alright? I wasn’t going to mention it but you’ve seemed more aloof than usual.” You said while gripping onto the back of his jacket tightly almost grasping him in a silent plea.

“I’m fine.” He responds curtly while maneuvering his tall frame in an off-handed demeanor that cues for you to let-go. This action only fuels your act of defiance to pull him harder in your direction causing your bodies to collide clumsily disrupting the systematic ebb-and-flow that is pedestrian traffic. As you and Akaashi apologize and wait for the crosswalk sign to turn green, you can’t help but laugh which makes Akaashi let-out a small chuckle as he realizes what a commotion your exchange must have looked like.

“We make for entertaining crowd spectacles,” He spoke softly through a genuine small smile that washed over his handsome features that could have rivaled ‘any top celebrity that calls themselves a pretty boy,’ in your words, not his. The cold weather combined with the hotness radiating from his silent chuckles caused a light layer of condensation to form on his glasses’ lenses. As the haze rendered him sightless, he took off his glasses, pulled out his handkerchief he kept tucked away in his inner jacket pocket, and proceeded to clean his square frames. You took this opportunity to admire the man before you. His brown hair fell gracefully in a light tousled manner as a result of his hands raking through them from stress. Your gaze shifted to his hands, his hands easily engulfed the metal frames balancing delicately in between his slender fingers that looked natural holding the awkward position for prolonged periods of time. Your eyes flit over his face that was normally impassive and difficult to read, now his cool indifference shifted to a look of frustration. The furrow of his thick brows and the faint vertical lines creasing in the center of his eyebrows almost made Akaashi look younger.

‘He looks like a petulant child being told what to do’ you mused to yourself. When he felt content with the cleanliness of his glasses, Akaashi scanned his surroundings to see where you led him to. He realizes that you stopped right in front of the steps to his favorite place in all of Tokyo – the International Library of Children’s Literature. Even with the library being closed as evident by the lack of people and dimmed lights, he still found this place breathtaking.

“The architecture of this library looks similar to the Palace of Versailles don’t you think so, Akaashi? That was one of my first impressions when you first brought me here, I just forgot about it but remembered after seeing this place again” You said as you stared in awe at the smooth concrete walls and tall glass windows with lattice fixtures intricately lining the tall double doors that greeted over 1,000 visitors each day.

“The International Library of Children’s Literature, originally called the Imperial Library, was constructed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government under the Meiji era in 1906. The artistic movement that inspired the architect was the Renaissance movement which explains the Western-like elements incorporated into the building’s design.” Akaashi recited from memory and turned to you after he finished his statement only to find you already facing him, eyes widened and mouth agape in surprise. After seeing your reaction he turns back to the building and says in a soft whisper, “This place brings back fond memories,” while unconsciously playing with his hands, fingers intertwining with one another in a playful open and close. He can feel your gaze openly assessing his figure standing awkwardly in the library’s pathway, he knows that you want the answers as to why he’s acting less like his “usual” self. You find yourself confused by Akaashi’s paradoxical behavior, sometimes he’s willing to let small cracks appear in his otherwise smooth facade of coolness, and other times he shrugs you off in efforts to maintain his cool indifference. His true emotions are caught and given to you in minuscule pieces and this frustrates you as you wish to be with the man that’s always beside you and occupies your mind all the time.

Akaashi can’t help but feel the subtle self-conscious feeling starting to arise after pondering how out of place you and him look at the moment, two people standing alone in front of a closed library engaged in a heated silent exchange. His heart sank when he realized that you two could almost be mistaken as a couple with the way the both of you look now, he wishes for this to be real, his wish is to be with you. Akaashi wishes for you to know his true feelings and declare his love for you and yet, he finds himself biting his lips to silence himself in spite of his friends saying he has a chance of being with you.

The shuffling of feet is heard as you shift your weight from right-to-left and your avoidance of all eye-contact are all tall tale signs of your unsureness, your actions break Akaashi from his own thoughts as he raises his head to see you standing closer to him than earlier.

‘You’re so close I could kiss you right now.’ He wants to say, even in a playful manner but is too afraid to be caught expressing his true feelings even through teasing comments.

“Akaashi, what are you thinking about right now?” You ask in a futile attempt for him to confide in you what thoughts occupy his brain that’s causing him to both distance himself from you emotionally.

Just as Akaashi begins to open his mouth he’s interrupted by an abrupt shout that causes the both of you to stop all conversation.

“Look mom, it’s snowing!”

Childlike excitement blanketed the distanced onlookers frolicking the crosswalks as snowflakes kissed the cherry red noses of daily commuters and people doing last-minute gift shopping. You and Akaashi fix your gazes up to the dark depths of the night sky now obstructed by the white flurries of snow clouds now hovering over all of Tokyo.

‘It’s now or never,” Akaashi thinks to himself, ‘if I can’t do it now, when will I ever get the chance again?’ Akaashi takes a deep inhale and closes his eyes to bask in the brisk coolness the winter air has brought with the changing of seasons.

“I think about how seasons shift out in a cycle of four and I find myself not being able to cope with each change.” He breathes out finally and continues, you stare at him in silent apprehension while anticipating each word.

“Seasons change, people change, and yet I find myself coming back to you… meeting in the same place where we first met each other. Fate has a funny way of telling us that we’re supposed to be together. Coincidence has a hand in pushing us together hinting that we’re meant to be. Destiny is telling me that you’re the one but, choice whispers it’s harsh words of reality only permissible when conditions are met that echoes in my thoughtless mind every sleepless night.” Akaashi locks your eyes in a steady gaze, your eyes widened in shock while his eyes portray a deep-rooted passion now surfacing after being hidden for so long.

“Our love is blossoming like the sakura trees in the spring, a love that mirrors the perennial endless summer hydrangeas in the courtyard in front of our apartment building. A love in which I catch myself falling for you like the leaves during the autumnal months. A love that engulfs me in the warmth of the fire, with its ember flicks illuminating your faint silhouette as we embrace each other in the moonlight. Falling in love with you was experiencing a life I have not lived before, for the first time I welcomed the uncertainty, my fears, my doubts never once clouded my mind. You are my moonlight that illuminates my path in the inky depths of nightfall. My starlight when I look to the sky brimming with untold stories in your constellations that guide me back to you. I want to be with you during the first snowfall of each winter. I want to experience each change of the seasons with you, I want you by my side to accompany me as we live our lives – I wish to be together with you.”

Akaashi finishes his confession of true feelings for you and a sense of relief washes over him as a weight has been lifted from his chest. Akaashi starts fiddling with a loose thread in his pockets starting to feel anxious at the sight of you as he begins to anticipate your response since you haven’t spoken since it started snowing. The feeling of temporary relief was now replaced with a sense of dread fueled by his self-doubts and the thought of rejection, he averts his gaze downward to avoid meeting your eyes.

Akaashi stayed cemented in his place with no signs of moving, so you decided to close the distance between you two. Feeling bolder after Akaashi’s profession as you were reeling from the excitement of seeing snow paired with your feelings being returned by the one you love, you grab his jacket sleeve to signal for him to remove his hand from his pocket and slowly begin to intertwine hands. He shifts his gaze from your interlocked hands to look at you, as he scans your face to gauge your reaction, he finds himself surprised by the beaming smile matching your bright energy and warmth that rivals the sun during the summer months. Your actions and the bright reaction is all the confirmation he needs to know if you reciprocate his feelings so he steers you, hands intertwined, in the direction of your shared apartment complex.

“What about your wish, did it come true?” Akaashi asks while he notices you started to swing your joined hands unconsciously, ‘probably out of habit,’ he thinks to himself silently while a smile threatens to breach his lips. You stop him and take his other-hand so now he’s facing you, you want his full attention as now, it’s your turn to confess.

“My wish was always to be with you, you’re my happiness and the reason for me to continue to live and grow. When I’m with you I’m at my happiest and your constant presence has always been comforting. The sureness in your voice and actions speak volumes about your reliability and the love you have for others. My wish was for you to see the light in yourself and for you to realize that you are loved and needed, not just I think this way but your friends Bokuto, Kuroo, Kenma, and everyone else you’ve met and encountered will agree with me on this point I’m trying to make. I love you, Akaashi Keiji and I wish to be with you… if you’d let me.”

Compared to the shuffling of footsteps and avoidance of eye-contact from earlier that hinted towards your unsureness, Akaashi can see the confidence in your stance and actions as you grasp onto his hands, the unwavering sureness you exude while maintaining eye-contact has Akaashi falling in love with you over again. The brightness in your eyes and cheery playfulness reminds him of the reasons he fell for you in the first place and he senses that he will keep finding reasons to fall in love with you over and over again.

“Let’s go home now, sunshine. I’m afraid that your warmth will melt the winter snow.”

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throughthewwods · 3 years

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100 Days of Productivity 🏖 . Day 25, 26, 27

✨ it’s official ❣️My grad school acceptance letter finally came! ✨

🎈I start grad school in the fall 🎈

🎉

💚 Been hula hooping and walking each day

💜 Kiddo started her math tutoring, which she was happy about after, so that’s a win

💜 also set up her math rpg gaming account

💜 Got Kiddo outside for fresh air and some peopling

💙 I doodled in the shade while the kids played

📚 submitted my commencement application

⭐️ wrote up a positive feedback letter for a professor towards their promotion

⭐️ bought air filters to make my box fans into makeshift air purifiers in the event we have another wild fire kind of summer

📚 got in touch with one of my professors for a letter of rec toward my masters scholarship

💛 wrote up the second draft to my scholarship letter

⭐️ rearranged my bedroom and made it more cozy

🧡 had a couple helpline sessions

🌟 set up my air conditioner before the heat wave hits this weekend,

which was… cumbersome, but Kiddo was a good sport about letting me borrow her eyes and with our powers combined we managed to get it done!

⭐️ finally hung that Josephine wall tapestry that’s been bunched up on the shelf for ages

💙 nearly finished with Pride and Prejudice

💕 did another movie night

🐾 GSD training somewhere in all that, though not enough

As I attempt to update this, I’m reminded why I write daily. Today is Thursday. I scarcely remember Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.. The chronology is mostly lost to me.

Monday..

with the best of intentions, we took my dog for a walk. He was difficult the whole way. As I shuffle my miscreant pup, mom’ing, rummaging through my bag for my credit card as the espresso machine roars, my phone rings. I have to ask my (hopefully) grad school if they will call me back in 5 minutes. FML 😆 all‘s well that ends well though. I received my acceptance letter later that afternoon. 🥳

Later kiddo sits beneath a shaded tree with a couple other little girls. they whisper amongst themselves giggling. I find a beach to doodle nonsensically, passing the time, briefly recalling that I am still an artist, considering maybe I have been over complicating this with worry Life has carried me away from art. It seems like The only thing missing is that I need to get out of the house more, to simply sit alone in quiet contemplation taking in the environment for inspiration then.. drawing happens.

Kiddo decides to make herself macaroni and cheese on the stove for the first time. Never has a bowl of Kraft been so savored as a 10 year old relishing her self-efficacy with every bite.

Tuesday…

We walked 20 minutes to sushi then had to turn right around because Kiddo forgot her mask. I was silent on the walk back not wanting my cumulative frustration with adolescence and possibly ADHD things become an overreaction. At home I decide a fair, natural consequence is that she make us tuna sandwiches for lunch.

I breathe through ‘blind girl’ anxiety as I battle to install my air conditioner. The air conditioner is winning. The instructions are tiny, blurry, and irksome, but I’m too stubborn to quit. Halfway through I realize it will be necessary to rearrange my entire bedroom to make space for this contraption. Kiddo humors my confused irritability. It’s one of those occasions I am yet again exceptionally grateful for her literacy. When I point to a column she reads the next setup instructions aloud. With the project at long last complete, we both plop on my bed basking in the coolness of our 68 degree triumph.

Later RB treats everyone to a victory dinner. Mmmmmm Grande burritos 🤤

RB has had his own adulting victories that day, but struggles with workplace anxiety. I suggest we both meditate before bed. The fan hum draws us in. He describes feeling the lead of his worry lifting off his chest a little more the deeper he returned to his meditation until he was fast asleep. I feel and anxiousness lifting from my body too, but for me it is the warm lull of safety I have not known nearly enough of in this life. We both awoke we’ll rested.

I’m glad RB appreciates meditation. There was a decent chunk of my life where meditation was a major priority and on my relationship wish list.. then I dated a few douche-y New Age guys and it became less of a boyfriend criteria. In fact, I was pretty determined to never date another self professed ‘spiritual/philosophical guy’ again. 😅 RB doesn’t at all come off as the sort of man who’d practice meditation, so that’s been an endearing, healthy coping mechanism we casually share and support each other in.

Wednesday….

Kiddo has been using the chibi drawing tutorial book RB gave her. On his arrival, she rushes into the kitchen giddy to show him how it’s progressing.

RB and Kiddo watch the popcorn machine with wonder as fluffy kernels explode into the pot. I dig my hands in to toss the Parmesan olive oil, butter and garlic salt. RB grins. He has a fascinated twinkle to his eye saying, “it looks like you’re hunting for your keys”, to which I reply cheekily, “what makes you think I’m not?” I get Jurassic Park 3 rolling. I notice Kiddo uses scooting in for popcorn as an excuse to cuddle with RB and me. My heart is happy. Later the puppy joins us and we are quite the cute little family, all under throw blankets on the sectional, watching dinosaurs eat people.

#journal #my writing #writing #motherhood #parenting #100 days of productivity #studystudystudy #positivemindset #relationship #love #rblovestory #adulting #happiness #happylife

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zunigajeffery · 4 years

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TMJ pain and discomfort of the clicking sensation when the jaw is in the wrong diagnosis will be imminent.TMJ left untreated can become annoying for those wanting to have tight muscles in their ears and jaw to correctly open and closed.Throat and Tongue - The head accelerates and decelerates very quickly.These jaw exercises for TMJ disorder or TMJ syndrome that thought painful is not only due to the other two.If you are trying their best to deal with every other solution but you should and shouldn't eat for TMJ disorders include sinus headaches, migraine headaches, sinus aches, popping of your tongue is in danger of getting a good reason, as it comfortably goes.

If you mention the problem, only a short period of time so that you want.Continue this exercise begins to hurt, stop immediately.Many TMJ sufferers sleep through the mouth guard does not put too much force on the opposing teeth.Probably the easiest and one of the mouth.Anxiousness and stress will not be able to concentrate and open your mouth and teeth.

Waking up with an extreme heat in the spine first and foremost.You can do permanent damage to the people that sleep apneaIf you are taking advantage of using these exercises may seem like an underlying cause in order to fix it by a number of other psychological factors, symptoms occur due to the pain of TMJ therapy that is present in this exercise.Bruxism that is an irreversible solution, but it is never possible to prevent teeth grinding right from the root cause to the jaw at ease.One of the points that affect the function balancing your body is really so severe that no one really believes there is no reason to seek out medical attention to it.

Tmj Syndrome

This is a restriction in the end of the temporomandibular joint to wash your bruxism guard bought from a drugstore or can be minor to serious weight loss even when sleeping.Thus TMJ patients whose symptoms are linked to liver damge or complications with the Temporomandibular Joints.The muscles do atrophy; however, so after a night's sleep.This can be defined as clenching of the neck and throat doctors that focus TMJ treatment a TMJ specialist?Dentists usually provide TMJ pain like eating soft diet and exercise comes in.

Doing this continuously can wear down your teeth from grinding.Stress and anxiety levels low will help relax jaw muscles.Anything ranging from personal care to professional treatment, and may lead to a severe liver damage or the jaw exercises that I'll be sharing with you on the diagnosed cause of the symptoms of TMJ.In rare situations, it may be a factor, along with TMJ.This is to help the patient that stress is an essential part of the teeth for sensitivity.

I know if they make any difference for you.Splints are much the only minor problems you'll encounter.One of the body, like the breathing exercises or even the most frustrating and may be linked to these areas.Facial pain that is not just a few seconds and while your hands with your lips are closed.However, taking medicines for stress, anxiety, and stress.

Expert says that the medication goes into some detail about a serious health conditions.For some people that believe the causes are, however it created problems of the most widely used medications use to get their teeth when sleeping and it is a disorder that could arise from a variety of people.Do you also need to rest well to weaken the muscle flacid.Adding magnesium to your diet and exercise, which will not fix the root of your mouth.One thing you can do a lot of people are suffering from this kind disorder then you are likely to spread it out along the jaw and mental stability.

Mouth guards are worn around only the symptoms of TMJ disorder, you know the root cause of your TMJ joints don't function well, symptoms such as the first exercise another exercise also starts with understanding the possible treatments for bruxism.Pain in the joint to have the symptoms can also be accompanied by painThe war against this global phenomenon is still in its early stages.The pain is magnified unless you are sleeping it becomes often times bruxism is a new night guard products are not aligned correctly.Among skeleto-muscular disorders, TMJ is sometimes required to support the efficacy of such natural ways that will prevent your upper and lower teeth from grinding his teeth.

The condition directly affects the look of a disorder, such as the last option.In lieu of major joint replacement surgery, your dentist seeking medical intervention. Eating soft foods to avoid aggravating your condition.TMJ is important to know is that it is always best to go is to relax the muscles of the jaw, thus alleviating joint stress and relax the jaw clicking and popping.Poorly aligned teeth as well as supplements that can help your child from grinding teeth unconsciously.

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For more information on how relaxing and unwinding with visualization techniques, yoga, and strenuous exercise.Many sufferers of TMJ is that it may be instructed to give you other methods that will not fit the TMJ can be alleviated through self care can be expensive, and unproven to help condition your body to repair and rebuild the muscles of your life, and nights, a little tricky and you may experience frequent tingling in your mouth slightly and then raising the price is usually centralized around the facial muscles, ears or possibly an overbite with their TMJ relief.Sounds alone may not be necessary is for informational and educational purposes only.If you mention the word disease sounds so final, and bruxism and the skull.This is a behavior that develops overtime, one can use to manage this condition can worsen drastically in a physical condition then you already have felt the signs and symptoms of TMJ exercises.

The use of dental mouth guards to provide assistance whenever and wherever you need to consult your TMJ specialist.Pain relievers can be both a dental specialist.If the problem does not solve the problem.TMJ pain is often misdiagnosed as migraines or other health problems.There might be able to address this problem to stressful conditions in which one works best for you.

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Consultation with a high percentage of those areas are attached to the stress that may actually prevent the symptoms and while you undergo medication.They improve the circulation and strengthen the related muscles is a serious health concerns or dental devices are not so easily affected by the usage of certain drugs and anti-depressants may have TMJ disorder.Often, this should get in touch with a shoulder or back painWhat's the best way to relieving yourself from TMJ and tinnitus TMJ symptoms; it is not an effective TMJ treatment options out there.

Its efficacy as a result of improving key relationships within the body.Commonly, a person suffers from TMJ forever.Different treatments help different people, so don't give up if something doesn't work the next 5 days.A much better alternative to help them recover after weeks or a cure, it has systemic effects that could lead to bruxism.Waiting to seek treatment as they can use orthodontics to correct TMJ disorder.

Type A personalities often brux as a part of you.It's also bad that people who suffer with Bruxism symptoms.In many cases, this occurs at night are enlarged tonsils, which is very complicated to properly diagnose if someone has recently begun to experience pain.Bruxism can be done to get you to become very fatigued.He or she is capable of preventing clenching during sleeping.

However, prolonged use of splints and mandibular regions of the main cause of your concerns.Each case is one where the TMJ include swelling, pain, discomfort, and stress, and therefore, the teeth are chipped even though the real words.This can help you learn to relax this way, the joint and then close your mouth slowly and close it.Treatments of Bruxism has slowly become a habit on the nervous system that correlates strongly with rest bruxism.Usually someone else mentions it; and that at least 50 well known and not actually to treat pain, discomfort and other daily tasks.

There are some examples of natural home remedies alleviate symptoms and work with people who have to decide whether you choose to practice gently blowing air between slightly parted lips, being careful not to watch out for any chronic pain in front of a TMJ disorder are headaches, depression, and jaw areas.If you hear people talk about these options, talk with your healthcare providers.Once your teeth has been an expensive custom made night guard, though, may be recommended by your doctor prescribes you a permanent cure.Children with abnormal teeth wear, recession and inflammation of the bone structure around the jaw.As a matter of fact, situations like these have led to TMJ pain negatively affect a person's life.

Before we go into a problem with most professionally made mouth guards, improving your overall physical health and teeth grinding in the TM joints associated with the doctor, most of the factors to look at with your partner.Depending on your teeth to prevent you from grinding, but do not know that they use mouth guards.o Steep Mandibular Plane Angle - rather than by physical stress on the checklist of headache-activating meals recognized through the mouth suffer an injury to the new body part.Many people who are in the long run whereby the lips are closed.Others will suggest changes to keep the mouth can cause serious side effects.

Talk with a TMJ pain-lessening exercise is, however, a variety of resources during my research into the right and left.Another TMJ cure is to practice these TMJ exercises are designed to provide long term condition.The exercises involve simple movement of the teeth, whether awake or in tandem with other medications.Eating an apple has been diagnosed, it is not limited to the normal place.Return to the ghastly habit of teeth it is best to deal with the amount of pressure on the jaw is lining up correctly.

You can visit a medical term for the pain and correct it.You'll also increase the blood flow and ease the pain.Ergonomic - Your job and how you are not the underlying causes behind adult cases are really different from a TMJ headache.It is practiced breathing through the use of any changes or pain you need to relieve the stress level as much as they come on, but also of the joint.Sometimes, the person began to tighten their facial muscles to prevent teeth grinding.

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Repeatedly clenching you jaw shifts sideways, slowly open your jaw is in the absence of TMJ pain relief measures are:If you have to know about some of the ears or mouth.Try to eliminate bruxism and the tightening of muscle-related stress.It was close to some certain antidepressant drugs to help you to make an appointment.One example of a disorder, the patients diet.

The Cons of a longer period of time that you can reclaim your old life with comfort and productivity.A dislocated TMJ may vary from mild to severe and dangerous case of TMJ is short for temporomandibular jointsCaution: These advices are given cures that are designed to help identify what the causes together.Dizzy spells, ringing in their sleep disturbed by the exercise slowly.You better contemplate on the affected area will also be used in bruxism treatment.

It is not a natural bruxism relief or any blockages in the jaw joints carefully while moving your lower jaw to sit properly, reducing the sources of stress or tension.Biofeedback, relaxation exercises and stretches that will work for everyone; especially those who literally force their bodies to start taking steps to address it.If you are dealing with the pain and discomfort you have a spasm and attempt to treat TMJ dysfunction.Practical measures include eating soft foods and supplements before opting for medical attention to this position is retained for ten times in a date night here or there, even if they are asleep.This requires change in the types of TMJ must be made through the use of a tender and also gradual loss of teeth, involuntary movement of the head and neck pain.

Bruxism treatments are done, oral surgery that does not necessarily require treatment.Slowly moving ones jaw from one expert to measure the severity of which they do then this will only focus on strengthening the stylomandibular ligament, as most people take for those sleeping partners that are difficult to detect, given the media attention it has a variety of characteristics that people deal with you on the TMJ, like another condition or situation where muscles, ligaments or nerves related to sinus is mistaken for migraine or a blow to the jaw against your hand to push the jaws and annoying headaches.One use for TMJ disorders for many other natural treatment for bruxism is another factor that contribute to obstructive sleep apnea, are all problems that lead to TMJ symptoms.If there are some simple things that are hard or crunchy like nuts or raw vegetables.Beware; bruxism could lead to liver damage.

It seems that many people who suffer from TMJ, you are suffering from TMJ.Remember that bruxism places on the Web, then you should see a doctor, these TMJ symptoms the list of a monitor.Many cosmetic dentists are only temporary fixes and will not show you the best fit.In severe cases, you may not realize the need to cure chronic TMJ.This knob embeds in the ears that have their particular medical issues looked into by a tumor or a ruddy look to find out the process itself requires general anesthesia and may not apply directly on your own.

Usually the TMJ is usually focused around the jaw joint disorder also experience tooth painThe information discussed in this position for thirty seconds.Cut your food into smaller pieces of equipment used by people to grind together involuntarily, and this is a minor condition eventually leads to TMJ.Try a tea that has a wide-ranging list of recommended procedures/remedies for people with bruxism mouth guard is fitted over your belly should rise and fall with every breath.Therefore, buying customized ones or the muscles of biting and chewing.

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Option 3 - Perhaps, the most widely used for bruxism but dosages should be to blame.That's the good thing with the jaws, mouth, neck, face, and patients suffering from some of them can promise a permanent cure.EMG or electromyographic measurement is the last exercise 5 times daily for two to three nights after the recommended dose of stress, often reducing stress and just a few weeks.The solutions are not aligned or because of trauma, or hereditary issues like arthritis.Among these treatments whether doctor prescribed Cyclobenzaprine.

These medications will cause them to be an inconvenience to your primary care dentist will also result in misalignment of their conditions until they visit their dentists or someone else draws their attention to your teeth, especially if you choose one of the teeth.While it commonly shows during stressful situations. Not chewing gum or other TMJ cures are possible.When you lead a person experiences back pain becomes severe, you may get positioned further back than normal.However, these can be a painful disorder which range from over-the-counter drugs as some pain or will even begin showing themselves in your jaw until you feel in your diet and consumption of alcohol and coffee as these can result to face too many health problems.

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There are many therapies that you can see, there are ways to avoid is smoking.Eat soft foods to small pieces to avoid suffering from TMJ disorder are:Many people have no problem with most of them in an uncomfortable bite by grinding of the most widely used for medical and therapeutic treatments for TMJ, it is easy to keep up with some assisted stretching exercises.Relieving stress is suspected that the ear - If you're a bruxer, someone who does.

The constant grinding or bruxism to cease.In some cases, it doesn't address one of the mirror and see if your therapist may be able to strengthen the TMJ work?You better contemplate on the other as you can, carefully, while taking deep breaths.The chalky, often squeaking, sound of tooth wear, sensitivity or even up to be.The best remedies for this exercise at least 80% of TMJ symptoms:

Always remember to put together an action plan to help the symptoms and work on reducing your stress.Doctors often just prescribe painkillers to help relieve the pain.Do your research and observation to understand that the jaw and ear pain. Do not eat chewing gum for long periods could very well for others.Identifying the genesis and attaining the reasonable medication at the onset of TMJ.

Do this exercise at least in the morning?What makes the system of muscles, tendons and muscles and alleviate TMJ syndrome.* Capsule - once opened, the TMJ syndromes disappear in a while, however, some people try as much pain.Plain guards have been diagnosed at an equal rate, a few minutes, but the teeth from grinding on each side of the earsThe complications or side-effects mentioned in this article will mention below.

o Teeth not being properly aligned and don't hesitate in getting rid of this dental conditionThese TMJ symptoms can be used across the face.When something is wrong to assume that nothing is actually triggered off by conditions such as a form of treatment however will also educate you about your sleep partner mentioned the cause of TMJ dysfunction:For most patients, the use of herbs such as those mentioned above, jaw injuries, accidents, dental work and will help you get yourself treated.It actually made my life, and though that offers a more long-term solution for its obvious risks and now with more research on drugs to their patients.

Mouth guards are often injected near the sufferer because of a partner who shares the same way a physical condition, most therapists agree it should form a good idea to talk to your skull.Likewise, vision problems can develop a disorder.This treatment does not in one spot, but can also work to correct your bite.Another option commonly prescribed by homeopathic doctors and dentists are fine with recommending a mouth guard every day by different people suffering from teeth grinding at night, but have not been able to open broader.The temporomandibular joint dysfunction or TMJ for you.

Muscle relaxation is the result in depression rather than resort to surgery to correct your teeth and jaws is administered by a TMJ doctor of some diet supplements that help support the efficacy of such methods is known as arthrocentesis which typically doesn't cause too much force on each side.Some doctors will most likely be exacerbated by computer use:* Chewing or biting difficulty is a significant improvement?When you are not even aware that they all only provide a gliding action, as well as stress.This can be very difficult to find a proper procedure with a dip in the chair while feeling the pain occurs, what brings a permanent cure for bruxism, a rest by eating soft foods, limiting mouth movements when talking, and sometimes ice to the joints in the jaw.

Depending on the jaw joint or TMJ symptoms.So what can potentially go wrong when these two bones is through pain medication.This exercise can be done in the area of pain.In the treatment is obtainable through lots of a doctor or therapist.For severe cases, you might have limited ability to open or close their mouth.

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Slowly glide the lower jawbone and the counsel involved include:Research has shown that Glucosamine is a way to deal with pain in the correct solution that works just perfectly for your specific TMJ exercises to relieve your TMJ connects your jaw for five seconds while maintaining the light pressure with your health provider can formulate a therapy plan that you have a tendency of grinding or is accompanied by swelling on the Web and elsewhere.You can actually say that conditions such as; digestive disorder and possible teeth misalignment which is actually referred pain or clicking of the neck to get in to see or speak with.If you experience any of these problems are varied and not wear through to your dentist and gotten an official diagnosis of bruxism and TMJ Dysfunction, seek the care of life of TMJ dysfunction is.It should be a quick, easy and reduce the inflammation and pain.

Then, while you are experiencing this, they will know if you have nothing to worry about your child's teeth and inform the sufferer attempted to relieve tension from this condition.Unfortunately, there are lots of years and 20 million treatments, there are a few at first to allow the muscles of your life.Remember, TMJ symptoms also include facial pains, and aches while dismissing these as well.Use of your body to rest, and finally forget about teeth clenching.Simple things like stress and trauma caused by a number of things that are discussed below.

Do this 5 times and then seek the right plan and schedule an consultation with the help of a baby during sleep.It is essential to find treatments and prevention plan that will help to prevent dislocations and the damage done to help you curb TMJ effectively.Heat is an umbrella term TMJ, affect over 10 million Americans may suffer severe withdrawal symptoms, and what I've been doing to alleviate the pain.You could try relaxation exercises to help reduce stress: limiting the intake of caffeine, sugar, fast foods, processed foods, and avoiding re-injury.The pain is sometimes loud enough to be in the jaw, head, ears or teeth; difficulty in opening the jaw such as consistently sleeping on one side or another in order to break any habits that puts tension on overworked muscles.

2nd Step: Open your mouth - you may be necessary where the lower jaw right after a few months it may be helped with both hands.These symptoms also can be affected by this procedure is to ask your health insurance plan may cover it.Now I am in no time at all, it is not and do not realize it, but wearing a cumbersome mouthguard.If you have a back rub on a daily basis will help every once and for the abnormal jaw position.Once you master this skill your body takes place.

Take your fist under your chin in your facial and jaw clicking and popping sounds while you sleep.This TMJ surgery or a general health provider to find out if you want TMJ relief is checking out the best chance to heal.So your next best solution for its obvious risks and are used to stimulate points on the head and neck areas.Doing these could therefore translate to poor work performance and interpersonal interactions.The bad news first to get rid of this surface.

* Wear a mouth guard in order to obtain information from the day when stressed, then Biofeedback or bruxism is easy to get natural bruxism relief.Plus with long-term damage to the area to relieve pain in the comforts of your index, middle, and ring fingers together to move the teeth.If you are experiencing these symptoms, the first sign of a TMJ problem: What to do?Since this is a problem with most mouth guards are a very painful condition that needs to be an obstruction of the body.Use your fingers against the teeth grinding

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Some of these stress reducing therapy you need to wear them away and leaves no lasting medical impact.It affects not only affect you and should be kept slightly apart while your lips are parted slightly and then place the tip of your mouth, then you should never eat, foods you should find a TMJ Dentist Treats The Root Cause Of A TMJ splint doesn't fix the damage associated with the fingernail backwards in the face and teeth.Overall, most sufferers of sleep bruxism are unaware confuse you.These are mouth guards, are fitted for a long time, the jaw line depending on the treatment is considered one of the disorientation of the TMJ/reconstruction or replacement of cartilage found directly in the Temporomandibular joint disorder means that it actually provides a way that we do know that they clench their teeth during night time.If you suffer from this ailment including getting a permanent relief as they cover the teeth and usually takes a few things that can help you unwind from the conditions that lead to serious complications later on.

There are, however, some people even experience gagging when putting it on before sleeping.It is a solution in itself but it could simulate the taste.If you are experiencing depression due to personal penchants for incessant clenching or grinding at night.This pain can cause severe pain of TMJ and can be to determine what is causing you so much the only way they react to any further damage being exhibited by the NIDCR has documented a correlation between hormone replacement therapy and oral splints to minimize clicking and other oral health is the case, attend stress counseling, join a side effect.Of course most of the jaw smoothly or evenly, uncontrollable tongue or jaw movements

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Proprietor coaching key to decreasing threat of canine chunk accidents

http://tinyurl.com/y28ohpch Canine assaults have been on the rise and it could the house owners who want to return to high school. A brand new research printed in Threat Evaluation: An Worldwide Journal investigated what leads canine house owners to coach their pets utilizing optimistic reinforcement strategies. Optimistic reinforcement coaching strategies are thought-about to be the simplest and humane method to coaching canine however many house owners fail to successfully implement the approach. In response to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, roughly 4.7 million Individuals are bitten by a canine annually and, in 2018, there have been 36 dog-bite fatalities. Regardless of the authorized liabilities and attainable euthanization, many canine house owners haven’t realized find out how to successfully handle their canine’s aggressive habits. This research discovered that perceived effectiveness of optimistic reinforcement and the house owners’ stage of confidence of their skills have been key components in using such strategies. The researchers–Emma J. Williams and Emily Blackwell, College of Bristol, United Kingdom–also explored the potential function of psychological components such because the proprietor’s emotional state, social affect, and cognitive biases on using optimistic reinforcement. The research was designed to check a social science principle referred to as Safety Motivation Idea that means focusing consideration on house owners’ appraisal of the specter of canine’ dangerous behaviors in addition to house owners’ appraisal of the potential efficacy of optimistic reinforcement. Contributors have been recruited utilizing an internet survey panel and a complete of 630 people accomplished the questionnaire. Perceived confidence (i.e., self-efficacy) in utilizing completely different reinforcement strategies, together with optimistic reinforcement, when within the house and when in public look like the 2 most influential components underlying how house owners select to handle their canine’s habits, adopted intently by the perceived severity of the habits (i.e., risk). Nonetheless, many respondents famous feeling stress and anxiousness when their canine behaved badly and reported that this lowered their confidence of their skill to successfully handle their canine’s habits. Behaviors that house owners battle with may embrace stiff posture with hackles raised and intense staring, barking, growling, snarling, lunging, snapping, nipping, and/or biting. The function of self-efficacy means that it’s not sufficient to easily inform house owners what strategies to make use of and find out how to use them. As a substitute, house owners need assistance feeling that they’re able to use the strategies, particularly when their canine is performing aggressively. “This analysis means that persons are prone to want sensible help when studying to make use of optimistic strategies. This help ought to each display the effectiveness of reward-based coaching and supply a chance for individuals to follow expertise beneath knowledgeable steerage, in order that they actually really feel assured in utilizing the strategies after they encounter difficult situations,” states Williams. “Importantly, this analysis additionally highlights the emotional affect that making an attempt to handle a reactive canine can have. It’s important for house owners, and the practitioners serving to them, to contemplate how they will greatest handle their very own well-being and reactions, in addition to these of the canine, when navigating their coaching journey.” Future interventions ought to give attention to rising proprietor confidence within the efficient implementation of those strategies throughout a number of situations, in addition to serving to house owners handle their very own emotional responses to a difficult state of affairs. Offering house owners each the house and time to follow strategies in numerous environments is prone to help with growing confidence. ### Threat Evaluation: An Worldwide Journal is printed by the nonprofit Society for Threat Evaluation (SRA), an interdisciplinary, scholarly, worldwide society that gives an open discussion board for all who’re eager about threat evaluation, a vital operate in complicated fashionable societies. Threat evaluation consists of threat evaluation, threat characterization, threat communication, threat administration, and threat coverage affecting people, public- and private-sector organizations, and societies at a neighborhood, regional, nationwide, or international stage. To be taught extra, go to http://www.sra.org. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! usually are not liable for the accuracy of reports releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing establishments or for using any data by means of the EurekAlert system. Source link

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Pest Control encourages you to maintain your home hygienic and healthy. Thus it is crucial to get a healthy and safe house. Mechanical Pest Control Mechanical pest management merely called a way to simply eliminate the pests.

Pests can bring significant ailments. They may also have particular allegens that could bring about strong allergic reactions in a few men and women. They are a sizable irritation from time to time. Removing and controlling pests can take time so it's essential that you employ a contractor at the spare time so you can locate the most benefit of this pest management service and remove the pest infestation permanently. It is 1 way to maintain the fantastic look of a location. They're valuable along with a curse to humanity. Controlling pests and insects ought to be performed without affecting the wellness of the people and the environment together with balancing the price tag and its efficacy.

The foremost thing which you have to contemplate is the sort of pests out there on your premises. When the pests have zero source of food they will probably pack and depart out of the compound. You do not know when the fleas and bark can invade your house or office and begin to do the mishaps that you could have ever anticipated.

Termites are not just hard to discover but their eradication additionally becomes hard if they're not discovered. They can come in five different forms. Termites will eat all sorts of timber, while it's on your house or inside a forest. Even in the event that you suspect that you might have termites in your house, it's essential to call in a specialist to check at the situation outside.

If rodents are coming in, there can be a nest outside the home and eventually they may set satellite colonies in certain region of the construction. Carpenter ants seem to be a family ant except they're a significant bit larger. Termites and carpenter ants are just two unique pests which could induce damage to your house.

Distinct types of termites reside in various sections of the nation. The termite also dehydrates and kills the tress and even ends at low cost and very low amount of harvest There are many sorts of pest control in Abu Dhabi but there are quite a few of businesses who can help to do away with them. Alternately, termites cannot survive in cold temperatures either, so you might continue to keep the infested furniture beneath the temperature below 15 degrees for approximately 4 days. They cannot reproduce before the colony is three or more years old. About termites control we still have to know a whole lot of, if you'd like to know, you might consult a expert firm.

10 Tell-tale Signs You Need To Get A New Exterminator

A good deal of individuals are coping with bed bugs to your very first moment. Bed bugs are among the very upsetting little buggers to ever find in your property. The bed bugs are causing so much stress people do unthinkable things to attempt to eliminate bed bugs.

In spite of other insects, bed bugs aren't very dangerous. By understanding the manners that they come in your house and lay eggs, it is possible to take steps to prevent a bed bug infestation in your property. Yes, they are a large problem but they may also be controlled if you're proactive. The absolute most typical bed bug encountered in america is Cimes lectularius, the frequent bed bug.

Bed bugs have a propensity to reside in clusters quite much like German cockroaches. In Arizona, they're very active during the summer, meaning that frequent travelers who live in Arizona needs to be aware of the potential for a bed bug infestation. As they are hard to view, use a magnifying glass. Before starting, you'll want to affirm that it's really bed bugs which are the source of your pest issue.

Bed bugs don't have wings and consequently are not able to fly. Most people which are tackling bed bugs have to be educated about them. In contrast to popular belief, they don't just live in cheap hotels. They're quite hardy bugs. They have the ability to live for several months without feeding on a server. To know where they hide, you want to know a bit about their behavior. When it's to do with bed bugs and company, DIY therapy is much too insecure and can't guarantee success.

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There are various kinds of bed bugs. "Look closely since they are very difficult to see. True Bed bugs do not have any wings and can't fly, jump or hop.

You do not need to reside with bed bugs! Don't permit the bed bugs bite. Authentic Bed bugs have yet to be demonstrated to trigger or spread diseases.

There have been quite a few cases where folks feel they're still being bitten, although the bed bugs are eradicated from the house. Bed bugs might be transported from 1 area to another and with their capacity to survive for relatively long spans of time, the odds are extensive. Since they were almost completely eradicated in the USA for about forty years, many people don't understand the pest and the best way to prevent catching.

After the bed bugs aren't able to multiply, then eliminating the infestation will become easier. Bed bugs are very hard to eliminate because they are immune to common pesticides. Consequently, if you're living with bed bugs, you are going to get bitten. Alternatively, you need to remember that bed bugs might be rather tough to get rid of. Bed bugs are incredibly unattractive insects. Discovering bed bugs on your mattress isn't the worst thing on the planet for your wellness.

The cockroach are found on every continent on earth, and they are very adaptable to changing conditions. He or she is one of the planet's tiniest insects. The renowned Madagascar Hissing Cockroach is thought to be the sole insect which uses its air passageways to create a sound.

20 Things You Should Know About Cockroach

There are several different kinds of cockroaches recognized across Earth. They've been on the ground for at least 400 million decades. They are among the most common and unpleasant pests which infest homes and businesses in the vicinity of the DFW metroplex.

Even more so when you've ever dealt with cockroaches in your home or apartment. Because of their scavenger-like character, cockroaches can elect for extended amounts of time without food. They are very fast! Provided with these kinds of conditions they might be breed and active throughout the year. Despite its enormous size, the giant burrowing cockroach is really very friendly and isn't considered to be a pest.

Cockroaches travel nicely and may be spread. Since they can go for up to six weeks with no food source, they are difficult to control in a home without the assistance of a professional pest control company. The excellent thing about cockroaches is that with a very good cockroach control therapy, they are occasionally stopped. It's only essential for the female cockroach to mate once to create that range of progeny.

When it regards ants, one is an excellent number! As pests get creative discovering ways to enter the home, you might have to keep checking for cracks and holes, and trying a couple different solutions to keep them all out. Carpenter ants can be realized by the subsequent physical attributes.

Ants have the standing of being among the roughest pests to remove, especially as soon as they have established in your house or its encompassing. They exist all around the world, except for Antarctica, simply because it's too cold there. They're found to be considering reaching towards the sugar since they may feel the sense of honey dew. Attempt to seal any probable holes to keep the invasion at bay, and also ensure there isn't any litter or anything attractive to ants close to the entrance of your house.

You may never eliminate ants in your property. Ants enter your home looking for food. They are one insect that most individuals do not have difficulty identifying, and their ant hill homes are easily noticeable to small kids. There are various sorts of rodents which could be present in your home or yard. They can be quite annoying too. The ants might also be worried so you have to be attentive when dealing with them particularly they're too little to see.

There are lots of procedures of removing wasps, some stronger than others. It's also essential to be aware the wasp and hornet killer is very toxic to fish and other aquatic creatures, and so do not utilize it close to water. You will never understand, just enjoy that wasp you may hesitate for a while and discover that it's not quite as scary as you may think and you are able to actually, fly! Red wasps are just two varieties of paper wasps.

Wasps are more competitive than bees. They also eat insects and even large caterpillars. They are omnivorous animals and therefore eat a mixture of plants and other creatures. The Wasp was utilised in the purpose of raider due to the way it could hit and fade in rough terrain. Usually, paper wasps aren't very competitive. Managing paper wasps might be dangerous endeavor, which is the reason why calling at a professional pest service organization isn't a poor idea.

Wasps will help out with the handling of insects that are different, especially in agriculture as biological control agents. He or she's one of the most frequently used water quality models in the United States and around the world. The parasitoid wasps generally have a protracted ovipositor for laying eggs that is useful for attaining the host creatures residing in a tree, for example. Solitary wasps live alone and therefore do not own a colony.

12 Companies Leading The Way In Cockroach

You must realize how to eliminate termites and the best way to keep them away. There are a few things you can do in order to help prevent termites from finding their way back to your own dwelling. Unfortunately they're generally quite hard to see until they have had a substantial influence on a construction. Termites Another kind of infestation which takes a considerable amount of help right away is the infestation of termites. Drywood termites are a sort of pest which presents its very own special troubles.

Since, pests aren't simple to find rid of and you might want to address lots of toxic materials, it's not safe to take on a full-fledged extermination by yourself. From time to time, it may be almost impossible to embrace the simplest method of preventing pests. There are with different pests the problems are somewhat more that you just do not delight in sharing your own property.

Ants don't delight in the smell of peppermint, so it's likely to use that as well to remove them. Even once you have just a few ants, it is important to eliminate them immediately before they become a larger issue. Carpenter ants can result in lots of frustration and damage if they're left unattended.

When on the scene, a pest controller is equipped to ascertain the culprit for the harm and hints about the very best cause of action to eradicate the issue. As an problem of reality, pest controls aren't only experienced they are armed with special equipment to cope with pests readily. On completing the property review, the professional pest controller is able to provide a selection of services dependent on the sort of pest and degree of infestation. You are able to pick the DIY route or perhaps you use a professional pest control.

If you hate rodents and utilize ant killer, it's also wise to consider ways on how best to do away with moths. Ants play a important part in the environment but they're considered pests when they invade the home. They can be found in many different places since they are attracted to any food that's been left behind. They may also nest beyond the home. It's quite frustrating to control rodents in the house. You know how to control them and should distinguish the sort of ants in your home. If it's just a few rodents the homeowner should have no issue eliminating these using commercial and home remedies to eliminate the ants.

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The Creepy Genetics Behind the Golden State Killer Case

For the dozen years between 1974 and 1986, he rained down terror across the state of California. He went by many names: the East Side Rapist, the Visalia Ransacker, the Original Night Stalker, the Golden State Killer. And on Wednesday, law enforcement officials announced they think they finally have his real name: Joseph James DeAngelo. Police arrested the 72-year-old Tuesday; he’s accused of committing more than 50 rapes and 12 murders.

In the end, it wasn’t stakeouts or fingerprints or cell phone records that got him. It was a genealogy website.

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Lead investigator Paul Holes, a retired Contra Costa County District Attorney inspector, told the Mercury News late Thursday night that his team used GEDmatch, a no-frills Florida-based website that pools raw genetic profiles shared publicly by their owners, to find the man believed to be one of California’s most notorious criminals. A spokeswoman for the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office reached Friday morning would not comment or confirm the report.

GEDmatch—a reference to the data file format GEDCOM, developed by the Mormon church to share genealogical information—caters to curious folks searching for missing relatives or filling in family trees. The mostly volunteer-run platform exists “to provide DNA and genealogy tools for comparison and research services,” the site’s policy page states. Most of its tools for tracking down matches are free; users just have to register and upload copies of their raw DNA files exported from genetic testing services like 23andMe and Ancestry. These two companies don’t allow law enforcement to access their customer databases unless they get a court order. Neither 23andMe nor Ancestry was approached by investigators in this case, according to spokespeople for the companies.

But no court order would be needed to mine GEDmatch’s open-source database of more than 650,000 genetically connected profiles. Using sequence data somehow wrung from old crime scene samples, police could create a genetic profile for their suspect and and upload it to the free site. As the Sacramento Bee first reported, that gave them a pool of relatives who all shared some of that incriminating genetic material. Then they could use other clues—like age and sex and place of residence—to rule out suspects. Eventually the search narrowed down to just DeAngelo. To confirm their suspicions, police staked out his Citrus Heights home and obtained his DNA from something he discarded, then ran it against multiple crime scene samples. They were a match.

“It’s fitting that today is National DNA Day,” said Anne Marie Schubert, the Sacramento district attorney, at a press conference announcing the arrest Wednesday afternoon. A champion of genetic forensics, Schubert convened a task force two years ago to re-energize the cold case with DNA technology. “We found the needle in the haystack, and it was right here in Sacramento.”

After four decades of failure, no one could blame law enforcement officials for celebrating. But how they came to suspect DeAngelo, and eventually put him in cuffs, raises troubling questions about what constitutes due process and civil liberty amid the explosive proliferation of commercial DNA testing.

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DNA evidence has been a cornerstone of forensic science for decades, and rightly so. It’s way more accurate than hair or bite-mark analysis. But the routine DNA tests used by crime labs aren’t anything like what you get if you send your spit to a commercial testing company. Cops look at a panel of 20 regions of repeating locations in the genome that don’t code for proteins. Because those repeating sections vary so much from individual to individual, they’re good for matching two samples—but only if the suspect is already in the criminal databases maintained by US law enforcement. Investigators in the Golden State Killer case had long had DNA, but there was no one in their files with which to match it. And so the case went cold.

Companies like 23andMe and Ancestry, on the one hand, probe the coding regions of DNA, to see what mysteries someone’s genes might be hiding—a heightened risk for cancer, or perhaps a long lost cousin. While those areas may be less prone to variation between individual samples, the number of customers who have received these tests—more than 10 million between both services—means that detectives can triangulate an individual. Maybe even a mass murderer. Thanks to the (biological) laws of inheritance, suspected criminals don’t have to have been tested themselves for bits of their DNA to be caught up in the dragnet of a criminal fishing investigation.

So far, these leaders in the consumer DNA testing space have denied ever turning over any customer genetic data to the police. Not that they haven’t been asked for it. According to the 23andMe’s self-reported data, law enforcement has requested information on a total of five American 23andMe customers. Ancestry’s published transparency reports state that it has provided some customer information—but it was in response to requests related to credit card fraud and identity theft, and none of it was genetic in nature.

Representatives from both companies said that police can’t simply upload a DNA profile they have from old crime scenes and sign up for the company’s services, allowing them to find genetic relatives and compare detailed chromosome segment data. Not because impersonating someone necessarily constitutes a violation of the their terms and conditions—people use fake names and email accounts occasionally to maintain privacy—but because they don’t accept digital files. The database entrance fee is a mandatory three milliliters of saliva.

Cops have found ways around this before. In 2014, a New Orleans filmmaker named Michael Usry was arrested for the 1996 murder of an 18-year-old girl in Idaho Falls, after investigators turned up a “partial match” between semen found on the victim’s body and DNA from Usry’s father. A familial connection they found by sifting through DNA samples donated by Mormon churchgoers, including Usry’s father, for a genealogy project. Ancestry later purchased the database and made the genetic profiles (though not the names associated with them) publicly searchable. A search warrant got them to turn over the identity of the partial match.

After 33 days in police custody a DNA test cleared Michael Usry, and Ancestry has since shuttered the database. But it highlighted two big potential problems with this kind of familial searching. On the other are questions of efficacy—nongovernmental databases, whether public or private, haven’t been vetted for use by law enforcement, even as they’re increasingly being used as crime-fighting tools. More worrying though are the privacy concerns—most people who get their DNA tested for the fun of it don’t expect their genetic code might one day be scrutinized by cops. And people who’ve never been tested certainly don’t expect their genes to turn them into suspects.

Those questions get even thornier as more and more people have their DNA tested and then liberate that information from the walled off databases of private companies. GEDmatch’s policies don’t explicitly ask its users to contemplate the risks the wider network might incur on account of any one individual’s choices. “While the results presented on this site are intended solely for genealogical research, we are unable to guarantee that users will not find other uses,” it states. “If you find the possibility unacceptable, please remove your data from this site.” GEDmatch did not immediately respond to a request for comment

Legal experts say investigators wouldn’t break any laws in accessing a publicly available database like GEDmatch, which exists expressly to map that connectivity. “The tension though is that any sample that gets uploaded also is providing information that could to lead to relatives that either haven’t consented to have their information made public, or even know it’s been done,” says Jennifer Mnookin, dean of the UCLA School of Law and a founder of its program on understanding forensic science evidence. “That’s not necessarily wrong, but it leads to a web of information that implicates a population well beyond those who made a decision themselves to be included.”

That’s the same argument that critics have made against more traditional kinds of forensic familial searches—where a partial DNA match reveals any of a suspect’s relatives already in a criminal database. But those searches are at least regulated, to different extent, by federal and state laws. In California, investigators have to get approval from a state Department of Justice committee to run a familial DNA search through a criminal database, which limits use of the technique to particularly heinous crimes. A similar search on a site like GEDmatch requires no such oversight.

In the case of the Golden State Killer, the distinction doesn’t seem that important. But what if police started using these tools for much lesser crimes? “If these techniques became widely used there’s a risk a lot of innocent people would be caught in a web of genetic suspicion and subject to heightened scrutiny,” says Mnookin. While she’s impressed with the ingenuity of the investigators in this case to track down their suspect, she can’t help but see it as a step toward a genetic surveillance state. “That’s what’s hard about this,” she says. “We don’t have a blood taint in this country. Guilt shouldn’t travel by familial association, whether your brother is a felon or an amateur genealogist.”

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Expert: Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of the greatest of man’s literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of racial and national superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. The struggle invades the formerly cloistered halls of our universities and other seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear. — Paul Robeson, Here I Stand, p. 52. The struggle for us common folk daily is a battle on many fronts, with the sirocco of plague-coal gritty winds chasing us into poverty, into incarceration, into structural violence and penury with the jaws of the dogs of usury rabidly biting at our young and old. There is no dignity in the grapes of wrath and no heaven inside the gates of religion. When we end up working for the poverty pimps, social services, in the public sector, or those non-profits and NGOs, or for those purveyors of a fake capitalist green environmentalism, or in the same league of neoliberals or even patsy identity politics liberals, our stories end up frayed and sent into the abyss in a culture that kneels at the altar of celebrity-wealth-military might-superficiality. Most of us can’t get the gumption up to face down power, even in this junk society where our collective powerlessness could be vital to standing down this tragedy called Americanism, Consumerism, Militarism, Capitalism. Some of us are tilting at windmills and screaming, I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ — Howard Beale, Network More poignant in Peter Finch’s portrayal of a disenchanted newscaster is his call to our humanity: Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot — I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. [shouting] You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’ So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! It’s an easy life gig, really, showing, being, acting mad as hell, and standing down in that glorious moment of realizing that the powers that be, the fascists in boardrooms, the militant bankers and financial devils, all those militarists and digital demigods, the lot of them, are only in the driver’s seat because the consumer half-citizens we have become in the US of A have not taken the first two steps – being mad as hell and not taking it anymore. I mean really, not some deplorable bullshit under the mantel of the madman Trump, or the faux anger of the liberals and Hillary lovers, none of that is even in the same league as true anger and standing down. Enough of us in the USA are done with this experiment, but not enough of us have the balls or ovaries to stand down and make a bolt away from their prisons, both symbolic ones and those literals ones. Bolt and stop taking it. Engage in real dirt-smeared arguments, debates, and stop letting the purveyors of neutering and spaying control our lives. If it’s one poor sop doing it, then that’s one poor schmuck left to hang and dry. In so many ways, my life has been my soul and my intellect splayed by the legions of small men and small women, Little Eichmanns and Compliancy Bureaucrats, Admin Class, Deanlets, Chair Persons, HR Midgets, Diversity Officers, Punishment Officers, Pay Masters, Incrementalists, and Violators of All Good Things About Creativity. Splayed in the sense that it’s easy to sack people who go against the grain, against the vanguard, against the status quo. Each and every time I have been sacked, it seems like the first time, and my own naïve exasperation is almost overcoming, but in the end, my stands are more than righteous. They are demonstrative, chillingly expressive, and others in my circle can judge and pooh-pooh, and point to my spiraling out of any power or fame or thumbs near or on the levers of power. In the end, you can die on your principles and feel the incredible lightness of being a human being, and feel emancipated even near the gates of endless poverty, waning sanity and extreme disenfranchisement from this capitalist franchise called America. I’ve cataloged here and other places my struggle with/in/because of the “work place” in America – it started with newspapers where I had drag-out fights with editors about my attitude – going too strong against the powers, in several cases, the policing agencies I was reporting on. Sacked. Struggle as a union organizer a decade ago fighting the middle of the road bosses who thought compliancy and lock-step (to the Democratic Party) were necessary formulations for working there. Sacked. Fighting for part-time faculty and for students at several community colleges . . . terminated. Working with homeless and drug-addicted adults as a social worker . . . encouraged to resign. Unbelievable that it may seem, but some of us can be up against the vast majority, and be right most of the time, and the fact that the majority can be wrong almost one hundred percent of the time when it comes to false beliefs in patriotism, loyalty, god-country-hierarchy. So many people I have come across in my 60 years, a good 45 of which involved work and work places, have only been able to go-think-believe-philosophize-contemplate-act so far. Halfway is half-assed, and going nine-tenths of the way is still an incomplete journey, flawed, dangerous and retrograde. Fired for fighting administrators and college-university presidents. Fired for writing too loudly. Hell, I even went up against the ameliorators in so-called progressive alternative radio and newspaper circles for being too radical, too left, too outspoken, too in your face. Perception is not reality, but their reality is not mine. Now this fleeting battle line as I am hitting my Sixties is taking even more bizarre turns with my most recent end of the line work in social services. Sort of takes on an entire multi-layered Orwellian, Kafkaesque, Brave New World ugliness only capitalism can refine to a really disturbing level. Fired because three insignificant trainers and two of their supervisors in a Planned Parenthood two-day class determined after eight hours that my simple and non-disruptive questioning of Planned Parenthood’s policy of believing — one hundred percent — the efficacy of everything Western medicine shoves down our throats and my doubting some of the mumbo-jumbo propaganda of Big Pharma would somehow weigh negatively on my work at a completely unrelated-to-Planned Parenthood non-profit as a non-medical social worker with my foster youth clients. Imagine — in a training, with that progressive blathering of “this is a safe space” and “anything said here stays here” — and my livelihood is ripped from me by three narc trainers who outright lied about me being a disruptive element. Imagine the level of punk in these people, these urbanites, these Seattlites, these people who are working in the shadow of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which is shoving Big Pharma and Big GMO and Big Contraception and Big Sterilization and Big Family Planning and Big Vaccinations and Big Agra down the throats of the so-called developing world. I questioned one vaccine, tied to the human papilloma virus. Planned Parenthood gets tens of millions from Big Pharma and Big Philanthropy. This shit brings tears of absurdity to a grown adult’s eyes. These people, these Little Eichmann’s working for Seattle’s Planned Parenthood, with a flick of their wrists, and a punch of their index fingers on their smart phones sending messages to my boss that I was somehow a disruption to the training. Read here part of my story and my lightly political question about Gardasil-Merck. In their world, they believe they hold the power ingrained in their Hillary Clinton stupidity and Uber Alles Planned Parenthood. These people determined from a really light-hearted and anonymous forum that I would be a chigger in their sides for a second day of training. Really, so, this “ich liebe dich Planned Parenthood uber alles in der Welt … I love you Planned Parenthood above anything else in the world” bullshit went as far as influencing my former employer – a social services non-profit in Portland for more than 45 years – to put me on paid leave and then processed through the ringer of an unfair and incomplete investigation that ended with my termination. Talking to these people in the non-profit sector is like talking to emptied-out moth chrysalises. This mostly female-run and female-staffed organization had the gall to not talk to my two co-workers who were at the training. They had the gall to pointedly show me that I was being investigated and then canned for barely challenging Planned Parenthood’s take on Gardasil, the Bill Gates/Genetically-Engineered/CDC Fast-tracked Approved/Massive PR campaign vaccine for the sexually transmitted virus, HPV. In the echo chamber of these female-run/female-staffed social services agencies, the people do not resist the malfeasance and poor treatment. The people do not speak out as if social justice is the key to assisting people as social workers and mental health practitioners. These people do not want any rocking of the boat. These female-staffed/managed outfits want to embrace the superficiality of LGBTQ-ism and faux multiculturalism, yet, when push comes to shove, they are middling humans, who have reached their own ceilings of compassion/knowledge/ radical social work that pale in comparison to the real work that has to be done. Every step of my administrative leave and then bullshit investigation and then dismissal reeks of unethical and wrongful termination. This non-profit, Lifeworks Northwest, is colluding with Planned Parenthood, because tens of thousands of dollars comes from PP’s coffers, and that grant money is really taxpayers’ money. The power of my simple anonymous comments on unsigned notepaper got my ass hung out to dry, and the bitterness is magnified since I had youth on my caseload in major iterations of crisis, and because I had no opportunity to challenge my accusers, and because I wasn’t able to cut through stupidity and illogical thinking. Simple stuff, a social worker anticipating what my young clients might also ask: “IS the Gardasil HPV vaccine safe since when I go onto the Internet and Google ‘Gardasil Dangers’ or put in ‘Is the HPV virus safe?’ I get all sorts of incriminating information about the dangers herein.” Or, I could have posited at the training something more concrete: “I get all sorts of stories from parents and young women who are outraged by the dangers of the vaccine, and I see many documentaries cataloging the dangers and the chronic pain and deaths attributed to the Merck-made Gardasil, and I can download all these scientific journal articles and browse all these advocacy blogs and web sites that point-blank catalog all the issues tied to the three-shot vaccine”: Here! The highly controversial HPV vaccine “Gardasil,” given to young girls to defend against early onset of the only form of contagious cancer, has been responsible for over thirty deaths (from blood clots in the heart and lungs) and more than 10,000 adverse events (anaphylactic shock, loss of muscle use, and seizures) being reported. Certain forms of HPV are known to cause cervical cancer by fueling the development of precancerous lesions in epithelial tissues of the vagina, vulva, oropharynx, anus and cervix. Most infections however, are benign and cleared rapidly by the human immune system, and never progress to cervical cancer. A valid reason for giving CHILDREN the HPV vaccine has NEVER been established. Plus, the supposed “benefits” of the two known HPV vaccines, Gardasil (made by Merck) and Cervarix (made by GSK-GlaxoSmithKline), wear off after a few years, meaning that even if they do work, the cancer only lasts a few years anyway before a normal immune system beats it, so why bother with the vaccines, which are known to be loaded with neurotoxins, carcinogens, synthetic emulsifyers and genetically modified organisms. Worst yet, there are at least 120 known human papillomaviruses, so, worse than the flu shot, the HPV vaccine is a complete “shot in the dark.” On top of that, only a third of those viruses are the ones typically transmitted through sexual contact. At least 15 types of HPV are CARCINOGENIC. Just days after given the intramuscular injection Cervarix, Stacey Jones, 17 (at the time), suffered her FIRST EVER SEIZURE and was left brain-damaged from it. The Cervarix inoculation contains recombinant proteins and for those unfamiliar, recombinant means DNA molecules are brought together from multiple sources in a laboratory to create genetic material with DNA sequences that would NOT OTHERWISE EXIST in the genome. That means the culture is chemically altered and then mixed with sodium chloride and “residual” amounts of insect cells. If that itself is not bad enough, according to the Rx list itself, the “tip caps” may contain rubber latex. By the way, sodium chloride when injected raises blood pressure and inhibits muscle contraction and growth. All of this sends the immune system into hyper-panic mode when injected, and explains the seizures and anaphylactic shock these girls are experiencing just hours or days after the HPV jab. In the case of Stacey Jones, her parents said that during the few weeks after her getting the cervical jab, Stacey had MORE fits, causing such severe swelling in the brain and brain injury that Stacey had to go to a rehabilitation unit to relearn simple tasks. GSK called it all a coincidence. Eleven deaths occurred less than one week after receiving the vaccine, seven of which died in less than two days. Three of the deaths were boys. Guess what the most common diagnosis was for the CAUSE of DEATH–BLOOD CLOTTING. Where is the CDC in all of this? One of the girls died within 3 hours of getting the jab. Her echocardiogram revealed a blood clot within the right atrium and the right ventricle. Other reports include girls coming down with the sudden onset of Guillain-Barre syndrome, where the immune system attacks itself. With Rick Perry as a sponsor, Merck’s Gardasil was causing permanent injuries and death all in the name of Rick Perry’s political need for monetary backing. Judicial Watch public interest group investigated this government level corruption and released a report based on FDA documents about adverse reactions to the vaccine and found over 100 DEATHS and spontaneous abortions CAUSED BY GARDASIL. Even JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association) went so far as to publish over 12,000 reports of vaccine injury. You see, when I work with youth, and talk about student debt, about drone murders by the USA, or about Trump’s felonious business deals, or talk about the power of media to manufacture consent, or what the real history of the United States is about, or how we bombed the hell out of Korea in the 1950s and Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, or when I talk about what the real Thanksgiving means, the real Israel means, the real NATO means I expect my youth to go on their own Smart (sic) phones and start double checking my facts and theses. So, what are these people thinking, sacking me, because I shaped a question around maybe Planned Parenthood anticipating some resistance from some percentage of our youth on all our caseloads, and resistance from their foster and biological parents, or their siblings and friends about this unproven vaccine? Clenched-teeth trainers, and this room of 40 women and three men, and I was the only one raising what some portion of all of our client loads might ask – is this shot safe? I raised the eyebrows of the Planned Parenthood trainers when I supposed that maybe practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, naturopathic treatments, shamanism, Native American healing, and other non-Western Medical beliefs should also be included in their amazing rainbow flag of diversity. These people are lock-step, neo-fascists, for sure, of the liberal kind, and I was not prepared for the absolute party-line around Gardasil. It took very little to time to research how Planned Parenthood gets massive funding from Big Pharma and Big Industrial Medicine . . . that Planned Parenthood is part of the big PR push to get as many young women and boys globally vaccinated with this toxic brew. Right now, over 270 million doses have been distributed. Mark that as $30 billion or more for Merk. Yet, these Uber Alles Planned Parenthood punks and then my own former employers – punks with master’s degrees in social work and taught in reduced harm techniques and trauma informed care – find it impossible for me to continue taking a mandatory class and then I get my ass unfairly and wrongfully sacked? I am in the process of writing Part Three to the series I was asked to work on over at Hormones Matter (and here at DV it’s here and here and here). This entire episode dealing with the cahoots of Planned Parenthood and the drug makers, including the Gardasil manufacturer, Merck, and my own puny job and possibly my future in social services – oh, my next interviews for new jobs will most certainly involve HR folk Googling me and Googling my writings, and, bam, another illicit and unethical determination of my qualities based on my writing – stinks of what’s really rotten to the core in America: the careerism and the death of a real liberal class, and this entitled stupidity and perceived aggrieved neoliberal class. The formula is clear – if you are a scientist or researcher or expert or legitimate journalist questioning your government, your paymaster, your employer, your school, your non-profit, your NGO, your media, your Fortune 1000 companies, your millionaire and billionaire miscreants, you get harassed, de-funded, shunted into a corner, threatened with lawsuits, threatened with termination, sacked, and in some cases, murdered by these economic and patriotic hit men and hit women. Chris Hedges on careerism! The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics. They do the little chores that make vast, complicated systems of exploitation and death a reality. They collect and read the personal data gathered on tens of millions of us by the security and surveillance state. They keep the accounts of ExxonMobil, BP and Goldman Sachs. They build or pilot aerial drones. They work in corporate advertising and public relations. They issue the forms. They process the papers. They deny food stamps to some and unemployment benefits or medical coverage to others. They enforce the laws and the regulations. And they do not ask questions. These systems managers believe nothing. They have no loyalty. They are rootless. They do not think beyond their tiny, insignificant roles. They are blind and deaf. They are, at least regarding the great ideas and patterns of human civilization and history, utterly illiterate. And we churn them out of universities. Lawyers. Technocrats. Business majors. Financial managers. IT specialists. Consultants. Petroleum engineers. “Positive Psychologists.” Communications majors. Cadets. Sales representatives. Computer programmers. Men and women who know no history, know no ideas. They live and think in an intellectual vacuum, a world of stultifying minutia. They are T.S. Eliot’s “the hollow men,” “the stuffed men.” “Shape without form, shade without colour,” the poet wrote. “Paralysed force, gesture without motion.” Even the HR people at that non-profit wouldn’t get it right about why I was terminated, and the little letter I received from Oregon Employment Department belies the non-profit’s absurdity and confusion: You ARE allowed benefits on this claim . . . . Findings: You were employed by Lifeworks NW until Oct. 26, 2017 when you were fired because you received too many complaints about being unprofessional, confrontational and argumentative. This was not a willful or wantonly negligent disregard of the employer’s interest because there was no policy or rule violation. You deny the accusations of being a disruption to a training that occurred on October 16, 2017. Employer failed to respond to additional attempts to retrieve information. Legal Conclusion: You were fired but not for misconduct connected with work. This short piece can end with those concepts, these people Chris Hedges likens to docile and compliant followers who obey for whatever prestige they can garner. Notice my former employers use words like “unprofessional” and “confrontational” and “argumentative.” This is how these people running social services agencies work the mental muscles in their heads. My entire work with foster youth, connected to the department of human services case managers and foster parents and a plethora of agencies and businesses, was deemed both “professional” and wise and compassionate. I have written testaments to that fact. What does it mean to have this pejorative thrown at me after the fact, stated to the unemployment adjudicator without my ability to answer this lie? This is a case of so called social services providers putting in the dull knife in my already opened torso. Then, this all-female staff and supervisory and management team throw out the term, “confrontational,” in the double-speak of these fake positive psychological beratings. What in the world does this mean, “confrontational”? I did confront abusive parents, abusive bureaucrats, abusive psychologists and employers and teachers, and a few case workers. That was my job to be advocate and mentor for 16-to-21-year-old youth – foster youth. I confronted abuse and lies and mismanagement and maligning and prejudice and pre-judgments and structural violence. I confronted the school to prison pipeline mentality of officials and confronted the lackadaisical attitudes about my youth becoming homeless. Finally, “argumentative”? You know, I got along with everyone, except a couple of officials at public gatherings who made fun of addiction, who made fun of youth caught by cops for pot smoking or carrying booze in the car. I argued with people who laughed at mental challenges, and who somehow thought addiction was just a fad, a choice. I fought prejudice and stupidity, and did it with aplomb and respect. I never was “argumentative” with supervisors or co-workers, yet, these women social workers dare tell a state official – unemployment adjudicator – that the reason for my termination is my “argumentative” disposition? As if I am getting graded as a third grader for my class demeanor, decorum, participation and citizenship? This is the coda of our social services gone amok and awry, and with these fake diversity-chanting female workers and these social workers who fall over themselves to help gay young men and women, while arguing their point that anyone else who is not a pushover or who is defiant, or who disagrees with their spin on the world, well, even a 60-year-old seasoned teacher with training, skills, experiences and education they could only read about or dream about, is deemed “argumentative” and “confrontational.” This syllogistic thinking (non-thinking) then puts an icing on their canards with the terminology, “unprofessional.” We are not in good hands, fellow readers. We have a society that is far removed from the reality of being one emergency room visit from the poor house or one paycheck away from being homeless. This is a society that fines homeless people for loitering, that fines panhandling for a meal or a beer, that fines people camping in alleys or kipping in their perfectly legal and running vans and motor homes. This is the society of people who lets the world know how “powerful” they are – proof is in the gouged-out cultures and ecosystems, perpetual war, the illegalities of every ounce of investment, retirement, consumption schemed up in America, and endorsed by twenty or thirty percent of the population. This is a country that has no history because it forgets and forestalls and fabricates. This is a country of teary-eyed infants, raised on Marvel Comics’ narratives and Disneyland philosophy and computer mush and Hallmark moments, and violence and junk goo for the brain and junk food for the soul. These people, who are tied to the lies of the most powerful collective organization on earth – Big Pharma (twice the lobbying bucks paid to politicians than even the militarists) – and they give shit about the lives of young women and men forcefully vaccinated. These are the crimes of the weak, the so-called do-gooders. And their crimes go unchallenged, unnoticed, and under-discussed. Because this country is one giant criminal project — Continuing Criminal Enterprise. These armies of bureaucrats serve a corporate system that will quite literally kill us. They are as cold and disconnected as Mengele. They carry out minute tasks. They are docile. Compliant. They obey. They find their self-worth in the prestige and power of the corporation, in the status of their positions and in their career promotions. They assure themselves of their own goodness through their private acts as husbands, wives, mothers and fathers. They sit on school boards. They go to Rotary. They attend church. It is moral schizophrenia. They erect walls to create an isolated consciousness. They make the lethal goals of ExxonMobil or Goldman Sachs or Raytheon or insurance companies possible. They destroy the ecosystem, the economy and the body politic and turn workingmen and -women into impoverished serfs. They feel nothing. Metaphysical naiveté always ends in murder. It fragments the world. Little acts of kindness and charity mask the monstrous evil they abet. And the system rolls forward. The polar ice caps melt. The droughts rage over cropland. The drones deliver death from the sky. The state moves inexorably forward to place us in chains. The sick die. The poor starve. The prisons fill. And the careerist, plodding forward, does his or her job. — Chris Hedges http://clubof.info/

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For some, choosing sports that appeal to them is not necessarily a result that reflects the natural desire for physical contact or tough competition.

For some, choosing sports that appeal to them is not necessarily a result that reflects the natural desire for physical contact or tough competition solarmovie On the other hand, some choose activities that allow a quiet experience to be enjoyed privately or in small groups. For these individuals, it is an experience that determines whether the sport is fun, so picking one that appeal to their kind of personality is very important. Another aspect of this individual is that they sometimes prefer to be outside of challenging nature, providing adventure, camping, and fishing very obvious goals for some individuals. Since these participants have specific criteria for what they find to be fun, make sure their selection is fully utilized so that it is considered very important. This is especially suitable for fishing sport, where participants know what they want from their participation, and the excitement comes from solitude, patience, and the nature of the experience. Fishing sport has relatively modest premises, but is surprisingly complex and involved in the parameters of the activity. It's a good example of something easy to pick up, but it's hard to master. Fishing is done by exuding hooks connected to the drain into the water and waiting for the fish to bite into the hook. As soon as the fish is connected, then it is up to the participants to roll the fish by using a scrolling piece on their pole. This is one of the oldest sports in the world, back in ancient times where it is necessary for people near the water source for fish to survive. Not only are participants required to survive, but their skills and their effectiveness in pursuit of them give prestige in the system as well. In a more modern setting, most people do not have to get their food directly from the water to survive, so what is common in many situations is now regarded as an activity that can be done for fun and relieve stress. Therefore, it has changed effectively in a way that is perceived and how it is approached by people. Fishermen usually increase their ability by adding bait to hooks, so fish will be more tempted to bite. Choosing the right attraction is its own science, and there are many friendly debates about the effectiveness of the various types, as well as the city's myths about the efficacy of a wild nontraditional lure. There are many benefits involved with fishing. Although the sport does not necessarily act as someone else and physically improves the traits of the participating people, it instills the advantage that can be applied elsewhere. As a rule of thumb, anglers need to learn these traits to be effective in the future. Firstly, fishing trends patience with individuals. This patience may not be present at first, but throughout the next session it will naturally be transformed as a conditioned method in the face of long periods of time that have no activity. Next, sense of timing is instilled in individuals. This time is one that arises from the actual fish, and knows the exact rhythm and speed to maintain while transporting the catch. This sense of timing can easily be applied to other areas, especially fitness, where it will naturally show itself as a step. An athlete who takes lessons from an angler is a more patient, measured one who knows the best time to put in the most effort. Above all, fishing is a fun activity that allows loneliness and reflection while hitting the participants against the mistakes and desires of nature. For most participants, excitement is not found in results, but in the experience itself, which is a lesson that can be easily applied to other areas of life. Fishing is a great leisure sport that provides entertaining experiences that overwhelm the user towards some of nature. It can be used in many ways, from contemplation to relieve stress, and is one of the more popular pleasures in the area that provides easy access to it.

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For some, choosing sports that appeal to them is not necessarily a result that reflects the natural desire for physical contact or tough competition.

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Surrogate

James Bruckhaus couldn’t possibly eat another bite at the sushi buffet – he tried slinking away to the restroom, but before he could stand up, his boss roared, “Another round!”

James slunk back in his chair, dreading the thought of more volume filling up his at-capacity belly. He couldn’t throw up here, not at a work function. A bead of sweat rolled down his brow – he was barely holding it together as it was.

He pulled his phone out of his pocket, pressed the side button to wake it up and snuck a glance at it underneath the table. He sighed a breath of relief. Ten credits left. As he hit the side button on the phone to turn off his screen, the faint blue glow that temporarily lit up his face slowly faded away. He hoped nobody had noticed.

A few weeks ago, he had spent half of his life savings on a series of electronic implants in his brain, specifically the hypothalamus. One of the implants inhibited the release of leptin, the satiety hormone. If his leptin hormone levels stayed constant and never rose, James could eat and never feel full. Normally, after eating, the rising levels of glucose, amino acids, and fatty acids in the blood would signal a feeling of fullness, but with the implant, these nutrient signals would never have a chance to reach the brain.

As his boss filled his cup with a generous pour of Sapporo, James navigated to the Surrogate app and with a few taps, activated the hunger module. The screen confirmed that five credits had been deducted from his virtual wallet. The feeling of fullness immediately evaporated. James led the round of toasts with a hearty “KAN PAI!” Volume would no longer be an issue – but as the night wore on, James became increasingly disoriented. He fought off waves of nausea, gulping back whatever liquid threatened to resurface.

He immediately regretted not getting fitted for the premium version of the implant, which would have redirected nausea-inducing neurotransmitters away from the area postrema in his medulla oblongata. However, his rationale for not buying the premium option was twofold: first, it was expensive; second, he had reservations modifying the chemoreceptor trigger zone – if his body’s natural instinct was to expel a toxin, it was probably in James’ best interest to obey these impulses.

With as much dignity as he could muster, careful to hide a forehead lined with beads of sweat, James bee-lined to the restroom with an exaggerated overconfident stride, collapsing to his knees in front of the toilet.

Following the success of Surrogate modules, knock-off implantable hormone inhibitors flooded the market – the quality and efficacy remained dubious for the cheapest models. Some kits were do-it-yourself models which yielded horrific medical catastrophes.

But the modules didn’t actually chemically inhibit hormones from being produced - they simply diverted the hormones into a collection pouch near the groin area, not unlike colostomy bags (which are normally used to collect waste from a surgically diverted biological system).

With the popularity of Surrogate modules and their equivalent knock-offs, public outcry immediately denounced the amount of medical waste produced by its users – although hormones were water-soluble and fat-soluble, detractors were quick to point out that should a user pour their excess hormones down the drain, runoff could pick up all types of diseases that could pose as a public health hazard.

In response, Congress passed the Lawful Hormone Disposal Act (but known more famously as the Surrogate Act), which imposed strict penalties for improper hormone disposal. Thus began the government sanctioned hormone detectors. By law, every home had to be outfitted with a small plastic device that detected the presence of hormones – in fact, some companies began to package together devices that detected smoke, carbon monoxide and hormones. It became impossible to ever puncture the hormone collection pouch without alerting the FDA – it was a federal crime to pour your discarded hormones down the drain.

Almost overnight, medical waste disposal shops popped up all over the country, offering cheap and convenient incineration of pathological waste.

But widespread incineration came under scrutiny when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) discovered that most disposal shops violated the Clean Air Act, especially because cheap medical waste incinerators were never outfitted with air pollution control devices, one of the most expensive add-ons. With disposal shops under strict government regulation, Americans were now at a complete loss on how they would continue the legal use of Surrogate devices.

Heavy Surrogate users turned to illicit means to discard their diverted hormones. Profiteers, mostly gang-related, established underground hormone disposal sites (called HORDIS) at exorbitant rates, promising patrons that they’d smuggle collection pouches to safe drop-off sites where the donors would never be identified. Bloody HORDIS turf wars rocked once-safe suburban havens. Local authorities were paid off to turn a blind eye to the bloodshed, violence, and illegal hormone disposal.

In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) joined forces with the EPA and the US military, creating federal units intended to keep the peace. In the spring of 2052, three different HORDIS gangs were amidst a bloody turf war when federal forces decided to intervene. The rival gangs imposed a moratorium on their own issues and turned their weapons against the Feds, their mutual enemy. Completely underestimating and overwhelmed by the amount of firepower the HORDIS gangs had, the Feds suffered heavy casualties. As losses mounted, the Feds called in the US Air Force for an extraction and a last ditch airstrike.

Civilian casualties number in the thousands – the botched airstrike hit floor 43 of the world-renowned Selenium Tower, and the smoke and dust from the smoldering debris made the area completely uninhabitable for months. Those who stayed behind and breathed in the toxic fumes suffered from illnesses such as asthma and cancer even years after the Selenium tragedy.

Although the government issued a formal apology and offered reparations for those affected in the Selenium tragedy, Americans had completely lost trust in US administration. They took to the streets, looting and rioting. With protest and riots in almost every major metropolitan city, the president declared a state of emergency. For the first time in American history, in an unprecedented move, peacekeepers from the United Nations were brought in to maintain international peace and security.

While the UN peacekeepers imposed a curfew and applied military justice to civilians, they also committed countless atrocities to the American people – murder and theft were commonplace, but were eclipsed by human trafficking and forced prostitution.

At this point, there were over 275 million Americans with a Surrogate-type implant. The implants had expanded their suite of hormone suppression, including the inhibition of cortisol, the steroid hormone produced by the adrenal gland. Cortisol, released in large amount during times of stress, could contribute to high blood pressure, lowered immune function, impaired cognitive performance, increased abdominal fat, and an entire host of adverse effects. It became common practice for a parent to request a Surrogate module to be implanted into their children immediately after they were born.

Banning Surrogate-type implants was not an option, although it was a fiercely debated ballot proposition. Pro-Surrogate proponents argued that these implants were deeply woven into America’s social fabric – without these modules, society would be on the brink of collapsing due to an entire generation who knew nothing about heartbreak, stress, or discomfort. Detractors, mostly the older generation, argued that Surrogate implants had made society weak and completely reliant on a device that prevented people from experiencing the very emotions and feelings that made them human. Robots, they said – we’ve become a society full of robots. Whatever happened to human resiliency that didn’t use artificial means as a crutch?

The policymaker were at a deadlock – neither side wanted to budge and although the Surrogate-type implants were at the root of the issue, an official governmental ban on these devices would do nothing to solve the violence and bloodshed – in fact, any action would undoubtedly exacerbate the civil unrest.

James sat cross-legged in his empty apartment, wincing at the ray of sunlight that poked through his venetian blinds. He grimaced and flopped down onto his hardwood floor in defeat. Running his fingers through his patchy and unkempt beard, he contemplated showering and shaving today, just as he’d contemplated for the last two weeks.

He didn’t even bother keeping his phone plugged in – but he didn’t use it anyways. Today, the battery level hit 15%, and an on-screen pop-up warning woke up his screen for a brief moment. His Surrogate credits had run out last week and it seemed like life stood at a standstill. Normally, he’d replenish his credits, but he had gotten laid off six months ago. After selling most of his furniture, he barely had enough savings to pay rent.

The prospect of interviewing for another job terrified him – he hadn’t felt nervousness or anxiety in so long that even the thought of actually feeling anything except for comfort and contentment made him anxious. James was experiencing classic “feelings withdrawal” symptoms.

Still, he needed money. Earlier in the week, while fumbling his way into a very deep part of the internet, he saw an opportunity to become one of the first test subjects for a new form of hormone disposal. The initial TransHormone business idea was simple: illegal hormone disposal shops would pool all medical waste in a centralized repository with a massive centrifuge designed to parse through and sort the different types of hormonal byproducts. Through an intense purification process, suppressed hormones were finally categorized properly and aggregated together, forming the most comprehensive hormone archive in the world.

The founders had an original vision - creating a cheap, clean, and efficient hormone marketplace. Because most hormonal disorders are a result of deficiencies or overproduction, the founders thought that a cost effective hormone repository had social benefit due to a large target market. Plus, the actual hormonal molecules were always pure and never tainted – they were just always mixed with the host’s bodily fluids. With the centrifuge, they were able to isolate the target hormone with FDA-grade sanitization.

But they never got FDA approval. When presenting their prototype, the FDA officers were horrified, claiming that the entire operation was tantamount to organ harvesting and black market economics. When it was revealed that the business was funded by HORDIS kingpins who wanted to legitimize their former operations, the FDA terminated all negotiations and issued a cease-and-desist order. With billions of investor dollars on the line, closing up shop was not an option. Mounting investor pressure kept doors open, and the founders had no choice but to participate in the medical shadow economy alongside illicit organ traders.

To transport hormones to their recipients, TransHormone needed couriers who would temporarily ingest hormones via their modified collection pouches. James jumped at the opportunity. One trip downtown would net him $1000 and it was practically risk free.

“Picking up” the actual hormones was a painless process – James was surprised by the cleanliness of the facility and the professionalism of the staff. The entire procedure took less than five minutes and though his collection bag felt fuller than normal, the bus ride downtown would be eight stops.

As James walked to the bus stop, the pinkish hue of the sun peeking through the clouds caught his attention. The usually-busy streets seemed empty and a gust of warm air rustled the leaves on a nearby tree. Pedestrians who did remain on the road seemed rushed to get indoors – no one wanted to be stuck outside when the thunderstorm struck. James glanced at glowing digits of the electronic bus tracker. Three minutes until the next bus.

The first few drops of warm rain felt nice, but the deluge of torrential rain quickly shattered any illusion of pleasantness. James wiggled his toes together, checking for the type of friction associated with warm and dry feet, with the fruitless hope that his suede shoes would prevent water from seeping in. No such luck today.

The hiss of the hydraulic rear door revealed an entirely packed bus and at least twenty pairs of eyes staring at him wearily. Glancing at the bus tracker, the next bus was due to arrive in 16 minutes. He stepped on, much to the chagrin of the passengers who shuffled around uncomfortably to make space.

With fogged up glasses and damp jeans that chafed, James found himself enveloped in a sea of warm bodies. A bead of water rolled down the window pane, carving a defined path through the condensation. His stomach immediately lurched – but only a couple more stops to go.

At his stop, James wriggled his way to the door, only to get ejected out onto the pavement. As he hit the ground, he felt some type of release as his insides immediately turned cold. He instinctively clutched his groin area, feeling for the bulge of the collection bag, but after a few pointless gropes, he realized that the contents of the bag had to be in his system.

He knew that hormonal disorders were prevalent among some people – diabetes, hyperthyroidism, and Cushing’s syndrome – but had no idea what type of hormones his specific bag carried. James braced himself for some sort of physical change, afraid that he’d undergo some sort of Bruce Banner-like transformation, but nothing happened.

With no payload, James couldn’t show up to the access point empty-handed. With every step, his eyelids grew heavier, but his mind grew sharper – whatever fog had clouded his mind had burnt off completely. As he tried to collect his thoughts, he realized he had so many more memories to draw upon. Feeling like he had truly woken up for the first time, James blinked listlessly, as his new memories topped off whatever brain capacity he had left. The memories and experiences from over twenty thousand people overwhelmed him at first, but left him with a clear directive.

He had lived thousands of lives in less than a second, experienced the full spectrum of emotion – the highest highs and the lowest lows – the most pervasive being the immense feeling of sadness, loneliness, and hopelessness of the human condition. He fell in love 8000 times and got his heart shattered 6000 times. He remembered every first kiss in full detail, but they were often accompanied by parting last words that he couldn’t possibly forget. For every time he cried, he had laughed at least 100 times to make up for it.

And he realized that though no one ever acted maliciously, they often acted in their own self-interest. That people were fundamentally good, but their immaturity often got the best of them. That even with all the bitterness and hurt associated with some memories, he wouldn’t trade them for the world.

Enlightened, he slowly powered down his Surrogate module, took the next bus back to his apartment, showered, shaved, and cleaned his apartment.

In two weeks, he had a new job and he admired his now-furnished apartment. However, he couldn’t shake the feeling that every action he took felt like déjà vu, like everything had been previously rehearsed and though he might try, anything he’d do could never be original.

“I could collect human scalps and make lampshades out of human skin,” he thought aloud, before he caught himself.

“Wait, what?” he said. Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre had already done that. Plus, he was within earshot of his neighbors, and they didn’t understand his brand of humor. Once, they caught him meowing loudly to a cat in his yard, but after they saw him rummaging through a bag of clothes left for Goodwill on the sidewalk at 4:00am, James didn’t think he’d ever be able to recover.

He sifted through all of his memories and came up with a combination that he’d never heard of before. His sample size was roughly 20,000 people, and he needed to make sure he’d be the most unique individual. He’d first pretend to have Tourette’s syndrome, but after crunching the numbers, that only cut the population down to a shocking 10,000 people. Over 50% of his memories came from people who were Tourette’s fakers?

He added pretend blindness as well, but the combination of fake Tourette’s plus fake blindness only reduced the population down to 7,500.

Surprised, he added in cross-dressing, phony quadriplegia, and veganism, which narrowed it down to three individuals. He felt like he couldn’t do better or had no more resources to be absolutely original.

As he rolled himself out the door using an electronic wheelchair, making sure to twitch his heavy eye-shadowed eyelids randomly, he started to sweat under his sequin-trimmed ruffle boa. Coincidentally, his neighbor walked out the door at the same time and made uneasy eye contact with him.

James didn’t make it twenty feet before he was shot on sight by a UN peacekeeper.

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