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by Patrick Prince | Feb 7, 2020

Goldmine® Grading Guide is now the most widely used guide for the buying and selling of vinyl albums; many eBay auctions and stand-alone Web sites swear by it.

Nothing is more important in determining the value of your records than their condition! Yes, their relative rarity and demand is important, but a collector or dealer will pay much more for a record in Near Mint condition than one in Very Good Minus condition.

However, I’ve found that most people with collections or accumulations have an inflated sense of the condition of their discs. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard people who think they know what they are talking about tell me, “My records are all Mint!” Sure, and I’ve got some oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you.

The truth is that most records, especially from before the 1970s, are not in anything close to Mint or Near Mint condition. That is why a collector will pay a premium for such a disc if he or she has to have it.

This book lists values for records in Near Mint condition. Records in lesser condition are worth a fraction of the Near Mint prices.

For most collectors, Very Good is the lowest grade for which they will pay more than bargain-bin prices. And some won’t even do that. Lower-grade records are only good as place holders, until a better copy comes along, or as examples of truly rare records that are difficult to find in any condition.

Most of the time, LPs are sold with two grades, one for the record and one for the cover. We list only one grade, however, because with some exceptions, albums without covers are worthless, and covers without the accompanying record are worthless. If an album is graded VG for the cover and VG+ for the record, add the two values together and divide by 2 to get a rough estimate of the value of a “mixed grade” LP.

Most records are graded visually. This is because most record dealers have lots of records — hundreds of thousands in some cases — and they don’t have the time to play their entire stock. That said, some defects are easy to see, such as scratches and warps. Others are subtle, such as groove wear from using a cheap or poorly aligned tone arm. It has been our experience that older LPs (1950s to about 1971) tend to play better than they look, and newer LPs (at least until 1989) tend to play worse than they look.

When grading your records, do so under a strong light. Look at everything carefully, and then assign a grade based on your overall observations.

Some records will be worthy of a higher grade except for defects such as writing, tape or minor seam splits. Always mention these when selling a record! For some collectors, they will be irrelevant, but for others, they will be a deal-breaker. For all, they are important to know.

Also, some LPs were made for promotional purposes only. Again, always mention if a record is a promo copy when advertising it for sale!

One of the obstacles to the further growth of record collecting is poor grading and a lack of consensus as to what constitutes a “Very Good Plus” or “Near Mint” record or cover. Over the years, the Goldmine® Grading Guide has tried to standardize this. It is now the most widely used guide for the buying and selling of vinyl albums; many eBay auctions and stand-alone Web sites swear by it. But we recognize that there are many variables to grading a record. As a seller, you are better off grading conservatively and surprising the buyer with a better record than was expected, than by grading based on wishful thinking g and losing a customer.

That said, here are the standard grades for record albums, from best to worst.

MINT (M) These are absolutely perfect in every way. Often rumored but rarely seen, Mint should never be used as a grade unless more than one person agrees that the record or sleeve truly is in this condition. There is no set percentage of the Near Mint value these can bring; it is best negotiated between buyer and seller.

NEAR MINT (NM OR M-) A good description of a NM record is “it looks like it just came from a retail store and it was opened for the first time.” In other words, it’s nearly perfect. Many dealers won’t use a grade higher than this, implying (perhaps correctly) that no record or sleeve is ever truly perfect.

NM records are shiny, with no visible defects. Writing, stickers or other markings cannot appear on the label, nor can any “spindle marks” from someone trying to blindly put the record on the turntable. Major factory defects also must be absent; a record and label obviously pressed off center is not Near Mint. If played, it will do so with no surface noise. (NM records don’t have to be “never played”; a record used on an excellent turntable can remain NM after many plays if the disc is properly cared for.)

NM covers are free of creases, ring wear and seam splits of any kind.

NOTE: These are high standards, and they are not on a sliding scale. A record or sleeve from the 1950s must meet the same standards as one from the 1990s or 2000s to be Near Mint! It’s estimated that no more than 2 to 4 percent of all records remaining from the 1950s and 1960s are truly Near Mint. This is why they fetch such high prices, even for more common items.

Don’t assume your records are Near Mint. They must meet these standards to qualify!

VERY GOOD PLUS (VG+) or EXCELLENT (E)

A good description of a VG+ record is “except for a couple minor things, this would be Near Mint.” Most collectors, especially those who want to play their records, will be happy with a VG+ record, especially if it toward the high end of the grade (sometimes called VG++ or E+).

VG+ records may show some slight signs of wear, including light scuffs or very light scratches that do not affect the listening experience. Slight warps that do not affect the sound are OK. Minor signs of handling are OK, too, such as telltale marks around the center hole, but repeated playing has not misshapen the hole. There may be some very light ring wear or discoloration, but it should be barely noticeable.

VG+ covers should have only minor wear. A VG+ cover might have some very minor seam wear or a split (less than one inch long) at the bottom, the most vulnerable location. Also, a VG+ cover may have some defacing, such as a cut-out marking. Covers with cut-out markings can never be considered Near Mint.

Very Good (VG) Many of the imperfections found on a VG+ record are more obvious on a VG record. That said, VG records — which usually sell for no more than 25 percent of a NM record — are among the biggest bargains in record collecting, because most of the “big money” goes for more perfect copies. For many listeners, a VG record or sleeve will be worth the money.

VG records have more obvious flaws than their counterparts in better shape. They lack most of the original gloss found on factory-fresh records. Groove wear is evident on sight, as are light scratches deep enough to feel with a fingernail. When played, a VG record has surface noise, and some scratches may be audible, especially in soft passages and during a song’s intro and ending. But the noise will not overpower the music otherwise.

Minor writing, tape or a sticker can detract from the label. Many collectors who have jukeboxes will use VG records in them and not think twice. They remain a fine listening experience, just not the same as if it were in better shape.

VG covers will have many signs of human handling. Ring wear in the middle or along the edges of the cover where the edge of a record would reside, is obvious, though not overwhelming. Some more creases might be visible. Seam splitting will be more obvious; it may appear on all three sides, though it won’t be obvious upon looking. Someone might have written or it or stamped a price tag on it, too.

Good (G), Good Plus (G+), or Very Good Minus (VG–) These records go for 10 to 15 percent of the Near Mint value, if you are lucky.

Good does not mean bad! The record still plays through without skipping, so it can serve as filler until something better comes along. But it has significant surface noise and groove wear, and the label is worn, with significant ring wear, heavy writing, or obvious damage caused by someone trying to remove tape or stickers and failing miserably. A Good to VG– cover has ring wear to the point of distraction, has seam splits obvious on sight and may have even heavier writing, such as, for example, huge radio station letters written across the front to deter theft.

If the item is common, it’s probably better to pass it up. But if you’ve been seeking it for a long time, get it cheap and look to upgrade.

POOR (P) and Fair (F) Poor (P) and Fair (F) records go for 0 to 5 percent of the Near Mint value, if they go at all. More likely, they end up going in the trash. Records are cracked, impossibly warped, or skip and/or repeat when an attempt is made to play them. Covers are so heavily damaged that you almost want to cry.

Only the most outrageously rare items ever sell for more than a few cents in this condition — again, if they sell at all.

Sealed Albums

Still-sealed albums can — and do — bring even higher prices than listed.

However, one must be careful when paying a premium for sealed LPs of any kind for several reasons:

1. They may have been re-sealed;

2. The records might not be in Near Mint condition;

3. The record inside might not be the original pressing or the most desirable pressing;

4. Most bizarre of all, the wrong record might be inside. I’ve had this happen to me; I opened a sealed album by one MCA artist only to find a record by a different MCA artist inside! Fortunately, I didn’t pay a lot for that sealed LP. I would have been quite upset if I had!

Imports The Goldmine® Record Album Price Guide lists only those vinyl LPs manufactured in the United States or, in a few instances, manufactured in other countries, but specifically for release in the United States. Any record that fits the following criteria is an import, and you won’t find it in the price guide:

LPs on the Parlophone label by any artist, at least before 2000. Parlophone, best known as the Beatles’ British label, was not used as a label in the United States until very recently.

LPs that have the letters “BIEM,” “GEMA” or “MAPL” on them.

LPs that say anywhere on the label or cover, “Made in Canada,” “Made in the UK,” “Made in Germany,” etc.

We have chosen not to list records from Great Britain, Canada, Japan or any other nation for logistical reasons. Where do you start, and where do you stop?

Unfortunately, we realize that there is a lack of reliable information on the value of non-U.S. records, especially published in the United States. Please don’t contact us seeking information on non-U.S. records; we cannot help.

Also unfortunately, there are few general rules about the value of an import as compared to an American edition.

Some import albums, especially well-made Japanese imports that still have their “obi strip,” can go for more than the U.S. counterpart. Others seem to attract little interest in the States.

One rule is just as true of imports as it is with U.S. records: Those discs that are originals in the best condition will sell for more than reissues and those in less than top-notch shape.

Promotional Copies Basically, a promotional record is any copy of a record not meant for retail sale. Different labels identify these in different ways: The most common method on LPs is to use a white label instead of the regular-color label and/or to add words such as the following:

“Demonstration — Not for Sale”

“Audition Record”

“For Radio-TV Use Only”

“Promotional Copy”

Some labels, of course, used colors other than white; still others used the same labels as their stock copies, but added a promotional disclaimer to the label.

Most promotional albums have the same catalog number as the regular release, except for those differences.

Sometimes, regular stock copies have a “Demonstration — Not for Sale” or “Promo” rubber stamped on the cover; these are known as “designate promos” and are not of the same cachet as true promotional records. Treat these as stock copies that have been defaced. Exceptions are noted in the listings.

All of this is mentioned as a means of identification. As a rule, we do not list promotional records separately, nor are we interested in doing so. There are exceptions, which we will list below. But we feel that the precious space in our guides is better used for unique commercially available records rather than for thousands upon thousands of promotional copies.

Most promotional LPs sell for approximately the same as a stock copy of the same catalog number. That has been our experience.

However, there are certain exceptions. Those are the kinds of promos that you’ll find documented in our price guide, and which we plan to continue to document. These include:

Colored vinyl promos.

Promos in special numbering series, such as Columbia albums with an “AS” or “CAS” prefix; Warner Bros, albums with a “PRO” or “PRO-A-” prefix; Capitol albums with a “PRO” or “SPRO” prefix; Mercury albums with an “MK” prefix; and other similar series on other labels.

Promos that are somehow different than the released versions, either because of changes in the cover or changes in the music between the promo LP and the regular-stock LP.

Promos pressed on special high-quality vinyl; these were popular in the 1980s and can bring a premium above stock copies of the same titles.

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The Hidden Gems of Gym Equipment Auctions

Gym equipment auctions can be a goldmine for fitness enthusiasts, gym owners, or anyone looking to set up a home gym. While the allure of brand-new equipment may be tempting, the hidden gems lying within auctions can offer incredible value for a fraction of the cost. From commercial-grade machines to specialty items, these auctions often unveil treasures waiting to be discovered. 

Here’s a guide to navigating the world of gym equipment auctions and uncovering the hidden gems within.

Understanding Gym Equipment Auctions:- Gym equipment auctions typically feature a wide range of items, including cardio machines, strength training equipment, free weights, and accessories. These auctions may be held by gyms closing down, equipment leasing companies, or liquidation sales. While some items may show signs of wear and tear, many are in excellent condition and still have plenty of life left in them.

Commercial-Grade Equipment:- One of the biggest draws of gym equipment auctions is the availability of commercial-grade machines. These are built to withstand heavy usage and are often found in professional gym settings. Purchasing commercial-grade equipment at auction prices can be significantly cheaper than buying them new, making it an attractive option for both individuals and gym owners.

Specialty Items:- Auctions can also be a treasure trove for specialty gym equipment that may be hard to find elsewhere. This includes unique machines for specific muscle groups, rehabilitation equipment, or rare vintage pieces that collectors covet. These specialty items can add variety to a home gym or provide a niche offering for a commercial gym, setting it apart from the competition.

Bargain Finds:- One of the thrills of attending gym equipment auctions is stumbling upon unexpected bargains. Sometimes, items are undervalued or overlooked by other bidders, presenting an opportunity to score a great deal. Keeping an eye out for hidden gems amidst the auction inventory can lead to significant savings on high-quality equipment.

Tips for Success:- To make the most out of gym equipment auctions, consider these tips:

Do Your Research: Before attending an auction, research the types of equipment available, familiarize yourself with market prices, and set a budget to avoid overspending.

Inspect the Items: Take the time to inspect the equipment thoroughly before bidding. Check for any signs of damage or malfunction that could affect its performance.

Set Realistic Expectations: While auctions can yield great deals, it’s essential to manage expectations. Not every item will be a hidden gem, so be prepared to walk away if the bidding exceeds your budget.

Factor in Additional Costs: Keep in mind that there may be additional costs involved, such as transportation, assembly, or maintenance. Factor these expenses into your budget when determining the overall value of the equipment.

Stay Patient and Persistent: Auctions can be competitive, so stay patient and don’t get discouraged if you’re outbid on certain items. Persistence can pay off when you least expect it.

Gym equipment auctions offer a unique opportunity to find hidden gems at bargain prices. From commercial-grade machines to specialty items, there’s something for everyone, whether you’re setting up a home gym or expanding a commercial facility. 

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Revolutionizing Your Business with Commercial Equipment & Tools on Ololo Express

In the dynamic world of commerce, having the right tools and equipment is the cornerstone of efficiency and success. Ololo Express, a leading online marketplace in Ghana, offers a diverse range of commercial equipment and tools, catering to various industries. From Industrial Ovens to Stage Lighting & Effects, the platform is a one-stop-shop for sellers and buyers alike. This comprehensive guide highlights the key categories available on Ololo Express, and how they can transform businesses and attract a wide range of customers.

I. Industrial Ovens:

The Heat of Efficiency Industrial ovens are pivotal in various manufacturing processes. Whether it's for curing, drying, or baking, these ovens offer precision and reliability. Sellers on Ololo Express can reach businesses in food production, material processing, and more, showcasing the versatility and advanced technology of their products. Buyers, on the other hand, can find ovens that guarantee energy efficiency and high productivity.

II. Manufacturing Equipment:

The Backbone of Production The manufacturing sector demands robust and high-performing equipment. From textile machines to heavy-duty conveyors, Ololo Express offers equipment that embodies innovation and durability. Sellers have the opportunity to present their state-of-the-art machinery to a wide audience, while buyers can access a variety of tools to streamline their production processes.

III. Manufacturing Materials:

Quality at the Core The quality of manufacturing materials directly impacts the end product. Ololo Express connects sellers of high-grade materials like metals, plastics, and composites with businesses seeking to elevate their product quality. This category is a goldmine for industries aiming to optimize their manufacturing standards.

IV. Medical Supplies & Equipment:

Empowering Healthcare The healthcare sector requires precise and reliable medical supplies and equipment. Sellers on Ololo Express can offer everything from diagnostic tools to essential medical supplies, contributing to the advancement of healthcare services. Buyers benefit from a range of choices, ensuring they find the right tools for their medical needs.

V. Printing Equipment:

Unlocking Creative Potential The printing industry is evolving, and Ololo Express is at its forefront, offering the latest in printing technology. Sellers can showcase advanced printers, inks, and printing materials, targeting businesses in advertising, publishing, and more. Buyers can explore equipment that offers high-quality printing solutions, enhancing their creative output.

VI. Restaurant & Catering Equipment:

Culinary Excellence For the thriving culinary industry, the right equipment is key to success. From commercial stoves to refrigeration systems, Ololo Express provides a platform for sellers to reach restaurants, cafes, and catering services. Buyers can find everything they need to create a top-notch culinary experience.

VII. Safetywear & Equipment:

Ensuring Workplace Safety Safety is paramount in any industrial setting. Ololo Express offers a range of safetywear and equipment, from helmets to protective clothing. Sellers can provide essential safety solutions to businesses, ensuring a safe working environment. Buyers, meanwhile, can access a variety of safety equipment that meets international standards.

VIII. Salon Equipment:

Styling Success The beauty industry constantly seeks the latest in salon equipment. Ololo Express serves as a hub for sellers of styling chairs, hair dryers, and more, reaching a broad clientele in the beauty sector. Buyers can find premium equipment that enhances the client experience and efficiency of services.

IX. Stage Lighting & Effects:

Illuminating Performances Stage lighting and effects are crucial for any performance or event. Sellers on Ololo Express can offer innovative lighting solutions, impacting theaters, concert halls, and event companies. Buyers have access to a range of lighting equipment that can transform any space into a captivating scene.

X. Stationery:

Powering Offices and Schools Stationery is an essential category that spans across various sectors. From office supplies to educational materials, Ololo Express connects sellers with a diverse audience, including corporate offices and educational institutions. Buyers can find a comprehensive range of stationery products, catering to their specific needs.

XI. Store Equipment:

Retail Readiness For retailers, the right store equipment can enhance the shopping experience. Ololo Express offers everything from shelving systems to checkout counters. Sellers have the opportunity to provide solutions that optimize retail spaces, while buyers can access equipment that makes their stores more efficient and customer-friendly. Conclusion: Ololo Express is revolutionizing the way commercial equipment and tools are bought and sold in Ghana. With categories covering a wide range of Business Machinery and Instruments, the platform offers unparalleled opportunities for sellers to showcase their products and for buyers to equip their businesses with the best tools in the market. Join Ololo Express today and experience a marketplace where efficiency, quality, and innovation are at your fingertips. Call to Action: Whether you're a seller looking to expand your market reach or a buyer in search of the best commercial equipment and tools, Ololo Express is your destination. Explore our vast selection and take the first step towards elevating your business today. Buy Local, Sell Global – only on Ololo Express. Read the full article

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Unlocking Knowledge: A Guide to Accessing Free College Courses

In the age of digital transformation, education has become more accessible than ever, with the rise of free online college courses opening doors to learning opportunities worldwide. Whether you're seeking to expand your knowledge, enhance your skills, or explore new fields, the wealth of free courses available can be a gateway to personal and professional growth. Let's embark on a journey to discover how you can access these educational treasures.

The Rise of Free College Courses

The proliferation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has revolutionized education, making it possible for learners of all ages and backgrounds to access high-quality course content from prestigious institutions around the globe. These courses cover a wide range of subjects, from humanities and sciences to business and technology.

Top Platforms Offering Free College Courses

Coursera:

Coursera partners with universities and organizations to offer a vast array of courses for free. While certificates often require payment, auditing a course allows access to lectures and some materials without cost.

edX:

Founded by MIT and Harvard, edX provides free access to a variety of courses from universities worldwide. Like Coursera, certificates may require a fee, but the knowledge remains accessible.

Khan Academy:

Khan Academy focuses on providing free, high-quality education for anyone, anywhere. With a strong emphasis on mathematics and science, the platform offers a personalized learning experience.

MIT OpenCourseWare:

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers a treasure trove of course materials, lectures, and assignments for free. It's a goldmine for those interested in science, engineering, and technology.

Open Yale Courses:

Yale University opens its virtual doors to the public, offering a selection of introductory courses across various disciplines. The lectures and materials are accessible to anyone with an internet connection.

How to Get Started with Free College Courses

Choose Your Platform:

Explore different platforms and find the one that aligns with your learning goals. Each platform has its unique features and course offerings.

Select Your Course:

Browse through the catalog of available courses and select the ones that pique your interest. Consider both short-term and more comprehensive courses based on your availability and commitment.

Enroll or Audit:

Some platforms allow you to enroll in courses for free, while others offer auditing options. Enrolling may provide additional benefits, such as graded assignments or certificates, but auditing still grants access to valuable learning materials.

Manage Your Time:

Balancing work, personal life, and online courses requires effective time management. Create a schedule that allows you to dedicate regular periods to your studies.

Engage with the Community:

Many online platforms have forums or discussion groups where learners can interact. Engaging with the community can enhance your learning experience, providing insights and perspectives from a diverse group of participants.

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U2 the joshua tree 1987 pressing vinal

translation missing: en.products.notify_scription: Notify me when this product is available: Black 100% cotton t-shirt with the classic Joshua Tree image on the front and The Joshua Tree America Spring 1987 on the back. Time Magazine put U2 on it's cover in April 1987, proclaiming them "Rock's Hottest Ticket" AMG - September 24, 2015. U2 The Joshua Tree - Island Records 90581-1 - 1987 - Original Release. U2 1987-2017: The Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary Edition Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of it's 1987 release, it's the ultimate collector's edition of The Joshua Tree. The digital downloads came under the name “The Joshua Tree Singles Vinyl Collection: 1987 & 2017” but the title on the physical release is “The Joshua Tree Singles: Remastered & Live”. The Joshua Tree is the fifth album from the internationally successful Irish rock band U2. The encoding of the files was done using iTunes version 12.5.5.5. New Listing FACTORY *SEALED* U2 THE JOSHUA TREE VINYL RECORD 1987 A190581 VINTAGE CLUB PRESS. Found insideFollowing Little Britches and developing an episode noted near the end of Man of the Family, The Home Ranch continues the adventures of young Ralph Moody. The discography, news and video entries are copyright U2Songs and should not be reused in any form without permission, all images in the discography are scanned / generated by U2Songs from original sources and also should not be used without permission.

They had recorded The Unforgettable Fire at Slane Castle, outside Dublin, and this time they rented Danesmoate, a Georgian mansion in Rathfarnham. In God’s Country (Live from the Joshua Tree Tour 2017): Music: U2. I will never forget seeing these back in 1987 aged 14, until then I had little knowledge of rock music. As usual, nobody else will have a copy of this one-off vinyl collection and it won't be for sale online or in store. Twenty years on from its debut, The Joshua Tree still stands up (figuratively the actual Joshua tree on the cover sadly died back in 2000), and not just because singer Bono is still campaigning for the Third World, or that America's still intervening. Join me on my musical journey on the road with U2 to the 75 shows I have seen since the Zoo TV tour in 1992. A detailed explanation of the "Goldmine Grading Guide," the industry standard. "Goldmine Record Album Price Guide" features: Updated prices for more than 100,000 American vinyl LPs released since 1948. The Joshua Tree entered the US album charts at No.7 and reached No.

Ive gone back to vinyl in recent years and had to have this as such its such an iconic part of my younger days. THE FIFTH STUDIO album from Irish rockers U2 was a welcome change of pace for radioland when it was released March 9, 1987.

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Kendrick lamar untitled unmastered song list

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If you find yourself in a conversation that is moving toward personal differences and confrontation, please have the mindfulness to remove yourself from the situation. However, harassment against other users of any kind is not acceptable and will not be tolerated. This can lead to constructive, unique and enjoyable conversation and we sincerely encourage you to share your opinions based on experience. Harassment Policy: It is inevitable that users come from all walks and times in life, causing us to have disagreements. Please change the flair of your post to 'Items Sold' or 'Items Found' once your items have been sold/traded or your wanted item has been found. If you have not already, check for the item on Discogs, though you may find a better deal through our community. Please use this criteria to provide information or details about the album, i.e. To promote quality posts, 30+ words must be used in the submission text. Wanted: Please provide the relevant release details so that we can assist you in finding these items as best as possible. All trades are at your own risk! You are highly encouraged to form a better method of communication with your trade partner outside of reddit messaging. If you are also open to selling the items, please use the 'For Trade' flair while adhering to the rules for sales posts above. An extended outside wantlist may be added only after meeting these criteria. If you have several items you want to list it is recommended that you make a single post with everything you have available for sale.įor Trade: You must be looking to trade specific records and should provide specific releases or genres you are willing to trade for within your post as text. To be fair to other users, please limit sales posts to one per day. Be aware of our policies for record flipping before listing newly-released items. Gradings should be done via Goldmine Standards. Links to any auctions will be removed.Īlso please no personal websites, this sub isn't to be used for getting page views on your home built website. If you are interested in completing sales elsewhere, a link may come only after meeting the criteria above. Please note that sales posts should NOT simply contain a link to your sellers page. Please wait at least ONE week to repost sales/wanted items.įor Sale: All sales posts are required to contain location, shipping price, and asking price for each record listed for sale as text within your post.

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Information on how to leave feedback after a successful purchase, sale or trade can be found here Please take the time to check out the Record Shipping Guide submitted by GothamCountySheriff for tips on proper packaging. To submit a new post, you are required to preface your title with, , or. Please avoid transactions with any of these accounts due to past fraudulent activity. Be aware of practices for safe and secure transactions and tips to help avoid potential scammers. In order for our community to easily browse submissions as low-resource posts, please respect the following guidelines. 21st) - discussion of online gems and tips that are of great resource for all record collectors. Secrets to Purchasing Records Online (Aug. Post albums that you want or ones you are selling or trading.īest Record Purchase Stories (Aug 28th) - discussion of unique, humorous, or triumphant stories of buying a new record. Collectors buying, selling and trading vinyl.

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If you plan to resell your records one day this grading guide from Discogs will help you avoid conflict with unhappy buyers. Honesty is the best policy.

#record #condition #grading #discogs #vinyl #seller #buyer

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Vinyl marks

Condition:

Mint (M)

Absolutely perfect in every way. Certainly never been played, possibly even still sealed. Should be used sparingly as a grade, if at all.  

Near Mint (NM or M-)

A nearly perfect record. A NM- record has more than likely never been played, and the vinyl will play perfectly, with no imperfections during playback. Many dealers won't give a grade higher than this implying (perhaps correctly) that no record is ever truly perfect. The record should show no obvious signs of wear. A 45 RPM or EP sleeve should have no more than the most minor defects, such as any sign of slight handling. An LP cover should have no creases, folds, seam splits, cut-out holes, or other noticeable similar defects. The same should be true of any other inserts, such as posters, lyric sleeves, etc.  

Very Good Plus (VG+)

Generally worth 50% of the Near Mint value. A Very Good Plus record will show some signs that it was played and otherwise handled by a previous owner who took good care of it. Defects should be more of a cosmetic nature, not affecting the actual playback as a whole. Record surfaces may show some signs of wear and may have slight scuffs or very light scratches that don't affect one's listening experiences. Slight warps that do not affect the sound are "OK". The label may have some ring wear or discoloration, but it should be barely noticeable. Spindle marks may be present. Picture sleeves and inner sleeves will have some slight wear, slightly turned-up corners, or a slight seam split. An LP cover may have slight signs of wear, and may be marred by a cut-out hole, indentation, or cut corner. In general, if not for a couple of minor things wrong with it, this would be Near Mint.  

Very Good (VG)

Generally worth 25% of Near Mint value. Many of the defects found in a VG+ record will be more pronounced in a VG disc. Surface noise will be evident upon playing, especially in soft passages and during a song's intro and fade, but will not overpower the music otherwise. Groove wear will start to be noticeable, as with light scratches (deep enough to feel with a fingernail) that will affect the sound. Labels may be marred by writing, or have tape or stickers (or their residue) attached. The same will be true of picture sleeves or LP covers. However, it will not have all of these problems at the same time. Goldmine price guides with more than one price will list Very Good as the lowest price.

Good (G), Good Plus (G+)

Generally worth 10-15% of the Near Mint value. A record in Good or Good Plus condition can be played through without skipping. But it will have significant surface noise, scratches, and visible groove wear. A cover or sleeve will have seam splits, especially at the bottom or on the spine. Tape, writing, ring wear, or other defects will be present. While the record will be playable without skipping, noticeable surface noise and "ticks" will almost certainly accompany the playback.  

Poor (P), Fair (F)

Generally worth 0-5% of the Near Mint price. The record is cracked, badly warped, and won't play through without skipping or repeating. The picture sleeve is water damaged, split on all three seams and heavily marred by wear and writing. The LP cover barely keeps the LP inside it. Inner sleeves are fully split, crinkled, and written upon.

Other Marks:

2LP (Double LP):

2P (Second Pressing): 

3LP/4LP: (Triple/Quadrouple LP) 

33: 

45: 

78: 

B & W (Black and White)

bo (Book, booklet)

BOC (Bend on Cover)

B/S (Box Set): 

BSS (Bottom Seam split)

BTC (Bent corner)

Cat No, Cat # (Catalogue Number)

cnr (Corner):

comp (Compilation)

Cvr (Cover)

CW (Cover Wear/Worn)

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I guess I’m gonna blog about it now. This turned way longer than I thought it was going to, so it’s going under a read more.

A few months ago I was filling my time by researching depression. My depression is chronic, and though it fluctuates in intensity, it’s always there. I was debating getting back into therapy or finding alternative options when I stumbled upon an article about how women with undiagnosed autism are more likely to have chronic or persistent depression. I read through it and all of a sudden something clicked.

As a preschooler I was incredibly intelligent. I could read, write, and speak well. I had an endearing (that became annoying) quirk of mouthing my sentences again after I’d spoken them. Despite being friendly, I didn’t like being touched. I hated hugs and cuddles unless I initiated them. I was very aware of my personal space and didn’t like it when people got too close to me. I liked being by myself, and only had one friend until around third grade. My isolationist tendencies were favorable because they made me the “good one,” and I was never alone in a house with two brothers and my mom’s daycare. My parents divorced when I was 7, right after my favorite cousin had died. My family put me in therapy and patted themselves on the back for being proactive while also assuming that any problems I had would be addressed.

As I grew up, I learned that people like eye contact, so I trained myself to look at the point in between their eyes to give the appearance of it without actually looking into their eyes. At school, I was the queen of over-sharing. I was obsessed with my family’s heritage and talked endlessly about being half Indonesian. Without ever having to study, I aced every class except for math. I hated math because I couldn’t do it automatically. I got irrationally stressed over it, and would panic and forget everything I learned. I counted with my fingers, and if someone made fun of me for it, found ways to be discreet. I excelled in English, and fell in love with characters who didn’t tease and stories that made sense.

I had a vivid imagination and used toys to practice talking to people, and notoriously carried some sort of security item around with me until I was much older. I saw Toy Story and then Chuckie not too long after, which gave me a pervasive feeling that my toys were alive and could communicate and could also get upset with me. I worried endlessly about accidentally hurting my toys’ feelings and never gave them away, amassing an insane amount of stuffies on my bed and in a hammock on my wall. It annoyed my mother, which scared me. She was an alcoholic with a lot of feelings, and I felt every person’s emotions as deeply as my own. It overwhelmed me.

Middle school was a tricky transitional time. Puberty was rough. My stepmom got me an American Girl book called “The Care and Keeping of You” which I treated like my how-to guide for both puberty and socialization. There were sections on how to talk to friends and sections on how to brush your hair; it was a goldmine of tips for me. I referenced it every day. I memorized it as the Way To Do Things, and when my stepmom teased me about it, I found ways to adapt so it wasn’t so obvious.

I had spent my life up until that point wearing clothes that were comfortable. People started mocking me for wearing sports bras and men’s clothing. I hated the feeling of denim, the tightness of women’s clothing, and the overall feeling of exposure regular bras gave me. When I started wearing women’s clothing, I made sure to have at least one day a week where I wore baggy clothes, but made sure that they looked good; baggy jeans or sweatpants with tight t-shirts, tank tops layered under zip-ups, and various other combinations. I learned that my appearance mattered more than my comfort, and I resented it. My parents accused me of being dramatic, but the feeling of a bra strap digging into my shoulder was not one I could ignore; I was aware of my clothes at all times, and I hated it.

My friends started expressing interest in sex and I was always uncomfortable during those conversations; I never had sexual thoughts. While my friends fantasized about their crushes being their ‘first time’, I fantasized about my crush and I going on heists and adventures. I went along with what others wanted from me, and had a few not okay experiences because of it. When everyone started flirting by hugging and tickling, I was always a target. My friends would hug me and laugh when I stimmed and pushed them away, imitating the way I moved and calling me “twitch”. I started cracking my knuckles or wiggling my toes in my shoes instead of flapping my hands. I trained myself to hug, even though I hated it.

People knew that I misunderstood blunt statements. Sarcasm had already been a defense mechanism at that point for me; if I said something stupid people thought I was joking and it helped me learn. Boys at school would ask me out and then laugh at my confusion. If they weren’t mocking me through fake flirting, they made do with the fact that bluntness threw me off. They’d see me in my comfy boy clothes and asked me how much I could bench or challenge me to races. If I agreed to their challenges, they’d laugh the entire time and I wouldn’t understand why until later. At home, it wasn’t much better. My stepmom would buy my birthday present in front of me, tell me it was for my cousin, and then laugh when I would open it and be surprised. She’d tell people how naive and gullible I was. 

High school made things easier for me. I had solid friends at that point, though I was caught between two cliques, which made the popular kids unsure of me. I coasted through the social side by being nice and smart. I learned to hide parts of my personality away depending on which group I was with, and learned to read body language to avoid being seen as weird. I repressed my need to stim, though I cracked my knuckles whenever I got anxious and played with my jewelry often. At that point, people understood that liking to read wasn’t bad, so anytime I got overwhelmed in public I’d pull out a book and people left me alone. My isolationist tendencies came back, but being a teenage girl gave me some leeway in regards to hiding in my room and being emotional over nothing. I found ways to balance things that set off my sensory overload; I only read under lamps and never used overhead lights; I wore comfortable clothing that didn’t set off any tactile issues; I learned what volume setting I could handle on various TVs and computers. I began using self-deprecating humor to beat people to the punch, and was known for my jokes as a result. I was already dealing with depression, so I feigned happiness every day to make sure that no one would ever find out about all the things that I kept hidden and locked away.

I am autistic. As a child my traits were favorable compared to my rambunctious peers, so no one questioned me. When I started going through the more difficult parts of life, my family and therapists attributed my feelings and actions to the divorce, my cousin’s death, and my mother’s addictions. By the time I got to high school I had developed coping mechanisms based off of the treatment I received from my classmates and family that kept me under the radar. I’ve always obsessed over my special interests, I’ve always been on the edge of socially acceptable, I’ve always found ways to deflect and mask.

I lived for 25 years without understanding a piece of who I am. I read that post a few months ago and the world fell into place. I took questionnaires and read studies and got lost in finding myself. I researched how doctors formally diagnose and found out that I have Asperger’s, which is now referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorder. It doesn’t change anything, but it helps me understand. I am autistic, and that’s okay.

#actuallyautistic #autism #long post #personal #journaling #just a casual timeline #i've been thinking about this stuff forever #so many of the things i was teased for were traits of my autism

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LET’S GUIDE YOU WITH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BANK PO AND SSC EXAMS.

What are the ways in which Bank PO and SSC differ and which one is best suited for a candidate’s career? These are some of the questions most students looking for a career in the Banking industry are seeking answers for. With the public sector banks and SSC being the major recruiting organisations in the country, banking sectors come up with lakhs of vacancies every year and a considerable number of students opt for these exams because of job securities in both the sectors. So, what’s best for a candidate depends on the individual area of interest. In this article, we shall guide you with the difference between Bank PO exams and SSC exams.

 EXAMINATION PATTERN-

SSC exams- every year SSC recruits staff to various posts in departments, ministries and organisations under the Government of India. Below is the list of exams conducted yearly by SSC-

1. SSC GD

2. SSC CGL

3. SSC CHSL

4. SSC JE

5. SSC CPO

6. SSC MTS

7. SSC Stenographer

Bank exams- in India, banking exams are considered to be the stepping-stone for aspirants who want a career in the banking industry. Below is the list of all major exams conducted across India.

1. SBI PO

2.SBI SO

3. SBI Clerk

4. IBPS PO

5. IBPS SO

6. IBPS Clerk

7. IBPS RRB

8. RBI Officer Grade B

9. RBI Officer Grade C

10. RBI Junior Engineer

11. NABARD

VARIATION IN SYLLABUS- subjects including Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, English and General Awareness for both Banks and SSCs are similar but there are many variations when compared topic-wise.

·         The Reasoning for Bank exams are tougher than SSC exam as it is more concept based.

·         In the Quantitative Aptitude section, candidates preparing for SSC CGL need to focus more on conceptual topics like trigonometry, algebra etc.

·         In the English section, SSC focuses more on idioms, spotting the errors, synonyms and antonyms etc. Whereas, in bank exams questions based on vocals and grammar are asked and syllogism and reading comprehension are given more weightage.

·         In the General Awareness section, SSC focuses on general awareness of history, geography, Indian politics and economy. While in Bank exams it is more about banking awareness that consist of banking terminology and process.

 We hope the information provided above helps aspirants make the right choice between the two options. The Banking sector is a huge goldmine of opportunities for graduates seeking a secured Government job and a good career. In order to enable students to make the most of these opportunities and emerge successful, Study at Home have come up with the well curated Banking courses online. Prepare with the best banking courses online in India, banking courses with certificates in India, best SSC online coaching in India offered by us at www.studyathome.org.

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THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES

THE FEMALE GAZE, JULY 27 – AUGUST 9

A two-week survey of 36 films shot by 23 female cinematographers

Agnès Godard, Natasha Braier, Joan Churchill, and Ashley Connor in person

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces The Female Gaze (July 26 – August 9), spotlighting the amazing work of such accomplished international female cinematographers as Agnès Godard, Natasha Braier, Kirsten Johnson, Joan Churchill, Maryse Alberti, Ellen Kuras, Babette Mangolte, and Rachel Morrison. Laura Mulvey’s landmark 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” suggested an imbalance of power in film dominated by the male gaze and heterosexual male pleasure; this series poses the question: is there such a thing as the “Female Gaze”?

This year, Morrison made history as the first woman nominated for the Best Cinematography Oscar for Mudbound, a triumph that also underscored the troubling issue of gender inequality in the film industry. Few jobs on a movie set have been as historically closed to women as that of cinematographer—the persistence of the term “cameraman” says it all. Despite this lack of representation, trailblazing women have left their mark on the field through extraordinary artistry and profound vision. As seen through their eyes, films by directors like Claire Denis, Jacques Rivette, Chantal Akerman, Ryan Coogler, and Lucrecia Martel are immeasurably richer, deeper, and more wondrous.

The Female Gaze opens with a double feature of unforgettable collaborations between Agnès Godard and Claire Denis—from the sensual gaze on male bodies in Beau travail to that of familial love in 35 Shots of Rum—launching the series’ central dialogue with Godard in person. Then on July 28, cinematographers Natasha Braier, Ashley Connor, Agnès Godard, and Joan Churchill join Film Society audiences to discuss their careers, experiences in the film industry, and their interpretations of the Female Gaze in a free talk, sponsored by HBO®.

Full line up.

Maryse Alberti Creed Ryan Coogler, USA, 2015, 133m The legend of Rocky lives on as Michael B. Jordan’s gutsy Adonis Johnson—son of Apollo Creed—sets out to prove he’s got what it takes to be the next champ, leaving his luxe L.A. life behind to train in the hard-knock gyms of Philadelphia with the Italian Stallion himself. After the breakout success of Fruitvale Station, director Ryan Coogler shows his facility for major budget spectacle, balancing a rousing underdog sports story with a poignant portrait of intergenerational friendship. The virtuoso lensing of Maryse Alberti astonishes in a dazzling four-and-a-half minute fight sequence that unfolds in one bruising, breathless take. Thursday, August 2, 1:30pm Sunday, August 5, 9:00pm

Velvet Goldmine Todd Haynes, UK/USA, 1998, 35mm, 124m The birth of Oscar Wilde; the staged death of a flamboyant rock star modeled closely after David Bowie; the delirious inebriation of London at the height of the glam era: Haynes’s discourse on celebrity culture is as sprawling and multi-tracked as his previous film, Safe, had been clinically restrained. Much of Velvet Goldmine, the story of a journalist who tries to reconstruct the sordid life story of the failed glam rock star he’d idolized as a young man, was shot in London, and the move gave Haynes a chance to abandon the cloister-like suburbs of his earlier films for a much more colorful, Dionysian milieu. Haynes and cinematographer Maryse Alberti crafted one of the most visually thrilling music movies of the 1990s. An NYFF36 Selection. Sunday, July 29, 8:30pm Tuesday, August 7, 4:15pm

Barbara Alvarez The Headless Woman / La mujer sin cabeza Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/France/Italy/Spain, 2008, 35mm, 87m Spanish with English subtitles DP Barbara Alvarez imparts a restrained—and very strange—spatial texture to Lucrecia Martel’s excitingly splintered third feature, about a woman (a stunning María Onetto) in a state of phenomenological distress following a mysterious road accident. Martel’s rare gift for building social melodrama from sonic and spatial textures, behavioral nuances, and an unerringly brilliant sense of the joys, tensions, and endless reserves of suppressed emotion lurking within the familial structure is here pushed to another level of creative daring. An NYFF46 selection. 35mm print courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive. Saturday, July 28, 1:00pm

Akiko Ashizawa Tokyo Sonata         Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 2008, 120m Japanese with English subtitles What strange deceptions lurk beneath the placid veneer of the average Japanese family? Horror maestro Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s unexpected—but wholly rewarding—foray into family melodrama-cum-black comedy quivers with an undercurrent of dread as salaryman dad (Teruyuki Kagawa) loses his job and desperately attempts to maintain the illusion that he’s still employed; his grade-school son (Kai Inowaki) rebels by secretly taking (gasp!) piano lessons; and mom (Kyōko Koizumi) finds what she’s been looking for with her own kidnapper. The elegant long shots of Akiko Ashizawa toy with the meticulous framings of Ozu as Kurosawa guides the film through a series of increasingly audacious tonal shifts. An NYFF46 selection. Tuesday, August 7, 6:45pm

Diane Baratier The Romance of Astrea and Celadon / Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon Éric Rohmer, France, 2007, 35mm, 109m At the age of 88, Éric Rohmer bid adieu to cinema with this enchanting mythological idyll, which brims with all the vitality and freshness of youth. Frequent Rohmer cinematographer Diane Baratier conjures a sun-dappled bucolic dream vision of fifth-century Gaul, where a beguiling fable of romantic misunderstanding plays out when a band of druids and nymphs intervene in the lovers’ quarrel between androgynously beautiful shepherd Celadon (Andy Gillet) and his jealous paramour Astrea (Stéphanie Crayencour). Introducing hitherto untapped themes of gender and sexual fluidity into his work, Rohmer crafts an exalted paean to love both spiritual and carnal. An NYFF45 selection. Friday, August 3, 2:00pm Thursday, August 9, 7:00pm

Céline Bozon La France Serge Bozon, France, 2007, 35mm, 102m French with English subtitles In the fall of 1917, as World War I rages, a lovelorn soldier’s wife (Sylvie Testud) disguises herself as a man and sets off for the front in search of her missing husband. Along the way, she meets up with a company of soldiers under the command of a gruff lieutenant (Pascal Greggory), who reluctantly allows Camille to join their ranks. From time to time, these surprisingly sensitive, introspective men break out an assortment of homemade instruments and perform original songs written for the film by Benjamin Esdraffo and the artist known as Fugu, styled after the American “sunshine pop” of The Beach Boys and The Mamas and the Papas. Exquisitely shot by Céline Bozon (the director’s sister), this unclassifiable hybrid of war movie and movie musical is truly unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Print courtesy of the Institut Français. Wednesday, August 1, 6:45pm Wednesday, August 8, 1:30pm

Natasha Braier The Milk of Sorrow / La teta asustada Claudia Llosa, Spain/Peru, 2009, 35mm, 94m Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles Fausta, the only daughter of an aged indigenous Peruvian mother, is said to have been nursed on “the milk of sorrow.” This accursed designation is bestowed on the children of victims of the former terrorist regime. Fausta has learned of her mother’s past and her own presupposed fate through invented song, which is both an art form and oral history tradition. Upon her mother’s death, she must venture beyond the safety of her uncle’s home and choose whether or not to lend her gift of song so that she can pay for a proper burial. Llosa and DP Natasha Braier capture the striking beauty of Lima’s outskirts, as well as a revelatory performance by Magaly Solier, with dignity and grace. Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival. A New Directors/New Films 2009 selection. Sunday, July 29, 3:30pm (Q&A with Natasha Braier)

The Neon Demon Nicolas Winding Refn, Denmark/France/USA/UK, 2016, 118m Like a 21st-century Showgirls meets Suspiria, Nicolas Winding Refn’s delirious plunge into the fake plastic horror of the image-obsessed fashion industry trafficks in both high-camp excess and kaleidoscopically stylized splatter. Elle Fanning is the guileless recent L.A. transplant whose fresh-faced youth and beauty almost instantly land her a high-profile modeling contract. Whatever “it” is, she has it. And a coterie of monstrously jealous, flavor-of-last-month Hollyweird burnouts will stop at nothing to get it. Working in a supersaturated, electric day-glo palette, DP Natasha Braier fashions a sleek, freaky-seductive vision of L.A.’s dark side. Saturday, July 28, 8:00pm (Q&A with Natasha Braier)

Caroline Champetier The Gang of Four / La bande des quatre Jacques Rivette, France/Switzerland, 1989, 160m French and Portuguese with English subtitles Four women, a shadowy conspiracy, and a whole lot of acting exercises: we’re firmly in Rivette territory in one of the director’s most spellbinding explorations of the sometimes terrifyingly thin line between everyday life and the strangeness beneath it. A quartet of aspiring actresses live together while studying with a demanding coach (Bulle Ogier). As they rehearse Pierre Marivaux’s La Double inconstance, offstage drama creeps into their lives in the form of a menacing mystery man (Benoît Régent) with a sinister story to tell. Caroline Champetier’s moody lensing—muted reds, golds, and browns—creates the feeling of an all-enveloping universe operating according to its own paranoid logic. Friday, July 27, 3:15pm Wednesday, August 8, 6:15pm

Holy Motors Leos Carax, France, 2012, 116m French and English with English subtitles Cinematographers Caroline Champetier and Yves Cape both lensed this unclassifiable, expansive movie from Leos Carax about a man named Oscar (longtime collaborator Denis Lavant) who inhabits 11 different characters over the course of a single day. This shape-shifter is shuttled from appointment to appointment in Paris in a white-stretch limo driven by the soignée Edith Scob (Eyes Without a Face); not on the itinerary is an unplanned reunion with Kylie Minogue. To summarize the film any further would be to take away some of its magic; the most accurate précis comes from its own creator, who aptly described Holy Motors after its world premiere in Cannes as “a film about a man and the experience of being alive.” An NYFF50 selection. Saturday, August 4, 7:15pm Monday, August 6, 4:00pm

Le Pont du Nord Jacques Rivette, France, 1982, 129m French with English subtitles Paris becomes a labyrinthine life-size game board in one of the most elaborate of Jacques Rivette’s sprawling, down-the-rabbit-hole cine-puzzles. Bulle Ogier and her daughter Pascale star, respectively, as a hitchhiking ex-con and a leather-clad tough girl who meet by chance on the city streets, come into possession of a curious map, and find themselves caught in a sinister cobweb of underworld conspiracy. Shooting seemingly on the fly, almost documentary-style on the streets of Paris, cinematographers Caroline Champetier and William Lubtchansky telegraph a freewheeling, anything-goes sense of play, as well as a creeping surveillance paranoia. An NYFF19 selection. 4K restoration from the 16mm negative, supervised by Véronique Rivette and Caroline Champetier at Digimage Classic, with the help of the CNC. Friday, August 3, 6:30pm

Joan Churchill Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill, UK/USA, 2004, 93m Just months after Monster made Aileen Wuornos a household name—and Charlize Theron an Oscar darling—documentarian Nick Broomfield and co-director/cinematographer Joan Churchill unleashed this riveting portrait of the real-life serial killer. Of the two films, it remains the more chilling experience, an unflinching face-to-face encounter with a deeply damaged soul who, as she prepares for her imminent execution, is at once eager to set the record straight, angrily defiant, and increasingly delusional. Daring to find the humanity in one of the most vilified criminals of the century, Broomfield and Churchill—whose camera remains ever-alert and skillfully unobtrusive—craft a haunting, complex look at a life gone wrong. Monday, July 30, 6:45pm (Q&A with Joan Churchill)

Ashley Connor Sneak Preview! The Miseducation of Cameron Post Desiree Akhavan, USA, 2018, 90m Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, Desiree Akhavan’s second feature follows the titular character (Chloë Grace Moretz) in 1993 as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl on prom night. In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners, including amputee stoner Jane (Sasha Lane) and her friend Adam (Forrest Goodluck), a Lakota Two-Spirit. Together, this group forms an unlikely family with a will to fight. Akhavan and DP Ashley Connor evoke the emotional layers of Danforth’s novel with an effortless yet considered attention to the spirit of the ’90s and the audacious, moving performances of the ensemble cast. A FilmRise release. Sunday, July 29, 6:00pm (Q&A with Ashley Connor)

Josée Deshaies House of Tolerance / L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close Bertrand Bonello, France, 2011, 35mm, 122m French with English subtitles “I could sleep for a thousand years,” drawls a 19th-century prostitute—paraphrasing Lou Reed—at the start of Bonello’s hushed, opium-soaked fever dream of life in a Parisian brothel at the turn of the century. House of Tolerance is, among other things, Bonello’s most gorgeous and complete application of musical techniques to film grammar, his most rigorous attempt to sculpt cinematic space, his most probing reflection on the origins of capitalist society, and his most sophisticated study of the movement of bodies under immense constraint. A shocking mutilation, a funeral staged to The Moody Blues’ “Nights in White Satin,” a progression of ritualized, drugged assignations and encounters: Bonello and frequent collaborator Josée Deshaies capture it all with a mixture of casual detachment and needlepoint precision. Wednesday, August 1, 2:00pm Sunday, August 5, 4:30pm

Crystel Fournier Tomboy Céline Sciamma, France, 2011, 35mm, 82m French with English subtitles A sensitive, heartrending portrait of what it feels like to grow up different, Céline Sciamma’s beautifully observed coming-of-age tale aches tenderly with the tangled confusion of childhood. When ten-year-old Laure’s family moves to a new neighborhood during the summer, the gender-nonconforming preteen (played by the impressively naturalistic Zoé Héran) takes the opportunity to present as Mickäel to the neighborhood kids—testing the waters of a new identity that neither friends nor family quite understand. Sciamma’s warmly empathetic tone is perfectly complemented by the soft-lit impressionism of Crystel Fournier’s glowing cinematography. Print courtesy of the Institut Français. Monday, August 6, 2:15pm Thursday, August 9, 9:15pm

Agnès Godard Beau Travail Claire Denis, France, 1999, 35mm, 92m French, Italian, and Russian with English subtitles Denis’s loose retelling of Billy Budd, set among a troop of Foreign Legionnaires stationed in the Gulf of Djibouti, is one of her finest films, an elemental story of misplaced longing and frustrated desire. Beneath a scorching sun, shirtless young men exercise to the strains of Benjamin Britten, under the watchful eye of Denis Lavant’s stone-faced officer Galoup, their obsessively ritualized movements simmering with barely suppressed violence. When a handsome recruit wins the favor of the regiment’s commander, cracks start to appear in Galoup’s fragile composure. In the tense, tightly disciplined atmosphere of military life, Denis found an ideal outlet for two career-long concerns: the quiet agony of repressing one’s emotions and the terror of finally letting loose. An NYFF37 selection. Print courtesy of the Institut Français. Thursday, July 26, 7:00pm (Q&A with Agnès Godard)

35 Shots of Rum / 35 rhums Claire Denis, France/Germany, 2008, 35mm, 100m French and German with English subtitles When is a rice cooker more than just a rice cooker? When it’s in the masterful hands of Claire Denis, who somehow transforms it into a moving metaphor for the evolving relationship between a Parisian train conductor (Alex Descas) and his devoted twenty-something daughter (Mati Diop) as he gently nudges her out of the nest and each tests the waters of new relationships. Warmed by the ember-glow of Agnès Godard’s beautifully burnished cinematography, Denis’s delicately bittersweet take on the Ozu-style family drama conveys worlds of meaning and emotion—attraction, heartache, loss, hope—in a mere glance, a gesture, and, yes, a kitchen appliance. Thursday, July 26, 9:30pm (Introduction by Agnès Godard) Tuesday, July 31, 1:00pm

The Intruder / L'intrus Claire Denis, France, 2005, 35mm, 130m French, English, Korean, Russian, and Polynesian with English subtitles Rich, strange, and tantalizingly enigmatic, Denis’s crypto-odyssey is a mesmeric sensory experience that haunts like a half-remembered dream. Inspired by a book by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, The Intruder skips across time and continents—from the Alpine wilds to a neon-lit Korea to a tropical Tahiti suffused with languorous melancholy—as it traces the journey of an inscrutable, ailing loner (Michel Subor) seeking a black market heart transplant and his long-lost son. An impressionist wash of hallucinations, memories, and dreams are borne along on the lush textures of Agnès Godard’s shimmering cinematography. Print courtesy of the Institut Français. Saturday, July 28, 3:00pm (Q&A with Agnès Godard) Thursday, August 9, 4:15pm

Kristen Johnson Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson, USA, 2016, 102m How much of one’s self can be captured in the images shot of and for others? Kirsten Johnson’s work as a director of photography and camera operator has helped earn her documentary collaborators (Laura Poitras, Michael Moore, Kirby Dick, Barbara Kopple) nearly every accolade and award possible. Recontextualizing the stunning images inside, around, and beyond the works she has shot, Johnson constructs a visceral and vibrant self-portrait of an artist who has traveled the globe, venturing into landscapes and lives that bear the scars of trauma both active and historic. Rigorous yet nimble in its ability to move from heartache to humor, Cameraperson provides an essential lens on the things that make us human. A 2016 New Directors/New Films selection. Friday, July 27, 6:30pm Thursday, August 2, 4:15pm

Derrida Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering, USA, 2002, 35mm, 84m Postmodern intellectual rockstar Jacques Derrida receives an appropriately self-reflexive portrait in this playful, probing documentary. Framed by the French philosopher’s statements about the inherent unreliability of biography, it finds co-director Amy Ziering attempting to tease out the links between Derrida’s radically influential thinking (he expounds on everything from forgiveness to Seinfeld) and his own life. Even as the alternately witty and reflective Derrida remains cagey about personal matters, Kirsten Johnson’s attentive camera captures revealing flashes of the man behind the ideas. What emerges is a fascinating interrogation of filmic truth: a documentary that relentlessly deconstructs itself. Friday, July 27, 8:45pm

Ellen Kuras Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Michel Gondry, USA, 2004, 35mm, 108m The feverish imaginations of DIY surrealist Michel Gondry and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman kick into overdrive for the great gonzo sci-fi romance of the early 2000s. When nice guy dweeb Joel (Jim Carrey) encounters blue-haired spitfire Clementine (Kate Winslet) on the LIRR, there’s a spark of attraction, but also something familiar—almost as if they’ve met before… Cue a ping-ponging, time- and space-collapsing journey through memory and a star-crossed love gone sour. The high-contrast handheld camerawork of Ellen Kuras enhances the whiplash sense of disorientation in what is, ultimately, a heart-wounding parable about the ways in which we inevitably hurt those we love most. Wednesday, August 1, 4:30pm Saturday, August 4, 9:30pm

Swoon Tom Kalin, USA, 1992, 35mm, 93m One of the most daring works to emerge from the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s, Swoon offers a radical, revisionist perspective on the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder case. Channeling the spirits of Dreyer, Bresson, and Jean Genet, director Tom Kalin challenges viewers to identify with two of the most notorious killers of the 20th century, their crime—the Nietzsche-influenced thrill killing of a schoolboy in 1920s Chicago—and punishment recounted in ghostly black and white by Ellen Kuras. Throughout, Kalin cannily deconstructs the ways in which Leopold and Loeb’s homosexuality has been historically sensationalized and demonized—a provocative analogy for queer persecution in the AIDS era. Monday, July 30, 2:00pm Monday, August 6, 8:30pm

Sabine Lancelin La captive Chantal Akerman, France/Belgium, 2000, 35mm, 118m French with English subtitles Chantal Akerman’s hypnotic exploration of erotic obsession plays like Vertigo filtered through the director’s visionary feminist formalism. Loosely inspired by the fifth volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, it circles around the very-strange-indeed relationship between the seemingly pliant Ariane (Sylvie Testud) and the disturbingly jealous Simon (Stanislas Merhar), whose need to possess her completely in turn renders him hostage to his own destructive desires. The coolly contemplative camera style of Sabine Lancelin imparts an unbroken, trance-like tension, which finds release only in the thunderous roil of the operatic score. Print courtesy of Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique. Sunday, July 29, 1:00pm

The Strange Case of Angelica / O Estranho Caso de Angélica Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal, 2010, 35mm, 97m Manoel de Oliveira’s sly, metaphysical romance—made when the famously resilient director was a mere 102 years old—is a mesmerizing, beyond-the-grave rumination on love, mortality, and the power of images. On a rain-slicked night, village photographer Isaac (Ricardo Trêpa) is summoned by a wealthy family to take a picture of their beautiful, recently deceased daughter Angelica (Pilar López de Ayala). What ensues is a ghostly tale of romantic obsession as Isaac finds his dreams—and his photographs—haunted by the spirit of the bewitching young woman. The crisp chiaroscuro compositions of cinematographer Sabine Lancelin enhance the film’s otherworldly, unstuck-in-time aura. An NYFF48 selection. Friday, July 27, 1:00pm Wednesday, August 1, 9:00pm

Jeanne Lapoirie Eastern Boys Robin Campillo, France, 2013, 128m French with English subtitles Jeanne Lapoirie’s surveillance-style camera, looking from above, masterfully follows the men who loiter around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris as they scrape by however they can, forming gangs for support and protection, ever fearful of being caught by the police and deported. When the middle-aged, bourgeois Daniel (Olivier Rabourdin) approaches a boyishly handsome Ukrainian who calls himself Marek for a date, he learns the young man is willing to do anything for some cash. What Daniel intends only as sex-for-hire begets a home invasion and then an unexpectedly profound relationship. The drastically different circumstances of the two men’s lives reveal hidden facets of the city they share. Presented in four parts, this absorbing, continually surprising film by Robin Campillo (BPM: Beats Per Minute) is centered around relationships that defy easy categorization, in which motivations and desires are poorly understood even by those to whom they belong. Monday, July 30, 4:00pm Saturday, August 4, 4:45pm

Rain Li Paranoid Park Gus Van Sant, USA, 2007, 35mm, 85m At once a dreamlike portrait of teen alienation and a boldly experimental work of film narrative, Paranoid Park finds Gus Van Sant at the height of his powers. A withdrawn high-school skateboarder (Gabe Nevins) struggles to make sense of his involvement in an accidental death. He recalls past events across tides of memory, and expresses his feelings in a diary—which is, in effect, the movie we are watching. The extraordinary skating scenes, filmed by cinematographers Rain Li and Christopher Doyle in a lyrical mixture of Super 8 and 35mm, depict their subjects soaring in space, momentarily free of the earthly troubles of adolescence. An NYFF45 selection. Tuesday, August 7, 9:15pm

Hélène Louvart Beach Rats Eliza Hittman, USA, 2017, 95m Hittman follows up her acclaimed debut, It Felt Like Love, with this sensitive chronicle of sexual becoming. Frankie (a breakout Harris Dickinson), a bored teenager living in South Brooklyn, regularly haunts the Coney Island boardwalk with his boys—trying to score weed, flirting with girls, killing time. But he spends his late nights dipping his toes into the world of online cruising, connecting with older men and exploring the desires he harbors but doesn’t yet fully understand. Sensuously lensed on 16mm by cinematographer Hélène Louvart, Beach Rats presents a colorful and textured world roiling with secret appetites and youthful self-discovery. A 2017 New Directors/New Films selection. A Neon release. Thursday, August 2, 9:00pm

Pina [in 3D] Wim Wenders, Germany/France, 2011, 106m German, English, and French with English subtitles Wim Wenders began planning this project with legendary choreographer Pina Bausch in the months before her untimely death, selecting the pieces to be filmed and discussing the filmmaking strategy. Impressed by recent innovations in 3D, Wenders decided to experiment with the format for this tribute to Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal; the result sets the standard against which all future uses of 3D to record performance will be measured. Not only are the beauty and sheer exhilaration of the dance s and dancers powerfully rendered by Hélène Louvart and Jörg Widmer’s lensing, but the film also captures the sense of the world that Bausch so brilliantly expressed in all her pieces. Longtime members of the Tanztheater recreate many of their original roles in such seminal works as “Café Müller,” “Le Sacre du Printemps,” and “Kontakthof.” An NYFF49 selection. Sunday, August 5, 2:00pm Tuesday, August 7, 2:00pm

The Wonders Alice Rohrwacher, Italy/Switzerland/Germany, 2014, 110m French with English subtitles Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, Alice Rohrwacher’s vivid story of teenage yearning and confusion revolves around a beekeeping family in rural central Italy: German-speaking father, Italian mother, four girls. Two unexpected arrivals prove disruptive, especially for the pensive oldest daughter, Gelsomina. The father takes in a troubled teenage boy as part of a welfare program, and a television crew shows up to enlist local farmers in a kitschy celebration of Etruscan culinary traditions (a slyly self-mocking Monica Bellucci plays the bewigged host). Hélène Louvart’s lensing combines a documentary attention to daily ritual with an evocative atmosphere of mystery to conjure a richly concrete world that is subject to the magical thinking of adolescence. An NYFF52 selection. Friday, August 3, 9:15pm Wednesday, August 8, 3:45pm

Irina Lubtchansky Around a Small Mountain / 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup Jacques Rivette, France/Italy, 2009, 35mm, 84m French with English subtitles     The final film from arch gamesman Jacques Rivette is a captivating variation on one of the themes that most obsessed him: the ineffable interplay between life and performance. Luminously photographed by Irina Lubtchansky in the open-air splendor of the south of France, it revolves around an Italian flaneur (Sergio Castellitto) who finds himself drawn into the world of a humble traveling circus led by the elusive Kate (Jane Birkin), whose enigmatic past becomes a tantalizing mystery he is determined to solve. In a career studded with sprawling shaggy dog epics, Rivette’s swan song is a deceptively slight grace note that contains multitudes. An NYFF47 selection.

Preceded by: Sarah Winchester, Ghost Opera / Sarah Winchester, Opera Fantôme Bertrand Bonello, France, 2016, 24m North American Premiere A film to stand in for an opera unmade: Bonello’s moody, baroque meditation on the heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune plays like a ballet-cum-horror film, an ornate tapestry of enigmatic images, chilling synths, and traces of a tragic and eccentric life. An NYFF54 selection. A Grasshopper Film release. Friday, August 3, 4:15pm Wednesday, August 8, 9:15pm

Babette Mangolte The Camera: Je or La Camera: I Babette Mangolte, USA, 1977, 88m Though perhaps best known as the cinematographer for Chantal Akerman’s groundbreaking 1970s work—as well as for her collaborations with avant-garde icons like Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, and Marina Abramović—Babette Mangolte is a singular cinematic visionary in her own right. In this structuralist auto-portrait, Mangolte allows viewers to peer through the lens of her camera as she produces a series of still photographs, first of models, then of the streetscapes of downtown Manhattan. As we experience the act of image-making through her eyes, what emerges is a heady consideration of the art and act of seeing and of the complex relationship between photographer, subject, and viewer. Monday, August 6, 6:30pm

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France, 1976, 35mm, 201m French with English subtitles A landmark of feminist art, Chantal Akerman’s minimalist masterpiece is both a monumental and microscopic view of three days in the life of a fastidious Belgian single mother (a sphinx-like Delphine Seyrig) as she goes about her housework, peeling potatoes and washing dishes with the same clinical detachment with which she makes love to the occasional john. And then slowly, almost imperceptibly, things begin to go awry… The rigorous, relentlessly impassive gaze of Babette Mangolte’s camera is transfixing but, in the words of the director, “never voyeuristic”; it’s a uniquely feminine way of seeing made manifest by one of the most sui generis filmmaker-cinematographer partnerships in history. Tuesday, July 31, 3:15pm Saturday, August 4, 1:00pm

Claire Mathon Stranger by the Lake / L’inconnu du lac Alain Guiraudie, France, 2013, 97m French with English subtitles Alain Guiraudie’s Cannes-awarded exploration of death and desire unfolds entirely in the vicinity of a gay cruising ground that becomes a crime scene. Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) is a regular at a lakeside pickup spot, where he finds companionship both platonic and carnal. But his new paramour Michel (Christophe Paou) turns out to be a love-’em-and-leave-’em type, in the deadliest sense… Guiraudie has long been a singular voice in French cinema: anti-bourgeois, at ease in nature, a true regionalist and outsider. Here he and DP Claire Mathon capture naked bodies and hardcore sex with the same matter-of-fact sensuousness they bring to ripples on the water and the fading light of dusk. An NYFF51 selection. Monday, July 30, 9:15pm Thursday, August 9, 2:00pm

Reed Morano Sneak Preview! I Think We’re Alone Now Reed Morano, USA, 2018, 93m Pulling double duty as director and cinematographer, Reed Morano finds the melancholic beauty in the end of the world with this gorgeous and strange drama starring Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning as the last people on Earth. When the film opens in a desolate upstate New York, the misanthropic Del (Dinklage) is performing rote, custodial tasks to clean up the chaos left around his hometown—and relishing his newfound solitude—until another, sprightly survivor (Fanning) arrives. Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, I Think We’re Alone Now is a visually audacious entry in the postapocalyptic genre and an idiosyncratic take on loneliness and grief.   Thursday, August 2, 6:30pm

Rachel Morrison Fruitvale Station Ryan Coogler, USA, 2013, 85m Coogler’s remarkable debut feature explores the life and harrowing death of Oscar Grant (played by Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old African-American man killed by police in the early hours of January 1, 2009. Six months after sweeping both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Fruitvale Station opened on the same weekend that jurors in Florida acquitted George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin. Rachel Morrison’s gripping, exploratory Super 16 on-location camerawork dramatizes the unseen complexities and personal relationships of Grant’s inner circle with a startling sense of urgency, emotion, and the unflagging awareness of a preventable tragedy too often seen in the news cycle. Sunday, August 5, 7:00pm

Free Talk: The Female Gaze Join us for an hour-long conversation with cinematographers Natasha Braier, Ashley Connor, Agnès Godard, and Joan Churchill as they discuss the series and reflect on their careers and influences, and how they approach their craft. Sponsored by HBO®. Saturday, July 28, 6:30pm* Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, Amphitheater, 144 W 65th Street

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Unlocking Knowledge: A Guide to Accessing Free College Courses

In the age of digital transformation, education has become more accessible than ever, with the rise of free online college courses opening doors to learning opportunities worldwide. Whether you're seeking to expand your knowledge, enhance your skills, or explore new fields, the wealth of free courses available can be a gateway to personal and professional growth. Let's embark on a journey to discover how you can access these educational treasures.

The Rise of Free College Courses

The proliferation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has revolutionized education, making it possible for learners of all ages and backgrounds to access high-quality course content from prestigious institutions around the globe. These courses cover a wide range of subjects, from humanities and sciences to business and technology.

Top Platforms Offering Free College Courses

Coursera:

Coursera partners with universities and organizations to offer a vast array of courses for free. While certificates often require payment, auditing a course allows access to lectures and some materials without cost.

edX:

Founded by MIT and Harvard, edX provides free access to a variety of courses from universities worldwide. Like Coursera, certificates may require a fee, but the knowledge remains accessible.

Khan Academy:

Khan Academy focuses on providing free, high-quality education for anyone, anywhere. With a strong emphasis on mathematics and science, the platform offers a personalized learning experience.

MIT OpenCourseWare:

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers a treasure trove of course materials, lectures, and assignments for free. It's a goldmine for those interested in science, engineering, and technology.

Open Yale Courses:

Yale University opens its virtual doors to the public, offering a selection of introductory courses across various disciplines. The lectures and materials are accessible to anyone with an internet connection.

How to Get Started with Free College Courses

Choose Your Platform:

Explore different platforms and find the one that aligns with your learning goals. Each platform has its unique features and course offerings.

Select Your Course:

Browse through the catalog of available courses and select the ones that pique your interest. Consider both short-term and more comprehensive courses based on your availability and commitment.

Enroll or Audit:

Some platforms allow you to enroll in courses for free, while others offer auditing options. Enrolling may provide additional benefits, such as graded assignments or certificates, but auditing still grants access to valuable learning materials.

Manage Your Time:

Balancing work, personal life, and online courses requires effective time management. Create a schedule that allows you to dedicate regular periods to your studies.

Engage with the Community:

Many online platforms have forums or discussion groups where learners can interact. Engaging with the community can enhance your learning experience, providing insights and perspectives from a diverse group of participants.

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BEST VAPE OIL IN THE UK.

CBD oil is quickly gaining popularity around the world, primarily due to its health benefits. Vaping happens to be one of the most straightforward and enjoyable methods of CBD oil consumption. The CBD compound is extracted from a marijuana or hemp plant. The refined CBD can be consumed orally, or even inhaled as an e-liquid or vape oil. 

Compared to other methods, vaping CBD oil seems to be a more effective method of CBD consumption. Inhalation leads to more bioavailability; in other words, it means that vaping allows you to absorb more significant amounts of the CBD compound. Additionally, in comparison to smoking, vaping CBD oil appears to be safer. Moreover, you do not need to be a smoker or vaper to use vape CBD oil, as it can be consumed orally. 

Some of the conditions in which CBD oil helps include epilepsy, insomnia, anxiety, psychosis, heart disease, diabetes, chemotherapy side effects, arthritis and inflammation. 

With more scientific research, more positive effects of CBD become evident. With more people across the UK starting to used CBD, we thought it best to bring some of the best vape oil brands in the UK. 

Apollo E-Liquids:

Apollo has a wide range of premium e-liquids available. The product ranges Salt Nics to Apollo’s in-house created flavours to Max VG Flavours. Apollo’s e-liquids that are compatible with multiple vaping devices. 

If you prefer using an e-cigarette shaped like a pen, the 50PG/50VG liquids are your best choice. For users who prefer direct to lung vaping, Apollo’s 20PG/80VG product range is ideal. 

If you want to go with the more trusted flavours such as Menthol, Grape, Tobacco, Strawberry, Watermelon, or Grape, you can always turn to the 50/50 range. 

All of the available flavours are excellent beginning points for people who have just turned to vape and are perfect for standard clearomizers or e-cig tanks. Recently, Apollo has stocked a massive range of nic salt e-liquids, suitable for most vaping devices. 

JAC Vapour: 

JAC Vapour puts immense emphasis on producing CBD products of the highest quality. As a result, the ingredients and the nicotine base go through extensive testing before being mixed. Independent tests are also performed on JAC Vapour’s juices, to ensure high standards concerning safety and quality. 

The popular JAC Vapour flavours are Banana Milkshake, Real Raspberry, and Toffee. Users often mix multiple flavours to come up with unique and delicious tastes of their own. 

JAC Vapour is one of the only brands in the UK to have e-liquids with minimal vapour. The range of minimum vapour products is called ‘Clear Steam’ and is produced in as many flavours as their main product line is. 

E-liquids that are suitable for both Sub-Ohm and Mouth-To-Lung devices are also available. 

The following ranges are available in the UK and across Europe:

 ●        The standard range (50PG/50VG), which is best suited for MTL vaping devices.

●        The smoking range enables the nicotine to get into the bloodstream quicker than standard e-liquid would. Highly recommended for users who have recently quit smoking.

●        The premium range, suitable for Sub-Ohm devices. 

 Vaporfi E-Liquid:

If you are looking for options and variety, Vaporfi is the brand for you. Alongside the massive range that the brand possesses, it also allows you to try out your customised recipe, and mix it with Vaporfi’s standard product collection - this means that you can experiment with more than 30,000 flavouring options. A goldmine for those that want a unique experience.

 Every liquid produced by Vaporfi is Kosher Grade and is mixed in labs that have been certified by the Food and Drug Authority (FDA). Flavours produced by Vaporfi have been termed even better than ‘food-grade’. Every e-juice produced is rigorously examined to ensure that it contains no traces of Acetyl Propionyl or Diacetyl. 

Vaporfi vast product range has numerous outstanding products, some of which are ‘Verry Berry Ice’ and the fantastic ‘Deep Fried Apple Pie’. 

V2 Platinum E-liquid:

A USA-based company, V2 Platinum, ensures that its products are a premium standard with a delicious range of flavours. 

Several flavour options are available with three menthols, three e-juices made up of tobacco, and the remaining collection consisting of several attractive flavours such as Cherry, Chocolate, Vanilla, Coffee, and Grape. 

With each product sold is a PDF document containing the product details and the ingredients for each batch. This level of customer service demonstrates the effort the company puts in for its customers. 

To permit users to make an informed decision, V2 Platinum even sells sample packs of 6x10 ml. 

Some flavours most preferred by users include Cherry, Congress, and Peppermint.

 Vick Liquor:

What makes Vick Liquor stand out is its brilliant combination of certain fruits, to produce some stunning e-liquids. Two of the top fruit choices are Boulevard and Citrus.

 The best part about the flavours is that they are the right mix of strength - neither too strong nor too weak.

 In conclusion, consumers need to make informed decisions about their vape oils and ensure they are made to the highest quality and standards. Throughout this guide, we have tried to assist CBD oil consumers about the best e-juice manufacturers in the UK, where consumers can find vaping products that are safe, healthy, and delicious to consume.

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Parenting Sites: The Digital Guide for Parents

Parenthood is the most natural progression of human relationships. Being a parent undoubtedly brings a sense of fulfillment, but it can also be challenging and tricky at times. That’s why parents are often faced with the common dilemma of whether they are raising the child in the right way.

Are you having the same thoughts and questioning your parenting skills? If yes, then firstly, I will ask you to take a deep breath and relax. It’s okay to get bewildered while taking care of your little human. However, since we live in the digital age, help can be easily found if you seek it. In this case, parenting sites can help you find answers to your parenting questions and enhance your skills of nurturing a young mind.  

It is wrong to say that parenting should come naturally. The motherly or fatherly instinct might be evoked as soon as you become parents but, raising a child needs more than just that. You didn’t just naturally become a good student. You had to study hard and work on your shortcomings to get good grades. In the case of parenting too, there is always room for learning and enhancing one’s skills, which can be fostered by reliable parenting websites.

How Parenting Sites can Help

Parenting sites are goldmines of knowledge, which cover diverse topics from medical to behavioral. They contain expert guidance and information on newborns, infants, toddlers, and teenagers, offered by medical professionals, psychologists, researchers, and others with experience and acquired knowledge on parenting. These websites can help you with the following:

Cover the Basics

New parents more than often face difficulty in the initial months of the arrival of the baby. The dos and don’ts of feeding, bathing, swaddling the child to sleep, and overall care of the infant can get confusing. Good parenting sites have a special section for new parents with detailed know-how on newborns and infants that can be of immense help. Experts guide parents to get through the basics of childcare. Since it is a website, the content becomes easily accessible.  

Stay Updated

Research on pediatrics, child psychology, and other relevant aspects of parenting are ongoing processes, and the rules of caring for a child get updated frequently. Parenting sites keep the mothers and the fathers updated to the latest research and findings, knowing which can assist one in sharpening their parenting skills.

For example, the latest study has revealed that alone adventure activities like hiking, fishing, etc. aid in creating strong bonds between nature and children, which furthers character development. In a different research, it has been found that childhood trauma can make the brain and body age faster. Parenting sites contain many such insightful and interesting study facts for the benefit of children and parents both.  

Connect with Other Parents

Many parenting sites contain open forums through which you can connect with a fellow parent who might be facing the same difficulty as you are. It gives you a chance to mingle with people going through the same journey of parenthood as yourself. Sharing thoughts and ideas with others can be a cathartic experience, and it can help you in taking better care of your child.

On an ending note, it is fair to say that every child is different and hence every parent has their share of issues to deal with. Nevertheless, parenting sites can be a comprehensive support platform guiding you along the way as you explore parenthood.

I hope you had an enjoyable read. For more such informational stories and insights ion different societal, economic and political aspects, visit https://www.generaladvice.org/

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YEAR-IN-BOOKS

I’m gonna go ahead and do this again this year, because I really like end of year reflection things and it was fun last year, so hey.

1. a book you loved?

I was fond of most of the books that I read this year and all in different ways. Last year was an absolute goldmine of awesome, amazing love this book forever types. This year I definitely had less of those, but I read more, and what’s maybe even better is that I also read a lot of books that I normally wouldn’t have. I wanna say that my favorites of the ones that I read were either The Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo or Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.

2. a book you hated?

UGH. Artemis by Andy Weir. It is the first book that I have ever given only one star to on goodreads, and was a total waste of time. I’ve read a good half of The Martian, and even though I’ve yet to finish it, I liked what I read well enough. But as I said in my scathing goodreads review, The Martian worked for Weir because it’s one dude alone on Mars. Artemis, unfortunately, requires a full cast of characters and has a female protagonist. Weir does not know how to write women OR realistic dialogue, and following along with middle school grade humor and a woman that is basically a lady-sized cut-and-paste of Weir’s ideal wet dream. Which wouldn’t be bad, necessarily, if she wasn’t so obviously a man’s ‘idea’ of a woman, instead of an actual three dimensional character.

3. a book that made you cry?

There’s a scene at the end of Victoria Schwab’s Our Dark Duet that involves a cat. No, the cat does not die, and I don’t want to get into it because the whole reason the scene is sad is because of spoilery context, but I did end up tearing up because of that damn cat.

4. a book that made you happy?

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is an absolute delight. It has legitimate funny moments, really well drawn out characters including several species that are so perfectly crafted that you can envision them, right down to the feathers and claws, and the story, while a little meandering, is totally great. 

5. the best sequel?

I read kind of a lot of sequels this year, but then, I also finished a lot of series this year, period. My gut reaction is to say Siege and Storm, because it’s one of the ones that I read the fastest, and the series that sticks out the most. But I’m going to say The Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. And honestly, second up is probably Waking Gods, because holy wow, those books.

6. most anticipated release for the new year?

I’m really looking forward to Only Human, Thunderhead, and Vengeful, which are the sequels and triquels (is that a thing? that word should be a thing) to Sleeping Giants, Scythe, and Vicious, all of which I read this year and adored. The book that isn’t a sequel that I’m most looking forward to is Feeder by Patrick Weekes, which is basically about a lady that hunts monsters. It looks right up my alley and I’m super psyched.

7. favorite new author?

Technically I discover Schwab last year, but I did a lot of exploring of the books that she’s written this year and she is definitely a new favorite of mine. The other one that I’m keeping my eye on is Sylvain Neuvel, who wrote Sleeping Giants and Waking Gods. More on those books later.

8. favorite book to film adaptation?

So, the only reason that I reread A Wrinkle In Time is because of the trailer for the new movie that is coming out in March. I got incredibly excited, and am probably, if I can afford it, flying down south to watch the movie with my mom when it comes out. The Annihilation trailer also looks pretty cool, but I’m anticipating serious changes there. I did end up watching the film adaptation of Me Before You this year, which I’d read last summer. I ended up crying like a baby, and was pleasantly surprised by how much of the book they kept.

9. the most surprising book?

A Natural History of Dragons, by Marie Brennan. I’m not sure what I was expecting when I borrowed the book from the library, but it wasn’t the Pride and Prejudice with dragons that I got, and stupidly delighted by.

10. the most interesting villain?

The Grisha Trilogy, for sure. Honestly, Alina and the Darkling’s relationship was the only thing that kept me reading these books, and I was thrilled by the Darkling from the moment I realized he was the villain in Shadow and Bone all the way to the end. “Make me your villain,” indeed.

11. the best makeouts?

Okay, so Love For the Cold-Blooded was about a million times pornier than I imagined it would be, so that would get my vote for best sex, but there weirdly wasn’t much actual kissing involved. Also the fact that I didn’t like the characters or story very much probably didn’t help things. So honestly? Probably Shadow and Bone. That [SPOILER, though not much of one] scene where Alina and the Darkling make out against a wall was probably the most exhilarating scene of the entire series. Like, trust me. I know he’s the villain, bad wrong, etc. etc. but I shipped them hard. 

12. a book that was super frustrating?

Slaughterhouse Five. I didn’t actually get around to finishing it, because the version that I got was an audio cd narrated by James Franco and I just. Didn’t want to fall asleep in the middle of traffic. I don’t know if it was the story, his voice, or a combination of both but I was super uninterested in the entire situation. I gave up somewhere in the middle of the second cd.

13. a book you texted about, and the text was IN CAPSLOCK?

Okay, so the thing is. I don’t really have any friends. Not ones that I can talk to about books anyway, which is super tragic, because I love books and I miss being able to talk (read: rant) about whatever I’ve just read. I do it with Nick occasionally, but he doesn’t ‘get’ fiction so it’s mostly just me waving my hands a lot and talking rapidly in his direction as he nods and takes a couple steps back so I don’t accidentally smack him in the nose. I did, however, have a conversation with my roommate about Wool, and all the reasons why she should read it.

14. a book for the small children in your life?

Okay, but every kid should read A Wrinkle In Time. The sequels are a little... stranger than I remember, but I loved reading them as a kid, and I really loved rereading the first one as an adult. 

15. a book you learned from?

Spunk & Bite was a guide to ‘punchier’ writing, and while I wouldn’t say that I really learned anything that I didn’t already know, some things were expanded on that I found interesting. I also read some of The Islamic Enlightenment, which was pretty decent from what I read of it but a bit much for my poor ADHD brain. I think I need to stick to fiction.

16. a book you wouldn’t normally try?

A lot of the books that I read this year were things that I wouldn’t normally pick up. I think the ones that were most out of my element were Less by Andrew Sean Greer and Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. The first book is about an aging author who, when upon invited to his ex’s wedding, takes a trip around the globe in order to get out of going. My manager, who I talk to about books a lot, asked about it and was incredibly confused since it’s so far from what I usually read. Despite this, it’s probably the book that I will remember most from this year a decade down the line. Before the Fall is similarly not my usual cup of tea, about a man and a boy who survive an airplane crash. It’s a thriller/mystery, but the characters are so beautifully fleshed out that it hooked me anyway.

17. a book with something magical in it?

Technically a good half of them have magic of some sort, because that is the usual type of book that I read. I’m going to go with All The Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater though, because all of her books are magical.

18. the best clothes?

As much as I would love to get away with wearing the brightly colored reaper’s robes from Scythe, I really, really adored the description of Arthur’s suit in Less. 

19. the most well-rounded characters?

That was a theme of the books that I read this year. They all had really gorgeously well-rounded characters with intricate backstories and relationships. Before the Fall was really, really good about it, as was Station Eleven, and The Secret History, though in the case of that last one you almost don’t want to get to know the characters better by the end of it.

20. the best world-building?

I really liked the world building in A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. I seriously can’t even begin how to describe how cool all the different species and space jargon was in this book. This is the space-faring book that I wanted Artemis to be.

21. the worst world-building?

Love For The Cold-Blooded? It’s a world of superheroes and villains, but it’s so slapstick that it takes away from the book a lot. Like, honestly if it wasn’t for the fact that I was vaguely intrigued by the hero bangs evil minion side of it, I wouldn’t have even kept reading.

22. a book with a good sidekick?

Gut-punch reaction is A Crooked Kingdom, but it’s hard to call any of those characters a sidekick. I’m going to go with The Archived, by Victoria Schwab, because I haven’t talked about the series yet and Roland and Wesley are both fantastic sidekicks. I loved them both immensely, most of the time more than the main character herself. The Unbound, its sequel, made those two even more compelling.

23. the most insufferable narrator?

Ugh, ugh, ugh, definitely Jazz from Artemis. Again, it isn’t her fault, she could have been super cool. Genius, tech-savvy, Muslim girl who lives on the moon and smuggles shit? Definitely could have been a cool character. But seriously, that dude cannot write ladies. She is literally just Mark Watney. 

24. a book you were excited to read for months beforehand?

All The Crooked Saints. But I think I’ll always be excited for Stiefvater books.

25. a book you picked up on a whim?

I picked up almost all of these because they had been recommended to me in some capacity. Spunk & Bite and The Islamic Enlightenment were both books that I picked up in the library because they simply caught my eye. Slaughterhouse Five I actually only grabbed because it was one of the only audiobooks in stock that wasn’t either Danielle Steel or Christian talky shows.

26. a book that should be read in a foreign country?

Less. I read it in a pool in North Carolina this summer and though it scratched the itch, it should entirely be read in a foreign country. 

27. a book cassian andor would like?

Sleeping... Giants? Or A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet?

28. a book gina linetti would like?

I legitimately have no idea what this character is like.

29. your favorite cover art?

A Conjuring of Light or All The Crooked Saints. They’re both very aesthetic™

30. a book you read in translation?

None of them. Clearly I’m not getting diverse enough.

31. a book from another century?

Hah. Haha. Technically A Wrinkle In Time was written last century. Oh god, I’m getting old.

32. a book you reread?

Other than A Wrinkle In Time, which I read so long ago that it shouldn’t even be counted as a reread, I didn’t actually do any full rereads this year. I’ve been itching to reread both The Raven Cycle and Uprooted though, so maybe I’ll do those when I make my way through my library pile.

33. a book you’re dying to talk about, and why?

Okay, but seriously. Less and Station Eleven were fucking phenomenal and should be read even if you’re unsure that you will like them. I loved both of them immensely and again, I can’t rant to any of my friends and work friends about books because they look at me like I’m stupid. Also, Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman. Those were some damn good short stories.

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