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pynkhues · 4 years

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I’m sorry your telling me that 3.03 was rheas last episode? Uhh what exactly did she do or add why would they have her for 3 episodes after making a big deal we get to meet her I’m so confused as to what these writers are on

I can’t be a hundred percent sure, of course, but yes, I am fairly sure 3.03 was Rhea’s last episode - at least for the first half of the season.

She actually did have a fairly distinct micro-arc, probably on par with minor characters like Amber, Tyler, JT and Darren, who each have small arcs where their primary function is about revealing something about or to a major character, bridging a plot or characters, emphasising a theme, or becoming a lynchpin in the story.

Good Girls actually usually does a really good job of making minor characters all four of those things! Tyler is probably the best example of that in that he’s someone the girls both take advantage of and try to help (robbing him, but then hiring him in the Secret Shopper scheme) - showcasing their best and worst qualities (tunnel vision vs compassion), bridges Boomer and the girls numerous times, re-emphasises the theme of male ego by letting Annie off the hook in 1.10 on the condition she re-establishes his ego by making him out a hero, and becomes a lynchpin in the plot multiple times - in particular in 1.10, but also in revealing the, err, second use of the Fine & Frugal freezer in s2, etc.

I don’t think Rhea’s arc is a bad one - she has a pretty good character set-up in 3.01, and immediately reveals to us something about Beth - that she feels guilt over Rio - and then feeds into the broader story and Beth’s arc by loaning Beth money, thus becoming a means of deeper entangling Beth and Rio without either of their knowledge (since Beth thinks Rio’s dead and Rio doesn’t know), again by allowing Rio to take her place at the bar to trap Beth, and then ultimately underscoring both the themes of the show and becoming a plot lynchpin by either talking, bribing or blackmailing her doctor into lying on Beth’s behalf (core theme of the show being the lengths women will go to to protect their families, but also other women; plot lynchpin in the act making it so Rio can’t kill Beth).

Rhea’s no Gretchen, that’s for sure, but still, I do wish we were getting more of her. Jackie Cruz is always a welcome presence on screen - at least for me - and I really was enjoying her Rhea and would’ve loved to have seen more of her and gotten to know her as a character better. Plus, while I don’t know enough about the trajectory of the season to say this for sure, I think there were certainly avenues to introduce a bigger role for her, particularly given she sits (or, well, sat) in a strong crossover point in terms of herself and Beth, herself and Rio, herself and Marcus, and, of course, our favourite tiny baby friendship, Marcus and Jane.

But then again, Jackie was shooting this right in the midst of her album coming out and her tour, and instantly jetted off to shoot a movie in Thailand, so a big part of all of this could be scheduling too.

I do really hope though that there’s the possibility of her coming back - the show does seem to love doing that, I mean, gosh, just look at characters like (the now named, haha) Mick, JT and Amber! Gosh, even Marcus! So! Fingers crossed! :-)

#rhea #jackie cruz #gg 3.03 #gg 3.02 #gg 3.01 #gg season 3 #behind the scenes #baby tyler #welcome to my ama #Anonymous

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bensonstablers · 4 years

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I'm in love with Spooky can you give us your opinion on his character ? I always fall for gangster , there is Rio and now Spooky. Speaking of them, I think they're quite similar. They are intelligent, strategic, charismatic, they love money and are both leaders. I still feel a big difference between the two. Oscar didn't want this life and although he does bad things he's a good person deep down. On the contrary, Rio chose this life and it made him bad.

Oh, anon, I love Spooky. I just really appreciate that he didn’t feel flat and super one-dimensional? The writers could have made him so bland and left him behind to just be this gang member but instead, they decided to put some depth to him which I’m happy about!

I can definitely see the similarities between him and Rio! Especially with the whole strategic and charismatic thing and them being leaders. I think it’s interesting that we met Spooky’s boss in season 3 and we’re supposedly going to meet Rio’s bosses in season 3 of Good Girls, haha.

Also, I feel like we have a clearer picture of Spooky, especially in regards to the Santos and what he does. We know how he feels about it all and what his true dreams are. Like you said, he didn’t want this life and the more we saw of Spooky the more it turned out that he really wasn’t a bad person.

Now, I don’t think you’re entirely wrong about Rio. It does seem like he wants to be in that life to an extent because money-wise he doesn’t seem to be struggling, yet he’s still involved in crime, however, we’re supposed to find out he has bosses so maybe getting out isn’t so simple or there are other reasons why he needs to be involved? It’s hard to tell because we really don’t know all that much about Rio and his motivations and his history with crime.

Which, isn’t a bad thing right now.

It makes sense that we know more about Spooky and are more privy to his crime world. On My Block is primarily about the Squad (Monse, Jamal, Ruby, and Cesear) and we know some of Spooky’s thoughts/feelings/motives because of Cesear being dragged into the Santos (as well as Cesear being Spooky’s little brother), the RollerWorld investigation, and Lil’ Ricky being alive. All of these things (and maybe some I’m forgetting about?) are big things happening to/with the Squad but also involve Spooky in some way which means finding out more about him and his thoughts/feelings/motives actually helps to push the story forward while still keeping the main focus on the Squad.

Now, I’m not the first to say this, but there wasn’t really a need to dive in deep with Rio’s crime world prior to season 3? Therefore we didn’t need to fully know his thoughts/feelings/motives. We know some things, like how he has a son to provide for and some minor details about his operation. It seems like we’re diving much deeper into Rio’s crime world this season which makes a ton of sense considering the girls were planning to pave their own way into crime. As Beth, Annie, and Ruby are discovering new things, so are we as an audience. While I doubt we’ll ever dive into flashbacks or anything for Rio, I do think that through his actions/things he talks about, other characters (like Rhea or his bosses or even Gretchen if she comes back, for example), and a deeper look at his crime world, we’ll discover more about his thoughts/feelings/motives :)

Anyway, back to Spooky. Like I said before, I really do appreciate that even though we only found out things about him when it connected to the Squad and was appropriate to bring up, the writers still put a lot of care into him as a character. I mean, I love that he’s genuinely hilarious and the whole thing about him being wary/scared of ghosts was a small but wonderful detail!

I really love where Spooky ended up by the end of season 3 but, like the season as a whole, it all felt kind of rushed. I do hope that things are explored more in a season 4. That being said, I do think Spooky went through a lot in the three seasons and he grew a ton.

When he first met him, he did come across a little harsh at times and like he wanted to be in charge of the Santos but, of course, through the seasons we learn more and more about him and the truth is slowly revealed. Rushed or not, it felt right to see him in that position at the end of season 3 because it felt like that was where he was supposed to be based on what we learnt about him. It was kind of jarring though to see him so happy while Cesear takes over being in charge of the Santos? It’s something that needs to be cleared up in season 4 because it doesn’t suit Spooky’s character development but of course, there was always going to be missing pieces with such a huge time jump so I trust that the writers know what they’re doing :)

Anyway, thank you for sending this ask, anon! If you have any thoughts (or if anyone else does!), I’d love to hear them :)

#long post #danielle answers #on my block #nbc good girls #danielle talks fandom #danielle talks about good girls #danielle talks about on my block #anon

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uglyducklingpresse · 7 years

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17 Years of 6x6 Poets

#1. Edmund Berrigan, Filip Marinovich, Sheila E. Murphy, Julien Poirier, Lev Rubinstein (tr. Matvei Yankelevich), Kathrine Sowerby #2. John M. Bennett, Joel Dailey, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (tr. Evgeny Pavlov with Benjamin Friedlander), Michael Ford, R. Cole Heinowitz, Genya Turovskaya #3. John Coletti, Nathaniel Farrell, Eugene Ostashevsky, Elizabeth Reddin, Cedar Sigo, Samantha Visdaate #4. Brandon Downing, W.B. Keckler, Anna Moschovakis, Dmitri Prigov (tr. Christopher Mattison), Aaron Tieger, Sam Truitt #5. Micah Ballard, Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Frank Lima, Beth Murray, Philip Nikolayev, Keith Waldrop #6. Carlos Blackburn, Joe Elliot, Arielle Greenberg, Mark Lamoreux, Alicia Rabins, Lewis Warsh #7.David Cameron, Steve Dalachinsky, Joanna Fuhrman, Jason Lynn, Tomaž Šalamun (tr. Joshua Beckman), Jacqueline Waters #8. Nicole Andonov, Jenna Cardinale, Arielle Guy, Yuko Otomo, Guillermo Juan Parra, Karen Weiser #9. Jon Cone, Phil Cordelli, Dorothea Lasky, Julie Ritter, Laura Sims, Erica Weitzman #10. Ilya Bernstein, Geoffrey Detrani, Paul Killebrew, Laura Solomon, Viktor Vida (tr. Ana Božičević), Dana Ward #11. Sue Carnahan, C.S. Carrier, Christina Clark, a collaboration by Aaron McNally and Friedrich Kerksiek, Rick Snyder, James Wagner #12. Guy R. Beining, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Sawako Nakayasu, Cynthia Nelson, John Surowiecki, Novica Tadić (tr. Maja Teref & Steven Teref) #13. Matthew Gavin Frank, George Kalamaras, Ann Lauterbach, Matthew Rohrer, Evan Willner, Lynn Xu #14. Corina Copp, Randall Leigh Kaplan, Douglas Rothschild, Fred Schmalz, Lori Shine, Prabhakar Vasan #15. Lawrence Giffin, David Goldstein, Anne Heide, Will Hubbard, Mikhail Lermontov (tr. Jerome Rothenberg and Milos Sovak), Emma Rossi #16. Heather Christle, Amanda Deutch, Ossian Foley, John High, Anthony Madrid, Gretchen Primack #17. James Copeland, Lucy Ives, Megan Kaminski, Mary Millsap, Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina, Kevin Varrone #18. Guy Bennett, Rebecca Guyon, Paul Hoover, Srečko Kosovel (tr. Ana Jelnikar and Barbara Siegel Carlson), Deborah Wardlaw Pattillo, Maureen Thorson #19. Emily Carr, Julia Cohen, Natalie Lyalin, Lee Norton, Dan Rosenberg, G.C. Waldrep #20. Emily Anicich, Billy Cancel, Michael Nicoloff, Frances Richard, Elizabeth Robinson, M. A. Vizsolyi #21. Michael Barron, Julie Carr, Marosa di Giorgio (tr. Jeannine Marie Pitas), Farid Matuk, Amanda Nadelberg, Sara Wintz #22. Lily Brown, George Eklund, Chris Hosea, Aaron McCollough, Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Nelson #23. Miloš Djurdjević (tr. Tomislav Kuzmanović), James Hart III, Geoffrey Hilsabeck, Noelle Kocot, Aeron Kopriva, Maged Zaher #24. Bill Cassidy, Helen Dimos, Pär Hansson (tr. Jennifer Hayashida & Tim Dinan), Aaron Kunin, Kyle Schlesinger, Rebecca Wolff #25. Sherman Alexie, Noah Eli Gordon, Marina Kaganova, Karen Lepri, Fani Papageorgiou, Roger Williams #26. Abraham Adams, Dot Devota, William Minor, Levi Rubeck, Martha Ronk, Steve Muhs #27. Eric Amling, Antonio Gamoneda (tr. Sara Gilmore), Gracie Leavitt. Thibault Raoult, Marthe Reed, Judah Rubin #28. Jon Curley, Katie Fowley, Dmitry Golynko, Dan Ivec, Alejandra Pizarnik (tr. Yvette Siegert), Matt Reeck #29. Stephanie Anderson, Kate Colby, Steffi Drewes, Hugo Margenat (tr. by Vero González), Masin Persina, Adam Tobin #30. Jon Boisvert, Ana Martins Marques (tr. Elisa Wouk Almino), Jeffrey Joe Nelson, Denise Newman, Anzhelina Polonskaya (tr. Andrew Wachtel), Hirato Renkichi (tr. Sho Sugita) #31. Shane Anderson, Lewis Freedman, francine j harris, Carl Schlachte, Stacy Szymaszek, Sarah Anne Wallen #32. James D. Fuson, Lyn Hejinian, Barbara Henning, Tony Iantosca, Uroš Kotlajić (tr. Ainsley Morse), Morgan Parker #33. Amanda Berenguer (tr. Gillian Brassil & Alex Verdolini), Jeremy Hoevenaar, Krystal Languell, Holly Melgard, Marc Paltrineri, Cat Tyc #34. Alex Cuff, Kristen Gallagher, s. howe, Aisha Sasha John, Claudia La Rocco, Grzegorz Wróblewski (tr. Piotr Gwiazda) #35. Ted Dodson, Judith Goldman, Anna Gurton-Wachter, Kim Hunter, Katy Lederer, Bridget Talone #36. Anselm Berrigan, Chia-Lun Chang, Cheryl Clarke, Lisa Fishman, Vasilisk Gnedov (tr. Emilia Loseva & Danny Winkler), Sarah Wang.

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lorajackson · 4 years

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Michigan conservatives hail protest success – and set sights on Trump's re-election

Protesters backed by rightwing donors believe their growing movement can ‘dwarf the Tea Party’ and keep Trump in the White HouseIt started with a Zoom call.Five members of the Michigan Conservative Coalition – a rightwing non-profit with ties to the Trump administration – decided they needed to do something to protest against Michigan’s stay-at-home order, designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus.Over a video chat in mid-April, they conceived a “gridlock” protest outside Michigan’s state capitol. It led to thousands of people blocking streets with their cars and hundreds assembling, in contravention of social distancing guidelines.The rally had a bigger impact than they could have imagined. Promoted by wealthy rightwing groups, pushed by Fox News, and tacitly endorsed by Donald Trump, the Michigan protest has sparked copycat rallies across the US with further protests planned, and is spiraling into a movement which one conservative activist said could “dwarf the Tea Party”.“We were blown away,” said Meshawn Maddock, a co-founder of the Michigan Conservative Coalition and a member of the advisory board for Women for Trump – an official arm of Trump’s re-election campaign.“We’ve organized some pretty big things, but I don’t think Michigan … I don’t know that the nation has seen anything like what just happened.”The rally was also supported by the Michigan Freedom Fund – which has received more than half a million dollars from the family of Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos – but soon even bigger groups were jumping on board, each with their own rightwing agendas to promote.FreedomWorks, a conservative special interest group which pushed the Tea Party movement, opposed Barack Obama’s healthcare reforms, and has downplayed climate change, has directed resources to the movement. The group now hopes to turn the anti-lockdown protests into a movement which could help re-elect Trump in November.The Tea Party Patriots, another group forged amid the Tea Party movement of 2009, has also weighed in, promoting the rallies to its 3 million members nationwide, while a group of gun-enthusiast activist brothers bought up webpages in an effort to further the movement’s aims.The Tea Party supported lower taxes, but was also accused of representing a racist reaction to the election of the first black president. It is also a prime example of “astroturfing” – where corporations jumped on to an activist group presented as a grassroots movement. It had some undoubted success, particularly in electing a number of extremely rightwing Republicans to office during the midterm elections, but some of those behind the current protests say this movement could eclipse it.“This movement that’s starting right now has the potential to even dwarf the size of Tea Party,” said Noah Wall, the vice-president of advocacy at FreedomWorks.“The Tea Party was started in response to excessive government spending and bailouts in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. This is affecting Americans across the board. You don’t have to have an opinion on government spending to not want to be forced to stay at home and not be able to work.”Wall stressed that activists are organizing the protests, but FreedomWorks is pulling out all the stops to help them do so. The organization has set up an online “planning guide” for people to hold anti-stay-at-home rallies, complete with printable rally signs and tips on promoting the events online.Meanwhile, it has promoted the events to its 5 million members through emails and social media posts.The influence of rightwing groups has rarely been made clear to the aggrieved Americans heading out to the protests.Maddock and her Michigan Conservative Coalition co-founder Marian Sheridan claimed the Michigan rally was bipartisan, despite scores of protesters waving Trump 2020 campaign signs and sporting Maga hats. Others paraded Confederate flags.Sheridan is the grassroots vice-chair of the Michigan Republican party, and said although this wasn’t an official Republican protest, “I’m sure that the party supports this”.“There were lots of our legislators at the rally,” Sheridan pointed out.Tony Daunt, the executive director of the DeVos-backed Michigan Freedom Fund, downplayed the group’s involvement in the rally – saying it was limited to spending $250 to advertise the event – but he did attend the protest.“The rally was, I think, a huge success,” Daunt said.Daunt and the Michigan Conservative Coalition said they had supported Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s initial stay-at-home order until she introduced stricter measures on 10 April, including limiting the number of people allowed in stores.Polls show a majority of Michiganders support Whitmer’s handling of the crisis. More than 2,800 people have died from coronavirus in the state – the third highest tally in the US – with African Americans accounting for 40% of the deaths.Despite minorities having been most affected by coronavirus in the state, the Michigan crowd appeared to be majority white.Fox News covered the Michigan event throughout the day, with hosts including Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro – neither of whom have risked abandoning social distancing to attend a protest – championing the effort.Fox News’s bombardment of anti-lockdown messaging soon reached a particularly influential audience member. “Liberate Michigan!” Trump tweeted two days after the Michigan protest, minutes after another favorable report by Fox News. On Sunday, he denied the protesters had put people at risk.“They’ve got cabin fever,” Trump told reporters at a White House briefing. “They want their lives back. These people love our country. They want to get back to work.”As Trump and Fox News, plus other rightwing outlets, cheered the Michiganders, plans for rallies in other states began to emerge. Since the Michigan effort, protests have taken place in Maryland, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Virginia – a rally organized, in part, by a Virginia gun rights group.Other protests, promoted by FreedomWorks and Tea Party Patriots, are planned in Alaska, Delaware and Kansas.Jenny Beth Martin, honorary chairman of Tea Party Patriots, stressed that the protests had not been organized by the top of the organization, but by Tea Party Patriots activists in different states.“They let us know about reopen events that are happening in their own state,” Martin said. “As long as the event is listing that the social distancing guidelines must be followed then we are sharing the event with our supporters in the geographic area by email.”That possibly underplays the Tea Party Patriots’ influence, given it has 3 million supporters and hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers. Wall, at FreedomWorks, was also keen to stress it did not organize events, but the organization’s ability to reach its 5 million members is hardly a small matter in promoting the events.In any case, the protests and the fawning news coverage by the rightwing media serve as a handy shot in the arm for less-publicized work both organizations are doing behind the scenes.FreedomWorks and Tea Party Patriots have joined with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a controversial rightwing network that pushes policies by creating model legislation, to create a “Save Our Country” coalition, which is quietly lobbying Trump to reopen the economy. The protests are likely to help them make their case – potentially having consequences that far outweigh the few thousand who have turned out to defy stay-at-home orders.In the meantime, FreedomWorks is hoping to turn the rallies into a force in electoral politics, another avenue the original organizers did not conceive.“We train activists on how to influence elections. Any new members who are interested we will absolutely be providing training and resources for them to get involved and be able to affect the elections,” Wall said.“What’s happening in the coming weeks will absolutely affect the November elections.”

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sustainhealthmagazine · 5 years

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What Really Works To Pulverize Those Dimpled Thighs?

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“Cottage cheese,” “funky gravy.” “hail damage” - whatever you want to call it - cellulite is never something we want to see on our bodies. That lumpy, dimple-looking flesh on our thighs, buttocks, abdomen, and hips is dreaded by women and men alike.

Cellulite is caused by fat cells pushing up against a layer of skin, tethered down by connective fibres that attach to the muscles. When there is a buildup of fat, these fibres pull down while the fat pushes up, creating the appearance of uneven, bumpy skin. Cellulite is not a weight issue and can affect individuals of all shapes, sizes and ages.

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While cellulite is not a serious medical condition, it can make someone feel insecure or embarrassed. However, you aren’t alone; between 80 to 90 percent of women will experience cellulite at some point in their lives. Some might start to notice cellulite as early as puberty. Dr. Gretchen Frieling is a board -certified Boston Area Dermatopathologist. She cuts out the clutter to define what really works in 2019 to eradicate cellulite, be it a temporary or permanent solution.

Are there at home creams that can provide temporary improvement? “If you’re looking for an at-home treatment, topical creams are an effective way to diminish cellulite. However, they’re a long-term or complete “cure,” says Dr. Frieling, She adds, “The fat cells are still under there! To maintain the results, you’ll have to apply the product every day. Use a moisturizing cream with ingredients that treat fatty tissues such as caffeine or retinol to minimize cellulite. To see results, you must apply the topical cream daily to improve cell circulation. Caffeine works as a diuretic, which can dehydrate the fat cells and change the water content, which can reduce the appearance of cellulite. While creams with at least 0.3 percent retinol work by thickening the outer layer of skin. It is essential to test these products on your skin before long-term use as some have shown to have adverse effects. Most creams can be found online and at any drugstore.”

What are the latest technologies to decrease Cellulite? Acoustic wave therapy

Studies show that this can reduce the appearance of cellulite. Several treatment sessions are needed to see a reduction.

During one minimally invasive laser treatment called Cellulaze™, a tiny laser fiber is inserted beneath your skin. When the laser is fired, the laser energy breaks up the tough bands beneath the skin that cause us to see cellulite. This treatment can also thicken your skin, which is important. Skin often thins where cellulite forms. Thickening the skin can help reduce the appearance of cellulite.

Bottom line: Cellulaze™ may reduce the appearance of cellulite. Patients see results that last a year or longer. More research is needed to know for sure how effective this laser can be.

Subcision

Called Cellfina™, this medical procedure involves your dermatologist inserting a needle just under the skin to break up the tough bands beneath the skin that cause us to see cellulite.

Bottom Line: Cellfina™ has been shown to reduce the skin dimpling that you see with cellulite. In a study of 232 patients, 99% of them said they were satisfied with the results. The results can last two years and possibly longer.

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Vacuum-assisted precise tissue release

This also breaks up the tough bands that cause us to see cellulite. During this procedure, your practitioner will use a device that contains small blades to cut the tough bands. After the bands are cut, the tissue moves upward to fill out and eliminate the dimpled skin.

Bottom line: This may be an effective treatment for reducing cellulite. A small study shows that many patients who received this treatment had less cellulite for up to 3 years. It’s too soon to tell, but the results may last even longer.

Radiofrequency

This is a type of treatment that heats the cellulite. One FDA-approved device combines radiofrequency with a laser, suction, and massage to target cellulite.

Bottom line: Recent studies suggest some patients see a little less cellulite. This result, however, is short-lived and several treatments are needed to see this minor change.

After treatment, bruises are common. These fade with time.

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AVOID SUGAR Dr. Frieling explains, “Your diet may be playing a significant role in the amount of cellulite you have, so it’s important always to have a well-balanced diet. One of the biggest culprits for causing cellulite are sugary sweet snacks and processed foods. Sugar is stored in our fat cells, and having too much will cause them to expand, thus creating the appearance of cellulite. The same goes for foods with high sodium intake, which cause bloating and water retention, making cellulite more noticeable. Other foods to avoid are cheese, soda, deli meat, fried food, and white bread.” EXERCISE REGULARLY If you’re struggling to get rid of those stubborn dimples, it’s time to get up and get moving. “While it isn’t exactly the cure for cellulite,” says Dr. Frieling, she adds that “regular exercise will help in its prevention by strengthening the muscles underneath the fat in your butt, thighs, and hips. Squats and lunges, as well as a 45-minute walk, are great exercises that target the leg muscles and make the skin look more even.” STOP SMOKING Smoking reduces the amount of blood that flows to your skin, causing the skin to become thinner and saggier. While it is a difficult habit to kick, the cellulite on your legs, arms, and butt will be less visible. REDUCE YOUR ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION “Elimination or significantly reducing the amount of alcohol you consume may aid in decreasing the toxins that accumulate underneath our fat cells. Alcohol also has high amounts of sugar, which will only make the cellulite more noticeable,” says Dr. Frieling. STAY HYDRATED This probably won’t be the first time you’ve been told to drink more water, but it does help! Dr. Frieling explains that “By drinking 8 to 10 glasses of water every day, you’re helping to remove the toxins stored underneath the layer of fat which cause our skin to look lumpy. Staying hydrated also helps with the overall health of your skin, making it appear more plump and full”.

FAKE IT!

If you have fair skin, a self-tanner may help. Dimpled areas are less noticeable on darker skin. Start with a gentle body scrub, then apply a self-tanning lotion to cellulite areas only. Next spritz your entire body with a tanning spray. Pass on a real tan. It'll damage your skin and make cellulite look worse.

About Dr. Gretchen Frieling

After graduating summa cum laude from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, Dr. Frieling completed her medical school at The University of Florida College of Medicine. She continued to excel academically and personally and pioneered a medical mission trip to the Dominican Republic to provide free medical care. After medical school, Dr. Frieling completed her training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She then completed her Dermatopathology fellowship at the University of Vermont Medical Center. Currently, she is also a practicing Dermatopathologist in Newton, Massachusetts.

During her training, Dr. Frieling built an extensive resume, including but not limited to many articles in the Dermatology and Pathology literature, textbook chapters, and national conference presentations. She was on faculty at Harvard Medical School and participated in the first year Histopathology course.

In her spare time, Dr. Frieling continues to give back to her community and beyond. Currently, she is spearheading another medical mission to the Dominican Republic and partnering with Pedro Martinez and The Pedro Martinez Foundation.

Along with splitting her time as a practicing dermatopathologist, Dr. Frieling enjoys spending time with her husband, her two kids, and extended family, as well as volunteering in the community. She is a resident of Wellesley and loves good music and is always up for trying a new restaurant!

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I'm Still Here

Hello all! I used to update this blog frequently. In those halcyon days of yore, I used to imagine that I had a legion of devoted followers, all hanging on whatever pearls of wit and wisdom I might dispense in my next blog entry. Alas, those days have passed, and I’m not quite sure why. I seem to have lost a bit of my creative edge. Some of it is due to the fact that I have been fortunate to have been in remission for a long time now, so there isn’t a lot of MM news for me to share these days. I now assume that my imagined legion of followers has been reduced to a few desperate souls who might occasionally check to see if I am still alive. I apologize to all of you whom I may have disappointed by my prolonged absence.

All right, so here I am to give you remaining devoted stragglers an update on what’s been going on lately. Actually it’s been quite a bit.

View from our balcony First, let me tell you about our fabulous Christmas vacation in Puerto Rico. Our villa on the ocean was fantastic! We had everything we could have wanted: great weather, pool, beach, snorkeling, paddle boarding, surfing, deep sea fishing, frisbee, great restaurants nearby, fresh fish cooked at the villa, and most of all, a wonderful family gathering. There were 13 of us, including all our kids and significant others (except Brian, Pam and Logan) and Gretchen’s brother John and his family. We all missed the passing of our beloved sister-in-law, Kathy, but it was a wonderful getaway that helped us all from mourning her passing at home with all the painful memories.

Beautiful sunsets I think it would have been sad to have stayed at home and dealt with the emptiness of her absence with all the Christmas memories and familiar surroundings to constantly remind us of what we had lost. This way, we were able to mourn appropriately, as we did, but still find some joy and escape during this difficult time. Knowing Kathy, I think she would have approved. I can see her smiling now.

Gretchen did well during this vacation, though she is still recovering from her esophagus surgery in August. It has been a slow process. On January 13, she went in to Beth Israel to have her esophagus dilated by Dr. Michael Kent for the third time. That seemed to help, as she’s able to keep things down better. She is just now starting to eat more solid foods to supplement her smoothies and protein drinks.

Just to complicate things, she had gall bladder problems and it needed to be removed. Serendipitously, the best GI surgeon at Beth Israel is Tara Kent, wife of Michael. She scheduled the surgery for January 31. She made sure that the entire team, including Michael, was there to help if there were any issues. Fortunately, the laparoscopic surgery went well with no complications. Gretchen came home the same day. She is now home recovering and seems to be doing well. Let’s hope that she will feel a lot better soon.

We are so grateful to be near Boston where we have access to top specialists providing unparalleled medical care. We learned something interesting about Dr. Tara Kent while there. One of the nurses told us that when the Boston Marathon bombing happened, all the Operating Rooms were filled with patients, but they had more victims coming in. They then set up an improvised OR in the recovery area right where Gretchen was, and this nurse helped as Tara attended many of the wounded coming in. The nurse said that Tara was absolutely incredible as she helped save peoples lives in this improvised environment. What an amazing story! How lucky are we to have these people in our lives!

Well, what about me? I know you are all really anxious to know. Anyway, I had my colonoscopy and endoscopy last month as I reported. I got the biopsy results back which were favorable. My Barrett’s esophagus is minor with no dysplasia, so I don’t have to go back for another 3 years to check on it. As for my colonoscopy, no polyps, so I’m to come back in 10 years! Yeah right, like I’m even going to be here in 10 years. If I am, and I have dementia, I implore any of you out there to please shoot me. With Donald Trump as president, there should be easy access to a murder weapon! And I forgive you in advance.

As for my MM progress, my latest visit was great! I’m still in remission and my numbers look good. I have an appointment next month with the hematologist, Dr. Connors, to check on my iron level numbers to see why I tend to have anemia. We’ll see. So far, my red blood cell counts are fine since my last iron infusion last fall.

My latest issue is with a growth on my forehead. I’ve had this for a about 3 months now. I went to my PCP and he thought it was an infection. I then went to see my dermatologist in December and she thought it was an inflamed cyst. She gave me an antibiotic, but it didn’t help. I finally went back to Dr. Stewart last week to have the cyst lanced. She thought it looked like a normal cyst, but she took a biopsy to check just in case. Guess what? The biopsy came back today and it is a squamous cell carcinoma! That’s just great. What else do we need right now to further complicate our lives, huh?

Anyway, she referred me to a plastic surgeon to take care of it so I won’t look like the Frankenstein monster afterwards, I hope. I have an appointment next week to schedule the surgery. I am now paying the price for all those years of basking in the sun with my lilly-white Irish skin. Luck of the Irish, right?

#antibiotic #complicate #hematologist #infection #lilly-white Irish skin #no dysplasia #removed #Serendipitously #Cancer

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I’m not really sure what I’m expecting to happen in season 3 but I’m keeping my expectations low. I will be extremely disappointed though if we still don’t get any scenes with Rio’s POV. I feel like at this point they have to give us a bit more from his perspective and have him have scenes outside of Beth and the girls but I honestly don’t know if they will. I’m just tired that we always has to headcanon things about Rio’s character bc the writers don’t give us much when it comes to him.

I think that’s all fair, anon. I’ve had quite a few asks in the past about people wanting a Rio POV, and if I’ve ever answered them, it’s usually been pretty vaguely, because honestly? It’s a bit of a loaded question for me - although probably not for the reasons that you think. So I figure it’s finally time I actually sit down and answer it. As always, this is just my opinion, and I’m not trying to invalidate anyone’s feelings or theories in the process of this, it’s just me. Talking, haha.

The reason this is complicated for me is that it requires a bit of a reconciliation in my head between Sophie the Viewer and Sophie the Writer, because honestly as a viewer? I’d really love it too! I find Rio a compelling character and Manny’s performance excellent, and I want to see more of him, and obviously I ship him pretty hard with Beth, and think Manny and Christina perform magnetically together, and I do think he’s a bit underutilised in the narrative sense.

That said, as a writer? I think it not only makes sense, but is important in terms of the narrative structure and the rules they have established that he hasn’t been a POV character up until this point. Up until the finale, he hadn’t connected in a meaningful way to any other character beyond the scope of the girls, meaning that it would make no sense to have him as a POV character. I actually think that for all the damage 2.13 did, we’re actually set up really, really well for that to change.

Beth, Ruby and Annie are, of course, the focus of the show. That’s not exactly new information for anyone, and the suite of supporting characters – namely Rio, Dean, Stan, Greg, Nancy, Boomer, Marion, Mary Pat, Noah and Turner (phew!) – are ultimately defined not just by their relationships to the girls, but by the points where their worlds intersect with the girls’. Whether you have characters like Dean or Stan who are intersecting due to sharing a domestic space / a life with them, or a workplace / job like Boomer or Mary Pat, or a mission like Turner, we only ever really see them in terms of how their stories interconnect with, or disrupt, the girls’.

And yeah, the most common argument I see around this is that Boomer has been a POV character quite a lot, but the thing is Boomer is also a bridging character, which is the main thing that I want to talk about here. Boomer is a character who connects a lot of the story worlds – he brings us to Annie, he brings us to Marion, he brings us to Turner, and then he brings us to Mary Pat. As much as he is an antagonist and, of course, a character in his own right, he’s also a narrative tool who’s being used to smooth transitions between scenes, and connect characters in unexpected ways, and in doing so he drums up dramatic tension, can be used to pass information between the characters he connects with (we saw that early on with him seeing Rio, taking the picture, and showing Turner, thus connecting Beth and Turner), and can plant seeds for future plot points (i.e. recognising Annie’s tattoo during the robbery in the pilot, the pen cap, his ‘death’, etc).

And it’s not just Boomer either. The show has established that supporting characters really only get their own POVs when they intersect in some way with other supporting characters. Think about Stan. He was not a POV character in S1. We never saw him acting as a security guard, and we only saw him at work at the police station when Ruby visited him (and again – Stan became a bridging device in that moment between Ruby and the news of Eddie’s arrest), but by taking the pen cap in S2, his world collided with not only Ruby’s in a way it hadn’t before, but with Turner’s, and he became a POV character. Even those scenes with him though, as much as they were about his own character arc and his own stressors, we wouldn’t have seen them if they weren’t essential to Ruby’s character arc, and to her conflict with Beth. Same with Mary Pat and Boomer. These are C plots that ultimately influence the A narrative – which is about Beth, Annie and Ruby trying to Do Crime and Survive.

Even Dean is the same. With the exception of his new job in 2.12, he’s only ever a POV character when he’s somehow connecting with another supporting or minor character – usually Amber or Turner, in a way that drives Beth’s arc – the former of whom is integral to Beth’s internal journey, and the latter to the pressures dictating her external one. Hell, we didn’t even see Dean take the kids! We didn’t even see him interact with his mother. We saw Beth interact with Judith, not Dean. That’s because the show isn’t about him, and the time that we spend with him is ultimately about the ways his behaviour is going to effect (and usually hurt) Beth.

The problem with Rio as he existed prior to 2.13 is that he was, narratively speaking, an island. He couldn’t connect any of the subplots, because he wasn’t connected to anyone else.

Rio operates in a world that is almost completely removed from the ones Beth, Annie and Ruby live in. It would make no sense to have him suddenly have a subplot with – say – Mary Pat, or even with someone like Stan. The collisions of those worlds wouldn’t serve the narrative, it wouldn’t reveal anything about the girls, and it wouldn’t be authentic to the overall story. We know that he’d kill Mary Pat, and that storyline would instantly be over. We know that he already has a mole inside the police station, so what use would Stan be to him?

Think about it this way. If Rio was a POV character right now, and he wasn’t interacting with the girls, what would he be doing? What would we be seeing? Likely, it would be his operation, right? Which would require a whole new set of worlds and sets, a whole new suite of characters, likely unique subplots, which would ultimately take us too far away from the central arc. His world does not crossover enough with the girls’ yet to make narrative sense. Hell, we saw that when they did it the one time in S2 – it introduced the country club, and it introduced Gretchen, because he doesn’t otherwise intersect with the girls’ world.

It would be a narrative detour.

(I mean, maybe he could’ve intersected with Fine & Frugal? But I think the fact that Boomer didn’t recognise Rio in S1 means doing so is way below Rio’s paygrade).

That’s why I think that 2.13 establishes us really well. It is deliberately linking Rio and Turner, while also likely positioning us to explore more of the crime world through Beth trying to set up her own kingdom, which will create a narrative overlap in Beth and Rio’s worlds, giving them many more ways to intersect, which pulls Rio closer to the A Storyline. It’d also have the benefit of introducing us to it at the same time Beth is introduced to it, keeping us in line with her perspective, while also opening up the chances to explore other points of view, including Rio’s.

Which hopefully they’ll do! I guess we just have to wait and see. 😊

Phew! That got long, anon, haha.

And for the last part of your question – in terms of the headcanons about Rio’s character – look, I think it’s more obvious that we know so little about him because so much of fandom is heavily invested in him, but we actually don’t have a lot of information about any of the supporting characters. Hell, even our knowledge of Beth, Annie and Ruby’s pasts are sprinkled in very sparingly. We only have a one-off mention for instance of the fact that Ruby has brothers, and we have no idea what’s happened to any of their families except that Ruby’s dad passed away. We know nothing about Stan’s history, or Greg’s, or hell, even Boomer’s. The amount of legwork 2.08 did too in terms of telling us about the girls’ history was massive, given prior to that we actually knew next to nothing.

Honestly, I’d like more backstory for everyone! But that’s only because I’m hungry for every kernel of history this show flicks our way, haha. But yes, more Rio backstory would definitely be nice too, and hopefully S3 positions us in a way we might get some.

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