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#this particular day was the first and only day I can ever remember feeing hungry
rabbigfirlee · 3 years
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The power of your mother’s duaa
#subhanAllah#I was absolutely drained after pulling an all-nighter and taking 5 exams#so much so that I didn’t have the chance to prepare iftaar and was feeling SO tired that I honestly didn’t even have the energy to call and#order food#so I called my mom crying complaining about how stressed I was and how tired I was#in all of my years of fasting Alhamdulilah Allah has always made it easy for me#this particular day was the first and only day I can ever remember feeing hungry#and like I said I was so exhausted that I couldn’t get out of my bed and pick up food#my mom had told me to just relax and warm up some food I had in my freezer#but it was getting to close to iftaar time and I couldn’t even get myself out of my bed#as soon as I hung up on the phone with her she apparently made duaa along the lines of “’Ya Allah please make it easy on her and send her#(her being me) food from somewhere”’#right after I hung up the phone I got a message from someone I hadn’t spoken in SO long who was asking if they could drop off some food for#for iftaar 😢#right after that I called my mom (not knowing she had made duaa) and told her about how kind this sister was to by chance think of me and#and go out of her way to bring me food 😭#then my mom told me that she had just finished making duaa that Allah send me food from somewhere and the next minute I received it#may Allah bless my mother immensely and allow me to be pleasing to my mother and to serve her dutifully#Ameen
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oss-crime · 3 years
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Chapter 2-Project “Ma” –Eve–; Scene 4
Original Sin Story: Crime, pages 37-48
Seth’s wound wasn’t too bad, but for safety’s sake he wound up receiving treatment at a hospital in the Twelve Royal Capitals.
He got on one of the huge automated carriages of the security force and went back with the soldier driving it.
Adam wound up staying in the village of Nemu for a time along with his bodyguard, Gammon.
Naturally their goal was to search for the “Witch of the Forest”.
And Eve…she served as their guide when the two headed out to the Forest of Held, as well as their driver for the carriage.
The fee they paid her for this service had far greater profit to her than her income selling ingredients from the forest, so she had no reason to refuse.
Eve knew of several of the villages where the people of the forest lived, and so she first took the two of them to those.
And then they tried going around to the places where the witch was rumored to be, or just moved through aimlessly.
But the days passed without achieving any particular result.
.
That day as well the three of them had been advancing along a forest path with the automated carriage.
The sky was overcast with thick clouds. When Eve suggested that it might rain, Adam replied that they perhaps ought to end things early today.
“That aside, you’re quite skilled with driving the automated carriage, Eve,” Adam complimented. “You must be, to move so smoothly through such narrow pathways.”
“It’s no big deal if you’re used to it. But as you’d expect you can’t get to the deeper parts of the forest with a carriage.”
“Still, people would seldom be going in such places. So they’re not likely to be targets of the tribesmen, and thus there’s a low chance of the witch showing up there.”
Putting together the information that Adam and Gammon had been able to obtain up until now, the Witch of the Forest would apparently make her appearances in public to rescue people attacked by the white army.
But strangely, none of the people who had been rescued by her could remember what this witch looked like.
“She has green hair, is a woman, fires lightning from a blue spoon…And that’s all they can remember, oddly enough.”
“They’re all probably in a state of shock from being attacked by the white army, so that’s understandable isn’t it?”
“I wonder. Maybe…this witch can use a spell that manipulates people’s minds.”
Upon hearing that, Eve’s eyes widened for a moment. Then she quickly chuckled. “That’d be pretty convenient, if there really were such a spell. I’d control all the big-wigs into making me the queen.”
“Haha, I guess so. You could have all the wealth and influence you want…Have you ever heard of such a thing?”
“I’ve been raised in a village of sorcerers for over twenty years, but not once, no. Do you know of anything, Adam? You’re seem pretty well educated.”
“I’ve hardly done any studies on magic.”
“Huh…That’s a bit surprising. Don’t you have all this magical potential?”
“I only learned that relatively recently.”
As the two of them talked, Gammon simply looked around at their surroundings without showing the least amount of interest in their conversation.
Over these past few days Eve had been able to learn quite well that taken favorably he was a man who was very dedicated to his work, but taken unfavorably he was a very strait-laced person with little flexibility.
Adam was also a bit too serious, but he at least was easy to get along with.
Among the people who had come over from the capital there were some every now and then who would look down upon a country bumpkin like Eve. But Adam never showed any sign of such behavior.
From what she’d heard, while he was currently living in the Twelve Royal Capitals, originally he had been raised on the coast west from there.
“Just like you…I was an orphan.”
Apparently when he was a child he had been able to make a living and fend off starvation by hunting fish in the sea.
“One day a man suddenly appeared before me. He took me back to his home in the royal capital, and adopted me as his son. Even now I’m not sure why he did that. After that I received an education as a student under my adoptive father—Horus Solntse.”
“Did you…not have any parental figures until then?”
At Eve’s question, Adam responded without hesitation, “I did have a mother. …Though she was a whale.”
“Eh?”
“Ever since I can remember, that white whale had always been by my side. She watched over me…Or so I always thought. Though she never did anything to actually help me, ha ha.”
“…”
“Do you think my story is strange?”
“Mm, nooo…” Eve shook her head, and then replied earnestly, “I’m positive that whale must have been the manifestation of a spirit.”
“A spirit?”
“There are a lot of them in this forest; spirits that take the form of animals. Robins, chipmunks…I can’t talk to them, but I know of them.”
“I see…”
Adam listened in to Eve’s story, offering neither affirmations or denial.
“I too…had times when I was a child where I felt unbearably lonely. My adoptive mother and father were very kind people. But of course they weren’t my real parents…I couldn’t stand that.”
“…I understand that feeling.”
“In the middle of the night I ran out of the village and into the forest. But it was pitch-black, and I couldn’t tell my left from my right…I sat down alone and started crying. And then…it appeared.”
Eve’s shoulders faintly shook.
A drop of water fell from the sky and hit her face.
It had started to rain. There was no roof on this carriage.
Eve stopped the carriage under the shade of a large tree to keep from getting soaked.
“It?” Adam asked.
“A bear. A frightening bear…Here, look.”
Eve suddenly rolled up her skirt.
Adam unthinkingly moved to avert his eyes at catching sight of her bare skin.
But when he noticed the large scar on her thigh, he regained his composure.
“It bit you?”
“Because it was hungry. A little bit longer and I would have ended my life inside that bear’s stomach. But at that moment—the animals of the forest all attacked the bear at once. And they saved me.”
“And so they…were spirits of the forest.”
“I never saw a bear in this forest again. The spirits might have gotten rid of them, or else directed me so that I never got close to one…In any case, the spirits are my friends, and I owe them my life.”
Eve had never really told that story to anyone.
That was because anyone who didn’t know much about the forest in particular would likely think it was just a silly tall tale.
But in that drizzling rain Adam listened to her speak with a serious countenance. Conversely, Eve started to regret having told him.
Thinking on his goals…It would be only natural for him to start to hold some doubts towards Eve, upon hearing that story.
“Eve. So you really are—"
Before Adam could continue speaking, they could suddenly hear a loud explosion from far off.
“--!?”
They all turned over there at once.
…There was smoke coming from the direction of Nemu village.
“—What’s happened!?” Gammon shouted as he whipped out the sword at his hip.
What came to Eve’s mind was the white army.
They had never once attacked the village directly…And yet, she couldn’t think of anything else it could be.
As though in support of that, several tribesmen wielding weapons appeared from the shadows of the trees and circled the carriage.
���Oh, we’re not letting you get back to the village,” said a woman standing in the center of the tribesmen, glowering at Eve and the others.
Gammon had swiftly leapt down from the carriage, and shifted his piercing gaze to the woman.
“You must be the commander of the white army…The ‘White Fiend of Jakoku’.”
“Oh my. How impressive, that you know of my illustrious title…Your henchmen serve you well, it seems.” Gammon asked her if she had come here as payback for what happened on the plains, but Raisa shook her head. “Though there is a little of that, yes. This is more—a test.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I…Or rather, all of us, are planning to let loose much bigger fireworks after this.”
Giving no indication that she would explain any further, Raisa and her cohorts started to steadily draw closer to the carriage, weapons at the ready.
“You louts, tread cautiously! This military bastard looks pretty tough. Not to mention—” Raisa glared at Eve. “—He’s traveling with the ‘Witch of the Forest’, too.”
As though in response to those words, Eve got down from the carriage and stood next to Gammon.
“…You seem to be under a misunderstanding. I’m not a witch.”
Eve maintained a calm demeanor, but in response to that Raisa laid bare her anger.
“Don’t bullshit me! Countless of my people have been reduced to ashes by you!”
The moment she spoke, Raisa ran towards Eve.
Pale fire curled around the long and thin weapon she held in both hands.
These flames were not put out by the rain; they were likely some type of magic, or else produced by a unique power she had.
“…”
Eve glanced briefly at Adam, still inside the carriage.
He looked like he had something he wanted to say to Eve.
She didn’t have time to hesitate now.
First…she would need to do something about the enemy in front of her.
And she was worried about the village, too.
--Eve took out the spoon she’d kept hidden on her person.
A blue spoon. The item that was publicly referred to as the wand of the Witch of the Forest. For Eve it was a memento that she’d received from her adoptive mother.
She turned it toward Raisa, who was still heading towards her.
And then—expressionlessly, and concisely, she chanted a short spell phrase.
“Medvedi ubit!”
And it was all over.
It was a lightning spell she had been taught by her adoptive father.
A large bolt of lightning shot from the spoon, and then Raisa and her underlings in their entirety were swallowed up in a flash of light.
.
--The lightning strike that had engulfed the area had no effect on the trees of the forest or the animals.
It was the same with Adam and Gammon who were nearby Eve.
The lightning spell could only burn up that which it had been fired at. And after the flash of light went away, all of the tribesmen that had been surrounding the carriage had been reduced to charred corpses.
…No, there was one exception.
Raisa must have taken the direct brunt of the lightning, and yet despite her body having sustained massive burns she was still clinging to life.
“Wow…I’m surprised. That’s the first time anyone’s taken that shot and lived.” Eve looked down on Raisa with a cold expression.
“Y…you bitch…”
Gammon pressed down on Raisa’s body as she tried to crawl into the forest to escape.
“What an unexpected bounty, to be able to capture the head of the white army. For now let’s get her to the village—”
As he turned his face to the village, Gammon stopped speaking.
There was still smoke rising from that direction.
Eve quickly got back into the carriage and put her hand on the control crystal.
But Adam gripped her thin arm.
“The village will be dangerous. The bulk of the white army is probably attacking it now.”
“That’s why we have to go help my father and the others!”
Gammon tossed something at the carriage as it started to move.
Adam caught the weapon.
“This is…”
It was the peculiarly shaped sword that Raisa had been carrying.
“Take it! It should serve as some protection,” Gammon shouted to Adam. “I can’t let Raisa get away. You’ll have to go on your own!”
His words were in a sense an abandonment of his responsibilities as bodyguard, but under the circumstances he must have judged there was nothing more he could do.
Or maybe he was dazzled by the potential for glory that had fallen before him.
Eve didn’t care which it was.
Whatever the case, she was focused on the situation in the village now.
Though I can’t imagine my father would be done in by the white army so easily…
The residents of the village of Nemu were a band of once famous sorcerers.
Even so, Eve couldn’t help the unease in her chest.
The carriage started to race, Adam sitting beside her.
And in this way they advanced at full speed along the forest path, headed for the village.
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In the economic sphere too, the ability to hold a hammer or press a button is becoming less valuable than before. In the past, there were many things only humans could do. But now robots and computers are catching up, and may soon outperform humans in most tasks. True, computers function very differently from humans, and it seems unlikely that computers will become humanlike any time soon. In particular, it doesn’t seem that computers are about to gain consciousness, and to start experiencing emotions and sensations. Over the last decades there has been an immense advance in computer intelligence, but there has been exactly zero advance in computer consciousness. As far as we know, computers in 2016 are no more conscious than their prototypes in the 1950s. However, we are on the brink of a momentous revolution. Humans are in danger of losing their value, because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.
Until today, high intelligence always went hand in hand with a developed consciousness. Only conscious beings could perform tasks that required a lot of intelligence, such as playing chess, driving cars, diagnosing diseases or identifying terrorists. However, we are now developing new types of non-conscious intelligence that can perform such tasks far better than humans. For all these tasks are based on pattern recognition, and non-conscious algorithms may soon excel human consciousness in recognising patterns. This raises a novel question: which of the two is really important, intelligence or consciousness? As long as they went hand in hand, debating their relative value was just a pastime for philosophers. But in the twenty-first century, this is becoming an urgent political and economic issue. And it is sobering to realise that, at least for armies and corporations, the answer is straightforward: intelligence is mandatory but consciousness is optional.
Armies and corporations cannot function without intelligent agents, but they don’t need consciousness and subjective experiences. The conscious experiences of a flesh-and-blood taxi driver are infinitely richer than those of a self-driving car, which feels absolutely nothing. The taxi driver can enjoy music while navigating the busy streets of Seoul. His mind may expand in awe as he looks up at the stars and contemplates the mysteries of the universe. His eyes may fill with tears of joy when he sees his baby girl taking her very first step. But the system doesn’t need all that from a taxi driver. All it really wants is to bring passengers from point A to point B as quickly, safely and cheaply as possible. And the autonomous car will soon be able to do that far better than a human driver, even though it cannot enjoy music or be awestruck by the magic of existence.
Indeed, if we forbid humans to drive taxis and cars altogether, and give computer algorithms monopoly over traffic, we can then connect all vehicles to a single network, and thereby make car accidents virtually impossible. In August 2015, one of Google’s experimental self-driving cars had an accident. As it approached a crossing and detected pedestrians wishing to cross, it applied its brakes. A moment later it was hit from behind by a sedan whose careless human driver was perhaps contemplating the mysteries of the universe instead of watching the road. This could not have happened if both vehicles were steered by interlinked computers. The controlling algorithm would have known the position and intentions of every vehicle on the road, and would not have allowed two of its marionettes to collide. Such a system will save lots of time, money and human lives – but it will also do away with the human experience of driving a car and with tens of millions of human jobs.
Some economists predict that sooner or later, unenhanced humans will be completely useless. While robots and 3D printers replace workers in manual jobs such as manufacturing shirts, highly intelligent algorithms will do the same to white-collar occupations. Bank clerks and travel agents, who a short time ago were completely secure from automation, have become endangered species. How many travel agents do we need when we can use our smartphones to buy plane tickets from an algorithm?
Stock-exchange traders are also in danger. Most trade today is already being managed by computer algorithms, which can process in a second more data than a human can in a year, and that can react to the data much faster than a human can blink. On 23 April 2013, Syrian hackers broke into Associated Press’s official Twitter account. At 13:07 they tweeted that the White House had been attacked and President Obama was hurt. Trade algorithms that constantly monitor newsfeeds reacted in no time, and began selling stocks like mad. The Dow Jones went into free fall, and within sixty seconds lost 150 points, equivalent to a loss of $136 billion! At 13:10 Associated Press clarified that the tweet was a hoax. The algorithms reversed gear, and by 13:13 the Dow Jones had recuperated almost all the losses.
Three years previously, on 6 May 2010, the New York stock exchange underwent an even sharper shock. Within five minutes – from 14:42 to 14:47 – the Dow Jones dropped by 1,000 points, wiping out $1 trillion. It then bounced back, returning to its pre-crash level in a little over three minutes. That’s what happens when super-fast computer programs are in charge of our money. Experts have been trying ever since to understand what happened in this so-called ‘Flash Crash’. We know algorithms were to blame, but we are still not sure exactly what went wrong. Some traders in the USA have already filed lawsuits against algorithmic trading, arguing that it unfairly discriminates against human beings, who simply cannot react fast enough to compete. Quibbling whether this really constitutes a violation of rights might provide lots of work and lots of fees for lawyers.
And these lawyers won’t necessarily be human. Movies and TV series give the impression that lawyers spend their days in court shouting ‘Objection!’ and making impassioned speeches. Yet most run-of-the-mill lawyers spend their time going over endless files, looking for precedents, loopholes and tiny pieces of potentially relevant evidence. Some are busy trying to figure out what happened on the night John Doe got killed, or formulating a gargantuan business contract that will protect their client against every conceivable eventuality. What will be the fate of all these lawyers once sophisticated search algorithms can locate more precedents in a day than a human can in a lifetime, and once brain scans can reveal lies and deceptions at the press of a button? Even highly experienced lawyers and detectives cannot easily spot deceptions merely by observing people’s facial expressions and tone of voice. However, lying involves different brain areas to those used when we tell the truth. We’re not there yet, but it is conceivable that in the not too distant future fMRI scanners could function as almost infallible truth machines. Where will that leave millions of lawyers, judges, cops and detectives? They might need to go back to school and learn a new profession.
When they get in the classroom, however, they may well discover that the algorithms have got there first. Companies such as Mindojo are developing interactive algorithms that not only teach me maths, physics and history, but also simultaneously study me and get to know exactly who I am. Digital teachers will closely monitor every answer I give, and how long it took me to give it. Over time, they will discern my unique weaknesses as well as my strengths. They will identify what gets me excited, and what makes my eyelids droop. They could teach me thermodynamics or geometry in a way that suits my personality type, even if that particular way doesn’t suit 99 per cent of the other pupils. And these digital teachers will never lose their patience, never shout at me, and never go on strike. It is unclear, however, why on earth I would need to know thermodynamics or geometry in a world containing such intelligent computer programs.
Even doctors are fair game for the algorithms. The first and foremost task of most doctors is to diagnose diseases correctly, and then suggest the best available treatment. If I arrive at the clinic complaining about fever and diarrhoea, I might be suffering from food poisoning. Then again, the same symptoms might result from a stomach virus, cholera, dysentery, malaria, cancer or some unknown new disease. My doctor has only five minutes to make a correct diagnosis, because this is what my health insurance pays for. This allows for no more than a few questions and perhaps a quick medical examination. The doctor then cross-references this meagre information with my medical history, and with the vast world of human maladies. Alas, not even the most diligent doctor can remember all my previous ailments and check-ups. Similarly, no doctor can be familiar with every illness and drug, or read every new article published in every medical journal. To top it all, the doctor is sometimes tired or hungry or perhaps even sick, which affects her judgement. No wonder that doctors often err in their diagnoses, or recommend a less-than-optimal treatment.
Now consider IBM’s famous Watson – an artificial intelligence system that won the Jeopardy! television game show in 2011, beating human former champions. Watson is currently groomed to do more serious work, particularly in diagnosing diseases. An AI such as Watson has enormous potential advantages over human doctors. Firstly, an AI can hold in its databanks information about every known illness and medicine in history. It can then update these databanks every day, not only with the findings of new researches, but also with medical statistics gathered from every clinic and hospital in the world.
Secondly, Watson can be intimately familiar not only with my entire genome and my day-to-day medical history, but also with the genomes and medical histories of my parents, siblings, cousins, neighbours and friends. Watson will know instantly whether I visited a tropical country recently, whether I have recurring stomach infections, whether there have been cases of intestinal cancer in my family or whether people all over town are complaining this morning about diarrhoea.
Thirdly, Watson will never be tired, hungry or sick, and will have all the time in the world for me. I could sit comfortably on my sofa at home and answer hundreds of questions, telling Watson exactly how I feel. This is good news for most patients (except perhaps hypochondriacs). But if you enter medical school today in the expectation of still being a family doctor in twenty years, maybe you should think again. With such a Watson around, there is not much need for Sherlocks.
This threat hovers over the heads not only of general practitioners, but also of experts. Indeed, it might prove easier to replace doctors specialising in a relatively narrow field such as cancer diagnosis. For example, in a recent experiment a computer algorithm diagnosed correctly 90 per cent of lung cancer cases presented to it, while human doctors had a success rate of only 50 per cent. In fact, the future is already here. CT scans and mammography tests are routinely checked by specialised algorithms, which provide doctors with a second opinion, and sometimes detect tumours that the doctors missed.
A host of tough technical problems still prevent Watson and its ilk from replacing most doctors tomorrow morning. Yet these technical problems – however difficult – need only be solved once. The training of a human doctor is a complicated and expensive process that lasts years. When the process is complete, after ten years of studies and internships, all you get is one doctor. If you want two doctors, you have to repeat the entire process from scratch. In contrast, if and when you solve the technical problems hampering Watson, you will get not one, but an infinite number of doctors, available 24/7 in every corner of the world. So even if it costs $100 billion to make it work, in the long run it would be much cheaper than training human doctors.
And what’s true of doctors is doubly true of pharmacists. In 2011 a pharmacy opened in San Francisco manned by a single robot. When a human comes to the pharmacy, within seconds the robot receives all of the customer’s prescriptions, as well as detailed information about other medicines taken by them, and their suspected allergies. The robot makes sure the new prescriptions don’t combine adversely with any other medicine or allergy, and then provides the customer with the required drug. In its first year of operation the robotic pharmacist provided 2 million prescriptions, without making a single mistake. On average, flesh-and-blood pharmacists get wrong 1.7 per cent of prescriptions. In the United States alone this amounts to more than 50 million prescription errors every year!
Some people argue that even if an algorithm could outperform doctors and pharmacists in the technical aspects of their professions, it could never replace their human touch. If your CT indicates you have cancer, would you like to receive the news from a caring and empathetic human doctor, or from a machine? Well, how about receiving the news from a caring and empathetic machine that tailors its words to your personality type? Remember that organisms are algorithms, and Watson could detect your emotional state with the same accuracy that it detects your tumours.
This idea has already been implemented by some customer-services departments, such as those pioneered by the Chicago-based Mattersight Corporation. Mattersight publishes its wares with the following advert: ‘Have you ever spoken with someone and felt as though you just clicked? The magical feeling you get is the result of a personality connection. Mattersight creates that feeling every day, in call centers around the world.’ When you call customer services with a request or complaint, it usually takes a few seconds to route your call to a representative. In Mattersight systems, your call is routed by a clever algorithm. You first state the reason for your call. The algorithm listens to your request, analyses the words you have chosen and your tone of voice, and deduces not only your present emotional state but also your personality type – whether you are introverted, extroverted, rebellious or dependent. Based on this information, the algorithm links you to the representative that best matches your mood and personality. The algorithm knows whether you need an empathetic person to patiently listen to your complaints, or you prefer a no-nonsense rational type who will give you the quickest technical solution. A good match means both happier customers and less time and money wasted by the customer-services department.
The most important question in twenty-first-century economics may well be what to do with all the superfluous people. What will conscious humans do, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better?
Throughout history the job market was divided into three main sectors: agriculture, industry and services. Until about 1800, the vast majority of people worked in agriculture, and only a small minority worked in industry and services. During the Industrial Revolution people in developed countries left the fields and herds. Most began working in industry, but growing numbers also took up jobs in the services sector. In recent decades developed countries underwent another revolution, as industrial jobs vanished, whereas the services sector expanded. In 2010 only 2 per cent of Americans worked in agriculture, 20 per cent worked in industry, 78 per cent worked as teachers, doctors, webpage designers and so forth. When mindless algorithms are able to teach, diagnose and design better than humans, what will we do?
This is not an entirely new question. Ever since the Industrial Revolution erupted, people feared that mechanisation might cause mass unemployment. This never happened, because as old professions became obsolete, new professions evolved, and there was always something humans could do better than machines. Yet this is not a law of nature, and nothing guarantees it will continue to be like that in the future. Humans have two basic types of abilities: physical abilities and cognitive abilities. As long as machines competed with us merely in physical abilities, you could always find cognitive tasks that humans do better. So machines took over purely manual jobs, while humans focused on jobs requiring at least some cognitive skills. Yet what will happen once algorithms outperform us in remembering, analysing and recognising patterns?
The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking. True, at present there are numerous things that organic algorithms do better than non-organic ones, and experts have repeatedly declared that something will ‘for ever’ remain beyond the reach of non-organic algorithms. But it turns out that ‘for ever’ often means no more than a decade or two. Until a short time ago, facial recognition was a favourite example of something which even babies accomplish easily but which escaped even the most powerful computers on earth. Today facial-recognition programs are able to recognise people far more efficiently and quickly than humans can. Police forces and intelligence services now use such programs to scan countless hours of video footage from surveillance cameras, tracking down suspects and criminals.
In the 1980s when people discussed the unique nature of humanity, they habitually used chess as primary proof of human superiority. They believed that computers would never beat humans at chess. On 10 February 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, laying to rest that particular claim for human pre-eminence.
Deep Blue was given a head start by its creators, who preprogrammed it not only with the basic rules of chess, but also with detailed instructions regarding chess strategies. A new generation of AI uses machine learning to do even more remarkable and elegant things. In February 2015 a program developed by Google DeepMind learned by itself how to play forty-nine classic Atari games. One of the developers, Dr Demis Hassabis, explained that ‘the only information we gave the system was the raw pixels on the screen and the idea that it had to get a high score. And everything else it had to figure out by itself.’ The program managed to learn the rules of all the games it was presented with, from Pac-Man and Space Invaders to car racing and tennis games. It then played most of them as well as or better than humans, sometimes coming up with strategies that never occur to human players.
Computer algorithms have recently proven their worth in ball games, too. For many decades, baseball teams used the wisdom, experience and gut instincts of professional scouts and managers to pick players. The best players fetched millions of dollars, and naturally enough the rich teams got the cream of the market, whereas poorer teams had to settle for the scraps. In 2002 Billy Beane, the manager of the low-budget Oakland Athletics, decided to beat the system. He relied on an arcane computer algorithm developed by economists and computer geeks to create a winning team from players that human scouts overlooked or undervalued. The old-timers were incensed by Beane’s algorithm transgressing into the hallowed halls of baseball. They said that picking baseball players is an art, and that only humans with an intimate and long-standing experience of the game can master it. A computer program could never do it, because it could never decipher the secrets and the spirit of baseball.
They soon had to eat their baseball caps. Beane’s shoestring-budget algorithmic team ($44 million) not only held its own against baseball giants such as the New York Yankees ($125 million), but became the first team ever in American League baseball to win twenty consecutive games. Not that Beane and Oakland could enjoy their success for long. Soon enough, many other baseball teams adopted the same algorithmic approach, and since the Yankees and Red Sox could pay far more for both baseball players and computer software, low-budget teams such as the Oakland Athletics now had an even smaller chance of beating the system than before.
In 2004 Professor Frank Levy from MIT and Professor Richard Murnane from Harvard published a thorough research of the job market, listing those professions most likely to undergo automation. Truck drivers were given as an example of a job that could not possibly be automated in the foreseeable future. It is hard to imagine, they wrote, that algorithms could safely drive trucks on a busy road. A mere ten years later, Google and Tesla not only imagine this, but are actually making it happen.
In fact, as time goes by, it becomes easier and easier to replace humans with computer algorithms, not merely because the algorithms are getting smarter, but also because humans are professionalising. Ancient hunter-gatherers mastered a very wide variety of skills in order to survive, which is why it would be immensely difficult to design a robotic hunter-gatherer. Such a robot would have to know how to prepare spear points from flint stones, how to find edible mushrooms in a forest, how to use medicinal herbs to bandage a wound, how to track down a mammoth and how to coordinate a charge with a dozen other hunters. However, over the last few thousand years we humans have been specialising. A taxi driver or a cardiologist specialises in a much narrower niche than a hunter-gatherer, which makes it easier to replace them with AI.
Even the managers in charge of all these activities can be replaced. Thanks to its powerful algorithms, Uber can manage millions of taxi drivers with only a handful of humans. Most of the commands are given by the algorithms without any need of human supervision. In May 2014 Deep Knowledge Ventures – a Hong Kong venture-capital firm specialising in regenerative medicine – broke new ground by appointing an algorithm called VITAL to its board. VITAL makes investment recommendations by analysing huge amounts of data on the financial situation, clinical trials and intellectual property of prospective companies. Like the other five board members, the algorithm gets to vote on whether the firm makes an investment in a specific company or not.
Examining VITAL’s record so far, it seems that it has already picked up one managerial vice: nepotism. It has recommended investing in companies that grant algorithms more authority. With VITAL’s blessing, Deep Knowledge Ventures has recently invested in Silico Medicine, which develops computer-assisted methods for drug research, and in Pathway Pharmaceuticals, which employs a platform called OncoFinder to select and rate personalised cancer therapies.
As algorithms push humans out of the job market, wealth might become concentrated in the hands of the tiny elite that owns the all-powerful algorithms, creating unprecedented social inequality. Alternatively, the algorithms might not only manage businesses, but actually come to own them. At present, human law already recognises intersubjective entities like corporations and nations as ‘legal persons’. Though Toyota or Argentina has neither a body nor a mind, they are subject to international laws, they can own land and money, and they can sue and be sued in court. We might soon grant similar status to algorithms. An algorithm could then own a venture-capital fund without having to obey the wishes of any human master.
If the algorithm makes the right decisions, it could accumulate a fortune, which it could then invest as it sees fit, perhaps buying your house and becoming your landlord. If you infringe on the algorithm’s legal rights – say, by not paying rent – the algorithm could hire lawyers and sue you in court. If such algorithms consistently outperform human fund managers, we might end up with an algorithmic upper class owning most of our planet. This may sound impossible, but before dismissing the idea, remember that most of our planet is already legally owned by non-human inter-subjective entities, namely nations and corporations. Indeed, 5,000 years ago much of Sumer was owned by imaginary gods such as Enki and Inanna. If gods can possess land and employ people, why not algorithms?
So what will people do? Art is often said to provide us with our ultimate (and uniquely human) sanctuary. In a world where computers replace doctors, drivers, teachers and even landlords, everyone would become an artist. Yet it is hard to see why artistic creation will be safe from the algorithms. Why are we so sure computers will be unable to better us in the composition of music? According to the life sciences, art is not the product of some enchanted spirit or metaphysical soul, but rather of organic algorithms recognising mathematical patterns. If so, there is no reason why non-organic algorithms couldn’t master it.
David Cope is a musicology professor at the University of California in Santa Cruz. He is also one of the more controversial figures in the world of classical music. Cope has written programs that compose concertos, chorales, symphonies and operas. His first creation was named EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence), which specialised in imitating the style of Johann Sebastian Bach. It took seven years to create the program, but once the work was done, EMI composed 5,000 chorales à la Bach in a single day. Cope arranged a performance of a few select chorales in a music festival at Santa Cruz. Enthusiastic members of the audience praised the wonderful performance, and explained excitedly how the music touched their innermost being. They didn’t know it was composed by EMI rather than Bach, and when the truth was revealed, some reacted with glum silence, while others shouted in anger.
EMI continued to improve, and learned to imitate Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov and Stravinsky. Cope got EMI a contract, and its first album – Classical Music Composed by Computer – sold surprisingly well. Publicity brought increasing hostility from classical-music buffs. Professor Steve Larson from the University of Oregon sent Cope a challenge for a musical showdown. Larson suggested that professional pianists play three pieces one after the other: one by Bach, one by EMI, and one by Larson himself. The audience would then be asked to vote who composed which piece. Larson was convinced people would easily tell the difference between soulful human compositions, and the lifeless artefact of a machine. Cope accepted the challenge. On the appointed date, hundreds of lecturers, students and music fans assembled in the University of Oregon’s concert hall. At the end of the performance, a vote was taken. The result? The audience thought that EMI’s piece was genuine Bach, that Bach’s piece was composed by Larson, and that Larson’s piece was produced by a computer.
Critics continued to argue that EMI’s music is technically excellent, but that it lacks something. It is too accurate. It has no depth. It has no soul. Yet when people heard EMI’s compositions without being informed of their provenance, they frequently praised them precisely for their soulfulness and emotional resonance.
Following EMI’s successes, Cope created newer and even more sophisticated programs. His crowning achievement was Annie. Whereas EMI composed music according to predetermined rules, Annie is based on machine learning. Its musical style constantly changes and develops in reaction to new inputs from the outside world. Cope has no idea what Annie is going to compose next. Indeed, Annie does not restrict itself to music composition but also explores other art forms such as haiku poetry. In 2011 Cope published Comes the Fiery Night: 2,000 Haiku by Man and Machine. Of the 2,000 haikus in the book, some are written by Annie, and the rest by organic poets. The book does not disclose which are which. If you think you can tell the difference between human creativity and machine output, you are welcome to test your claim.
In the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution created a huge new class of urban proletariats, in the twenty-first century we might witness the creation of a new massive class: people devoid of any economic, political or even artistic value, who contribute nothing to the prosperity, power and glory of society.
In September 2013 two Oxford researchers, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, published ‘The Future of Employment’, in which they surveyed the likelihood of different professions being taken over by computer algorithms within the next twenty years. The algorithm developed by Frey and Osborne to do the calculations estimated that 47 per cent of US jobs are at high risk. For example, there is a 99 per cent probability that by 2033 human telemarketers and insurance underwriters will lose their jobs to algorithms. There is a 98 per cent probability that the same will happen to sports referees, 97 per cent that it will happen to cashiers and 96 per cent to chefs. Waiters – 94 per cent. Paralegal assistants – 94 per cent. Tour guides – 91 per cent. Bakers – 89 per cent. Bus drivers – 89 per cent. Construction labourers – 88 per cent. Veterinary assistants – 86 per cent. Security guards – 84 per cent. Sailors – 83 per cent. Bartenders – 77 per cent. Archivists – 76 per cent. Carpenters – 72 per cent. Lifeguards – 67 per cent. And so forth. There are of course some safe jobs. The likelihood that computer algorithms will displace archaeologists by 2033 is only 0.7 per cent, because their job requires highly sophisticated types of pattern recognition, and doesn’t produce huge profits. Hence it is improbable that corporations or government will make the necessary investment to automate archaeology within the next twenty years.
Of course, by 2033 many new professions are likely to appear, for example, virtual-world designers. But such professions will probably require much more creativity and flexibility than your run-of-the-mill job, and it is unclear whether forty-year-old cashiers or insurance agents will be able to reinvent themselves as virtual-world designers (just try to imagine a virtual world created by an insurance agent!). And even if they do so, the pace of progress is such that within another decade they might have to reinvent themselves yet again. After all, algorithms might well outperform humans in designing virtual worlds too. The crucial problem isn’t creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms.
- Yuval Noah Harari, The Great Decoupling in Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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Reminiscence — A Trip to Remember
This article was first published on Medium.
It’s been a few months since my solo trip to Japan, and I still remember vividly every single moment with precise detail. I mean, how could I not? It was the most memorable trip that I ever had, not to mention, my very first solo trip. Remembering every moment brings joy and excitement to my heart, which gave me the motivation and drive to write this journal.
I wasn’t planning to travel alone in the first place, to be honest. The thought of solo travelling never did cross my mind whenever I planned an overseas trip. Part of the reason was because I felt it would be too boring without friends, without having someone to talk to. But, circumstances *psst— leave approvals* prevented me from joining my friends’ itinerary. And thus I was left with the option of planning a solo trip.
Planning an itinerary alone proved to be very enjoyable, as I realized. Researching on places to visit, planning the route and mode of transport, day-to-day schedules, it gives you a sneak preview of what kind of adventure awaits. Not to mention, I can go wherever I want to go, as my mind pleases. That’s sort of a main perk of solo travelling I guess, flexibility in plans. Few days before my flight, I switched a day in Osaka with a trip to Hiroshima, just because I suddenly had the urge to explore. It was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
My trip lasted for 10 days, travelling through Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Hiroshima. Looking back at my itinerary, I wondered how I was able to follow through such a spartan schedule. Everyday was a visit to a new area, and I never did spend much of my time in the city, only at night when I’m done for the day.
Waking up at 7.30am every morning (why can’t I have the same motivation for work!), I planned to start my day early so I could maximize my time spent at places I was visiting. Having bought the painfully expensive JR Pass, I had unlimited rides on JR lines and also the shinkansen, so I was determined to capitalize on it as much as possible. Booking my shinkansen ride at 8/9 plus, I was always rushing to the station without having breakfast. Hunger wasn’t a concern to me, but missing my ride was. And yes, I have missed x number of trains throughout this trip, and 1 particular shinkansen which got me panicking for the first time on the trip.
Kamakura
Throughout my stay in Tokyo, I visited Kamakura, Nikko and Hakone. Approximately 1 hour away from the capital city, each of these places have their own iconic landmarks. My first destination was Kamakura, a suburb filled with Buddhist Zen temples and shrines. Walking on the streets of Kamakura felt different from walking in Tokyo, there was no no urge to walk briskly, no rush. Everyone around me was strolling casually along Hachiman-gu street, occasionally stopping halfway to indulge on the variety of souvenirs, sweets and snacks that the roadside shops had to offer.
I was absorbed into the 'slow-paced life’ of Kamakura, and took time to appreciate the traditional architecture of the shops, before reaching Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu at the end of the street. At the entrance of the temple, I chanced upon a pair of Japanese newlyweds decked in Japanese wedding kimonos, having a photoshoot with a group of people who seemed to be like their families and relatives. The tourist spirit inside me sprung into life, as I whipped out my phone to take a couple of photos and an instastory. Mind you, I wasn’t alone in doing this.
Venturing into the temple, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw yet another pair of Japanese newlyweds! This time, the pair were in the middle of a ceremony, exchanging vows as per tradition, I guessed. Then again, Kamakura is a place famed with its shrines, so its no surprise that newlyweds would hold their wedding ceremony here. But still, to chance upon two wedding couples on the same day, I think I was very fortunate and lucky. On towards Hase, which is 3 Enoden (the local railway in Kamakura) stops away from Kamakura station, I went to visit the famous bronze Great Buddha Daibutsu.
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The Great Buddha statue, Daibutsu
A majestic, magnificent statue. I stood still for a few minutes, just staring intently in awe at the great figure in front of me. The interior was open to visitors for a small fee, and there were details of the weight, the height of each part of the statue. I took a few photos, paid my respects to the Daibutsu, and headed back to Tokyo for dinner.
I met up with my Japanese friend in Kanda, he brought me to an Izakaya his friend owned. While we were having dinner halfway, there were a huge group of people in colourful traditional costumes, parading and cheering down the streets of Kanda, carrying a lavishly decorated palanquin. My friend explained that there was a festival happening— the Kanda Matsuri. Another lucky coincidence!
Although this was supposed to be a solo trip, I did meet up with some groups of friends for dinner sometimes. Honestly, I was really lucky to have company for some parts of my journey, given my talkative nature, so shout-out to those people (you know who you are ☺).
Nikko
The next day was a long, long journey into Nikko, taking the Tohoku shinkansen to Utsunomiya station, the local Nikko line towards Nikko station. I used the 2 hour travelling time to review my plans for the day — head to Ryuzu Falls, which is the start of the nature trail, towards Senjougahara Marshlands, Yudaki Waterfall, and finally Yumoto Onsen. Never would I have thought that I’ll willingly go on a nature trail myself, but hey there’s a first for everything I guess.
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Ryuzu-no-taki, Ryuzu Waterfall
Alighting at the Ryuzu-no-Taki bus stop, I stared at the limitless flight of stairs in front of me. Did I mess up, I wondered? I didn’t know these stairs existed when I was researching the area! Well, that was the start of my “spartan” trail, as I dubbed it. When I reached the top, I realized that the flight of stairs was not even part of the nature trail! If I alighted one stop after, I would have skipped the stairs altogether. Oh well, lesson learnt and I continued (started) forward nevertheless.
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A warning sign at the entrance of the trail — beware of bears!
Unfortunately (or fortunately), there were no signs of wildlife to be seen throughout the trail, only birds which I was unable to identify. The journey to Senjougahara marshlands was a brief one; took roughly half an hour to reach. I was greeted by the majestic view of the marshlands — its hard to believe that such a breathtaking landscape was 1400 meters above sea level! The rustling of leaves in the wind, the serenity it exudes, made the whole hiking trip worthwhile.
Fast forward to the journey back to Tokyo city, I was racing for time to catch my shinkansen to Shin-Osaka at 8.33pm, because my accommodation for the night was there. Unfortunately, I was 6 minutes late (Yes, I vividly remember) and my shinkansen had left without me. I went to inquire at the ticketing counter in Tokyo station whether there were any Osaka-bound trains left, and the earliest ride was next morning. Then the sudden realization hit me. I was left stranded in Tokyo, without any accommodation.
Hungry and angry — “hangry”, I was walking around Tokyo station aimlessly. The cons of solo travelling started to surface: I felt lost, I didn’t know what to do, nobody was around to tell me what to do, there was nobody for me to discuss with. Cold sweat, goosebumps — you name it, I felt it. Firstly I had to find a way to calm myself down. I went into a Family Mart, dragging my luggage along, bought a bottle of Mitsuya Cider (good stuff, highly recommend), and took a huge gulp.
Now that I have calmed down, it’s time to make a Plan B. I whipped out my phone, opened the Agoda app and searched for the nearest capsule hotel with a vacancy. Fortunately, capsule hotels are aplenty in Tokyo, and I had no issues finding one with a vacancy — in Kanda, just a street away from the Izakaya I had dinner at the day before. After settling down in my new accommodation and grabbing dinner at a nearby eatery, I crashed into my bed. It was a long roller-coaster ride of a day, and it was about to get even more exhausting, because I would be starting the next day with a 6.26am shinkansen to Osaka!
Miyajima, Hiroshima
For my first time stepping outside of the Kanto region, I was excited to explore more places that I could only see through the Internet. The first place I visited was Miyajima, an island off the coast of Hiroshima, western Honshu. Though Miyajima was totally out of the way for my plans, I just went with it because hey, with the power of my JR pass I can go anywhere! It was really easy to get to Miyajima also, connected by local trains from Hiroshima, since it’s a popular tourist destination that hosts the World Heritage Site: Itsukushima Shrine.
On board the JR ferry, I could clearly spot the iconic “floating” torii gate over the distance. Its tall orange pillars stuck out like a sore thumb amidst the green and turquoise landscape of Miyajima.
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Spotting the torii gate over the distance
When I disembarked from the ferry, I couldn’t believe what I saw — there were deers all around! There was no mention of deers roaming around the populated areas of Miyajima when I was doing my itinerary planning, or so I believed. But, unlike their counterparts in Nara, the deers in Miyajima are not really as tame and friendly. They don’t bow unfortunately, I tried in embarrassment. There were warning billboards that advise tourists not to feed the deers as they are considered wild animals. Nevertheless, I did spot some deers approaching tourists for snacks, though in a slightly aggressive manner.
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Stare-down with a deer outside the Miyajima pier
Before heading into Itsukushima shrine, I took a little detour to take a look at the floating torii gate. Luckily for me, it was low tide and sightseers were able to walk down the coastline and get a close-up with the majestic torii gate. I stood in front of the torii gate, staring intensely at its pillars. To think that this structure remained unscathed and survived the destruction brought by the atomic bomb in World War 2, it truly is a miracle indeed. The bottom part of the pillars were eroded though, because of the waves. Tourists took this opportunity to grab a selfie/group photo with the torii gate, including me.
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Up and close with the famed ‘untiltable’ torii gate
After visiting the torii gate and Itsukushima shrine, I headed out for my main objective of the day: reaching the summit of Mt Misen, the highest mountain in Miyajima. Of course, I wasn’t going to start my ascent from scratch, there were ropeway services that brought tourists up to Shishi-iwa observatory, and another 30 minutes walk up to reach the summit. However simple it sounds, this walk is far from easy. Slopes after slopes, I kept leaning my body forward to push myself up these slopes.
Along the way I met a bunch of hikers, tourists and locals. When we walked past each other, I was caught off guard by their afternoon greeting konichiwa, I couldn’t react in time to give my reply, barely giving a smile and bowing my head slightly in return. Such an act of courtesy was heartwarming. Almost every Japanese people greeted me on my way up to the summit, to the point where I started to initiate the greetings myself.
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Rock formations at the summit of Mt. Misen
The view at the summit of Mt Misen was absolutely breathtaking. You could see the Hiroshima Bay in its entirety. Fresh air, clear blue skies and clouds, invigorating wind, all these made my effort (and money spent) worthwhile. Having accomplished my plan for the day, I spent the remaining afternoon browsing through Omotesando shopping street.
On a side note, if you’re planning to visit Miyajima, don’t forget to grab some Momiji Manjyu as souvenirs on your way back! They are Miyajima’s specialty, and they well deserve that title.
Kyoto
Kyoto — the land of temples and shrines, was nothing short of amazing. In this laid back town, the streets are not as bustling as its neighboring city Osaka, just peace and quiet. Also, the number of temples and shrines in this town is astonishing; for every few hundred meters you walk, there is almost certainly a temple or shrine nearby. But, each and every temple or shrine has its own story to tell, with different history and architecture. For travelers seeking out Japanese religious culture, Kyoto certainly is a must-visit.
As I was travelling solo, I could quickly decide what I wanted to do, so I tried to visit as many landmarks as I could within the two days I allocated in my itinerary. Places like Ginkaku-ji, Kinkaku-ji, Kiyomizu-dera are “mandatory” visits for tourists in Kyoto, so I prioritized those places first. I was fortunate enough to be accompanied by a friend of mine, despite a hectic schedule, if not I’ll be hopelessly lost in Kyoto’s complex bus system.
I have to say, riding on a Kyoto bus was interesting, and a tad scary. The entrance is at the back, which was supposed to be where the exit is, and vice versa. Only at the terminus do commuters board from the front. Also, I noticed that Japanese drivers like to drive very, and I mean VERY, close to one another, leaving just a few inches of gap, too close for comfort. So when the bus I was on came utterly close to a car beside (I sat at a window seat, so I could see the car being CRAZILY near), I felt very uneasy and claustrophobic.
Shortly after I arrived in Kyoto, I was told by my friend that there was a festival Aoi Matsuri, one of the three main festivals in Kyoto, happening at the Kyoto palace. Second festival that’s happened during my trip, how lucky I was, really! I pushed my plans back and headed straight for the palace. A large crowd had already gathered outside the entrance of the palace, with some photographers setting up their gear in preparation for the big event. But the first of the palanquins appeared only an hour later, and suddenly the crowd sprung into action, whipping out their phones and cameras and snapping away. Of course, that included me as well!
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The parade heads off from the Imperial Palace
It was a grand festival all right, with horses and oxen walking beside people in ceremonial attire. A strikingly beautiful palanquin stood out most of all, with the high priestess Saio riding in it. After walking alongside the parade for a while, I decided to call it quits and head for my next destination.
The Golden and Silver Pavilions, I could only see them through the Windows wallpapers when I lock my computer. They already look magnificent digitally, but seeing them in person is truly a sight to behold.
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The Golden Pavilion, Kinkaku-ji
While being surrounded by greenery and a pond, the Kinkaku-ji stands out with its striking gold. Covered in gold leaf for its exteriors, you could see the gold brilliance clearly reflected by the surrounding pond.
While the Ginkaku-ji is not as flamboyant as its golden counterpart, the Silver pavilion offers a dry sand garden with a striped line pattern situated just beside.
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Sand garden of Ginkaku-ji
The simplicity of the garden gives off a serene vibe, I felt at ease while looking at the pavilion, also maybe because the crowd here was smaller here compared to Kinkaku-ji. After a few walks around the garden to make my money’s worth (the entrance fee is 500 yen, goodness!) I decided to head towards the most famous structure in Eastern Kyoto: Kiyomizu-dera.
Similar to the two Pavilions, Kiyomizu-dera is widely popular on various mediums. Any travel ad and tour package would feature the temple as one of the main highlights in Japan. Unfortunately the roof of the main hall was under construction when I visited, so the scenery of the whole temple wasn’t as great as before, but at least the main hall was open for visits, so it’s not all that bad.
The temple is located up in the hills, so there’s a arduous 10 minute uphill walk to expect. The walk was not in the slightest boring though, because you’ll be walking through the Higashiyama district, where a whole line of shops and cafes awaits a curious traveler. There were a lot of shops selling Japanese sweets, and a few of them offered samples to shoppers (wouldn’t have known if I wasn’t guided by my veteran friend!). There were samples for matcha tea as well! What a great pit stop in the middle of the district, perfect for a short tea break before continuing further.
At the top of the hill, at the entrance of the temple, the view was simply breathtaking. I could see the entirety of Kyoto all the way to the mountains in the west.
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The view atop of the hills, outside Kiyomizu-dera entrance
The crowd here was really huge, probably double the size of Kinkaku-ji crowd. That’s to be expected from the most popular temple in Kyoto, with tourists flocking in to see the temple and the spectacular view.
After a full (scorching) day of temple-hopping, what better way to cool down than to visit an onsen? What I like about Japan, especially Kyoto, is the abundance and convenience of bathhouses, there’s bound to be one around your vicinity (provided you are in an urban area of course).
For the remaining 3 days of my trip, I decided to spend my time leisurely. I spent the late afternoons on an onsen spree, going to popular onsens. In total I visited 4 onsens within these 3 days (maximum health & wellness!) One onsen that left a deep impression on me was Yunessun in Hakone, the place is a water theme park combined with an onsen. Visitors can check out the unique wine/coffee/sake pools and then relax in an onsen, it really is a cool concept, I don’t regret spending half a day there!
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Four buckets of coffee ready for splashing people!
Afterthoughts
Honestly, I felt very skeptical about going on an overseas trip all by myself. All the what-ifs fogged my mind, while worrying about safety and the probable loneliness. However, this trip made me realize that a leap of faith into the unknown was the push I needed to understand how enjoyable and exciting journeying solo could be. From the start of the trip planning till the end, it was a phenomenal experience.
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The power of the JR pass is limitless
I’m really glad that Japan was my first country to experience solo travelling (not to mention how safe Japan is), definitely would recommend Japan for avid solo-trippers! Writing this journal has spurred me on to plan for my next Japan trip already. If you have any recommendations on where/what to visit in Japan, please do share them with me! Or, if you are planning a trip to Japan yourself and would like some ideas, I’d love to share and discuss my thoughts and experiences!
Special thanks to Nurulhuda, Lee Ming Rui and Wilson for taking their precious time to proofread and provide their valuable inputs!
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Wedding Plans in 2015
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WEDDING THEMES
Themed weddings are a contemporary fashion in 2014, and from what I am seeing as a photographer there also are famous colour and food topics. If a fave shade is important to you then this may be start of your topic. Since the royal wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William, a brand new conventional style benchmark turned into set and additionally because the movie "The Great Gatsby" there was a definite flow in the direction of the 1920's appearance.
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THE DRESS & THE SHOES
wedding ceremony footwear The selections obtainable are more various than ever before, and in the long run you your dress and shoes are going to be the centre of attraction and remembered. Your photographer bases the wedding pix round you. Everyone else who brings their cameras are going to be pointing them at you as properly. Therefore, one component to preserve in thoughts: region your dress and shoes on the top of the budget list.
So what is current right now? Functional dresses that may be used time and again? Or something that flickers glamour and taste?
"Less is More" 1855 poem "Andrea del Sarto
Wedding clothes in hues apart from shades of white are simply something distinctive - creative and ambitious. They can be used over and over. Blush colorations, like red or peach are coming round again. A fashionable, pale, shimmering crimson is actually some thing to do not forget but in my opinion you cannot beat white. The classic white dress still sits at the pinnacle and has finished for loads of years.
Wedding portraiture
Depending on where you've got your ceremony, there are some issues to maintain in thoughts. A church wedding historically way hiring a unique vehicle to get you there. You ought to additionally think about the time you have got within the day as nicely; how lengthy will the journey be from A to B after which to C. If you are having a expert photographer, ensure you propose with him/her in which, how long and what sort of photography you would really like.
What's hot right now could be total coverage, and I locate the most interesting pix are the pre-wedding ceremony ones: the bridal prepping photographs of the makeup artist at paintings, the hair being styled, the marriage dress placing up prepared to be worn, the shoes, the state-of-the-art sparkling jewelry. As a society, we are now, greater than ever interested by the who, how and what went into creating a massive occasion. Look at any popular movie on DVD and Blu-ray nowadays and you may frequently locate the making-of documentaries are honestly longer than the film.
Preparation Preparation
We like seeing the main actors in between takes, behaving certainly and offering a little perception into their actual personalities. The equal applies to you, your bridesmaids, the Groom and grooms men. You clearly are going to be a superstar for the day and seeing the bridesmaids having a touch amusing getting geared up is exactly what you are going to need to look back on... No matter how antique they're.
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Now permit's now not overlook a few key details both, have you concept about how the ring gets offered all through the rite? A favourite in the meanwhile is a adorned pillow with pins at the rings, or the own family canine sporting it down the aisle on call. Just be innovative, it is the little things that add that speciality.
Some church buildings and registrars have policies you want to be aware about and this is made clean when you are booking with them. They normally insist on only one respectable photographer being allowed to photo the event. This is not intended to be suggest or too controlling but it is a information protection trouble and in a few instances a copyright issue as nicely with reference to the venue. For instance, on the subject of the signing of the legitimate sign up no pictures is allowed - complete stop. This is a policy all officials will observe. But as soon as this formality is finished the photographer is free to seize the satisfied couple signing a fake e book rather.
Respect and Social Media
Something to keep in mind is the release of guest images onto social media at the night time of the marriage. You may or won't have an opinion on this, however a few couples ask their visitors to keep again their pictures and not submit them directly to social web sites till the legit ones are launched to so as hold their 'distinct' excellent. What I recommend is to ask every person on their invites to ship their pics to the bride and groom afterwards, and let them be the primary to peer their very own wedding.
Now I need to factor out a few facts right here: newbie photographers are anywhere and most of the people very own a few quite true cameras which can rival the photographers own device. Does this mean that uncle David is going to get the same snap shots as your hired photographer? Do you really want a photographer at all?
I can virtually say I even have in no way been wowed by those snaps. People do get lucky occasionally with perhaps 1 in 50. I even have but seen most of them emerge as online in social media web sites with titles like; pinnacle 100 worst wedding ceremony pictures though.
The factor is, you need a professional for quality and peace of thoughts. Like Jamie Oliver cooking a Wedding Breakfast or Maggie Sottero designing a unique get dressed, professionals in their field have the suitable device and skills to supply. A professional photographer is aware of what to look for and in which to be. You cannot assume a member of the family or pal to take on such a duty. The expert brings back-up facilities so no photograph is lost. He/she has the competencies to procedure your pictures and keep them nicely afterwards. Your employed photographer could have be versed in adjusting your snap shots, sprucing and cropping them to fit industrial print requirements geared up for printing.
DETAILS OF THE RECEPTION
Hunger - After a rite, maximum guests are hungry and thirsty. When making plans your wedding reception it might be sensible to provide canapés/appetisers with any reception beverages. These will revive any flagging visitors, and potentially save you any early inebriation.
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Cake - The wedding cake is a subculture that people seem to be re-vamping and modernising. Recent weddings I actually have attended have seen the slicing of the conventional iced fruit cake take a backseat and sometimes just no longer appear in any respect! This may be seasonal preference, as an example, iciness tastes veer towards chocolate and wealthy flavours, while in summer time I actually have visible light sponges, lemon cake or maybe simply an amazing antique cheesecake. Wedding fairs are presently promoting ice-cream desserts that double as a dessert for the Wedding Breakfast, or layered tiers of frosted cupcakes that can be dispensed on the large day with out the need to reduce the cake.
Messages - The conventional way is a visitor signing e book, it's a incredible keep sake to take home. But there are already new ideas available. How approximately a wishing well that guests can put little notes into? Once you're finished with it after the wedding, stick it in the lawn and permit nature grow round it.
Presents - A super way to make the speeches extra interesting is giving out offers to those who have helped and been there for you, you can even strive a a laugh raffle or supply out lottery tickets.
Kids - If there are youngsters present, you may be sure that they'll be bored and ready to begin running around, having amusing and generally getting under your ft. You can plan for this too, via having bubble blowing bottles available to hand out. It appears top on the snap shots too and is such fun even the adults be a part of in!
Staff - If you're having a large themed wedding ceremony, it is worth checking with the caterers in the event that they have a few form of uniform. A concept right here is request group of workers wear white gloves, they simply look classy and clean.
Food - The cutting-edge take on the Wedding Breakfast is less conventional with extra highly spiced delicacies at the menu. Styles vary however, through the years peoples tastes have simply modified. The greater creative your food the extra memorable your day can be, and depending on how lots time and money you have, how approximately attempting an eight route meal? It's all approximately the flavor.
Music at the same time as you consume - If you visit any wedding ceremony fair you'll locate some exquisite musicians to pick from. They can accompany your meal playing the piano or harp and will frequently play something you request. At one wedding I included recently the subject became rock, so the pianist become playing hits from ACDC, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Queen, Slip Knot and plenty of, many more. It turned into exclusive and funky!
Up lighting effects - Hiring a few lighting fixtures for the night is a first rate manner to absolutely alternate the temper of your event and deliver it an super appearance. Up lighting factor on the partitions and ceilings and may be set to a coloration to fit your theme. White fairy lighting fixtures can create a pretty history for your night time picture's and are in particular powerful after dark.
Night Music - Cover bands are famous in the interim and there are some fantastic businesses obtainable focusing on weddings. They will play your favourite tracks on request. Disco's, well do you need a disco? Technology is good enough now to be able to pretty a lot create your very own custom playlist that blends into each music from a computer or iPod/iPad. Just plug that into the band's amplifier and click play. You can alternate your own track with the band to present them a ruin. By the manner... Recollect to feed the band!
Flowers - Real or Fake? Its a hard one to decide upon, and it is able to be pretty nice to have vegetation to hide parts of employed halls. For others its some thing to perhaps forgo and overlook altogether. It without a doubt topics on how much importance it has for you.
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Dropshiply Review – A New Dropshipping Software & Training In 2020
Dropshiply Review – Product Overview
Product Name Dropshiply Product Creator Cindy Donovan Launch Date & Time [2020-Jul-08] @ 11:00 EDT Price $37 OTO/Upsells Yes, Best OTO(s) Available Refund Period 30-Days Official Site https://dropshiply.co/ Product Type Ecom Software Skill All Levels Recommended Highly Recommended
Dropshiply Review – The Problems With Dropshipping
Most people struggle to make any money with dropshipping. This is because there are plenty of pains they face…
Researching hot niches
Inventory Management
Running profitableFB Ads
Finding low margin products
Designing beautiful product pages
Shipping
Great reliable suppliers
Automating a LOT of processes
Auto Fulfillment
Monthly Fees
And the list goes on and on!
This stuff is very complex, time consuming and can cost you up to $5K per month. I ‘m sure that you don’t spend that sort of cash. And that’s why you’re totally trapped. That’s why I consider the mad Dropshiply software platform.
What Is Called Dropshiply?
Dropshiply is a 7-step method that reveals how to easily build your store, discover a hot niche, get immediate access to superb dropship products at up to 90 percent below retail rates and profit unbelievably right from day 1. It is the most efficient, most advanced automated system for easily & quickly developing a 6-figure dropshipping business while you do absolutely nothing.
It is the same program and the very same techniques that students used in their ecom stores to make $2.6 million! You will have instant access to a groundbreaking ‘never before’ app which can click on a few buttons and effortlessly duplicate the success of 6-figure students! This is so much money and is now priced at a shockingly low amount.
How Does Dropshiply Work?
Dropshiply Review – A Complete Walkthrough Video
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Features & Benefits
Dropshiply is loaded with features that make it easy to make money fast.
[+] WP Connect: Automated integration with your current WP stores Dropshiply
[+] Store Stats: See and manage your stores’ data right inside your dashboard immediately
[+] SEO Stats: Receive complete stats of SEO .. Domain authority, page authority, page rank, seo ranking,  Alexa rank, nation rank & more.
[+] Instant Domain Search:  Your shop doesn’t have a domain? No problem! No problem! In seconds, our immediate domain generator selects a domain for you.
[+] Niche Intelligence Technology: Before building your store, know which niches are going to GENERATE MONEY!
[+] Ali Express Spy Tool: The entire AliExpress platform is deeply integrated into Dropshipy so that you can find THEY ONLY products without hours of painstaking research that are impossible even to find!
[+] Walmart Product Finder: Uncover unlimited Walmart products that can be sold in your store immediately.
[+] Alexa Spy: Explore millions of websites traffic data and global rankings and target unexploited markets
[+] FB Interest Explorer: Uncover thousands of valuable phrases for your FB advertising campaigns
[+] 1-Click Product Importer: Import hundreds of products to your store within minutes in one click.
[+] Built In-App Editor: Don’t like a particular element? No problem! Instantly edit product descriptions, title, price, tags, category, images, variants and more.
[+] Store Manager: Manage all your products, orders and customers in one click.
[+] Manage Orders: View, edit, delete orders here! See all details.. product name, sku, quantity, price, billing and shipping info and more.
[+] Manage Products: Our “Server Side Processing” technology lets you manage all your products at once.
[+] Manage Customers: All customers are monitored and displayed in Dropshiply instantly. Every new order will also update here automatically.
[+] Manage Multiple Listings: Publish, manage several listings, or delete all current listings instantly. Sync Orders: All orders are synced to Dropshiply in real time in your stores.
[+] Auto Order Technology: Dropshiply places the order and fills out the address with one-click.
[+] Product Watchdog: Watch for all the price changes and automatically update them.
[+] Inventory Watchdog: Take a look at inventory changes and restore products automatically. Your seller never ran out of anything.
[+] Price Monitor: Monitor every price changes and automatically update it.
[+] Inbuilt Pricing Margins: Create pricing rules so you can have consistent margins for all the products you sell.
[+] Product Reports: Get full reports on how many products have been sold on your stores.
[+] WooCommerce Integration: Dropshiply integrates fully with WooCommerce so that all the products in your dashboard are displayed.
[+] Inbuilt App Store: Dropshiply has an app store that provides free and paid online business software that can be downloaded to extend your business and boost your sales, marketing and sales.
[+] Premium Themes: Our Theme Store contains more than 100 free and professional e-commerce themes that can be used for your own shop.
[+] 20+ Api Integration: Dropshiply easily integrates with 20+ apis to make your life and work easier and faster!
[+] Autoresponder and Email Integration: We have direct integrations with Aweber, GetResponse, Mailchimp and Sendy autoresponders. You can also integrate with any third party apps with the custom integrations.
10 Reasons Why I Like Dropshiply More Than Others
SUPERB INVENTORY MANAGEMENT: Everything is shipped immediately. Until you earn first, you’ll never need to pay for an item.
SECRET DROPSHIPPING SOURCES: Connect dropshiply with hundreds of the most reliable dropshippers on the planet for thousands of products so that you can fulfillorders fast.
ZERO COMPETITION: As we choose items out of a selection of 5 million products, we have no competition. So it is extremely unlikely that we will sell the same product than anybody else, inversely to most business models where everyone tries to push the same thing.
FLAWLESS CUSTOMER SERVICE: Dropshiply absolutely removes all customer service concerns and all your and dropshipper communication problems.
TARGET PERFECT FB AUDIENCES: Built-in FB ad targeting tool allows you to buy hungry gladly products from TARGET instantly.
COMPLETE AUTOMATION: Drops the whole business instantly and earns passive profits. Your only job: travel around the world as your business evolves your bank account.
TEAM OF EXPERTS: Our entire team of experts at your disposal will show you how to create, run and scale your dropshipping business to multiple 6 figures.
RAPIDLY SCALABLE BUSINESS: You can easily reach $100k a month for the right product or ad and with the formula you can find these products inside Dropshiply.
RAPID RESULTS: When you fill your shop with lucrative products that are highly conversionable within minutes, you can check goods to see whether they are available for a span of 24 hours or less.
CUSTOMER SUPPORT: We have specialized marketing experts to help to get quick results.
Good Things & Bad Things About Dropshiply
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This Technology Builds Dropshipping Empires Without Shopify
Get 10,000+ High In Demand Ecom Products, With Pre-chosen Suppliers
No Skills, No Experience, No Staff Required!
Just 5 Mins A Day – 1 Click Import Into Your Stores
Zero Learning Curve – 100% Newbie-friendly – Start Earning Now
Join 1,407 Marketers Who Already Use Dropshiply
Badness
No Badness Until Today
Is This Dropshiply System Proven & Tested?
These were beta-testers who were taken under the wing by the developer. All the secrets and detailed systems were provided by the developer and shorts. And the results were truly impressive, even for those students, some of whom had zero experience. For the first 2 weeks, some students have had tests.
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You will do the same thing with you now. You can take Me and my whole team by your side and show you exactly what we are doing and all our important practices, resources and incredibly successful strategies for the first time ever. Remember that we’re doing this for a whole time. 6 figures of dropship lifestyle are now possible with …
NO shopify
NO experience
NO need to spend t,ime scaling your business
NO inventory
NO uploading products
NO need to do worry abt suppliers
NO product research
NO spending a TON of money on ads
NO need to do complicated integrations
NO need to do worry abt suppliers
NO need to do complicated integrations
Your only job is to copy, paste and let our breakthrough app do all the selling for you.
Dropshiply OTO Details
Who Can Benefit Using Dropshiply Software?
Anyone can use this complete system to make money online. This is a best suitable product for “Work From Home”people. However, Dropshiply recommended to
    ♦    eCom Store Holders     ♦    Dropshippers     ♦    Physical Product Sellers     ♦    Small/Medium Business Owners     ♦    Any Local Business Owners     ♦    FB Marketers     ♦    Digital Agencies     ♦    Newbies     ♦    All Entrepreneurs
Dropshiply Review – My Final Thoughts
There is only one thing that matters when it comes to running a crazily profitable dropshipping business. How hard you work, how long you put in or how much money you spend, doesn’t matter.
What you want to succeed doesn’t matter. If you don’t understand any secret, you will miserably fail as 98 percent of other ecom marketers!
The problem is that most people spend hours and hours per day on facebook ads that do not work, which waste their time and money.
You typically deal for bad shippers, lousy products, which no one wants, if you’re anything like millions. You are probably unhappy with the pathetic margins that you receive even if you can sell these products.
But what if you had exposure instantly at your disposal to thousands of the world’s most accurate dropshippers? Imagine how crazy you would feel if you had access to the best Facebook sales items at up to 90% off prices.
But what if these goods come from many reputable shippers so that the inventory is never reached and you can never pay for a product until the customer has paid you full?
Imagine how amazing you would be if you knew exactly how to use our 100 percent automated program to attract perfect buyers for these items on facebook! Now don’t expect anything else because the best automated ecommerce dropship program will be launched on the market today.
From today, you won’t ever waste a cent on the wrong dude goods, faulty dropshippers and failing fb ads-never again.
In fact, you won’t target any way, just as you did previously. My lovely buddy and an Ecom star You didn’t see anything like this before, his flagship product and believe me.
Conclusion
All you need is a successful, extremely cheap business. Dropshiply. You need it to protect your chance of a successful 6-person ecom business.
It won’t last long this low tentative ‘early bird’ price. This exclusive offer ends with the ticking and time of the clock. After the launch week is over, Dropshiply will never be offered once again for this small investment.
It’s up to $197 – still a great deal, because it’s going to make money back thousands of times for the investment if you’re willing to use my simple step by step instructions, but why wait.
9 Relevant Bonuses For Dropshiply
SPECIAL BONUS 1: THE SECRET FB GROUP ($2,997) – You’ll get instant access to our secret VIP FB group with additional tactics, formulas and strategies.
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SPECIAL BONUS 2: INSTA CLICKSHOP ($199 VALUE) – Turn images into pace with business links for your Instagram. Boost your sales via the immediate shopping, incorporation into your shop of Instagram’s shopped feed, WordPress plug and play, simple to use and setup just 3 minutes.
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SPECIAL BONUS 3: FACEZON STORE BUILDER ($247) – On the fan list, this program opens a new tab for your shop items! Amazon shop! Here are the incredible features Into FaceZon:
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Complies with all Facebook terms and conditions 100% responsive and works on every mobile devices Supports multi languages Custom headers can be added with store Grab a huge # of products from your amazon store Display list of categories on your Application, used for filter products. Search your ebay store items on the base of keywords. Filter with respect to item types. Facebook comments, share, pinit, like are part of it. It is not necessary to be logged on to Facebook in order to access the Admin Control Panel Full support for the following browsers: IE8, IE9, IE10, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox
SPECIAL BONUS 4 LARAMBY ($197 VALUE) – LaramBy is a basic blogging program, where Amazon and eBay product keyword can easily be applied to blog posts. A lot of Amazon and eBay affiliate products can then be promoted for massive profit. LaramBy is developed with Laravel, no programming skills are required to bring this script live. In the Admin Screen, you can handle anything.
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SPECIAL BONUS 5 VIRAL SUIT($197 VALUE) – ViralSuite enables you to build in minutes a platform for viral content sharing. It supports news, lists, images, sound, videos, playlists, galleries, embedded social media, polls and questionnaires. For Viral Suite, viral lists, tests and polls can be easily and quickly generated for everyone from first use. Create your own WordPress Buzzfeed as a website!
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SPECIAL BONUS 6 ECOMMERCE WD SHOPPING CART ($997) – Ecommerce WD is a user-friendly WP plugin which is highly functional, ideal to develop stores for every level. It contains advanced filtration, sorting and comparison functions that make the user experience easy and smooth in the store. Depending on the value of the parameter you can define different product parameters, set product value and change prices. For all pages, there are several pre-built templates.
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SPECIAL BONUS 7 SECRET SUPPLIER DATABASE ($397) – Instantly Access Our Secret Database of 1570+ Trustworthy Suppliers with 30+ MILLION Dropship Products at the Lowest Wholesale Prices!
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SPECIAL BONUS 8 TOP 70 DROPSHIPPING SOURCES ($297) – Rake every day in thousands of dollars using the hidden fully protected sources, that you don’t want the 7/8-star e-commerce gurus to know about! The amount of extremely low-cost products you will find in this list will flourish you.
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SPECIAL BONUS 9 9,730 PHYSICAL PRODUCT NICHE MARKETS ($197) – Here is my hidden list of 9730 GREAT niche markets now, many of which sell tens of thousands of dollars eachday in these markets!! Categories include home improvement, cell phones & accessories, beauty, games, auto, health & personal care, kitchen and dinner, children, electronics, etc …. Categories are different.
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Dropshiply FAQs
WHAT IS DROPSHIPLY?
Dropshiply is a complete dropshipping platform with no money, no inventory, no experience, or any of your products, which will help you create and run a complete dropship store in a few minutes each day.
WHY CHEAP?
We wish everyone to experience this wonderful opportunity to truly have a successful dropshipping business. Only a huge catch is there! It’s a temporary deal. Dropshiply will be taken off the market for good very soon and later. Make the most of it as long as you can.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MULTI AND LITE VERSION?
You can only connect to the store and do not access all the great functions, pre-created themes, applications and special bonuses. The Lite-version is very limited.
There are no restrictions on the multi version and you have access to everything. There are an infinite number of stores, you can use every app and any theme you want. Using our spy tools and FB ads to target an explorer to import unlimited items. All premium bonuses and updates are available in future.
ANY OTO OR UPSELLS?
Yes! This is entirely optional and only if you want a whole new level of automation and big results faster and quicker. This is up to you! It is up to you.
HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO SEE RESULTS?
This is the beauty. You can see the results of the same day. Connect your store or build it, import hot products, traffic, and start sales in minutes! This really is amazing.
IS THERE A GUARANTEE?
YES! They offer a 100% 30 day money back guarantee.
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  Hiking the Elephant hill was everything I expected and more. Having never experienced mountains and hills above 5,000 M above sea level,I knew I was up for a challenge.
As days neared I felt like I wasn’t ready for the hike, I was scared too. Started thinking of an old knee injury, like I hadn’t trained enough.
The thing is,I had a rough idea of what I was getting myself into but wasn’t really sure I was ready for it.
I didn’t want to have an extreme surprise moment so I read several blogs and experiences in this particular expedition .Many called it the most difficult, some said they wouldn’t dare do it again, others felt it was ‘meh’ average I guess. Confusing, right?
Which category would I fall into? I had to find out for myself.
If you read my Day hike essentials post you know I tried my best to be ready for this.
On that Sunday morning, I woke up at around 3.00 am ,way too early, I had already lost my sleep. I started preparing and surprisingly,I got ready so fast unlike any other day of my life lol!
I was so excited for the plans ahead ,called a cab and I was at the CBD some minutes past 5.00 am.
We were hiking as a team and thanks to Elsie from Nutri fit delight I got to meet some really cool people. We got to Njambini forest (Abardare National Park) at around 8.00 am ,took some minutes for the team leader to sort everything with the KWS officials in charge, did some stretches with the help of Kate who’s an amazing yogi /trainer, and got assigned a guide ,Peter.
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We walked for like 30 minutes, most of us already thirsty and hungry. So we sat down and indulged into our packed snacks  feeling like we’ve already conquered quarter of the hike.
Peter the guide got confused with us for a moment and I remember his words ‘did you guys really come to hike ,why are you seated ,why are you eating? We have to get to the starting point ASAP , you are slacking already”.
Wait! What? Haven’t we already started, we just walked for like 30 minutes or more. So many questions running through our heads.
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His expressions were priceless I could tell his faith in us was running low.Now that I am thinking of it I can sit comfortably and laugh at myself. Peter made the trail look so easy, his fit physique, combat boots and hydration pack he‘s like a trekking superman, that’s all he needed no extra clothing or snacks. After all he does this so often, he is used to it.
The hill was divided into a rough road, an ascending bamboo forest, ascending rocky terrain and the last part was so high up covered in beautiful vegetation.
The bamboo forest was the most challenging part for me ,we kept going up my chest became tight and I felt like I was running out of oxygen .I started thinking of how it wasn’t too late for me  to quit, I couldn’t do it again. This place was getting steeper, I wished for a flat top where I’d stop for at least five minutes but there wasn’t. The first group left me behind, for a while I was in between alone; I could hear the voices from the last group quite distant from where I was. As I kept going it got cooler, then hotter even windy. Layering is very important for this particular hike, you just add or remove clothing you don’t need to balance temperature.
I continued sipping water, my chest now feeling better and used to the elevation. I swear I almost quit 50 times before this point. Peter came back for me and the rest who were far behind all psyched up,He talked me through a short distance giving me hope that the resting point was only some minutes away as he went for the rest.
I wouldn’t quit when I was almost there, would I? On my way I walked into some huge Elephant footprints that were so fascinating I totally forgot about the problems I had earlier. We took a break at the Desperado also known as the point of despair at 3255M above sea level.
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I was so happy, all I cared for at this moment was to just sit and put my legs flat on the ground.Nothing could be compared to that kind of relief. By the way, I wouldn’t recommend sitting in between before the resting point, it’s a bad idea. Your body goes into some sort of shut down, try to keep going and sit only when it’s necessary.
Sometimes all you need is a little push and then you remember why you started
While at the Desperado I looked back and felt like a winner already, I had come so far, the quitting mood/mentality was already fading away. I took out my peanut butter, apples, water and started snacking.Peter gave us some more time to finish taking photos before we resumed hiking. I kept telling myself that I did not have to be the first person to finish as long as I get to the summit and back, no matter how long it took me.
As we got higher the scenery became more breathtaking, away from the trees we could clearly see through our trail and where we were headed.I felt so tiny with the huge hills standing all around us and beautiful vegetation welcomed us to the last bit of the hike.
It wasn’t so steep up there; nonetheless, we climbed up some rocks on all fours.We could also take short breaks to take photos and take in this surreal experience.
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It was all worth it, I couldn’t believe for a moment I almost gave up. I would have missed the best part of it all. The summit was so close, some minutes later we were at 12,000ft above sea level (The summit).
I did it, I finished. My energy went up to 100% with excitement, I was jumping doing yoga poses, I couldn’t just calm down. I was my own hero, the best feeling ever.
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After an hour the descend began, this time around I had all the energy Kate and I were the first to get down hill after hours of doubting our mental GPS and even planning on how we could just take the night into the bushes if we got lost for real, going down is always the hardest part but we did it anyway.
By the time we got down and to the parking lot it was already getting dark and colder thanks to Margie, the amazing lady who sells rosemary and ginger tea for being there. We enjoyed as we waited for the rest to arrive.
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Things to note:
The trip was organized by Elsie from Nutri Fit delight
For the entire hike we payed Ksh 2,500per person
(Inclusive of transport, park fee, guide, snack)
Highest point at the Elephant hill is the summit standing at 12,000ft ASL
  Have you ever been at the Elephant hill?
How was your experience?
            Hiking the Elephant Hill Hiking the Elephant hill was everything I expected and more. Having never experienced mountains and hills above 5,000 M above sea level,I knew I was up for a challenge.
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loadingma405 · 3 years
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The latest version brings with it some new features: the ability to scan all your linked devices through the Bitdefender Central mobile app and ransomware protection that learns the behavior of dangers to keep you safe. It can be a little resource hungry, requiring a fair bit of 'juice' and also potentially having a fight with some other programs, but overall Bitdefender Antivirus Plus is a great package offering great, subtle performance, excellent detection rates, and some extra features all bundled in that easily justify the price.
If you're looking for more protection from Bitdefender, the Internet Security package builds on AVP and triples the number of devices covered. It also offers parental control, file encryption, and a firewall and anti-spam. Folx pro mac torrent. Further to this, you can get the Total Security edition which includes all of the above and extends its reach to five PCs, Macs, Android, and iOS devices.
It's difficult to find a truly 'lightweight' antivirus program or one that uses hardly any system resources. However, Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus can make that claim. Installation takes mere seconds, the program takes up only a handful of megabytes on your hard drive, the amount of RAM it needs is minute, and there are no enormous signature updates to tie up your bandwidth.
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Though this feather-lite touch doesn't mean it skimps on features. On top of its core protections, you get a firewall and network monitor, anti-ransomware, smart behavior monitoring, accurate real-time anti-phishing, as well as some other interesting extras. Mac os 10.14 mojave iso download.
Because the major testing labs rarely evaluate their packages, it's not easy to compare Webroot's efficacy with its immediate competitors, however, when they are reviewed, they generally score well, and our own tests show solid and reliable protection.
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It really is one to like, and its lightweight nature makes it a very attractive proposition, and Webroot's 70-day 100% money-back guarantee suggests it's confident in the product, too. If you're tired of complicated and bloated systems, Webroot should definitely be on your shortlist.
Norton is an established name in antivirus software and so many will gravitate toward it and its reputation. This version, Norton AntiVirus Plus, is true to the quality in Norton's reputation: it is a top-quality malware hunter which will protect your PC all on its own, automatically. One of the main reasons we rank it so highly is that it's also one of the very best value paid-for security packages around at the moment.
The package is great for those who like to be hands-on and those who prefer to can set all its features and settings 'just so'. Other features on offer are a handy URL blocker that keeps malicious websites at bay, and if that misses something, an excellent file reputation service heuristically recognizes suspect downloads immediately. Beyond this, if any devious malware can still find its way through, the intelligent behavior monitor uses its up-to-date virus definitions to quarantine threats at the first sign of trouble.
The problems that do rear their head are in the browser extensions. While the bundled-in Norton Identity Safe is a perfectly serviceable password manager when it's running properly, it can just stop for no apparent reason when using Chrome. The flip side to that is that you don't have to use Identity Safe. And elsewhere Norton AntiVirus Plus's main functions and securities deliver: it's easy to use, comes highly rated by the labs, has the configuration options experts need, and is deliberately designed to have the least possible impact on your system's performance.
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There's no denying that the paid-for premium antivirus packages will have a particular allure for those who want the smoothest run, or the most security. They'll offer you some particular features such as parental controls, advanced firewalls and spam filters. They also give you the extra benefit of omitting the pop-ups trying to persuade into upgrading to a full or paid-for version. And, perhaps contrary to popular opinion, they don't actually cost too much, as shown above.
Having said that, you can get great protection free, with just about every single major company out there offering a free antivirus. This continues to help them as it gives them access to more data and so constantly update and improve their libraries and security packages. As a result, it's in their interest to keep a good level of product with the free entries into the library and not to reduce the amount of protection.
If you're determined to go down the free route, we've got a couple that you should investigate to ensure you pick the best free antivirus software for you.
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This package provides a clean and well-constructed scanning system teamed with an unrivaled library of virus definitions and means that Bitdefender is top of the pile once again. Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition is a nice, light version of the premium package.
Bitdefender's free version does insist on running in the background on autopilot and while this takes the hassle out of the users' hands it also opens up the possibility of it going a bit rogue. Some free software packages have caused a bit of havoc before, identifying themselves as threats and then locking up Windows systems. (This is still rare, though, so it's not a constant danger.)
It's worth pointing out that Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, our top paid-for pick, is only the equivalent of about $2 per month away from the free edition. When broken down to this costing, it shows that it really is a small amount to pay for a whole host of extras, such as an integrated password manager, free online 24/7 support and permanent file shredder.
Perhaps a little predictably - but in a good way - Kaspersky Free is a scaled-down version of the full package. The free iteration removes the additional features such as privacy protection and safe payment sandboxes to concentrate on a no-frills, very capable, free protection for your PC. The result is antivirus software that is easy to navigate and interact with but one that does an effective job of keeping your machine safe.
Using the nuts and bolts real-world scanning engine of the paid-for suite, Kaspersky Free is fiendishly hard for viruses and Trojan horses to break down. And we love that it doesn't constantly pester you with nudges to upgrade to the full version.
But, do bear in mind that the paid-for version isn't that expensive and provides a more comprehensive level of cover for your PC (or PCs). The price is $29.99 to protect three computers and can swing a mighty bat against ransomware, spyware and Trojans.
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One of the top features of the latest edition of Avast Free Antivirus, is that it adds an automatic gaming mode that mutes popups and reduces system load when you're running a CPU-demanding game. Elsewhere, the user-interface has had a redesign and has come out all clean, fresh and well laid out. There's a password manager, too, which is solid yet unspectacular but remains a good addition to your online and digital security. On the less good side of things, it's quite trigger-happy with popups and it isn't great for software launch times.
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Some other benefits and features more generally come from a 'meta' event. Back in 2016, Avast acquired AVG - a very familiar-sounding free antivirus provider to many, I'm sure. Though the two products will remain separate to users, Avast - and AVG for what it's worth - now has a lot more data to work with. It's effective userbase now stands at a heady 400 million users.
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Dropshiply Review – A New Dropshipping Software & Training In 2020
Dropshiply Review – Product Overview
Product NameDropshiplyProduct CreatorCindy DonovanLaunch Date & Time[2020-Jul-08] @ 11:00 EDTPrice$37OTO/UpsellsYes, Best OTO(s) AvailableRefund Period30-DaysOfficial Sitehttps://dropshiply.co/Product TypeEcom SoftwareSkillAll LevelsRecommendedHighly Recommended
Dropshiply Review – The Problems With Dropshipping
Most people struggle to make any money with dropshipping. This is because there are plenty of pains they face…
Researching hot niches
Inventory Management
Running profitableFB Ads
Finding low margin products
Designing beautiful product pages
Shipping
Great reliable suppliers
Automating a LOT of processes
Auto Fulfillment
Monthly Fees
And the list goes on and on!
This stuff is very complex, time consuming and can cost you up to $5K per month. I ‘m sure that you don’t spend that sort of cash. And that’s why you’re totally trapped. That’s why I consider the mad Dropshiply software platform.
What Is Called Dropshiply?
Dropshiply is a 7-step method that reveals how to easily build your store, discover a hot niche, get immediate access to superb dropship products at up to 90 percent below retail rates and profit unbelievably right from day 1. It is the most efficient, most advanced automated system for easily & quickly developing a 6-figure dropshipping business while you do absolutely nothing.
It is the same program and the very same techniques that students used in their ecom stores to make $2.6 million! You will have instant access to a groundbreaking ‘never before’ app which can click on a few buttons and effortlessly duplicate the success of 6-figure students. This is so much money and is now priced at a shockingly low amount.
How Does Dropshiply Work?
Dropshiply Review – A Complete Walkthrough Video
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Features & Benefits
Dropshiply is loaded with features that make it easy to make money fast.
[+] WP Connect: Automated integration with your current WP stores Dropshiply
[+] Store Stats: See and manage your stores’ data right inside your dashboard immediately
[+] SEO Stats: Receive complete stats of SEO .. Domain authority, page authority, page rank, seo ranking,  Alexa rank, nation rank & more.
[+] Instant Domain Search:  Your shop doesn’t have a domain? No problem! No problem! In seconds, our immediate domain generator selects a domain for you.
[+] Niche Intelligence Technology: Before building your store, know which niches are going to GENERATE MONEY!
[+] Ali Express Spy Tool: The entire AliExpress platform is deeply integrated into Dropshipy so that you can find THEY ONLY products without hours of painstaking research that are impossible even to find!
[+] Walmart Product Finder: Uncover unlimited Walmart products that can be sold in your store immediately.
[+] Alexa Spy: Explore millions of websites traffic data and global rankings and target unexploited markets
[+] FB Interest Explorer: Uncover thousands of valuable phrases for your FB advertising campaigns
[+] 1-Click Product Importer: Import hundreds of products to your store within minutes in one click.
[+] Built In-App Editor: Don’t like a particular element? No problem! Instantly edit product descriptions, title, price, tags, category, images, variants and more.
[+] Store Manager: Manage all your products, orders and customers in one click.
[+] Manage Orders: View, edit, delete orders here! See all details.. product name, sku, quantity, price, billing and shipping info and more.
[+] Manage Products: Our “Server Side Processing” technology lets you manage all your products at once.
[+] Manage Customers: All customers are monitored and displayed in Dropshiply instantly. Every new order will also update here automatically.
[+] Manage Multiple Listings: Publish, manage several listings, or delete all current listings instantly. Sync Orders: All orders are synced to Dropshiply in real time in your stores.
[+] Auto Order Technology: Dropshiply places the order and fills out the address with one-click.
[+] Product Watchdog: Watch for all the price changes and automatically update them.
[+] Inventory Watchdog: Take a look at inventory changes and restore products automatically. Your seller never ran out of anything.
[+] Price Monitor: Monitor every price changes and automatically update it.
[+] Inbuilt Pricing Margins: Create pricing rules so you can have consistent margins for all the products you sell.
[+] Product Reports: Get full reports on how many products have been sold on your stores.
[+] WooCommerce Integration: Dropshiply integrates fully with WooCommerce so that all the products in your dashboard are displayed.
[+] Inbuilt App Store: Dropshiply has an app store that provides free and paid online business software that can be downloaded to extend your business and boost your sales, marketing and sales.
[+] Premium Themes: Our Theme Store contains more than 100 free and professional e-commerce themes that can be used for your own shop.
[+] 20+ Api Integration: Dropshiply easily integrates with 20+ apis to make your life and work easier and faster!
[+] Autoresponder and Email Integration: We have direct integrations with Aweber, GetResponse, Mailchimp and Sendy autoresponders. You can also integrate with any third party apps with the custom integrations.
10 Reasons Why I Like Dropshiply More Than Others
SUPERB INVENTORY MANAGEMENT: Everything is shipped immediately. Until you earn first, you’ll never need to pay for an item.
SECRET DROPSHIPPING SOURCES: Connect dropshiply with hundreds of the most reliable dropshippers on the planet for thousands of products so that you can fulfillorders fast.
ZERO COMPETITION: As we choose items out of a selection of 5 million products, we have no competition. So it is extremely unlikely that we will sell the same product than anybody else, inversely to most business models where everyone tries to push the same thing.
FLAWLESS CUSTOMER SERVICE: Dropshiply absolutely removes all customer service concerns and all your and dropshipper communication problems.
TARGET PERFECT FB AUDIENCES: Built-in FB ad targeting tool allows you to buy hungry gladly products from TARGET instantly.
COMPLETE AUTOMATION: Drops the whole business instantly and earns passive profits. Your only job: travel around the world as your business evolves your bank account.
TEAM OF EXPERTS: Our entire team of experts at your disposal will show you how to create, run and scale your dropshipping business to multiple 6 figures.
RAPIDLY SCALABLE BUSINESS: You can easily reach $100k a month for the right product or ad and with the formula you can find these products inside Dropshiply.
RAPID RESULTS: When you fill your shop with lucrative products that are highly conversionable within minutes, you can check goods to see whether they are available for a span of 24 hours or less.
CUSTOMER SUPPORT: We have specialized marketing experts to help to get quick results.
Good Things & Bad Things About Dropshiply
Goodness
This Technology Builds Dropshipping Empires Without Shopify
Get 10,000+ High In Demand Ecom Products, With Pre-chosen Suppliers
No Skills, No Experience, No Staff Required!
Just 5 Mins A Day – 1 Click Import Into Your Stores
Zero Learning Curve – 100% Newbie-friendly – Start Earning Now
Join 1,407 Marketers Who Already Use Dropshiply
Badness
No Badness Until Today
Is This Dropshiply System Proven & Tested?
These were beta-testers who were taken under the wing by the developer. All the secrets and detailed systems were provided by the developer and shorts. And the results were truly impressive, even for those students, some of whom had zero experience. For the first 2 weeks, some students have had tests.
You will do the same thing with you now. You can take Me and my whole team by your side and show you exactly what we are doing and all our important practices, resources and incredibly successful strategies for the first time ever. Remember that we’re doing this for a whole time. 6 figures of dropship lifestyle are now possible with …
NO shopify
NO experience
NO need to spend t,ime scaling your business
NO inventory
NO uploading products
NO need to do worry about suppliers
NO product research
NO spending a TON of money on ads
NO need to do complicated integrations
NO need to do worry abt suppliers
NO need to do complicated integrations
Your only job is to copy, paste and let our breakthrough app do all the selling for you.
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Who Can Benefit Using Dropshiply Software?
Anyone can use this complete system to make money online. This is a best suitable product for “Work From Home”people. However, Dropshiply recommended to
    ♦    eCom Store Holders     ♦    Dropshippers     ♦    Physical Product Sellers     ♦    Small/Medium Business Owners     ♦    Any Local Business Owners     ♦    FB Marketers     ♦    Digital Agencies     ♦    Newbies     ♦    All Entrepreneurs
Dropshiply Review – My Final Thoughts
There is only one thing that matters when it comes to running a crazily profitable dropshipping business. How hard you work, how long you put in or how much money you spend, doesn’t matter.
What you want to succeed doesn’t matter. If you don’t understand any secret, you will miserably fail as 98 percent of other ecom marketers!
The problem is that most people spend hours and hours per day on facebook ads that do not work, which waste their time and money.
You typically deal for bad shippers, lousy products, which no one wants, if you’re anything like millions. You are probably unhappy with the pathetic margins that you receive even if you can sell these products.
But what if you had exposure instantly at your disposal to thousands of the world’s most accurate dropshippers? Imagine how crazy you would feel if you had access to the best Facebook sales items at up to 90% off prices.
But what if these goods come from many reputable shippers so that the inventory is never reached and you can never pay for a product until the customer has paid you full?
Imagine how amazing you would be if you knew exactly how to use our 100 percent automated program to attract perfect buyers for these items on facebook. Now don’t expect anything else because the best automated ecommerce dropship program will be launched on the market today.
From today, you won’t ever waste a cent on the wrong dude goods, faulty dropshippers and failing fb ads-never again. In fact, you won’t target any way, just as you did previously. My lovely buddy and an Ecom star. You didn’t see anything like this before, his flagship product and believe me.
Conclusion
All you need is a successful, extremely cheap business. Dropshiply. You need it to protect your chance of a successful 6-person ecom business.
It won’t last long this low tentative ‘early bird’ price. This exclusive offer ends with the ticking and time of the clock. After the launch week is over, Dropshiply will never be offered once again for this small investment.
It’s up to $197 – still a great deal, because it’s going to make money back thousands of times for the investment if you’re willing to use my simple step by step instructions, but why wait.
9 Relevant Bonuses For Dropshiply
SPECIAL BONUS 1: THE SECRET FB GROUP ($2,997) – You’ll get instant access to our secret VIP FB group with additional tactics, formulas and strategies.
 SPECIAL BONUS 2: INSTA CLICKSHOP ($199 VALUE) – Turn images into pace with business links for your Instagram. Boost your sales via the immediate shopping, incorporation into your shop of Instagram’s shopped feed, WordPress plug and play, simple to use and setup just 3 minutes.
SPECIAL BONUS 3: FACEZON STORE BUILDER ($247) – On the fan list, this program opens a new tab for your shop items! Amazon shop! Here are the incredible features Into FaceZon:Complies with all Facebook terms and conditions 100% responsive and works on every mobile devices Supports multi languages Custom headers can be added with store Grab a huge # of products from your amazon store Display list of categories on your Application, used for filter products. Search your ebay store items on the base of keywords. Filter with respect to item types. Facebook comments, share, pinit, like are part of it. It is not necessary to be logged on to Facebook in order to access the Admin Control Panel Full support for the following browsers: IE8, IE9, IE10, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox
SPECIAL BONUS 4 LARAMBY ($197 VALUE) – LaramBy is a basic blogging program, where Amazon and eBay product keyword can easily be applied to blog posts. A lot of Amazon and eBay affiliate products can then be promoted for massive profit. LaramBy is developed with Laravel, no programming skills are required to bring this script live. In the Admin Screen, you can handle anything.
 SPECIAL BONUS 5 VIRAL SUIT($197 VALUE) – ViralSuite enables you to build in minutes a platform for viral content sharing. It supports news, lists, images, sound, videos, playlists, galleries, embedded social media, polls and questionnaires. For Viral Suite, viral lists, tests and polls can be easily and quickly generated for everyone from first use. Create your own WordPress Buzzfeed as a website!
 SPECIAL BONUS 6 ECOMMERCE WD SHOPPING CART ($997) – Ecommerce WD is a user-friendly WP plugin which is highly functional, ideal to develop stores for every level. It contains advanced filtration, sorting and comparison functions that make the user experience easy and smooth in the store. Depending on the value of the parameter you can define different product parameters, set product value and change prices. For all pages, there are several pre-built templates.
 SPECIAL BONUS 7 SECRET SUPPLIER DATABASE ($397) – Instantly Access Our Secret Database of 1570+ Trustworthy Suppliers with 30+ MILLION Dropship Products at the Lowest Wholesale Prices!
 SPECIAL BONUS 8 TOP 70 DROPSHIPPING SOURCES ($297) – Rake every day in thousands of dollars using the hidden fully protected sources, that you don’t want the 7/8-star e-commerce gurus to know about! The amount of extremely low-cost products you will find in this list will flourish you.
 SPECIAL BONUS 9 9,730 PHYSICAL PRODUCT NICHE MARKETS ($197) – Here is my hidden list of 9730 GREAT niche markets now, many of which sell tens of thousands of dollars eachday in these markets!! Categories include home improvement, cell phones & accessories, beauty, games, auto, health & personal care, kitchen and dinner, children, electronics, etc …. Categories are different.
Dropshiply FAQs
WHAT IS DROPSHIPLY?
Dropshiply is a complete dropshipping platform with no money, no inventory, no experience, or any of your products, which will help you create and run a complete dropship store in a few minutes each day.
WHY CHEAP?
We wish everyone to experience this wonderful opportunity to truly have a successful dropshipping business. Only a huge catch is there! It’s a temporary deal. Dropshiply will be taken off the market for good very soon and later. Make the most of it as long as you can.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MULTI AND LITE VERSION?
You can only connect to the store and do not access all the great functions, pre-created themes, applications and special bonuses. The Lite-version is very limited.
There are no restrictions on the multi version and you have access to everything. There are an infinite number of stores, you can use every app and any theme you want. Using our spy tools and FB ads to target an explorer to import unlimited items. All premium bonuses and updates are available in future.
ANY OTO OR UPSELLS?
Yes! This is entirely optional and only if you want a whole new level of automation and big results faster and quicker. This is up to you! It is up to you.
HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO SEE RESULTS?
This is the beauty. You can see the results of the same day. Connect your store or build it, import hot products, traffic, and start sales in minutes! This really is amazing.
IS THERE A GUARANTEE?
YES! They offer a 100% 30 day money back guarantee.
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My Mazda Dealership Experience via /r/cars
My Mazda Dealership Experience
Decided to share my dealership horror story to go along with the recent Chevy and Kia stories. Sorry for the length, but it was such an experience and I remember everything vividly.
TLDR; The car buying process sucks. But there are moments of sunshine in the fog.
A few weeks ago, my wife and I were in the market for an SUV. We were comparing a lot of different brands and models... the X1, X3, XC60, Grand Cherokee, Highlander, Tiguan, CX5, etc. that is a big range in terms of price but we decided on leasing this time around, and depending on the lease terms, some cars are cheaper to lease than others despite having a higher msrp.
Ultimately we decided on the 2018 Mazda CX5 AWD with Touring Package. We thought it was great value for the money. The ride was comfortable, the interior was elegant, and it had great safety features that you don’t find in a lot of other cars unless they are packed to the brim with options. We live in the SF Bay Area and we see these cars EVERYWHERE and I’m not surprised. They are great cars for the money.
Before any big purchase, I do a lot of research because otherwise I feel blind and vulnerable not knowing what I’m buying and how much I should be paying. I was on Edmunds forums, automaker forums and leasehackr forums on a daily basis for a couple of months. I was on automaker websites regularly learning about the car and its features. When I would ask a sales person what features a particular car had, I already knew the answer, but I wanted to see if they knew the car. Most didn’t and it made me realize that for most of them, being a car salesman is a job, not a passion (I consider myself to be an auto enthusiast).
Before we decided on the Mazda, I got a few quotes on other makes that I thought were fair without too much negotiation. But ultimately it came down to the Mazda, so my wife and I took a couple hours on a Sunday afternoon to negotiate.
We arrive at the dealer waiting to be helped, no big deal - I saw they were busy so we sat around patiently. We were then approached by an older gentlemen, he asked what we were looking for, to which we responded and he pointed us in the proper direction. From the very get go, sales tactic #1 comes out, he talks only and directly to my wife (who is 9 months pregnant). Knowing that some wives (ESPECIALLY pregnant ones) can easily sway their husband, he leeches on to her like a parasite. That’s all fine and dandy, I told my wife what he is doing and I wasn’t too bothered by it, I let him play his game but I let my wife know, she just smiled and laughed.
We found the car we were interested in. He gave us a review of the car that lasted an eternity but we patiently waited for him to finish and we went for a quick test drive to refresh our memory that this car is as good as we remember it - it was.
When we came back from the test drive, I said “let’s talk numbers”. We walked into his office, sat down, and he asked us the golden question for all leessees, “how much do you want to pay and put down?”. If you’ve done any research on a lease, you would know there are a lot of factors that affect the price of a lease but the five primary ones are: cap reduction, residuals, money factors, car selling price, and taxes. I knew the numbers that I wanted but I didn’t want to lay it out on the table, I let them start and then negotiate from there on. To his question, I respond with, “just drive off, so it includes dmv fees, first months payment, taxes”. He looks puzzled but says “ok, I’ll be back”.
Sales tactic #2, making you wait around for an eternity to tire you out. He comes back maybe 20 minutes later (not even exaggerating), “here is what we can offer”, $1400 down and $480/month. I was stupefied. To give you a sense of comparison, I had a quote for a BMW X3 from a reputable dealer among enthusiasts with an MSRP of ~$50K at $2K down and $500/month with NO NEGOTIATION. I told him, why would I pay that kind of money for a Mazda when I can go get an X3 for not much more? Sales tactic #3, his response was, “well we added a maintenance package, did you not want a maintenance package”? Nowhere in our prior conversations did I ever ask about the maintenance, a maintenance package, or even mention wanting one. So they must regularly add it to soften the blow for consumers when they remove it from the numbers.
I looked over the numbers and responded with ��Can you remove the maintenance package (~$2K for 3 years), lower the selling price to $27,500, and can you please share the money factor?”. The $27,500 selling price was a 7.5% discount from MSPR, which I was comfortable with and thought was fair and easily attainable based on what other people were getting. I didn’t want to sit through endless negotiations to get that 10% or 9% discount. It may not even possible to get those numbers in the Bay Area given that I see these cars everywhere, so they must be selling very well. Regardless, he responds with “Ok, I’ll see what I can do”. Another 20 minutes later he comes back and shares the new numbers. “We’ve removed the maintenance package and lowered the selling price to ~$28,500. We can’t do lower because that is already lower than invoice.” To which he then shares the invoice sheet. I asked “how about the money factor”? He then took the pricing sheet, stumbled around in a daze looking for the money factor, and says “ah, there it is, this is the rate”, pointing to the sales tax. What he was pointing to, was not the monthly sales tax that is paid on the lease payment (like it should be in California). Instead, he was pointing to a sales tax levied on the selling price of the car (~$2300) which absolutely does not make sense for leases in states like California and makes the car seem more expensive than it should be to consumer (sales tactic #3). I responded with “That’s the sales tax rate and it doesn’t really make sense. Let’s see the money factor and I think you can do better on the selling price, ask again for $27,500.” Keep in mind, during this entire process, he is still communicating directly to my wife. She is sitting right beside me and could care less, she is letting me do the talking. He walks away angrily and we wait.
He comes back and says they can do $28,000 and the money factor is 0.00119 (which is marked up from 0.00018). I let him know, I’m not interested in the car at that price and at that money factor. He says “Look, I could care less about the selling price of the car. I get paid on how many I sell. We can’t do a lower money factor because that is what the bank is offering. We have no control over the that”. At this point, the payments are around ~$1000 down and ~$380/month. I ask my wife, “What do you think?”. She nudges her shoulders, leaves the final decision up to me. So I start getting up and tell him thanks but no thanks. He tries to get me to sit back down and coincidently and the general sales manager comes by. We exchange polite greetings. I summarize for him, “I’m not interested in the car at this price and this money factor.” I quickly learn the GSM knows all the right things to say (He’s GSM for a reason). He spews from his poison seeping orifice the typical emotional punches (sales tactic #4). “This is a great car. You’re wife wants this car. I don’t want your wife and child to drive a Volkswagen because they are no good. This is the best car out there for you and your child. I want you guys to have this car. I wish I can give you guys a better price but I need to make money to keep my doors open. I can’t cut the money factor because the bank controls that.” Etc...
I get up again and say no thanks. He stops me and says, “Look, I really want you guys to have this car, let me see what I can do”. The GSM walks away meanwhile the sales person is visibly irritated with me so I make small talk to lightening the mood. GSM comes back a while later and keeps the same selling price ($28,000) and cuts the money factor in half from 0.00119. At this point I sit back and ask, “I thought you couldn’t change the money factor?”. GSM responds with, “Look, I was able to negotiate it down, but now I am losing money on the car. That is how bad I want you guys to have this car.” I tell him, “Why would you sell me a car you are losing money on? That seems like a poor business decision to me.” GSM responds, “Because I believe in goodwill. I know you guys will come back here for maintenance. I know you will tell friends and family about us. I know you will come back to buy your next car. That is what I am willing to do for you.”
This guy is good. This isn’t his first rodeo.
But I wasn’t buying it. At this point, it is an hour past their closing time and my wife and I are both hungry and tired after a long day of working on the baby’s room. I let him know that I am still not interested. We exchange goodbyes and I gather the paperwork for all of their previous offers. He stops me. “I can’t let you have those papers.” I ask him why. “Because they are a contract and I can’t have you coming back months later asking for the same price when it may no longer be possible to offer. I’ve had that happen to me before.” I let him know I know lease terms are set on a monthly basis by the manufacturer and I guarantee you I wouldn’t do that. He doesn’t care and I let it go and we walk out.
The sales associates comes running after us outside. He says “Look, this is a great price, I wish we can do lower but we cant. We’ve sold X number of these today and this would be the lowest price today. I can maybe give you another $10/month but I can’t do any lower”. I entertain him and we walk back in. I wait for him to come back with a response. He comes back and offers $340 a month but doesn’t mention the down payment when I ask him (two or maybe three times I asked him). He slams down the application and says “Sign this”. I didn’t like this at all. My wife smartly says we should look at the car in detail before we sign anything. We go and look at the car and it looks fine (in pitch darkness…) but decide we are not sure if we want black, so we will think about it. We walk out again for the last time.
The next day, Monday, I call another local dealer and said ‘I’ve negotiated with another dealer and they offered X, if you can offer Y (the terms I originally wanted and had in mind at the other dealer), I will come in and buy the car today.’ The internet sales associate said they can take a look and will call me back. He calls me back a half hour later saying they can do the terms I askedi for. Simple as that, we went later in the afternoon to purchase the vehicle and there weren’t any surprises and no drama. It was a breath of fresh air. We were in and out in an hour.
It is now Wednesday, the original sales associate from original dealer calls me back asking if I am still in the market. I let him know it depends on the price, can you offer what I want? He laughs and responds, “You really care about those few extra dollars per month?”. I tell him, “No actually, I’m not in the market for a car anymore and I could care less about those few extra dollars per month. Another Mazda dealer gave me exactly what I was asking for without any trouble. Thank you for your time and take care.” The nightmare was over. Thanks for reading my iliad.
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6 Situations You Read As A Guy With An Eating Disorder
If we ask you to picture person or persons with an anorexia nervosa, you’re almost always going to guess a young white-hot maiden. That’s just how the media shows it, as a disease that clears thin females oust their salads so they can fit into their new dress. But while males make up only an estimated 5 to 15 percent of anorexics and bulimics, that’s precisely 5 to 15 percent more than the culture at large expects.
We talked to Alex and Steven, who have eating disorder, and Brian Pollack, a healer who specializes in them. All three have struggled to convince the world that this is even a thing.
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Eating Disorders Come Out Of Nowhere
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So, why do guys develop eating disorder? There’s no answer that is going to stimulate perfect feel to you, since voluntary famine is about the least logical circumstance an otherwise healthy beast can do. In Alex’s case, his illnes are set out in the summer before sixth grade, thanks to a mix of stress and daytime TV.
“I started going through pubescence, so there were person concerns. The prompt was such a strange thought. I was outside playing and had the Tv on in the garage. [ Maury ] had teenagers who were 5 years old and over 100 pounds. I remember being fascinated and disgusted. I hate to use that statement now, but as a kid you’re grossed out. I also recollect being super hungry that day. I chew too much. The next day I wasn’t hungry. I figured, well, I feed a shit-ton yesterday. And then the day after, I wasn’t thirsty again. And the day after that. And then I started getting hungry but I didn’t want to eat. The next occasion I knew, I had scarcely feed anything for a week, and it snowballed from there, ” he says.
NBCUniversal Television Distribution At least it wasn’t a paternity episode. Measuring your dad’s DNA every day chimes improbably expensive .
Steven, meanwhile, doesn’t recollect a particular initiation. It just sort of happened, like that summer you got really into ska. “When I graduated high school, I went off the deep culminate dieting, ” he answers. “I departed from 185 to 120 pounds. I was down to only boozing a bowl of coffee and perhaps snacking on a few almonds throughout the day. I conceived I gazed really good, and everyone at work was like, ‘Oh, wow, you’re certainly doing a good job! ‘”
Yeah, that’s the second thing. Even when Steven’s own doctor told him he had a problem( after he collapsed at work ), all his friends were saying, “Hell yeah, you have a problem. You’ve gotten dangerously attractive . ” He does, “Everyone met me as the fat minor. So all your best friend were just like, ‘Wow, you look great! ‘ When I assembled a gym, I was like 120 pounds. And I told this tutor[ about my weight loss] and he was immediately like, ‘Oh, mode to start, good place! ‘ So there’s a lot of negative reinforcement.”
Goir/ iStock “Let’s work on eliminating those pesky almonds, bro. Double-digits, here “were coming”! ”
Therapist Brian Pollack announces it’s common for men to get this kind of feedback: “[ Some boys] exploit the gym as a bulimic behaviour. A ‘lean’ or ‘muscular’ male may gain the attention and ensuring compliance with the person or persons around him, but what they often don’t know is that this individual is restricting their[ food] uptake, wasting huge amount of time in the gym, and chewing in such a restrained style that it causes them to become further obsessive about their own bodies and more isolative due to the demands of the lifestyle. All signalings of bulimia, but curiously to be considered as healthy in our society.”
It’s concerning how Alex and Steven’s own narrations nearly downplay the causes — after all, who didn’t have body topics at that age or “losing ones” appetite after an occurrence of Maury ? But these guys didn’t stop dieting formerly they reached what society does is a sex load — they remained depriving themselves to the point of method default. If you find that behavior astound, well, “youre not” alone.
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When The Patient Is Male, They’ll Try Every Other Diagnosis First
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We’re not replying anorexia nervosa are easier for women to deal with( it’s not a competition !), but there is at least some awareness of eating disorder in females. Somewhere out there is a mother who began obsessing her daughter had an eating disorder the first time she skipped lunch. But if you’re a person, you’ll have better fluke persuasion beings that you’re hop-skip banquets because you’re a Kryptonian who feeds instantly from the Sun.
DC Comics Which is bullshit, because for some Kryptonians, the exact opposite is true-blue .
Alex just eat for months, but his parents never considered the possibility that he had an eating disorder. “It wasn’t like I was disguising it, ” he announces. “But no one ever thought to discuss it to its implementation of ‘Your son has an eating disorder.’ And looking back, I can’t accept all the band we jumped through merely to avoid that.”
Instead, Alex, his mothers, and his numerous doctors all thought it was a physical surrounding, he mentions. “I would tell people that it felt like I was strangling, like there was something stuck in my throat. Medical doctors even alleged my throat was red and raw, but they think it happened retroactively — my gut started grasping itself and having flare-ups. So it was a self-fulfilling revelation: my torso are broken down and “its become” real.”
Kim Traynor/ Wiki Commons The only epoch you should ever chew belly is when it’s haggis, and even then only when you’re extremely hammered to know better .
Everyone get all-out to avoid the merely suggestion of an eating disorder, to the point where it payment his parents serious money. “My parents and doctors were willing to bend themselves downwards to give me more and more expensive exams, consider weirder and weirder problems, instead of precisely broaching specific topics. And this was over 3 month, when I was eating the bare minimum I needed to function, ” he says.
According to Pollack, it’s common for physicians to presuppose it’s a physical issue in people. Because what humanity doesn’t love chowing down on a steak? “It isn’t on their radar, and the resources and education isn’t readily available. When a serviceman has trouble with his gastrointestinal pamphlet, they don’t take into consideration the patterns of feeing — they just require their constipation to go away. The reported rigor is not the eating or the think circumventing the intake of nutrient; it’s the fact that they are having belly questions. Professionals are announced in and tests are done. The process get distorted.”
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Your First Instinct Is To Lie
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Even though Alex was trying to convince himself and everyone else that his question was physical, he still didn’t want to be known as the Weird Non-Eating Kid. So immediately he was forced to spin an elaborated web of lies: “I’d answer, ‘Oh, I’ll pleased to meet you[ at your home afterward ], but my parents replied I have to have dinner at home tonight.’ And I’d exactly not eat at home. A few epoches, I’d throw off food.”
Sometimes he took measures that were equal fractions desperate and foolish, like a sitcom persona trying to get out of a bad year. “When I couldn’t avoid having to eat, I used to grinding the nutrient up and place it in my cheek. And then I’d go to the bathroom and spit it in the toilet, ” he answers. “Or I’d grab a bunch of paper napkins and spit into them while erasing my appearance. When I went out with their own families to restaurants, I’d do that because I didn’t want to be the freak not gobbling. That eventually have all contributed to my father escorting me to the bathroom. And they’d watch me got to make sure I didn’t spit it out or grab a napkin. Or I’d cover food in a stockpile of fries and suppose, ‘Oh, I only didn’t want to eat all those fries, ‘ and there’d be like an entire chicken leg under it. It’s funny looking back, because it was so obvious.”
Wow_Pho/ pixabay “We’re at a sushi eatery; where did you even get those? ”
Steven too did whatever he could to avoid eating. It all coming through to that sense of shame — we tell men they should feel strange for having an anorexia nervosa( since that’s something for frail girl supermodels ), so they do. “I would take additional alterations; I worked retail. Labour thought I was a real go-getter, but I was just wanting to avoid having to go home and eat dinner, ” Steven alleges. “I likewise had a co-worker who was taking diet augment pills that are basically exactly over-the-counter rate. She gave me some, and I was like, ‘Oh man, these are awesome! ‘ It was an appetite suppressant — you’re supposed to use it in conjunction with normal diet and employ, but I exactly utilized it as my primary root of energy.”
MelSi/ pixabay A pile of starvation capsules: the one thing worse than a stack of cover-up fries .
Anyone who’s ever wreaked retail now realizes how serious these illness are — Steven voluntarily invested more day with disturbing customers to avoid eating . He even lied to his doctor. He couldn’t tell a helpful medical professional the truth of his feeing garbs, because that’s how deep the uncomfortable fondness circumventing these agitations run. “[ My physician] asked me what I eat throughout a daytime, and I started lying. I was like, ‘Oh, I’m snacking fruit and vegetables.’ I just started spurting all the ‘correct’ foods the usual ordinary healthy being “mustve been�� eating. And about halfway through, she called me out on it and spoke, ‘I don’t think you’re chewing anything.’ I was ashamed. I knew I was unhealthy.”
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No One Understands Why You Can’t Just Shove Some Damned Food In Your Mouth
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Right about now, we have a whole cluster of readers alleging, “This is nuts! All they have to do to remedy this ‘disorder’ is eat a fucking hamburger! I’d kill to have just one life trouble I could solve that method! “
Zhenikeyev/ iStock As opposed to the many, many problems we are just pretend to solve this road .
OK, stop and think of all the mental hindrances you’ve built up in their own lives strictly due to social pressure. If you don’t know what we entail: Imagine you moved to a region where it’s considered normal and healthy to, add, tell strangers lick your eyeball. A place where the nutrient is writhing lizards and where you’re was necessary to excrete in the middle of a busy street while 50 strangers watch. Then imagine that, when you try to avoid those activities, everyone acts like you’re the crazy one( “If you didn’t want to do those thoughts, why did you move to Florida? ” ).
There’s nothing logical about your aversion to those events, hitherto some of you wouldn’t do them even if your lives were at stake. Well, these people have developed equally strong antipathies to devouring meat. When asked to explain themselves, what can they say other than, “I simply don’t want to”? The point that it’s illogical doesn’t make it go away.
JanMika/ iStock They’d probably wish the lizard, since it’ll instantly run away and that’s a perfect excuse to bounce lunch .
Because Alex’s parents weren’t horrible or wolves, they were obviously worried when he stopped dining, but they likewise had no idea what to do. “They went back and forth between exasperation and anxiety, ” he mentions. “My dad told me he would go into my room when I was sleeping and exclaim, because he didn’t know what to do. But there used to be other times where they are able to yell at me since they are didn’t know why I was taking two hours to eat three bites.”
Steven’s eating disorder also tightened his relationship with “his fathers”, he speaks. “There was a point where I had come home at 3 or 4 in the morning, and I had to be up for labour the next day. And he just lost it. ‘What’s wrong with you? You don’t eat dinner anymore, what’s going on? ‘ He told me to stop used to go, and he would watch me gobble. He fostered me to go to the doctor. But like any teen who kind of lost their lane, I precisely resented and discounted him.”
Oh, and there was another factor involved …
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Gay Men Are Much More Prone To Eating Disorders
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Eating diseases are seen as a feminine problem and, if you’re already patronizing for stereotypes, accepting lesbian guys are a cluster of girly-boys preoccupied with being pretty is a two-for-one combo. But Steven noted that the ugly stereotypes don’t always come from ignorant boors: “Being a gay humanity, people are very quick to judge and say this is a self-imposed sickness, or that I’m only preparing thoughts up. In the lesbian macrocosm, a lot of people want to be either truly scrawny or certainly muscular, and you can’t get muscles without ingesting. So you have one area telling you to eat and become muscular and another side telling you to not feed and become skinny.”
diego cervo/ iStock The waist is not the neighbourhood most people envisage would be receiving the most sizing conviction, but there “you think youre” .
Research has determined that 42 percentage of men with an anorexia nervosa link as gay or bisexual, and that 15 percent of homosexual and bisexual guys will face an anorexia nervosa. As a group, they simply face a different display of body-image editions. “Gay beings generally report lower form happiness than heterosexual males, ” Pollack answers. “The research states they are also more likely to agree that they suffered objectification and push from the media to be attractive. We also sounds more relate involving lesbian culture and the names the community utilizes to stereotype themselves by the way they speak, behave, experience and look. … For some, trying to fit in their home communities after not fitting in with kinfolk or heterosexual parish stereotypes can often create pressure that is confusing.”
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The good report is that Pollack also have also pointed out that research on this topic is starting to become more prevalent. Yielded that we’ve( chiefly) pass a long way from the working day when homosexuality was considered a mental illness, you’d like to think that awareness alone will make a huge difference — sufferers shouldn’t be put into different situations where they were required to “come out” two seconds time.
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You Have To Retrain Yourself To Eat … Over And Over Again
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For Alex, “there werent” sudden inspirational minute of lucidity where “hes come to” terms with his form and started eating again. A physician only tricked him, because sometimes medical science uses the same techniques as a devious babysitter. “What facilitated me was the placebo impact. One of medical doctors simply told us what we wanted to hear, that this prescription would help, ” he supposes. “Only looking back did I realize that all this buster gave me was a slightly stronger antacid and told me it would define their own problems. And it did.”
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The recovery was distasteful — a process of begrudgingly relearning a undertaking he’d fought to gave behind him, like if you had to go back to creeping everywhere you travelled. “It didn’t feel natural. I had to action myself to gobble. Three meals per day took 3 hour. I had to mentally move myself through chewing and withdrawing, ” he speaks. “I had to sit and be like, ‘OK, I’m going to take this burn on this fork, I’m going to placed the fork in my mouth, I’m going to ruminate, I’ll swallow … ‘”
Steven, meanwhile, finally exactly investigate his organization run down like a artillery. “I would drive myself to the point of utter tired. I wouldn’t sleep for two or three days because I was hopped-up on pills and caffeine. I would try to up my force, when what I really needed was food. But there used to be days I would just crash. My friend told me one time I slept for a period and a half straight.” After passing out on the number of jobs, he reads, he was ordered to the doctor( and even then only got promotion after told doctor looked through his bullshit insistence that everything was fine ).
Daizuoxin/ iStock “If you were truly fine, you would’ve told the customers to fuck off and croak, like a ordinary worker.”
So, happy pointing, right? One rapid eating montage and they’re joyous, healthy adults? Yeah , not quite.
When Alex went to college, stress produced his eating disorder right back: “I would get so stressed out with projects that I would all of a sudden realise, ‘Oh, it’s midnight and I haven’t eaten since 8 a. m.’ I would have to push myself to know make a sandwich. It’s interesting how quickly and unexpectedly it can come back. Because if I don’t concoct dinner, that’s an hour I can use to work. I’d have to catch myself and be like, ‘No, that doesn’t help.’ That would happen several times a week.”
These periods, he’s fine the majority of members of the time. But like a regaining junkie, bad pushes will pop up in the back of his memory. “I like food. I still don’t necessarily like how I look on any granted epoch; there’s still that mental trash, ” he adds. “But I know not gobbling isn’t the answer. It’s background noise. Every formerly and a while, you have to address it.”
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Steven, meanwhile, still isn’t doing so great. “I still have extreme form topics, ” he pronounces. “The moment I gain two or three pounds, I feel like I’m really fat and I start to hate my organization. I have to violence myself to devour. I can still depart periods without gobbling and is completely happy doing that.” And that, of course, takes its toll. “I have hypoglycemia; I’m borderline diabetic. I have major feeling swings. I use my anorexia nervosa as a coping mechanism, something that I can ensure. I gain a spooky sense of self-worth from limiting my food intake.[ It’s] the one thing I have ensure over.”
And let’s face it: In our culture, boys are taught not to talk about their problems — specially “girly” troubles like body-image issues and eating disorders. “If there is one thing an anorexia nervosa passions to do, ” Pollack replies, “it’s take control when a person doesn’t want to speak up. We have to change the conversation. Change the actual usage of its own experience for men so they can refer more in their terms.”
So, maybe instead of “anorexia” and “bulimia” we should go with “destructively successful nutrient vendetta, ” or perhaps “excessive diet dominance.” Feel free to make up your own — it only has to be something busters aren’t afraid to say out loud, because if there’s one thing we’ve learned today it’s this: Reproach is a fucking killer.
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Your Child Isn`t Eating at Meals? We`ve Got 10 Ideas as to Why
There's absolutely nothing fairly like investing time prepping, cooking, and also serving a meal, only to have your child turn his nose up to it as well as press his plate away. Ugh, I have actually existed so several times as well as recognize how irritating it really feels. Just what I have actually found out though, is not to take it directly (which is hard) and that there are several usual reasons this happens.
Here are the most common reasons your youngster is choosing not to consume at meals, as well as exactly what to do about it:
1. She feels pressured:
If a kid really feels any type of amount of pressure to eat or detects that you as the moms and dad are anxious at nourishments, she will likely withdraw as well as not consume. Toddlers and also young youngsters pick up stress, also if it's not as straight as 'eat your peas!' If you focus way too much on what and exactly how much she's consuming during a dish, rather of allowing her to merely be another eater at the table (while you concentrate on your very own meal), she will certainly back right off. Maybe you push food closer to her, see her every move, hover over her, consistently take uneaten food off of her tray and change it with new food, speak about her absence of consuming, or try to spoon-feed her-these are all forms of indirect pressure.
How to fix this: Let your young child self-feed as well as eat at her very own rate at dishes, supply great deals of food range at dishes in convenient quantities, and also let her supervise of whether as well as just how much she eats.Try your ideal not to float over your kid. I know-it's hard not to when she's barely touching her food. Kick back and also engage in discussions with the whole family members, including your child. If you could consider nourishment moreso as family members bonding time compared to 'get my child to consume time', your child won't feel as pressured and also will certainly be a lot more open to trying new or formerly denied foods.
2. He feels like he has no say:
We recognize from research that youngsters eat better when they have a hand in aiding with buying, preparing, cooking or serving their meal. That's why it's essential to consist of kids in dish prep-even obtaining them to mix with each other active ingredients or establish the table could assist. Or even though moms and dads must ultimately be in fee of the 'what's' of feeding, children may feel as though they have no control over just what they're fed if moms and dads don't include them in selecting foods every now and then. They could expand burnt out of exactly what you offer them, or probably they don't such as the means that their foods are positioned on their plate.
Here's how to fix it: We know it's essential to establish healthy borders and also fulfill your responsibility of 'just what, when as well as where' yet it's also okay to allow your kids be a component of this, especially when it concerns the 'what's'. There are a couple of means to include your children in the meal procedure. As well as they all have something alike: you're offering your youngsters structured choice. Structured selection is essential when it concerns feeding children. It gives them some say and also makes them feel as though they have a little bit of control, but it enables you to still ultimately remain in control.
Some of these methods will certainly work much better for younger kids and some with older kids.
Shopping: Bring them shopping and ask just what they intend to attempt from each section. Provide them 2-3 selections in each section of the grocery shop. You could say some- point like 'do you intend to attempt kiwis, cutie oranges or blackberries this week?'. Or if you're going shopping for cereal, you could state 'do you intend to try cheerios, shreddies or oat meal squares today?'
Meal or snack planning: Let your kid aid with strategy- ning out the week's meals and even simply what they'll have for a snack that afternoon. If dish planning, you might say 'on Wednesday, we're going to have salmon. Just what would you want to have with it? Rice, quinoa or pasta? And also exactly what about veggies ... we can have baked asparagus, caesar salad or raw veggies and also dip. Which ones would certainly you such as?'
If it's snack time, you could ask your youngster 'would you such as yogurt with a pear or a banana muffin and also cheese?' and allow them decide.
Preparing: You can state 'it's time to assist me make hubbub- ner now' as well as ask your child if they want to wash fruits and also veggies, mix components in a bowl or establish the table. Allow them make a decision which would certainly be most fun (or they can do greater than one!).
I realize that involving your child in meal preparing, preparing and food preparation can make the procedure much longer and also perhaps a bit much more discouraging. However the advantages are big and it deserves it. Patience is key.
3. He's bored:
I'm like any kind of moms and dad and also get stuck in 'food ruts' where I offer the same thing over and over once more. Translation: significant youngster monotony. Right here's an example: after my third child was born last Autumn, I really felt as though I remained in survival mode for a couple of months (I still do sometimes) and launched my child to school with the same snack quite much every day. A healthy granola bar, cheese or yogurt as well as a piece of fruit. Yep, the exact same point over and over again. I was essentially rest strolling in the morning when I was getting my 2 older kids prepared for the day, so I seemed like it was a win that I was even remembering to load my child's snack! Anyways, he started getting home with many of his treat uneaten not simply once, but virtually every day. In my sleep-deprived state, I didn't understand that he could be wearying of his snack, despite the fact that he used to like it.
How I fixed it: I asked him why he wasn't consuming his snack as well as he said 'I have no idea, I just do not like it anymore'. I after that asked him if he was burnt out of it and he responded 'yes I'm tired of it'. We after that thought of a couple of brand-new and different treat alternative for him together as well as I attempt to revolve through 3 or 4 of them to ensure that he doesn't obtain tired. We obtain burnt out of particular foods as well as so do our children. This is typically an easy difficulty to overcome.
4. She's simply not hungry:
We now understand that young children' and also youngsters' hungers could be unpredictable as well as erratic at the very best of times. After the age of two, growth slows down and stabilizes which indicates that young children aren't as hungry as they made use of to be. We've discussed youngsters having 'hungry days' and 'complete days' and that could indicate that one day, your kid out-eats everyone at the table, and also one more day he does not consume a lot at all at his dinner. As long as you're maintaining your feeding duties and staying consistent with nourishment borders, your kid ought to supervise of whether and also exactly how much he eats. It is feasible that your youngster is just not literally hungry when a meal is offered (for whatever factor) which's ok.
How to fix it: Try to accept 'I'm simply not hungry' as an appropriate answer, as well as remind your youngster that the cooking area will certainly be closed after mealtime.
5. She's distracted:
Allowing your kids to enjoy TELEVISION, watch an iPad, or play with playthings at the table is a dish for interruption. Screen interruptions can function in two means (both of which are adverse in my mind). When a youngster is seeing a show or playing an online game on an iPad while eating, he is focusing most, if not ALL, of his interest on the program he's watch- ing or online game he's playing. There is no attention left for consuming his dish, allow alone listening to his tummy. With a display before them, children will certainly could quickly under or over-eat because they're just not focusing. Young children have a hard adequate time concentrating on their dish with very little diversions allow alone a largest glossy relocating display before them. The same goes with toys and playing with brother or sisters at the table.
How to fix it: Set healthy and balanced boundaries by not enabling displays or toys at the table while consuming. Seat children strategically to make sure that they can't touch each various other. Placed a footstool under your youngster's chair so that they really feel as though their feet are stable and secure (this could poten- tially be another disturbance).
6. Portions are too big:
Some children are turned off of a dish simply because the section that they've been served is also big as well as over- whelming. This was never ever an issue with my earliest child, yet is most definitely a problem with my little girl. I made use of to serve her the very same amount that I offered my boy (this was a mindless behavior that I entered), yet then after lots of dish beings rejected, understood that I was offering her also a lot. We were squandering food as well as my little girl was bewildered with the parts that I was offering.
How I fixed it: When I cut her sections down (by greater than one fifty percent!), she began eating her meals once again as well as often even requested even more. I offered her less of everything, yet still seen to it that she was obtaining a great well balanced meal. I understood that I am like his too-if I'm served also large of a part of any food, I quickly end up being shut off as well as don't eat as much.
7. He's not feeling well:
If your youngster isn't really feeling well, it's not likely that she or he will certainly eat well at a meal. This is often the very first indicator that an illness is beginning. In this situation, ensure that you keep your kid moisturized, and offer easy-to-digest foods such as white rice, banana, white bread, soda biscuits, popsicles, soup as well as apple sauce up until his/her appetite returns.
How to handle it: Offer foods usually when your youngster is ill yet do not push them-fluids are most essential. If you're seeing that your child isn't really interested in eating as well as is acting a bit 'off', uncommonly weary or inactive, this could be the case.
Your child can likewise be having digestion problems (such as bowel irregularity or acid reflux) which can make it unpleasant to consume. If you presume that this is the issue, concentrate much more on higher fiber whole grains, fruits as well as veggies and also great deals of fluids (constipation) as well as avoid from high acid foods such as tomatoes and also citrus fruits, and also spicy foods (heartburn). If these problems linger, chat to your kid's physician or a paediatric dietitian for more assistance.
8. Too much milk (or juice):
Between-meal-milk-drinking could have a satiating effect. Milk has fat as well as protein-two nutrients that make children feel full.
How to fix it: Kids as well as kids ought to be provided no more than 500mL (two mugs) of milk per day. Attempt offering half a mug at each dish (or right after), which leaves area for one more half mug before bedtime if that belongs to your routine. Water needs to be the only fluid provided in between dishes for hydration.
Juice consists of excess calories as well as sugar that kids do not require - it loads them up with little dietary worth. Did you know that a 250 mL (1 mug) juice box includes 6 tsps of sugar? If your kids consume alcohol juice, limitation it to no greater than 125 mL (1/2 cup) per day and also water it down (and also deal at meals with food).
9. There are too many snacks:
Kids that 'graze' in between dishes typically, or snack arbitrarily throughout the day could concern the table sensation also complete to consume. their meal. This is why it is so essential to establish structure around snack times.
How to fix it: There must be an assigned treat time where a couple of foods of the moms and dad's picking (such as yogurt and also fruit or cheese and also crackers) are supplied, instead of snacking being a ran- dom free-for-all between meals. Toddlers and young kids should be given the chance to create a cravings for meals, or else, they won't consume much and also it will be harder for them to find out self-regulation. This not just disrupts family members nourishments, however could also impact a child's dietary intake and also overall connection with food over time.
10. He's too tired:
It is extremely possible that your young child or young kid is just as well exhausted to eat. After a lengthy day of having fun, daycare, preschool, preschool etc. some kids just don't have the power to bring fork to mouth. If you're finding that your kid is picky, simple to sob, rubbing his/her eyes, or otherwise showing indications of 'striking a wall', that's probably what's happening.
How to fix it: Encourage him/her to load their bellies prior to bed as most ideal as they can, as well as remind them that there disappears food till morning. If they do not consume a lot, know that they'll balance it at some time the following day or throughout that week, so there's not excessive to fret about.
If you're finding that your youngster is exhausted routinely at dinner however, it could mean that they need an afternoon snooze (or morning nap-my child does better with this). You may likewise want to consider having an earlier supper. We entered the bad habit of consuming dinner at 6:30 pm or later and saw that dinnertime was a catastrophe every evening. We chose to relocate it to 5pm as well as it made a globe of difference.
If this was helpful, check out my Facebook page, where I publish everyday ideas, recommendations as well as dishes for youngsters and also moms and dads!
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6 Situations You Read As A Guy With An Eating Disorder
If we ask you to picture person or persons with an anorexia nervosa, you’re almost always going to guess a young white-hot maiden. That’s just how the media shows it, as a disease that clears thin females oust their salads so they can fit into their new dress. But while males make up only an estimated 5 to 15 percent of anorexics and bulimics, that’s precisely 5 to 15 percent more than the culture at large expects.
We talked to Alex and Steven, who have eating disorder, and Brian Pollack, a healer who specializes in them. All three have struggled to convince the world that this is even a thing.
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Eating Disorders Come Out Of Nowhere
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So, why do guys develop eating disorder? There’s no answer that is going to stimulate perfect feel to you, since voluntary famine is about the least logical circumstance an otherwise healthy beast can do. In Alex’s case, his illnes are set out in the summer before sixth grade, thanks to a mix of stress and daytime TV.
“I started going through pubescence, so there were person concerns. The prompt was such a strange thought. I was outside playing and had the Tv on in the garage. [ Maury ] had teenagers who were 5 years old and over 100 pounds. I remember being fascinated and disgusted. I hate to use that statement now, but as a kid you’re grossed out. I also recollect being super hungry that day. I chew too much. The next day I wasn’t hungry. I figured, well, I feed a shit-ton yesterday. And then the day after, I wasn’t thirsty again. And the day after that. And then I started getting hungry but I didn’t want to eat. The next occasion I knew, I had scarcely feed anything for a week, and it snowballed from there, ” he says.
NBCUniversal Television Distribution At least it wasn’t a paternity episode. Measuring your dad’s DNA every day chimes improbably expensive .
Steven, meanwhile, doesn’t recollect a particular initiation. It just sort of happened, like that summer you got really into ska. “When I graduated high school, I went off the deep culminate dieting, ” he answers. “I departed from 185 to 120 pounds. I was down to only boozing a bowl of coffee and perhaps snacking on a few almonds throughout the day. I conceived I gazed really good, and everyone at work was like, ‘Oh, wow, you’re certainly doing a good job! ‘”
Yeah, that’s the second thing. Even when Steven’s own doctor told him he had a problem( after he collapsed at work ), all his friends were saying, “Hell yeah, you have a problem. You’ve gotten dangerously attractive . ” He does, “Everyone met me as the fat minor. So all your best friend were just like, ‘Wow, you look great! ‘ When I assembled a gym, I was like 120 pounds. And I told this tutor[ about my weight loss] and he was immediately like, ‘Oh, mode to start, good place! ‘ So there’s a lot of negative reinforcement.”
Goir/ iStock “Let’s work on eliminating those pesky almonds, bro. Double-digits, here “were coming”! ”
Therapist Brian Pollack announces it’s common for men to get this kind of feedback: “[ Some boys] exploit the gym as a bulimic behaviour. A ‘lean’ or ‘muscular’ male may gain the attention and ensuring compliance with the person or persons around him, but what they often don’t know is that this individual is restricting their[ food] uptake, wasting huge amount of time in the gym, and chewing in such a restrained style that it causes them to become further obsessive about their own bodies and more isolative due to the demands of the lifestyle. All signalings of bulimia, but curiously to be considered as healthy in our society.”
It’s concerning how Alex and Steven’s own narrations nearly downplay the causes — after all, who didn’t have body topics at that age or “losing ones” appetite after an occurrence of Maury ? But these guys didn’t stop dieting formerly they reached what society does is a sex load — they remained depriving themselves to the point of method default. If you find that behavior astound, well, “youre not” alone.
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When The Patient Is Male, They’ll Try Every Other Diagnosis First
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We’re not replying anorexia nervosa are easier for women to deal with( it’s not a competition !), but there is at least some awareness of eating disorder in females. Somewhere out there is a mother who began obsessing her daughter had an eating disorder the first time she skipped lunch. But if you’re a person, you’ll have better fluke persuasion beings that you’re hop-skip banquets because you’re a Kryptonian who feeds instantly from the Sun.
DC Comics Which is bullshit, because for some Kryptonians, the exact opposite is true-blue .
Alex just eat for months, but his parents never considered the possibility that he had an eating disorder. “It wasn’t like I was disguising it, ” he announces. “But no one ever thought to discuss it to its implementation of ‘Your son has an eating disorder.’ And looking back, I can’t accept all the band we jumped through merely to avoid that.”
Instead, Alex, his mothers, and his numerous doctors all thought it was a physical surrounding, he mentions. “I would tell people that it felt like I was strangling, like there was something stuck in my throat. Medical doctors even alleged my throat was red and raw, but they think it happened retroactively — my gut started grasping itself and having flare-ups. So it was a self-fulfilling revelation: my torso are broken down and “its become” real.”
Kim Traynor/ Wiki Commons The only epoch you should ever chew belly is when it’s haggis, and even then only when you’re extremely hammered to know better .
Everyone get all-out to avoid the merely suggestion of an eating disorder, to the point where it payment his parents serious money. “My parents and doctors were willing to bend themselves downwards to give me more and more expensive exams, consider weirder and weirder problems, instead of precisely broaching specific topics. And this was over 3 month, when I was eating the bare minimum I needed to function, ” he says.
According to Pollack, it’s common for physicians to presuppose it’s a physical issue in people. Because what humanity doesn’t love chowing down on a steak? “It isn’t on their radar, and the resources and education isn’t readily available. When a serviceman has trouble with his gastrointestinal pamphlet, they don’t take into consideration the patterns of feeing — they just require their constipation to go away. The reported rigor is not the eating or the think circumventing the intake of nutrient; it’s the fact that they are having belly questions. Professionals are announced in and tests are done. The process get distorted.”
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Your First Instinct Is To Lie
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Even though Alex was trying to convince himself and everyone else that his question was physical, he still didn’t want to be known as the Weird Non-Eating Kid. So immediately he was forced to spin an elaborated web of lies: “I’d answer, ‘Oh, I’ll pleased to meet you[ at your home afterward ], but my parents replied I have to have dinner at home tonight.’ And I’d exactly not eat at home. A few epoches, I’d throw off food.”
Sometimes he took measures that were equal fractions desperate and foolish, like a sitcom persona trying to get out of a bad year. “When I couldn’t avoid having to eat, I used to grinding the nutrient up and place it in my cheek. And then I’d go to the bathroom and spit it in the toilet, ” he answers. “Or I’d grab a bunch of paper napkins and spit into them while erasing my appearance. When I went out with their own families to restaurants, I’d do that because I didn’t want to be the freak not gobbling. That eventually have all contributed to my father escorting me to the bathroom. And they’d watch me got to make sure I didn’t spit it out or grab a napkin. Or I’d cover food in a stockpile of fries and suppose, ‘Oh, I only didn’t want to eat all those fries, ‘ and there’d be like an entire chicken leg under it. It’s funny looking back, because it was so obvious.”
Wow_Pho/ pixabay “We’re at a sushi eatery; where did you even get those? ”
Steven too did whatever he could to avoid eating. It all coming through to that sense of shame — we tell men they should feel strange for having an anorexia nervosa( since that’s something for frail girl supermodels ), so they do. “I would take additional alterations; I worked retail. Labour thought I was a real go-getter, but I was just wanting to avoid having to go home and eat dinner, ” Steven alleges. “I likewise had a co-worker who was taking diet augment pills that are basically exactly over-the-counter rate. She gave me some, and I was like, ‘Oh man, these are awesome! ‘ It was an appetite suppressant — you’re supposed to use it in conjunction with normal diet and employ, but I exactly utilized it as my primary root of energy.”
MelSi/ pixabay A pile of starvation capsules: the one thing worse than a stack of cover-up fries .
Anyone who’s ever wreaked retail now realizes how serious these illness are — Steven voluntarily invested more day with disturbing customers to avoid eating . He even lied to his doctor. He couldn’t tell a helpful medical professional the truth of his feeing garbs, because that’s how deep the uncomfortable fondness circumventing these agitations run. “[ My physician] asked me what I eat throughout a daytime, and I started lying. I was like, ‘Oh, I’m snacking fruit and vegetables.’ I just started spurting all the ‘correct’ foods the usual ordinary healthy being “mustve been” eating. And about halfway through, she called me out on it and spoke, ‘I don’t think you’re chewing anything.’ I was ashamed. I knew I was unhealthy.”
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No One Understands Why You Can’t Just Shove Some Damned Food In Your Mouth
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Right about now, we have a whole cluster of readers alleging, “This is nuts! All they have to do to remedy this ‘disorder’ is eat a fucking hamburger! I’d kill to have just one life trouble I could solve that method! “
Zhenikeyev/ iStock As opposed to the many, many problems we are just pretend to solve this road .
OK, stop and think of all the mental hindrances you’ve built up in their own lives strictly due to social pressure. If you don’t know what we entail: Imagine you moved to a region where it’s considered normal and healthy to, add, tell strangers lick your eyeball. A place where the nutrient is writhing lizards and where you’re was necessary to excrete in the middle of a busy street while 50 strangers watch. Then imagine that, when you try to avoid those activities, everyone acts like you’re the crazy one( “If you didn’t want to do those thoughts, why did you move to Florida? ” ).
There’s nothing logical about your aversion to those events, hitherto some of you wouldn’t do them even if your lives were at stake. Well, these people have developed equally strong antipathies to devouring meat. When asked to explain themselves, what can they say other than, “I simply don’t want to”? The point that it’s illogical doesn’t make it go away.
JanMika/ iStock They’d probably wish the lizard, since it’ll instantly run away and that’s a perfect excuse to bounce lunch .
Because Alex’s parents weren’t horrible or wolves, they were obviously worried when he stopped dining, but they likewise had no idea what to do. “They went back and forth between exasperation and anxiety, ” he mentions. “My dad told me he would go into my room when I was sleeping and exclaim, because he didn’t know what to do. But there used to be other times where they are able to yell at me since they are didn’t know why I was taking two hours to eat three bites.”
Steven’s eating disorder also tightened his relationship with “his fathers”, he speaks. “There was a point where I had come home at 3 or 4 in the morning, and I had to be up for labour the next day. And he just lost it. ‘What’s wrong with you? You don’t eat dinner anymore, what’s going on? ‘ He told me to stop used to go, and he would watch me gobble. He fostered me to go to the doctor. But like any teen who kind of lost their lane, I precisely resented and discounted him.”
Oh, and there was another factor involved …
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Gay Men Are Much More Prone To Eating Disorders
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Eating diseases are seen as a feminine problem and, if you’re already patronizing for stereotypes, accepting lesbian guys are a cluster of girly-boys preoccupied with being pretty is a two-for-one combo. But Steven noted that the ugly stereotypes don’t always come from ignorant boors: “Being a gay humanity, people are very quick to judge and say this is a self-imposed sickness, or that I’m only preparing thoughts up. In the lesbian macrocosm, a lot of people want to be either truly scrawny or certainly muscular, and you can’t get muscles without ingesting. So you have one area telling you to eat and become muscular and another side telling you to not feed and become skinny.”
diego cervo/ iStock The waist is not the neighbourhood most people envisage would be receiving the most sizing conviction, but there “you think youre” .
Research has determined that 42 percentage of men with an anorexia nervosa link as gay or bisexual, and that 15 percent of homosexual and bisexual guys will face an anorexia nervosa. As a group, they simply face a different display of body-image editions. “Gay beings generally report lower form happiness than heterosexual males, ” Pollack answers. “The research states they are also more likely to agree that they suffered objectification and push from the media to be attractive. We also sounds more relate involving lesbian culture and the names the community utilizes to stereotype themselves by the way they speak, behave, experience and look. … For some, trying to fit in their home communities after not fitting in with kinfolk or heterosexual parish stereotypes can often create pressure that is confusing.”
BrianAJackson/ iStock Skipping nutrient for another week will not earn you your Sexy Twink Badge, because Sexy Twink Badges are not real .
The good report is that Pollack also have also pointed out that research on this topic is starting to become more prevalent. Yielded that we’ve( chiefly) pass a long way from the working day when homosexuality was considered a mental illness, you’d like to think that awareness alone will make a huge difference — sufferers shouldn’t be put into different situations where they were required to “come out” two seconds time.
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You Have To Retrain Yourself To Eat … Over And Over Again
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For Alex, “there werent” sudden inspirational minute of lucidity where “hes come to” terms with his form and started eating again. A physician only tricked him, because sometimes medical science uses the same techniques as a devious babysitter. “What facilitated me was the placebo impact. One of medical doctors simply told us what we wanted to hear, that this prescription would help, ” he supposes. “Only looking back did I realize that all this buster gave me was a slightly stronger antacid and told me it would define their own problems. And it did.”
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The recovery was distasteful — a process of begrudgingly relearning a undertaking he’d fought to gave behind him, like if you had to go back to creeping everywhere you travelled. “It didn’t feel natural. I had to action myself to gobble. Three meals per day took 3 hour. I had to mentally move myself through chewing and withdrawing, ” he speaks. “I had to sit and be like, ‘OK, I’m going to take this burn on this fork, I’m going to placed the fork in my mouth, I’m going to ruminate, I’ll swallow … ‘”
Steven, meanwhile, finally exactly investigate his organization run down like a artillery. “I would drive myself to the point of utter tired. I wouldn’t sleep for two or three days because I was hopped-up on pills and caffeine. I would try to up my force, when what I really needed was food. But there used to be days I would just crash. My friend told me one time I slept for a period and a half straight.” After passing out on the number of jobs, he reads, he was ordered to the doctor( and even then only got promotion after told doctor looked through his bullshit insistence that everything was fine ).
Daizuoxin/ iStock “If you were truly fine, you would’ve told the customers to fuck off and croak, like a ordinary worker.”
So, happy pointing, right? One rapid eating montage and they’re joyous, healthy adults? Yeah , not quite.
When Alex went to college, stress produced his eating disorder right back: “I would get so stressed out with projects that I would all of a sudden realise, ‘Oh, it’s midnight and I haven’t eaten since 8 a. m.’ I would have to push myself to know make a sandwich. It’s interesting how quickly and unexpectedly it can come back. Because if I don’t concoct dinner, that’s an hour I can use to work. I’d have to catch myself and be like, ‘No, that doesn’t help.’ That would happen several times a week.”
These periods, he’s fine the majority of members of the time. But like a regaining junkie, bad pushes will pop up in the back of his memory. “I like food. I still don’t necessarily like how I look on any granted epoch; there’s still that mental trash, ” he adds. “But I know not gobbling isn’t the answer. It’s background noise. Every formerly and a while, you have to address it.”
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Steven, meanwhile, still isn’t doing so great. “I still have extreme form topics, ” he pronounces. “The moment I gain two or three pounds, I feel like I’m really fat and I start to hate my organization. I have to violence myself to devour. I can still depart periods without gobbling and is completely happy doing that.” And that, of course, takes its toll. “I have hypoglycemia; I’m borderline diabetic. I have major feeling swings. I use my anorexia nervosa as a coping mechanism, something that I can ensure. I gain a spooky sense of self-worth from limiting my food intake.[ It’s] the one thing I have ensure over.”
And let’s face it: In our culture, boys are taught not to talk about their problems — specially “girly” troubles like body-image issues and eating disorders. “If there is one thing an anorexia nervosa passions to do, ” Pollack replies, “it’s take control when a person doesn’t want to speak up. We have to change the conversation. Change the actual usage of its own experience for men so they can refer more in their terms.”
So, maybe instead of “anorexia” and “bulimia” we should go with “destructively successful nutrient vendetta, ” or perhaps “excessive diet dominance.” Feel free to make up your own — it only has to be something busters aren’t afraid to say out loud, because if there’s one thing we’ve learned today it’s this: Reproach is a fucking killer.
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