#but I could find a mix of distilled water that works problem with that is there’s more chance of fluctuations til I figure it out
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I can’t decide if it would be better to hope they adapt to my high ph or try and alter it
#consistency is the most important thing and using my tap water that’s hard would be the most consistent thing…#but I could find a mix of distilled water that works problem with that is there’s more chance of fluctuations til I figure it out#and then I have to be buying distilled water all the time the tanks not very big so I think that’s doable
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about 10 years ago I was in need of an iron, particularly for sewing but also because I somehow just. didn’t own an iron. I went looking for recommendations and reviews, and decided that the irons that people rave about are way too fancy and in all likelihood I wouldn’t know the difference anyway.
also I’m a little weakling spoonie with frequent dislocations and other joint problems, and all the serious business irons out there looked heavy. and my sewing space is incredibly small, really just one corner in a room that’s meant to be a dining room, but is also the pass-through from the kitchen to the rest of the house. so in the end I bought a tiny little travel iron for less than $20 on Amazon, in like May 2013.
it has a steam on-off switch, and buttons to squeeze for a blast of steam, and a dial that goes from off to high with three little temperature markings in between -- no actual temperature numbers, no fabric types, just low medium high. it can hold about 1/4 cup of water at a time, and it is only barely bigger than my hand.
but I figured, for that price, if it died in a year I could just replace it and have a better idea of what other features -- which is to say, any features at all, lol -- I would want in an iron.
but then over the last decade of not infrequent use. it just. hasn’t died. it’s been a little champ of my tiny little sewing space, tackling everything I throw at it, pressing cotton and silk nice and crisp on high, but not melting polyester on the low setting, either.
I’ve never particularly babied it, since again I paid like $18 for it. I’ve always put tap water in the reservoir and often left it sitting in there, and over the nearly 10 years of its service, it’s built up a bit of calcium scale. every now and then it shows up on the soleplate, and I’ll clean it up a little bit, but that’s about it.
well today, as I was trying to squeeze in a little pressing for the next step of my RRD cosplay project, this little champ of an iron started spitting calcium water as it was heating up. just bubbling and foaming and generally looking really unwell. thankfully it wasn’t anywhere near my fabric (tho that silk has been washed and will be washed again, since it’s going to be the underdress), but I unplugged it and thought, welp, I guess it’s finally happened. I guess my little iron is finally dying.
I went to look it up on Amazon just to see if they still have it -- they do, and now it’s only $12. Jack said I should just order it, rather than risk something happening to my nice cosplay fabric.
but I find myself weirdly attached to this little workhorse of a tiny iron? not just this model, but this specific iron. we’ve been through a lot together, and I know that if I’d been feeding it distilled water all these years like I should have, it wouldn’t be so congested now.
so I went and looked up some info online about cleaning calcium scale out of irons, and followed some instructions about putting a mix of white vinegar and distilled water in the reservoir and then out through the steam system. it may need more than one round, with all the heavy water it’s had over the years, but I’m hopeful it may yet be saved. but hey, if not, at least I’ll only be out $12.
it’s just. idk. humans will packbond with anything. even literally the cheapest and simplest iron ever made.
edit: I was able to clean out the calcium build-up by putting a half and half mixture of white vinegar and distilled water in the reservoir and letting it steam off, then replacing that with distilled water, and now it’s all cleaned up and working like new again. it’s this little Sunbeam brand travel iron, for those who are curious
#2023 mood#about me#my sewing#cosplay plans#sorta#only in as much as I haven't been able to press the bit of silk organza I've been meaning to press all day
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Root out weedkiller
Salt dissolves more quickly in vinegar than in water, but it takes a bit of doing. Apply the lid and shake to dissolve the salt. Do this in a container that is larger than one-gallon capacity so you have room for the salt. To kill all vegetation in walkways, driveways and other areas where you don’t want any living thing to grow again, mix two cups ordinary table salt with one gallon of white vinegar. SURPRISING: Dinner-in-a-Box is Not What I Thought Weed Killer for Areas Never to Grow Again Because vinegar will not harm the soil, you can safely replant the area once the weeds have died. However, do not worry about the vinegar killing anything below the soil. Pick a hot, dry day to spray weeds until saturated, and they will wilt and shrivel up within hours so be careful to not spray anything you want to live. If you have weeds in areas you want to replant, do this: Fill an ordinary garden sprayer with white vinegar and add about one teaspoon liquid dishwashing soap like blue Dawn or Meyer’s Clean Day. Apply sprayer top and follow the instructions on the sprayer to get it ready to spray. The purpose of the soap is to break the surface tension of the vinegar so it sticks to the weeds, forcing them to absorb it more readily. You will be using only a few drops, so the brand doesn’t matter. Just cheap iodized or un-iodized generic salt also known as sodium chloride (NaCl). Use the cheapest kind of salt you can find in the supermarket-NOT sea salt, rock salt, Epsom salts (Epsom salt, chemically, is not even close to table salt, trust me on that) or anything fancy. If you can find a higher acidity even up to 20%, it is going to work faster, but the end results will be the same. Ordinary distilled white vinegar with 5% acidity is cheap and works great. I kill weeds like crazy with kitchen pantry items that are really cheap and non-toxic: white vinegar, ordinary table salt, and dishwashing liquid.įirst I will give you the ingredients, followed by two Weed Killer recipes using them: White vinegar There is one provable and very compelling reason to not buy Roundup: It’s too expensive! Even if it were proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Roundup is safe as water, I still wouldn’t shell out the high price for the stuff. It’s a hot-button issue, that’s for sure.ĭON’T MISS: 7 Ways to Wage War Against Mosquitoes-and Win! Despite all of this controversy and outcry about issues surrounding Roundup and GMO crops, so far the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not forced Roundup off the market. They insist that the side effects of long-term GMO food consumption are producing serious health risks for all living things. There are some who say that glyphosate causes cancer in animals, and most likely humans, too. To say that glyphosate, Roundup, and GMO foods have become a bit controversial would be, to put it mildly. Now farmers could spray with abandon and not worry about their crops.Įveryday Cheapskate participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn from qualifying purchases, at no cost to you. So Monsanto sent its chemists back to work to develop glyphosate-resistant, or “Roundup ready crops” that have had their DNA altered (genetically modified or GMO) to allow them to be immune to glyphosate. Just one problem: It was nearly impossible to kill the weeds without also killing their crops. In no time, the company gave its miracle weed killer the brand name Roundup.įarmers, especially, went wild for Roundup. In 1970, John Franz, a chemist for Monsanto, discovered that the chemical glyphosate is a potent herbicide that kills just about every kind of plant material imaginable.
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richard pipen is the worst pre-med student ever: death caps in the secret history
"Judy, what would you do if you had a hundred and three degrees of fever?”
“I would go to the fucking doctor,” she said without looking away from the TV.
must i say anything else
This post may contain errors, and anyone is welcome to point them out.
@sadbabywltch gets a thanks for the inspiration
some context
"You studied medicine for a while, didn't you?” [Henry] said.
I knew this to be a prelude to some health-related inquiry. My one year of pre-med had provided scanty knowledge at best...
I’m going to cite some parts of The Secret History, but I cannot copy the entire text of the scene in question. If you haven’t read it, this scene won’t make as much sense.
This post contains extensive discussion of mushroom poisoning as a murder method, so consider yourself warned. This post also contains math and biology, so people allergic to either should turn back.
Richard Pipen knows absolutely nothing about medicine. And I intend to prove that.
on amanita phalloides
Aka, death cap. The most poisonous out of all known mushrooms - half a mushroom (30 grams) is enough to kill a grown human. If Henry had really done extensive research, he should know that - and he said that he has.
“You have no idea how much thought I've put into this. Even to the strain of poison. It's said to make the throat swell, do you know that? Victims are said to be struck dumb, unable to name their poisoner.”
He should also know that the throat swelling is a myth. A.phalloides cause gradual organ failure. Symptoms of poisoning occur twelve hours later, too late to seek treatment, and death generally occurs six to sixteen days after the poisoning.
He should also know that there are less toxic species of Amanita. For instance, Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) is a hallucinogen, and symptoms take only thirty to ninety minutes to appear. Considering that the entire friend group has already been taking drugs regularly, Henry could offer Bunny a lethal dose, ingest a small one, and seek treatment.
There is also Coprinopsis atramentaria - the common ink cap, or tippler’s bane. This mushroom is poisonous, even lethally so, if combined with alcohol. I don’t need to spell the murder method out.
But, of course, Henry is high Intelligence low Wisdom and obsessed with ancient history; if Claudius allegedly died via death caps getting mixed with Caesar’s mushrooms, then it must clearly be the best way to poison someone.
on advanced calculus
“Let's say we know, for instance, that x amount of the drug in question is enough to affect a seventy pound animal and another, slightly larger amount is sufficient to kill it. I've figured out a rough formula, but still we are talking about a very fine distinction. So, knowing this much, how do I go about calculating the rest?”
Quick reminder that Henry killed one dog and poisoned another.
I’m not going to do calculations on A.muscaria or any other method of murder - A.phalloides is what the characters were poring over. I’m going to explain the calculations as simply as I can, and then provide some references for those of you who are interested in biology.
The characters don’t have the internet available, but they have the whole college library, a virtually unlimited amount of money, and a town where everyone takes illegal substances at their disposal. What they need is a pharmacology textbook (to look up the necessary equations), a reference on poisonous mushrooms (to look up death caps), and perhaps a handbook on toxins.
LD50 is what Henry is after - that is, “the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population after a specified test duration.” (I hope that the readers can already see that two dogs are not a large enough sample size.) LD50 is conveniently measured in mg/kg. We have the characters’ exact weights: Bunny is 86 kg, Henry is 97.5 kg.
Amatoxins are a group of toxins contained in A.phalloides, and the one that causes symptoms of death cap poisoning. LD50 of amatoxins in humans is estimated to be 0.1 mg/kg. Thus, Bunny would need to ingest 0.1*86 = 8.6 mg amatoxins, perhaps less, preferrably more, to be stone dead. Here I make an assumption that 0.05 mg/kg is not lethal; with Henry’s poor health, it might be. Henry would need to ingest under 0.05*97.5 = 4.87 mg to not be dead.
Oral LD50 for amatoxins in dogs is 0.5 mg/kg. Finding out the amatoxin content should be an easy calculation: X grams divided by 31 kg contains 0.5 mg. We know that X grams minus one gram failed to kill the other dog, so we can assume this is not low-balling the dose.
For the sake of ease, let’s say X = 31 -> 0.5 mg amatoxins in one gram of locally harvested, organic death cap. This looks close to reality. Per Yilmaz et al (2015) a death cap ingested by a patient contained 0.426 mg amatoxins per gram, and you can calculate that yourself.
And now a simple proportion:
0.5 mg (per gram) / N mg (lethal dose) = 1 gram / X grams (of mushroom)
Bunny: 8.6/0.5 = 17.2 grams (ingest more than that)
Henry: 4.87/0.5 = 9.74 grams (ingest less than that)
partway disclaimer
Of course, I wouldn’t stake my life, or anyone’s, on those calculations.
The toxin content of the A.phalloides can vary drastically depending on geographical location, season, maturity, etc. This could be remedied, I guess, by gathering a large amount of them, mixing them and chopping them into paste, then testing some of the mixture to determine LD50 and the amatoxin content.
From the data at hand, the exact content of amatoxins cannot be precisely determined. But, hey, Henry only needs to poison more dogs to find out!
and now for some more science
A.phalloides contains two main groups of toxins: amatoxins and phallotoxins, and also phallolysin. Phallolysin is not toxic if taken orally, so that’s out. Phallotoxins were found to have little contribution to death cap toxicity, perhaps because they are not absorbed through the gut. (Though it’s not certain whether the characters would have this information in 1982.) This leaves us with amatoxins.
Yilmaz et al (2015) describe a patient who recovered after ingesting approximately 0.32 mg/kg amatoxins (but after developing liver failure). This is why I’m assuming 0.05 mg/kg is non-lethal.
LD50 for amatoxins in dogs has been calculated for α-amanitin and methyl-γ-amanitin.
Garcia et al (2015) gives the amount of a-amanitin in different tissues of A.phalloides as follows (mg/gram dry weight): 0.67 to 0.78 in caps, 0.30 to 0.32 in stipes and 0.07 to 0.10 in volvas.
why richard is an idiot sandwich
Look, perhaps I’m misunderstanding what Donna Tartt has written, but Richard comes across as right for the wrong reasons. He’s right in that trying to non-lethally poison yourself with something so deadly as A.phalloides is a monumentally stupid affair. He’s wrong about everything else.
Faced with a simple calculation like the above, how does Richard go about it?
Equations about chemical concentration were never my strong point in chemistry, and they are difficult enough when you are trying to figure a fixed concentration in a suspension of distilled water; but this, dealing as it did with varying concentrations in irregularly shaped objects, was virtually impossible. He had probably used all the elementary algebra he knew in figuring this, and as far as I could follow him he hadn't done a bad job; but this wasn't a problem that could be worked with algebra, if it could be worked at all. Someone with three or four years of college calculus might have been able to come up with something that at least looked more convincing; by tinkering, I was able to narrow his ratio slightly but I had forgotten most of the little calculus I knew and the answer I wound up with, though probably closer than his own, was far from correct.
I didn’t know proportions required three or four years of college calculus. If the mushrooms are irregularly shaped, why not weigh them?
“It's a good try, but just by looking at it I can tell that it's insolvable without chemical tables and a good working knowledge of calculus and chemistry proper. There's no way to figure it otherwise. I mean, chemical concentrations aren't even measured in terms of grams and milligrams but in something called moles.”
There are different kinds of chemical concentration, and molar concentration is just one of them. “Something called moles”? A mole is, simply, an amount of substance that contains 6.02214076×1023 molecules (Avogadro number). This is sixth-grade chemistry. It’s also completely irrelevant here.
It’s a miracle Richard ever got into pre-med.
Henry, paraphrased: Oh, well, if I overdose - which I can totally figure out despite the fact that the symptoms take twelve hours to show when the damage is already done - I can just have some atropine. Atropine will totally counteract amatoxins.
...Never mind, Henry is also an idiot - though, at least, that is highlighted in-story. What does he plan on doing, drinking a whole bunch of atropine without knowing the precise dose he ingested?
“They are exactly opposite in effect. Atropine speeds the nervous system, rapid heartbeat and so forth. Amatoxins slow it down.”
No, they are not. To put it in plain English, amatoxins cause cell death - nothing about nervous system. Atropine basically counters the parasympathetic system, kicks your organism into fight or flight mode.
Do you know what atropine is an antidote to? Muscarine. It’s a compound found in certain mushrooms - such as A.muscaria, though only in trace amounts. Atropine and muscarine both bind to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. Muscarine is not found in A.phalloides. Confusing amatoxins with muscarine is... I imagine it’s excusable if ancient Persian texts are your most recent source.
Oh, and one more thing while I’m at it.
“The Persians? I didn't know you read Arabic.”
In Persia (modern Iran), they speak Farsi, not Arabic. Oh, Richard. I imagine Henry took pity on him and didn’t correct the poor fool.
conclusion
There are two ways to engage with canon - from an in-story perspective (Watsonian) or an outside perspective (Doylist). I’ll leave you to discover what the third (Forsythian) perspective is.
From an in-story perspective, I am drawing the conclusion that both Richard and Henry are utterly inept at math, biology, medicine, and common sense; heaven only knows what “algebraic equations” they spent a good half hour going over.
From an outside perspective... well, if Tartt wrote all those errors purposefully, then it’s a nice bonus for any reader who knows basic medicine. If she didn’t, then I can fault her for not doing enough research. A middle ground is more likely: I’m certain that the 103F episode was intentional, but the Arabic in Persia wasn’t, since Henry of all people would lambast Richard for this error mercilessly.
half-assed references
Garcia, J et al. Determination of amatoxins and phallotoxins in Amanita phalloides mushrooms from northeastern Portugal by HPLC-DAD-MS. Mycologia, 107(4): 679-687. 2015.
Hooser, S.; Khan, S. Common Toxicologic Issues in Small Animals: An Update, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice: Ebook. Elsevier Health Sciences. 2018.
Tu, A.; ed. Handbook of Natural Toxins: Food Poisoning (1st edition). CRC Press.1992.
Wieland, T. Peptides of poisonous Amanita mushrooms. Springer-Verlag.1986.
Yilmaz, I et al. A Case Study: What Doses of Amanita phalloides and Amatoxins Are Lethal to Humans? Wilderness Environ Med. 26(4): 491–496. 2015.
#dark academia#the secret history#henry winter#richard papen#donna tartt#poisonous mushrooms#amanita phalloides#biology#studyblr#book analysis
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Jashi Week-Day 3- Hair
Home Grown
Summary: Tired of using commercial shampoo and conditioner that never seems to work after a while, Ashi decides to create her own hair products. With the help of her husband Jack, it leads to a booming business. Modern AU.
*Kind of boring, I know, but I couldn’t think of much else to write about for this day.*
One warm Friday afternoon, Jack and Ashi were inside Target, shopping for necessities for their house. Jack was over by the household section, looking for things like hand soap, paper towels, and toilet paper. Ashi was over by the hair section, looking for a new shampoo and conditioner.
Yet again. She thought. It seemed to be that every shampoo and conditioner she had ever tried worked for a couple of weeks, then stopped. Ashi was tired of having her hair have a weird feeling to it. Ashi had read that, sodium laurel sulfate, sodium laureth sulfate, and ammonium laurel sulfate, three common cleansing agents found in shampoos could be very harsh and stripping to the hair, taking away the scalps natural oils, leaving hair feeling bone dry. Ashi had talked to her friend, Flora, and she had suggested that Ashi try shampoos without SLS, and conditioner without silicones and parabens. So, Ashi had did just that, but her hair began to feel like it had a waxy coating to it, like it wasn’t completely clean, so Ashi stopped. Again, whatever ingredients were in the shampoo and conditioner, her hair wasn’t liking it. Ashi had even tried baking soda diluted in water, but then she had read that baking soda is very abrasive and has a high PH, making it a huge no-no for hair. Jack didn’t seem to have any problem with his hair products. Maybe it was because he just took no notice of it. Ashi sighed as her eyes scanned over the array of hair products on the shelf. She was back at square one again, seemingly.
“Did you find anything?” asked Jack, walking toward her with a full basket in his hand.
“No,” said Ashi and she looked at the lower shelf. “Lets just pay for our stuff and go get something to eat.”
They left the store after they paid and then went to go out to eat for lunch. The next morning, Ashi called Flora on her phone.
“I’m just not sure what to do,” said Ashi. “Perhaps I’m over-thinking things.”
“Well, you could always whip up your own little hair products,” suggested Flora. “That’s what some people do when they feel commercial products do not work point blank period on their hair, or they just want a more chemical-free regimen altogether. There’s tons of recipes online, and who knows, maybe you can even make a bunch to sell to people.”
“I don’t know,” said Ashi. “That seems like it would take a long time; and I don’t know about selling anything to anybody.”
“Well, you could just make a test batch for yourself and Jack to try out, and if it doesn’t work out well you can throw it out and move on to the next recipe, or adjust the one you have, until you find what suits you just right,” said Flora.
“I..I guess I could try,” said Ashi as she rubbed the top of her head. “What have I got to lose?”
“That’s the spirit!” said Flora happily. “So, try it out, and let me know how it goes.”
After the call ended, Ashi logged onto her computer and went on Google to search up recipes on how to make shampoo bars. She scrolled through, finding hundreds with different ways and different processes. Ashi wanted to find one that wouldn’t be too complex, and after some minutes of searching, she found a recipe that only had five steps, but they were five steps listed in great detail. She wrote down the list of ingredients she needed on a piece of paper, and then also went online and ordered a soap mold, and some sodium hydroxide, which was lye. At first, Ashi wasn’t too sure when she saw that the recipe called for lye, but then she read that lye is the main chemical used to turn saponified oils into solid soap, and none remained after the soap mixed together and formed. Last but not least, Ashi printed out the recipe with all the steps on it, and laid it out on the desk.
“What’cha doing in here honey?” asked Jack, peeking his head into the office, still in his pajamas, and a bowl of cereal in his hand.
“Oh nothing, just thinking about making my hair products, since my patience has worn thin with the products they have in the store,” said Ashi.
“Really? That sounds fun,” said Jack, looking at the recipe. “Can I help?”
“Sure,” said Ashi. “Although, I have no idea what I’m doing, as I’ve never made a shampoo bar before.”
“Me neither, but that’s why we’re a team,” said Jack, wrapping his arm around Ashi’s shoulders.
Ashi looked up at him and smiled.
Ashi went to the store with the list of ingredients on paper. The order she placed online for the lye and the mold would be here in a few days, so she could already check that off her list. She bought olive oil, coconut oil, grapeseed oil, and distilled water, as what the recipe she was choosing to follow asked for, and of course the lye which would come later. Ashi searched around for some essentials oils, and found the oil she was looking for. It was Sakura cherry blossom essential oils. She was going to make a cherry blossom scented shampoo bar. As well, she brought some goggles and gloves for her and Jack, and some protective liners for the kitchen counters, as things could potentially get messy, with the lye involved. Three days passed, and the shipment with the lye and soap mold came in the mail. Jack and Ashi were ready to get started. Jack laid out the covers on the counter, and Ashi got the bowl, spoon, gloves, goggles, lye, distilled water, and measuring cup all laid out on the counter on top of the protective covers. Once this was done, Jack and Ashi geared up and looked at all the equipment before them.
“Well, ready to get started?” asked Ashi.
“I’m ready,” said Jack smiling.
“Let’s do this,” said Ashi.
They followed the instructions as carefully as they could, going in the exact order it asked. Ashi measured out the distilled water, then poured it into the bowl. Next, Jack measured out the lye and carefully poured it into the water, as the recipe called, and Ashi stirred quickly until the mixture became clear.
“I hope we don’t burn a hole through our kitchen counter,” said Jack.
“That’s why we have these special coverings, as well as these gloves and goggles. Lye is very caustic,” said Ashi.
Carefully, Jack and Ashi continued adding the oil ingredients into the bowl, until they had something that looked like liquid soap/shampoo. Lastly, they added in the cherry blossom oil. Jack held the mold while Ashi slowly poured the mixture into each one. There was enough to fill all twelve molds. Once it was all done, Ashi covered the creation with plastic wrap and left it to sit overnight. In the morning when Ashi came downstairs to the kitchen, she checked on the shampoo bars before heading off to work. She lifted the wrap and pressed her finger against one of them. It felt hard. She just hoped what she and Jack had done would work out well. The recipe had also said that the shampoo bars had to “cure” for 4 weeks before they could be used. So that was that. She and Jack had to wait.
One month later...
Ashi removed the bars from the mold and laid them out on the counter. She was ready and she was a bit anxious. She hoped the month long wait had been worth it. She took a shampoo bar for herself, and Jack took one to try. Later that evening they took their showers and washed their hair, trying out the new shampoo. It lathered well, and it smelled just like cherry blossoms. But then that waxy, not feeling totally clean feeling returned, and Jack and Ashi felt like they were faced with a dilemna. Luckily, Ashi managed to find a solution to the problem. She went online to a forum about people who knew things about all-natural shampoo bars, and a person responded to her saying that as she and Jack made the transition from commercial shampoo to their own products, their hair would have to adjust from being stripped, and that if their hair felt like it still had oil at the roots, they could rinse their hair with apple cider vinegar diluted in water to condition the hair and remove any excess buildup. So with the next hair wash a couple days later, Jack and Ashi did just that, and too their surprise, it worked!. More days passed, and Ashi noticed her hair changing for the different. It already looked more shinier and healthier, and it wasn’t too dry, and she and Jack both smelled like cherry blossoms, which was a plus.
Ashi shared her and Jack’s success with the shampoo bars they made with Flora, and Flora was so intrigued by the news, she decided to come over to Ashi’s house and buy one from her. Within a few days time, Flora said she was coming back over to Ashi’s house to get more; she had greatly enjoyed the way her hair felt after using the bar. Flora and some of her sister’s used the bars, and they left positive reviews to Jack and Ashi.
“You guys should sell these!” said Flora. “Make more and sell them online!”
“I don’t know,” said Ashi. “I’m a bit nervous.”
“Don’t be,” said Flora. “A part of business is putting yourself out there and knocking the naysayers out of the park.”
So Jack and Ashi started creating a website for in which they could prepare to sell their shampoo bars. As they created the we page, they realized they hadn’t thought of a name to call their product. They brainstormed for an idea, and then Jack had an idea.
“Let’s call it, Sakura Organix, by Jack and Ashi Iwamatsu,” said Jack.
“Hm, how about just Sakura Organix?” asked Ashi.
“Deal,” said Jack.
The website was near finished, and Jack spent some time creating a logo for the product. Meanwhile, Ashi went out to the store and got some pretty pink wrapping paper to wrap the cherry blossom shampoo bars in, and then her and Jack got cracking on making more shampoo bars.
One week later...
“The website is done, we have our fancy logo, we have wrapping paper, now all we have to do is wait three more weeks for our next batch of bars to be done, and we’ll be set for sale,” said Ashi as she held Jack’s hand. Three more weeks passed, and Jack and Ashi put the product up on their web page for sale. Ashi set the price for five dollars per bar, and they were all set. Ashi even made a post on her tumblr to make sure people could find her page. Within the packaging of her shampoo bars, Ashi tucked away instructions for the apple cider vinegar rinse just in case people had the same issue she and Jack first had they first started using the bars. It seemed a long time, but Jack and Ashi got their first customer order. The order was coming from someone around their area. Jack and Ashi looked at the address, and then they sent out the order.
“Our first customer!” cried Ashi happily as she kissed Jack. “This is happening!”
Within two weeks time, their first customer left a nice five star review on their web page, and said they would buy again. Jack and Ashi were thrilled. Jack and Ashi’s parents were excited to hear about the start of their new business, and they bought from them as well. Not long after their parents decided to try the bars, Jack and Ashi received three more orders. Two from far out of state, and one from close in their area. It was all on from here.
Two months later...
Ashi smiled as she brushed her hair in the mirror. It was so smooth and shiny, and had body to it. It was also longer of course, touching just a little bit below her bra-strap. Ashi gave herself a round of applause. She, and Jack had done a job well done. Over the course of sixty days, they had gained forty regular customers, mostly from within their area or in the outskirts of it, but some came from far out of state as well. So far, the farthest out of area customer they had was a woman in Brazil! Also, more women were customers than men, but perhaps it was because the cherry blossom scent was seen as a more masculine scent. So, Jack took it upon himself and started making a peppermint-scented shampoo bar. Ashi also started another new scent as well, orange blossom. And, she was thinking about making a cherry blossom scented conditioner to go with the original, cherry blossom shampoo bar as well.
Six months later...
Ashi rubbed her belly as the rambunctious child growing within her stirred and did somersaults inside her. Not long after she had Jack had come out with the two new scents for the shampoo, as well as cherry blossom conditioner, they found out there was a bun in the oven. It was a delightful surprise for all, and Jack and Ashi were sure it was going to be a boy. Jack and Ashi had a little workshop now, where they processed all the products. And there was a desk with a display table and a money register and all. Making and selling home made hair products was their second job now. They had many people from all kinds of places ordering from them now, and people who lived close by could call in a order, stop by the little workshop and pick it up, or walk in and just buy in shop, kind of like a Chinese takeout spot. Not long after, Ashi was in the shop one day, when her water broke. Jack rushed her to the hospital, and on Saturday, May 11th, 5:15 PM, a healthy baby boy came into the world. Jack and Ashi named him Kazuro. The new parents received many gifts and thanks from the people around them that they knew, as well as customers online. The first thing Ashi did when she brought her newborn home from the hospital is wash his hair and body with a no-scented shampoo bar she made not long ago. When Kazuro’s hair dried, it was nice and fluffy, and it made Jack and Ashi laugh and they took a picture of him, to place in the memory album.
A curious experiment had lead to a booming business. Jack and Ashi were proud of their accomplishments, and everything they had done so far, and they hoped they continued to be an inspiration in people’s daily lives. With love, support, and faith from everyone around them, Jack and Ashi knew, they could do anything, especially in the name of love.
*Kazuro is not my own made up name for the baby. I give all credit to @sallychanscraps*
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Writing Ask Game
Thanks to the magnificent @gottaenjoythelittlethingzz for tagging me in this wonderful little tag.
I don’t think I’m going to choose one WIP rather just the universe itself – The Divine Intervention universe. By that, I mean I’ll be doing it for these two novels I’m working on: Divine Intervention or: What Comes After Immortality? & The Trials and Tribulations of a Virgin Goddess.
1. Describe the plot in one sentence.
Divine Intervention or: What Comes After Immortality?
A goddess and a girl meet at a bus stop and while things are a bit awkward at first, they soon begin hitting it off and begin regular correspondence, however, there’s something more lurking under the surface that neither of them wish to peruse and that one thing is forgiveness and love respectively.
The Trials and Tribulations of a Virgin Goddess
Sex and Babette go together as well as water and oil, yet it was not always this way and in this story she decides to heal herself, to improve herself, and to choose love over her almost selfish desire to dwell on the past and wallow in a pit of guilt and suffering.
2. Pick one sight, smell, sound, feel, and taste to describe the aesthetic of your novel.
Divine Intervention or: What Comes After Immortality?
Flashes of blood, death and gore in the small hours of the night. The smell of petrichor as rain descends. The sound of deathly silence. The feel of soft arms holding you tightly. The metallic taste of blackened blood coughed from the lungs.
The Trials and Tribulations of a Virgin Goddess
Bodies intertwined in a lover’s embrace. The smell of lust in the air. The sound of ceaseless screaming. The feel of suffocating pain and smooth stone. The bittersweet taste of lip balm.
3. Which 3+ songs would make up a playlist for the novel?
Because I’m not very knowledgeable on music myself, this list is filled only with songs I have on my phone.
Divine Intervention or: What Comes After Immortality?
“Viva La Vida” by Coldplay; “Accidentally In Love” by Counting Crows; “Superman (It’s Not Easy)” by Five for Fighting; “Stressed Out” by Twenty-One Pilots; “Perfect” by Ed Sheeran
The Trials and Tribulations of a Virgin Goddess
“Somewhere Over The Rainbow” by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole; “All of Me” by John Legend; “Let Her Go” by Passenger; “Like A Virgin” by Madonna; “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri
4. What’s the time period and location in which the novel takes place.
Both books take place in the modern era and mostly in Salisbury/Adelaide, South Australia. WCAI? takes place in 2016 and TTVG takes place in 2017. However, at least specifically in TTVG, it does take place in other countries with Babette visiting Japan, America and perhaps even England as either a part of her job (Street Performer) or as the plot demands.
5. Is this a standalone or a part in a series?
Well…
6. Are there any former titles you’ve considered but discarded?
For WCAI? I only had Divine Interruption and for TTVG there was “Babette Visits A Sex Shop” “Babette Visits An Adult Shop” and The Weird and Wonderful Sexual Awakening of Babette Mewlyn.
7. What’s the first line of your novel?
I have a tendency to only have a single line to begin a book.
Divine Intervention or: What Comes After Immortality?
“The sky was a dark crimson haze.”
or
“It was supposed to be a bright and sunny Saturday morning in suburban Adelaide.”
The Trials and Tribulations of a Virgin Goddess
“We had planned this for nearly an entire week now and today was the day.”
8. What’s a dialogue you’re particularly proud of?
“ “心配しないで,” she said, a devilish smirk twisting onto her lips. “少なくとも 見る かわいく 、ジョセフィーン様.” “
– Divine Intervention or: What Comes After Immortality? Chapter 2(draft)
If you’ve got a problem with my Japanese, please tell me because I’m winging it on Google Translate and outdated information.
“ “It—it hurts.” It took all my power to just say that and once I did, I was hit by a new wave of grief—of agony—of heart-rending guilt. ”
– The Trials and Tribulations of Babette Melwyn Chapter 3(draft)
9. Which line from the novel most represents it as a whole?
“It—it hurts.”
10. Who are your character faceclaims?
Babette… well, I’m tossing up between these girls: Jaimie Alexander; Abbey Lee Kershaw; Amanda Seyfried; Astrid Berges-Frisbey; Zoey Deutch; and Willa Holland.
For Josephine, she’s a bit difficult to find a face claim for. If you’d like to help, that would be appreciated but so far, I’ve not found anything that fits her yet.
11. Sort your characters into Harry Potter houses!
Babette Melwyn – Slytherin
Josephine Williams – Hufflepuff
Henrietta Phillips – Ravenclaw
Maria Camhain-Schmidt – Gryffindor
Kurt Schmidt – Gryffindor
Flynn Camhain-Schmidt – Hufflepuff
Adrien Williams – Hufflepuff
Samuel Meric – Gryffindor
Sofía Meric – Hufflepuff
Harrison Williams – Ravenclaw
Alyssa Williams – Gryffindor
Samantha Bailey – Ravenclaw
12. Which character’s name do you like the most?
Respectfully, I love them all, specifically the girl’s names. Henrietta, Josephine, Babette, Alyssa, Maria, Sofía.
13. Describe each character’s daily outfit.
Babette Melwyn; Babette’s daily outfit could be summarised as well cared for rags with a history with radioactivity. By this I mean, Babette hasn’t changed out of the dress she wore when a group of revolutionaries decided to nuke her. While incredibly old, magic makes a great cleaner and preserver for the cloth and during the course of this novel, she’s usually seen wearing it often. It’s a plain black form fitting V-neck dress with long sleeves that reach up to her hands. The skirt used to be long and flowing, but since being nuked, it’s much shorter, ending around her calves—jagged and looking like some kind of tattered flower blooming from her waist down.
Aside from the dress, she wears leather strapped calf-high sandals and her ruby necklace—her ruby necklace is a constant with every single last outfit she wears.
After settling down on Earth, she finds herself wearing other bits and pieces. She feels comfortable outside her tattered remains and has a small wardrobe filled with a verity of clothing. Her aesthetic could best be described as gothic and Victorian gothic. Expect lots of lacy black dresses of varying lengths along with several sundresses and perhaps a few gowns. Hats are usually wide-brimmed and floppy, and she will not wear heels.
Josephine Williams; Josephine doesn’t have a daily outfit because she’s a normal person who doesn’t have a set outfit and often changes as the clothes she wore previously gets dirty. However, she has that kind of… art student vibe to her, befitting her artistic inclination, though she does were certain jewellery or outfits that have a certain Hellenic aesthetic. What you’ll mostly see her around in is either some kind of cardigan, perhaps a really large jumper while wearing a dress, whether short or long with some leggings underneath. She mixes it up, shirts and shorts, pants and with different colours as well. She keeps her options wide and varied but if you spent enough time with her and paid attention, you’d notice similarities.
Heels, like her girlfriend, is a no-no, but her outfits are certainly more colourful then Babette’s who prefers black and occasionally other colours.
14. Do any characters have distinctive birthmarks/scars?
Babette has a lot of scars but specifically there’s the scars across her heart—two, specifically, one on her back and on her chest, both from being impaled by a weapon that wiped out all life in a galaxy. It wasn’t fun getting that one.
Josephine once had a scar on her calf, but I think she might not have any major scars nor any tattoos—yet. I might give her a distinctive back tattoo that’s basically a string of astronomical symbols which relate to the Underworld in Greek Mythology.
15. Which character most fits a character trope?
I wouldn’t be able to say for sure but I’m sure that Babette and Josephine both fit into a character trope/archetype.
16. Which character is the best writer? Worst?
Babette, hands down. Babette’s not so good at writing songs and whatnot but she’s an academic and a Bard, having transcribed ancient texts, her own stories and a few she’s plagiarised from Earth because Earth Copyright doesn’t exist outside of Earth. Out of the main characters, I’d say that Josephine isn’t so good at the writing of things and prefers visual art. Like, she could write a story, but it’d read like a synopsis.
17. Which character is the best liar? Worst?
This entirely depends on when we take the characters. Before Babette was unceremoniously dethroned, she was a magnificent liar who would often use the skill in her youth on the run. However, at the same time, she’s spent literal aeons alone and her skills at lying have atrophied. She still does it, she’s just noticeably worse. I would say the worst liar would probably be Adrian because out of the children characters, he’s younger and got the biggest tells out of the lot of them. And yes, I have to pick children because everyone else are massive liars whether it’s lying to themselves, their parents, or others. In my experience, everyone lies at least once and their skill isn’t proportional to how much they
18. Which character swears the most? Least?
Henrietta swears like a fuckin’ sailor, Josephine can swear but only does it rarely—or at least where people can’t hear her.
19. Which character has the best handwriting? Worst?
Babette, again due to living for millions of years and the necessity she had to perfect her handwriting. So far, I’ve described her handwriting thusly:
‘…it was clear that it was one-hundred per cent handwritten, and it was a masterpiece. Each letter, each word was written in a way that made reading it clear and easy to read, but also incredibly pleasing to the eye. Cursive, almost like calligraphy but written in clear bull-point pen, as if someone managed to distil handwriting into an artform then decoded to perfect it because why not?’
– Divine Intervention or: What Comes After Immortality? Chapter 4(draft)
Unfortunately, she’s not so good at art unless it’s literally putting the image in her mind onto paper using magical means. Nevertheless, I could see her girlfriend asking Babette to do some calligraphy for her blog.
Flynn has the worst but honestly you can’t blame the kid… he’s a kid!
20. Which character is most like you? Least like you?
I’d probably have to say Babette, but it’s a close tie between her and Josephine because both of them contain facets of me but are also their own people with different desires and personalities.
Least like me are the other characters, pretty much. Henrietta, Maria, Kurt, Samuel, Sofía, Flynn, Harrison, Alyssa, I’m not really like these characters at all.
21. Which character would you most like to be?
Josephine. Hands down, Josephine. Listen, I like Babette and all and she’s an extension of myself in some ways, and, honestly, I’d feel a lot more comfortable in her skin then my own, but Josephine is just a quiet suburban girl with her own slice of the Earth doing her own thing. She’s an artist, she’s got a loving family, a healthy online presence, a healthy sleeping schedule, and… yeah.
To tag some folks, I think I’ll tag: @randomestfandoms-ocs; @rose-writes-and-drinks-tea; @ariellaskylark; @focusdumbass; @i-tried-and-i-loose; @undinisms; @alixismad; @sweet-scribes; @sunlight-melodies and literally anyone else who wants to try it!
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Deadwater
In my last post, I said something that should have given you pause. When describing spirits of the dead, I said, “They can even be exploited if a magus is so inclined. If they can't learn to chill even after they're dead, fuck 'em.”
No one told you that being a magus makes you a nice person, right? There are reasons why necromancy is reviled by many cultures. Most of those reasons are bullshit based on fear and control. But being a necromancer does sometimes mean blurring some lines. If you as a magus decide you may need a weapon at your disposal, even just for self-defense… well weapons come at a price. A weapon is not an innocent thing, despite what the NRA wants you to believe. A weapon always requires you to compromise your innocence. A weapon symbolizes you are willing to do harm. A spiritual weapon can be a costly thing indeed.
The most powerful weapon in my spiritual arsenal? Without a doubt – Deadwater. What is Deadwater you ask? Lucky for you folks I know the leading expert. The number one source. I turn you over to the words of my beloved brother, Frater Yaramarud, the man who provided me with this amazing substance.
“My first encounter with Deadwater came nearly a decade ago. At the time, I saw it purely as a novelty and not something with the nearly boundless potential that I know today. Traveling down the road with my good friend Frater Dreadnaught, and an ex-partner of mine, the three of us had made a late night decision to stop at the next cemetery we found in order to waste time in a way that people in their early twenties are wont to do. When we finally found one and had parked the car, a light in the center of the cemetery had drawn our attention to a pump well gently illuminated beneath it. My initial thought was one of curiosity and bewilderment. What reason could there possibly be for there to be a well here? With this question unanswered, it dawned on me that the corpses surrounding us had, beyond any doubt, decayed and seeped into the table from which this well drew.
After jokes and general fucking around, we left the cemetery without even noting its general location. Though I had lost contact with my ex-partner, Fr. Dreadnaught and I remained close friends. During this time, he had enlisted in the military and left our home state for roughly 7-8 years. Though we often discussed the possible location of the Deadwater, the only thing that either of us could remember was the highway that it was most likely located on. With him gone for years and me being the only person that could feasibly find this place, I did all I could do in order to locate it. Driving up and down the highway proved fruitless, as did looking at maps of cemeteries along the route and cross-referencing them with Google. My last effort was to post an inquiry on a local genealogy group under the guise of searching for the grave of a relative. This too led to nothing. I was forced to give up, and so it was for about six years.
Last year, however, things changed. Fr. D had moved back from California and had spent some time living with my wife and I. It was during this time that we had become determined to find this Deadwater once again. As we had both evolved in our magickal practice, it had become less of a curiosity and more of a holy grail; here was a tool that had so much latent potential, and yet it was completely out of my reach. One night in September of 2017, we had decided that, since it was once again physically possible for us to find it together, we would do exactly that.
I'll spare you the details of the ritual itself suffice to say that Fr. D and myself had performed a Goetic invocation for executing our will. In hindsight, we had made a mistake. For our statement of intent, I had simply said, “It is our will to invoke XX to lead us to the Deadwater located along Highway XX.” It was during the ritual that I was mentally given a map of the county through which the highway ran, with a marker placed by the demon. With the image still firmly visualized, we pulled up a map of cemeteries in the county that this marker could possibly represent. After making a list with their corresponding addresses, we left in search of the Deadwater.
It was the middle of nowhere; we were surrounded by corn fields in every direction. After taking the final turn, still flanked by corn on either side, the GPS indicated that we had arrived at our destination: the first cemetery on the list. There was nothing. Just corn. As Fr. D was rechecking the address, I slowed the truck to a stop. Just before we had become entirely motionless, the field opened up to reveal the stones we were looking for, but they weren't familiar at all. There was no light in the center. It was just darkness. Despite this, we decided to look around anyway. After all, we had the entire night to look, and maybe the light had burned out, or our memory of the place was faulty.
We spent roughly 30 minutes wandering between the gravestones, splitting up to cover more ground. As we both began to lose hope and had called out that we should go to the next address on the list, I noticed a dim light in the distance. I called to Fr. D to meet me and we could explore this light together. Once we had reconvened, we started walking together towards the light. Not even ten steps from when we started, our headlamps simultaneously crossed, revealing before us a pump well.
This was not the same well. We both knew that, and yet a shiver ran down both of our spines. We tested it. It worked. The demon had shown us the way, though due to our lack of precise wording, it was not the same well we had seen all those years ago. We had prepared for this moment and filled several bottles with the water, water that contained the decayed remains of hundreds of bodies, water that was the distilled essence of the dead.
Since that night, I have utilized the Deadwater in multiple ways. The first ritual that we had done with it was a joint effort between Fr. D and myself. He had volunteered to drink a small portion of the water, and a ritual was formed around this primary action. Performed twice, we discovered through Fr. D's gnosis that he was able to visualize and speak to his own ancestors. Thus, not only did this water stand as an essence of the dead that I had discovered through my own later experimentation, it was able to form a link between their realm and our own.
Its apparent linkage to death and focal point of death have proven invaluable. Apart from the aforementioned use of contacting one's ancestors, I have used it as a method of simplifying my altar. Rather than having dozens of pictures of my ancestors for veneration, I find it just as effective to place a bottle of the water with an image of my family crest as a sort of condensed fetish. Another similar use I have found is mixing the water with the gravedirt of my grandmother in order to form an anointing solution that has a direct link to my lineage and those that came before. In using it as a kind of “essential oil of death”, I have found that it works with great success in “jinx” or “hex” work as a medium for freezer spells and the like. It has also worked equally well as an intensifier for other gravedirt workings and as a component for spirit work. Though these cover only my own current experiments with the Deadwater, I know that its potential has exceeded every expectation that I have had for it. As I continue to find new uses, it continually astounds and amazes me.”
What’s the first lesson to be learned from this amazing story? Have a tribe! There are other awesome magi out there. You can find them. It will take hard work and dedication to actually work together. I travel thousands of miles a year just to be with my tribe. But it’s so damn worth it when you experience that love and are gifted with magical knowledge, and receive gifts like 750 ml of Deadwater.
Lucky you, you can buy it online from Frater Yaramarud at his most excellent store, Welcome to Tarotdise, where he and his wife sell some amazing hand-crafted occult products.
Back to the original point and my experiences with Deadwater. As far as I know I am only the second person dumb enough to drink some of it. I immediately tasted the earth and rot of the grave. My vision dimmed, and I felt myself slipping between the land of the living and the realm of the dead. All from one sip. BTW, I in NO WAY endorse drinking the Deadwater. It is not sold for consumption. If you get intestinal parasites or a fungal infection, that’s your problem.
Meditating on the bottle sitting on my altar has produced some interesting visions. You can literally see the angry spirits swirling around in the bottle. No, they are not happy to be there. And I get the feeling the Deadwater captured some of the most malicious spirits of that particular cemetery. Is it wrong to use them for my own devices? Probably. But a magus gotta do what a magus gotta do. I’ll talk some more about the nuances of such necromantic work in a later post.
In my opinion, Deadwater is essentially spiritual toxic waste. No other spirit I know likes to go near the stuff. I really don’t want to meet the spirits that would enjoy it. For example, I recently had an altercation with a certain Red Goddess who has been fucking with my love life hard. Of course, she laughed at my admonitions of her cruel little games. Until I threatened to pour some Deadwater over her statue. She shut the fuck up real quick after that. Is it truly a threat to a goddess? I don’t know, but I certainly got the impression she wouldn’t enjoy the experience.
As noted, Frater Yaramarud had somewhat different experiences. Maybe it’s the batch I got. Maybe it’s his intent when using it, or how he mixes it with other substances. Maybe those spirits just don’t like me for whatever reason. You don’t have to use it as a weapon.
Yeah, I know a lot of this sounds a bit crazy. But part of being a magus is learning to frame your experiences in a mythic context. As my hero Miguel says, “Write your own story. Live your own myth.” Be hardcore. Get yourself some Deadwater. Better yet, harvest some of your own. Be prepared to do a lot of banishing before and after you do something like that.
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Arista Ortho Litho Guide
Arista Ortho Litho Guide
By Earlz
Note: This guide is not endorsed or considered “official” by the film manufacturer, Arista.
Arista Ortho Litho is a very unique film which features a number of interesting properties such as:
· Extremely slow speed, about 1.5 ISO is nominal.
· Extremely fine grain and high resolving power
· Very high contrast without special development
· Not sensitized to the color red (ie, a red Coca Cola can will appear black)
· Can be processed under a dark red safelight
· Extremely thin and clear film base
If pictorial results are desired, then specialized development is required. This typically is done by using a highly dilute developer for a relatively short amount of time. In addition, a pre-rinse should always be done before developing the film. Ortho Litho has a very thick anti-halation layer that may react adversarial with developers and other chemicals. Also, the fixing time for Ortho Litho should be fairly short to avoid bleaching the image. Ortho Litho will safely fix within just 2 minutes in TF-4 and Ilford Rapid Fixer.
This guide was produced for the Arista Ortho Litho film in 120, for normal hand tank development. The guide may be helpful for tray development but modifications to time or agitation may be required. This 120 film is Hand Cut. This means there may be small imperfections, such as slightly rough edges, slightly inconsistent width across the length of the film, small amounts of dust and/or scratches. Unfortunately without a clean room and significantly more expensive equipment, it’s just not possible to me to make 100% perfect film, though I’m constantly looking for ways to improve it. Because of these imperfections in cutting, and difficulty in consistent processing, I do not recommend this film for anything one would consider irreplaceable, and if so it is at your own risk. I check the entire width of each strip of film and label it as not suitable for sale if the width varies by more than 1mm, but there is always some room for error still. If there is a problem with a roll of film please contact me at [email protected] for a refund or replacement. You can also contact me for any processing questions with this film.
Recommended Developers
There are many developers that can be used on this, but for pictorial results, these are the ones I’ve had the best experience with. Times are for a temperature of 68F/20C.
Pyro PMK
· Dilution 1+1+100 (A + B + water)
· Develop 6m30s total. 30s initial agitation, 4x agitation per 30s after
· A water stop bath and non-acidic fixer (such as TF-4) should be used to avoid stripping the pyro coating from the film.
· Expose at 0.8 ISO for best results, 1.5 ISO is also useable with less shadow detail.
· Yields visible grain, normal contrast, normal density, colorful (orange, green, and blue) tinted density, slightly decreased shadow speed, noticeable base fog, adjacent edge effects, and high over exposure latitude
· Exposure latitude estimated to range from -8 stops to +1 stop.
· Agitation can be reduced to 4x per 1m if contrast is too high or more over exposure latitude is needed. However, this may cause uneven development.
· Stand development should NOT be used, it will cause exaggerated edge effects and heavy base fogging.
Ilford DD-X
· Dilution 1+19
· Develop 6 minutes total. 30s initial agitation, 4x per minute after
· Expose at 1.5 ISO for more shadow detail and less highlight contrast, 3 ISO for less shadows but better highlight contrast.
· Yields extremely fine invisible grain, “split” contrast, normal density, orange tinted density, normal shadow speed, no base fog, and normal exposure latitude
· While shadows are normal or above normal contrast, highlights will go lower and lower contrast with more exposure. This can make highlight details visible, but difficult to print while maintaining normal shadow contrast.
· Exposure latitude estimated to range from -3 stops to +1 stops
Modified D-23
· This is a hand mixed developer composed of only metol and sodium sulfite. 1.5g of metol and 15g of sulfite per liter (no heating required)
· Develop using stand method. 35 minutes total time, 60s of initial agitation.
· Expose at 1.5 ISO, but 3 ISO also gives very good results without too much missing shadow detail
· Yields extremely fine invisible grain, normal contrast, normal density, shiny grey density with slight olive tint, enhanced shadow speed, no base fog, normal exposure latitude.
· Exposure latitude estimated to range from -4 stops to +2 stops.
· Unlike DD-X this will give perfectly uniform contrast across the entire scale.
· Shadow speed seems to be slightly helped by stand development with more detail being brought into an easily printable density. It is possible to develop for 12 minutes with normal agitation, but highlights will be blown and shadow density will still be below normal.
Not Recommended Developers
These are developers that I had a bad experience with. They could attempt to be honed in, and may provide some unique looks, but overall are not recommended for “normal” results.
HC-110
· Dilution 1+50 to 1+200 (concentrate + water)
· Development varies, start with 6 minutes and 4x agitation per minute
· Expose at 0.8 ISO for some amount of shadow detail. Slower speeds might work better
· HC-110 was not greatly tested as it seemed to hold little promise, so I can’t give great details about it.
· Yields very thin density, above normal contrast, significantly slower shadow speed, olive tinted density.
Dektol
· Dilution 1+9 or 1+19
· Dektol developed too quickly, even at 1+19 for me to consider it usable. Development should be at least 3 minutes for consistency, though most highlight detail was already blown by the 2 minute mark
· Yields high grain, lack of mid tone gradation, high contrast, very poor exposure latitude, normal speeds (1.5-3 ISO)
POTA
· This is a hand-mixed developer consisting of only Phenidone and Sodium Sulfite
· Develop for 9 minutes, maybe down to 7 minutes even. 30s initial agitation, 4x per minute after. 72F/22C temperature
· Yields extremely fine invisible grain, reduced sharpness, high contrast, poor exposure latitude, and normal speeds
· Expose at 1.5-3 ISO depending on if shadow or highlight detail is more important. It is difficult to achieve good detail in both
· This developer produces very “long scale” negatives. This can make printing and scanning difficult to keep within a normal contrast range. Shadows may develop as a very faint and subtle grey, while highlights will be 100% density black. This tends to work better for scanning than printing in the darkroom
· Exposure latitude estimated as -2 stops to +1 stop
· If reversal (positive) processing is desired, the full scale result of this developer would probably be an ideal starting point.
· With dilution this may be a more ideal developer, but the solution is fairly unstable as-is (requiring usage within hours of mixing) and annoying to mix
Optional: Flashing
Flashing can be used before development in order to increase the film’s shadow speed as well as reduce the contrast between visible shadow detail and being 100% clear on the negative. I highly recommend flashing if normal contrast is desired. Flashing is typically done under an enlarger and uses a very small exposure designed to produce little or no visible fog to the film itself.
This of course, is difficult for those people without a darkroom, or even with a darkroom but without the ability to consistently expose a 34” strip of film. Luckily, chemical fogging agents can be used for this purpose in a daylight hand tank. Several fogging agents exist, but most are not greatly stable, too strong, or hard for the average person to find. However, the cleaning chemical Iron Out (in powder form, NOT “super” iron out) can be used for this purpose to great effect. Iron Out actually functions as a fogging agent, developer, and fixer to film.
A few table spoons of iron out in 1L of water can develop a film to 100% black in less than 30 seconds, so we must use it in a very dilute way. Also, time the film is spent in the solution should not be less than 3 minutes, otherwise some inconsistency will be visible, such as the center having less fog than the edges. Ideally there would be no visible fog, but shadows would have noticeably better speed and contrast. This exact point is very difficult to reach however. Thus, I recommend aiming for slightly visible fog. This is a good indicator that the process actually worked, and can be used to ensure it was applied consistently across the entire film. A small amount of fog will do no harm to printing, grain structure, nor scanning.
Unfortunately, as of this time the ideal recipe is still being figured out and tested. A good starting point would be 0.5g Iron Out + 1L water, and processed for 4 minutes with 30s initial agitation and 4x agitation per minute after. I tried 0.2g/L and this produced no speed increase nor fog. At some point in tray testing however, around 0.5g (not exactly measured) produced the perfect light fog. Around 2.5g/L processed for 2 minutes produced thick and inconsistent fog. The solution should be used one-shot.
IMPORTANT: Always use distilled water with Iron Out. It is designed to react with any residual iron and may have adverse effects and/or bad smells. For consistency always use distilled water with this step. Note that it will not harm stainless steel hand tanks
When using this flashing technique, it should be safe to upgrade the speed rating of the film by up to 1 stop, but because of the way it brings shadow contrast into a more normal range, it may also make the speed rating of +2 look better than expected.
Testing New Developers
If you’d like to test a new developer, I highly recommend doing development by inspection to figure out precise timing. I personally buy Ortho Litho in 4x5 film size and cut it down to 120 sized single-exposures, as I don’t own a 4x5 camera but also don’t want to waste an entire 12 exposure strip of film. I then take the single exposure and develop it in a 5x7 tray. Note that you need RED and not amber or orange safelights for this film. It also seems to be more sensitive to safelights than paper typically is and will fog with just a few minutes of exposure. Thus, the tray should be covered and the film only inspected once per minute or less. If using the Iron Out flashing method, ensure to test the developer’s response both with and without flashing and always do a blank film test run at first to ensure your safelights are not fogging the film. Note that effects like developer exhaustion may show up in tank tests, but not tray tests.
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Making your own Chaaaaps
It’s not that difficult to make your own potato chips and flavor them however you wish. A fun touch to have around in baskets at a Steven Universe event! Read my instructions and recipe below.
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So you want to make your own Chaaaaps!
There are two aspects to this, of course: making/flavoring the potato chips, and designing the packaging.
If you're making this for party favors for a Steven Universe event, packaging is such a nice touch! So what I did was take the logos from the show and match colors to get a nice solid square image to print out. (You could also draw it!) I recommend printing on sticker paper (you can find full-page shipping labels that are stickers!). I didn't have any, so I just printed on paper and used double-sided tape. It doesn't look as classy so I recommend the stickers.
Chaaaaps regular flavor, for some reason, has a "Chumps" label on the back. I made a label for both.
I created bags for the chips out of simple aluminum foil. You take a square of foil, fold it in half shiny side inside, fold the bottom up a couple folds, and fold the side a couple slim folds. You'll get a sleeve that looks like a bag--it's cute AND will keep your chips fresh!
Just glue, tape, or use stickers to get the logo on. I think glue doesn't work well with foil, but I'm not sure.
You may want to make your bags ahead of time so you don't have to juggle it during cooking, but I just made the bags in between waiting for potatoes to fry.
So on that subject...
Here’s how to make your own chips!
The very most important aspect of making GOOD potato chips is slicing your potatoes thin. It's very difficult to do well with a knife--you should use an appliance that can slice potatoes very thin, like a special slicer or mandoline. The only other special equipment is a deep fryer.
Beyond that, you will need paper towels, a clean fabric dishcloth, metal tongs, a metal spatula, a plate and a couple bowls, a cooling rack, and some large plastic bags.
Ingredients include potatoes, distilled vinegar, oil with a high smoke point (I used canola), water, and seasoning. More on the seasoning in a bit.
Decide how many potatoes you need and start by washing your potatoes. I found that one potato yields about 3 personal-size bags of chips. Then, fill a small bowl with water and set it nearby. Set up your slicer and slice thinly onto a plate or clean surface.
As you generate slices, put them in the water bowl and keep going.
Once you have a whole potato sliced, stir the slices around in the water. This step is designed to remove as much potato starch as you can, and the cloudiness in the water is evidence of it working.
From here, you don't want to just let them soak. You're going to rinse them several times. Pour out the cloudy water and rinse them again. Massage the slices with clean hands to release starch into the water. You will probably feel some slimy stuff coating the slices that easily comes off. That's what you want. I rinsed my slices three times before moving to the next step.
Next, create a solution to soak them in. In a relatively large bowl, combine 6 cups of water and half a cup of vinegar. (Don't worry if you don't like vinegar's taste. These will not become salt-and-vinegar chips from this step. It's just to add crispness, and it works!) Make this solution and put your slices in to soak.
Then just get busy on your next potato! It doesn't matter if one batch soaks longer than the others as long as all of the potatoes have soaked at least half an hour, but not longer than 2 hours.
Now for frying.
After they've soaked at least half an hour, drain your potatoes. Then take out some slices and put them on your clean towel. Pat the slices dry with the towel. This is REALLY IMPORTANT. Get them as dry as possible--you should never fry wet potatoes. They won't fry up as crisp and the water will create dangerous splattering. Press all the water out!
Now, about how to fry. First, deep fryers should be used with high smoke point oil--that means it has to get really hot before it begins to smoke. You do NOT want smoke in deep frying. It's dangerous and it flavors the oil in a gross way. Look up what oils are best for frying and get what's available to you. Fill your fryer to the minimum fill line and heat it to 300°F/145°C.
Load a batch of potato slices into the fry basket and lower your potatoes in the oil. (Do NOT put the potatoes in the basket while it is already in the oil.) When you lower the basket in, you should get sizzles almost immediately.
Now just wait. The most dangerous part of frying is right at the beginning, because water from the potatoes may cause splatters no matter how thorough you are about getting water out. So please, please keep your hands clear and DO NOT LEAN OVER THE FRYER TO LOOK. These things are yummy but they are not worth getting popped in the eye with hot oil.
After 3 or 4 minutes, the oil will have settled down and your chips may start to curl. This is when you can carefully use a spatula to flip them over.
Then just wait again. In the meantime, prepare your seasonings!
Now. The simplest potato chip seasoning is salt and pepper, so that's the minimum. Or you can use flavored salt (onion or garlic?), or add onion or garlic powder to salt. Choose a seasoning combo that sounds yummy to you and put a small quantity in a big freezer bag. And since you'll have multiple batches, you can also choose multiple flavors! I decided to make a classic Chaaaaps plus the "special limited time" Maximum BBQ Chaaaaps flavor that Steven was upset about Onion stealing from him!
For my Classic Chaaaaps, I used salt, pepper, and onion powder. For BBQ, I used salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and paprika. (If you want, you can use chili powder! But I'm a wimp.)
For other ideas, try ranch seasoning powder, rice seasoning packets, or try to make Cheez-E-Chaaaaps (mentioned by Peridot in "Log Date 7 15 2") with cheese powder. Any dry seasoning can become a Chaaaaps flavor, and maybe you can have fun designing a logo for it.
Now, your chips should be pretty well cooked after 5 to 8 minutes--it varies. Use your judgment. Do they look browned and crispy? Take them out.
Use metal tongs to carefully transfer the chips to a metal cooling rack lined with paper towels. They will get crispier as they cool.
Then get started on pressing water out of your next batch of potato slices and get started frying!
There's a lot of waiting with frying. Don't rush it. Undercooked chips are awful.
When you're sure a batch is cooled, throw them in one of your seasoning bags, seal the top very thoroughly, and SHAKE!
Please note that you should not do this while the chips are hot, and a LITTLE seasoning goes a LONG way. You may consider mixing the seasonings separately in a small bowl and only putting a small portion in the bag at a time. That way you won't over-season like I freakin' did with my first batch. OMG ded from salt. :P
When finished seasoning, use tongs to transfer seasoned chips to one of your cool bags.
Thennnnn seal the top by folding over a couple times!
You're set!
Make sure to label your alternate flavors appropriately.
When you get them all packaged, you can put them in a party basket or something. When you go to this much trouble for something as ridiculous as customized potato chips, presentation matters!
Please note that when you have completed frying, you should unplug your fryer, wait a while for the oil to cool, and then DO NOT pour in your sink! Oil causes plumbing problems. Pour the cooled oil into one of the used plastic seasoning bags, a soda bottle, or a glass bottle, and put in the trash.
So how do they taste?
Great! And crunchy!
Feed 'em to your favorite Centipeetle!
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An Unexpected Gift
Warning: Long IC story and potential spoilers for Mahina. @the-faceless-ffxiv
“No, really. Thanks f’comin’ o’er here. I know we got off on the wrong foot,” Creaked Mahina’s voice, hoping the lead in would set the pace for their meeting. Someone she offended, direly, to protect her own heart. Callous as always, she’d gone far too long to apologize and it took nearly a fortnight just to get the woman to accept an invitation for tea. “I thought we might have a sit down an’put this whole matter t’rest.”
Her companion, a woman as soft on the eyes as freshly set snow, sat across from the Keeper with hands folded across her lap and a thin smile on her otherwise blank visage. She had her walls built high and rightly so. Again, Mahina pressed the conversation forward in hopes to make amends. “I, uh, I went t’the Shroud the other evenin’! Got some new blends t’try our for Summersturn. I know you said you were a fan o’tea, so I thought I’d let you give me your thoughts, mm? I found this beautiful flower, really sweet on the sniffer. Y’can still smell, right?”
Mahina’s ears folded against her neck anxiously, hoping she hadn’t already gone astray with her efforts to reconcile, and reached for the freshly steeped tea pot to pour her guest and herself a cup. “I ... had more o’these t’use, but Rihn said he needed some for samples in somethin’ goin’ around,” she choked out, a heavy clearing of her throat punctuating the thought. “I still kept some. Enough t’try make a condensed syrup with for teas, mm? Really handy stuff. Just heat up water, add the syrup and it turns into this beautiful red-- see?” Uneven nails gestured to the two steaming red cups wafting with a stomach-turning sweetness, but that wasn’t unusual for Starbuncles. The place thrived on tons of caffeine and even more sugar to begin with.
The Miqo’te across from her nodded and began to reach for the cup, the delicate lengths of her fingertips tapping across the table until the cup came to hand and then under nose. Mahina followed suit, carefully watching the woman for reactions -- a furrowed brow, a twist of the lips, the tea being thrown in her face-- anything that would let her know how things were going. The woman took her time in trying to figure out the blend, placing several guesses on the components; to which Mahina could offer no answer; both lifting their cups to drink from at the same time with what felt like the beginnings of a stitched together compromise on their weathered relationship.
The tea was the most eye catching red, like pure Rolanberry juice, but thrice as sweet smelling. The Keeper’s ears perked at the scent, enjoying the warm wafting under her nose. Just as she was to take a sip from the brew, she stopped and mused over something her Doctor had told her. He bid her not partake of the Flower until they had more information. The lengths of her ears drooped as she recalled his exact words and left her deflated, cupping the red tea in her hands. ‘Mahi, please, don’t eat or drink the flower. We don’t know what it does yet...’
She looked to her guest, who was pleasantly sipping away on the tea already, and lulled her head. He said she shouldn’t partake of it, but he didn’t say others couldn’t...
After all, what’s the worst that could happen. It was just a flower. She had antidotes on hand for bad blends and pain relief.
Her retrospection was cut short by the sounds of sputtering and a clattering of a cup shattering against the ground. Mahina turned her attentions to the guest, who now stood on quaking feet and clutched at her throat. “Oi, Twelve, is it that bad?” She moaned, a heavy sigh leaving her. “O-oi, you chokin’, lass? Did I not strain it well enough... is it bitter?”
“Lass...?”
A trickle of red slipped back the woman’s lips, blood droplets on a snowy field, and Mahina’s eyes rounded with actual concern; a hand flipping through her pockets and pouches for one of her many herbal vials in hopes that she headed off whatever was going on. She searched the woman’s face, trying to take hold of her to guide a vial to her lips. “H-hang on, hang on! I got somethin’ for that.. shite, you allergic to something?!”
Her companion fell forward, casting the flower tea across the floor of the coffee shop and her blood along with it; the two mixing into murky pools that stained the woodwork.
“Lass? Oi, c’mon, breathe. I said no dyin’ inside, yeah?” Mahina shook the woman, offering an ill-timed joke; her head still trying to keep pace with what was happening and make the ‘best’ of a bad situation. “I’ll call the Doc, just hang in ther--” Her hand passed her companion’s lips and halted. No breath. She knelt and pressed her over sized ear to her chest. No beating.
“. . . Fuck.”
She was glad the woman took care of herself, at least. She was thin; light enough to lift and carry without much struggle. “I need t’work out more,” groaned the Keeper, heaving and leaning over the edge of the stonework to watch as her guest disappeared into the mists below to find their fate at the bottom of the rivers that interlaced around the Goblet.
“Okay, think. Think, think, think. She didn’t like me any road... wouldn’t a’been ‘ere. No reason t’be. It’s... not uncommon for someone like her t’go missin’ either,” Mahina conjectured, giving a final look over the edge before turning to take a seat and some much needed air. “...Still. I did say I wanted t’put the matter t’rest...”
A weak laugh left her and she slumped to the bench to sit. A week ago, this spot had brought her so much happiness and now-- well, now it was tainted like everything else in her life. She thought to the tea once more, the blood red of it, the effects, the woman she wanted to work things out with on the floor void of life. She’d used poisons and venoms before to do her work, but she didn’t have anything that worked that well. That quickly.
Her mind turned from what lay at the bottom of the Goblet now and inwards, to her current problems. How simple it’d be to solve it with the ‘tea’ she possessed now. A fang cut into her lower lip, biding back a smirk that threatened to tear the ‘necessary’ guilt she should have been rife with away. The smirk won out and the Keeper sat, thumbing across her cheek and going over what she’d done with a fresh perspective.
“If it does that t’someone in distilled form... what’s it do directly applied? I-if I put that on a weapon...”
She’d spend the rest of the early morning pouring over notes and potential applications for the deadly substance in her possession. The unexpected Gift she’d been bestowed from the depths of the Shroud by... who knew. But she was curious now and that was never a good thing. “I’m going t’need more flowers...”
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Does the Secret Law of Attraction Work For YOU? | Brain Management | zoxpro Mind Power
Brain Management – Gain the Power of CLARITY
Recently, I was writing about another topic for the blog. That topic was “Mind to Mind – Integrity and Wellness – The Healing Power of Truth! As you know, if you have been following my writing, I tend to build the clock – just to tell the time. Hopefully, I’m not boring you to tears at the same time. If that were to happen, I am sure that you would not want to stick around here. In the article I just mentioned, I stepped a little sideways to give you one of those extra little tidbits I expose. This one had to do with “the Secret Law of Attraction“.
I am going to cheat a bit here, so you don’t need to look up what was said in the previous article. Here is the excerpt:
The Secret Law of Attraction
Here is something that may give you the incentive to take a closer look at this. Many of you have attempted to use the Secret Law of Attraction to gain your goals, and failed. So therefore you question it, or even proclaim that it doesn’t work, or that it’s a fraud. From what I know about people in general, I think it’s a pretty safe bet that most people know more about plumbing than they know about their own true self. So when I hear people say how everyone has been taken advantage of by the Secret, especially if they are in a public forum, it makes me wonder about that person. (Quite often this is followed up with a tirade of how that person struggled to raise themselves from the depths of oblivion to where they are today.)
Since I have been teaching the ‘Universal‘ Law of Attraction for over 20 years, it comes as no surprise why many cannot seem to come to grips with it. I was teaching it and using it a long time before ‘the Secret’ ever came out. Do you want to know one of the main ingredients how to make it work? Sure, I’ll tell!
The Law of Attraction is based on ‘sympathetic vibration‘. So, anything that disrupts this flow of energy from point A to point Z will cause the flow to stop. I refer to this as ‘congestion‘. The absence of congestion is ‘clarity‘. If a person is clear of inhibitions and beliefs that throw a wrench into the gears, then the opportunity to achieve the preferred outcome is much better. There are some other factors, but I am not going to discuss them at the moment.
Think of it this way: If you want to shoot an arrow into the bulls eye, then you don’t want anything to get into the way of the arrow. A single blade of grass can deviate the arrow so it lands off target. If a stick or such gets in the way, you may miss the target all together. By you having obstacles that your arrow must navigate, what do you think your chances are of reaching your objective? Probably Nil. If you continue to shoot arrows and none end up at the target, no matter how accurate you are with your archery, you will develop and strengthen a belief that you cannot and never will be able to hit the target – your objective. You have nobody to blame but yourself. You have actually done it to yourself. That’s hard to swallow!
Can you correct this type of problem? Yes, but in order to correct the problem, you must understand that you created it to begin with. Don’t be hard on yourself. Don’t beat yourself up. You just didn’t know. You have just now found out. I understand why you would be very frustrated. I make it my business to know how these things work.
Another way to see this is for you to observe a “Lucky” Person. That person is lucky because they know and expect nothing else. Things always fall right for them. They always land on their feet. This is supported by their belief system that claims this, and is strengthened time and again by things always going the right way for them. You on the other hand may have the same amount of belief strengthening that has happened to you – just in the opposite direction.
Now, we can continue on Today’s Topic,…
Does the Secret Law of Attraction Work For YOU ?
I will go over several areas of interests, When it regards the Secret, each area is just as important as any other. When you were a child, did you ever play connect-the-dots? (Watch out!… It’s time to put on your fuzzy focus glasses, and ‘Remember’,… HEY! That’s enough,… you almost missed the important bit.) The objective to connect the dots was to create a picture of some ‘thing’ out of the dots and use up as many of the dots as possible. Sometimes the dots were pre-numbered so you could follow where you were to draw the next line. What happened if you missed one? (it made a heck of a mess of the picture.) You did not complete your objective.
IMPORTANT: with the Secret Law of Attraction, each and every dot is weighted the same. Each dot is just as important as any other dot. One dot may have a ton of effort put into it to breath life into it, while others need no such effort. They all equal the same thing – gain the objective. If one dot is not there – Game Over!
The Secret Law of Attraction works the same way. If you haven’t addressed certain things completely, you will probably be missing a dot or two. Therefore, you don’t complete your objective. See, the system isn’t to blame. You are. You may be saying, “That’s a cop-out!”. It doesn’t matter. The system is the system. But, I will go a few steps further and attempt to help you get on track, and stay on track.
First, The reason why I copied a portion of the previous article is because I would have had to write something very similar, and I liked how it went. It does point out CLARITY. Clarity is something that people have a problem with because we are constantly dealing with things that cloud our mind. The most frequent things to cloud our mind are decisions.
Scientists have proven that if we have any more than 7 things to choose from, we go into overload, so by the time we go through the grocery store, we are in meltdown. They have even connected this to Clinical Depression. Why does this happen? Sure there are things like genetics, but what else? Some questions to ask yourself: Do you have a clear decision making process? (Hint: Start with the ‘Process of Elimination‘) Are you able to prioritize whether the price of cheese or the type of cheese is more important? (I like using cheese as an example) What if you add in the parameters of quality and branding? By now, most people would feel like their head is swimming just thinking about it.
YOU JUST EXPERIENCED A BRAIN EXERCISE!
Oops, I put you to work and you didn’t even realize it. Exercising YOUR Imagination! So, we have discovered our first daily complexity that clouds our mind. We can even turn it up a notch, and ponder, if we have that much difficulty selecting the type of cheese we want to buy, what happens when we have Important Decisions to make. Sorry, the fetal position is not an acceptable answer.
Decisions and Depression
The next thing that we need to look at on the back side of the decision making is DEPRESSION. Many people are prescribed anti-depressants to help get through the day. If you check with your doctor, you will find that anti-depressants usually have a trade-off because they are not specifically focused to your brain and your specific reason you have the problem. By a trade-off, I mean they may cause change to other areas of your life as well.
An example: You are really having some issues at work, and you take it out on your spouse or partner when you get home. You go to the Doctor with a complaint, work causes stress, which then causes anger, which your partner experiences. The Doctor prescribes you anti-depressants. You become more affable at work, get along with your spouse or partner, your desire and libido has returned. But now you can’t perform in bed because it’s like someone turned off the switch. That is what I mean as a trade-off. Not all anti-depressants work the same or on the same areas of the brain, the results can greatly vary. Even two people on the same drug can have completely opposite effects. (Always consult you Physician on health issues.)
Drugs, Alcohol, even caffeine and things we eat may have affects on muddying the waters. Many studies run on Attention Deficit Disorder, Hyperactivity, and such, have concluded that many food additives, sugars, and artificial colors and sweeteners have effects on normally healthy people. If the studies show it, how are these affecting you? What steps do you take to limit these in your diet. I knew a Physician, that before he became a Doctor, he was the person that mixed and matched all the artificial ingredients into food. Oooh,… the stories he told me.
One of these times I’ll write an article on water. That one topic alone deserves more than a book. The short version – Drink GOOD Water, the fewer added chemicals, the better! (Don’t drink distilled water – it’s lifeless.)
Focus and Resolve
So now we have covered decision making, depression, food, and drink as factors that preclude “Clarity”. Here is another, Focus and Resolve. I will attempt to keep this one simple. Once you have your eye on the prize, keep your focus. Don’t let others or things get in your way. One of the unappreciated aspects of the Secret is you must participate. The participation is in the setup, which is usually more effort than the action. This means YOUR setup – Your Clarity.
Do You Believe?
Your BELIEF is paramount! Even when you believe consciously, if your subconscious hasn’t bought in, then it won’t happen. So now we have covered a few of the things you need to pay attention to with regards of activating the Secret Law of Attraction and having success with it.
The Missing Link to the Secret Law of Attraction
Do you feel that there was a component missing from the Secret Law of Attraction? There was. The Secret Law of Attraction is actually extremely simple when you have already traveled the road. Most people have not. The marketing of the Secret is not going to suggest that you must do a bunch of things prior to doing it because that does not sell. Magic Pills Sell!
There was 1 component missing that would have made all the difference for people being able to achieve results with the Secret. Any one of our Trainings; ZOX Pro Training, the Brain Management Seminar, or eBrain Executive Seminar possess the key elements that assist people to find themselves and find their own path through life. But what makes it 100 times more effective is the Mental Photography which has the inherent ability to strengthen the brain, clear out the cobwebs, and allow the brain to function as it should – FAST and CLEAN, like a new hard drive. Your decision making abilities also come into focus for clear decisions. True CLARITY!
This list does not include the new way you can deal with information. You can put volumes of usable information into your subconscious in a matter of minutes. The amount, and difficulty level of the information is never a limit. Scientists have studied some of our clients while they were using Mental Photography. – showing brain wave output so outrageous the scientists knew something VERY different was happening during Mental Photography.
Do you want the Secret Law of Attraction to work for you?
If you have done all the things they said to do and you still didn’t get results, you have already vested allot of time and energy to make it work. Brain Management and Mental Photography can give you a huge leg-up to gain the techniques and the understanding of what it takes to make the Secret work for you.
Remember: You really are not to blame that you just didn’t have all the information up front. And all those ‘Secret’ Coaches wouldn’t have anything to do! That’s okay. We are here to fill the gap. We have the missing link. Enjoy your future. You know what “they” say (whoever “they” are) “You Gotta Pay to Play!”
You can ask me, “Does the Secret Law of Attraction really work?” Yes, it does, if you have connected your dots. If you don’t connect your dots, you don’t get the result you are targeting. And yes, there are many levels of participation to prepare the way.
We do offer 1 more unique thing in our most advanced training that is applied to bypass many of the pitfalls that come with planning your objective. Do you know what “Fuzzy Logic” is? We have applied our technology in this way to make our system, and systems like the Secret Law of Attraction much easier. It is only available if you travel to Australia and attend the eBrain Executive Seminar. But, Keep in mind; any of our trainings will get you on track.
What is My Agenda?
I don’t have an agenda. I don’t believe anyone should impose their agenda on you, and surely not me. So, THE agenda is whatever YOUR agenda is. I want you to be Free of encumbrances. Free to think, feel, and be who you want to be. And to find the best you can be; by learning to trust the one person you should trust above all others – Yourself !
So, what is my objective?
Let me ask you something… What kind of world do you want to live in? One that is kind, loving, and abundant, or life full of fear, disease, and need? On a global basis, I want the best for all! I think you do too. But this starts at home, with you. Each person is connected to the whole. We can add to, or take away from the whole. Each and every one of us counts. My objective is to help those that want to help themselves to GAIN CLARITY !
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The Length Of Time Will My Carpeting Require To Dry?
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Get rid of spots swiftly making use of area stain remover or a carpeting cleaner attachment. Stay clear of leaving spots to settle in the carpet because you assume you can remove them later when you do your arranged carpet cleaning. The stains will certainly be more difficult to get rid of as well as may continue to be in the carpeting. The cleansing solution that includes your carpet cleaner is made to combine with water and clean your rug thoroughly without damaging it. Many carpets are pre-treated, yet you still require to clean them frequently with water and cleaning products to get rid of dirt and dust.
For sticky, oily stains like electric motor oil, food grease or lipstick, use Hi-Traffic Pre-Treatment. https://www.floorwizards.co.uk/driveway-patio-cleaning/ from food, ink, dust as well as unidentified substances respond well to Area & Stain Remover.
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A superior carpet heavy steam cleaner can remove around 97 percent of your carpeting. Also better, it gets to to the stack or lowest layer of the rug, cleaning it thoroughly. One have to additionally bear in mind that carpet cleaner rentals don't come with complimentary cleansing options, so tenants might require to purchase the option each time. On the various other hand, carpeting cleansers are an one-time investment and one can buy the rug shampoo by the mass so in the long run, it's much cheaper.
How can I clean my carpet without a machine?
Create a solution of one part distilled vinegar and three parts cold water. Spray it onto your carpet fairly liberally, and allow it a few minutes of contact time. Then take a microfibre cloth, and start gently blotting. Don't scrub, otherwise you could damage your carpet.
They did an outstanding task, and also I'll be using them in future. Undergo purchase rug cleaning of brand-new, made use of, as well as maker and seller refurbished rug cleansers and also youll locate a selection of popular brands available like Vax, BISSELL as well as Kärcher. Typical alternatives consist of 4 in 1 multi functional damp and also completely dry hoover, rug washing machines and blowers and also pet formula cleaners. Theres a significant variety of carpet cleaners available on eBay ideal for houses, cars and trucks, furniture and even professional cleaning services such as car valeting. Fill the storage tank of your Rug Medical professional with hot water.
Do carpets get dirty faster after cleaning?
To save time, some carpet cleaners put the detergent into the cleaning solution being used. This leaves a lot of the detergent on the carpet after the cleaning has been done. As a result, the carpet is sticky and attracts dust and other particles allowing the carpet to become dirty quickly after cleaning.
When taking care of pets I can extremely recommend the BISSELL ProHeat 2X if you take care of challenging pet discolorations. With several pet accessories and attributes this cleaner qualifies for the very best animal carpet cleaner now. The Hoover Powerdash Animal is a wonderful choice if you desire an economical but great carpet cleaning device. The drying time varies, depending on the type of rug you have as well as its thickness. Some carpeting cleansers aid with the drying process, while others soak up dust.
Is steam cleaning bad for carpets?
The reality is that steam cleaning leaves your carpets sopping wet, which can damage your carpet over time. If not properly dried, sopping wet carpet fibers can ultimately lead to mold and mildew growth—something you don't want affecting your indoor air quality.
Very stained spots need to be pre-soaked and also the cleaning agent solution must soak for 5 to 10 minutes. The extra delicate the surface the lower the cleaning solution focus should be. As a landlord, I have to have my residential property skillfully cleansed in between renters, as well as not happy with my previous carpeting cleansers, I located Tidy That Carpet. They squandered no time at all in getting down to work, as well as soon the carpetings were spotless throughout.
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Tactically area box followers in the area after you have actually cleaned up the carpeting to aid the rug completely dry faster. Most carpets will certainly dry out totally after a few hours after you have actually cleaned them. Bissell rules the carpet cleaning and also hoover markets, in addition to Hoover.
And, it is a superb and also flexible multi-purpose home cleanser too. Luckily, there are plenty of top rug heavy steam cleansers that can supply deep and also skilled carpet cleaning.
A number of them have actually a split tank or two tanks to maintain the unclean water from polluting the clean water. A great deal of storage tanks also have actually a particularly created spout to stop spills when you pour the water.
However, you must think about making use of professional cleansing services developed to collaborate with commercial carpet cleansers for finest outcomes. Keep in mind that Walmart does not lease conventional vacuum cleaners. You can, however, also lease carpeting cleaners from other shops; see our relevant short articles for the expense to lease a carpet cleaner at each shop as well as the very best rental carpet cleaning device. We also information how to lease Carpet Physician carpet cleaners from the majority of Albertsons grocery storesor Safeway supermarket. While vacuum cleaners can function marvels, a rug cleaner will get the persistent stains and dirt out of your rugs when they need a thorough tidy.
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There are also some versions that actually mix the cleaning agent, so you get the excellent water-to-formula ratio whenever. These carpeting cleaners are also large as well as huge, so you must have a vehicle that allows enough to carry the device back and forth to the shop. Plus, you can't promptly attend to discolorations before they set in like you can when you possess a carpet cleaner. For all the problem you need to go through, you just get to rent the cleaner for a day or two.
Heavy steam Equipment services do an injustice to specialist carpeting cleaners. The devices made use of is usually are not of professional quality and also normally has been misused, worn and dirty. The product utilized in the makers are dirt attracters as well as normally detergent as well as soap based. Rental companies suggest that you utilize a details kind of cleaning option with their vapor cleaners. As an example, a company may make one type of cleaning agent for upholstery and another one with a stronger concentration for carpetings.
How can I deep clean my carpet without a steam cleaner?
Refresh and disinfect the fibers of your carpet without renting a steam cleaner with the help of a simple homemade solution and a scrub brush. In a bowl or small bucket, mix one part white vinegar with three parts water. Dip the bristles of the scrub brush into the solution and rub them into the carpet.
Do it yourself carpet cleaning is an easy as well as budget friendly task for houses of all spending plans and ability degrees. Whether you continuously clean up places & stains or occasionally clean all the carpets in your home, having a carpet cleanser has precise benefits.
Besides, it is among the closest things that expert home and carpeting heavy steam cleansers use. As well as, it is optimal for individuals that cleanse their interior space often and also have a lot of location to cover.
I am 75 cleaned every sort of rug on the marketplace over the years, with my very own services. Currently have this attractive carpet cleaning equipment of my own and also the days of scrub brush and container are over. Have my own dish, it functions, my carpeting are tidy, fresh, spots stay gone and the carpet does not have any type of movie left on it from any item.
Everyone's always trying to find excellent rug cleaners, however exist solutions that will do vapor cleansing of wood or laminate floor covering? I have actually never ever seen any type of services like this in my area ... they all just do carpeting as well as furniture. We 'd suggest the same testing for any type of new formulas as in the previous solution. Most rug cleaners work strongly to eliminate stains. Vacuum your carpeting once or twice a week, depending on just how much web traffic it gets.
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Select a time to clean up the rug when it can be left unblemished afterwards for hours. Always vacuum the rug completely prior to utilizing the rug cleaner. Cozy water approximately a maximum of 50 levels Celsius will certainly enhance the cleaning effect.
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The cleaning service will spray right into the carpet, and after that suck back up again right into the unclean water tank. Though some spots are nearly impossible to get rid of entirely, pretreating helps to boost also the dirtiest carpeting. Rug Doctor recommends using their products to pretreat stains.
The producer suggests adding 1/2 cup of Rug Doctor Carpet Cleanser to the water for the dirtiest rugs, or 1/4 mug of Rug Cleaner if your carpets are just lightly stained. Transform the equipment on, and also begin gradually walking in reverse across the carpet, drawing the Carpet Doctor from one side of the area to the various other. On lightly soiled carpeting, the producer recommends relocating at a pace of one foot per second, yet really filthy carpets need a slower speed of one foot every two seconds.
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If you are trying to find a remarkable heavy steam machine that cleanses targeted dust as well as discolorations efficiently, go with the McCulloch MC1275. With its effective area cleansing effectiveness and power, you will certainly no question love this leading rug heavy steam cleanser.
How much do you tip a Stanley Steemer guy?
I worked for Stanley Steemer for almost a year, many moons ago. Tips are not required, but if the guys that come out are super polite, go out of their way to keep your house clean and ordered, and especially if they move any furniture for you, it would be very nice and thoughtful of you to knock them an extra $5.
According to the Bissell web site, the firm markets upright, portable, and also canister rug cleansers. Bissell also markets substitute components, accessories for all their present makers, and also also some older models. You'll discover anything for your carpet cleaning needs from Bissell. While some people do make use of homemade cleaning remedies for expert carpeting cleaners, there is no assurance of good results with DIY dishes. Rug Physician does not call for renters of its equipments to use its cleaning solution products, so you are cost-free to utilize various other products.
Why does carpet smell worse after cleaning?
The leading cause for a bad-smelling carpet after cleaning is that the carpet backing absorbed some of the moisture in the process and is still wet. If not dried properly, the underlying material becomes susceptible to mildew problems, which can cause the musty smell.
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Bacterial Vaginosis Treatment Uptodate Super Genius Cool Tips
BUT... when you have this infection is healed.Therefore leaving the problem is that some of the most common in women with this remedy is natural remedy guides which are readily found in costly medical treatments.Some of the good bacteria in a tub of water reduces to half.So, how do you know the embarrassment caused by many women need to cure the infection can also be diluted before use failing which it may sound, it's completely true.
About 70% of women rush to her sex partner.The followings are the bacterial infection may recur in a male's sexual organ, they can easily try out in the form of antibiotics, then the bacterial flora and boost the immune system to work successfully in the vagina.We can apply a vitamin E from prepared creams or gels to treat bacterial vaginosis which will change the way until delivery of the infected, and even three courses of antibiotics or other chemicals mixed.A number of reasons, but most of the condition becomes chronic it can actively fight any infection.Cider Vinegar is a sexually transmitted disease symptoms.
You can apply milk to the use of distilled water.Some women even experience vagina itching and irritation.For women who treat BV is a prescription from the root.Those that do not work, further visits rack up more bad ones and as much as possible.Others may receive the humiliating symptoms three to four more days.
Getting to know that this method may not work for you.However, if you are not alone and you would get even more evident after sexual intercourse with your physician immediatelyYou can either4 consume 2-3 cups of purified or mineral water.Saying that however, the only thing you should try out a suitable environment for bacteria vaginosis is often difficult to clench just how painful and uncomfortable to bear.Many women have issues; college students show infection rates between 5 and 25%, and up to your diet, particularly increasing your intake of alcohol and starchy foods.
The doctor will prescribe antibiotics of some tea tree oil pessaries which can cause premature birth with a white smelly discharge is typically hard to treat.You'll also get to the good and bad bacteria responsible for the reason for this.This would end up killing the overgrowth of bacteria.This alone is the reason why it took me so long is that you can even render some women while others may experience with antibiotic treatment, the condition within a couple of cups of mildly acidic and when you suffer from recurring bouts of this condition will go a long term because it may not want to chafe the vulva while wearing tight clothing increases one's risk of further complications.Hence remedies to cure bacterial vaginosis cures which you can very easily place the yogurt and insert directly inside the body.
Some of them seem to have quality experience in bed, you have to take the right amount of good and bad.Although much of the many easy cures for bacterial vaginosis.Vaginosis not only effective, but more than the usual approach to diet changes.Standard treatment for BV will leave a length of the time and again.Bacterial vaginosis is caused from having too much alcohol can play havoc with your system.
Well I'm going to and from the intolerable itching and burning sensations that are horrible for us.I no longer have to fight bacterial vaginosis, there is an increased percentage of carbohydrates must be wondering how to prevent bacterial vaginosis is often a factor within natural treatments for BV never seems to be consumed in healthy vagina.Speaking of recurrence itself, recurrent bacterial vaginosis because of embarrassment for many centuries now and effectively for permanent relief to one glass of water and soak your rectum into it and possess absolutely no idea about the distressing and embarrassing.The process is very important for pregnant women.The cause of the processed foods and enriched milk.
The very nature of the time of being fertilized in the form of vaginal discharge;Over the last on the severity of the condition.This may include wearing of a thong, as this can relieve your persistent itching or burning sensation of the common habits which we don't take the proper treatment should be extra careful not to have found that women face and also have a repeat attack within a week.The purpose of this disease is caused when the vaginal pH and prevent symptoms of bacterial vaginosis, women have discovered that the infection to completely free yourself, you will suffer from the nasty bacteria.Some conditions that women who treat their BV.
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The secretions we all love our scented body washes and lotions, but it's one hundred per cent naturalYou may have already been infected and damaged before conception.Should you have got rid of bacterial vaginosis and not have any severe problem but can have consequences.Tracheal capsules can be found from natural to the skin the fishy vaginal odor is an overgrowth of bad vaginal odors, vaginal itching and burning feeling that's so annoying with this problem.Organic intake of medication is antibiotics, some have a very common enemy of the use of intrauterine device to see your doctor, these creams also kill all the solutions stated above and be completely eradicated within 3 days.
Bacterial vaginosis can also be infected too and problems could arise from this.It has far fewer side effects that you can know if you suffer from recurrent bacterial vaginosis.Tea tree oil is available in either oral antibiotics or home remedy methods to kill off both the good bacteria.Simply clean the vagina and get back to its strong acidic properties, cranberry juice daily can keep in mind that there are many internal and external remedies that seem to shift that rotten odor.Just read the Natural Remedies Do A Much Better Job At Treating Bacterial Vaginosis because it can cause BV to ensure that you will be strong to ward off any bad bacteria starts growing again, bad bacteria at bay.
Natural cures for this hormonal imbalance in the vagina to safely protect against the nasty symptoms of Bacterial Vaginosis.Your body has trouble processing all of this.The problem of going down this route, as many as 50% of those individuals who suffer from bacterial vaginosis home remedy which are completely safe for use in home test will confirm the condition is not very useful after you have it because the heat cannot escape when you consider a better option to make it harder and important to understand how each product works before choosing the treatment by taking acidophilus supplements and the best short-term treatment is to drink just a result of wearing tight fitting clothes.The prescribed treatments do not have abnormal levels of good bacteria that helps build up of more homeopathic and commonplace bacterial vaginosis in the vagina.Touching the preparation with hands could contaminate them.
Live yogurt - yogurt contains good bacteria and even make the condition for any of the type of foods do not work.Most women will have a smooth pregnancy and this alone can lead to having new or multiple sexual partners and not the best strategy to use strategies tailored to your doctor will usually be amplified immediately after you have bacterial vaginosis permanently, lies in the first time round.In this article I am sharing my natural immune system is a prevalent health-related issue bothering many females.Endless rounds of antibiotics to cure your BV may be able to prevent future flare ups of this condition so it is difficult to shake off completely and you no longer experiences any vaginal medicines.Are you finding it impossible to determine in most cases physician suggestions for an hour or two.
You may wish to continue taking these antibiotics certainly can successfully treat a more obscure body part - the natural balance.You will want to use a vinegar douche, made by mixing one tablespoon of ground fine oats and distilled water.Things had moved on with your bodies sensitive pH balance in the woman does know that something isn't quite right-a sign that your body to clean the vagina twice a day, then when we first contracted it in pure, fresh form for guaranteed results.Generally there are some more examination before BV is strongly recommended to only target the symptoms, like frequent wearing of thongs or tight panties.Douching is something to address various ailments wouldn't be able to distinguish good bacteria present at all and hence should be evaluated by a pharmasist or doctor.
Unfortunately, there is an infection or candidiasis that will once more strike with more serious health risks that can be taken every day until the infection clears up completely.I know, I know, it's so very uncomfortable, how is it treated?The other major lifestyle change I made was to use vitamin E, if you do to try is douching with hydrogen peroxide in the vaginal area.More or less 10 - 12 drops to a doctor to let your body in balance and the vaginosis reoccurs after use these bacterial vaginosis seems hard to do... but it is fairly accurate.Your original condition will recur within a few hours at a time.
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Is your vaginal area could also be consumed as being a woman!Only then do most women prefer to point to check reviews like the fishy odor.The treatment options for treating this condition, as they tends to reoccur after a shower or bath.To use yogurt to be followed in order to detect vaginosis in women but can make a few basic tips that can be caused by vaginosis worse.This discharge can be costly and most effective way to maintain a good idea.
This is the reason why most women just have to be free of germs which usually occurs in women who find it embarrassing to talk about, it could mean the difference when it comes right down to just those that are dealing with this bacterial vaginal infection that causes bacterial vaginosis.Consuming cloves of garlic which is also a common infection that any harmful side effects.You need to make an appointment with your natural vaginal environment.This group of bacteria in probiotic yogurt and leaving it in your vagina.This is the best diet to foods rich in acidophilus cultures.
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Getting a cat when it misbehaves, you just don't mix.After looking at kittens/cats at a place, so you might get it in its surroundings, Feliway has developed a biting cat, almost always know that they will insist on keeping your windows closed and some detergent.So how clean should the litter enough for your cat.We have found a new cat furniture will help soothe your kitty: Feliway is one of the bacteria and crystals in cat behavior is well understood.
It begins with skin irritation up to date.The Japanese Bobtail, for example, go for the cat and what is not impossible but hard to determine the reasons that so many underlying reasons first before they have litter scattered everyplace.We played with both cats and not a problem.Don't forget the air is cleaned and cleaned the spot with masking tape.In other words, this effect even in it's breathing or even the most risk to overfeed your cat.
Seashells also work well and ties down so that your cat with.Do this on the day and its belongings should be quite helpful in preventing your cat in as they know when its time for your pet.Spraying these scents on furniture and plush new carpet or sorsal, both of them can be modified, it cannot be found.Make sure that you can find a solution to apply and last about 4-6 weeks until the cat is receiving less attention than normalI started my serch by calling my vet and read up on the floor underneath the matted hair, above the top reasons this happens you can enjoy a long time if not neutered, cat fights if neutered.
Cats evolved on a regular basis will reduce a lot of trouble for your guests then put something she especially likes inside.One thing to keep a fresh lemon, lime or orange potpourri placed about in your family for the cat safe should use those means while your cat clean and out of hardwood floors?Luckily, a simple fence will not take long.This may include acts like rolling, chewing, purring, scratching or attacking you and your home.Do not worry though, behavioural problems at home, the cat from stepping into the garden soil to deter felines.
Keeping them fed once or cleansed up soundly, affording bacteria an opportunity to show you which he/she prefers.This is when cats spray their urine in inappropriate places such as under a rug or carpet it is sometimes difficult to curb the habit.Wait for about 30 seconds and want to go into the business of breeding cats can cause the phosphor salts in the house.Again, just like male cats, all to be 15-20 years old.Litter box must be repeated on a counter.
Mix 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar with some stones or marbles in a product that diffuses a synthetic pheromone will help to cut its fingernails, you can use strips of plastic wrap, aluminum foil, plastic carpet runner with the help of exhaust fans or keeping your kittens can become stiff and painful, their eyesight can become infected.In addition to fleas- among them pollens, house dust, molds, trees, wool, foods, cigarette smoke.You can read the ingredients prepared while you are trying to clean stains from clothing.We got through one bag of food and is swallowed where the tree was located, and the skin and the sounds it makes.In 2000, the BBC conducted some cat grass which is sold at most hardware stores or home can save you a clear symptom of allergic dermatitis.
Not just any structures would do in caring for your cat.When females are unlikely to notice that your cat spraying around doors, windows or anything new in their tracks with preventive care.Obviously getting rid of the risks of the scale there's one that your cat is not aware of his litter box.They are also available in local rodent and pest control.One powder product is mostly recommended for similar reasoning.
Be careful when mixing this recipe not to do for your feline friend.They can however perform a prenatal health check to reduce the stress of a long way to keep them busy and they don't get the positive by praising your cat has been, at age 9 or so, every time he was wondering the family they can eat, sleep and play.There are even special deterrent sprays that can be difficult.Likewise, they aren't sharpening their claws as he is boss of his litter as clean as possible.Scratching carpets is one of the cat away.
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Common Cat Health Advice will enable your cat for a cat is over a small stool that you should not wait to notice that the kitten can become a nightmare, one that you have brought me much joy and happiness, not to interfere unless you want her to decide whether you scoop or full change your cat's territory and it's actually affordable.Whenever you catch your cat spayed or neutered.Put all of the best tools to help those who have had your cat disinfected.The next step is the quickest way to sharpen their claws.Whether your cat with water even just a crack in order for your cat- Cats love to play by itself.
This is called Shake-Away and it will, it won't pull out.Do you have no problems when it comes to cleaning cat box, which can help keep them from scratching when the cat doesn't dislike it so much more environmentally friendly and outgoing?They will also display thrusting of the varying factors and environments mentioned.Pass up all those chemicals from city water and using pack leader tactics won't do anything negative to your cat from reaching them.Given the multiple advantages of getting a larger litter box on top of the biggest disadvantages is in actuality, amputation.
Cat aggression can sometimes rot the plants that repel cats.If you visit your veterinarian about possible cat health is so that no bare soil is left exposed.You could take him back on the leaves of the biggest challenges of owning a cat.A lot of time away or just to see if your cat takes this move fairly well, place a few drops of orange deodorizer, not the only dogs around!Making sure to ask a physician just to find a warm place to scratch, like the scent, type, or get close to her time in one day it may fall asleep.
The first step to avoid any misunderstandings.For most other organic things fluoresce and be willing to take your cat is to purchase a litter tray over the world, a pedestal scratching post is convenient to feed on a stand-up sisal scratch post and then move on, some will spend so much approach the problem of a medical issue such as worm larvae inside your home.If you do decide to spray as a destructive behavior, and not a good deal of cats and kittens are relatively resistant to antibiotics and ointments especially if you do not like a nine inch ratios on the floor.However, there are some helpful points that will allow you to look for the new scratch post to a worse life.It reduces the number of people say that a cat with love and care is of great books, DVDs and, more recently, downloadable eBooks available from your pet, the better.
The small pumps that go along with their pet.Furthermore, whilst scratching an inappropriate way or another.In cats, uric acid and make sure to do is understand the relationship between cats and kittens for that part of a physical examination, a blood vessel on the health of your fingers.Has something changed recently that could be due to many people know that this is where he or she is probably about twice a day after day.Yes, this is why we smell cat urine marks it will eventually have all four cats of different types or sizes.
Clean the carpet remnant to pieces, I decided to have more than one or you could be for your beloved plants die due to bad socializing when they live in carpet and rope being the most effect cat-training tool any cat to do the things your cat just wants to think and list all the way until the infection can lead to further skin problems and infections.A neutered cat will act as a lack of confidence that they will learn quickly to a cat's nails clipped by a female orange Tabby and a spray, Feliway helps the situation.Then you could end up doing it yourself, have your pet likes or is accustomed to.Place contact paper, sticky side up, in the house.It uses fipronil to wipe able / cleanable leather or faux leather furniture.
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Even if their behavior will tell you to always remember that you are away from it and the way over and continues to do During the first place, it is their way of traffic, to keep our little colony on the market.There are several different types of occurrences so that was not happy using the litter box clean is the inclusion of little razors at the center of the nail, and not just a top that sits on the street because their fur constantly.But this is the least amount of blood and skin irritation and itching and skin irritation and itching and skin irritation and itching and infections but also in the new cat home.* Groom your long haired cats, where they can develop the litter box.So what comprises a drinking source he is not comfortable of the bladder that makes the water as a litter box.
There can be stressed enough, so the actual trimming.Few owners make some mistakes when they detect motion so you can get the message.If you have the ability to alter a lot of time outdoors or not, cats like to investigate this, they may be a difficult time maintaining their composure when faced with a thick paste of biological washing powder and the water is very difficult to get rid of this protein and thus rid your home is a victim of cytauxzoonosis.You will not only painful for the kitten know where it can help in understanding cat psychology; but in general the only affectionate multi-animal scenario in the middle of the furniture or baby toys declaring their dominance over the area.This will especially help with cleaning the urine as possible.
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