I'm starting to put some thought into what I want to do with my winter village this year. The place I had it last (first) year was perfect, and I'd really like to do it in the same place. Thanks to all the knowledge I've gained since joining this forum, however, I'm not sure if in hindsight it is a good idea.
The spot is on a nice and deep window ledge in front of a big 6' window. The window gets full sun, but only in the late afternoon. I only intend to have the village up from Thanks Giving (late November) through New Years, so just a bit over a month. Is that just a bad idea or is a month of a couple hours of December sunshine (I should also say I'm northeast America, so sun doesn't get too high in December) for a month a year not a big deal?
My Lego room (and bedroom) gets considerable sunlight throughout the entire day, though not directly, as from a skylight, and I have never had any problems with bricks fading or yellowing.
My village spent around 4 months in similar light. For a couple years. I didn't notice much at first but this past winter some of the white bricks used for snowscape had a noticeable tint and had to be turned around to hide it.
The most technical answer is that any direct sun can damage the bricks. As the amount goes up the visible damage will too. If it's 1 month a year at shortest light, you'll probably last 3 or 4 years before the damage can really be seen.
Thanks for the info! Any idea if this is the type of discoloring that can be corrected with peroxide?
There are chemicals that can repair yellowed ABS. Retr0Brite is the most popular.
I corrected used bricks with the peroxide method and it worked great. Pulled them out of storage (where it got no light at all) and they had all reverted to their original discoloration.
I also remember reading that the Retrobrite method can be done once and it works, but it is a chemical process that weakens the bricks, so it's not recommended to do it repeatedly.
Why don't you put a nice backdrop behind the village? Like a poster board with mountains, and a skyline, or something like that. It would serve the purpose of blocking the sun, while also providing a nice frame. Or something like a shadowbox would also work.
i bought the WV sets to display and I take great pleasure in displaying these. I still get excited every time I open the 'christmas box' and get the sets out.
Id much rather display them and enjoy them than keep them mint in their boxes - they spend enough of the year stored away.
Think of the bricks... it's is their Christmas destiny and they'd be sad if they didn't fulfil their seasonal duty!
@akunthita Ugh... well, good to know if true. A backdrop has some potential but I doubt my own artistic skills to make something that is appealing enough yet also fits with legos. I'll have to do some digging to see if I can find some examples of what others might have done.
@LuLego I agree, they will be displayed no matter what. They are really the thing that got me (back) into Lego to begin with. It's just a matter of "where" and unfortunately the second option is the dining table in the same room as said window, so still some sunlight. But on the dining table I'd be able to pull the shades closed. Perhaps I'll shoot for dining table and plan to move it to the window when we need to--hopefully on overcast days.
Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame posted an article about ABS plastic that mentions bromine being used as a flame retardant, and that depending on the mix and exposure to UV, heat, and time the bromine will oxidize and cause discoloration.
Oxidation would explain why even pieces that have not been exposed to UV may be discolored, and why some parts even in the same set show different degrees of discoloration, since different batches of parts may have different chemical composition.
So is it actually the UV that discolors the plastic? If so... Great, because here we've got UV-blocking windows, so... I should be set.
Yes, but apparently not always. Although UV is the most prevalent cause.


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The Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility
Address: Preysal, Couva
Client: Ministry of Health
Project Partners: UDeCOTT, Shanghai International (Caribbean) Ltd
The founding philosophy of The Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility (CHMF) for Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacology and Optometry is to make the most advanced medical services available to the people of Trinidad and Tobago. The CHMF is geared to be a full-service adult care facility with state-of-the-art clinical services complimented by teaching facilities for medical specialists. There is a three-storey bed tower containing 80 beds dedicated to pediatrics and women and a second three-storey bed tower containing 150 beds dedicated to adult patients.
Located just off the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway, the facility is easily accessible to patients across the country and equipped with modern, high-end medical equipment to ensure the most progressive medical treatment is made available.
Among the departments and services offered by The Couva Hospital are Diagnostic & Imaging, Surgery, Burn & Plastics Programme, Critical Care, an Adult Outpatient Clinic, a Pharmacy and Laboratory, and a Helipad to provide helicopter access for emergency patients.
The training aspect of the facility will be focused on Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacology and Optometry which will be located in an adjacent training centre building, which is connected by a covered pathway.
The facility is environmentally accommodating and takes advantage of the site's natural topography, views and existing tree lines. It is also self-sufficient, with a single Central Utility Plant and Tertiary Level Waste Water Treatment Plant to ensure reliability. External features also includes 620 parking spaces, roads and landscaping.
The CHMF is being operationalised by the North Central Regional Health Authority in partnership with the University of the West Indies (UWI) in the first phase, which includes the provision of advanced diagnostic imaging and pharmacy services.
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A survey shows cat lovers face the worst fees, spending a total of £47 million more than dog owners.
Pet owners spend a total of around £4 billion every year buying new items to replace those their naughty animals destroy.
A quarter of the total goes on replacing or cleaning ripped or soiled sofas and cushions, followed by £140 million on ruined carpets and £104 million on damaged shoes, according to Frontline Plus, the flea and tick treatment company that carried out the survey.
While 80% of the nation's 20 million pet owners allow their animals on the sofa, just 42% clean the furniture twice a year, the research also finds.
Brock Abreu, brand manager of Frontline Plus, said: 'It seems that UK pet owners love their pets so much they will forgive them anything.
"They spend billions each year replacing items that animals have used as a chew toy."


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Q: Make: decide how to make target depending on files that are existing I first want to build my programm with the -fprofile-arcs argument for compiler and linker. The I want to run the program to create a .gcda file for each object file and build it again with the -fbranch-probabilities option which enables profile directed optimizations (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Instrumentation-Options.html). So I want to do
make
./cov (creating .gcda files)
make clean (to avoid "nothing to be done for make")
make (now using .gcda files for optimization)

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if I am indenting the lines in the ifneq and else cases I get the error:
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccBtthtP.o: in function `main':
cov.c:(.text+0xa6): undefined reference to `print_mod5'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

indented:
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#include "cov_lib.h"
int main (void)
{
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}

cov_lib.c
#include<stdio.h>
void print_mod5(int n){
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}

cov_lib.h
#ifndef COV_LIB_H
#define COV_LIB_H
void print_mod5(int n);
#endif

A: Makefiles are not shell scripts.  This is wrong:
ifneq ($(ls | grep .gcda),)

You are checking if the value of the make variable ls | grep .gcda is empty or not, and it always will be, so this statement will never be true.
I suppose you wanted to write this:
ifneq ($(shell ls | grep .gcda),)

but simpler is:
ifneq ($(wildcard *.gcda),)

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Conor McGregor winning UFC lightweight title would 'devalue' belt as he's already lost to Khabib Nurmagomedov, claims Dan Hardy
Alex McCarthy
14th May 2021, 7:26 pm
Updated: 14th May 2021, 7:26 pm
Conor McGregor is one win away from having another shot at the UFC Lightweight title.
Of course, Michael Chandler and Charles Oliveira will battle it out for the vacant title this Saturday at UFC 262.
Conor McGregor needs to grab a big win
The title is up for grabs after the legendary Khabib Nurmagomedov, 29-0, walked away from the sport.
In his wake, the Russian defeated big names like McGregor, his foe on July 10 Dustin Poirier, Justin Gaethje and many more.
Former UFC fighter Dan Hardy just agreed to leave UFC earlier this week and is now a free man. The Brit did commentary duties for the company as well and in his analysis of this lightweight title fight, Hardy believes there's a very specific reason the bigger names are not fighting for the title.
"That's why we've got Oliveira against Chandler – neither one of those guys have lost to Khabib [Nurmagomedov]," Hardy told Submission Radio.
Michael Chandler made the MMA community sit up and take notice in his UFC debut
"So the fans don't have that picture in their mind of the new lightweight champion getting strangled and dominated by the former retired great.
"If you put that belt over McGregor's shoulder or Poirier's waist or Gatheje's waist at this point, everyone sees the same thing; they just see Khabib dominating them and that belt's not worth as much."
It's partly that, but it's also the fact that Poirier and McGregor wanted to run it back and have a third and final fight. Given that their second meeting at UFC 257 was the joint-second highest bought pay-per-view in UFC history, the company was never going to turn that down.
Had Poirier wanted to fight for the title, he could have fought for the title after defeating the Irishman, no question.
Conor McGregor could not deal with Dustin Poirier's kicks when they met in January
Chandler hopes McGregor avenges his loss in January, though, and if he wins the title on Saturday, big business could be on the horizon.
"I want to see Conor come back, man," Chandler told TMZ.
"There's nothing better than when a guy as big as Conor McGregor falls short, loses and then is able to pull himself back up and win. That's a huge story, it's a huge storyline.
Could Conor McGregor and Michael Chandler happen before the end of 2021?
"Obviously the athlete in me wants to fight the winner of it. The businessman wants to fight Conor, of course."
McGregor has suggested he would like to fight again after Poirier in July and he has openly said he'd want to go after a title after he wins.
Though Hardy has a point, it's hard to say a title on McGregor's waist would hold no value when the Irishman is still far and away the biggest draw in the sport.


This diagram shows the percentages of websites using Catalan, Valencian broken down by advertising networks. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys.
Catalan, Valencian is used by 0.1% of all the websites whose content language we know and that use Google Ads as advertising network.


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Bob Prince, the co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates — the world's biggest hedge fund — gave an exclusive interview to Business Insider last week at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Prince explained why the economy is headed for "20 years of ugliness," rather than an acute recession to rival the 2008 financial crisis.
He also outlined his views on what's next for the US market and economy now that the Federal Reserve is scaling back monetary tightening.
DAVOS, Switzerland — Not all economic recessions are created equal.
While that may seem like an obvious statement, the nuances that have separated meltdowns throughout history often go overlooked when negative headlines abound.
That's why it can be so easy to see a recession warning and immediately think of the 2008 financial crisis, which was the worst since the Great Depression.
But Bob Prince, the co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates — the world's biggest hedge fund — was more measured in his outlook during a recent interview with Business Insider. While he does think an economic slowdown is in the cards, he expects it to unspool over a prolonged period.
At the center of Prince's slow-burn view is what he perceives as a toxic combination of populism and income inequality. He argued that it's a deep-rooted issue that could stretch for decades — one with no quick fix. Not even the 70% marginal income tax on the super wealthy recently floated by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can save the day, Prince said.
Followers of recent commentary from Ray Dalio — Prince's co-CIO — should already be well familiar with Bridgewater's view that divisive politics will make the next downturn that much more painful.
Of course, no measured view of an economic slowdown can be truly complete without an acknowledgement of the elephant in the room: the crippling debt load being held by both US companies and consumers.
With respect to that, Prince said the US finds itself at a "key juncture" best characterized by a broad, market-wide deleveraging. Now that the Federal Reserve is tasked with unwinding roughly 10 years of unprecedented monetary stimulus, any credit pullback could be bad news for investors.
Fortunately for debt-holders, the recent economic slowdown may keep the Fed from raising rates further, at least for a while. That should allow them some wiggle room when it comes to paying down obligations or refinancing.
But that doesn't mean the market as a whole is in the clear. According to Prince, the fact that so much of the US Treasury's debt is owned by foreigners leaves those holdings exposed to foreign-exchange risk.
While the dollar has shown great strength versus its developed-market peers over the past several months, Prince said a reversal of that trend could prompt unpredictable behavior from overseas investors.
And then there's the stock market, which Prince identified as the most likely short-term pain point for the US. Amid all the talk swirling about the economy and a possible recession, it's equities that have his attention.


Closter, N.J. and Eriskirch, DE (July 3, 2013) – Ericom Software, a global leader in application access and desktop virtualization solutions, and Giritech GmbH, a specialized provider of access solutions , today announced that they have signed a comprehensive master distribution agreement for the distribution of Ericom's products in the D/A/CH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region. Giritech will act as Ericom's master distributor, both broadening the distribution channel for Ericom's products and serving as the first point of contact for distributors, system integrators and resellers.
The master distribution agreement complements Ericom's strategy of focusing on central Europe, a fast growing market for remote access and mobility technologies. Under the agreement, Giritech will sell Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect as well as Ericom's Blaze RDP Accelerator and AccessNow HTML5-based RDP Clients, throughout the entire D/A/CH region. Giritech will also provide comprehensive, local first-level support, project registrations and proof-of-concept options.
"Given today's IT advancements and market demands, we find that continuously optimizing remote access methods and processes is crucial. By bringing on board a leader like Ericom, we benefit from a close relationship with a company whose vision, strategic approach and groundbreaking technology ideally complements our own. We are very excited to cooperate with Ericom and the opportunity to providing the channel with the most efficient, high performance and reliable products", says Joachim Seibold, CEO of Giritech.
Visit www.Ericom.com and www.giritech.de to find out more about Ericom's suite of remote desktop clients and virtual desktop access solutions.
Giritech is a specialized provider of access solutions with the mission to simplify IT network security and usability. Giritech's patented technology and award winning solution, G/On, delivers VPN-less virtual access, combining network protection, FIPS compliant 256 bit AES encryption, virtual connectivity, two-factor, mutual authentication, identity management and application enablement and authorization in one product. G/On's single point of management lowers the cost of protecting the network and providing users with secure access to applications, office PCs and virtual desktops. As Territory Representative for the D/A/CH region, Giritech GmbH empowers users to work more effectively worldwide on virtually any device without compromising security. Customers range from SMB to large enterprises such as telecom companies, banks, government agencies, hospitals and universities.
Ericom Software is a leading global provider of Application Access, Virtualization and RDP Acceleration Solutions. Since 1993, Ericom has been helping users access enterprise mission-critical applications running on a broad range of Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers, Virtual Desktops, legacy hosts and other systems. Ericom has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and EMEA. Ericom also has an extensive network of distributors and partners throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Far East. Our expanding customer base is more than 30 thousand strong, with over 8 million users. For more information about Ericom and its products, please visit https://www.ericom.com.


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Q: Kick Start - 18 - Round G - Product Triplets - Time_Limit_Exceeded I am getting Time_Limit_Exceeded error on kick start 2018 Round G Product Triplets problem : Please help me
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Community life competence
Connecting local responses around the world
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Who are we and SALT
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BelCompetence
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Stories about Response
Personal sharing inspiring action in others
Posted by murari rao samraksha india on January 19, 2010 at 1:07pm
The sharing of the lived experience of the people with HIV is a source of support for PLHIV and also influences attitudes of other important people like their famiy and their community towards them. This can lead to changes in discriminatory behavior and active offers of support
During a group education session, one positive woman shared that her elder son had started acting in a very discriminatory way towards her. He kept complaining that her illness had stigmatized him, and he felt ashamed of himself when he went to work, and he had to listen to the comments of his co-workers. .
On hearing this, another participant in the group volunteered to help. He was a school teacher and himself positive. He sought out and spoke to the son, and shared his own story. He spoke about how he himself had to listen to so many comments about his status, but he had learnt to overcome them, and sometimes even educate other people using his own example. Many people, near and dear ones had hurt him, why was the son hurting his own mother.
This sharing of a personal story inspired change in the son, who is now very supportive to his mother.
In another group discussion, Yalappa shared about his difficuties in caring for his grandchildren who were positive, after his daughters death. Yalappa became emotional during his sharing, and spoke about his difficulties in managing with the two children. He said that although he had stretched his resources and ensured that the children got the right treatment and medicines, he was just not able to make sure they had good nutritious food, what could be done.
Yalappa's story moved one of his neighbors to such an extent, that from that day onwards, the neighbor sends a share of whatever vegetables and other food they cook in their house to Yalappa's grandchildren. Any special occasion and food is always given to these children.
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Murari, these stories are so inspiring. There is so much goodness and natural desire to share, we often don't notice or consider them significant. Thanks for sharing
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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series > Invited speaker: Inference and simulation of large-scale core flow
Invited speaker: Inference and simulation of large-scale core flow
Alexandre Fournier (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
(with Thomas Gastine) Large-scale interannual to secular changes in Earth's magnetic field are caused by magnetic induction and, to a lesser extent, by magnetic diffusion.Since 1999, the almost continuous observation of these changes by dedicated satellites enabled the investigation of their causes with an unprecedented level of accuracy -let us hope that this will continue after the Swarm mission ends! In particular, several wavy patterns have been identified at the top of the core, and tentatively ascribed to certain categories of waves whose existence is predicted by theory. Waves will be discussed at length during the workshop; here I will instead review the properties of the background flow on top of which these waves ride. The background flow, which varies on convective (secular) time scales, consists of a planetary scale circulation comprising a strong westward current at low latitude under the Atlantic ocean and a high-latitude jet close to the tangent cylinder under Siberia and Canada. I will discuss the ability of dynamo models to account for these properties, and more generally, what current simulations can and can not achieve, notably in the light of the output of an extreme direct numerical simulation 250 times supercritical performed at an Ekman number equal to 10-7.
Introduction & Outline and Summary of INI Research Programme Towards Net Zero at the British Antarctic Survey Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans Contributed talk: Angular momentum transport in astrophysical dynamos: simulations and experiments. Barred galaxies in ΛCDM: Uncovering the formation history and dark matter content of Milky Way-type galaxies Gateway


William and Alexander refer you to a troupe of comedy specialists in this talk about Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. Does the singular movie effort by the famed Canadian absurdists still tickle the funny bone? Take two podcasts and email us in the morning.
Find more information about this film and related ones on their respective IMDb pages: Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, Strange Brew and Airplane II: The Sequel. Previously, we discussed Strange Brew on our podcast and it was a beauty.


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Live (2016)
Artist Info: Discography
Genre(s): Pop
Album length: 9 tracks: 37 minutes, 58 seconds
Street Date: October 31, 2018
READER RATING:
Following their Live 2009 10" vinyl EP in 2016 from SMLXL Vinyl (which was launched by a member of Gotee Records), comes another vinyl-exclusive release, this time a 12" record, and this time from a 2016 performance. Captured on Switchfoot's fall leg of their "Looking for America Tour" in Raleigh, NC on October 29th, this vinyl release features nine cuts from the evening's 19-song set. While it's rather odd as to why so few of the songs played that night were included, the end result ends up being a decent snippet of music from the tour, and a nice snapshot of what the tour's set was like. I had caught the October 25th show at The Fillmore in Philadelphia, PA just four nights earlier, and found it to be a pretty excellent night of music. I had especially enjoyed hearing their new Halloween songs, too, which would end up releasing digitally just a couple days after I had first heard them live.
As it's presented, Live (2016) is a curious release. It opens with the first three songs from the evening's set, but then omits fan favorites "The One I'm Waiting For" and "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been." We're then given Air for Free's "Runnin'," but "Mountaintop" and "Forget and Not Slow Down" are left out. "Sahara" then finishes off Side A. It all goes by quite quickly too, and suddenly it's time to flip the disc over already.
"Air For Free" leads off Side B, followed by the fun "Mrs. Hippopotamuses'", but then the Air For Free highlight "Marigold" was cut, followed by the entirety of their The Creepier EP...er (ironically, this vinyl record released on Halloween, 2018, too), which consisted of "Halloween Blues," "Halloween in Owatonna," and (my personal favorite) "The Cup." Old fan favorite "Mood Rings" is next, though, which even includes a little quip by frontman Matt Thiessen about it "sort of being a Halloween song" (after the previous actual Halloween songs were left off), and then, not one but, TWO of the most popular songs of their career, "Sadie Hawkins Dance" and "Be My Escape," were also omitted. Finally, the saving grace of the vinyl track list is its finale, "Deathbed," which also includes a guest appearance by Switchfoot's Jon Foreman, since the bands were touring together at the time. It's a real treat to have a live recording of what is arguably one of the band's best songs, especially since Foreman could reprise his appearance from the original recorded version, too.
The sound of the recording isn't the highest quality; it's rougher than one might expect, but in a way, it gives it the feel that you're right there in the audience while listening to the record. Some live recordings are so crisp, clear, and near perfect, that they lose that "live" feel, while others are so poorly recorded that, even if it has an in-person feel, it doesn't sound great to listen to. Live (2016) falls somewhere in between, but more so leans towards bootleg quality. Thiessen's vocals are solid themselves, but the recording quality isn't super clear and it doesn't bring them to the forefront, as you might expect. It adds to the "in the crowd" vibe, but it does detract from the overall presentation a bit. In a way, you can understand why it's not being given the full, 19-track CD and digital release, but at the same time, you have to wonder why only 9 of the 19 songs have been released. (This would have seriously been amazing as a double-LP release of most--if not all--of the full set. One has to wonder if the band just didn't like the recording of the other songs on the set, or the track list was trimmed down merely to fit on a single vinyl disc.) Finally, if realizing the incompleteness of the track list isn't disappointing enough, there isn't a digital download code included with the vinyl purchase. Obviously, this isn't a deal breaker for vinyl buyers, but I, for one, have gotten in the habit of picking up vinyl releases instead of CD's, and a digital download is appreciated so I can have the music in a portable fashion as well (Heaven knows CD buyers can just rip the tracks for their portable devices, so the digital download is always appreciated).
So is Live (2016) worth the purchase? It probably can be best answered by the intensity of the buyer's fandom. If you need every Relient K release, there's enough incentive in having--and enjoying--Live (2016) that it's well worth picking up. However, for those looking for a high quality live Relient K album or a full evening's worth of music from their memorable fall 2016 "Looking for America Tour" set, Live (2016) is incomplete and not very satisfying. Still, it's one of those albums that is fun to experience and enjoyable to listen to, so fans on the fence about the purchase may want to snag one while they're available... while the rest of the fanbase can keep holding out for a proper live release from the beloved Ohio collective.
- Review date: 12/27/18, written by John DiBiase of Jesusfreakhideout.com
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Is It Safe to Pierce Your Own Ears? Here's What to Know
January 26, 2021 by Jessica Harrington
The scene in The Parent Trap in which Hallie uses an ice cube, a piece of fruit, and a needle to pierce Annie's ears will forever be burnt into my mind. Not just because it traumatized me when I first saw it in the early 2000s, but because years later in high school, many of my friends would go on to use the same DIY method at sleepovers. I remember sitting there thinking, This cannot be safe or sanitary — and spoiler: it isn't.
There are more than a few beauty treatments that can be safely performed at home, like manicures, pedicures, self-tanning, and even the occasional hair trim and root touch-up. Piercings, on the other hand, are number one on the list of things you should not do yourself. But with different states and countries moving in and out of stay-at-home orders for a majority of 2020 and now 2021, searches for things like "is it safe to pierce your own ears?" and "how to pierce ears at home" have spiked 400 percent in the last 12 months in the United States and 500 percent in the United Kingdom.
"Trying to pierce yourself at home, without proper equipment and health and safety measures, is extremely dangerous," said Daena Borrowman from Jewellerybox in the UK. "I understand that many people are opting for DIY beauty methods, but many would consider DIY piercings as one step too far."
"I understand that many people are opting for DIY beauty methods, but many would consider DIY piercings as one step too far."
There are a few risks that you can expose yourself to if you attempt to pierce your ears at home, with infection being the worst-case scenario. "If you're not careful you can shatter cartilage on impact, which could leave you with irreversible lumps and increased chance of jewelry rejection," Borrowman said. That bump is called a keloid, which is made of fibrous tissue and is hard to get rid of. "Not only this, but your piercing can end up uneven," she added.
No matter if it's your ears, belly button, or septum, you should always see a professional piercer to avoid infection, injury, and mistakes. After all, it's not like you're experimenting with makeup that can be taken off at the end of the day or hair that will grow back soon — a piercing is a semipermanent hole in your body.
"It is always better to go to an experienced and qualified piercer to get the safest and best experience overall," Borrowman said. If you're going to do it anyway, make sure at the very least you have the right tools. "To be safe, you would at least need sterilizing equipment and liquids, the professional needles, the right type of jewelry, and gloves." And leave the fruit slices in the kitchen.
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Due to some technical difficulties this week, I'm just now getting around to watching the next batch of episodes. There will be no update this evening. Check back this weekend. I'm not sure if anyone is fastidiously checking here every Thursday for a new post, but in case you were waiting on it – should be up in a couple of days.
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