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No Hawk Necessary
by Kemper
4 out of 5 stars on a slot machine.
I recently saw some mystery writers including Ace Atkins and Megan Abbott at an event and signing in St. Louis and got one of my proudest moments when I met Atkins and mentioned that I liked the homage he'd done to True Grit in his first Spenser novel Lullaby.
"You know, you're only like the third person I've talked to who picked up on that, and Megan Abbott there was one of the other ones," Atkins told me. This made me so happy that I walked around with a big stupid grin on my face for the next week. Nothing like the current writer of one of your favorite characters telling you that you picked up on something that few others did to boost the old ego.
I don't think that I've got any equally insightful observations about Wonderland so I guess I'll just have to stick to a basic review. Spenser's old friend and former boxing mentor Henry Cimoli needs some help. Someone is trying to buy out the tenants of his building and they're using hired thugs to intimidate people into selling. With Hawk out of town, Spenser relies on his protégé Zebulon Sixkill (a/k/a Z) to back him up. When it turns out that someone is looking to buy Henry's building as part of a larger scheme to bring a casino to Boston, Spenser and Z find themselves in the middle of a mess that involves gangsters, politicians and a Las Vegas gaming tycoon.
In the first Spenser novel that Atkins wrote after taking over for the late Robert B. Parker, he took the character back to basics and proved that he could write a compelling story that wasn't imitation but rather a new phase that kept familiar elements. In Wonderland, Atkins shows that he isn't content to just keep Spenser in the same cocoon that RBP had put him in during the later years of his career.
One sign that Atkins isn't playing it safe is that in only his second book on this series is how he strips away two of the main supporting characters for most of the book. Hawk is off on his own mysterious mission in Miami, and Susan spends a lot of the book out of town for work. This means that Atkins has to make Spenser work without his trusty sidekick and with minimal conversations with his girlfriend. Like many long-time Spenser fans, I believe that the less Susan, the better, but I still think that limiting their interactions was a brave choice because it means that Atkins deliberately put himself in a position where Spenser has to carry the book without two of the biggest RBP crutches.
It also allows the development of the Z character that RBP had introduced in his final book. Spenser took Z under his wing and the young man is showing a lot of potential as a tough guy detective, but he still has things to learn. There's a nice sub-plot with Z trying to deal with an incident where he feels he didn't meet expectations, and his disappointment in himself threatens to undo the progress he's made.
If there's anything unsatisfying in the book, it's that it almost seems like a set-up for future stories in some ways. However, that's not entirely a bad thing. RBP had Spenser in such a state of stasis for so long that getting some plot that may carry over to another book is welcome at this point. Plus, there's the potential for a future confrontation between Spenser and one of the other regular characters that is intriguing.
Ace Atkins shows again that he was the right writer for the job to continue the Spenser stories.
Posted by Kemper at 8:00 AM
Labels: ace atkins, Crime Fiction, kemper, Spenser
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ACC announces fall soccer plans
Article Written by Travis Clark
The Atlantic Coast Conference announced on Wednesday plans for a six-game conference season in the fall of 2020, provided it remains safe for competition.
All seven ACC fall sports will begin play on September 10, including men's and women's soccer.
"Today's decision was made after months of thoughtful planning by numerous individuals throughout the conference," ACC Commissioner John Swofford said in a statement. "The Board's decision presents a path, if public health guidance allows, to move forward with competition. Our institutions are committed to taking the necessary measures to facilitate the return in a safe and responsible manner. We recognize that we may need to be nimble and make adjustments in the future. We will be as prepared as possible should that need arise."
Updates regarding 2020 Fall Sports and Football have been announced.
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— The ACC (@theACC) July 29, 2020
Any additional games, either against conference or non-conference opponents, are at the respective school's discretion. All opponents must meet the ACC's medical standards in order to go forward.
As it stands, the ACC women's soccer championship will be contested on November 6 and 8 in Cary, N.C. among the top four teams. The men's ACC championship is scheduled for November 13 and 15, also at WakeMed Soccer Park.
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A recent study published by the Pew Research Institute indicated that more than 90% of the population in this country now owns at least one cell phone. With more mobile users than ever, it is little wonder that cell phone usage extends beyond simple phone calls or text messages made at home or the office. In fact, many people think nothing of holding a conversation or sending off a few texts while they are driving their car.
However, using a mobile device while driving is increasingly being called into question, and many states have taken steps to ban it altogether. The passing of Jake's Law in Maryland, as well as other legal steps taken in other states, can cut back on incidents of distracted driving because of cell phone use in several critical ways.
Many people believe that when they are involved in an accident, that obtaining legal help will be costly. Most people don't realize that the attorney is actually paid by the insurance company. However, there are other fines and fees associated with a distracted driving case.
Up until recently, drivers who caused crashes because they were talking or texting on a mobile phone typically faced few significant ramifications for their behavior. The confines of the laws stipulated that these offenders could only be punished with misdemeanor traffic charges or monetary fines that arguably, amounted to little.
With the passing of Jake's Law by the Maryland General Assembly, however, drivers convicted of causing a wreck because of using a phone while driving, now face at least one year in jail. The idea of going to jail, let alone causing a crash that takes an innocent victim's life, has proven effective in sending the message that calling, texting, or otherwise using a mobile device while driving will not be tolerated in that state.
Other states have taken the lead that Maryland has offered by considering or passing similar legislation. In fact, the Governor's Highway Safety Administration notes on its website that 12 states, as well as the territories of Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Washington D.C, have passed legislation banning any use of a cell phone while operating a motor vehicle. These states and territories now allow police officers to pull over and cite a driver for using a mobile device while driving, even if that individual was not committing any other traffic offense, such as speeding or failing to use a turn signal. The law banning mobile devices is now considered a primary traffic offense in these states.
While other states have yet to pass laws making this activity a primary traffic offense, many continue to pass and consider legislation that prohibits novice drivers from using phones in any form while operating a car. Likewise, more states are passing laws that ban text messaging while a person is driving, with the state of Washington taking the lead in this legal action in 2007. While some people argue that they should have the right to make calls or send texts as needed while they are in their cars, states like Maryland understand that tragedies can occur with little notice, all because people were too busy calling or sending messages instead of paying attention the road before them.
With more people than ever owning and using cell phones on a daily basis, states are quickly catching on to the risks that come from mobile device usage while driving. Maryland and other state assemblies are now passing legislation such as Jake's Law that are helping to put the dent in distracted driving.
Understanding that cellphone use can wait if you're driving prompted Nadine Swayne to write this article. Distracted driving has become an ever growing problem that legislation is fighting hard to put the brakes on. With new laws being put in place, this dangerous practice will hopefully end.


Richard Happer is the author of many books including 365 Reasons to be Cheerful, 365 Reasons to be Proud to be British and 365 Reasons to be Proud to be Scottish. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and son.
However well our boys do in the 2014 World Cup, we can be sure that English pride will be riding higher than ever. So it's time to celebrate our Englishness! Take a year-long stroll around the joys of English inventiveness, eccentricity and fighting spirit with this fascinating collection of stories, anecdotes and fun. Within these pages you'll find tales of innovative discoveries, historical victories and iconic sporting successes, one for every day of the year, all of which will make any Englishman or woman beam with pride. It's the perfect gift for English people everywhere.


Apple CEO Tim Cook will co-chair the 18th annual China Development Forum, a Chinese government event held in Beijing from March 18-20, according to a Wall Street Journal report this morning. The announcement of Cook's role in the event comes only months after U.S. senators accused Apple of "enabling the Chinese government's censorship and surveillance of the internet," and two days before Apple hands over Chinese iCloud accounts to a Chinese government-controlled company.
Billed by the WSJ as the "Chinese government's showcase global business forum," the China Development Forum is annually co-chaired by one Chinese and one foreign business leader and enables Western corporations to improve relationships with Chinese government officials. Cook spoke gingerly at last year's Forum, gently suggesting that China should further open itself to the world and stating his belief that individuals should be able to own and control their own data. He has made increasingly frequent visits to the country over the past two years.
Additionally, concerns over China's government gaining access to both data and data networks are at an all-time high. U.S. lawmakers and security agencies have recently worked publicly to stop Chinese mobile companies Huawei and ZTE from selling cellular hardware in the U.S., claiming that the companies are quietly working on behalf of the Chinese government. Two U.S. security chiefs went further last week, lobbying Australia's prime minister to block the Chinese companies from involvement in upcoming 5G networks.
It's unclear whether Cook will use the event as an opportunity to speak more strongly to values espoused by Apple and the U.S. or will just use his position to lobby Chinese officials for more opportunities in the country. For years, Apple has manufactured almost all of its products in China, taking advantage of working conditions unthinkable in the U.S., and the company has recently has been successfully selling its products to a growing Chinese elite.


Athens band and choir students are featured in a music video starring the Nashville band Skyway Man.
Athens High School band and choir students performed the song "Opportunity" with Skyway Man in a music video that was released earlier this week.
The video was directed by Joshua Shoemaker who has directed music videos for the Grammy award winning band Alabama Shakes.
Shoemaker came across the high school music students at the Athens Grease Festival last fall.
Music students at Athens High School volunteered to rehearse and perform in the festival with Skyway Man.
During the duo's final rehearsal, Shoemaker recorded a video of the ensemble. That's the video that ended up in the music video.
To see the music video, click here.


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Mireille Enos
Birthdate: 22nd September, 1975
Birthplace: Houston, Texas, U.S.
Mireille Enos (born September 1975) is an actress who grew up in Houston, Texas. Enos studied at Brigham Young University. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was nominated for a Tony Award (Best Featured Actress in a Play) in 2005 for her performance in the Broadway production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. She also has numerous television appearances, notably playing Kathy and Jodeen Marquart, twin sisters, in HBO's Big Love. Enos married actor Alan Ruck on January 4, 2008. Daughter Vesper Vivianne Ruck was born on September 23rd, 2010. On December 2, 2010 filming began on AMC's The Killing- Enos leads the cast as Detective Sarah Linden.
Mireille Enos (born September 1975) is an actress who grew up in Houston, Texas.
Enos studied at Brigham Young University. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
She was nominated for a Tony Award (Best Featured Actress in a Play) in 2005 for her performance in the Broadway production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
She also has numerous television appearances, notably playing Kathy and Jodeen Marquart, twin sisters, in HBO's Big Love.
Enos married actor Alan Ruck on January 4, 2008. Daughter Vesper Vivianne Ruck was born on September 23rd, 2010. On December 2, 2010 filming began on AMC's The Killing- Enos leads the cast as Detective Sarah Linden.
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The Widow's Persecution
Early on the following morning Mr. Slope was summoned to the bishop's dressing-room, and went there fully expecting that he should find his lordship very indignant and spirited up by his wife to repeat the rebuke which she had administered on the previous day. Mr. Slope had resolved that at any rate from him he would not stand it and entered the dressing-room in rather a combative disposition, but he found the bishop in the most placid and gentlest of humours. His lordship complained of' being rather unwell, had a slight headache, and was not quite the thing in his stomach; but there was nothing the matter with his temper.
"Oh, Slope," said he, taking the chaplain's proffered hand, "Archdeacon Grantly is to call on me this morning, and I really am not fit to see him. I fear I must trouble you to see him for me;" and then Dr. Proudie proceeded to explain what it was that must be said to Dr. Grantly. He was to be told in fact in the civilest words in which the tidings could be conveyed that Mr. Harding having refused the wardenship, the appointment had been offered to Mr. Quiverful and accepted by him.
Mr. Slope again pointed out to his patron that he thought he was perhaps not quite wise in his decision, and this he did sotto voce. But even with this precaution it was not safe to say much, and during the little that he did say, the bishop made a very slight, but still a very ominous gesture with his thumb towards the door which opened from his dressing-room to some inner sanctuary. Mr. Slope at once took the hint and said no more, but he perceived that there was to be confidence between him and his patron, that the league desired by him was to be made, and that this appointment of Mr. Quiverful was to be the last sacrifice offered on the altar of conjugal obedience. All this Mr. Slope read in the slight motion of the bishop's thumb, and he read it correctly. There was no need of parchments and seals, of attestations, explanations, and professions. The bargain was understood between them, and Mr. Slope gave the bishop his hand upon it The bishop understood the little extra squeeze, and an intelligible gleam of assent twinkled in his eye.
"Pray be civil to the archdeacon, Mr. Slope," said he out loud, 'but make him quite understand that in this matter Mr. Harding has put it out of my power to oblige him."
It would be a calumny on Mrs. Proudie to suggest that she was sitting in her bedroom with her ear at the keyhole during this interview. She had within her a spirit of decorum which prevented her from descending to such baseness. To put her ear to a keyhole, or to listen at a chink, was a trick for a housemaid. Mrs. Proudie knew this and therefore did not do it, but she stationed herself as near to the door as she well could, that she might if possible, get the advantage which the housemaid would have had without descending to the housemaid's artifice.
It was little, however, that she heard, and that little was only sufficient to deceive her. She saw nothing of that friendly pressure, perceived nothing of that concluded bargain; she did not even dream of the treacherous resolves which those two false men had made together to upset her in the pride of her station, to dash the cup from her lip before she had drunk of it, to sweep away all her power before she had tasted its sweets! Traitors that they were, the husband of her bosom and the outcast whom she had fostered and brought to the warmth of the world's brightest fireside! But neither of them had the magnanimity of this woman. Though two men have thus leagued themselves together against her, even yet the battle is not lost.
Mr. Slope felt pretty sure that Dr. Grantly would decline the honour of seeing him, and such turned out to be the case. The archdeacon, when the palace door was opened to him, was greeted by a note. Mr. Slope presented his compliments, &c. &c. The bishop was ill in his room and very greatly regretted, &c. &c. Mr. Slope had been charged with the bishop's views, and if agreeable to the archdeacon, would do himself the honour, &c. &c. The archdeacon, however, was not agreeable, and having read his note in the hall, crumpled it up in his hand, and muttering something about sorrow for his lordship's illness took his leave, without sending as much as a verbal message in answer to Mr. Slope's note.
"Ill!" said the archdeacon to himself as he flung himself into his brougham. "The man is absolutely a coward. He is afraid to see me. Ill, indeed!" The archdeacon was never ill himself and did not therefore understand that anyone else could in truth be prevented by illness from keeping an appointment. He regarded all such excuses as subterfuges, and in the present instance be was not far wrong.
Dr. Grantly desired to be driven to his father-in-law's lodgings in the High Street, and hearing from the servant that Mr. Harding was at his daughter's, followed him to Mrs. Bold's house, and there found him. The archdeacon was fuming with rage when he got into the drawing-room, and had by this time nearly forgotten the pusillanimity of the bishop in the villainy of the chaplain.
"Look at that," said he, throwing Mr. Slope's crumpled note to Mr. Harding. "I am to be told that if I choose I may have the honour of seeing Mr. Slope, and that too after a positive engagement with the bishop."
"But he says the bishop is ill," said Mr. Harding.
"Pshaw! You don't mean to say that you are deceived by such an excuse as that. He was well enough yesterday. Now I tell you what, I will see the bishop, and I will tell him also very plainly what I think of his conduct. I will see him, or else Barchester will soon be too hot to hold him."
Eleanor was sitting in the room, but Dr. Grantly had hardly noticed her in his anger. Eleanor now said to him with the greatest innocence, "I wish you had seen Mr. Slope, Dr. Grantly, because I think perhaps it might have done good."
The archdeacon turned on her with almost brutal wrath. Had she at once owned that she had accepted Mr. Slope for her second husband he could hardly have felt more convinced of her belonging body and soul to the Slope and Proudie party than he now did on hearing her express such a wish as this. Poor Eleanor!
"See him!" said the archdeacon glaring at her. "And why am I to be called on to lower myself in the world's esteem and my own by coming in contact with such a man as that? I have hitherto lived among gentlemen, and do not mean to be dragged into other company by anybody."
Poor Mr. Harding well knew what the archdeacon meant, but Eleanor was as innocent as her own baby. She could not understand how the archdeacon could consider himself to be dragged into bad company by condescending to speak to Mr. Slope for a few minutes when the interests of her father might be served by his doing so.
"I was talking for a full hour yesterday to Mr. Slope," said she with some little assumption of dignity, "and I did not find myself lowered by it."
"Perhaps not," said he. "But if you'll be good enough to allow me, I shall judge for myself in such matters. And I tell you what, Eleanor; it will be much better for you if you will allow yourself to be guided also by the advice of those who are your friends. If you do not, you will be apt to find that you have no friends left who can advise you."
Eleanor blushed up to the roots of her hair. But even now she had not the slightest idea of what was passing in the archdeacon's mind. No thought of love-making or love-receiving had yet found its way to her heart since the death of poor John Bold, and if it were possible that such a thought should spring there, the man must be far different from Mr. Slope that could give it birth.
Nevertheless Eleanor blushed deeply, for she felt she was charged with improper conduct, and she did so with the more inward pain because her father did not instantly rally to her side--that father for whose sake and love she had submitted to be the receptacle of Mr. Slope's confidence. She had given a detailed account of all that had passed to her father, and though he had not absolutely agreed with her about Mr. Slope's views touching the hospital, yet he had said nothing to make her think that she had been wrong in talking to him.
She was far too angry to humble herself before her brother-in-law. Indeed, she had never accustomed herself to be very abject before him, and they had never been confidential allies. "I do not the least understand what you mean, Dr. Grantly," said she. "I do not know that I can accuse myself of doing anything that my friends should disapprove. Mr. Slope called here expressly to ask what Papa's wishes were about the hospital, and as, I believe he called with friendly intentions, I told him"'
"Friendly intentions!" sneered the archdeacon.
"I believe you greatly wrong Mr. Slope," continued Eleanor, "but I have explained this to Papa already; and as you do not seem to approve of what I say, Dr. Grantly, I will with your permission leave you and Papa together;" so saying, she walked slowly out of the room.
All this made Mr. Harding very unhappy. It was quite clear that the archdeacon and his wife had made up their minds that Eleanor was going to marry Mr. Slope. Mr. Harding could not really bring himself to think that she would do so, but yet he could not deny that circumstances made it appear that the man's company was not disagreeable to her. She was now constantly seeing him, and yet she received visits from no other unmarried gentleman. She always took his part when his conduct was canvassed, although she was aware how personally objectionable he was to her friends. Then, again, Mr. Harding felt that if she should choose to become Mrs. Slope, he had nothing that he could justly urge against her doing so. She had full right to please herself, and he, as a father, could not say that she would disgrace herself by marrying a clergyman who stood so well before the world as Mr. Slope did. As for quarrelling with his daughter on account of such a marriage, and separating himself from her as the archdeacon had threatened to do, that, with Mr. Harding, would be out of the question. If she should determine to marry this man, he must get over his aversion as best he could. His Eleanor, his own old companion in their old happy home, must still be the friend of his bosom, the child of his heart. Let who would cast her off, he would not. If it were fated that he should have to sit in his old age at the same table with that man whom of all men he disliked the most, he would meet his fate as best he might. Anything to him would be preferable to the loss of his daughter.
Such being his feelings, he hardly knew how to take part with Eleanor against the archdeacon, or with the archdeacon against Eleanor. It will be said that he should never have suspected her.--Alas! he never should have done so. But Mr. Harding was by no means a perfect character. In his indecision, his weakness, his proneness to be led by others, his want of self-confidence, he was very far from being perfect. And then it must be remembered that such a marriage as that which the archdeacon contemplated with disgust, which we who know Mr. Slope so well would regard with equal disgust, did not appear so monstrous to Mr. Harding because in his charity he did not hate the chaplain as the archdeacon did, and as we do.
He was, however, very unhappy when his daughter left the room, and he had recourse to an old trick of his that was customary to him in his times of sadness. He began playing some slow tune upon an imaginary violoncello, drawing one hand slowly backwards and forwards as though he held a bow in it and modulating the unreal chords with the other.
"She'll marry that man as sure as two and two make four," said the practical archdeacon.
"I hope not, I hope not," said the father. "But if she does, what can I say to her? I have no right to object to him."
"No right!" exclaimed Dr. Grantly.
"No right as her father. He is in my own profession and, for aught we know, a good man."
To this the archdeacon would by no means assent It was not well, however, to argue the case against Eleanor in her own drawing-room, and so they both walked forth and discussed the matter in all its bearings under the elm-trees of the close. Mr. Harding also explained to his son-in-law what had been the purport, at any rate the alleged purport, of Mr. Slope's last visit to the widow. He, however, stated that he could not bring himself to believe that Mr. Slope had any real anxiety such as that he had pretended. "I cannot forget his demeanour to myself," said Mr. Harding, "and it is not possible that his ideas should have changed so soon."
"I see it all," said the archdeacon. "The sly tartuffe! He thinks to buy the daughter by providing for the father. He means to show how powerful he is, how good he is, and how much he is willing to do for her beaux yeux; yes, I see it all now. But we'll be too many for him yet, Mr. Harding;" he said, turning to his companion with some gravity and pressing his hand upon the other's arm. "It would, perhaps, be better for you to lose the hospital than get it on such terms."
"Lose it!" said Mr. Harding; "why I've lost it already. I don't want it. I've made up my mind to do without it. I'll withdraw altogether. I'll just go and write a line to the bishop and tell him that I withdraw my claim altogether."
Nothing would have pleased him better than to be allowed to escape from the trouble and difficulty in such a manner. But he was now going too fast for the archdeacon.
"No--no--no! We'll do no such thing," said Dr. Grantly. "We'll still have the hospital. I hardly doubt but that we'll have it. But not by Mr. Slope's assistance. If that be necessary, we'll lose it; but we'll have it, spite of his teeth, if we can. Arabin will be at Plumstead tomorrow; you must come over and talk to him."
The two now turned into the cathedral library, which was used by the clergymen of the close as a sort of ecclesiastical club-room, for writing sermons and sometimes letters; also for reading theological works and sometimes magazines and newspapers. The theological works were not disturbed, perhaps, quite as often as from the appearance of the building the outside public might have been led to expect. Here the two allies settled on their course of action. The archdeacon wrote a letter to the bishop, strongly worded, but still respectful, in which he put forward his father-in-law's claim to the appointment and expressed his own regret that he had not been able to see his lordship when he called. Of Mr. Slope he made no mention whatsoever. It was then settled that Mr. Harding should go out to Plumstead on the following day, and after considerable discussion on the matter the archdeacon proposed to ask Eleanor there also, so as to withdraw her, if possible, from Mr. Slope's attentions. "A week or two," said he, "may teach her what he is, and while she is there she will be out of harm's way. Mr. Slope won't come there after her."
Eleanor was not a little surprised when her brother-in-law came back and very civilly pressed her to go out to Plumstead with her father. She instantly perceived that her father had been fighting her battles for her behind her back. She felt thankful to him, and for his sake she would not show her resentment to the archdeacon by refusing his invitation. But she could not, she said, go on the morrow; she had an invitation to drink tea at the Stanhopes, which she had promised to accept. She would, she added, go with her father on the next day, if he would wait; or she would follow him.
"The Stanhopes!" said Dr. Grantly. "I did not know you were so intimate with them."
"I did not know it myself," said she, "till Miss Stanhope called yesterday. However, I like her very much, and I have promised to go and play chess with some of them."
"Have they a party there?' said the archdeacon, still fearful of Mr. Slope.
"Oh, no," said Eleanor; "Miss Stanhope said there was to be nobody at all. But she had heard that Mary had left me for a few weeks, and she had learnt from someone that I play chess, and so she came over on purpose to ask me to go in."
"Well, that's very friendly," said the ex-warden. "They certainly do look more like foreigners than English people, but I dare say they are none the worse for that"
The archdeacon was inclined to look upon the Stanhopes with favourable eyes, and had nothing to object on the matter. It was therefore arranged that Mr. Harding should postpone his visit to Plumstead for one day and then take with him Eleanor, the baby, and the nurse.
Mr. Slope is certainly becoming of some importance in Barchester.


What's making me happy this week: tying up loose ends (see what I did there? 😉 ).
Writing is a lot of fun, and I enjoy pretty much every part of creating a book and publishing it. It still feels really good to wrap up projects—and I'm wrapping up quite a few!
Okay, it sounds like a lot, but compared to the actual writing, it's not that much. Plus, I really enjoy making covers and formatting books (I think that last part makes me a little weird among the Indie community—I don't know that I've heard anyone else say they like formatting).
After these are all wrapped up in neat little bows, I'm turning my attention to a brand new series! I'm really excited to get this one moving and have been sitting on it for a long time. You've probably seen me sharing snippets of it during #1lineWed on Twitter. I'll have more to share about that soon, so stay tuned!


At Epochs we focus on the storied and traditional, but sometimes a modern garment demands our attention; something that seems otherworldy, magical—a futuristic helmet you can't see. But before we talk about it lets go back to 2015.
It was to be the year of the wearable. Smartwatch sales were anticipated to be huge, but sales fizzled out as people failed to find utility in wearables. Glass was a creepy invasion of privacy that was canned, Nike ceased fuelband development. In 2015 wearables underwhelmed.
Google's short lived wearable computer Glass. No longer for sale but "graduated" from the Google X program.
Fitbit's Charge HR. Available from Amazon UK & US.
So much was invested into putting technology onto the valuable real-estate of our face and wrists that there was a blindspot to other areas that were more suitable. In 2015 another, smaller wearable picked up steam. Not a Silicon Valley juggernaut, or kickstarter darling, but a small company run by industrial design graduates out of Malmö. That company is Hövding, and they released the second version of their sole product—Hövding 2.0— in 2015. Hövding 2.0 is a cycling helmet that you can't see.
Hövding is of course visible but it is discreet due to its unexpected location around the wearer's neck. One day a friend asked why I wasn't wearing a helmet. "I am." I replied. He was bemused. Innovative is often thrown around but Hövding truly is a reinvention of what a bicycle helmet can be. Although Hövding sounds like a side-table from Ikea it truly is a ground-breaking invention. Rather than a bulky static styrofoam helmet sitting on your head it's a neat collar that sits silently monitoring for danger. And when it senses that danger?
Hövding's airbag in action. The helmet inflates in a tenth of a second.
The helmet inflates with pressurised gas much like a car airbag and protects your head and neck—a blindspot of current helmet designs. Amazing, right? But it is not without its downsides. The helmet demands a hefty pricetag at £240 or €315. It really has to blow away competitors to justify that markup and people are rightfully sceptical of a new safety product so different from its predecessors. This video (particularly from the 3 minute mark) convinced me.
The video (and its conspiracy theory title) makes a compelling case for the airbag system to replace the traditional helmet entirely. Hövding 2.0 blows away the traditional model in every category. It may not be so far into the future when Hövding copycats and competitors are ubiquitous. We may then look back at traditional helmets as deathtraps akin to the leather "hairnets" early cyclists wore.
An early leather helmet called a hairnet worn by some cyclists into the '80s. Image: Richard Masoner.
Hövding is clearly positioning themselves towards wealthy commuters in Scandinavia and throughout Europe (unfortunately not for sale in the USA yet, sorry American readers). They want the helmet to be synonymous with good taste and sensibility so their press shots are often stylish women and besuited men donning on-brand yellow pocket squares.
Hövding 1.0 press shot. A bit sceptical of the drop-crotch.
The user interacts with the device through a snap fastener/button hybrid. When you're cycling you attach the male part on the zipper to the female part, a yellow-green LED lights up, the device plays a powering on noise and you're ready to go. I would prefer if the speaker were louder though as that positive confirmation can be lost among the background noise of busy streets and traffic.
This of course means though that the device needs a battery. You can check it by pushing in the snap fastener where up to 5 LED lights indicate the charge, similar to the battery check on older macbooks.
This battery along with the other technology that powers Hövding sit on the back of the device between your neck and back. This immediately felt odd to me as it feels very back-loaded standing upright but once I cycled the purpose immediately became clear as it sits more comfortably into the angled pose you take on a bike.
A simple yellow USB cord charges Hövding through a discrete gap in the cover and the LEDs fill up gradually as it charges. Initially I was concerned about water breaching this gap but haven't had any difficulties through a rainy winter. The battery has tremendous longevity having only been charged a handful of times in the months since buying it.
Hövding comes with a default black cover but you can buy various versions to replace an older worn cover or add some personal flair. Version 1.0 had some truly questionable cover designs but it seems Hövding have really upped their game with their new offerings. I opted for a light reflecting dotted pattern as it eliminated the need to wear high-vis clothing at night (available here).
Hövding Airbag Helmet 2.0 Cover 3280. Available from Amazon UK.
Hövding's stitching isn't superb, some elements lack refinement and it's expensive. But it is a truly exceptional product that has reinvented its category, will keep you stylish on the road and may save you your life. Highly recommended.


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Here are a few smaller pieces, recently completed by Natan.
Second, a Tibetan double dorje. In Tibetan the word dorje means "indestructible." The dorje is a spiritual weapon used to banish non-truths and bring in the truth. The dorje is often used in a Tibetan Buddhist ritual, where it is twirled in order to bring in truth.
Third, which perhaps shouldn't be categorized as a "smaller work," is a bright shamrock surrounded by traditional elements (such as a clipper ship and swallow) in black and grey.
Natan has limited December availability before he sets off to Japan, and his January is already filling up quickly. If you would like to book an appointment with him, give Witch City Ink a call at 978.744.9393.
Happy Wednesday! We have a lot of recent works from Natan to show you, and we thought we'd start off with a nice little sleeve post of the flower persuasion. First up is a black and grey lily sleeve on Jodie, who quickly became one of our favorite clients.
This next pic only shows a portion of this sleeve, which also consists of flowers, but is done quite differently than the above lilies. The colors are incredibly vivid — more so than this photo shows!
Moving away from the floral spectrum, one of Natan's clients came in with the idea of wanting waves on his forearms. He was pretty excited about these — and so were we!
As usual, Natan's schedule is filling up incredibly fast, so be sure to give Witch City Ink a call at 978.744.9393 if you'd like to make an appointment with him (even if you want to be tattooed by him at Lightwave — the keepers of his schedule are at Witch City!). As always, keep checking back here for more tattoo photos, travel news, and a little announcement about a customer appreciation party/art show at Lightwave!
Wow, have you done a Google image search for Archangel Michael tattoos lately? Recommendation: DON'T. So many terrible ones come up! Instead, just take a look at the piece below. And this one, which is also a favorite of those who discover Witch City Ink/Lightwave Tattoo. This is also a good time to remind clients that you should always check out a tattooer's portfolio before you book a session with them. Everyone deserves to have a thing of beauty on their body.
From Wikipedia: In the New Testament Michael leads God's armies against Satan's forces in the Book of Revelation, where during the war in heaven he defeats Satan. In the Epistle of Jude, Michael is specifically referred to as an "archangel." Christian sanctuaries to Michael appeared in the 4th century, when he was first seen as a healing angel, and then over time as a protector and the leader of the army of God against the forces of evil.
Two were brought to life on K's forearm this week. Take a look! We highly recommend clicking the image to see a larger version.


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Simon Brett is patron of the West Sussex Writers club, so I have had the pleasure of hearing him speak a number of times. His witty take on the world pervades this pleasing cosy mystery.
When an author event at the local library ends in murder, Jude finds herself a suspect in the waspishly witty new Fethering mystery. Having been booked to give a talk at Fethering Library, successful author Burton St Clair invites his old friend Jude to come along. Although they haven't met for twenty years, Jude is not surprised to find that St Clair hasn't changed, with his towering ego and somewhat shaky relationship with the truth. What Jude hadn't been suspecting however was that the evening would end in sudden, violent death. More worrying, from Jude's point of view, is the fact that the investigating police officers seem to be convinced that she herself was responsible for the crime. With the evidence stacking up against her, Jude enlists the help of her neighbour Carole not just to solve the murder but to prevent herself from being arrested for committing it.
Jude is a thoroughly likeable protagonist, who during the story becomes the chief suspect in the murder. These days, with our overloaded justice system, it's all too believable to see a scenario where she could be imprisoned for perpetrating a crime she didn't commit, so the stakes in this case are far higher than terminal boredom. What turns this readable adventure into pure delight, however, are the acidic observations Jude and Carole both have on the world and the characters around them. Brett doesn't hold back from having a pop at the state of the publishing industry and the struggles rural libraries are having to keep going, amongst other aspects of life in modern England – as well as the protagonists' observations about the other characters they come into contact while on the case. Several times I giggled aloud at a nicely pithy phrase.
Any grizzles? Well, I was rather taken aback at having a crucial scene in the book where Jude is explaining the denouement glossed over in half a page, rather than being given the reactions of the characters involved. As the stakes were so high at this stage, I expected at least the first section to be fully depicted and the fact it wasn't jarred with me. This is, after all, one of the planks of this particular genre and while Brett often successfully plays with readers' expectations, this time it didn't work. However, that is the only niggle and it certainly isn't a dealbreaker. I found the ending not only satisfying, but unexpectedly poignant. If you are looking for an entertaining cosy mystery with a thoroughly modern take on the genre, then go looking for this offering – it reminded me all over again why I enjoy Brett's writing so much. While I obtained an arc of The Liar in the Library from Netgalley, the opinions I have expressed are unbiased and my own.
I've now completed this one and it's really enjoyable:).
This sounds great – it's so good having a book to read thats set in a place that you know, plus I like the idea of all the observations – particularly about rural libraries (although these days many libraries face the challenge of closure).
I discovered Simon Brett last year in a Mrs. Paregeter (sp?) mystery and I really enjoyed his writing style and humor. I wasn't aware he had another series but I'm definitely going to check this out. How great that you've heard him speak!
Oh yes – I've actually reviewed a Mrs Pargeter mystery and he is sharply funny. I think you'd really enjoy the Fethering Mysteries. He also has written the Charles Paris mysteries, featuring a struggling actor who ends up tripping over corpses in all sorts of unlikely places. He is a bit of rogue with an ex-wife he is still rather fond of… It's another enjoyable series:)). Simon Brett is definitely the gift that keeps giving.
Yes – it's a delightful cover, isn't it? And very much echoes the book and its tone. Simon Brett is an accomplished writer.
I can only imagine the fun you must have had "visiting" all the places you know from real life AND depicted by the author who also knows them (versus someone who wrote it basing on Google Maps research).


SymiGoddess: Pretty flowers make my day!
I am happy that I was able to help a fellow CU out, but I wish they would have left a name so I knew who to thank.
Getting flowers really made my day extra amazing.


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Be sure you have sufficient veggies in your diet. Avoid concentrating only on carbohydrates and healthy proteins will not neglect your greens. Vegetables are filled with vitamins and minerals, a couple of things which are absent from high concentrations in proteins and carbo-rich foods. Moreover, they can be excellent types of fiber content. Fiber aids the body become more effective in employing proteins.
Raising hefty dumbbells is productive for a lot of parts of the body, however you ought to prevent weightlifting severe amounts of excess weight while you are hitting the gym by undertaking the neck and throat operate, dips and divide squats. In the event the exercise sets you in a joint placement that may be negative, maintain the weight restriction to a reasonable stage.
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Use visualization exercise routines to photo what you must do today to get to your goals. Having hazy, undefined targets without any genuine sensation of how to achieve them is really a confident route to malfunction. Photo on your own adhering to your training session program and envision what you should appear like down the road. This may make you stay determined.
Try to eat a good amount of carbs. When your body works quick on blood sugar after challenging workout routines, your whole body will make use of muscle tissue for proteins and sugars, undoing your perseverance. Keep away from very low-carb diet programs, and try to eat a proper amount of carbohydrates given the intensity of your routines–probably a number of gr of carbs per lb of weight every day.
When you are over a program to develop muscle, attempt shedding any extra weight you will be transporting very first. You have to consume fewer unhealthy calories than you burn off. Any activity such as mowing the garden, cycle biking or swimming can create a caloric debt. As you may lose fat, you will visit your muscles appear. Then it's time to job them!
It is sometimes complicated to lose excess weight and make muscle mass as well. You need to have a very high-healthy proteins diet to assist your muscles development, but decrease your fat intake as well. Consume food items which can be rich in proteins and low in fat and refined carbohydrate food to lower bodyweight and obtain muscle tissue concurrently.
Try to cycle the food consumption when you find yourself trying to get muscles. The easiest method to do this is to eat properly around the days you workout, and reduce the period that you simply do not. Your whole body will burn off the calorie consumption more effectively if you exercise around the times you eat well.
Ensure that you aren't forgetting your back again. A number of people train simply the muscles they can take a look at within a mirror. As a result, they often have chests which are huge and powerful, but their backside are small and weakened. You may solve this problem by operating your again making use of barbell series and move-ups.
Be aware of the method that you are undertaking incline movements to your uppr chest area. Most guys possess a weakened higher torso, and undertaking incline moves effectively can aid you to develop it. When conducting incline barbell counter presses, have your grips be larger than usual. This lets you acquire more flexibility at the end of every one rep.
Have a window of milk products one hour before you exercise. The proteins within whole milk will allow you to develop far more muscles than you usually would on your workout. You ought to have one more glass once you are carried out doing exercises to permit your muscle mass to recover and develop more proficiently.
To build muscle mass proficiently, you should eat a healthy diet plan. Rebuilding muscle fibres consists of eating the appropriate quantities of a number of nutrients. Protein smoothies are a great way to supplement your daily diet and also make certain you're acquiring proteins to re-establish the muscle fabric right after a exercise routine.
You ought to record your improvement. Weigh oneself routinely or calculate your arms for instance. This can help you find out if you are exercising effectively and it is possible setting realistic objectives on your own. You ought to achieve a reliable progression of your own muscles depending on your previous development.
Discover an issue that assists you to stay motivated. Do not count on with an entirely different physique inside a couple weeks: creating muscle tissue requires months, even several years. You should established a summary of sensible desired goals on your own and find out perseverance. You will fall short when you expect excessive through your physique.
Tend not to devote your money on large instruction methods or supplements. You will get fit and gain volume in a natural way by incorporating basic exercises. Build a very good work out routine and concentrate on performing much more packages or adding another training session weekly as opposed to carrying out a miracle method.
Steer clear of steroids regardless of what some knowledgeable bodyweight lifters let you know. Steroids have been shown to interrupt the body's synthesis of normal bodily hormones. Steroids have shown to damage the liver, lessen very good cholesterol and in many cases trigger guys to increase their breasts dimension. Steroids could cause adverse mood swings, or 'roid rage', and could also give rise to acne. This doesn't noise too eye-catching, appropriate?
Usually do not operate your ab muscles out initial. Save those exercise routines for that finale of your own day's session. Should you overexert your abdominal muscles, they are able to grow to be weak and never assistance the body while in other exercises. This may lead to significant traumas when weight training to train other groups of muscles. Coach your abs inside a individual work out soon after weight coaching.
Now you have perused this part, you probably understand that it is certainly possible to build muscle and enhance your appearance. It just takes the info earlier mentioned and a determination from you to create the muscle tissues you have usually wanted.
You might see muscle bound physiques at the gym as well as on the road and believe that you can't ever have a body that way. The reality is that it is possible to, if you commit on your own and make the function. You only need to understand how to get going. Below are a few best ways to begin to build muscle mass.
Regardless how frequent or extreme your exercise routine periods are, when you are not having adequately, your body will not have sufficient proteins to construct muscle tissue. It is as a result critical to eat dishes typically. You ought to make an effort to eat at the very least 20 grams of proteins every three several hours. In addition, it really is more significant to nibble on frequently rather than to nibble on sizeable servings.
Have health proteins prior to starting a good work out. Whether or not you do have a sandwich with about 4 oz . of lunch time meats, a health proteins club or even a shake, it's essential to remember that health proteins synthesis is what is important for body building. Have your proteins about around 30 minutes to an hour before you start a good work out for best effects.
Will not train one day and abide by it by one more training session another. Usually skip a day between to ensure that the muscles hold the time that they have to fix themselves well before training once again. Unless you let them repair, they will not create as quickly as you desire them to, and also you could find yourself harming on your own.
If you truly want to start getting muscle tissue, think about acquiring a trainer. A trainer is definitely an specialist and has probable been what your location is now. Request a coach about what sort of workouts are finest, what kind of diet regime you have to have and exactly how usually you should be at the gym. Instructors can be a wonderful way to obtain info and motivation so that you can meet up with your own muscle mass building goals.
Don't overlook lifestyle outside of the gym. Whilst muscle building is a great objective with plenty of benefits, keep in mind that lifestyle continues. Some who make an effort to create muscle mass appear to ignore other pursuits make time for friends and relatives. Even better, encourage some of them to a health club together with you. A highly-circular life is a pleasant life, and you may feel happier about body building if your entire every day life is into position.
When attempting to achieve muscle tissue by making use of over the counter health supplements like creatine monohydrate, view the amount you take and then for how much time you are taking it. When you have any renal system circumstances, usually do not use creatine monohydrate! Creatine monohydrate also can lead to coronary heart arrhythmia, pains or muscle compartment symptoms. Young people are even more prone to have difficulties. Just take these nutritional supplements within the proper care of a physician.
Push all your workouts to close to muscle tissue breakdown. Every rep should be moved to a degree in which the muscle can not do yet another established as a consequence of low energy. It will not flat when you start off lighting and raise to maximum weight, you must make sure not subject what body weight you might be employing you press to low energy.
Understanding the number of sets that really work for you is important for building muscle bulk. A lot of professionals recommend you need to do close to twelve to sixteen collections for your personal large muscles, such as your rear, chest area, and legs, contributing to nine to twelve units for the small groups of muscles, including your calves, shoulders, and biceps and triceps. Even though this may well work for a few people, this could trigger other individuals to overtrain or undertrain. That is why you need to know how your whole body reacts to routines.
A fantastic idea for growing muscle that is often ignored is getting a sufficient level of sleep. The body cures itself and changes although getting to sleep. For that reason, when you don't get an ample amount of it, you aren't letting your body the opportunity to do these matters. If you are training difficult, aim for a minimum of 8 time of sleep, or more.
Steer clear of assessing yourself to other people in the club. It might be useful to view other people to discover their type, new workout routines, or new kinds of equipment, but immediate assessment is just not beneficial. The reason being all of us have an alternative body type what works for you may well not work with others.
Employ a power carrier in order to prevent a barbell from crushing you whilst carrying out a large squat. Plenty of squat shelves contain pins that may be set up beneath the maximum squatting degree. In the event you reach malfunction over a rep, you can just allow the excess weight to decrease to these protection pins. For that reason, you don't need to bother about weightlifting greater than you are capable of.
Use your very own entire body if you are training. Body weight exercise routines, which include drive-ups, draw-ups, lunges, and dips, can cause you to encounter more muscle and durability results. In case you loved this post as well as you wish to get more info relating to życzenia na 18 generously visit our own web page. Due to this, these types of work outs are an essential aspect of a solid workout program, and they will be provided.
Will not neglect the value of relax in muscles development. Truth be told, progress basically happens throughout rest, when you are not getting enough of it, your muscled will not expand or be sufficiently conditioned. Training induces muscle tissues, and through relax your body actually gets to just work at constructing the muscle tissue. You must know this procedure and element relaxation into the muscle mass conditioning or developing program.
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While muscle building generally corresponds to a rise in body weight, you must not be very impressed if your overall bodyweight does not raise. Your absence of web weight gain could be related to weight reduction caused by a decrease in extra fat offsetting your muscle obtain. There are several tools and techniques that path body-fat reduction. You can use them to account for this.
If you would like enhance your muscles constructing capacity, make sure you take in anything after a work out. Try to eat in an hr of concluding your workout. Preferably, your snack or meal need to contain a health proteins plus a carbs. This foods will receive your body began doing the items it must do to begin to build muscle tissue.
When performing ab crunches to create abdomen muscle mass it is essential to keep the neck protected. When performing crunches a great way to protect your neck area is always to force your mouth facing the roofing of the jaws. This should help you to position your mind and reduce the volume of tension you place in your neck.
Ensure you are ingesting enough food items to aid new muscles expansion. A lot of people have trouble with not ingesting sufficient to assist the kind of growth they are attempting to obtain. In case you are attempting to lose weight and build muscle mass concurrently, ensure you are having foods rich in protein to help with muscle mass expansion.
Tend not to overwork the body. So that you can construct muscle tissue, your body needs the opportunity to recover. When beginning, work your higher in one time, then work your reduce physique the next day. Acquire one day off every week that you do no workouts in any way. This will make the exercise a lesser job.
Stay away from evaluating yourself to others at the health club. It may be useful to observe others to find out their type, new exercise routines, or new kinds of gear, but direct comparing will not be valuable. The reason being people have a different body type what works for you might not help others.
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A single difficulty that could trouble someone looking to maximize muscle building would be the muscle tissue that increase slow as opposed to others. Use complete sets to target your issue muscle groups. These brief groups of 25-30 repetition workouts can goal individuals problem groupings if it's completed a minimum of a few days and nights following your last tough work out.
Very good sleep works well together with your muscles-constructing initiatives. Considering that body building and recovery work together, you need to be certain the body is becoming all of the sleep it requires. No acquiring enough sleep or rest can interfere with muscle mass building results and might lead to personal injuries.
Have reasonable and reasonable objectives for your self. The ideal challenging bodies are the consequence of considerable time and effort, so don't anticipate to resemble a body building planet champ following a couple of weeks of training. Have got a reliable and wholesome prepare and allocate you to ultimately it over a duration of time. You will observe results and carrying it out in the wholesome and determined manner is going to be more healthy to suit your needs.
Whenever you are working out to be able to build muscle groups, you should have a properly-outlined objective under consideration. Attempt to increase the volume of reps you need to do, the maximum weight that you apply, or maybe the overall period of your workout. As a way to truly increase your muscle tissue, as opposed to simply exercising them, you must place them continuously challenged.
Try out partial reps in order to increase muscle groups. This procedure involves performing representatives with a decreased range of motion. On occasion, they are named pulse reps, and they are generally carried out at the end of a established as soon as you strike failing. Despite the fact that you possibly will not have sufficient durability to carry out a full rep, you can try out some partial reps before you attain breakdown a second time as a way to set much more demand on your own muscle groups.
Use the relaxation-pause method in your workouts. This process claims that your particular muscle tissues normally acquire as much as 90Per cent of the durability way back in only a matter of 10 to 20 mere seconds. In order to do it properly, select a large body weight which can cause you to attend breakdown in a particular repetition, including 8 to 10 representatives, after which cease after simple few repetitions. Relax for 10 to 20 mere seconds, and then cv your repetitions.
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When trying to build muscles, it is important to ingest the best meals. In case your initiatives to include large are stagnating, it may be simply because you have an not enough nutritional consumption. To provide volume, you need to eat a minimum of 4000-6000 energy on a daily basis from food products, which are caloric heavy. A few examples of calories-packed foods are noodles, nuts, eggs, bagels, trail blend and steaks. Since fresh vegetables have low-calorie-density, continue to keep their intake as low as possible.
Weightlifting large dumbbells is fruitful for several body parts, nevertheless, you must prevent raising excessive amounts of excess weight when you are exercising by carrying out the neck and throat work, dips and break up squats. When the exercising sets you within a joint situation that may be unfavorable, keep your bodyweight limit to a acceptable level.
Force your workout routines to around muscle breakdown. Each rep must be moved to a point in which your muscle can not do yet another set up as a consequence of low energy. It does not matte should you start off light-weight and boost to greatest bodyweight, you have to be sure not make a difference what body weight you happen to be utilizing you drive to exhaustion.
Consider various your order you do workouts. Those who workout usually do exercises from behavior. However, it is essential that you change the workout routines around so that you can advertise further muscle mass expansion. Try out reversing an order of your respective typical regimen. This allows you to do more heavy weights on the workouts which you usually do previous, that may boost the expansion of all those distinct muscles.
You wish to maintain driving until the body actually reaches close to malfunction. Breakdown is triggered as soon as your physique is not going to let you do go any longer with your education since it is just too tired. Once you start your program for the day, start off heavy and lessen the quantity of bodyweight which you lift, so that you can consistently raise even with your body is worn out.
Spread out your exercises out so that you are merely weight training every other day. Invest 1 day exercising your complete system, then use the following day to relax. The muscles will develop while you rest, not while you are training. Although it may well seem like you are carrying out absolutely nothing in your time off, your whole body remains to be spending so much time.
While you become more familiar with exercising, it's extremely vital that you ensure that you change the quantity of weight you lift up. Once you get stronger, you happen to be both going to have to boost your bodyweight or your representatives to acquire that water pump you need for achieving more muscles growth. Try and boost slowly the quantity of body weight you elevate to ensure that you don't overexert yourself.
Obtain an suitable restrict on your own, but never quit till you get to the restrict you add. When conducting your sets, carry on until you literally are unable to go further. If you need to, lessen your set length.
Compute your diet absorption to organize with body building exercises, for more quickly and results. In the time you exercise routine, eat well and consume plenty. Ingesting the best foods about one hour before your training session will increase the outcomes, but make sure not to overeat or ingest unhealthy foods as this can be detrimental to your body building attempts.
Body building is definitely a interesting activity, yet it is one who demands planning and data to protect yourself from damage. Don't just operate to the gym thinking that one could learn along the way. Sometimes go together with a highly skilled good friend or perform a little research ahead of time to be aware what should be expected.
Free of charge dumbbells are much better for muscle development size than machines. Models have their employs, but force our bodies into rigid motions. With cost-free dumbbells, you may raise a lot more with better range of motion. Additionally, they help to improve your body's balance, of which equipment are incapable. Additionally, when you work out in your house, totally free dumbbells are less costly and occupy a reduced footprint than models.
Muscle building and cardio exercise routines go together like peanut butter and jelly. In addition both of them work on the same, they also have a superior degree of synergy with each other. This means that which include some light working to your routine may have large leads to your muscles.
Use ingredient exercises to more proficiently add mass for your muscle tissue. Exercises that focus on one particular group of muscles are great later on, just make sure are trying to bulk up generally speaking, it's better to hit several muscle tissues that you can all at once. Take-ups, chin-ups, leg squats, deadlifts and counter presses are typical wonderful workout routines that actually work several muscle tissues.
When you're attempting to bulk up muscle mass, it could be important to consume with greater frequency. Professionals recommend ingesting some proteins a minimum of every single three hours to be sure that your whole body carries a stable provide. It can utilize this healthy proteins to construct muscle mass more proficiently than in the event you consumed more infrequently.
Now you go more than this informative article, you have to have a greater comprehending on how to create muscle. If you're completely ready, there's virtually no time like nowadays to begin. Just allocate yourself to creating your muscles and consider what you've acquired from looking over this to have the muscles constructed nowadays!
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You most likely think that body building is a matter of perseverance and dedication. These items are of help, but all of your hard work will likely be misused should you don't construct muscles inside an productive manner. Keep reading to learn a number of the techniques to productive muscle building that can be used within your day-to-day routines.
As a way to build proper muscle mass, it is very important that you simply consume an appropriate diet plan. Your body needs the correct nutrition and also ample energy in order to provide the power your muscle mass will need to enable them to re-establish following an intense workout. Your diet needs to have the proper level of healthy proteins and carbs.
Look at ingesting a health proteins shake before starting your unwanted weight-education routines. Liquefied vitamins are usually assimilated more rapidly within your body than solid meals, so think of possessing a shake filled up with proteins, about 10 to 20 grams. The protein shake will help provide you with a increase of proteins to promote protein functionality, the approach to building muscle groups.
If you want to build muscle mass and get greater muscle groups, you should concentrate on about three simple workout routines which will construct bulk, raise conditioning, and increase strength. These training are the squat, table push, and deadlift. These are crucial inside your weight-instruction regimen in some kind or any other.
Don't just forget about life outside the gym. When muscle development is a superb target with lots of benefits, do not forget that lifestyle continues on. Some who make an effort to create muscle tissue seem to overlook alternative activities make time for relatives and friends. Better yet, bring a few of them to a health club with you. A nicely-rounded every day life is a pleasant lifestyle, and you will probably feel better about muscle development if the rest of your every day life is set up.
Push your workouts to near muscles breakdown. Every single repetition should be forced to a point where your muscle simply cannot do another set up because of exhaustion. It does not flat in the event you start gentle and increase to maximum excess weight, you need to ensure not make a difference what weight you will be utilizing you press to tiredness.
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In order to be sure that you have the most beneficial muscle mass development you may, it is important you conduct compound exercise routines. They are exercises which are designed to function multiple muscle groups in a single activity. An excellent illustration is actually a squat, which utilizes both the muscle tissues inside your hip and legs plus your core muscle groups for just one movement.
You ought to be centered on what you will be striving to obtain while looking to build your muscles. Tend not to workout for strength and concentration on cardio when trying to construct muscles. Cardio and weight training are a good combo, but they will contradict the other for those who have unwanted aerobic in your body building routine.
Offset chest area and shoulder presses with some groups of pulling exercise routines, for example draw-ups, move-downs, and lines. Balancing your exercises by doing this will help to exercise the muscle tissue which can be neglected through the presses, which will in turn lead you to bulk up more quickly and boost your power.
Carbs are your close friend when striving to construct muscle tissue. If you are working out tough your body utilizes substantial numbers of sugars fueling your system and trying to keep you heading. If you do not have sufficient sugars to gasoline your exercising, your whole body will breakdown muscle tissue for healthy proteins to keep you proceeding, and you will get rid of volume.
In case you are undecided about what workout routines to accomplish on a regular basis, throw in a lot more dips, drive-ups and chin ups. These exercise routines have withstood the test of energy in their proven capacity to create higher-body weight. Nor will they be probably going to be exchanged by other opportunities soon.
If you are not visiting a variation after several days of intense training, evaluate your body fat. Perhaps fat is gradually transforming into muscle groups, and you also are not going to a variation with your excess weight. This is a great factor: once your unwanted fat is decreased, it is possible to construct muscles.
Enhancing the fullness of your own tricep muscles is very important. Although cable tv click downs is quite effective, you should do over head actions to get true tricep muscles size. Rearing the arms above your mind enables you to extend the very long head of the triceps, that enables it to agreement a lot better than if the arms are at your ends.
Still problem your body. When you start lifting weights you are going to attain a level as soon as the weightlifting gets simple. When this happens add more bodyweight. By continuing to struggle your system you will help you to make the amount of intensity that a majority of effectively tears downward muscle tissue, so your body carries on to offer the possibility to build it back up.
You can keep your exercises clean and reinforce your determination amounts by transforming increase your program every now and then. Keep in mind that a brand new program will need some test-and-mistake time as a way to great tune its efficiency. Creating a powerful regimen is significant company. So, don't restore your entire schedule greater than three or four instances a year.
To find the best effects when attemping to develop muscle tissue, change your regimen usually. Doing the identical workouts repeatedly for several weeks on finish may cause your leads to plateau, so find approaches to combine it and work each group of muscles by changing your program. You could possibly change the amount of repetitions, the workout routines you carry out, or the concentration of each and every exercise.
Yet again, work and dedication are important parts of muscle mass building, but they aren't as vital as knowing what you're performing. After reading this short article, you have to have an improved notion of what techniques work to build your muscle tissue. Make use of the tips you simply read through to increase your capability to build your own muscles.


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Addressing an international audience comprising heads of states, European Union officials, Greek cabinet members, foreign maritime ministers, board members of the Union of Greek Shipowners, chairmen of international organisations as well as 1.500 VIP guests, the Greek Prime Minister said: "Greek shipping owns the largest international commercial fleet operating 20% of the global and 50% of the European capacity.
This economic activity is responsible for a significant portion of the gross domestic product of Greece. It is worth noting, that the 2017 receipts from Greek shipping activity exceeded the Euro 9 billion mark, showing an increase of 20% compared to 2016.
The Secretary General of the International Maritime Organisation, Mr Kitack Lim, said: "We must ensure that the opportunities presented by modern 'mega trends' like digitalization, artificial intelligence and the so-called 'fourth industrial revolution' are carefully integrated into shipping, balancing the benefits against safety and security concerns, the impact on the environment, on international trade, and on the human element.
On behalf of the organisers, Theodore Vokos, Executive Director, Posidonia Exhibitions S.A., said: "This is the biggest Posidonia in the event's 50 year-long history as over 2,000 exhibitors from 92 countries will participate. Posidonia's continued growth reflects Greek Shipping's global leadership position and its constant strive for excellence, by investing in highly qualified personnel, new technology and environmental friendly state of the art solutions for their fleet.
The constant fleet renewal and diversification pursued by the Greek shipping industry serves as a confirmation that the Greek shipping community will continue operating the largest fleet for many years to come. Posidonia is now established as a unique policy forum where the leaders of the international maritime community can meet and debate the important issues that face the maritime industry".


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In today's episode of The Edge we break down the world's simplest mindfulness exercise to bring yourself back to the moment. But, just because it's simple it doesn't mean it easy. Check out today's video to learn why your breathe is the anchor to the present moment. And, how you can use it to refocus back on the task at hand.


Got an xbox one s with two controllers today.
Set it up, redeem game pass etc.
The download speeds seems slow as hell compared to the PS4 (both wireless) so I decided to put it to sleep... but can't find it. So put on "instant on" option.
Does it even stilll download in that mode?
Also I'm looking at Alan Wake (360) but it wouldn't display price. Entered password but it comes up not available in my region. Can't find an option on the Xbox website for the full game. I'm sure there was a digital version of the full game before or am I imagining things?
Yeah it will download in instant on. You can also push games at it in that mode too.
There's no sleep mode like PS4 unfortunately. "Instant on" will kind of get what you want there.
Alan Wake isn't available to buy digitally anymore which is why you can't purchase it (not available in the region). That method is how you buy 360 stuff on Xbox One though so you did the right thing even though it feels weird compared to buying Xbox One content.
If you want to play Alan Wake you could try getting a physical copy of the game, or a new physical copy of Quantum Break which should have a DL code for Alan Wake and it's DLC.
Might as well look for a copy of Alan Wake seeing that Quantum Break is on Game Pass.
CDKeys still sell Alan Wake for a fiver.


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Q: Filtering a dataframe column with another column in a separate dataframe I have a dataframe table (table_1) that contains 3 cloumns:

Iteam ID
Date / time
Date / time

12
2022-03-21 - 00:27:00
2022-03-21 - 00:28:00

99
2022-03-21 - 00:25:00
2022-03-21 - 00:26:00

34
2022-03-21 - 00:22:00
2022-03-21 - 00:23:00

28
2022-03-21 - 00:21:00
2022-03-21 - 00:23:00

I want to be able to filter the column Iteam Id with the data in another data-frame column (table_2).

Iteam Id

12

34

28

So the output would be:

Iteam ID
Date / time
Date / time

12
2022-03-21 - 00:27:00
2022-03-21 - 00:28:00

34
2022-03-21 - 00:22:00
2022-03-21 - 00:23:00

28
2022-03-21 - 00:21:00
2022-03-21 - 00:23:00

I have tryed creating a new dataframe using:
    new_df = table_1[table_1['Iteam ID'].isin(table_2)

But it is returning an empty dataframe, any help with this would be much appreciated!

A: You should use the correct column instead of the whole dataframe:
new_df = table_1[table_1['Iteam ID'].isin(table_2['Iteam ID'].values)]

A: Just merge (inner join) them :
out = df1.merge(df2, on='Iteam Id')

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Nothing's transparent Ear 1 earbuds get blacked out for stealthy special edition
By Andy Boxall	 December 1, 2021
Are the Nothing Ear 1 true wireless headphones, in that ice-cool white and transparent finish, a little too stark-looking for you? If so, then you'll probably really like the new version just announced. This is the Black Edition of the Nothing Ear 1 in-ear headphones, and while they retain the trademark transparent casing, the white color has been replaced by black for a stealthy aesthetic.
The Nothing Ear 1 Black Edition has a classy mix of dark shades, with the body of the earbuds in matte black with gloss black collars, and the transparent plastic over the stems adding shine to the black components inside. The case's transparent lid is now smoky black rather than completely transparent, the molded inner section is black, and the various metal parts that were polished on the first version, are also in black to complete the theme.
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There's another, arguably more important thematic reason for the introduction of the Black Edition, as the company has also announced the Ear 1 is carbon neutral. Nothing has worked with several third parties to assess the headphones, and will add the 1.78kg carbon footprint data to the Ear 1's latest packaging.
The Ear 1's audio and charging technology are still the same though. That means sound is delivered through a pair of 11.6mm drivers inside the IP54-rated 'buds, complete with Active Noise Cancelation (ANC), three microphones that cancel out wind noise during calls, Fast Pairing for Android phones, wireless charging for the case, and up to 34 hours total use time. Just under six hours of use is expected from a single charge.
Listening to the Black Edition
The Nothing Ear 1 in-ear headphones were released in August and we gave them a glowing review at the time. The release of the new Black Edition is a great time to revisit the Ear 1's to see if they still impress. I picked up a few other sets of in-ear headphones to compare with the Ear 1 Black Edition — Apple AirPods Pro, Bang & Olufsen Beoplay EQ, Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro, and Adidas Z.N.E. 01 ANC. I chose Nogizaka46's Boku Wa Boku o Suki ni Naru, a song with strong soaring vocals that really benefits from a natural, neutral sound profile. It's a "lossless" version purchased from the Apple Music store.
The Nothing Ear 1's have a bright sound and a wide soundstage but are slightly lacking in bass using the default sound profile. And while the vocals sound good here they lack the power I'd ideally like to hear. Samsung's $199 Galaxy Buds Pro get the baseline just about right and are just as bright as the Ear 1, but are generally more controlled, balancing the vocals with the rest of the track more successfully.
Apple's $249 AirPods Pro are warmer, but also struggle to really bring the vocals to the forefront. However, they remain a very pleasurable listen. The $189 Adidas Z.N.E. 01 ANC are bass-heavy and although the vocals are central in the soundstage, they get lost among the unnecessarily amped up bassline. Bang & Olufsen's $400 Beoplay EQ are by far the best here, as you may expect considering the price difference, with a controlled bass thump, sparkling vocals, and a wonderfully wide soundstage.
After listening to the Beoplay EQ's I swapped back to the Nothing Ear 1 Black Edition, and the brightness was the most noticeable difference, along with less controlled handling of the high-pitched vocals. When I listen to spoken word or make calls with the Ear 1's, they perform just as well as all the others on the list. They are definite competitors to the Apple and Samsung 'buds, much better than the Adidas earbuds, and although they can't take on the wonderful sound of the Beoplay EQ's, it's extremely hard to recommend paying another $300 just to get them, unless you're really into the best sound you can get, price-no-object.
This is really where the Nothing Ear 1's win, as combined with the excellent comfort — they are so light you can wear them for hours with no fatigue — great ANC, wireless charging, and decent battery life, the $99 price makes them not only very tempting, but a shrewd purchase in the jam-packed world of true wireless headphones.
How to buy the Nothing Ear 1 Black Edition
The new Nothing Ear 1 Black Edition will be available from December 13 through Nothing's own online store and through its retail partners, for $99 or 99 British pounds. Additionally, if you're in London you can try to grab a pair of the first 100 models to be released, each individually engraved, from a special pop-up location in Seven Dials, Covent Garden from December 4. Because there are only 100 available, you'll probably have to be quick to get them.
Nothing is also adding a new way to pay for the Ear 1 Black Edition: Cryptocurrency. In the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Canada, and various European countries including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland, Bitcoin, Ethereum, USD Coin, and Dogecoin will all be accepted through Nothing's online store.
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