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[unfortunatesassycannibals]

watching the baghera & jaiden convo from baghera's pov was so satisfying, like watching someone pick all the correct dialogue options to unlock the Secret Information

[casscainmainly]

Duke and Bruce: A Question of Definition

When re-reading Cursed Wheel, I was struck by this exchange. Suspicions around Bruce's motive for taking in Duke is a running thread in their relationship, but what fascinates me about this moment is that Duke is using this suspicion against Bruce. He knows Bruce will be hurt by this accusation. More than hurt - Bruce's "maybe" suggests uncertainty, a lack of faith in himself. In this exchange, Duke and Bruce are both uncertain of what they mean to each other, and both troubled by that uncertainty.

This uncertainty runs throughout their time together. I'm going to try to track Bruce & Duke's dynamic through the years; basically, this post collects my disparate Bruce-Duke thoughts from my full Duke read. So warning that this is a LONG post.

I will probably contradict takes I've had in the past but you live and you learn 😭. Also the Bruce-Duke dynamic shifts a lot so this is not definitive or 100% correct - lots of these moments can be interpreted differently! But with all that said, let's jump into Zero Year!

The Beginning

Duke and Bruce first meet during the disaster called Zero Year, where Riddler blacks out and floods Gotham:

Batman (2011) #21

At its core, Zero Year and Endgame are about Bruce's relationship to Gotham. Duke says "He thinks you're dead[...] ever since he killed the city." Batman's death becomes intertwined with the city's death; in the reverse way, Duke in Bruce's mind will become intertwined with Gotham. This exchange sets up their relationship as reciprocal: Bruce gives Duke his fish, and Duke gives Bruce information. From the beginning, they have equal need for each other.

Batman (2011) #30

After Duke's parents rescue Bruce, Bruce tries to persuade Duke to leave Gotham. Duke replies: "No. We're here." Duke's decision to stay in Gotham directly influences Bruce to stay as well - here, we begin to see Bruce linking Duke to the city. This issue establishes that their relationship in some ways revolves around the city itself.

Batman (2011) #38

Then, Joker arranges for Duke and his parents to star in a re-enactment of the Wayne murders. Bruce manages to rescue Duke only, and then Bruce asks Duke to help him find a first aid kit for Jim. This scene parallels their first meeting in #21 (see the fish panel above!), with one handing something to the other. Their positions are flipped: this time it's Duke handing something to Bruce. The flipping nods to the 'reciprocity' aspect, and also to the way they parallel and will continue to parallel each other (particularly in Snyder's writing).

But this is also the first moment of genuine connection between the two of them! Bruce asks Duke to be a "friend," and they fist bump. Nowhere near familial, but a bit more intimate - this intimacy is more on Bruce's side than Duke's though. Duke still sees Bruce as primarily Batman, but Batman begins to think about Duke as an individual. This one-sided growing intimacy is a core tenet of their dynamic.

Symbols and People

Let's address this 'one-sided intimacy'. To Duke, Bruce is Batman first and foremost, and he criticises Bruce whenever he's not:

Batman (2011) #47

To Duke, Bruce is just anybody, but Batman? That symbol "inspire[s]" people, and "no one could be [Batman] but you!" His faith in Bruce is entirely tied to the Bat symbol. Concurrently with his growing understanding of the Robin symbol in We Are Robin, a large part of Duke's early story is about symbols as markers of community and hope. He prioritises Batman's relationship to the city over any relationship he personally could have with Bruce.

Bruce's view of their relationship has shades of this too. He tends to describe Duke in terms of his effect on the city:

From Batman & The Signal #3 and Batman: The Secret Files: The Signal respectively, both of these are about Duke's potential to benefit Gotham. The latter in particular shows Bruce idealising Duke as the 'perfect' Gothamite, a "represent[ation]" of the city's best.

This kind of idolisation skates close to early Bruce-Cass, particularly the idea of Duke being the 'best' (analogous to Bruce calling Cass 'perfect'). But Bruce does not go as far as he did with Cass. Other Duke fans have said this, but in a lot of ways Bruce is actively trying not to fall into previous parenting/mentoring failures. So he tamps down this symbolisation with lines about Duke as a specific person:

Batman & The Signal #1

"Something independent of the past, and... of me." The wording here is so careful, so constructed to highlight Duke's agency and to separate Duke from Bruce's previous relationships. Bruce also separates Duke from himself, avoiding the projection that was characteristic of, yet again, early Bruce-Cass. I'm Cass-brained so I'm mostly using Cass but these pitfalls occur for his other kids as well. Bruce does see Duke as a symbol of Gotham/hope, but he also knows the importance of seeing Duke as an individual with agency.

Bruce's struggles drive him to differentiate Duke from the other Robins, to cover him in bats but allow him to work during the day, to constantly show how important Duke is to him personally but only verbally acknowledge Duke's importance to Gotham. He ends up simultaneously pulling Duke into the family (offering him the manor, giving him a Batsuit, working alongside him in All-Star) and accepting Duke's distance (allowing him to work in the daytime, giving him his own cave, putting him on the Outsiders).

And Duke, being the detective he is, notices.

Insecurity

A ton of Duke stories feature people telling Duke he doesn't fit/shouldn't be here:

Dark Nights: Death Metal Robin King // Cursed Wheel Part 2 // Cursed Wheel Part 6 // Detective Comics (2016) 983

Duke brushes some of these instances, but he does internalise some of it. See Batman and the Signal #1 and Cursed Wheel Part 6:

Duke's insecurities are not about Bruce alone. They're about being unable to find community, represented by the Batfam in both cases. But Bruce is a huge factor in the insecurity, and the Cursed Wheel panel in particular is so evocative for me. The way Duke frames it - "They found a way inside with you" - suggests that Duke is expecting Bruce to help him. He doesn't want Bruce's approval, but he does need Bruce to help him through this, in the reciprocal way they've always helped each other.

But I think Bruce's struggle to define what Duke means to him, as I outlined above, is part of why Duke feels Bruce isn't helping him. Duke begins to question Bruce's motives in taking him in:

Batman and the Signal #2 // Dark Days: The Casting

Bruce shuts it down every time (including in Cursed Wheel Part 6), but it doesn't really make Duke feel better. "I chose you because of who you are / I only wanted to be there when you decided what you were going to become." Bruce consistently highlights Duke's agency/individuality as the reason he took him in, but it just doesn't jibe with what actually happens - not Bruce giving him two suits, putting the bat on him, etc. And Duke sees that inconsistency, so anytime Bruce pulls out an 'it's just because you're cool Duke,' it doesn't ring true. They both know that's not Bruce's entire motive.

That brings me to the panel I opened this post with. Duke questions whether Bruce took him in for self-serving reasons, and Bruce pauses before saying "maybe." Duke hits on the reason for Bruce's inconsistent behaviour - Bruce himself is uncertain about his motives for taking Duke in, and afraid they are selfish. This uncertainty in turn sows insecurity in Duke, because he values and desires transparency. As long as Bruce is unsure about why he took Duke in, Duke cannot be fully comfortable in his position in the Batfam.

Parenthood

But what's the root of Bruce's uncertainty? Right before the Cursed Wheel argument, Bruce suggests moving Elaine and Doug away. What Duke says - 'maybe you took me in out of guilt' - is a paraphrase of what a Jokerised Elaine told him earlier. This argument, and Bruce's uncertainty, revolves around Duke's parents.

Bruce is kind of the reason anything happens to Duke's parents anyway (since Joker mimics the Wayne murders), but Bruce also promises Duke everything will be alright:

Batman (2011) #38

Duke doesn't blame Bruce for what happened to his parents or his inaction on finding them - he calls Bruce's amnesia 'selfish', but it's more a general critique than a personal one. But I think Bruce does blame himself for failing to keep his promise. I'm extrapolating a lot because we don't really see any of Bruce's feelings, but thinking of his reaction to Duke's mom's absence in Batman: Urban Legends #18:

Jefferson says Duke is going to make a mistake that he'll "never forgive himself" for, but they "owe [Duke] more than that". This is pure extrapolation but I like to read this as touching on Bruce's guilt for never having found Duke's parents earlier, something he'll never forgive himself for. He owes Duke, which is why he becomes hell bent on finding Elaine when she goes missing again. But if he's guilty at this point, then the guilt could have run through their entire relationship.

Which makes things so complicated!! Bruce feels guilty about not saving Duke's parents; Bruce loves how much Duke loves his parents; Bruce thinks it's not good for Duke to spend so much time thinking about his parents; Bruce also, maybe, a little bit, wants to be Duke's parent. Thinking of this tidbit from Detective Comics #984:

Bruce warns Jefferson about how he should treat Duke, and the very first thing he says is that Duke "won't want another father figure". This shows that a) Duke and fatherhood is a touchy subject and b) it's a subject at the forefront of Bruce's mind. This wording also leaves it ambiguous whether Bruce considers himself a 'father figure'. The next line is nonsense about Duke respecting Bruce too much to 'challenge' him, which is plain wrong, but it does show that Bruce is not very clear what his relationship to Duke is. He's not exactly a 'father figure,' but neither is he a stranger like Jefferson. This in-betweenness is repeated by Duke in Batman & The Outsiders (2019) #1, when he says "You're not my father. And you're not Batman." Batman occupies this nebulous role in Duke's life, orbiting fatherhood but never quite touching it.

Though I think this discomfort around fatherhood is more on Bruce's side, nebulous fatherhood is also a motif for Duke. In Batman & The Signal, Gnomon's presence disrupts a lot of Duke's beliefs about 'family'. We don't have too much on Duke's feelings about Gnomon (recurring thing... sigh) but we do have morsels:

Batman: Urban Legends #18 // Batman: The Secret Files: The Signal

Gnomon makes Duke question Doug's 'father' status; simultaneously, Duke struggles with this idea of 'trading' his WAR family for the Batfamily; then, in Urban Legends, Duke imagines his mom accusing him of loving his dad more than her. All of this shows Duke is deeply troubled by familial replacement - he's terrified of losing his family, particularly Doug and Elaine, because he's found other people he considers family. Bruce figures as both a symbol of the Batfamily and as a possible-father, undergirding a lot of Duke's fears here. So while Bruce more overtly grapples with the way their relationship is defined, Duke also struggles with it.

It's why Duke imagines Bruce under 'family' in Batman & The Signal #3, and then immediately amends it to 'mentor' and 'friend'. In a way, Duke's namelessness in All-Star Batman is a symbolic encapsulation of how neither of them name what they mean to each other.

Our Best Selves

BUT while their relationship is complex and filled with uncertainty, it can also be a really beautiful, really healing thing for both of them.

All-Star Batman #3

Bruce has a long history of shutting people out and being dishonest, which has landed him in hot water with his allies many times. But Duke, who represents honesty and truth, allows him in turn to be honest. Duke knows Bruce needs someone to hear him talk about Harvey, and Bruce knows that Duke needs the truth. And they offer each other what they need, as they have from the very beginning.

Bruce does this for Duke, too, in Batman: Urban Legends #18:

Duke has been working himself to the bone trying to find his mom, to the Outsiders' worry. But it's Bruce's appearance that allows Duke to finally talk about what he's been working on. This panel just really gets me because Duke is talking to all of them but looking straight at Bruce - at a man so entangled with Gotham, with what happened to Doug and Elaine. He wants Bruce to understand. Bruce does.

They are both people who have such a deep love for Gotham, for their parents, who believe in rehabilitation and the goodness of people. And they'll always save each other.

All-Star Batman #5

All-Star Batman #5 // Batman (2011) #50

So actually this section is about the random Duke appearance in Detective Comics #982. Deacon Blackfire tells Bruce that Gotham is cursed, and the issue takes Bruce through ruminations about underserved Gotham neighbourhoods, the role of community, and ends with him watching the sun come up with a little boy. IT'S SO DUKE, like everything Duke stands for, but it's also what Bruce stands for too!! And what's interesting is that when Bruce is told he's alone, he imagines Dick, Babs, Damian, and Duke. Duke says, "we're out best selves because of you."

The Duke-Bruce relationship is a reciprocal one, so Bruce may bring out the best in Duke but Duke also brings out the best in Bruce. And they both believe in the best of people, the best of the city. They are both in love with Gotham, with their families, and they both deeply believe in rehabilitation and promises. They are their best selves because of each other.

Conclusion

In Cursed Wheel Part 4, Duke decides to keep his parents on the premises. He tells Bruce that no matter what his parents say, the truth is that they love him, and he can take it. And Bruce smiles.

Because even though Bruce was the one who suggested moving his parents away - even though he may want Duke to be in his family - he loves Duke because he would never let his parents be moved. Through all of the symbols they make out of each other, all of the slippery definitions of fatherhood, friendship, and mentorship, they are two people who fundamentally get each other. Duke gets where Bruce is coming from with Harvey, and Bruce gets what Duke needs (with the daytime, with the Outsiders, with finding his mom).

The best Bruce-Duke moments are layered with an intimacy that isn't necessarily familial, but is also not strictly teacher-student. They've grown close, but they are also still independent of each other - and though I don't think either of them will ever fully say what they are, that's not so important. They may never be fully free of the uncertainty that underlies their relationship, but they love each other, and the indefinability of their love doesn't make it any less strong.

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Dear magisowo

I just moved into a new home, and, on paper, it had everything I needed: close to my university, walkable city, and no low hanging lights I can hit my horns on. On paper, that is.

See, the issue started the day I moved in. The landlord gave me my keys, and I went inside. The interior was nice, however, as I quickly discovered, my new home was already inhabited by a multitude of ghosts, who were, to their credit, just as confused as me.

They're not troublesome spirits, far from it, but i was under the impression that a landlord had to disclose things like this before you sign the lease. (But it is my first time renting, so i may be mistaken) Either way, the landlord isn't returning my phone calls.

According to Martha (oldest ghost in the house, very motherly) none of them were informed the house was even open to new tenants. We're willing to compromise and try to live together, but as of right now, it's.. crowded. I wasn't prepared for roommates and they weren't prepared for me. Do we have any legal options here? I'm not looking to get them kicked out, of course, just wondering if we could get compensation from the landlord.. or at the very least a second bathroom.

- sincerely, one very cramped were-goat

(With the supervision of Martha, Daniel, Priya, Micah, Suki, and Horace, amiable ghost-roomies)

Hello!

We’re sorry to hear you were taken by surprise in such a way! Let us first assure you that your landlord should indeed have told you that the building you were renting is haunted. Not doing so is a violation of the duty to disclose that every landlord has towards their tenants.

Even if your landlord was not aware of the haunting (which, though unlikely, is possible if they lack all second sight) it is still their responsibility to have their property inspected for such things. Considering you are Sighted yourself and are not opposed to sharing with the ghosts, we are guessing you’re not looking to get out of your lease, but it is certainly grounds to renegotiate your rent.

When it comes to the rights of your ghostly housemates, that is rather more tricky. Our current laws still state that the incorporeal cannot have legal possession of physical property, but there are various provisions in place to protect their well-being. The following people may be able to help you:

The Dial-a-Ghost Agency, experts in (re)housing haunting spirits. In case any of your housemates wish to relocate.

The neighbourhood mediums of our Medium-ation Programme. They usually mediate between people like yourself and the spirits haunting them, but they also have a great deal of knowledge on the ghostly and will be able to communicate with your housemates.

If necessary we can help you find a lawyer specialising in tenancy law, or an Incorporeal Entity Advocate that can look into your housemates' options.

Sincerely,

~ the MagISoWo Team  

[aressida]

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My old entry: "Cognitive Dissonance."- Aressida. 30.12.18

“Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values.

This discomfort is triggered by a situation in which a person’s belief clashes with new evidence perceived by that person.”

Cognitive dissonance can be created by outsiders, in an effort to create confusion in the minds of those they wish to control, wearing them down until they cannot see it straight, and give up.

This is why people get upset when their beliefs are challenged.

A mental conflict occures when beliefs are contradicted by new information.

This conflict activates areas of the brain, involved in personal identity and emotional response to threats.

The brain’s alarms go off when a person feels threatened on a deeply personal and emotional level, causing them to shut down and disregard any rational evidence that contradicts what they previously regarded as ‘truth.’

What if you don’t experience discomfort from it?

Perspective is everything, I can easily entertain several different views and understand and support each one.

I have already found a way to make that disconnect between logical thought, critical thinking and emotional investment in a particular outcome or answer.

How do I do it?

Seeing the world in shades of grey at first is s bit disconcerting, but you have to realize that there is no answer, to a lot of things, because answers are most definitely dependent on perspective.

Even if someone doesn’t get something right, it does not mean they’re wrong.

Or try pretending you are sitting in the middle and watching things in a detached fashion.

That way things do not affect your emotions and you are able to make rational decisions and judgements for yourself.

Discerning intuition from mere ’emotional reaction’ is a highly sophisticated process.

One ought never dismiss true inspiration ( inSPIRI(T)-ation ) from emotional knee-jerk reaction.

The difference is subtle but extraordinarily important.

The greatest inventors and leaders trust their gut.

It made it easier to de-program after being red-pilled.

If the information that you are receiving, is scaring you, or making you resist, that is the information that you need to confront.

The hardest thing for human beings to do, is to update their beliefs based on current information.

Mental denial.

Mental constipation.

Reset needed.

Bypassing cognitive dissonance is an art worth studying.

What we should strive for is “optimal” Balance.

Being able to view and reconcile many perspectives is a sign of a balanced mind.

If you are seeking the answer to the meaning of life, ask a child.

They understand things in the most innocent and simple of terms.

Valuing truth and remaining humble and teachable helps minimize the difficulty in disgarding a belief once it exposed as false. When truth is valued, there is gratitude, safety, life and freedom in obtaining more of it whenever possible.

We see more and more of this as the Cabal controlled Media is shown for the Fake News they are.

This phenomenon is easily observed by truth seekers or, as Media likes to call us, “conspiracy theorists” because, we learned long ago, to question known liars and always think with a pinch of salt.

“Critical feeling” is key to critical thinking.

There is a great book called The Liberal Mind-The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.

The series of disconnects (hypocrisies) involved to create identity conflict that are mind blowing and somewhat entertaining.

It is really informative.

It really goes into developmental theories, policies, and many other theories that are normally not considered in this topic.

Intelligence is logical and emotional in nature.

In order to reclaim your sovereignty, a being must learn to watch their own thoughts and emotions with patience.

You learn how to weave logic and emotion into the totality of your senses. Compassion and evidence light the way.

I love art and writing therapy.

It helps with my self-expression, and my self-reflection, leaving a visual aid of the feeling/situation to further analyze.

Being able to throttle your emotional out put is so key to inter-personal relationships and your basic understanding of the world.

In my opinion and speaking from experience that emotion is what drives you to seek knowledge.

Emotion brings you here, logic helps decide your path.

Balance is necessary.

Emotion is the drive, Logic is the steering wheel.

[gravitascivics]

SHOULD ONE LISTEN TO SOCIAL SCIENTISTS?

From this blog’s February 19, 2021, posting, the following is offered:

The very first sentence of a book by the Nobel Prize winners Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo about economic challenges is “We live in an age of growing polarization.”[1]  Early in their book they cite the following: 

81% of Americans who identify with one of the major parties has a negative opinion of the other party;

61% of Democrats classify Republicans as being racists, sexists, or bigots; 55% of Republicans dismiss Democrats as spiteful; and

Roughly one of every three Americans expresses disappointment if a close family member were to marry someone of the opposing political party.[2]

Other works cited in this blog support this overall descriptive conclusion by providing further relevant statistics.[3]

With that backdrop, the citizenry, according to press reports, has been feeding on misinformation from social media.  The claim here is that if one strives for a future that incorporates a federalist general view of governance and politics – one in which citizens view fellow citizens as partners in the nation’s federated union – this general state of the citizenry is not helpful.

More specifically, this blog promotes this federalist view and for that view to be viable, people need to agree, to a significant degree, on what is objective truth.  And for that to take hold, there must be sources of information generally accepted as reliable.  Since the years of the Enlightenment, Western civilization has looked to science as an important source of such truth. 

Here, this posting visits the science of economics and “asks” a pair of honored economists, the above cited Banerjee and Duflo, as to the standing economists enjoy – or suffer through – as being truth sources among the American people.  In doing so, this posting provides an interview format in which this blogger will offer questions he believes the Nobel Prize winners answer in their book, Good Economics for Hard Times. 

Of course, this is an imagined interview in which this blogger selects passages from the book to answer the questions he is posing.

Question:  Much has been said about the current political environment and most of it has not been positive.  How would you describe the times?

Answer:  “We seem to be back in the Dickensian world of Hard Times, with the haves facing off against the increasingly alienated have-nots, with no resolution in sight.”[4]

Question:  And in terms of governments – particularly the US government – what has been the response of such a “world”?

Answer:  “[N]ations are doing very little to solve the most pressing challenges of our time; they continue to feed the anger and the distrust that polarize us, which makes us even more incapable of talking, thinking together, doing something about them.  It often feels like a vicious cycle.”[5]

Question:  What has been the response of economists to these conditions?

Answer:  “Economists have a lot to say about these big issues.  … What the most recent research has to say, it turns out, is often surprising, especially to those used to the pat answers coming out of TV ‘economists’ and high school textbooks.  It [the research] can shed new light on those debates.”[6]

Question:  You two have been quoted as to the degree in which Americans do not trust what economists have to say.  Can you elaborate?

Answer:  “[Regarding how respondents answered our questions they] tended to be more pessimistic than the economists … Our respondents were also more likely to think the rise of robots and AI would lead to widespread unemployment, and much less likely to think they would create extra wealth to compensate those who lost out. … [But] the key finding is that, overall, the average academic economist thinks very differently from the average American.  Across all twenty questions [we used], there is a gaping chasm of 35 percentage points between how many economists agree with a particular statement and how many average Americans do.”[7]

Question:  Generally, how has this chasm between economists and the American public affected your view of the well-being of the American nation?

Answer:  “From this, it seems a large part of the general public has entirely stopped listening to economists about economics. …

The … goal [of our effort] is to share some of [economists’] expertise and reopen a dialogue about the most urgent and divisive topics of our times.

            For that, we need to understand what undermines trust in economists.”[8]

Question:  How, generally, do economists share your concerns?

Answer:  “The Economist magazine once computed just how far the IMF’s [International Monetary Fund’s] forecasts were off on average over the period 2000-2014.  For two years from the time of prediction (say, the growth rate in 2014 predicted in 2012), the average forecast error was 2.8 percentage points.  That’s somewhat better than if they had chosen a random number between … 2 percent and 10 percent every year, but about as bad as just assuming a constant growth rate of 4 percent.  We suspect these kinds of things contribute substantially to the general skepticism of economics.

            Another big factor that contributes to the trust gap is that academic economists hardly ever take time to explain the often complex reasoning behind their more nuanced conclusions. …  Today’s media culture does not naturally allow a space for subtle or long-winded explanations.”[9]

Let this blogger retake the helm.  What seems to be at the heart of this state is the nature of the social sciences, not just economics. 

For one thing, as J. Robert Rossman and Mathew D. Duerden point out, each person is unique, and if a science sets out to explain why humans behave the way they do, the number of factors are basically overwhelming.[10]  Even at the group level of analysis, too many things – mostly unpredicted – come into play.

          Comparing economists to physicists and engineers, Banerjee and Duflo state, “Economists are more like plumbers; we solve problems with a combination of intuition grounded in science, some guesswork aided by experience, and a bunch of pure trial and error.”[11]  And they add, they, economists, get things wrong regularly.

          So, where does all this lack of certitude leave civics teachers or those counting on the social sciences to provide truth?  It leaves them, according to these economists, with a reality similar to how medicine leaves people; that is with good guesses based on factual claims that solicit enough faith to justify courses of action.

And that surely outperforms mere ungrounded intuition, random guesswork, or other forms of prognostication.  The next posting will add to this review of economic “truth” and how it can be better directed toward the needs of a federated citizenry.  With that, one would benefit by relying on social science findings, at least as one compares them to other sources of information.

[1] Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times (New York, NY:  Public Affairs, 2019), 1.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Robert Gutierrez, “Who to Trust,” Gravitas:  A Voice for Civics, accessed December 2, 2023, URL:  https://gravitascivics.blogspot.com/2021_02_14_archive.html.

[4] Banerjee and Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, 2.

[5] Ibid., 2-3.

[6] Ibid., 3.

[7] Ibid., 4.

[8] Ibid., 4-5.

[9] Ibid., 6.

[10] J. Robert Rossman and Mathew D. Duerden, Designing Experiences (New York, NY:  Columbia University Press, 2019).

[11] Banerjee and Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, 7.

[systematic-advice]

From Syscourse to Agony Auncles

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Asks/ Message Times ~ Please do not pressure us to reply to your asks or your messages. This is a blog we run in our spare time which can be sparse. We will always do our best to answer as soon as possible, but we sometimes lack the energy. Remember, if we burn out we won’t be able to answer anything! It is however okay to check in and make sure we got it in the first place!

Endos/ Tulpas ~ If you plan to interact, please know I am only interested in hearing from you from a learning standpoint. If I suspect you are here to either try to mock us or to attempt to sway us into radical inclusiveity neither is going to change our minds. If you come to us respectfully we will match your energy, at least most of us will.

DO NOT ATTACK OUR FOLLOWERS - If you have rage to direct at someone, direct it at me. We designed this blog to absorb some of the harassment other Systems face so if please bring your anger over here.

Spelling/ Typos: Most of the System suffers from Dyslexia and cognitive issues. This means our hands don't always hit the right keys and our brain doesn't always catch it. We spell phonetically very often so we might not catch that either. If you want to point out a spelling mistake or typo, please do so respectfully. We edit posts to fix typos/ spelling mistakes.

Correcting Misinformation- We are always happy to learn. If you see something we post that seems off, please feel free to approach us respectfully and fill us in. We don't bite, we just sometimes feel a bit dumb for a while.

Kins - This is a topic the blog avoids discussing. While much of the kinning community makes us uncomfortable, those who participate in them are allowed to interact. We simply will not reply to asks or DMs about the topic.

Diagnosis ~ While we have had education in psychology and we do plan to finish our education eventually, at the moment we are NOT professionals. This means that no matter how much you share with us in terms of your System symptoms WE CANNOT DIAGNOSE YOU. The BEST we can say is ‘That lines up with our experiences/ the experiences of others we’ve met’ and move on.

Crisis Support ~ We are very happy to give you advice and allow you to rant as needed, we will support you in any way we can. With that said, try to remember that we are a System dealing with trauma as well. We are not crisis counsellors. If you are in immediate distress please see this list of international crisis helplines.

➼ DNI ❖ ~

Necrophiliacs

MAPS/ Pedophiles/ Paraphiles/

Proshippers

NSFW specific blogs (This isn’t the place for that.)

Anti LGBTQIA+/2S (We recognize that 2S people are separate from the LGBT, but we welcome our 2S family. People outside the Indigenous Community should not use this term.)

Anti MOGAI

Nazis

TERFs or LGBT+ Exclusionists (Like Panphobs)

Anyone participating in Fatphobia

We will add more as they come up.

[askcharaandfriends]

lets say for some reason the afac tumblr blog show up what reaction ould thay have?

Like everyone from the AFAC blog?? All at once? Well we have a crossover planned but I think *everyone* going over at once would break something. So here's some hypothetical meet up responses based on what I think the characters would do. F[person] is from AFAC. C[person] is from ACAF. F for Frisk. C for Chara. This hypothetical interaction takes place post memelord. This is also assuming Frisk is a little more mellow now and not about to cause trouble immediately but still not fully "reformed" but people are hypothetically chill with them.

F. Frisk: Hello new world! It's good to be here! I wonder what other me is like this time!? I hope they're nice! I bet they're nice!

C. Frisk (appearing in front of them): What are you and why do you look like me but alive and so... sunshiny...

F. Frisk: ooo you're a ghost?? So you died? I'm so sorry! But how does it feel? Is it weird being a ghost? Are you doing ok? Did you ever think about becoming a Skeleton monster? My friend Chara was a ghost and then they became a Skeleton monster! Maybe you can do that!!

C Frisk: (sarcastically) ooo you're human?? So you're alive? I'm so sorry! But how does it feel? Is it weird being made of flesh? Are you doing ok? Did you ever think about dying? Did you consider eating a pie of buttercups?This is you. This is how you sound. Do you think before you speak?

F. Frisk: Oh.... so it's that kind of world, huh? One where I'm in Chara's place and Chara is in my place? Kinda... swapped or something?

C.Frisk: What are you talking about?

F. Frisk: I don't think I can tell you because spoilers, but just know everything will be ok! It'll all work out! Oh! And if Chara makes you a strawberry ghost cake, you should eat it because they worked really hard on it!

C. Frisk: thanks???

***

F. Chara: You're alive? Ok... [thinking] (I wonder if it's like that one time or something else... awe man, I hope I wasn't rude just now. I would find that very rude and make a sarcastic comment. I hope they are not as like me as they look... for multiple reasons)

C. Chara: Um well, greetings. Welcome to this world? [Looks at the Frisks, then looks back at F. Chara] So, your Frisk is alive but you are a Skeleton and you were surprised that I was alive. I'm just guessing here, but I think maybe you're like switched with Frisk or something?

F. Chara [relieved]: or something eh heh...

C. Chara: judging by the fact that you're a Skeleton and not trying to um... hurt people I'm guessing you've gone through some character arcs and now you're cool? Please be cool. My Frisk just did this um... possession thing?? But there were like memes or something and a rainbow dance??? And it was cool but also weird. You're not going to do that here, right? (Though I guess you can't because you're not a ghost anymore... )

F. Chara [cringing from their past]: no. I promise to be good.

C. Chara: oh! Ok cool! We're cool then! Would you... like to see my chocolate stash? It's all magic chocolate, so you shouldn't have a problem with it.

F. Chara [finally relaxing into themselves]: is that even a question? =)

C. Chara: =)

***

F. Papyrus: Greetings! I am the Great Papyrus! You also Look like Papyrus! Is that true? Are you another Papyrus?

C. Papyrus: i am. though maybe not as great. you look good Papyrus. you seem happy.

F. Papyrus: I am! Lots of good things have happened to me in my world! I made lots of friends! I have a boyfriend! I am captain of the royal guard!

C. Papyrus: is that so? sounds nice! you've really got it figured out, huh? i'm happy for you. [He is sincere, but a little sadness creeps in]

F. Papyrus: Thank you Papyrus! But um... are you doing ok? I know I, the Great Papyrus can go with very little sleep sometimes, but you seem like you have gone a very long time with very little sleep. I am sure, as Papyrus, you can handle it. But even Papyrus's need rest sometimes.

C. Papyrus: you know me too well, Papyrus. i do have trouble sleeping at night sometimes. but i try to make up for it by napping.

F. Papyrus: Egad! A Papyrus, Napping! It's worse than I feared! You, Papyrus, and I, Papyrus are going off to have a "self care day"! Literally because we are caring for our "selves"! Nyeh heh heh!

C. Papyrus: good one, Papyrus. ok. you know what, yes. i will take you up on that "self" care day.

F. Papyrus: That's the spirit, Papyrus! You are looking better already! Nyeh heh heh! [F. Papyrus scoops C. Papyrus up and runs off]

***

C. Sans: There they go... Looks like fun! Do you wanna do that too?

F. Sans: nah. let's just... hang out for a sec. so, you're me, huh? i heard there was a lot of us out there- many much Sansi. how do you feel about that? knowing that there are so many other versions of "you?" not knowing which one is the "real" you. realizing you might not be the best version of "you." that you could even be one of the worst-

C. Sans: Hold on there, pal. Your spiraling in negativity. This is also "me" you're talking about, you know? You're going to hurt my feelings.

F. Sans: oh! um... sorry. i didn't mean it like that. it's just weird to think about i guess.

C. Sans: It's ok, Buddy. I'm thinking maybe you have your reasons for thinking like that. Some bad things that happened in the past, like what happened to my brother. He gets like this sometimes. I will tell you what I tell him: Sometimes bad thoughts come because of what happened and that's ok- normal even. Having bad thoughts doesn't make you a bad person. Just don't dwell on those thoughts too long. When you realize you are having bad thoughts you should take a step back and examine them. Then shoo them away with thoughts about things you like: your brother, for example.

F Sans: that's... really good advice. thanks, me.

C Sans: No problemo, amigo. We're both pretty Sansational after all!

F Sans: eeyyyy! [Finger guns]

C Sans: Eeyyy! [Finger guns]

***

F Gaster: I have seen many Gasters from my time in the void (and one in person). They varied vastly in form and personality. You however, look a lot like me except...

C Gaster: i am a ghost in a cloak? yes... i see your Hermann is like this as well. so you experimented on your own wife?

F Gaster: Did you have to say it like that? I was desperate!

C Gaster (in a more informal accent): relax, mate. i was only jokin'. i would do the same thin' in your place. ( i mean i am you after all, ain't i?) i already forgave my wife for what she did to me, so i'm not about to give ya a 'ard time. it must've been rough, imagining livin' without her. you did what made sense, even if it didn't make sense. does that make sense?

F Gaster: um...

C Gaster: brilliant! how about i make you some orange tea? i know i like that.

F Gaster: I did, but I had a rather unfortunate accident involving said tea, and I haven't liked it very much since.

C Gaster: let me guess, piranhas?

F Gaster: How did you know??

C Gaster [nods sagely]: my Hermann had the same exact problem not too long ago, except our piranhas are fond of lemons. hate oranges though. maybe you should try orange tea again, if you are going to be staying a while- just in case.

F Gaster [thinking of the lemonade he had earlier]: Yes ok, let's try it then.

C Gaster: Great! you can give me your insight on my latest scifi idea! i'm thinking it will be a buddy comedy about this one guy and his doppelganger from another universe and their hilarious hijinks and misadventures!

F Gaster [nervously]: Greeeaaat...

***

F Hermann: Ok, Ok, So you're like me, but like a science nerd like mí amore, sí?

C Hermann: Cierto. I guess you are an author/ comedian like my husband? However... he writes scifi. If I was an author, my preferred genre to write would be...

F Hermann: ;3

C Herman: Mira a tú cara! It is that, isn't it?!

F Herman: ;3

C Herman: nice. Podemos leer eso? -3- you did bring some of your books, didn't you?

F Hermann: I thought you would never ask. I have a few of my favorites in my phone's box .

C Hermann: vamos a mí cuarto. Just so we can talk about it without...

F Hermann: of course. Let's go.

***

[I hope my spanish was good. That's all I will do for now. It was a lot of writing, but it was fun]

[todaysdocument]

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s informal remarks on the occasion of the dedication of the 100,000th housing unit, in Terrace Village, Pittsburg, PA, 10/11/1940

“...we have been learning steadily, all over the Nation, more about the need of better housing for our citizens. It has taken initiative and at last we are getting examples like this.”

File Unit: First Carbon Files, 1933 - 1945

Series: Speeches of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 - 1945

Collection: Papers as President, President's Personal File, 1933 - 1945

Transcription:

INFORMAL REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT

ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEDICATION

OF THE 100,000th HOUSING UNIT, IN

TERRACE VILLAGE, PITTSBURGH, PA.,

OCTOBER 11th, 1940.

-----

MR. MAYOR, MR EVANS, MY GOOD FRIENDS OF PITTSBURGH:

I have come here today very informally on what is essen-

tially a trip to educate myself, to learn about what is happening

for national defense in this section, and at the same time to look

over some of these projects that have, as the Mayor said, a great

deal to do with national defense.

I go back over more than a quarter of a century to the

first study in this country of any importance that was made in

relation to the problem of better housing. It was done here in

Pittsburgh over a quarter of a century ago and it seems to me that

from that time on we have been learning steadily, all over the

Nation, more about the need of better housing for our citizens. It

has taken initiative and at last we are getting examples like this.

In this particular project of the U. S. Housing Authority

there is contained the one hundred thousandth family dwelling unit --

all of them built through that one agency. Say there are five people

to the family. Well, that would account for five hundred thousand

Americans. That is not very much out of one hundred and thirty mil-

lion and therefore we know that this work had only started and that

it has got to go on.

Still, half a million people represent a pretty sizeable

crowd and we must remember that in other methods, other forms of

building houses in this country we have added -- in addition to

those five hundred thousand people we have taken care of nearly

two million more people who have been given better homes.

All that represents another phase of Democracy at work and

we have here a representation of intelligent and sympathetic cooper-

ation between the Federal Government and the local agencies of gov-

ernment. The Federal Government, through the Congress, provided,

initially, funds with which these buildings were built. The homes

were conceived and constructed under the direction of the Housing

Authority of Pittsburgh.

And may I say that these homes are a monument to the de-

votion and the perseverence of the leaders in this housing movement

in Pittsburgh. Not only this section but every other section of the

Union is richer for having antiquated, squalid shacks replaced by

these bright, decent houses. You know, everything wears out in time,

or it gets obsolete, and it is a mighty difficult thing for us to

ask our population to live in obsolete or worn.out houses that were

built 75 or 100 years ago.

The jobs and the homes of most of the people in our

country constitute a part of their stake in the Nation. As long

as they know that their government is sympathetically working to

protect their jobs and to better their homes, we can be confident

that if the need arises the people themselves will wholeheartedly

join in the defense of their homes and the defense of their democ-

racy.

And so I regard these housing projects everywhere as a

part of the program of defense. You are doing a grand job. Do more

of it and speed it up.

-----

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[gracehcreates-bct]

11/03/20 - form Mis ation

After a team meeting on Monday we decided to lose the “Offline vs Online Persona & Ego” and the “Mass Hysteria” concepts, in favor of Misinformation/Fake news.

In class we were asked to make a statement of intent, so Jordan created a doc detailing:

Overview of the Project

Define the question that frames your project interests

How does the new age of communication affect the spread of misinformation and what are its consequences? 

Due to the internet, information is able to be accessed anywhere around the world almost instantly. On top of this, we are constantly being bombarded by new information. What are the consequences of this? We can get overstimulated by information and we need to learn how to evaluate information quickly (true, fake, click-bait, exaggerated).

Define the aims and outcomes of your proposed project

To educate and inform people of the speed in which information spreads and the possible consequences

Make people aware of this issue that lies within the bigger issue of having information overload 

Description of the Intended Work

Detail what you intend the user to experience

Aim for the user to endure an (interactive?) immersive experience by utilizing multi-sensory components

Define how you will use research to inform the development of your work

Use statistics and rates (eg. how fast information can spread), i.e. tangible data objects

List the key references and other important sources that locate your research

Journalism, fake news & disinformation: Handbook for journalism education and training. UNESCO Publishing

Manczer, F. (April 17, 2017). The spread of misinformation in social media [slideshow]. Indiana University, Bloomington

https://www.slideshare.net/FilippoMenczer/the-spread-of-misinformation-in-social-media

Kamiz, D., and Katz, R. (2020). Navigating fake news, alternative facts, and misinformation in a post-truth world. McGill University.

Method

Using a multi-sensory experience we will hope to express our ideas on the topic through an interactive installation (as in the user can change the outcome?)

ACTIVE + REACTIVE INTERACTION

RECIPROCAL DESIGN

Sound design

Colour and lighting

Touch sensors

Detail the materials you intend to use

IDEA 1- Magnets

Using the idea that the same pole of a magnet repels another

IDEA 2 - Pipes

The user has the ability to change the course and outcome of sound

IDEA 3 - Web/strings

IDEA 4 - Waves/impulses. 

Focusing more on the spread as opposed to the content (data visualization)

IDEA 5 - Mirrors

The more mirrors there are, the less clarity you get as the picture continues to get skewed

Playing on the idea of Chinese whispers where a message changes as it keeps getting retold

Distorting or changing the image in different ways to represent each type of misinformation (misinformation, disinformation, malinformation) visualize the “intent of harm” on each type

IDEA 6 - Ripples

Motion tracking/pressure sensors tracking people’s steps (which symbolise placing down information and triggering its spread)

The spread of misinformation is almost similar to the spread of a virus

Lights creating a ripple effect

Visualising the spread of information

Inspiration

Colour Factory Co

https://www.colorfactory.co/

Expression Wall

https://redpaperheart.com/work/expressionwall

Outcome

We will judge our outcome though how well we were able to express the idea of our concept in a fun and thought-provoking way. 

How does the final outcome answer the question(s) you defined in the overview of the project?

Shows a visualization of how information spreads (it’s speed, across what medium etc.)

At the end of the day I suggested we each make a low fidelity prototype for next Wednesday.

[raendown]

Chapter: 6/9 Pairing: MadaraTobirama Word count: 3745 Rated: M Summary: Walking patrol around a university for mages probably sounded like a wild time but Tobirama has never found it all that exciting. He’s not even technically supposed to be here. When responding to a tripped alarm becomes a desperate attempt to stay alive, however, excitement is the last thing on his mind. All he’s ever wanted is a quiet life alone with his books until he finds himself bound to Uchiha Madara in the most impossible way and finally learns to think about more than just himself - in a way.

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Chapter 6

After a solid eight minutes of nonsensical screaming Tobirama was dead sure that neither one of the Uchiha brothers even know what they were saying anymore, let alone knew what the other one was yelling about. Clearly neither of them was bothering to listen to the other. He knew damn well Madara could feel how irritated he was getting but apparently that mattered less than continuing to flap his jaw and show off how powerful his lungs could be. If Tobirama didn’t stop them it was anyone’s guess how long they would have continued on like that; really he was cutting in for their own good. Honest.

It had absolutely nothing to do with the headache already brewing behind his left eye.

“Both of you shut the fuck up!” he cut in at last, startling the two of them in to blessed silence. Madara, at least, had the decency to finally pay attention to how he was affecting his partner and assume a chastened look.

“Who put you in charge, freak?” Izuna did not.

“You did when you so clearly demonstrated the fact that you’re still an ignorant child at heart. Now, we can stand around all day screaming in each other’s faces or we can all go inside and sit down with a pot of tea like civilized adults.”

Tobirama waited but his derision seemed to have rendered Izuna speechless so he turned to open the door with a smirk on his face and Madara’s hand still firmly in his grasp. He’d gone through an entire class period with only brief contact to keep the pain at bay and he’d be damned if he gave it up again now just because somehow his partner’s annoying little brother had shown up unannounced after decades of being gone.

He kept a weather eye on the younger Uchiha as they all snaked through the maze of his front room, suspicious every time he saw the man’s limbs go anywhere near his carefully stacked books, but lucky for Izuna they all made it in to the living room without incident. Just to be a subtle dick he paused before sitting and gave Madara’s hand a squeeze as a silent offer for him to choose their seat. As expected, he chose the loveseat where they would both have enough room to be comfortable but they would be close enough to always have an excuse to be touching. Izuna’s jaw was tight and his lips pinched in barely suppressed rage as he widened his stance and refused to sit.

“Are either one of you going to tell me what the hell is going on here or am I supposed to guess? Because I’ve got to tell you, I don’t like where my guesses are going.” He sneered down at their entwined fingers.

“Bold of you to assume either one of us care what you like or don’t like,” Tobirama said. He wouldn’t have felt bad for his sass either way but feeling Madara’s amusement was like getting double icing on a cake he was already eating.

“What are you doing here, brat?” his partner chimed in at last. “Last I heard you were somewhere in the western countries.”

Izuna huffed and crossed his arms tightly. “I was. And I was chasing something big until that friend of yours sent me a letter and called me back here, said my skills were needed to figure out what happened to you. And he didn’t give me any more details than that! I was fucking worried! But I get all the way here and find you holding hands with Snow White over here? You’ve got to be kidding me, Aniki!”

“He called you back here to help with this?” The smirk on Madara’s face drained away to be replaced with furrowed eyebrows and, without seeming to give much thought to his actions, leaning further against Tobirama in search of comfort. “I know he said he hadn’t found anything yet but I didn’t realize he had no clues.”

“Alright, come on. You’ve got to give me something here. Are you guys playing a prank on me or something? Did you get married when I wasn’t looking?” Izuna gestured wildly between them, clearly upset by their proximity.

Since they obviously weren’t going to get any information out of him until he had the answers he wanted Madara sighed and straightened up a little. Then he paused to give Tobirama an apologetic look despite the fact that Tobirama had not verbally expressed his disappointment.

“It’s…hard to explain,” he began.

“Try,” Izuna interrupted drily. Madara flipped him the middle finger.

“Let me talk, then!”

“So talk!”

Already done with this non-conversation, Tobirama checked out entirely and retreated inside his own head. He was well aware that doing so would be to allow Madara the opportunity to wildly miscommunicate what had actually happened to them but since it was Izuna he really could not have cared less. Izuna’s opinion mattered to him about as much as a bit of dirt clinging to the bottom of his shoe. Why should be bore himself listening to an explanation of something he had already lived through just for Izuna’s benefit?

For however long the two brothers were busy interrupting each other he stared off in to space and mentally went back over the last chapter he and his partner had been reading in one of their library books. The link between them flashed wildly between irritation, fascination, indignation, and a whole host of other ‘ations’ until finally Tobirama was brought out of his thought by a gentle nudge against one shoulder. He looked up to find Madara with his lips pursed together in a serious expression.

“Did I miss anything fun?” Tobirama asked.

“Izuna was just telling me about Hashirama’s letter,” Madara said. Nodding, Tobirama set all thoughts of his book aside and gestured for Izuna to go on.

He got a prissy look in return but that was fairly par for the course when it came to the two of them.

“As I was saying, Hashirama sent me a letter that said you were in trouble and he needed help figuring out what happened. So, since everyone knows I’m the best at that shit, he asked me to come back to the university and sniff around a bit.” Izuna took a deep breath and looked around before finally throwing himself down in the closest available seat, the squashy armchair. Madara sent their favorite perch a longing stare.

“When he said he had someone looking in to things I thought he meant there was already someone looking in to it, not that he had sent for you. Not that I’m not happy to see you,” Madara hurried to add when his brother gave him a look. “You know I appreciate your visits.”

“Uh-huh.”

“I do! You don’t visit enough.”

“Funny,” Tobirama murmured. “And here I thought he visited too much.”

He managed not to laugh out loud but it was a close call when he could feel Madara’s amusement bleeding through as well. Brothers loved as hard as they hated, that was true almost the world over. It was good to know he wasn’t the only one who caught a laugh from watching their sibling suffer a little bit.

At least this particular sibling would be useful now that he was here, as much as Tobirama hated to admit that. Izuna bragged about being the best at what he did and unfortunately he was right. From a very young age he had known what he wanted to do for a living and, after carefully arranging his class schedule to train him in the right ways, he had left the university with only a few short years of education under his belt. Barely a century later and his name was known across several different countries as one of the best when it came to investigative magics.

Rolling his eye in exasperation, Izuna took his turn flashing a middle finger and sank down further in the arm chair, pausing before he spoke again to shift around as though only just noticing how comfortable it was.

“Whether you like it or not I’m here now. So I might as well do the damn job I’m getting paid for.”

“You’re not doing this one pro bono for your dearest brother?” Tobirama asked mockingly.

“No. Mads didn’t hire me, Hashirama did, and he can pay for my services just like everyone else does. So, you got anything to add to the account that might help me figure out what the hell happened?” The way Izuna’s gaze sharpened it was clear that he had slipped in to work mode and Tobirama grudgingly admitted he could respect that. He knew the feeling of giving himself over to his craft.

With a shake of his head he admitted, “I wasn’t listening but Madara probably covered all the important points. You told him about the snow, right?”

“The snow?” Izuna’s eyes narrowed and Madara frowned.

“Don’t look at me like that, there was snow everywhere! None of it looked special!”

Tobirama sighed. “No, you idiot. The snow around the spot where the transportation seal was laid. Remember? That I told you there were no whispers from the snow?”

“Oh. I forgot that part.”

“Aniki, you always forgot the most important details. That is exactly the sort of thing I need to know! If Tobirama’s element was telling him no one had been through there recently then that means the trap was laid in advance – well in advance if the snow had time to forget.”

“Unless there were no whispers because it was fresh,” Tobirama mumbled. He frowned when the other two stared at him with wide eyes. “It wasn’t snowing when we stepped outside but I very rarely pay attention to the weather. For all I know it could have just fallen, which would explain how the glyph came to be underneath everything without the snow remembering.”

“Shit, I never thought of that,” Madara admitted.

It was slightly jarring to see him and Izuna made the exact same face while they sank deep in to thought. Tobirama wrinkled his nose in irritation as he look back and forth between the two men, spotting all the differences between them just to make himself feel better. Any connection to Izuna was a terrible thing in his books. His distaste must have been stronger than he thought because Madara lifted his head a moment later to give Tobirama a flat look that told him to stop being stupid.

Their silent conversation drew Izuna’s attention as well and it was a relief to see that his irritation looked nothing like Madara’s as he watched them interact, face pinched like he’d been force fed a lemon.

“Any other little gems you might have left out? No signed confessions taped to the wall that you forgot to tell me about?”

“No one tapes anything to a stone wall, brat!”

“Yes, I’m sure that’s the point you were meant to fight him on,” Tobirama muttered.

“Hey! You’re supposed to be on my side!”

“I am indeed right here at your side, as I have been for the past several days.” His smirk did nothing to calm Madara down but he refused to feel bad about that. Despite the annoyance on his face that anyone else would take to mean he was about to blow his top, Madara’s emotions were much more complex than that. Irritation mixed with amusement, appreciation for a terrible joke he didn’t want to admit he found funny just because it was at his own expense.

Finding out that Madara, of all people, had a decent sense of humor was enough on its own to make this whole situation worth it. Without the connection between them he probably would never have found out half the things he knew now.

And how strange it seemed to him now imagining a world in which he didn’t know the feeling of that second presence in his mind waking slowly like dawn rising over the horizon, the sleepy contentment that greeted him almost every morning and those few moments before they remembered they were two instead of one when they existed in perfect harmony. So perfectly melded were they now that half of Tobirama’s identity was in the way he revolved around the man at his side.

“Where’s all the red?” Izuna asked suddenly. Madara turned to him with confusion.

“Huh?”

“All the red clothing. For like four centuries you’ve been dressing entirely in red almost every day but you’re all in black now. What gives?”

His question gave Tobirama pause because that was one thing he hadn’t really noticed for himself. Looking down, he realized that his own normally muted wardrobe had changed as well. Instead of the plain grays or blacks that he generally preferred, his shirt that day was a bright blue that probably only existed in his closet because of Hashirama. He took comfort that it was, at least, not the same fire engine red he had always mocked his partner for.

“Maybe I just felt like a change,” Madara said, clearly floundering and going with the first thing that came to mind. He huffed when Izuna lifted one eyebrow in disbelief.

“Uh-huh, I’m sure that’s all it is. Look, I get that your magic is connected or whatever now but that doesn’t mean you guys have to hold hands or cuddle or whatever all the time, does it? You’re acting really differently and I don’t like it. Something else is definitely going on between you two and I am going to find out whether you like it or not.”

“Yeah, yeah, nothing gets by you. World’s greatest detective and all that.” Deliberately leaning in to Tobirama’s side just to be contrary, Madara lifted his free hand in a shooing motion. “Go on then, go detect things Mr. Sherlock Holmes.”

The two of them stared each other down until Izuna gave in with a muted snarl, leaping up from the armchair and all but throwing himself across the room, grumbling all the while about visiting the sight of their original disappearance. Since any of the teachers could speak to the castle wards and ask where the disturbance had been that night, neither of the two left behind felt any need to offer their assistance. Izuna could find what he needed on his own. That was his job after all.

Before either of them did anything Tobirama held up one finger for silence and cocked an ear, listening hard until there came the sound of Izuna slamming the door of his front door, and only then did he completely relax, secure in the knowledge that his precious books were safe from harm. Then the two of them collapsed against each other in helpless laughter. Seeing Izuna here was unexpected and their reactions to his presence were an interesting clash but watching him get so upset just because their situation had brought them much closer together was the finest entertainment. What the mysterious ‘something’ he seemed to think was there between them would remain unknown until he could storm back in and get himself all worked up again.

After they had both calmed down Madara got up and popped in to the other room to grab some paper. When asked for a pen Tobirama blinked at him.

“How did you even know where the paper was?” he asked. Madara frowned down at the clean sheets in his hands as though he were suddenly asking himself that very question.

“I don’t know. I went in there and just…grabbed them? Going for that cupboard just felt right. Whatever, do you know where I can find a pen or not?” He hovered in the doorway, clearly ready to pop back in to the other room, but Tobirama only shook his head.

“Try one of the desks in there. I usually throw my pens back in the drawers but…”

Madara sighed. “But never the same drawer. How you can be so meticulous and so yet so disorganized at the same time I will never understand!”

“Well I don’t know how you remember where everything is all the time!” Tobirama called after him as his partner disappeared, leaving the door open between them. “I mean, who has the headspace to bother remembering where every pen and jar goes? Sure I know that I have something, I know that I have three packets of beetle eyes, but hell if I remember exactly where I put them.”

“You put them in this drawer right here,” Madara’s voice drifted back faintly. He sounded a little sick and Tobirama was hit unexpectedly with the memory of a night several decades ago when he broke in to Madara’s room just to paint the man’s pillowcase with beetle eyes and honey. The screams were probably still echoing somewhere in the castle.

Despite his efforts to pull off an apologetic look, by the time Madara walked back in to the room he was still holding up one hand to hide a smile as he tried not to giggle over a prank he’d pulled off many years ago. At least his partner appeared to have found the pen he was looking for as well as a backup in case the first one was out of ink. He’d noticed that Madara was like that, always thinking ahead with a secondary plan so he could be ready when things failed to go his way – as they so often did. Tobirama had never been like that. All his life he’d been the type to throw himself headlong in to something and if it didn’t pan out then he simply came up with something else on the fly. Plans were distracting; plans had a way of limiting the imagination.

Once he stopped to think about it, their naturally opposite habits were actually fairly complimentary. With one of them used to thinking maybe too far ahead and the other used to throwing himself in to see what might happen they would actually make a great team in that sense. Although after learning so much about each other Tobirama thought that wasn’t really so surprising anymore; he thought they made a great team in quite a lot of aspects.

Which on its own was odd to come to terms with. On the one hand nothing could make him take that back, he stood by the idea that Madara was a good compliment to him. But on the other he was rather irritated to have his views and opinions so forcibly changed just on principle. If he was going to be proved wrong about something like this then he would have at least liked the chance to come to such conclusions on his own over time, preferably without ever giving Madara the chance to gloat about it. Being wrong was always terrible but it was so much worse when the other party started in with the smugness.

Reason number one he and Izuna had never gotten along. They were both smug assholes.

“You know”-Madara settled down next to him once again, startling Tobirama out of his thoughts-“even if Izuna is here for work he’s going to want to visit a few times before he heads out again.”

“Ugh.” He closed his eyes with disgust and turned his head away. Instead of sympathizing as he should have Madara shuffled the papers he’d grabbed in to a neat little stack and slipped a thin book underneath them for a solid writing surface.

“He’s not as bad as you think. Just…wait, no, he is as bad as you think. Can you at least just cool it on the attitude for a bit then? For me?”

Tobirama frowned, still refusing to look at him. He opened his eyes but remained completely still when he felt one of his arms being lifted for Madara to duck underneath it. After waiting for his partner to settle he peeked sideways to see the picture he made with both feet resting on the coffee table and his tongue poking out from between his teeth as he meticulously drew an empty table on the page with space for titles above each column.

“What will you do for me in return?” he grumbled. Without looking up Madara hummed.

“I’ll read one of your books to you until you fall asleep?”

Admittedly, that was a good offer. Madara had a very nice reading voice. His capitulation was obvious enough in that he didn’t offer any more fight so Tobirama said nothing further on the subject as he shifted around until their sides were flush together and he could stretch his one arm across the back of the couch.

“Do you know what he meant by there being something else going on between us?” he asked instead.

“No.” Madara raised his head at last and they shared a look of curious bemusement. “I have no idea what he thinks he’s on about. Maybe ferreting out secrets all the time just has him seeing things where there’s nothing to see.”

“Yeah, that’s probably it.”

Tobirama laid his head back and stared at the ceiling for a moment. He felt oddly restless. Whether they did end up in Madara’s classroom again or not tomorrow, perhaps he should insist on spending some time in the room where he did his brewing as well. It had been a while since he checked in on some of the elixirs that needed to ferment for long periods of time and there were all those new recipes he’d been putting off since the night Hashirama asked him to cover patrol duty.

Maybe he could brew something exceptionally smelly before Izuna arrived and stink the asshole back out of their home. There was nothing wrong with getting two things done at once.

Plans for tomorrow settled in his own mind – proud of himself for taking the time to make any plans at all – Tobirama closed his eyes and contemplated a little nap. There was nothing better to send him to sleep than the contented feeling of Madara’s mind and the happy little bubbles that pushed against the barrier between them as he wrote out his after class notes.

The last thing Tobirama could remember thinking about before his nap sprang up on him out of nowhere was that he should have made them go over to the bed so he could fall asleep on Madara’s shoulder.

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The Top Ten Spelling Rules

Realizing spelling rules, and the exemptions to the standard, is an incredible methodology to enable you to comprehend why spelling is how it is and encourages you spell. In this exercise we'll take a gander at the best ten spelling rules.

A few people think on the off chance that they get familiar with a spelling rule they'll have the option to spell. Shockingly, the issue with principles is you need to recollect the standard! What's more, which words work with the standard and the words that don't!

Be that as it may, a few people like learning rules, get a buzz out of discovering how to utilize them. It's in every case great to realize why spelling is the way it, and realizing spelling principles is one of numerous systems to enable you to spell well. So regardless of whether you overlook the standard, possibly you'll recollect the spelling design, and at any rate you ideally will know why a spelling is how it is.

We should take a gander at the best ten standards in an essential manner without any special cases only the stripped down of the standard. On the off chance that you need an increasingly point by point spelling principles course, at that point look at my seminar on udemy.com/spelling-rules-course for my inside and out spelling guidelines course with worksheets and activities.

1. the "I before e aside from after c" rule

accept - get

As a fundamental guideline this is extraordinary

be that as it may, shouldn't something be said about antiquated, relaxation, neighbor/neighbor

We have a more drawn out form of the standard:

" I before e aside from after a long c yet not when c is a "sh" sound and not when seemed like 'an' as in neighbor or gauge."

( I before e rule) accept, accomplish, (aside from after c),receive, roof (however not when c is seemed like sh) old, capable

not when seemed like 'a' ) eight, beige

Be that as it may, there are special cases consistently exemptions so watch out for them.

2. Evolving "y" to "ies"

You probably won't realize the spelling rule however you may realize the spelling design - the vast majority do.

At the point when the word finishes in a vowel + y simply include 's'

key → keys

delay → delays

trolley → trolleys

(since we can't have three vowels in succession delaies x )

In the event that the word has a consonant before the 'y':

remove the 'y' and include 'ies'

child → babies

organization → organizations

trouble → challenges

3. Adding - es to words finishing off with - s, - ss, - z - ch - sh - x

This was added hundreds of years prior to stop the plural 's' conflicting with these letters and it relaxes the 's' sound to a 'z' sound

bus→ transports

business → organizations

watch → observes

box → boxes

test → tests

4. 1:1:1 bending over guideline

put - putting, huge greater, test - tests, swim - swimming...

At the point when a word has one syllable + 1 vowel beside 1 consonant we bend over the last consonant with a vowel addition:

sit - sitter, huge - greatest, tap - tapping, shop - customer/shopping, fat - stuff, swelling, fatter, fattest...

This occurs in longer words when the pressure is on the last syllable:

start (beGIN) - novice, starting

allude (reFER) - alluding, alluded

happen (ocCUR) - happening, happened, event

5. Drop the 'e' rule

We more often than not drop the last quiet "e" when we include vowel postfix endings, for instance:

compose + ing → composing

trust + ed = trusted

energize + capable = edgy

joke - joker

enormous - largish

close - shutting

sense + ible = reasonable

inverse + particle = resistance

envision + ation = creative mind

We keep the 'e' if the word finishes in – CE or – GE to keep a delicate sound, with capable/ous

boldness + ous = fearless

shock + ous = incredible

see + capable = detectable

oversee + capable = sensible

6. Evolving the "y" to "I" when including postfix endings.

On the off chance that a word finishes in a consonant + Y, the Y changes to I (except if including endings with "I" - ing - ish, which as of now starts with an I)

beauty+ful > beauti+ful =beautiful, embellish, beautician

upbeat + ness = - satisfaction, joyfully, more joyful, most joyful

irate + er = angrier, angriest, furiously,

truly: prettier, prettiest however prettyish

prepared: promptly availability

dry: dried, BUT drying, dryish

resist: challenges, opposed, yet resisting

apply: applies, connected however applying

7. "- f" to "- ves" or "- s"

Most words finishing off with "- f" or "- fe" change their plurals to "- ves"

calf - calves

half - parts

blade - blades

leaf - leaves

portion - portions

life - lives

spouse - wives

rack - racks

hoodlum - criminals

yourself - yourselves

A few words can have the two endings - ves or - s:

scarf - scarfs/scarves

overshadow - diminutive people/dwarves

wharf - wharfs/wharves

tissue - hankies/handkerchieves

Words finishing off with - ff you simply add - s to make the plural.

bluff - precipices

toff - toffs

scrape - scrapes

sniff - sniffs

A few words finishing off with - f include - s:

Things which end in two vowels in addition to - f generally structure plurals in the typical manner, with only a - s

boss - boss

parody - parodies

rooftop - rooftops

boss - boss

brute - brutes

Special cases: cheat - criminals, leaf - leaves

8. Words finishing off with - ful

The addition – FUL is consistently spelt with one L, for instance:

grind + ful = thankful

confidence + ful = loyal

trust + ful = cheerful

cautious

accommodating

helpful

thankful

lovely (see the"y" progresses toward becoming "I")

9. Including - ly

When we add - ly to words finishing off with - ful then we have twofold letters

appreciatively

dependably

ideally

We likewise add - ly to words finishing off with 'e'

love + ly = exquisite

like + ly = likely

live + ly = exuberant

complete + ly = totally

unmistakable + ly = certainly

Yet, not genuinely (genuine + ly) This is a typical incorrectly spelled word.

We change the end 'e' to 'y' in these - le words

delicate > tenderly

inactive > inertly

unpretentious > inconspicuously

10. When we include "all" to the start of words we drop the l

all + so = moreover

all + most = nearly

despite the fact that

continuously

god-like

as of now

okay (OK as two words is utilized in increasingly formal English)

out and out (Note that inside and out and all together don't mean something very similar. By and large signifies 'altogether', as in there are six rooms through and through, though all together signifies 'across the board spot' or 'at the same time', as in it was a great idea to have a gathering of companions all together; they came in all together.)

That is it for my main ten principles and It's incredible to thoroughly understand spelling rules. Visit English Online Corrector if you are looking for more Information.

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Dispel the Biggest Spelling Myths

This blog difficulties a couple of fantasies in spelling training and offers answers for assistance understudies need to and expect to spell better.

Myth #1

"We don't show spelling any longer – spelling doesn't make a difference!"

It is important when it's open!

In the event that you are applying for an occupation, painting guidelines on a street, posting directions on a sign – especially outside of a school, or composing report cards for guardians; spelling matters. It makes a difference when it's political. Chief Kathleen Wynne once gave a discourse on a platform expressing "open goverment." Someone on her staff ought to have gotten the mix-up and spelled it "government" – it was a printed pennant! The press truly messed around with this.

It makes a difference when it's distributed!

Except if you are empowering juvenile essayists in evaluation one by advancing composition familiarity, spelling matters when a bit of composing is taken through altering, is "distributed" and is in plain view. It ought to be right in paper articles and books. It ought to be right in whatever is viewed as a last draft.

Spelling does not make a difference when you are messaging, when you are making a basic food item list, when you are composing a first or second draft, or when you are a kid and immediately composing a card to your mum or father.

Myth #2

"There is definitely no rationale to the English language. English spelling is a bad dream for children and they end up lost in a labyrinth of words."

There is more rationale to English than you might suspect. Various spellings of the words pear, pair and pare promptly show various implications to the peruser. On the off chance that they were altogether spelled a similar way, you would need to look through the whole sentence or section to set up the significance, however you remember it, here, in single word. The equivalent applies to all homonyms.

Prior to lexicons, individuals spelled words the manner in which they sounded with various vernaculars and various spellings. Composed correspondence was troublesome. Lexicons institutionalized spelling, helping correspondence. Since language is living, spelling on the two sides of the Atlantic is beginning to vary to an ever increasing extent. This can make much more special cases, for instance, judgment is currently generally spelled without an "e." I generally instructed children to add an addition to the root word, "judge" + "- ment" = "judgment." Now that word is an exemption, endeavors to 'streamline' spelling are not constantly effective.

So what do we do as educators? We train youngsters to search for examples so that there are a set number of choices, not boundless potential outcomes, when you spell a word. For instance, if a word starts with the sound of "n" and it isn't "n," what are the potential outcomes? "Kn-" "gn-" "pn-" with "kn-" as generally normal. Else, it is elusive the word in a lexicon to check the spelling! Youthful youngsters will in general spell "was" as "woz." If you coordinate it to "divider, ball and fall," that example may assist them with remembering that "was" has the vowel "a." They additionally need to realize that not very many English words end in a solitary "z," so they can check their very own composition for something like this.

Rather than telling youngsters what the examples would you say you are, can solicit them in the structure from an inquiry – do you think more words start with "kn-" or "gn-?" If the sound "- tion" toward the finish of a word is never spelled "- disregard," and there are right around 1,200 words which are spelled with "- ation" toward the end, would you be able to discover 20, 50, 100? Out of country, station, goal, readiness, enactment and so forth., there are just four special cases. Two special cases are scavanger and Dalmatian.

Myth #3

"Week after week spelling tests are incredible in light of the fact that spelling is a repetition remembrance process."

Right off the bat, spelling isn't a repetition retention process. It depends on visual memory, discovering examples and critical thinking. It is an exceptionally intellectual aptitude. In her book, Why Kids Can't Spell, Roberta Heembrock expresses, "Dominance of spelling presently turns into a progressively perplexing mental action that requires psychological reasoning abilities, critical thinking, memory maintenance and mental symbolism."

This is far from repetition remembrance, and is present day thinking on spelling. Furthermore, words are all the more effectively held in memory on the off chance that they are connected to an example. For instance, the most unhelpful spelling exercise is to instruct "as well," and "two," as options in contrast "to". Ninety eight percent of the time, the word is spelled "to." "two" ought to be instructed in two settings: an importance setting in "one, two, three, four," and an example setting in "two, twice, twenty, and twins," where the quiet letter can be recalled in light of the fact that it is sounded in the other three words. The other "as well" is utilized less regularly, and ought to be amended at that point, until understudies are marginally more established and learn it is identified with degree like "excessively hot, excessively cool, excessively short, excessively tall."

So the main thing in spelling? Composing is the specific circumstance and believing is the key. Without composing, spelling has no reason. We write to convey and poor spelling plays obstruction as we read. It resembles foundation commotion that irritates us as we attempt to understand what we are perusing.

Richard Elmore of Harvard University recommends that to improve understudy achievement, we have to initially recognize an issue of training, think of an answer, return to it, and adjust the arrangement until it works practically speaking – at that point share it with others. A typical issue of training identified with spelling is that various understudies don't spell well and don't make a difference what they think about spelling to their composition. When they alter their composition, they frequently can't discover incorrectly spelled words.

One approach to take care of this issue of training is to build up a game plan. On the off chance that we urge understudies to love words, see how they work, find out about word designs, and investigate these examples consistently, we will empower understudies to be fruitful when they apply this word information to their composition and altering forms.

To connect with understudies in spelling, they initially need to figure out how to love words as an approach to impart successfully, to express it in verse, to exhibit a consistent contention, and to play with language and correspondence. At that point, they need to see how words work.

What do these words share for all intents and purpose? Strolls, talks, bites, knows, palms. They all have quiet letters, they all end in "s."

What do these words share for all intents and purpose? Kayak, level, radar, allude, city. They have two syllables, start and end with a similar letter, and a similar vowel rehashes in every one.

Understudies appreciate this word work and will start to create riddles this way. They have to investigate and find out about word designs. Potential inquiries to use here would be: accomplish more words end in "- eat," like "beat," or "- ate" like "late?" Predict the appropriate responses, at that point make a rundown. In "signal," you hear the "g," while in "sign," you don't. Would you be able to locate any more word sets this way? Piece, disintegrate; pre-winter, fall; two, twins; bomb, assault; memory helper, amnesia, are on the whole accommodating models.

Urge understudies to pose inquiries about words. One understudy remarked, "I wonder in the event that we have many compound words with 'land' in them… ." Some begin with "land-," like "milestone," "scene," "landfill," and "landmine." Many end with "- land," like "farmland," "country," "no man's land," "coastland," and "marshland."

As instructors we need to create scholars who can spell and get language. We need understudies to make educated expectations – not irregular thinks about when they spell words since they know there are various choices, not endless potential outcomes. Most importantly, we need understudies to concentrate on having a remark when they compose and intellectual examples to draw on when they check their spelling. For more in-depth information about spelling I highly recommend this website Online Grammar Correction.

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CAS :315-37-7

EINECS :206-253-5

MF:C26H40O3

MW:400.6

Assay:98%

Place of Origin:China

Certification:ISO9001

Packaging :5 Kg net/aluminum tin

Melting point:34-39°C

Refractive index:77°

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What is Testosterone Enanthate ?

Testosterone Enanthate is the most common form of testosterone used by body builders. It is regularly recommended for the treatment of individuals that are deficient in natural testosterone (TRT). Generally injected biweekly, it can be stacked with various other compounds.

Testosterone enanthate is both androgenic and anabolic, both rates being the same. This means that although it can be used for inflation, it can also be used in the cutting phase and for the removal of greases. The effects of testosterone enanthate will be greatly influenced by the enanthate ester. Testosterone enanthate cures damaged cells in the body, because it increases the activity of satellite cells that promotes healing.

Given that you will need a lot of protein to increase the size of the muscles of the body, you will also need nitrogen synthesis, which testosterone enanthate is also best known. This means that any use of testosterone enanthate will also require a lot of dietary protein. Eat good quality food and if possible, consult a professional nutritionist for a diet and a trainer for a physical training plan.

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While 500mg per week is a standard dose many individuals will choose to use more. 1,000mg per week is far from uncommon and can in many cases be safely used. Further, especially in bodybuilding and power lifting circles doses that surpass 1,000mg are not all that rare but there is an important factor you must understand. Most all anabolic androgenic steroids carry with them a risk to reward ratio; the greater the dose often the greater the results; however, the greater the dose the greater the potential is for negative side-effects. In the end responsible use will always prove to be key but always understand the effects of abuse are on you and you alone.

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TestsAnalysis StandardResults

IdentificationConformConform

Free heptanoic acid≤0.2%0.12%

Specific Rotation﹢77°~﹢82°+79.4°

Chromatography PurityConformConform

Melting point32 ~ 37℃35~36℃

Organic Volatile ImpuritiesConformConform

Loss On Drying≤0.5%0.13%

Residue On Ignition0.1%max0.05%

Assay98.0%min99.12%

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How To Buy Used Cars From Dealers And How Do Some Websites Offer You A Better Way Out?

“Mastering the art of Buying a used car is no less than mastering the art of buying a well-revered painting, you never know if what you are buying is really genuine or not. It is true that you can always research, but ultimately it always comes down to reducing the odds of it being a well-faked hoax and taking a shot in the dark with more odds in your favor than against.”

Let us face it today, buying used cars can be one of the toughest things to do for you as a buyer, it can be stressful, to say the least. There are always some guidelines which help you avoid some simple mistakes but it always comes down to you to make a decision of whether you want to take the risk or not. In this article we will look at some common guidelines that a buyer needs to follow while he buys a used car, to simply avoid some common and genuine mistakes people make during this process. We will also look into some websites Like AutomotiveSearchEngine which offer you better alternatives than buying your vehicle on your own, basically saving you the headache of it.

Buying used things or what we call second-hand buying was never ever an easy thing to do, especially when you look at it keeping super complex things like cars in mind, it really becomes difficult to know if the car you are buying is genuine enough and if it has been kept properly by its previous owners. Looks can always defy, stats and paperwork can always be forged and experts bribed, only trusted experts and your own experience is the savior here. Addressing these genuine concerns of people, we have highlighted a few sets of basic guidelines that an interested buyer should look into while looking to buy a car, and they are given below.

The First and the foremost is, keep the budget higher than the actual cost of the car you want to buy because there might be some maintenance that you need to carry out on your car or the warranty might be running, so it is safer to have a budget higher than the cost of the car.

Secondly, always make it a point to carry out pre-purchase inspection or PPI, these tests are usually relatively cheaper and can expose many problems that were never mentioned by the seller or the dealer. You just need a skilled and well-trusted mechanic to do it for you. Also, you can always use these defects however minor to come in handy while negotiations go on. Consult online sites like Automotive Search Engine and Auto Blog to get a mechanic if you don’t have one.

Do not even think to negotiate blind, if you happen to stumble upon a car that you can’t get off your mind, just go back home, do some research and then come back. Sites like All Cars Online and Auto Blog have many tools to help review and reevaluate your choice.

You can always go on sites like AutomotiveSearchEngine, AutoMartUSA, Autodealershiplocator and findautosforsale Used cars for sale and check on the site of National Insurance Crime Bureau's VINCheck to be clear that the vehicle is not stolen. Also, verify with National Motor Vehicle Title Information Center for safety purposes and if anything doesn’t feel good, just walk away from the deal.

Never even think of buying an unseen car, there is just too much risk involved in it.

Make sure to complete the right paperwork before you leave the dealership office because every state has a different set of guidelines for vehicle registration, you can even call the vehicle licensing office to be sure of it completely.

Although it is not recommended by anyone to buy a car with lien, but if you still happen to be buying a car with a lien, go into the office of the bank accompanied by the seller and pay-off the dues so that the ownership of the car gets transferred to you; or in the other case make a reputed escrow company hold your money until the loan is paid off.

Last but not least, there are many cases where you get a car at an unbelievably cheap price just because the car has been salvaged and been rebranded and built from scratch in some shop. It would seem like an irresistible offer if you love the car but we would strongly suggest you against buying previously destroyed cars because it is less risky and less headache in leaving and walking away from such deals than handle all the problems that’ll be coming with the car if you happen to buy it despite the factors.

These tips should be just enough for you to be able to get a good used car for yourself, but wait for a second, what if I tell you that you can get away with half the headache following these guidelines are going to give you? Now you would just assume that I am telling you to buy a new vehicle but that isn’t the case at all. I am just asking you to try and have a go in buying cars through some good and trusted sites like Auto Mart USA, Automotive Search Engine and Used Cars for Sale.

Let me introduce you to a world where there are less headache and more guarantees, the world of buying used cars online through trusted partners and websites. You would be really happy to know that in the E-commerce world of the modern day, all of the things that are mentioned above are taken care of by the site that is facilitating your purchase of the car. You can always go and check plus inspect the car for yourself, but rest assured every test that is needed to be done is done by trusted experts and you are even given the report of it if you want.

Things have changed and you no longer need to worry about the things that industry experts can take care of, it is the era of the consumer and you are the kingmaker of the industry now. You just need to be aware that all the tests are done, the vehicle looks in good shape and your budget should be such that you can accommodate insurance and registration costs plus minor repair costs within it.

Buying used cars has never been easier and simpler and it is all thanks to the E-commerce industry that has provided customers with a way out of all the headache and tensions of buying and selling used cars. You no longer need to worry once you have bought a car because it is in all the cases that these cars have passed all the necessary tests, you just now need to sit back and enjoy riding the car you have always wanted, one which is enough for you to be happy and safe enough for your family. This is a gift that E-commerce has given its customers; a life free of extra stress.

We hope you enjoy the new old car of yours that you buy.

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Mamaearth bye bye blemishes

Mamaearth Bye Blemishes Cream is a face cream from Mamaearth, a brand name as consoling and consoling as its items. The fundamental target of this brand is to use the sources or assets of Mother Earth in assembling day by day use items. These items assist us with our hair, face, body, and advantage from its maintenance and advancement.

Isn't this what we as a whole need? We as a whole wish to have streaming and brilliant skin by utilizing normal items. What's more, mamaearth permits us to do precisely in this way, in a lot simpler way. The brand utilizes regular items as fixings as well as gives feasible bundling also. Tell us about the advantages of mamaearth bye imperfections cream.

MAMAEARTH BYE BLEMISHES CREAM

Our skin has shade creating cells in the skin which are answerable for giving us a skin tone, or complexion. These cells are known as melanin. Now and then, this melanin will in general sit on our skin as stores causing the event of dim fixes or spots in various pieces of the skin. Now and again it turns out to be excessively extreme to the point that it takes the state of hyper-pigmentation.

The bye flaws cream, with its intriguing name, gives a trace of diminishing the imperfections in the skin to the possible clients. This cream helps in diminishing the pigmentation showing up as dull spots and fixes. The cream is advanced with the decency of licorice separates, mulberry extricates, Vitamin C, and Daisy bloom removes that aides in diminishing pigmentation by confining the stores of melanin from choosing the skin.

WHAT ARE THE USES OF MAMAEARTH BYE BLEMISHES CREAM?

There are many employments of the cream, so let us think about it exhaustively:

Pigmentation – The extraordinary blend of fixings helps in decreasing the pigmentation on the skin. As we probably are aware, the stores of melanin make our skin look dull in certain spaces just normally around the lips and brow. The cancer prevention agents present in the cream helps in halting the event of stores on the skin.

Complexion – Since the cream limits the store development on the skin, the odds of getting dull spots and fixes boil down to a base. Thus, this aides in getting an even tone of the skin.

Spot Correction – With the uniformity of the skin the spots get adjusted progressively too. A few of us face serious dim spots on the skin which are exceptionally difficult to relinquish. The Mamaearth Bye Blemishes Cream is an incredible alternative to dispose of the spots.

Simple Absorption – Many ladies abstain from utilizing creams or lotions prior to getting out of the house since it makes the face slick. Indeed, this isn't so with this cream. The cream is exceptionally light and delicate on the skin, prompting quick and simple ingestion. The lightweight aides in getting a non-oily look further producing a brilliant and gleaming face.

Item features

Used to diminish pigmentation by lessening the melanin store showing up as dim spots, patches, and hyperpigmentation

Can be utilized on all skin types

Wealthy in cell reinforcement properties and is an extraordinary enemy of maturing specialist

Has hostile to contagious and against bacterial properties

Advances lovely and brilliant skin

Viable treatment for dermatitis, dermatitis, skin inflammation and dry dried skin

Helps in battling the indications of untimely maturing

Mamaearth Bye Blemishes Cream is a compelling cream which is utilized to decrease pigmentation by lessening the melanin store showing up as dim spots, patches, and hyper-pigmentation. It successfully eliminates lopsided skin and leaves the skin delicate, flexible and shining. The cream is non oily, assimilated rapidly by skin and is dermatologically tried. It tends to be utilized on sleek, typical, dry, mix and touchy skin and has no brutal synthetics and is liberated from SLS, parabens and mineral oil.

Key Ingredients:

Mulberry extricate

Geranium oil

Daisy blossom

Vetiver oil

Patchouli

Nutrient C

Key Benefits:

It is wealthy in enemy of oxidant properties and is an incredible enemy of maturing specialist

The cream has against parasitic and hostile to bacterial properties

It advances lovely and brilliant skin

It is a viable treatment for dermatitis, dermatitis, skin inflammation and dry dried skin

It helps in battling the indications of untimely maturing

It is a compelling enemy of bluntness and against dim spot definition

It helps in treatment of lopsided complexion and makes it lighter and shining

Headings For Use:

Apply Mamaearth Bye Blemishes Cream generously on clean skin, beginning at neck and upto face

Back rub vertical way till it is totally retained and utilize double a day

Wellbeing Information:

For outside utilize as it were

Peruse the mark cautiously before use

Try not to surpass the suggested dose

Keep out of the compass of youngsters

Store at a temperature under 25-degree Celsius and 40 % moistness in cool and dry spot

Ought to be shielded from direct light