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c0w80yk1d · 4 years

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Period Products

Tampons, pads and panty liners along with their packaging and individual wrapping generate more than 200,000 tonnes of waste per year, and they all contain plastic. Pads are around 90% plastic. The average user throws away an astonishing 125-150kg of tampons, pads and applicators in their lifetime.

Flushing pads and tampons down the toilet causes sewer blockages. Many pads and tampons end up in the sea and washed up on beaches. It has been estimated that 1.5-2billion menstrual items are flushed down Britain’s toilets each year. On average 4.8 pieces of menstrual waste ads found per 100 metres of beach cleaned.

It’s estimated that it will cost over £1,500 for menstrual products over a lifetime so even with the cost of these reusable products being a potential cost worry, in the long run they save the Earth and your pocket.

Options for reusable menstral products:

Menstrual Cups

I don’t personally have any experience with these but I’m aware that these have their own good reviews. Can be worn up to 12 hours. They contain no bleach or harmful substances, they’re reusable, eco friendly and don’t create any waste. Menstrual cups are just as reliable as tampons in the leakage-prevention stakes. You can wear menstrual cups while swimming and every other form of exercise. A menstrual cup should and can last over a decade.

TOTM menstrual cup - £15.99

Superdrug

They come in three sizes.

Size 1: under 18s who do not have sex regularly (40mm diameter)

Size 2: under 30s and have not given birth vaginally (43mm diameter)

Size 3: over 30s or have given birth vaginally (46mm diameter)

Organicup menstrual cup - £18.82

Amazon

Made of soft allergy-friendly silicone. It’s 100% free of bleach, glue, perfume, lotion and basically anything that doesn’t belong inside your body. It can contain three times more than pads and tampons meaning people just need to empty it in morning and evening. It can last up to 10 years too.

Kind reusable menstrual cup - £19.95

Boots

Developed with a super soft and flexible design which is meant to guarantee long lasting comfort. It’s free from latex, BPA and phthalates and is hypoallergenic. 2 sizes available, designed with soft and rounded edges for easier insertion and ‘pressure release holes’ for easy removal.

Mooncup Reusable menstrual cup - £21.99

Feelunique.com

Collects three times as much fluid as a ‘super absorbent’ tampon. 2 sizes available and made from soft medical grade silicone.

Enna Cycle menstrual cup kit - £24.17

Amazon

2 pack. The enna cup comes with an applicator.

Intima Lily menstrual cup - £24.95

Amazon

It offers 12 hours of nonstop protection and has a unique shape for better fit. It also comes in two sizes.

Saalt menstrual cup - £24.99

Feelunique.com

It’s the ideal starter cup. You can wear the cup for up to 12 hours. And it has a scheme available to provide period care to women and girls in need with every purchase made.

Ruby Cup menstrual cup - £26

Amazon

Designed to be easy to use, soft and flexible enough to fold easily for insertion then pop open to create a leak-free seal. Plus, Ruby Cup’s ‘Buy One, Give One’ programme means that for every cup you buy, they’ll donate one to someone without access to menstrual care products.

Diva menstrual cup - £28.99

Amazon

Most well known and spoken of. It has different models also.

Reusable Period underwear

Can be comfortable and generally best for lighter flow days. Can be worn for most of the day in comfort and without leaks.

Thinx - John Lewis - £32

Absorbs around 2 regular tampon amount. A range of different styles including hip hugger, sport, boy short, thong, cotton brief, air bikini etc. Washes well without shrinkage. They’re expensive.

Bambody - amazon - £12.99

There is a leakproof barrier that extends from the front all the way through the back. These claim to be made with ‘bamboo fabric’ which is really rayon. 2 regular tampon absorbency. Styles include hipster, bikini and high waist. They’re more affordable.

Thinx BTWN - shethinx.com - £18.28

Designed specifically for younger women. 2 regular tampon absorbency. Styles include shorty, brief and bikini.

Knix - knix.com - $30

Full coverage shorts from knix are meant for comfortable sleeping during your period. 3 tampon absorbency. Styles include dream short, bikini, thong, boy short, cheeky and high rise.

Proof - shopproof.com - $25

Styles in absorbency that range from super light (1-2 tampons) to super heavy (5 tampons). Styles include brief, hipster, thong and bikini. Made of a comfortable material but it’s only available in two colours.

Dear Kate - soma.com - £10-22

Lined with three layers of fabric and are available in two different absorbancies: mini or full. They’re available in a wide range of sizes XS-3X and have a pretty lace trim. Styles include hipster, brief and thong. They’re not ideal for heavy days or overnight use.

Reusable pads

Washable sanitary pads are an easy alternative, they can vary in size and price depending on where you buy them from. They’re generally pressstud closed. They can have a variety of patterns also. Not the best bet for sporting purposes as increased movement can dislodge the pad and cause paranoia -trust me.

Eco Lily Bamboo Charcoal Sanitary towels - amazon - £21.99

The bamboo charcoal is to neutralise odours, with three layers of absorbant microfibres underneath and a waterproof outer layer. The set includes six pads which are suitable for overnight or heavy flow use a one size fits all design. The set comes with a waterproof pouch. They can be washed by hand or in the machine.

Bloom & Nora - amazon - £72.18

Beautifully made and printed liners and pads. This starter kit gives you a range of different sizes (10 in total) to get you through the heaviest and lightest days. Made from soft bamboo and certified with nothing nasty in them. These can be used up to 10 years which could save £2k down the line. You also get two bringer wash bags in this kit.

Rovtop - amazon - £17.99

Set of 10 including two wash bags. The pads are made with bamboo charcoal fibre, microfibres and an outer layer.

Teamoy - amazon - £20.99

Starter kit comes with 10 pads in three different sizes to suit a range of flow days. Made with an antibacterial charcoal bamboo layer with two layers of microfibre and a waterproof outer, they won’t irritate sensitive skin.

Natissy - amazon - £32.97

6 pack of pads that have wings that come in a range of prints and have a soft organic design.

#sustainability #reusable pads #zerowaste

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tothemattresses · 5 years

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2020 Reading Challenge - Bad Blood (And a bonus DNF’d!)

1. The Deal: Arranged Book One - Stella Gray

Duration: 7 hours an 38 minutes

Review: DNF’d it. First few chapters were pretty tedious. The Audible reviews confirmed it wasn’t worth my time.

2. A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston - Robyn Crawford

3. The Player - Claire Contreras

Duration: 8 hours and 37 minutes

Review: Have you ever read (or listened) to a book and immediately after finishing it thought: “Yup. That was a book that was written, and I read it.” and nothing else? If not, meet The Player.

4. Buried Deep - Margot Hunt

5. The Christmas Pact - Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward

6. Shockaholic - Carrie Fisher

Duration: 4 hours and 25 minutes

Review: Carrie Fisher was such a gem, and her second of three memoirs is short, sweet, sassy and classic Carrie. Not as entertaining as Wishful Drinking, but her reflections on death of her father and friend bring a new depth, especially after her own.

7. Lies - Kyle Scott

8. She Said - Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

Duration: 9 hours and 52 minutes

Review: An in-depth insight into breaking the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal, and in turn kick starting the #MeToo movement, She Said provides pivotal behind-the-scenes action on what the journalists had to do to get the story written. However, I felt that the inclusion of the Kavanaugh confirmation, while insightful as well, seemed tacked on. I wish they would have spent more time discussing consequences of the scandal itself and provided other examples of how it effected the culture.

9. The Daring Exploits of a Runaway Heiress - Victoria Alezander

10. Reflected in You - Sylvia Day

11. The Paper Swan - Leylah Attar

12. The Bride Test - Helen Hoang

13. The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher

Duration: 5 hours and 10 minutes

Review: Aside from capitalizing on the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and romanticizing a meaningless affair (on his side) that occurred over forty years ago, there really was no point to Fisher’s third (and unfortunately last) memoir. Shame that this was her final written piece.

14. Royally Bad - Nora Flite

15. The Home Front – Audible Original

16. The Sisters – Dervla McTiernan

17. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start-Up – John Carreyrou

Duration: 11 hours and 37 minutes

Review: Detailing the spectacular rise and even more spectacular fall of Theranos founder, and certified crazy person, Elizabeth Holmes, Bad Blood dives into the incredibly specific details of how this company began with a heartfelt promise but ended belly up due to her lack of awareness of techniques simply not working. While the story isn’t told as gossip-like as other behind the scenes tales (like Fire and Fury, for instance), Carreyrou does a splendid job of providing so much in-depth information that you’ll find yourself wishing you made a cheat sheet.

18. Filthy Beautiful Lies – Kendall Ryan

19. Wanderlust – Lauren Blakely

20. The Darkwater Bride – Marty Ross

21. Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch – Ruth Cowen

22. Killer by Nature – Jan Smith

23. Columbine – Dave Cullen

24. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shirer

25. Unf*ck Yourself – Gary John Bishop

26. The Demon Next Door – Bryan Burrough

27. A Mind of Her Own – Paula McClain

28. Becoming – Michelle Obama

29. How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie

30. A Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness

31. Roomies – Christina Lauren

32. Girl, Wash Your Face – Rachel Hollis

33. Have a Nice Day – Billy Crystal and Quinton Peeples

34. Stephen Fry’s Victorian Secrets – Nick Baker and John Woolf

35. In Pieces – Sally Field

36. Hi Bob! – Bob Newhart

37. The Queen: Aretha Franklin – Mikal Gilmore

38. Girls & Boys – Dennis Kelly

39. Outlander: Book One – Diana Gabaldon

40. American Pharaoh – Joe Drape

41. Mean Streak – Sandra Brown

42. Emma – Jane Austen

#2020 reading challenge #audible #reading #audiobooks #bad blood #elizabeth holmes #john carreyrou #theranos #the deal #stella gray #nonfiction #romance novels #dnf'd

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mummified-game-review · 3 years

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Changeling: A Review

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Hey remember Twilight, remember when we were all about those fairytale creature boys.

Yeah. They were good times and bad times.

Welcome back to another video game review here on Mummified Games. I'm Tony and today we’re going to be looking at the visual novel Changeling by Steamberry Studio.

Okay so visual novel, it's just a slideshow of narration and conversation. Gameplay isn't there. You just click over and over again and read the story. There isn't much to do in these games. every once in a while an option will come up and you can pick an option to come up and you can pick to say nothing or push the conversation, Just as an example.

So the only thing to talk about with this is the story, music, and the art work.

Let's get the artwork out of the way real quick. And I want to start by saying that art is a subjective thing and our feelings and opinions can differ and that's okay.

The backgrounds in this game look great in my opinion. The art that comes up while the characters are talking looks detailed and well crafted, the scenes are full and have a rich tone to them. Items and locations look real and lived in.

The character art is something different. They’re clearly designed to invoke curtain feelings from some. One might quickly write this off as teenage fantasy drawings. But that's still too reductive and not fair to the artist and the story trying to be told here. Just because every character in this game looks super pretty and has that air of they were made to look this way. Doesn't mean that the art doesn't have value and...

Alright this is clearly trying for something here but it's just not for me ya know.

All the boys have elven features, clean soft skin, wavy hair, and pouty lips, even the dad and that's super weird. Wardrobes fresh off the runway. And after learning more about the story, I'm already seeing where these characters' stories are going.

Let's talk about the story then while we're here and before we go too far talking about the characters and why they might look the way they do.

So the story is told from the first person perspective of Nora, a 17 year old girl who moves back to the town she used to live in when she was younger so her dad could help take care of her Grandpa. A town that her family ran away from 5 years ago. They ran away from the town because of a weird turn of events. So one day Nora went missing, she got lost in the woods, and then 5 days later showed up randomly and walked out of the forest. Her twin brother had run into the woods to go find her but somehow when he found her he lost sight in his right eye.

He claimed that his sister Nora was a monster and that she had attacked him. Okay weird. Even weirder she doesn't remember any of this. She lost all memory while she was lost in the woods. And only got her memories back shortly before she was found again, but after her brother lost sight in his one eye.

Mmmmmm okay, I have my thoughts about what that could be a sign of what really happened.

Oh and the reason they moved away is because everyone was not sure it was a simple case of a lost child and that there might have been other motives at play. Her brother after this is never nice to her again. And treats her like garbage.

And so Nora and her family move back to the town and her parents are worried about her getting lost in the woods again. But Nora is a real nature feely type. She is explained to us the reader as the kind of girl who likes fantasy stories and nature. Notice a fairy ring in their yard and think about times when they would sit in the middle of it and pretend to see fairies flutter around.

After you get the lowdown on the family dynamic, the dads are nice, the mom can be bossy, and the brother is the worst. Then we get to run though all the meet cutes that happen and were introduced to the boys that are all part of this what i'm going to asume will be Harem of boys that are part of her story.

I don't know, I just have a feeling that this is going to be another one of those kinds of Visual Novels.

So Nora, goes to school and says hi to her old friend and an old enemy, meets more boys and as i'm reading things i'm slowly picking up the little cues from the writing.

The literature class is reading A Midsummer Night's Dream. Ah you don't say.

The boy who says he was up all night long, says Nora looks pale and malnourished. Eating some food is good for your blood. HUGE FLAG!

The brother says Nora isn't even his real sister. And the game is literally called CHANGELING. Okay I see where this is going.

Her old friend says she wants Nora to join her after school club.

Oh Does she now!

There aren't a lot of girls in it and having Nora there would make her feel better having more girls.

MMMMMMMM AND I WONDER WHAT TYPE OF CLUB THIS MIGHT BE! What could it be? Sewing? Web Design and admin? You all working on getting AWS certified in this club maybe?

“It's a paranormal research club”

WOWWWWW WHO WOULD'VE GUESSED THAT WAS GOING TO BE THE CASE!

Some of you who have watched my old videos might have noticed that I no longer read the storepage at the start of the video. I stopped reading them in the video about the same time I stopped reading them before going into a game. I feel like I can appreciate the game more if I'm just going in blind. So I had no idea this was going to be a paranormal fantasy thing. Until the story started dropping not so subtle hints about what might be coming up.

The music is fine, nothing crazy notable about the music in the story. The one complaint is that it might be flowing well with the story and then the change back to this other song. I couldn't explain what song it was but the song always starts at what feels like the beginning and it gives this feeling of not getting anywhere in the story.

I still have no sense of an opinion when it comes to visual novels, and if this one is good or not. The last one I played was that terrible one that I don't want to talk about. And right now there is another one that I've got on the back burner that I'm making my way through. I want to give that one a fair shake because it has some people attached to it that I'm fans of their work.

So what if i'm giving favortisum to another game. I want to fully experience it and give it a full run down.

This story, Changeling, I've got nothing going on with it. I'm not attached and I played it for a good 2 hours to get really into the story. But unfortunately the store page says it has 4-6 hours of gameplay per branch of the story... well piss.

I don't know what to say about this one folks. I've got two games to base my opinion of this on. And that's it.

All I can say is that if you like Visual novels and you want to read one that has a fantasy element to it. Then sure, go take a look.

But like I said Visual novels aren’t my cup of tea so I probably wouldn't have played this if it wasn't for the Racial Justice bundle and the huge pile of games that came with it.

If you played this game let me know what you thought of it. Is it a good visual novel? Does the story really pop off after the second day of school? I'm interested to hear what it is that people like about visual novel games.

If you haven't played this game. Is there a Really good Visual Novel out there? Or are there other games that you want me to check out. Let me know in the comments.

IN THE MEANTIME! I'm going to try to not become a creature of the night. It's 3am and I'm going to go hit the hay.

You all do the youtube dance, like sub, bell, comment down below, and tell someone you know about the show.

And as always friends keep digging and we’ll make it out some day

See you in the next one.

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mimireadsromance · 3 years

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Review-Summer in the City

Summer in the City

by Lori Wilde, Priscilla Oliveras and Sarah Skilton

Published by: Kensington

FICTION / ROMANCE / CONTEMPORARY

Release Date: May 25, 2021

REVIEW:

4.5 stars-rounded up to 5 Summer in the City is a great collection of novellas revolving around the experiences of three couples on a hot New York City night. When a blackout occurs, emotional walls fall and possibilities seem limitless. The book starts with Lori Wilde's story, Night at the Museum, where an are exhibit brings together a couple that has been exchanging glances for months. I loved the communication between Victor and Ria, two very self-aware people. I especially enjoyed the descriptions of the Soul Mates Seasons in the City exhibit, and would happily read more stories centered around each painting. 4 stars Next, in Lights Out, Priscilla Olivares delivers a great second-chance romance between a theatre performer and a journalist who's reviews haven't always been kind. I loved what this story had to say about how our past experiences can color our perceptions about our present and future relationships. Of the three novellas in this collection, Lights Out is my favorite. The author has a gift for telling a story that fully engages all of my senses. I loved the nods to the couple's culture, shown in their love of music, food, and shared stories. The sights and sounds of both the theatre and the city came alive for me. Every scene plays out like a movie in my mind, a rare thing for me as a reader. *For fans of Priscilla Olivares' Keys to Love series, there's even a nod to a certain health guru we've come to know and love. 5 stars Mind Games, the final novella in the collection, introduced me to author Sarah Skilton. This novella introduced me to the world of magicians in a fun, approachable way. It's the first time I've ever read a book with a hero with such an "untraditional" job and I honestly want more from this world! The special gifts Nick gave Alison really cemented for me how much he valued her. 4 stars In all, this collection was a really great escape. I have to add that I really love how each story normalized therapy and the importance of mental health/self awareness. (less)

About the Authors:

Lori Wilde is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of nearly 100 works of romantic fiction. Her books have been translated into 26 languages, with more than four million copies sold worldwide. She's a three-time Romance Writers of America RITA(R) finalist, a four-time RT Book Reviews' Readers' Choice Award-nominee, and the recipient of numerous other awards. A registered nurse, she holds a certificate in forensics and is also a certified yoga instructor. Lori is a fifth-generation Texan and lives with her husband in the Cutting Horse Capital of the World, where they run Epiphany Orchards, a writing/creativity retreat for the care and enrichment of the artistic soul. Visit her online at LoriWilde.com.

Priscilla Oliveras is a USA Today bestselling author and 2018 RWA(R) RITA(R) double finalist who writes contemporary romance with a Latinx flavor. Proud of her Puerto Rican-Mexican heritage, she strives to bring authenticity to her novels by sharing her Latinx culture with readers. Her work has garnered praise from O, The Oprah Magazine, Washington Post, New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist, among others. Priscilla earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and now serves as adjunct faculty in the program while also teaching the online class Romance Writing for ed2go.

Find out more at https: //prisoliveras.com or catch up with her on www.facebook.com/prisoliveras and Twitter and IG via @prisoliveras.

Sarah Skilton is the author of two critically acclaimed young adult novels, Bruised and High & Dry, and was a 2018 Edgar awards judge. For adults, she's written romantic comedies as well as a murder mystery, Club Deception, set in a fictional underground magic club. Writing with Sarvenaz Tash, she is the co-author of Ghosting: A Love Story, which Kirkus called, An energetic romance that would make Nora Ephron proud. Sarah lives in Los Angeles and can be found on Instagram @skiltongram or at SarahSkilton.com.

Links:

Kensington Sale Page: http://ow.ly/nTeH50EQpd7

Amazon Universal: mybook.to/SummerintheCity

Barnes & Noble: https://bit.ly/3vgIDyv

Apple: https://apple.co/3bKDpD9

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/summer-in-the-city-23

Google: https://bit.ly/3oJYfb2

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bm2ab · 3 years

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Arrivals & Departures 07 May 1968 Nora Louise Kuzma [Traci Elizabeth Lords]

Traci Elizabeth Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma) is an American actress, former pornographic actress, singer, and model. Lords got into the adult film industry by using a fake birth certificate to conceal the fact that she was two years under the legal age of 18. Lords starred in adult films and was one of the most sought-after actresses in the adult entertainment industry during her career. When the FBI acted on an anonymous tip that Lords was a minor during her time in the industry, and that pornographers were distributing and selling these de facto illegal images and videotapes, the resulting fallout led to prosecution of those responsible for creating and distributing. In addition, all but the last of her adult films were banned as child pornography.

After her departure from the industry only two days after turning the legal age of 18, Lords enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, where she studied method acting with the intention of becoming a mainstream actress. She made her mainstream screen debut at age 19 in a leading role in the 1988 remake of the 1957 Roger Corman science fiction film Not of This Earth. Lords followed with the role of Wanda Woodward in John Waters's teen comedy, Cry-Baby (1990). Her other acting credits included the television series MacGyver, Married... with Children, Tales from the Crypt, Roseanne, Melrose Place, Profiler, First Wave, Gilmore Girls and Will & Grace. She also appeared in films such as Skinner (1993), Virtuosity (1995), Blade (1998), Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) and Excision (2012), which earned her a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as a Fright Meter Award and a CinEuphoria Award.

Lords also pursued music in addition to her film career. After her song "Love Never Dies" was featured on the soundtrack to the film Pet Sematary Two (1992), she was signed to Radioactive Records and subsequently released her debut studio album, 1000 Fires (1995) to generally positive reviews. Despite the poor sales of the album, the lead single "Control" had moderate commercial success. It peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart and was included on the soundtrack to the film Mortal Kombat (1995), which was eventually certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In 2003, Lords published her autobiography, Traci Lords: Underneath It All, which received positive reviews from critics and debuted at number 31 on The New York Times Best Seller list. She is currently starring in the comedy series Swedish Dicks on Pop.

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aseriesofvariousevents · 2 years

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Rolling in the Deep Series

I stumbled upon the novella in a fit of sheer luck and fell absolutely in love. Its novel successor was still completely captivating, but lacked some of the bite. Grant (/McGuire) is genuinely such a phenomenal author and wrote these books in such a terrifying way that anyone could develop thalassophobia.

From the very first page, I knew that the ending was going to be horrible, yet I still held out hope that something would change. Despite this being a relatively short novella, the characters all felt complex and real and I genuinely cared about their stories. I also really appreciated Mira Grant including such a diverse set of characters, especially with the disability representation. It really made the story come to life since the world is not solely made of straight, white, non-disabled people. The premise was fascinating and it really felt like watching a behind the scenes of a documentary filming. The Imagine Network was an eerily familiar entity and the science behind the expedition made for such a compelling story. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time; I’m really looking forward to reading more by Grant in the future.

Favorite Quote: Having strong feelings doesn’t actually make you stupid, as it turns out.

This was tremendously horrifying to say the least. This was a story where you could completely swap out the entire cast of characters and I wouldn’t bat an eye, but the story itself was absolutely enthralling. It honestly felt like I was witnessing a new, very real, scientific breakthrough with the amount of detail put into these creatures. There was something about the original novella that kickstarted this book that had completely hooked me that this book failed to do, especially at the beginning, but by the end, you would’ve had to pry the book out of my fingers to get me to stop reading. The lore was incredibly well crafted and Grant’s writing style felt so urgent and earnest. Will I avoid the ocean for the rest of my life because of this? Maybe, but I still really enjoyed this in a deeply disturbed kind of way.

Favorite Quote: She was your sister. She was my sister. She was the world. Of course she died for nothing. If she’d been dying for something, the world would’ve realized it was a stupid something and given her back.

Technically, this is more of a 4.5 overall, but since I loved the novella so much, I felt it only fair to round up. These stories were scary and the style made it feel like I was watching this unfold around me in real time. Definitely a must-read author now and I fully intend on reading through her work under both names.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Author: Mira Grant

#mira grant #five stars #certified nora review #rolling in the deep #into the drowning deep #rolling in the deep series

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romeoesjulia · 3 years

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Goosebumps: Phantom of the Auditorium 2021

It started out strong, but the rest of the album just sounded like the same thing over and over again. While I read the synopsis, I figured out the twist the second the characters name was mentioned. I’m not sure if this is supposed to be for children or not since the cast is pretty familiar to me, but the content was so very juvenile in a frustrating way. Not a fan. 2022 is starting off rough for me this year.

Favorite Song: Goosebumps

Rating: ⭐⭐

#goosebumps #goosebumps the musical #phantom of the auditorium #goosebumps 2021 #two stars #certified nora review

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Nora Springs Care Center

Nora Springs Care Center is a senior housing facility located at 907 W Congress, Nora Springs, IA - 50458. There are 50 certified beds at this location. Medicare has issued this facility an overall rating of 5 which has been registered to provider senior healthcare since 09/01/97. ElderPerfect is focused on delivering accurate local information on senior housing facilities and home care providers. We’ve designed our solution to be transparent on listing the extensive options available to your family. Our excellent customer service is achieved by matching relevant facilities to your current requirements based on unique needs and budgets. We constantly review senior housing / home care providers and remove any listing that do not meet our strict policy of conduct and quality. Provider Address: 907 W Congress, Nora Springs, IA 50458 Provider Number: 165347 Provider Type: Medicare and Medicaid Provider Since: 9/1/97 Provider Ownership: For profit - Corporation Read the full article

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194: Longevity, Autoimmunity, & Plant-Based Diets With Nora Gedgaudas

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194: Longevity, Autoimmunity, & Plant-Based Diets With Nora Gedgaudas

I could not be more excited about today’s conversation and today’s guest because I am here with Nora Gedgaudas who is by and large one of the early leaders in the ancestral health and healthy living movement. Her work is brilliant and she is one of the best researchers I know.

Here’s just a short intro to her long list of accomplishments: Nora Gedgaudas is a board-certified nutritional consultant and a board-certified clinical neurofeedback specialist with over 20 years of clinical experience solving the toughest health cases. She’s a world-recognized authority on ketogenic diets, ancestrally based nutrition, and has best-selling books including Primal Body, Primal Mind, Rethinking Fatigue, and her newest book, Primal Fat Burner: Live Longer, Slow Aging, and Super-Power Your Brain and Save Your Life With a High Fat, Low-Carb Paleo Diet. (That’s a mouthful!)

Nora offers a Primalgenic health certification program, one of the best out there, called Primal Restoration. It’s a unique and invaluable source of unique cutting-edge information. If you can’t tell, I really respect her research and I’ll link to as much of it as possible in the resources below.

Let’s get into it!

Episode Highlights With Nora Gedgaudas

how Nora’s health career came out of her personal fight against chronic depression

why she resists the labels “paleo” and “ketogenic” and came up with a new approach

how much protein we really need and why we shouldn’t eat too much

the reason our diet should be high in vegetables by volume and fat by calories

why the vast majority of people with autoimmune disease may never know it

the new metabolic pathway science just discovered and what it could explain about cancer growth

how gluten sensitivity may not be something you can heal (sad)

“oral tolerance” — what it is and how it’s just as important as healing your gut

the surprising reason we actually don’t need dietary carbohydrates

if women can handle a keto diet for the long-term

Nora’s take on longevity (it’s fascinating!)

so much more!

Resources We Mention

Books by Nora Gedgaudas

Episode Quotables From Nora Gedgaudas

“And I’ve grown very weary of trying to fit myself like a square peg into a round hole, into either the so-called paleo thing or the so-called ketogenic thing, there’s a lot going on that I have a really hard time with. So what I’ve done is I’ve kind of decided to sort of set up my own terminology, something that divests itself a little bit of the stigmas and baggage associated with these other highly commercialized terms now, and I referred to it as ‘Primalgenic.’”

“Fat is naturally meant to be our primary source of fuel as a species in the form of free fatty acids and ketones. Glucose instead is meant to serve strictly an auxiliary or secondary role.”

“I believe we’re living in a more hostile environment that anything our prehistoric ancestors could wrap themselves around. But what’s most threatening to us today are those things that are actually invisible to us, and we’re not wired for that.”

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BLOG TOUR - In the Grip of It

In the Grip Of It

by Sheena Kamal

on Tour June 1 – June 30, 2018

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Synopsis:

On a surveillance assignment for a child custody case, PI-in-training Nora Watts finds herself ensconced in a small farming community on a beautiful hippie island in the Pacific Northwest, a place with a reputation for being welcoming to outsiders. But when she arrives there, she discovers her welcome quickly wears thin. Perhaps too quickly.

Salt Spring Island, with a history as a refuge for African Americans fleeing the bonds of slavery, is not a place of refuge for her—and, she suspects, may not be for the people who live there, either.

As she investigates, nothing about this remote community seems to add up. It gets personal as Nora confronts her own complicated feelings toward her estranged daughter and becomes increasingly concerned about the child she’s been tasked to surveil. She discovers that small, idyllic communities can hide very big secrets.

Book Details:

Genre: Thriller Published by: Witness Impulse Publication Date: May 15th 2018 Number of Pages: 96 ISBN: 0062879324 (ISBN13: 9780062879325) Series: Nora Watts #1.5 Grab Your Copy of In the Grip Of It: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads

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Last week a man came into our PI office, looked around the shabby interior, frowned, and said, “I must have gotten the address wrong.”

“Depends,” I replied. “What are you looking for?”

“An investigator.”

“Nope, you’re in the right place,” I said, looking at his nice suit, shiny shoes, and expensive watch.

“Are you sure? Maybe I should come back later.”

He was clearly trying to make a graceful exit. Before the man could leave, I got up from behind my desk and opened the door to Leo Krushnik’s office. “Leo, there’s someone here to see you.”

“Well,” said the man, who was hesitating behind me, “I’m not really sure that this is the right fit for me.” He was trying to be diplomatic about the condition of our office and what it might say about his own level of desperation that he was here, but we weren’t about to let a potential client go without a fight. His level of desperation was no match for ours.

Leo Krushnik, the head of our little operation, walked around his desk and beamed at the man. “We’re the right fit for anybody,” he said, grasping the man’s hand and giving it a firm shake. “We prefer to keep our overhead low so that we can offer competitive rates to people who need our services, regardless of their personal incomes. Please, have a seat.”

The man sat, a little overwhelmed by Leo’s charm, which is considerable. That day Leo was dressed in linen pants and a simple cotton shirt, as a nod to the heat wave the city was experiencing. He could pull off this look as easily as he pulled off the lie about our rates. We keep our overhead low because this dump on Hastings Street, in the derelict Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, is all we can afford, but clients didn’t need to know that. And even I could admit that the “competitive rates” line sounded good—even true—coming from Leo.

“How can I help you?” Leo asked.

“My name is Ken Barnes, and I’m concerned about my son, Trevor. My ex-wife Cheyenne moved to Salt Spring last year with Trevor and I think she’s gotten into some kind of trouble there. She won’t bring him back to Vancouver and visitation has been difficult.”

Leo frowned. “Because they’re on an island?” Salt Spring wouldn’t be easy to ferry to and from on a regular basis.

“Yes, but that’s not the only reason. She keeps putting off my visits and it’s been difficult to arrange for Trevor to come into Vancouver. I think . . . I think she’s in some kind of cult, to be honest. They call it a commune, but you know those stories about Bountiful?”

“Yes,” said Leo. Everyone knew the stories about Bountiful, British Columbia, where fundamentalist polygamous communities live and proliferate seemingly freely.

“Well, I think it’s something like that. Cheyenne wants to be in some kind of crazy sex cult, sure. She’s not my wife anymore and I really don’t care what she does. But I’m fighting for custody of Trevor. I want him out of there.”

“And you need some ammo.” Leo looks up from his pad, where he’s been taking notes. “You’ve come to the right place, Ken. We’ve done surveillance work for many child-custody cases.” Another lie, but Ken didn’t notice. We’d only done a handful of those, but “many” is relative. “You understand that this won’t be cheap? We’ll have to get out to the island and spend some time gathering information.”

“That’s fine. There’s nothing I won’t pay to get my son out of there. Cheyenne, she . . . well, she struggled with depression and anxiety for years and she let a lot of toxic people into her life who fed on her struggles. It was like a sick downward spiral. When she started doing yoga and got certified as a teacher, I thought she’d changed. But I’m not sure anymore. I know this sounds terrible—I know it does—but I don’t trust her judgment about the people she lets into her life. Especially men.”

“She married you,” Leo said.

“I know, but this is the thing: it’s not about me and her anymore. We’re done. This is about Trevor—and me doing my part as a father, making sure he’s safe. That he has a good life. I just want results.”

“We can’t guarantee results.” This is the first time I’d spoken since the initial exchange. Ken Barnes’s startled gaze meets mine. He’d clearly forgotten I was there, which was not unusual. “Maybe it is a sex cult, maybe it isn’t. All we can do is take a look and document what we find.”

“I know that nothing is certain, but I know my son deserves a healthy, normal life. Whatever they’re doing on that island is not normal. It just isn’t. It’s one step away from homeschooling, and who’s to say they’re not making him do hard labor?”

What is normal, anyway? I didn’t ask Barnes for clarification. I just kept silent as Leo agreed to take his money in exchange for the work. Before he let Barnes go, he pulled him aside. “Nora’s right, Ken, about any sort of guarantee. But what I can say is that if there’s something to find, chances are we will get a sense of it.”

In the next few days, I started the file on Cheyenne Barnes and looked through the information Ken had provided us. “Cheyenne scrubbed her social-media profiles last year,” he explained to me, over the phone. “I thought she was punishing me by erasing the memories and keeping me away from what’s happening with my son, but now that I think about it, there’s something fishy about this whole thing.” So he kept saying.

Cheyenne is smiling in all the photos, and in every single one there is something wistful about her, a faraway look in her eyes. Something that suggests a romantic nature. She’s an instructor for hot yoga, which I thought was stretching for attractive people but later discovered is actually sweaty stretching. Who knew. She’d gone to Salt Spring Island two years ago to work at a yoga retreat and, according to Ken, never came back. She met a man there, a fellow yoga enthusiast, and rebuffed all of Ken’s attempts at reconciliation. There is very little to be found on Cheyenne Barnes’s new man. He has no social-media profiles of his own, but I did find a picture of him on the Spring Love website. Some people are so attractive it’s almost surreal, and Vikram Sharma is one of them.

***

Author Bio:

SHEENA KAMAL holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and was awarded a TD Canada Trust scholarship for community leadership and activism around the issue of homelessness. Her debut novel, The Lost Ones was inspired by this and by Kamal’s most recent work as a researcher into crime and investigative journalism for the film and television industry.

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