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‘First impressions count’, and in no situation is this mantra more evident than when trying to get a great deal on your house. You know that creating the right impression isn’t easy; you have to price it right, lighten it up and seriously deep clean it among other things. But if you get the cleaning bit right then getting the other things right should be a walk in the park.
Check out these five house cleaning tips to help your home make a good first impression.
1. De-clutter
If you are like most homeowners, your house will most probably have items that you no longer need taking up valuable space. Cleaning a house with distracting clutter is arduous. So before you get down to tidying up, go through the whole house from closets and drawers to cabinets and floorings taking out whatever you don’t need. Donate the old stuff and dispose of all damaged appliances and furniture. De-cluttering will leave the house spacious something that every buyer loves. And it will also make it easier to clean and keep it clean while on the market.
2. Create a Checklist
Organization is of great importance when deep cleaning house. Because unlike when doing regular cleaning, you will need to go a notch higher to make sure you impress potential buyers. Creating a checklist is the best way to ensure that nothing is left out.
Make a simple and exhaustive list of all the areas in your house starting from the entryway, kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, laundry room, garage, etc. along with all the surfaces and items that need cleaning in all of those areas such walls, tiles, and countertops. Once you have made a list, you can now begin cleaning as you check off each item which will make for a seamless cleaning process.
3. Use steam cleaners
To deep clean your house till it’s in tip-top shape, you will need the right piece of technology. Traditional mobs will mostly disappoint on this task forcing you to expend a lot of energy not to mention that mobbed floors and surfaces take forever to dry. That’s where the steam cleaner (nettoyeurs vapeur pour la maison) comes in. It instantly eliminates all the disadvantages that go with traditional mobs and sprays. You will save on cleaning detergents and sprays; the floors will dry faster, and you will make your house shine exceptionally in readiness for the market. And if you have stubborn mould underneath your carpets, a steam cleaner is exactly what you need to eliminate them and sanitise all surfaces.
4. Use rugs and mats
To ready your house for those random, unexpected visits by buyers, rugs and mats are a handy option. Instead of leaving your entrances and flooring exposed to dirt and germs, consider having entry rugs and floor mats in critical areas of your house like living rooms and the kitchen. Rugs and mats keep entrances and floors clean by removing dirt and grime from shoes hence sparing you the need for random cleaning sessions. They also come in various colours and designs that will enhance the beauty of your house and lure buyers.
5. Paint Interior Walls
You might not have considered it, but painting interior walls could be what your house desperately needs for that fresh, captivating look. Using quality paints will not only curtail odours and fume but also reduce dust. On top of that, the painting will help you to de-personalize the house — because no buyer wants to live in a house that conforms to the interest of someone else. Painting your house in neutral shades will make it appealing to more buyers and give the eventual buyer an easier time personalising it to their unique tastes.
Tout savoir sur les nettoyeurs a vapeur !
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From time to time you will find that your carpet falls victim to some accidents for example, spilling, gum sticking, and drops.
Below are tips on how to effectively clean your carpet and fuel your addiction!
1. Avoid rubbing the stain concentrated spots and instead dab the spot with a clean cloth socked in a cleaning solution.
The aim of this process is to soak up the stained spot and absorb the discoloration. Rubbing would spread the color further on the carpet.
2. Use ice cubes to get rid of chewing gum on your carpet. Place the ice cubes on the gum for about 30 minutes to freeze it. Then use a spoon to scrap it off.
3. Use shaving cream or club soda to get rid of wine and beer stains on your carpet. This is a life hack that many people do not know about or aren’t sure.
4. Melted wax from a candle can drip on your carpet making it unsightly. Place a cloth over the spot woth the wax and run a hot iron across it. When the wax melts, use a butter knife to scrap it off immediately.
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I hope these tricks will come in handy someday for you.
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The Truth is not interesting.
Jack Latham in an Interview on “Parliament of Owls”
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L’Informe
A dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words, but their tasks. Thus formless is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a term that serves to bring things down in the world, generally requiring that each thing have its form. What it designates has no rights in any sense and gets itself squashed everywhere, like a spider or an earthworm. In fact, for academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.
— G. Bataille, Documents 1, Paris, 1929
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In the majority of cases tree cutting should be left to a professional like Arlington tree service.
However if the tree you intend to cut is relatively small, in an open safe it may be possible to carry out this work yourself following the safety tips below:
The tools
• Kevlar leg coverings, steel toe boots, a hard hat, goggles and heavy duty gloves
• A sharp chainsaw with a full tank of gas
• Rope
• Ladder
• Wedges
• Ax
Tap the tree with your ax if it sounds hollow the tree may be dying or dead. If it sounds solid then it is live and so more difficult to take down. Tap different points on the tree to find a spot which is easier to cut.
Find a spot on the tree which is level just so that it does not bounce, roll or move unpredictably causing injuries.
Start by making a horizontal cut which should be above your hip but extend around one-third the thickness of the tree.
Add a wedge cut. This will be either on the top or the bottom of the first horizontal cut you made.
This cut will determine how the tree falls. The cut should be thick and around 1.5 inches on top of the horizontal cut. Introduce a wedge to prevent the tree from angling on the chainsaw.
Now that the cut is completed you will have an even holding wood or you will see the tree begin to fall.
When the tree is about to fall make sure to get out via your escape route.
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In 2006 Jack Dorsey set up his first twitter account after this demonstration Twitter has changed the way we inform ourselves and are being informed during the most recent 10 years, time for a recap.
Essential and unbelievable event that occured, for example, the Hudson River plane accident, #BlackLivesMatter and JeSuisCharlie and additionally Obamas renewed four term were being made public and spread instantly on twitter progressively for individuals to share and connect with and generally speaking being educated.
Being a vital turning point and evidence of the great idea Twitter is its well worth showing some key points about what has happened and where we stand. Lets take a peek at the difficulties ahead, some key crossroads in its history and development.
Advancement of Twitter
More than 320 million clients are utilizing the Twitter page, messaging, remarking and retweeting. You can locate the latest news, begin a debate or be in contact with your most loved performing artist, artist or fashion brand. The intriguing thing is that when Twitter was initially dispatched it was planned to be a SMS service no more and no less, to impart between individuals you know and stay in contact.
Today its a gigantic media stage permitting individuals to be educated, opinion and learn and be informed at all times and continuously.
Lets take a peek at a couple of reference points of the most important stages that changed such a large number of lives.
1. 2007: The first Hashtag could be posted on Twitter, which were at first not an option or thought to be used for Twitter but rather in 2007 proposed by previous Google creator Chris Messina, incredible thought Chris
2. 2009 Airplane Hudson River landing
The US Airways Flight 1549 landed unwillingly on the Hudson River, the Captain Chelsey Sullenberger amazingly figured out how to “park” the plane on the water in New York and nobody of the 155 individuals on the plane no one was extremely harmed. Janis Krum a twitter client shared a now exceptionally famous photo of the landing on twitter and the news broke around the world.
3. 2012: Barack Obama for his second term win to the Oval Office shared a minute of satisfaction on Twitter and after that reporting and tending to people in general about his second presidential win.
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The 2019 Grammy Awards are heating up and the winners are…
Justice and Silk City (Mark Ronson & Diplo) and Dua Lipa have already taken major dance awards tonight. Justice, for their work on Woman Worldwide, have won this year’s honor of Best Dance/Electronic Album. Silk City and Dua Lipa nabbed Best Dance Recording for their outstanding collaboration, “Electricity.”
Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, The Carters and more have been announced as winners in pop, rap and urban categories. Pharrell Williams was announced as Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) earlier tonight as well.
The 2019 Grammy Awards are only just getting started. Keep refreshing this page to see winners in more categories as the night goes on. We’ll have other highlights on our site as well, so stay tuned.
Huge congrats to all nominees and winners!
2019 Grammy Awards Winners
Best Dance Recording:
Silk City and Dua Lipa feat. Diplo and Mark Ronson – “Electricity”
Above & Beyond – “Northern Soul”
Disclosure – “Ultimatum”
Fisher – “Losing It”
Virtual Self – “Ghost Voices”
Best Dance/Electronic Album:
Justice – Woman Worldwide
Jon Hopkins – Singularity
Sofi Tukker – Treehouse
SOPHIE – Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
TOKiMONSTA – Lune Rouge
Album of the Year:
Cardi B feat. Bad Bunny and J Balvin – Invasion of Privacy
Brandi Carlile – By the Way I Forgive You
Drake – Scorpion
Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer
H.E.R. – H.E.R.
Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
Post Malone – Beerbongs & Bentleys
Kendrick Lamar and Various Artists – Black Panther
Record of the Year:
Cardi B – “I Like It”
Brandi Carlile – “The Joke”
Childish Gambino – “This is America”
Drake – “God’s Plan”
Kendrick Lamar and SZA – “All the Stars”
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper – “Shallow”
Post Malone and 21 Savage – “Rockstar”
Zedd and Maren Morris – “The Middle”
Song of the Year:
Childish Gambino – “This is America”
Kendrick Lamar and SZA – “All the Stars”
Ella Mai – “Boo’d Up”
Drake – “God’s Plan”
Shawn Mendes – “In My Blood”
Brandi Carlile – “The Joke”
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper – “Shallow”
Zedd and Maren Morris – “The Middle”
Best New Artist:
Chloe x Halle
Luke Combs
Greta Van Fleet
H.E.R.
Dua Lipa
Margo Price
Bebe Rexha
Jorja Smith
Best Solo Pop Performance:
Lady Gaga – “Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?)”
Beck – “Colors”
Camila Cabello – “Havana”
Ariana Grande – “God Is A Woman”
Post Malone – “Better Now”
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper – “Shallow”
Christina Aguilera feat. Demi Lovato – “Fall In Line”
Backstreet Boys – “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”
Tony Bennett and Diana Krall – “‘S Wonderful”
Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B – “Girls Like You”
Justin Timberlake feat. Chris Stapelton – “Say Something”
Zedd and Maren Morris – “The Middle”
Best Pop Vocal Album:
Ariana Grande – Sweetener
Camila Cabello – Camila
Kelly Clarkson – Meaning of Life
Shawn Mendes – Shawn Mendes
Pink – Beautiful Trauma
Taylor Swift – Reputation
Best Rock Performance:
Chris Cornell – “When Bad Does Good”
Arctic Monkeys – “Four Out of Five”
The Fever 333 – “Made An America”
Greta Van Fleet – “Highway Tune”
Halestorm – “Uncomfortable”
Best Rock Song:
St. Vincent – “Masseduction”
Greta Van Fleet – “Black Smoke Rising”
Twenty One Pilots – “Jumpsuit”
Bring Me the Horizon – “MANTRA”
Ghost – “Rats”
Best Rock Album:
Greta Van Fleet – From the Fires
Alice in Chains – Rainier Fog
Fall Out Boy – M A N I A
Ghost – Prequelle
Weezer – Pacific Daydream
Best Alternative Music Album:
Beck – Colors
Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino
Björk – Utopia
David Byrne – American Utopia
St. Vincent – Masseduction
Best Metal Performance:
High On Fire – “Electric Messiah”
Between the Buried and Me – “Condemned to the Gallows”
Deafheaven – “Honeycomb”
Trivium – “Betrayer”
Underoath – “On My Teeth”
Best R&B Performance:
H.E.R. feat. Daniel Caesar – “Best Part”
Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live”
The Carters (Jay-Z and Beyoncé) – “Summer”
Lalah Hathaway – “Y O Y”
PJ Morton – “First Began”
Best R&B Song:
Ella Mai – “Boo’d Up”
Miguel feat. J. Cole and Salaam Rmi – “Come Through And Chill”
Childish Gambino – “Feels Like Summer”
H.E.R. – “Focus”
Toni Braxton – “Long As I Live”
Best Urban Contemporary Album:
The Carters (Jay-Z and Beyoncé) – Everything Is Love
Chloe x Halle – The Kids Are Alright
Chris Dave and the Drumhedz – Chris Dave and the Drumhedz
Miguel – War & Leisure
Meshell Ndegeocello – Ventriloquism
Best R&B Album:
Toni Braxton – Sex & Cigarettes
Leon Bridges – Good Thing
Lalah Hathaway – Honestly
H.E.R. – H.E.R.
PJ Morton – Gumbo
Best Rap Performance:
Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake – “King’s Dead”
Anderson .Paak – “Bubblin”
Cardi B – “Be Careful”
Drake – “Nice For What”
Travis Scott, Drake, Big Hawk & Swae Lee – “Sicko Mode”
Best Rap/Sung Performance:
Childish Gambino – “This is America”
Christina Aguilera feat. Goldlink – “Like I Do”
6LACK feat. J. Cole – “Pretty Little Fears”
Kendrick Lamar and SZA – “All the Stars”
Post Malone and 21 Savage – “Rockstar”
Best Rap Song:
Drake – “God’s Plan”
Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake – “King’s Dead”
Eminem – “Lucky You”
Travis Scott, Drake, Big Hawk & Swae Lee – “Sicko Mode”
Jay Rock and Kendrick Lamar – “Win”
Best Rap Album:
Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
Mac Miller – Swimming
Nipsey Hussle – Victory Lap
Pusha-T – Daytona
Travis Scott – Astroworld
Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media:
The Greatest Showman
Call Me By Your Name
Deadpool 2
Lady Bird
Stranger Things
Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media:
Black Panther
Blade Runner 2049
Coco
The Shape Of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Best Comedy Album:
Dave Chappelle – Equanimity & The Bird Revelation
Patton Oswalt – Annihilation
Jim Gaffigan – Noble Ape
Fred Armisen – Standup For Drummers
Chris Rock – Tamborine
Best Spoken Word Album:
Jimmy Carter – Faith – A Journey For All
Courtney B. Vance – Accessory To War (Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang)
David Sedaris – Calypso
Questlove – Creative Quest
Tiffany Haddish – The Last Black Unicorn
Best Song Written For Visual Media
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper – “Shallow”
Kendrick Lamar and SZA – “All The Stars”
Sufjan Stevens – “Mystery Of Love”
Miguel feat. Natalia Lafourcade – “Remember Me”
Keala Settle and The Greatest Showman Ensemble – “This is Me”
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical:
Pharrell Williams
Boi-1da
Larry Klein
Linda Perry
Kanye West
Best Music Video:
Childish Gambino – “This Is America”
The Carters – “Apes***”
Joyner Lucas – “I’m Not Racist”
Janelle Monáe – “Pynk”
Tierra Whack – “Mumbo Jumbo”
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The “Equivalents” remain photography’s most radical demonstration of faith in the existence of a reality behind and beyond that offered by the world of appearances. They are intended to function evocatively, like music, and they express a desire to leave behind the physical world, a desire symbolized by the visual absence of horizon and scale clues within the frame. Emotion resides solely in form, they assert, not in the specifics of time and place.
— Andy Grundberg, 1983 on Alfred Stieglitz “Equivalents”
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Frequently Asked Questions about Braces
1. Why do people need braces?
There are many reasons one person may need braces: crowded teeth, missing teeth, extra teeth, jaws not growing right, bad overbite, open bite and the list continues. Not everyone needs braces if they go early enough to the orthodontists and have their teeth checked out.
2. What is the best age for braces?
There is NO best age for braces as all ages can be treated. However, the best time to be seen by an orthodontist is around 7 years old. At 7, any jaw growth problems can easily be corrected.
3. What is Phase I Treatment?
It means that if a problem exists (such as a bad overbite or a lot of crowding of teeth) treatment can or will be started as early as 7 or 8 to correct the problem. Most of the time, Phase I Treatment can save the patient from extraction of good permanent teeth, headgear or major jaw surgery.
4. What is Phase II Treatment?
Phase II Treatment is treatment with “braces”. Patients who have had Phase I Treatment to take care of a major problem (severe overbite or crowding) may need some type of Phase II Treatment with braces to detail their bite. However, not everyone needs Phase II Treatment. For someone who does not have Phase I Treatment but needs braces, they go directly to Phase II Treatment (that is, treatment with full braces).
5. How do braces work?
Braces work by putting light forces on teeth through special wires. Orthodontists also use special rubber bands to bring teeth into the right position. Treatment takes some time because teeth move slowly (only 1mm a month or less) into the right position.
6. Does it hurt to put braces on?
No, the braces are put on with special cement. However, in the beginning, teeth may become a little sore once they start moving.
7. How long does it take to put braces on?
The appointment to put the braces on is 1½ hours but to actually cement the braces in place will take approximately 10-15 minutes.
8. How long does treatment take?
Depending on the severity of a case, it could take as little as 6 weeks or up to 20-24 months for complete treatment. Once treatment is started, a patient would be seen every 8-12 weeks depending on their needs.
9. Do you talk funny with braces?
Just like anything new, it takes about a week to get used to the feeling. Most people adjust very well and have no problems.
10. Can you play sports with braces?
Yes, but with much care. You may need a mouth-guard to prevent injury and damage to the braces, your teeth and gums. We will gladly provide one for you.
11.Can I eat anything with braces?
No. There are some restrictions. We ask that you avoid sticky or hard foods (such as caramel, sticky gum, candy, popcorn, etc.). A little extra care with what you eat can go a long way and can prevent braces from breaking or becoming loose.
12.Can you get a “shock” if braces are touched with something metal (fork, spoon, etc.)?
Usually not.
13.Can the braces set off alarms in stores or airports?
No, the metal is stainless steel and does not set off alarms.
14. What are rubber bands and why do people need them?
Rubber bands bring the teeth together to make them fit perfectly. Most people need them at the end of treatment for a couple of months.
15. What are retainers and who needs them?
After treatment is finished, retainers are given to hold the teeth in position until they become used to their new “home”. All patients need retainers and Dr. Petrol will instruct you to wear them according to your personalized needs.
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Wie bei einem naschhaften Kind sind meine Augen größer als mein Magen.
The ecological value of the term Nature is dangerously overrated, because Nature isn’t just a term – it’s something that happened to human-built space, demarcating human systems from Earth systems. Nature as such is a twelve-thousand-years old human product, geological as well as discursive. Its wavy elegance was eventually revealed as inherently contingent and violent, as when in a seizure one’s brain waves become smooth. Wash-rinse-repeat the agrilogistics and suddenly we reach a tipping point.
The Anthropocene doesn’t destroy Nature. The Anthropocene is Nature in its toxic nightmare form. Nature is the latent form of the Anthropocene waiting to emerge as a catastrophe.
–Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology
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The Lotos-eaters
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
“Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land,
“This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.”
In the afternoon they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon.
All round the coast the languid air did swoon,
Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Full-faced above the valley stood the moon;
And like a downward smoke, the slender stream
Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem.
A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke,
Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go;
And some thro’ wavering lights and shadows broke,
Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
They saw the gleaming river seaward flow
From the inner land: far off, three mountain-tops,
Three silent pinnacles of aged snow,
Stood sunset-flush’d: and, dew’d with showery drops,
Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.
The charmed sunset linger’d low adown
In the red West: thro’ mountain clefts the dale
Was seen far inland, and the yellow down
Border’d with palm, and many a winding vale
And meadow, set with slender galingale;
A land where all things always seem’d the same!
And round about the keel with faces pale,
Dark faces pale against that rosy flame,
The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came.
Branches they bore of that enchanted stem,
Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave
To each, but whoso did receive of them,
And taste, to him the gushing of the wave
Far far away did seem to mourn and rave
On alien shores; and if his fellow spake,
His voice was thin, as voices from the grave;
And deep-asleep he seem’d, yet all awake,
And music in his ears his beating heart did make.
They sat them down upon the yellow sand,
Between the sun and moon upon the shore;
And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland,
Of child, and wife, and slave; but evermore
Most weary seem’d the sea, weary the oar,
Weary the wandering fields of barren foam.
Then some one said, “We will return no more”;
And all at once they sang, “Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.”
CHORIC SONG
I
There is sweet music here that softer falls
Than petals from blown roses on the grass,
Or night-dews on still waters between walls
Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Than tir’d eyelids upon tir’d eyes;
Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.
Here are cool mosses deep,
And thro’ the moss the ivies creep,
And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep,
And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.”
II
Why are we weigh’d upon with heaviness,
And utterly consumed with sharp distress,
While all things else have rest from weariness?
All things have rest: why should we toil alone,
We only toil, who are the first of things,
And make perpetual moan,
Still from one sorrow to another thrown:
Nor ever fold our wings,
And cease from wanderings,
Nor steep our brows in slumber’s holy balm;
Nor harken what the inner spirit sings,
“There is no joy but calm!”
Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?
III
Lo! in the middle of the wood,
The folded leaf is woo’d from out the bud
With winds upon the branch, and there
Grows green and broad, and takes no care,
Sun-steep’d at noon, and in the moon
Nightly dew-fed; and turning yellow
Falls, and floats adown the air.
Lo! sweeten’d with the summer light,
The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,
Drops in a silent autumn night.
All its allotted length of days
The flower ripens in its place,
Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.
IV
Hateful is the dark-blue sky,
Vaulted o’er the dark-blue sea.
Death is the end of life; ah, why
Should life all labour be?
Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast,
And in a little while our lips are dumb.
Let us alone. What is it that will last?
All things are taken from us, and become
Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
Let us alone. What pleasure can we have
To war with evil? Is there any peace
In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave
In silence; ripen, fall and cease:
Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
V
How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream,
With half-shut eyes ever to seem
Falling asleep in a half-dream!
To dream and dream, like yonder amber light,
Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height;
To hear each other’s whisper’d speech;
Eating the Lotos day by day,
To watch the crisping ripples on the beach,
And tender curving lines of creamy spray;
To lend our hearts and spirits wholly
To the influence of mild-minded melancholy;
To muse and brood and live again in memory,
With those old faces of our infancy
Heap’d over with a mound of grass,
Two handfuls of white dust, shut in an urn of brass!
VI
Dear is the memory of our wedded lives,
And dear the last embraces of our wives
And their warm tears: but all hath suffer’d change:
For surely now our household hearths are cold,
Our sons inherit us: our looks are strange:
And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy.
Or else the island princes over-bold
Have eat our substance, and the minstrel sings
Before them of the ten years’ war in Troy,
And our great deeds, as half-forgotten things.
Is there confusion in the little isle?
Let what is broken so remain.
The Gods are hard to reconcile:
‘Tis hard to settle order once again.
There is confusion worse than death,
Trouble on trouble, pain on pain,
Long labour unto aged breath,
Sore task to hearts worn out by many wars
And eyes grown dim with gazing on the pilot-stars.
VII
But, propt on beds of amaranth and moly,
How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing lowly)
With half-dropt eyelid still,
Beneath a heaven dark and holy,
To watch the long bright river drawing slowly
His waters from the purple hill—
To hear the dewy echoes calling
From cave to cave thro’ the thick-twined vine—
To watch the emerald-colour’d water falling
Thro’ many a wov’n acanthus-wreath divine!
Only to hear and see the far-off sparkling brine,
Only to hear were sweet, stretch’d out beneath the pine.
VIII
The Lotos blooms below the barren peak:
The Lotos blows by every winding creek:
All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone:
Thro’ every hollow cave and alley lone
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The final verse
Despite being the first title in the Yakuza franchise to be developed from the ground up on PlayStation 4 architecture, boasting the new and improved Dragon engine, Yakuza 6 isn’t the new start for the series that you would imagine it to be – it is actually a dramatic ending to the series as we know it. And despite all of the added gloss that comes with the jump to being fully next-gen, the game manages to maintain all of its character and madness – perhaps even packing in even more than usual.
Game: Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
Developer: Sega
Publisher: Sega
Reviewed on: PlayStation 4 (Review code provided)
The Song of Life is the swansong for longtime protagonist Kazuma Kiryu – the Dragon of Dojima. Without giving too much of the story away, Kazuma has returned from paying his dues in prison only to find that his “adopted” daughter Haruka has gone missing and been involved in a tragic accident. He sets out to investigate and finds a lot more trouble than he anticipated – including being unwillingly dragged back into the Yakuza world that he was happy to have left, and discovering a baby that needs his protection. Having been embroiled in epic clan wars and power struggles over the years, this sixth title takes a surprising – and thoroughly refreshing – turn towards a much more personal story.
However if you are new to the series, Sega have done a commendable job recently to make everything far more accessible. Firstly, last year’s Yakuza Zero was a prequel which served as the perfect first stop for anyone who had yet to jump into the world of Yakuza. Then Yakuza Kiwami and the upcoming Kiwami 2 have re-made the first two games in the series, via the new engine. And even here, in the final part of Kiryu’s story, you could easily start from scratch, thanks to the reminisce options in the main menu – allowing you catch up with the most important past events via short digest essays.
With each entry into the series, the Yakuza games have seemingly got more complex and more over-the-top. Indeed, Song of Life is the first game since 2009 to feature only the one playable character, and as such it possesses a far more focused main story than the last three or four instalments. Each title has always felt jam-packed with things to do – be it the main story, side missions or the myriad of distractions scattered throughout – but sometimes that has been a real hinderance that has made each game feel bloated and unnecessarily drawn-out. By streamlining certain aspects, Yakuza 6 feels quicker, sleeker and much more compelling to play.
This is all helped greatly by the fact that the new game engine cuts out around ninety percent of the loading screens from earlier titles. No longer will there be loading screens for entering every single restaurant or shop – we instead get seamless transitions into combat or buildings, even allowing your fights to spill over into nearby convenience stores, if you decide to take it there. It makes each of the two main playable areas feel far more open, allowing quicker and easier exploration.
These two areas are the series regular Kamurocho (Sega’s take on the real-life Kabukicho red light district of Tokyo), and the new small town of Onomichi in Hiroshima. The two different areas provide a stark contrast between small-town and big city life, without ever becoming so large an open world so that one feels overwhelmed by the options of what to do or where to go. These locations each have a strong personality, and both are fascinating to explore. Kamurocho will feel familiar enough to series veterans, but also ever-evolving – with new sights, shops and experiences to uncover as you wander around. And in its own way Onomichi plays a perfect foil to that bustle and excess. A sleepy harbour town, harbouring a dangerous secret.
Without the aforementioned excessive loading times, combat feels more dynamic and immediate – you can be approached by enemies and thrown into battle at the drop of the hat, or choose to pick fights for yourself as you please. The fighting system has been streamlined much like other elements of the game. With only Kazuma to fight as, there is only one fighting style to learn and master – although your skills and attacks are all upgradeable with a fairly comprehensive XP levelling system. New finishing moves and context-specific attacks can be purchased, along with other social skills that will help with the variety of mini-games to take part in around each of the two locations.
A new ultra heat mode is built up through successful attacks and allows you to take advantage of high-powered moves and temporary invulnerability – both of which are highly useful for some of the boss battles or larger multi-opponent brawls that you will come up against as you progress. This can however make some of the supposedly harder fights feel a bit too easy, especially if you are quite invested in completing the many side quests which will help you to accrue XP, and therefore upgrades, much more quickly. There are three different difficulty settings in-game however, and these do really make a difference between just playing through to enjoy the story, or being seriously challenged by some gruelling fights.
I shouldn’t speak about the combat for too long however, as many of the most memorable moments through the history of the franchise have come from the crazy side quests and unique mini-games and distractions. Whereas the main story in Yakuza 6 is a very personal and emotional arc, the side quests always lend a deal of levity to proceedings. None are especially serious – many are laugh-out-loud funny. Whether you are chasing ghost pirates away from a local graveyard, helping a young girl find merchandise from her favourite singer or stopping a budding Youtuber from performing dangerous Jackass-style stunts, they offer short and amusing diversions.
There is also the usual selection of mini-games to occupy your time, such as Mah-Jong, Karaoke and baseball batting cages, but many new additions or tweaks to old favourites have been made to offer even more depth. The Sega gaming arcades not only offer classics such as Outrun and Hang-On, but now include full versions of Virtua Fighter 5 and Puyo Puyo (which can also both be played in multi-player mode with a friend). I was disappointed by the lack of UFO Catcher machines though – as in my own time in Japan I became quite addicted to these, and they have always been in past titles. Thankfully this is a minor inconvenience, far outweighed by the many other new additions.
The almost RTS-like Clan Creator mode sees Kazuma building up his own gang of locals to fight back against an evil group that is taking over the city. You recruit, level up and deploy your troops like a general, taking on waves of increasingly more difficult enemies. A baseball management mode offers a similar take on that favourite past-time, tasking you with building up a terrible local team into a force to be reckoned with. Even the regular Hostess clubs have been given an overhaul, featuring a new card-based conversation system whereby you can try to win the affections of your chosen maiden. Add in a rather risque live chat mini-game, a very arcade-like spear fishing mode and a Cat Cafe which Kiryu is himself responsible for populating with an army of kitties, and there is plenty to keep you occupied aside from the main storyline – if you so wish.
A quick mention should also be made to the improved visual fidelity of the whole experience. Whilst there is a massive gulf between the cookie-cutter NPC faces and the featured main characters, there is a marked improvement in textures all-around. This is illustrated best on the rather large selection of characters who are modelled on real-life actors. Beat Takeshi plays a fairly large supporting role – in his usual understated, yet endearingly eccentric way – along with several other recognisable Japanese actors. One street gang is made up almost entirely of real New Japan Pro Wrestling superstars, including current IWGP Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada. These faces are all very detailed and expressive, which when coupled with the more fluid animations and higher-resolution environments, make Yakuza 6 a more authentic virtual trip to Japan than ever before.
VERDICT
It will always be difficult to sell a sequel like this to gamers who have never before dipped their toe into the series. It would be a mistake to be put off by the large number six that you see on the box though people, this is one of the most captivating and content-rich adventures that I have played in quite some time – and can be enjoyed thoroughly even with no prior knowledge of the story. With so many side quests and mini-games, pacing has always been an issue in past Yakuza games, but the absorbing nature of the main plot made The Song of Life feel like it never had time to slow down. By paring away unnecessary additional playable characters, disposing of multiple fighting styles and focusing on a more character-driven story than prior entries, we are left with a far more compelling tale – one in which I couldn’t wait to find out what would happen next. Whilst this may be the last outing for legendary hero Kazuma Kiryu, the future is certainly bright for the Yakuza franchise as a whole.
9/10
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I’m writing to you all as a wife, mom, and also as a fellow state board licensed professional as a registered nurse.
Last Spring my husband of 15 years had an affair with a dental hygienist at the dental practice we have been going to for 10 years in our small community, “we” is me, husband, daughter (now college grad), and teen son. We actually chose the practice as we me dentist at middle school activity- our daughters were both involved – not close friends, but continued familiar relationship throug HS graduation.
He went in for routine appointment, she routinely talks about bad marriage relationship (of 16 years) ‘he’s controlling, suspicious”, etc… My husband is police officer “ call me if I can help”- not in an innocent manner- clear boundary break. She leaves next day to “work on relationship with husband” on advice from pastor- to Mexico. Next day begin to text my husband flirty messages, then suggestive messages bikini pics, then half nude, then nudes. She’s gets home 1 week later and he is ready for divorce.
My marriage is not the concern of my post. I have had minimal contact with this woman in 9 months since I became aware of affair. I doubt my marriage is going to survive this affair, and I will continue to grieve this as time moves on. As a nurse, I would be horrified and quick to judge and point out to any of my coworker/friends how inappropriate and unprofessional this behavior was/is, and I am tempted to inform the dentist that she works with. I have struggled with my decision as I never wanted it to be made out of anger towards her because the responsibility is and always has been on my husband. However, she has also had contact with our 2 children for more than 10 years, and me- and her lack of judgement concerns me. I would never attend this practice again as long as she is still employed there, and would certainly never have my kids go there. I’m tempted to tell dentist this, and also that I will not hesitate to tell everyone we know in our small town the above story and recommend they take their dental concerns elsewhere. What do you all think?
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Dear reddit RDH’s,
I’m writing to you all as a wife, mom, and also as a fellow state board licensed professional as a registered nurse.
Last Spring my husband of 15 years had an affair with a dental hygienist at the dental practice we have been going to for 10 years in our small community, “we” is me, husband, daughter (now college grad), and teen son. We actually chose the practice as we me dentist at middle school activity- our daughters were both involved – not close friends, but continued familiar relationship throug HS graduation.
He went in for routine appointment, she routinely talks about bad marriage relationship (of 16 years) ‘he’s controlling, suspicious”, etc… My husband is police officer “ call me if I can help”- not in an innocent manner- clear boundary break. She leaves next day to “work on relationship with husband” on advice from pastor- to Mexico. Next day begin to text my husband flirty messages, then suggestive messages bikini pics, then half nude, then nudes. She’s gets home 1 week later and he is ready for divorce.
My marriage is not the concern of my post. I have had minimal contact with this woman in 9 months since I became aware of affair. I doubt my marriage is going to survive this affair, and I will continue to grieve this as time moves on. As a nurse, I would be horrified and quick to judge and point out to any of my coworker/friends how inappropriate and unprofessional this behavior was/is, and I am tempted to inform the dentist that she works with. I have struggled with my decision as I never wanted it to be made out of anger towards her because the responsibility is and always has been on my husband. However, she has also had contact with our 2 children for more than 10 years, and me- and her lack of judgement concerns me. I would never attend this practice again as long as she is still employed there, and would certainly never have my kids go there. I’m tempted to tell dentist this, and also that I will not hesitate to tell everyone we know in our small town the above story and recommend they take their dental concerns elsewhere. What do you all think?
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Another year, another round of updates for cars. The latest news about 2019 lineup changes from Mercedes-Benz.
For the upcoming year, Mercedes-Benz has a long list of changes coming to the new luxury cars. Because of this long list, the press release is dense with information and I want to break it down as easily as possible for you all. So here’s the breakdown, direct from Mercedes:
“Third-generation CLS debuts new coupe style plus in-line six-cylinder turbo powertrain with EQ Boost and 48V electric system
Full redesign of iconic G-Class SUV brings greater comfort, luxury, technology and safety, plus enhanced off-road capability
First-ever AMG GT 4-Door Coupe offered in three variants
E-Class Family adds E 450 and E 450 4MATIC models
New AMG CLS 53 and E 53 performance models with in-line six, 48V, EQ Boost and electric auxiliary supercharger
C-Class debuts more powerful 2.0L turbo engine and AMG- enhanced 3.0L V6 biturbo engine, design and safety updates
Most advanced Intelligent Drive safety features added to more model lines
All SUVs add new comfort and convenience features”
That’s quite the list. The most popular of these changes has to be the new G-Class design, as well as the new AMG GT 4-Door Coupe.
Now the question is: when can you get these cars? Thankfully, Mercedes also included a full timeline of what’s to come, with dates subject to change.
“CLS 450 / CLS 450 4MATIC (all-new) Fall 2018
E 450 4MATIC Sedan (new engine) Fall 2018
E 450 4MATIC Wagon (new engine) Fall 2018
E 450 / E 450 4MATIC Coupe (new engine) Fall 2018
E 450 / E 450 4MATIC Cabriolet (new engine) Fall 2018
AMG E 53 Sedan (all-new) Late 2018
G 550 / AMG G 63 (facelift) Late 2018
C 300/C 300 4MATIC/AMG C 43, C 63 & C 63 S Sedan (facelift) Late 2018
C 300/C 300 4MATIC/AMG C 43, C 63 & C 63 S Coupe (facelift) Late 2018
C 300/C 300 4MATIC/AMG C 43, C 63 & C 63 S Cabriolet (facelift) Late 2018 AMG E 53
Coupe (all-new) Late 2018
AMG E 53 Cabriolet (all-new) Late 2018
AMG CLS 53 (all-new) Late 2018
AMG GT 4-door Coupe: GT 53, GT 63, GT 63 S (all-new) Early 2019 S 560e Sedan (new variant) Mid-2019″
Below, you can find the the highlighted updates for each model in greater detail. Just click/tap on the plus button to see it all.
All 2019 Mercedes-Benz Updates
CLA
Highlights for 2019
Introduction of Denim Blue exterior paint AMG Updates
Additional Standard Equipment/Packages:
Premium Package
Convenience Package
19” AMG Multi-Spoke Wheels
C-Class Sedan
Facelifted for 2019
The C-Class family is fully refreshed for MY19 with enhancements to performance, technology and styling across the lineup, as well as valuable additions to standard equipment.
Highlights for 2019
The C 300 Sedan, Coupe and Cabriolet receive a new 2.0L inline-4 turbo engine producing 255 hp and 273 lb-ft of torque
Addition of advanced technology including the newest generation of Driver Assistance featuring Active Lane Change Assist, Route-Based Speed Adaptation, etc.
Refreshed headlamps, taillamps, front and rear fascias
LED headlamps and Smartphone Integration (Apple CarPlay and Android Auto) are now standard on all C-Class models
Interior highlights include: new-generation steering wheel with Touch Control Buttons and integrated cruise control buttons, optional 10.25″ high-resolution center display, optional 12.3″ Digital Instrument Cluster and optional 64-color ambient lighting
New individualization options including new paints, upholsteries, trims and wheels
AMG Updates
10.25″ center display is standard across all AMG C-Class models
New rear apron and diffusor, as well as new tailpipe designs
Addition of “Slippery” mode to AMG DYNAMIC SELECT
New SmartKey in black with AMG lettering and AMG crest
New AMG Performance Steering Wheel options in various materials
AMG Performance Seats now available with seat heating and ventilation
AMG C 43
AMG SPEEDSHIFT® TCT 9-speed transmission
Increase of 23 hp for a total output of 385 hp
New grille with twin louver design
New AMG Performance Steering Wheel
AMG C 63 / C 63 S
New AMG SPEEDSHIFT® MCT 9-speed transmission
AMG-Specific Grille
Electronic limited-slip differential now standard on C 63
AMG DRIVE UNIT now optional for increased steering wheel functionality
C-Class Coupe
Facelifted for 2019
The C-Class Coupe receives facelift enhancements like the C-Class Sedan, with the addition of the 10.25″ high-resolution center display as standard equipment.
AMG Updates
AMG Performance Studio Package available with new package content
Wood trim now standard
C-Class Cabriolet
Facelifted for 2019
The C-Class Cabriolet receives facelift enhancements like the C-Class Sedan, with the addition of the 10.25″ high-resolution center display as standard equipment.
AMG Updates
AMG Performance Studio Package available with new package content
Premium Package and wood trim now standard
AMG Performance Seats now available with seat heating and ventilation and AIRSCARF®
E-Class Sedan
Introducing new variants for 2019: E 450 4MATIC & all-new AMG E 53 Sedan
New engine, 48V electrical system, fully variable all-wheel drive, larger brakes and more equipment features: the Mercedes-AMG E 53 Sedan. The centerpiece of the new E 53 Sedan is the electrified AMG-enhanced 3.0L in-line 6 Turbo Engine with EQ Boost featuring an electric auxiliary compressor. The in-line 6-cylinder engine generates an output of 429 hp and delivers a peak torque of 384 lb-ft which is supplemented with an electric EQ Boost starter generator. Other technical highlights include the AMG SPEEDSHIFT TCT 9G transmission and the fully variable all-wheel drive system
AMG Performance 4MATIC+.
Highlights for 2019
Power increase as the E 400 4MATIC becomes the E 450 4MATIC (362 hp and 369 lb-ft)
New-generation steering wheel with Touch Control Buttons
Enhanced safety systems within the Driver Assistance Package (Route-Based Speed Adaptation)
12.3″ Digital Instrument Cluster and Head-Up Display now available as Stand- Alone Option
Power rear-window sunshade now available as Stand-Alone Option
Introduction of new 19″ AMG Twin 5-Spoke wheel in Night Package
Introduction of matching center console with Brown Ash & Burl Walnut wood trimAMG Updates
Introduction of a Mercedes-AMG E 53 Sedan, featuring an AMG-enhanced 3.0L inline-6 turbo engine with EQ Boost (429 hp, 384 lb-ft torque)
AMG Performance 4MATIC+ fully-variable all-wheel drive
New exhaust tailpipe design with round tips
Hood with double powerdomes
AMG Performance Seats now available
New-generation AMG Performance steering wheels now available
Brown Ash wood trim with matching center console now available
Optionally available Parking Assistance Package with Active Parking Assist and Surround View System (E 53 only; standard on E 63 S)
Surround View System as standard (E 63 S only)
AMG Illuminated Door Sills as a Stand-Alone Option (E 53 only)
E-Class Coupe & Cabriolet
Introducing new model designation for 2019: E 450 & E 450 4MATIC Coupe & Cabriolet and all-new AMG E 53 Coupe & Cabriolet
The new E 53 Coupe & Cabriolet models combine powerful performance with sporty style and high efficiency. At their heart lies a new, electrified 3.0-liter engine featuring an exhaust gas turbocharger and an electric auxiliary compressor. The cylinder in-line engine generates 429 hp and delivers maximum torque of 384 lb- ft. Its EQ Boost starter-alternator momentarily provides an additional 21 hp of output plus 184 lb-ft of torque and furthermore feeds the 48 V on-board electrical system. Other technical highlights include the AMG SPEEDSHIFT TCT 9G transmission and the fully variable all-wheel drive system AMG Performance 4MATIC+.
Highlights for 2019
Power increase as the E 400 becomes the E 450 (362 hp and 369 lb-ft)
New-generation steering wheel with Touch Control Buttons
Enhanced safety systems within the Driver Assistance Package (Route-Based Speed Adaptation)
Introduction of ENERGIZING Comfort Package
12.3″ Digital Instrument Cluster, Head-Up Display, and power rear-window sunshade now available as stand-alone options
Enhanced ambient lighting with illuminated air vents (64 colors)
Introduction of Night Package with 19″ AMG wheels
New AMG floor mats in matching upholstery color (AMG Line)
Matching center console with Light Brown Sen & Brown Ash wood trim
Introduction of wood/leather steering wheel with Light Brown Sen wood trim
New Rubellite Red metallic paint
AMG Updates
Introduction of a new Mercedes-AMG E 53 model, featuring an AMG-enhanced with EQ Boost
AMG SPEEDSHIFT TCT 9-speed transmission
AMG Performance 4MATIC+ fully-variable all-wheel drive
New exhaust tailpipe design with round tips
Hood with double powerdomes
Standard AMG Sport Suspension based on AIR BODY CONTROL
Standard AMG DYNAMIC SELECT
Standard 12.3″ Digital Instrument Cluster
Standard Burmester® Surround Sound System
Optional AMG Exterior Carbon Fiber Package and AMG Night Package
Optional AMG Performance Exhaust System
Standard AMG Nappa Leather Performance steering wheel; optionally available AMG Nappa/DINAMICA Performance steering wheel and AMG Nappa/Black Piano Lacquer Performance steering wheel
Standard AIRCAP®, AIRSCARF® and Fabric Acoustic Soft Top (Cabriolet only)
E-Class Wagon
Introducing new model designation for 2019: E 450 4MATIC Wagon
Highlights for 2019
The E-Class Wagon receives model year updates & enhancements like the E- Class Sedan
Power increase as the E 400 4MATIC becomes the E 450 4MATIC (362 hp and 369 lb-ft)
115V AC power outlet standardAMG Updates
New-generation AMG Performance steering wheels now available
Brown Ash wood trim with matching center console now available
Surround View System equipped as standard
CLS
All-new model for 2019
With the launch of the first-generation CLS in 2004, a new segment was born. Combining the emotional charisma of a Coupe with the comfort and functionality of a Sedan, the four-door CLS was a true design icon. Today, the third-generation CLS continues to be the forerunner of a refined Mercedes-Benz design language. The CLS is also among the first vehicles in the Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-AMG lineup with 48-volt technology offering increased performance.
Highlights for MY19
New 3.0L inline-6 turbo engine with EQ Boost, producing 362 and 369 lb-ft of torque mated to the superb 9G-TRONIC 9-speed automatic transmission
EQ Boost pairs an Integrated Starter-Generator with a 48V battery to supply up to an additional 21 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque at predetermined RPM ranges
Standard AMG body styling and 19″ MB wheels (20″ AMG wheels optional)
New upholstery designs and colors, and new trims with matching center consoles
For the first time, the CLS is a give-seater (three seat capacity in the rear)
New-generation steering wheel with Touch Control Buttons and integrated cruise control
Standard: COMAND® NTG 5.5 headunit with 12.3″ center display, Smartphone Integration (Apple CarPlay and Android Auto) & 64-color ambient lighting
Newest generation of Driver Assistance featuring PRE-SAFE® Impulse Side, Evasive Steering Assist, Active Lane Change Assist, and Route-Based Speed Adaptation
Standard: PRE-SAFE® Sound, Car-to-X Communication, Active Brake Assist, DYNAMIC SELECT and KEYLESS START
AMG Updates
Introduction of a new Mercedes-AMG CLS 53, featuring an AMG-enhanced 3.0L inline-6 turbo engine with EQ Boost
EQ Boost pairs an Integrated Starter-Generator with a 48V battery to supply up to an additional 21 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque at predetermined RPM ranges
AMG enhancements include an electric auxiliary compressor and a larger turbocharger
AMG SPEEDSHIFT® TCT 9-speed transmission
AMG Performance 4MATIC+ fully-variable all-wheel drive
Standard AMG Sport Suspension based on AIR BODY CONTROL
Standard AMG DYNAMIC SELECT
Standard 12.3″ Digital Instrument Cluster
Standard Burmester® Surround Sound System
Optional AMG Performance Exhaust System
Standard AMG Nappa Leather Performance Steering Wheel; optionally available AMG Nappa/DINAMICA Performance Steering Wheel and AMG Nappa/Black Piano Lacquer Performance Steering Wheel
Edition 1 Package available, which includes edition-specific content: 20″ AMG Black Twin 5-Spoke Wheels, Black Nappa Leather with Copper Stitching, AMG Carbon Fiber Trim with Copper Accents, IWC Analog Clock with Copper Accents, AMG Performance Steering Wheel with Edition Lettering, AMG Floormats with Copper Accents
S-Class Sedan
Introducing new variant for 2019: S 560e Sedan
The latest addition to the S-Class family is a new-generation plug-in hybrid with an on-board 7.2-kW charger that allows for fast charging of the battery.
AMG Updates
Two new steering wheels available:
AMG Carbon Fiber/DINAMICA Performance steering wheel
AMG Wood/Leather steering wheel
S-Class Coupe & Cabriolet
Highlights for 2019
The newly-facelifted S-Class Coupe & Cabriolet return for MY19 with no equipment changes.
AMG Updates
Two new steering wheels available:
AMG Carbon Fiber/DINAMICA Performance steering wheel
AMG Wood/Leather steering wheel
Mercedes-Maybach
Highlights for 2019
The esteemed Mercedes-Maybach Sedan receives a new, Maybach Vision-6- inspired grille design for 2019.
The Maybach S 560 and S 650 will also be available with two-tone paint combinations, double-clear-coat for dark-colored paints, new Exclusive Nappa Leather interior colors and new contrast stitching colors.
G-Class
Facelifted for 2019
The most significant redesign in the 40 year history of the G-Class.
Highlights for 2019
Larger vehicle dimensions but 375 lbs lighter
All-new, modern interior design
Traditional G-Class off-road performance
Ladder frame
Low-range gear box
Locking differentials
Improved off-road capability
Better on-road performance
Independent front suspension
Electromechanical power steering
Updated safety and assistance systems including Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC® and Active Steering Assist
Standard safety equipment upgraded as well
Exterior Updates
Two, new 19″ & 20″ wheel choices
Offered with 24 exterior paint choices
Bullbar as standard equipment
Now offered in black design with optional Night Package
9G-TRONIC 9-speed automatic transmission
LED Intelligent Light System with integrated Daytime Running Lamps
Interior Updates
Enhanced legroom for driver and all passengers
Exclusive Nappa Leather with diamond-pattern stitching now available on G 550
All new interior upholstery colors and trims
3-Zone climate control
64-color ambient lightning
Burmester® Surround Sound System
Power tilt/sliding sunroof
COMAND® Navigation is standard equipment
Including Touchpad and 12.3″ Central Display
Standard Smartphone Integration (Apple CarPlay & Android Auto)
Other Standard equipment:
Heated front seats
KEYLESS-Start
DYNAMIC SELECT
New-generation steering wheel with Touch Control Buttons
Split-folding rear seats (60/40)
AMG Updates
Handcrafted-AMG 4.0L V8 biturbo engine producing 577 hp and 627 lb-ft torque
AMG SPEEDSHIFT TCT 9-speed transmission
AMG RIDE CONTROL Sport Suspension with adaptive, adjustable damping
AMG DYNAMIC SELECT with three new off-road modes
AMG-Specific Grille
Flared wheel arches
AMG Performance Exhaust System with side pipes
AMG Performance steering wheels
Wheels up to 22″ in diameter
Optional AMG Driver”s Package
GLA
Highlights for 2019
Introduction of Iridium Silver & Denim Blue exterior paints
AMG Updates
Additional standard equipment:
Premium Package
Convenience Package
20″ AMG Multi-Spoke Wheels
GLC SUV & Coupe
Highlights for 2019
Heated Front Seats and 115V Power Outlet are now standard
Addition of 3-Zone Climate Control
Addition of Off-Road Engineering Package (available for 4MATIC® only)
EQ Power (Plug-in Hybrid) Updates (SUV only)
New 20″ 5-Spoke Wheels with Black Accents
20″ AMG Multi-Spoke Wheels now available
AMG Updates
AMG SPEEDSHIFT TCT 9-speed transmission
AMG Performance Seats and AMG Nappa/DINAMICA Performance steering wheel now available
New designo packages available in conjunction with AMG Performance Seats
AMG Performance Studio Package includes new AMG Optics Package
GLE & GLE Coupe
Highlights for 2019
The GLE and GLE Coupe return for MY19 with no equipment changes.
GLS
Highlights for 2019
Grand Edition available for GLS 450 & GLS 550
Luxurious interior featuring designo Porcelain/Espresso Brown Nappa Leather (with Budapest stitching)
designo Natural Grain Linden wood trim with stripes
GLS 450 features a unique 20″ 10-Spoke Wheel with Black Accents
Grand Edition badging
SL
Highlights for 2019
The timeless SL returns for MY19 with no equipment changes.
SLC
Highlights for 2019
New Stand-Alone Options: Blind Spot Assist, harman/kardon LOGIC7® Sound System, Dashtop Analog Clock, Ambient Lighting & PARKTRONIC
AMG Updates
Increased power from 362 to 385 hp
Dual-zone climate control becomes standard
Active LED Headlamps and Adaptive Highbeam Assist become standard
Graphite Grey exterior paint newly available
AMG GT
Highlights for 2019
GT C Coupe now receives standard Heated and Ventilated Front Seats
AMG GT 4-door Coupe
Introducing all-new GT 4-door Coupe family (AMG GT 53, GT 63 & GT 63 S)
The third vehicle developed fully developed by Mercedes-AMG, the AMG GT 4-Door Coupe combines unique design, high comfort and outstanding sports car engineering with an athletic, four-door fastback layout.
Highlights for 2019
AMG SPEEDSHIFT® TCT 9-speed transmission for the AMG 53 variant and AMG SPEEDSHIFT® MCT 9-speed transmission for the V8 variants
AMG Performance 4MATIC+ fully-variable all-wheel-drive system is equipped on all variants and includes standard “Drift Mode” on the GT 63 S
designo Brilliant Blue Magno paint available
GT 53
GT 53 features an AMG-enhanced 3.0L inline-6 turbo engine producing 429 hp and 384 lb-ft of torque
The additional EQ Boost (Integrated Starter-Generator) is able to produce up to 21 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque
Standard AMG Ride Control Sport Suspension
GT 63 / GT 63 S
GT 63 and 63 S feature a handcrafted-AMG 4.0L V8 biturbo engine producing 577 hp/553 lb-ft of torque and 630 hp/627 lb-ft of torque respectively
AMG Ride Control+ Air Suspension
Standard rear-axle steering system
Electronic Rear Limited-Slip Differential
Standard AMG Dynamic Plus Package on GT 63 S; available as an option on GT 63
AMG Aerodynamics Package available
GT 63 S to receive Edition 1 package, featuring edition exclusive content: designo Graphite Grey Magno paint, AMG Stripes on the hood/roof/decklid and along the side sills, 21″ AMG Forged Cross- Spoke Wheels with Black Accents, AMG Matte Carbon Fiber Trim, AMG Magma Grey/Black Exclusive Nappa Leather with Yellow Stitching, AMG Floormats with Yellow Stitching and Lettering, AMG DINAMICA Performance Steering Wheel with Yellow 12 o’clock marking and edition badging, and yellow seatbelts
smart EQ
Highlights for 2019
The smart EQ fortwo and the smart EQ fortwo cabrio return for MY19 with no changes to standard equipment or packaging.
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It’s a Wednesday morning at the Family Health and Birth Center (FHBC), a prenatal clinic and birth center housed within a larger federally qualified health center called Community of Hope. The clinic is located in a shopping mall, across the street from a Safeway grocery store, next door to an Aldi store, and situated in a predominantly Black and low-income part of the city, that, like most of Washington, D.C., is rapidly changing. The lot on which the clinic stands is set to become condos, and signs outside the parking area proudly announce that fact.
But today, seven Black pregnant women have gathered in a classroom for their two-hour prenatal care group, facilitated by FHBC’s group care coordinator, Paris Carter, a Black woman in her late 20s with long braids and a shaved undercut. As the women snack on fruit, yogurt, and muffins, they paint the plaster casts of their pregnant bellies that they made at the last session. Beyoncé plays in the background.
This group is one of three or four that meet each week at FHBC and represents a core part of the prenatal care model gaining traction nationally, called CenteringPregnancy, which recommends this kind of setting and provides training and materials to facilitators. In the midst of a national dialogue about the health of pregnant and parenting Black women, FHBC’s work shows what it looks like to provide prenatal care that significantly improves outcomes for vulnerable populations. The clinic has seen healthier moms and babies than the statistics for the region have shown, offering a model for others on what it takes to improve health and wellness for Black women and children.
All of the women in the group Rewire.News observed were close to term, around 37 weeks pregnant. Three have children with them, all little boys between 13 months and a few years. One boy watches a show on his mom’s phone while munching on fruit. Another spends most of the session painting his mom’s belly cast with messy streaks of black and blue paint.
The two hours the group is together is loosely held, with women arriving at different times, and multiple activities taking place at once. Halfway through, for about 30 minutes of the session, Carter walks through a PowerPoint presentation on infant sleep safety and how to avoid sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Each woman also spends about ten minutes with Rebekah Schmerber, a white nurse midwife who does belly checks behind a screen in the corner throughout the session. She takes their vitals, weighs them, and then has each woman lie down on a massage table next to a wall draped with a colorful batik cloth. As she examines the belly and uses a Doppler to listen to the fetus’ heartbeat, she addresses any questions and concerns the woman might have.
Mercedez Milling-Robinson finished the Centering program last year when her daughter, her second child, was born. “I just had such a good time,” she recounted about her experience with Centering in a recent phone call with Rewire.News. For her first child, she received care from an obstetrician at another local health provider and was really unhappy with the care she received. Her appointments with her OB were really impersonal, she said, and her desire for an unmedicated labor wasn’t respected. During her delivery, she described, “they were telling me … stories about women who wanted to go natural pulling the IVs out and acting crazy to try and scare me out of my decision.” In spite of that, Milling-Robinson had delivered her son without medication. When she got pregnant again two years later, she sought out care at FHBC, which she had known about, but had been closed when her son was born.
She only had good things to say about her experience at FHBC. “I love their energy and their vibe,” she described. “My first time meeting Ebony [Marcelle, director of midwifery at the clinic] was the day I was giving birth to my daughter. She came in and fit right in and was really encouraging.” One of the things that was challenging about her first child’s delivery was that she felt like the nurses and OB were forcing her to push when she wasn’t ready. Because of that experience, she explained, “with my daughter I didn’t know when to push or when not to push.” Instead she recounted Marcelle saying: “‘You know when to push’—giving me back what [the first providers] took from me.”
Historically, the CenteringPregnancy model starts with monthly group meetings early in pregnancy. At FHBC they start later, around 20-24 weeks, but meet biweekly until the end of the pregnancy. The complete program is ten sessions, and each session covers a different topic related to pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting. The model is touted by health-care providers, researchers, and advocates for improving maternal health, and Marcelle said FHBC’s outcomes have been significantly better than average in D.C. Among the 2017 group, only three had issues with preterm labor or low infant birth weight—two problems that disproportionately affect Black women. In 2016, the preterm birth rate for Black women nationally was 14 percent. In 2012, the rate of infants born below a healthy weight to Black mothers was also about 14 percent.
Approximately 391 women came to Community of Hope for prenatal care in 2017, and 35 percent of those clients participated in the Centering groups. Among all the prenatal patients seen, only 5.8 percent gave birth preterm, and 4.6 percent had infants born underweight. There were no infant or maternal deaths among any of the clients seen at the practice. For context, a 2015 study showed that Washington, D.C., has the highest infant mortality rate of any capital city in the developed world. The maternal mortality rate is also twice the national average, and between 2014 and 2016, 75 percent of those deaths were Black women.
FHBC has seen a lot of change in the 18 years since its founding by Ruth Lubic, a white nurse midwife who received a MacArthur Fellowship that she used to fund what was then called the DC Developing Families Center. While the intention has always been to serve women living in the vicinity of the center, how that service is provided has shifted greatly over time. Much of the recent shifts can be attributed to Marcelle’s leadership.
One of the things that makes FHBC’s model unique, said Marcelle, is that it is part of a larger federally qualified health center. Not only does that provide an important source of revenue via federal funding, but it offers her clients wraparound services for the whole family. “What it allowed me to do was build a program that I think is the answer for Black women,” said Marcelle, who first connected with FHBC as a volunteer in 2002. In 2008, she came back to FHBC as a nurse midwife, where she stayed for two years before leaving to work at Washington Hospital Center. She returned to FHBC in March 2015 as the midwifery director.
“It’s lovely having family practice providers here. We have dental at two of our other sites. We have a housing arm. We have healthy start and integrated behavioral health.” This comprehensive care model impacts the health of an entire family, explained Marcelle. “It’s fantastic. If I have a patient come in and her partner looks sick, I can get him an appointment. Your grandmother is sick? We can see her.”
There are two other key elements of Marcelle’s model, which I found in my reporting on Jennie Joseph’s practice in Orlando, Florida, as well. One, the majority of her staff are women of color. Marcelle recounted that even while interviewing with the CEO, she foreshadowed this change when she was asked what she would need to be successful. At the time, the birth center was closed, and the practice was only seeing a limited number of prenatal clients, staffed by just two midwives, both white. “Complete trust,” Marcelle recalled responding. “You’re going to have let me do things you don’t understand. You’re going to have to let me make decisions.”
Marcelle also moved to soften the center’s approach with clients—another key element that is part of how Joseph’s clinic works. Joseph heavily emphasizes respect and understanding for her patients as soon as they step foot in the clinic, and Marcelle is equally passionate about that.
“They come very defensive because they’ve had bad experiences in the past, so we also have to restructure their concept of care,” said Marcelle. “We have some patients who just come to hang out, probably because we are the only people who are super nice to them.”
This softer approach is reflected in a change she made regarding the center’s late policy. When she came on as director, the policy mandated that if you were ten minutes late for your appointment you had to reschedule. Marcelle recalled: “I knew I had a problem when it was 4:10 and the midwife had already moved her to no show, and the patient shows up at 4:12.” Within a few months of taking over as director, Marcelle shifted the policy. “We have to see late patients,” she explained. “Some of these women are taking multiple buses, sacrificing [by accepting] unsafe child care, all kinds of shenanigans to get here—we have to see them.”
The official policy now is 15 minutes, but if you’re pregnant or with a newborn, Marcelle said you will get seen, no matter what. Millings-Robinson remarked on this as well, sharing that the staff will always work with her, even if she’s late.
When asked what really stands out about the center’s environment, she answered without hesitation: “They don’t forget a face or a name. I’m able to talk to them, and they are really excited about what they are doing.”
The clinic represents a bright spot in an otherwise grim situation. Advocates and journalists have come to call D.C. a “maternity desert” after two hospital labor and delivery ward closures last summer, limiting options for people living in some of D.C.’s lowest-income areas. Newsweek reported in 2015, “infants born into the city’s poorest area, Ward 8 in the southeast, are 10 times more likely to die than children in Ward 3, Washington’s affluent northwest.”
The FHBC is located in Ward 5, not far from one of the closed labor and delivery wards, and also has a location in Ward 8, where it offers prenatal care and where some of the Centering pregnancy groups meet. The vast majority of its clients are Black, and it accepts all insurance plans, including Medicaid. Most of the center’s clients are on public insurance.
A room inside the Family Health and Birth Center. (Miriam Zoila Pérez)
Marcelle has big dreams for the birth center. For starters, she would like to increase the number of women giving birth at the center each month. Milling-Robinson wanted to deliver her daughter at the birth center, but a suspected fetal heart murmur later in pregnancy required her to deliver at the hospital instead. Complications are common, shared Marcelle.
The majority of FHBC’s patients deliver not at the birth center, but at Washington Hospital Center, a nearby hospital where FHBC midwives can attend to them during their deliveries, according to Marcelle. Between two and four women give birth at the birth center each month, she said.
Pregnant with her third child and due in January 2019, Milling-Robinson has returned to the center for prenatal care and is hoping to give birth there this time.
In 2017, according to statistics Marcelle provided to Rewire.News, 137 women came through the Centering program, representing 78 percent of the delivery clients seen by the nurse midwives at FHBC. Marcelle’s goal for this year is to increase that by threefold or fourfold, up to 15 births each month. She is working through ideas for how to get her clients on board with an unmedicated birth, including working more closely with Mamatoto Village, a local perinatal support organization, since wanting an epidural is a big reason her clients who aren’t facing complications choose the hospital instead.
Marcelle brings a unique perspective to the midwifery world because she’s practiced in hospitals with high-risk deliveries and in the birth center, where women deliver in rooms decorated like a bedroom at a bed and breakfast. “I can definitely whip out the rebozo [a garment used in indigenous midwifery practice] and be crunchy and granola, but I can [also] manage your twins with pre-eclampsia.”
There are only a handful of birth centers that are situated within federally qualified health centers, and that alone is what makes the center sustainable as compared with other clinics. But even Marcelle’s center is facing uncertainty—its lease is up in 2020, when its building will become another luxury condo development in a city where these developments abound.
The center is looking for a new space, Marcelle said, but so far hasn’t found anything affordable and in the right location. It won’t be an easy hurdle given the realities of real estate in the rapidly gentrifying D.C., but Marcelle is determined to charge ahead and continue offering something truly unique in the midst of a challenging landscape for Black women.
Carter, whom Marcelle hired two years ago, was actually a patient at FHBC ten years ago when she had her son at age 20. She recalled what it felt like to arrive at FHBC for prenatal care after an unsatisfactory experience at her first prenatal care provider. “Besides the front door, there [were] no locked doors here. It felt like the staff knew everybody. It didn’t feel so sterile. I just liked how I was addressed here. It was kind of, ‘Ooh, hey, what’s up?’ instead of it being very straightforward and strict.” Marcelle was actually Carter’s midwife and even attended the birth of her son Kingston, who is now 9.
“It was really cool seeing other moms like me who were pregnant,” Carter said. “[They] lived where I lived, lived how I lived, looked like me, were dealing with some of the same issues as me. It felt like home.”
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The time has finally come to find out more about Charlie. Here are her recent Wisdom Panel test results, and what it was like to do a dog DNA test!
Full disclosure: I was going to talk more about my plans for the guest bedroom today. But Charlie had an injury over the weekend*, and she’s been farting up a stinky storm today, so she’s more than a little on my mind. So, just for the heck of it, I decided to move this post up and share the results of her DNA testing.
*The Charlie Injury Story: Charlie hates her nails being trimmed. As in, FLIPS OUT if they are touched and therefore has a red flag on her file so vets/groomers won’t touch her. So, to help keep her nails in check, I have to use alternative natural ways, such as her nightly walks on asphalt in the neighborhood, letting her dig, and running around on a hard surface at doggie day camp. Unfortunately, Charlie still gets herself into trouble every now and then (like trying to climb my backyard fence) and split one of her nails on Saturday. Poor baby. It’s been treated and she’s on antibiotics and she’s back to her old self, so don’t worry! I’ve got a watchful eye on her until it’s fully healed.
Why Charlie Was Tested
It all started last fall, when I swabbed her gums using a kit one night. I was sorting through stuff to donate to Goodwill after the guest bedroom clean-out, and K brought the kit down in one of the boxes. In truth, I’d never really planned on getting her tested. At least, not with my own money; I thought it was kind of a waste. As long as she’s happy and healthy, why bother, right?
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She is such a unique-looking animal that people seemed to love guessing at her breed. And since the actual truth made no difference to any of those things, I never considered it important.
But, a few Christmases ago, my sister Emily (the owner of 3 mutts herself) decided my reasoning was stupid and bought me (Charlie? us?) a DNA testing kit by Wisdom Panel.
I forgot about it for a few years, which is how it popped back up on my radar as I was sorting through things from guest bedroom storage. So, basically, I finally buckled. I swabbed her cheek and gums (much to her reluctance, but it was a simple-step process to complete) and sent off the kit. A few weeks ago, I got back her results.
Charlie’s DNA Results
Charlie is…
drumroll please…
a…
MUTT!
I know… you’re shocked, right?
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Here’s the actual breakdown of Charlie’s ancestry chart, which I honestly DID find interesting:
Overall Thoughts on Her Results
I always suspected she might be a Boxer mix, especially because she’s so solid/muscular, loves to “box” people (gets on her hind legs and sort of paws/punches at you, right about crotch level), and “kidney beans” (shakes her tail from side to side that causes her whole body to twist like a kidney bean), all characteristics I’ve seen in other Boxer mixes in the past.
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The White Swiss Shepherd and Cattle Dog makes sense with her crazy ears. It also explains her high energy level (even though K’s dog, Stella, is around the same age, Charlie seems way more like a puppy in comparison). And the Chow part explains her tongue’s black splotches! As for the rest? Even the DNA company was like “shit if we know… your guess is as good as ours!” Roughly 37% of her test results came back inconclusive enough that there’s no one breed it points to.
Related: Charlie’s first trip to the beach
So, there you have it! My precious girl has a little more known about her. Of course, I still think it really doesn’t make any difference, especially since I enjoy letting people speculate (and those of you who have emailed me photos of your own pups thinking they are the same breed or similar, I still welcome you to do so; I never get tired of puppy pics!). Mom and Em were happy to know the results, too. Were her results what you thought it would be??? Have you ever had your pup tested? What did you think?
P.S. Just so there’s no confusion, this was not sponsored.
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