![]() ![]() If you strategically purchased merch, received an early access code, have connections in the music industry, or honestly just have good Karma, congrats-you may have gotten very lucky with a ticket. Just when we could comfortably start listening to Midnights, Taylor Swift gave us an entirely new obstacle to obsess over, getting a ticket to her concert-and more importantly, what to wear to a Taylor Swift concert once you do. The cryptic chaos of a Taylor Swift album release always pays off in every second that Taylor Swift provides in her profound lyricism, unmatched bridges and catchy choruses (can you tell I’m a fan?). You’ve stayed up until midnight more times than you can count (and at least once until three AM), watched every TikTok breaking down Easter eggs from the Bejeweled music video and even probably watched the third quarter of a Thursday night football game (never again, Taylor). ![]() If you’re a Swiftie, October and November were probably both thrilling and exhausting months for you-or as Taylor Swift would likely describe them, “miserable and magical”. I RECOMMEND DOING A FEW COATS OF PAINT.If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, STYLECASTER may receive an affiliate commission. BUT YOU COULD ALSO USE NEWSPAPER OR A GARBAGE BAG. ALSO BE SURE TO COVER YOUR SURFACE SO IT DOESN’T GET RUINED, I USE OLD AMAZON BOXES. MAKE SURE TO SPRAY PAINT IN A WELL VENTILATED AREA (I DO IT OUTSIDE). I USED TWO DIFFERENT COLORS TO GIVE IT SOME DIMENSION: SOFT IRON & GOLD. ![]() Using spray paint, spray both sides of your headband. YOU CAN ALSO REINFORCE THE SNAKES BY HOT GLUEING THEM TOGETHER. Intertwine the snakes to make them seem like they are wriggling AROUND. I LOVE THIS CORDLESS HOT GLUE GUN BTW, WAY EASIER TO DEAL WITH. THEN, I USED HOT GLUE TO ATTACH THEM TO THE HEADBAND AND EACH OTHER. TO RECREATE THE LOOK, I OPTED TO USE A PLASTIC HEADBAND & SOME PLASTIC TOY SNAKES! you can find most of the supplies on amazon or at the dollar store.įIRST, I LAYED OUT ALL OF THE PLASTIC TOY SNAKES AROUND THE HEADBAND TO GET AN IDEA OF HOW I WANTED TO ARRANGE THEM. THE MOST ICONIC PART OF MEDUSA’S “LOOK” ARE THE SNAKES COMING OUT OF HER HEAD. HOW TO MAKE A DIY MEDUSA halloween costume HEADBAND POSEIDON WAS MARRIED TO the greek goddess ATHENA, WHO TRANSFORMED HER INTO A MOSTER WITH SNAKES FOR HAIR.īASICALLY, HER PUNISHMENT FOR POSEIDON CHEATING ON HIS WIFE WAS THAT ANYONE WHO LOOKED AT MEDUSA & HER SCARY SNAKE HEAD WOULD TURN INTO STONE. SHE WAS A MAJOR BABE & HAD AN AFFAIR WITH POSEIDON. JUST IN CASE YOU WERE SPACING OUT DURING SCHOOL, MEDUSA IS A POPULAR CHARACTER FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY.įROM WHAT I RECALL, MEDUSA WAS A HUMAN (DAUGHTER OF SOME SCARY IMMORTAL BEASTS). THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING YOU’LL NEED IS SPRAY PAINT, WHICH YOU CAN FIND THE BEST DEAL ON AT HOME DEPOT IN MY EXPERIENCE. MY diy medusa costume DIDN’T COST ME ANYTHING, BECAUSE I LITERALLY HAD ALL OF THE STUFF ALREADY! BUT IF YOU HAVE TO BUY ALL OF THE MATERIALS, IT SHOULDN’T COST MORE THAN $20! MEANING, SUPER EASY AND INEXPENSIVE DIY STYLE! THIS YEAR, I WANTED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THINGS I ALREADY HAD AROUND THE HOUSE. LAST YEAR, I CHANNELED MY INNER GOTH GIRL AND MADE AN EVIL BLACK MERMAID COSTUME. THIS YEAR’S EASY TUTORIAL: LEARN HOW TO MAKE MY DIY MEDUSA HALLOWEEN COSTUME! HAPPY ALMOST HALLOWEEN MY FELLOW SPOOKY SOULS! HALLOWEEN SEASON IS MY TIME – I LOVE ALL THINGS DIY, DRESSING UP & DECOR. ![]()
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![]() However, if you chant very precisely, pulling the navel point and vibrating the sounds as instructed, you will achieve the same result. Yogi Bhajan did not exclusively teach this meditation with the focus on the chakras which is why we present this additional focus as optional. Wahe and Guru are released through the top of the head. Then take a short breath and chant Wahe Guru. It is pulled from the navel and up through the neck lock. Siri is the greatest of all powers, the Shakti, and is chanted with the last bit of breath. Nam is very long and resonates through the heart. Sat is short, coming abruptly from the navel, pulling up the diaphragm. Take another deep inhale and chant Sat Nam Siri. Ong is vibrated from the second chakra, resonating through the nostrils to experience the conch of the third eye. Ek is very short, as when we split the atom, releasing a humongous amount of energy from the first chakra. Inhale deeply, suspend the breath, focus on the brow point for several seconds, then exhale and relax.Įach sound vibrates and integrates a different chakra within the aura. The pitch should be steady but you may need to raise the pitch from time to time if it becomes unsustainably low. When chanting in groups, try to chant in one voice, we are not harmonizing, we are chanting in unity. HE is short and runs into GURU, the two words becoming like one syllable (hayg’roo). Keep the navel point pulled in for the rest of the chant. Pull in the navel as you chant a short, sharp WAH. The sound of NAAM should vibrate in your chest and throat. Pull in the navel and the diaphragm as you chant a short SIRI. NAAM is long and drawn out, nearly completing the exhale. Pull in the navel sharply as you chant SAT. KAAR should resonate from the back of the mouth, the throat and upper chest. The air should come out of the nose on ONG. The tongue should not touch the roof of the mouth. The time chanting ONG and KAAR should be equal and the sound continuous as you move from one syllable to the next. (Note: you needn’t chant loudly to be powerful.) ONG and KAAR are long and drawn out, completing the exhale. Pull in the navel sharply as you chant a short, powerful EK. Mudra: Hands may be in gyan mudra, touching the tip of the index finger to the tip of the thumb or resting in the lapįocus: Eyes are closed or 1/10th open and focused at the brow pointĮk Ong Kaar There is one Creator of all Creation Posture: Sit in easy pose with a light neck lock It is recommended that you cover your head with a natural fiber cloth which will help contain the energy you produce while chanting. ![]() ![]() As with any Kundalini Yoga practice, begin by tuning in, chanting the Adi Mantra (Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo) three times, each time on one breath. ![]() ![]() I am the person that stays up till 4 in the morning and then I will have to get up at 8 in the morning and I'll do that repetitively every night, and I'm never tired I don't know what's wrong with me. I guess I'm an early bird because I really enjoy getting up early in the morning taking a good shower and a good early start in the morning but it doesn't usually happen because of my late part-time jobs, but I guess everybody should be an early bird to better in their studies at least students. I can get up early and don't really complain too much about it, so I'm an early bird. I can stay up late and I enjoy doing that now and then but by-and-large, more often than not, I do my best work in the morning. I function the best in the morning, so I would have to say I'm an early bird. I get so exhausted that after classes and sports and things,and then I have a ten minute nap in the afternoon and then at about 12 o'clock I'll go to sleep. I wake up about 10 o'clock, which is quite late, I think, I guess, but when I wake up, I feel really refreshed and I'm ready to go to class and I'm awake and listening to the lecturer, but then by about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, I need a nap. I have to go to bed, so nowadays I'm up a lot more earlier in the morning and I think I'm more productive in the morning. I used to be a night owl when I was a student, staying up until about 4 o'clock in the morning, writing essays, drinking lots of coffee but I'm finding as I'm getting older, I can't do it. A night owl personality tends to have creative bursts and extra energy late at night. with my current job, I always have to get up really early, but I still can't manage to get to bed before 1 o'clock in the morning. A night owl is someone who prefers to stay up later than most people at night and sleep later in the morning. I can stay up all night and be fine but getting up early in the morning is always painful for me. ![]() I’d get into bed at 11pm and just lie there and whether I liked it or not, my alarm would be going off at 7.30am the next day.I am definitely a night owl. I stopped bad pre-bedtime habits too – again, no more scrolling on Instagram until I could barely keep my eyes open. I started loving that I had time to myself in the morning before work and didn’t have to race out the door every single day due to my penchant for snoozing. I still used the sunrise clock and it did make it easier to wake up from a deep sleep instead of being jolted from it by my screaming iPhone alarm (something I’ll never go back to, even now). No more doomscrolling the second I woke up, instead I’d drag myself out of bed and turn the kettle on – climbing into the shower for a quick rinse while I waited for it to boil. I allowed myself to make errors but broke up with my worst habits. No seriously, have you got a cig I can nab? I usually have the willpower of a teaspoon. I accepted that it would just take time and that while I might never be as morning-centric as Mark Wahlberg and his 2.30am wake up times, I could certainly make things feel easier by getting into a healthier pattern.įor the record, I’m someone who’s still taking over 10 years to quit social smoking and my own willpower for committing to a healthier sleep pattern has never ceased to surprise me. I committed to the most obvious and annoying answer of all – routine. The fact of the matter was, if I could train myself into unhealthy sleep habits, I could train myself back out of them – and it was going to take effort. Rather than put in hard work, I’d hoped that instant gratification would somehow fall into my lap and I’d be an all singing all dancing morning person throwing back the curtains every morning. What a massive shock – that these quick fixes that I expected to solve all my issues immediately didn’t actually have the desired effect I wanted them to… The ice cold showers I’d been recommended weren’t invigorating as my friend had suggested (I can only assume that they’re a sociopath) and instead were enough to make me want to climb straight back into my warm bed. I was horrified when my snazzy new ‘sunrise’ lamp didn’t immediately turn me into a morning person overnight and that the ‘wake-up’ balms I was smothering my pulse points in as soon as I woke up didn’t have me cartwheeling out of bed. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the fall of 2020, she became so fatigued that her morning yoga would send her back to bed. But months later, she experienced breathlessness and a racing heart. Retired flight attendant Jacki Graham’s bout with COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic wasn’t bad enough to put her in the hospital. Research shows it is more prevalent among those who were hospitalized, but also strikes a significant portion who weren’t. Long-COVID affects adults of all ages as well as children. Researchers hope their work will provide definitive answers. Or new ones may develop, lasting for weeks, months or over a year.īecause so many of the symptoms occur with other illnesses, some scientists question whether the coronavirus is always the trigger. Some of these symptoms may first appear during an initial infection but linger or recur a month or more later. While there’s no firm list of symptoms that define the condition, the most common include fatigue, problems with memory and thinking, loss of taste and smell, shortness of breath, insomnia, anxiety and depression. She believes that these clotting abnormalities persist in many patients after an initial coronavirus infection and that they reduce oxygen distribution to cells and tissue throughout the body, leading to most if not all symptoms that have been linked to long-COVID. She also found elevated levels of proteins in blood plasma that prevented the normal breakdown of these clots. In her lab at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, scientist Resia Pretorius has found microclots in blood samples from patients with COVID-19 and in those who later developed long-COVID. That can lead to blood clots throughout the body that can cause strokes, heart attacks and dangerous blockages in the legs and arms. Many COVID-19 patients develop elevated levels of inflammatory molecules that promote abnormal clotting. Some are the same ones found in people with autoimmune diseases.Īnother possibility is that tiny clots play a role in long-COVID. Susan Cheng were among researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles who found that some people who have had COVID-19, including cases without symptoms, have a variety of these elevated “autoantibodies" up to six months after recovering. That phenomenon is thought to play a role in autoimmune diseases such as lupus and multiple sclerosis. But sometimes in the aftermath, antibodies remain revved up and mistakenly attack normal cells. In a normal immune response, viral infections activate antibodies that fight invading virus proteins. Those findings must be confirmed with more research.Ī third theory is that autoimmune responses develop after acute COVID-19. A recent study in the journal Cell pointed to Epstein-Barr in the blood as one of four possible risk factors, which also include pre-existing Type 2 diabetes and the levels of coronavirus RNA and certain antibodies in the blood. One is that the infection or remnants of the virus persist past the initial illness, triggering inflammation that leads to long-COVID.Īnother is that latent viruses in the body, such as the Epstein-Barr virus that causes mononucleosis, are reactivated. Momentum is building around a few key theories. And clinics devoted to studying and treating it are popping up around the world, affiliated with places such as Stanford University in California and University College London. With $1 billion from Congress, the National Institutes of Health is funding a vast array of research on the condition. But some experts think a wave of long-COVID is likely and say doctors need to be prepared for it. ![]() It’s too soon to know whether people infected with the highly contagious omicron variant will develop the mysterious constellation of symptoms, usually diagnosed many weeks after the initial illness. Could microclots be the cause of symptoms ranging from memory lapses to discolored toes? That could make sense, since abnormal blood clotting can occur in COVID-19.Īs these theories and others are tested, there is fresh evidence that vaccination may reduce the chances of developing long-COVID. ‘Sick for a season’ A glimpse at the road to recovery after a difficult battle with COVIDĬould it be an autoimmune disorder? That could help explain why long-COVID-19 disproportionately affects women, who are more likely than men to develop autoimmune diseases.Long-COVID May unlock secrets of mysterious conditions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blob Storage: Blob stands for binary large objects, as the name suggests is storage for unstructured data such as YouTube, and Netflix.Key Value Stores: It is a storage system similar to hashtables where key-value stores are distributed hash tables.Load balancers: Most crucial component for scalability, availability, and performance measures for systems.The detailed version of this will be discussed in different posts: System Development Life Cycle Components of System Designīelow are some of the major components of the System Design. It is the most important aspect while designing systems and is the result of why 1 of 100 startups succeed over the long run, the best example here out is GeeksforGeeks. The best example here out is the well-known firm: Nokia. Scalable(flexibility): System design should be adaptable with time as per different user needs of customers which we know will keep on changing on time.Optimization: Time and space are just likely what we do for code chunks for individual components to work in a system.Reliability: The system designed should be in proximity to a failure-free environment for a certain period of time.Efficient: The system design should be such that it should not overuse surpassing the cost of resources nor under use as it will by now we know will result in low thorough put (output) and less response time(latency).Completeness: System design should meet all user requirements.Accuracy: Above system design should be designed in such a way it fulfills nearly all requirements around which it is designed be it functional o non-functional requirements.Practicality: We need a system that should be targetting the set of audiences(users) corresponding to which they are designing.So here we get crucial vital information as to why it is been asked in every Product Based Company. The importance of System Design phase in SDLCįrom the above SDLC steps, it is clear that system design acts as a backbone because no matter how good the coding part is executed, it, later on, becomes irrelevant if the corresponding design is not good. ISRO CS Syllabus for Scientist/Engineer Exam.ISRO CS Original Papers and Official Keys.GATE CS Original Papers and Official Keys.DevOps Engineering - Planning to Production.Python Backend Development with Django(Live).Android App Development with Kotlin(Live).Full Stack Development with React & Node JS(Live).Java Programming - Beginner to Advanced.Data Structure & Algorithm-Self Paced(C++/JAVA).Data Structures & Algorithms in JavaScript.Data Structure & Algorithm Classes (Live). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Wagstaff mistakenly hires misfits Baravelli and Pinky. Frank influences Wagstaff to recruit two football players who hang out in a speakeasy, in order to beat rival school Darwin. His cavalier attitude toward education is not reserved for his son Frank, who is seeing college widow Connie Bailey. Horse Feathers: Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. The Marx Brothers made their way onto the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry in 1990 with their hilarious 1933 film Duck Soup, a film many consider to be most emblematic of the famous comedy team. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they're on. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Hilarious humour from one of the best comedy teams of all time. With The Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx. I believe the most cleverest scene to be the pretend mirror scene where Chico copies Groucho superbly well as if the mirror really was there. After arriving stateside, one of the gangsters kidnaps the other's daughter, and it's up to our unlikely heroes to save the day. Duck Soup is a classic Marx Brothers movie and one of their biggest successes. Monkey Business: While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters while trying desperately to evade the ship's crew. Well, maybe 'help' isn't quite the word I was looking for-this is the Marx Brothers, after all. A painting displayed at that party is stolen, and the Marxes help recover it. Animal Crackers: Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. A subplot involves the star-crossed love of Polly Potter and architect Bob Adams. But his main scheme, selling real estate, is in danger of sabotage from zanies Chico and Harpo, who also reduce the schemes of a pair of jewel thieves to chaos. And the Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico and Harpo (sorry Zeppo) appear collectively at 20 on AFI’s 100 YEARS100 STARS. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection (DVD, 2004, 6-Disc. He'll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. DUCK SOUP appears on three of AFI’s lists of the greatest American films including 5 on AFI’s 100 YEARS100 LAUGHS list. he movie vaudeville of the Marx brothers was perhaps never so inspired, and surely never as brazen, as in their surreal satire of tinpot nationalism and political pomposity in. France released, Blu-Ray/Region B DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Mono ), French ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Booklet, Box Set, Collectors Edition, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Remastered, Scene Access, Special Edition, SYNOPSIS: The Cocoanuts: Mr. ![]() |