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2023.03.30 19:28 soulpotentialacu How Acupuncture Can Redefine How Menopause Feels

How Acupuncture Can Redefine How Menopause Feels


Ah, menopause — that time in your life when you say goodbye to your reproductive years and embark on a new journey. For some lucky women, this transition is a smooth one. For others, the sudden drop in hormones leads to years of hot flashes, night sweats, depression, and more. Most women fall somewhere in between and grapple with unwelcome changes that can impact their quality of life.
While there’s no “cure” for the inevitable transition of menopause, we can smooth your way forward through acupuncture. At Soul Potential Acupuncture and Wellness, Vonda Muncy treats a wide range of conditions using this ancient practice with great success. From back pain to the symptoms of menopause, acupuncture has a place in almost every area of your health and wellness.
Here’s a look at how acupuncture can redefine how menopause feels.
The price of menopause
Menopause is the transition that women make from their reproductive years to their nonreproductive years. Unfortunately, what precipitates this transition — the shutting down of your ovaries — comes with a sudden drop in your female hormones, namely estrogen and progesterone. And some women experience moderate-to-severe reactions to this sudden deficit.
While women experience menopause differently, most experience some degree of one or more of the following:
  • Hot flashes
  • Night sweats
  • Vaginal dryness
  • Thinning tissue and hair
  • Sleep problems
  • Weight gain
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Memory problems
As you can see by this list, menopause can have a serious impact on your quality of life, especially if your symptoms are severe and unrelenting.
Redefining menopause
Traditionally, doctors have treated menopause either symptomatically or through hormone replacement therapy, which comes with some risk. If you’d rather approach your symptoms holistically and naturally, acupuncture is an incredibly effective solution.
Acupuncture has been practiced for millennia and the principle behind the technique is that by releasing your qi, or energy, your body has the freedom to function as it should. The human body has incredible healing resources within, and our goal is to free up these resources so that they can flow more freely and do what they’re supposed to do — maintain your overall wellness.
To do this, we place tiny, sterile needles along certain acupuncture points to restore balance and flow within your body. These needles are designed to dismantle blockages along your energy pathways and also communicate with your brain, encouraging the release of neurotransmitters and endorphins.
When it comes to menopause, one study in Denmark found that acupuncture helped improve the symptoms of menopause in 80% of women. While the study was focused on hot flashes alone, researchers report that participants also experienced a considerable decline in night sweats, sleep problems, emotional symptoms, and skin and hair issues.
If you’re struggling with menopause, contact our office in Castle Rock, Colorado, to explore how acupuncture can help you enjoy this new stage of your life.
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2023.03.30 19:27 myothercarisa737max Most economical way to book 2 extra business seats NYC-TYO

Hello all,
I'm looking for advice on how to snag two extra seats in business class for flights from NYC to Tokyo.
I'm traveling for work so unfortunately my dates are not flexible--I'm hoping to bring my family with in business class so they can sit with me. It will be a one-week trip starting roughly one week from now.
I'm currently sitting on a mine of Chase UR points. I'm not sure I am following the Virgin/ANA redemption plot very well, but if that is a valid option I'm obviously interested along with the other 10 people posting about this daily.
Any pointers would be incredibly appreciated!
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2023.03.30 19:27 dinosauradio I feel so ineffective

I used to be good at my job -- or at least passable. I wasn't bad at it. Then last year I took on greater responsibility in a coworker's absence, was excited about it, but fell behind quickly due to a lot of different factors, which together made me realize I needed help. It was then that I put myself on a waiting list for ADHD assessment (happening this spring, 11 months later).
I continued to royally screw up this extra reaponsibility, though, until eventually it was taken away from me. My manager has been very supportive; the head of my department has been supportive -- both of them way more than I deserve. If I were my manager, I would have fired me a long time ago.
I used to be great at responding quickly to messages at work; helping where needed; keeping myself organized; adhering to a solid work ethic. But since my experience last year, I've been withdrawn, hard to reach, not in contact with my colleagues when they need my help. I have run out of patience with myself and I know my coworkers have to be fed up with me. I also know they know I'm having a hard time -- I had a public meltdown at our organization's annual meeting last fall -- but I don't like being unreliable, or cementing a reputation as being unreliable.
I hate feeling and BEING this ineffective. In my mind I know all the things I need to do -- things in the past I could get down to business and take care of. But the struggle every day to keep myself focused, combined with the shame of performing so badly, makes it seem so hard to claw myself back out of this hole and start being a better employee again. I try to pat myself on the back and remember how incredible it is to have gotten this far in life without any ADHD support (I will be astonished in May if my assessment doesn't result in a diagnosis). I wish I could press "reset" on myself and start over again at work. Maybe I can -- maybe I am blocking myself from starting afresh because I can't forget my embarrassment and shame of underperforming.
Thanks for reading.
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2023.03.30 19:27 IAmCityGent 85% WIP Brutalis! 🚧

85% WIP Brutalis! 🚧
Just the left arm and back to highlight, then the carapace to paint… and he’s done! ✔️
The Brutalis, with the extra armour, makes the Redemptor look small when standing side-by-side!
MM’s were a must!
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2023.03.30 19:26 MuffledandLagging Why can’t I feel insecure?

My sister and I were talking and she said my body was the beauty standard randomly and I disagreed. She immediately asked if I had body issues, which annoyed me because why is she trying to make it seem like I have body dysmorphia or something??? I’m average sized btw and she’s midsized. She makes it seem like my body is considered perfect by society when don’t feel the same at all. I explained to her that I don’t feel like the beauty standard because I’ve been body shamed since 5th/6th grade. I have hip dips, small boobs, my stomach pokes out, broad shoulders, wide rib cage, stretch marks I have back creases, etc. My weight might be the standard (I’m 124 pounds and 5’1) but I’m literally a child 😭 my weight isn’t gonna be this forever. When I told her about this she said “well, in the adult world, curves don’t matter so it doesn’t matter” and she basically blamed me for “letting the body-shaming get to my head” meanwhile she’s curvy and has had a boyfriend since 9th grade and every boy I’m interested in bodyshames me or bullies my looks. Last year was the first time a boy has been interested in me and he leaves in a whole other state. I think that maybe I was a bit wrong for disagreeing but I’m tired of her invalidating me because I’m not fatshamed And I JUST turned 16 so I’m probably gonna gain weight again soon. She doesn’t even like it when I get things my size. Once she got mad at me because I ordered a extra large out of the plus size section of a website for my bunny Halloween outfit. She told me I was stealing from plus size people. I’m literally average sized? I wear a medium to large?? The shirt came and it FIT PERFECTLY, the only issue was that it was kinda long. Today my mom told me I had back creases and I couldn’t tell because if I said that, my sister would attack me. If I were to say it, she’d accuse me of having body dysmorphia. But my mom, a midsized woman can point it out and it’s fine now. I feel like she hate keeping extra body fat or something. Once, in middle school I thought I had a muffin top because the sides of my tummy were sticking out of my pants and I thought I used the right term. She literally got mad and accused of having body dysmorphia instead of educating me. I know what I look like. I constantly talk about wanting to gain weight bc I wanna be curvy. I don’t have body dysmorphia or see myself as overweight.
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2023.03.30 19:25 JaffasJeffs Creepy experience

So waaaay back in primary school, in my last year (year 6 - aged 10-11) me and a friend saw something unexplainable.
Our seats both faces the window and as we were close to the side entrance of the school we can see some of the houses in the street that backs up right up to the wall of the school grounds.
Nor this side entrance has a house that had been abandoned and was in a state of disrepair
I mean boarded up windows, chain and locks on the door, overgrown garden the works and clearly not lived in.
This house had a window you could see from were we were sat, and on some random school day we both saw a man dressed in a pristine white suit, a wide hat to match and white tie (think col His face was in the shadows so we couldn’t see what he looked like.
We both saw him and he takes a half step directly backwards and seemed to vanish.
Now this pit a shiver down my spine, and we both agreed the moment felt creepy. But if you’ve read this far you might be thinking
….so?
Well the kicker was when the following week a machete was found in the woodlands (fenced off wooded area on school grounds used for nature lessons I guess? Think forbidden forest in Harry Potter but shit, same with the school anyway I digress)
Yeah, big ass knife covered in blood stabbed through a tree.
There were police all over the school, nothing else was ever found.
Creepy af, still dunno what happened if they were linked just freaky.
Any way what do you guys think?
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2023.03.30 19:25 GoBestfriend- 00’ Nissan Maxima, Caliper Replacement Brake Bleed Problems

I met a local mobile mechanic service, I’ve dealt with this gentlemen a few times it was a weekend job, Which is why i. choose him as i needed my car for work. my brake caliper driver side froze up, Luckily right when i got to work, i called him up. And he came while i was at work. And allowed me to “front” or “borrow” the labor cost. Until payday which was today, after the repair (3 Days ago) i called him after work and told him my brakes were still spongy and going to the floor. The guy informed me about (air displacement in the brake line) telling me that a repeated pump off the brakes would eventually get the rest of the air out of the brakes, i took his advice, so fast forward. To this morning. maybe 30-40mph. Going threw a green light. The car in front of me slammed there brakes hard of course they had 100% braking power, so i react naturally as a lot of other humans and slammed my brakes. Will i still have air in my brake line if working on “Air displacement“ so i didnt have 0.1 seconds to pump my brake to stop a stop. my brake pedal went straight to the floor. And i tapped the back of the car as light as a feather. Thank god no extra damage occur just scratches on my front and his back, police seen it happen made the report etc… we went on about our days
as i receive my direct deposit a few minutes after that happens i stop and think about what just happened i owe this guy $100 for a caliper replacement and what i thought a brake bleed,
this accident was super super minor. . But what happens when im driving 60 mph. and another car, slams brakes at a yellow light, or what happens when im going 50 mph. And someone pulls out in front of me. Or what happens when im going 80mph and someone merges in front of me. What happens when a child or dog. runs into the street and 1000 more Scenarios. I could type , i should have 100% brake power.

I don’t feel like i should pay this guy ANYTHING, but after fighting with my better side. At the minimum. I would pay for labor for the caliper change. ,
what do you guys think? Please give me a answer while in my shoes. And also the mechanics shoes.
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2023.03.30 19:22 JackTheRippa Golden Idol on Pedestal in Othermine

Hey all, just wanted to brag a little. I somehow got so insanely lucky, I got the Golden Idol and managed to save it on the item pedestal in Othermine. The pedestal comes up fairly often, so I pick up the Golden Idol, collect 10,000 gold, and put it back down on the pedestal. Rinse and repeat. Each time I find the pedestal, I get to play Othermine with an extra 10k. Not too shabby. I'm on my Othermine Crown 6, and this is the highest number crown I've gotten so far. Love this game! :)
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2023.03.30 19:21 Djsironi92 WRESTLEMANIA BIRTHDAY TICKET!

Hey everyone! So, I’m kind of in a pickle right now:
So this weekend is WRESTLEMANIA, easily one of the most anticipated weekends of my life. Last time I attended, I was with my grandpa & we went to the one in 2008. It was absolutely the greatest time I’ve ever had. Unfortunately my grandpa has passed, but I’m trying to go back this weekend & have him there with me in spirit. So I thought it was only right I did this by myself.
Cue the dilemma. I wanted to gift myself this as a birthday present, but the ticket prices are RIDICULOUS. I’ll be honest: I just don’t know if I can afford $600 for a decent seat from Ticketmaster right now with everything going on in my life.
Would anyone happen to be selling a 2 day ticket price for MUCH cheaper than $600? Just a heads up: if you were to help out, I am going to cry. I would truly be the most grateful person in the world.
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2023.03.30 19:18 Sig000 (REPOST, since i made a mistake with the last one) #TOPSLASHERS "Run... Hide... It does not matter, I shall find you all in time."

(REPOST, since i made a mistake with the last one) #TOPSLASHERS

![img](j6ywhe6itwqa1 "(uh I have to include this story, one of my friends made a sick story for him from is original backstory, so here it is) ")
William was a man of good intentions and an overall happily married husband. He adored his wife, Alice, and she was the love of his life. They lived in a nice home in the suburbs and plans to start a family. In the meantime, as an anniversary gift, William got Alice a pet white rabbit as a joke because “Every Alice needs her white rabbit” and the fact that Alice was always late and in hurry for work, for the white rabbit in wonderland was always in a hurry. Alice worked as a psychiatrist and William was an engineer who had a passion for writing books. He was writing a horror fictional piece on Jack the Ripper and had high hopes it would be a best seller. Except, his happy life was about to drastically change. One night, William was running late and arrived home at night, past his usual time. It was overly quiet in his home and all the lights were out, which was further unusual as Alice wouldn’t go to sleep without him. He called out to her and no voice returned his worried calls. William attempted to walk over to switch on the lights, but slipped on something wet on the ground. He stood up and collected himself, then turned on the lights. His mouth was wide open and no noise came out as he was struck with fear. The wetness he had slipped on was blood, and in the middle of it, the poor white rabbit William had bought Alice for their anniversary, dead. Now, a vastly frantic William, started crying out for Alice as he stumbled across his kitchen on his way to the living room. He flipped on the lights to see Alice’s lifeless body in the middle of the floor, covered in blood and disfigured from the damage that killed her. On the wall, smeared in blood, read “She decided to go down the rabbit hole, so I sent her to Wonderland. Ha ha ha”. Before William could come back to reality from his shock, the room filled with police lights and the door broke down, police swarming in. Fast forward to weeks later, William was convicted of the murder of his wife, Alice. Everything pointed towards William being the killer and this crushed his soul. No matter how much he pleaded and swore his love for Alice, no matter how much pain he displayed in her loss, whomever framed him, got away with it. William was sentenced to death row in prison. William did not belong in prison and it was evident. From day one, he was picked on and beaten by inmates. The guards harassed William relentlessly and teased him with Wonderland jokes due the murder of his wife Alice, the message on the wall, and the poor slaughtered rabbit. William was shown no mercy and his life became a constant struggle for survival, a pure hell. It wasn’t until a Doctor came in the night to the prison that William may be saved. She offered certain luxuries and promises to whichever inmate offered his services for an experiment. While every inmate was desperate for this opportunity, the Doctor, Dr. Queen, saw the beaten and disheveled William in the corner. She approached him and offered to him specifically. In question as to why, she said that William looked like he was beaten to his last card to play in survival, he deserves a break due to his admirable survivability. With enough convincing, he was willing. The beginning of the end is what was in store for William. Little did William know, he was about to be used as a disposable tool in unethical experimentation. Dr Queen suddenly became cold and apathetic towards William. She told him she was looking to study to vast complexities of the human mind and look to cure or better understand one of the most enigmatic disorders of the brain, dissociative disorders. Since she can’t use actual people who suffer from such disorders in experiments due to ethics, she was allowed to use one of the inmates on death row in a covert program. “What does this have to do with me?” William said in a fit of anxiety. “I don’t have any such disorder!” “Not yet you don’t.” Dr. Queen said sinisterly. “Now, unfortunately for you, the disorder I’m focusing on, DID, or, Dissociative Identity Disorder, is something developed in young developing minds that have endured horrific trauma.” She continued. “It isn’t heard of for an adult to suddenly develop DID from relatively current trauma, as when it manifests in most adults or young teens, it’s from a suppressed trauma from their childhood years. So we need to somehow get you to develop the disorder.” “W…well…wh…what are you, er, how are you going to do that?? William panicked. “Well, William, we are going to put you through any and every bit of possible trauma, damage, and pain possible until your brain decides to do what it does best, survive, and create an alter to handle the pain for you. Or you die like you would out in the prison environment anyway.” Dr. Queen said as she brushed her red hair from her face with a sadistic smirk. “Shall we begin?” William was hauled off to a secret part of the prison where he could be put through Hell without anyone ever hearing him, and Hell he was definitely put through. William had just about every sort of pain, humiliation, trauma, and distress casted upon him for around 2 months without success. If anything, it was remarkable and near uncanny how much William was capable of surviving. It was even further impressive how well his body was capable of healing and retaining itself. Dr. Queen went to do her research on William’s childhood and early life, to which she discovered she could hardly find anything. It was as if he didn’t have a childhood as his records were so vague and seemingly constructed, fabricated. Dr. Queen dug even deeper and got access to restricted files to which lead her to a disturbing discovery. She found files so hidden and buried that it was nearly impossible to find them unless you really dug deep. Within those files she discovered William’s horrific past and grinned widely. She gathered the files and fled back to the prison to confront William. A beaten and bruised William was sat down in front of Dr. Queen who showed him files of two adults, a woman and a man, slaughtered on a couch. “What does this have to do with me?” William managed to choked out of his swollen mouth. “You did this, William. You murdered these two, your biological parents.” Dr. Queen excitedly explained. “N…no. No! I’ve never seen these people before!” William exclaimed. “Stop this!” “William, these were your parents. They experimented on you ever since you were a baby. They injected you with experimental drugs and beat you, neglected you. They wanted to see if you could develop a healing or regenerative mutation of sorts. The trauma they put you through, it was despicable.” Dr. Queen said almost sympathetically. “Stop this! I want no part in this anymore. I’m done. Your games and mind tricks aren’t working. Just kill me and I can be with Alice again!” William cried. “I’m sorry, William, but you’re not going anywhere. You see, the torture you endured during childhood eventually broke you. You’ve had DID all along. You developed your first alter, Bill, who took over and shielded you from the trauma. Bill, he found an opportunity and murdered them, massacred them more like. How you overcame them as such a young boy is unknown and quite astonishing.” Dr. Queen said calmly. “Please stop. My head, it’s throbbing. This still doesn’t make me believe anything and prove I killed Alice.” William said somewhat vapidity. “This is where it gets bizarre. You see, you were in and out of foster care due to your disorder you then developed. You were violent and destructive. This followed you into your late 20s. There you met a psychiatrist, her name was Alice. Ring a bell? I can see your gears turning.”. Dr. Queen explained. “No. No more…” William was cut off. “You formed a bond with Alice. She was capable of chasing off your alters and keeping you stable. You fell in love with her. Despite the conflict of your other alters, Alice saw her presence kept you stable and she fell in love with you back. Or maybe she just found you interesting? She then buried your past and made you forget your past. Gave you a new one.” Dr. Queen Continued. William was visibly in a state of confusion and frustration. Just staring off beyond Dr. Queen. “Something must have triggered a tick in you and an alter presented itself and murdered Alice. Perhaps in a fit of retribution? Do they know something you don’t?” Dr. Queen questioned. William was in a near catatonic state and no longer in the conversation. Dr. Queen motioned for a guard to take him away for the night, but once the grizzly hand of the guard grabbed William’s shoulder, William looked up with a grin to a startled Dr. Queen. William grabbed the guard’s hand and twisted it, then crushed it. He grabbed his cuffs he secretly undid and stabbed the other guard frantically charging towards him with the sharp pointed unlatched end of the cuff. Dr. Queen was in sheer shock and fell down to her back. William approached her. “She shouldn’t have been chasing rabbits. She shouldn’t have jumped into the rabbit hole of Sir William’s mind.” William sneered. “B…Bill?” Dr. Queen shakily asked. “No no no, my red Queen, Bill is long gone. I’m the Rabbit, I’ve planned this all along, I manifested the moment Sir William saw the dead rabbit you see, but I kept hidden, filing through William’s mind. You see, you’re one of the young researchers shadowing the Doctors who experimented on poor little William. I’ve come to collect you and send you back to Wonderland. Just Alice really built a strong wall to hop over in poor Sir William’s head. Some other dark fellow in this noggin snuck out and took care of poor Alice and quickly retreated. However, now, your antics started to remind my good fellow on his past trauma, I couldn’t have that. Like you said, the brain survives and gave me a door, I was able to hop out!” Rabbit said. A visibly fear struck Dr. Queen looked puzzled on what to say or ask first. “To Wonderland? What ever do you mean!?” Dr. Queen cried. “What does the good Red Queen always say? Hm? Off with your head?” Rabbit said sincerely. “And you see, what you’ve done here during Sir William’s lovely stay, is allow another gentlemen to manifest in this headspace. One who Sir William oddly found an interest in. Let me introduce you to him, as he doesn’t talk much. Have at it, Mister Ripper.” Rabbit said, straightening himself out. His face became cold and emotionless. His stature changed to a more broad and hunched over brutish character, almost as if he grew in size. His eyes slowly scanned and met with Dr. Queen, to which he produced a nasty grin. Ripper slowly progressed towards Dr. Queen. “Run…” The Ripper growled. “I…I don’t understand” Dr. Queen said as she began to sob. The Ripper grabbed the end of the table and forcibly flipped the table in the air, flinging it over the railing, crashing on the ground below. “RUN!!!” The Ripper roared in an unnaturally deep voice. Dr. Queen stumbled and began running and screaming for help, hearing a low toned laughter fading behind her. That night, 20 guards, the warden, several inmates, and Dr. Queen were found massacred. William was nowhere to be found. William wasn’t seen since the events of the prison, however, a peculiar killer made a name for himself as he racked up victims. The killer wore a motif of the White Rabbit combined with the outfit of Jack the Ripper. It didn’t take long for others to put clues together to find out it was William, though, not really William. The identities of the White Rabbit and the Ripper were often the most present, as the Rabbit was often the brains and Ripper the brawn. He is vastly elusive and good at illusion and deception. The elaborate way he kills and escapes is often a hurdle in predicting his next moves and capturing him. He likes to play games with everyone victims and challenge them philosophically, psychologically, and physically. White Rabbit would like nothing more than to see them break, often making them choose between apprehending him or saving another of his victims. White Rabbit appears to display unique abilities such as above human strength, durability, stamina, and is capable of performing feats or actions not considered possible by basic human standards. the police assumes this is an effect of the experimentation done to William as a child and since the experimental drugs used upon William when his parents made them using, and experimenting with some animals blood, the police of this town feels responsible now for the damage that White Rabbit has caused, and not responding quick enough, all events that tried to stop the White Rabbit and try to bring back William, save him from himself. seem hopeless. White Rabbit seemingly fluctuates in abilities and tactics just as different personalities manifest. All the personalities seem to be obedient to the Rabbit alter. With the constant puzzles, riddles, elusiveness, stealth, and fighting and intellectual skills, White Rabbit is amongst one of the most challenging Killers, this world has ever seen. The constant change in personality makes him very hard to track or predict as it would require knowing each personality as its own person. The biggest mystery is finding out what makes the White Rabbit tick. they'll have to jump down the rabbit hole and chase the rabbit to get answers. We all know how elusive the white rabbit is in wonderland. Just go ask Alice, I think she'll know.
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2023.03.30 19:16 insaneinthebrine Milk-kefir-leavened bread. Swipe for more

Milk-kefir-leavened bread. Swipe for more
Morning breakfast of toast and butter... Bread leavened with milk kefir (no sourdough starter). If you have kefir grains but no sourdough starter, or if you have both and are just looking to switch things up, it makes a very good bread. Previously I only did rye bread this way and this one was a test recipe; almost perfect, next time I think with some honey. The yeast in milk kefir is close to that of sourdough and does the same job; however in my experience it takes longer and does well at elevated temps around 85 or even 90 (using a proofing mat). This was a white bread: •400g completed milk kefir (stirred the milk kefir back into a uniform liquid as soon as the curds and whey fully separated, and incorporated into the dough right away) •500g organic bread flour •50g whole wheat flour •3 tsp diastatic malt powder (10g) optional but I believe for milk kefir bread improves the rise •13g salt •Up to around a TBSP extra milk kefir added at the end of mixing to ensure any excess flour at the bottom was incorporated 1.) I did 4 sets of stretch and folds over a couple hours. The dough feels more dense and taught than regular sourdough, won't be a problem. 2.) Sat out with a damp cloth covering the bowl for around 4 hours 3.) Shaped and placed into floured 9" banneton, covered, refrigerated for around 14 hours 4.) Took another 4 hours on a heat mat 85-90°F 5.) Final shaping, scored, baked in a covered dutch oven at 485 for 20 minutes. (Was preheated at 500 for an hour.) Removed steam pan, another 465 for around 20 minutes.
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2023.03.30 19:16 ChaotixSux (Selling) M3gan, A Man Called Otto, Puss in Boots The Last Wish, The Old Way, Walking Dead Season 11, Rocky 4 Film Collection, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Black Panther Wakanda Forever, Empire of Light, Spider-Man 8 Film Collection, MCU Films, Disney, Universal Rewards $3 each and many m

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Name Price Format
A Knight's Tale $3 HD
A24 Horror 5 Film Collection (Hereditary, X, The Witch, Green Room, It Comes At Night) $18 HD
Aladdin (2019) $5 4K
Aladdin (1992) $4 HD
Alien $4 HD
Aliens $4 HD
Alien 3 $4 HD
Alien Resurrection $4 HD
Alien: Covenant $4 HD
Prometheus (Alien) $4 HD
Annihilation $3 HD
Apocalypse Now $4 HD
Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm $5 HD
Avengers Age of Ultron $4 HD
Avengers Infinity War $4 HD
Avengers Endgame $6 4K
Babylon $9 HD
Back to the Future Trilogy $15 4K
Bad Grandpa $3 HD
The Bad Guys $6 4K
Banshees of Inisherin $6 HD
The Batman $4 HD
Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice $6 4K
Batman and Superman Battle of the Super Sons $5 HD
Belly $6 4K
Big Hero 6 $4 HD
Black Adam $7 4K
Black Adam $5 HD
Black Panther Wakanda Forever $5 HD
Blacklight $5 HD
Bob's Burgers Movie $4 HD
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies $5 HD
Bohemian Rhapsody $6 4K
Boss Baby Family Business $6 4K
Bullet Train $4 HD
Casablanca $6 4K
Captain Marvel $6 4K
Cars 3 $6 4K
Chaos Walking $6 4K
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Clerks 3 $5 HD
Clockwork Orange $6 4K
Cold Pursuit $4 HD
Coco $4 HD
Conjuring 3 Film Collection $12 HD
The Croods: A New Age $6 4K
Cruella $6 4K
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Daddy's Home 2 $3 HD
DC League of Superpets $4 HD
Deadpool $4 HD
Deadpool 2 $4 HD
The Dentist (1996) & The Dentist 2 Brace Yourself (1998) $8 HD
Detective Knight Independence $5 HD
Dirty Dancing $6 4K
Doctor Strange $4 HD
Doctor Strange Multiverse Of Madness $6 4K
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Don't Worry Darling $5 HD
Downtown Abbey A New Era $4 HD
Dreamwork 10 Movie Collection $20 HD
Dumbo (2019) $5 4K
Dumbo (2019) $3 HD
Dune $6 4K
E.T The Extra-Terrestrial $6 4K
Elvis $5 HD
Empire of Light $5 HD
Escape from LA $6 4K
Eternals $6 4K
The Expendables 1-3 Movie Collection $8 HD
The Fabelmans $6 HD
Fast & Furious 8 Film Collection $16 HD
Fast & Furious 9 Film Collection $20 HD
Fast and the Furious $5 4K
Fate of the Furious $3 HD
The Forever Purge $6 4K
Friday the 13th (1980) $4 HD
Frozen $4 HD
Frozen II $4 HD
Game of Thrones House of the Dragon Season 1 $8 4K
Game of Thrones House of the Dragon Season 1 $6 HD
Ghosts Season 1 $6 HD
Ghostbusters $4 HD
Ghostbusters II $4 HD
Ghostbusters Afterlife $4 HD
Godzilla (2014) $6 4K
The Good Dinosaur $4 HD
Guardians of the Galaxy $4 HD
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 $4 HD
Haloween (2019) $6 4K
Halloween Ends $7 4K
Halloween Kills $6 4K
Hellraiser Judgment $3 HD
Highlander $6 4K
Hitman's Bodyguard $6 4K
Hitman's Wife Bodyguard $6 4K
Hocus Pocus $3 HD
The House with a Clock in its Walls $4 HD
How to Train Your Dragon $3 HD
How to Train Your Dragon 2 $3 HD
Hunger Games $2 HD
Hunger Games Mocking Jay Part 1 $4 4K
Hunt for Red October $6 4K
I Wanna Dance With Somebody $6 HD
Incredibles 2 $5 4K
Incredibles 2 $3 HD
Infinite $6 4K
Invisible Man (2020) $3 HD
Jaws $6 4K
John Wick 1 & 2 Combo Pack $6 HD
John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum $4 HD
Judy $4 HD
Jungle Book $3 HD
Jungle Cruise $5 4K
Jupiter's Ascending $5 4K
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom $6 4K
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Jurassic World 6 Movie Collection $18 HD
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Justice League (2017) $6 4K
Justice Society World War II $6 4K
Kin $6 4K
Kingsman: The Secret Service $3 HD
Lady and the Tramp $3 HD
Leon the Professional $3 HD
Lightyear $6 4K
Lion King (2019) $5 4K
Lion King (1994) $6 4K
Lion King (1994) $4 HD
The Little Mermaid $3 HD
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow $3 HD
The Lost City $4 HD
The Lost City $6 4K
Love and Monsters $6 4K
Luca $6 4K
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile $4 HD
A Man Called Otto $4 SD
A Man Called Otto $8 HD
Man on the Moon $4 HD
Matrix 4 Film Collection $12 HD
Matrix 4 Film Collection $8 SD
Matrix Resurrections $6 4K
Monster Hunter $5 4K
M3gan $9 HD
Men $5 HD
Minions The Rise of Gru $7 4K
Minions The Rise of Gru $5 HD
Minions 2 Movie Collection $8 HD
Mission Impossible: Fallout $6 4K
Mitchells vs the Machines $4 HD
Moonfall $4 HD
Morbius $5 4K
Morbius $3 HD
Mulan $3 HD
Mulan 2 $3 HD
Mulan (2020) $6 4K
The Mule $5 4K
The Mule $3 HD
Neighbors $3 HD
The Nevers Season 1 Part 1 $6 HD
No Time to Die (iTunes only) $5 4K
The Northman $5 HD
Old $4 HD
The Old Way $6 HD
Onward $6 4K
Paranormal Activity The Ghost Dimension $3 HD
Peter Pan Return To Never Land $3 HD
Peter Rabbit 1 & 2 $5 HD
Pitch Perfect $3 HD
Pitch Perfect 2 $3 HD
Pixar Short Films Collections Vol 3 $3 HD
War for the Planet of the Apes $3 HD
Pocahontas $3 HD
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Predator 4-Pack $12 HD
Prey for the Devil $5 HD
Princess and the Frog $4 HD
The Protege $4 HD
Puss in Boots The Last Wish $8 HD
Rambo 5 Film Collection $15 HD
Raya and the Last Dragon $4 HD
Reservoir Dogs $6 4K
Rocky 4 Film Collection $22 4K
Ron Gone Wrong $4 HD
Rumble $4 HD
Secret Headquarters $5 HD
Secret Life of Pets $3 HD
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings $6 4K
Silent Night, Deadly Night Collection $10 HD
Sing $3 HD
Sing Two Pack (Sing 1 and 2) $6 HD
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Smile $7 4K
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Sonic the Hedgehog $4 HD
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 $6 4K
Soul $6 4K
Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins $6 4K
Snow White & The Huntsman $4 4K
Space Jam A New Legacy $5 4K
Spider-Man $4 HD
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Star Trek III The Search For Spock $6 4K
Star Trek IV The Voyage Home $6 4K
Star Wars The Last Jedi $4 4K
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Strange World $6 HD
Suicide Squad (2016) $6 4K
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) $3 HD
Thor Dark World $4 HD
Thor Ragnarok $4 HD
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Till (iTunes Only) $5 HD
To Kill A Mockingbird $3 HD
Top Gun $6 4K
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Toy Story 2 $4 HD
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Transformers $6 4K
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Trolls $3 HD
Trolls 2 Movie Collection $6 HD
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Underwold Rise of the Lycans $3 HD
Untouchables $6 4K
Venom $4 HD
Vivo $4 HD
Voyagers $6 4K
The Walking Dead Season 11 $10 HD
West Side Story (2021) $6 4K
Wolf of Wall Street $4 HD
Wonder Woman $6 4K
Wonder Woman 1984 $6 4K
Wreck It Ralph $4 HD
Wreck It Ralph: Ralph Breaks the Internet $6 4K
The following movies are the current Universal Rewards and are $3 each
Bring it On HD
The Break Up HD
The Bourne Ultimatum 4K
Cat in the Hat HD
Charlie St Cloud HD
8 Mile 4K
Get Him to the Greek HD
Liar Liar HD
Mallrats HD
Meet the Parents HD
Popstar Never Stop Never Stopping HD
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2023.03.30 19:15 FutureAesthetics Day 17 of burning "800" calories on the Elliptical

Day 17 of burning
25M. 92 kg 5'9. Fat tummy and hanging moobs but nice arms and back. Goal is 10-12% bf or 60 kg(lower limit, if I'm not lean enough by then I'll ultra super duper clean bulk) or something close to the stereotypical lean beach body in the mirror.
I'm eating at a deficit with high protein and lifting hard prioritising chest multiple days a week(coz my moobs/loose chest is my kryptonite). I know I'm probably really only burning 400 but that's fine. I don't eat back cardio calories. My only cheat meaI is 1 medium size pizza with extra cheese once a month.
I watch TV(YouTube, Netflix etc) or play on my PS5 while doing the cardio. I rarely hold on to the handles so core is getting nice some action I hope lol
I do it slow/ very low impact to be able to do it daily for like the next 200+ days(or until I reach my goal) lol , but at a decent resistance level for a long time.
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2023.03.30 19:14 NDabhetari Random Draconian laws I’d make, if I were a dictator

I’d make necrophilia legal under certain prerequisites.
Can’t dig people up, although I don’t think there would be a abundance of people trying anyway. That seems a bit discordant. So I feel if it’s things like wife/husband passes from natural causes, or a heart attack or something in those lights. That doesn’t constitute or proven to be murder. I mean what extra harm would be done if you had sex with them.
If you were to encounter someone who committed suicide, they didn’t want to live anyway. So I don’t think they cared too much about their body, since they harmed it themselves anyway. So they are aloud to be touched too.
Pedophiles and rapist will be subjected to lots of human experimentation, so when the morbid and intrusive thoughts invade. I have a lot of people I can test them on
Another law is have, is bringing back blood sport. Not watered down versions like MMA and things. But prisoners on death row, or people that want to sign up as a form of excitement/euthanasia (since euthanasia will be legal too)
Will fight others in various situations, maybe with bayonets and old rifles. Fighting various animals, how many people fight at once will be different as well.
It will all be televised, live streamed ect.
Practices such as tarot reading, palm reading, reading peoples signs, anything that makes an individual look like a medium, psychic, fortune teller has to have a certificate approved by the government in order to do such practices.
If not they will be arrested and executed by firing squad
Any religious figure, as in pastors, monks, so on so forth. Caught doing acts that seem to contradict what they preach or try to show in their faith will also be tried and then shot if found guilty.
All types of meat are legal; dog, horse, cat, reptiles, people. All legal, if you kill someone for human meat. You will only be charged with murder, but no additional charges for eating the body.
All marriages, will be under a prenup.
Automatic rifles are legal everywhere
On Halloween, everyone is required to dress up; if not wearing a costume or at least able to make a character (that’s not yourself… or saying “I’m a regular guy/girl) you will be shot
One day out of the year, where there are no speed laws. I just wanna see what happens.
Everyone is required to take a political test. Depending on what side you lean more towards. You will be labeled as left or right leaning. If your state were to get a split in voting. Then you have to enter in a civil war for 2 weeks. And then revote after. If you are caught by the military not participating in slaughtering you political adversaries. Then you will be eradicated
Astronauts are now called cosmonaut (nothing political about it, I like the name)
No AO rating in video games, violence and other sensitive subject matter does not have to be censored in any forms of art or creativity.
That’s it for now, may edit if I think of more
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2023.03.30 19:12 ll--o--ll Does batting or bowling win the IPL? Cricbuzz

Does batting or bowling win the IPL? Cricbuzz
There is a statement that has acquired cult status, especially on the T20 circuit, over the years: 'Batters win you matches. Bowlers win you tournaments.' But how true is this? In the first 15 seasons of the IPL, we have seen franchises build teams with a balance weighing towards one side or the other depending on a multitude of factors such as their home venue, style of captaincy and resource availability.
As the 16th edition looms on the horizon, it is a good time to revisit the data from the past and see if the statement is just a subjective conclusion that has led to a sweeping generalization, or whether it actually holds water. A deep look at the numbers shows whether one discipline is actually more important than the other, but also reveals the most complete championship[1]winning side thus far, who was the standout franchise over the first 15 years, and how to succeed at a batting-friendly venue like the Chinnaswamy.
Methodology
In T20 cricket, every team has two resources at their disposal - balls and wickets. The batting side attempts to optimize the first resource by scoring as many runs off every ball delivered. The bowling side tries to concede as few runs as possible for every ball bowled and knows that an important way to do this is to reduce the wicket reserves of the batting team. The two key metrics here are runs scored per ball, and balls taken per dismissal. In more popular parlance, this is run rate and balls per dismissal for the batting team, and economy rate and strike rate for the bowling team.
A batting impact score is therefore derived by combining the run rate and balls per dismissal (RR x BpD/100), and similarly the formula for bowling impact score is the combination of economy rate and strike rate (ER x S100). To figure out a team's total impact score for a season, we compare their batting and bowling impact scores with the average of the other teams in the tournament.
For example, Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2022 scored 8.72 runs per over and lost a wicket every 20.88 balls, whereas the other nine teams cumulatively scored at 8.52 and lost a wicket every 18.57 deliveries. This gives the Royals a batting impact score of 1.82 (8.72 x 20.88 divided by 100 = 1.82) compared to the tournament average of 1.58, meaning their net batting impact score was +0.24.
Likewise, they conceded at 8.51 per over and took a wicket every 19.19 balls in comparison to 8.54 and 18.76 by the other teams. This works out to a bowling impact score of 1.63 for the Royals, while the remaining nine sides managed 1.60. The net bowling value for the Royals is therefore -0.03, and their total impact score for IPL 2022 is +0.21 (+0.24 - 0.03).

'Batters win you matches and bowlers win you tournaments.' But do they?

Let's start by looking at the broader trend.
There are 126 instances of teams featuring across the 15 editions of IPL (Mumbai Indians for IPL 2008 is considered one instance, while their appearance in 2009 is considered another). Among those 126 instances, there have been 39 occasions that teams have finished with both batting and bowling impact scores in the green. The average final ranking for these sides is 2.7, which falls within the playoff qualification bracket (the top four sides qualify for the knockouts in IPL). In 27 instances teams have finished with a positive batting impact score and negative bowling impact score, and these sides on average have a ranking of 5.1.
On the other hand, of the 25 times teams finished with a negative batting impact score and positive bowling impact score, they had a marginal improvement in average ranking to 4.8. From the data analyzed above, it is safe to conclude that going bowling heavy at the expense of batting will not pay dividends and the sides that have done the best are the one that found the right balance, even if it is slightly tilted towards the bowling. If we look at individual cases, the above adage was perhaps put to its sternest test in 2018.
In general, across all T20 cricket, 2018 was the best batting year and the story was no different in IPL with scoring rates peaking at 8.65. CSK were the best batting team of the tournament with a batting impact score of +0.59, well ahead of the next placed Delhi Capitals (+0.24), while SRH was one of the two teams that ended with a positive bowling impact score. SRH successfully defended totals of under 150 thrice in the season and regularly restricted oppositions to par totals or below.
The two sides faced off against each other four times with CSK coming out on top on every occasion, including the final where they upstaged SRH's bowling by chasing 179 to win by eight wickets. In 13 matches against teams other than CSK that season, SRH went at 7.92 and picked a wicket every 17.18 balls, but they came undone against CSK with the same parameters reading 8.91 and 30.67 respectively from four exchanges.
CSK's batting impact score of +0.59 in 2018 was the best among all the teams that won IPL and they were one of only two trophy[1]winning sides to register a negative bowling impact score (MI in 2015 being the only other side). In this case, batting trumped bowling.

SRH bowling vs CSK batting in 2018
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Another instance of this hypothesis being put through the acid test was in the 2015 final. This was the only instance of a final being played between a team with a positive bowling impact score and a negative batting impact score, and an opponent with scores the other way around. CSK, the league toppers, finished with impact scores of -0.04 and +0.27 in batting and bowling respectively.
Their opponents in the final - MI - were the best batting unit of the season with an impact score of +0.35, double the next best, while in bowling their score was -0.11. MI were 0.39 points ahead of CSK in batting and 0.38 points behind CSK in bowling making it the most batting vs bowling heavy sides in terms of impact scores facing each other in a summit clash. MI made 202/5 batting first and got the better of CSK, restricting them to 161 to make it 3-1 in head-to-head clashes in the season. So once again we saw batting strength getting the better of bowling strength.

The bowling heavy sides that went all the way

If the above suggests that it is batting that clinches trophies, let's look at some bowling teams that went all the way. In 2019, CSK were a hit away from clinching the title. The IPL returned to Chennai for a full season for the first time in a while and the tracks on offer at Chepauk slowed down significantly as the match progressed, which meant spin was the order of the day.
CSK realized this early and were aided in their pursuit by the fact they won six tosses out of eight home games. Luck factor aside, CSK on average bowled 15 balls of spin every innings more than their visitors, which proved to be the clincher. Imran Tahir was the Purple Cap winner that year with 26 scalps, while Harbhajan Singh and Ravindra Jadeja played the supporting cast to perfection. Deepak Chahar and Dwayne Bravo capped off the attack, owning either ends of the innings.
Each of CSK's top four leading wicket takers picked 15+ wickets at economy rates under 7.50 per over, covering up for what was one of CSK's weakest seasons with the bat. Two bowling dominant sides that went on to lift the silverware are Rajasthan Royals in the inaugural IPL and Kolkata Knight Riders in 2012, both with a bowling impact score of +0.28. Royals in 2008 had three of the four highest wicket takers (Sohail Tanvir, Shane Warne & Shane Watson) of the season, and a strong bowling attack was the backbone of their success at their bowling-friendly home in Jaipur, where they did not lose a single game.
The story was similar for KKR in 2012, where Sunil Narine led the attack with 24 wickets at an economy rate of 5.48 and was backed up by bowlers who made full use of the Eden Gardens track. No other championship-winning side has had their total impact score significantly boosted by bowling impact like KKR in 2012 (bowling impact score of +0.25 to batting impact score of +0.03). SRH in 2016 is another title-winning team whose balance was more skewed to their bowling unit.
They remain an anomaly as the only champions who had a negative batting impact score (-0.06), despite a cracking season from their skipper David Warner who hit 848 runs. Bhuvneshwar was the Purple Cap winner with 23 wickets and formed a formidable pairing with Mustafizur Rahman, who finished with 17 wickets and played big hand for them throughout the season.

Team with best bowling impact scores
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The most complete championship-winning side

It would be little surprise to anyone who has followed IPL diligently to hear which was the most rounded side that ever lifted the silverware. No other side dominated an IPL season as much as Mumbai Indians did in the 2020 edition.
They lost just five games in the season, two via Super Over and one when they rested most of their first choice players, underscoring their dominance. SRH in 2017 aside (more on them later), MI in 2020 is the only team that finished with a batting impact score above +0.50 and a bowling impact score above +0.25.
They had a strong batting order with three of their top four batters (Quinton de Kock, Ishan Kishan & Suryakumar Yadav) aggregating 480+ runs at 140+ strike rate, while both Kieron Pollard and Hardik Pandya provided the finishing touch to the innings striking at 175+. MI scored at 9.09 per over and lost a wicket every 24.41 balls - RCB in 2016 is the only other instance of a team managing the double of 9+ run rate and 22+ balls per dismissal.
Despite the obvious chinks in the bowling attack - like the lack of a genuine second overseas seamer and Hardik's inability to bowl - Jasprit Bumrah (27 wickets, SR 13.33) and Trent Boult (25 wickets, SR 13.76) controlled either half of the innings, which ensured that their bowling towered above the rest. MI on average were +1.15 runs ahead every over of the opposition (run rate of 9.09 and economy rate of 7.94), which was the best a team managed in a season.

The GOAT

Chennai Super Kings, with an average impact score of +0.41 across the 13 editions in which they competed, is the standout IPL side in the first 15 years of the competition's journey. CSK registered a positive impact score in 12 of the 13 seasons they featured in, missing out only in IPL 2022 - which also happens to be the only time both their batting and bowling impact scores were in negative territory Among the sides which have featured in at least three editions SRH is a territory. Among the sides which have featured in at least three editions, SRH is a distant second with an average impact score of +0.14, while MI is the only other side to register a net average impact score in positive territory (+0.09).
Of the top ten entries on total impact score across the 15 editions, CSK occupy as many as five of them, with three of those culminating in title wins (2011, 2018 & 2021). In all three title-winning seasons, they managed a +0.50 batting impact score while their bowling impact score in all of these seasons was below +0.10, underscoring how batting-dominant CSK have been in their successful years. CSK teams are renowned for having deep batting lineups and they often rely on skipper MS Dhoni's tactical acumen to ensure the bowling unit's output is greater than the sum of its parts.
The only exception to this trend was their maiden title win in 2010 where they achieved their lowest batting impact score (+0.25) and highest bowling impact score (+0.11) of their four title-winning seasons. They were staring at an early exit midway through the tournament with just two wins from seven matches but regrouped well in the second half to win five matches, four of them at their bastion at Chepauk, to stage a comeback that culminated in the double of IPL and CLT20 trophies.

Title winning teams with impact scores
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Cracking the Chinnaswamy code
A common denominator for every T20 dynasty is the dominance at their home ground and a team built around the characteristics of it - for example the fast bouncy wickets at Perth for the Scorchers, or the Chepauk turner for Chennai Super Kings. The Chinnaswamy Stadium typically presents a flat wicket combined with short boundaries, negating the home team's ability to assemble a squad tailored to the venue and leaving them little home advantage.
Yet RCB seemed to crack the code when they realized it is futile to plan to defend runs, and a far better strategy to go hunting for wickets. The 2015 RCB bowling attack did this to perfection when four of their highest wicket takers (Yuzvendra Chahal, Mitchell Starc, Harshal Patel & David Wiese - all with 15+ wickets each) combined to take 76 wickets between them at a rate of one every 13.9 balls. RCB's strike rate of 15.10 in that season is the best any side had managed in a season and the blueprint was set.
In the following year, they followed the same strategy with changes in personnel around Chahal. Chahal broke the door to national team selection with a 21-wicket season (SR 14.05) and was assisted by Shane Watson (20 wickets, SR 16.95), Chris Jordan (11 wickets, SR 15.27) and Sreenath Aravind (11 wickets, SR 15.91). As mentioned below, they failed to grab the clutch moments in the final and fell at the last hurdle for the third time.
The Chinnaswamy wicket was re-laid in 2017 but RCB veered away from this approach in the following years, failing to qualify for the Play Offs for three consecutive seasons between 2017 and 2019. They haven't played at the venue in the post-Covid era, a phase in which they have leaned towards a strong bowling lineup - unlike the sides of the past which were heavily loaded towards batting. RCB did find some success with their new approach, making the Play Offs for three successive years since 2020. How RCB's fortunes will pan out as they return to their home at Chinnaswamy will be one of the stories to watch out for in the 2023 IPL.

The outliers

In the 126 instances of teams featuring in the IPL so far, only one team has managed a total impact score of over one point. To the surprise of many, the team in picture is SunRisers Hyderabad in 2017, who finished third in the league phase, winning eight of the 13 completed games. SRH lost a wicket every 26.32 balls, which happens to be the second best a team ever managed in a season(marginally behind Chennai Super Kings' 26.63 in 2014).
Bowling strike rate wise, their 16.36 deliveries per wicket was only bettered on two other instances, giving them a positive difference of almost ten balls for every wicket lost and every wicket taken - the highest any team has ever achieved in a season. SRH in 2017 had five batters aggregating over 200 runs, four of them averaging over 28 balls per dismissal, while four of them scored those runs at a 135+ strike rate.
David Warner won the Orange Cap for his 641 runs (SR 142, BpD 41) followed by Shikhar Dhawan (479 runs, SR 127, BpD 29), Moises Henriques (277 runs, SR 136, BpD 34), Kane Williamson (256 runs, SR 151, BpD 28) and Yuvraj Singh (252 runs, SR 142, BpD 20). SunRisers' run rate of 8.64 was the highest they ever managed in an IPL season, further underlining how good a season they had batting wise - in a phase where SRH were renowned for their bowling-heavy strategy under Tom Moody.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar led the bowling charts, winning Purple Cap for the second year running with an eye popping strike rate of 12 balls every wicket. A teenaged Rashid Khan made giant strides in his debut IPL season with 17 scalps at an economy of 6.63, followed by Siddarth Kaul and Mohammed Siraj, who bagged 16 and 10 scalps at strike rates of 13.4 and 13.8 respectively.
In a tournament where they dominated with both bat and ball, SRH were unlucky not to go further as they crashed out in the Eliminator to KKR at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. The tracks at Chinnaswamy were re-laid before the season which made it play contrary to its usual self, making batting a mean job. Adding to SRH's misfortune, the chase was cut short when rain reduced the game to a five-over shootout, leaving them little chance of a comeback.

Teams with best impact scores
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The only other instance a team came close to match SunRisers' feat was RCB in IPL 2016, where they finished with a net impact score of +0.96. They assembled what could arguably be the finest batting lineup the IPL has ever witnessed - Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Shane Watson, and KL Rahul making up their top five. Kohli's magnum opus of 973 runs in a single edition in 2016 remains unmatched, and he was ably supported by AB de Villiers (687 runs, Avg 52.85, SR 169) and KL Rahul in what was his breakout season (397 runs, Avg 44.11, SR 146). RCB's scoring of 9.63 in 2016 is the best any team has managed in an IPL season thus far, and they did so losing a wicket only every 26.17 balls, giving them a batting impact score of 0.92 - the highest any team achieved in a season.
Gayle and Watson did not have particularly fruitful tournaments with the bat, but Watson more than made it up for that with his best season with the ball, accounting for 20 wickets. Like SRH in 2017, RCB was also unlucky not to end their title drought in 2016 as they failed to latch on to the key moments on the night that mattered. From a winning position, their inform middle order choked under pressure in the back half of the run chase to end eight runs short.

Team with best batting impact scores
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The unlucky ones

Of the top 25 teams on total impact score, the only side that failed to make it past the league phase is the RCB side of 2013. They finished with a total impact score of +0.60, while no other side that finished outside the top four could even get to +0.30. RCB in 2013 also remain the only side across 15 seasons that failed to finish in the top four despite winning more than half of their league games (nine wins and seven defeats from 16 league games).
MI in 2008 is another side that was unfortunate to miss the knockouts despite a total impact score of +0.28. They started off in the worst possible manner, losing four games on the trot, their original captain injured and their stand-in captain suspended. They staged a remarkable comeback to win their next six games before falling agonizingly short in the final over in their following three games.

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2023.03.30 19:12 othromas Why aren’t boarding groups aligned with which column (A, B, etc) you are sitting in?

Maybe the wrong sub, but why don’t we board in groups such that the hardest to fill seats are filled first?
For narrow bodies, it’d be windows, middles, then aisles; wide bodies would be middle of center seats with window seats, then outboard middle seats with center seat aisles, then outboard aisles.
Seems like you’d board way faster… clearly I’m missing something.
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I had to go and couldn't wait so stepped over the dog . As i stepped over the dog lifted its head and barked at me. I'm just like what the hell and kept moving toward the restroom. I come back and the other path is open and went back that way to my seat. As I go to sit down, the owner comes over and says to me don't step over my dog like that. I tell him he shouldn't have his dog laying out in the aisle then. He gets mad and I just tell him to go away. My friends and I cash out and leave and the guy took the opportunity to talk more shit to me as I left. A buddy said I should have waited till the other path was clear and not stepped over the dog.
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2023.03.30 19:10 Ambatus "Older judoka say they used to do Judo, older BJJers say they do BJJ": Budokast 63: Newaza in Judo

I selected a quote from this episode for the title because it really stuck with me - even if I don't like the implication, I think it really drives the point home.
Episode link: Budokast 63 - O Newaza no Judo (in Portuguese)
All the episodes in Budokast are great, but I've found this one especially so, perhaps because of recent discussions about these topics here. I summarised some of the points discussed there (I hope Budokast doesn't mind), all mistakes are my own.
The conversation is between the host, Moacir Mendes Junior (former Brazilian Judo national team, also BJJ black belt and competitor), and Bruno Schindler (Kosen Judo investigator). Moacir has developed an approach to newaza training in Judo and competitions.
One note: it's clear in the episode that everyone know what "kosen Judo" is, how it appeared, the relationship with the Kodokan and the universities, etc., so no need for "but kosen Judo isn't a thing" - I just didn't include that part here.
Throwing and groundwork in Judo
  1. There's an understandable culture in Judo that prioritises throwing techniques.
  2. Judo newaza has been an integral part of Judo since its inception, with kosen competitions being a specific episode in that history.
  3. Newaza practice has dropped in Judo: it used to be closer to being balanced, or closed to it, but through the decades it was reduced (sharp drop in the 90s).
  4. Judo newaza is also under attack from the change in Judo culture: using it is "doing BJJ".
  5. The self-defence angle has been deprioritised in Judo, while focused on in BJJ.
Judo newaza and BJJ
  1. Learning BJJ to "use in Judo", trying to extract things to "improve newaza", is a losing proposition: learning it for what it is is fundamental to actually evolve.
  2. The different ruleset leads to different reactions, which necessarily lead to different techniques and teaching processes.
  3. There is a "cursed inheritance" in Judo that affects everyone: turtling and avoiding the guard. Kosen Judo displays the techniques we see in BJJ, but the mainstream approach is to turn the back, since rules make turtling a viable approach - but often a losing position.
  4. There should be a regained Judo newaza focus that would enable deeper expression of that part of the art, without resorting to BJJ; this is not done since existing instructors do not want to learn new things, so they outsource newaza training to BJJ.
Lifestyle vs. competition: the risks of outsourcing newaza
  1. Sending students to BJJ to learn the ground game also has a possible outcome: the judoka will go there, stay there and leave Judo.
  2. Judo and BJJ, if we consider them teaching equivalent things, are like learning them in a suit and tie while punching the clock, and learning them in shorts under a palm tree at the beach.
  3. This lifestyle approach of BJJ contrasts with the "all that matters are competition results" of Judo.
  4. Judo is something older (>30) people "used to do", BJJ is something older people "are doing".
  5. Judo should also have/regain this "lifestyle" approach, and stop this trend of people dropping out in their early 30s when competition ends. It should be a lifetime activity that appeals to all age brackets.
  6. Judo focus on the children wastes the obvious audience: their parents.
  7. In BJJ the older practitioner finds a different reality: more people in their 30-50s, with a focus on physical health, almost a therapy, instead of permanent competition training.
  8. "Why don't you do Judo again? "Went to a training near me, almost died due to the training approach". People have work and a family, and if Judo is another thing that they must suffer through then they won't do it.
  9. BJJ doesn't have this problem, they cater to that audience, and going to practice can be relaxing.
  10. Newaza can be an important part of projecting Judo as a life-long activity (cf. Japan)
Olympic sport, regulations, grading
  1. BJJ not being an Olympic sport is a blessing in this regard, and from an offering perspective there is a lot that Judo could learn.
  2. Black belts in Judo are exceedingly regulated and complex, with all sorts of extra activities and bureaucratic requirements, almost as if the purpose is to discourage people from it. Many drop before it because of that.
  3. In BJJ, a black belt is easier because it's a 1:1 relationship with a teacher, independent of competition points or other requirements.
  4. The lack of central regulation is used against BJJ, but it works because the teacher is the one that is in a better position to determine it. And people with bad technique exist everywhere, including Judo black belts.
  5. The self-defence angle has been deprioritised in Judo, while focused on in BJJ.
  6. Judo risks being mummified with all the rule changes. Whereas BJJ integrates new techniques in their approach to scoring, Judo seems to default to penalising them.
  7. Constant limiting changes in rules can make a wonderful sport turn into something boring, with an associated lack of attractiveness for those practising it.
  8. BJJ teachers tend to be more self-employed with a need to attract paying customers, whereas Judo has more people working for sports institutions.
Newaza in Judo: ruleset
  1. The lack of scoring in newaza doesn't help newaza learning and refinement.
  2. Judo newaza competition with points, based on a deep analysis of Judo positions, including losing positions.
  3. 5s passivity when in a losing position == waza-ari
  4. Starting on their feet, 30s, transitions to ground mustn't be a shido (i.e. no "pulling guard")
  5. This instils real abilities that can be directly applied in "normal" competition since it is based on Judo positions and reactions.
  6. No changes in scoring (waza-ari is used), no changes needed to do it, it's a drop-in ruleset tweak.
  7. Worked with the CBJ [NGB] to integrate this newaza competitions in the calendar.
Newaza in Judo: how to advance it?
  1. There's a lot of potential.
  2. We should work within the existing structures.
  3. Being careful with changes and making them easy to use with the existing resources.
  4. Newaza competitions as something that provide tangible improvements in Judo competitions.
  5. There's an audience for a "lifestyle Judo", with "kosen rules" being a part of that approach.
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