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Monday, August 19, 2024

Daddies and Daughters

An excerpt from The Daily Beast - 

Why Every Father Needs to Watch the Netflix Film ‘Daughters’

The new documentary is about a father-daughter dance at a prison. As one dad of two girls writes, it’s a must-see film that brings all of parenthood into perspective.

By Andrew Crump



Reams of data exist that highlight the range of effects a father’s absence can have on his daughters. They’re likely to struggle with trust issues. Their confidence might flag. They may wrestle with feelings of abandonment, low self-esteem, and rejection, or develop aggressive or otherwise antisocial behaviors, or risk-taking behaviors; they may become depressed, detached, or anxious. Fathers shape their daughters’ relational lives—the foundation and maintenance of meaningful relationships, with family, with friends, with romantic partners, with communities—and spur their creativity.

Angela Patton and Natalie Rae’s Daughters, the Festival Favorite and Audience Choice: U.S. Documentary Competition winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival—now available to watch on Netflix—side steps statistical analysis and instead strives for emotional impact.

I have two daughters myself. For their privacy’s sake, I’ll refer to them by their nicknames: Brontosaurus, my eldest, and Elephant, my youngest. I love them more than anything I’ve loved in my forty years on this Earth.

On behalf of that, I intentionally avoided Daughters in my remote coverage of Sundance, knowing full well a movie with that title, focused on the subject of barriers forced between young girls and their incarcerated dads, would likely break me in two; the idea of being separated from my girls is the stuff of my nightmares, as unlikely as it is that we’ll ever be separated. (Sending them off to summer camp and, soon, back to school is hard enough.) I am not a statistic. Brownie and Elephant aren’t, either. All the same, my reality didn’t blunt Daughters’ effect on me.

This is not a film about the numbers: How many girls grow up fatherless in the U.S.; how many of those girls end up in bad partnerships; how many of them become teen mothers; how many are burdened by mental health problems; how many attempt suicide. Frankly, that wouldn’t be a film at all, had Patton and Rae chosen these details as their subject. It would be an academic paper instead, dry and sans any human sensation.

Sensation is what Daughters is all about, of course, a front row seat to an overwhelming reconnection between a cadre of girls and their fathers, each behind bars for reasons Patton and Rae refuse to detail. (Those reasons are neither our business nor relevant to the film’s thesis.). At the same time, it’s an elegant condemnation of America’s love affair with crime and punishment, exhibited through varied atrocities carried out within its prison system.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/netflixs-daughters-the-movie-every-father-needs-to-watch

Sunday, August 11, 2024

Veteran SHREDS Trump-Vance for Attacking Walz's Service –They're Running...


August 13 is Left Handers Day!

Celebrate the lefties in your world! 


Did you guess?  I'm a lefty, too!

https://www.lefthandersday.com/

Who Decides Who's Black Enough?

An excerpt from the LA Times - 

Opinion: Denigrating Drake, and Kamala Harris, as ‘Not Like Us’

By Michael Eric Dyson

Arguments that question the racial identity of the hip-hop artist
and the presidential candidate deny the complexity of Blackness.
(Los Angeles Times photo illustration;
photos by Carmen Mandato / Getty Images, Matt Rourke/ Associated Press)



On the same day that former President Trump claimed before a national gathering of Black journalists that Vice President Kamala Harris “was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she became a Black person,” his running mate Sen. JD Vance accused Harris of being a “phony” who “grew up in Canada” (she attended high school in Montreal) and used “a fake Southern accent” at a rally.

Both men’s accusations sound eerily like those leveled against the rapper Drake by his fellow hip-hop titan Kendrick Lamar (and many others) in a rap beef whose effects linger. Drake has been accused of being a “colonizer” whose Canadian identity and eager embrace of various aspects and accents of a wide range of Black culture make him racially suspect.

Such arguments, whether made by racially troubled white men or Black icons, deny the complexity and diversity of Blackness.

~~~~~

Ironically, that cosmopolitan vision of Blackness is at the heart of the Lamar and Drake dustup. Their kerfuffle — playing out fiercely this spring in a series of releases — is a battle over cultural cachet, racial authenticity and group pride. And it exposes a provincialism that undercuts the global currents of hip-hop.

In his hit “Not Like Us,” Lamar accuses Drake of being a “colonizer” because Drake supposedly “run[s]” to Atlanta to partner with some of the paragons of its trap music to bolster his Blackness. Lamar’s argument echoes long-standing criticisms that Drake’s biracial Canadian roots render him suspect as a bona fide Black artist. Drake’s artistic experimentation with different accents and musical genres has prompted many to claim, as Vance did with Harris, that Drake is a phony.

Lamar’s beef with Drake is rooted in a parochial, claustrophobic vision of Blackness.

Drake grew up in Toronto the son of a Jewish Canadian mother; he spent summers in Memphis, Tenn., with his Black American musician father. His artistic tastes were deeply influenced by a wide swath of the Black diaspora — Afro-Caribbeans, Londoners, American Southerners, especially Memphians, and Torontonians. The multicultural makeup of Toronto, with its sizable Italian, Portuguese, Jamaican and Filipino immigrant populations, also fed his musical appetite.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-11/kendrick-lamar-drake-hip-hop-kamala-harris-blackness

Comparing Crowd Size

 

Fmr. Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura shares his impressions of Gov. Tim...


Friday, August 9, 2024

THE Arizona Turnout for VP Harris & Gov Walz

 


https://x.com/sambbenson/status/1822042965298311628 

Monday, August 5, 2024

Do you Know Your Salts?

An excerpt from ChowHound - 

Table Salt Vs Sea Salt Vs Kosher Salt: When To Use Each Type In Your Kitchen

BY MATTHEW LEE

Westend61/Getty Images



It doesn't matter if it's the kitchen of an amateur home cook who barely uses the space or that of a professional chef, you'll be hard-pressed to find one that doesn't have a jar of salt somewhere. And that jar will most likely contain table salt, also known as "common salt." This fine-grained variety is super versatile and can be used for both seasoning and cooking just fine. But if you want to get the most out of your cooking, you'll need to expand your salt collection, stat. There are dozens of notable salt varieties; but to start, try adding sea salt and kosher salt to your pantry.


Table salt is great for most applications

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The salt you'll find sitting in those fancy glass shakers at restaurants and cafés is most likely table salt. Odds are good that the one you have in your kitchen right now is this type, too. Table salt is produced by blasting high-pressure water at underground salt deposits to reduce them to brine. It's taken up to the surface by a pipe and into a factory where it's dried. After going through several more processing steps, the results are tiny, dense salt crystals that — under a microscope — look like perfect little cubes.



Sea salt for extra flavor


Sea salt, as its name suggests, comes straight from the ocean. Large puddles of seawater are left to bake in the sun, and once all the water has evaporated, flakes of salt appear at the bottom of these pools, ready for harvesting. Unlike table salt, sea salt doesn't go through a lot of processing steps, so it retains trace minerals like magnesium and calcium. 


Kosher salt for everything

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Even though table salt is the most common, if you can only choose one type of salt to stock your pantry with, pick kosher salt. Think of it like a salty Swiss Army knife. Whatever task you have in mind — from cooking and seasoning a dish, to canning, pickling, and curing — kosher salt can handle it.



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I'm a Republican, not a fool."

An excerpt from WeGotThisCovered - 

‘I’m a Republican but not a fool’: If you think all GOPs are voting for Donald Trump, you might want to take a look at this

Who's gonna tell him?

By Nahila Bonfiglio




Every presidential election is a vital moment in history, but it’s hard to argue the truly unprecedented urgency of the 2024 election.

This November, the American public will make the choice between a heavily convicted felon who has no remorse, who plans to establish a dictatorship, and who has an avenue in place to contest a free election process, and a capable leader who has experience, poise, and decades of experience under her belt. The choice will come down to the security of Kamala Harris or the unhinged bluster of Donald Trump, and it’s truly unclear which option has a better shot at the White House.

The masses are praying for a Harris victory, but it’s unsettling to see how much support Trump still boasts. Even beyond his support of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025, his promises that Christians will only need to vote “this once” and then never again; even beyond his insistence that Harris happened to “turn Black” in order to win the election, he still has unwavering support from a huge number of people.

But not everyone on the right side of the political aisle is so enamored with the former Cheeto-in-Chief. Despite the overwhelming support he continues to boast from his most dedicated followers, Trump is hemorrhaging support from pretty much anyone with a brain and right-leaning tendencies. These poor souls, left with no Republican options that aren’t outright dangerous for the nation, have decided to step across the political aisle, and they’ve masterminded the perfect sign for their unique position.

That sign is starting to decorate lawns now that the election is mere months out. Straightforward and truly stunning, the simple piece of cardboard states that its owner is “a Republican but not a fool,” before proclaiming its support for “Harris for President.”


Mr. Harris

An excerpt from WeGotThisCovered - 

Kamala Harris’ father Donald J. Harris’ ethnicity, confirmed

What is Kamala Harris' father's cultural background?

By Kevin Stewart



Donald J. Harris is an award-winning economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University and the father of Democratic Party Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, and her lawyer sister, Maya Harris.

In 1960, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London, and in 1966, he achieved a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

He is the author of several books and articles, including the 1978 monograph Capital Accumulation and Income Distribution and the 1993 article “Economic Growth and Equity: Complements or Opposites?” in The Review of Black Political Economy.

https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/donald-j-harris-ethnicity-confirmed/

Afro-Latina Stanford Grad Wins Miss USA

An excerpt from CNN - 

New Miss USA crowned, capping tumultuous year of pageant controversy

By Oscar Holland, CNN


Michigan's Alma Cooper wins Miss USA 2024 at the
73rd annual Miss USA pageant at the Peacock Theater
in Los Angeles, California. Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images


Michigan’s Alma Cooper, a US Army officer, was named Miss USA on Sunday, becoming the third person to hold the title this year following the shock resignation of 2023’s winner.

The 22-year-old, who has a Master’s in data science from Stanford University, beat 50 other contestants in a pageant that included swimwear and evening gown competitions. Kentucky’s Connor Perry and Oklahoma’s Danika Christopherson were named first and second runners up, respectively.

“As the daughter of a migrant worker, a proud Afro Latina woman and an officer of the United States Army, I am living the American dream,” she had told judges during a Q&A session at Sunday’s finale. “If there’s anything that my life and my mother have taught me, it’s that your circumstances never define your destiny: You can make success accessible through demanding excellence.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/04/style/miss-usa-winner-alma-cooper-michigan/index.html

Sunday, August 4, 2024

The History of Theme From Shaft

An excerpt from American Songwriter - 

The Groundbreaking Story Behind the “Theme From Shaft” by Isaac Hayes

By Hal Horowitz

“Theme From Shaft”

Written by Isaac Hayes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTU_9T5ufzY&t=12s


Right on. Can ya dig it? Shut your mouth… 

Sound like the early ‘70s? You’re daaaamn right! Those by-now iconic words are some of the few, mostly spoken, lyrics to Isaac Hayes’ 1971 No. 1-charting title track to the motion picture considered one of the first and best examples of the “Blaxploitation” genre. 

Specifically named “Theme From Shaft,” the song was as groundbreaking as the film, winning an Oscar for Best Original Song, making Hayes the first Black composer to triumph in that category. It also grabbed two Grammys, for Best Instrumental Arrangement and Best Original Score.

Why Isaac Hayes?

Hayes was a hot property in the early ‘70s, especially in the Black community. He had recorded four solo albums since 1967. Hot Buttered Soul (1969) was the most successful; it topped the R&B chart and rose to No. 8 on the Billboard 200, showing that Hayes’ made-for-the-bedroom slow-jams could cross over to a more mainstream audience. 

Parks showed Hayes footage of the gritty opening scene of his film, where private detective John Shaft emerges from a Manhattan subway and weaves in and out of traffic like he owns New York City. Parks told Hayes he wanted “a driving, savage beat, so we’re right with him all the time.” 

Hayes responded with the propulsive 16th-note hi-hat opening that leads into arguably the most definitive and demonstrative use of distorted wah-wah guitar in soul music. But he paused writing the rest of the theme until he’d composed the remainder of the film’s score. “Theme From Shaft” was completed after Hayes had gained a better appreciation for who this guy confidently crisscrossing the crowded city streets really was.  

Then What?

https://americansongwriter.com/the-groundbreaking-story-behind-the-theme-from-shaft-by-isaac-hayes/

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This Matters More Than the Game

An excerpt from Metro.co.uk - 

Injured Olympic athlete gets carried off court by her opponent to huge ovation from crowd

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By Chris Davie



Brazil’s Tamires Morena produced one of the most touching moments of the Olympics in Paris after she carried her injured opponent off the court on Saturday.

Brazil were already up by ten goals in their final Preliminary Round Group B women’s handball match when Angola’s captain Albertina Kassoma fell to the ground after missing a shot.

Kassoma stayed down and received medical attention for her injured knee.

After being examined by Angola’s team doctor, Kassoma got to her feet and was supported by Brazil’s goalkeeper, Gabriela Moreschi. 

But before Kassoma moved, Morena stepped in to fully sweep her opponent off the ground and carry her to the side of the court.

Morena’s gesture was greeted by a huge ovation by the crowd inside South Paris Arena 6.

https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/04/beautiful-moment-injured-olympic-athlete-carried-off-court-opponent-21356420/

When Your Sister Wins Gold

 


https://x.com/NavyFB/status/1819823335624118699 

I'm Rod Stewart's Newest Fan

 

An excerpt from Metro.co.uk - 

Rod Stewart slammed for mocking ‘orange’ Donald Trump during show as fans ‘walk out’

By Laura Harman and Brooke Ivey Johnson


Rod shared the snap from his show on social media (Picture: Rod Stewart/Instagram)

Rod Stewart has well and truly divided fans as he made his feelings towards Trump known mid-concert, mocking the former US President with a meme.

The 79-year-old singer is currently on tour in the US and has been performing a series of shows at the Colosseum that began on July 24 and is set to conclude on August 7.

But just months after he was ‘booed’ in Germany for showing the Ukraine flag, the singer has ruffled feathers again as he criticised Trump on stage.

While in Vegas performing, he decided to show a meme that mocked the Former President for being ‘orange’.

Great Cooking Charts - Guaranteed to Learn Something

An excerpt from Buzzfeed - 

29 Incredibly Cool Charts About Cooking And Food That Will Make You So Much Smarter

Reading this is almost like going to cooking school.

by Mike Spohr, BuzzFeed Staff


1. This chart in the menu of a Japanese restaurant explains the etiquette for eating sushi, and honestly I had no idea (I definitely mix wasabi and soy sauce, sorry):


                                                        u/ThreeDrawersDown / Via reddit.com


4. What's the difference between a rare, medium rare, medium, medium well, and well done steak? This chart has the answer:


u/madairman / Via reddit.com



5. And this chart explains the cooking differences for burgers:

                         u/erikhenao32 / Via reddit.com



6. Never wonder, "Wait...do I put the veggies in the water before or after I boil it?" ever again:


FarmersAlmanac.com / Via reddit.com

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/29-charts-about-cooking-and-food

The Mississippi River

From Seth Godin, Seth's Blog - 

The Mississippi River paradox 

There’s no water in that river that was there ten years ago.

The boundaries have shifted in that time as well, there’s no riverbank that’s exactly where it was. And the silt and the fish have all moved too.

So, what’s “the Mississippi River”?

It’s a label, a placeholder, and a marker–when the Mississippi does something we don’t expect it to do, we comment on it.

People are like this as well. What if you could only be known for the best (or the worst) thing you ever did? You’re not that person now, and it’s likely you’ll never be that person again. But that’s the label we gave you.

When we talk about the organization or the brand or that neighbor down the street, we act as these are immutable objects, basic unchanging elements or static facts.

But like rivers, people change.

When the label stops being useful, we should change it. The problem with holding a grudge is that it makes your hands too full to do anything useful.

https://archive.feedblitz.com/1081591/~17137100/70470101/a91e9d7437b0702ab03785848f880103

Black Farmers Get Paid

 

An Olympic Water Polo Star Offering Skin and Hair Tips

An excerpt from the Washinton Post - 

She’s an Olympic water polo star, but fans just want skin and hair tips

Ashleigh Johnson, one of the world’s top water polo goalies, shares the routine that keeps her skin and hair glowing, despite long hours in the water.

By Gretchen Reynolds and Julia Wall


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There’s one question Olympic water polo goalie Ashleigh Johnson hears all the time: “How does she take care of her skin and hair?”

The first Black player for the powerhouse U.S. women’s national water polo team and widely considered to be the best goalie in the world, Johnson, 29, helped the U.S. win gold in 2016 and 2021. The Americans are the prohibitive favorites again at this year’s Games in Paris.

An obvious role model, Johnson regularly gets peppered at events and online with questions about her sport, height (6 feet 1 inch), heritage (Jamaican) and favorite food (Pho, a Vietnamese soup).

But questions about her hair and skin are by far the most common. She doesn’t mind.

“I wish that someone had had some hair and skin care tips for me when I was coming up.”

​​So here, for the first time, she shows us what years of practice and experimentation have taught her can keep hair and skin healthy, however much time we spend in the pool.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/07/31/ashleigh-johnson-water-polo-skin-hair-tips/

Olympic Medal Bonuses

An excerpt from CNBC - 

Here’s how much athletes at the Paris Olympics earn for winning medals

By Lee Ying Shan

Aside from a medal, a stuffed toy of the Olympics mascot and a “mysterious” box containing the official event poster, some medalists receive additional financial rewards for their efforts.

While the IOC does not give out prize money for winning medals, several home countries do reward their athletes with medal bonuses.

Olympic medal bonuses

Here's how much money athletes get for finishing on the podium.

Table with 4 columns and 14 rows.
Hong Kong$768,000$384,000$192,000
Singapore$745,000$373,000$186,000
Indonesia$300,000$150,000$60,000
Israel$271,000$216,000$135,000
Republic of Kazakhstan$250,000$150,000$75,000
Malaysia$216,000$65,000$22,000
Spain$102,000$52,000$33,000
France$87,000$43,000$22,000
South Korea$45,000$25,000$18,000
United States$38,000$23,000$15,000
Japan$32,000$13,000$6,000
Poland$25,000$19,000$14,000
Germany$22,000$16,000$11,000
Australia$13,000$10,000$7,000


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Friday, August 2, 2024

A Quick Lesson on the Venn Diagram & Why Kamala Harris is Smart to Use It

An excerpt from Salon - 

Why a love of Venn diagrams is Kamala Harris' not-so-secret weapon for creating smart policy

Logic dictates that multiple variables must be accounted for in politics; interlocking circles help visualize them

By Gwydion Suilebhan - Steven Gimbel

Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)


During a recent interview with Chrissy Teigen, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “I’m going to confess, I love Venn diagrams. If you’re ever in a moment of conflict, pull out a Venn diagram, they’ll just help you sort things out.”

This is not the first time Harris has professed affection for this logical mechanism. As a former courtroom lawyer who needed to be able to clearly demonstrate complicated inferences to juries in a way that anyone could follow, Attorney General Harris would have found Venn diagrams to be the perfect tool. 

So, too, in politics. At a speech at Bryn Mawr University in 2022, for example, she produced a Venn diagram for the crowd, saying. “So, I asked my team, ‘Tell me from which states are we seeing attacks on women’s reproductive healthcare, attacks on voting rights, and attacks on LGBTQ+ rights.’ And you would not be surprised to know that there was quite an overlap, including, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Arizona.” The overlap in these policy goals became clear to anyone who could see.

Republicans have seized on this intellectual infatuation, calling it cringeworthy. She was mocked by "Fox & Friends" host Brian Kilmeade who said “When you peak in third and fourth grade and become Vice President we’re doomed.” 

Allowing for the straightforward visualization of logical relations, Venn diagrams were in fact designed as a teaching tool. But contrary to Kilmeade’s characterization, they are a means well beyond grade school level. They were an important step in the development of formalized reasoning that led to digital computers. 

If your understanding of them comes from social media and the memeosphere, you could be excused for underestimating their power and importance in the history of ideas. Vice President Harris may proclaim her adoration of them in public more frequently than she does for her husband, but looking at the development of logic, Doug Emhoff has not done anything quite like John Venn.

Here's a history tracing the meticulous development of the Venn diagram to better understand how we got to the useful visual tool we still employ today.

Not just blind luck

With the exception of the Olympics’ insignia, Venn diagrams are our most recognizable overlapping circles. Named after Cambridge University mathematician and logician John Venn, they first appeared in his book "Symbolic Logic" in 1880. In that work, he named them after a different mathematician calling them “Eulerian circles.” 

Venn knew there had to be more to math than just cranking through problems. There were deep philosophical questions buried in it.

Leonhard Euler was a Swiss mathematician whose 866 published mathematical papers are the most published as a solo author of anyone in history. To make this even more impressive, he did much of this work while blind. One focus of his work was taking complex mathematical reasoning and operations and representing it using symbols so that instead of having to think through long chains of inferences, we could instead manipulate symbols according to simple rules. 

As a result, he generated many of the standard representations we still use. Why is the letter x used for an unknown quantity in algebra? Euler. Why do we use the Greek letter π for the ratio between a circle’s circumference and diameter? Euler. Why is the square root of -1 called i? Euler.


In his quest to make complicated (and in the case of i, complex) mathematics simpler, Euler came upon a way to use circles to represent class membership. This allowed for a teaching tool that made certain logical relations clearer because they could be simply seen. Euler’s diagrams were effective, but Venn soon realized that they were limited in their applicability. Euler’s circles could not do something that a modified approach could — allow for a mechanical way of doing logic. Venn, with his new twist, would out-Euler, Euler.

Who, what, where and Venn

John Venn was the son of an Anglican minister whose interest was not in the Divine order of the universe, but rather its underlying mathematical structure. Attending Cambridge, he sat for the Mathematical Tripos, a grueling eight-day exam that largely tested one’s ability to quickly calculate for extended periods of time. Venn described the event as “fearfully hard work, both physical and mental.”

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/29/venn-diagrams-kamala-harris-explainer-history/

A Pivotal Moment in the Race

 


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-strategist-simon-rosenberg-trump-punishing-jd-vance_n_66ac639ae4b088291b68a25d 

Mr. Rogers is Still Teaching Us

An excerpt from ForstForWomen -

Mr. Rogers Quotes: 14 Times He Spread His Wisdom on Love, Kindness and Helping Others in Need

Mr. Rogers left the world a better place than when he came into it — See these 14 quotes we love

By Raquel Lekic 




Mr. Rogers in the 80s

Mr Rogers quotes about being kind to yourself

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”

“You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There’s never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.

“The toughest thing is to love somebody who has done something mean to you. Especially when that somebody has been yourself.”

Mr Rogers quotes about helping others

“All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we’re giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That’s one of the things that connects us as neighbors — in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.”

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”

“Real strength has to do with helping others.”

“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind.  The third way is to be kind.”



Wow!

 


https://www.totalprosports.com/olympics/photo-social-media-is-completely-mind-blown-over-image-of-gigantic-shaquille-oneal-standing-next-to-a-tiny-simone-biles/ 

You're Probably Peeing Wrong

An excerpt from Parade - 

A Urogynecologist Is Begging You to Stop Doing This One Super-Common Thing When You Pee

It's probably something you haven't thought about.

By Erica Sweeney

You probably don’t think much about how you pee. You just go. While it’s a natural reflex that you’ve been doing your whole life, the way you pee could be taking a toll on your pelvic floor.

This came up recently in a TikTok video, where TikToker @postvirallife said, “I think I’ve been peeing wrong my entire life.”

Before getting a vaginal ultrasound, she said her technician told her to use the restroom but not to push when she peed. Instead, she was instructed to breathe through her nose and release the pee naturally, and that she’d know when the last drop was out once she felt a warm sensation.



@postvirallife Anyone else or just me? #bladderproblems #bladder #interstitialcystisis #chronicillness #uti ♬ original sound - Katie
Doctors say this is good advice.

“Peeing is more about relaxing the pelvic floor muscles and allowing the sphincter to relax and at the same time, the brain has the bladder muscles contract to eliminate urine,” says Dr. Lopa Pandya, MD, a urogynecologist, reconstructive surgeon and medical adviser at Aeroflow Urology.

“So peeing is more of a relaxation action and not a pushing action,” she adds.

https://parade.com/health/what-to-stop-doing-when-you-pee-according-to-urogynecologists