We`re seeing an abundance of new gamesbeing released, and many of them blur the boundaries between video games and different kinds of activities.

Everybody is trying to convince us to get out- or stay in -or just play. Really. Peloton, Netflix, Zoom, TikTok, Amazon, Apple and Google are all either playing or expanding their efforts into video games.

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What`s happening?

Globally, people spend an enormous amount of time playing video games. Established companies in the game industry as well as newcomers are seeking digitally interactive experiments that can increase their share of this money and time.

I`m very excited about this changeeven though my intense video gaming experience ended in the era of BrickBreaker on the Blackberry. It feels as if we`re in the middle reinventing what”a “video game” is, as well as what online idle time could be- more engaging and socialmaybe, and perhaps a little less passive doomscrolling. (Or I`m thinking too much about this. Yeah, it might just be about money.)

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Whatever the reasons, games may soon feel unavoidable. Zoom has added new featureslike the ability to play trivia, mystery, or poker. Peloton, the maker of exercise bikes that cost $2,500will soon release a game that lets riders use their pedal power to command the virtual wheel that is rolling. Netflix this week announced that it was planning to add video games to itsonline entertainment service. Facebook, TikTok and Amazon as well as Google are all promoting games on video to us or selling subscriptions to games. (The New York Times is going bigger into puzzles and digital games, too.)

Video games have become an industry of immense size and have grown in popularity with the coronavirus epidemic. It`s not a surprise that companies are increasingly looking to purchase a piece. A recent report from Accenture found that the global gaming sales are higher than the combined revenue from music and movies. These figures include conventional video games for consoles as well as smartphones, as well as advertisements in games. Video games also have cultural relevance, as the Olympic organizers have demonstrated this weekby featuring games music during the ceremony that opened.

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Because many digital games are quite different from what we thought of as video games like the cinematic realms of Xbox or PlayStation 2. It might be needed to redefine the term “video game.

As smartphones introduced us to simple games that made use of unique features like gyroscopes and mobile internet connections, modern games blur the distinction between video games and different kinds of social events. Although Fortnite, Pokemon Go and Among Us may be video games, they can also be used to host hangouts, social media platforms as well as opportunities to organize political and pop-culture events.

Many of the more recent games are interesting as they signal a shift past a period where mobile and online media frequently mimic what they used to be when podcasts were like radio talk shows, Netflix like TV, and online news outlets like newspapers.

Although games don`t always provide positive social interactionshowever, they do provide a sense that something is happening. More of us are mingling together in order to develop new digital forms that emphasize interaction over the passive reading, watching or listening.

We`ll be seeing more advanced games that are on the technological edge as well as other games that don`t make sense for the game console to test our bodies, minds, as well as social interactions. I`m curious to see what happens to the entire spectrum.

It is a natural process for our bodies to communicate with us. Chronic pain can be exhausting painful, debilitating, and frustrating.

Our pain clinic employs an approach that is bio-psycho-social to help patients manage their pain. This includes physiotherapy and medications in addition to less invasive pain management procedures. Oral or intravenously administered medications are available.

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The pain can be intense chronic, acute or a combination of both. It also can impact the quality of sleep, mood, and even quality of life. The specialists in pain management offer patients medicinal and therapeutic treatments that ease pain and improve their quality of living.

Multi-disciplinary pain management is used to treat the patient as a whole so that they can get back to their normal lives as quickly as possible. They offer physiotherapy, medicine and surgical procedures, in addition to surgical procedures that aren`t surgical, such as needle acupuncture and nerve block.

Castle Connolly recognizes them as the top Doctors. Their facilities are outfitted with top-quality medical equipment made by reputable manufacturers like 3M, GE, and Siemens. They also have affiliations with hospitals, so your treatment can continue in the event of your admission to a hospital. This gives you peace of mind to know that your treatment is as thorough as it can be.

Physiotherapy

The physiotherapy profession can play an important part in the treatment of chronic pain. It increases physical mobility, helps to relieve tension in muscles and aids in restoring regular sleep patterns. It can also be utilized to address depression and anxiety, which may be causing or aggravating pain.

A clinic that provides multidisciplinary approaches to treatment of pain is the best option. Physical therapists can assist you in assessing and treating your movement issues and give your exercise guidance. You can also get advice on exercises such as Pilates, yoga or tai-chi, which will reduce the pain and improve your overall health.

You should look for an establishment that provides psychological support such as counseling and therapy, as well as offers relaxation techniques. This can help to reduce anxiety and depression which can cause an increase in pain and an overall lower quality of life. Keep a journal of your pain to track your pain and its effects.

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Pain Management

It`s part of your body`s natural communication system. The cause of pain can be from injuries, illness, or any other condition. It may be temporary and then disappear when the injury heals (acute pain) or it may last for months and years and drastically impact the health (chronic chronic). The specialists in pain can manage pain using medications techniques, exercises and procedures.

A pain management professional will meet with you on your first visit to the clinic. The doctor will ask you to describe your pain and then rate it on the scale. Do remember to see a Dr plus if you are unsure! Don`t save this kind of money.

Then, they will conduct an examination that involves pressing on the affected area and shifting it around. They may also do blood tests and x-rays to evaluate the extent of the discomfort. They`ll provide you with an initial diagnosis or a working one basing on the results of tests and the experience they have gained.

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Ian Blair Hamilton AlkaWay Founder

Is It True? Are There Really Pharmaceuticals in our Drinking Water?

WATER FILTRATION 5 min read

When the World Health Organisation decides to commit to a study on pharmaceuticals in our water, you know there`s a reason.

Here`s an excerpt from the study.

Pharmaceuticals are synthetic or natural chemicals that can be found in prescription medicines, over-the-counter therapeutic drugs and veterinary drugs. Pharmaceuticals contain active ingredients that have been designed to have pharmacological effects and confer significant benefits to society. The occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environment and the water cycle at trace levels (in the range of nanograms to low micrograms per litre) has been widely discussed and published in literature in the past decade. The increase in detection is largely attributable to the advances in analytical techniques and instrumentation. Many surveys and studies have confirmed the presence of pharmaceuticals in municipal wastewater and effluents, and these have been identified as a major source of pharmaceuticals in drinking water.

So yes, it is in our water. It comes from many sources, but one that surprised me was the simple act of taking a dip in a river. It appears that if we are ón meds`, then we are also sweating them out. This med-laden sweat ends up in the water.

Activated carbon is the simplest way to reduce pharmaceuticals in your home water. No, we can`t tell you exactly how much of every pharmaceutical they will remove, but the WHO report recommends their use.

(In my filter, I use catalytic carbon – around 8 x more effective than common activated carbon.)

Carbon, the report says, can achieve high removal of pharmaceutical target compounds, especially hydrophobic compounds. As with all contaminants, removal efficacy is a function of contact time, organic loading, chemical structure, solubility and carbon type (Ternes et al., 2002; Yoon Y. et al., 2003; Snyder et al., 2006) And there are some that are still resistant, such as: Iopromide, ibuprofen, meprobamate, sulfamethoxazole and diclofenac . (Khiari, 2007).

Here`s my take on this issue.

1. It`s a good thing we know about the problem.

2. The amounts of pharmaceuticals in our drinking water and their effects on us will relate – obviously – to how much tap water we drink.

3. We have had people criticising us about being alarmist to sell water filters.
I understand where they are coming from. The world has two kinds of people: those who believe they are taking in contaminants in a therapeutically negative amount, and those who simply choose not to believe it despite the evidence.

4. I am inspired by Erin Brockovitch more than by the Managing Director of Monsanto. Erin understood that we are all living on a polluted planet. She acted to change her region, and she succeeded.

We absorb contaminants through the plastics we use for almost everything, through the air, through our water, our food, through our clothes, even through our mattress as we sleep!

A report I read some years ago concluded that an average US female had a minimum of 600 contaminants in the body.

So yes, pharmaceuticals in your water are still what our experts label as low dose. But we all know that`s not all, is it? There`s the carcinogenic chlorine, its nasty co-carcinogen chloramine, there`s brain affecting fluoride, lead from old pipes…. and that`s just the water!

I prefer to see myself as a pragmatist than an alarmist and what I do with the lives of myself and my family matters first to me. In my position I read hundreds of reports on adverse water quality.. but I don`t snasties.ee it as the total picture. I see it as a factor I can affect – something I can consciously subtract from the daily list of contaminants I have unthinkingly absorbed and stored. By doing so I`m reducing the possibility of a tipping point event where my body metabolism simply gives up due to the overload of `safe`doses of hundreds of nasties.

Here`s my personal bottom line. What`s yours?
If indeed we do already have hundreds of different contaminants in our cells, my awareness gives me the chance to begin dismantling this growing threat to my health, even if I have to do it one by one.

I can`t dismiss the obvious observation that as a nation we all seem fat.
And yet we are also also seeing stranger symptoms. Manboobs. Sterility. Ongoing seemingly infinitely variable undiagnosable symptoms. As I see it, it`s very likely that these unheard-of symptoms may relate to a toxic soup of contaminants from all of the sources I mentioned earlier. Fat may simply be inflammation. medically speaking, it`s called chronic low level inflammation. Hmm. that word again. “Low level”.

I can`t remove all of them..
well, I may be able to – but it`d be a concerted and painful detoxification process… but I do have the power in my own hands to identify their source, and do whatever it takes to remove them from my life.

Just a water Filter Salesman?

To answer my critics who say I`m just trying to sell you a water filter.. yes, they are right.

But is there anyone else who has alerted you to the problem and handed you a solution? No.

If a doctor walked up to you on the street and said I am a doctor and I can tell you have …. disease, would you judge him for it?

I`m not a doctor. I`ve only spent the last 18 years studying our drinking water and supplying solutions.

So you make the call.
Am I worth listening to? Or am I just trying to sell you something? Or both?

I am the inventor of what I believe is the most advanced simple water filter on the market. We`ve broken the rules of the industry – one that (I have observed) prefers to tell the customer as little as possible about how well their products really work.

I have taken the steps to test its capability for the whole of its life: something I`ve never seen done before for any water filter. I`ve had it approved by the EU safety committee. I`ve run it through an exhaustive University lab. I`ve sourced every filter media from USA rather than the far east. I am proud of what I and my team have achieved in helping over 20,000 people, and receiving their letters of gratitude.
Learn more about my invention, the UltraStream here
Download the WHO report on pharmaceuticals in our water here

Ian Blair Hamilton
Founder
AlkaWay