Department 56 snow village value guide

Beating the Wither early game? Easier than you think!

2023.06.06 17:26 Outside_Ad_9691 Beating the Wither early game? Easier than you think!

Suppose you want to fight the Wither. But it's early game and you don't have good enough weapons/armor yet. Well, despite what you think, this isn't as big of a problem as you think. You can beat the Wither with no armor (with no real risk to your health) and a Wooden Sword or some other weak weapon. This sounds impossible...but not if you make a Fikitrap.
But what IS a Fikitrap, anyway? Well, it's a term I came up with. It's a way to trap the Wither so that it stays in one place. Fikibreaker is a guy that plays Modded Minecraft. I got the idea for this trap by watching one of his videos on YouTube, so I named the trap after him.
Anyway, here's how to do all this:
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And that's it! With the Fikitrap, that's all it takes to beat the Wither early game. I hope you liked my latest guide and that it is useful to you!
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2023.06.06 15:51 Meaning-Plenty KUNAN POSHPORA – THE OTHER STORY

This guest post by SHRIMOYEE NANDINI GHOSH is based on two essays about the men and women of Kunan Poshpora, that appeared in the Kashmir Reader dated 1 September 2013, and 13 January 2014.
Beneath the horrors of the mass rape committed by Indian troops in the twin villages that night in February 1991, lies the untold story of systematic torture of men, carried out by the same forces with the precision and deliberation of a planned military operation.
In June 2013, a Public Interest Litigation filed in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, by fifty Srinagar based women, supported by human rights group Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil society (JKCCS) had resulted in a Magisterial order for the further investigations of the mass and gang rape by Indian army personnel of the women of Kunan, and neighbouring hamlet Poshpora, in Kupwara District of North Kashmir on the night of February 23rd-24th 1991. The police, it appears from the lack of any remotely investigative activities in the villages to have done little if anything, by way of following the court order in the last six months. On 14 September, 2013 they asked for and were granted an additional three months time for further investigations, without notice to the survivors who are legally represented in the case.
However, the closure report, which police had failed to file for twenty – two years, and which had been presented before the Magistrate of Kupwara just weeks before the Public Interest Litigation, in March 2013, had yielded several important previously unavailable official documents. These included a hand drawn police map, a nominal roll of 125 army personnel (including several officers) who were admittedly part of the operation and in Kunan-Poshpora that night, statements from victims, witnesses and army men mentioning specific locations, times and incidents, and the official medical reports of some of the rape victims. JKCCS had decided after some deliberation that if the police did not appear to be doing any investigations, they would themselves, aided by the new documents, attempt to rescue from oblivion the events of that night. Over the last three months, they have been engaged in a process of interviewing villagers, explaining to them what the police papers say, seeking clarifications, and attempting to piece together as coherent a narrative as possible given the constraints of resources, the lapses of memory, the reticence of rage, grief and repeated recounting, and the deaths of crucial witnesses. On 24th August 2013, I accompanied a team of human rights lawyers and researchers from JKCCS to the village of Kunan, on one of their visits. I was told that their interviews with those of the women who wished to speak was almost complete, and the day’s planned interviews were mostly with men from the village. Previous conversations, as well as police statements showed that interrogation centres had been set up in the village during the operation, and witnesses referred to extreme and extensive torture of men, but this was not specifically recorded in the First Information Report, and formed no part of the official list of crimes that occurred that night, which consists of rape, house trespass and illegal confinement.
As in the police documents, Kunan Poshpora has become inscribed as a story of rape in Kashmir’s public memory. But something else also happened that night. A crime so commonplace in that age of cordons and crackdowns that even the men who were its victims, barely thought to mention it, attending instead like the rest of us to the outrage of the raped women. As Ahmad Ameen put it, ‘They let us go home after the crackdown, in the morning at about 9 am.’ [Some men were bleeding; others were barely conscious and had to be carried. One man told us he crawled home on all fours].‘That’s when we realised what had happened. What they had done in every house. Then all hell broke lose.’ Several of the men were somewhat laconic when the interviews began. ‘Joh karte hai, wahi kiya’, Rahim Dar said. ‘They did what they do.’ And indeed they had– with wood, water, electricity–those universal implements for the infliction of finely calibrated pain. JKCCS believes on the basis of preliminary conversations that between hundred to a hundred and twenty men from the two villages were tortured that night. A total of twelve men were interviewed during the course of the day I visited, by three teams of researchers. I think it was after the fourth time I heard mention of medical treatments for sexual dysfunction, that the true irony of the ‘emasculation’ metaphors that are so abundant in talk about the Kunan-Poshpora rapes dawned on me. What I often dismiss as misplaced patriarchal indignation had been repeatedly made flesh that night. ‘Oh! Come on’ I want to say aloud, every time I hear or read the words ‘rape’ ‘our women’ and ‘impotency’ in close proximity–‘It’s NOT about you!’, but this time it was. And it involved wires, needles and a portable DC battery.
A kind of unmooring from the realms of human language has characterised the description of the Kunan Poshpora rapes. District Magistrate S.M Yasin’s report speaks of being unable to put down in ‘black and white’ the acts committed by the ‘beasts’ for instance, and the rape survivors themselves talk of the chaos of a toofaan, of foul smelling shaitaans apparating through their black-outs and disassociated states as they lay in the dark . But, as I listened to the men, ranging in age from 90-year-old Lal Dar (68 at the time of the torture) to 40 year old Manzoor (18 in 1991) their torture seemed to bear a somewhat different relationship to language and the world. What happened to them was nailed to a scaffolding of banal bureaucratic and military terms—interrogation, information, identification, search, cordon, crackdown—and tethered to mundane physical objects and familiar places–-buckets, logs and planks of wood, helmets, torchlights, batteries, wood sheds, barns, streams and trees. As the men spoke I began to picture that night, not as an endless orgy of a horde of rampaging beasts, but as a quiet and efficient military operation, carried out by trained men. Four companies of men from the 4th Rajputana Rifles, 68th Mountain Brigade commanded by a Colonel K.S. Dalal, in fact, as the army itself admits in police statements. Alpha and Delta Companies were deployed in the outer cordon, Bravo and Charlie in the search and interrogation. While teams of ten to twenty soldiers, sometimes headed by an officer who they were heard referring to as ‘Sir’, went on a systematic house to house search, rooting men out of their beds, demanding to be taken immediately to militants or hidden weapons, strip searching them and burying them in the snow, their comrades were otherwise engaged. Most of the commissioned officers were deployed at the ‘interrogation centres’ according to the army. Two kuthars (large barn like outbuildings for storing grain, fodder and cattle) within yards of each other, belonging to Asad Dar and the village numberdar (revenue official) Aziz Shah, and Abli Dar’s home, on the main lane of Kunan’s maze of winding alleys, were quickly commandeered and their lofts or rooms converted into make shift ‘interrogation centers’, while their compounds formed a holding space for the men. All three were provided with the same basic equipment – a bench fashioned out of planks of wood, a large wooden log, a bucket of chilli water, a couple of wires connected to a radio battery forming a crude live-circuit, assorted sticks and ropes, a few chairs, and somewhere to suspend the men from–but adaptations were made according to available resources and geography. For instance, in Asad Dar’s yard through which the village stream ran, repeated dunking in its icy depths formed part of the standard procedure. At two of the compounds, Aziz Shah’s and Abli Dar’s where firewood was stored in the wood-shed a bonfire was lit, around which parka-clad soldiers chatted and drank, and villagers recovered from their water treatments. At Asad Dar’s kuthar a tall, fair and somewhat chubby faced officer sat on a chair before a wireless set, giving orders and flashing his torchlight. Downstairs, in all three yards, men squatted or stood in the snow waiting for their possible turns on the equipment. Occasionally when they went up, they saw a neighbour or brother who was before them in line, slumped on the floor at the head of the stairs. Some like Salim Dar, whose brother was a surrendered militant, paid a visit to two of the three centers. He still walks on crutches as a result.
The village of Kunan has changed in twenty-two years. It is no longer ‘the huddle of thatched and wooden houses’ that journalists described in 1991 (‘Indian Villagers Tell of Mass Rape by Soldiers’, The Independent, March 19, 1991). Buildings have been torn down, and rebuilt in brick, cement and tin. The chashma (natural spring) that emerged from the earth behind Aziz Shah’s kuthar has dried up, and only a muddy depression now marks the spot. Ghulam Afzal walked with us around the hamlet amidst squawking chickens and curious children, pointing out the sights– ‘this is where the Abli Dar’s old kuthar stood, that there- is his new house…this is the wood shed in which I hid, this is the nallah along which Naba ran, this used to all be clear ground then…’ For some reason, seeing those buildings brought home to me an intimation of what it was like to be a man from Kunan-Poshpora on that night, in a way even their words hadn’t.
What was it like, I found myself imagining, to be squatting in your own snowy barn yard, drowning in your tin bucket, broken and blubbering on your hard granary floor, blinded by chillies from your own store? And then all the hypotheticals began, as my mind ran on and on. How did it feel I wondered to hear the sounds coming from the village? Yah Khudaiyo! Yah Khudaiyo! Could you hear them over the sounds of the interrogation? Pakistan, Militants, Samaan, Information, Bol Saala! Could you hear them over the groans of your neighbours? Could you hear them over your own yells? Which was worse–to definitely identify the scream of a loved one, or merely contemplate if it was them, through the fog of your insensibility? What was it like to be told you could leave in the morning, to be given painkillers by the army doctor, (Capt. Dr Shyam Sundar accompanied the unit according to his own police statement), to come home and realise what had seemed so far like a recurring nightmare—another crackdown, agonising but vaguely familiar –had been another kind of visitation altogether? And then, to unable to leave or get help for two days, because of the army siege around the village? To have no family or neighbours to turn to, because everyone you knew, was in precisely the same state as you? What kind of courage did it take to be Abdullah the compounder, from neighbouring Trehgam who snuck into the village using the back route through Chopan Mohalla, to deliver what analgesics and first-aid he could knowing it to be hopelessly inadequate? Or most unimaginably of all, to be Abdul Wani. To return from an over night business trip to Srinagar and find your front door broken, your two sons in bed electrocuted, your wife and three daughters raped, and your family’s barn turned into the village torture chamber? How does one live with such knowledge? And having held one’s peace for twenty two years, how does one begin to tell a stranger with a note book, not about what was done to the women, not about what was done to the never to be named teenaged girls, but what was done to you, to your own aging and scarred body, all those many years ago?
That night is full of other kinds of silences, not as innocent but just as tortured. What can one say of Abdul Ghani, the police constable who was related to several families in the village who accompanied the soldiers on their rounds, and signed a ‘No Objection Certificate’ (NOC) the next morning stating that the villagers had no complaints? He appears in many accounts like some kind of will o’ the wisp with a torch light— relaying messages between houses and family members; accompanying one man back to his home to fetch more firewood, allowing him to peep in through the windows and see his wife on the kitchen floor but not to enter; giving water to a woman with a broken spine; getting locked in a cow shed for remonstrating with soldiers; carrying a cousin home on his back in the morning, weeping as he related what he had witnessed. How do we begin to disentangle the betrayal, the subversion, the unlooked for kindness of it all? Constable Abdul Ghani Dar’s statement of what he heard, saw, and did that night, would have formed a crucial part of the prosecution evidence, if the case ever comes to be tried in a court of law. But ‘unidentified gunmen’ murdered Abdul Ghani in his bed in 1993, pumping thirty bullets into his gut, rendering his words hearsay, and obliterating them from the legal record.
Several other critical eyewitnesses have died in twenty two years, including Sharif-ud-din Sheikh who led the fight to get the police report registered and the case heard in the State Human Rights Commission. Some have died as a result of their rape or torture that night, others from age, bullets or disease. By some estimates from villagers, fifteen of the rape survivors have had hysterectomies. Along the way I lost count of the many other surgeries, unsuccessful treatments, chronic aches, intolerable pains and nameless ailments I heard described. One, however stood out. Lal Dar, whose knee was shattered by a rifle-butt early in the proceedings, and who spent most of the night sprawled in the snow outside his home watching the comings and goings of the men, said that he subsequently had two surgeries, the second to remove his knee cap. He said he could not bend his left leg any longer. He finds it hard to pray.
A Meeting in the Park
Impressions and reflections on meeting the survivors of the mass rape at Kunan Poshpora, at the Sher- e-Kashmir Park in Srinagar on Human Rights Day, 2013
It came as a surprise. I don’t think any one, even amongst the organisers of the event at Sher- e Kashmir Park, on December 10th, had expected that women from the two villages would come. It was assumed that the survivors would be represented by members of the Village Committee, elderly men folk from Kunan and Poshpora, themselves survivors of the mass torture that took place on the night of February 23rd-24th, 1991. But the women had come, almost thirty of them. They had arrived in Srinagar by Matador van, leaving their homes in Kunan and Poshpora at seven in the morning, when the frost was still hard on their windows. I had met some of them before, but it was different seeing them here in Srinagar. I couldn’t remember all their names; their biographies had come detached from their faces. Many of them hugged me.
I remembered S. though, one of the more outspoken survivors I had met— her sharp, twinkly eyes behind thick, black rimmed granny glasses, her wide smile full of crooked teeth, in a face wrinkled and brown like a walnut. We had met at Kunan, in August 2013, when I accompanied a legal research team, from Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) who was representing them in their recently renewed litigation against the Indian army. She had spoken fiercely about the injustice of it all; the many outrages that she read about everyday in the papers, her desire to see such criminals behind bars for life. Her anger was loud and visceral. But when it came to the actual events of that night, she had refused to answer any questions. She had a terrible headache, she said. She could not wait, she had blood pressure, she was dizzy—she had to leave, she always felt like this when she thought of that night, she would not talk to us anymore. It was the only interview that had to be abandoned half way. Today, she was complaining about the long journey, ‘bumping-bumping-bumping all the way.’ ‘We should have come by Sumo’, she grumbled. But, it seemed to me that despite this, she couldn’t quite mask her delight at being out in the sunshine. In the open, amidst the falling leaves, outside the shadows of their men folk, their kitchens, their village, the women grew garrulous. S. told me of her daughters, one married to a doctor, the other working at the Social Welfare Department. At one point, Gul Fatima, from the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, wife to a disappeared man, came over to the group of Kunan Poshpora’s women. ‘Where are you from?’ she asked them. ‘From Kupwara’ S. replied, naming the district. Then, a shadow seemed to cross her face. ‘Kunan – Poshpora’ she said. We’re here from Kunan Poshpora.’
Many of the women from Kunan Poshpora, did not wish to be photographed. The cameras made them uneasy. Some of their children, and grand children they said, did not know their stories. They huddled together and covered their faces with scarves, but the photographers persisted. It felt undignified– cringing behind shawls, cowering under ‘We Demand Justice for Kunan Poshpora’ posters, being asked to join the circle and sit in the appropriate place like an errant schoolgirl, when one had wandered away to avoid the cameras. In 2004, Manipuri women activists protesting the rape and killing of Thangjam Manorama had shocked us by their dramatic inversion of the figure of the cowering and shamed raped woman. Stark naked, they had stood in front of the Assam Rifles Base at Imphal, holding a banner that read ‘Indian Army Rape Us’. The photograph had made headlines across the world. I thought of it as I pleaded with a particularly intrusive photographer on behalf of the women to ‘please respect their privacy’. At this, he turned around and asked me, ‘Why have they been asked to come here, then?’ .I didn’t really have a good answer. It is true. We do need them. We want to have their pictures. We want to put faces to their tragedies, to commemorate their losses and violations. We need them to remind us that we remember, that we have not lost the battle against forgetting yet.
After I got home, the women of Kunan Poshpora, and their attitude to the news-cameras, made me think of a question. Would the agitations against the Shopian rapes in 2009, have been so angry, so volatile, so strong, if Asiya and Neelofar had lived? If they had survived, would we have heard of them at all? And if we had, what particular stories would we hear? Perhaps their rapes would have been covered up, as so many have been in the villages of Kunan and Poshpora, in the name of marriages, families, reputations, futures, for the sake of preserving innocence. A raped dead body makes for an uncomplicated heroine– worthy of both victimhood, and martyrdom. But a living rape survivor is a different being altogether. Her speech and her silences are more fraught. The women of Kunan Poshpora have been voices, not victims through these twenty three years. They have spoken back to the forces of occupation, before media crews, independent fact finders, the police, the state human rights commission and the courts of law. But, they constantly remind us– by covering up before our cameras, by getting dizzy, by blanking out, by her reticence before our questions, that we are all incriminated in her secret yet public shame.
https://kafila.online/2014/01/20/kunan-poshpora-the-other-story-shrimoyee-nandini-ghosh/
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2023.06.06 15:38 ScratchNo8635 The feeling of Relief

I started at Amazon in December of 2020 as a seasonal associate Coming from a different country, I didn't know much English, but I learned as I went along. It was a small warehouse, not like a big fulfillment center which helped me to learn things fast. Safety was a joke there lol.
I became a Problem Solver, and then a full-time blue badge associate. I was doing good, so they made me a Process Guide (PG), and then, in less than 8 months, I got promoted to Process Assistant (PA). My original plan was to go into Information Technology (IT), but when the PA opportunity came up, I took it.
I had a great Operations Manager who was also new to Amazon, he started when I did. We built an amazing team with another Area Manager. We worked hard and tried to make it fun. We knew that people were important, not just the numbers so we focus a lot on safety and improving things that were working. But then, my team fell apart and I didn't have the same energy to start over again. That's when a new Operations Manager came in and the fun with this amazing but shitty company started.
This new guy stepped on everything I did and wanted to do it his way. He only cared about the numbers. I tried to help him, but he was rude and racist. I'm Latino, and I could feel the racism. I decided to just keep going to work for my paycheck.
Meanwhile, I used Amazon's career choice to get free education in IT and also got some certificates. When I tried to move into IT within the same company, I failed the interview. They had the audacity to even say I didn't show up for the interview, even though I had proof I did. I decided to take a break for 3 weeks to look after my mental health.
When I came back, I found that the new manager had changed things. He brought in a new PA from his old site, took away my department, and moved me to Sortation. I was okay with it, because I knew the whole warehouse. I asked a transfer to another shift also to another warehouse near my area but got denied and from there on things got worse, I felt they put a target on my back and I got suspended over something dumb. That night when I got home, I started looking for other jobs.
I knew they were going to fire me, and 3 weeks later they did. It was the best thing that could have happened to me. I wish I had quit sooner.
Now, I have a new job in the IT field, which is what I wanted in the first place. I don't have to work long night shifts anymore and my life is much better.
I just want to say, if you're in a job where they don't value you, get out. Cash in and out. Take what you've learned and find something better.
If you're reading this and are struggling, keep pushing through. I hope you find a better job soon.
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2023.06.06 14:55 rajubandam694 I have a college project of Android apk development and I developed using kivymd but I am unable to package it is getting crashing or getting error while packaging in Google Collab any suggestions plz

import webbrowser
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KV = """

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MDLabel: text:"Get back on track with ease" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"9sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 1, "center_y": .92} Image: source:"bg.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.9, "center_y": 0.6} Image: source:"1.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.2} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text:"Choose Subject" icon: "star" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.8} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "ENGLISH" icon:"book" icon_size:"20sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.5} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "PYTHON" icon:"language-python" icon_size:"20sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.8, "center_y": 0.5} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "CAEG" icon:"draw" icon_size:"25sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.34} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "MATHS" icon: "math-integral-box" icon_size:"25sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.8, "center_y": 0.34} on_press:root.manager.current="p" MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "FIMS" icon:"finance" icon_size:"25sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.2} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "FRENCH" icon:"french2.png" icon_size:"20sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.8, "center_y": 0.2} MDIconButton: icon:"arrow-left-bold-circle-outline" icon_size:"30sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.95} on_press:root.manager.current="three" BottomNavigation:
: name:"none" MDLabel: text:"BacklogWallah!" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"19sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.83, "center_y": .95}
MDLabel: text:"Get back on track with ease" text_hue:"100" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"10sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 1, "center_y": .92} Image: source:"bg.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.9, "center_y": 0.6} Image: source:"1.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.2} MDLabel: text:"We Will Develop In Further Version's" font_style:"Caption" font_size:"19sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": .5} MDIcon: icon: "heart" halign: "center" theme_text_color: "Custom" text_color: (1, 0, 0, 1) pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": .4} MDLabel: text:"Made with by team BW" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"19sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.65, "center_y": .4} MDIconButton: icon:"arrow-left-bold-circle-outline" icon_size:"30sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.95} on_press:root.manager.current="one" BottomNavigation:
: name:"about" MDLabel: text:"BacklogWallah!" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"19sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.83, "center_y": .95}
MDLabel: text:"Get back on track with ease" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"9sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 1, "center_y": .92} Image: source:"bg.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.9, "center_y": 0.6} Image: source:"1.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.2} MDLabel: text:"\\nWe The Students from AIML Department of Class EPSILON Developed An App for helping MRU espicially AIML Epsilon students to clear their backlogs \\n\\nDEVELOPED BY \\n\\nRAJU-CODING & UI DESIGN \\nMANIKANTA & NIKHIL-LOGO \\nSRAVANI & SIRI-Collecting of Sources" font_style:"Subtitle2" MDIconButton: icon:"arrow-left-bold-circle-outline" icon_size:"30sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.95} on_press:root.manager.current="one" BottomNavigation:
: name:"p" MDLabel: text:"BacklogWallah!" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"19sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.83, "center_y": .95}
MDLabel: text:"Get back on track with ease" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"9sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 1, "center_y": .92} Image: source:"bg.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.9, "center_y": 0.6} Image: source:"1.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.2} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text:" PYTHON" icon: "star" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.8} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "SYLLABUS" icon:"book" icon_size:"20sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.65} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "VIDEO LECTURES" icon:"play" icon_size:"20sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.55} on_press:root.manager.current="v1" MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "PDF'S" icon:"draw" icon_size:"25sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.45} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "MOCK QUESTION PAPER" icon: "math-integral-box" icon_size:"25sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.35} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "IMPORTANT NOTES &QA" icon:"finance" icon_size:"25sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.25} MDIconButton: icon:"arrow-left-bold-circle-outline" icon_size:"30sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.95} on_press:root.manager.current="four" BottomNavigation:
:
name:"v1" MDLabel: text:"BacklogWallah!" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"19sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.83, "center_y": .95} MDLabel: text:"Get back on track with ease" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"9sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 1, "center_y": .92} Image: source:"bg.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.9, "center_y": 0.6} Image: source:"1.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.2} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text:" Choose Chapter" icon: "star" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.8} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text:"Chapter-1" icon: "play" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.6} on_press:root.manager.current="01" MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "Chapter-2" icon:"play" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.5} on_press:root.manager.current="02" MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "Chapter-3" icon:"play" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.8, "center_y": 0.5} on_press:root.manager.current="03" MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "chapter-4" icon:"play" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.28} on_press:root.manager.current="04" MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "chapter-5" icon:"play" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.8, "center_y": 0.28} on_press:root.manager.current="05" MDIconButton: icon:"arrow-left-bold-circle-outline" icon_size:"30sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.95} on_press:root.manager.current="p" BottomNavigation:
: name:"01" Image: source:"bg.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.9, "center_y": 0.6}
Image: source:"1.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.2} MDBoxLayout: orientation:"vertical" spacing:"20dp" MDTopAppBar: id:"topb " title:"MATRICES" left_action_items: [["arrow-left", lambda x: app.go_screen()]] md_bg_color:"#00B9F1" elevation:0 Widget: MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: icon:"play" text: "UNIT-1(Entire Topics)" on_release: app.play_video("https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeIE3weEKo4bfOsGyBN3BBGco-ESAfl0x") pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.5} BottomNavigation:
: name:"02" Image: source:"bg.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.9, "center_y": 0.6}
Image: source:"1.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.2} MDBoxLayout: orientation:"vertical" spacing:"20dp" MDTopAppBar: id:"topb " title:"Eigen Values and Vectors" md_font_size:"Title" left_action_items: [["arrow-left", lambda x: app.go_screen()]] md_bg_color:"#00B9F1" elevation:0 Widget: MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: icon:"play" text: "UNIT-2(Entire Topics)" on_release: app.play_video("https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeIE3weEKo4aYkfAEvyjc-2RsLznwPvxz") pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.5} BottomNavigation:
: name:"03" Image: source:"/storage/emulated/0/Download/bg.png" allow_stretch:True keep_ratio:True pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.9, "center_y": 0.6}
Image: source:"/storage/emulated/0/Download/1.png" allow_stretch:True keep_ratio:True pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.2} MDBoxLayout: orientation:"vertical" spacing:"20dp" MDTopAppBar: id:"topb " title:"1st order differential" left_action_items: [["arrow-left", lambda x: app.go_screen()]] md_bg_color:"#00B9F1" elevation:0 Widget: MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: icon:"play" text: "UNIT-3" on_release: app.play_video("https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeIE3weEKo4ZlAMFDEJQj9Yv9MnM1DuYQ") pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.5} BottomNavigation:
: name:"04" Image: source:"/storage/emulated/0/Download/bg.png" allow_stretch:True keep_ratio:True pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.9, "center_y": 0.6}
Image: source:"/storage/emulated/0/Download/1.png" allow_stretch:True keep_ratio:True pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.2} MDBoxLayout: orientation:"vertical" spacing:"20dp" MDTopAppBar: id:"topb " title:"High Order Differential" left_action_items: [["arrow-left", lambda x: app.go_screen()]] md_bg_color:"#00B9F1" elevation:0 Widget: MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: icon:"play" text: "UNIT-4(Entire Topics)" on_release: app.play_video("https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeIE3weEKo4abjzVPTY4YLJiryeggUsOI") pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.5} BottomNavigation:
: name:"05" Image: source:"/storage/emulated/0/Download/bg.png" allow_stretch:True keep_ratio:True pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.9, "center_y": 0.6}
Image: source:"/storage/emulated/0/Download/1.png" allow_stretch:True keep_ratio:True pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.2} MDBoxLayout: orientation:"vertical" spacing:"20dp" MDTopAppBar: title:"LAPLACE TRANSFORMATIONS" anchor_title:"left" left_action_items: [["arrow-left", lambda x: app.go_screen()]] md_bg_color:"#00B9F1" elevation:0 Widget: MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: icon:"play" text: "UNIT-5(Entire Topics)" on_release: app.play_video("https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeIE3weEKo4aeVzoSy6tHtojw1wNpSPMD") pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.5} BottomNavigation:
: name:"five" MDLabel: text:"BacklogWallah!" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"19sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.83, "center_y": .95}
MDLabel: text:"Get back on track with ease" font_style:"Subtitle1" font_size:"9sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 1, "center_y": .92} Image: source:"bg.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.9, "center_y": 0.6} Image: source:"1.png" allow_stretch:False keep_ratio:False pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.2} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text:"Choose Academic Year" icon: "star" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.8} MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "2022-23" icon:"arrange-send-to-back" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.5} on_press:root.manager.current="two" MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "2023-24" icon:"arrange-send-to-back" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.8, "center_y": 0.5} on_press:root.manager.current="none" MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "2024-25" icon:"arrange-send-to-back" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.2, "center_y": 0.28} on_press:root.manager.current="none" MDFillRoundFlatIconButton: text: "2025-26" icon:"arrange-send-to-back" icon_size:"18sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.8, "center_y": 0.28} on_press:root.manager.current="none" MDIconButton: icon:"arrow-left-bold-circle-outline" icon_size:"30sp" pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.1, "center_y": 0.95} on_press:root.manager.current="one" BottomNavigation:
"""
class Screen_1(Screen): pass
class Screen_2(Screen): pass
class Screen_3(Screen): pass
class Screen_4(Screen): pass
class Blank(Screen): pass
class Maths(Screen): pass
class About_Us(Screen): pass
class videolectures(Screen): pass
class screen0(Screen): pass
class screen1(Screen): pass
class screen2(Screen): pass
class screen3(Screen): pass
class screen4(Screen): pass class screen5(Screen): pass
class BottomNavigation(MDScreen): bottom_navigation_items = [ {"icon": "android", "text": "android", "on_release": lambda x:MDApp.get_running_app().on_nav_button_press(x, "one")}, {"icon": "menu", "text": "menu", "on_release": lambda x: print('menu')}, {"icon": "account", "text": "account", "on_release": lambda x: print('account')}, ]
sm = ScreenManager() sm.add_widget(Screen_1(name="one")) sm.add_widget(Screen_2(name="two")) sm.add_widget(Screen_3(name="three")) sm.add_widget(Screen_4(name="four")) sm.add_widget(Blank(name="none")) sm.add_widget(Maths(name="p")) sm.add_widget(About_Us(name="about")) sm.add_widget(videolectures(name="v1")) sm.add_widget(screen0(name="01")) sm.add_widget(screen1(name="02")) sm.add_widget(screen2(name="03")) sm.add_widget(screen3(name="04")) sm.add_widget(screen4(name="05")) sm.add_widget(screen5(name="five"))
class MyApp(MDApp): def build(self): self.theme_cls.primary_palette = "Blue" self.theme_cls.primary_hue = "500" self.theme_cls.accent_palette = "Amber" self.theme_cls.accent_hue = "500" self.theme_cls.theme_style = "Light" self.theme_cls.material_style = "M3"
 return Builder.load_string(KV) def play_video(self, video_url): dialog = MDDialog( title="Play Video", text="Do you want to play this video?", buttons=[ MDFlatButton(text="Cancel", on_release=self.dismiss_dialog), MDFlatButton(text="Play", on_release=lambda x: self.open_video(video_url)), ], ) dialog.open() def open_video(self, video_url): webbrowser.open(video_url) def dismiss_dialog(self, instance): instance.parent.parent.parent.parent.dismiss() def go_screen(self): current_screen = self.root.current if current_screen == "01": self.root.current = "v1" elif current_screen == "02": self.root.current = "v1" elif current_screen == "03": self.root.current = "v1" elif current_screen == "04": self.root.current = "v1" elif current_screen == "05": self.root.current = "v1" def on_nav_button_press(self, _, screen_name): self.root.current = screen_name
if name == "main": MyApp().run()
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2023.06.06 12:32 boutell New US CCS chargers report for May 2023

Here are all of the new US CCS (Level 3 fast-charging) stations that rolled out in May 2023, according to the Department of Energy. These chargers are suitable for most new EVs on the market, except for:
  1. Tesla drivers who haven't bought the official CCS adapter yet. Certain older Teslas need additional work done to accept the adapter.
  2. Leaf owners like me, and some owners of older cars that also use CHAdeMO. If you drive a Leaf, or an older CHAdeMO car, see my matching post in leaf.
Some of these chargepoints will be "refreshes," e.g. the provider replaced them with faster chargers etc. Some may be incorrect. This report is only as good as the Alternative Fuels Data Center data.
There were 222 CCS charge points added or refreshed in May 2023, which is up from 171 in April. For comparison, there were only 74 new CCS charge points in May 2022. Things are speeding up.
"What about CCS charging at Tesla superchargers?" Tesla is in the process of rolling out their "magic dock" for non-Tesla cars, but so far in very few locations. If they start doing this at scale and reporting it to the Alternative Fuels Data Center then it will be reflected here.
"What about Ford vehicles with NACS (Tesla) plugs?" They are not on sale yet. Current-generation Ford vehicles have CCS plugs. The next generation will have NACS (Tesla) plugs, but will also support CCS via an adapter.
If you'd like to know about new chargers along your routes right away, or just prefer not to check this list monthly when new openings are rare in your area, I've set up a free service that provides email notifications as soon as they open. You can sign up at evpov.com. Or not! I don't really have a business plan here, I built it to help EV owners like myself.
To streamline this post, multi-chargepoint locations are listed with the number of chargepoints first, so that's why the post is shorter than in previous months.
➡ AR (1) Franklin's Charging Little Rock 724 Woodrow St Little Rock, AR 72205 ➡ AZ (6) 942 E Parma Street (US-CMK-NVL-2A) 942 E Parma Street Gila Bend, AZ 85337 (1) Kroger Frys 62 (Mesa, AZ) 554 W Baseline Rd Mesa, AZ 85210 ➡ CA (1) Fairfield Inn & Suites 8700 Spectrum Pkwy Bakersfield, CA 93308 (1) MOSSY CDJR DC 1 1875 Auto Park Ave Chula Vista, CA 91911 (3) DC CORRIDOR CHEVRON C DC 2 25032 W Dorris Ave Coalinga, CA 93210 (1) South Coast Collection (SoCo) 3303 Hyland Ave Costa Mesa, CA 92626 (1) SCPPA SCPPA CPE200T 1160 Nicole Ct Glendora, CA 91740 (1) Chase Bank - 925 N Hacienda Blvd 925 N Hacienda Blvd La Puente, CA 91744 (1) WOODLANDHILLS ABB 24KW 01 22006 Erwin Street Los Angeles, CA 91367 (1) 7071 - Merced, CA (2020 Childs Ave) 2020 Childs Ave Merced, CA 95341 (1) Mojave Air & Spaceport (Building 1) 16922 Airport Blvd Mojave, CA 93501 (1) BMW MONROVIA OFF NETWORK 01 1425 Mountain Ave Monrovia, CA 91016 (1) Albertsons 1345 (Morro Bay, CA) 730 Quintana Road Morro City, CA 93442 (1) 3333 Fruitvale Ave 3333 Fruitvale Ave Oakland, CA 94602 (1) 7126 - Oakley, CA (5540 Bridgehead Road) 5540 Bridgehead Road Oakley, CA 94561 (1) CircleK - Palm Desert, CA 78005 Country Club Dr Palm Desert, CA 92211 (1) Hilton Garden Inn 20 Advantage Ct Sacramento, CA 95834 (1) BoA Hillcrest CA0-120 (San Diego, CA) 737 UNIVERSITY AVE San Diego, CA 92103 (1) WinCo Foods - Vacaville #60 855 Davis St Vacaville, CA 95687 ➡ CO (1) CITY OF ASPEN RIO GRANDE L3 427 Rio Grande Pl Aspen, CO 81611 (4) CSG EV BOULDER PL4 1500 Pearl St Boulder, CO 80302 (5) 1 Flatiron Crossing (US-ME8-73R-2B) 1 Flatiron Crossing Broomfield, CO 80021 (1) CircleK - Colorado City, CA 8950 S Interstate 25 Colorado City, CO 81004 (2) GPM INVESTMENTS 4590 DC1 8105 N Academy Blvd Colorado Springs, CO 80920 (2) KUM & GO CRAIG PL2 700 East Victory Way Craig, CO 81625 (1) DINO WELCOME DINOSAUR PL1 101 Stegosaurus Freeway Dinosaur, CO 81610 (2) PIKES PK CHARGE BA.CA.MI LLC #2 11027 US-24 Divide, CO 80814 (4) ANNEX SITE GEORGETOWN PL4 1120 Argentine Street Georgetown, CO 80444 (4) KUM & GO RIFLE PL4 705 Taugenbaugh Boulevard Rifle, CO 81650 (2) KUM & GO SB SPRINGS PL2 80 Anglers Drive Steamboat Springs, CO 80487 ➡ CT (1) BOA East Hartford CT2-120 (Hartford, CT) 805 E Main Street East Hartford, CT 06108 (1) HARTFORD BMW ABB OUTSIDE 1 Weston Park Rd Hartford, CT 06120 ➡ DE (1) First State Chevrolet 22694 DUPONT BLVD GEORGETOWN, DE 19947 ➡ FL (1) JNKNS JACKSONVI DC FAST 2 11107 Atlantic Blvd Jacksonville, FL 32225 (1) Simon Tampa Premium Outlets (Lutz, FL) 2300 Grand Cypress Dr Lutz, FL 33559 (1) Starbucks 9200 FL-228 Macclenny, FL 32063 (1) Ocean Cadillac 17800 Ipco Road Miami, FL 33162 (1) Sun Plaza 6339 W Colonial Dr Orlando, FL 32818 (1) Simon Orlando Vineland (Orlando, FL) 8200 Vineland Ave Orlando, FL 32821 (1) Simon Tyrone Square (St Petersburg, FL) 6901 22nd Ave N Peterburg, FL 33710 (1) BHY CHARGER 1 9915 E Adamo Dr Tampa, FL 33619 (1) Chase Bank - 5601 Red Bug Lake Rd 5601 Red Bug Lake Rd Winter Springs, FL 32708 ➡ GA (1) GEORGIA POWER EPICENTER DC1 135 riverside parkway SW Austell, GA 30168 (1) JACKSON EMC GAINESVILLE 1000 Dawsonville Highway Gainesville, GA 30501 ➡ IL (1) Castle Chevrolet North 175 N Arlington Heights Rd Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 (1) Sunrise Chevrolet 414 E N Ave Glendale Heights, IL 60139 ➡ IN (1) AVON HYUNDAI SALES 8775 E 36 Avon, IN 46123 (1) SHRM CHRG MERCEDESBENZFW 7227 W Jefferson Blvd Fort Wayne, IN 46804 (1) HOC CHARGERS CHARGER #1 4200 E 96th St Indianapolis, IN 46240 (1) Sullivan Cadillac 4040 SW College Rd Ocala, IN 34474 ➡ KS (1) HATCHETT FRONT_WEST 11200 E Central Ave Wichita, KS 67206 (1) HATCHETT BACK EAST 11330 E Central Ave Wichita, KS 67206 ➡ KY (1) JEFF WYLER FH EXPRESS 250 949 Burlington Pike Florence, KY 41042 ➡ LA (1) All Star Automotive 12730 Airline Highway Baton Rouge, LA 70817 (1) Target T1469 (Monroe, LA) 4103 Pecanland Mall Dr Monroe, LA 71203 ➡ MA (6) MASSPORT TNC 4 226 Porter St Boston, MA 02128 (2) MASSPORT TAXI 4 56 Harborside Dr Boston, MA 02128 (1) Littleton Electric Light & Water Department 39 Ayer Road Littleton, MA 01460 ➡ MD (2) POTOMAC EDISON ROCKY GAP DC1 16701 Lakeview Rd NE Flintstone, MD 21530 ➡ ME (1) DARLINGS HYUNDA SALES CHARGER 2 439 Western Ave Augusta, ME 04330 (2) IRVINGOIL ME-FFLD-L3-0001 206 Center Rd Fairfield, ME 04937 (1) MOBIL ONTHEWAY STATION 1 1930 Lisbon Street Lewiston, ME 04240 (1) MOBIL ONTHEWAY STATION 2 1938 Lisbon St Lewiston, ME 04240 ➡ MI (1) Belle Isle DC Fast Charge 176 Lakeside Dr Detroit, MI 48207 (1) Meijer 254 (Hudsonville, MI) 4075 32nd Ave Hudsonville, MI 49426 (1) Evergetic Charging Spa 330 South Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard Lansing, MI 48915 (1) Genesis Cadillac 19900 E Nine Mile Road St Clair Shores, MI 48080 (1) MBSTL ENTRANCE ABB 1048 Hampton Avenue St. Louis, MI 63139 (1) Range USA Ypsilanti 660 James L Hart Pkwy Ypsilanti, MI 48197 ➡ MN (1) WINNER GAS BROOKDALE DR 1500 Brookdale Dr Minneapolis, MN 55444 ➡ MO (1) GM - Allen Christian Buick GMC Inc 724 W Business US Highway 60, Dexter, MO 63841 (1) Store 290 Joplin - 2101 S. Prigmore &I44 2101 S Prigmore Joplin, MO 64804 ➡ MS (1) 1685 High St 1685 High St Jackson, MS 39202 ➡ NC (1) CAPE HATTERAS AVON PIER DCFC2 41001 North Carolina Hwy 12 Avon, NC 27915 (1) Westcott Buick GMC 2410 S CHURCH ST BURLINGTON, NC 27215 (1) 9960 Poplar Tent Rd 9960 Poplar Tent Rd Concord, NC 28027 (1) AEMC- AEMC HQ FAST 125 Cooperative Way Hertford, NC 27944 (1) Capital Hyundai of Jacksonville 2325 N Marine Blvd Jacksonville, NC 28546 (1) Chestnut Arbor 2925 Weddington Matthews Rd Matthews, NC 28105 ➡ NE (1) ERNST CHARGER 1 EAC CHARGER 615 23rd St E Columbus, NE 68601 ➡ NH (1) Berlin City Chevrolet 545 MAIN STREET GORHAM, NH 03581 (2) Tanger Tilton Under Armour 06-07 120 Laconia Road Tilton, NH 03256 ➡ NJ (1) ShopRite Carteret - Wakefern #511 801 Roosevelt Ave Carteret, NJ 07008 (1) Lester Glenn Freehold 3712 Rte 9 Freehold, NJ 07728 (2) FREEHOLDHYUNDAI VERIZON 1 4075 9 Freehold Township, NJ 07728 (2) CLASS 3 CHARGER HYUNDAI-2 250 Rte 4 Paramus, NJ 07652 (1) CIRCLEAUTOGROUP CH- CPE250 1 641 Shrewsbury Ave Shrewsbury, NJ 07702 (1) ROUTE 1 HYUNDAI CPE-250-02 3905 US 1 South Brunswick Township, NJ 08852 (1) ROUTE 1 HYUNDAI RT1-01 3913 US-1 South Brunswick Township, NJ 08852 (1) Lester Glenn Buick-GMC 230 RTE 37 E TOMS RIVER, NJ 08753 (1) Lester Glenn Chevrolet 398 Rt 37 Toms River, NJ 08753 ➡ NY (1) AAA WESTCENTRAL DC FAST CHARGER 100 International Dr Amherst, NY 14221 (2) KEELER STATION 6 1111 Troy Schenectady Rd Latham, NY 12110 (1) LEXUSMIDDLETOWN STATION 1 3496 US-6 Middletown, NY 10940 (1) Lerner NYC Station Plaza (Port Jefferson Station, NY) 5145 Nesconset Highway Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776 (3) BOB JOHNSON BOB JOHNSON KIA 3817 W Henrietta Rd Rochester, NY 14623 (1) Burr Truck Level 3 DC Fast Charge 2901 Vestal Rd Vestal, NY 13850 ➡ OH (1) Serra Chevrolet 3281 S Arlington Rd Akron, OH 44312 (1) Tim Lally Chevrolet 24999 Miles Rd Bedford Heights, OH 44128 (2) CRESTMONT DRIVECRESTMONT2 2961 Center Rd Brunswick, OH 44212 (1) Lambert Buick GMC 2409 FRONT ST CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH 44221 (1) Hampton Inn - Canton 5256 Broadmoor Cir NW Canton, OH 44709 (1) JEFF WYLER EXPRESS 250 Loop @ Far Hills Centerville, OH 45459 (1) DONWOODAUTO DW CHEVY 2 12916 OH-664 Logan, OH 43138 (2) WAG ABB STATION 1 8457 N Springboro Pike Miamisburg, OH 45342 (1) JEFF WYLER CORP 4- DC FAST 401 Milford Pkwy Milford, OH 45150 (1) Friendship Kitchen 70 3800 E. State Rd. Port Clinton, OH 43452 (1) Friendship Kitchen 83 4024 Hayes Ave. Sandusky, OH 44870 (1) Serpentini Chevrolet of Strongsville 15303 Royalton Rd Strongsville, OH 44136 (1) Don's Automotive Group 720 N SHOOP AVE WAUSEON, OH 43567 (1) Bush Auto Place 1850 Rombach Avenue Wilmington, OH 45177 ➡ OK (1) EDMOND HYUNDAI EDMOND 4 14137 N Broadway Ext Edmond, OK 73013 ➡ OR (6) 12000 SE 82nd Ave (US-H8H-UM5-2A) 12000 SE 82nd Ave Happy Valley, OR 97086 (1) PGE IBEW 48 15937 NE Airport Way Portland, OR 97230 ➡ PA (1) DOYLESTOWN 024B1000008033 4465 W Swamp Rd Doylestown, PA 18902 (2) LIBERTY CHARWASH PL 2 2595 Maryland Road Willow Grove, PA 19090 (1) Bergeys Inc 518 RTE 309 colmar, PA 18915 ➡ PR (2) BMW AUTOGERMANA CPE 250 PKNG 2 106 Calle Acuarela Guaynabo, PR 00969 (2) BMW AUTOGERMANA FTZ120KW-2 1086 Ave. Muñoz Rivera San Juan, PR 00919 ➡ RI (1) Paul Masse Chevrolet 1111 Taunton Ave East Providence, RI 02914 ➡ SC (1) Travelers Rest Municipal Complex 125 Trailblazer Dr Travelers Rest, SC 29690 ➡ TN (4) I24 EXIT11 STATION 1 (LL) 701 Sango Road Clarksville, TN 37043 (2) DISTRICT 2 STATION 1 (L) 28 S Park Ave Hohenwald, TN 38462 (2) LAWRENCEBURG STATION 2 (R) 2347 Hwy 43 N Leoma, TN 38468 (1) MB OF MEMPHIS STATION 1 5401 Poplar Ave Memphis, TN 38119 ➡ TX (1) Friendly Chevrolet 2754 North Stemmons Way Dallas, TX 75207 (1) Plaza de Oro 4450 W Jefferson Blvd Dallas, TX 75211 (1) Shell 3302 S Eastman Rd Longview, TX 75602 (1) 3220 Gulf Fwy 3220 Gulf Fwy Texas City, TX 77591 ➡ UT (2) VOLVO CAR USA SANDY DC 2 56 W 9000 S Sandy, UT 84070 ➡ VA (1) BLACKWELL D1 4874 Riverside Dr Danville, VA 24541 (1) Fleet Management Site (For Testing Purpose Only) 512 Herndon Pkwy Herndon, VA 20170 (6) 2577 Jeb Stuart Highway (US-TDM-SCC-1C) 2577 Jeb Stuart Highway Meadows of Dan, VA 24120 (5) 2203 Franklin Road Southwest (US-TUJ-L2K-2C) 2203 Franklin Road Southwest Roanoke, VA 24014 (6) 437 Tiffany Drive (US-CHT-WF7-2C) 437 Tiffany Drive Waynesboro, VA 22980 (2) KOONS HYUNDAI STATION 1 1880 Opitz Blvd Woodbridge, VA 22191 ➡ VT (1) Cody Chevrolet 364 RIVER ST MONTPELIER, VT 05602 ➡ WA (1) 7112 - Bellevue WA (12903 NE 20th Street) 12903 NE 20th Bellevue, WA 98005 (1) 7060 - Burlington, WA (1790 South Burlington Blvd) 1790 South Burlington Blvd Burlington, WA 98233 (1) 5507 - Everett, WA (901 Casino Road) 901 Casino Road Everett, WA 98204 (1) 7025 - Everett, WA (13131 Bothell Everett Hwy) 13131 Bothell Everett Hwy Everett, WA 98208 (1) 4397 - Kelso, WA (1700 Allen Street) 1700 Allen Street Kelso, WA 98626 (1) 7063 - Olympia, WA (1725 Evergreen Park Drive SW) 1725 Evergreen Park Drive SW Olympia, WA 98502 (2) HANSON MOTORS HM3 QUICKCHARGE 2300 Carriage Loop SW Olympia, WA 98502 (1) 7096 - Sequim, WA (51 Carlsborg Road) 51 Carlsborg Road Sequim, WA 98382 (1) Walmart 2539 - Spokane Valley, WA 15727 E Broadway Ave Spokane Valley, WA 99037 (1) 7054 -Vancouver, WA 98664 (10314 SE Mill Plain Road) 13014 SE Mill Plain Rd Vancouver, WA 98684 (1) 7059 - Woodinville, WA (13023 NE 175th St) 13023 NE 175th St Woodinville, WA 98072 ➡ WI (1) BERG HYUNDAI VLI-L3-PDI-4 2900 N Victory Ln Appleton, WI 54913 (1) Wheelers Chevrolet of Coloma 1978 Charles Way Coloma, WI 54930 (1) Wheelers Chevrolet GMC of Marshfield 2701 S. Maple Ave Marshfield, WI 54449
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2023.06.06 11:49 emaanderson1 Telecom Power Solutions Market Insights , Major Key Players and Current Trends Analysis Till 2027

Research Nester has released a report titled “Telecom Power Solutions Market – Global Demand Analysis & Opportunity Outlook 2027”, whichalso includes some prominent market analyzing parameters such as industry growth drivers, restraints, supply and demand risk, market attractiveness, year-on-year (Y-O-Y) growth comparisons, market share comparisons, BPS analysis, SWOT analysis and Porter’s five force model.
The World Bank stated in one of its reports that the rural population of the world accounted to 3396 million in 2018 from that of 2295 million in 1969, and grew at an average annual rate of 0.80%. Additionally, as per the statistics of Department of Telecommunication, Government of India, the rural telephone subscribers in India reached 525.87 million in the year 2018 as compared to 377.78 million in 2014. Furthermore, the internet subscribers in the entire region grew from 107.56 million in 2015 to reach 145.83 million in 2018.
The statistics provide insights on the penetration rate of telecom services in comparison with the growing rate of population in the rural areas. Telecommunication services are assisted by telecom power solutions when it is affected by grid power interruptions or fluctuations.
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Factors such as growing investments in deployment of telecom network sites, pertaining to increasing telephone subscribers, combined with increasing losses borne by enterprises for growing power outages around the globe are anticipated to support the growth of the telecom power solutions market. According to International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the total mobile cellular telephone subscriptions in China reached 1474 million in 2017 from 269 million in 2003, growing at an average annual rate of 13.07%.
The telecom power solutions market is anticipated to record robust CAGR over the forecast period, i.e. 2019-2027. The market is segmented by product into power systems and power supplies. Power systems is further sub-segmented into indoor and outdoor power systems, out of which, outdoor power systems is anticipated to have largest market share, owing to rising grid power connectivity fluctuations and interruptions.
Geographically, the telecom power solutions market is segmented by five major regions into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Middle East & Africa region, out of which, Asia-Pacific is expected to have largest market share on the back of growing deployment of cell sites and base transceiver stations, along with growing demand for reliable power sources for high rate of power outages in the region.
However, fluctuating prices of gas and diesel, leading to increased operational expenses, is estimated to act as a barrier to the growth of the market during the forecast period.
This report also studies existing competitive scenario of some of the key players of the telecom power solutions market which includes profiling of Delta Electronics, Inc. (TPE: 2308), Eaton® Corporation plc. (NYSE: ETN), Huawei Power Solutions, Schneider Electric (EPA: SU), Vertiv Group Corp., ABB (NYSE: ABB), Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI), Ascot International S.r.l., Myers Power Products and UEPS.
The profiling enfolds key information of the companies which comprises of business overview, products and services, key financials and recent news and developments. Conclusively, the report titled “Telecom Power Solutions Market – Global Demand Analysis & Opportunity Outlook 2027”, analyses the overall telecom power solutions industry to help new entrants to understand the details of the market. In addition to that, this report also guides existing players looking for expansion and major investors looking for investment in the telecom power solutions market in the near future.
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2023.06.06 11:36 hnqn1611 TOP 10 Things to do in LONDON - [2023 Travel Guide]

TOP 10 Things to do in LONDON - [2023 Travel Guide]
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In this post, we'll show you the top 10 things to do in London. The suggestions are based on our many trips to this beautiful city. Don't forget to like this post, subscribe to our channel, and enable notifications. And share your own experience or ask a question in the comments below. This post is sponsored by GetYourGude, the best way to book your London experiences. The link is in the description. And stick around until the end because we have a bonus attraction for you. Here are our top 10 picks:
NUMBER 10: Big Ben and Palace of Westminster The Big Ben clock tower was completed in 1859. This British cultural icon is situated at the north end of the Palace of Westminster, which is the seat of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The official name of the tower in which Big Ben is located was originally the Clock Tower and was oficially renamed to Elizabeth Tower in 2012. Did you know that Big Ben chimes every hour, and every 15 minutes smaller bells chime to indicate quarter hour? The Big Ben chimes can be heard up to 5 miles away. A few steps away from Big Ben you’ll also find an impressive gothic royal church, the Westminster Abbey.
NUMBER 9: Camden Town This former industrial economic base has been replaced by service industries such as retail, tourism, and entertainment. The area now hosts street markets and music venues strongly associated with the alternative culture. Visit the busy Camden Market, which got its name from what used to be a horse stable and hospital, located right next to Camden Lock. Don't skip Camden Market Buck Street, England's first market dedicated to the conscious consumer. There are many other impressive neighborhoods and streets worth exploring in London, like the upscale Soho close to Chinatown and Notting Hill, home to Portobello Road Market. But more about exciting places to shop and eat shortly.
NUMBER 8: Museums London is full of incredible museums, and most of them are free. You can start with The British Museum, founded in the mid-19th century. The museum is dedicated to human history, art, and culture. Did you know that it also displays the famous Rosetta Stone? This piece of rock with an inscribed slab became the key to unlocking the mysterious Egyptian hieroglyphs. Continue to the beautiful 19th-century Natural History Museum, exhibiting a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. You can even try the earthquake simulator recreating the 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake or embark on other fun and educational adventures. And the impressive Science Museum is just around the corner. A great place to see, touch, and experience science first-hand. Of course, there are many other museums in London worth exploring.
NUMBER 7: Covent Garden Covent Garden is a car-free area next to the Royal Opera House, filled with luxury designer boutiques, craft shops, and booths. Conveniently located in close to London's famous theatres, Covent Garden also offers excellent dining options. Visit Covent Garden Market, a seven-day-a-week market that opened in 1845, and Jubilee Market, with a variety of goods sold throughout the week. There are many other markets in London worth exploring, offering everything from food to antiques and collectibles, like the Portobello Road Market, Borough Market, and many other places, including fascinating food courts. Check our travel guide for more suggestions. By the way, our mobile-friendly travel guide covers the top 20 things to do in London and things to know before you visit.
NUMBER 6: London Eye London Eye is a giant Ferris wheel on the South Bank of the River Thames overlooking Big Ben and Westminster. When it opened to the public in the year 2000, it was the world's tallest Ferris wheel. The structure is 443 feet or 135-meter-tall, and the wheel has a diameter of 394 feet or 120 m. London is full of other impressive views, that from London's Highest Public Garden - Sky Garden.
NUMBER 5: Little Venice Little Venice is a neighborhood centered on decorative houseboats and a partly tree-lined, three-way junction of canals. Little Venice is one of London's prime residential areas and contains restaurants, shops, theatres, and pubs. A refreshing site and something you do not expect to see in London. If you have time, explore the nearby Paddington basin with Floating Pocket Park.
NUMBER 4: Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace is the most iconic royal building in the UK. It is the London residence of Her Majesty the Queen and is one of only a few working royal palaces left in the world. Don't miss the iconic ceremony of Changing the Guard, also known as Guard Mounting, carried out by soldiers on active duty from the Foot Guards. They have guarded the Sovereign and the Royal Palaces since 1660. Check the description box for the link to the updated guard mounting timetable. And while you are in the area, take a walk around beautiful St James's Park. And that brings us to GetYourGuide - the sponsor of this video. When you book experiences or tours, for instance, a guided tour to learn more about Buckingham palace and other parts and history of Royal London, you can effortlessly do that with GetYourGuide. You can even buy a London city pass, which allows access to other attractions around the city and enjoy a hop-on hop-off bus tour and skip-the-line privileges. Or you can book other exciting experiences. The choices are practically limitless anywhere you go since GetYourGuide covers over 3600 destinations worldwide with over 60,000 curated experiences. You might even find things you never knew existed. You can also book your next experience using your phone with an easy-to-use app and have your tickets ready right away with no printing and free cancelation up to 24 hours before your activity. Download GetYourGuide now and find your unforgettable experience in London. The link is in the description.
NUMBER 3: Shopping From high-end department stores to quirky boutiques, London is a shopper's paradise. One of the best places to start your shopping spree is Oxford Street, the busiest shopping street in Europe. Continue to the nearby SoHo neighborhood, home to a truly unique shopping experience, like the famous Carnaby shopping street or Liberty London. If you are in the area, visit the fashionable Regent Street that passes through Piccadilly Circus, also famous for dining and lifestyle. If you love luxury department stores, don't skip Harrods, with over 5000 brands selling everything from luxury accessories and clothing to the newest gadgets, prestigious furniture, and delicious food. There are many other places worth exploring, like the unique Cyber dog store in Camden with futuristic fashion, clubwear, and rave clothes. Check our travel guide for more information.
NUMBER 2: Parks & Gardens There are many impressive green areas in London worth exploring. Hyde Park is London's main park offering world-class events and concerts and plenty of quiet places to relax. Walk around Princess Diana Memorial Fountain or rent a boat to paddle around the lake. Don't skip the nearby royal Kensington Palace with the vast Kensington Gardens and picturesque Italian Gardens. Our favorite was The Regent's Park with plenty of paths and a green areas to relax. Walk around beautiful lakes and breathtaking gardens, including the Japanese Garden Island, and admire the animals.
NUMBER 1: Tower Bridge and Tower of London Tower Bridge crosses the River Thames and was built at the end of the 19th century. You can even take a boat ride that goes under Tower Bridge. Don't miss the two essential attractions nearby - the historic castle Tower of London from the 11th century, which is famous for holding many infamous prisoners as well as housing the crown jewel, and the remains of the Roman Wall built in the 2nd and 3rd century. Most of the buildings in London were destroyed throughout its 2000-year history. However, you’ll still find Roman and other ruins spread throughout the city that are still visible today. Check our travel guide for more suggestions. And here is the bonus attraction that we promised. Did you know that the Prime Meridian Line, an imaginary line like the equator dividing the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres, is located in Greenwich, a village near London? You can actually see the line and cross it. How cool is that? And while you are in the area, explore other attractions, like Cutty Sark, the iconic sailing ship, the fastest ship of its time. Continue to our video on what you should know before visiting London.
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2023.06.06 10:46 yabspro General Trading License in Dubai within 5 minutes

Company Type: Limited Liability Company (LLC) Business Activity: General Trading
Type of License: Instant License (Obtain a General Trading License in Dubai within 5 minutes, without the need for a court agreement or tenancy contract).
Activity Code: 521904
License Type: Commercial
Activity Description: This category includes commercial firms involved in the import, trading, and re-export of various goods and products. It excludes activities that require special approvals.

Steps to Follow:

Trade name reservation at DED.
Obtain a Commercial Name Reservation certificate from the DED Counter. 135.50 /AED
DED's Head Office is located at Business Village near Clock Tower, Muraqabat. DED has multiple counters available at different Tas'heel Centers.
Required Documents: Submit a copy of any one partner's passport and a list of proposed names. The name reservation process can be completed instantly at a cost of Dh 841. 741 /AED
Initial Approval: Complete the BR1 form, obtain the partners' signatures, and submit it at the Economic Department (DED) Counter. The form can be filled out at a Typing Centre.
Note: The presence of a UAE national sponsor is mandatory during the initial approval process.
Attachments: Include the Name Reservation Certificate, BR1 Form, and passport copies of the partners. Additionally, provide a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the sponsor for any expatriate partner holding an Employment Visa or Residence Visa. Visa holders can attach a copy of their visa. No NOC is required for PartneInvestor visa holders. 315.50/AED
An instant license will be issued upon payment of Dh 31,500. Before proceeding with Partner visa and Employment Visa applications, the following procedures are required: submitting Ejari and the LLC court agreement. DED will issue another payment voucher of Dh 570, indicating the location change.
Additional Charges: Payment Voucher Transaction Fee: Dh 205 extra. If you wish to include Telephone/Fax/P.O. Box number in the license: Dh 205 extra. 241.50 /AED
Electronic LLC Agreement (MOA) will be prepared by DED staff, and the attestation fee and fees from other departments will be clearly mentioned in the final payment voucher.
Capital: You have the flexibility to specify the capital amount in the LLC Agreement as desired. There is no requirement to present a Capital deposit certificate from a bank. The notary will charge a small percentage during attestation based on the capital amount and the number of partners. Agreement Typing Charge210 /AED (Approx.)
The standard capital amount is Dh300,000, with 51% (Dh153,000) allocated to the National partner and the remaining 49% divided among the expatriate partners. For two expatriate partners, the remaining shares can be divided as 25% (Dh75,000) and 24% (Dh72,000). If there are more expatriate partners, you have the flexibility to increase the capital accordingly. It is important to note that a partner's share value should be Dh70,000 or more to be eligible for a Partner Visa.
All partners or their attorney must be present at the Notary Public to sign the Court Agreement. There is an attestation fee applicable at the court (Notary Public) for the document.
Prepare the tenancy contract for the office/shop and register it through the EJARI exclusive system. The EJARI document can be obtained from an authorized Typing Centre. (Ejari is a mandatory requirement prior to...) 315 /AED for Ejari
Submit the duly attested original copy of the LLC Agreement, BR1 form, Name Reservation Certificate, Initial Approval document, EJARI Registration Certificate, passport copies of partners, and NOC for partners (if applicable) at any DED branch.
A payment voucher (Dh670) will be issued immediately. Proceed to the counter to make the payment and obtain the license. Alternatively, you can also make the payment using a Credit Card/Direct Debit through the DED website after receiving the payment voucher.
Additional Charges: Payment Voucher Transaction Fee: Dh205 extra. If you wish to include Telephone/Fax/P.O. Box number in the license: Dh205 extra.
Estimated charges for obtaining a General Trading License at DED 31,500 /AED
Walk-in submission facility is provided at the DED Head Office located in Business Village near the Clock Tower in Deira.
Appointment: To save time, you can schedule an online appointment for submitting the initial approval application at the Economic Department (DED) Services PRO at Grosvenor Business Tower - 1201 - Barsha Heights - Dubai .
How to make an online appointment?
Create a new user account on the YABS Economic Department (DED) Services PRO website. If you face any difficulties in creating a user account, you can just dial PRO helpline number +971-585903100. Self-service counters are available at the DED Business Village Branch near the Clock Tower in Deira, as well as at Emirates ID centers in Karama, Dubai Internet city Barsha, and Rashidiya.
Once you have created your account, access the DED site and schedule an appointment. Submit the necessary documents at the selected DED branch.
After the license is issued, you need to register with the Dubai Chamber, which is located in the same DED building. Collect the registration form from the Chamber, fill in the required information, affix an authorized signature and company stamp, and submit it at the Dubai Chamber counter. The certificate will be issued on the spot. The payment for the Chamber certificate has already been made at the DED along with the commercial license fees.
Documents required: Filled form, copy of the Trade License, partners list, commercial register (3 pages of the trade license), copy of the LLC Agreement, passport copy of the authorized signatory, and the DED payment receipt of the Trade License.
The Chamber certificate is necessary for export and import purposes, registration with various government departments, and expanding the business to other Emirates and abroad.
Note: The Chamber certificate is not issued for professional licenses.
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2023.06.06 09:49 Important-Ad-2959 Maximizing Employee Training: A Comprehensive Guide with HR Software Strategies

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2023.06.06 08:51 Important-Ad-2959 The Ultimate Guide to Effective Employee Training: Boosting Success with HR Software

The Ultimate Guide to Effective Employee Training: Boosting Success with HR Software
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Implementing an effective employee training program is crucial for the growth and success of any organization. A well-designed training program not only enhances the skills and knowledge of employees but also improves their job satisfaction and retention. In this guide, we will explore the key elements required to create a successful employee training program, and how HR software dubai can play a vital role in its implementation.
Implementing a comprehensive employee training program is vital for the success of any organization. A well-designed training initiative not only equips employees with the necessary skills and knowledge but also fosters a positive work environment and improves overall productivity. In today's digital age, integrating payroll software into your training program can bring numerous benefits, simplifying administrative tasks and enhancing efficiency. This guide will outline key steps to create a successful employee training program, highlighting the importance of incorporating dubai payroll software
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2023.06.06 08:39 dlschindler Shine Of Silver Swordsman

"Happiness comes from a perception of life. Life is a pursuit of singular moments, experiences and sacrifices. It is the limitations of this perception that make those moments possible. For such a limitation a sacrifice must be made, a sacrifice towards a perception of death."
Raanu was the boy who read these words out-loud to his mom and dad. He was in the hospital bed when he read aloud the last speech bubble in his comic book stack. He had read the entire series of Silver Swordsman, knew every adventure as though they were his own. His parents had denied him comic books, especially violent and strange ones like Silver Swordsman. They didn't understand the giant robots and mutants and suicidal immortals of the future. It was all very frightening and disturbing content and they had not let him have such stories.
That had changed when they discovered he had a rare malignancy in his heart that would result in his death within months. Raanu was not afraid. He told his parents that since he was going to die it would make sense to let him read comic books, even Silver Swordsman. In fact, it was the Silver Swordsman comics he was most interested in.
The stories began with the boy Raanu sitting by the water with his friend: a giant robot named Unit Three-Sixteen. Raanu was the youngest human on the planet, or one of the youngest. In the future everyone lived forever and it was rare for new people to be born. New people, children, were especially interesting and cared for by the other immortals. Thus, in a world attended by some mere hundreds of giant robots with super powers, Raanu was accompanied by his very own, personal giant robot.
He asked the robot about things like war and death, things that had become obsolete before the advent of the giant robots. In all of its wisdom it could do no more than define such things. Then people came to where Raanu and the giant robot were sitting. Across the water was a temple that controlled the flow of energy in their world. Energy generated by human emotions. As long as the world had existed in tranquility and harmony there was no pain or suffering of any kind.
Raanu and his giant robot watched as the people went into the temple and used its power to obliterate themselves. The lethean energies flowed outward and corrupted the giant robots. Only Unit Three-Sixteen was unaffected, because of its exact proximity when it all started. Unit Three-Sixteen was hit the hardest with the blast of awful energy and was knocked out by it and left with its emotitronics intact, more-or-less. The others of its race did not fare so well. The other empathicals rampaged and the horror escalated as they fed on the new and horrible energy from the humans.
It was Raanu who stood up to the machines and he died a hero. His sacrifice and courage activated Unit Three-Sixteen. The surviving humans made a weapon for the last of their defenders. Thus it became Silver Swordsman, as it did what had to be done. Of the entire giant race, only one remained, for that one had killed all of its own kind in defense of the humans. And for its efforts it became a symbol of oppression and destruction, as it now stood in place of all of its kind.
That was just the first issue of Silver Swordsman. His parents had originally confiscated it and forbade him to read any more. He was an obedient child and did not defy his mother or father. Even when his thoughts made him daydream of the story, he wished away his imaginings, and focused on schoolwork.
At night when his parents left the hospital he would lay awake and thank God he was dying. He no longer had to eat his vegetables, he no longer had to do any schoolwork and he got to read all of the Silver Swordsman comics. His parents hated the books he was reading but he loved them and so they allowed it.
As he dreamed: he went to the places he had seen in the stories. So vivid and full of color and detail. The amount of adventure and action was almost overwhelming. There were many passages with strange ideas in them, the thoughts and musings of the characters, so that he often had to ask his father what was meant.
At first, his father was very guarded about speculating on the meaning of the aggregate of concepts that the books frequently struggled with. Characters had very strange ideas about death, gratitude, love, time, regret, courage, justice, perseverance, immortality, healing, warfare and truth. In short, the heroes rejected the common understanding of all of these things and replaced them with strange new definitions.
Raanu's father, Mukherjee, was a philosophical man. On one hand he put his business first so that he could provide for his family. Otherwise, Mukherjee valued wisdom and understanding and was willing to ruminate to discover the truth about something.
He paid attention to his son's understanding of the characters and their world. In the context of the stories, everything they believed made perfect sense. To his son the characters appealed for a more careful perception of one's own life. To enter the world of Silver Swordsman was to realize that life is so precious and that the struggle to survive is what appraises the value of one's life.
After one hundred and thirty one issues the series ended. It ended with the last humans standing on the precipice of the universe in the path of an implacable force. Death was certain for the characters and Silver Swordsman. They had battled all throughout the stories against increasingly impossible adversaries. Then, as the quest neared completion, it was certain that all would be obliterated anyway, in the end.
It was confusing and scary and disturbing. The entire comic book series was, in fact, quite depressing. One by one the heroes all fell against enemies that could not be defeated. Even Silver Swordsman could barely stand against the villains and was usually beaten down rather than victorious.
Mukherjee asked the man at the comic book store about Silver Swordsman comics. What he was told made it all the more frightening. The reason the comics had ended was because the lead writer was now deceased. He was diagnosed with a rare malignancy in his heart and he had walked out into a cold Christmas night and sat down in the frost to die. This was all known to the guy at the comic book store, yet the comics themselves held a unique status among fans.
Silver Swordsman comics were already rare at the time they were published. Mukherjee had to pay a small fortune for the whole series. The comic book guy had asked him why he was so interested. He explained that these comics were an oddity. They were extremely violent and creepy and filled with strange ideas about how people should perceive their lives. Mukherjee looked at him and asked:
"Is all of that different from other comic books?" He asked.
"The opposite of other comic books. Of fiction, in-general, sir." The comic book guy explained carefully. "Comic books should make you happy, laugh, thrilled and make you want more. Silver Swordsman, isn't it just this guy's weird ideas? It deals heavily with suicide and he actually killed himself. I wouldn't let my kids read this stuff, I don't even want to read this stuff."
"My son is reading these books." Mukherjee said soberly. "They make him happy."
To this the man decided to respond professionally and to make no further comments. Another man in the comic book store walked over with Wonder Woman Volume Three. He knew Mukherjee's family and said:
"That man's son is Raanu and he is dying." The friend of Mukherjee said.
"Everyone who reads Silver Swordsman finds some personal connection to it." The comic book guy recalled.
The snow was falling outside his hospital window. Raanu sighed and opened issue seventy-one. There was something he wanted to check on. He had noticed that the darkness, named Umbraeon, was already creeping across the sky in the background before Svetlana waded into the Pool Of Time. This meant that there was more to Umbraeon's arrival. Raanu had suspected that Umbraeon was always growing before anyone had noticed. He had thought that in some silent and hidden corner of the story: the most terrifying and formidable opponent of-all was growing all-along.
Encouraged to search for more clues he did so. He discovered that in some panels the characters seemed to be speaking directly to him. He read those ones with greater care. They were instructing him to do as they did, to seek the places where the silence had taken form, to find and annihilate the shadows where they were growing like a cancer. His eyes widened as he realized and said out-loud:
"It's real."
And he grinned. In these stories, death was no more powerful than lies or pain, had no more authority than gratitude or justice. In the world of Silver Swordsman, death was an idea, an illusion. If the stories were all true then that meant that they were right about death. Which meant he need not die in vain.
Mukherjee saw that his son had not slept. While his wife had gone to get lunch he asked his son:
"Have the comics kept you awake?" He asked patiently.
"Yes, father!" Raanu said excitedly. "The comics are real! The stories are all true!"
"No." Mukherjee said. "They were written by a man who was sick. The truth of those stories is all sickness."
"Who is he father? Is he sick like me?" Raanu asked.
"He got sick just like you. He chose to let himself die. I am afraid of what his words are doing to you." Mukherjee was honest with his son.
"His words have taught me that death is not worth fearing. That it is more important to embrace the moment of life. He has taught me that when it ends, all that matters is what we left behind, what we did to make the world better while we were here. That it is evil to live a life of self-indulgence. That it was such an evil that will destroy the world if we do not change our ways. When I read these stories, father, it is like a mirror. It is like it is with you, talking to my own father about life and death, about stories and truth." Raanu explained without hesitation. He had learned much from the books. Mukherjee's fears were slaughtered by the shining sword of his son's beautiful words. The father began to cry in front of his son and then he apologized.
Of all the monsters and villains in the stories only one could be held responsible like a father. Svetlana's long lost father Arvil. He was a very important villain because he had promoted ignorance of both his family and his people. He was not a singular villain but rather the sum of his society. He was a famous poet and it was he that had started the group of people that had killed themselves and sparked the end of their world.
Raanu told his own father just how much he loved and appreciated him. He knew that his own father was the opposite of the character he had in mind. Mukherjee was the enemy of ignorance and he would do anything to protect his family or save his people. The boy wished that somehow his own father's face would appear in the stories to somehow guide the last surviving heroes and Silver Swordsman to a happier destiny. Maybe in the end they could save the universe from ultimate destruction. Raanu knew that is not how the story was supposed to end, but looking at his own father it felt possible.
A month later it was Christmas and a sort of darkness stood like a black hole in the sky. The street lights flickered and the trees twisted off the snow and wandered in search of robots to devour. Marauders shed their humanity to steal immortality and feathered dragons tore the snow filled skies. In a fever he could only recall his favorite moments, grinning and laughing. He would turn and tighten only to see his mom and dad watching and he would relax and smile for them.
It was snowing on Christmas night after his parents left. Raanu had grown very weak, but his unfading smile bore his parents to their rest. Silver Swordsman stood in terrible vigil over the boy like an angel.
"When it is time...to the Temple take me." Raanu told Silver Swordsman. "I must set things right in your world. I have a job to do there."
"I know, my boy. It is almost time." Silver Swordsman towered over him in the hospital room: time and space becoming less relevant with each passing moment. The whole place seemed to stretch to fit the giant robot and the snow was swirling everywhere, inside and out.
Then a kind of silence, a sort of stillness seemed to be holding it all as a snowglobe. There in his hospital bed lay his remains. He looked at them, at the stack of comics next to his body. Then he turned and saw that the wall was as though he were looking up out of water at a blue sky. He went into this, and the light left the room behind, and went with him, and it was him, he was the light.
He sat looking at his reflection in the still waters he had gone through to be here. The ground was level in all directions and the great Temple Of Humanity stood across from him where he sat at the Pool Of Time. Beside him was the giant robot Unit Three-Sixteen.
"I knew that this would happen. As soon as I died I came here. This is where I am supposed to be. I was just there to know why." Raanu stood up and proclaimed.
"Died?" Unit Three-Sixteen asked.
"That's right, you don't know anything about death yet." Raanu puzzled out-loud. He suddenly realized he was in issue number one of Silver Swordsman, the absolute beginning of everything. With a worried look he glanced over and saw that the Cyclists were coming. It wasn't too late to put a stop to everything bad that was going to happen.
"Those people plan to die inside the Temple Of Humanity. They will release a lot of negative anima at once. It will be the end of GAIA. The world will know nothing more than hunger and suffering and you will be the last of your kind." Raanu told Unit Three-Sixteen frantically.
"I can feel your fear, Raanu. What do I do?" Unit Three-Sixteen worried. It knew something was dreadfully wrong with the scene.
"Get me to them, quickly!" Raanu commanded. The giant robot obeyed him and lifted him to its shoulder and strode to the Temple Of Humanity. Raanu was placed on the path of the Cyclists to confront them.
"You should not be here, Raanu. You are just a child, you cannot understand." Arvil told the boy. He and the rest of the first wave of Cyclists stood in robes of patterns in black and white and many wore comedy or tragedy masks of opposing shades.
"I understand exactly what you are about to do. I've seen what happens, the world ends because of you. People hate you after this." Raanu pointed at them each.
"You don't know what it is like to live the way we have, for so long. It becomes meaningless. We need this, we need a final experience." Shatia spoke up in her high voice. She took off her mask and beheld her descendant. Like a little prince, she mused.
"What you are doing will destroy the world. I have had this final experience already. It only taught me that we are all meant for more, meant to do more, say more and feel more than we do. We live in ignorance, forging our own darkness and our own silence. You have made a death for yourselves in your minds and now you intend to inflict it on everyone." Raanu, like his father, could say the truth to someone without cowardice.
"How? How can you stand there and stop us?" Arvil felt his ancient resolve weakening. As a poet, it broke his heart to hear the plain truth. It was like a gleaming sword, cutting through the nonsense that he and his followers had invented.
"I will die over and over again, it seems, until this moment is dragged out into the light of day. There is a darkness behind every panel, a silence behind every period and a shadow over everyone's head. I know, I went back and read it all again to be sure. It was here all-along. It started at the very beginning with the very shadows you are casting now. By the end, only enough light is left in all the universe for one of the last people to say one last thing. Then it all goes to darkness and death, forever." Raanu recalled vividly.
"You would have us turn back. Go back to unending misery?" Shatia asked her great-nephew. She was one of the youngest among the Cyclists.
"Both are choices. One of these choices, I have explained, is a path that will start with your deaths and never end until the whole universe is dead." Raanu nodded.
"We have a right to die." Arvil protested.
"Svetlana meets you in the future, in the past before this happens, but she never finds out why you wrote Argosy, your most famous poem." Raanu was not afraid of Arvil's cowardice. He knew the man better than he knew himself.
Arvil willingly recited his poem to avoid the explanation:
"See now this plain of spoil,
Where cowed all Mans' toil,
To sit bemused without,
Thoughts belabored in drought,
So forth she clings to East,
Or North she turns to least,
But never strays her heart,
Not fallen since the start,
And plants her seed of truth,
The sun rises as proof,
Sacred words she has kept,
How the mighty have wept."
"So what does it mean? This?" Raanu tried not to smile when he saw he had broken the character Arvil. Arvil fell to his knees as he realized he had become the enemy of his own truth. It had not occurred to him until he was confronted with the truth laid bare and obvious. There was no shadow to hide his feelings within. Death would never be an escape from his self loathing, it would only be the proof of it. He himself became the mighty one weeping at the end.
"What have I done?" He tore off his robes and flung them away. He turned on his followers and screamed a damnation upon them for standing behind him. He walked through them and left them there. Without him, many of them did the same. Some left with their masks still on, unwilling to reveal who they were.
Raanu stood there alone with his giant robot. The Temple Of Humanity was operating at low power and the surge of excitement from the boy made the empathicals all around the world stand up and chuckle happily. The giant robots were genius artisans and sculptors and architects that had sat in boredom and decline for too long. Renewal lit them up with vitality and inspiration.
Overcome with a sense of purpose and triumph: he laughed.
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2023.06.06 06:18 firmsconsultingreal1 INVESTMENT PLANNING FOR IMMIGRANTS

Investment Planning for Immigrants
My friends often talk about their investment strategies. They have 401(k) and Roth IRAs, health savings accounts, brokerage accounts, and investment properties. I live in a very nice area, and my friends are well-educated business leaders who had successful parents who taught them well. They are wealthy people. Their parents often encouraged them to set up their investment accounts in their twenties, and they benefited from compounding growth over decades. Many have education savings and investment accounts to pay for their children’s education. Some have just one child. Yet, they often seem incredibly stressed about finances, investing, and retirement. They often tell me I am lucky not to have kids because it’s too expensive and tiring.
As an immigrant, my financial obligations are far larger than that of my friends. And I do not have support. I have to do my investing and retirement planning to ensure I can support myself and my extended family. I am not just planning for my retirement. I am planning everyone’s lives and their retirements as well. I am the backstop. Yet, I do not have anyone to bail me out if I even need support.
What makes it hard is the limited influence one has on their extended family. If I had kids, I could guide them and help them avoid expensive problems in life. I would have visual oversight of them with daily contact. For my extended family, while I financially support them, I do not have as much influence over their decisions. How do you influence the decisions of a parent or sibling? They are adults, and they think they know best.
For example, my father recently sold my childhood home to pay down debt because of a bad business investment. My parents had to go live in their village home, which is called a dacha. Then my sister asked my parents to sell their investment 1-room apartment, which they had bought with money left from the sale of my childhood apartment after the debt was paid. This apartment was meant to give them some monthly rental income for their retirement.
During the war in Ukraine, I had to get my sister, nephew, and half Ukrainian brother-in-law, with Ukrainian last name, out to Mexico on very short notice. Moving them cost me $35,000. That is a significant amount. This is not counting my lost income and lost health due to the tremendous effort, prolonged stress, and weeks of working around the clock. We barely got them to leave the country. I had to buy multiple airplane tickets because they were not allowed to have a layover in some countries without visas, and visas were not possible to obtain. The plan was to bring my parents and brothers next, but after all the work was done to set up my sister’s and her family’s lives in Mexico and sort out their documentation, they suddenly decided to go back.
When it’s your immediate family, you would usually plan such a large expenditure and defer things until they were manageable and more cost effective. As an immigrant like myself with an extended family, I am financially obligated over actions and needs I often cannot control. So, while I plan for my family, my planning often changes if they make financially poor investment choices, or something happens out of their control. I have found that careful planning is less important than keeping a large savings buffer. Strategic and operational flexibility is more important than a plan.
Investing has always been difficult. I have lived in multiple countries. In each country, I would set up a retirement account to benefit from tax-free or tax-deferred benefits and make my contributions. Yet, I never had the opportunity to see the benefits of compounding interest and re-invested dividends. Interest needs time to have an impact. A very long time.
Each time I moved, I had to decide if I should keep the account or cash it out. Rolling it over to my new account in my new country was not even possible. Keeping the account open has many other problems. I have a bank account with money in it, but I cannot move the money. That bank authenticates the login with an SMS but will only recognize a phone number with that country’s area code. I have long since given up that number. The bank will allow me to change my mobile number, but first, I would need to log in and be authenticated with the number I no longer have. The support desk is of little help. They take months to respond.
In another case, I want to pay the taxes owed. It’s not much, but if I owe it, I want to pay it. I have no means of contacting the revenue service in that country. The phones are never answered, and my emails get a response after three to four months. The two checks I FedEx’d were returned since they could not locate my tax account and were unwilling to follow up to authenticate my ID. They basically wanted me to stop bothering them.
In another example, I decided to keep my retirement account in Canada. Yet, I found out the Canadian Revenue Agency would impose a 1% per month penalty on any deposits made while I was not physically present in the country. This is why I have to close accounts as I move.
Americans spend their entire lives trying to understand one set of tax codes and investment options. As an immigrant, I had to spend just a few years mastering each country’s tax code and investing options. And then I had to leave and start over.
To pay for my MBA, I had to sell my house. Yet, that was not the only reason. I was very worried about having so much of my wealth tied up in a foreign country. Many things could go wrong, including the illegal seizure of my property. So, I had to sell and give up the asset appreciation. And pay the full taxes, and get permission from the revenue agency to transfer the money. And pay the transfer fees to the bank and revenue agency. In all the situations above, I did not want to give up my investments. Yet, I had to do so, and often, at a time that was not beneficial for me.
Many of my friends have seen incredible compounding gains from holding 401(k), and Roth IRA accounts since their twenties. Now in their sixties or seventies, they have benefited from almost fifty years of gains. The same applies to their homes. They have greatly appreciated in value. Most bought amazing homes when they were in their thirties and will sell those often fully paid-off homes, downsize to a smaller home, and live off the profits.
Many will not have to downsize. The fifty years of returns from their 401K and Roth IRA accounts will be sufficient. As immigrants, we almost never have the time to fully benefit from the two sources of the greatest wealth creation (time-based home and equity appreciation), as much as people born in the USA. This is something that investment advice does not take into account when advising immigrants. This is why I had to study investing for myself and make my own decisions.
Yet, as an immigrant, each time I move and give up what I have built, I am making a bet on myself. It is an investment I can fully control. It is the only investment I can fully control. That is the path I have taken. My American friends and neighbors slowly built their wealth because they had the power of time on their side to let their assets appreciate. I could not do that. By the time I need my 401(k) and Roth IRA, those investments will not have as much time to grow and compound as my American friends.
I set up my 401(k) last year at the age of 41, only after I was sure I would not move again. I was tired of having to close accounts and lose money. The compounded gains will not be as significant over twenty or even thirty years when compared to my friends. That is a hard barrier I cannot change. Most people try to overcome this hard barrier by making risky investments to earn higher returns to make up for the shorter investing time period. I am not going to do that. I worked too hard to build what I have, and I cannot afford to lose it.
So, what could I do? How would I overcome this barrier? I had to invest in myself to rapidly create wealth and, thereafter, invest it in property and equity. My solution has been to earn more. Then I invest it modestly. Most people focus less on earning more, and pursue aggressive, another word for risky, investments. I would rather invest a hypothetical $1,000,000 and earn 3% after inflation and taxes than invest a smaller $100,000 and aim for 10% after inflation and taxes. The bigger the principal investment, which I get from investing in myself to increase my earnings, the less I need to chase returns. And given the hard barrier of too little time, those returns will not compound as fast anyway. The stock market works over long stretches of time.
I know the salaries of consulting equity partners, investment bankers, and the like. I mentor many of them as my clients. When I looked at the obligations I had for my family, it scared me. When I did the math, I realized that, even as a senior banker or consulting partner, I would need to stay in an apartment, or a very basic house, for probably most of my life, work in a job I did not like, and just barely earn enough to take care of everyone.
If I achieved all of this, I would not be having a great life. I would just get by. This is me working as a corporate finance banker when I did not at all like being a corporate finance banker. And I was good at my job, getting promoted in 6 months to director. I did not just want to get by financially in a career I did not like. I wanted a full life. That is why I built an authority-based business. The goal was to bet on me and build a business around my name that could never be taken from me. Earn more. Invest wisely without chasing risky returns. Help more people. And live a happy life while caring for the people I love.
An authority-based business is not for people who want to get rich overnight. It is betting on yourself and building a business for the long-term. If you are inclined to build your own business the way I built mine, potentially initially on the side while working full time, and want Michael and me to coach and guide you through the process, you are welcome to learn about The Authority-Based Business coaching program and apply to enroll. Levels of effort and installment options are available.
Here are the details:
https://www.firmsconsulting.com/authority-based-business-program/
Take care,
Kris Safarova
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2023.06.06 05:35 DiscoveryHimalaya The Top 15 Best Successful Tips For Ghorepani Poon Hill Trek - Poon Hill Sunrise Trek Cost & Itinerary - Short Poon Hill Trek - Annapurna Sunrise Treks

The Top 15 Best Successful Tips For Ghorepani Poon Hill Trek - Poon Hill Sunrise Trek Cost & Itinerary - Short Poon Hill Trek - Annapurna Sunrise Treks
Ghorepani Poon Hill Trek is a marvelous short trip in the Annapurna region. It's probably the most fascinating trekking trail that anyone easily gets around the magnificent mountains with the beautiful Annapurna Himalayas. Poon Hill is a popular viewpoint located in the Annapurna region of Nepal. It is a renowned trekking destination and offers breathtaking panoramic views of the Himalayan mountain range, including the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri peaks. Here is some additional information about Poon Hill:
Location: Poon Hill is situated in the Annapurna Conservation Area, within the Gandruk Village Development Committee of Kaski District, Nepal. It is part of the larger Annapurna Circuit trekking route.
Maximum Altitude: Poon Hill stands at an elevation of 3,210 meters (10,532 feet) above sea level. Although it is not extremely high, it offers stunning views of the surrounding peaks.
Trek Duration: The typical Ghorepani Poon Hill Trek takes around 4 to 5 days to complete. The trek usually starts and ends in Nayapul, passing through various villages such as Tikhedhunga, Ghorepani, and Tadapani.
Scenic Views: The main highlight of the Poon Hill trek is the spectacular sunrise view from the summit. Trekkers wake up early in the morning and hike to Poon Hill to witness the sunrise casting golden hues on the snow-capped peaks, creating a breathtaking vista. The panoramic view includes Annapurna I (8,091m), Annapurna South (7,219m), Machhapuchhre (6,993m), and Dhaulagiri (8,167m), among others.
Teahouse Accommodations: Along the Poon Hill trekking route, there are several teahouse lodges available for trekkers to rest and stay overnight. These teahouses offer basic facilities like meals, hot showers, and cozy rooms. It is recommended to book accommodations in advance during the peak trekking seasons.
Accessibility: Poon Hill is easily accessible from the city of Pokhara, which is a popular tourist hub in Nepal. Trekkers usually take a short drive from Pokhara to Nayapul, the starting point of the trek.
Overall, the Poon Hill trek is a relatively moderate trek suitable for trekkers of various fitness levels. It offers stunning natural beauty, cultural experiences, and the opportunity to witness the majestic Himalayas.
Marvelous Annapurna Mountains
Sure! Here are the top 15 best successful tips for the Ghorepani Poon Hill Trek:
  1. Plan and Prepare: Research the trek thoroughly and make a detailed plan. Familiarize yourself with the trail, weather conditions, and necessary permits.
  2. Physical Fitness: Engage in regular exercise and prepare your body for the trek. Cardiovascular exercises like hiking, jogging, and cycling will help build stamina.
  3. Pack Wisely: Carry lightweight and essential items. Pack warm clothing, rain gear, trekking boots, a first aid kit, water bottles, and snacks.
  4. Trekking Permits: Obtain the necessary permits, such as the Annapurna Conservation Area Permit (ACAP) and the TIMS (Trekkers' Information Management System) card.
  5. Acclimatization: Take your time to acclimatize to the altitude. Ascend gradually, and spend a day or two at higher altitudes to allow your body to adjust.
  6. Hydration: Drink plenty of water to stay hydrated throughout the trek. Dehydration can worsen altitude sickness symptoms.
  7. Trekking Poles: Consider using trekking poles to provide stability and reduce the strain on your legs during steep ascents and descents.
  8. Start Early: Begin your trek early in the morning to enjoy clear views and avoid crowds on the trail.
  9. Local Guides/Porters: Hiring a local guide or porter can enhance your trekking experience. They are knowledgeable about the trail, local culture, and can assist with carrying your luggage.
  10. Trekking Insurance: Purchase comprehensive travel insurance that covers emergency evacuation, medical expenses, and loss of belongings.
  11. Respect Local Culture: Respect the local customs, traditions, and beliefs of the communities you encounter along the way. Dress modestly and be mindful of your actions.
  12. Proper Trekking Etiquette: Follow the Leave No Trace principles by avoiding littering and preserving the natural environment. Be considerate to other trekkers and locals on the trail.
  13. Trekking Accommodation: Book teahouse accommodations in advance, especially during peak trekking seasons. Carry a sleeping bag for added comfort and warmth.
  14. Weather Awareness: Be prepared for unpredictable weather conditions. Pack both warm and lightweight clothing to layer accordingly.
  15. Enjoy the Journey: Lastly, enjoy the trek and embrace the stunning landscapes. Take breaks to rest, take photographs, and interact with fellow trekkers to create memorable experiences.
Remember, these tips are meant to provide general guidance. It's always recommended to consult with a professional trekking agency or experienced trekkers for specific advice based on the current conditions and your personal requirements.
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2023.06.06 01:06 Expensive_Ad_5089 June 2023 - Unpacking the Light Police

Unpacking the Light Police. Light Pollution News.
Show Link: https://lightpollutionnews.com/podcast/unpacking-the-light-police/
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Guests:
John Barentine of Dark Sky Consulting, LLC.
Kaitlyn Evans, Conservationist.
Show:
I was busted by the light police. They had a point, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post.
Dana Milbank purchased a home in, soon to be not, rural Virginia. At night he kept the formerly vacant property lit to the degree that spurned one commentator to call it “spaceship lighting.”
Milbank recaps being visited by the “light police,” a group of concerned citizens who help educate neighbors and instill a sense of pride in the brilliance of their starry night skies.
At first, he was taken aback, but later, not only did he appreciate their efforts, but he also converted his blinding always on, white light flood lights to warm 2700 Kelvin motion sensing lights.
Per Ruskin Hartley, executive director of the International Dark Sky Association, “for 4.5 billion years there was no artificial light at night. It’s really only in the last five human generations that we transformed that. It’s one of the most profound transformations of our environment.”
Many of you may recall an earlier story, way back in our Hormone of Darkness episode, showcasing concerns by local residents prior to a 760 house (now 761) plus town center development moving into the Culpepper County, VA area. Per the Rappahannock News, this development features “a resort style swimming pool, clubhouse, tot lot, and multiple sports fields and sports courts, all connected by a network of biking and walking trails.”
The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’ by Zaria Gorvett of the BBC.
Gorvett opened my eyes to something I never knew about, the medieval custom of two sleeps. For those of you unaware, two sleeps are exactly what it sounds like.
Folks would partake in a communal nap, complete with rigid sleeping arrangement conventions, between 9 – 11pm, then awaken for a few hours to do everything from hang out to brew beer! In fact, the idea of multiple sleeps crossed cultures and was found in places as far from Europe as indigenous South America.
How can one’s circadian rhythm make sense of all of this?!
Well, for starters, until the invention of the alarm clock, which humorously was invented by a clocks salesman so he could wake up and sell more clocks, people had no firm way to wake up at a consistent time. The industrial revolution enforced a new circadian standard.
And there’s some science behind this! In the 1992 study, In Short Photoperiods, human sleep is biphasic, researcher Thomas Wehr found that after four weeks of 10 hour days, his subjects began to engage in this two sleep cycle, involving a one to three hour period for which they became awake and engaged in between.
Want to Learn About Light Pollution? There’s a mini-course for that!, Jennifer Sensiba of Clean Technica.
Quoting Sensiba, “As I got older, I traveled a lot more and saw the problem more for what it is. Not only did I see that in many places there is no refuge from it, but I also saw that it was slowly growing worse. Places that had been dark 30 years ago had more and more light creeping upon the horizon.”
If you’re interested in learning more, or more importantly, know someone who might benefit from learning more, Sensiba links up to an International Dark Sky Mini-Course on light pollution, call it Light Pollution 101!
There’s a Play Date at the National Museum of Natural History: Lights Out exhibit!
But unfortunately, by the time you listen to this, and hell, by the time we talk about this, it has passed.
Ann Arbor named best place for sunrises, sunsets in Michigan. Sarah Parlette for Click on Detroit.
Evidently gambling websites have decided to honor April’s International Dark Sky week in a strange new content marketing campaign, which was to rank the best places in each state to see sunrises and sunsets. My favorite one, “Ann Arbor named best place for sunrises, sunsets in Michigan,” comes from Click on Detroit, whereby a quote “study” examined Michigan’s most populated cities.”
According to Click on Detroit, “to celebrate International Astrology Day on Saturday, staff at Great Lake Stakes, a Michigan online gambling news site, looked at light pollution in the five most populated cities around the Mitten state to determine which offers the best views every morning and evening.”
Star bathing is the new outdoor travel trend we should all be trying for Summer 2023, according to Amy Beecham at Stylist.
Evidently, as an attempt to destress and promote mindfulness, romanticism about sleeping under the stars has birthed a 70% increase in searches for the term ‘star bathing’ on Hipcamp. And to be sure, “Hipcamp recommends checking a stargazing calendar which outlines major astrological events – like supermoons, pink moons, and star showers.”
“Industry Must Face an Inconvenient Truth — Most LED Lights at Night are Unhealthy”
Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, a circadian clock expert, recently published an article in LEDs Magazine chastising the lighting industry for not recognizing and reigning in the negative externalities of its products. Per the piece, such effects are, obesity, diabetes, depression, cancer, and more.
He cites three categories of industry responses, making the correlation that long term Denial or outright Ignorance of the Facts, may result in “asbestos-scale liabilities or draconian regulations.”
Per the piece, a recent survey by the Circadian Light Research Center of 2,697 peer reviewed scientific articles confirmed that human circadian clocks are highly sensitive to blue wavelengths, and that exposure to such wavelengths leads to major health disorders.
Moore-Ede calls for the industry to harvest the “commercial opportunity” to greatly limit future liability by creating and managing its own standards for circadian modulated lighting.
Unpacking the Wallpack, by Dan Weissman in LD+A Magazine.
Weissman, who recently purchased a telescope for his family in Cambridge, MA, discovered that the scope could only afford him views of some solar system objects and a few brightly burning stars.
The ire of Weissman’s pen takes the shape of a rectangular fixtures, be it box like or simply a panel these days, that typically hang off the side of an exterior wall or above an exterior door. “Devoid of aesthetic value” this light is often put up under the “pretense of security and safety” by “recommended practices and adopted municipal codes.”
Weissman recognizes labels that often accompany, what he calls, “Glare bombs,” including “contractor-select,” “energy efficient,” or “light pollution friendly.”
Further, per an earlier LD+A article, such lighting driven by its extreme contrasts is exceedingly common in minority communities where light is weaponized as a tool of power. It becomes a “device of alienation, creating a zone of control and separation.”
Weissman recognizes that the true reason such fixtures are selected often comes down to cost. He recognizes that it may take equally as much cost to persuade building and homeowners away from such lighting into the realm of more responsible, lower lumen, shielded lighting.
Weissman calls for producers of these glare bombs to be labeled as polluters, putting them in line with fossil fuel manufacturers and PFAS makers.
Songbirds, dusk and clear skies: Scientists explore migratory flights, by Erin Blakemore.
Bird migration season is ending here in the Mid-Atlantic. I was lucky enough to catch several Baltimore Orioles and Indigo Buntings last week. Researchers looked at 400 songbirds from 9 major species, “including the yellow-rump warbler, American redstart and Bicknell’s thrush.”
The question they hoped to answer was how are these birds so darn precise in identifying the best time to take off for their nightly migration? Scientists found that 90% of the migrating birds in the study took off within 69 minutes of dusk. A “much narrower takeoff window,” that even shocked the research team!
Per the study, taking off at night is all about maximum flight time. In addition to being able to precisely schedule their take offs, a feat that every airline I’ve flown with over the past few years has proven inept at, birds also are apparently good meteorologists! They often depart when the atmospheric pressure rises over a day’s span. Other factors also trigger migration, including sex, age, and celestial cues.
‘Lights Out’ initiative appears to be saving birds from crashing into Philly buildings by Sophia Schmidt.
Preliminary results indicate that bird death counts are down 70% at one Market Street tower, since it began its participation in Lights Out. As we spoke about on a previous show, birds utilize the stars to navigate, but city lights can disorient the birds. Combine the lights with reflective or transparent glass, and that spells fatal trouble for our migrating warblers!
Per Keith Russell, a program manager for urban conservation with Audubon Mid-Atlantic, “We’ve lost almost a third of our birds – and [collisions] contributing to that. If we’re going to want to preserve the bird populations here in North America, we have to look at these types of problems. And this is a preventable one.”
The Knoxville, TN Zoo is offering up what they call “Twilight Tours” per WVLT 8. Each event will feature a guide to showcase nocturnal critters.
I did something similar in Singapore years ago. The zoo had very dim lights in the exhibits – and they kept those lights dim as you walked so that you didn’t lose your night vision. It was a very different and, might I say, peaceful experience than the typically chaotic daytime zoo.
Flashlights posing major threat to nesting sea turtles. Fox35 Orlando
Apparently, a single flashlight can deter female sea turtles from coming onto a beach and nesting. Florida, as I did not know, is home to 90% of the sea turtle nests across the world, so losing sea turtles can affect the global ecosystem.
One visitor to Cocoa Beach stated, “Just leave them alone. Stand back and look. You don’t need a flashlight.”
Another, “It’s not super surprising because more buildings go up, more technology. As it increases, nature and stuff like that decreases,” said Zoe Jovaag, whose grandfather used to take her on walks to see sea turtles.
Capture the Dark 2023 officially is under way!
The International Dark Sky Association opens up its annual photo contest complete with prizes across eight categories and an additional People’s Choice category. Voting begins on July 3rd, entries must be received by June 30th.
City Tests Traffic Light That Only Turns Green for Drivers Who Obey the Speed Limit. Erin Marquis for Jalopnik.
And hey, you better not speed in Brossard, Quebec….otherwise you may be waiting around for a while. Brossard is testing out a new traffic light that will stay red until it senses oncoming traffic. However, it will only change to green if the car is going the speed limit. Per the Jalopnik article, “FRED [the French acronym for “educational traffic calming light] forces fast drivers to stop and gives them a chance to reconsider their life choices.” Such lights are already used in Europe, but this will be the first for the Great White North.
Why the Greatest Threat to Star-Gazing Isn’t Light Pollution, and this comes to us from Dorin Elin Urrutia at Inverse.
Elin Urrutia writes, in her compelling piece, that the greatest threat to star-gazing is actually the weather. Citing notable examples of the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia (which burnt down due to bushfires) and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico (which sustained structural damage following the winds of Hurricane Maria).
While the threat of human-caused climate change has presented new challenges, Elin Urrutia references proactive burns that saved Los Angeles’ Mount Wilson Observatory from flames in 2020.
On a similar note, ABC News (the Australian Broadcasting Company, not to be confused with the American Broadcasting Company), brings us “A World Without Darkness Could Be a Reality within a Few Years.”
Per Carol Redford of Astrotourism Western Australia, “There are some people in the world now who don’t actually experience darkness anymore. They’re in a city like Beijing, Toyoko, or London. In all those big cities, it’s never dark, it’s always light. During the day of course with the sun, but then during the night with all of the artificial light. They’re not experiencing darkness, and definitely not seeing those beautiful stars…”
In the 66 years since the implementation of the UN Convention on the Peaceful Use of Outerspace, around 11,000 satellites orbit the Earth. But it’s about to get wayyy busier. Driven by innovations that have led to dramatic reductions in costs, over the next ten years, Per attorney Steven Freeland, it’s anticipated that somewhere between 100,000 to 500,000 objects will be sent up. Let me pause on that for a second.
On the travel front, we stay in the land down under, “Aussie region determined to keep its darkness is a stargazer’s dream” by Chantelle Francis of News.com.AU.
The town of Swam Reach, population 270, resides in a 3200sq km region of Southern Australia that received its International Dark Sky Reserve status over three years ago. On a scale of darkness between 0 – 22, the River Murray Dark Sky Reserve at Swam Reach, measures in at a whopping 21.9!
Tourism has become a growing business. The reserve hosts numerous telescope pads and offers tours of the night sky. There’s hope that an observatory and/or planetarium may also arrive in due course.
Best smart lights for outdoors in 2023, Brittney Vincent of CBS Essentials.
Oh there’s a lot not to love here, but it does fall in line with last month’s ‘Lumens are Coming’ article.
For those of you who feel the need to light your trees, because for some reason they need light at night I guess…I’ll try and pretend it’s not solely for ostentatious and narcissistic reasons. By the way, does anyone remember when those were negative characteristics?
The article features spotlights that can be programmed to over 16 MILLION colors including…lucky for us, ALL shades of white….which you can also do for a 500 lumen flood light set.
And hey, Ring now has solar path lighting. Don’t worry though, the fixtures themselves put out up to 80 lumens of sideways light.
You know, it’s astounding when you look at some of these pictures. The amount of redundant lighting. It honestly makes no sense to me. You have a porch light, which lights up the path. Path lighting, which lights up the path. And, in the one picture, god awful frontward facing flood lights, which also light up the path. How bright do you need these paths!? I digress. But the lumens are indeed coming.
LDS Church will get to light up its Heber Valley Temple after all, but the faith didn’t get everything it wanted, Blake Apgar of the Salt Lake Tribune.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fought hard to rid itself of any nighttime lighting responsibility by pressuring Wasatch County, Utah officials to approve new lighting rules that would enable the church to light a proposed new temple the same way it does for every other temple.
The Church received permission to uplight the temple, enabling an exception to be made in Wasatch’s rather stringent nighttime lighting rulebook. However, the temple will be restricted by the level of lumens it can use, and it must have exterior lighting turned off an hour after sunset or an hour after normal business hours.
Smart Street Lights Market is Expected to Hit USD 14,751.1 million at a 23.4% CAGR by 2030, Market Research Future Press Release
The pandemic is officially over, smart street lighting is about to boom. Combine the rush to LED fixtures with the Internet of Things, and expect to see street lights moonlighting as traffic and parking monitors, air quality meters, and more. Not to mention, “it is anticipated that camera-connected smart street lighting will increase road safety by lowering the likelihood of accidents and criminality.”
Texas now has 7 dark sky communities for spectacular star gazing, Sana Ameer, MRT.
Let’s cheer on the city of Bee Cave, everyone! Bee Cave joins a growing list of dark sky places already in the Lone Star State, including 2 Dark Sky Sanctuaries, 5 Dark Sky Parks, and 1 Dark Sky Reserve. Nighttime is alive and well in some parts of Texas!
Our Afraid of the Dark article is a bit scary! Hilton Head’s dark roads and pedestrians are deadly combo. What the town is doing about it, Blake Douglas at The Island Packet.
Per the article, 9 pedestrian and cyclist fatalities occurred since 2018, with five occurring after dark. Prior to that period, there were 28 recorded deaths from 2000 – 2016, with 20 of them taking place after dark.
In 2018, an 11 year old resident was struck and killed while walking her dog across an intersection one night. Lighting advocates began taking shape in what otherwise is a very conservation focused island. Hilton Head, SC has a limited number of street lights, priding itself on “avoiding light pollution and blending nature with construction.”
Lighting advocates appear to be, at the very least, asking for flashing crosswalk lights on the island to indicate when an individual is crossing.
It should be noted that the article shows a chart of 9 after-dark-deaths since 2014, only two of them occurred at crosswalks. In fact, during the same time frame, 6 additional deaths occurred at crosswalks during the daytime.
As a whole, the National Safety Council reports that 74.5% of pedestrian deaths occurred at night, whereby 39.1% took place in lit areas and 35.38% took place in unlit areas.
Bryan Bloch, an auto safety expert, surmises that car companies bear some of the blame – producing cheap or ineffectual headlight fixtures, and drivers themselves, who don’t realize that they need to regularly clean their headlight lenses.
Despite opposition from residents, it appears that Hilton Head will be receiving lights at two new intersections and possibly more depending on engineering studies currently in progress.
Is lighting the key variable here? Is more light going to solve pedestrian deaths?
Our featured research article of the month comes to us from Animal Conservation, “Manipulating spectra of artificial light affects movement patterns of bats along ecological corridors.”
Bats are already known to have a wide range of responses to artificial light at night (also known as ALAN). Fast flying species tend to be more opportunistic in the presence of ALAN while slower ones tend to be more light averse. We know that “long wavelengths and reduced intensity” can minimize their environmental effects on bats. It’s not unheard of for bats to travel upwards of “tens of km per night.” Furthermore, bats are very dependent on the landscape and the structures within those landscapes.
Despite the nuances between species, the consensus is that ALAN, especially high intensity ALAN, negatively affects bats. This study attempted to answer what exactly bats do when they encounter ALAN – how do they react depending on different types of ALAN.
The study used three different light fixtures – one green, one red, and one white. The control was devoid of light fixtures. The researchers attempted to ascertain the behavior of bats as they encountered lights adjacent to woody areas. The researchers looked at three different bat groupings based on their foraging-echo location behavior, that being one of open field foraging, forest edge foraging, and narrow space – or more aptly forest foragers.
Researchers found that open and edge foraging bats increased their activity close to white and green lights, and to a lesser extent red lights. However, narrow space bats were more likely to veer away from all colors of lighting. Edge foragers were also less likely to cross a white light.
The positive effects of white and green light on open and edge foraging bats appear to be attributed to the accumulation of insects around light sources containing more blue light.
The nighttime sky over Oahu will be lit up with green lasers in the coming days. Here’s why. Hawaii News Now
Before we close up today, do you live in Hawaii? I know I wish I did!
If so, do you recall seeing green lasers streak across the night sky? Well, the Army Corps of Engineers was using lidar at night to complete a coastal mapping survey.
Why did they survey at night? Specifically, why did they do this between midnight to 5am? Simply b/c the airspace is so busy, that time was the only chance they had to complete the survey. The remaining survey was completed during daytime hours.
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2023.06.06 00:04 BusinessWes [FINAL POST][Online][5E][UTC-4] "The Stranger'' Cosmic Horror Campaign Seeking Players. High production value. Professionally Streamed & Recorded. (Post 4/4)

This is the last post for this campaign. I want to thank the LFG community so immensely for how supportive you've all been. D&D has become my passion to the point of (healthy) obsession. Hundreds of NPC's, thousands of elements, resources, gosh even fish that populate our next campaign region. And even in the last 3 posts I've made friends that will last forever. Genuinely, I'm so grateful. So from the deepest, most genuine corner of my heart - THANK YOU. 🙏 Your enthusiasm, your spirit, your shared love for D&D – it's been a beacon of light in the darkest dungeons, a guide in the most confounding mazes. See you in "The Stranger"! 🎲💕
Original post: https://www.reddit.com/lfg/comments/13gfsqa/online5eetutc4_the_stranger_cosmic_horro (graciously reviewed and approved by the subreddit mods)
This is Post (4/4), we're posting this four weeks in a row before making final picks.
Preface
This is a long post - crazy long even. That's because we care so much to find those just as impassioned as we are about this amazing hobby. We love high quality D&D campaigns, and we believe it takes effort and time to make it happen. If you take the effort to get through learning about us in this post, reading every word with care and interest, we will do the same with your application.
Our commitments:
How to Apply
World Preface
In the enchanted realm of Avarra, where high magic weaves its intricate web through the fabric of existence, a burgeoning form of sorcery takes root. Secluded on the island city of Crowperch, the pursuit and mastery of void magic are richly rewarded, enticing arcanists from the farthest reaches of the world to unravel its mysteries. Yet, the enigmatic allure of Crowperch extends beyond the arcane; a diverse tapestry of industry, history, and craftsmanship entwines the island's very essence.
Beneath the surface, the island's riches reveal themselves: the mines and quarries, abundant with untapped potential, and the surrounding seas, offering bounties from the ocean's depths. Ancient archaeological sites whisper secrets of bygone eras, while artisans ply their remarkable skills on the bustling city streets. Tales of a long-forgotten, rumored treasure continue to captivate the imaginations of adventurers and sightseers alike.
But one must pay a steep price for this wealth of opportunity and intrigue. It is wise to avert one's gaze from the iron grip of autocratic rule and the unyielding scrutiny that looms over the island's denizens. For those who venture to Crowperch, a single obligation remains: seek your heart's desire, and then depart – for the island's enigmatic embrace is not meant to last forever.
Application Overview
In this sacred fellowship, we stand steadfast in the face of the dreaded D&D group killers. Our commitment to this game is unwavering, for it is not just a hobby, but a way of life - an appointment that must be kept at all costs. For us, the work does not end with character creation or worldbuilding. Nay, we strive for a deep understanding of each character, for their hopes and dreams, their fears and flaws, so that we may weave a complex and enthralling campaign that will leave you breathless. We implore you, dear adventurer, to show up regularly and with a burning passion in your heart. Let your excitement be infectious, let your dedication be unwavering.
Overview
Selection Criteria (In order of importance)
Investment
This campaign is getting some big investment. All players will get custom commissions of their characters, animated. Additionally, we are commissioning all maps, tokens, flairs, and elements to make this truly something special.
Campaign Preface
As twilight descended upon the restless sea, the ancient ship, Her Royal Rose, creaked under the weight of its cargo. Its passengers, a motley assortment of scholars, fisherman, guard and others with business on the island of Crowperch, sit tightly in cramped quarters. Even as the tempestuous winds moaned through crevasse and open windows, the opportunities and tasks that beckon them to the island keep them going, a siren's call that drowned out the ocean's roar.The skies above were an oppressive tapestry of writhing clouds, their tendrils suffocating the last vestiges of daylight as if to obscure the path to the island. A shroud of mist swallowed the horizon, leaving the ship to navigate through a nebulous labyrinth, its destination only guaranteed by Captain Alaric Thorne.
As Her Royal Rose inched closer to Sove, the air grew heavy with mist and sea salt which deposited itself gradually on the railings, sails and masts. Little Henry Williams, the ship's messenger runs throughout the halls pattering on each door, "The captain has an announcement, all to the deck. The captain has an announcement, all to the deck." The clacking of his wooden foot pattering one after another with each step, a disfigurement he earned while working aboard Her Royal Rose.
Captain Alaric Thorne stood on the deck, the salty wind tugging at his weathered features. His voice rang out, its timbre heavy with authority and unease, as he addressed the gathered passengers."Ladies and gentlemen, I must bring to your attention an unfortunate turn of events. It seems the Saturation has arrived earlier than anticipated this year. As many of you know, this phenomenon causes an unnaturally heavy accumulation of salt in the air, resulting in deposits that weigh down our vessel."He paused, letting the gravity of the situation settle upon his passengers before continuing, "This unexpected occurrence has forced us to halt our usual schedule, for the safety of both the ship and her passengers. Once Her Royal Rose arrives, she will remain anchored at Sove until the Saturation clears, as navigating these treacherous waters under such conditions would be inviting disaster."
A murmur of concern rippled through the crowd, many who were on this voyage planned their departure prior to The Saturation. The captain raised his hand to quell their rising unease. "I understand this may cause you some inconvenience, but I assure you, we will resume our journey as soon as it is safe to do so. In the meantime, you may continue your research, tasks and exploration on the island. Sove is well stocked and very hospitable to travelers especially those displaced during our seasonal shifts."
With that, Captain Thorne turned away, leaving the passengers to ponder the implications of his words as the first tendrils of salt-laden mist began to coil around the ship, heralding the arrival of the Saturation.
In the dimly lit corners of their minds, the passengers could sense a truth they dared not confront: Their voyage to Crowperch was going to be a lot longer than they had hoped. As the ship drew nearer to the island, the shadows beneath the spires of the fortress atop the mountain loomed over the ship, casting a shadow over what little moonlight illuminated the darkness.
Technology
Monetization
So we are still small, so monetization isn’t at the top of our list. That said, our goal is to
  1. Play Excellent D&D
  2. Donate to charity
  3. Re-invest to make better content and
  4. Compensate players to allow them to play more D&D.
How specifically that all happens is still obscured by the mists of time. By participating in this campaign players release all intellectual property created for the campaign to Roll for Impact and related brands. Please note that this is meaningless while we're still small, but consider this hopeful thinking for our success. The next campaign is getting SO much effort, so we want to stay safe.
Campaign Rules
Homebrew
Table Homebrew
Scheduling
Session Structure
Playstyle
What We Expect & Ask of You
Timeline:
I realize this might seem like a very intensive process, however we're being very thorough. Because we have gotten so many excellent applicants, we are going to have no choice but to make some hard decisions.
Picks:
Are you a dungeon master?
Making campaigns like these is our passion. We love going HIGH production value, HIGH quality. If this is something that you love too and you want to dungeon master in our world, we would LOVE to talk to you. As you can tell from this post, there's not enough dungeon masters out there doing this (clearly way overboard) level of effort.
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2023.06.05 23:27 LumosTransforms Lumos Transforms is interrupting the trauma/burnout cycle of birthwork with the ONLY embodied, Trauma Informed and Resilience Oriented (eTIRO) training out there– Tender Love Megathread.

Lumos Transforms is interrupting the trauma/burnout cycle of birthwork with the ONLY embodied, Trauma Informed and Resilience Oriented (eTIRO) training out there– Tender Love Megathread.
Hey Reddit!
We’re Lumos Transforms, the creators of Tender Love, an exclusive community dedicated to training and learning for non-clinical perinatal professionals. At Lumos, we understand the challenges that come with these roles– including burnout, lack of support, and power imbalances in birth work. Our goal is to equip professionals in this field with valuable knowledge, effective practices, and meaningful connections to enhance client care and sustain their fulfilling work. If you're curious to learn more, please read on. Feel free to ask us any questions, and we invite you to join our upcoming Info Session hosted by our expert Facilitation Team, free of charge.
Tender Love - An eTIRO Learning Community for Non-clinical birthworkers. Free Info Session 6/15.

Are you a doula, childbirth educator, lactation educator, or newborn care specialist experiencing fatigue and exhaustion?

Are you struggling to provide the best care possible to your clients due to personal stress? It's common for those who work in this field to want to help parents and newborns, but sometimes the harsh realities of the healthcare system can take a toll on our well-being. If you're feeling overwhelmed, Tender Love is here to assist you in overcoming these challenges.
\"When I am safe, I am safety for my clients.\"

About Tender Love

We are excited to offer the Tender Love training to the public for the first time. Originally created for the African American Infant and Maternal Mortality Doula Project by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, this innovative program is rooted in research and best practices. Our practical approach combines lectures, discussions, personal reflection, writing, and role play to help participants:
  • Understand the impact of trauma on birthing people at interpersonal, community, and systems levels
  • Develop self-awareness as birthworkers to manage emotional intensity and prevent vicarious trauma while maintaining a connection with clients
  • Apply trauma-informed principles to their non-clinical perinatal professional roles in organizational scope of practice and client scenarios
Participants can earn continuing education credits and gain valuable skills, strategies, and perspectives to provide effective, trauma-responsive care to their clients.
Provider Nkemdilim Ndefo is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 15871, for 18 contact hours.

What sets Tender Love apart?

Tender Love is not your average training program. It's a comprehensive and transformative journey specifically designed to address the unique challenges that non-clinical birthworkers face. Here's what makes Tender Love stand out:
  • Embodied Approach: As a birth worker, you understand that the mind and body are interconnected. We share this belief and incorporate the body into every aspect of the Tender Love program. By including somatic awareness and embodiment practices, we help you develop resilience, manage stress, and prevent burnout.
  • Trauma Informed: We recognize that trauma is prevalent in birth work and affects both clients and practitioners. We also understand that everyone brings their unique past experiences to pregnancy, birth, and parenting. In Tender Love, we equip you with tools and knowledge rooted in trauma-informed responsiveness. This empowers you to recognize and address trauma, navigate sensitive situations, and create safe and nurturing spaces for healing.
  • Resilience Oriented: A practice of resilience is crucial for sustaining yourself while doing this vital work. In Tender Love, we prioritize your resilience and provide practical strategies and resources. These tools help you cultivate personal resilience by effectively establishing and maintaining boundaries, while also fostering a supportive network within the birthworking community.
  • Learning Community: Tender Love is more than just a training program. It's a vibrant and nurturing community of birth workers who share similar values. Here, you can connect with peers, share experiences, and receive continuous support from individuals who truly understand the unique challenges and joys of your role.
\"Every training has always been about the client but this one included ME! Very important to my self-healing and growth on a personal level that I can take with me in my work.\"

Let's Connect

We welcome input from perinatal professionals. Have you encountered burnout or trauma during your work? What methods have you attempted to alleviate these difficulties? If you're already a part of Tender Love, how has it influenced your profession and personal well-being? Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any inquiries about the program, the community, or how it can help you.
We want to hear from you below! Or join us for the free Info Session on June 15th!

About being “trauma-informed.”

It's not uncommon to hear the term "trauma-informed" used loosely, leading to misunderstandings about its true meaning. Acknowledging the existence of trauma is just the tip of the iceberg. Many professionals claim to be trauma-informed, but they may not fully grasp the most basic principles or embody them in their work. To distinguish ourselves, we've coined the term "embodied Trauma Informed, Resilience Oriented" or eTIRO. Our approach involves understanding how trauma affects individuals, communities, organizations, and systems, and identifying paths to healing and liberation. We also recognize the mechanisms and effects of trauma and resilience and integrate this knowledge into policies, procedures, and practices. Our top priority is to promote healing and prevent re-traumatization. If you're interested in learning more about our eTIRO approach and how it can benefit your clients, we're here to help.
Being \"trauma-informed\" is not just a catchphrase.

The Tender Love eTIRO Learning Community

The Tender Love Training Program consists of 18 contact hours of group training, 2 open office hours, and access to our exclusive community and learning platform with active affinity spaces and discussion boards. All training sessions and office hours will happen live, with replay/recordings available.
The Tender Love Course Schedule
  • Session 1
    • The evolution of the embodied Trauma Informed Resilience Oriented (eTIRO) approach and its role in the perinatal context
    • Building embodied resilience with the Resilience Toolkit
  • Session 2
    • The stress-trauma continuum and its impacts on the somatic, emotional, mental, behavioral, and relational levels in the perinatal context
  • Session 3
    • Cultural and historical sources of trauma and resilience and their influence on individuals, families, institutions, and systems
  • Session 4
    • Resilience and its role in trauma healing and recovery
    • Attunement to stress-relaxation responses for improved co-regulation and empathy
  • Session 5
    • Preventing and mitigating vicarious trauma and burnout to improve perinatal professional quality of life and client care
    • Integrating embodied resilience and eTIRO principles when working with clients’ trauma stories
  • Session 6
    • Strategies for eTIRO principle implementation in perinatal policies, procedures, and practice
    • Cross-role collaboration and coalition building in the perinatal healthcare team
An optional integration program will be offered after Tender Love concludes for anyone who wants to deepen and develop their eTIRO skills.

Our training vs. other training…

While some training programs solely concentrate on the client, our training focuses on the emotional and physical demands that come with the job, and how they can affect your ability to provide compassionate care. We strongly believe that when perinatal professionals feel calm and nurtured, they can better attune to the needs of their clients and respond with empathy and expertise.
Unlike other programs that only emphasize intellectual knowledge and technical skills, we recognize that birthwork is an embodied practice that requires a deeper understanding of the body's role for both the client and the practitioner. We believe that cultivating somatic awareness and building embodied resilience is key to providing compassionate and effective care.
Furthermore, our training and virtual community are not limited to a single profession, such as doulas. We understand that building connections and fostering a sense of community is crucial to providing the highest level of care for families. That's why we designed our program to break down silos and encourage connection, collaboration, and support among all perinatal professionals.

Our Facilitation Team has decades of experience.

With combined decades of experience, our Facilitation Team will guide you every step of the way through your Tender Love journey. Learn more about Nkem and Mikaela.
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Together, we can come together to end the cycle of burnout and trauma that birthworkers face.

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2023.06.05 19:55 AllenVarney Lex Arcana - through Mon 26 June

Through Monday, June 26 we present the Lex Arcana Bundle featuring Lex Arcana, the FRPG from Italian design team Quality Games (published by Acheron Games) of a magical Roman Empire that never fell. Travel the known world to study arcane lore, uncover conspiracies, and battle dangerous supernatural creatures. It's Cthulhu Invictus meets The X-Files – the HBO Max Rome series meets The Witcher. Dive into the mysteries and dangers of ancient Rome. The Emperor commands!
In our world we would call it the year 476 CE; in the alternate history of Lex Arcana, the year is 1229 Ab Urbe Condita, "from the founding of the City." Heeding powerful haruspices and oracles, the Romans have suppressed forbidden cults and maintained their conquests. The Empire reaches from the beautiful beaches of Italia to the Egyptian deserts, from misty Britannia to the rivers of Babilonia. Yet now, after 12 centuries, the augurs speak of sinister portents. Despite the Empire's luxurious ostentation and military might, arcane threats eat at its foundations. In the great cities, cults make converts among the poor and dispossessed. On the frontiers, enemy sorcerers unleash frightening monsters against Roman garrisons. Emperor Theodomirus commands the Cohors Auxiliaria Arcana to study inexplicable phenomena, uncover arcane secrets, infiltrate cults, and defeat dangerous supernatural creatures.
In Lex Arcana you are a Custos (warden) of the Cohors Auxiliaria Arcana. You left your former life to join a contubernium of 3-6 Custodes, warrior-scholars of high privilege and great skill. Taking the office of Augur, Diplomat, Explorer, Fighter, or Scholar (or perhaps the sixth, hidden office, Assassin), you gain a special talent and the protection of a tutelary deity such as Apollo Phoebus, Diana Opifera, or Minerva Ingeniosa. Your Virtutes (virtues) and Peritiae (skills) determine how many dice you can roll to accomplish a task. You choose the number and type (d4, d6, d20, etc.) of dice to roll: For instance, if you have 12 points available, you might decide to roll a d12, or 2d6, or 3d4. Rolling fewer or smaller dice increases your chance for a fate roll (critical success).
Your Pietas (piety) empowers magical divinations, or Indigitamenta (invocations), in one of six discplines: Precognition, Clairvoyance, Retrocognition, Omens, Dreams, or Favor of the Gods. If you fail to honor the gods, or invoke them in vain, you may lose Pietas. And your invocations may weaken as you travel further from Rome.
Co-designed by Francisco Nepitello (The One Ring), and funded in a big September 2018 Kickstarter campaign, the 310-page Lex Arcana Second Edition rulebook (2019) presents complete character creation rules, a 116-page section for the Demiurge (gamemaster), a bestiary of Greco-Roman monsters, and two linked full-length adventures. Get the rulebook, four gorgeous full-color setting guides, and ten scenarios in this Lex Arcana Bundle for an unbeatable bargain price.
Pay just US$17.95 to get all three titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $65) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete Lex Arcana core rulebook (plus the free Quickstarter) and the setting sourcebooks Italia and Encyclopedia Arcana.
And if you pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $29.95 to start, you'll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with three more titles worth an additional $56, including the regional sourcebooks Dacia and Thracia and Aegyptus and the ten-scenario collection Mysteries of the Empire.
Ten percent of your payment (after gateway fees) goes to this Lex Arcana offer's designated charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
The Emperor needs you! Get this Lex Arcana offer before it says ave atque vale and vanishes Monday, June 26.
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2023.06.05 19:35 Possible-Run-1037 Is this reasonable?

I’m 56-year-old man, a bit overweight. I’m a widower with grown kids. I have a second home in a desirable area — it’s a nice place, not a mansion, but 3 bedrooms, a pool and on a lake, close to downtown and nightlife in Florida. It just sits there most of the time. It’s valued at 1.5, so someone renting it would expect to pay 8K/ month but I don’t want to deal with tenants or VRBO or any of that. I like having it available to me when I want to get away from the snow or where I live now.
Would it be a reasonable offer to a local SB to offer free rent and living? I’m only there every couple of months for a weekend at a time but I still pay electric and maintenance. So it wouldn’t cost me much but it could be a real benefit to her. I’d expect her attention when I was there but wouldn’t have many other expectations. I’d offer a six-month lease with a negligible rent, so she’d have some security, but that’s all the allowance I’d offer except for paying for dinners and such when we’re together.
Is that a dick move?
ETA: a couple of things to clarify: i live and my life is 2000 miles away, so I wouldn’t be living there, just visiting for maybe a 3-day weekend every six weeks or so. I’m paying for all the maintenance anyway (power, water, internet, security, lawn and pool care) so that wouldn’t change. It’s in a quiet-ish neighborhood. I’d charge like $50/month, because a lease has to have some sort of exchange to be valid, but I’d cover it.
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2023.06.05 18:14 hnqn1611 TOP 10 Things to do in TOKYO, Japan [2023 Travel Guide]

TOP 10 Things to do in TOKYO, Japan [2023 Travel Guide]
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TOP 10 Things to do in TOKYO, Japan [2023 Travel Guide]
The suggestions are based on our fun trip to the largest city on Earth. Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to our channel, and enable notifications. And share your own experience in the comments below. We want to thank Ceptics, the number one choice for travel adapters on Amazon, for sponsoring this video. The link is in the description. And stick around until the end of this video because we have a bonus for you. Here are our top 10 picks:
Number 10: Takeshita Street Tokyo is famous for its diverse shopping options, including luxury fashion brands, electronics, and traditional Japanese goods. Explore Takeshita Street in Harajuku, known for its trendy fashion, unique boutiques, and youth culture. The area is known for its vibrant street style. It is often associated with the "Harajuku girls" who dress in eclectic and colorful fashion and the busy multilevel Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku shopping mall. Try the rainbow toast – because why not :) the longest tunnel potato, or one of many other delicious desserts, like cotton candy at Totti Candy Factory or Marion crêpe. If you're up for a unique cute experience, don't skip the nearby Hedgehog café. And there are tons of places all over Tokyo where you can experience a culture of cuteness or, as they call it in Japan – kawaii. There are many other districts and neighborhoods that offer unique shopping experiences, like the upscale Ginza, known for its luxury shopping, high-end fashion boutiques, and department stores.
Number 9: Sensō-ji Temple Japan has two major religions: Shinto and Buddhism. And the two that have coexisted for centuries. While both Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan are places of worship and can be visited by the general public, they have different customs and practices associated with them. Did you know there are over 3,000 shrines and temples in Tokyo, more than any other city in Japan? Visit Sensō-ji, one of Tokyo's most popular and oldest Buddhist temples. Although rebuilt several times over the centuries due to fires and other natural disasters, and bombing during the World War II it is still known for its rich history, traditional architecture, and cultural significance. It dates back to the 7th century when two fishermen discovered a Kannon statue in the Sumida River. The temple was built around the statue, now housed in the main hall. One of the most striking features of Sensō-ji is the temple's main gate, the Kaminarimon, which is adorned by a large paper lantern bearing the temple's name. Visitors to the temple typically walk through the gate and down the Nakamise-dōri, a shopping street lined with traditional shops selling souvenirs and Japanese goods, leading to the temple's main hall. The temple also features several other buildings, including a pagoda, a treasure house, and a museum. Don't forget to explore the rest of Asakusa with several shopping streets and delicious food.
Number 8: Food Tokyo is one of the world's top destinations for foodies. It offers a diverse and delicious food scene and a wide variety of cuisines and dining experiences, like the intriguing alleys called yokocho, for example the famous Omoide Yokocho, aka Memory Lane - a narrow street filled with tiny bars and restaurants or, as the Japanese called it, izakayas or for instance, Golden Gai or Golden Block, both popular nightlife spots, and both located in Shinjuku. The area is known for its bohemian atmosphere and association with the city's counterculture and nightlife. Of course, while visiting these unique places, get a taste of Japanese rice wine called sake, often served as part part of a traditional Japanese meal. You can enjoy it as an aperitif or paired with various dishes. Tokyo – the city with the most Michelin-starred restaurants in the world is considered one of the world's food capitals Besides its famous typical dishes like sushi and its many variations of sushi, like sashimi and nigiri, or renowned ramen, udon, or soba. Don't skip delicious street food with famous takoyaki octopus balls, stir-fried noodles called yakisoba, skewered rice dumplings named dango, and many others. Japan is also known for its delicious and unique desserts, many of which have been influenced by traditional Japanese ingredients and techniques, for example, Wagashi that comes in various shapes and flavors and is often enjoyed with tea, like mochi, or other desserts, like dorayaki – a type of Japanese pancake or fish-shaped dessert called taiyaki. Check our travel guide for more suggestions and ideas about which cafes to visit. By the way, our mobile-friendly travel guide covers the top 20 things to do in Tokyo and things to know before you visit, including maps, opening hours, links, itinerary suggestions, best day trips, and other information.
Number 7: Tokyo Imperial Palace The Imperial Palace in Tokyo is the main residence of the Emperor of Japan located in Chiyoda, It is located on the former site of Edo Castle (Chiyoda Castle) a large feudal castle built in the mid-15th century. The castle was the shogun's residence and military government headquarters throughout the Edo period. Did you know that Tokyo was originally a small fishing village known as Edo, which means "estuary" in Japanese? In 1868, following the Meiji Restoration, the capital was moved from Kyoto and the city's name was changed to Tokyo meaning "Eastern Capital," to reflect its new status as the capital of the modernized Japan. However, Edo Castle has a long history with several fires occurring over the centuries. The last major one in 1873, destroyed much of the castle. Today, only a few structures from the original castle remain, including the castle's foundation stones, moats, and walls. In 1960, a palace called the Imperial Palace was built on the site of the former Edo Castle, which now serves as the residence of the emperor of Japan. You can visit the palace on a guided tour or freely walk around the gardens and the ruins. Discover the enchanting Chiyoda City, an idyllic destination filled with picturesque canals, vibrant gardens, and charming pathways, like The East Gardens of the Imperial Palace. During the Sakura season, make sure to rent a boat at the moat and immerse yourself in the breathtaking beauty of cherry blossoms.
Number 6: Vending machines Vending machines are a common sight in Japan. They can be found in many locations, including on the street, train stations, and shopping malls. They offer various products with drinks, snacks, and unique items, like a cake in a can, ramen, or even insects. Insert some coins and select from a diverse array of cartoon characters, anime stars, and collectibles available in vinyl, plushies, and other forms. It is estimated that with 5 million machines, Japan has the highest number of vending machines per capita – literally one for every 25 people. Vending machines are popular due to the country's high population density and busy lifestyle, which makes purchasing items from vending machines a quick and convenient option for people. One of the most interesting ones is the so-called Horror Vending Machine Corner, located close to Akihabara.
Number 5: Miraikan Museum Tokyo's museums offer a diverse and fascinating array of exhibits, showcasing everything from traditional Japanese art and culture to innovative technology and contemporary art worldwide. Miraikan, also known as The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, is a cutting-edge museum offering diverse exhibits and experiences showcasing the latest advancements in science and technology. Visitors are immersed in interactive displays, virtual reality simulations, and hands-on experiments, providing a unique opportunity to explore the frontiers of innovation. Miraikan covers a wide array of topics, including robotics, space exploration, artificial intelligence, and environmental sustainability. It serves as a hub for scientific education and exploration, encouraging visitors to ponder the impact of emerging technologies on society and the world we inhabit. Miraikan stands as a beacon of scientific discovery, inspiring curiosity and fostering a deeper understanding of the rapidly evolving world of science and technology. Tokyo offers an array of museums to explore, making it an ideal destination, especially on rainy days.
Number 4: Shibuya Crossing Shibuya Crossing, or "Scramble Crossing," is a busy intersection in the heart of the commercial and financial center - Shibuya. It is known for its large crowds of pedestrians crossing the street simultaneously, creating a unique, almost chaotic scene. The crossing is located in front of the Shibuya Station. It is often featured in movies and TV shows as a symbol of Tokyo's bustling city life. It is considered one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in the world, with as many as 2,500 people crossing at one time during peak hours. Shibuya is a popular tourist destination, and many people come to watch the crossing from the surrounding buildings. This place is scheduled for redevelopment in the near future. Don't skip a popular meeting spot at The Hachikō Memorial Statue honoring the loyal Akita dog Hachikō, who waited for his deceased owner at the train station every day for nine years. Explore the rest of Shibuya, like the narrow street of Shibuya Center-Gai, which is especially popular among youths. It offers many food options, brand-name stores, and busy nightlife. This video is sponsored by Ceptics. Being stuck in a hotel with only one outlet and many devices waiting to be charged can become a problem Use powerful travel adapters with USB, USB-C, and other plugs from Ceptis for a quick charge. Some even offer the ability to charge 7 devices simultaneously. Did you know different adapters charge your phone, laptop, and other devices at different speeds? Sometimes charging goes nowhere, and you need your devices ready to go fast when traveling. Japan uses the same outlet style as the US, but if you are traveling to other destinations in Asia, for instance, Singapore uses an entirely different outlet style - your Ceptics adapter can quickly be converted to fit the outlet style used on your next destination. You can even buy a voltage converter for small electronics like a toothbrush, shaver, and straightener that you otherwise couldn't use. Visit the Ceptics website to find adapters that fit your needs. The link is in the description.
Number 3: Ueno Park Ueno Park, established in 1873, is a large public park known for museums, temples, gardens, and a zoo. The park is home to several important cultural institutions, including the Tokyo National Museum and the National Museum of Nature and Science. The park also features several temples, like Benten-do Temple, dedicated to the goddess of mercy. One of the main attractions in Ueno Park is the Shinobazu Pond, home to various bird species. Rent a boat and enjoy beautiful views of the surrounding area. Tokyo is home to many beautiful parks and gardens. Check our travel guide for more suggestions.
Number 2: Otaku culture Otaku culture is a significant part of Japanese pop culture and has also gained popularity around the world. This subculture is associated with strong interest in anime, manga, video games, and other forms of popular entertainment. The term "otaku" originally referred to people with obsessive interests but has since taken on a more positive connotation. Otaku culture encompasses various attractions and activities, including cosplay, collectible card games, and fan fiction. It is also known for its vibrant subcultures, such as the maid cafés, where young women dress in maid costumes and serve customers in a café setting. Tokyo is home to several places popular among otaku culture fans, such as the famous Akihabara neighborhood, often referred to as the "otaku capital" of Japan, and Ghibli Museum, dedicated to the works of the Japanese animation studio.
Number 1: Observation decks Tokyo offers several impressive observation decks that offer panoramic views of the city. Visit at least The Tokyo Skytree, a broadcasting and observation tower completed in 2012. At 2,080 feet (634 meters) it is the tallest structure in Japan. The Skytree features observation decks, a restaurant, and a shopping mall. The tower is designed to withstand earthquakes and typhoons. Don't skip The Tokyo Tower - a 1092 ft (333 meters) tall communications and observation tower built in 1958, once the tallest structure in Japan until the completion of the Tokyo Skytree in 2012. The tower is a popular tourist destination and is often used as a symbol of Tokyo. If you don't have enough time to visit one of two observation decks, just walk around the Zojo-ji Buddhist temple with beautiful views towards Tokyo Tower. And here is the bonus that we promised. If you have extra time in Tokyo, visit one of many unique cafes. There is no place like Tokyo when it comes to exciting bars and restaurants like Avatar Robot Café. Experience a one-of-a-kind dining adventure or enjoy refreshing juice, where you'll be served by robot avatars controlled remotely by individuals with disabilities or mental health challenges, enabling them to engage with society and overcome the limitations of their homebound circumstances. We wish you an amazing trip to Tokyo.
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2023.06.05 16:28 cherubimon142 [US] [TRADING] Manga/Signed Manga Goods for Trade (ISO/Looking For manga list at end)

I have the following manga and anime goods available for trade. International shipping is available at an added cost per location. All books are in excellent to NM condition, unless otherwise stated.
Part 1: https://imgur.com/a/X90wg15
Part 2 (NSFW): https://imgur.com/a/O1D8bN6
Boys Be Vol. 1-17.
Girls Bravo Vol. 1-10.
AI Yori Aoshi Vol. 1-17.
Harukana Receive Vol. 1 (volume 3-8 TRADED)
Vampire Knight Vol. 12.
Maison Ikkoku Vol. 1-14 (complete). SOLD
Sailor Moon Eternal Edition Vol. 1-8, 10
Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist Vol. 16 with included sealed card
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Vol. 1.
Scryed Vol. 1-4.
Gurren Lagaan Vol. 2.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Vol. 2, 3.
Inukami Omnibus Vo. 1-3.
Skip Beat Vol. 43.
Hayate the Combat Butler vol. 16.
Monster Hunter: Flash Hunter vol. 1.
Pandora Hearts Vol. 15.
Fruits Basket Ultimate Edition Omnibus vol. 2. (slight dent on corner of cover)
Sailor Moon Picture Guide: Meet Sailor Moon.
Sailor Moon Picture Guide: Sailor Moon, Friends and Foes.
Sailor Moon vol. 2-4. (some wear at top of spine)
Sailor Moon SuperS.
Cardcaptor Sakura. Vol. 1-3
Oreimo Vol. 1
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (1st Edition) Vol. 2, 8, 9.
Vagabond VizBig Vol. 1 SOLD
Collector’s Value Guide Pokémon 1999.
Japanese Manga
GATE Tatakaeri Gaiden LN Vol.2 (signed by Yanai Takumi).
Law of Ueki vol. 1 (Signed by Tsubasa Fukuchi).
"King Game Origin" Vol. 1, signed/sketched by Yamada J thick
Sumeragi Dressers Vol. 1, signed/sketched by Yutaka Matsumoto
To-LOVE-Ru Darkness Vol. 5, sealed with thank you illustration card
Naruto Exhibition Fuu no Sho Guest Book.
Negima Limited Edition Vol. 22.
Nisekoi Limited Edition Vol. 9 (with drama CD).
Zenki Vol. 1.
Maburaho Vol. 1.
High School of the Dead Vol. 1, 2.
Hellsing Official Guide Book.
Artbook
Cardcaptor Sakura 20th Anniversary Edition.
Doujinshi (NON-18+)
Puella Magi Nakachan Fleet
戦艦キリシマくん / RABBIT HOLE Works.
CD-ROM game
Motto!? Fushigi no Gensoukyou Plus - The Dungeon of Dreams and Magic
Youyou Kengeki Musou
CD
Higan/C-CLAYS Touhou Doujin Soundtrack CD
Doujin music CD Hanahira HANA-KAGARI / K2SOUND
Autographs 8x10 (all Beckett certified)
Neil Kaplan (Uchiha Madara) (250c).
Yuri Lowenthal (Uchiha Sasuke).
Jeremy Inman (Android 16).
Wendee Lee (Queen Serenity).
John Swasey (The Undertaker) [Black Butler].
Jen Taylor (Salem) [RWBY].
Adam Gibbs [Haikyuu].
Aaron Robers (Uta) [Tokyo Ghoul].
Other
Cardcaptor Sakura Cerberus Spinel Sun Playing Card Design Tray.
Disgaea 4 (PS Vita)
Persona 4 Golden (PS Vita)
Japanese Doujinshi (18+) All doujinshi are in excellent condition, with no visible damage and no signs of personal use.
[PIGGSTAR] JET FORM (Various) (COMIC1☆2) . 127 pages. Parodies: Code Geass, Gundam 00, Ichigo 100, Busou Renkin
(C91) [Kuronisiki] Urakaze no Dakigokochi 2 (Kantai Collection -KanColle-). 30 pages
Muchi Muchi Paradise 2 [Full Color] (Martian Successor Nadesico). Full Colo23 pages
[Hinakan (Kusunoki Hina)] Blood Revenge II
Kuroneko ga Okasareruuuu (My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute!) 22 pages/ First pages in full color, rest in B&W
(SC33) [PLUM (Kanna)] Lovetoru 2 (To LOVE-Ru)
To LOVE-Ru Syndrome＋αFan Book. 52 pages
(C58) [Hellabunna] Love Hena 4 (Love Hina). 46 pages
(C74) [Studio Wallaby] Ecchii no wa Suki Desu ka? 2 (To LOVE-Ru)
(C91) [Nekomataya] The Boy's Chair and the Forbidden Fruit (The Idolmaster)
Battle Girl High School
[Grace] UmiTra! Umimi to Issho ni Nantai **xercise! (The Idolmaster)
(C90) [Uninigumi (Unini☆Seven)] CANARY CODE (Qualidea Code). 16 pages/Full Color
[Book, Signed/Sketched by ITOYOKO] Momokura boarding house Yu and Piaan.
[Book, Signed/Sketched] Meat Festival Sakazaki Furede Inochi Gokuezu.
Primarily looking to trade for these specific volumes (in ENGLISH):
Berserk Vol. 2-4, 19, 22-25, 27-29, 31->
Bleach Vol. 4-6
Busou Renkin Vol. 9, 10
Cobra (any)
Cyborg 009 (any)
Demonizer Zilch (any)
Dragon Ball Vol. 2, 13
Eyeshield 21 (any)
Fruits Basket vol. 15, 16, 18
Hayate the Combat Butler Vol. 30->
Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Vol. 22
Iron Wok Jan: Vol. 4, 10, 12-15, 19, 23
Legend of Zelda Link’s Awakening
Mars Vol. 2, 3
Master Keaton Vol. 2-3, 5->
My Love Story Vol. 6, 10->
My Monster Secret Vol. 14->
One Piece vol. 35-39, 47, 48, 53-54, 56, 58, 65-67
Rosario Vampire s2 Vol. 10-12
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Vol. 9->
Sgt. Frog 8 ->
Super HXEROS (any)
To Love Ru Darkness (any)
Video Girl Ai (any)
Yuuna of the Haunted Springs Vol. 4->
Also looking to combine volumes to trade for Food Wars Shokugeki no Soma Blu-Ray Season 2
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2023.06.05 16:21 VittorioJedi [GUIDE] Optimized settings and control for consoles - a deep dive 🔧

[GUIDE] Optimized settings and control for consoles - a deep dive 🔧
Hello everyone, this guide stems from the realization that the default options and controls for console HLL are lacking in several areas, bugged in most of the cases, and greatly contribute to the low quality of console matches. We’ll take a look one by one at the option tabs and I’ll try to give my best advice.
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**GAMEPLAY TAB**
- Manual bolt cycling: OFF > you wouldn’t want it ON in any case, it’ll just slow you down and you cold not be able to fire when you really need.
- HUD Display mode: ALWAYS ON > this is the first of the *really* important things to change if you don’t have it already. Having it set to auto or on demand can make the game more immersive for some people but you’ll lose A LOT of vital information that will make you aware of the current state of your squad, command, sector weight and will also allow to spot friendly and enemy supplies easier. Don’t know how many people do not realize that we started losing a sector and they need to head back immediately, just because the HUD is off at that moment.
- Show command messages/show chat for new messages: OFF > it’s useless clutter, we can’t write in the chat on console, and having these messages popping up every few seconds only steals screen space.
- Hide markers with HUD: YES > this is another important setting, and is frankly poorly explained. by activating this you can press (Double long press, it’s bugged) the right arrow on the d-pad to have the SL markers appeadisappear again on demand, really useful in tanks and for building garrisons, I like to mark the nearest garrison with observe mark and use the dpad to have the mark appear for 15 seconds so I know when I’m more than 200m away from the marked garry.
- Nameplate view distance: 250m > any more than that it’s just blue dots covering your screen at unnecessary distance, no matter your setting, the blue dot and name will alway appear on their head anyway when aiming at them.
- Vehicle nameplate distance: 0 > unnecessary clutter again, you really should know the difference between a German/US tank
- Nameplate icons only: You usually don’t need to read friendly names at great distances, keep it low so you can read the names of your teammates in proximity.
- Nameplate opacity: Makes the blue and green dots more/less transparent, it’s a personal choice and I personally find the default options really distracting.
- Use nameplate occlusion: OFF > this option makes blue dots and names completely disappear when friendlies are behind cover, I personaLu find it not working really well and you can have some really bad accidental team kills because of this.
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**VIDEO TAB**
- Motion blur: OFF > having motion blur active in any kind of multiplayer game makes you lose track and sight of enemies and objects while moving the camera, should alway be off.
- Brightness: it’s up to you and your screen settings, I personally change it depending on the map as they don’t seem to have a common brightness balancing (Snow maps are blinding bright for me at 100%)
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**AUDIO TAB**
This is the tab that I really hope people start tweaking more. It’s a matter of respect for the people hearing you and for yourself as you don’t want people being rude to you because you sound like a angry cyborg.
All my suggestions assume that you’re using headphones with a mic.
- Master volume: 100% > general volume for all things, lowering or raising this will lower or raise by 10% all of the other things
- SFX Volume: 100% > gunshot sounds, footsteps, artillery you want to hear this.
- Voice volume: here comes the messed up part of these settings, the default values are WAY too high and they contribute to the in game chat to sound really bad and distorted. Raising this or any of the other voice options won’t make them sound better or louder, just MORE DISTORTED. This option alters the value of ALL the other incoming voice chat options, and you’ll want them:
- Proximity 70%: Preference, proximity has a mechanic where the closer you are the louder you sound, altering this option won’t change that.
- Unit 80%: this is your primary chat, what you want to hear clearly
- Leadership 50-60 %: or higher lower depending on your current role (when tanking the engine noise makes you less likely to hear what’s going on in command chat, when playing recon you usually have less noise around you a can hear command chat clearly even at lower values)
- Microphone Volume: 30% This is the one of the biggest issues on console HLL, this value by default is completely wrong and anything above 40% makes your microphone sound really bad, distorted and crackling. If someone tells you that your mic is low, it’s probably because they’re accustomed to wrong options or it’s an issue on their end. PLEASE CHANGE THIS.
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**CONTROLS TAB**
Last but not least the control tab. I’ll highlight some glaring issues with the default controls but won’t give any recommendations on the rest because for the most part they are personal preference.
- Aim assist: OFF> in this game aim assist barely works, and all it does is slow down the aim in close quarter, sometimes too much making you lose gunfights.
- Scoped sensitivity: this option for some reason is only tuned on 4x scopes, other game have “universal sensitivity“ where the scope, no matter the zoom will move by the same amount of pixels. It’s not the same in HLL console and if you want a similar sensitivity when using a Karx8 scope you need to go in the options and halve this value.
- Acceleratio: Oh boy. Acceleration is the biggest enemy of muscle memory, you want your stick movement to always be equal to a certain amount of movement on your screen and acceleration prevents that, it adds another layer, and the longer you push your stick the faster will be the time to reach the full movement (bear with me, a bit convoluted). Adding to this, HLL has this setting completely backwards compared to any other FPS ever created, to remove acceleration in other games you need to put the value to 0, in HLL to remove acceleration you need to turn the value to 100 for some reason. ACCELERATION = BAD.
- Movement deadzone: this is the value of your left stick and it doesn’t need to be low, it’s just walking and running you don’t need to be accurate, having a medium high values also prevents some problems people on console have with BIPODS not staying put after deploying them (Any amount of movement will dismount your bipod) and HOLD BREATH (Interrupted by any movement)
- Look deadzone: 10-20% (preference) After having tested with multiple controllers I’ve come to the conclusion that this value is also bugged And anything between 0-4% makes your aim move without any input.
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Hope this helped.
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2023.06.05 15:11 haroldkebba I Think My Village Was Haunted By God... [Part 1]

I hope this is the right place and someone can tell me what may have been going on in my village. I moved here a few weeks ago. It's a small village in the heart of Russia and my parents and I came here because things start to get really bad in Moscow and my father lost his job. I don't know why we had to move to this isolated village, so far away from civilization. Maybe my parents wanted peace and quiet? To escape the things in that city, the poisoned minds?
The houses here had all been far below average in price. Almost everyone who lives here has moved here recently.
But, there are crazy rumors about this village that people tell each other. It was found abandoned in the mid-nineties. Where everyone went, no one knows. They say that no signs of people were found at all, nothing. But... everywhere in and around the village… strange patches of earth had been discovered, circular and smooth. Not only in the forest or on the road, but also in the dilapidated wooden houses. At our new neighbors' house, one of the mysterious spots had supposedly been found right in the living room floor, where the floorboards had been just cut away.
These rumors scare me. I am afraid of this village. But yesterday... I was redoing the floor in my room with my father and there... I found a notebook under the old boards. I hid it from my father, I don't know why... Someone must have left it there.
Last night... that's when I read it. I read it and now I'm incredibly afraid of this house and this village. Of the fields and the woods that surround me. The notebook apparently belonged to someone called Ilya Vasiliev. I have tried to translate what he wrote, hoping that someone here can help me find an explanation for the rumors. For this uneasy feeling that I have since I moved here...
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I am fine. I want that to be clear from the beginning. My story is strange and in huge parts troubling, but I am still in the best state of mental health.
I am fine!
My story begins seven months ago, in December 1979, when deep winter was upon our village. We were preparing for Christmas, the first Christmas to be celebrated publicly throughout the village, after years of having to practice our faith in secret because the Soviet government did not allow religions. Only in the last few years did the Reds' view loosen and they allowed small islands of faith. One of them was my village, which finally dared to celebrate and praise the Lord.
I have been a believer all twenty years of my life, an exemplary Christian, just like my parents. Faith had kept our family line alive in times of terror and misery. Death had always been close to us, as the fields where most of the population of our village had worked for generations had once brought the end of hundreds of people. Many years ago, on those fields, atrocities had occurred that had finally given them their present name: The Fields of Death.
I myself had not been born back then, not by a long shot, but my grandparents had spent their childhood there, a childhood full of hunger and depravity. My grandfather Fomenko often told me and my sister the stories he had experienced and how faith had saved everyone. There had been a long, cold winter and the grain had been confiscated by the government to be taken to the cities for distribution. After all, the grain belonged to all the people, not just those on the farms who planted it, tended to it, and harvested it. And so, the only food of that time left my grandfather's village and never came back. Some of his neighbors had once tried to hold back some grain, to hide some sacks, but when they were caught, a hail of bullets determined their fate. People lived in fear, not daring to stop working, not daring to keep for themselves the food that was destined for the common good. In those days, horrors happened in my village that I cannot truly picture today, not even when I hear my grandfather's usually clear voice begin to tremble. When I see in his eyes that he would rather forget, in order to experience a peaceful sleep once again… someday.
He told us about those horrors to warn us of how quickly life can plunge from safety into infinite terror. Winter had reigned. The grain was being hauled away. They still shot all those who tried to keep back pieces of it, be it a sack or some husks that had fallen from a cart. In time, hunger began to drive people in our village insane. Parents locked up their children so they wouldn't be taken by neighbors to feed their hunger. Friends turned their backs on each other and killed each other in fights for the last livestock that was still breathing. The streets reeked of decay and death, of misery and suffering. One day, my grandfather told us, he had hidden in the back room of his house while his parents dragged themselves, emaciated, to the fields to pick the last scraps of grain from the furrows with their dirty, half-frozen fingers. He had come across a book there, a book that had saved his life.
The word of God. An old Bible.
My grandfather had learned to read at an early age, one of the sad advantages of living in the Soviet Union.
It was in the room I now live in that Grandfather Fomenko had found the dusty book. Actually, he had been looking for something to eat, the days before he had found some sawdust. But despite his hunger and the grumbling in his stomach, eating the book was out of the question. Books were sacred, and no book as sacred as this one. He had begun to read and learned about the greatness of the Lord. Of the miracles his Son had performed. And of the magic of faith. His stomach had growled, but he had ignored it. The words gave him comfort.
The next day he immersed himself in the book again, disappearing into better worlds and times, hearing wisdom and encouragement. But around noon there was a knock at the door. My grandfather emphasized each time that he had not been afraid, that he had known that the Lord would protect him, when the old neighbor gained entrance to our house armed with a cleaver. It was clear what he wanted: Meat. My grandfather told us each time about how the neighbor had looked more undead than human, stinking and with sunken eyes, smelling like death from his mouth, the cleaver trembling in his hand.
"I'm sorry, boy," was all the man could get out.
My grandfather tried to mimic this poor man’s voice at the end of his wits, to express his pain through words so that we understood that poor fellow a little.
The Lord's words had given courage to my grandfather in his most terrible moments. He had stood up and firmly said:
"Away with you, the Lord protects the inhabitants of this house!"
But the intruder did not care, coming closer. And so, my grandfather again sought comfort and prayed. He prayed for mercy and peace and for his life. He would serve the Lord for the rest of his days. Trust Him blindly.
Suddenly, like a gruesome miracle, the famished intruder let out an inhuman groan and collapsed, lifeless and debilitated. There had been no hunger for my grandfather and his family for a week after that. My grandfather had been praying to the Lord since that day, thanking Him for His mercy. The story spread around the village and out of desperation or hope, in the next few days everyone secretly knelt in front of small wooden crosses they had made themselves and prayed to the Lord. A week later, like a miracle, the long-awaited delivery of grain arrived, along with spring. There had not been another bad time since then.
These events are the reason for the faith in our village... and our family. The psalm my grandfather had prayed as the hungry neighbor attacked had become the guiding psalm of our faith. All these years we had not been able to celebrate Christmas with the other families, but since the restrictions on faith communities had been relaxed, we had all finally decided to celebrate the holy festival in the village square. And so, we started the preparations.
There, in those evening hours, my part of the story begins. I and my younger sister Zarina, together with other youths and young adults, were fetching wood for the fire that was to burn in the center of our village. So, we went out into the night, dressed with thick pelts, to fetch logs from the edge of the fields that some men had prepared.
My breath could be seen as an icy breeze in the dawning darkness and I was already looking forward to dancing around the fire with everyone later, drinking good drinks and eating sumptuously. I was glad that we didn't have to walk across the fields themselves, but could stroll along their edge to get the logs.
You can feel death when it has hit a place. I was glad that I didn't have to work the fields myself, and had learned the carpentry trade. Therefore, I was spared from having to wander around there every day, among the echoes of past atrocities and sadness.
We were all in good spirits, strolling over the muddy ground, when all at once Zarina pointed up and into the clear night sky.
"Look, an angel is descending!" she exclaimed excitedly.
We all looked to where her outstretched hand pointed. A round light glowed in the night sky, glaring yellowish and shining strangely cold.
"It's singing! At Christmas! The Lord puts our feast under his sign!" Zarina cried.
We stopped and listened into the silence of the night. At first, I could hear nothing, at first, everything remained quiet, and only the distant beating of axes and the rustling of the wind in the treetops were audible.
But then, there in the wind, I could hear it, briefly but clearly. It was a kind of melodic whisper, joyful, yet also strange and otherworldly. It was heard only very briefly, and soon died away as the glow flew out of sight and disappeared somewhere far away.
"Let's go find the angel! Let's..." Zarina cried, continuing excitedly, but I interrupted her.
"We have to get the wood. We can report back to the village later, if it hasn't already been noticed there too," I said.
"You heard the singing! Surely that was an angel. Shall we leave it there? It may have gotten hurt, it must have hit something!" Sasha murmured.
Sasha was my oldest friend and one of the boys who worked on the fields. He had always been very caring and had always tried to help where he could. His parents were long dead and the old lady who had raised him was no longer around, either. So, he struggled along, working the fields, but the rest of us looked out for him.
"Shouldn't we go and look for it, Ilya?", Sasha continued to urge me anxiously.
We thought about it for a long time but decided to leave the decision to the others in the village. Trusting the Lord to guide our actions, we quickly moved on in the direction of the woodcutters to complete our task.
We were not the only ones who had seen the glow. When we returned to the village square loaded with logs, everyone was in great excitement and full of joy that the Lord had sent us this sign of His greatness. Not everyone agreed whether it was an angel or a return of the poinsettia that had been witnessed, but everyone was sure that the Lord had sent us encouragement. So, we celebrated our first Christmas full of joy and pleasure, with good food, dancing and singing, full of happiness and under the protection of the Almighty Lord. I will always think back to those days, always keep in my heart how I glimpsed a part of the Lord in the sky.
We all talked about the event and even the older people were fascinated and inspired. Even my grandfather and the others who had witnessed the worst death and misery in the world seemed to slowly find a spiritual peace they would never have dreamed of otherwise. They were happy and strengthened in their faith. However, we were not sure if it had really been an angel who had come down and so we hesitated to go and look for the creature of God.
But in the night, after the light had shone in the sky, I was awakened by Zarina crying in her sleep. I straightened up and slowly paced over to her bed, where in the semi-darkness she began to squirm, shaken by spasms.
"No, no, no..." she moaned painfully.
I began to shake her to wake her up. Zarina did not respond to me. Her face was like a distorted mask hiding something bad underneath. Her breathing became shallow, and she began to whimper. I was terrified and began to pray. The Lord had to save her, He just had to save her!
Zarina twitched more and more, started coughing and whimpering louder and louder. Slowly, the rest of the family woke up and my parents and grandfather huddled tightly around her, praying for her to open her eyes.
"Please, don't take our child! She has only been in your world for fourteen years..." my father cried, as panicked and desperate as I had ever seen before.
His thick, black mustache trembled with fear.
Then, abruptly, Zarina stopped convulsing.
For a terrible moment she just lay there, her hair disheveled, her face pale in the glow of the candle my mother held over her.
"Mom, Dad, Ilya, Grandpa... what's wrong?" she suddenly asked sleepily.
For a moment it was as if nothing had happened, as if I hadn't just seen my sister almost die, but then she began to cry.
"What's wrong, dear?" my father asked, just as pale in the face as Zarina.
It took a while before she found some calm and was able to talk to us.
Finally, she croaked:
"I saw the angel. I was with him."
A revelation? Had the Lord touched my sister?
We all said another prayer and finally, filled with awe, I asked:
"Where did you see the angel? Is it here? With us?"
She looked at me briefly, seemed to hesitate for a little moment, and then reported:
"I was with it… in a dream. It was in a white village, a village made of angel dust. I saw it. It didn't have wings and that's why at first I wasn't sure if it was an angel. However, soon it spoke to me."
"What did it say, Zarina?", I asked tensely.
"It said it was not God, but 'the Witness'. It sounded like a man and a woman and a child and a baby and... It felt peaceful. Calm and carefree. Then I woke up."
"An angel. Angels are the witnesses of God, that's how it must be!" my father said enthusiastically.
Suddenly, everyone seemed to be talking at once.
No one knew what Zarina's words meant, but we were sure that they contained something incomprehensible that we, as ordinary people, could not understand. But everyone was delighted. Everyone was caught in a beautiful dream.
The next day, the adults sat together in the large barn near the edge of the village, which was used for community events. Most of them found seats on the lined up wooden benches and the rest stood crowded against the old walls, some of which were already rotten. Dimitri, probably the closest thing to a mayor, sat at a heavy pine table at the end of the room, staring at the crowd, while my parents and Zarina sat on old chairs in front of him. Tensely, the crowd looked at them, waiting for someone to say something. Finally, Dimitri cleared his throat thoughtfully.
"You... all saw or heard about the falling star. It was brighter than the others that keep crossing our sky and much more... melodic. Some even heard the singing. Whoever still doubted that the Lord sent us his messenger... doubts are now useless. Zarina has received a vision. She has seen how the angel, who was sent by God, walked on our earth, and visited a village and consecrated it with its grace. She has seen the angel marching to spread holiness in these lands..."
"Are we sure?"
Mary, the dressmaker, had stood up. She was still young, my age and Sasha's, and she always wore her blond hair carefully braided, her dresses self-made, blood red and flashy, with silver embroidery. As always, she wore makeup - a luxury not many could afford. In other places she would have been considered a lady, but she was also a skeptical person, and I had not liked her very much since childhood, because she often made insinuations that seemed to go against the Lord. Also, she had never played with us outside and had always thought of herself as someone… better. I was shocked that she now so obviously doubted the Lord's actions.
"Mary. Zarina has seen a vision. The Lord spoke to her through her dreams! An angel has joined us. How can you deny it?" my father asked coldly.
"I'm not denying it, I'm just saying, what if there is something dark that the angel was sent to fight? What if it is going into battle against some unknown evil? The angel may be spreading sanctities, but we have no idea if it is trying to redeem us or defend us..."
"It said it was a witness of God," I noted.
"That's what Zarina said when she woke up."
"Then it is benevolent to us! We must find it!" someone shouted from one of the back rows.
An excited murmur began to spread through the room.
"Silence!" Dimitri thundered.
His face looked hard but determined.
"We have to get to it! If it is a message from heaven that the angel wants to bring us, we must hear it! How many can we spare? Who would even want to voluntarily leave the village? We don't know how long the journey will be, and you yourselves know how dangerous this area can be..."
A loud commotion broke out. Everyone shouted at once and volunteered. I also jumped up and loudly offered to go out to look for it.
The angel. The Witness of the Lord.
I imagined meeting it in a clearing, under a full moon. Hearing its bright voice, gaze in awe at its graceful form, and fall to my knees in prayer before it.
"SILENCE!" Dimitri shouted.
"You can't all go. The kids wouldn't make it in the deadly cold out there. Let seven go. Seven is the Lord's number, there must be seven! Seven workers from the fields! We can't spare any more!"
"You can't be serious!" I cried out.
Cold anger boiled up inside me.
"I want to go, too. We all want to. You can't just stand there and make a decision like that!"
Others joined in.
"SILENCE," Alexeij now thundered, the master blacksmith.
"We need you! Daniil, Ilya, Nikita, you have a job to do! We can't get by without you! You can't go, be reasonable!"
"But if the Lord wills it, he will make sure that everything here will work out. That nothing will happen!", I tried to argue, still boiling with anger.
"No. Winter is tugging at our huts, we need you," my father said slowly.
"So do the others. Without you, it's going to be tight. The fields lie under the snow, but everything else will be weakened by time and storms. We can only spare the field hands. Besides, they're the ones most likely to withstand the cold and the wilderness; after all, they're constantly out on the Fields of Death, toiling in the wind and rain. They'll all make the trip!"
I tried to change his mind, and several came to my aid, all those who were also forced to stay.
"You can manage without a dressmaker! I want to go too!" Mary cried defiantly, her cheeks red with anger, her nose wrinkled.
This young woman really believed she deserved the sight of the angel! She really believed her hypocrisies would deceive the Lord, despite her obvious doubts about His divinity!
Others also complained, young and old, many who didn't deserve to go and even those who did.
But it didn't help.
Dimitri was in charge. Everyone knew that. If we started to contradict him, our village would soon end up in chaos. And deep down I knew that I had to stay. That I had to take care of my sister, who would not survive a trip in the snow. That I had to repair the huts that the storms would eat away at.
Sasha was a field worker, he was allowed to go. Sasha and Sofia, Anatoly and old Igor, Ivan and Yulia and Mikhail. When the decision was made, a decision many of us accepted only with heavy hearts and which brought out deep envy in several faces, some of the chosen ones began to cry. They were happy, fulfilled... satisfied. They would see the messenger of the Lord, hear its melodious voice, sing its hymns.
Why wasn't I allowed to go? Why was the world so unfair? I had always believed in the Lord, prayed to Him, been subject to Him and lived according to His will. Why hadn't he chosen me to see his messenger? I had been so proud back when I had been allowed to learn the carpenter's trade and thus had not to go to the Fields of Death to toil there. At that time, I had felt like someone better when I saw Sasha and Sofia setting out early in the morning with all the other workers, with their old-fashioned plows and thick, shabby clothes.
Was this the punishment for my arrogance?
The Lord knew everything. He had seen what repulsive thoughts I had had, how superior I had felt to the others. Perhaps it was my punishment that I was not allowed to go. Perhaps the Lord was no longer favorable to me and I would have to prove myself to Him.
The next day, the seven set out north. They were seen off with singing and dancing; they were the center of the village’s attention. Envy threatened to drown me.
Why not me? Why wasn't I allowed to go? Why did I have to stay here?
And I knew: it was because of these thoughts. I wasn't pure enough. I had to get better, work on myself.
As the others disappeared from sight, as the small group seemed to be swallowed up by a patch of forest between distant trees, an icy chill ran down my spine.
What if they really did encounter evil? What if Mary had been right?
I prayed to the Lord that they would return home safely: Even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
He would bring them home safely, our pilgrims. I did not begrudge them their happiness. I was not a selfish person, was not complacent like Mary or some others in the village. I lived by the word of the Lord and I would not begrudge them.
They would all return home safely.
I continued to stare into the distance for a long time as my suppressed envy sought to consume me. But I was winning.
For darkness is as light to you.
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Even though the days and weeks passed, I never forgot to think of all those who had set out to witness the glory of the Lord. The cold winter had passed and frost and cold left the land, so that soon we could begin to prepare the fields for sowing. Since the sighting of the angel had caused us to let some of the farm workers leave, and they stayed away longer than we had expected, I had to join others in helping to plow the Fields of Death. The work was exhausting and made me physically very tired, since I still had to work in the carpenter's shop as well. We could not afford tractors, so we still had to resort to older tools. So, it happened that one day I was driving one of the hand plows through the dirty ground and was lost in my thoughts and full of sweat.
I was quite far away from the village, as the nearby surroundings had been worked shortly after the beginning of the thaw. The fields were extensive, partly reaching further than the eye could see. Only in one direction the dense forest extended, which introduced the beginning of a dark hilly landscape, that finally merged northward into high, alien mountains, whose white peaks rose high into the sky and, like once the tower of Babel, blasphemously tried to penetrate the heavens. But next to these distant giants there was only the plain, the vast plain that had to be tilled.
I hated the field work. And I hated the fields.
Every time I even thought about this piece of hell that had become reality long ago, my stomach turned. All the events that clung to this dark place, all the human lives and suffering that had sown the ground with death and blood here many years ago....
It was even worse when you stood in the fields yourself, truly being there on your own. It was as if I could smell it in the air, the rot of the starving and the hot blood that had watered the soil. It was as if I could still hear in the air the cries and wailing of the people who had met their end here, who had pleaded for their lives and the lives of their children and friends. It was as if I could see them in the early morning fog banks that lay on the Fields of Death, the shadows of people past, crawling and cowering, weak and starved. I had to pull myself together and look away, into the forest. A place does not forget, a place always remembers the days gone by and the cries that had been.
The plow pulled through the ground, ripping a furrow behind it. It was almost a bit comforting to imagine I was gutting this place of horror with my labor, inflicting deep wounds. Hypnotized, I stared down over and over again, watching the ground swirl to one side, smelling the fresh earth being pushed to the surface. But never could I escape my terrible feelings and the forebodings, never could I forget what kind of place I was at.
The few times I looked to the forest beside me, my thoughts wandered enviously to all those who had set out to find the angel. Had they reached it yet? Had they already learned from it what needed to be done for God's power on earth to be strengthened so that false prophets and promises could be swept away? How to drown the selfishness of the state? What needed to be done to serve the Lord?
Oh, how I would have loved to be there! How I would have loved to go with them, but I also understood the decision not to send everyone, and I understood my family's objections. I was needed here. I could serve the Lord here by tilling the fields and taking care of the soil and the sowing. I had to care for my sister.
I had already made several furrows when noon came. The sun was almost not visible, just a murky spot behind the clouds, and the fog had not lifted either. The world looked pale and apathetic. But amongst all the desolation I could suddenly hear something, something that seemed to come out of the forest.
It was at first just like a rustling in the wind that sounded a bit too regular, such that it triggered a natural uneasiness in me. I looked into the forest, but could hardly make out anything through the dense plants and the still lingering fog. That is why it was left to my own thoughts to imagine what was there, what was producing this strange noise.
I could not remember any animal that made similar sounds, was at a loss.
Suddenly, a bang echoed through the forest, accompanied by a panicked scream that broke inhumanly from the trees and spread across the fields.
Then, something new joined the sounds in the air.
The trees and bushes rustled, almost seemed to be torn apart.
Something was running through the forest, something seemed to be... coming right at me.
Was it perhaps a startled bear, an elk, or a wild boar?
Had one of the hunters from the village accidentally startled an animal, scared it in the wrong direction and now wanted to warn us with their cry? But then, why this panicked sound...?
I paused, took my hands off the rusty handles of the plow, and turned toward the forest. Still, I could only see fog, I could only hear rustling, but slowly I could also make out grunts and groans coming to me from the fog. It sounded heavy and panic-stricken.
Was I in danger? I began to pray to the Lord and ask him for assistance. I was not a fighter and so I had to hope that nothing would reach me from the depths between the trees that could easily tear me apart.
Even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
My baptismal motto gave me courage. The Lord saw me, even in my darkness, and would be with me.
For darkness is as light to you.
Then, someone burst out of the bushes and the fog and rushed toward me.
It was Sasha.
I almost didn't recognize him. His skin was pale, almost snow-white. His black hair stuck to his sweaty face. His pants and jacket were almost completely torn, so I could see his dirty shirt and his cut and bruised legs through the holes. There were also some small cuts on his face that worried me. Sasha's eyes twitched searchingly, panicked, and in his hand, he held the rifle that he had taken with him when he had once set out. Apparently, he had run through brush and thorns, had gotten scrapes and wounds from stones and branches.
When he saw me and looked at me with his big, panic-filled eyes, I became horridly afraid.
It was as if… behind his eyes there was no Sasha anymore, but only an animal. As if instinct had taken over his thoughts when an unnamable terror had entered his world. An animal inside him, which had enabled him to escape from... something.
Sasha staggered out of the forest, it was almost as if all strength left him now that he was back home. The rifle fell from his hand and dug into the mud beneath his feet. He limped slowly toward me, not taking his eyes off me. Then, suddenly, he wheeled around and looked back into the forest and the mist.
Only for a moment.
Again, he let out a shrill scream and sprinted the last few meters. When I looked into the forest myself, I saw nothing, only the fog.
But, didn't I feel a presence there, in the bushes? Between the trees?
I didn't see anything.
Sasha had reached me and collapsed. I quickly knelt down next to him and called for help. But the other field workers had already rushed over, obviously attracted by the rifle shot. I was in a trance, seeing only Sasha lying there, supporting his head. His eyes were still twitching around and despite my proximity he didn't seem to recognize me. He looked at me, confused.
"Sasha, what happened?", I asked, feeling his forehead.
Despite his paleness, he was uncomfortably hot.
A fever raged in his body. Who knew how long he had been running around there among the trees, his protective, warming jacket torn? With wounds that had not been tended and some of which were still bleeding?
Then another horrible thought occurred to me.
"Sasha, where are the others? Sasha, where are the others?"
This question apparently brought back some clarity that his gaze had not possessed before.
"They... they took them. Took all of them... All of them. All our brothers, all our sisters... all of them," he gurgled.
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So, this is the first part of what I found. I will hurry to translate the rest! But I will definitely stay out of the woods for now... They are still as creepy as described by Ilya in this document and fog ist still around every morning... Also, I don't know what to make of Ilya himself as well, is he just a religious nut and that is the explanation? I just don't know...
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