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Saltor

Image by Thomas M Baxa, © TSR, Inc.

[The last of the illithdae from Dragon 150, and the one that I think was best served by Lords of Madness. D&D 3.5 gave it its own unique ability, a sonic scream that acts as a lo-fi version of an illithid's mind blast. The Dragon Magazine version comes in multiple HD forms, but I took the Lords of Madness approach, and just used the highest HD version.]

Saltor CR 5 LE Aberration This creature resembles a hairless monkey the size of a goat, with a long canine muzzle surrounded by thin, flexible tentacles. It carries a spear in its hands, tipped with a stone point.

Saltors are illithidae that are fairly close relatives to mind flayers themselves, being the equivalent to an illithid as a monkey is to a human. Unlike true mind flayers, saltors do not have extreme sexual dimorphism—males and females look functionally identical to each other. They do undergo a form of ceremorphosis, however, raising tadpoles in pools and placing them in the partially emptied skulls of humanoids. Saltors use small humanoids as their hosts and do not compete with illithids for corpses.

Saltors typically live and travel in groups. A troop will have a central hub containing its breeding pool, and then bands will split off in order to forage. They are omnivorous with a taste for fungi and meat, and especially prey on small humanoids such as derro or svirfneblin in order to use their corpses to reproduce as well. Saltors prefer to attack from ambush and keep at range, hurling magic missiles and javelins to weaken prey before closing to melee. Their terrible scream acts as both weapon and alarm call, and a lone saltor that screams will likely have a half dozen of its fellows close behind to back it up.

Of the various kinds of illithidae, saltors are among the most likely to be found in a mind flayer colony. Mind flayers see them as just the right combination of useful and disposable, and saltors for their part view illithids as something like demigods. In addition to acting as foot soldiers and laborers, saltors may be found serving mind flayers as experimental subjects, sacrificial victims or emergency rations, all of which the saltors accept as their rightful place.  

A saltor stands about three feet tall. Their own technology is at a Stone Age level, and they covet metal weapons and tools. Saltors advance by class level, and often take levels in barbarian or psychic.

Saltor    CR 5 XP 1,600 LE Small aberration Init +4; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +10 Defense AC 17, touch 16, flat-footed 12 (+1 size, +4 Dex, +1 dodge, +1 natural) hp 51 (6d8+24) Fort +6, Ref +6, Will +6 Resist sonic 10; SR 16 Weakness light blindness, sunlight sickness Offense Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft. Melee 2 slams +7 (1d4+2 plus grab), bite +7 (1d6+2) or masterwork spear +8 (1d6+3/x3), bite +5 (1d6+1) Ranged javelin +9 (1d4+2) Special Attacks pith (bite), screech Spell-like Abilities CL 5th, concentration +7 3/day—blur, magic missile 1/day—haste (self only) Statistics Str 14, Dex 18, Con 19, Int 11, Wis 12, Cha 14 Base Atk +4; CMB +5; CMD 21 Feats Deadly Aim,Dodge, Multiattack Skills Acrobatics +17, Climb +19, Perception +10, Stealth +17; Racial Modifiers +4 Acrobatics, +4 Perception Languages Undercommon Ecology Environment underground Organization solitary, pair, band (3-10) or troop (10-40) Treasure standard (Small masterwork spear, 5 Small masterwork javelins, other treasure) Special Abilities Pith (Ex)A saltor can make a coup de grace attempt with its bite attack as a full round action without provoking attacks of opportunity against a helpless or pinned opponent. This coup de grace does not function against creatures that have no head or no brain, and creatures with multiple heads are not killed if they fail the save (although that head is no longer functional). Screech (Su) Once per day as a standard action, a saltor can give a terrible screech. All creatures in a 30 foot cone take 3d6 points of sonic damage and are stunned for 1 round. A successful DC 15 Fortitude save negates the stunning effect. The save DC is Charisma based. Sunlight Sickness (Ex) In an area of natural sunlight, a saltor is sickened.

[botanyone]

Weathering the Storm: Understanding Maize Lodging Resistance

Weathering the Storm: Understanding Maize Lodging Resistance https://ift.tt/LXjbRrK Listen to this page as an audio file (English only) Strong winds and rain can cause maize stalks to break, making harvest more difficult and reducing harvestable yield. Global yields of cereal crops are currently reduced by 5% annually due to stalk lodging. Climate change is expected to generate greater frequency of wind events, which will increase the likelihood of lodging. The first step towards enhancing lodging resistance through breeding and/or biotechnology is to unravel the role of individual stalk morphological features controlling stalk bending strength, which is a crucial factor in determining lodging resistance. A new study published in in silico Plants presents a new method to identify how individual morphological features of maize stalks control their stiffness and strength. Graduate student Michael Ottesen and colleagues in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Brigham Young University created a three-dimensional model of the maize stalk, including its geometry and material properties, to assess flexural stiffness and ultimate strength. The authors used three-point bending tests and CT scans that were previously conducted for 900 maize stalks to parameterize the model. During bending tests, stalks were gradually loaded until buckling occurred. This testing approach provided empirical measurement of two mechanical features of each stalk: flexural stiffness and bending strength. Stalk cross-section parameters were extracted from the CT data. This allowed the authors to incorporate the different mechanical features of the pith and rind into the model. A combination of machine learning and feature identification were used to create 51 unique parameters that best correlated with flexural stiffness and ultimate strength. The authors tested the model by comparing the flexural stiffness and strength of simulated stems with actual stems having the same parameters. The new model accurately captured the behavior and trends observed in empirical tests of maize stalks. Comparisons between measured and predicted flexural stiffness and strength Finer control of stalk morphology values will allow users to more precisely determine which morphological changes could provide the greatest increase in strength for the smallest overall change in morphology and overall stalk mass. This new model can be used to identify which morphological changes could provide the greatest increase in strength for the smallest overall change in morphology and overall stalk mass. Moreover, because all grains rely upon a similar geometric architecture this model can be parameterized to apply to other grain species such as sorghum, wheat, oats, and rice. READ THE ARTICLE: Michael Ottesen, Joseph Carter, Ryan Hall, Nan-Wei Liu, Douglas D Cook, Development and stochastic validation of a parameterized model of maize stalk flexure and buckling, in silico Plants, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2023, diad010, https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diad010 The post Weathering the Storm: Understanding Maize Lodging Resistance appeared first on Botany One. via Botany One https://botany.one/ November 02, 2023 at 06:16PM

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Today I want to tell something about kamkhaya temple as per my own knowledge. In kamkhaya temple Devi is situated in Jal tatva( जल तत्व).51 parts The. Parts of sati's body fell in different parts of India.Her yoni bhag is fallen in Nilanchal hill where the temple of kamkhaya Devi now stands.

Kamkhaya temple is a famous pilgrimage situated at Guwahati Assam.The temple is located on the Nilanchal hill Guwahati about at 8 kms from the railway station.

The kamkhaya temple is delicated to tantric goddess.Apart from the deity Kamkhaya Devi compound of the temple houses 10 other Avatar of KALI namely DHOMAVATI,MATANGI , BAGULAMUKHI, TARA,KAMALA, BHAIRAVI, CHINNMASTIKA,TRIPUR SUNDARI AND BHUBNESWARI.

In Nilanchal hill siddh Ganesh ,patal Ganesh and kotirshivling temples also.

Mythical history: The temple of kamkhaya has very interesting story of it's orgin.

It is a one of 51 Shakti piths.The story Shakti pith goes like this Once sati fought her husband Shiva to attend her father's great yagna(यज्ञ).at the Grand gayna sati's father insulted her husband SHIVA

Sati was anger in her shame she jumped into the fire and kill herself.when Shiva come to know that his beloved wife committed sucide he went insane with range.he placed sati's death body on his shoulders and did the tandav of destruction......

To clam down vishu cut sati's body with his chakra.The where sati's body parts fell is called shaktipith.kamkhaya is special because sati's womb and yoni fell here.

The name of kamkhaya the god of love Kamdeva lost his virility due to curse.he sought out of shakti's womb and genitels and was freed from the curse.This is where the 'love' gained his potency and the deity Kamkhaya Devi was installed and worshiped here.

Kamkhaya Devi is famous for bleeding goddess.The mythical womb and yoni of Shakti are supposedly installed in the GRABHAGRIHA of the temple.In month of ashad ( June) the goddess bleeds.At this time bharmaputra river near kamkhaya turn red.The temple then remain closed for 3 days and holy water distributed among the devotee of kamkhaya Devi.

There is no scientific prove the how the river turns red.its a really magic of kamkhya Devi. Symbolically mensuration is symbol of women creativity and power to give birth So the deity and the temple of kamkhaya celebrates this Shakti or power within every women.

This description is very little Maa kamkhaya description is more than oceans.from my little knowledge I am trying to describe.

Jai Jai Maa kamkhaya

Jai Maa

[doomedandstoned]

THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW

~Season 6, Episode 42~

Knee deep in December and almost to 2020's end, Billy Goate (Doomed & Stoned), Bucky Brown (The Ripple Effect), and John Gist (Vegas Rock Revolution) convene to share their favorite cuts from the latest Doom Charts rankings. A bevy of heavy discoveries await you, explorers, so get your pith helmets on and let's go spelunking together into the caves of the underground!

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🔥PLAYLIST🔥

INTRO (Theme: Dylan Tucker) (00:00)   1. Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol (no. 30) - "Burger Babes...FROM OUTER SPACE!" (00:31)

HOST SEGMENT I (02:14)   2. Enigma Experience (no. 12) - Equilibrium (23:34)   3. 10 Code (no. 20) - "Ride" (27:32)   4. The Absurd (no. 22) - "Radio Slave U.S.A." (31:15)

HOST SEGMENT II (39:44)   5. Murcielago (no. 11) - "The Highest Low" (51:59)   6. Lykantropi (no. 18) - "Life on Hold" (54:52)   7. Kadavar (no. 17) - (I Won't Leave You) Rosi (59:23)

HOST SEGMENT III (1:04:39)   8. Acid Mess (no. 10) - "Hijos del Sol" (1:15:21)   9. Starmonger (no. 9) - "Rise Of The Fishlords" (1:19:45) 10. Ruff Majik (no. 8) - "Jolly Rodger" (1:27:41)

HOST SEGMENT IV (1:30:55) 11. Witchwood (no. 7) - "A Taste of Winter" (1:44:45) 12. Karkara (no. 6) - "Falling Gods" (1:49:45) 13. Switchblade Jesus (no. 5) - "Behind The Monolith" (1:53:40)

HOST SEGMENT V (1:58:22) 14. Causa Sui (no. 4) - "Gabor's Path" (2:21:37) 15. Dixie Goat (no. 3) - "Widow's Tear" (2:26:04) 16. Thammuz (no. 2) - "Speed Machine" (2:30:44) 17. Sun Crow (no. 1) - "Black It Out" (2:34:53)

OUTRO (2:45:37) 18. Dark Buddha Rising (no. 24) - "Nagathma" (2:46:48)

  (incidental music: Clouds Taste Satanic | thumbnail: Sun Crow)

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Fantastic Four Vol 1 #241

Sun Dec 20 2020 [12:49 PM] Wack'd: Front-cover tagline is one font change away from being a Jeopardy! clue

[12:50 PM] maxwellelvis: Who is "Kang the Conqueror"? [12:51 PM] Wack'd: We open on Nick Fury showing the Four a digital map of Africa with a huge glowing spot indicating a massive power surge [12:51 PM] Umbramatic: welp [12:51 PM] Wack'd: Ben thinks "maybe the ay-rabs got some new power source" which, y'know, fun [12:51 PM] Umbramatic: oh geez [12:52 PM] Wack'd: Anyway the cover's got Black Panther on it, so naturally this surge is on the Wakandan border [12:53 PM] Wack'd: T'Challa won't let SHEILD in, and he's resigned as an Avenger, but Fury figures since the Four are old friends T'Challa might let them do some snooping [12:54 PM] Wack'd: Ben naturally is like "wait, if you're respecting Wakanda's sovereignty how did you guys flag this" [12:55 PM] Wack'd: Turns out SHEILD was following some other weird phenom and stumbled into this by accident. Said phenom turns out to be Attilan flying to the moon [12:55 PM] Umbramatic: oops [12:55 PM] maxwellelvis: Good thing Reed's collar stretches. [12:56 PM] Wack'd: Reed says he took special measures to make sure every airspace that got violated got a message not to worry about it which 1. seems like a good way to make folks worry and 2. I guess he forgot to send SHIELD that memo [12:58 PM] Wack'd: Hmmm. Not sure I like this

[12:58 PM] Wack'd: Also Raiders had like just come out which is weird to think about [12:58 PM] Umbramatic: ben is cosplaying [12:59 PM] Wack'd: He's cosplaying a Mightey Whitey character for an Africa trip which. There are worse options I guess [12:59 PM] Umbramatic: oh [01:00 PM] Umbramatic: that did not sink in at first [01:00 PM] Wack'd: We're still doing huts and loincloths, huh? I am increasingly wondering when he Afrofuturism kicks in and we get a Wakanda that's less...this

[01:01 PM] Umbramatic: ...same [01:01 PM] maxwellelvis: Not until black people start writing for Black Panther. [01:01 PM] Wack'd: (Probably once Black people get a crack at writing it tbh--yeah [01:01 PM] Wack'd: Also: did Bryne change Ben back to a lump for the sole purpose of justifying let's-you-and-him-fight bits [01:02 PM] Wack'd: Because if so that's...actually pretty clever [01:04 PM] Wack'd: Anyway the Four + Frankie go undercover as a safari complete with pith helmets and fatigues. Which always feels more like cosplay than realism when fictional characters do it no matter what the era [01:04 PM] Wack'd: Like when characters from the American south wear white suits. I always assume it's something that got come by thirdhand even though who knows maybe it's a thing [01:05 PM] Wack'd: Well something’s up

[01:07 PM] Wack'd: Hm. The implication that Wakanda has gotten less superstitious because of Europeans is certainly gross!

[01:08 PM] Wack'd: The Four get a closer look and find some Russians had also been investigating. Operative word being "had" because they're all skeletons now [01:08 PM] Bocaj: No telling where the meat ran off to [01:09 PM] Wack'd: No telling indeed [01:10 PM] Wack'd: No sooner do they start investigating than the team are ambushed by a squad of folks in gold-and-red Roman centurion cosplay. Not wanting to blow their cover, the team lets themselves get taken hostage, but Sue turns invisible before she's noticed so the team has an advantage if things need to pop off [01:10 PM] Umbramatic: spooky scary [01:11 PM] Umbramatic: what's with all the fucking cosplay this issue [01:11 PM] Wack'd: The team are led through a mountain stocked with Kirby-esque tech and led out the other side to:

[01:12 PM] Umbramatic: well [01:12 PM] Umbramatic: when in rome [01:13 PM] Wack'd: You know when I asked when the writers will realize Wakandans should probably have some degree of advanced architecture and whathaveyou this is not what I had in mind [01:14 PM] Wack'd: Frankie knows how to deal with sexual harassers and also racists

[01:14 PM] Umbramatic: good [01:14 PM] Wack'd: ...god I hope the guy under that helmet is white because if this isn't deliberate I'm gonna go apeshit [01:15 PM] Wack'd: ......unless I guess a white guy saying that doesn't necessarily mean the white guy writing it is deliberately writing a racist, considering *gestures at Wakanda's whole deal* [01:15 PM] Bocaj: I hope this isn’t nova roma [01:15 PM] Bocaj: That’s supposed to be in South America and also they tend to wear black face [01:15 PM] Bocaj: Not Claremont’s finest hour [01:16 PM] Wack'd: Does the name Gaius Tiberius Augustus Aggrippa mean anything to anyone. Also does it mean anything period, like, is that actual Latin [01:16 PM] maxwellelvis: It's just nouns [01:17 PM] Umbramatic: it sounds like a lot of emperor names mashed together and also that [01:17 PM] Bocaj: It sounds like all Roman names because there were only like twenty names and every Roman used every so far one [01:17 PM] Bocaj: Caligula’s real name was Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus [01:18 PM] Wack'd: Having lost the element of surprise Reed orders an ambush but GTAA manages to neutralize their powers. Including Sue's, which, how'd he even know she was there, c'mon [01:18 PM] Bocaj: Boo [01:18 PM] Umbramatic: boo [01:18 PM] Wack'd: It is time now for the traditional sequence in which the entire team is locked up and has to escape [01:19 PM] Bocaj: It sure happens to them a lot [01:19 PM] Bocaj: You’d think Mr Miracle was a fantastic four member at this rate [01:19 PM] Phantom: Hmm it's interesting how much I associate Latin with species names [01:20 PM] Wack'd: It turns out the deception vis-a-vis Black Panther was just the ol' Queen Amidala gambit. T'challa gets in a Batman boast about how you can't neutralize his powers because his powers are just having worked out a lot [01:20 PM] Umbramatic: MUSCLES [01:21 PM] maxwellelvis: This was before the Heart-Shaped Herb was a thing? [01:21 PM] Wack'd: T'Challa has been put in a slave gally because of course. Reed and Frankie are shackled in dungeons to the ceiling. Sue....has been stripped naked and left in a lavish bedroom [01:21 PM] Umbramatic: ...oh [01:21 PM] Phantom: of course [01:22 PM] Wack'd: GTAA has had "games called in [her] honor" which I assume means Gladiator. Maybe he'll surprise us by being big into baseball, who knows [01:22 PM] maxwellelvis: What are the odds that Byrne actually knows what gladiator games were like? [01:22 PM] maxwellelvis: I'm guessing not very good. [01:22 PM] Umbramatic: GTAA is really into esports [01:22 PM] Wack'd: Middling to low [01:23 PM] Wack'd: T'Challa tries to break Frankie out of her cell by just being like "hey, I'm your king, knock off this fuckery" but the guards aren't having it [01:23 PM] Bocaj: “You can’t neutralize my powers” is a weird flex when you get caught anyway [01:23 PM] Wack'd: Yeah [01:24 PM] Wack'd: GTAA decides to exposit his backstory to Sue [01:26 PM] Bocaj: I like to imagine that she makes the blah blah gesture while he talks [01:26 PM] Wack'd: He was an ancient Roman soldier sent to investigate a "falling star" which, of course, was actually an alien spaceship. He managed to dispatch its sole occupant and steal their armor, which imparted to him great smartitude [01:26 PM] Bocaj: Sure, of course [01:26 PM] maxwellelvis: Aaarrgh! No! Not another Prester John! [01:27 PM] maxwellelvis: John Byrne, have you no decency at all, sir?! [01:27 PM] Wack'd: By the time he got back his platoon had pulled out of the region for reasons unknown so he did what anyone from another culture with superior force and no mandate does when stranded across borders and take up dictatorship as a hobby [01:28 PM] Wack'd: So, uh. [01:28 PM] Wack'd: There are some...coloring discrepancies...in this book [01:29 PM] Umbramatic: oh [01:29 PM] Wack'd: I glossed over a panel with a Black Frankie Raye because, uh, I didn't really have a good joke about it, frankly [01:29 PM] Wack'd: But it seems instructive because there are two flashback panels where GTAA is colored Black and then a further three where he's a white guy [01:30 PM] Bocaj: In fairness [01:30 PM] Bocaj: That is in character for a Roman [01:30 PM] Bocaj: The dictatorship as a hobby I mean [01:31 PM] Wack'd: Dude has gone increasingly mask-off, racism-wise--during his backstory he boasts about rendering all his subjects mute because their language offended them and trying to teach them Roman was a bust because he still hated their "gibbering monkey voices" [01:31 PM] Wack'd: So, uh, I guess we'll see if this issue ends with An Aesop [01:31 PM] Bocaj: .... [01:31 PM] Umbramatic: wow dude [01:32 PM] maxwellelvis: He... DOES know there were black people in Rome, right? [01:32 PM] Wack'd: Bryne? I mean it's the 80s [01:32 PM] maxwellelvis: Either or [01:32 PM] Wack'd: Most pop culture assumed every country had monoracial societies in The Past until like ten years ago [01:33 PM] Bocaj: Not that rome wasn’t racist to anyone not from rome but [01:33 PM] Wack'd: You can pin a lot on Bryne but "yeah of course Romans were all white" is pretty on par [01:33 PM] Wack'd: Oh also GTAA deliberately named himself after Caligula so there's that settled [01:33 PM] Bocaj: Sure [01:34 PM] Umbramatic: so we can stop calling him Grand Theft Auto Anarchy [01:34 PM] Bocaj: We don’t have to [01:34 PM] Wack'd: Anyway GTAA wants Sue as his bride and if she refuses he will force Johnny and Ben to fight [01:35 PM] Wack'd: ...to the death, not like usual [01:35 PM] Bocaj: Ha [01:35 PM] Bocaj: It’d be funny if she was like “oh is it Tuesday already?” [01:35 PM] Wack'd: *long, deep sigh*

[01:36 PM] Wack'd: Thankfully Sue's immediately like "his powers come from his helmet, right? All I gotta do is take the helmet off" [01:37 PM] Wack'd: Turns out that helmet granted lots of powers [01:37 PM] Wack'd: Like immortality for him and his subjects [01:37 PM] Wack'd: And structural integrity for his city [01:37 PM] Wack'd: And the suppressive effect on the Four's powers [01:38 PM] Wack'd: Aaaaaaaaand there's no ontological inertia [01:38 PM] Umbramatic: ._. [01:38 PM] Wack'd: So just by taking the helmet off GTAA and all his slaves immediately die and the city crumbles [01:38 PM] Bocaj: Of course [01:38 PM] Wack'd: Kind of a bum deal for the people who spent twenty centuries in servitude [01:39 PM] Wack'd: "WE'RE FREE!" 💀 [01:39 PM] Bocaj: Sue: “well that’s the most people I’ve ever killed at once” [01:39 PM] Umbramatic: F [01:40 PM] Bocaj: “I never wanted to be dead, Surfer. Frankly, I only died out of peer pressure” [01:40 PM] Wack'd: And so everyone escapes, Reed does an exposition dump, and the story immediately ends [01:40 PM] Bocaj: No moral? [01:40 PM] Wack'd: Nope [01:41 PM] Umbramatic: "don't wear funky alien helmets kids" [01:41 PM] Wack'd: So...maybe Bryne was just being racist. I mean it seems probable but also it goes waaaaaaay mask-off in a way I don't think even Bryne woulda thought acceptable [01:43 PM] Wack'd: Anyway I do not think I have time for another issue before I gotta leave for work. Perhaps when I return later this evening we will do the next story, which is about everyone's favorite established Four baddie [01:43 PM] Wack'd: Terrax the Untamed [01:43 PM] Umbramatic: :O [01:43 PM] Wack'd: Who despite being from the 70s and thus far more recent I still had to look up

[twisted-trunk]

 I Don’t Have Time for This [A Day In The Life]

I drag myself up from my bed, heaving heavy winter blankets off of me. I take one step away from my place of rest and despair. My medicine, pills placed in two separate containers; morning and night, lay on the dresser that functions more as a tall nightstand. Choosing the one closest to the door, I squint and try to remember the day. It shouldn’t be so hard between taking my meds and keeping my medical diary. Good thing I don’t fully close the tab from the day before. 

I take my medicine: some float on the water in my mouth, some are small, some are big. I down half my water bottle. My heating pad clinks to life as I tap the remote on the cord three times then slink back into place. I maneuver my laptop in front of me, slightly tilted then click on a YouTube video.

The window for sleep is gone. 

I’m tired. 

I open my phone. 

The time flashes brightly at me then gives way to my home screen. I click the weather app. The barometer reads 1023 hPa (hexopascals; normal or one atmosphere is 1013 hPa), last night ended at 1018 hPa. What’s the point in this, I ask myself even as I dutifully record it in my medical diary; I feel like shit either way and it’s been doing fucking backflips. 

Next, I record the time: 6:35. It’s winter. The sun isn’t up. My birds are, for the moment, quiet. The house isn’t awake. Save for the annoying neighbor that straight-piped their muffler, the world is quiet. The fish tank’s filter pours water back down into the tank. Car lights flash on the wall through the slight opening my layered curtains allow. Soon, the sun will come and the light will force its way into my world far before I’m ready. 

I can already tell it won’t be a cloudy day. 

I click a new YouTube video, something’s ought to catch my attention. I pray the depression med will finally do something. I pray the rest of the medicine with do something. The dose of one has been upped, there has to be a difference, right?

Through muscle memory, I click through apps. Weather. Instagram. Solitaire. Tumblr. Instagram. Safari. Solitaire. 

I check the time. 

6:53 am. 

Unconsciously, I sigh. I check my blogs though I know nothing’s new, no one has interacted with them; no notifications tell me otherwise. Still, though, I check. Maybe someone will want to talk with me. I think I expressed that enough? I hope I did. 

I don’t want the disaster or awkwardness from attempting to make conversation first but then really having nothing to say besides please talk to me, give me something, anything, I need something to take my attention away. Let me know I’m not alone. 

7:03 am. 

Light is invading more of my space. I pull the stiff blankets up as a pathetic barrier against it. I exit the YouTube video and search my recommended for something. 

I refresh. 

I refresh again. 

One more time. I click on something. I play with my phone again. The water continues to fall and splash. I open a different app. The noise grates on my thin nerves if I focus on it. I try my mindless games. Nope. 

I flow through Instagram and tumblr and instagram again. 

8:59 am. 

It’s bright and I don’t want to get up but I’m thirsty, and it’s a horrible feeling and my mouth is dry and my doctor even prescribed me to drink more and I don’t want a kidney stone. 

I don’t know how long it takes, but I get up and trample around my bed to fold the curtains in. The best it’ll get. The room is shaded only slightly; more so if it were darker out. Winter, I think, it’ll be darker, I think, but as ever, I remind myself that snow reflects light and it will be worse than a bright summer’s day.  

I grab the same cup I used the day before. My inner germaphobe winces but nothing’s been in there but water; I barely had enough energy yesterday to make myself a small bowl of pasta. 

I throw my forlorn, now warm compress into the freezer and ensure it’s shut with a knee to handle. I hate this freezer. 

I refill my glass and go to the bathroom. 

I come back and stand in front of my bed. Just do it, it think. You’re already up, I think. 

I shame myself into doing my physical therapy—at least the exercises I am able to do. Halfway through my first, I remember the ones I could have done before ever getting up to warm myself up for the rest. That was the plan I’d had for two weeks yet could never quite do it without flipping the order. I’ll lay down again anyway, after this I won’t have much pith and vinegar left. 

I never do. 

A few in, the hardest ones, I feel sick. Whether it be the “exhaustion” or unintentional dehydration or my poor eating habit courtesy of a very sickly stomach, I don’t know. 

I grit my teeth and focus on whatever distraction I’d last clicked on. 

I do some stretches in the middle, finish what’s left of it all while I’m still up. Then I lay down. I open my phone again as I begin this round of exercises and stretches. 

10:15 am. I write down when I started in my medical diary, giving a very wide birth of time considering my... inabilities. 

I click through apps again. YouTube plays in the background. My birds rise to an unknown challenge. I get up and whisper sweet nothings at them, half chiding them for being so damn loud. They direct their complaints directly at me. I give them food and open their cage doors. One flies directly onto my shoulder. Another makes declaration and flies past me to a tall perch. Two others share the same shyness. The rest take their time. Despite the time I’ve spent with them and my attempts at training over the last year or so, the second two flee my attempts to hold them. The last addition plain out tries to bite me. He doesn’t do it hard and still takes my finger as a perch, but his cuddlebug-ness needs direction. Still, he has his moments. I mumble at him and lightly chide him, petting him with my cheek as one hand has my phone and the other is holding him. I set my phone down and make entreaty towards the shyer two. They make exclamation and half hearted attempts to flee. They’ll come around. They all will, eventually. But now I have to lay down again. 

I pause in my room again. I look around. At what, I’m not quite sure, the thoughts come and go, barely a thing left behind. I mull on the thought of food. 

Nah. Nothing’s “ready.” Pulling something together seems too much. I set my cuddle bug on a perch on their birdy playground I have set up in my room. It’s next to the bike I got as an early Christmas present. 

I gather my laptop and make myself comfortable on the bike. I watch a YouTube video, my phone still open on solitaire. 

The video ends. I catch a glimpse of the time: 11:45 am. 

Nearly time to take my midday pills, I think as my legs continue to move and my finger clicks on another video. 

Finally, something catches my attention. 

I still play solitaire on my phone. 

I add a science-y video to my watch list. 

I check the barometer. 

1019 hPa. 

I keep peddling. 

1:51 pm. 

I get up and take my midday pills. 

I blow kisses to my birds as I refill my water. 

I stare at the counter for a minute. Food, I think, it’s about time. I need food. I evaluate my appetite and what my stomach would accept. Spaghetti, I decide. I retrieve my laptop and listen to a tiktok while I wait for the water to boil, and eat. 

I retreat back to my room to lay down and record the time I took my meds and ate. 

I text a friend. Something they say triggers me. I take a breath. That’s not how they meant it, I say to myself and do my best to tone down my response. It still comes off rudely. I hope they don’t take it the wrong way. 

3:47 pm. 

The light has faded some, the shadows have shifted. 

My friend and I make light conversation. Something viscerally in me feels off. It’s like when I dread something. 

I try to distract myself. 

3:51 pm. 

I move back to my bike. 

3:56 pm. 

I keep peddling. 

4:03 pm. 

I keep peddling. 

4:08 pm. 

I keep peddling. 

4:12 pm. 

I keep peddling. 

4:16 pm. 

I refill my water bottle. 

4:23 pm. 

I keep peddling. 

4:27 pm. 

I keep peddling. 

4:34 pm. 

I keep peddling. 

1022 hPa. 

My room is slightly darker than before. A YouTube compilation drones in my vision. 

Tomorrow will be rinse and repeat.

For the nth time, I think about all that I could be doing. I know why I can’t yet I shame myself all the same. 

I find something interesting to watch. 

Then refresh. 

And refresh.

And refresh. 

And refresh. 

I give up and turn to Netflix. 

Nothing. 

Something borderline interesting. 

6:50 pm. 

Dinner, maybe? Energy level? Nada. I’ll think about it later. 

Another video plays. I play on my phone, half interested in everything. 

7:13 pm. 

Dinner? 

I need food, I think. 

Can’t. 

I’ll regret it, I know. 

I’ll probably binge some in the morning whenever I get up. 

I don’t move from my place. I try to down talk myself for bed, for the hope of not staying up half the night. 

I drag myself up from my bed, heaving heavy winter blankets off of me. I take one step away from my place of rest and despair. My medicine, pills placed in two separate containers; morning and night, lay on the dresser that functions more as a tall nightstand. I take my medicine: some float on the water in my mouth, some are small, some are big. I down half my water bottle. My heating pad clinks back to life as I tap the remote on the cord three times then slink back into place. I close my laptop and set it further from me. 

That sickly feeling comes back. 

I realize it’s dread. 

I open my phone. 

[NOTE: this is not about suicide—I noticed after writing this that some things could be taken in such a way, hence this note.]

12/7/20

To those suffering: I see you; I support you; I love you.

~Rosa ❤️

[wasalwaysagreatpickle]

Tuesday 25 March 1834

7 1/4

12 1/2

Very fine morning Fahrenheit 47 1/2˚ at 7 1/2 a.m. gave Charles Howarth a scold for going and staying at Halifax all yesterday morning – when working for me not to go to Halifax on any account what ever without 1st letting me know – either to work for me or let it alone – but when he gave up, he must give up his place too, for I must have someone there I could depend upon – out with Pickles and his 5 men, and the 2 masons and lad till breakfast with Marian at 9 and stayed talking till 10 1/4 – 

Then at Estate plans – till Mr Musgrave came at 1 10/.. – administered in 20 minutes – very well – the sacrament to my aunt, my sister and myself and Cordingley and my aunts maid Mrs Oddy and my man servant Thomas  – very kind and proper in his manner to my aunt – 

At my desk again at 2 1/4 and from then to 5 5/.. at Estate plans – making out instructions for leases – comparing contents in acres and days work and making other calculations – went out at 5 10/.. with the workmen and then in my walk near an hour – 

Dinner at 7 and coffee – Thomas Greenwood came about 7 1/2 and stayed till 10 25/.. – Mr Fuller seems to think £120 per annum too much for Northgate – and may be inclined to higgle about it – I said that would not do – Greenwood wished me much to say £110 – said I did not feel inclined to do that – but would not do any ill natured thing to Mrs [Scatchad], and rather than compel to pay the rent and leave the house unoccupied I would take £110 for the remainder of her lease, that will expire next May 12 month – Said I had had what the offerer called a very large bid for Northgate – had said I would not sell it without letting Mr Fuller know and perhaps should not sell it now but did not know – Greenwood thought he knew of a servant likely to suit me who had lived and travelled with Lord Cavendish – long unmeaning talk about coals, stone, etc. the pith of which was, to put all up by ticket – Northgate too, when I wished to sell it – 

Letter nearly 3 widely written pages from Mrs Sutherland (Udale house) to inquire after Miss Walker, as she knew I had been lately with her – grateful for my kindness to her etc. etc. – had heard though not from Miss Walker of Mr Edwards interference – ‘he could do no good, and was sure to give offence – he might have felt assured that we should take every prudent precaution in regard to Ann – however Dr Belcombe judged most wisely in not replying to the questions put’ – 

Near 1/2 hour with my aunt – wrote the last 15 lines till 11 1/4 p.m. very fine day – Fahrenheit 51˚ at 12 tonight till which hour reading the newspaper –

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  নিজস্ব প্রতিনিধি: পাঠানকোট থেকে কাংড়ার জ্বালামুখী মায়ের মন্দির কমবেশি ১১১ কিমি। গাড়িতে লাগবে ঘণ্টা তিন-চার। এই সতীপীঠে পড়েছ��ল সতীর জিভ বা জিহ্বা। শাস্ত্রে বলা হয়েছে  অগ্নি হচ্ছেন স্বয়ং ঈশ্বর বা শিব। আর তাঁর জিহ্বা বা জিভ হল প্রকৃতি বা শক্তি।

মন্দিরের উত্তরের দেওয়ালে মূল শিখা। এই অগ্নিশিখা নিরবচ্ছিন্ন। নির্গত হচ্ছে অনবরত। এটি ছাড়াও রয়েছে আরও ছ’টি শিখা। এই সাতটি অগ্নিশিখাকে বলা হয়– সপ্ত মাতৃকা। সপ্ত মাতৃকা হলেন নবদুর্গার প্রতীক। সেইকারণেই হয়তো অগ্নিশিখা স্পর্শ করলে অদ্ভুত এক তাপ অনুভূত হলেও কখনওই পুড়বে না হাত। মন্দির ঘিরে রয়েছে বহু কিংবদন্তি। শোনা যায়, ফিরোজ তুঘলক সেইসময় এই মন্দির ভেঙে গুঁড়িয়ে দেওয়ার জন্য অগ্ৰসর হচ্ছিলেন তাঁর সেনাদল নিয়ে।  হঠাৎ দেখা গেল, লক্ষ লক্ষ মৌমাছি তাঁর সেনাদের লক্ষ্য করে আক্রমণ করেছে। মৌমাছির আক্রমণে অসহায় সেনাদল। পালাবার পথ খুঁজতে হয় ফিরোজ তুঘলকের সেনাদলকে। শেষমেশ মন্দির ধ্বংসের ভাবনা ত্যাগ করে পালিয়ে যেতে বাধ্য হন ফিরোজ তুঘলক আর তাঁর সেনাদলকে।

কাটোক রাজা ভূমিচন্দ্র তাঁর পূর্বপুরুষের কাছে শুনেছিলেন, কাংড়ায়  কালীধর পাহাড়ে সতীর জিহ্বা বা জিভ পড়েছিল। এবং সেই দেবীর তেজে অহোরাত্র জ্বলছে। রাজা সেই খোঁজে রাজ্যের চারিদিকে লোক পাঠালেন। পেলেন না। ব্যর্থ রাজা নগরকোটের কাছে তৈরি করলেন এক মন্দির। হঠাৎ একদিন এক মেষশাবকের পুত্র আবিষ্কার করল একটি জায়গায় পাহাড়-গা থেকে আগুনের শিখা ছড়িয়ে পড়ছে। মেষপালক পুত্র রাজাকে নিয়ে দেখাল। রাজা ভূমিচন্দ্র বুঝতে পারলেন এই হল সতীর জিহ্বা। অগ্নিশিখা কেন্দ্র করে রাজা ভূমিচন্দ্র নির্মাণ করলেন  মন্দির। দেবী এখানে হলেন  অম্বিকা। ভৈরব হলেন উন্মত্ত। স্থানীয়দের কাছে দেবীর পরিচিতি লণ্ঠনওয়ালি। আবার অনেকের মতে মেষপালক নন, মা জ্বালামুখীকে খুঁজে পেয়েছিলেন রাজবাড়ির গোয়ালা।

রাজা ভূমিচন্দ্র এই মন্দির নির্মাণ করেছিলেন সত্যযুগে। পরবর্তী কালে  দ্বাপরে মন্দিরের সংস্কার করে একেবারে নতুনভাবে মন্দির নির্মাণ করলেন পঞ্চপাণ্ডব।

মুঘল সম্রাট আকবরও এসেছিলেন একবার। তিনি একটি সোনার ছাতাও তৈরি করে দেন দেবীর উদ্দেশে। হয়েছিলটা কি একবার এক তীর্থযাত্রীকে সন্দেহবশে ধরে নিয়ে আসা হয় আকবরের কাছে। সেই ভক্ত বাদশাহকে নমস্কার জানিয়ে বলেন, ‘আকবর বাদশা আমি চলেছিলাম জ্বালাজি মাতার দর্শনের জন্য। আপনার লোক আমাকে মিছিমিছি ধরে বন্দি করেছে।’ লোকটি সম্রাটকে দেবীর মাহাত্ম্য জানান। মুঘল সম্রাট আকবরকে প্রমাণও দিয়েছিলেন দেবী-মাহাত্ম্যর। তারপর সম্রাট আকবর একদিন লোকলশকর নিয়ে আসেন জ্বালামুখী। সম্রাট আকবর খালিপায়ে দেবী দর্শন করেন। এবং সওয়া মন সোনার তৈরি ছাতাটি নিজে বয়ে এনে দেবীর উদ্দেশে নিবেদন করেন।

জানা যায়, শিখদের দশম গুরু গোবিন্দ সিং নিত্য গ্রন্থসাহিব পাঠ এবং পুজো করতেন মন্দিরে। পাঞ্জাবকেশরী মহা��াজা রণজিৎ সিং মন্দিরের চুড়ো বাঁধিয়ে দেন সোনার কলসে। পরবর্তী ��ময়ে তাঁর পুত্র খড়্গ সিং মন্দিরের দরজা রুপো দিয়ে মুড়ে দেন।

বহুকাল ধরে বহু ভক্তেরা আসেন জ্বালামুখী মায়ের দর্শনে। পুজোর ডালা পূজারির হাতে দিলেই উনি নিয়ে পুজো করে মায়ের আশীর্বাদী ডালা ফেরত দেন। মন্দির অঙ্গনে রয়েছে ব্রহ্মকুণ্ড, গোমুখী এবং রুদ্রকুণ্ড। শোনা যায়, মা খুব জাগ্রত। ভক্তের মনোবাঞ্ছা পূরণ করেন।

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[csowmya]

9 Things to consider while choosing a SIEM Solution

Today, network protection is probably the greatest worry for associations no matter how you look at it. Throughout the long term, digital dangers have become both in number and force. According to a review by the University of Maryland, a programmer assault happens like clockwork on normal making digital assaults alarmingly normal.

Data security dangers have turned into a difficult issue in this day and age. Concentrates on show that 64% of organizations have encountered online assaults while 62% have been presented to phishing and social designing assaults. 59% of organizations experienced malevolent code and botnets and 51 percent experienced forswearing of administration assaults. Information compromises can be profoundly harming and expensive for organizations. As per Juniper Research, Privacy Consultant, cybercrime will probably cost organizations a sum of more than $2 trillion out of 2019.

In this unique situation, putting resources into the right Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) arrangements becomes critical for proceeded with information insurance, which is one of the vital perspectives for continuous business achievement.

With the right arrangement set up, organizations can not just recognize assaults continuously or before they occur, they can likewise respond to and alleviate dangers before any potential information spill occurs. More often than not, assaults never happen abruptly or in disengagement. Whenever followed intently, dubious action prompting a potential information break like penetration, parallel development, best cyber security services, exfiltration and so on can be recognized weeks or months before an expected flare-up. Consequently, have the right SIEM answer for protect against expensive cyberattacks.

The inquiry then, at that point, is, what elements should a CISO consider while picking a SIEM arrangement?

Here are a few things to pay special mind to:

Danger Intelligence and Analytics Capabilities

Consider how the apparatus effectively consolidates legal sciences information with Security Operations and applies ML and AI to the logs created. AI can extraordinarily improve this cycle through its capacity to gain from the host climate. This gives the framework a specific edge while performing particular assignments.

Most customary SIEM arrangements offer standard information logging, which depends intensely on alarms from a security instrument. It empowers progressed abilities to perform log pattern investigation, danger hunting, estimating, and so forth Natural AI calculations guarantee simplicity of use and offer help for security examination. Simultaneously, AI saves time from the designers, permitting them to zero in on more significant salary off exercises, dangers, and so on

With danger knowledge capacities, the arrangement can give wise experiences about network conduct and furthermore record any dubious action that could show noxious purpose.

Capacity to Manage Logs

A decent SIEM instrument should gather various logs from different sources, store them in a concentrated area and oversee them as per the necessity of the security group. It ought to examine every single log that is produced.

Correspond Security Incidents

The device ought to have the option to connect security occasions and recognize dangers dependent on the relationship conditions given. For instance, assuming a beast power endeavor occurs, then, at that point, the instrument needs to effectively recognize it, bring the logs, and make a record of the series of occasions and stamps alongside creating high alarms.

Idealness

With regards to network protection, time is of pith. If a DDoS assault cuts down your sites and your frameworks, you really want to guarantee that it returns up in the most limited time conceivable. The more extended the vacation, more noteworthy is the harm to notoriety also the deficiency of income.

Any assault should be tended to through an examination of both ongoing and verifiable security occasions, just as contributions from an assortment of context oriented information sources. Hence, it is vital that your IT security group is on top of potential dangers and has the vital updates nearby consistently. If not, it probably won't be exceptional to take on the danger.

Revealing

Essentially, a redid announcing design that records and reports tickets dependent on nonstop checking is valuable. Such profundity of announcing is troublesome through manual following, so a computerized framework is best.

Creating SIEM reports physically isn't recommended as it is a tedious cycle and it might affect the proficiency of the entire Incident reaction and discovery process. It is constantly proposed to pass via computerization.

Subsequently, the instrument ought to have the capacity to produce different sorts of reports that can show the log checking process, provides you with a comprehension of the degree, on which the Security Operations are being applied, programmed reports at the hour of break and significantly the reports that can be utilized during security consistence process.

The announcing apparatus should be prepared to help reports, for example,

Time series report

In general appropriation diagram

Network Traffic

Administration Usage

What's more, Geo IP log tail charts assist in everyday revealing and furthermore gives choices regard to the decision of report.

Criminology Capabilities

Criminology assume a key part in tackling break episodes. Except if the SIEM arrangement supplier has center ability in data security, they might be unfit to aid the occasion of an episode. Sadly, most customary SIEM specialist co-ops come up short on the security insight and danger the board abilities needed to make an ideal move. Thus, this should be a boundary for thought.

Going for a POC

Since facilitating a SIEM device requires extensive network safety ability, the instrument that you pick needs to consider your current in-house capacities in overseeing security. In case you as of now have a group, you want to assess its insight and ability to perform security activities and work out an understanding as needs be with the SIEM arrangement supplier.

Likewise, it is constantly recommended to go for a Proof of Concept while picking a SIEM instrument. Question yourself on whether the highlights of the SIEM instrument and its speed lines up with your organization's security necessities.

The Ability to Ingest and Process Network Logs

Any organization logging process ordinarily creates a lot of information that should be followed, ingested and handled effectively. Likewise, this liable to come from an assortment of sources and be in a large number of various arrangements. For example, the approaching information could emerge out of sources like firewalls, switches, or hostile to infection programming to give some examples. Retro-fitting a current SIEM apparatus with new connecters for new wellsprings of information is frequently an exorbitant and tedious cycle.

Thus, the capacity of the SIEM instrument to ingest and effectively handle information from an assortment of sources is significant.

Simplicity of Deployment and Resource Utilization

For the SIEM apparatus to run effectively, it needs the collaboration of different divisions inside the association. Consequently, the organization cycle requires the participation, all things considered. The less complex the sending system, the simpler it will be to get intracompany support. Likewise, better asset usage is a significant variable with regards to picking the right SIEM.

To summarize, overseeing security is perhaps the greatest test for organizations given the elevated danger scene. A decent SIEM arrangement assumes a vital part in guaranteeing supported accomplishment for your association. In any case, the accomplishment of a SIEM arrangement pivots vigorously on picking the right SIEM arrangement in any case.

There are various SIEM apparatuses in the market with different highlights and capacities. However, the best apparatus is the one that lines up with your association's security prerequisites and its capacity to gain from guidelines to screen and chase dangers in the most ideal manner. Pick astutely!

[jennetnormanart]

Closing out the year, sharing all 100 paintings I completed in 2020! I am so proud of my achievement. I have never been so productive! Wishing everyone a joyous New Year's Eve! Though it may not be as festive as in previous years, I hope everyone finds comfort, warmth, and feels love. With the new year upon us tonight, here’s to the beginning of a new cycle of light, growth, and life. 🥂 Here are my 2020 paintings in order starting from the left top corner: 1)”Spring Visitors” 2)”Rain” 3)”Saltwater” 4)”Desert Teapot” 5)”Hummingbird” 6)”Pomegranate” 7)”Ancient Merv” 8)”Country Charm” 9)”National Heritage of Honor” 10)”Autum Joy Ride” 11)”Sunset Decamp” 12)”Summer Bliss” 13)”In the Mist of Time” 14)”Cardinal” 15)”Autumn Reflection” 16)”Dragonfly” 17)”Forest Mist” 18)”Dragonfly II” 19)”Autumn Trail” 20)”The Kiss” 21)”Dragonfly III” 22)”Season of Change” 23)”Awe of the Evening” 24)”The Bloom of Flowers” 25)”Sparkling Water” 26)”Autumn Glow” 27)”Fall Stroll” 28)”With Zest, There is Pith” 29)”Summer Morning” 30)”Frida” 31)”Pomegranates” 32)”Golden Forest” 33)”Chadwick Boseman” 34)”The Robbins Retreat” 35)”Effervesce” 36)”The Portrait of Van Gogh” 37)”Hold Me Tight” 38)”Fall Symphony” 39)”Sparkling Water II” 40)”Lily Pond” 41)”Rhododendron Dreams” 42)”Pomegranates II” 43)”By the Lake” 44)”An Autumns Morning” 45)”Summer Bloom” 46)”Dograma” 47)”Stork” 48)”Poppies” 49)”Midday Snack” 50)”Sparkling Water III” 51)”Peter Borst” 52)”Golden Hour” 53)”Frida Kahlo” 54)”Golden Hour II” 55)”Wild Flowers” 56)”Fall in Love” 57)”Divine Sunset” 58)”Blue Dreams” 59)”Apple Branch” 60)”Ballet Shoes” 61)”Morning Walk” 62)”Pomegranates III” 63)”Marilyn Monroe” 64)”Gold Heartbeat” 65)”Radiating Warmth” 66)”Frida Kahlo” 67)”Rain Doesn't Slow the City” 68)”Sunset at Low Tide” 69)”Withy Wands” 70)”Reflections” 71)”Wildflowers II” 72)”Water Lilies” 73)”Cardinal II” 74)”Hummingbird II” 75)”Sunrise” 76)”Autumn’s Arrival” 77)”Poppy Field” 78)”Fisherman’s Retreat” 79)”The Secret” 80)”Ballet Shoes II” 81)”Falling Apart Together” 82)”Summer Camp” 83)”Curtain of Fall” 84)”Dream a little Dream” 85)”Reach for the Sky” 86)”Thoughtful Evening” 87)”Autumn Oasis” 88)”Japanese Maple” the rest can’t fit😭 (at Charlotte, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJd3MRbHOUL/?igshid=7s77swdbf4tk

[mtgbracket]

Round of 4096 - Batch 52

You can now vote in Batch 52.

Feature match: A really big one today - Path to Exile vs Pithing Needle!

Currently open batches:

Batch 52 Batch 51 Batch 50 Batch 49 Batch 48 Batch 47 Batch 46

Batch 45 results will be up shortly.

Full list of matchups:

Blightsteel Colossus vs Oros, the Avenger Palinchron vs Yosei, the Morning Star Drag Under vs Eastern Paladin Accursed Witch vs Hedonist's Trove Karplusan Forest vs Puppet Strings Dragonlair Spider vs Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion Citadel Siege vs Lupine Prototype Boggart Ram-Gang vs Grim Flowering Dimir Keyrune vs Mirror Mockery Harpoon Sniper vs Relentless Assault Thromok the Insatiable vs Dack's Duplicate Ulvenwald Hydra vs Geistblast Royal Assassin vs One Dozen Eyes Spider Umbra vs Sultai Ascendancy Reaper King vs Grasp of Darkness Knight-Captain of Eos vs Hero's Demise Turnabout vs Mana Reflection Orcish Artillery vs Jace's Sanctum Banishing Light vs Welding Sparks Aura Mutation vs Ukud Cobra Scute Mob vs Behemoth Sledge Murder of Crows vs Thunderous Wrath Yavimaya Enchantress vs Seal of Fire Jeskai Infiltrator vs Nemesis of Reason Erdwal Illuminator vs Song of the Dryads Headhunter vs Veteran Warleader Marionette Master vs Magus of the Future Bound by Moonsilver vs Treachery Pathrazer of Ulamog vs Thundermare Drain Power vs Wild Mongrel Path to Exile vs Pithing Needle Oona, Queen of the Fae vs Sporemound

[fabianjahnhogler]

Track walking in the rainy morning sunlight. I am really impressed by how good cover the @villagehats pith helmet gives. It kept at least half of me dry! The M-51 parka was soaked though... 🙈 . . . . #safari #southafrica #menswear #mensatyle #mensfashion #classicmenswear #classicfashion #classicstyle #pithhelmet #safarihat #boulderslodge #parka #m51parka #fishtailparka #gurkha #neckerchief #olof1982 #broadwayandsons #ralphlauren #rl #adidas #thedapperswede #dapper (på/i Malelane)

[ryasktourism]

51 Pith Temple in Burdwan Spend your weekend in Burdwan. www.ryssktourism.com Follow us in Facebook Weekend Tours Burdwan www.facebook.com/weekendtoursingi (at Burdwan) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwcoZ_CAi9K/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p0r8o66bv3kq

[bethanycrawfordportfolio]

To Earth or Heaven: Life between deaths at Tarapith smashan, 2017 (27mins)

split screen, single channel, digital, colour, sound

password: movingimage

online sketchbook: http://bethanytarapith.tumblr.com/

To Earth or Heaven is a short experimental documentary following a day in the cremation grounds of the holy Hindu pilgrimage site of Tarapith in West Bengal, India. The film observes the process of the last sacrifice as the ritualised burning of the corpse (known as ‘antyesti’) whilst simultaneously exploring the lives of the visiting pilgrims, sadhus and tantrikas who live amongst the cremation grounds in order to attain a greater union with their goddess, Tara. Within the Hindu belief Tarapith is one of 51 Shakti-pith holy sites in India - each one believed to be the location upon which a body part of the goddess Sati fell from the heavens and landed on earth. At this location in West Bengal, Sati is worshipped in her form of Tara, the goddess of death and rebirth who resides amongst cremation grounds, and is the cyclical propelling force of life. The film is developed upon the Tantric belief in confronting and assimilating reality in all its oppositional horror and beauty as essential in order to emancipate oneself from the illusory nature of existence. An exploration of cultural attitudes and proximity to death, the film acts as a platform for reflective engagement with the notion of death, and thus life.

[philologistandbibliophile]

To thief is greatest honor, greater seen In acts of grossest pith that awes the weak, In daylight robbery writ large from mean, An outsize base that weary desperate seeks. And I that thieves each moment of your kiss, The look, reply that long denied me so, No greater loathing can attract but this, The cruel rebuke that serves to keep us low. And so the dumbing world its axis turns And reckons fancy's flights, imagined slights, The simpler, crueler times for which it yearns In secret silence of the darker nights,      And fails to understand the fatal joke:      Nostalgia's longing for a present yoke.

51. ‘‘To Thief.” Perdida’s Way.