#dl naveed

[infoiberico]

📰🐷🔊AHORA PUEDE ESCUCHAR LAS PUBLICACIONES DE INFOIBERICO.COM AQUÍ👇 [spotifyplaybutton play="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3pvqZkLlCpKha7Q0Ly7teU?si=CJ_2gFV9QHOdvpesSPt_qQ"] La producción porcina contribuye de forma importante a la producción de ganadera mundial, y su liderazgo y expansión está condicionada por una correcta gestión medioambiental de los subproductos/residuos generados. Las deyecciones fecales y urinarias en forma de purín son el principal subproducto/residuo a gestionar dentro del marco legal vigente, por ello el objetivo de este trabajo es analizar en condiciones de granja comercial el volumen y composición de los purines de cerdos de engorde y sus principales factores de variación. Material y métodos Se han utilizado los datos procedentes de 11 granjas de engorde de porcino situadas en Cataluña y Aragón, con un total de 41.512 cerdos híbridos (Landrace x Large-White) x Pietrain entre los 19 y 100kg de peso vivo. En cada granja los animales se alojaron en 2 naves idénticas y se sometieron al mismo sistema de manejo y alimentación. Los grupos de 10-15 animales fueron alojados en corrales en los que disponían de una tolva circular para el suministro del pienso a voluntad y de un bebedero de cazoleta adicional. Los animales fueron alimentados siguiendo un sistema de 3 fases: Fase 1: de 20 a 40kg, con un 16,7% de proteína bruta, un 1,18% de lisina y 0,51% de fósforo. Fase 2: de 40 a 70kg, con un 15,6% de proteína bruta, un 1,16% de lisina y 0,43% de fósforo. Fase 3: de 70 a 100kg, con un 14,8% de proteína bruta, un 1,02% de lisina y 0,42% de fósforo. Las dietas fueron suplementadas con aminoácidos sintéticos (L-lisina, DL-metionina, L-treonina y L-triptófano) para cubrir los requerimientos nutricionales y el equilibrio de proteína ideal, así como con fitasas exógenas para mejorar la disponibilidad del fósforo en las materias primas (6-fitasa: 750UI/kg). Los controles en cada nave fueron realizados durante 2 ciclos de engorde consecutivos entre septiembre y agosto del siguiente año, tomando registros de peso inicial y final de los cerdos, así como consumo de pienso y agua. La producción de purín se evaluó por balance de volumen en cada una de las fosas de cada nave, tomándose una muestra de purín al final de cada fase para determinar sus propiedades físico-químicas. Los datos fueron analizados mediante el paquete estadístico SAS mediante el procedimiento GLM considerando como efectos fijos la época del año (otoño-invierno vs. primavera-verano) y la fase de crecimiento (20-40kg, 40-70kg o 70-100 kg). Resultados y discusión En la tabla 1 se presentan los resultados de rendimientos productivos promedio de los animales controlados. Puede verse como el índice de conversión fue mayor en otoño-invierno (+0,1kg pienso/kg carne) que en primavera-verano. El consumo de agua tendió a ser mayor en la época de primavera-verano (3,9 ±0,2l/cerdo/día) que en la época de otoño-invierno (3,5 ±0,2l/cerdo/día), e incrementó con el progreso del ciclo de engorde (2,4l/cerdo/día en la fase 1, 3,9l/cerdo/día en la fase 2, y 5,2l/cerdo/día en la fase 3). Los valores de volumen promedio en la tabla 2 fueron similares en las 2 épocas estudiadas y se encuentran entre los niveles normales referenciados, pero se sitúan en la zona de valores mínimos de volumen de purín producido, que va de 1,9 a 7,3l/cerdo y día, según otras revisiones realizadas. El valor medio obtenido (2,2l/cerdo y día) estaría por debajo de los estándares de volumen que considera la administración en la actualidad (entorno a 5l/cerdo/día). No detectaron diferencias significativas en la materia seca (MS) del purín en función de la época o de la fase de producción. Los valores promedio obtenidos, entre 11,3% y 12,6%, se situarían en el rango alto en relación a los propuestos por otros estudios, con niveles del 1,06% al 14,3% de MS. La reducción en la dilución del purín respondería a una mejora en los sistemas de manejo relacionados con el uso de agua. En este sentido,

la utilización de bebederos independientes del comedero, con presentación de alimento seco, que induce un mayor desperdicio de agua y menor contenido de MS en los purines conforme avanza el ciclo de engorde. La época de engorde afectó de forma significativa a la densidad, la conductividad eléctrica, la temperatura del purín y la concentración de nitrógeno (tabla 2). Así, en épocas de bajas temperaturas se generan purines con menor densidad y mayor concentración en nitrógeno orgánico y amoniacal. La mayor concentración de nitrógeno amoniacal en otoño-invierno puede explicarse por la menor temperatura del purín, que conllevaría una menor volatilización del nitrógeno en forma de amoníaco, lo que también afecta a su valor fertilizante. La fase de producción afectó de forma significativa a la conductividad, a la temperatura y a la concentración de nitrógeno y de fósforo del purín (tabla 2). El incremento de temperatura del purín en la fase 3 (70-100kg) y de su concentración de nitrógeno amoniacal en las fases 2 y 3 (40-100kg) podría estar asociados con el mayor volumen de orina y excreción de nitrógeno urinario al aumentar la edad de los animales. Hay que tener en cuenta también que la eficiencia en el uso del nitrógeno tiende a reducirse con la edad de los animales. En el conjunto del periodo de crecimiento se obtiene una ingestión de nitrógeno por cerdo de 5,3kg, y una excreción de este elemento en purín de 2,5kg (48%), similar en ambas épocas. La concentración de fósforo en purín se reduce en las fases 2 y 3 del engorde (40-100kg de peso), lo que supone a su vez un menor contenido de este elemento por unidad de volumen del purín. La formulación de las raciones utilizando la concentración estimada de fósforo digestible de cada materia prima y el uso del método factorial para determinar las necesidades de este elemento, así como la adición de fitasas microbianas, contribuyeron de forma notable al ajuste de los aportes con las necesidades. Puede concluirse que es necesario considerar los efectos de la época del año y la fase de crecimiento de los animales para valorar la composición de los purines con el objeto de afrontar una adecuada gestión agronómica de los mismos. El purín procedente del engorde en época cálida del año presenta un menor valor fertilizante en términos de contenido de nitrógeno amoniacal. El incremento de consumo de agua al avanzar el crecimiento de los animales no se tradujo en un mayor desperdicio de la misma, dado que la materia seca de los purines se mantuvo constante durante el ciclo de engorde. Autores Babot, D., Flores, J., Balcells1, J., Soldevila, C. y Alvarez-Rodríguez, J. Departamento Producción Animal, Universidad de Lleida. España. Coma, J., Grupo Vall Companys. Lleida (España).

[spectraeevee]

Probably won't happen but I want a Valentine Joe alt for Dragalia Lost for the sake of the damn feels.

Also maybe Naveed and Thaniel because they are very shippeable with Euden.

[redwylde]

I’m a wreck.

I don’t have Naveed yet so I’ve only just got around to reading his stories, and honestly, I’ve had the wind knocked out of me. There is SO many good things to unpack here:

- The topic of different types of love and that no one type is inherently more important/stronger/“better” than the other.

- The definition of love being interpreted as not just something felt between a partner or family, but demonstrated through small gestures like helping others.

- The different experiences and needs between those of monogamous love and non-monogamous love, and how they’re equally deserving of respect and understanding.

- That even though Naveed and Euden have different experiences in the way they feel love for others, neither are considered right, wrong, normal or abnormal. Their experiences are their own and even if they aren’t quite the right fit for one another, there’s nothing wrong with that. Their experiences are justified just because that’s how they are.

- Self-Acceptance. Even though Naveed realised he wasn’t right for Euden, he didn’t blame himself or Euden for their feelings. As well as accepting Euden’s experiences, he accepted his OWN, and was able to form a mutual understanding with Euden while resolving to fulfill his emotional needs elsewhere. In turn, Euden didn’t consider his own experiences to be wrong or bad.

- The concept that Euden is a person who can’t choose between those he cares about, and can’t prioritise one over another the way a person who experiences monogamous love may do so. He needs many people, and all of his friends equally, and it’s not considered strange or defective to feel that way.

- Found family and how important it is.

I never thought I would find something like this, so eloquent and so close to mine and others’ experiences that are considered “obscure” and an oddity in a game like this. It’s made me so very very happy that I can’t even describe the capacity of how I feel.

CyGames are truly spectacular.

[rainbowdonkee]

Dragalia Life #24 – Naveed the Merchant.

Naveed one of the newest adventurers added, super interesting and handsome too! Ranzal thinks too much with his stomach but same!

[saintobio]

jekyll & hyde.

↳ suna rintarou/reader

ūnus. “𝔣𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯, 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔪𝔢.”

genre. gothic, smut, vampire au, 18+

cw. profanity, sacrilege/blasphemy, age gap (in vampire age), sadistic undertones, blood, noncon biting, vampire!suna, pseudo!rin, corruption, sex in church, dacryphilia, dubcon, mentions of obsession, yandere!suna, explicit smut

notes. kindly read at your own discretion but please scroll away and dni if these themes offend you. some scenes are heavily based on dl and rosario+vampire combined. i have toned down the dark content and altered the original draft, so sorry if it took me long to post this one.

series masterlist -> next

Thunder grumbled as a flash of lighting struck through the dark blanket of twilight skies. The rumbling sound angrily resonated through the stretch of clouds as if the heavens were to wash away human sins that have long been plaguing this era of the 21st century. A shower of rain soon followed that started in huge droplets and later cascaded from the slate grey clouds like waterfall.

Checking your old leather watch, it was only 6PM. It had been two hours since the power outage doomed the whole neighborhood because the utility poles were severely damaged after the hurricane ravaged the city yesterday.

The thick soles of your boots landed heavily on the tessellated sidewalk with your every step, holding your umbrella closer to seal you from the heavy rainfall. Your eyes followed the beads of rain that bounced off the cold cement as your mind wandered farther than where your body could take you to.

You have left your boyfriend Rintarou sleeping in bed back in your shared apartment so you could walk around the city and drop by the church. It wasn’t like you sneaked out, but was only reluctant of letting him know of your whereabouts because you could already feel the ire that would potentially grow within him once he did find out. Before you left, you did ensure that his silver rosary was still enclosed around his neck just for your sanity.

It had also been awhile since you last paid a visit to the church and since there was nothing else to do due to the lack of electricity, you thought that it would be perfect to take this opportunity to visit the cathedral where you always made solemn prayers to.

The streets were still in shambles, however. Road signages were sprawled on the sidewalk, branches were barely hanging off the trees—the city had vestiges of wreckage from the hurricane that emptied a usually busy metropolitan area today. Most people were still at the leisure of their homes as work and classes have been suspended until further notice, for everyone’s safety and to allow the government to clean the roads.

You could already imagine Rin shaking his head at your resistance to just stay indoors and simply cuddle with him. The only reason you were confident to leave his side today was because it had been awhile since the last incident. You could live with the thought of coming back home to Rin and his usual self. Rin, who was always thoughtful and tenderhearted. Never did you think that you could land a man of such warmth—a year in two days—but how you met was a story made for another day.

Amidst the already dismal atmosphere outside, stepping by the narthex inside the baroque church greeted you with an even more caliginous surrounding. Darkness enshrouded the interiors of your chosen place of worship with only so much as three paschal torches by the apse to light up the altar. Still, with God’s presence, your feet carried you in slow footsteps along the velvet red aisle as you made your way towards the nave.

You were alone in the eerie cathedral but fear did not consume as you were in attendance to the crucifix above the high altar. This was your favorite cathedral among all the others in the city simply because of its gothic Victorian architecture.

Fixed with the cathedral’s grandeur and bedight with ornate decorations, you became more comfortable at situating yourself by the pew—kneeling on the elevated wood behind the stretch of oak benches as soon as you found your usual spot.

“In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,” you whispered in sotto voce, performing a sign of the cross with your eyes glued to the crucifix that represented Jesus Christ. You had your elbows propped atop the bench as you silently prayed.

Loving and gracious God, with all love and mercy, we thank you for blessing us with another day and protecting us in times of natural disaster.

You wanted to ignore the unusual cold air that slithered on your skin in horripilation. Your prayer resumed despite the Stygian gloom that darkened the cathedral’s interior or the sound of the harsh wind slamming through the towering doors by the vestibule. The storm is coming again, you mentally noted.

With your grace and kindness, Lord I pray that you will continue to guide us—

The manly fleer echoing through the vacantness of the church made you halt from your recital. “Ah, I knew my cute church girl would be here.”

You knew that devilish voice all too well that it had you shutting your eyes, petrified. No wonder the air felt sinister. But if your gut-feeling about him was right, then there was no need to be frightened. “Rin, I’m in the middle of a prayer,” you hushed, although before you could turn around to face his silhouette, he had already transported to your side with a wicked smile plastered on his pallid face.

“I’m not Rin,” he spoke in an orotund voice, stepping closer and closer. His dark, middle-parted hair did not hide his incarnadine eyes. “Stop looking for that runt when you’re with me.”

You stepped out of the pew with a fast heartbeat, standing by the aisle as the tall man towered over you. “S-Suna, where’s your—” you searched for his silver rosary and found it still hanging around his neck, “did you break it?”

He glowered at your accusation. “You know I would if I could.”

You exhaled a deep sigh. This was not Rin, this was the malevolent Suna. You ought to be cautious of yourself. “Okay, well... Leave me alone. I’m praying.”

“No.” Each step that he took reverberated across the cathedral. He stretched his head from side to side in a manner that showed his ennui. “Don’t you miss me?”

There was no stopping to the loud thumping of your heart as you stood along the aisle with Suna backing you off further to the center. “Suna, I said not now,” you begged, but he refused to listen and only wiped his lower lip with his thumb.

“Don’t make me wait. Let me suck,” he ordered, stepping forward until your lower back hit the credence table at the altar. You found yourself trapped in a decreasing distance between yourself and the sadistic vampire in front of you. “Don’t look so scared. We do this every time.”

“I’m not scared, but...” Your voice was getting softer, yet filled with fret. You pressed a hand on his chest as he locked your body with both arms around the table. “Please, not here.” You had to be firm, you just had to be but you couldn’t muster the courage to fight back in Suna’s presence. He was the embodiment of power and you were the representation of weakness.

“I’ll be quick,” he bargained, undoing the upper buttons of your dress despite your failed attempts at pushing him away. Doing it at such a place! You sent him a glare but he only returned a sly smile. “How about we show your God what you’re really like underneath that maidenly exterior, hm? Show him how dirty you really are?”

God, help me. You desperately shook your head, now overthinking if someone could see what he was about to do to you in this holy sanctuary. Long before you could cover your chest, he already pinned your wrist on the side as he lowered the fabric to show your collar. “Suna—!”

“Don’t be shy,” the whisper he sent through the shell of your ear caused shivers to your spine. With his heightened senses, he placed his mouth on your ear, “No one’s here to watch us except for your God. Be a good girl now.”

You tried to push him once more to no avail as he already sunk his canines on the flesh above your shoulder. There was no warning to prepare you from the puncture. “I-It hurts!”

Your nails dug onto your palms to leave crescent marks on your flesh while you were squirming out of his strict hold.

“It hurts? Good.” He quaffed on your blood, gulping the hot liquid down his parched throat as he caged your waist around his arm. The feeling of his teeth pricking your skin and sucking your blood had you whimpering in pain. His eyes had grown rutilant when he momentarily pulled away to look at you. “Holy shit. It gets warm when you’re frightened,” and then he erupted into a deep chuckle as if you were a meal that he was seasoning with a sprinkle of fear, “I should really just keep you for myself.”

Your desire to breathe grew exponentially. “I’m not yours.”

A low sneer and a dissatisfied ego had you pressed against the oak table in surprise. “Yes, you are,” he reiterated as though he was enforcing the idea in your head. “Your soul, your heart, your body—you are mine.”

“I’m not! I wasn’t born in this world to be your property,” you protested, pulling away from his grip only to be slammed harsher on the table. You knew you should never anger a vampire but his possessive nature irked you. Aside from your already shameful situation, you wanted nothing but to get away from him. “You’re evil.”

“What makes you so brave? Your beliefs?” he gritted, reaching for an object near your head that turned out to be the Bible. “This?” he quickly opened the sacred handbook and ripped the pages in front of your very eyes with a distasteful smile. How easily he ripped it, how easily he also tossed it. “Whatever, then. There’s no God. You humans are complete idiots for worshipping a nonexistent being. Weren’t you the ones saying vampires would burn in churches?”

That rosaries, garlic, and silver would ward them off—none of it turned out to be true. Still, he had no right to mock God like this.

You sat back up, revolted by his blasphemy. “Don’t taint my beliefs with yours. My faith in Him is stronger than you think.”

“You should know what it’s like to be in hell before you say that shit,” he retorted, placing his lips back on your ear, “I’ll take you there with me.”

This is not the time and place! What a shameful situation he was putting you through, so unbelievably shameful and obscene that you couldn’t look at him in the eyes. “Suna, I swear. I’m going home if you’re gonna keep on—”

He huffed, showing boredom by dismissing you with a wave of his hand. “Ah, fine. You’re boring. Continue the fucking prayer, then.”

For one of two things; first, Suna would never let you off easily. Every act of defiance would garner you a punishment. Second, he was a time bomb. You never knew when his most cruel intentions would come to show. He was a malefic being that wouldn’t give two shits about where he was as long as he was having fun at torturing your soul.

You should have known that when you chose to finish your prayer back at the pew. Suna would simply not last long enough to just sit by your side in his apathy.

“Holy Father, please forgive us for our sins—”

He snorted of ill-humor. “Bullshit.”

And while you sat there looking up at the crucifix, Suna’s hand was already sneaking its way under your skirt. His icy fingers traced your inner thighs until he reached your center which was when you finally grabbed his wrist to stop him with wide, scandalized eyes. Was anyone on the qui vive to see you right now?

“Suna, for God’s sake,” you hissed, pulling his wrist away but his slender fingers were already coordinating motions against your clothed core. You had to look around in panic lest there be any unknown audience peeking from the shadows. Despite your refusal to submit, the contact was eliciting suppressed moans out of your parted lips. “Y-You’re insane. This isn’t the place.”

His smile was full of triumph and excitement. “What makes it different?” he asked, raising your skirt and inserting his fingers inside your underwear. You had to press your lips together as soon as he started rubbing his fingers on your clit. “See, you enjoy the fuck out of it. Go and show your God how slutty you are.”

Your palm was pressed on his chest while his other hand tried to spread your legs open. The very position you were in—leaned on the wooden bench, legs spread apart, and being fingered in the presence of God—you were certainly going to hell. This was going against your belief, having your chastity corrupted in arrant disgrace by a man who was closely associated to the Devil himself.

How exactly did you find yourself in this predicament? You came here to offer a quick prayer, not to be pressed on the bench by a man who was now unbuckling his belt in haste. You could only think of how Rin, who was an angel beyond his demons, was perhaps trying to come out of being trapped in the dungeon where Suna had him caged.

“This is so wrong,” your lips quivered as you spoke, both of the curling of your toes and of the shameless sacrilegious act. You knew you couldn’t stop this no matter how hard you tried because Suna would remain tenacious until he got what he wanted.

With that, you fully submitted yourself to him and let the back of your head rest on the wooden surface while you stared at the stained glass that roofed the cathedral in different hues.

Suna was fast to display a smirk while positioning his hardened length on your entrance. The bands of your underwear were now resting mid-thigh as he pressed himself down on you with one knee supporting the angle of his hips. He was running his throbbing tip between your plump folds to lubricate himself with your slick. No screams could be released because you restrained your own whimpers, but your tears brimmed on the corner of your eyes from the initial penetration.

“Ngh!” Your nails dug deep on his forearms. “S-Suna!”

“You crying?” His carmine eyes glinted of sadistic humor, running his gelid thumb across your lower lip only to sink it deep inside your mouth. “How does it feel knowing that the God you worship can’t save you?”

A tear slid down from your eyes to your temple as Suna started moving his hips in an achingly slow rhythm, each thrust going deeper than the last. You almost bit his thumb before he released your mouth by gripping your wrist. “Suna—someone could see—!”

To your irony, the crucifix stared down at you and enkindled your conscience from this sinful act. Father, forgive me. You could only whisper those words in your head because your mouth was too occupied in crying out Suna’s name.

“So goddamn warm.” It was hard not to think of how attracted he looked when he raked his fingers through his hair, later meeting your eyes with overpowering lust. He didn’t hold back at burying his cock into your cavern, allowing your walls to fit his girth like tight gloves—the feeling garnering his raspy grunt. “Shit. I get to fuck this all day?”

Rin. You blinked your tears away as you closed your eyes. Suna’s lips were now on your neck as he increased the pace of his member sliding in and out of your cunt with squelching noises that shamelessly echoed across the cathedral. “Suna,” your lips were on his ear, “we’re in—aah—church.”

Unlike you, he was nonchalant about the sacredness of the house of God. He was mocking the supreme being that you held faith to as an act of engraving his existence into your mortal soul. While you restrained your moans as he slammed his pelvis against your hole, there was fulfillment rattling in his bones when he pressed your face to the side before sinking his fangs on your skin.

“Cry more. Did you know your blood gets sweeter when you’re aroused?”

It was hard to describe the feeling. The median between pain and pleasure was the closest example you could liken it to. The grazing of his fangs added to the burning sensation that you had all over your body as if fire was ignited to light up all your nerves.

Your hand latched onto his shirt before his body collapsed on top of you. With your legs spread wide, his head hung low on your neck—still and unmoving, strangely like he had fallen asleep.

“Suna.” You tapped his arm through the heavy rise and fall of your chest.

And before you could move away, he shot straight up and looked at you with those foxy eyes that were now in the shade of moss. Eyes that were wide and full of horror as he looked around the cathedral before he slowly realized what he had just done.

“Y/N,” regretfully, he pulled your dress down to cover your exposed parts, “Shit. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry, I did this—I’m such a demon. I don’t—”

Long dried were the tears on your cheek. As you two scrambled to fix your clothes, you pulled him into a hug while he murmured endless sorry’s to your ear. At least, for now he was back. That was the most important thing with all the sanity you had left.

“Just get me out of here, Rin,” you said, back into the arms of your human lover.

You’ve always wondered why Rin chose to have night classes. Or why he could mimic breathing but he didn’t have a heartbeat. Or why he could eat normal food but would not die of starvation if he didn’t ingest anything for a year. Sometimes he would disappear from your sight and transport himself into another. Sometimes he would see and hear things a thousand times clearer than any other person could.

For almost a year of dating, these questions only came up to you without much of an answer. You thought that you were simply theorizing over things that you shouldn’t. Why does Rin always wear that rosary around his neck? At the back of your head, you were always intrigued.

You didn’t find out about the real reason until two months ago when you finally met ‘Suna’ out of nowhere. If Rin was Jekyll, Suna was his Hyde. It was their way to allow you to form a dissociation between the two beings in one body.

You never believed in vampires until Suna showed his bare fangs to you one night while you were supposedly peacefully sleeping. You recalled the screams that you released when you found out that Rin was a creature of the night all along. That the rosary around his neck was meant to seal his dark side, the side that you still didn’t know much of. Up until this day, he didn’t provide a concrete answer as to why he needed to seal himself or why they had very contrasting personalities. He was taciturn about the topic of his other self despite you bringing it up every now and then.

But because you loved him, trusted him, and believed him when he said that he didn’t plan to hurt you—you stayed. You knew his human side better than the blood-sucker within him, so you told yourself that you could stay for him. You just needed to learn more about him.

There were still moments where you felt cautious around him, but when you looked to see his softened expression, you were comfortable at seeing the Rin that you knew.

“Y/N,” he broke the silence that lingered between you two as you walked around the city, “I’m sorry.”

You tugged at his hand in reassurance. “It’s okay, I just...” As flashbacks of the earlier events returned to your head, you felt ashamed at having done such dirty deeds at a holy place. “He always gets what he wants.”

Because you let him.

“He does and I’m upset that I can’t do anything when I’m trapped,” Rin mumbled, keeping up with your footsteps as you strode along the street.

Your curiosity bubbled from his statement. “What happens when he’s taking over?”

This time, Rintarou didn’t shy away from giving an answer while he interlaced his hand with yours. “I can hear everything but I can’t feel nor can I see. It’s all black, like I’m in a dark void.”

“Like comatose?”

He nodded before touching the rosary that housed his inner self. If you were being honest, this whole thing about him having two separate beings in one body would sound ridiculous to some people but you wanted to understand it for his sake.

How did he become a vampire? How could a rosary seal his other self? How come he had two versions of him?

“He’s obsessed with you,” he admitted, frowning at the thought as you passed rows and rows of boutiques and restaurants. “Your blood, your scent, your body. That’s probably why he always has the urge to come out.”

The thought of it permeated heat on your cheeks even when it shouldn’t. Rin had always been gentle and loving with his intimacy with you, but Suna was rough and sadistic. He liked tormenting your innocence with his immorality.

“You said the rosary was meant to seal him, but how come he keeps on—”

“I don’t know. It doesn’t work these days. Only father can help but I don’t wanna go that far just to tell him about this.”

Father. It was the first time he had ever spoken about his father in your twelve months together. “Where’s your father, Rin? Or the rest of your family?”

You could see it in his saintly face that he was about to give an answer and you anticipated it, not until the nearby catcalling distracted you two.

“Nice legs, gorgeous,” whistled the man who was leaning by the street railings with a cigarette on his hand. The man was probably in his mid-40’s with a disheveled hair and unshaved face. You sent him a glare but a crude wink was returned.

“Don’t ogle at my girlfriend,” was Rin’s warning, though he didn’t want much conflict by simply pulling you away.

You could hear the man hooting again. “I’d spread those legs in a heartbeat.”

While smoke came out of your nose with the infuriation that boiled within you, Rin was the one who told you to just leave it be. He wanted to avoid confrontation so he chose to just continue walking with you until you could reach your destination.

You couldn’t hide how you wished that sometimes Rin had more backbone to defend you from vulgar men like those.

“Happy anniversary to my favorite couple!”

The clinking of glasses were followed by cheers on the booth where your boyfriend and your friends sat together. It was Avery’s idea to celebrate the special day two days prior as an excuse to hang out and drink. Osamu, being Rin’s closest friend in the campus, was very much willing to join.

“It’s not until Wednesday, Avery,” Rintarou corrected with a smile, sipping on his pint before putting an arm around you. “Now you two should date each other.”

You giggled at the thought. “Yeah, I totally support that.”

Instead, the two of them reacted heavily against it—faking a gag, making a face, name it all. They were adamant on showing how disgusted they were at the thought of dating each other and it was quite a hilarious sight to watch.

“Never,” Osamu replied in outward distaste.

Avery, on one hand, was rolling her eyes. “You wish I was interested. I’d rather do Atsumu than you.”

Atsumu was Osamu’s twin, the more outgoing one who was always present in the biggest college parties. He had the reputation of a playboy in the whole university which was in great contrast to his twin.

“Picking Atsumu is the most insulting thing you can say to me,” huffed Osamu, earning yours and Avery’s chuckle.

After an exchange of playful banters and teasing remarks, the conversation was redirected back to you and Rintarou as Avery curiously brought up how you first met your boyfriend. It was only a year ago and the memory was still vivid in your head.

“Oh my, God. I remember how Y/N first saw you at this art fair,” she gushed towards your boyfriend while you blushed, gripping his arm closer, “and she’s acting like she just saw her soulmate.”

Osamu decided to chime in, “Rin was looking at her too, though. They kept glancing at each other like some teenagers in love. I got impatient and told him to just man up, approach Y/N, and then ask for her number.”

You rested your head on Rintarou’s shoulder and relaxed against him. “Next thing you guys knew, we’re living together off campus.”

Frankly, everything was normal until Suna showed up.

“What do you like most about her, Rin?” Avery egged on with a grin spreading on her face.

Your boyfriend didn’t even take a second to answer, “She’s cute,” he said, caressing your hand with his thumb from under the table, “and smart, and caring. It won’t end.”

Rin was the same, if not better. You didn’t have much experience when it came to dating but you were surely on top of the luck department for being blessed with a man like him. He was the most patient person you knew, the most affectionate, the most thoughtful. Rintarou was the sun that brought light to your grey skies. You could remember how he would wait outside of your class just to walk home with you—those were the little things that lasted for a lifetime in someone’s memory.

“She’s a fucking nun.”

The sudden panic in your eyes came simultaneous to the fast beating of your heart. You swiftly whipped your head to look at Suna who was now displaying a deriding smirk across his pale face. Oh, were you doomed. The ruby eyes and the stony face was clear confirmation that he had taken over Rin. Twice in the same day.

Even Osamu and Avery were surprised by his word of choice, but were nonetheless finding it amusing as it was rare for them to see ‘Rin’ acting bold. You were grateful for their obliviousness because you didn’t know how else you could explain the situation at hand.

“She’s a what?” Osamu jeered, chugging on his pint and looking at his friend in his newfound entertainment.

“A nun,” Suna answered, sending a look of mischief your way. You were deeply panicking that you had to squeeze his hand in hopes of stopping him from showing his true nature. “What? Don’t be shy. Didn’t we fuck in that church?”

You quickly shook your head and denied it in front of your friends. “We didn’t. Don’t believe him.”

Avery was unbelievably taken aback. “Wow,” she held back a chuckle, “I didn’t know Rin has a vulgar mouth.”

The night carried on while the downpour engulfed the streets heavily. Your desperation to leave the diner earlier than intended was solely because you weren’t comfortable at having Suna around your friends. The man was clearly enjoying the embarrassment that he was putting you through while getting to know Rin’s friends along with it. You were not gatekeeping the vampire from his own friends but they weren’t aware of Rin’s situation and you were only cautious.

You didn’t want things to end up where Rintarou would be ostracized by the people who knew him just because they couldn’t understand that he was completely harmless in his benevolent self.

It took a lot of effort to finally make an excuse of getting home early while the skies have temporarily calmed down. However, as you two strolled across the street, Suna wouldn’t stop blabbering on and on about how you should have stayed more to talk about how prudish you were.

“I’m not the in the mood right now,” you spoke in a detached voice, moving away from him as you walked together. Because you ruined it, you wanted to add. The cold breeze kissed your face through the dark.

Suna only moved closer to you. “You shouldn’t be so uptight,” he countered, “Is that how livestocks should act? Or do I punish you back at home?”

Punishments. You didn’t wish to go through another round of his ‘punishments’ because you weren’t certain at how creative he could be at delivering them. There was no doubt that a man who traversed the ages since the 1800s would have seen enough torture devices used during the earlier times. Perhaps he could get inspiration from those.

“I just wanna go home,” you muttered, almost inaudibly had his heightened hearing senses not worked.

“Good, then I can have fun with y—” Suna halted from his words as his face froze at the sight in front of him. His body had completely gone stiff and his jaws were clenched. You would have thought that he was angry until that evil upturn of his lips came to show.

“Suna...”

Following his sight, he was all eyes on a man from a distance before he dashed towards the stranger, leaving you utterly stupefied from where you stood. What’s he on about? You rushed as your heels landed in lightweight steps across the sidewalk while you watched in terror how Suna mercilessly throttled the man by the neck and dragged him into a dark alleyway.

“Suna, stop!”

As you reached him with a panting breath, you realized that the man he was holding high up against the wall was the same person that catcalled you earlier. The man was wriggling away from Suna’s tight grip, only to be asphyxiated harsher than before.

“Wh-What’s your problem?” the man struggled to breathe due to the strangulation and you were pulling Suna’s other arm to stop him.

At the sight of Suna’s crimson eyes and vicious stance, you knew there was nothing much you could do to prevent harm. He was determined to do what he wanted without paying attention to his surroundings.

“You like her legs, huh?” Suna taunted with a sinister undertone in his words. “You wanna spread ‘em open?”

Recalling the very words he spoke, the man saw you with frantic eyes as his face was reddening from the lack of oxygen. With a rushed shake of the head and a face that was begging for sympathy, he tried to break free. “N-No, no. She’s—haaa! She’s all yours.”

“Suna, stop it.” You grabbed his arms and attempted your best to pull him away despite the trepidation that caused you goosebumps. “Please stop, you’re gonna kill him.”

Every time you saw this bloodsucking creature, you were learning new things about him and most of those things were of the worst kind. Not only was he possessive—he was diabolical, potentially obsessive, and a cutthroat sadist who wouldn’t even blink before ending someone’s life. This was the true nature of a vampire, not some silly fantasy that today’s pop-culture portrayed them to be.

He was a body without a soul.

Unfortunately, you should have thought twice before choosing to get involved with him.

“That’s my plan, darling.”

[murasaki-murasame]

After doing way too many summons on this gala without getting Gala Elly I’m just gonna quit while I’m ahead and start hoarding for the New Years banner, lol. And in the mean-time I’ll probably be skipping the Christmas banner so that kinda sucks but oh well.

Either way, I still got a whole bunch of new stuff in my gala summons, and also I have a lot of thoughts about the new This Month in DL post, so I’ll just put the rest of my thoughts under the cut.

I swear to god this gala was the most summons I’ve done on a banner without getting a focus unit, lmao. This must be punishment for me getting like three copies of Gala Euden last time. I think I did like 250 summons total, which included over 10 5-stars, but no Gala Elly. I may or may not end up caving to my temptations and grinding adventurer stories and hard mode campaign levels to try and summon more, but I should just quit while I’m ahead.

Either way, my haul of 5-stars, new and dupes, is:

-Gala Ranzal

-Wedding Elly

-Xanfried

-Lea

-Jeanne

-Chthonius

-Dupes of B-Zardin, Victor,  Sylas, Cassandra, Gala Sarisse, Shinobi, Vayu, and Long Long [x2]. I also got another dupe Shinobi from the 5-star dragon voucher thing they just gave us.

Let’s just say that I don’t know how to feel about wanting Gala Elly and then getting Gala Ranzal + Wedding Elly, lmao. At least they’re both new units for me. Though it feels doubly bad that I got Gala Ranzal, 45MC’d him, and then almost immediately afterward I got Wedding Elly. Welp. I’m a Noelle main in eHMC anyway so it’s not a huge deal. But it’s nice to get my wind roster fleshed out more.

I’m honestly really happy about getting Xanfried, and it more or less makes up for not getting Gala Elly. He was one of those 5-stars who I was vaguely tempted to dream summon because it was bugging me that I still didn’t have him. Now I think the only launch 5-star I don’t have is Hildegarde.

I’m also happy about getting Lea, even if she isn’t a great unit and I have like six other flame swords. I really like her whole design aesthetic.

I don’t really care much about the new 5-star dragons I got, but they’re nice to have. The Long Long dupes are nice, though, since now I have a nearly MUB one for my Lin You.

Oh and I got regular Aeleen as well, and she was the last non-limited 4-star I needed to get, so that’s cool.

We’ve known about the next banner for a while because of datamines, but either way, I feel a little bit salty that the new 5-star is literally just Thaniel But Better [tm], lol. If it weren’t for the fact that Chocolatiers is a limited print, I’d say that she wouldn’t even be worth it when Thaniel’s a more accessible option who works just fine in HBH because the whole fight is literally tuned around his kit since until now he’s been the only real healer for it. I hope this doesn’t lead to people acting like Thaniel’s not good enough for eHBH anymore once Jiang Ziya comes out. I’ve invested way too much into him to switch. I did recently craft the HDT water spear, and I can use my H-Maritimus on Elly if I want to use her in eHBH, but I still want to stick to Thaniel.

And on that note my H-Maritimus is at 2UB, and between the sunlight stone we’ll get soon from the Megaman event, and the dragons I have at nearly max bond level, he’ll probably be MUB soon, which should push my Thaniel above 7k might, which will be great. He’s currently at about 6,850 might, between him having +200 augments, Chocolatiers at +190 augments, a MUB HDT1 water staff, etc etc. And we’re gonna be getting the Christmas event facility again soon so that’ll boost him up even further.

Also I’m really not interested in the new dragon since he’s just water Hastur and I don’t care about that at all, lol. Durant seems cool but I already have a 50MC Natalie, and he’s a 4-star so he’d be easy enough to get off-banner anyway.

I’m gonna probably skip the Christmas banner since I went all in on this gala and I want to save for the New Years banner. And since it looks like the Christmas banner will be in just a week or so, I won’t exactly have many resources saved up by that point anyway. I’m not really interested in any of the existing Christmas alts, though, so it’d probably be an easy skip anyway, unless the new ones really interest me.

I hope that them doing the Christmas rerun stuff earlier in the month than I expected means we might get a Christmas-themed raid event afterward, but I won’t get my hopes up. I think we’re due for a new raid event anyway, but that’ll probably be what the New Years event is anyway, I guess.

I’m curious to see how they handle the New Years stuff, since it’d feel weird to rerun the Ieyasu event/banner, with how that was themed around the current zodiac year. I think we’ll just get a new event with new units, and probably a new welfare unit along with the event itself. With how good Ieyasu was [and how salty I still am about not having him], I think it’ll be worth saving for that.

Though considering that the next story chapter is gonna apparently be Luca-focused, I’m guessing the January gala unit will be Gala Luca, who I’d be extremely interested in, so that’s another thing to worry about saving for, lol.

And on that note we’re getting Chapter 11 in about two weeks, and even though we got more or less the same teaser description for it as last time, we at least have a better look at the two new android characters. Even though they’re gonna be antagonists I still kinda hope we can get them as playable units some day.

We also got more info on the new endgame boss mode, and even though I still want more specific details about it, my current guess is that it’s basically going to be High IO. It’ll probably be themed around there being new android military squads to fight against, with the new bosses being their leaders or whatever. It’d be fun to get some genuinely difficult wave-based content, but it’d also be great if it means we can get facility upgrade materials a lot faster.

The reveal of the new mode being called The Agito Uprising also more or less confirms that rumour that’s been going around for a while, which also talked about how the Christmas banner would include a new Christmas Phoenix alt, that the new endgame bosses would drop 6-star weapons, that we’ll get a Monster Hunter collab in February, and that Mikoto, Ezelith, Naveed, and Xanfried will be at least some of the first units to get their sixth mana circle upgrades.

I’m honestly kinda happy to hear about Christmas Phoenix since that makes it more likely that the Christmas banner will be an easy skip for me, lmao. But anyway, I really wouldn’t be surprised to see the Agito Uprising bosses dropping weapons that are roughly between 5t3s and HDT weapons in power. we really need something like that to ease the transition into the eHDT cycle. I’ve basically given up on getting into eHJP/eHZD until something along those lines happens to make them more accessible, lol.

I still have a lot of questions about how the whole sixth mana circle upgrade thing will work, and sadly this didn’t really tell us anything new, but they at least said that they’re aware of how limited the pool of units used in endgame content is, and that they’ll try and make changes to make more units viable for that, so that’ll probably be the main point of the sixth mana circles. I have a feeling that only 5-star units will end up getting them, which would kinda suck. There’s a lot of 5-stars who need an upgrade, but there’s also a lot of other units who need an upgrade too.

They did mention that they’ll be doing something with 3-star units in general, though, so I’m really curious about that. I really really want them to rebalance 3-star units so that they all have 100% on-element status resistances. I could take or leave anything else, but they really need that sort of buff. There’s no real point to holding back a unit by giving them incomplete or off-element status resistances. Which also applies to welfare 4-stars. For example, my Xania would be way more viable in eHMS if she can get to 100% stun res without needing a print, and it’d just be great in general if Vixel could get an actually relevant status resistance for his element. I have a feeling they won’t change anything else about their kits, but even just that’d be nice.

My realistic prediction for what the sixth mana circle upgrades will actually include is that it’ll more or less just be more of what we already have with the current ones. It’ll probably just be a few flat stat upgrades, maybe some more coability node upgrades, and one or two upgrades to the skills/abilities of each unit. At the very least I think that units will get a third upgrade to their S2, since those only go up to two upgrade tiers whereas every unit gets three tiers to their S1. And there’s a lot they could do to improve units by buffing and adding stuff to their S2s. For example, Thaniel would really benefit from getting a regen heal added to his S2, but Jiang Ziya existing makes me think they’re just forgetting about Thaniel for good. I can’t really think of what they could do with any of the 5-stars, though. It’s possible but less likely that some units might also get upgrades to one of their abilities, but that’s a bit more uncertain than them getting skill upgrades, if only because there’s a lot of ability types that you just can’t upgrade at all, like 100% status resistance or skill prep abilities.

It’d be really nice if they changed the second ability of 3-stars to 100% status resistance and gave them something entirely new for their third ability, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they just buff the 25% status resistance abilities of those units to 50% status resistance.

Also, we got more details about how we’re getting higher-level void battles added, and higher difficulties added to the void dragons, which I think is a necessary addition in order to help bridge the gap toward endgame content. As it is now, void battles aren’t really worth doing outside of endeavors. But it’s also nice that they’ve added augments to the void dragons and stuff.

In general they’d been making a lot of steps toward easing the progression toward endgame content, especially with the other changes they made to Avenue to Fortune, and them also adding augments to HDT drops. It’s nice that they’re aware of the issue of how steep the progression curve is right now, but it also really makes it clear that it’s a genuine problem that they’re currently being stuck trying to fix. I don’t really blame them for it, though. These things happen with games like this. I’m just glad that they’re actually addressing it instead of leaving it unchanged.

It’ll sadly take a while for them to add all of the new void bosses on the same tier as the Volcanic Chimera, but it’ll be nice to eventually have more accessible options to get into other eHDTs and stuff.

Anyway a whole bunch has been going on lately and I think it’s on a good track. Honestly my biggest issue right now is that since they changed the UI I keep clicking the wrong buttons when I’m trying to go between menus, lmao.

Oh and yeah the Megaman event is a thing that’s happening. There’s really not a lot to say about it because it’s so barebones and gameplay-focused, but it’s fun, and I like how much they’re leaning into the aesthetic of it. Megaman himself is a really goddamn weird unit, though. I like how much he’s apparently designed to play like he’s in an actual Megaman game, but it’s a weird playstyle to get used to for this game. And I still prefer Xania as a flame wand, lol.

[salvo-love]

Ius soli, dl Sicurezza e sbarchi: Pd avanti a tutta immigrazione

All'indomani del voto, il governo riapre i porti e fa entrare altri 400 irregolari. E i dem preparano l'offensiva sui decreti Sicurezza e sullo ius soli

Andrea Indini - Mar, 28/01/2020 - 15:58

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Galvanizzato dal risultato in Emilia Romagna e soprattutto dall'ennesimo flop elettorale del Movimento 5 Stelle, il Partito democratico ha messo l'acceleratore sulle politiche buoniste a favore degli immigrati.

Che fosse questa la direzione che avrebbe preso la macchina giallorossa, era chiaro già da alcune settimane. Su certi temi fortemente divisivi, tuttavia, hanno preferito starsene più schisci in campagna elettorale in modo da perdere i voti degli indecisi. Adesso che il risultato è stato portato a casa (e che il fortino rosso è stato difeso) possono comodamente sbracare sapendo bene che i grillini, troppo presi a cercare di sistemare le proprie beghe interne, non gli faranno alcuna opposizione interna.

Le parole d'ordine sono arrivate già all'indomani della sbornia elettorale. Mentre il reggente Vito Crimi e compagni erano ancora intontiti dalla sberle degli elettori, i vertici del Pd hanno messo subito sul tavolo i dossier da infilare immediatamente nell'agenda di governo. E, manco a dirlo, uno di questi è appunto la revisione immediata dei decreti Sicurezza fatti digerire ai Cinque Stelle da Matteo Salvini quando sedevano al governo insieme. A lanciare l'assalto alla diligenza è stato, ieri mattina, il vicesegretario del Pd, Andrea Orlando, a La7. Dopo di lui tutti i big piddì si sono accodati senza ricevere alcun veto da parte degli alleati pentastellati. Per il momento non sappiamo in che modo intendano cambiarli. Si parla, tuttavia, di "revisione integrale". E per il presidente dei senatori dem Andrea Marcucci deve essere uno dei punti cardine di un governo, come il loro, che si prefigge di "frenare l'arroganza di Salvini".

Purtrotto la revisione dei decreti Sicurezza non è la sola idea balzana che i democratici si sono fissati in testa. Da giorni sembra essere tornata in auge la crociata per svendere la cittadinanza italiana ai figli degli immigrati. A Casalecchio, nel corso di una conferenza stampa indetta nel suo comitato elettorale all'indomani della vittoria sulla leghista Lucia Borgonzoni, Stefano Bonaccini ha ritirato fuori una delle riforme più divisive (e più invise). "Penso che lo ius soli sia un provvedimento giusto per un Paese civile", si è limitato a dire rilanciando, tuttavia, la patata bollente nell'agone politico. Una boutade? Mica tanto. Una decina di giorni fa, incalzata dal radicale Riccardo Magi durante un question time alla Camera, il ministro dell'Interno Luciana Lamorgese aveva già anticipato che il governo sta studiando una maxi sanatoria per regalare il permesso di soggiorno a buona parte degli irregolari che già si trovano sul nostro territorio. Non solo. Al vaglio del parlamento c'è poi la proposta di legge "Ero straniero" che, se approvata, porterebbe alla totale abrogazione del decreto flussi attraverso l'introduzione di quote di ingresso annuali e l'adozione di nuovi e più facili canali di ingresso. Misure che, abbinate allo ius soli, porterebbe alla riforma più buonista che il nostro Paese abbia mai visto nella sua storia.

Come se non bastasse, poi, non una sola nave carica di clandestini trova più la strada sbarrata. Ormai attraccano tutte (indisturbate) nei nostri porti. Certo, gli vengono fatti fare alcuni giorni di anticamera per salvare la faccia, ma poi Conte compagni danno sempre il via libera senza alcuni problemi. L'ultima (in ordine temporale) è stata la Ocean Viking a cui è stato dato il porto di Taranto per far scendere gli oltre 400 immigrati che ha a bordo da quattro giorni. Il disco verde alla nave dell'ong Sos Mediterranée è stato dato oggi. Ovviamente, subito dopo il voto di domenica.

[soldan56]

. Il racconto dell'inviata di Rainews24 Angela Caponnetto, che ha seguito il viaggio sull'imbarcazione -

[kritere]

Una nave per trasferire 400 migranti al giorno da Lampedusa: gli emendamenti del governo al dl Cutro

DIRETTA TV 13 Aprile 2023 Una stretta alla protezione internazionale, con l’esclusione degli irregolari dal sistema di accoglienza e integrazione, e misure per l’hotspot di Lampedusa: ecco cosa c’è negli emendamenti del governo al dl Cutro. 0 CONDIVISIONI Il governo ha presentato due maxi emendamenti al decreto Cutro, depositati presso la commissione Affari costituzionali del Senato dopo…

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La Germania accoglie il gas liquido americano, protestano gli ambientalisti

Approda in Germania la prima nave con il gas liquido cheverrà trasformato nel mare dl Nord. Una soluzione per far fronte all'interruzione delle forniture russe.

[e-o-t-w]

Eyes on the world #118

Lasciamo il secondo ottobre italiano più caldo dal 1800 e buttiamoci in un novembre a dir poco burrascoso.

Cominciamo con qualche novità dal conflitto russo-ucraino, per poi passare alle moltissime notizie dall’Italia e una piccola capatina in Corea del Sud e Brasile.

Partiamo spediti 👇

🇺🇦 ATTACCHI A SEBASTOPOLI, GRANO CHE SI FERMA E RIPARTE, NUOVE BOMBE SU KIEV: LA SETTIMANA IN BREVE

(1) Settimana molto travagliata per #Ucraina e #Russia questa prima di novembre, tra attacchi, blocchi e risposte di vario genere. Cominciamo dallo scorso sabato, quando le autorità russe hanno accusato l’esercito ucraino di aver attaccato con oltre 15 droni il porto di Sebastopoli (in Crimea). In questo caso, i sistemi di difesa aerea dell’esercito russo hanno respinto l’attacco e solo una nave da guerra sarebbe rimasta danneggiata. Tuttavia, il governatore della città Razvozhaev ha parlato dell’attacco come “il più potente” dall’invasione, con l’Ucraina che non ha commentato né rivendicato gli attacchi. La risposta della Russia non si è fatta attendere, dal momento che il giorno dopo ha deciso di ritirarsi dall’accordo per la ripresa delle esportazioni di grano, firmato il 22 luglio, non autorizzando alcuna partenza dal Mar Nero. Come se non bastasse, i comandi russi hanno parlato di un coinvolgimento del Regno Unito nell’attacco a Sebastopoli, che ha però negato ogni accusa. Il blocco all’esportazione del grano è stato leggermente aggirato lunedì, quando grazie all’intervento delle Nazioni Unite e della Turchia sono state fatte partire 12 navi (a discapito delle oltre 200 ferme). Solo mercoledì la Russia ha comunicato la ripresa delle esportazioni, dopo aver appurato che l’Ucraina non avrebbe usato i corridoi umanitari creati per gli scambi per attaccare la Russia militarmente. Intanto, a non essersi fermati sono stati invece i bombardamenti nei confronti delle città ucraine, tra cui la capitale Kiev, con obiettivi prevalentemente civili ed energetici, come spesso accade nell’ultimo periodo.

🇮🇹 PRIMO CONSIGLIO DEI MINISTRI E PRIMI DECRETI LEGGE PER IL GOVERNO MELONI. ECCO COSA CONTENGONO

(2) Il governo di Giorgia #Meloni (questa settimana in visita ufficiale a Bruxelles) comincia a entrare nel vivo, con i primi provvedimenti del nuovo esecutivo (adesso al completo dopo la nomina dei sottosegretari). Lunedì 31 c’è stato il primo Consiglio dei ministri al termine del quale è stato approvato un DL con all’interno misure molto diverse tra loro. Partiamo dal cosiddetto ergastolo ostativo, sul cui ordinamento penitenziario è intervenuto il ministro della Giustizia Carlo Nordio. Si tratta innanzitutto di quella misura cautelare che non può essere né abbreviata né convertita in una pena alternativa, tranne che il detenuto non scelga di collaborare con la giustizia. Solitamente viene utilizzato per chi compie reati molto gravi, soprattutto in termini di mafia o terrorismo, e non ha diritto a benefici come la semilibertà, liberazione condizionale o lavoro all’esterno. Nell’aprile 2021 la Corte Costituzionale aveva stabilito che l’ergastolo ostativo fosse incompatibile con la Costituzione e che, qualora non si fosse intervenuto entro novembre 2022, la norma che lo riguarda sarebbe stata abolita. All’interno del decreto approvato dal governo è contenuta la concessione di alcuni benefici anche per coloro che non hanno collaborato con la giustizia, ma che dimostrino di aver partecipato a un percorso rieducativo e tenuto una buona condotta carceraria (da questo provvedimento sono esclusi i detenuti che stanno scontando il 41-bis, ovvero il cosiddetto “carcere duro”). Tra le altre misure introdotte dal nuovo DL c’è anche un nuovo reato, alla luce del rave party organizzato (e poi sgomberato) la scorsa settimana a Modena. È chiamato “invasione per raduni pericolosi” per l’ordine pubblico o la salute pubblica, con reclusione prevista da 3 a 6 anni e multe fino a 10.000 euro. La dicitura, secondo diversi analisti, è troppo generica e potrebbe coinvolgere anche manifestazioni diverse da semplici rave party (dei quali non viene fatta menzione nel testo), oltre alle pene per molti sproporzionate. Infine qualche novità sanitaria: è stato anticipato il termine dell’obbligo vaccinale anti-Covid per il personale delle strutture sanitarie (previsto per il 31 dicembre, prima del decreto), in modo da rimettere al lavoro 4.000 persone ancora ferme, secondo quanto dichiarato dalla premier (nonostante le preoccupazioni e i contrordini in Puglia, Campania e Piemonte); confermato invece fino a data da destinarsi l’obbligo di utilizzo della mascherina in ospedali, RSA e strutture affini. Il ministero del Lavoro ha reso noto che i contratti dei “navigator”, ovvero quelle figure che dal 2019 aiutano i percettori del Reddito di Cittadinanza a trovare un lavoro, non saranno rinnovati dopo la scadenza del 31 ottobre. Il RDC probabilmente verrà rivisto in toto, come spesso annunciato in campagna elettorale dalla coalizione di destra e questo è, senza dubbio, un primissimo passo in quella direzione. Proprio ieri è stata poi emessa la Nota di aggiornamento al Documento di Economia e Finanza, ovvero una bozza della legge di bilancio che verrà presentata in parlamento nelle prossime settimane. La misura riguarderà principalmente il caro bollette, con 21 miliardi che saranno chiesi in prestito per arginare i rincari (ma si parla anche di modifiche al Superbonus, che passerebbe dal 110% al 90%). Infine piccola nota sulla questione migranti: la politica dei “porti chiusi” è sempre più realtà, dopo che la premier ha approvato un decreto che ha di fatto impedito di sbarcare alla nave Humanity One con centinaia di persone a bordo. Questa, insieme ad altre due navi di altrettante ong in arrivo in Italia, resteranno a pochi km dalla costa, in attesa che vengano gestite le emergenze a bordo prima di lasciare le acque italiane.

🇧🇷 BRASILE: LULA VINCE IL BALLOTTAGGIO CON IL 50,9%. SARÀ LUI A SOSTITUIRE JAIR BOLSONARO

(3) Una vittoria per il rotto della cuffia ha riportato Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (noto come #Lula) alla guida del #Brasile, dopo il ballottaggio della scorsa domenica. Il presidente uscente Jair Bolsonaro è uscito sconfitto con il 49,1% dei voti, mentre Lula si è imposto con il restante 50,9%, riconquistando il ruolo che aveva già ricoperto dal 2003 al 2011. La campagna elettorale non è stata delle più semplici e Bolsonaro, esponente di estrema destra, ha più volte ribadito che non avrebbe accettato una sconfitta come risultato finale. Il 1° gennaio Lula si insedierà ufficialmente e non si esclude che i sostenitori di Bolsonaro (spalleggiati dall’esercito) possano impedirne la nomina, sulla falsariga di quanto accadde a Capitol Hill il 6 gennaio 2021 dopo l’elezione a presidente degli Stati Uniti di Joe Biden. Lula è considerato un simbolo della sinistra sudamericana ed è molto probabile che possa riproporre gli stessi interventi che hanno permesso al Brasile di crescere economicamente nel corso della scorsa decade. Gli anni di governo di Bolsonaro sono stati caratterizzati da diversi scandali legati alla corruzione e alla gestione discutibile della pandemia, sottovalutando i pericoli del coronavirus e mostrandosi parecchio scettico nei confronti dei vaccini. L’ex presidente, dopo quasi due giorni di assoluto silenzio, ha tenuto un discorso pubblico nel quale ha accettato il trasferimento dei poteri al neo-eletto Lula. I suoi elettori stanno comunque facendo sentire la loro voce, in particolar modo i camionisti, che stanno bloccando da giorni molte strade e creando disagi al traffico e al regolare approvvigionamento alimentare (per fare un esempio). La categoria ha sostenuto Bolsonaro per tutta la campagna elettorale anche in virtù di finanziamenti pubblici elargiti una tantum per contrastare l’aumento del prezzo dei carburanti. Non è tutto. In diverse città, parecchi militanti di estrema destra sono scesi in piazza per invocare l’intervento dell’esercito in seguito a non meglio specificati brogli elettorali. Non è chiaro al momento cosa potrebbe succedere nelle prossime settimane e quali potrebbero essere le prossime mosse dell’ex presidente. Nel frattempo la Corte suprema ha deciso che andrà riattivato il fondo governativo per la salvaguardia della Foresta Amazzonica, bloccato nel 2019 dal governo Bolsonaro.

🇰🇷 OLTRE 150 PERSONE PERDONO LA VITA DURANTE UNA FESTA DI HALLOWEEN A SEUL. POLIZIA SOTTO ACCUSA

(4) Una festa per Halloween finita in tragedia. È successo a #Seul, capitale della Corea del Sud, dove 154 persone hanno perso la vita lo scorso sabato sera, mentre oltre 130 sono rimaste ferite. Il party si stata tenendo per le strade di #Itaewon, molto noto per la movida notturna, e – secondo i media – pare fossero presenti quasi 100.000 persone. In un preciso punto non più largo di 4 metri, la calca è stata tale che moltissime di loro sono rimaste schiacciate o calpestate, ma non è ancora chiaro cosa abbia provocato la forte pressione. Le maggior parte delle vittime hanno tutte tra i 20 e i 30 anni. Da pochi giorni erano state rimosse le misure di distanziamento anti-Covid e per questo motivo la festa è stata considerata come una delle primissime occasioni di riunione per molta gente. Diverse testimonianze parlano di persone alla ricerca di aria mentre si fanno strada da altre prive di sensi o medici che tentano di rianimare per la strada decine di corpi ormai privi di vita. I soccorritori sono stati oltre 800 e le ambulanze giunte sul posto ben 142. A valle dell’accaduto, la polizia sudcoreana ha ammesso di non aver messo in campo quanto necessario per evitare la tragedia; pare infatti che già nel tardo pomeriggio fossero arrivate le prime chiamate d’emergenza e che le autorità non le abbiano prese sul serio. Il disastro si è consumato dopo le 22 e – per questo motivo – c’erano tutti i presupposti per limitare i danni. Da molti è considerata tra le peggiori tragedie nella storia sudcoreana.

Lunghissima la lista di menzioni d’onore. Preparatevi 👇

📲 Lunedì scorso moltissime persone in tutto il mondo hanno notato che #Instagram ha bloccato senza un motivo apparente il loro account, facendo sparire un enorme numero di follower da tutti i profili (più o meno noti). Le cause non sono note, ma sembra possano avere a che fare con l’aggiornamento dell’app, specialmente su dispositivi Apple.

🇺🇸 36 milioni di dollari è il valore del risarcimento che spetterà a Muhammad Aziz e la famiglia di Khalil Islam per essere stati accusati e condannati ingiustamente per l’omicidio di #MalcolmX, noto attivista per i diritti degli afroamericani, del 1965. I due furono accusati insieme a un terzo uomo per via del loro legame con la Nation of Islam, il movimento con l’obiettivo di emancipare le persone nere attraverso un’interpretazione originale della religione islamica. X fece parte della Nation a partire dagli anni ’50, ma nel 1964 cominciò ad allontanarvisi. Nel 2021 Aziz e Islam (che morì nel 2009) furono scagionati dal momento che vennero nascoste delle prove che avrebbero portato a una loro assoluzione.

🇮🇷 Il procuratore capo di Teheran (#Iran) ha fatto sapere di aver incriminato circa 1.000 persone per le proteste in corso nel paese per la morte di Mahsa #Amini. L’accusa principale è di “atti di sabotaggio”, tra cui l’uccisione di diversi agenti e incendi in edifici pubblici. I processi erano in programma già questa settimana.

🇸🇴 Almeno 100 persone hanno perso la vita nell’esplosione di due automobili a Mogadiscio, capitale della Somalia. Oltre 300 sono rimaste invece ferite. La prima bomba è saltata poco fuori la sede del ministero dell’Istruzione, la seconda ha “atteso” che si radunasse sufficiente gente che venisse in soccorso dei primi feriti. Il gruppo alleato di Al Qaeda Al Shabaab ha rivendicato l’attacco, accusando il ministero di ricevere aiuti da paesi nemici e non musulmani, oltre che di allontanare i giovani dalla fede islamica.

🇮🇳 Il crollo di un ponte sospeso sul fiume Machchhu ha provocato la morte di oltre 140 persone nell’#India occidentale. Sulla struttura, al momento del cedimento, si trovavano più o meno 400 persone. Circa 177 di queste sono state soccorse, ma molte altre risultano ancora disperse. Il ponte era stato riaperto al pubblico solo pochi giorni fa dopo mesi di restauro e, a questo proposito, il governo dello stato del Gujarat (sede dell’opera) ha aperto un’indagine che ha già portato a 9 arresti.

📱 Si comincia a intravedere la mano di Elon Musk nella gestione di #Twitter. Seppur (a detta sua) a titolo temporaneo, è stato sciolto il consiglio di amministrazione a capo del social, dopo che la scorsa settimana aveva allontanato quattro importanti dirigenti. #Musk ha nominato se stesso nuovo CEO e unico membro di un cda provvisorio. È probabile che i nuovi membri saranno scelti personalmente da lui e, per questo motivo, molto vicine alla sua figura. Inoltre, da diverse indiscrezioni, sembra che sia sua intenzione licenziare circa metà dei dipendenti attualmente sotto contratto con Twitter, per risollevare economicamente la società e rientrare nei costi dell’accordo. Infine, sembra proprio che la spunta blu possa diventare parte integrante di un abbonamento da 8 dollari al mese che consentirà a chiunque di ottenere anche ulteriori vantaggi, come meno pubblicità, media più lunghi e possibilità di apparire nelle ricerche.

🇵🇭 Il tifone Nalgae sta sprigionando tutta la sua potenza e a farne le spese sono soprattutto le #Filippine, dove ha provocato almeno 98 morti e decine tra feriti e dispersi. Piogge e raffiche di vento sono cominciate giovedì della scorsa settimana, per intensificarsi nel weekend. Domenica Nalgae si è spostato nel Mar Cinese Meridionale, ma milioni di persone sono ancora alle prese con allagamenti, coltivazioni danneggiate e soccorsi lenti.

📈 Continua a crescere il PIL italiano, che ha chiuso in positivo dello 0,5% il terzo trimestre dell’anno rispetto al secondo (che a sua volta aveva visto una crescita del +1,1% rispetto al primo). Si tratta comunque del settimo trimestre di fila in crescita, questa volta dovuto molto probabilmente al turismo in crescita nonostante i costi più elevati per il caro bollette. Da notare come il PIL dell’Eurozona sia aumentato solo dello 0,2% rispetto al trimestre precedente e, tra i grandi paesi, l’Italia è quella cresciuta maggiormente (0,3% per la Germania, 0,2% per Francia e Spagna).

🏎 Ancora una vittoria per il campione del mondo di #F1 Max Verstappen, che la scorsa domenica ha trionfato nel terz’ultimo Gran Premio della stagione in Messico. È la 14^ affermazione per l’olandese, che ha così stabilito un nuovo record di successi nell’ambito di una singola stagione. I precedenti detentori del erano Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull, 2013) e Michael Schumacher (Ferrari, 2004).

🇪🇹 Da settimane il governo dell’#Etiopia e i ribelli della regione del Tigrè sono impegnati dallo scorso 25 ottobre in negoziati per far cessare la guerra in modo “permanente”. Il conflitto ha radici molto più profonde, ma lo scontro vero e proprio iniziò ormai due anni fa. Secondo quanto ammesso dall’ex presidente nigeriano Obasanjo (uno dei mediatori dei negoziati insieme agli Stati Uniti), l’accordo sembra essere stato trovato nella speranza che entrambe le parti rispettino gli impegni presi.

💊 Chiudere tutte le cause legate alla crisi degli oppioidi nei confronti delle tre più grandi catene di farmacie americane costerà quasi 14 miliardi di dollari. CVS, Walgreens e Walmart hanno deciso di patteggiare risarcendo con tale somma tutte le persone che avevano fatto causa alle aziende, accusate di aver venduto (in collaborazione con medici compiacenti) farmaci in quantità molto più elevata del necessario senza avvisare dei rischi i clienti o effettuare controlli approfonditi.

💰 Continua il tentativo (quasi) disperato degli Stati Uniti di tenere a bada l’inflazione. La Federal Reserve (la banca centrale americana) ha annunciato un nuovo aumento dei tassi di interesse dello 0,75%. Si tratta del sesto incremento dall’inizio dell’anno e del quarto di questo valore. Secondo la FED, è probabile che non ci siano aumenti così sostanziosi nel prossimo futuro, nella speranza che l’inflazione raggiunga nuovamente il 2% con il passare dei mesi (ad agosto si aggirava intorno all’8,3%).

🤸 La procura di Brescia ha aperto un’inchiesta dopo tre ex atlete della Nazionale di ginnastica ritmica hanno parlato pubblicamente di abusi fisici e psicologici subiti nell’arco della loro adolescenza, periodo nel quale hanno frequentato il centro federale di ginnastica ritmica dell’Accademia di Desio. Nina Corradini, ad esempio, ha raccontato a Repubblica delle umiliazioni subite per rientrare nei parametri di peso della Nazionale. Anna Basta ha parlato di ripetuti attacchi di panico e pensieri suicidi, nonché di problemi alimentari anche in seguito alla sua uscita nel 2020. La ragazza avrebbe anche denunciato certe pressioni a persone rilevanti del settore, ma senza essere ascoltata. Lo stesso destino toccò anche all’ex campionessa mondiale Giulia Galtarossa. I nomi dei dirigenti e allenatori coinvolti non sono stati ancora diramati. Il fatto che non si tratti del primo caso a livello mondiale suggerisce l’esistenza di un problema sistemico ben più preoccupante.

🇮🇱 Benjamin Netanyahu ha vinto le elezioni parlamentari in #Israele (le quarte negli ultimi cinque anni) e tornerà a capo del governo dopo aver passato l’ultimo anno all’opposizione. Potrà contare su 65 seggi sui 120 totali. L’esecutivo uscente, guidato da Yair Lapid (classificatosi secondo con il partito centrista), era caduto a giugno per tensioni interne alla maggioranza. Degno di nota il terzo classificato, un cartello di estrema destra guidato da Itamar Ben-Gvir, noto per le sue posizioni violente e razziste. Per molti analisti, è proprio lui il vincitore reale di queste elezioni, dal momento che il movimento era ai margini della vita politica fino alle scorse elezioni.

🇩🇰 Tempo di elezioni anche in #Danimarca, con la premier uscente Mette Frederiksen e la coalizione di centrosinistra ancora vincenti, ma per il rotto della cuffia. I seggi ottenuti in parlamento dai Socialdemocratici ammontano a 90 su 179, ovvero il minimo necessario per formare una maggioranza. Sembra che per rafforzarla la Frederiksen possa chiedere aiuto al partito di centro dei Moderati, che ha ottenuto 16 seggi.

✈ Sembrava in dirittura d’arrivo l’accordo tra il ministero dell’Economia e il fondo statunitense Certares, la Delta Air Lines e Air France-KLM per la vendita della nuova compagnia di bandiera italiana #ITAAirways. Il negoziato si è concluso senza un accordo il 31 ottobre e sembra che adesso possa riaprirsi il discorso con MSC e Lufthansa, la cui offerta è sempre stata più solida.

🇰🇵 Continua la lotta a distanza tra le due Coree a suon di lanci di missili oltre il confine marino che le separa. Pur non essendoci state vere e proprie violazioni delle acque territoriali, la situazione sembra più tesa che mai. La #Corea del Nord ha minacciato nuovamente l’utilizzo delle armi nucleari in virtù delle continue esercitazioni congiunte tra Corea del Sud e Stati Uniti, visti come una minaccia da Pyongyang. Nuovi missili sono stati lanciati giovedì verso il mar del Giappone e uno di questi (probabilmente balistico intercontinentale) ha fatto scattare gli allarmi in diverse zone del centro e del nord del Giappone.

🇵🇰 L’ex primo ministro pakistano Imran Khan è stato raggiunto da un colpo di pistola a una gamba durante una protesta contro il governo nella città di Wazirabad, nel nord-est del Pakistan. L’attentatore ha inoltre ucciso un sostenitore di Khan e ferito altre 13 persone. Né il motivo del gesto né la dinamica sono chiari, ma pare che in ogni caso Khan non sia in pericolo di vita.

Alla prossima 👋

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Designers Australia 2021 Awards Winners

Designers Australia 2021 Awards Winners, DIA News, Best New Architecture

Designers Australia 2021 Awards Winners News

12 August 2021

Australian Interior Design Awards 2021 Winners

Design Institute of Australia releases groundbreaking Designers Australia 2021 Awards

Outstanding shifts in design by Bates Smart, DesignByThem, Monash University XYX Lab, and Edward Linacre.

The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) — Australia’s peak national design body, released the inaugural recipients for its Designers Australia 2021 Awards. The final winners out of a shortlist of seventy-four across the country, reflect the designer’s ability to make a strong contribution to a better world and include three national winners, a President’s Award and thirty-one awards of Merit. The awards, a first for the industry, identify Australia’s preeminent designers and studios, calling attention to the individual/s and their distinguished design processes as much as the outcome.

Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini:

Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini was awarded the ‘PLACE’ category winner, while DesignByThem for DL Range by Gibson Karlo and Dion Lee received the winning ‘USE’ award. Monash University Department of Design XYX Lab for HyperSext City won ‘INTERACT’, and product designer, artist and mentor Edward Linacre received the President’s Award.

DIA’s Designers Australia 2021 Awards are the culmination of months of evaluation, development and revisions. They are different in their categories and criteria to most of the design awards currently offered in Australia. The three groundbreaking cross-disciplinary design categories would have previously been categorised by traditional design disciplines such as industrial, interior, graphic, digital, product, environmental, textile, fashion, and many more.

DIA President Gavin Campbell FDIA said: “Since 1948, the Design Institute of Australia has been committed to nurturing and empowering designers. It is pleasing to see the culmination of these awards, responses in design shifts while also creating a platform for our collective future. The winning recipients and awards of Merit have all in their way embraced ethical, diverse and sustainable processes through collaborative and professional practice. Their projects are a testament to their values and entrepreneurship, and it’s our responsibility to identify and support them as design leaders and to demonstrate the value of design to the broader community.”

Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini:

Shining a light with a new focus on Australian designers and their award winning responses to current community challenges.

Awards jurors, and internationally renowned Dutch trend forecasters and design educators Lidewij Edelkoort & Philip Fimmano also commented: “The Cabrini Malvern Hospital extension by Mark Healy the studio director of Bates Smart truly encapsulates our times; from the importance the medical sector plays in our lives to designing social spaces with wellbeing in mind. The new Gandel Wing’s natural finishes, rounded edges and neutral palette illustrate the power of buildings that can heal us. Considered lighting and attention to detail therefore become critical to care. The comforting interiors have been so thoughtfully reimagined that we thought it was a sustainable hotel concept — now that’s somewhere one should check-in! It’s time that hospital and hospitality go hand in hand.”

Tuba Kocaturk, awards juror, and professor of integral design said: “The DL Range by DesignByThem presents a timeless process of experimentation with form and materials which brings together functional and purposeful production techniques from fashion and industrial design, translated into an innovative marriage of comfort and inspirational design.

“The Monash University’s design, the HyperSext City, presents a series of interaction platforms where the design transcends being merely a product, but rather becomes a research and a communication platform, which informs, raise awareness and continually involves its users/audience in the evolution of the displayed content. Both projects are a testament to the changing role and position of design, moving from the traditional concept of a tangible product through to orchestration of new interactions and experiences.“

PLACE winner — Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini identified for their exemplary approach to design by focusing on wellness and human-centred healthcare. Gandel Wing was praised as a place in partnership with nature and technology, encouraging healing rather than simply treating disease. The architects were honoured for responding to the hospital’s evolving needs by comforting the lives of many.

USE winner — DesignByThem for DL Range by Gibson Karlo collaborates between founders and industrial designers Sarah Gibson and Nicholas Karlovasitis and Australian fashion designer Dion Lee. The key objective of this project was to promote cross-disciplinary design by creating a unique body of work merging fashion and industrial design principles.

INTERACT winner — Monash University Department of Design for HyperSext City use design as an intersecting mediator, educational and collaborative tool giving voice to community members. The University’s XYX Lab was commended for its investigative exhibition encouraging and empowering people to comprehend and imagine complex issues together.

President’s Award — Multidisciplinary designer, artist, student mentor and former DIA Graduate of the Year recipient Edward Linacre applauded for his contribution to the profession, and commitment to diversity and equality across cultures, gender and race. He is a partner at Copper Design, which resides within Mycelium Studios, a co-working hub and place where designers coexist and learn from each other.

Industry leading jurors include Alessandra Baldereschil, Susanna Bilardo, Lisa Cahill, Gavin Campbell, Lidewij Edelkoort, Philip Fimmano, Marcus Fairs, John Gertsakis, Dr Rafael Gomez, Peta Heffernan, Fenella Kernebone, Tuba Kocaturk, Dr Scott Mayson, Nicole Monks, Lorenzo Palmeri, and Quan Payne.

The winning recipients, and the awards of Merit, are listed below. A link to the Designer’s Australia 2021 Awards ceremony can be found here

Designers Australia 2021 Awards jurors include Alessandra Baldereschil, Susanna Bilardo, Lisa Cahill, Gavin Campbell, Lidewij Edelkoort & Philip Fimmano, Marcus Fairs, John Gertsakis, Dr Rafael Gomez, Peta Heffernan, Fenella Kernebone, Tuba Kocaturk, Dr Scott Mayson, Nicole Monks, Lorenzo Palmeri, and Quan Payne. The awards sponsors are Dulux Acratex and Woods Solutions.

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PLACE category winner, representing the spaces we live, work, and play Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini

PLACE Awards of Merit: -Billard Leece Partnership and Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Susan Wakil Health Building -Comunitl for Davidson -Cox Architecture for Parmelia Hilton Hotel -Cox Architecture for Sydney Coliseum Theatre, West HQ -Cox Architecture and Neeson Murcutt + Neille for Australian Museum Project Discover -Danielle Brustman for Brighton Street Early Learning -DesignInc Adelaide for DesignInc Adelaide Studio -Elenberg Fraser for Market Lane -Latitude for SBB -Mata Design Studio for Applecross Residence -Mycelium Studios for Mycelium Studios -Naomi Milgrom Foundation and Glenn Murcutt for MPavilion 2019 -Phillips/Pilkington Architects for Gunditj Mirring Keeping Place -Russell & George for Sarah & Sebastian -Skeehan Studio for Canberra Glassworks Shop -studio-gram for The Guardsman -Walter Brooke & Associates and Genesin Studio for iTL -Walter Brooke & Associates and Hecker Guthrie for EOS -Woods Bagot for Central Park Tower Refurbishment -Zwei Interiors Architecture for body of work

USE category winner describing things we use DesignByThem for DL Range by Gibson Karlo and Dion Lee

USE Awards of Merit: -Cobalt Design for KeepCup Thermal Cup & Press Fit Lid -DesignByThem for August Lounges by Gibson Karlo -Hare + Klein for Bridge Table -JamFactory for Solute Pendant Light -JDT Design for LEGO 3D printed Spinner -Naomi Milgrom Foundation and BoardGrove Architects for MPavilion 2020 Stool Dolly -Skeehan Studio for NAVE Collection -Yellow Goat Design for H2O

INTERACT category winner depicting what or who we interact with -Monash University XYX Lab for HyperSext City

INTERACT Awards of Merit: -Black Squid Design for A-Lure Gin -Ian Wong for 100 Objects & I-CONIC -United Studio for Markr

President’s Award -Edward Linacre for contribution to the profession

25 May 2021

Australian Interior Design Awards 2021 Shortlist

Design Institute of Australia releases groundbreaking Designers Australia 2021 Awards

Australian Interior Design Awards 2021 Shortlist

Images courtesy of DIA

Place representing the spaces we live, work, and play:

Bates Smart for Gandel Wing, Cabrini;

Cox Architecture for Transurban Workplace;

Cox Architecture for Sydney Coliseum Theatre, West HQ;

Cox Architecture for 2 Market Street Lobby;

Cox Architecture for Australian Museum Project Discover;

Cox Architecture for Eagle Workplace;

Glenn Murcutt for MPavilion 2019;

Ohlo Studio for Dune House;

Phillips/Pilkington Architects for Gunditj Mirring Keeping Place;

Stephen Varady Associates for Nasteski Apartment;

studio-gram for Fino Vino restaurant, Adelaide, South Austrlia;

studio-gram for Hotel Indigo;

Walter Brooke & Associates for EOS by SkyCity;

Woods Bagot for Central Park Tower Refurbishment;

Zwei Interiors Architecture for body of work – pictured, Citizen.MDW:

Burgmann Anglican School – Early Learning Centre: photo : Anne Stroud

ACMI Renewal: photo : Shannon McGrath

The Mercy Centre Mater Private Hospital Townsville: photo : Andrew Rankin

Rouse Hill Childcare, New South Wales: photo : Ross Honeysett

Spring Bay Mill – The Banksia Room, Tasmania: photo : Samuel Shelley

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Wyrmprints w/unbound version:

Jewels of the Sun | Cleo’s Ruse | Samurai Siesta | Better Together

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Logros de la NASA a Lego por latino

Hola Gonzalo saludos cordiales.

Primero que todo quisiera agradecer de corazón el apoyo con la noticia de hace un tiempo sobre mi proyecto de Ciudad de México en LEGO (https://www.cnet.com/es/noticias/el-set-de-lego-de-la-ciudad-de-mexico-podria-hacerse-realidad/) ¡Ser tomado en cuenta para estar en CNET fue muy importante para mí y ayudó bastante a llegar a los 10 000 votos! MIL GRACIAS!!!

Desafortunadamente no aprobaron el proyecto, sin embargo no me rindo en el propósito de que lleguemos a tener un set diseñado con sello latinoamericano. Por esa razón, hice un nuevo proyecto en LEGO Ideas llamado Spinning Planets (Planetas Giratorios en www.VoteForSpinningPlanets.com) y que espero esta vez sea aprobado para llevar el talento latino a LEGO. 

En síntesis, Spinning Planets consiste en diferentes planetas, con la idea innovadora de que cada uno trata un tema / estilo único pero tienen las capacidad de conectarse entre sí y poder girar manualmente o con un motor. Adicionalmente, alrededor de cada planeta orbitan naves o estructuras espaciales en estilo micro (uso de las piezas más pequeñas) y que invitan a crear los propios para intercambiarlos. 

En este momento hay propuestos 6 planetas con una Minifigura y tema único - desde la Batalla de Endor de Star Wars o bien la Tierra con la Historia de la Exploración Espacial (con algunos de lo logros más icónicos de la humanidad en la carrera espacial), por lo cual ha sido bastante popular entre los fans. Creo que inclusive hay potencial de crear toda una línea, como el caso de BrickHeadz, y permita crear diferentes planetas de muchos temas. 

En el Press Kit que preparé se puede ahondar en mayor información y contiene las imágenes que no logré adjuntar aquí https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2kolrrx6n2ziz80/AACP-ZaJsVxvlEncf-hUtkS_a?dl=0 

Por favor no dudar en contactarme para información adicional de Spinning Planets, sobre lo que fue el proyecto de LEGO Ciudad de México, o para cualquier cosa. Quedo a sus órdenes. 

Y aprovecho de nuevo para agradecer sinceramente que se nos brinde un espacio para soñadores como nosotros en este tipo de proyectos. 

¡Saludos y muchas gracias!

Francisco Escobar 

fe.cr02@gmail.com

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Día 4

El día después del mono (Fiebre de abstinencia)

J:

Querido lector, si nos has seguido leyendo sabes que el día 3 fue una pesadilla por la altura a la que nos expusimos. Pero el día 3 no acabó el día 3.

Eran las 10 con 40 (piloteaba mi nave), a Freckless le cayó el mono, parecía una adicta en abstinencia, la cosa se puso bastante fea, la atacó el cuerpo adolorido y los escalofríos, temimos que fuera fiebre, yo traté de ser positivo pensando que solo fuera la aclimatación del descenso de la montaña. Seguimos la primera recomendación de cuando te da fiebre, tomar un baño para equilibrar la temperatura del cuerpo, y eso hizo, y al parecer ayudó un poco. Ya pasado un rato estamos descansando pero Freckless se sintió mal y fui por un termómetro, un electrolito y sal de uvas, elementos dignos para curar una resaca. Ya medida la temperatura e ingerido lo demás, nos dispusimos a dormir.

5:35 de la mañana, me levanto adolorido, con la cabeza a punto de explotar y un fuerte dolor en la espalda, me asusto pensado en qué estoy sufriendo del síndrome de abstinencia, ¡OMG! Me paro al baño, me mojo la cara y al salir lo único que pienso es en tomar una caja de paracetamol, pero solo me tomo dos y me dispongo a dormir. Creo solo fue la congestión nasal que hizo que me doliera todo, por que ya por la mañana estoy casi como si nada.

M:

Después de nuestra cena de McDonalds y cusqueñas, me empecé a sentir mal, los escalofríos no me dejaban y lo único que quería era estar en casa y vomitar (otra vez), los “casi 30” ya estaban pasándome la factura.

Jorge fue a comprarme cosas para que me sintiera mejor, y así fue, pude descansar y despertar de mejor ánimo.

Mientras desayunábamos veo que hay un chica buscando en donde sentarse, todas las mesas estaban ocupadas así que con mi amabilidad mexicana le digo: “si quieres siéntate con nosotros”, y así fue como hicimos una amiga hondureña. En los escasos 10 mns. que platicamos con ella nos contó que hizo 27 horas para llegar a Cusco entre escalas y vuelos, que le perdieron su equipaje y que para colmo su habitación no estaba lista, así que nuevamente entra mi amabilidad típica mexicana y le ofrezco un suéter para que al menos en el tour de hoy no la pase tan mal.

Mexicano que no canta, no es mexicano.

M:

Omar, es el guía de hoy. Y mientras se presenta y nos pregunta de dónde somos, nos comenta: Dicen que mexicano que no canta, no es mexicano. Jorge y yo solo los volteamos a ver.

Entre el grupo de hoy hay españoles, argentinos, peruanos, una colombiana, un francés y nosotros. Durante todos los tours siempre hemos sido los únicos mexicanos.

Llegamos a nuestra primera parada

J:

Punto para el guía de hoy, Omar, tiene al tiro todos esos pies de página con datos interesantes los cuales hacen más atractiva esta cultura peruana.

Llegamos a la entrada Del Valle Sagrado de los Incas, enormemente hermoso, en muchas cosas veo el parecido con nuestra cultura maya y azteca, similitudes que lo hacen interesante, aunque pienso que los incas le echaban más ingeniería a sus construcciones. Las perfectas líneas y encajes, el trabajo de pulido en la piedra, esa perfección mamalona que le ponían a su trabajo no dejaba nada que desear, podrían haber sido los Steve Jobs del siglo 1 en Sudamérica, por que neta, tanta perfección parece que solo es para decir “ Mis construcciones son las mejores, -think inca, think different-“

M:

Antes de llegar al Valle Sagrado, hacemos una parada a la mitad de la carretera, Omar nos explica que desde ahí se puede ver el inicio Del Valle así como el río (no recuerdo el nombre porque tiene varios, según la parte por la que esté pasando), este río según los Incas se asemeja a la vía láctea y como ellos, al igual que otras culturas ancestrales, se guiaban por la astrología, pues deciden que ese lugar es el indicado para su Valle Sagrado. Este río, pasa por una gran parte del Perú, tiene mucha corriente y desemboca en el Amazonas.

Ya en en el Valle Sagrado, vemos las Terrazas, que en realidad se llaman “Andenes” (Estamos en Los Andes), estás Terrazas servían para la agricultura, eran un tipo de laboratorio gigante en donde iban sembrando granos y de acuerdo a la altura en la que eran colocados, eran el tipo de variedad que salía, es por eso que en Perú hay más de 300 tipos de maíz, (No entiendo si tienen tantos tipos de maíz porque no venden tortillas).

Hablando un poco de la estructura de las Terrazas, son un tipo de escaleras enormes, en forma circular construidas en el cerro, bastante simétricas y bien distribuidas. Dentro del “complejo” existía un tipo contador, quien llevaba todos los registros y bitácoras de lo que se sembraba, lo que se tenía y lo que hacía falta, esta información de la hacían llegar al “manda más” en Cusco, para tener una comunicación y que no hubiera escasez en la producción de algún alimento.

Es hora de la comida y hacemos parada en un buffet, tienen platillos tradicionales de Cusco: cuy, alpaca, cordero, chicharrón. Y sí voy a comer de todo, incluso el cuyo con todo y sus patitas. 

Hablemos un poco de la comida, la carne de alpaca es bastante suave y muy rica, tiene un sabor muy parecido a la birria. Lo que ellos llaman chicharrón es un tipo de carnitas, (cuando en las carreteras leía “chicharronerías” me imaginaba los chicharrones que nosotros conocemos con un pico de gallo y cerveza). Y el cuyo es frito, sabe a pollo pero da un poco de tristeza ver sus patitas. Cuando vas en las carreteras hay locales pequeños que venden cuyo en varas, así tal cual están los cuyos fritos, atravesados por un palo y siendo mostrados por lo vendedores.

Se termina la hora de la comida y es momento de seguir nuestro tour.

Camino a Ollantaytambo, Omar, nos muestra el hotel flotante del Perú, unas cápsulas colgando de un cerro, para llegar ahí no hay otra manera más que hacerlo escalando, el costo por noche es de $300 dls.

J:

Llegamos a Ollantaytambo, entrando a la plaza de armas vemos la escultura en bronce de un guerrero de estatura promedio peruana, bien trabado y con cara de rompemadres, este chavo se llama Ollantay, y fue el best warrior del Rey “Pachecote” (para los cuates). Omar nos dio unas notas interesantes sobre este personaje, el cual en pocas palabras fue el Romeo de “Romeo y Julieta” pero versión Inca, y protagonizó un drama digno para una telenovela de Televisa. Cuando investigue les platicaré más.

M:

Entre las calles de Ollantaytambo aún se pueden ver algunas que son 100% Incas, los muros son originales, las calles son muy estrechas .

Entramos al sitio arqueológico, un lugar resguardado por su puerta principal, andenes enormes y 2000 escaleras que tenemos que subir si queremos disfrutar de la vista. Omar va con nosotros y mientras subimos vamos haciendo descansos en donde nos va explicando un poco de la historia. Frente a nuestros ojos hay un cerro en el que se construyó una bodega que servía para resguardar los granos y cosechas, algo así como la Alhóndiga de Granaditas versión Inca y en medio de un cerro.

Hemos terminado en Ollantaytambo y ahora vamos a Chincheros, ya habíamos estado aquí pero ahora vamos a visitar la iglesia, caminando entre sus calles me recuerda los pueblos de Oaxaca a los que voy con mi mamá. Nuestro guía (Nos cambiaron a Omar porque nuestro autobús se descompuso y ahora estamos compartiendo con otro grupo), nos explica acerca de la historia de la iglesia, es de la época colonial, adentro podemos apreciar sus murales, todos son pintados por artistas que pertenecieron a la “Escuela Cusqueña”.

J:

Último sitio, la iglesia estilo colonial de Chinchero, debo aclarar que hablar de Colonial en Perú es hablar de un tiempo diferente al nuestro, ya que la conquista española llegó tiempo después al Perú, pienso yo por la distancia y situación demográfica de los Incas. Está iglesia es muy parecida a las de los pueblitos en México, pero no tiene trabajos de aplanado, el arte sacro es sumamente raro, raro para mí obviamente, el estilo churrigueresco contiene deformaciones que lo hacen diferentes a los mexicanos, esto por qué a los andinos se les daba más libertad de hacer las cosas, digamos que si a México llegaba lo “inn” del arte sacro en esos años, a los Incas les llegaba años después. La moda les llegaba tarde a los chavos. A parte de que la iglesia pedía a los “predicadores de la palabra del Señor” que las cosas se hicieran en “fa”, para poder llevar la “cultura” a esos pueblos olvidados de Dios.

Volvamos al tema, Arte Sacro, tiene pequeñas variantes y estilos que obviamente marcan la región donde fueron creados, tienen toda la intención de la escuela católica española, pero los andinos le pusieron bastante de su toque étnico. La imagen que más me llama la atención es “El Señor de los Terremotos” un Cristo de color oscuro, que mira a la tierra y sus piernas están arqueadas, hay algo que me maravilla de esta representación católica, el cómo y el por qué fue hecho como es. Este Yisus de Los Andes tiene la piel oscura por el obvio color de los residentes y originales pobladores de estas tierras, la mirada totalmente hacia abajo, es por que está mirando a la Madre tierra o Pachamama, los pies arqueados por que a la gente de edad adulta en Los Andes se les arqueban por que desde muy jóvenes cargaban cosas pesadas. Este Cristo era la representación del hombre andino de la época colonial peruana.

M:

Aquí terminamos nuestro tour de hoy, llegamos al hotel para hacer maletas y descansar, mañana saldremos temprano con destino a Machu Picchu.

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Al fin pude terminar una serie de 5 mapas para DooM que tantas horas de vida me saco aparte de ser un clásico inmortal

Se me ocurrió hacer mapas de batallas el día que el infierno ataco por primera vez. Son mapas simples con toneladas de monstruos, dificultad media a dificil.

Recomiendo usar D4T o Project Brutality... estos mods me incentivaron a mapear una vez mas

Lista de Mapas:

EP1 - Phobos Outpost - Una instalacion usada como deposito y teletransporte de herramientas y maquinaria, es el foco de atencion para el Infierno

EP2 - Flesh Temple - El infierno se esta apoderando de tecnologia humana para invadir

EP3 - Hell Carrier - Una nave infestada de monstruos  que salio de la orbita marciana con rumbo a la tierra

EP4 - Mars Complex - Los portales entre Phobos y Marte permitieron que en una zona minera los demonios se hagan un festin de carne

EP5 - The Ladder - Un marine abandonado en fondo el Infierno tratando de volver a casa

DOWNLOAD LINK 

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