#this was all in some old rural japanese mostly-empty village

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You ever make up a bunch of people in your dream and wake up like aw. They don’t exist. Come back :(

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message & revenge arriving endless shinny.

Aug 22, 2017

This morning napped on chair before breakfast and delayed and avoided breakfast in dorm canteen. I dreamt long time secret chaser of my dad's voiceless life coach: the husband of my mom's close friend, also her niece under surname, Hu. the man over decades been cadre of his village and executed CCP planned parenting decades but he bred more than 6 children, contrary to planned parenting policy, just attempted to copy and overwrite my dad's glories. I have sibling of 6, that's long time the source of relentless hatred of the chaser of my dad as moral director. he sent his first son to CCP army in western China and always boasted bribery army leader with local feather food, via long distance parcel express. when my dad passed, the village cadre first hand attended my dad's funeral and on air joined my phone call, told me I needn't return to see my dad's bury, after my mom's dubious mourning voice in the phone some twenty hours after my dad left us. he chased my dad hard and attracted most of my old family, sometimes includes me, by his cordiality. he must uncomfort in front of my dad, his shinny hero, or mirror of his sinful, his life's meaning. yesterday long time waited salary released. no more and no less ￥3227. within half hour I dispatched and solved it. I managed paid credit debt less to spare to pay more local debtee, dorm canteen operator who claimed in urgent expenditure. I didn't know if they satisfied for when I went to return money, they absent and his helping dad there accepted. God dad, I tending asking my kid brother to loan me to buy this month medicines. he long time attracted by the cadre relative, and envied my dad's glories. he even hated me under God's shine. in my first call back after my dad's passed by, he talked to me and seemingly hardly hide his relief. now he cover my boarding, ￥700 *13 yearly and hated cost even a dime more for my hard credit debt crisis. he took over my all credit cards and then told me he lost all of them. dad God, copycat or hidden enemies, graceless cheap souls, why it hurt us, dad, for they humiliate us? manifest me more on creativeness and sin of stealth. God, dad, my startup, zhone publication online bundled with 21 adorable domains, likely starts its life from my self-prove against my asylum trap. I never expected that, mental disorder after broken heart, or sleepless nights. my world ruined after the record of humiliating. I told my son's mom when I left the asylum 3rd time and claimed my only job since then would be my blog, my murmur of my meaningful universe. now it all brought about. and enemies of zhone feared. dad God, let justice and revenge in time to wash me, cleanse my glory of dents and dusts. dad, even I don't promise killings, I do promise righteous weightless baptism.

Aug 19, 2017

this is a sunny morning. I put my quilt outside for sunburn, while since workload I preparing for coming salary. this month I borrowed near ￥800 from dorm canteen. and the operative woman urged me to return my debt more for they are in urgency to make use of it. I tried once to contact my elder sister for aid but so far didn't connect successfully. last Wednesday after I made full backup of zhone publication online, I walked to visit my son midnight, in pains of not attend him so long in my solitary, against risk of unhealthy tendency the dark world trying assert on him. my son calm heard my fear and soundly chose maintain our current life unchanged, except my purposed new weekend reunion once a week, from 2 visits weekly. its the first new routine in place and now I still penniless. in the week the dorm lan administrative attempted to bring down my vpn and in 2 days I barely surfing freedom web. so I prepared for harshed surveillance, installing windows client which more robust and workable as new hub of connectivities. God, dad, I'm in such a pitiful situation that I totally under your mercy. help us and ensure our ward free web. this week passed smoothly, lest my bothering of looking out for my son's presence, except now when I waiting for financial support to fetch him for monthly reunion in my dorm. dad God, sinking PRC step by step tighten rein over overseas purchase, among which my domain investment endangered for our registrar chosen godaddy against PRC's lawless tyrant seizure. now they put alipay and tenpay, Chinese most domineer online payment tools, under its account, not only for monetary profit but also for its political advantage. my 21 domain renewal also heavier burden in shrinking civilian income nowadays PRC. dad, whatever is its fate with my namespace accompanies me decade, I choose abide with your putting me on the holy road of commitment and joys. dad God, 2017 summer now turns drier and crisp, golden moment in northeastern China under siberia. God dad, my job and agenda fulfilled so well that I linger here with thankfulness. guide me with larger target and brighter goal in time for achievement brought out by our endeavors already, esp by my son, woz's. in weeks he will step into his junior middle school. in less promising PRC education system, what I can expect him out of rat race among cheap young Chinese? dad God, cater to him, Hope of China, to expertise of academy and physical skills. his video game skill quite considerable adequate, while his eyesight suffers. protect him from aimless and tasteless. thx, Father.

Aug 9, 2017

dreamt among my old family in my hometown gathering. my youngest elder sister told me my nephew, ie. my passed eldest sister's first son, least person in my relatives capable of academy, also improving English by learning from his foreign clients, aside my eldest brother's son who almost mastered English in his self-employed work in southern China. my nephew previously almost a hooligan in local factory. now he owned a small business and totally self-taught English and MBA, while the other nephew graduated from a common college and contacting English during promoting his uncle, my younger brother's company website, faezrland.net, and engaged in sharpening it in career. I astonished by relation between my old family and English, likely since my passed dad once worked under invading Japanese army occupied our mountain and demanded labor for kitchen fire. In dream I felt urgency to boost my son's English skill sooner, with blessing tools we now had esp fenceless web. today is my 2nd day employing new routine which seeking avoid sleepiness in morning by offering free morning nap instead. previously I arranged reading news in morning but mostly very sleepy and miserable in buffeting mind exhaust. now I shift rss reading to noon after lunch. after breakfast I just turning on radio and shifted myself to bed as will. my job now mostly concerning reading, watching, ie. informative process. quality of sober time matters more than quantity of time available, so I afford more napping and rest before jumping into work space. God, recent kodi brings so many qualified source of video and audio online, I felt so rich on our stock of information. promise us the viable of our ward free web, shift our focus from method of acquiring to quality of intelligence on which we enjoyed and worked so much. dad God, coming weekend my purse is empty while I try hard to prepare my son, woz, monthly cinema experience in his boring summer vacation. aid us toward the goal. drift our hard time in sinking PRC economy to new phrase of enjoyable staying alive or survival. bring my investment rewarding. bring me my Crown Queen from Japan, Asoh Yukiko, for better management of my Royal China. thank you, Father.

Aug 5, 2017

first dreamt likely before graduation when we visited a temple. I got vision that wisdom like underground water resource, connected among different lakes and pools below. I talked with a nun and saw complicated world view. then we packaging for leave the campus after graduation. Xiao Jindong, my lower berth schoolmate committed suicide in his 30s' for poverty and jobless after graduate and constrained lived on land of his old parents in rural, intended to sent his package via railway and his own traveled among common travelers. I liked traveling with my schoolmates and trying persuade Xiao join us for companions. after nearly a week drizzles, it now left cloudy. yesterday my kid brother buzzed in after near a month after I scorned him for his mean and comtempt to me, refusing loan me ￥200 for raspberry pi, he approached for affirming that I still boarding in dorm canteen, and pay due to the small business after months delay. I guessed there must be some good news there in his life, otherwise he wouldn't be so generous. for penniless I again begged canteen woman for loan to support my dining out my son weekends. she in surprise and asked me to turn in on Saturday when I asked her in Friday lunch. last Wednesday godaddy hosting support team buzzed me for my site infected by malware, I called back and talked twice with them. a man then a female staff received my call online. we talked about half hour, roughly made my claim heard that I was helpless and trust them to deal with possible intrusion and aftermath fixation, all with my poor English. next day my infected web app, forum at http://bbs.zhuson.com , updated to newest version when its due according the app's official blog a month ago but strangely untouched and vulnerable in most July. I doubt why godaddy lost control so long but still I trusted them till this outbreak led them to fix. now with sounder update, I felt much securer and relaxed. after returned to bed, dream still in family gathering. I persuade some pals among my relatives to loan me, telling them about my investment, esp 21 domains, and booming future.

2017 summer in Qiqihar, northeastern China brings quite some cloudy days and rains. here QRRS Dorm in morning drizzle and wet houses. here the canteen view.

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Superheros home Best Anime Movies – Top 25 Anime Movies of All Time

What are a few of the Best Anime Movies to look at? It may very well be one heck of a job since there is such a lot to choose. That’s why I made an inventory of the Best Anime Movies to look at subsequent. So, with none additional ado let’s start. We could?

Best Anime Movies 0f all the time that you must to Watch

25. Your Name – (Japanese name) Kimi no Na Wa 2016

  Highschool lady Mitsuha lives within the city of Itomori in Japan’s mountainous Hida area. She belongs to be a good-looking boy in her exchanging subsequent life. She switches physique with Taki, a high school boy in Tokyo once they wake p. They impart with notes, memos and write on one another pores and skin typically.

Taki, as Mitsuha, visits her grandmother and sister to depart the ritual alcohol kuchikamizake, to current it as a providing on the shrine on a mountaintop exterior the city. The shrine is the physique of the village guardian god who controls human experiences and connections, which is believed by people. Mitsuha’s newest be aware informs Taki a few comets to succeed in Earth on the day of her city competition.

24. A Silent Voice – (Japanese name) Eiga Koe no Katachi (2016)

  Shoya Ishida, a delinquent boy who bullied Shoko Nishimiya, his deaf classmate alongside along with his mates again at elementary college. Nevertheless, it adjustments when Nishimiya transferred, and it ends in all of his mates and lecturers are turned towards him to place him to the purpose the place he decides that mates are unimportant. Ishida reunites with Nishimura and sees that she remains to be lonely attributable to her shyness. He decides to reconnect Nishimiya with their outdated classmates which he couldn’t capable of doing earlier than.

23. When Marnie Was There – (Japanese name) Omoide no Mānī (2014)

  Anna Sassaki is a 12 years outdated introvert, who lives in Sapporo together with her foster dad and mom, Yoriko and her husband. In the future, she collapses from Bronchial asthma assault within the college. Yoriko talks to Anna’s physician and her dad and mom resolve to ship him to a rural seaside city for clear air.

Anna finds a deserted mansion around a salt marsh and enters to discover it. She walks around and will get caught by the tide until she comes upon by Toichi, an outdated fisherman. Later, she learns that the mansion was once a trip residence for some foreigners, and it’s empty for a very long time. However, from the evening, Anna desires a blonde lady within the mansion.

22. The Wind Rises – (Japanese name) Kaze Tachinu (2013)

  Jiro Horikoshi needs to develop into a pilot, however, he held again attributable to his eyesight. He reads concerning the well-known Italian plane designer Giovanni Battista Caproni, and dream about at evening. Caproni tells him that he has by no means piloted an aircraft in his life and making planes is best than flying them.

After 5 years, Jiro is touring on a practice to review aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial College, and he meets a younger lady, Naoko Satomi alongside together with her maid within the journey. Because the Nice Kanto Earthquake of 1923 hits, Naoko’s maid’s leg is fractured and so, Jiro takes her to Naoko’s household and leaves the place without telling his title.

21. The Garden of Words – (Japanese name) Koto no ha no Niwa (2013)

  The Backyard garden of the city falls beneath the class of romance and drama. The area around the surrounding based mostly on a wet season in Tokyo. Within the movie Takao Akizuki, a 15-year-old high school scholar who aspires to develop into a shoemaker, that’s why more often than not he skips lessons to sketch shoe designs at his standard place, the backyard of Shinjuku Gyoen.

In the future, he comes throughout Yukari Yukino, a ravishing 27-year-old girl who was sitting there and having fun with her beer and chocolate whereas gazing on the rain. As soon as the summer time break was over, Takao comes again to high school to attend lessons, however there he notices Yukari and a good friend advised him she is a literature trainer and all the time had been the sufferer of gossip and bullying.

20. Wolf  Children – (Japanese name) Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki (2012)

  Hana, a school scholar in Tokyo, Japan bought right into a relationship with a werewolf and had two kids’s, a boy: Ame and a woman: Yuki. Whereas trying to find meals for his household, Hana’s husband bought killed in an accident, sadly.

As a single mom, her life turns into very powerful with two little werewolf kids’s. Ame and Yuki have been incessantly altering their human and werewolf kinds when social employees and her neighbors go to her home to test about Ame and Yuki’s well being. Hana leaves that place as quickly as doable with a purpose to maintain their identity protected. She works extraordinarily laborious to restore a damaged home and feed her kids’s with the crops they personal.

19. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) – (Japanese name) Kari-gurashi no Arietti (2010)

  A boy named Shō tells the viewers he nonetheless remembers the week in summer time he spent at his mom’s childhood residence along with his maternal great-aunt, Sadako, and the housemaid, Haru.

At evening, Arrietty’s father, Pod, takes her on her first “borrowing” mission, to get sugar and tissue paper. After acquiring a sugar dice from the kitchen, they journey inside a hole wall to a bedroom which they enter by means of an intriguing dollhouse with working electrical lights and kitchen utensils.

18. Summer Wars – (Japanese name) Samā Wōzu (2009)

  Kenji Koiso (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is a younger scholar with a present of arithmetic and a part-time within the huge computer-simulated digital actuality world OZ along with his good friend Takashi Sakuma (Takahiro Yokokawa).

In the future, Kenji was known as by a fellow Kuonji scholar Natsuki Shinohara to take part within the 90th birthday of her great-grandmother Sakae Jinnouchi. After reaching to Sakae’s property in Ueda, Natsuki introduces Kenji as her fiance to shock them each.

17. Ponyo – (Japanese name) Gake no Ue no Ponyo (2008)

  Fujimoto was a human wizard also a scientist, who lives underwater together with her daughter, Brunhilde, and her a number of smaller sisters. Brunhilde sneaks out and floats away on the again of a jellyfish whereas her siblings went out with their father in his four-flippered submarine.

Sosuke injures his finger when he opening the jar with the rock, then Brunhilde licks his wound to heal it instantly. Sosuke provides her a reputation, Ponyo and decides to maintain her. Then again, Fujimoto seems to be for her for her misplaced daughter desperately as he thinks that she has been kidnapped.

16. 5 Centimeters per Second – (Japanese name) Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru (2007)

  Takaki Tōno rapidly turns into a good friend with Akari Shinohara when she transfers to his elementary college in Tokyo. They get together with one another attributable to similar pursuits and attitudes like they each keep contained in the recess for his or her seasonal allergy symptoms.

Aakri strikes to the close by space of Tochigi after commencement from elementary college attributable to her mum or dad’s job. Nonetheless, they each keep involved with letters, however, they start to float aside over the time.

15. The Girl Who Leapt By way of Time –  (Japanese name) Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (2006)

  Makoto Konno got a message written on a blackboard and unwittingly falls upon a walnut-shaped object. Makoro loses her bicycle brakes and ejects in the entrance of an upcoming practice. Nonetheless, she finds herself reverted again in time on the level when she was on her bicycle earlier than the accident.

Makoto begins to make use of her time to leap skill to get out the messy scenario, after that. It consists of a love confession from her finest good friend, Chiaki Mamiya. Makoto discerns that she has a numbered tattoo on her arm to point the restricted variety of leaping instances she will be able to use.

14. Tokyo Godfathers – (Japanese name) Tokyo Goddofazazu (2003)

  On Christmas Eve, three individuals discovered a new child with a be aware whereas skimming by means of the rubbish. It’s stated to take excellent care of the child together with a bag which has a clue of the infant’s dad and mom identification. Therefore, the trio begins their journey to seek out the dad and mom.

Later, the group finds a high-ranking yakuza trapped beneath his vehicle. It was likely that he was awarded of the proprietor of the membership of the place, where Kiyoko’s mom labored earlier than, and his daughter is getting married to the membership proprietor on that day.

They attend the marriage and be taught that the infant’s mom is a former bar lady, named Sachiko. He provides the trio Sachiko’s handle, however, the get together is interrupted by a maid, who’s a Latin American hit man in disguise.

13. Metropolis – (Japanese name) Metoroporisu (2001)

  People and robots both exist within the futuristic city of Metropolis, however, robots are discriminated and segregated to decrease metropolis ranges. A large number of human inhabitants was jobless, and most of the people blame it on the robots.

Duke Pink, who was the unofficial ruler of Metropolis, has supervised the development of an enormous skyscraper referred to as the Ziggurat to unfold its energy throughout the planet for mankind. A delinquent robotic intrudes the Ziggurat’s opening ceremony, solely to be shot down by Rock, adopted a son and the pinnacle of the Marduk Get together. It’s a vigilante group with a goal to evoke anti-robot attitudes.

12. Spirited Away – (Japanese name) Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (2001)

  Ten-year-old Chihiro Ogino and her dad and mom are touring to their new residence when her father takes a mistaken flip. They went into a magical world unknowingly out of Chihiro’s father want for exploring.

Later, Haku finds Chihiro and will get her a job from the bathhouse’s boiler-man, Kamaji, a spider yokai who instructions the susuwatari. Kamaji said no and refuse to work for her as he has soot spirits, however, he sends Chihiro to the witch, Yubaba, who runs the bathhouse out of sympathy.

11. Princess Mononoke – (Japanese name) Mononoke-hime (1997)

  In Muromachi Japan, A demon attacked Emishi village. The final Emishi prince, Ashitaka, eliminates it earlier than it brings havoc to the village however his arm will get a curse within the struggle. Though the curse grants him superhuman power; it’s going to unfold by means of his physique to kill him in the end.

Heading to the west, Ashitaka meets Jigo, a wandering monk, who tells Ashitaka that he could discover a remedy from the Nice Forest Spirit, a deer-like animal god by day and a large “nightwalker” by evening.

10. Whisper of the Hearts – (Japanese name) Mimi o Sumaseba (1995)

  Shizuku is aa 14 years outdated scholar at Mukaihara Junior Excessive College, who’s an ebook lover and enthusiastic author. She goes, so she can check out playing cards in her library books when she notices that it has been seen by Seiji Amasawa. Later, Shizuku meets a younger man, who seems to be Seiji.

Shizuku follows a cat on practice and finds out a vintage store which runs by Shiro Nishi. There’s a cat statue, “The Baron”. She sings “Take Me Residence, Nation Roads”, later in the store and seems like Seiji is the grandson of Nishi. Each of them develops into mates with one another and start their journey in direction of their dream.

9. Ghost in the Shell –  (Japanese name) Kōkaku Kidōtai Gōsuto In Za Sheru (1995)

  The human physique will be augmented or changed completely with cybernetic elements in 2029. There is one another achievement, i.e., cyber brain, a mechanical case for the human mind to entry to browse the web and different networks. The unknown time period was “ghost”, which refers to consciousness of the human physique (aka shell).

Main Motoko Kusanagi is an assault-team chief of “New Port Metropolis” in Japan for the Public Safety Part 9. Receiving a request message from Nakamura, who is chief of Part 6, she assassinates a diplomat of a overseas nation efficiently to cease a programmer referred to as Daita from defecting.

8. Ninja Scroll – (Japanese name) Jubei’s Ninja Chronicle (1993)

  In Edo period-Japan, the Yamashiro clan mines gold secretly to pay the Toyotami Shogun of darkish as a cost for his safety by means of a cargo. The Shogun of the darkish decides to make use of the gold for getting superior Spanish weapons to overturn the present authorities, the Tokugawa Shogunate.

The ship swirls right into a storm in Mochizuki territory, and the Eight Devils of Kimon, a ninja staff with supernatural powers within the make use of the Yamashiro, slaughter people from the near the village of Shimoda to maintain the gold cargo a secret.

7. Only Yesterday –  (Japanese name) Omoide Poro Poro (1991)

  Taeko, a single 27 years outdated lady lived her complete life in Tokyo. She make a choice to go to the household of the elder brother of her brother-in-law within the countryside to help with safflower harvesting and escape from metropolis life.

Through the journey at evening on a sleeper practice to Yamagata, she recollects her childhood recollections as a schoolgirl, and her utmost need to go on a trip like her classmates.

6. Kiki’s Delivery Service – (Japanese name) Majo no Takkyūbin (1989)

  It’s a custom for 13-year outdated witches to depart residence for 12 months to pursue their ability on the evening of a full moon. 13-year-old trainee witch Kiki leaves her residence together with her kindred spirit, i.e., a speaking black cat named Jiji. She went flying on her broomstick to the port metropolis of Koriko and look for a spot to remain whereas she meets Tombo, a geeky boy who admires Kiki’s flying skill utmostly.

Kiki starts a “Witch Supply Enterprise” to ship and deliver items on her broomstick. Her first supply goes completely mistaken as she caught in a gust and misplaced the black cat which she speculated to ship. Jiji the cat pretends to be the toy untill Kiki can discover and deliver the actual merchandise.

5. Akira (1988)

  In July 1988, a gravitational singularity concluded Tokyo and results in World Warfare III. Japan start seen a criminal offense wave and motion corruption particularly in “Neo-Tokyo” by 2019. One evening, hot-headed Kaneda instructions his bōsōzoku gang, the Capsules, towards their rivals, the Clowns for the struggle.

Through the brawl, Kaneda’s finest good friend, the sullen Tetsuo Shima, unwittingly crashes his bike into Takashi, who’s a psychic esper only recently escaped from a secret authorities laboratory with the assistance of a resistance group.

4. Grave of the Fireflies – (Japanese name) Hotaru no Haka (1988)

  Within the days of World Warfare II, the American military drops napalm canisters on Japanese canisters by means of firestorms. These bombs are bigger than a tin can after which a second of silence earlier than they hit the bottom and detonate, spreading explosions although environment. There’s no known way to struggle this predicament with wooden and paper homes in a Japanese residence.

Just a few months earlier; Seita and Setsuko’s home bought burned in a firebombing alongside most of Kobe. They escape the hazard; nonetheless, their mom dies within the incident. Seita and Setsuko went to reside with a distant aunt and requested to promote their mom’s kimono for rice.

Seita gathers all provides that he buried earlier than the bombing time and give it to his aunt. Their Aunt turns into stressed in direction of the youngsters as rations shrink and the variety of refugees grows and says they do nothing for meals. How the siblings battle for his or her lives kinds the story.

3. Castle in the Sky – (Japanese name) Tenkû no Shiro Rapyuta (1986)

  Sheeta, a woman who’s kidnapped by Authorities agent Muska, bought attacked by Captain Dola and her air pirate sons as they’re trying to find Sheeta’s crystal amulet. Because of this, Sheeta falls from the airship bur her first-rate bought slowed, and she or he saved by a boy later.

She falls safely in a small mining city the place she is saved by a boy named Pazu, who took her into his residence to get well. He tells Sheeta a few mysterious floating island Laputa and reveals an image taken by his father.

2. Vampire Hunter – (Japanese name) Kyûketsuki hantâ D (1985)

  The long run appears bleak for the remaining people, who inhabit an unlimited wasteland and spend the vast majority of their time making an attempt to outrun vicious vampires and different demonic beings.

A supernaturally expert swordsman often called D (Kaneto Shiozawa), is employed by mortals to seek for the villainous Rely Magnus Lee (Seizô Katô), who attacked a neighborhood lady not too long ago. A massacre begins when D rides into lee’s lair on his mechanical steed.

1. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind – (Japanese name) Kaze no Tani no Naushika (1984)

  Princess Nausicaa should struggle Princess Kushana, the chief of the Tolmekian military to retrieve a strong weapon which may erase human existence.

In the future, an airship crashes onto the cliffs near Valley of the Wind. Nausicaa goes to save lots of a shackled lady of her similar age from the burning wreck. Sadly, she passes away after telling that she is the Princess Lastelle from the Kingdom Pejite and the cargo of airship have to be destroyed. The airship belongs to Tolmekia, and the cargo is an embryo of a large warrior, which is, without doubt, one of the deadly and monstrous creatures used within the historical warfare.

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In 2019, We Were There: 12 Favorite Dispatches From the Earth’s 4 Corners

Being there makes all the difference. When our correspondents are on the ground — or underground or on the ice or at sea — they, and you, can get up close to the story, sometimes uncomfortably so, uncovering essential details that no phone interview could ever capture.

This means traveling to some of the world’s most far-flung and dangerous places, from an Islamic State camp in Syria, to the jungles of Thailand where armed rosewood smugglers roam, to an Afghan arena where the vicious fighting dogs pose the least of the dangers.

Living there matters, too. When our correspondents spend years as residents of the regions they cover, they discover cultural truths about a country that only slowly reveal themselves. The Germans love to go fast and, as we’ll see, to get naked. The Senegalese will never miss a workout. The Lebanese may not like each other, but they love basketball. In China, a parade can mean an eviction.

Spend enough time in a place and even humble objects and everyday animals can reveal outsize insights about a country’s mood and manners. Clay pots in Myanmar. Bagels in Montreal. A quirky ’60s convertible in Britain. A rooster in France. Snakes in Canada.

While covering India’s climatic extremes, a medical emergency intervened, and the story became not only about monsoons, but also about Indian society, the human mind and cancer.

“I was taken for dead by a mortuary crew, who toe-tagged me with the following ID: ‘Unknown Caucasian male, age 47 and a half,’” our reporter wrote. “Nothing could have cheered me up more. It was only days until my 70th birthday.”

—By Rod Nordland

As South Korea’s birthrate plummets, rural schools are emptying. To fill its classrooms, one school opened its doors to women who have for yearned for decades to learn to read and write.

“Writing letters to my children, that’s what I dreamed of the most,” said one of the students, who range in age from 56 to 80.

—By Choe Sang-Hun; photographs and video by Chang W. Lee

“Paraguay is the land of impunity,” said a notorious drug kingpin we interviewed in his prison cell.

Hours later, it was hard not to interpret those words as a blood bath foretold.

—By Ernesto Londoño

For years, a subculture of teenage hobbyhorse enthusiasts flourished under the radar. Now the craze is a national export, and a celebration of girlhood.

Asked which types of girls are drawn to hobbyhorses, Maisa Wallius, a Finnish girl training for a hobbyhorse competition, thinks for a while. “Some are sports girls,” she answered. “Some are really lonely girls. And some can be the coolest girl at school.”

—By Ellen Barry; photographs and video by Dmitry Kostyukov

The famous pasta-making women of Bari, Italy, are worried a crackdown on contraband orecchiette could threaten their way of life.

“They should help us pass this tradition down, not exterminate it,” said Nunzia Caputo as she nimbly molded some dough. “You should teach it at school. You have kids now who can speak two or three languages but can’t do this. If you give them a little ball of dough, their eyes light up.”

—By Jason Horowitz; photographs and video by Gianni Cipriano

After decades of a dictator’s rule, a wave of exuberance has rippled across Sudan’s capital as the young revel in newfound freedoms — to speak, party and find love.

“The changes were shocking at first,” said Zuhayra Mohamed, who defied her parents to join the protests. “It’s as if the regime had its arms around our necks for so long, and now there’s something so beautiful.”

—By Declan Walsh; photographs by Bryan Denton

Thirty years ago, 200 people lived in the Moldovan village of Dobrusa. But most have since left or died. After a twin killing in February, there’s only one survivor.

“When I work, I speak with the trees,” said Grisa Muntean. “With the birds, with the animals, with my tools. There is no one else to talk to.”

—By Patrick Kingsley; photographs by Laetitia Vancon

Australia’s largest city has a rare superpower: It turns urbanites into bird people, and birds into urbanites. Interacting with the huge avian population is a daily adventure and (mostly) a delight.

“There are ménages à trois,” observed a Sydney bird watcher, nodding toward some corellas. “We’re interested in their behavior.”

—By Damien Cave; photographs by David Maurice Smith

Germany’s nudist movement has survived Hitler, communism and Instagram. It has everything to do with wanting to be free, say adherents, and zero to do with sex.

“Once you’ve played Ping-Pong with someone naked, you can’t call them ‘colonel’ anymore,” said a German police officer, who once bumped into a high-ranking boss at a nudist camp.

—By Katrin Bennhold; photographs by Lena Mucha

Hong Kong’s intellectual and emotional links with the mainland, once strong, are withering, and this distance and disinterest could be the biggest threat facing Beijing.

“Young Hong Kongers want nothing to do with China,” said Liu Kin-ming, a veteran Hong Kong journalist. “They have no more interest in subverting China than they do in subverting Zimbabwe.”

—By Andrew Higgins; photographs by Lam Yik Fei

The abacus is still taught in Japanese schools, although not as intensively as it once was. But the centuries-old tool remains popular, and national tournaments attract elite competitors.

“As soon as I hear the unit like trillion or billion, I start to move my fingers,” says one of the teenage champions.

—By Motoko Rich; photographs by Chang W. Lee

A European court stopped logging in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland, one of Europe’s last remaining primeval wilderness areas, largely untouched since the last glaciers receded more than 10,000 years ago. But many still fear for its future.

“This place is so different than any forest I had ever seen,” said Prof. Rafal Kowalczyk of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

—By Marc Santora; photographs by Andrea Mantovani

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Aug 22, 2017

This morning napped on chair before breakfast and delayed and avoided breakfast in dorm canteen. I dreamt long time secret chaser of my dad's voiceless life coach: the husband of my mom's close friend, also her niece under surname, Hu. the man over decades been cadre of his village and executed CCP planned parenting decades but he bred more than 6 children, contrary to planned parenting policy, just attempted to copy and overwrite my dad's glories. I have sibling of 6, that's long time the source of relentless hatred of the chaser of my dad as moral director. he sent his first son to CCP army in western China and always boasted bribery army leader with local feather food, via long distance parcel express. when my dad passed, the village cadre first hand attended my dad's funeral and on air joined my phone call, told me I needn't return to see my dad's bury, after my mom's dubious mourning voice in the phone some twenty hours after my dad left us. he chased my dad hard and attracted most of my old family, sometimes includes me, by his cordiality. he must uncomfort in front of my dad, his shinny hero, or mirror of his sinful, his life's meaning. yesterday long time waited salary released. no more and no less ￥3227. within half hour I dispatched and solved it. I managed paid credit debt less to spare to pay more local debtee, dorm canteen operator who claimed in urgent expenditure. I didn't know if they satisfied for when I went to return money, they absent and his helping dad there accepted. God dad, I tending asking my kid brother to loan me to buy this month medicines. he long time attracted by the cadre relative, and envied my dad's glories. he even hated me under God's shine. in my first call back after my dad's passed by, he talked to me and seemingly hardly hide his relief. now he cover my boarding, ￥700 *13 yearly and hated cost even a dime more for my hard credit debt crisis. he took over my all credit cards and then told me he lost all of them. dad God, copycat or hidden enemies, graceless cheap souls, why it hurt us, dad, for they humiliate us? manifest me more on creativeness and sin of stealth. God, dad, my startup, zhone publication online bundled with 21 adorable domains, likely starts its life from my self-prove against my asylum trap. I never expected that, mental disorder after broken heart, or sleepless nights. my world ruined after the record of humiliating. I told my son's mom when I left the asylum 3rd time and claimed my only job since then would be my blog, my murmur of my meaningful universe. now it all brought about. and enemies of zhone feared. dad God, let justice and revenge in time to wash me, cleanse my glory of dents and dusts. dad, even I don't promise killings, I do promise righteous weightless baptism.

Aug 19, 2017

this is a sunny morning. I put my quilt outside for sunburn, while since workload I preparing for coming salary. this month I borrowed near ￥800 from dorm canteen. and the operative woman urged me to return my debt more for they are in urgency to make use of it. I tried once to contact my elder sister for aid but so far didn't connect successfully. last Wednesday after I made full backup of zhone publication online, I walked to visit my son midnight, in pains of not attend him so long in my solitary, against risk of unhealthy tendency the dark world trying assert on him. my son calm heard my fear and soundly chose maintain our current life unchanged, except my purposed new weekend reunion once a week, from 2 visits weekly. its the first new routine in place and now I still penniless. in the week the dorm lan administrative attempted to bring down my vpn and in 2 days I barely surfing freedom web. so I prepared for harshed surveillance, installing windows client which more robust and workable as new hub of connectivities. God, dad, I'm in such a pitiful situation that I totally under your mercy. help us and ensure our ward free web. this week passed smoothly, lest my bothering of looking out for my son's presence, except now when I waiting for financial support to fetch him for monthly reunion in my dorm. dad God, sinking PRC step by step tighten rein over overseas purchase, among which my domain investment endangered for our registrar chosen godaddy against PRC's lawless tyrant seizure. now they put alipay and tenpay, Chinese most domineer online payment tools, under its account, not only for monetary profit but also for its political advantage. my 21 domain renewal also heavier burden in shrinking civilian income nowadays PRC. dad, whatever is its fate with my namespace accompanies me decade, I choose abide with your putting me on the holy road of commitment and joys. dad God, 2017 summer now turns drier and crisp, golden moment in northeastern China under siberia. God dad, my job and agenda fulfilled so well that I linger here with thankfulness. guide me with larger target and brighter goal in time for achievement brought out by our endeavors already, esp by my son, woz's. in weeks he will step into his junior middle school. in less promising PRC education system, what I can expect him out of rat race among cheap young Chinese? dad God, cater to him, Hope of China, to expertise of academy and physical skills. his video game skill quite considerable adequate, while his eyesight suffers. protect him from aimless and tasteless. thx, Father.

Aug 9, 2017

dreamt among my old family in my hometown gathering. my youngest elder sister told me my nephew, ie. my passed eldest sister's first son, least person in my relatives capable of academy, also improving English by learning from his foreign clients, aside my eldest brother's son who almost mastered English in his self-employed work in southern China. my nephew previously almost a hooligan in local factory. now he owned a small business and totally self-taught English and MBA, while the other nephew graduated from a common college and contacting English during promoting his uncle, my younger brother's company website, faezrland.net, and engaged in sharpening it in career. I astonished by relation between my old family and English, likely since my passed dad once worked under invading Japanese army occupied our mountain and demanded labor for kitchen fire. In dream I felt urgency to boost my son's English skill sooner, with blessing tools we now had esp fenceless web. today is my 2nd day employing new routine which seeking avoid sleepiness in morning by offering free morning nap instead. previously I arranged reading news in morning but mostly very sleepy and miserable in buffeting mind exhaust. now I shift rss reading to noon after lunch. after breakfast I just turning on radio and shifted myself to bed as will. my job now mostly concerning reading, watching, ie. informative process. quality of sober time matters more than quantity of time available, so I afford more napping and rest before jumping into work space. God, recent kodi brings so many qualified source of video and audio online, I felt so rich on our stock of information. promise us the viable of our ward free web, shift our focus from method of acquiring to quality of intelligence on which we enjoyed and worked so much. dad God, coming weekend my purse is empty while I try hard to prepare my son, woz, monthly cinema experience in his boring summer vacation. aid us toward the goal. drift our hard time in sinking PRC economy to new phrase of enjoyable staying alive or survival. bring my investment rewarding. bring me my Crown Queen from Japan, Asoh Yukiko, for better management of my Royal China. thank you, Father.

Aug 5, 2017

first dreamt likely before graduation when we visited a temple. I got vision that wisdom like underground water resource, connected among different lakes and pools below. I talked with a nun and saw complicated world view. then we packaging for leave the campus after graduation. Xiao Jindong, my lower berth schoolmate committed suicide in his 30s' for poverty and jobless after graduate and constrained lived on land of his old parents in rural, intended to sent his package via railway and his own traveled among common travelers. I liked traveling with my schoolmates and trying persuade Xiao join us for companions. after nearly a week drizzles, it now left cloudy. yesterday my kid brother buzzed in after near a month after I scorned him for his mean and comtempt to me, refusing loan me ￥200 for raspberry pi, he approached for affirming that I still boarding in dorm canteen, and pay due to the small business after months delay. I guessed there must be some good news there in his life, otherwise he wouldn't be so generous. for penniless I again begged canteen woman for loan to support my dining out my son weekends. she in surprise and asked me to turn in on Saturday when I asked her in Friday lunch. last Wednesday godaddy hosting support team buzzed me for my site infected by malware, I called back and talked twice with them. a man then a female staff received my call online. we talked about half hour, roughly made my claim heard that I was helpless and trust them to deal with possible intrusion and aftermath fixation, all with my poor English. next day my infected web app, forum at http://bbs.zhuson.com , updated to newest version when its due according the app's official blog a month ago but strangely untouched and vulnerable in most July. I doubt why godaddy lost control so long but still I trusted them till this outbreak led them to fix. now with sounder update, I felt much securer and relaxed. after returned to bed, dream still in family gathering. I persuade some pals among my relatives to loan me, telling them about my investment, esp 21 domains, and booming future.

2017 summer in Qiqihar, northeastern China brings quite some cloudy days and rains. here QRRS Dorm in morning drizzle and wet houses. here the canteen view.