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👑 MEDIEVAL MODS + CC | The Sims 4
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I am currently playing Morbid's ULTIMATE Decades Challenge over on YouTube. Below is a list of all of the Mods + CC I am using in my game to create the ultimate MEDIEVAL experience 👑
I'll be updating this list as I add new mods and cc to my game.
📺 Watch on YouTube
👑 MODS:
Medieval Windenburg
MC Command Center
MC Woohoo
More Traits in CAS
Royalty Mod
Medieval Interactions
Ye Olde Cookbook + Stoves
Home Region by Kuttoe
Fashion Authority 2 by Lot51
Functional Broom
Functional Loom
Functional Pottery Wheel
Archery Skill
Blacksmithing Skill
Honey Production Mod + Mead Brewer
Children/Toddlers Can Die of Anything
Playable Harp + Lute
Functional Horses & Carriages, No Helmet
Create Campfire Bonfire Anywhere
Arranged Marriages
Custom Farm Animals
Purchase Custom Animals
Zero's Historical Mods (pickpocket, disease, etc.)
Phone to Notebook Replacement
Sippy Cup + Toys Default Replacements
Stuff for Pets
Harvestable Wheat Grain
Natural Knitting Stuff
Live in Business (LittleMsSam)
More Buyable Venues (LittleMsSam)
Force to Leave (LittleMsSam)
👑 CC:
Build:
TSR Ye Medieval - Ligna Windows Set
TSR Ye Medieval - Timber Frame Walls
TSR Ye Medieval - Framework Walls
TSR - Broken Wood Door
TSR Ye Medieval - Soil Terrain
TSR Ye Medieval - Hay Ground Terrain
Birch Tree (2048x2048)
Objects:
Lili's Palace - Folklore Set No. 1
Linzlu's Frontier Items
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 1
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 2
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 3
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 4
TRS Ye Medieval - Tristan Bathroom
TSR Ye Medieval - Tavern Part 1
TSR Ye Medieval - Candle Holder
TSR - Skara Stool
TSR - The Old Garden Boat
TSR - The Old Garden Quay
Fish Market Decor
Fish Rack
Fish Crate V1
Fish Crate V2
Bohrium Vegetables I
Old Rustic Well ("Eco Living" version)
Stable Set by Moriel
Rustic Animal Shed
Rustic Chicken Coop
Rustic Bee Box
Bassinet + Infant Crib
CAS:
TheSimsResource (Ye Medieval)
TheSimsResource (Sifix)
Simverses (most of my peasant CC)
Anora's Hair (Princess Leia's Kenobi Hair by Buzzard)
Rosceline's Hair (Lusine by simstrouble)
Kenric's Hair (Henry Hair by JohnnySims)
Mira's Hair (Padme's Mustafar Hair by Buzzard)
Papa Cedrick's Hair (Wearwolves Game Pack)
Roseline's Peasant Dress
👑 LOTS:
Caspian's Seaside Hut (Lot + CC List) (20x20)
Caspian's Lakeside Cottage (Lot + CC List) (20x20)
TSR Ye Medieval Avelyn Castle (64x64)
TSR Ye Medieval Galbury Tavern (30x20)
TSR Ye Medieval Tyrada Tavern (30x20)
TSR Ye Medieval Herbalist Hut (40x30)
👑 SAVE FILE:
Srsly's Blank Save
Map Replacement Medieval Windenburg
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fatehbaz · 1 year
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On the night of April 30, 1541, the Ming Ancestral Temple in Beijing was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. [...] 
[T]he fires forced the Jiajing Emperor to resurrect one of the dynasty’s most expensive, difficult, and destructive projects: the logging of old-growth timber in the far southwest of China. Disaster struck again in 1556, when fires burned the Three Halls that form the central axis of the Forbidden City. The Three Halls burned yet again in 1584. Through the end of the sixteenth century, repeated damage to the imperial palaces forced reconstruction. Yet the lightning strikes in Beijing were also a disaster for the old-growth forests of the southwest, where the logs to build the palaces had first been cut in the early 1400s. As logging supervisors soon learned, ancient trees could not be felled on a regular basis. Officials pressed ever deeper into the gorges of southern Sichuan and northern Guizhou to find them, bringing massive transformations to the environment in the process.
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The foundations of Beijing were laid between 1406 and 1421 by the Yongle emperor, a junior son of the Ming founder, who moved the court to his personal appanage in north China. [...] Grasping the sinews of power that connected his court to far-flung regions of the empire, Yongle pulled one million laborers to Beijing to build his palaces.
Because the weight of Chinese buildings is carried by their pillar-and-beam frameworks (liangzhu), monumental buildings required monumental trees (Figure 2). So Yongle also dispatched a similarly large labor force to the old-growth forests of the far southwest to cut the fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) and nanmu (Phoebe zhennan) that grew straight and tall enough to be used for imperial construction.
We cannot be certain just how many logs were cut to build Beijing, but the figure must have been astounding. In 1441, two decades after the completion of the project, 380,000 large timbers were left over from the earlier construction. By 1500, these too were gone, used for repairs or too damaged by rot to be used for construction purposes.
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In the sixteenth century, logging officials wondered how their predecessors had been able to obtain so many giant timbers. Li Xianqing, who supervised more than 40 logging sites in the 1540s, noted that large trees could still be found, but they could only be transported out with great difficulty and at great expense. The majority had to be discarded as hollow or insect-damaged.
Even when a quality log was found, it took five hundred workers to tow a log over mountain passes.
Skilled craftsmen were on hand to build “flying bridges” (fei qiao), stone-lined slip roads, and enormous capstans (tianche) to tow the logs up slopes (Figures 3 and 4). In the remote forests of the southwest, loggers faced attacks by snakes, tigers, and “barbarians” (manyi); “miasmatic vapors” (yanzhang, probably malaria); storms, forest fires, rockslides, and raging rivers (Figure 5). Labor teams had to carry their own food and often starved. At the rivers, logs were tied into massive rafts bound with bamboo for buoyancy, towed by teams of 40 men, and then launched on the three-year, three-thousand-kilometer journey to Beijing (Figure 6). Only a small fraction of the trees reached the capital in a condition where they could be used for palace building.
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Expeditions exceeded their budgets up to fiftyfold.
One official remarked, “the labor force numbers in the thousands; the days number in the hundreds; the supply costs number in the tens of thousands each year.” Another saying held that “one thousand enter the mountains, but only five hundred leave” (rushan yiqian chu shan wubai). To make matters worse, logging mostly occurred within territory that was under only loose Ming control [...].
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The Yongle Palaces were said to replicate the otherworldly atmosphere of the old-growth forests where their pillars originated. The presence of these timbers in Beijing linked the capital, materially and symbolically, to the southwestern landscape of cliffs and gorges where the trees had grown.
But ancient sentinel trees could not be reproduced on demand. The fifteenth-century logging project was a millennial event, removing the growth of hundreds or even thousands of years. Later officials were forced to come to terms with the transformations their predecessors had wrought in the ancient forests. Eventually builders had to switch to smaller, commercially available timber, using ornate artisanship and commercial efficiency to substitute for the austere majesty of the early Ming palaces, and the thousands of years of tree growth on which they rested.
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All text above by: Ian M. Miller. “The Distant Roots of Beijing’s Palaces.” Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia no. 39. Autumn 2020. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]
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eightyonekilograms · 5 months
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The thing about "critical code studies" is that the motivation for the project isn't necessarily wrong or misguided: software companies have a lot of power in people's lives today, that power came from and can reinforce existing power structures in harmful ways, and it's probably not a bad idea to have an academic framework for analyzing this.
But doing that on the level of the actual code being written is just nuts. The code is just brick or timber in this metaphor. Focus on the relationships between software companies, the government, independent FOSS movements, the broader market, etc. Don't apply "readings" to the damn code like you're reading Proust, Jesus Christ. That won't get you anywhere.
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Since launching its brutal war of aggression against Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian Federation has been locked into a long and costly conflict. Russia has been diplomatically marginalized, subjected to sanctions, and shunned by most of the Western world. Many multinational companies have been forced by international pressure to shutter or sell their Russian operations, and profiting from cooperation with the Russian state is no longer considered acceptable. Russia has found itself in dire need of new allies and resources.
In this environment, the Kremlin-financed Private Military Company Wagner, or Wagner Group, has served as an increasingly important source of revenue for the Russian state. Founded in 2014 to support pro-Russian forces in Donbas, since then Wagner Group has evolved into a complex international network of private military contractors, disinformation campaign infrastruc-ture, and corporate front companies. It has deployed fighters, propaganda and disinformation campaigns, and financing as a proxy for the Russian state in numerous conflicts, from Syria and Libya to Mali, Central African Republic, and beyond
Wagner has most often been described as an independent mercenary group. This status has provided Russia with a thin veil of deniability, particularly in relation to the numerous plausible accusations of murder, rape, torture, and war crimes raised against Wagner fighters. But in reality, Wagner has always operated with the political and material backing of the Russian Federation to advance Russian state interests.
In Africa, Wagner has been deployed in a number of countries across the continent since 2017. In each country it enters, Wagner deploys military trainers, mercenary fighters, and propaganda experts to support anti-democratic regimes, drive instability, and commit human rights abuses. The mercenary group's ostensible provision of "security services" creates a framework for lucrative business contracts for the extraction of natural resources including diamonds, oil, timber, and especially gold.
This report focuses on the Kremlin's 'blood gold': Gold extracted from African countries and laundered into international markets that provides billions in revenue to the Russian state, thereby directly and indirectly financing Russia's war on Ukraine and global hybrid warfare infrastructure.
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The Blood Gold Report's analysis suggests that Wagner and Russia have earned more than US$2.5 billion from blood gold since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The report focuses on the case studies of Wagner's blood gold operations in the Central African Republic, Sudan, and Mali. In each of these coun-tries, Russia profits from the blood gold trade in different ways:
In CAR, the mercenary group has been granted exclusive extractive rights for the Ndassima mine, the country's largest gold mine, in return for propping up President Touadera's authoritarian regime. Wagner's Ndassima operations are understood to produce US$290 million of gold annually, while local miners have been pushed aside or murdered by the mercenary group.
In Sudan, through control of a major refinery, Wagner has become the dominant buyer of unprocessed Sudanese gold as well as a major smuggler of processed gold. Russian military transporter flights laden with gold have been identified by Sudanese customs officials. While tracking Sudan's unreported gold market is near impossible, estimates suggest that almost Us$2 billion in gold is smuggled out of the country unreported every year, with 'the Russian Company' in prime position to take advantage.
In Mali, Wagner is paid a monthly retainer - estimated at US $10.8 million per month - to prop up a brutal military junta Meanwhile the junta is in turn dependent on a small number of Western mining companies for the revenue it needs to pay Wagner. Mining companies contributed more than 50% of all tax revenues to the Malian state for 2022. Barrick Gold Corporation, a Canadian listed company and Mali's single biggest tax contributor, paid US$206 million in the first half of 2023 alone.
The junta is increasing its financial demands on gold mining companies. Meanwhile, the four largest gold mining companies (weighted by tax contribution) continue to plan further investments in the country, despite the well-documented abuses of the military junta and growing influence of the Wagner Group.
Wagner's blood gold operations in CAR and Sudan have been subject to sanctions, and the Kremlin-backed mercenaries have developed increasingly complex smuggling routes and corporate subterfuge tactics to move blood gold out of these countries and convert this gold into cash.
In contrast, the Malian blood gold system enables Wagner to remain one degree removed from gold production. Instead, legitimate multinational mining companies convert gold into cash for the Malian military junta without triggering international sanctions.
To secure its position in a target country's political and natural resource extraction landscape, Wagner's African playbook consists of a four-pronged attack on the host country's civic institutions and civilian population - suppressing political opposition, spreading disinformation, silencing free media and terrorising civilians.
The ultimate objective of Wagner's playbook is to increase its clients' dependence on Wagner forces to stay in power, thereby securing a long-term revenue stream for the Kremlin and fostering authoritarianism and instability throughout the region as part of Russia's wider geopolitical strategy to distract and bog down the democratic West.
Since the death of Wagner's leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary group has formally come under the control of the Russian State. Yet the Kremlin's focus on Africa, and its blood gold operations, show no signs of changing.
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kosmichippie · 9 months
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Caspian's Seaside Hut (Lot + CC List)
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Caspian Rosenthorn built this tiny seaside hut after he left home at 15 following the death of his parents from typhoid fever. He pursued his dream of a life at sea then soon after married his wife Mira, the daughter of his fishing mate. Created for my side household as part of the ULTIMATE Decades Legacy.
Lot Download:
Gallery ID: KosmicHippie Lot Name: Caspian's Seaside Hut Lot Size: 20 x 20 (Windenburg, Mid-NoWhere) Lot Value: §15,407
Mods/CC:
Mods:
Medieval Windenburg
Royalty Mod
Ye Olde Cookbook
Archery Skill
Build:
TSR Ye Medieval - Ligna Windows Set
TSR Ye Medieval - Timber Frame Walls
TSR Ye Medieval - Framework Walls
TSR - Broken Wood Door
TSR Ye Medieval - Soil Terrain
TSR Ye Medieval - Hay Ground Terrain
Birch Tree (2048x2048)
Objects:
Lili's Palace - Folklore Set No. 1
Linzlu's Frontier Items
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 1
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 2
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 3
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 4
TRS Ye Medieval - Tristan Bathroom
TSR Ye Medieval - Tavern Part 1
TSR Ye Medieval - Candle Holder
TSR - Skara Stool
TSR - The Old Garden Boat
TSR - The Old Garden Quay
Fish Market Decor
Fish Rack
Fish Crate V1
Fish Crate V2
Bohrium Vegetables I
Chicken Coop
Old Rustic Well ("Eco Living" version)
Stable Set by Moriel
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mariacallous · 2 months
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If you ever had pastries at breakfast, drank soy milk, used soaps at home, or built yourself a nice flat-pack piece of furniture, you may have contributed to deforestation and climate change.
Every item has a price—but the cost isn’t felt only in our pockets. Hidden in that price is a complex chain of production, encompassing economic, social, and environmental relations that sustain livelihoods and, unfortunately, contribute to habitat destruction, deforestation, and the warming of our planet.
Approximately 4 billion hectares of forest around the world act as a carbon sink which, over the past two decades, has annually absorbed a net 7.6 billion metric tons of CO2. That’s the equivalent of 1.5 times the annual emissions of the US.
Conversely, a cleared forest becomes a carbon source. Many factors lead to forest clearing, but the root cause is economic. Farmers cut down the forest to expand their farms, support cattle grazing, harvest timber, mine minerals, and build infrastructure such as roads. Until that economic pressure goes away, the clearing may continue.
In 2024, however, we are going to see a big boost to global efforts to fight deforestation. New EU legislation will make it illegal to sell or export a range of commodities if they have been produced on deforested land. Sellers will need to identify exactly where their product originates, down to the geolocation of the plot. Penalties are harsh, including bans and fines of up to 4 percent of the offender's annual EU-wide turnover. As such, industry pushback has been strong, claiming that the costs are too high or the requirements are too onerous. Like many global frameworks, this initiative is being led by the EU, with other countries sure to follow, as the so-called Brussels Effect pressures ever more jurisdictions to adopt its methods.
The impact of these measures will only be as strong as the enforcement and, in 2024, we will see new ways of doing that digitally. At Farmerline (which I cofounded), for instance, we have been working on supply chain traceability for over a decade. We incentivize rule-following by making it beneficial.
When we digitize farmers and allow them and other stakeholders to track their products from soil to shelf, they also gain access to a suite of other products: the latest, most sustainable farming practices in their own language, access to flexible financing to fund climate-smart products such as drought-resistant seeds, solar irrigation systems and organic fertilizers, and the ability to earn more through international commodity markets.
Digitization helps build resilience and lasting wealth for the smallholders and helps save the environment. Another example is the World Economic Forum’s OneMap—an open-source privacy-preserving digital tool which helps governments use geospatial and farmer data to improve planning and decision making in agriculture and land. In India, the Data Empowerment Protection Architecture also provides a secure consent-based data-sharing framework to accelerate global financial inclusion.
In 2024 we will also see more food companies and food certification bodies leverage digital payment tools, like mobile money, to ensure farmers’ pay is not only direct and transparent, but also better if they comply with deforestation regulations.
The fight against deforestation will also be made easier by developments in hardware technology. New, lightweight drones from startups such as AirSeed can plant seeds, while further up, mini-satellites, such as those from Planet Labs, are taking millions of images per week, allowing governments and NGOs to track areas being deforested in near-real time. In Rwanda, researchers are using AI and the aerial footage captured by Planet Labs to calculate, monitor, and estimate the carbon stock of the entire country.
With these advances in software and hard-tech, in 2024, the global fight against deforestation will finally start to grow new shoots.
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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
The story of Globe Theatre started with William Shakespeare's acting company, Lord Chamberlain's Men.
William Shakespeare (baptized 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was a part-owner or sharer in the company, as well as an actor and resident playwright.
From its inception in 1594 AD, Lord Chamberlain's Men performed at Theatre, a playhouse located in Shoreditch.
However, by 1598, their patrons, including Earl of Southampton, had fallen out of favour with the Queen.
Theatre's landlord, Giles Alleyn, had intentions to cancel the company's lease and tear the building down.
While Alleyn did own the land, he did not own the materials with which the theatre had been built.
So, on 28 December 1598, after leasing a new site in Southwark, Cuthbert and Richard Burbage led the rest of the company of actors, sharers, and volunteers in taking the building down, timber by timber, loading it on to barges, and making their way across Thames.
Working together, the actors built the new theatre as quickly as they could.
The ground on the new site was marshy and prone to flooding, but foundations were built by digging trenches, filling them with limestone, constructing brick walls above stone, and then raising wooden beams on top of that.
A funnel caught rainwater and drained it into ditch surrounding the theatre and down into Thames.
The theatre was 30m in diameter and had 20 sides, giving it its perceived circular shape. 
Structure was similar to that of their old theatre, as well as that of the neighbouring bear garden.
The rectangular stage, at 5ft high, projected halfway into the yard and circular galleries.
Pillars were painted to look like Italian marble, sky painted midnight blue, and images of gods overlooked balcony. It could hold up to 3,000 people.
By May 1599, the new theatre was ready to be opened.
Burbage named it Globe after the figure of Hercules carrying the globe on his back — for in like manner, the actors carried Globe's framework on their backs across Thames.
A flag of Hercules with globe was raised above theatre with Latin motto: 'totus mundus agit histrionem' ('all the world's a playhouse'). 
Shakespeare's plays that were performed there early on included: 
Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.
Here, the Lord Chamberlain's Men enjoyed much success and gained the patronage of King James I in 1603, subsequently becoming The King's Men.
During a fateful performance of Henry VIII on 29 June 1613, a cannon announcing the unexpected arrival of the king at the end of Act 1 set fire to the thatched roof, and within an hour, the Globe burned to ground.
Everyone escaped safely, save for one man whose breeches reportedly caught fire. Two different songs had been written about it by the next day.
Globe was rebuilt by February 1614. The company could then afford to decorate it extravagantly, and it had a tiled roof instead of thatched.
However, by this point, Shakespeare's influence had lessened. He was spending more and more time back in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Disaster struck again in 1642 when the Parliament ordered the closure of London theatres.
In 1644-45, Globe was destroyed and the land sold for building.
In 1970, American actor and director, Samuel Wanamaker CBE (born Wattenmacker; 14 June 1919 – 18 December 1993), set up the Shakespeare's Globe Trust to pursue his dream of reconstructing the original Globe Theatre.
For what would be almost the next 30 years, he and his team worked and fought to obtain the permissions, funds, and research necessary for a project of this scope. 
Historians, scholars and architects all worked together in their efforts to build the Globe in the same way Lord Chamberlain's Men did, down to the green oak pillars and thatched roof.
Their work and dreams were fulfilled when the new Globe Theatre opened in 1997, one street away from where original stood.
Globe stands today as a living monument to Shakespeare, greatest English playwright, home to productions of his plays and many other new ones every season.
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for @christian-latte-anon, based on my response in this post
"What do you think about moving out of the city?" She asks, not hesitantly, but a little haltingly. Like she thinks he'll want to stay here, in their little apartment where they'd moved right after they got married, and she doesn't want to press it too hard. Neither of them has had one, solid place to stay for a very long time. Maybe it's time they did.
Raleigh's immediate, almost-before-she-finishes-her-sentence response is, "I've always wanted to build my own house."
Mako's whole face lights up, and then Raleigh mirrors her grin, and they're looking up properties for sale by evening. They don't care where it is, anywhere calm and safe where they can make a home. A place they can stay, for a very long time.
It's just outside a reasonably sized town, a place that looks like a snapshot picture taken long before the Kaiju War. The property is down a long driveway, up a long, mellow hill. It's fall when they sign the papers, and the leaves on the trees are vivid red as they drive through the valley. There's a foundation in place already, a framework in place for whatever they're going to build together.
They design it together, of course, with plans to build a detached garage later on — for tinkering, mostly Mako's, but to keep Raleigh's tools as well — and Raleigh starts building as soon as spring hits. He's always enjoyed this kind of work, though the majority of his experience is more industrial. Now, he's building using logs and timbers instead of metal beams and panels. It's different, but he likes it.
Mako climbs up onto the framework with him one day in the middle of the warmest summer he's experienced in years, and they eat lunch right there, looking down over the half-finished house the same way they'd looked out over Gipsy Danger in the Shatterdome almost five years before. How far, geographically, emotionally, relationally, they've come.
Raleigh has never been the best at domestics with anyone but his brother. There was an uncomfortable adjustment period, directly following their marriage, that neither of them had known what to do with a semi-normal life. They'd spent most of their time following the destruction of the Breach focused on cleanup and recovery efforts, still living in the Shatterdome for nearly a year afterwards.
Even when Raleigh had finally gotten up the guts to get down on one knee — which hadn't even surprised Mako, latent drift and all — they'd still been working out of one base or another, traveling around mostly together, but often not. The apartment was their first step back into a world where Jaeger pilots weren't needed any longer, and it was more like stepping down a set of stairs when you thought you were at the bottom already. Neither of them was prepared for what normalcy meant — grocery shopping, delegating household chores, Mako's twice-yearly need to rearrange all the furniture. It was intensely uncomfortable for about a month, before they finally, finally managed to relax into it, and into each other again.
Now, with a truck (and a car) packed full of boxes, ready to move in to a house that is solely, fully theirs, both of them are ready to tagteam making the bed, tidying the living room, checking for any final unwashed spoons (from sneaking ice cream) or mugs (late night tea) before sinking silently into bed. It's fall again, and according to the locals the first snow should hit soon — perfect timing for finishing a house. Raleigh convinces Mako halfway up the hill to let him carry her over the threshold.
His work building the house, along with past credentials that make a trail across coastal Alaska, catches the attention of some of the locals in town, and within another few months, Raleigh has a steady job working with a local construction company. Mako does not let him kiss her, or try to surprise hug her from behind — which doesn't work, anyway, he can't surprise her — until he's washed his hands. She's a hypocrite, the way her hands are often stained with grease from whatever vintage or otherwise car she's tinkering with, so half the time they both end up smeared with the residue of each other's labor.
They keep to themselves, there in their cabin up the hill, but they aren't hermits. Mako's mechanical engineering skills make her popular with the town's teenagers, particularly those looking for a skill to learn. If they're willing to drive — or, in some cases, bike — up the hill, they can fiddle around with her in the big detached garage with all her pieces and parts. One boy, a quiet, curious-eyed high schooler living with his aunt downtown, walks up the driveway in mid-September to show off a robotics project. That night, Mako sits at the kitchen island and makes a phone call to the school's principal.
"Do you have a robotics club?" She asks, not hesitantly, but unsure. She's still an outsider to many people here. She waves over her shoulder at Raleigh as he walks into the room, before he even says anything. When the principal says no, is there interest? Her face lights up and she replies, "I have interest in starting one."
So: Raleigh with his construction work to keep him from going stir-crazy and purposeless, Mako with her robotics club and a gaggle of teens around her — most of whom surpass her in height, which Raleigh takes far too much pleasure in pointing out and gets elbowed in the ribs over quite often — and a place they can stay for a very long time.
There's a secondhand shop in town, across the street from Raleigh's favorite grocery store. Their deal is that he does the grocery shopping, which Mako hates — "You take too long," she complains, "Just get what we need and be done!" — while she putters around the thrift store. The mantelpiece of their fireplace at home is cluttered with little trinkets and knickknacks.
Their second Christmas in the house they built up the hill, they drive out to a tree farm an hour away and pick a bushy, fragrant fir. Jake is coming for Christmas, Raleigh's invited Tendo too, and the fake tree they'd brought from the apartment and used last year currently resides in the garage for the robotics club kids to have a small celebration around. Mako has never had a live Christmas tree, and Raleigh suddenly feels as if he's failed her — so, a live tree they shall have.
It probably takes up too much space, but it fits, including a silver and gold star on the topmost point. Mako sits on Raleigh's shoulders to hook an absolutely ridiculous amount of ornaments — half of which were collected from the secondhand shop, little trinkets that probably meant something different to their original owners — to the upper section of branches. It isn't until a little too late that they realize they should have strung the lights around first.
"Save some for the kids to decorate the little tree," Raleigh says over his shoulder, heading into the kitchen to drop off empty hot cocoa mugs. He pauses, then, turns back. Mako is facing away from him, her hand hesitating over a branch, poised to hang another ornament. Her head is tipped to the side, as if she's thinking hard about something.
Something quiet prods at Raleigh's mind, but he can't discern it. Something about her kids, about the way he'd said it so casually — the kids are almost a constant presence, when they aren't holding meetings at the high school; both he and Mako have gotten used to the questions about Jaeger piloting by now — and it's playing along the edges of their remaining drift bond, a quiet loop that's more vague feeling than words.
Mako places the ornament, a silver and blue fish, on the tree, and Raleigh turns away again. He zones out a little bit, watching snow blow off the eaves just outside the kitchen window. Mako won't stay quiet if something is bothering her, but he doesn't think something is. For a moment, he considers refilling his cocoa cup, but it's probably not a good idea. He's driving to the airport in the morning to pick up Jake; a sugar high to keep him awake isn't much help.
Still, it's nearly midnight by the time the lights are strung — slightly tangled with ornaments — and the remainder of the decorations are safely in the garage, where the kids will spread glitter and goodwill on Christmas Eve night. Raleigh almost dozes off as soon as his head hits the pillow, the hot cocoa sugar high turning into a sugar crash, but that little thing is still bouncing around in his head. The kids; he'd said it unthinkingly, like a given — like he would talking about their kids, if they had any.
Mako is curled up asleep already against his side, and Raleigh is about to drift off and join her. He's going to pick up Jake in the morning, Tendo is coming the day after, the kids are going to decorate the little tree for Christmas Eve; it's going to be a busy week. The house up the hill is going to be slightly bustling in the way only holidays, no matter the amount of guests, can cause.
Neither of them has brought up the topic of starting a family yet, not hesitantly, not at all. Maybe it's time they did.
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bard-owl · 1 year
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Tudor style buildings are known for using many shorter timbers to make up for a lack of tall straight hardwood trees.
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And even using curved limbs creatively.
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It would be really interesting to see multiple sections of timber with progressively greater curves joined throughout a wall's framework to create something similar to the golden ratio. Not the entire spiral but something inspired by it. In general I'd just like to combine the construction methods with art deco styling.
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msaltltd · 1 month
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 Factors to think about when constructing a timber frame house
Congratulations on deciding to construct the timber-frame residence of your dreams! What can you now do to ensure that it is built properly? A timber-framed home is a building made of various wood pieces that are joined together.
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Most timber frame house plans specify contractors should sell that wood frame wall panel system as a complete package comprising internal walls, flooring, and roof components.
 Here are a few ideas to ensure your new house is designed to suit your design, style, and price preferences.
Has your timber-frame house been correctly planned?
Building a timber frame home begins with a plan, just like any other endeavour. Ensure your architect, engineer, designer, and builder has specific experience constructing timber frame homes. Their knowledge will guarantee that your home is appropriately planned to be sturdy, beautiful, cost less, and endure longer.
Do you prefer a home with only wood accents or a full wooden frame?
A residence made of timbers has timbers used for every part of the construction. Building your home in this manner will ensure its strength. Due to the increased usage of lumber, the price may be more than a typical home. Visit our "How Much Does a Log Home Cost" page if you'd like to view an itemised breakdown of costs for a Timber Frame.
 Do you prefer a post-and-beam or a timber frame?
It's crucial to be clear about what you're looking for because the terms wood frame, post, and beam can sometimes be used interchangeably. The most noticeable distinction is the type of wood used in a timber frame vs a post and beam structure. Posts in timber frames are all squarely cut, but round posts are more common in post and beam construction.
When constructing a wood frame, the frame's component elements are joined together on the ground before being hoisted as complete sections (referred to as bents) and positioned. The walls and roof are constructed on top of the finished timber frame.
Which joinery will best sustain your timber-frame house?
To combine two timbers, there are various methods. Always put strength before deciding on a weapon, and then consider its appearance.
Because they are more durable and simpler to calculate for, steel joinery and fasteners are always favoured by engineers. However, hundreds of years of construction have demonstrated the durability of wood-to-wood joinery. Because fewer fasteners are needed, wood-to-wood joinery results in higher labour costs during the timber-cutting process but lower material costs.
How can a good builder for your wood frame home be selected?
Check if the contractor creating your timber frame home can accommodate your demands, wants, and budget. The most expensive option may not always be the greatest, so remember that a very low price can indicate that something has been compromised.
The most crucial thing to check is that the builder treats your wood frame house like the dream home it is.
Get in contact with Trinity Building System right away to learn more about timber framework construction! Call us right away to find out more about building using timber frames!
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kosmichippieccfinds · 9 months
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Caspian's Lakeside Cottage (Lot + CC List)
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This lakeside peasant cottage belongs to Caspian Rosenthorn and his wife Mira who moved to the mainland of Windenburg from the Crumbling Isle to be closer to their family. Created for my side household as part of the ULTIMATE Decades Legacy.
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Gallery ID: KosmicHippie Lot Name: Caspians Lakeside Cottage Lot Size: 20 x 20 (Windenburg, Cottage Am See)
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Medieval Windenburg
Royalty Mod
Ye Olde Cookbook
Archery Skill
Blacksmithing Skill
Lute Skill
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TSR Ye Medieval - Ligna Windows Set
TSR Ye Medieval - Timber Frame Walls
TSR Ye Medieval - Framework Walls
TSR - Broken Wood Door
TSR Ye Medieval - Soil Terrain
TSR Ye Medieval - Hay Ground Terrain
TSR Ye Medieval - Mud and Stone Terrain
TSR Ye Medieval - Castle Stone Walls
TSR Pralinesims - Old Wood Floor 13
TheSense4 - Auction House Windows
Birch Tree (2048x2048)
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Lili's Palace - Folklore Set No. 1
Linzlu's Frontier Items
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 1
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 2
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 3
TSR Ye Medieval - Peasant Homelife 4
TRS Ye Medieval - Tristan Bathroom
TSR Ye Medieval - Tavern Part 1
TSR Ye Medieval - Candle Holder
Fish Market Decor
Fish Rack
Fish Crate V1
Fish Crate V2
Bohrium Vegetables I
Rustic Chicken Coop
Rustic Bee Box
Bassinet + Infant Crib
Wall Mounted Bows
Severinka Rustic Sauna
Severinka Summer Garden (wood pile)
Old Witches Desk
Wall Shelf
Autumn Pantry
Larder (Refrigerator)
Dinner Bowls
Bread Basket
The Witcher 3 Common Furniture
Candles
Pirate Map Computer
Abandoned Wheel
Rustic Hammer
Marketplace Spices
Stable Set by Moriel
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The “khoai” is the name colloquially given to [...] landmasses in and around the Chotanagpur Plateau in eastern India. Rich in iron oxide, these [...] soils are marked by a rugged and often undulating topography, resulting from millennia of erosion from monsoon rains, the many winding rivers that populate the region and action of winds from summer thunderstorms, popularly termed in Bengali as “Kalboishakhi.” The winds and the rains of the kalboishakhi dance across the lands adjoining the Bay of Bengal, often arriving at the horizon with ominous dark clouds right before sunset. [...]
The khoai is a charismatic frontier in an ongoing conversation within South Asian developmentalist imaginaries that call for optimal land use for the purposes of economic growth. [...] As the lateritic soil of the region is not suited for intensive agriculture, efforts have been made to make vast sections of the region arable [...]. And so, slowly, the red soils get taken over the green [...]. This is often done by breaking gullies and hoodoo-like structures [...] to flatten the lands [...]. The ongoing project to turn such “deserts” green has a long history. Yet alongside these projects, is the place that the khoai have in the literary, cultural, and spiritual imagination of many [...] that inhabit the Chotanagpur Plateau. The vastly open and hilly topography, dotted with sal forests [...] has often been the fodder for songs of longing [...]. The horizon of the sky meeting the red gullies of the badlands also form many a narrative that appear in local folk songs and stories. [...] They have also been sites of community-based agroforestry.
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Recently, such badlands have been termed unproductive in and around my hometown of Santiniketan, India.
As South Asian developmental imaginaries wholly absorb the understanding of terra nullius from modern Euro-American conceptions of land, the idea that “badlands” are necessarily “wastelands” become cemented. Once beloved [...], the dark brown-red hoodoos and gullies today are seen as wasted potential that are depriving the public of much-needed resources, and the possibility of the coming of civilization in accordance with upper-caste aspirations. Khoai today have become sites for proposed plantations facilitated by local forestry authorities, holiday homes and cafes [...], luxury resorts [...].
The ethos of invoking terra nullius has travelled into discourses surrounding “practicality” and the absolute necessity for villagers and small town folks in the area to be saved by their urban-dwelling upper caste counterparts [...] who are interested in their cultural practices, seemingly idyllic agricultural lifeways and the simplicity away from the stresses of cities such as Kolkata. But in this framework, the imaginaries of development are necessarily embedded in compulsory extraction, whether that be of cultural economies, minerals, timber, or land for development. [...]
[B]adlands get turned into places that need saving from being “wasted” by the carelessness and unimaginative shortsightedness of villagers and Adivasis, who are simply seen as ill-equipped to deal with the progression of the global economy.
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These days, it is hard to find a piece of the “khoai” that has not been subjected to projects of agriculture, forestry, or have been subjugated to [...] property ownership [...]. As the figures of the plantation and its attendant cultures of enclosure and theft of commons creep into places previously overlooked by the tentacles of global extractive forces, many, if not most khoai areas are mobilized to be “redeemed” into productive little plots legible to capital.
I have to wonder about the processes of consent and negotiation that have informed such projects. [...] These areas were in the past predominantly inhabited by Adivasis or Indigenous peoples of India, who had resisted the [...] hierarchies [...].
Badlands such as the “khoai” present a challenge to capitalist imaginaries because they defy its temporalities and its compulsion to make all aspects of being productive and legible to exchanges that foster logics of uninhibited growth. [...]
What, then, does it mean to care for wastelands? [...]
What histories are paved over by concrete? What does development mean in places where inequality is still rife, but there are shiny new roads? What does a future look like, where we can let badlands and “wastelands” just be, as part of ecological and cultural commons?
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Text by: Aadita Chaudhury. "Caring for Badlands". The Otter, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Emotional Ecologies series. Ed. Jessica M. DeWitt and Sarah E. York-Bertram. 14 July 2023. [Photography by Aadita Chaudhury, included in the original article. Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]
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Steel Barns: What to Search for
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Metal barns are reasonably current points that are typically considered progressively much better frameworks than the conventional ones constructed out of timber. Barns constructed from steel (steel) have a tendency to have several advantages over their wood cousins that are mainly engineering relevant, though some people find them much less eye-catching. In this write-up we discover such benefits as well as explain points to take note of if the visitor remains in the marketplace for a building of this classification, not only pertaining to the procedures included however also to the building contractors themselves.
The largest advantage steel barns have is that the material results in remarkable architectural design, enabling typically higher flexibility of layout. Steel has reasonably high tensile strength, helping with the building and construction of large open spaces if wanted in addition to high ceilings. From the mounting to the paneling to the roof covering, there is remarkable strength in all elements along with high precision in fitting those aspects with each other.
Another advantage is the longevity of the product as well as subsequently the buildings made from it. In many cases, the joints have to be seamed, but you'll locate that steel structures, if developed properly, withstand the scourges of weather condition such as high winds and snow. Of course, damage from wood-eating pests or from water is just not a concern with steel.
People have a tendency to connect barns with farming, as well as they usually have preconceived notions regarding their plus sizes and their purposes. However a great deal of adjustments have actually pertained to the industry. Barns come little, big, and also industrialized, and they are no longer conveniently pigeon-holed right into certain usages.
For instance, the modern version of these frameworks can still be made use of for storing livestock, however great deals of innovators have actually uncovered lots of other uses. Possibly an evident purpose is for RV storage. Yet nowadays metal barns are additionally constructed as houses, as workshops, or as workplace.
One thing we need to point out is that there is a distinction between the frameworks we have actually been talking about and also what are called pole barns. The only real distinction is that post barns do not have foundations yet are rather improved top of a grid of poles anchored to the ground. They often tend to be quick to build and also can be affordable, yet prospective clients need to comprehend what to anticipate in terms of compromises.
There are numerous fine service providers that construct metal barns and various other steel structures. Depending upon their target clients, their focus might get on the domestic market, on making fairly little, prefab, multi-purpose buildings, or on tackling bigger, also commercial tasks. Experience, the nature of in-house devices, and access to knowledgeable design are all consider determining what kind of professional would be right for your task.
Industrialized barns are barely distinguishable from modest-sized industrial buildings the framework for which is steel. Resistances are such that is can be cost-effective to pre-engineer all the beam of light components and also to develop the framing in the shop, followed by transferring the set up items to the building and construction site. In many cases, the steel house siding for a barn can be pre-fabricated in the shop.
If you want a structure with great deals of open space (for whatever reason), steel ought to be the selection of material since the layout is that a lot more attainable. Conceptually, this isn't that different from an aircraft hangar, as well as a great candidate for developing it is an industrial specialist with experience in the aviation market. Likewise, it is important to keep one's mind open in order not to be sidetracked by preconceived notions.
It is interesting to see just how the construction industry evolves as brand-new innovations pertain to market and also demand changes in new instructions. Do your homework to make sure you aren't caught off-guard. We have tried to show the reader what to seek in metal barns.
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