If you are a developer and build large multifamily homes or commercial structures you can develop large rainwater harvesting systems and add pumps, purification systems or filters as needed. These can then be used for building and grounds maintenance, tenants, emergency backup, firefighting etc.

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Depending on the roof material you can even have roofs that store hundreds of gallons of water for you, releasing it slowly over hours instead of one massive burst of rain.

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If you want to you can add volume by adding buckets or tanks or even build or install buried cisterns. Or you can treat the entire yard as a cistern by drilling a well and installing a pump. Hand powered or electric. Either works.

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You can live on the grid but you do not have to be dependent on it. A roof rainwater harvesting system can be something as simple as a bucket with a can underneath a rain pipe. Or attach a drum can to the rain pipe with a spigot by the front door to wash your hands or boots before you come inside the house.

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"Say, Uncle." Some Friday humor that might become relevant soon.

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There's ideas for at least half a dozen epic movies about the potential 4th century A.D. massacre at the Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight. Pirate raid? Political purge? Or why not a Roman themed 28 Days Later? https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/brading-roman-villa-evidence-of-a-late-roman-massacre/FEAD04A6577EAA095D20124981F99D57

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We have a long history of clever renderings: "A 19th-century estate agent created the world’s first version of Rightmove more than 160 years before the birth of online property previews. Brooks and Green, a high-end estate agent based in Old Bond Street, London, used an early form of immersive visual technology called a cosmorama to offer prospective buyers a virtual tour of the properties they were selling." https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/english-and-creative-writing/historic-discovery-finds-19th-century-estate-agent-used-peepshow-technology-to-create-proto-version-of-rightmove/

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🇩🇪 Molbergen: Germany’s real demographic halo effect: While Gavrus in Normandy shows what a traditional Catholic institution can do to a tiny village. Molbergen (Cloppenburg district, Lower Saxony) is potentially more impressive again. This is a full rural municipality of over 9,000 people with 26.6% of its population being under the age of 18, or roughly 10 percentage points above the German average, with younger cohorts that keep getting larger. This produces the definition of a "Population Pryamid" which is seen in youthful, growing populations. Positive natural increase continues year after year with the driver being the same “halo” mechanism, but this time from a different source.. In the case of Molbergen it's the Spätaussiedler (Russlanddeutsche) from the former Soviet Union. Roughly every second resident has this background. Many belong to free churches (especially Pentecostal, Mennonite Brethern and Baptist communities) that still practise high fertility as a cultural and religious norm. Large families are common, churches are full, and the age pyramid looks nothing like the rest of Germany. Molbergen is a quiet, agricultural place west of Cloppenburg, typical of the Oldenburger Münsterland countryside and yet demographically it is an outlier of national significance.

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Barn Owls are the perfect pest control for vineyards: "Because barn owls hunt mainly by relying on hearing and rodents rely mostly on vision to detect danger, areas with more plant cover appeared to give the owls an advantage." https://now.humboldt.edu/news/wine-country-barn-owls-eat-rodents-and-scare-them-w-video

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“A culture is like the upright strands that you begin with in basket-making, round which you wind the texture of the basket itself: no sticks, no basket; no culture, no community. It is the context, the story, that identifies a community and gives it existence. It is both the parent and child of ‘social capital’. And the social capital of a community is its social life—the links of cooperation and friendship between its members. It is the common culture and ceremony, the good faith, civility and citizenship, the play, humour and conversation which make a living community, the cooperation that builds its institutions. It is the social ecosystem in which a culture lives.” — David Fleming, 1940-2010

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Since the 1629 wreck of the Batavia is in the news again, here is the Tuscan style classical portico that was part of the ship's cargo. A ready made construction complete with instructions on for assembly at the Dutch VOC fort in Indonesia, the Kasteel Batavia. https://tetanggaexhibition.com/en/node/18

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This graphic please but for Australian cats:

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