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david-marchant · 2 years

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David Marchant: Way Beyond Acceptable Journalism

The internet has given millions of people a voice and a platform they never possessed before. We can all churn out our opinions, expose problems, or hold even the most powerful to account in ways that were impossible a quarter of a century ago.

But with this power comes responsibility, and all too often, people use internet sites to behave irresponsibly, spreading falsehoods and damaging lives and reputations.

Unfortunately, several people have encountered such malicious and damaging behavior from a blogger named David Marchant, who runs the OffshoreAlert blogsite.

Marchant and his blog have no credibility. It is no wonder that serious newspapers never pick up his news and 'scoops.' He is the classic example of a spreader of a modern information disease - ‘Fake News!’

And he has absolutely no scruples about ruining people's reputations in the process.

But because of the way the internet operates, people like Marchant continue to pump out poison. They think they can never be challenged or held to account, and it's time for us to prove them wrong.

So who is David Marchant?

Marchant is an American-based blogger who runs the OffshoreAlert blog site based in Florida. He claims his mission is to expose financial corruption and do so while remaining “independent, incorruptible, fearless, resourceful, and accurate.” On so many occasions, Marchant has fallen far short of the standards he claims to uphold and preach.

Originally from England, Marchant actually relocated to Miami to operate in a less regulated media environment. He holds libel laws in contempt and is on the record stating that the English laws on libel are far too strict. In Marchant’s own words, “British libel law, generally, is among the most repulsive pieces of legislation that exists in the civilised world.” There is a reason why he is so negative about one of the strictest libel protection systems in the world, and we’ll come to that soon...

Marchant is also on the record indicating that basing OffshoreAlert in the USA evades the more rigorous libel laws of his home country since they cannot be enforced in the USA. This does make a person wonder if he moved to the USA to actually evade prosecution by his victims in his birth country.

Like many on the internet, Marchant is not actually a real journalist. He may have trained as a journalist (which is the careful wording he uses), but that only goes so far. Nowhere in the USA is he registered with any journalists' body, such as the Society of Professional Journalists. This allows him to operate in an ethical vacuum.

Online commentator JR BAILEY had the measure of his journalism over a decade ago:

"David Marchant IS a" journalist." I say that with conviction because all you need to do to qualify as a journalist in this country is to publish a "newsletter" on the web. There is no necessity to study, and there are no exams, no criteria, no checks and balances... and short of a lawsuit for libel, there is no recourse to address the crap a 'journalist' can publish."

Ten years on, Marchant continues in the same way. Thousands of people have been deliberately damaged by him, but he doesn't care.

David Marchant and the Law...

David Marchant also claims to have never failed to win a legal case against the victims of his articles. He proclaimed in a hyberbolic interview in 2012: “I've never published a correction or apology.” He argues that this proves his integrity and accuracy. He seems to be still trading on this assertion, even though it is simply not true.

In October 2016 Marchant crossed the line in terms of libelling Privilege Wealth PLC over aspects of its operation that were untrue therefore will not be repeated here. The case was decided speedily because it was such a clear breach of the law - and also because Marchant chose not to defend himself in the English High Court!

The most important detail of the case is that although Privilege Wealth PLC sought damages of £50,000 the full award made to them was £80,000. Such an amount was ground breaking, with the solicitor for Privilege Wealth PLC pointing out that this “award of general damages to a corporate claimant is higher than any other reported decision of a Judge to date”.

This is not the only time Marchant has been challenged in the High Court in England over the content of his website and the way in which he has targeted people.

Despite the image he seeks to convey, Marchant is a regular in libel courts and has been ticking off countries on a world map. Cases have also been raised against him in the United States, Panama, the Cayman Islands, and Canada. In Grenada he was even sued by the Prime Minister!

In 2013, Marchant was also issued a harassment notice by the Metropolitan Police (the highest level of policing in the UK). Though he challenged the harassment notice, it was never rescinded. In his typical charming style, Marchant abused the police officer investigating the harassment and emailed him the following message: “Here’s a message to you and your boss: ‘F**k Off’ and don’t subject anyone else to the nonsense that you have subjected me to.’”

This attitude tells you a great deal about Marchant and his behavior style.

And this is the same man who tries to create a public persona of himself as the world's savior. He paints himself as the purest of the pure. His actions are depicted as part of a moralizing mission to root out corruption.

The reality is that the real corruption is the ethical corruption at the heart of his muck-raking operation.

How does Marchant make money?

OffshoreAlert is a paid blog that generates copy in a variety of ways but trades on ruining people's reputations. Because it needs to generate impactful stories to generate income, the blog always takes an extreme approach to its 'cases.'

In his posts, Marchant never attempts an objective representation of the facts. The exercise aims to be as sensationalist and savage as possible. So he deliberately casts the victims of his articles in a false light. It is a sensationalist approach badged with catchy headlines and riddled with exaggeration and smears. The sole purpose is to generate an audience, attract new visitors to his blog, and thereby induce them to subscribe. It is a cycle of sleaze.

So the bigger the 'scandal,' the more heinous the 'crime' and the more emotive the language, the more subscribers Marchant hopes to get. And more subscribers mean more money.

Unfortunately, as well as providing platforms like this to Marchant, the internet offers a playground for the malicious or easily misled. Conspiracy theorists, anarchists, and easily fooled people are always desperate to read sensationalist accounts. They prefer to dine on a diet of half-baked attack tales than dine on real news. Marchant knows this and acts as a parasite on the paranoid, the angry malcontents, and the persistently gullible. He knows there are plenty of all three groups on the internet. So he feeds them a nasty menu of half-truths and character assassinations, and they feed him cash and 'leads.'

Quite simply, people's lives don't matter to him. The only thing that counts is the number of subscribers to his blog and the money that makes him. OffshoreAlert is a sleaze operation - and it is not without its victims.

What's the Marchant style of 'newsgathering?

Marchant tends to follow a pattern in creating his attack pieces. He first tries to get a lead and holds paid events at which his fellow travelers are encouraged to rock up and denounce people and organizations. He organizes conventions of fellow travelers. If they were political rallies, they would be reported as dangerous, since they often feature speeches that reach sectarian levels. Nothing is held back, and participants often stray deep into slander territory.

These sleaze-gathering conferences are like China during the Cultural Revolution: attendees are urged to be more extreme and more savage in their denunciations. Everything can be smashed and destroyed. Think of the OffshoreAlert events like mob rule in a conference suite.

These regular hate-speech meetings usually give Marchant the ingredients to half bake his poison pies. But if they don’t, he then looks to generate a ‘lead’ himself.

Then comes an email to his victim warning them that he will publish a post in a matter of hours. He asks them to answer his questions in just a couple of hours. Sometimes the issues he flags up have no basis in reality whatsoever. Other times they contain allegations that any rational person would need legal advice on before responding. But Marchant isn't interested in either complexity or truth, and he just wants to attack and scapegoat.

Just imagine for a moment that you're one of the people getting an unsolicited attack email from this 'journalist .'Would you feel happy and confident responding? You might consider doing so, but only after researching him and his style. You'll look up OffshoreAlert and probably feel pretty scared. There is no way anyone on the receiving end of a Marchant 'journalistic inquiry' can have confidence in a fair hearing and fair report. You'd know that whatever you said would be completely misrepresented and added to the fire of your public burning.

So many people don’t respond at all. Not because they have something to hide, but because they know they can’t win by engaging with him in any way. And when you don’t respond, you can imagine how he writes up your ‘refusal to co-operate.’

The purpose of the Marchant method is obvious: Marchant is not the least bit interested in his victim's version. Neither is he concerned with making an accurate report of the facts. A fact-based approach would obviously ruin the story. He just wants attacking copy.

There is no right of reply and no decency or courtesy. That just doesn't suit the Marchant style. He has no respect for the presumption of innocence and does not give any benefit of the doubt. It has no sensitivity to the judicial ordeal of people who may be innocent.

It is not even a question of bias. He is simply interested in discovering a line of victims to savage and belittle.

Who does Marchant target?

Marchant targets anyone who represents an opportunity for him to make money by attacking them. Any financier or company is fair game, especially if you're involved in the offshore world. To Marchant, all off-shore is bad.

So he spreads a hypocritical ethic against the whole offshore world. There is never even a token attempt at distinction, and real insight is continuously lacking. His writing and analysis never display any care or sympathy for developing countries that seek to attract investment to improve the conditions of their people. That just isn’t news.

Nothing is out of bounds. Marchant doesn't care about the right to privacy. There is no dividing line between the public and private spheres of life either. A personal life, an extended family, or other sensitive matters are absolutely no barrier to his 'reporting.' As he declared in 2012, “’Privacy’ is a soft word for secrecy and people have secrets for a reason.”

Marchant portrays himself as some sort of international expert and criticizes other countries without looking at what is happening at home. Real stories - and balanced stories - simply don’t interest him.

Does Marchant ever admit he’s wrong?

For Marchant to admit some of his stories were wrong would burst his bubble and might shake the faith of his online disciples. By his own admission, he never rectifies his articles even when they have been demonstrated to be inaccurate. “I've never published a correction or apology” isn’t just a throw-away line, it is part of his branding. This isn’t the same as needing to publish a correction or apology. Even on the numerous times Marchant has gone too far, he does not step back even an inch. His is an attitude based on a mix of arrogance, malice and indifference to the truth.

Even if his victims write to ask him to rectify or delete articles because they contain false or inaccurate information, the he does the opposite. He treats engagement as an invitation for more abuse. His standard response is to publish their request and seek to vilify and damage them further. Engagement with Marchant just leads to more articles about you.

Even in the case of Privilege Wealth, Marchant did not retract his articles, and even went further in attacking the company with further posts!

So you’re damned if you do engage with him and damned if you don’t!

Most worryingly of all, even where Marchant and his journalism have been demonstrated to be inaccurate and damaging, that changes nothing. Even when the case of his victims evolves positively, he minimizes the facts, making malicious allusions to the way in which they have resolved their problems. He just twists every scenario to suit his narrative.

And, of course, the previous articles always remain intact and unabridged online. Why let the truth of today get in the way of a smear published yesterday?

Fighting back against Marchant

When you end up at the rough end of unwarranted attacks and falsehoods, there are two options in play. You can either sit back and ignore it, allowing your reputation to be trashed and smeared.

Or you can defend yourself and your reputation. Sometimes a robust defense ends up in a court of law, and while none of us with sense would leap at that option, in some cases, that's the only way of resolving matters and - hopefully - making the poison stop.

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fantranslatorbychoice · 4 years

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Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi Volume 6 Intermission 3 - Kasuga and O-ryo

T/N: Yep, it’s a double premiere guys, I hope you all enjoy. =)

As always, if you like this translation, you can heart it, share the link, reblog, I just respectfully ask that DO NOT REPOST ELSEWHERE. This is my contribution to the scant English content of this fandom, and I worked really hard to finish this thing, it’s not like I just copy-pasted everything. I even had to build the kanji in Jisho one by one. Try it and you’ll see what I mean.You can rave about this, rant about this, reply, etc. but if possible please link back to this page. If you’re unsure how to do that, just copy the web address of this page. If you’re on a blogsite just insert the web address as a hyperlink as a link back to here. Honestly if this light novel was officially-published in English, I wouldn’t even be doing this right now... And if it did, I’d take this offline to support the publishers and Yuuma-sensei. Creators support creators, is what I believe in. I’ll prolly do 1-5 once 6-10 has been done, or however long I can manage to translate the raw texts, it can take a toll at times. As previously-mentioned in earlier chapters, if you stumbled upon this one, the two seasons of the anime covered volumes 1-5, so other than the extra details, you didn’t miss much stuff.

No spoilers lol

P261 "Hmph. You're the newly-hired kid? Really, you're named Kasuga? Aren't you a stumpy little tanuki-girl? I am O-ryo, the future Wakaokami. I'll train you under me, and I'll be sure to drill the job of being a waitress into your head."

I remember well, the day that I first met O-ryo sama. I am Kasuga, a Bunmon Tanuki, while still a child was chased off from my home by my Hachiyo Baba-sama to experience the outside world, and along with my uncle Chiaki who also has nowhere else to go, we inquired in, and started working in Tenjin-ya. It was that first day. That person who called me stumpy, has hair and skin as white as snow, it was the conspicuously beautiful snow lady. Her personality is of someone who hates losing. She was a selfish Sempai, but has an indomitable and strong willpower to rise to the top, and I thought that surprisingly, I have come to like this person. As such, in order to gain her dream position of Wakaokami, she exerted herself no matter what it took. P262 A woman who fights her battles to win. I came to her side and I recorded her heroic battles, and I wrote about it in my diary.

"Hey.... Hey, why are you asking something while falling asleep, Kasuga-kun, HEY!" "Whaaaa~" In the middle of talking about something regarding a Hachiyo's marriage at great length, sitting on my heels I was nodding off to sleep. Since early morning I have been with Aoi-chan, and I have been going about here and there. I was feeling confident. I was dozing off in front of Byakuya-sama. Is Byakuya-sama angry or is he surprised? "Good grief. You're a reliable and shrewd girl girl, and I think that it's beyond expectations that you're going to get married to a Hachiyo... yet I am worried that they'll find faults on you. That is a position that has many enemies, do you understand? "Yeah, I get it. I have watched Aoi-chan for a long time. But Aoi-chan is awesome... Even though she's in a disadvantage, she was aware of her own strengths. Furthermore, in Tenjin-ya, when Aoi-chan gets married to Odanna-sama, isn't there anyone who grumbles about it?" "Hmmm. in that case, isn't that a problem? Because nobody's complaining, probably there's a group that's P263 thinking about rubbing her out of existence." "That point, I am fine with that. I plan to not make enemies with my demeanor, an incomptetent person making a blunder. Well, at any rate, from the very start I have been incompetent." "..." Byakuya-sama narrowed his eyes, and with a snap hit the corner of his mouth with his fan. I thought that he was going to say something but, he just scolded me and released me after saying "You can go now" . Wahh, after standing up from sitting on my feet, they fell asleep and started tingling painfully... Holding the Maneki-neko** coin bank, I planned to go back to Yugao. Along the way, the waitresses looked over here, and started gossiping and whispering to each other. Up until now the friends that were calling me in carefree voices, and the sempai that used to fiddle with and pushed me around, now they pass sideways, and bow their heads subserviently, and flees anywhere. Oh well, I could understand why they became like that but... I come in contact with the management staff that were like Shizuna-chan and they are normally composed, but I'm a normal girl, aren't I? I feel like I'm a sore thumb sicking out. "Kasuga, Kasuga" "...Chiaki" From the other side of the hallway, peeping over here looking worried, it was my uncle, the tanuki. T/N: Maneki-neko, the beckoning cat, famously known for bringing in luck. It's said that it was originally named after a cat that waved to a monk to go inside a shrine and the monk almost got struck by lightning or something, so it was a lucky omen. P264 He approached while calling for me. "What is it, from now onwards I'm helping out at Yugao." "It's not that, you were called for by Byakuya-sama, and I got worried somewhat." "It's nothing. It's just that I'm developing a souvenir product with Aoi-chan." "Why you, aren't you scowling at me?" "Why, my relative shouldn't speak about me flippantly." He isn't necessarily overprotective and he wasn't saying anything like that, but ever since the old days Chiaki has been worrying about me. He's just a nice and charming person who took care of me, and he always looks after those that are just like me. Though I'm already fine, even at this age he still worries about me... "Chiaki aren't you staying behind here in Tenjin-ya?" "Yep. I'll continue working here. Even though I was thinking of coming along with you." "It's fine, it's nothing. I've always been taken care of by uncle, I cannot function properly being a Hachiyo's wife." "...Kasuga" His eyes gloomily welling up, holding down the corner of his eyes, Chiaki went "That tiny Kasuga has grown to be praise-worthy" "Ahhh stop it already, don't be gloomy.. Get over it." Shh... Uncle you're annoying. P265 While being paid extra care, I could feel myself fading away. Our relationship, even though we are family, here we cannot become too overly-familiar. The love that tanuki give to each other are the strongest among Ayakashi, as such they aren't entrusted to to other people, which makes tanuki unaware about so many things such as getting close to and connecting with strangers. Those people, now matter how much we studied them, we couldn't find them... With regards to those, I thought I learned those in Tenjin-ya.

"Oh.." In front of the passageway that connects the door to Yugao, there is someone who is sneakily peeping in. Isn't that... "O-ryo sama, what are you doing over that place?" "Kyaaa!" O-ryo sama jumped up suprised. With a sluggish expression, she slowly looked back. Opening her mouth as if about to talk, hesitatingly, she made a weird face by sticking her lower lip out. "H-hmph." In the end, O-ryo sama took her leave without saying anything. P266 I slightly tugged on O-ryo sama's sleeves. "What now?" O-ryo sama icily stared down at me with that severe gaze. Oh well, I've been used to that gaze. "Uhm, I believe so, that O-ryo sama will likely aim to be Wakaokami again." ".... what?" "Within Tenjin-ya, there's something that only O-ryo sama can surely do." Pulling my hands immediately from the hem, I madly dashed towards the inner garden where Yugao was. The O-ryo sama who was aiming to be Wakaokami. And the one who made her dream come true, the O-ryo sama that became Wakaokami. To me, O-ryo sama is dazzling, despite the many enemies she makes, being hated by her colleagues, being gutsy and only wants to rise up into the world. The one I adored. After doing so many different things, O-ryo sama eventually became demoted from Wakaokami, and yet... When O-ryo sama becomes Wakaokami once again. Truly, I support that from the sidelines..

End of Intermission 3, Volume 6. Previous - Chapter 8 Next - Chapter 9

References:

Wonderful site for the youkai references

Other stuff I used to do this: Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (you can buy here, I’m not sponsored btw). I was about to buy the older edition but then the newer one came out 2013 so I bought that instead. Worth buying since I was able to find nearly all of the words I needed just by stroke pattern alone.

Merriam-Webster's Japanese-English Dictionary (the red-covered 1996 version is apparently out of print right now). This is what I have been using for a very long time, I bought it when I was still a fetus (yes I am old so what lol), and after so many years, when compared to newer editions, I still prefer this one since its entirety is Japanese-English, the English to Japanese gloss are just 16 pages tops, so you get more Japanese words for your buck. But that’s just my opinion, maybe other people prefer the Jap-En x En-Jap IDEK.

Basic online dictionary, Jisho. Knowledge of verb conjugations and other words are necessary since not all have entries.

If you can read Japanese, you can buy the whole set in Amazon Japan, they’re shipping worldwide now, I think.

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theliterateape · 3 years

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Why We Gave Our Son Away

By David Himmel

Parenthood requires sacrifice. Lots of it. A more optimistic person might say it’s not sacrifice but compromise, and to that I say they don’t know what they’re talking about. Over the last several years, my wife and I have been parents to a wonderful little human named Harrison. He’s intelligent, strong, funny, helpful, and kind. Most of the time anyway. He’s also a three-year-old toddler so he is also erratic, neurotic, sullen, mercurial, and violent. Why, just yesterday, he slapped me across the face after telling him I loved him. In a very tiny nutshell, that right there is parenthood. You give love, you get smacked in the face.

Parenthood also comes with judgement. Judgement from friends, family members, other parents, kids, and your own. There’s a constant vice grip of pressure to not screw up—not do anything that will come back to twist the truth or skew the perception in a tell-all book or on a fancy, blogsite hosted by Squarespace.

Being a parent is living in constant fear or failure, retaliation, and getting slapped in the face, kicked in the nuggets, and broken at the heart. And that is why my wife and I decided to give our son away. This Easter, Harrison will go to live with and be raised by his grandparents in the small rural town of Hammond, Illinois.

No doubt we’ll be judged for this decision. Brutally judged. Cast out of our circle of friends because, after all, what kind of monsters just, like, give their kid away. Perhaps you’re judging us now as you read this confession/explanation. But as you build your disdain and formalize your level of offense from our decision, you must know that we did not come to this decision easily. We agonized over it for days after a string of very difficult bedtime sessions.

He just refused, well, everything. Refused to brush his teeth. Refused to put on pajamas. Refused to sit and read the three books he picked out. Refused to stay under the covers. It has been exhausting. My wife and I have both seen what too many years of parenting has done to too many people. It breaks them. It robs them of their individuality, assaults their sex drive, slaughters their ability to make rational decisions, strips them of the vibrancy and curiosity that occupied them before they were parents. Parenthood removes the will to live a life—an actual life. Parenthood leads to buying items with sayings about coffee to decorate your house. Parenthood breaks your brain into thinking “Live, Laugh, Love” is a clever and inspiring mantra.

My brain is so burned out, I haven’t managed to read a single book since becoming a father. That’s more than three years now. I haven’t been able to watch a movie or enjoy a new TV series. All I have capacity for is watching Friends and Marvel films up to Infinity War. New things require energy and capacity I just don’t have.

But it’s not like we drowned the kid or left him to bake in a hot car or let him fall out of a window. We’re not monsters. We’re humans who want to live a good life. And we want our son, whom we still love, to live a good life. And he will do just that in Hammond, Illinois.

He’ll be loved. He’ll be with his grandparents, closer to his aunts and uncles and cousins. There’s a family park a stone’s throw from the house he’ll grow up in that he already loves. There’s a pool there. He loves swimming. He’s so brave and strong, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he becomes an Olympic swimmer like Michael Phelps. I may never know because my wife and I will likely be drunk and stoned making art in Paris or sleeping off a lazy afternoon on a Caribbean shore or murdering a cop in Portland, Oregon. Who knows where we’ll be because without the responsibility of parenthood, the world is once again our oyster. And we plan on devouring the whole goddamn thing.

Harrison will have fields to play in. Outside of a big city, he’ll grow up surrounded by nature, or, rather, fields of soy and corn that’ll be used to make the foods that are slowly killing us. He’ll belong to a good church. And with his half-Jew blood, he’ll be respected because he’s a Jew like Jesus. He’ll grow up appreciating bro country—something I continue to do but never succeed. And I blame my northern Illinois living for that.

We will still see Harrison. At holidays, just like we already see my in-laws at holidays. And it’s not like we’re sending him to live with old-ass grandparents. These grandparents are not much older than I am. They’re younger than Don Hall even.

Will we miss Harrison? At first. But then the drugs and booze will kick in and we’ll be fine. And we’ll finally get to watch Euphoria with that young woman from the Spider-Man movie. We might even read Infinite Jest!

We’re giving our son away because we love him. But we also love ourselves. This is a win-win for everyone. This is the best thing for Harrison. His life will be full and free, not empty and confined like it would be living in the city with two withering creatives. Oh, sure, we could take him to a museum, but what kind of idiot takes children to museums? Parents, that’s who. With Harrison gone, we no longer have to be idiots. And he no longer has to be a witness to our withering demise as intelligent human beings.

We, on the other hand, will get to see Harrison grow up and thrive. But from a distance. That’s why we gave our son away.

#Why We Gave Our Son Away #Parenting #Parenting contradictions #Parenthood #freedom #Hammond #Hammond Illinois #April Fools' Day #Easter #Easter + April Fool's Day

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world-news-blog-2020 · 4 years

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How to Mourn Your Old Normal and Adapt to The New

(NewsUSA) – Deaths from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 have surpassed 110,000 in the United States and mourning the losses of these lives is important. In addition, we are also mourning lost habits and ways of life that are casualties of the coronavirus.Going out with friends, hugging a grandparent, even opening a door in a public place are on hold. Some of these changes were temporary. However, even as states begin to open up, changes in how we interact with each other and the world will likely continue for far longer."We need to grieve the ways of life we have lost," according to William Glover, Ph.D., president of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)."Mourning is hard work," Sigmund Freud once wrote in his essay, "Mourning and Melancholia." What makes mourning so hard is having to give up attachments – whether to people or to a way of life – that can’t be replaced. Letting go of what we have lost helps us move on with our lives, although we will always miss the people, places, and things we have lost; in that sense mourning can never be complete.Mourning and grief are an important part of coping with loss and essential in managing changes and accepting new realities. Recognizing that our pre-COVID lives may never return is a loss to be mourned, and the work involved in this mourning can help us move on and into the new reality. However, some people struggle with the process more than others, and resist by responding with illusions of control, refusing to take precautions, and showing contempt for politicians and public health officials who try to explain the changing realities of daily life.In an article post on APsaA’s Psychology Today blogsite, psychotherapist Shelley Galasso Bonanno, MA, LLP, writes, "Each person processes and expresses grief in their own individual ways, yet there is comfort and power in understanding that one is not alone during this pandemic." One way to cope with grief is by finding meaning in the present situation, although how one does so may be different for everyone.Yet finding meaning is different for everyone. For some, it may mean providing food or assistance to a homebound neighbor, making masks for members of their community, or even donating money to help beloved organizations and venues stay afloat. Others may find meaning by expressing their emotions and reflecting on them with a therapist.Undoubtedly, there will be new ways to maintain relationships, enjoy life, and participate in activities with family and friends. Meanwhile, being able to tolerate the pain of grief and find meaning helps sustain us in difficult times.The American Psychoanalytic Association has created a resource page for the public and mental health providers with resources to help cope with anxiety and grief during this global pandemic.Visit apsa.org/coronavirus for articles and videos and information on how to find a psychotherapist near you. Credit: NewsUSA Get ready to think on Logistics Company Singapore, Air Freight Singapore and Transportation Service Singapore for your needs.

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airmids-herbals · 5 years

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Greetings!

If you found this page when it was sitting empty and wondered 'why has this person not posted yet?' well, the reason is very simply that I had not posted yet!

There are many reasons why I’ve been a little tardy, the main one being an unfamiliarity with the technology that is 'blogging'. Yes, hard to understand in this day and age, but true. Still, my partner Oriana insisted I give it a go; so here I am with the first of my blogging efforts.

To give you some background – we have a little herb farm which we run as a cottage industry. It keeps us busy. It also gives me an opportunity to indulge in my passion for medicinal herbs. This is an ancient and challenging art, handed down through generations of wisewomen (and perhaps the odd wiseman). We herbalists were not regarded very well in times past and the slur 'witch' was bandied about to our detriment. I am not a witch, by the way. I am a Wisewoman: a Caillech or Oak-knower, and a past teacher of acolytes who have gone on to practice herbalism in its many and varied forms.

Now I have retired from active teaching. However, I still have an urge to pass on my knowledge regarding herbs and their uses. Much of this lore is already fading into the mists of time, which is a shame. So to counteract this sad fact, I shall begin to introduce a selection of herbs, most of them recognised for their potency since ancient times, and outline how they can still be used today.

Ah! But before I begin posting in earnest, perhaps now would be a good time to provide a disclaimer:

“The content on this blogsite is not intended as a medical reference but as a source of information.

Before using any herbal remedy it is recommended a small quantity to be tried first to establish whether there are any adverse or allergic reactions to the herb.

Important: when herbs are used for their medicinal properties, they are just that – ‘medicinal’. If you plan to take a herbal remedy along with prescribed medicines, you should talk to your health practitioner first to rule out any detrimental interactions.

Neither the writer nor the site managers can be held responsible for any adverse reactions to the recommendations on this blogsite. The use of any herb or derivative is entirely at the reader’s own risk.”

Unfortunately, I am not physically at your side to guide you through the exacting skills of herb-lore. The next best thing, then, is to share my knowledge with you as best I can through the medium of the word.

Oriana is smiling at me as I conclude this post. You see, my dear? I can be a blogger after all! But now I have to prepare the first of my subjects for your consideration, which will take a little while. The dispensing of herb-lore is not to be taken lightly, nor hurried along apace. Come back soon, then we will begin....

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Questions for Interviwees

Do you agree that this group interview is voluntary and recorded for academic purposes? Is it okay that this recorded interview will be posted on our blogsite, where our professor in Technopreneurship will view it?

Customer Demographics:

Name

Age

Current academic status

Gender

Did you attend any review center before? And when was the last time you attended, and what was that review center for? / Umattend kaba sa anumang review center dati? And kelan yung huling attend mo? para saan yung review center na yon?

Why did you take the review center? / Bakit ka nagrereview center?

What is your goal from the start for enrolling yourself in that kind of service? / Ano yung goal mo bakit ka nag-enroll sa ganong service

Did you reach your goal? If not, what is the reason? / Nareach mo ba yung goal mo? Kung hindi ano yung dahilan?

Did you finish the Review Center? If not, what is the reason? / Natapos mo ba yung Review Center? Kung hindi, ano yung dahilan bakit hindi tinapos?

How much did it cost you to pay the fee in Review center? is this enough for you to pay the fee? Is it worth it? / Magkano yung binayad mo para makapagavail ng review center? Pasok ba sa budget mo? And worth it ba yung binayad mo sa service na binigay ng review center na’yon? Bakit?

Can you elaborate other products or services you attain in that review center? / Pwede mo din ba sabihin kung ano pa yung binayaran mo sa Review center maliban sa enrolment fee? For example, books, or any materials na ginamit mo sa review center.

Aside from sessions/lessons from the tutors, what service do you expect from a review center? / Bukod sa sessions/lessons from the tutors, ano yung service na ineexpect mo pa para sa isang review center?

What is your preference in choosing a review center? Is it the location? the tutors? or others? / Ano yung preferrence mo in choosing Review Center? Like yung location ba yung una mong target or yung magtututor?

Where did you find the review center? Did anyone recommend it to you? Or have you seen it online? / San mo nalaman or nakita yung review center? May nakapagrecommend ba na kaibagan mo sayo? Or nakita mo sa online?

During your previous review center you attended, is it online or face to face, and what mode of reviewing do you prefer? / During your previous review center na naattendan, is it online or face to face, and ano mas prefer mo na mode of reviewing?

Did you prefer to review with your co-reviewees? In what way? / Mas gusto mo ba na nagrereview kasama/kasabay ng iba pang nagrereview rin?

Does your past or current review center have personal assistance? Is their customer support good or not? / Does your past or current review center have personal assistance? Maayos ba yung pag-assist nila sayo?

Will you choose a review center recommended by the school or from the topnotcher? / Preferred mo ba na recommended ng isang school or topnotchers yung review center?

Is your past enrollment in the review center appealing that the tutor is a topnotcher, or is it okay even if it is not as long as the session will cover the necessary lessons for reviewing? / During your past enrollment sa review center, is it appealing to you na topnotcher ang nagtuturo, or okay lang na hindi as long as nacocovered ng maayos yung lessons na need reviewhin for board?

In our review center, we have products that are printed modules and book reviewers. Are you interested in availing those kinds of products? / Sa review center namin, meroon kaming printed modules and book reviewers, interested ka bang mag-avail ng products na yon at bakit?

Regarding our products, do you prefer that the content of modules and book reviewers are from other famous CE books published, or do you like that the range of the modules and book reviewers are from our techniques and shortcuts? / Preferred mo ba na mula sa kilalang ce book authors yung books and reviewers na ibibigay namin o from our own techniques and shortcuts yung nilalaman ng printed modules and books?

Regarding paying the fee, what mode of payment from your previous review center required? Is it full payment or installment? / Ano yung mode of payment na ginawa mo from past review center na ni-Anrollan mo? What mode of payment yung mas gusto mo? Is it full payment or by installment?

How did you pay for your enrollment?

Recorded Interview Audios/Videos

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Feedbacks

Feedbacks gathered from Ms. Bote’s Interviewees:

Q3 – All reviewees attended review class before pandemic in preparation for their (2) licensure exam and (1) upcoming school year.

Q4 – One reviewee (LET) attended review center because he wants to widen his perspective about how to take licensure exam and have techniques to answer the exam. One reviewee (CPA) attended because he believes that it will help him and give them a chance to learn something about to prepare him for the licensure exam and teach them what they need to know before the licensure exam. One interviewee said that his strand in senior high was not aligned to the course he takes in college so that’s why he wants to be ready and have an idea.

Q5 – Two reviewees’ goal is to pass the board exam. One interviewee’s goal is to be ready for the subjects to be taken for the course.

Q6 – One reviewee reach his goal to pass the board exam, while the other one didn’t passed. One reviewee reached the goal by 80%.

Q7 – All reviewees finished the review center.

Q8 – Two reviewees, (LET) costs him 1900php and (CPA) costs him roughly 12,000php. Both of them said that the fee is enough, reasonable price and worth it because of the good service. Although one reviewee didn’t pass the board exam, he said the way they teach and prepare them; they did their part to teach them what they need to know or the topics for the board exam. Not so perfect but they did their excellent job. One reviewee attended review center free

Q9 – (LET) the products they offer are modules, booklet reviewer and test papers needed for review and for the services is coaching them on how to answer a specific question/s on exam. (CPA) they are given handouts needed for the review and guide every session, and given detailed schedules for subjects they need to take, no instructors are absent based on his experience. One reviewee’s offered products are sample problems.

Q10 – All interviewees who attended review center did not expect any services aside from the offered services and that is to coach and teach them to have an idea in taking exams.

Q11 – Two interviewees’ preference in choosing is the good quality, have credentials, and reliable instructors in a review center. One interviewee prefers the location because at that time the review center is near to his house.

Q12 – (CPA) said that there’s a “word of mouth” when he was in college that these are the top review center, and check it. (LET) said that they go to their school and advertise their review center and he choose those who have credentials, and it is recommended by their alumni. One interviewee said that the school (RTU) offered a free review class.

Q13 – All interviewees attended their session face-to-face and they prefer it more than online.

Q14 – All interviewees said that it depends, there are times that they want to review alone when studying the lesson first, and when they got it and have questions, they prefer to review with their co-reviewees to have interactions and ideas on the topics.

Q15 – All interviewees said that the customer assistants are very approachable and accommodating if ever they need something.

Q16 – (CPA) choose the review center recommended by the topnotchers because it more enticing. Two interviewees choose the review center recommended by the school.

Q17 – All interviewees said that as long as the instructors have good teaching style and you easily remember was taught, it is fine even if the instructor is not topnotcher.

Q18 – All interviewees are interested in availing our products.

Q19 – All interviewees prefers that the content of modules and reviewers have shortcuts and techniques. (LET) said based on his observation on their review center that their reviewers are more on shortcuts and techniques and the givens are specific.

Q20 – Two interviewees pay their fee in installment. Not applicable for one interviewee in paying because of free offer of the review center. But in choosing the mode of payment, they prefer installment.

Q21 – Two interviewees pay their enrollment on cash basis.

Feedbacks gathered from Ms. Panesa’s Interviewees:

Q3 - All interviewees attended/enrolled in the review center before the pandemic.

Q4 - Two interviewees attended/enrolled in the review center before because they wanted to be prepared for their college subjects and gain experience. One interviewee attended/enrolled in the review center before because he wanted to pass the entrance exam in RTU.

Q5 - All interviewees said that they attend/enroll in the review center before is to be refreshed and prepared for their upcoming freshman years, also to gain knowledge and experience about college.

Q6 - All interviewees attended/enrolled in the review center before achieved their goals which is to gain knowledge.

Q7 - They all finish the review sessions.

Q8 - All interviewees who attended/enrolled in the review center before are free and sponsored by the school. They also said that the review center they attended was worth it

Q9 - They didn't pay a fee in their previous enrollment.

Q10 - All interviewees who attend/enrolled in the review center before didn't receive any extra service or products from the free review center.

Q11 - All interviewees attended/enrolled in review center before choose the nearest location of the review facility than the tutors that will provide the service. One interviewee added that he also checked the passing rate of the review center he attended.

Q12 - All interviewees who attended/enrolled in review center before said that they saw a post in RTU page/site that they offer review classes and it is recommended by their friends and classmates. Their teachers also announce it.

Q13 - All interviewees attended/enrolled in review center before conducted a face-to-face set-up because it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, and they all prefered setting up again a face-to-face review session for their next review center.

Q14 - All interviewees are comfortable and prefer to review with groups, it is because it is motivating, engageing, and if they don't know a particular topic, someone from their group may help them understand it.

Q15 - All interviewees who attended/enrolled in the review center before didn't receive personal assistance because the tutors teach in bulk/class.

Q16 - All interviewees who attended/enrolled in the review center before said that they want a review center that the school and a topnotcher recommend because its quality of teaching is guaranteed.

Q17 - One interviewee said that he preferred that the tutor is a topnotcher because it can give tips and advice. Another interviewee said that as long as the tutor is good and can deliver the covered lessons it is fine. While the last interviewee said that it depends on the price of the review center because that is where the quality teaching may offer.

Q18 - All interviewees who attended/enrolled in a review center before will probably purchase products like printed modules and book reviewers again if they enroll again in a review center. Is it because that product is beneficial for reviewing.

Q19 - First interviewee said that both contents are fine. The second and third interviewees said that they still prefer that the content of book reviewers and printed modules are from the well-known CE book authors because the shortcuts and other techniques are still derived from them.

Q20 - Not applicable for the interviewees because they attend a free review center offered by the school.

Q21 - Not applicable for the interviewees because they attend a free review center offered by the school.

Feedbacks gathered from Mr. Talavera’s Interviewees:

Q3 - All interviewees attended/enrolled in the review center before the pandemic.

Q4 - One of the interviewee attended in the review center because someone influence him to attend. Two interviewees attended/enrolled in the review center before because they wanted to gain some knowledge and be prepared for entrance exam.

Q5 - One of interviewee said that he attended review center to obtain additional references for future use.One of the interviewees said he attended the review center before passing multiple exams to choose what school he wanted to enroll in.Third interviewees said that he attend/enroll in the review center before is to to gain knowledge and experience about college.

Q6 - Two of interviewees attended/enrolled in the review center before achieved their goals which is to gain knowledge. One of the interviewees said that he didn't reach his goal because he has high expectations for the review center.

Q7 - Two of the interviewee finish the review and center and one interviewee did not finish because he didn't attend furthermore, and some of the topic discussed in the review center isn't elaborated enough.

Q8 - All interviewees who attended/enrolled in the review center before are free . They also said that the review center they attended was worth it

Q9 - They didn’t pay a fee in their previous enrollment.

Q10 - All interviewees who attend/enrolled in the review center before pay for the hard copies of handouts.

Q11 - All interviewees attended/enrolled in review center before choose the tutors that will provide the service . One interviewee added that he also checked the the credibility of tutor and accesibilty and affordability of review center.

Q12 - All interviewees who attended/enrolled in the review center before said they saw it online and recommended it by friends.

Q13 - All interviewees said that it was conducted a face-to-face set-up because it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, and they all preferred setting up again a face-to-face review session for their next review center.

Q14 - All interviewees answer that it is comfortable and prefer to review with someone because you can share information with your co-reviewee, and if you miss out some topics, you can ask someone to help you understand the topic.

Q15 - All interviewees who attended/enrolled in the review center before didn’t receive personal assistance because the tutors teach in bulk/class.

Q16 - All interviewees who attended/enrolled in the review center before said that they want a review center a topnotcher suggest since the instructional quality is assured.

Q17 - Two interviewees said that they preferred that the tutor is a topnotcher because that's the proof of the credibility of teaching and elaborate on the topics. One interviewee said that it is okay as long as the tutor is good and can deliver the covered lessons.

Q19 - First interviewee said that he prefer that the content of book reviewer are from the well-known CE book author but it is okay to him if in our different techniques/shorcuts as long as its cover the exam. The second and third interviewees said that they still prefer that the content of book reviewers and printed modules are from the well-known CE book authors.

Q20 - Not applicable for the interviewees because they attend a free review center offered by the school.

Q21 - Not applicable for the interviewees because they attend a free review center offered by the school.

Feedbacks gathered from Mr. Villamor’s Interviewees:

Q3 – All reviewers attended the review center before the pandemic and are for their preparation for the entrance exam.

Q4 - All reviewers say that they attended the review center because they are not confident enough in their knowledge.

Q5 – All of the reviewers attended the review center for them to pass the entrance exam

Q6 – All of the reviewers reach their goals

Q7 – 2 of the reviewers were finished attending the review center, while the other was not because of the financial problem and lack of time.

Q8 – 2 reviewers pay 6k for acquiring package service in the review center. And the other one pays 5k for obtaining package service in the review center.

Q9 – All of the reviewers did not avail any services from the review center because they had already acquired package services.

Q10 – 2 of the reviewers did not expect service aside from sessions/lessons. And the other one expects services for thesis and laboratory tests.

Q11 – 2 of the reviewers prefer choosing a review center where tutors have a good background. And the other one likes choosing a famous review center regardless of its location.

Q13 – All of the reviewers attended the review center "face to face," and they prefer to acquire a "face to face" review center in the future.

Q14 – All reviewers prefer attending the review center with their friends or co-reviewees.

Q15 – All of the reviewers say that the review center they attended has personal assistance, and their customer service is helpful.

Q16 – 2 of the reviewers prefer choosing a review center both from recommendations by the school and from the Top-notchers. And the other one likes choosing a review center recommended by the school.

Q17 – 2 of the reviewers prefer a review center where the tutors are Top-notchers. And the other one is fine even if the tutors are not Top-notchers as long as the session covers all the necessary lessons.

Q18 – All of the reviewers are interested in availing of our products: printed modules and CE book reviewers.

Q19 – All of the reviewees prefer that the content of the modules is from our techniques and shortcuts.

Q20 – Installment is the mode of payment of the two reviewers from their previous review center. And the other one is full-payment.

Q21 – All of the reviewers pay their enrollment fees on-site.

Insights/Learned

Reviewees acquire a review center to achieve their goals of passing the exam to gain knowledge and experience for their upcoming exams/college.

Some Reviewee can’t afford and finish the review center because of financial problems.

The price of the package service fee in the review center ranges from 5-6k pesos.

Tutors with good background or Top-notchers attracts more Reviewee.

A face-to-face session is more effective than an online session.

Customer prefers group-type/class-type session.

Personal Assistance or Customer support will help Reviewee a lot.

School and Top-notcher recommended are effective ways of advertisement. They also found some offered review centers on social media and school sites.

Some reviewees prefer printed modules and book reviewers are content by famous CE authors, and some prefer the product to be satisfied with our techniques and shortcuts. These end up by finalizing our product; book reviewers are from well-known and splendid CE authors, while the content of our printed modules is techniques and shortcuts by our review center.

Mode of payment: Installment

Reviewees prefer on-site payment.

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Members and their tasks

Bote, Herchelle P.

Participate in creating Interview Questions

Has three (3) interviewees

Panesa, Jana-Vi Nixie Pauline A.

Participate in creating Interview Questions

Has three (3) interviewees

Modified Business Model Canvas

Talavera, Diether R.

Participate in creating Interview Questions

Has three (3) interviewees

Villamor, John Paul H.

Participate in creating Interview Questions

Has three (3) interviewees

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All members contribute to creating the website.

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Business Model Canvas

Filled: Channels

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Questions to Ask:

Through which Channels do our Customer Segments want to be reached?

Through our owned channels, we can easily reach them by creating our own channel.

How are we reaching them now?

We are reaching them through on-site promotion, social media, and online chat.

How are our Channels integrated?

Promoting our services in various schools that offer a Bachelor of Civil Engineering program.

By creating a Page and creating ads on different social media platforms, we can reach our target customers.

Which ones work best?

Creating ads on different social media platforms.

Which ones are most cost-efficient?

On-site Promotion

How are we integrating them with customer routines?

By choosing the time when customers are available so that we could not disturb them.

Lesson Learned

We discovered that channels are customer touchpoints that have a significant impact on the customer experience. It assists customers in evaluating a business value proposition and increases customer awareness of a business’s products and services.

Documentation, Summary, and Changes in Canvas

Google Meeting Code: vpd-ipjb-rwm Date: April 6, 2022 | 9:00pm | Wednesday Duration of Meeting: 1hr and 40mins

Attendees (Complete):

Bote, Herchelle Aubrey P.

Panesa, Jana-Vi Nixie Pauline A.

Talavera, Diether R.

Villamor, John Paul H.

Meeting Flow:

Before we meet, we study the whole business model canvas, so that the sharing of ideas is continuous.

We talked about every segment in order according to the arrangement of activities, so that we can track what next segment would be done.

We also talked about some changes in the customer segment.

When we are already satisfied in our progress, we disseminate the tasks.

Minor Changes:

Customer Segments - At first we have three (3) customer segments which are: Students, Reviewees, and Returnees. Then in the 2nd meeting for filling up the value proposition segment, we remove “Returnees” in our customer segment because we notice that the service that we will provide for Reviewees and Returnees are just the same. Then, after some realizations and experience from one of our members, she suggested removing “Students” in the customer segment because combining it with Reviewees is not ideal, especially for creating a Community with them. Only the Students will gain in the community with Reviewees but the Reviewees only gain from their Co-Reviewees but none from Students. It will not function well if they are combined with each other. That leaves us focusing on one customer segment which is “Reviewees”.

Value Proposition - Upon creating the value proposition, at that time we combine “Reviewees” and “Returnees” as they share the same pains, gains, and services, that’s why at first we have two (2) value maps and customer profiles for each customer segment which are “Students” and “Reviewees”. But after the changes in Customer Segment of removing the “Students”. We strikethrough the words in blogsite associated with the “Students” segment as it is not included anymore and leave only the “Reviewees” value map and customer profile.

After that, no changes happened until we finished the whole business model canvas up to Cost Structure.

Members and Their Tasks

for Activity 5-10

Bote, Herchelle Aubrey P.

Activity 9: Key Partners

Activity 10: Cost Structures

Panesa, Jana-Vi Nixie Pauline A.

Activity 7: Key Resources

Activity 8: Key Activities

Business Model Canvas Illustrations

Talavera, Diether R.

Activity 4: Customer Relationships (Additional Questions)

Activity 5: Channels

Activity 6: Revenue Streams

Villamor, John Paul H.

Activity 2: Customer Segment (Additional Questions)

Activity 3: Value Proposition (Additional Questions)

All members contribute to creating the website.

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Source: Twitter/@IAPonomarenkoCrypto trading volumes utilizing Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH) as the fiat currency haveactually fallen to almost their regular levels, regardlessof banking constraints in Ukraine making fiat deals in the area progressively challenging. From Russia, nevertheless, crypto trades utilizing the Russian ruble (RUB) still stayed well above their regular levels on the crypto exchange Binance this week.On Binance – one of the biggest worldwide crypto exchanges that offers with both Ukrainian hryvnia and Russian rubles – trading volumes in the tether (USDT) / UAH trading set surged after the war began on February 14.Since the preliminary rise, nevertheless, volumes in the set have come down, sitting somewhat above their typical level on Thursday this week.Binance trading volume in USDT/UAH: Source: TradingView"We wear’t believe it is right for companies or platforms to unilaterally choose to freeze populations of users’ possessions. There are typical Russian people in London, New York. Should a bank CEO in London have the power to unilaterally choose to freeze those individuals’s properties? On what premises? Just because they puton’t concur with the President of their nation? What takesplace if they likewise do not concur with another head of state in another nation? Should they have the power to freeze all properties of people of that other nation too? Where does this stop? For this factor, it is our understanding that we needto follow global sanction lists, and not make up our own," Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a blogsite post today.Also, according to him, Russians transforming from ruble to crypto damages the ruble, which deteriorates Russia’s powers. A comparable image was likewise seen in the bitcoin (BTC)/UAH trading set, where volume rose to its greatest level giventhat October last year on the day the war began, priorto rapidly falling onceagain this week.Binance trading volume in BTC/UAH: Source: TradingViewLooking at trading sets with the Russian ruble, nevertheless, volumes on Binance’s USDT/RUB set still stayed considerably above their regular level as of Thursday. The information might show that the Russian hunger for UnitedStates dollars is high as the nation dealswith some of the strictest financial sanctions ever enforced.Binance trading volume in USDT/RUB: Source: TradingViewThe exactsame can likewise be seen when looking at the BTC/RUB trading set, which hasactually been significantly greater than normal both priorto and after the war began.Binance trading volume in BTC/RUB: Source: TradingViewOn the regional Ukrainian crypto exchange Kuna Exchange, general trading volumes throughout all trading sets likewise surged as the war started, lateron falling back to regular levels.Source: CoinGeckoKuna Exchange uses trading in a variety of cryptoassets versus both the Ukrainian hryvnia and Russian ruble fiat currencies. The USDT/UAH trading set was the most popular on the exchange, making up almost 35% of the volume over the past 24 hours.The current decrease in trading volumes throughout both Russian and Ukrainian fiat sets is fascinating in light of speculations that Russia might possibly usage crypto as a method to avert sanctions.So far, nevertheless, specialists state there are coupleof indications that point to this.Speaking with Bloomberg, Madeleine Kennedy, senior director of interactions at blockchain intelligence company Chainalysis, stated that her company has not seen proof of “large-scale sanctions evasion by approved Russian entities.”“If they do effort to usage crypto, it would be really challenging for them to do this undiscovered at scale,” she included.As reported, crypto exchange Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong shared a comparable message, believing that it is notlikely that Russian oligarchs or others will usage crypto to prevent sanctions.“Because it is an open journal, attempting to sneak lots of cash through crypto would be more traceable than utilizing United States dollars money, art, gold, or other properties,” Armstrong stated.____ Read More.

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Financial Literacy Fast Becoming a Daily Need

Do you feel like you need to be a banker, accountant, economist and stock market analyst just to keep the family finances in check?

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Managing your finances might have seemed a lot simpler in the past but considering the early 1980’s had interest rates of 15% with inflation over 10%, we are not so sure! Economic conditions are always in flux, but what has really changed is the amount of information, resources and alternatives we have to "help us" manage our money— we are simply overloaded, and it can get overwhelming very quickly.

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Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi Volume 6 Chapter 7 - Tenjin-ya's Hotspring Manjuu Part 1

T/N: I all, how are you all doing? Thank you for waiting, I did my best but I’m not at my best so if there’s typos.. Sorry, I did minimal beta.. I am doing my best to get to Part 2 over the weekend, please look forward to that...

P217 "Say, Aoi-chan, is there anything I can do?" "Oh, Kasuga?" After the full moon and so many days, Kasuga came to Yugao. It was before working hours, and while sitting on the counters, Kasuga was wearing a depressed face. "Everyone doesn't want to give me anything to do. They say that since I am the Minister of the Right's daughter, I should just take a break. The Okami-sama just couldn't put so much pain onto me. Gah, I just have too much free time." "Oh, so that's how it is." "Yeah-- Even though until today they were always sending me out to do all sorts of errands. And I had a fight with O-ryo-sama too." "With O-ryo? Why??!" "O-ryo sama, she somehow changed, somewhat. She started wailing and complaining when I decided to get married into the Northern Lands, as well as resigning. Even though I told her that it was out of my hands, she just pouted and ignored me when I was talking to her. I wonder if she's resentful because I was getting married before she did." "..." P218 In O-ryo's case, she's just lonely... But at the end of this month Kasuga's already resigning, it's probably sad if she doesn't get to do some work. "That's it then. If that's the case, how about working here in Yugao? Just about now, we're short of helping hands." "But I'm already here, Aoi-sama--" "Ahaha, Ai-chan hasn't had her public appearance yet." The kitchen trainee-helper Ai-chan who has helped me so much, peeked with a bouncy face. With the original appearance that she made for me, I still don't ask her to serve the customers because she still easily gets sleepy. If Kasuga's going to lend a hand, that's going to be a great help... "But Kasuga, I wonder if you wanted to be a waitress until the end..." "Hmmmm.. I won't say it's what I feel but, right now I have nowhere else to go. I get it now, I'll work at Aoi-chan's place." "That's great! If that's the case, then Kasuga is our new-hire! That being said, you can't leave us now just yet, Kasuga." "What the, don't you make things so serious, Aoi-chan! Even though I said that I'd quit Tenjin-ya, I'll probably come back here again if I failed." "...Is that even possible?" P219 "If that happens, that's a problem. But if anything happens, I don't know." "..." I wonder if Kasuga is worried about something. While propping her chin on her hands, she seems to be only thinking of one thing. "Oh, that's right! Kasuga, won't you come make some Tenjin-ya's hotspring manjuu with me?" "Hotspring manjuu? That squirmy brown sugar-flavored hotspring manjuu?" "No, the new hotspring manjuu by Tenjin-ya that was requested of me. That's why I'm in the middle of its test trials. Come here for a bit. Oh, and the apron's over there." I allowed Kasuga to wear the spare apron, and immediately she went inside the kitchen. We have just finished gathering the ingredients for the manjuu that we were going to make. Home-made rice flour from newly-harvested rice, some sake, and Kimon's specialty product Cassowary eggs. Hand-made red bean paste were made into balls and arranged. There's also products delivered from the Northern Lands such as milk and cream cheese. "Aoi-chan, what are you planning to make with these?" "I wonder if I can call them steamed flour manjuu? We have a pan that's good enough to be used for steaming. It looks like Kasuga's cheeks, it's fluffy and springy and soft." "What, you're saying that I'm a round-faced Tanuki right now?" "No, I didn't say that you reminded me of that..." But it won't be a problem to make it into an authentic Tanuki face... P220 Kasuga puffed her cheeks more than ever. "Aoi-san, good morning. What is the daily special** for today.. hey, it's Kasuga-san?" Ginji came to Yugao to check what meals were going to be served today. Kasuga has been here since morning, and he seemed to be shocked. "Oh, Ginji-san. Uhm, you see, starting today Kasuga is now our newly-hired employee. I explained the circumstances as such and such to Ginji-san. "Oh, I see now. The other waitresses had reservations on Kasuga and probably didn't want to impose. It's important to take care of your body before getting married." "I'm sturdily built, I can do multitasking too..." "I understand, Kasuga-san. Well then, I'll tell them that your days of being a waitress in Tenjin-ya has ended and you'll be our all-around help here. Up to now, with you having worked as a waitress in Tenjin-ya, you've also have a job here in Yugao as a hired help, so don't talk about weird things." "..." Kasuga eagerly nodded her head. Definintely, she wants to work as a waitress until the very end... With regards to O-ryo, she truly had to support Kasuga during those times, and yet why on earth is she sulking? If I meet O-ryo, I really had to ask her about it. T/N: Teishoku=定食=can be the regular set meals or the daily special. A lot of times, Japanese restaurants adjust their menu according to the ingredients available for the day, the week, or even the season. So oftentimes the menu can change up to a daily basis. P221 "Alright then! In anyhow and in anycase, today is hotspring manjuu! Hotspring manjuu!" With a plop I put my hands together, and briskly propped up my kimono sleeves. "Say, Ginji-san, the hell's cauldron in the "secret base", can we use that, I wonder?" "The hell's cauldron, you say? Yes you may, it's not fixed there you know." Alright, as I closed my fists triumphantly. Since we already had permission, we first had to do some preliminary preparations. Food preparation is easy. The steamed manjuu that we're making would be of two flavors: "Egg" and "Cheese". The "Egg", well, it's plain flavored. I'll add the Cassowary eggs, milk, oils and other ingredients, and mix them all until smooth, and to replace baking powder I'll use rice flour, and add some liquor to that. Once the flour bits have disappeared, these will be sufficiently mixed altogether. For the "Cheese", we'll use the cream cheese delivered from the Northern Lands. Once it has softened we'll mix in on a mixing bowl that looks like a goldfish bowl, and mix the dough which was also used for the "Egg" flavor. For those two flavors, I halved the dough with my hands. Because the dough has a high moisture content, it's necessary to put them in the steamer individually. But because there's no cups here like those in Utsushiyo, for the meantime as these steam we'll just use the small bowls as replacement, and only the "Egg" with the red bean paste balls were loaded in. "Aoi-chan, are we not going to put bean paste in the 'Cheese' ones?" P222 "This manjuu has no bean paste, the cream cheese mixed in this dough is going to give out the flavor." The manjuu filled with bean paste is delicious, but what I plan to do today, apart from that it should be a product with an enjoyable taste and texture... "After this we will.. Steam it in hell.. heeheehee" "Aoi-chan's face looks like a demon from hell" "She's a cooking demon, Aoi-san." As expected from a bride from hell, says Kasuga and Ginji-san. No, I didn't hear anything, I didn't hear anything. Now then. With the three of us, holding the hotspring manjuu inside the small bowls, we went towards the secret base in the mountain out back. In front of the pampas grass field, Kasuga who was feeling down and depressed suddenly had her moods lifted up. "Amazing! There's a place like this in this mountain behind Tenjin-ya?!" "Even I only learned about this a few days ago." The pampas grass and Kasuga, together, it surely looks like a painting. It reflects the autumn. As expected of a Tanuki. In the middle of the pampas grass field, an open area that has the open-air hotspring pops out like a hole, and beyond that there is a small shrine. Yesterday above that shrine I drank sweet sake, today it's different. In the nearby gazebo with the hell's cauldron, we're going to make hotspring manjuu. P223 "Uwah, it's hoooot." "Be careful, Aoi-san. The temperature of the steam that spouts out is above a hundred degrees**. We arranged the small bowls that we were using on a large bamboo strainer, and we carefully placed those inside the hell's cauldron. After that we closed it with the wooden lid, and waited for the steam to rise. "The steaming takes about 30 minutes. Let's go pick some pampas grass. We'll use those to decorate Yugao with, to make it more autumn-y." Somehow, while we were waiting we started gathering pampas grass. Kasuga's wild instincts awakened, and with a poof turned into a Tanuki, and started running around the pampas grass field. From where I thought she was hiding in-between the pampas she would pop out and appear, and then vanish and pop out her face somewhere, in another place. That cute little Tanuki, how is she already leaving to get married... "..." "While we're at it, is Ginji-san going to run around as a fox too?" "Ehhhh. I'm fine, you know--" Without knowing why, Ginji-san glowed. And I thought I was going to see a Tanuki and a fox playing together in the pampas grass field... "Ohhh, that, Steamed-juu, Steamed-juu**" While leisurely watching Kasuga run around the pampas grass field, with that so good a mood, we have forgotten about it. T/N: This is in Celsius guys, OK? So for Fahrenheit users, that's 100 x 9 divided by 5 plus 32 because 0 degrees Celsius=32 Fahrenheit so that makes it.. 212 Fahrenheit. Yes, even though I don't have to do this, I like doing something like this from time to time lol FOR SCIENCE!

This was shortened from ��steamed manjuu” but steam-man sounds weird so I adjusted the translation to make it more appealing lol but hey, I translate the nouns however I see fit lol P224 This is likely a winner. When the lid of the hell's cauldron was taken off, a sweet smell along with the airy and billowy steam came out, and the lovely, fluffy, yellow steamed manjuu came to view. It seemed that it flowed out of the small bowl that it was steamed in, and it has thickly swelled into a round ball. This is somewhat steamed well, the carbs look delicious... "It looks delicious, Aoi-chan let's eat it right away" With a poof, Kasuga returned to her human form, and demanded it so as she pulled my sleeve. If there were aluminum cups or paper cups or any disposable cup that we could use, it's easy to do these... Using the small cups to have these steamed, while taking care of the emitted vapors I cut it into a cross-section and pulled it out using a narrow knife. I divided this into three portions for three people, and while it was still piping hot we took a bite. At any rate, this is the "Egg". "Uwah-- it's fluffy and bouncy!" Spontaneously, anyone could notice that. The fluffy and springy texture, it almost certainly had an impact on the memory. "It's because we used rice flour. Bread as well as steamed manjuu that uses rice flour, that gives off a prominent, bouncy feel.** The Ayakashi living in Kakuriyo love rice, and comparing this to those made with wheat flour, using rice flour a lot better. And particularly, these are made with rice flour made out of Kimon's rice brand, 'Onihonoka', doesn't that give off the vibe of being a souvenir product?"

T/N: Honestly any bread-ish product that uses rice flour is fluffy and springy. I love rice cakes too, they’re kinda like these. T_T P225 "Oh, that's a very important thing you know. Made locally, consumed locally. Isn't that great, the egg's fragrance is also left behind. It goes without saying that the Cassowary egg is this land's specialty product. Its ingredients and the process are but simple, and the basement workshop can make the process of hell steaming easier. It's unreal that souvenir products get mass-produced, it's because it's difficult to figure out how much the cost of production would be." Because Ginji-san has already experienced failures on such in the past, his face got agonized. "Say Aoi-chan, this cheese type that we also steamed, can we try eating it too?" "Yes of course. Well.. Here's what I was planning to do.." I could predict that the popularity of the "Egg" was going to be great. But if it's just that, I worry that its impact as a newly-released product would wane quickly. Aside from that, as cheese it not yet a major product while it's gradually being introduced and spread out, I put my focus on it. A dessert made especially with cream cheese. It was good that there's also some here in Kakuriyo. "I have realized that lately, I have been eating a lot of cheese, but in Kakuriyo aren't there any foods served that are called as such? But here, we're near the Northern Lands where their dairy industry is booming, and I think that I want the Ayakashi living in Kakuriyo to know about the flavors of cheese. Cheese-flavored steamed bread. I used to make a lot of those in Utsushiyo." I was a regular buyer of those convenience store breads. These were desserts similar to cheese souffle. P226 I wonder if Ayakashi can be allowed to receive them? "Uwah... I thought it was going to taste something like before, but this is entirely different. It is rich, and has a bit of sourness, doesn't it?" "It differs from the "Egg" as its taste is mildly more apparent, but the cream cheese's unique flavor has fully dissolved into the dough, didn't it? This tastes good. For sure, this is going to be Tenjin-ya's unique and finest souvenir item. And in spite of becoming like that, that is what makes this thing important." Kasuga and Ginji-san seem to have their enjoyment in eating got stolen. Those two, seemed to be taking in things well. "Nonetheless, this is a big gamble. We're going to divert the attention away from the cheese flavor, so I think it's a good idea to turn it into a limited-edition item." "If you say it like that, it's like an expansion. The dough used for 'Egg' can be the base, and we can serve the flavors of each season. There's plain dough, dough with bean paste, and we can change the flavorings. I think it's possible for that dessert. Indeed, it can be promising. I think we should go for it!!" Somehow Ginji-san seems to feel it in his gut, a while ago he was worried about calculating the production costs and the production methods. Kasuga reached out for the steaming basket with her hands, and started gouging out the freshly-steamed manjuu by herself, picking it out and taking a bite, tearing a part out and taking a bite, she seemed so happy as her mouth was chewing. It seems that she has taken a liking to the cream cheese. "This hell-juu** is delicious, right?" T/N: Hell-juu=hell manjuu= the original was jigoku-man, from jigoku-manjuu, but that doesn't ring a bell, or at least, not in my case. Well, whatever, I translate so I heck this on my own accord lololol P227 "Hell-juu? That somehow sounds like a disturbing name, isn't it?" Manjuu steamed using hell's cauldron, abbreviated into hell-juu. But Ginji-san just nonchalantly acted as if he didn't hear what were being said. "I think that's great! It's catchy, and it sounds uniquely Kimon-y. It also makes it easy to design the packaging for the souvenir's box!" "Y-you think so?" For sure it's easy to roll off the tongue, but I wanted to give off the impression of a cute, sweet little baby chick, I was perplexed at how the naming was ostentatious. But Kasuga making a name for the souvenir product by herself, I just found her so adorable. Kasuga seems glad, and I guess that's good somehow... "Say, Aoi-chan. What shape will you sell this with? For sure we can't sell these still being inside a bowl, won't we?" She bluntly asked the question, which is just as important, I pointed my finger out to think. "That is our number 1 question. We can make them right now using bowls as they steam, but essentially we need to make them using tools such as aluminum containers, thin paper cups and other sorts of shape holders. I think it's hard to get hold of them in Kakuriyo." "..if you're just thinking of one shape, won't the inn be able to make the tools?" P228 "Really? Ginji-san, that can be done?" With a face brimming with confidence, Ginji-san declared "Yes, that's right". "Here at Tenjin-ya, we have a large-scale workshop underground. If it's something that is like an item from Utsushiyo, Dr. Saraku would research about it quickly, and the Iron-mice can make them for you overnight." "Wow, the underground workshop people are amazing! If we're going there now, let's ask them." My plan was impulsive, and as such Ginji-san doesn't have any time to spare anymore. "Even if I was to go with you, from here onwards I can't go to any other department to do my work. Hmmm, but if I let Aoi-san go by herself, I will get worried. You might get lost." What's that? Ginji-san perceived that I easily get lost... "Then in that case I'll take her to Tenjin-basement, Wakadanna-sama. I've gone there a lot due to errands." "Ah, if Kasuga-san is there, then I'll be relieved of worry! Yes, please do take care of Aoi-san." Ginji-san had me under Kasuga's care, and with a quick bow of the head, quickly left the place and left us. "Say, Kasuga, what place is Tenjin-basement?" "Uhm, you see, Aoi-chan, the underground workshop is where everyone here at Tenjin-ya, trespasses into." "Oh, it's that kind of place." Originally, before going to Tenjin-basement, we were going to discuss with and ask Dr. Saraku about the production of the new hotspring manjuu. P229 And for that reason, we were going to give Dr. Saraku some Hell-juu to taste-test.

"Uhm, excuse me, Dr. Saraku!" "Hmmm... Oh, who's there~?" "Uhm, it's Aoi.. From Yugao!" In Tenjin-ya's underground workshop, managing the trespassed Tenjin-basement, the "Development Department Chief" Dr. Saraku, was just coming out of a nap when we came in. Previously when we went to the research room, he was in the corner wrapped in a blanket and looking dead asleep, and we shook him awake. "Hmm. It's nice that you came by, Yomego-cha~n. Oh, Kasuga-ojouchan is also here!" While wearing his black glasses, Dr. Saraku looked at both Kasuga and I to confirm that it was us. Waking up and wearing his lab coat, he gave out a huge yawn. "Could it be that, you have finished making the new hotspring manjuu?" "Yes. But we still have a small problem, we heard from Ginji-san that Dr. Saraku can resolve it, and we thought to give some to you for taste testing as we consult about it." Kasuga opened the cloth covering the steaming basket, and with a "Here you go" took out the small bowls used for steaming P230 the two types of steamed manjuu. "Hmmm. This looks like a Kakuriyo-style cupcake?" "N-no... We didn't have any equipment that's why we used the small bowls for steaming.. And that's our problem." Right away, we explained the choice of ingredients to Dr. Saraku, and we gave him each type for sampling. "Mmm! Mmm! Isn't this very good? This is the exact opposite of the old-fashioned and unpopular brown sugar manjuu! It's light and soft and fluffy. There's so much moisture so an appropriate container is needed, eh? The cheese added to this makes it feel so fashionable as well." "For me, I also reasonably like today's old-fashioned manjuu." "Kasuga-ojouchan, you probably have an attachment to that." While humming, as Dr. Saraku tore from the manjuu and repeatedly ate it, he was thinking on what shape it should be made into. "If we made each of the plain manjuu into a small bite-sized piece, we can fit a lot of it inside a box. Since the chewy dough of the plain manjuu is relatively elastic, it is better to make them small so that they are easier to eat." "Certainly... like chewy bread and doughnuts, it's easy to tear apart, and we probably can make a lot of them when small." "In addition to that, right now its size easily fills in the stomach and it's good that we sell it this way. If the manjuu was bigger, P231 it would be a problem when half gets left uneaten." "Ah, yeah, that's right, that's right." We nodded enthusiastically, Kasuga and I. For sure, with a smaller size it's easier to adjust the amounts anyone would want to eat. "Also, the colors for 'Egg' and 'Cheese' doesn't seem distinct from one another, and I'd like for them to be distinguishable solely by looking at them. It't probably a good idea to change the color of the steaming cups." With a rustling sound, Dr. Saraku fished something out of his research desk. What the, it looks like something sold in Utsushiyo, a paper cup used for steamed bread and cupcakes. "The item that Yomego-chan wanted, is something like this?" "Yes, yes, this is it. But what's with this one?" "This is an item that we developed. It's an item delivered from Utsushiyo. We took it for future use." According to Dr. Saraku, they were producing a paper cup capable of withstanding the steaming process, and that seems to be easy here in Kakuriyo. It's very easy to tear off as well as edible, the inner part is waxed, the outside feels like it was made to look like soft washi paper. The colors were white and red. Right away, it was red and white, the favorite of Ayakashi. Immediately Dr. Saraku started drawing a blueprint. And then... "Uhhhh.. Workshop Manager No. 3, Workshop Manager No. 3, this is urge~nt, go to Saraku's place" "Yes-chu" The Iron Mouse Workshop Manager who was called for heard the broadcast opened the door, and immediately appeared. While wearing work clothes and scurrying P232 it went to us. "Workshop Manager No. 3, can you not make me a prototype of this blueprint of a receptacle? White and red. First of all, it's made out of paper, the inside has a powerful waxy coating. It should have the feel of withstanding the steaming in Tenjin-ya's hotsprings-- that is the most important detail of all. You understand?" "I understand-chu. I'll make it right away-chu." The Iron Mouse Workshop manager received the instructions without any hesitation, and left the research room scurrying out. I thought the assignment's instructions were sloppy but, right now it's somewhat amazing that it was comprehensible. "By the way Yomego-chan, we have to talk about the unavoidable aspect of this souvenir product, do we use preservatives or something, and how? What about the expiry date? Is the shelf-like short, is it long, we have to adjust how many we will sell as well as the flavors, you know." "So about hat, we were planning to ask Shizuna-chan about that. Because we will be using Tenjin-ya's hotspring vapors to do hell-steaming, we heard that it can help the food less prone to spoilage." "Oh... that kind of talk. Surely it's because it's about hell-steaming, for that type of hotspring it's OK to use 10 minutes of time. Shizuna-ojouchan is just below, certainly she is at the 5th level underground research room. It's Tenjin-ya's deep subterranean area where the aggregated steam is used, many researches are done there." After hearing that, we briefly went to where Shizuna-chan was. P233 Tenjin-basement 5th floor. That is where all researches of the collected steam underground were done, and has testing sites for hotspring types for use by the bath house managers. It was a bit dark, and the steam was hot. All around it, it seemed like an excavation site. The researchers wearing a lab coat were surrounding a hotspring that glows a dull, eerie,red-colored light, they were pouring something, churning, collecting, and arranging. Ah, that's creepy. What are they even doing... Shizuna-chan was wearing an earnest face while giving out instructions. "Well now, Aoi-san, Kasuga, what brings you here?" Peeking out and realizing that we were there, she went away from her place, and came to us with a smile. Shizuna-chan in a lab coat looks cute. "Shizuna-chan, are you in the middle of an experiment? We have something that we want to consult with you for a bit." "It's because we're... making Tenjin-ya's new hotspring manjuu." After telling her about it, Shizuna-chan clasped her hands together and went "Wow, new hotspring manjuu?". Somehow she seemed to be interested in it. "Since we're already here, please walk this way." And after that, she showed us around the personal laboratory she was using. "I apologize, it's dirty..." P234 "..." Uh, hm. For sure, it's fairly messy. Dr. Saraku's lab may be staying within the limits, but comparing this place, this looks like it hasn't been tidied up yet, and there were so many stuff in it. The room is also cramped, it seems. Surprisingly, this looks like a girl that couldn't sweep the room entirely by herself. "Oh" On top of Shizuna-chan's research table, placed astutely was a picture of Tokihiko-san. Tokihiko-san was Shizuna-chan's master, and is currently Orio-ya's Chief Bath Manager. Somehow it looked like it was torn out of a magazine, from Orio-ya's special feature edition. It seems that beside him was Hatori-san's face, up to two-thirds of the whole has been torn off... "Well then, what's the consultation about?" Shizuna-chan served some tea for us. From there, while sipping tea, we talked with Shizuna-chan about the situation with the production of the new manjuu, and we gave her some Hell-juu for taste-testing. "Wow, this is delicious...! This, surely this has been steamed in our hotsprings, isn't it?' "You knew?" "Yes, through its flavor and aroma. I know it very well, it is this the hotspring's flavor." P235 As expected of the bath manager. And such and such, we continued our conversations. "So this manjuu, you want to preserve it through hell-steaming, yes? For sure, the hotspring drawn from Tenjin-ya's subterranean areas have sulphur as its component, and it has a germicidal action. The preservation itself is connected to this so.. Aoi-san, how many days would you like the shelf-life to be?" "Oh, that, at least about 20 days, I think it's good enough for a takeaway souvenir product." "If it's for 20 days, using Tenjin-ya's steam, I think it's possible using only the hotspring resources maintained here, that would be effective. It's a natural preservative, and doesn't give the body negative side effects." Based on what Shizuna-chan said, the antibacterial effects of the hotsprings are being used to develop medicine, and it's very much the work of bath managers. "It's not difficult to boost the antibacterial effects of the available hotsprings, Even the employees at the bath management research area also know the possibilities. Indeed, please allow the bath management research team to cooperate with the creation of the Hell-juu as well!" "Wah, thank you Shizuna-chan!" "It's Aoi-san's suggestion, and it's a souvenir item that Kasuga christened. I want this souvenir item to be loved by so many people for a very long time..." Shizuna-chan the nure-onna's smile, the twinkle was starting to crumble. Covering the corners of her eyes with her lab coat, with a frail voice she utters "So sad..." "I don't want to imagine Kasuga eventually leaving Tenjin-ya. Because I wont have a roomate T/N: So basically, they're using steam to sterilize the manjuu. Wow, so science-y.. WAh, this brings back old memories... I miss I old job x_x lol it depends gahahaha P236 anymore, and I'll be alone... It's lonely~..." With those words, even Kasuga's eyes started welling up in spite of herself. I see now. These two girls are more than two roomates sharing the same room. "I, truly understand Kasuga very well. I asked Odanna-sama about it. That is why, I asked how can I help Kasuga with my own hands, even though that's the only way that I can do to help~. Even our room, Kasuga always cleans it for me~" "Shizuna-chan..." Kasuga looks like she's about to cry while smiling, and she gently hugged Shizuna-chan. “Shizuna-chan is such a cry-baby. Even though you're part of the management staff somehow you still roomed with me, and I've thought about that for a long time, because it is what it is, right? Me, I'll still go to Tenjin-ya again. This time as a guest, and enter the baths under Shizuna-chan's management. Surely, I'll be diligently tidying up the room, you know." After a moment, Shizuna-chan eventually recovered and calmed down from her sobbing. Waveringly, she slapped her cheeks impressively. I didn't know, Kasuga has so many strong and long bonds... "Kasuga, I'll give this to you. It's important to take a rest, OK?" Shizuna-chan fished out something from her research desk, and pulled something out. P237 It was a brown, ordinary medicine jar with a red label stuck on it. When it was opened... "Wah, it's the 'SUPER - Sea of Blood Ointment'!" "Really? What is that gooey red thing?!" Kasuga seemed really happy... And I was disgusted by what I saw, it was something, like a blood-colored slime. "Heehee, Aoi-san this is medicine that you apply on your skin. It was developed and made by Tenjin-ya's Hotspring Research, and it's a really effective ointment. 'SUPER' is not for sale, please have one, Aoi-san. Before washing, when the seasons have become harsh, be sure to use it for cracked and fissured skin. Even I apply it every night on my feet and hands." "Eh, that's so helpful! Thanks Shizuna-chan!" Lately, the water used for washing dishes have been cold and stinging, and only Odanna-sama told me that my hands were cracked and worn. This looks grotesque on the eyes, but with this I'm pleased. I'm grateful to be given something that I can use.

Having finished our consultations, as well as receiving the mysterious medicine SUPER - Sea of Blood Ointment, as Shizuna-chan went "Bye-bye" we left the Tenjin-basement and went back up. "Ah, you're just in time, Yomego-chan, Kasuga Ojou-chan!" P238 "Dr. Saraku" In front of the Development Department research room, Dr. Saraku and the Iron Mouse Workshop Manager were waiting for us. "Look, look, it's finished. A container to use in steaming!" "What, that's fast!" Somehow only one hour has passed, and a sample container for steaming Hell-juu has already been finished. This was some technical prowess. Tenjin-basement's Workshop Iron Mice are magical. And triumphantly with a smug face saying "It's before breakfast-chu", the Workshop manager looks cute somehow. .. "Here, you can try checking the strength of this while steaming Hell-juu. Our workshop has a hell's cauldron that you can use. Also, we have to show the finished product to Byakuya-san. Ochouban-chou will set the price point, and in turn will also do the commercializations." ".. what? Price? Isn't that done here already?" "What are you talking about? The earlier you do that, the better. It's important to be the leader. In some respects, if someone tells you to do it, it's like getting told off twice."** "..." Kasuga and I looked at each other's faces. We were only going to provide taste-testing, but now were thinking how to react. Somehow, isn't the progression fast...?

T/N: Sorry guys, I had no idea how to translate this part so I just did my best.. I mean, it does happen that some words couldn't get any hits in Jisho so.. yeah. Maybe 1% total... But then again, it's Dr. Saraku so... Meh.

End of Chapter 7, Volume 6. Previous - Chapter 6 Next - Chapter 8

References:

Wonderful site for the youkai references

Basic online dictionary, Jisho. Knowledge of verb conjugations and other words are necessary since not all have entries.

If you can read Japanese, you can buy the whole set in Amazon Japan, they’re shipping worldwide now, I think.

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