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I thought about getting up early and rushing off to Shenandoah and hiking the path I didn't hike last week, but somehow it was 10 am before I was in the kitchen. :-(  Weekends (and vacations) are such good times to move slow. 

Because I did not go to Shenandoah I got even more done this weekend. I researched the vote. We voted. This was the most important thing. I cleaned. I vacuumed. I planted most of the bulbs. I also uploaded all the photo and video files to make a video of my trip to Peru in 2018 - the Inca Trail and Machu Piccu was my first bucket list trip. Next will be Iceland's.  

As told by Max yesterday, Ukrainians have developed an app to help alert the authorities to Iranian drones. The drone and missile reporting app provides a basic visual guide for differentiating various kinds of attacking aircraft. After tapping an icon of the identified vehicle, spotters point their phone at the craft’s position and then send the coordinates to air defense forces. It is currently only available for Android but they are working on an iOS version. It has been downloaded over 180,000 times. 


Thousands of Ukrainians, Iranians, and Burmese gathered in New York city to protest tyranny. 


Olena Zelenska thanked Lithuania's First Lady and the Queen of Belgium for caring for Ukrainian refugees. 


On Russian state television panelists discussed Russia's targeting of Ukraine's power infrastructure. A panelist, sociologist Alexei Roschin, criticized Russia's actions! He said it was a cruel, sadistic war on civilians. He held no punches. He was cut off. In a separate part of the segment a different panelist, Aleksandr Sytin, a political scientist and historical, said Russia "violated the territorial integrity of a sovereign nation." 


Nearly a third of Moscow officials in the mayor's office have supposedly fled Russia in one month to avoid being drafted. They did not officially resign. They did not take their personal belongings from the workplace. They began quitting when the head of the department within the Moscow city government, Aleksey Martynov, who had been drafted, died. He was drafted despite having no combat experience and was killed in fewer than three weeks. 


A train derailed on a Russian railway near the border of Belarus. A Russian antiwar group has claimed responsibility. The UK Defense Ministry said it is the sixth incident of sabotage against Russian railway infrastructure claimed by the group.  They are preventing the transportation of military equipment, fuel, ammo, and other supplies. The group is called Stop the Wagons. Their website has instructions on how to block railways with wire and where. 


The EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said on Saturday that money from frozen Russian assets may be used to help Ukraine. Reynders said it could be used as a guarantee until Moscow voluntarily participates in the reconstruction of Ukraine. He also said that he is "reasonably sure" Russians suspected of committing war crimes will be called to trial at the ICC. 


According to Russia's Center for the Development of Advanced Technologies, Russians spent 70% more on antidepressants in the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period before the war.