Gulab Jamun

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Gulab Jamun is a very popular Indian sweet, mostly served during festivities, wedding occasions, other celebrations and also when one’s sweet tooth crave for something.

‘Gulab’ and ‘Jamun’ are hindi words translating to ‘Rose’ and ‘berry’ respectively.

These are berry – sized balls made with milk-solid and dipped in sugar – rose water syrup.

Traditionally, these were made with “khoya” or “dry milk solids” but now a days many alternatives are there as “khoya” is not available easily everywhere. Milk powder is an easy option to go by.

Though am not a very big fan of sweets, I tried this for the very first time during a get together at home and to my surprise it turned out to be yummmyy. So, thought to share with you all my version of the recipe and give your taste buds a sweeeeet treat. 😊

Ingredients:

Milk powder –…

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Ciamano Yanomami, Amazonas, Venezuela

As Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa says in the “metal smoke” chapter of his book “The Fall of Heaven”: “This is what our elders who are great shamans say. These are the words of the xapiri, which they transmit to us. These are the ones I want whites to hear … As soon as the miners arrive at our house … They smeared the rivers with yellowish mud and filled them with the smoke of the xawara plague from their engines. I saw them razing the sources of the river to the ground with the greed of hungry dogs. Everything to find gold, so whites can use it to make teeth and ornaments or keep it closed in their homes. … The thinking of these whites is clouded by their lust for gold. They are evil beings. “

Barbara Crane Navarro

Come dice il portavoce degli Yanomami Davi Kopenawa nel capitolo “fumo metallico” del suo libro “La caduta del cielo”: “Questo è ciò che dicono i nostri anziani che sono grandi sciamani. Queste sono le parole degli xapiri, che ci trasmettono. Questi sono quelli che voglio che i bianchi ascoltino … Non appena i minatori arrivano a casa nostra … Hanno imbrattato i fiumi con fango giallastro e li hanno riempiti con il fumo della peste xawara dalle loromotori. Li ho visti radere al suolo le sorgenti del fiume con l’avidità dei cani affamati. Tutto per trovare l’oro, così i bianchi possono usarlo per fare denti e ornamenti o tenerlo chiuso nelle loro case. … Il pensiero di questi bianchi è oscurato dalla loro brama di oro. Sono esseri malvagi.”

NO all’oro nel sangue! – Un messaggio per Davi Kopenawa, Claudia Andujar e Survival con un avvertimento del cacique Raoni…

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Soil fungi act like a support network for trees, study shows

Douglas fir trees in British Columbia grow faster when they have more connections to other trees by way of fungal networks living in the forest soil, according to a new U of A study. (Photo: Getty Images) Though past research has focused on seedlings, these findings give new insight into the value of fungal networks to older trees—which are more environmentally beneficial for functions like capturing carbon and stabilizing soil erosion.

“Large trees make up the bulk of the forest, so they drive what the forest is doing,” said researcher Joseph Birch, who led the study for his PhD thesis in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences.

When they colonize the roots of a tree, fungal networks act as a sort of highway, allowing water, nutrients and even the compounds that send defence signals against insect attacks to flow back and forth among the trees.

The network also helps nutrients flow to resource-limited trees “like family units that support one another in times of stress,” Birch noted.

Cores taken from 350 Douglas firs in British Columbia showed that annual tree ring growth was related to the extent of fungal connections a tree had with other trees. “They had much higher growth than trees that had only a few connections.”

Source: Soil fungi act like a support network for trees, study shows

Daycares in Finland Built a ‘Forest Floor’, And It Changed Children’s Immune Systems

paivakodin pihat Before and after – Compared to other city kids who play in standard urban daycares with yards of pavement, tile and gravel, 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds at these greened-up daycare centres in Finland showed increased T-cells and other important immune markers in their blood within 28 days.  “We also found that the intestinal microbiota of children who received greenery was similar to the intestinal microbiota of children visiting the forest every day,” says environmental scientist Marja Roslund from the University of Helsinki.

Source: Daycares in Finland Built a ‘Forest Floor’, And It Changed Children’s Immune Systems

Open Sesame! Researchers discovered the second ‘key’ used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus to enter into human cells | University of Helsinki

NeurophilinBy specifically blocking neuropilin-1 with antibodies, the researchers were able to significantly reduce infection in laboratory cell cultures. “If you think of ACE2 as a door lock to enter the cell, then neuropilin-1 could be a factor that directs the virus to the door. ACE2 is expressed at very low levels in most cells. Thus, it is not easy for the virus to find doors to enter. Other factors such as neuropilin-1 might help the virus finding its door”, says Balistreri.

Since disorders in smelling are among the symptoms of COVID-19 and neuropilin-1 are known to be localized in the cell layer of the nasal cavity, the scientists examined tissue samples from deceased COVID-19 patients. “We wanted to find out whether cells equipped with neuropilin-1 are really infected by SARS-CoV-2, and found that this was the case, says Mika Simons, Professor of molecular neurobiology at the Technical University of Munich and co-leader of the study.

Source: Open Sesame! Researchers discovered the second ‘key’ used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus to enter into human cells | University of Helsinki

Freedom Needs Truth « Free the Slaves

Anybody — political committee, public office holder, candidate, or media outlet — who lends any credibility to QAnon conspiracies related to human trafficking actively harms the fight against human trafficking. Indeed, any political committee, candidate, public office holder or media that does not expressly condemn QAnon and actively debunk the lies should be held accountable.Source: Freedom Needs Truth « Free the Slaves

Não sorria para disfarçar — VEM comigo!

Existem pessoas que sorriem para disfarçar como elas verdadeiramente estão por dentro. A verdade é sempre melhor, tudo é tão explícito, que não precisa forçar nada. Sorrir para disfarçar as lamúrias é triste. Considere aquilo é uma emergência dentro de você. Tenha consciência de que nem sempre estamos bem. A maior dificuldade às vezes é […]

Não sorria para disfarçar — VEM comigo!

Smile, but when that joy comes from the inside out and not the other way around. When we smile with our eyes, when there is this spontaneity that comes from the inside, in that case, the smile causes envy, if that is the fact that you consider important to reach someone. If this is your intentional conduct, it is not so bad, but it is also not good. However, if you want to consider a more important factor than that, smile without spotlight. You will see that even our view of the world is better. Smile without an audience. That is really gratifying.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has dreams for a $700 billion megacity. This woman wants to stop him – ABC News

A woman in a tan leather jacket She says she receives almost daily death threats and intimidating messages, which she believes are from individuals aligned with the Saudi Government.

They’re in Arabic, but she shared some of them to the ABC.

“One day we will come and we will cut you up piece by piece,” reads one.

“We are going to throw acid in your face,” says another and “you are a non-Muslim and you should be killed”.

Alya recounts how some threats urge her not to trust her friends as they could instead be the enemy.

She knows they’re designed not only to scare her, but to make her paranoid.

She refuses to succumb.

“I knew when I chose this path there would be sacrifices,” she said.

After sustained intimidation for her social media posts and strong views on human rights, Alya left the embassy and cut her ties to Saudi Arabia in 2019.

She is now advocating on behalf of her traditional Saudi tribe, the Al-Huwaitat people, who have lived along the Red Sea coastline for hundreds of years.

Advertising for the city says it will have flying drone taxis, a Jurassic Park-like island, they’ll be an artificial moon, glow in the dark beaches and it will have more Michelin star restaurants per capita than in any other city in the world.

And the propaganda says it’s being built on “virgin” land.

But the Al-Huwaitat people dispute that and say they have lived in the area for centuries.

Alya says her tribespeople are being threatened, harassed and forcibly removed from their homes.

She began to speak out after the alleged murder of Abdul Rahim al-Huwati, a village leader who refused to move and spoke out against the project.

“This is my duty for the people. They’re asking for help and that is why I became involved and I’ll try to do my best to find the justice for the people of Neom,” she said.

Source: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has dreams for a $700 billion megacity. This woman wants to stop him – ABC News