“There is a teammate’s dream in the closed envelope of hope, hopeful dream – dream is full. There is a name written on the sky in the sky, color of the sky with the color of the cloud.

Chicago Stay-at-Home Advisory Extended to Jan. 22 – NBC Chicago

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Avoid all non-essential, out-of-state travel; if travel is essential, quarantining or testing negative prior to travel is required, depending on which state a traveler is originating from.

• Indoor gatherings within private residences cannot exceed six non-household members

• Per Illinois Gov. Pritzker’s executive order, all restaurants and bars must suspend indoor dining and service

• Non-essential businesses must be closed to the public between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. Bars, restaurants and other establishments with a Tavern or Consumption on Premises-Incidental Activity license can sell alcohol onsite or to-go until 11 p.m.

Source: Chicago Stay-at-Home Advisory Extended to Jan. 22 – NBC Chicago

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L.A. to turn Dodger Stadium into a COVID-19 vaccine site – Los Angeles Times

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Source: L.A. to turn Dodger Stadium into a COVID-19 vaccine site – Los Angeles Times

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Vavilon

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Myrela

Drevni Vavilon, izuzetno važan antički, vjerski i kulturni centar, prostire se na obje obale Eufrata, koji grad dijeli na dva dijela povezana mostom. S arheološkog stanovišta, malo se zna o kasitskom periodu, a pretpostavlja se da su bedem utvrđenja ispod unutrašnjeg novovavilonskog zida, sagradili Asirci, možda za vrijeme Sargona II, kao i jezgro zigurata od pečene opeke, izgrađenog u vrijeme obnove grada pod Asarhadonom, pošto ga je Senaherib surovo razorio 689. godine prije nove ere.

Iskopavanja koja je obavio R. Koldevej, uglavnom na površinskom sloju, pored toga što su identifikovala kasnije periode na lokalitetu (ahemenidski, seleukidski i parćanski), iznijela su na svjetlost dana i novovavilonski arheološki sloj. To je donijelo prilično jasnu sliku o gradu koji je prvi put opsežno obnovljen za vrijeme cara Nabopolasara. On je posebnu pažnju posvetio utvrđivanju, rekonstrukciji nekoliko hramova i izgradnji kompleksa palate. U mnogim slučajevima Nabopolasarovu graditeljsku djelatnost nastavili su i dovršili njegovi nasljednici…

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Să fie minunat !

January 11, 2021 nedhamson

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Chiar dacă pare greu, vă urez să puteți răpi anului 2021 cât mai multe clipe fericite !

La Mulți Ani !

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We Are All Dying for Luxury (Literally) ! ? Part 1 – the origins of Covid-19 in Europe

January 11, 2021 nedhamson

Scientific evidence, still patchy, is accumulating and confirms that, in the tragedy of the current Covid epidemic, mink is an important, even decisive, issue. Two things are already certain: first, mink farms, and particularly the largest of them, are microbiological cauldrons of extreme danger to health. Second, across all of Europe, with the exception of the Netherlands and to some extent Denmark, veterinary and health authorities have been in denial about this peril, stubbornly downplaying the risks, either out of blindness or to save the fur industry. An industry in decline which represents few jobs and no real social utility … but whose exports represent several hundred million euros per year.

But there may be more. A series of observations point to two mink farms, one located in Italy, in the town of Capralba, and the other in Spain, near Teruel, as possibly being at the origin of viral lines that played a key role in the two waves of Covid which ravaged Europe. If what is still only a suspicion at this point were to be confirmed, it would be a scientific earthquake that would force a complete rewrite of the history of the epidemic. Finally, more and more scientists, like Marion Koopmans, one of the most experienced virologists on the planet, consider it likely that mink is simply ‘the missing link in the Covid-19 pandemic’ and the animal through which the virus is passed to humans.

Barbara Crane Navarro

After decades of denouncing the frivolous gold “watch, jewelry and accessories” industry that’s responsible for the destruction of forests and the degradation of the lives of indigenous peoples, now aggravated by the propagation of Covid-19 by gold miners, I was stunned on December 21st, 2020 to read “Are mink farms the source of Covid in Europe ?” in an article by Yves Sciama and Yann Faure for the French online ecology review Reporterre. Clearly, the luxury industry isn’t only destroying people and nature «somewhere else» any longer; it is apparently now destroying people and nature everywhere!?

“EXCLUSIVE – Are mink farms the source of Covid in Europe?

Genetic analyses reveal that the two lines of Sars-CoV-2 that caused the two waves of epidemics that ravaged Europe were born near, if not in the heart of, intensive mink farms. They raise dizzying questions about the history of the pandemic and…

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Earth Matters: The wisdom of trees in winter

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What is the wisdom shown by “wise trees”? Is it perhaps that they appear to cease striving and simply endure because growth is made impossible by the “sure” arrival of cold, of scarce and pale light, and of water frozen solid? Or might the verse call to mind the “wisdom” of genetic information encoded in the tree’s DNA?

This “wisdom” instructs cells in the tree buds to produce a coating of waxy scales that protect the buds from cold and drought, protecting the future of the tree. On each forest giant, thousands of buds contain millions of cells intricately organized into highly compressed shoots, ready to explode out into new branches and leaves.

Source: Earth Matters: The wisdom of trees in winter