More Home Appliances Could get a Longer Life — FunWritings

Computers, fans, microwaves and irons could get a longer life if we could get them fixed I wonder if the manufacturers could start doing more restoration and selling second hand appliances and when we go to shop we could choose between a new one and restored mix If more persons individuals were trained to do […]

More Home Appliances Could get a Longer Life — FunWritings

Vanita Gupta, who has a history with John Cornyn, faces her first Senate confirmation hearing | The Texas Signal

“As a lifelong civil rights lawyer, I have committed my career to ensuring that the promises made in the Constitution are kept, and that our federal laws are fairly and impartially applied. That commitment to fairness under the law is the same one I saw every day from the career lawyers at the Department of Justice when I led the Civil Rights Division. If confirmed, I will aggressively ensure that the Justice Department is independent from partisan influence.” Source: Vanita Gupta, who has a history with John Cornyn, faces her first Senate confirmation hearing | The Texas Signal

You only have one chance at life, use it wisely

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“Get busy living or get busy dying.” – STEPHEN KING

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – STEVE JOBS

“Live for each second without hesitation.” – ELTON JOHN

“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” – LILLIAN DICKSON

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – MAE WEST


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Spy To Lhasa

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

Snow Leopard crouched and huddled himself shivering in the piercing cold winds that danced all around him and the glowing woodfire that did its best to give a little warmth in the dead of night at an altitude of seventeen thousand feet close to the Lanak La mountain pass in the Himalayan region. His mission was critical to the success of the Empire’s dominance in this cold and mystical Sino-Indo-Tibetan sierra terrain.

The year is 1900, the beginning of the twentieth century, an era when the British and the Russian Empire of the Tsars were competing for supremacy in Central Asia. This political and diplomatic confrontation between the two superpowers during this epoch was dubbed as ‘The Great Game.’

The Qing Dynasty established by the Manchus in China had been the undisputed overlords of Tibet for the past one hundred and eighty years by then. Their control over Tibet began…

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Shop Meow To Help Save Homeless cats – You Make it Beautiful

Here’s my new favorite cause – a clothing company where every order helps a cat in need. MEOW donates 10% net profits to no-kill animal shelters. They’re helping kitties find fur-ever homes and end the devastating euthanasia of cats worldwide. See there mission statement. They also have a program where you can buy a blanket for a cat shelter.

Here’s some of my favorite picks from their website – meow.com

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Source: Shop Meow To Help Save Homeless cats – You Make it Beautiful

Here Are Five Key Facts About Gun Violence – The New York Times

It’s not just that every other high-income country in the world has many fewer guns and many fewer gun deaths. It’s also that U.S. states with fewer guns — like California, Illinois, Iowa and much of the Northeast — have fewer gun deaths. And when state or local governments have restricted gun access, deaths have often declined, Michael Siegel of Boston University’s School of Public Health says.

“The main lesson that comes out of this research is that we know which laws work,” Siegel says. (Nicholas Kristof, the Times columnist, has written a good overview, called “How to Reduce Shootings.”)

Covid vaccine: AstraZeneca updates US vaccine efficacy results – BBC News

The Anglo-Swedish firm has now adjusted the efficacy rate of its vaccine from 79% to 76%.

Further data from the US trial showed efficacy among the over 65s rose from 80% to 85%.

AstraZeneca said it now looked forward to getting US regulatory approval.

The company said the trial results confirm the vaccine “is highly effective in adults” and it remains 100% effective at preventing severe cases of the disease.

Source: Covid vaccine: AstraZeneca updates US vaccine efficacy results – BBC News

Women are more susceptible to long Covid, but will we listen to them? | Life and style | The Guardian

On day 16, Helene finally woke up with energy. “I did this long walk. I came back, and I was in the garden, lying in the sun. And then I felt I was getting a migraine.” At first she thought nothing of it, putting it down to spring pollen causing hay fever. But then it got worse. “I developed this sinus pain and then it turned into nausea, and my whole body ached. So I went to bed. I don’t think I was ever the same after that.”

Helene was recounting this story to me in August 2020, five months after contracting Covid-19. Her story is not unusual. Her description of feeling better and then getting even sicker after exercise has a medical name: post-exertional malaise. It is common in patients with post-viral fatigue and is a hallmark of chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) and some other overlapping chronic pain conditions.

For the first few months of 2020, as the world was just beginning to comprehend what Covid-19 was, World Health Organization guidelines suggested people generally recovered from Covid-19 in two weeks.

By April, studies from Italy and China were documenting “a significant symptom burden in Covid-19 survivors including anxiety, sleep disorders, fatigue, limited exercise tolerance, and memory and executive function impairment”.

Source: Women are more susceptible to long Covid, but will we listen to them? | Life and style | The Guardian

The McConnell filibuster is not the same as the Jim Crow filibuster – it’s much worse | US politics | The Guardian

To understand how the filibuster became essential, first to southern Democrats and then later to nearly all Republicans, we have to start a little more than 100 years ago. Until 1917, the filibuster allowed any group of legislators, no matter how small, to pass speaking privileges among themselves, holding the Senate floor and indefinitely delaying any bill. But when Senate obstruction threatened to derail America’s military buildup ahead of the first world war, lawmakers changed the rules, allowing a supermajority of senators to break a filibuster and force a vote. Source: The McConnell filibuster is not the same as the Jim Crow filibuster – it’s much worse | US politics | The Guardian