Mes 30 Albums & Musiques Préférés — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE

Je vous propose et vous fais partager Mes 30 Albums & Musiques préférés. Des albums que j’écoute, en ce moment, en CD et sur Amazon Music. 30 more words

Mes 30 Albums & Musiques Préférés — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE

Let’s Spread our Sparkles!

Saania's diary - reflections, learnings, sparkles

Here is a poem about letting out our inner sparkles! (And today is my birthday!🎂)

Let’s spread our sparkles
Wherever we are
Like the effulgent moon
And the scintillating star

The world isn’t fair
It doesn’t always listen
But let us be grateful
For the life we’re given

The daunting diseases
The cataclysmic wars
Take hundreds of lives
But we still have ours

The ability to wake up
The opportunity to live,
To start another day with
The power to dream big

It’s easy to hate,
To be a scoundrel and a snide
Let’s retrieve the kindness
Found deep inside

Let’s flash our lights
When it’s so dark
For it’s time for us
To ignite our spark

The anger we spew
The fears we feel
The problems around us
Only love can heal

We refuse to be kind
And unfurl love along the way
But when we open our eyes…

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Leopard On The Terrace

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

At 3:00 AM every morning Gopal Gaitonde would diligently answer to natures call. He believed the nocturnal hour was the ultimate to empty one’s internals of faecal waste. On missing this specific moment, his bowels would go bonkers for the rest of the day. Failing the sacred potty hour meant a day of total commotion for Gopal, one could say.

Gaitonde was a security guard at the Govardhan Vatika Housing Complex, a massive gated apartment community in the western suburbs of Mumbai city, located right on the edge of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, better known as the SGNP among the locals of the region.

The reserve forest shared its borders with the Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary in Palghar district and Yeoor Range in Thane district of the Maharashtra state. Spread across an area of 103 square kilometres and sandwiched between the eastern and western suburbs of the Mumbai metropolitan covering…

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Israelis and Palestinians Clash Around Jerusalem’s Old City – The New York Times

JERUSALEM — Clashes between Israelis and Palestinians erupted overnight in Jerusalem as hundreds of supporters of an extremist Jewish supremacy group staged a march, chanting “Death to Arabs,” near the Old City.

The violence was the culmination of building tensions between Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem and elsewhere over the past couple weeks. Palestinian media reported that 78 Palestinians were injured and 15 of them were treated in hospitals. About 20 Israeli police officers and at least 16 Israeli civilians were hurt as well.

Oxford Malaria vaccine proves highly effective in Burkina Faso trial | Malaria | The Guardian

A vaccine against malaria has been shown to be highly effective in trials in Africa, holding out the real possibility of slashing the death toll of a disease that kills 400,000 mostly small children every year.

The vaccine, developed by scientists at the Jenner Institute of Oxford University, showed up to 77% efficacy in a trial of 450 children in Burkina Faso over 12 months.

The hunt for a malaria vaccine has been going on the best part of a century. One, the Mosquirix vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline, has been through lengthy clinical trials but is only partially effective, preventing 39% of malaria cases and 29% of severe malaria cases among small children in Africa over four years. It is being piloted by the World Health Organization in parts of Kenya, Ghana and Malawi.

The Oxford vaccine is the first to meet the WHO goal of 75% efficacy against the mosquito-borne parasite disease. Larger trials are now beginning, involving 4,800 children in four countries.

Prof Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute, where the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine was invented, said he believed the vaccine had the potential to cut the death toll dramatically. “What we’re hoping to do is take that 400,000 down to tens of thousands in the next five years, which would be absolutely fantastic.”

Other interventions, such as impregnated bednets and malarial drugs, have reduced the death toll from a million a year, he said, and those must continue. But, if the vaccine could cut deaths to the tens of thousands, they might be able to look towards “a greater goal – eventually eradicating malaria”.

Source: Oxford Malaria vaccine proves highly effective in Burkina Faso trial | Malaria | The Guardian

Ohio GOP lawmakers seek to set limits on ballot drop boxes, change early voting hours: Capitol Letter – cleveland.com (Me: why would anyone want to make it more difficult to vote?)

Voter bill details: A new Republican elections bill would limit ballot drop boxes to one site per county and allow them for 10 days of early voting compared to the 30 days for last year’s elections, while also eliminating early in-person on the Monday before Election Day. As Andrew Tobias writes, state Reps. Bill Seitz and Sharon Ray’s elections bill, as described in memo seeking co-sponsors that went out on Thursday, also would allow Ohioans to apply for absentee ballots online, and permit them to update their voter registrations at the BMV. The bill, which is likely to attract controversy given efforts to impose new voting restrictions nationwide, has yet to be officially introduced. Source: Ohio GOP lawmakers seek to set limits on ballot drop boxes, change early voting hours: Capitol Letter – cleveland.com

The Weekend Leader – Fast shrinking Covid beds keeps Chennai health authorities worried

A senior pulmonologist with a prominent private hospital in Chennai told IANS on condition of anonymity, “Things are getting out of hand, beds are getting filled up fast even though we are shifting patients who need utmost care to the tertiary care hospitals. On Thursday, there were instances of 100 per cent occupancy of beds in some private hospitals, while some others reported 70-80 per cent occupancy.” Source: The Weekend Leader – Fast shrinking Covid beds keeps Chennai health authorities worried

In Peru, pre-Columbian canals offer hope against drought

Every kilometer of amuna that is put into operation allows the transportation of 178,000 cubic meters of water per year “The amunas already exist. What we are doing is restoring” them, said Mariella Sanchez Guerra, director of the Aquafondo water-access initiative which started the initiative with the participation of the local inhabitants in 2017.

“We have identified 67 kilometers of amunas” to be reclaimed by 2025, she said. “Of 67 kilometers, we have recovered 17, which means water for about 82,000 people for a whole year.”

The canals do not serve only the inhabitants of Huarochiri.

They also feed the Santa Eulalia river, a tributary of the Rimac river that provides some 80 percent of water consumed in Lima, one of the world’s biggest desert cities.

Source: In Peru, pre-Columbian canals offer hope against drought