Chef Beverly Kim Fights Racism Through Food | Bar & Restaurant – By Erin Flynn Jay

A Shared Voice, Resources to Fight Hate

Kim said she believes AAPI owners can equip themselves with bystander training at restaurants, and they can proactively prepare for harassment situations that may happen in public spaces, such as restaurants.

“As an Asian American owner, I’ve been preparing myself by actively making sure my staff is taking extra careful in closing – going out with a buddy so they don’t leave alone,” said Kim. “I’ve been connecting with my restaurant community, neighbors, alderman, and this group Asian Americans Advancing Justice to be a support system of ideas and support should something come up.”

Kim has also been connecting the community through #DoughSomething, so people can empathize and use their shared voice and resources to fight hate.

In light of the current climate, AAPI restaurants have an opportunity to connect in solidarity and advocacy of stopping Asian Hate and be proud to be Asian Americans, according to Kim. “Our cuisines are varied and nuanced, just like us. We deserve to be celebrated and respected with our contributions to cuisine in America,” Kim said.

Source: Chef Beverly Kim Fights Racism Through Food | Bar & Restaurant

Police In Delhi Have Descended On Twitter’s Headquarters In The Country (Me: Modi becoming more like dictator… step by step)

For months, Twitter has locked horns with the Indian government. In February, the company refused to censor tweets belonging to journalists, activists, and politicians in the country despite being ordered by India’s government to do so, and despite threats from the IT ministry to jail Twitter officials for not towing the government’s line.

At the end of February, India’s government unveiled new regulations to assume greater power over social media companies. On Friday, it issued an order asking platforms to take down content that referred to an “Indian variant” of the coronavirus, according to Reuters.

Source: Police In Delhi Have Descended On Twitter’s Headquarters In The Country

Commerce Department, ITMS scoured Americans’ social media, did broad keyword searches on employee emails, documents and interviews show. – The Washington Post

Investigators lodged complaints with supervisors, and the department’s internal watchdog launched multiple inquiries, documents show. In an internal memo laying out his concerns about the unit, Costello described an inspector general’s investigation that he said had found it had no legal authority to conduct criminal investigations.

But the unit has managed to keep a low public profile until now, while pursuing investigations into “counterintelligence, transnational crime and counterterrorism,” as it described its activities in a 2018 budget document submitted to Congress.

Incoming Commerce leaders from the Biden administration ordered ITMS to pause all criminal investigations on March 10, and on May 13 ordered the suspension of all activities after preliminary results of an ongoing review, according to a statement issued by department spokeswoman Brittany Caplin.

Source: Commerce Department, ITMS scoured Americans’ social media, did broad keyword searches on employee emails, documents and interviews show. – The Washington Post

Belarus expels Lativa diplomats

Me: Belarus pirates acting like the cowards they are…

Anna Van Densky blog

Brussels 24.05.2021 Belarus is expelling the Ambassador of Latvia H.E. Einars Semanis, he was asked to leave the country within 24 hours. This was announced by the head of the Belarusian diplomacy Vladimir Makei.

“The Latvian ambassador was invited to the Foreign Ministry in connection with the insult of the state flag of Belarus in Riga,” Makei explained.

Together wit the Ambassador, Belarus expels the entire Embassy staff, ​​with the exception of one administrative officer who is allowed to stay in Minsk.

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Privileges : Friend or Family?

Inhale Peace; Exhale Love. Joy will Follow! - RUELHA

I had a childhood friend. As a teenager, I've known him since then. He was part of our close friends circle. At a time when all of us were nocturnal. Christmas dances and birthday parties. When it wasn't legal for us to own car keys. And then life happened and we lost touch. A decade of years, it's been that much. But now, he married someone dear from my immediate family. So he's present for just about everything, actually. Ever since that happened, I've been elated. But, there is something that seems debated. It's so awesome to have that comfort level at family events. Because of the camaraderie we shared as kids when we were friends. This time as the family got together, I asked him jokingly, I'm confused; are you my friend or are you family? To which he laughed and responded, "a bit of both." I am just…

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Letter III – SMITTY, Somewhere At Sea At A Loss

Pacific Paratrooper

May 1944 – US troops relax laying cards while a troopship takes them to their deployment.

From my father’s description of his transport ship out of San Francisco and the approximate number of soldiers that were aboard, I can speculate that it was a Heywood class ship. As the ship lumbered out to the ocean swells, many of the young men took their final glance of the USA. Smitty thought that his most boring time in the army was while he sailed on this cruise, although he did well in learning how to play cards – as did many other G.I.’s.

USS Heywood

As they boarded, the ship’s crew immediately began enforcing the security procedures. All portholes and hatches were covered and no lights were allowed after dusk. The heat below deck would become intolerable. The arrival of the “ditty bags” filled with toiletries, cigarettes, gum and a harmonica brightened…

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Marie Curie

Google translation: ”Life is not easy for anyone. But… what does it matter? It is necessary to preserve and, above all, to trust ourselves. We have to feel that we are gifted to accomplish a certain thing and that we have to achieve it. Whatever it takes!

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” A vida não é fácil para ninguém. Mas…O que importa? É necessária preservar e, acima de tudo, confiar em nós próprios. Temos de sentir que somos dotados para realizar uma determinada coisa e que temos de alcancá-la. Custe o que custar!

Marie Curie.

zankyou.pt

Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 24 de Maio de 2021

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Pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Que nós sejamos capazes de respeitar cada processo para que essas coisas ao chegarem em nossas vidas, possam valer a liberdade de como elas nos encontram. O importante é preservar o encanto e a importância que depositamos em cada uma delas. Não interessa quanto tempo demorem para chegar, porque a vida por si só é uma (…). A anestesia que ameniza o peso da realidade, são os momentos bons. Portanto, independente da época e da forma, que aquele que chegue, ganhe a nossa real admiração.
Beijo no coração de todos!…

Marii Freire.

Desejo a todos um excelente domingo!!

Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 23 de Maio de 2021

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May Nature Walk

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

Pam and I headed out to Treman Park for a walk to the Lucifer Falls overlook. The Gorge Trail is not yet open due to the danger of rock falling from the gorge walls — the park maintenance staff needs to survey winter damage and knock down material in danger of falling.

Our first stop was the mill waterfall. This was was directed to the mill stream to power the mill where grain was ground to order.

Here is an overview of the Mill, now a museum not yet opened post-Covid. The millstone stands at the start of the foot trails. All media on this post is from my IPhone 7, lightweight equipment for this hike. The automatic upload to ICloud is convenient.

Round trip is four-plus miles, with several hundred feet elevation change. Pam and I discussed a car caravan for our next visit, to support a one-way downhill…

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