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A question worth pondering: If we are evolved beings would we destroy the house we are in?

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Two Classes of Workers or One Big Mess

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An insurance article today raises the question of whether the current CDC guidance about masks creates two classes of workers in any business — the vaxed and the unvaxed. Those who have received the full treatment of a vaccine can operate rather normally; those who haven’t, can’t.

Retail stores are operating the same way, with functionally two classes of shoppers.

Unfortunately, as both employers and retailers bring people back to the worksite, both are relying on the “honor system”, that is, relying on consumers to tell the truth about vaccination status. Good luck with that.

It should be quite obvious by now that people lie. Americans, in particular, tend to be indifferent to the impact they have on other around them. It’s the “Ugly American” of the 1950s re-emergent.

Which brings us to the question that no one wants to discuss: What happens when someone lies about their vaccine status…

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Public warning issued about 11 gangsters with ties to B.C.’s escalating violence | Globalnews.ca

A public warning has been issued by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia (CFSEU-BC) about 11 men with ties to the Lower Mainland gang conflict.

The men post a “significant threat to the public” and have been “connected to the current spike in violence” the CFSEU said in a statement.

They are all known to the police.

“Police believe that anyone with, or in proximity to these individuals may be putting themselves at risk. CFSEU-BC is issuing a public warning and identifying them in order for family, friends, associates and the public to take measures to increase their own personal safety,” the organization said.

Source: Public warning issued about 11 gangsters with ties to B.C.’s escalating violence | Globalnews.ca

COVID-19: Study shows many children and adolescents may have been carrying disease – Montreal | Globalnews.ca

The report also concludes that the number of minors who had the antibodies increased significantly between October of 2020 and April of this year, an indicator that transmission levels were on the rise in schools and the community.

“We saw an increase in time which is not unexpected given the increase transmission that we saw over the winter and spring with children,” Dr. Kate Zinszer, the lead researcher of the report and researcher at the Centre de recherche en santé publique, told Global News.

Source: COVID-19: Study shows many children and adolescents may have been carrying disease – Montreal | Globalnews.ca

Guam

Pacific Paratrooper

Guam

In a lot of Pacific War histories, Guam is swept aside and banished as insignificant.  How soon they forget, many might say.

In Tokyo, soundtrucks festooned with World War II colors still extol those lost in a gallant defeat. In America, elders like Louis H. Wilson Jr. and George Tweed would never forget.

Masashi Ito and Bunzo Minagawa spent young manhood into middle age in the tropical underside of an island that tourists now praise as a paradise. They were holdouts, soldiers who refused to surrender and would forage for
survival for 16 years.

Soichi Yokoi, before and after

The last known Japanese survivor, Shoichi Yokoi, held out until 1972, captured by chance as he ventured out to empty a fish trap. Yokoi had never crept out of dense cover to hear the happy shouts of Japanese tourists and honeymooners. Nor had he walked the lobby of the Hilton…

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Wat Suthat

Google translation: Many elements specific to Buddhist religion and philosophy are still obscure to me, so in the temples I visited in Bangkok, I sought to discover something new rather in myself, triggered by the avalanche of surrounding images. Buddhist temples are a place for self-searchers looking for surprises.

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Bangkok, 2017

Multe elemente specifice religiei și filosofiei buddhiste mi-au rămas încă nedeslușite, astfel că, în templele vizitate la Bangkok, am căutat să descopăr ceva nou mai degrabă în mine însămi, declanșat de avalanșa de imagini din jur. Templele buddhiste sunt un loc propice scotocitorilor de sine în căutare de surprize.

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Din cele câteva sute de locașe din perimetrul centrului, le-am selectat pe cele care m-au interesat după caracterul lor de sacralitate, ținând cont și de criterii arhitecturale și decorative. În general, toate templele sunt niște refugii unde te furișezi de zgomotul și poluarea metropolei. M-am oprit la un templu vast, din secolul 19, din preajma marelui balansoar, așa cum se numește marele portic din lemn de teck roșu, înalt de douăzeci și șapte de metri.

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În trecutul istoric, o dată pe an, se derula aici o ceremonie în onoarea lui Shiva. Calugării brahmani se balansau pe acest portic, caligrafiind…

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Kokos makroni – Coconut macaroons

Myrela

VRIJEME: 30 minuta / KOMADA: 18

  • 140 g zaslađenog rendanog kokosa
  • 85 g sjeckanog koštunjavog voća, kao što su bademi, lješnici ili pekan orasi
  • 1/2 kašičice mljevenog cimeta
  • 1 kašičica prirodnog ekstrakta vanile ili 1/2 kašičice esencije vanile
  • 2 velika jajeta
  • so
  • 125 g mljevenog šećera

Zagrijte rernu na 180°C (oznaka za gas 4), zatim, obložite dva pleha korama od pirinča ili papirom za pečenje i ostavite ih sa strane. Izmiješajte kokos, isjeckano koštunjavo voće, cimet i vanilu u posudi za miješanje. Stavite bjelanca i prstohvat soli u drugu posudu i mutite dok ne dobijete čvrstu pjenu. Pospite kašikom mljevenog šećera, i mutite dok masa ne postane sjajna. Ovlaš pospite preostali mljeveni šećer po površini i pažljivo izmiješajte gumenom špahtlom, a zatim polako umiješajte i mješavinu s kokosom.

Formirajte desertnom kašikom kolačiće i ostavite ih u pripremljene plehove tako da se nalaze na 2,5 cm jedan od drugog, a zatim…

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Cyclone Tauktae – Named after a Lizard.

Pray for them – tough times a strong cyclone and covid-19!

Beyond The Lines

Source – hindustantimes

Cyclone Tauktae made landfall in western India’s Gujarat coast on the Arabian Sea around 1:30 p.m. on 17th May. Termed as “extremely severe”, the cyclone made landfall with wind speeds of up to 160km/h (100mph).

As of 11 a.m. EDT May 17, ANI reported that Tauktae had killed six and injured nine in Kerala, Karnataka and Goa over the weekend. Tauktae debilitated after it made landfall on Monday but at least 12 people have already died in the storm.

Source – financialtimes

More than 90 people are missing after a barge owned by India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), carrying personnel was deployed for offshore drilling. When the storm struck, the barge’s anchors gave way and it began drifting off the coast of India’s Mumbai city sank amid a severe cyclone.

The Indian navy said it had rescued 177 of the 270 people aboard and that…

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