Wirkung von Musik

Google translation of opening: Effect of Music: Music is not only a pleasant pastime, it is also good for your health. Music can be balm for the soul, it can make you happy, calm, relax, evoke positive memories and even relieve pain. Numerous scientific studies have confirmed this. Music therapy is an integral part of alternative healing methods in many cultures. The positive effect of music has long been tested in animal behavior research in the zoo and in veterinary medicine.

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Musik ist nicht nur ein angenehmer Zeitvertreib, sie ist auch gut für die Gesundheit. Musik kann Balsam für die Seele sein, sie kann glücklich machen, beruhigen, entspannen, positve Erinnerungen wachrufen und sogar Schmerzen lindern. Das haben zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen bestätigt. Musiktherapie ist auch in vielen Kulturen fester Bestandteil alternativer Heilmethoden. Die positive Wirkung von Musik hat man auch längst in der Verhaltensforschung bei Tieren im Zoo und in der Veterinärmedizin erprobt.

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A FALSA ABOLIÇÃO

Google translation first two sentences: “This Thursday, May 13, marked the passage of 133 years from the date when the then regent of Brazil, Princess Isabel, signed the Golden Law, a document that abolished slavery and, in theory, freed the more than 4.9 millions of enslaved blacks who lived in our country at that time. However, the legal text that deprived white gentlemen of the right to property over these men and women forcibly brought from Africa, did not guarantee even a minimum of dignity and conditions of subsistence.”

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Esta quinta-feira, 13 de maio, marcou a passagem dos 133 anos da data em que a então regente do Brasil, Princesa Isabel, assinou a Lei Áurea, documento que abolia a escravatura e, em tese, libertava os mais de 4,9 milhões de negros escravizados que viviam em nosso país naquele momento. No entanto, o texto legal que tirava dos senhores brancos o direito de propriedade sobre esses homens e mulheres trazidos à força da África, não lhes garantia sequer um mínimo de dignidade e condições de subsistência. Os que saiam das senzalas tinham de seu apenas a roupa do corpo e a capacidade de trabalho. Ou se tornavam retirantes miseráveis ou suplicavam pela permanência na penúria que sempre viveram. Na prática, a imensa maioria precisou se submeter a continuar trabalhando nos mesmos locais, para os mesmos senhores, apenas em troca da comida. Se legalmente deixava de existir o abismo que havia…

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DarkSide, Blamed for Colonial Pipeline Attack, Says It Is Shutting Down – The New York Times

In a statement written in Russian and provided to The New York Times on Friday by the cybersecurity firm Intel 471, DarkSide said it had lost access to the public-facing portion of its online system, including its blog and payment server, as well as funds that it said had been withdrawn to an unknown account. It said the group’s main web page and other public-facing resources would go offline within 48 hours.

“Due to the pressure from the U.S., the affiliate program is closed,” the statement said, referring to intermediary hackers, the so-called affiliates, it works with to break into corporate computer systems. “Stay safe and good luck.”

What that pressure may have been is unclear, but on Thursday, President Biden said the United States would not rule out a retaliatory strike against DarkSide that would “disrupt their ability to operate.” The White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said the administration was waiting for recommendations from U.S. Cyber Command, but government officials on Friday declined to comment further about whether any action had been taken.

Biden reverses Trump order barring immigrants who cannot afford healthcare  | TheHill

“My Administration is committed to expanding access to quality, affordable healthcare,” Biden’s proclamation states. “We can achieve that objective, however, without barring the entry of noncitizens who seek to immigrate lawfully to this country but who lack significant financial means or have not purchased health insurance coverage from a restrictive list of qualifying plans.”

Biden ordered leaders at the departments of State, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security to “review any regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and any other similar agency actions developed pursuant to” the 2019 proclamation and issue “revised guidance” as appropriate that reflects his own policy.

Source: Biden reverses Trump order barring immigrants who cannot afford healthcare  | TheHill

Coup Leader Brought Myanmar to Its Knees to Sustain a Failed Political Dream

Everyone wants a sustainable life, a sustainable economy, a sustainable environment and a sustainable country. For the people of Myanmar, however, those ambitions were dashed when the military staged a coup on Feb. 1. But the man who shattered an entire country seems satisfied with the purported “sustainability” he has created, presiding over the disaster in a place he has no right to be—the Presidential Residence.

One of the first actions coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing took a few days after he staged his coup was to forcibly move democratically elected President U Win Myint from the Presidential Residence to another location, also in Naypyitaw, where he was placed under house arrest. Right after that, the general and his wife held a traditional house warming party with five Buddhist monks in the residence’s Ngu Shwe Wah Hall. Since then, sources close to the military’s top circle have revealed, the coup leader and his family have occupied the residence.

Source: Coup Leader Brought Myanmar to Its Knees to Sustain a Failed Political Dream

Mixed reactions to CDC’s revised COVID mask mandate | CIDRAP

“I wouldn’t want to declare victory [over COVID-19] prematurely, but I’m saying this is clearly a step in the direction that we want to go,” Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

At the same time, Fauci acknowledged that people such as store or restaurant owners will have to trust others to unmask responsibly. “They will not be able to know,” he said. “I mean, you’re going to be depending on people being honest enough to say whether they were vaccinated or not.”

Fauci reminded CNN that while there will be no federally mandated vaccine passports, organizations such as colleges and businesses can require COVID-19 vaccination.

Source: Mixed reactions to CDC’s revised COVID mask mandate | CIDRAP