WATCH LIVE: DeWine: It is time to end the health orders

“Ohio’s cases per 100,000 are the lowest compared to all its neighboring states,” DeWine said of recent stats reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Me: a meaningless comparison. If people slack off and don’t get vaccinated… and infection and deaths ramp up… it will be our fault but what would DeWine do then? Is he going to be sure that all Ohio state employees are vaccinated?)

Source: WATCH LIVE: DeWine: It is time to end the health orders

COVID-19 in Illinois updates: Here’s what’s happening Wednesday – Chicago Tribune

Northwestern University announced Wednesday that students will be required to have the COVID-19 vaccine next academic year. In a letter to the school community, administrators wrote the decision was made as confidence in the vaccine’s effectiveness has increased and the supply has grown to meet the demand in Illinois.

Source: COVID-19 in Illinois updates: Here’s what’s happening Wednesday – Chicago Tribune

Senate Democrats skeptical of extending $300 unemployment benefit – By NICHOLAS WU and MARIANNE LEVINE 05/11/2021 09:53 PM EDT | Just Sayin’ (me: Don’t punk for elitist GOPers)

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, said there had been “report after report indicating” it was “not accurate” that the benefits discouraged work. He cited the need for childcare and the reduction of public transit service in many cities as several of the factors affecting the labor market. Reducing benefits in the way Republican governors had done would leave many people with effectively no income, he said. 

Several economists also highlight a Yale study from last year that found “no evidence” that the initial $600 boost in federal unemployment benefits from last year’s CARES Act increased layoffs or discouraged workers from returning to their jobs over time. 

Source: Senate Democrats skeptical of extending $300 unemployment benefit – By NICHOLAS WU and MARIANNE LEVINE 05/11/2021 09:53 PM EDT | Just Sayin’

💥 Saturday And Wednesday Collided 💥

Filosofa's Word

I have to confess, last night I completely lost track of the day of the week, and thus did not realize that today would be Wednesday, hence I did not prepare a ‘good people’ post!  Now, another feature such as ‘Jolly Monday’ or ‘Saturday Surprise’, I would just move on, not worry about it, and try to do better next week, but I know how you all count on Good People on Wednesday.  As it is late at night and I am not quite up to par tonight, I dug back through the archives and found this post that was actually posted on a Saturday back in 2018, but I always thought it qualified as a ‘good people’ post, too.  And so, without further ado …


Is it Saturday?  Or is it Wednesday?  There seems to have been a collision on this blog of Saturday and Wednesday … what shall…

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Salon Vivatech édition 2021 – Le journal des Jum’s

The next edition of the VivaTech fair, from June 16 to 19, 2021. Created in 2016, VivaTech is the biggest tech fair in Europe. The event is betting on a hybrid form (physical and digital). More than 200 start-ups are expected from the 500 exhibitors. Multiplexes will also be organized from North America, Asia and Africa. La prochaine édition du salon VivaTech sera du 16 au 19 juin 2021. L’événement fait le pari d’une forme hybride (physique et digitale).

Source: Salon Vivatech édition 2021 – Le journal des Jum’s

Vulingjuen, Kina -Wulingyuan, China

Tianqiashengkong means “heavenly bridge”. This name was given by the inhabitants of the village of Zhangjiajie (Zhangjendje) to what is considered to be the largest natural bridge in the world.

Myrela

Tianqiashengkong (Tjenćašengkung) znači “nebeski most”. To ime su stanovnici sela Zhangjiajie (Džangđenđe) dali onome što se smatra najvećim prirodnim mostom na svijetu. Njegova dužina iznosi 40 metara, širina 10, a debljina 15. Štite ga dva brda koja se izdižu 350 metara iznad dna doline. Pa, ipak, Tianqiashengkong je samo jedna od neobičnih atrakcija u Vulingjuenu, oblasti tako izvanrednih odlika da je zovu “Prirodni lavirint”. Zauzima 264 km² oko basena Suosji Torenta kojim se odvodi višak vode. Ovo je planinska oblast visine između 460 m i 1.370 m ispresijecana sa šezdesetak planinskih potoka i rijeka. Tokom vijekova erozija je izazvana površinskim vodama i obilnim kišnim padavinama stvorila izvanrednu šumu s više od 3.000 šiljaka od kvarcita koji se izdižu preko 200 m u visinu i u čijem sastavu se nalazi 75% do 95% čistog kvarca. Između ovih šiljaka vijugaju živopisne klisure i ponori s vodopadima, barama i jezerima. Na tom lokalitetu…

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UPDATE: 56 Palestinians, 6 Israelis Killed as Tensions Escalate | Egyptian Streets

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry made a statement on Tuesday in a meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers in response to the escalating situation.

“Egypt will not stand idle towards what is going on in the holy city,” he stated. “It provokes our feelings to see this holy spot turned into a war zone at the hands of the Israeli forces, where the unarmed worshipers were insulted and subjected to beating and arrest instead of being protected to worship freely and safely.”

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry made a statement on Tuesday in a meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers in response to the escalating situation. “Egypt will not stand idle towards what is going on in the holy city,” he stated. “It provokes our feelings to see this holy spot turned into a war zone at the hands of the Israeli forces, where the unarmed worshipers were insulted and subjected to beating and arrest instead of being protected to worship freely and safely.”

Source: UPDATE: 56 Palestinians, 6 Israelis Killed as Tensions Escalate | Egyptian Streets

🌸Quote #4

A Writer's Deli

You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people. One might think this state was antithetical to urban living, to the massed presence of other human beings, and yet mere physical proximity is not enough to dispel a sense of internal isolation. It’s possible – easy, even – to feel desolate and unfrequented in oneself while living cheek by jowl with others. Cities can be lonely places, and in admitting this we see that loneliness doesn’t necessarily require physical solitude, but rather an absence or paucity of connection, closeness, kinship: an inability, for one reason or another, to find as much intimacy as is desired.Unhappy, as the dictionary has it,as a result of being without the companionship of others. Hardly any wonder, then, that it can reach its apotheosis in a crowd.

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