Wet’suwet’en Urgent Update

LANDBACK Friends

The arrest of Chief Dsta’hyl occurred just a few hours ago. The only news are the following tweets and Facebook posts. Supporters are asked to do what they can now. “We need boots on the ground!”

There have been many conflicts and arrests of Wet’suwet’en people by militarized Royal Canadian Mounted Police. There are heightened tensions now as construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline has reached the point of drilling under the sacred headwaters of the Wedzin Kwa river. For background information see: https://landbackfriends.com/?s=wetsuweten

With @jjhorgan releasing the provincial Climate Plan today AND while our People file an appeal…

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U of Toronto researchers create mirror-image peptides that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2

Researchers at the University of Toronto have created chemical compounds that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and several of its variants.

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, the researchers report the creation of D-peptides that neutralize the virus and stop infection of cultured human cells.

Known as mirror-image peptides, the compounds have chemical properties that make them suitable for the development of low-cost antiviral therapeutics.

“A big advantage of mirror-image peptides is their long stability and that they are relatively cheap to produce,” says Philip Kim, senior author of the study and a professor of molecular genetics and computer science at the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at U of T’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine.

“You could imagine them being formulated as a nasal spray to take prophylactically to prevent infection from occurring.”

Source: U of T researchers create mirror-image peptides that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2

Michel Foucault

Vivaldi translation: ”People know what they do; they often know why they do what they do; but what they ignore is the effect produced by what they do.”

Michel Foucault.

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” As pessoas sabem aquilo que elas fazem; frequentemente sabem por que fazem o que fazem; mas o que ignoram é o efeito produzido por aquilo que fazem.”

Michel Foucault.

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Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pa 27 de outubro de 2021

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Somos, quizá, hojas frágiles de la vida

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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Somos, quizá, hojas frágiles de la vida, o, probablemente, trozos de realidades y sueños. Somos, tal vez, hojas que, en las mañanas de primavera y en los mediodías del verano, el aire y la lluvia tocan con frenesí, mientras pintan los colores de la vida y despiertan los perfumes de la naturaleza, o acaso de las que arranca el viento otoñal y dispersa en alfombras y tapices amarillos, dorados, naranjas, rosados, sepias y rojizos, para que el invierno, en sus nevadas visitas, las sepulte y nadie las recuerde. Somos, parece, hojas lozanas y viejas, verdes y doradas, que escribimos historias en nuestras texturas lisas y venosas, seguramente como fiel recuerdo de los días y las noches que contamos cuando aún permanecemos en los árboles. En nosotros se almacena, seguramente, la memoria del sol y de los arcoíris, de las…

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Im siebten Oldtimer Himmel … In seventh veteran car heaven

Stella, oh, Stella

Dieses Auto haben meine Eltern damals “Schneewittchensarg genannt. Aber hiessen die nicht “Isetta”? Ich habe gerade man geschaut, Isetta von BMW (!!!)
… My parents called this kind of car “Snowwhite’s coffin”. Weren’t they actually called “Isetta”? I just looked it up, Isetta by BMW (!!!)

Auch diese Ausstellung befand sich bei Schloss Egeskov auf Fünen. Hier bin ich, wie gesagt, amok gelaufen mit der Kamera und habe nur die – meiner Meinung nach – interessantesten ausgesucht.

… Also this exhibition was part of Egeskov castle on Fyn. I went amok with my camera in the car hall, as mentioned before, and have only chosen the most interesting ones (in my opinion).

Lasst uns mit ein paar schönen alten Lastwagen anfangen.

… Let us start with some great old pickup trucks.

Das war kein Leichenwagen, sondern das Gefährt eines Schmieds.
… This was not a hearse, but a blacksmith’s car.

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Mesmerising Mother of Millions Blossoms 😍😍

Siva jyothi

Kalanchoe::

Kalanchoe/also written Kalanchöe or Kalanchoë, is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, sucuulent plantsin the stonecrop family crussulesi , mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa A Kalanchoespecies was one of the first plants to be spent in to space sent on a resupply to the Soviet Saltut ,space station in 1979Kalanchoes require direct sunlight although they can survive with bright indirect sunlight. They only need to be watered when the soil is completely dry.

Kalanchoes open their flowers by growing new cells on the inner surface of the petals to force them outwards, and on the outside of the petals to close them. Kalanchoe flowers are divided into 4 sections with 8 stamens. The petals are fused into a tube, in a similar way to some related genera such as Cotyledon .

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Cockpit Country Stakeholders reject “inadequate” EIA for bauxite mining permit

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The issue of Cockpit Country has not disappeared. Many concerns remain. Stay tuned. This is from Jamaica Environment Trust (click on the link to the Final EIA mentioned below):

We, the undersigned members of the Cockpit Country Stakeholders Group (CCSG), reject the Final Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for SML 173, now available on the website of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA). We are at a loss to understand how this substandard document could have been accepted by the state agency with responsibility for public health and the environment.

We understand that deliberations on the granting of an environmental permit to allow bauxite mining adjacent to the Cockpit Country Proposed Protected Area are imminent, so we do not have the luxury of conducting a line by line examination. But the matter is of great importance as the area of SML 173 is within the boundary proposed by the…

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