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Never underestimate how life-changing and healing a smile, a hug, a listening ear, a heartfelt compliment, loving or caring can be.

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Fernando Pessoa

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

O poeta é um fingidor.

Finge tão completamente

Que chega fingir que é dor

A dor que deveras sente.

E os que leem o que escreve,

Na dor lida sentem bem,

Não nas duas que teve

Mas só a que eles não tem.

E assim nas calhas de roda

Gira, a entreter a razão,

Esse comboio de corda

Que se chama coração.

Fernando Pessoa. Autopsicografia.

https://www.ebiografia.com

Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 19 de outubro de 2021

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UK Covid cases near 50,000 in one day as No 10 warns of ‘challenging’ winter | Coronavirus | The Guardian (Me: Bumbling Boris offers up more Brits for Covid-19… giving up… no guts to fight Covid-19 with good policy)

Downing Street has warned of “challenging” months ahead as UK coronavirus cases reached their highest level since mid-July.

The reported number of Covid cases in the UK increased steadily through October and reached 49,156 on Monday, the highest reported since 17 July and a 16% rise in new cases over the past week.

The figure is only 19,000 cases short of the peak number of cases ever recorded in the UK. On 8 January 2021, 68,053 new cases were reported at the height of the most devastating wave of the pandemic last winter.

The prime minister’s official spokesperson said a rise in coronavirus cases was expected over the winter and that the government would keep a “close watch” on the statistics.

Hospitalisations and deaths are also increasing according to Monday’s data, with 5,561 people admitted to hospital over the past week, up 6.9% on the week before, and the number dying within 28 days of testing positive reaching 869 over the past seven days, up 11.4% on the week before.

Source: UK Covid cases near 50,000 in one day as No 10 warns of ‘challenging’ winter | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Celebrating 76 years, the UN focuses on frontline heroes and partnerships

Petchary's Blog

I have been thinking a lot about peace recently, and my thoughts will be in a follow-up post – including the critical role that our young people can and will play. I particularly like the United Nations’ alliterative theme for UN Day this year – all those “P”s! In Jamaica, as almost everywhere else, climate change, crime and economic struggles are perpetually at the forefront of our minds (with COVID-19 the backdrop to it all, and affecting everything). So the theme really works.

Here is UN Jamaica’s release with details of their Virtual Partnership Forum (October 20 to 22), which has a great range of local panelists. Register today!

UN commemorates 76 years by paying tribute to Jamaica’s frontline heroes and bolstering partnerships to achieve Vision 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals 

United Nations Jamaica will mark this year’s UN Day through initiatives including a three-day Virtual Partnership Forum…

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YO SOY EL CLIMA – 2021 – NEMOURS

Barbara Crane Navarro

¡EL BOSQUE ESTÁ ARDIENDO!

Exposición del 31 de octubre al 12 de noviembre de 2021

«El bosque quemado»
Escultura – metal y madera – 50×197
Barbara Crane Navarro

He organizado una exposición de arte climático en la «Conferencia de las Partes de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático» todos los años desde 2015, pero como la COP 26 se ha cancelado para 2020 y tendrá lugar del 31 de octubre al 12 de noviembre de 2021, la exposición «YO SOY EL CLIMA – 2021» ahora tendrá lugar simultáneamente con la exposición «Pas de Cartier» del 31 de octubre al 12 de noviembre.

Más información en Español está aquí en «Eventos – Evénement – Eventos»: www.barbaranavarro.com

«Veterinarios de árboles »
Collage de fotos – 40×50
Angle & Dawn

«Estamos perdiendo nuestra guerra suicida contra la naturaleza», dijo en video el secretario general de la ONU, António Guterres, en la…

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Amazonía y expansión mercantil capitalista Nueva frontera de recursos en el siglo XXI — Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía

Barbara Crane Navarro

La Amazonía es sujeto y objeto de múltiples y variados debates que transitan desde su diversidad biológica y cultural, pasando por su papel para conservar el efecto invernadero, hasta su potencial económico y la sostenibilidad de sus recursos naturales. Sin duda, la discusión está aquí para quedarse y tiene que ser enriquecida con conocimiento cierto[…]

Amazonía y expansión mercantil capitalista Nueva frontera de recursos en el siglo XXI — Asamblea Mundial por la Amazonía

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A floresta amazônica está perdendo 80.000 campos de futebol por dia. Logo será tarde demais —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Desde 1988, uma área de floresta tropical aproximadamente do tamanho do Texas e do Novo México combinados foi destruída ‘A Amazônia – historicamente um grande absorvedor de carbono – agora libera mais carbono do que armazena, o que aumenta, em vez ajuda a reduzir, nossa crise climática global.’Fotografia: Carl de Souza / AFP / Getty[…]

A floresta amazônica está perdendo 80.000 campos de futebol por dia. Logo será tarde demais —

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WSU football coach Nick Rolovich fired after refusing to take COVID-19 vaccine | The Seattle Times

Washington State announced Monday night that it had “initiated the separation process” with Rolovich and four of his assistant coaches for not complying with the state mandate that all state employees be fully vaccinated by Monday.

Defensive coordinator Jake Dickert has been named acting head coach.

“This is a disheartening day for our football program,” said WSU athletic director Pat Chun in a statement. “Our priority has been, and will continue to be, the health and well-being of the young men on our team.”

Defensive tackles coach Ricky Logo, cornerbacks coach John Richardson, quarterbacks coach Craig Stutzmann and offensive line coach Mark Weber are also being let go.

Source: WSU football coach Nick Rolovich fired after refusing to take COVID-19 vaccine | The Seattle Times

COVID-19 cases rise when schools open – but more so when teachers and students don’t wear masks – ABC News

More evidence to support masks in schools

One of the reasons it has been hard to see transmission in schools is because children generally have mild symptoms. This leads to infections going undetected. But the picture is very different when researchers actively look for cases.

Researchers in Belgium conducted a study where primary school children and their teachers were tested once per week for 15 weeks. They found many instances of transmission between children and adults that spread beyond the school to the children’s parents and to the teachers’ partners. Some mitigation measures were in place in the school, but not mask wearing.

Other measures help too

Perhaps the most dramatic example of failing to protect schools comes from England. Schools reopened this September without a mask mandate and with very little investment in ventilation.

Within one month, random testing showed that 8 per cent of secondary school children and 3 per cent of pre-primary and primary school children had an active infection.

Source: COVID-19 cases rise when schools open – but more so when teachers and students don’t wear masks – ABC News