Monthly Archives: October 2021
Tadrart Akakus, Libija – Tadrart Akakus, Libya
U blizini jednog od rijetkih giltija (bazeni za skupljanje kišnice) u Vadi Sugdu, skrivenom u prevoju Akakusa, leži “Saharska pošta”. To je zid od bazalta, uglačan od vjetra, na kojem su generacije Tuarega, nomadskog plemena iz ove pustinje, ostavljale poruke karavanima. Ima poruka iscrtanih kredom, kao i onih urezanih komadom metala. Neke su stare samo nekoliko dana, neke su tu već vijekovima, a sve su napisane na tifinagu, pisanoj verziji tuareškog jezika tamašaka. Pošta je samo uvod u istoriju te oblasti, staru više od deset hiljada godina, o kojoj pripovijedaju mnoge slike i urezi razbacani širom Tadrart Akakusa. Tadrart Akakus je planinski vijenac (na tamašaku je tadrart množina od riječi adrar, to jest planina) u jugozapadnoj Libiji, koji se proteže u dužini od oko 250 kilometara, sve do alžirske granice. Paradoksalno, najnoviji tragovi što ih je čovjek ostavio, najmanje su prefinjeni, kao da je umjetnički senzibilitet uvenuo kada je…
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Shararty badal/ Naughty cloud
The Hollow
Roger Miller
” Uns sentem a chuva, outros apenas se molham”.
Roger Miller
Marii Freire Pereira
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Santarém, Pa 18 de outubro de 2021

Pretzel Nuggets
What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Equal Measures: Pretzel Nuggets! Anyone who has been to an outlet mall, movie theater complex, or shopping center may have been seduced by the tantalizing aroma of freshly baked pretzels. How about those wonderful travel cups of soft buttery nuggets speared with a wooden pick? Who can resist? Especially with a side of gooey molten cheese? Here’s a shortcut to making a batch at home in your own kitchen. It’s all about portion control to keep it real. The next time you’re at the grocery, pick up a tube of refrigerated biscuit dough. You can thank me later.
PRETZEL NUGGETS
Ingredients:
1 tube refrigerated biscuit dough, 8-count
1/4 cup baking soda
1 egg, beaten
1-2 teaspoons Everything But Bagel Seasoning*
1 tablespoon coarse sea salt
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 425°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Cut each biscuit slice into quarters. Roll…
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I was raised vaccine hesitant. Now I’m double vaxxed against COVID-19 | CBC News
Then, one day in the early 2000s, I fell ill with a low-level fever. I developed a vicious, strangling cough that would leave me gasping for air as I hovered over the toilet bowl. It lasted for weeks. The residual effects lasted for months. I just couldn’t get well.
A visiting doctor from the N.W.T. knew what she was seeing. It was whooping cough. I was shocked. I’d had the pertussis vaccine in childhood. She explained that the protection wears off. It was then I realized what those booster shots were all about.
So much of what my father knew from his years as a physiotherapist has been proven right. But on the flip side, when Dad suffered a heart attack at age 74, I saw him cry before his bypass operation, apologizing to my stepmom for not being willing to take the cholesterol-lowering medication his doctors kept prescribing in vain over the years.
After his bypass, he dutifully took the once-snubbed pills, and even began to get flu shots. He lived almost to his 92nd birthday. COVID caught him a year ago in October 2020, in the midst of the second wave. If there had been a vaccine then, there is no question that he would have taken it.
It’s a shame that it took an illness and a heart attack to knock the stubbornness out of me and my Dad.
Today, I honour my father’s death and memory by taking the vaccine, listening with kindness to the vaccine-hesitant and then telling them my story.
Source: I was raised vaccine hesitant. Now I’m double vaxxed against COVID-19 | CBC News
Senior army commander says 90% of military personnel are fully vaccinated | CBC News (Canada)
Colin Powell Dies from COVID Complications (RIP)
Colin Powell, the retired four-star general who was the first African American to serve as Secretary of State, died from COVID-related complications on Monday. He was 84 years old.
“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather, grandfather and a great American,” said Gen. Powell’s family in a brief statement, noting that he was fully vaccinated.
Minbari Mondays, Gropos, & The Hidden Cost of Details
Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better
This week’s set of incidents is the 10th this year, the third year of operation of the 5th Babylon station. These events show the cost of not knowing important details, just as we all need to know the details of local laws related to finance and consumer credit policy…:
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Greetings, from Tuzanor:
The events of these three days, in your Earth year 2259, are more important for you Humans to contemplate, than for us. The Minbari made certain, particularly my Order, that after this incident, Ambassador Delenn learned how to fight, and to fight well.
The tragedy of those who became friends with some station personnel, and rescued our ambassador, could have been avoided, if only an arrogant father had listened to his son. Like the captain, Dr. Franklin had details which could have saved lives, details of the heart, which, like the details of strategy offered…
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