Shanghai und andere Städte bei Nacht

Senioren um die Welt

“Nachts sind alle Katzen grau”, sagt ein Sprichwort. Das gilt jedoch nicht für die Städte, die bei Dunkelheit beleuchtet sind. Lichter und Schatten verändern sie, manchmal entsteht dadurch auch ein ganz besonderer Zauber. Wo in Großstädten tagsüber normalerweise Hektik und Verkehrschaos herrschen, erscheinen sie nachts manchmal geheimnisvoll. In anderen Orten, die tagsüber eher verschlafen wirken, kann sich reges Nachtleben entwickeln.


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Water, weed and racism: why Asians feel targeted in this rural California county | California | The Guardian

The traffic stop records, which were obtained by the ACLU and the Asian Law Caucus, showed that though Asians make up just 2.6% of the population in the county, they accounted for 27.4% of all traffic stops in 2021 in which officials identified the people stopped.

The data also shows that that more than 61% of the people the sheriff referred for prosecution for violations of the water ordinance were Asian American. Only 8% were white, though white people comprise 75% of the county’s population.

“Based on the records produced by the county, it appears the sheriff rarely ever refers white people to the district attorney for violating the water transportation ordinance or water extraction ordinance,” the groups said in a brief filed with a federal court.

John Do, a staff attorney with the ACLU, said his group spoke with dozens of residents of the subdivision who said they were stopped by police without a cause.

“It is across the board,” he said. “All the data we’ve examined thus far indicates the targeting of the Asian community and the Hmong community.”

 

Source: Water, weed and racism: why Asians feel targeted in this rural California county | California | The Guardian

Testing finds antibiotics in ‘Raised Without Antibiotics’ cattle | CIDRAP

Labels aren’t backed by testing

The problem, as Price and his co-authors explain, is that there is no real enforcement mechanism to prove whether meat producers are adhering to claims of raising animals without antibiotics.

Producers who want to market their products under these labels do have to submit to the USDA descriptions of the controls they’ll use to ensure that animals are not given antibiotics, along with their protocol for tracing and segregating RWA products and a signed affidavit describing how the animals were raised to support the label claims. Sick animals that require antibiotics to treat an infection are supposed to be segregated, and can no longer be sold under the RWA label.

 

Source: Testing finds antibiotics in ‘Raised Without Antibiotics’ cattle | CIDRAP

Who By Fire: Connaître le Personnage d’M. / Meet the Character M.

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My Work In Progress: Who By Fire: I Will -Book 1, is part of a historical fiction series. I’d been planning to set up a blog for the novel, with each major character posting every so often, but am not sure if there is interest, so I’ll start with just letting a few characters from Who By Fire introduce themselves briefly. Like this:

Bonjour, je m’appelle Martin, ici aux États-Unis , mais j’ai plusiers noms, a vrai dire. Donc, c’est plus facile, je suppose, qu’on m’appelle tout simplement “M.”

Hello, I am called Martin, here in the US, but I have many names, to be honest. So, I suppose it is best if we simply call me “M.”

Our dear M. is a man of few words, in general. 🙂

Progressive Jewish abolitionists befriended and struggled beside members of the Black community over the years in the United States, even…

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The harder the step, the more important it is to take it

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At times, after a challenging day at school, we tell my son that life is not fair. He hates remote learning and doesn’t understand why his teachers have yet to master the technology. He even takes it personally. Which, of course, he shouldn’t. But I have digressed a bit. Just a bit.

Another kernel of wisdom we try to pass onto him. Hard steps in life are to be expected. They need to be taken. We make sure that he understands that the harder the step, the more important it is to take it. We try to convince that something that is hard, is not to be taken lightly. Plus, you feel a great sense of accomplishment when you take those hards steps. Empowement. Not a bad thing to pursue.

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