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Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Voló aviones de dos alas, montó un elefante, habitó las celdas y los espacios conventuales, participó en el desembarco de Normandía durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, tocó el violín, elaboró esculturas en madera y se entregó a la ciencia, a la investigación, para la creación de su invento; pero también formó una familia y amó a su esposa y a sus hijos. Así fue mi inolvidable padre.

Trabajó y sostuvo dignamente a su familia, a la que amó profundamente y por la que era capaz de entregar lo mejor de sí. Le preocupaba e interesaba educarnos integralmente, y a tal tarea dedicó gran parte de su existencia. Era un hombre incansable, educado, inteligente y sencillo.

Sabía que en el mundo coexisten amistades tejidas con madejas de falsedad, intereses y mentiras, y adversarios reales, capaces de actos ruines. No confiaba…

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Alltagsszenen in Myanmar

Senioren um die Welt

Schon bei meinem ersten Besuch vor mehr als 20 Jahren hat mich das Land Myanmar und seine Menschen in den Bann gezogen. Und das hat sich nicht geändert, mich fasziniert noch immer die Schönheit der Natur, die enormen Kunstschätze, die es dort gibt und vor allem der Charme der Menschen, denen ich begegnet bin. Mich beeindruckt ihre unumstößliche Glaubensstärke und ihr Lächeln, ihr Stolz und die stoische Ruhe, mit der sie die harte Kehrseite der Realität in ihrem Land seit so langer Zeit ertragen haben und noch immer ertragen.


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Rondhangende koekoeken

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Af en toe wat paren en verder een beetje rondhangen. Die vogels hebben zeeën van tijd.

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Mijn vriend leest mij elke dag voor uit de krant. Daar heb ik om gevraagd en hij doet het graag. Ik luister rustig het hele artikel uit. Maar vandaag niet. Terwijl hij leest hoor ik wat anders en het is de koekoek. Al weken hebben we een koekoek die almaar door roept. Dag en nacht. Soms is hij even stil. Als teveel andere vogels er doorheen roepen neemt hij de moeite niet. Het lijkt wel een ijdele vogel, eentje die graag solo zingt. Dat dacht ik. Een eenzame narcist. Maar nu luister ik vol verbazing. Want volgens mij hoor ik nog een koekoek. Een tweede! Zijn geluid…

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Myanmar Foreign Minister excluded from ASEAN-India meeting – The Hindu

The Foreign Minister of Myanmar was not part of the 24th ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)-India Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) held in New Delhi on Wednesday, an official source has confirmed. Myanmar’s representation at the meeting was in focus as India had been under pressure to avoid Myanmar’s inclusion in the high-level meeting. The other factor behind Myanmar’s absence is the souring ASEAN-Myanmar ties that were affected beginning with the February 1, 2021 coup that overthrew the Aung San Suu Kyi government in Myanmar.

Source: Myanmar Foreign Minister excluded from ASEAN-India meeting – The Hindu

Quebec expands monkeypox vaccination efforts as virus continues to spread | CBC News

With 132 confirmed cases in Quebec, the province’s interim director of public health says the spread of monkeypox is slowly progressing every day and now vaccination efforts are expanding to men who expect to have sexual contact with other men in Montreal this summer.

Quebec has 40,000 doses of the vaccine and Montreal officials expect 25,000 doses will cover the target population in the city.

“There are certainly cases we haven’t seen because it is an insidious disease that doesn’t show many symptoms,” said Dr. Luc Boileau during a news conference Monday.

Montreal’s public health director, Dr. Mylène Drouin, said the city is the epicentre of the North American outbreak.

So far, more than 3,000 vaccine doses have been administered, with officials focusing on those who may have been exposed to the virus. Now, the vaccine is available to any man who may have sex with other men in the coming months, said Drouin.

“By enlarging the vaccination, we are trying to prevent the spread, knowing that we will have visitors, we will have different events, that will put people at risk,” she said.

“I don’t know that we can have zero cases, but we think we can at least manage the current outbreak and minimize the number of new cases.”

 

Source: Quebec expands monkeypox vaccination efforts as virus continues to spread | CBC News

WHO convenes experts to decide if monkeypox is an emergency | AP News

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday he decided to convene the emergency committee on June 23 because the virus has shown “unusual” recent behavior by spreading in countries well beyond parts of Africa where it is endemic.

“We believe that it needs also some coordinated response because of the geographic spread,” he told reporters.

Declaring monkeypox to be an international health emergency would give it the same designation as the COVID-19 pandemic and mean that WHO considers the normally rare disease a continuing threat to countries globally.

The U.K. said Monday it had 470 cases of monkeypox across the country, with the vast majority in gay or bisexual men. British scientists said last week they could not tell if the spread of the disease in the U.K. had peaked.

 

Source: WHO convenes experts to decide if monkeypox is an emergency | AP News

What are the factors causing us to pay more for food? –

High Path Avian Influenza has reduced poultry flocks, killing 40 million birds. Many of them are egg-laying hens.

“This is showing up in the retail egg sector. Most of the birds lost, approximately 40 million, have been among laying hens. We have had about two million lost this month so far, so we are still not entirely sure what the trajectory of this outbreak is going to look like and how it is going to affect egg prices, but so far we can see that it’s already increased egg prices substantially. There was a 10 percent increase last month, a five percent increase this month, bringing us to a year-over-year change of 32.2 percent.”

Chicken prices are up 17 percent on the year and are still rising. USDA says we have not seen these kinds of increases since 1980.

 

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