What is there left to say

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Văn GiaTranslator: Nguyễn Thị Phương TrâmPhotography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm Chợ Lớn, Vietnam Thirty thousand …

What is there left to say

Argentina approves Qdenga dengue vaccine – Outbreak News Today

Qdenga is a dengue vaccine that is based on a live-attenuated dengue serotype 2 virus, which provides the genetic “backbone” for all four dengue virus serotypes and is designed to protect against any of these serotypes Qdenga (TAK-003) was first approved in August 2022 in Indonesia and subsequently in the European Union in December 2022. It was followed by the UK in January 2023 and has recently also been approved by the National Health Surveillance Agency of Brazil (ANVISA). Its use is contemplated for endemic areas.

Source: Argentina approves Qdenga dengue vaccine – Outbreak News Today

Global COVID markers decline, but hot spots remain in two regions | CIDRAP

In the South East Asia region, cases over the last 4 weeks were up sharply, mainly led by rises in India and, to a lesser extent, Indonesia and Thailand. Deaths in the region also rose, mainly due to increases in India and Indonesia. In the Eastern Mediterranean region, which includes much of the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Iran, reported modest rises over the past 4 weeks, with deaths also on the rise, especially from Iran. Elsewhere, cases were up sharply in Vietnam, which is included in the WHO’s Western Pacific region.

Source: Global COVID markers decline, but hot spots remain in two regions | CIDRAP

Vida

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Ao acaso, não é o que tu queres uma pequena fagulha de vida nos teus dias?

Um corpo vivo e com alguns anos de vida,

Precisa trabalhar para ganhar a vida.

Não só a vida, mas o que permite com que,

ela conte sua época, o valor da existência,

Um gozo,

Um regalo de alegria,

Dos fugitivos dias,

no que se refere ao estado de um corpo em movimento

Por que falo de vida?

Pelo êxtase que ela tem

Pela mesquinharia talvez que se revela a uns,

Mas principalmente, pela esperança

Que me dá

A certeza do amor construído

Não em gestos humanos,

Mas em memória do que o vento não apaga.

É vida

O que te consome?

Além dos movimentos

Há muitos outros sentidos

Entre as horas justas e o paraíso.

Há um céu

Uma esperança

Uma luta diária

O sopro de mistério renasce

Através da asa do voo…

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Pussy Riot Sends a Powerful Message to Vladimir Putin: “You Have Already Lost. You Know It.” | Open Culture

Speaking at TED, Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of Pussy Riot, has a powerful message for Russians today: Resisting the authority of Vladimir Putin is an option. It’s a choice. Of that, Tolokonnikova has already provided ample proof.

Source: Pussy Riot Sends a Powerful Message to Vladimir Putin: “You Have Already Lost. You Know It.” | Open Culture

Seek Knowledge

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There are powerful people who wish to abridge our ability to acquire knowledge. At least one state’s legislature, Missouri, has voted against funding public libraries even though library funding is mentioned in that state’s constitution. Other states are in a panic about school textbooks. They rail about so-called “wokeism”.

One wonders if there is a dark agenda behind the efforts to censor knowledge. After all, knowledge is power for the individual; and ignorance enables power over the individual. Citizens of democratic republics have unfettered rights to knowledge. Censorship is anethema to a fully free and informed public. Paraphrasing Dwight Eisenhower, everyone should be free to read every book in the library. Even books that are “woke” (whatever that means) should be freely available for everyone to read.

I’ve been a journalist–professional and amateur–most of my life. I’m still learning the ins and outs of the trade. There are always new…

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#LanguageLearning & Mass Transit For Cooperation?

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

sıfatlar a-vorta les Adjectives

  This set of vocabulary likely came from the site https://esperanto12.net/tr, which I have been using to learn Esperanto from Turkish.  Most countries, or at least Spain and France, seem to have their own Esperanto sites for internet learning, but not as much is available in Turkish.  This, I find, is a good way to work on my Turkish while learning the basics of Esperanto at the same time, although I do sometimes have to refer to the French part of the site, still.

Learning Esperanto is a great way to help others learn a language that can help the world become more a kinder place, and  fewer languages will go extinct, since everyone will learn the simple common language, and continue to learn other languages for cultural and friendship related reasons, but not out of pure economic necessity.  Sometimes, as we saw back on January…

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