Abbott Torpedoes Sickle-Cell Legislation on Juneteenth Weekend

 This legislative session, advocates celebrated the passage of House Bill 181, which would have established a sickle cell patient registry.

However, celebrations over the registry were cut short last week, when Governor Greg Abbott announced he had vetoed the bill. Supporters of the bill were quick to point out the irony of Abbott’s timing: The announcement came over Juneteenth weekend, just a few days before World Sickle Day.

Source: Abbott Torpedoes Sickle-Cell Legislation on Juneteenth Weekend

Learning about love…by Magic Mixture – Magic Mixture

Yes, loving is hard

And it’s easy too

love the good

too easy

Like perfect?

And how not?!

But who is against us?

Respond to us

Challenge us, challenge us?

Loving implies looking

look next

as for ourselves

But look with compassion

observe the hidden truth

Hidden in a harsh gesture

In a bitter word

Loving what’s hurt

Withered, trampled in the soul

So no, I don’t want

I can’t, I give up

Inner change is what I need

I insist, I persist

I still get there

Loving is easy, it’s hard …

I’m going ahead

I’m still at the beginning…

Source: Learning about love…by Magic Mixture – Magic Mixture

How Africans are bridging the language digital divide · Global Voices

…Wikimedia affiliates and language groups include the Wikimedians of Twi Language Group, The Dagbani Wikimedians Group, The Gungbe Wikimedians User Group, the Hausa Wikimedians Group, Tyap Wikimedians Group, the Swahili Wikimedians Group, The Fante Wikimedians Group and the Frafra Wikimedians Group. These groups establish Wikipedia version… Source: How Africans are bridging the language digital divide · Global Voices

In Jamaica, citizens urge action, not more words, following a child’s murder · Global Voices

On June 8, an eight-year-old student of Braeton Primary and Infant School, Danielle Rowe, was collected from school by an unknown person. A Jamaica Defence Force soldier later found the child on a street in Kingston with her throat cut; she eventually died at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital on June 10. There followed an extraordinary outpouring of emotion and grief on social media as Jamaicans agonised over her fate. Source: In Jamaica, citizens urge action, not more words, following a child’s murder · Global Voices

Other Surrenders in the Pacific conclusion

Surrender on Okinawa

In the Ryukyus Islands, things were far more simple than on the Missouri. The senior officer in the Sakishima Gunto, Lt. General Gon Nomi, Toshiro, whose headquarters was on Miyako Shima, had been given authority to conclude a peace treaty for all Army and Navy forces in the Sakishima Gunto, Daito Islands and the islands in the Okinawa Gunto not already under American control. The official papers were signed on 7 September 1945, with General Stillwell presiding.

Pacific Paratrooper

Surrender on Okinawa

In the Ryukyus Islands, things were far more simple than on the Missouri. The senior officer in the Sakishima Gunto, Lt. General Gon Nomi, Toshiro, whose headquarters was on Miyako Shima, had been given authority to conclude a peace treaty for all Army and Navy forces in the Sakishima Gunto, Daito Islands and the islands in the Okinawa Gunto not already under American control. The official papers were signed on 7 September 1945, with General Stillwell presiding.

Gen. Hata at the Soviet table

General Shunroku Hata and his Army had taken only three weeks in April-May of 1944 to rout 300,000 Chinese soldiers in Honan to secure the Peking-Hankow railroad. He then moved south and then west to meet up with the Japanese forces in French Indochina. The 14th Air Force and the Chinese Air Force could not stop the offensive and by the end of…

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Musik (2) … Music (2)

Stella, oh, Stella

Hier kommt die Essenz unseres Musikjobs vom letzten Donnerstag. Wir spielten zuerst eine Anzahl sanftere Stücke, während die Leute assen. Aber wir wurden da schon gebeten, die Lautstärke herunterzuschrauben, weil man miteinander reden wollte … verständlich. Sie waren alle in unserem Alter oder sogar älter, so wir versuchten verständnisvoll zu sein. Aber meine Stimmung wurde besser, als wir CCR und andere Rockstücke spielten. Ich muss aber sagen, dass alle sehr nett waren und unsere Musik zu schätzen wussten. Viele wollen gerne, dass wir nächstes Jahr wieder dort spielen. Irgendetwas müssen wir richtig gemacht haben.

… Here comes the extract of our first music gig last Thursday. We played a first group of softer songs while they were eating. But already then they asked us to reduce the volume because they wanted to talk to each other … fair enough. They were all our age or even older, so we tried…

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