Quick Egg Salad Subs

What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Food With Soul: Quick Egg Salad Subs! Lucky for you, egg salad is a no-brainer when it comes to a fulfilling …

Quick Egg Salad Subs

The Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 5 – « The Forest is Burning – Art Installation » 5:22 | Barbara Crane Navarro

Yanomami shaman communicating with the spirits of the forest, Amazonas, Brazil – photo and photo montage: Barbara Crane Navarro

« The Forest is Burning – Art Installation » alternates scenes from the « Fire Performance » burning of one of my totemic sculptures at the art space La Miroiterie in Paris with the « Fire Performance » burning of another of my totemic sculptures in the Yanomami village of Arata-Teri in the Alto Orinoco region of Amazonas, Venezuela and scenes of Yanomami shamanic initiation and daily life in the forest and the village.

 

Musicians and spectators at the « Burning Sculpture » performance at La Miroiterie, Paris, France – photo: Barbara Crane Navarro

The destruction of the world’s tropical forests is a tragedy and a crime. The destruction of my totemic sculptures during « Fire Sculpture » performances is my way of expressing the urgency of protecting these forests and the lives of the Indigenous communities that depend on them for their survival.

 

Fire consuming my totemic sculture at the « Burning Sculpture » performance, La Miroiterie, Paris, France – photo: Barbara Crane Navarro

Sound Design by César Antonio Estay Herrera

Here’s the film:

 

« Fire Performance » burning of another of my totemic sculptures in the Yanomami village of Arata-Teri in the Alto Orinoco region of Amazonas, Venezuela

For more information about the Rainforest Art Project, please see my website here:

http://www.barbaranavarro.com

And here in a blog by Palm Oil Detectives:

https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/114089794/posts/3744071063

 

Yanomami shaman, with King Vulture feathers on their hair and traditional Genipap body paint, communicating with the spirits of the forest, Amazonas, Brazil – photo (still from film): Barbara Crane Navarro

Thank you so much for appreciating my work!
Barbara

Please help protect the forests, rivers, wildlife and the lives of the Yanomami and other Indigenous peoples by boycotting ALL products from deforestation; gold, palm oil

Source: The Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 5 – « The Forest is Burning – Art Installation » 5:22 | Barbara Crane Navarro

Reportagem da Pública revela a íntima relação entre narcotráfico e extração ilegal de madeira na Amazônia! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Pesquisadores e policiais apontam uso crescente de cargas de origem florestal na exportação de drogas — madeira de crime ambiental é hoje uma das principais “maquiagens” Por Ciro Barros para a Agência Pública Os produtos florestais, frequentemente oriundos de crimes ambientais, vêm servindo cada vez mais de maquiagem para o envio de drogas ao exterior. […]

Reportagem da Pública revela a íntima relação entre narcotráfico e extração ilegal de

Source: Reportagem da Pública revela a íntima relação entre narcotráfico e extração ilegal de madeira na Amazônia! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Jill Stein’s Ties to Vladimir Putin Explained – Newsweek

After Jill Stein announced she would seek the Green Party’s nomination for president for a second time, an image of her seated at the same table as Russian President Vladimir Putin has resurfaced.

Stein announced on Thursday that she would run as a candidate, after Cornel West, a philosopher and civil rights activist who had captivated the party faithful, dropped out of the race to run as an independent.

Stein’s first presidential run was in 2012, against Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. She also ran in 2016, garnering one percent of the popular vote.

Source: Jill Stein’s Ties to Vladimir Putin Explained – Newsweek

A New Way Forward – Kamala Harris for President: Official Campaign Website (policies listed and detailed here)

Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are fighting for a New Way Forward that protects our fundamental freedoms, strengthens our democracy, and ensures every person has the opportunity to not just get by, but to get ahead. As a prosecutor, Attorney General, Senator, and now Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris always stood up for the people against predators, scammers, and powerful interests. She promises to be a president for all Americans, a president who unites us around our highest aspirations, and a president who always fights for the American people. From the courthouse to the White House, that has been her life’s work…

Source: A New Way Forward – Kamala Harris for President: Official Campaign Website

All hail Jamaica’s young Reading Champions! – Petchary’s Blog

I cannot imagine life without books: whether on shelves, or tucked away in my Kindle, or in a bookstore or a public library. I am having a “clear out” of our books – and it is very difficult to part with any of them. Let’s call it a very selective “weeding out.” You can see what I am reading (or “want to read” – a list that’s always way too long!) on my GoodReads page here. I have rather eclectic tastes and I am prone to re-reading classics that I read when I was much younger.

Daniel Lyle is the Jamaica Library Service 2024 National Reading Champion for the age 12 -14 age group. (Photo: Jamaica Library Service)

Anyway, we need to encourage our young people to read – and to enjoy reading. Not just school books, but all kinds of other books. There are some fantastic young adult novels out there, for example, many of them written by Caribbean authors. There are brilliant graphic novels; and if a boy or girl has a particular interest, there are non-fiction books on everything under the sun. The Book Industry Association of Jamaica continues to promote a “culture of reading” – not only for information and learning, but for pleasure.

The 2024 National Reading Competition Champions: (L-R) Fantasia Edwards, Yendi Burke, Athena Whyte (front), and Ugochukwu Durueke. (Photo: Jamaica Library Service)

So, each year the Jamaica Library Service hosts a National Reading Competition for readers of all ages. The awardees received numerous prizes donated by the private sector and met up with local authors such as Earl Moxam, Marlene Stephenson Dalley and Elkanah Rhule, whose books were used in the competition. It’s encouraging that there has been a substantial increase in contestants. Here is more about the winners:

2024 National Reading Champions Lauded 

KINGSTON, JAMAICA: Friday, August 30, 2024 

The National Reading Competition Champions for 2024 were announced at a captivating awards ceremony on Friday, August 30, 2024 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. Athena Whyte (6-8 age group); Yendi Burke (9-11 age group); Daniel Lyle (12-14 age group); Fantasia Edwards (15-20 age group) and Ugochukwu Durueke (21 and over age group) copped the title National Reading Competition Champions for their outstanding performance in the islandwide competition held under the theme “Read More in 2024.” 

The competition recognized outstanding achievements with sectional awards for Best Letter, Best Book Review, Best Story Ending, Best Poetry Analyses and Highest Overall Champion. The champions, runners up, and sectional awardees received trophies, cash prizes, tablets, books, hotel stays among other desirable prizes through partnership with the private sector.

Athena Whyte receives her trophy and cash prize from Mrs. Samantha Charles, CEO of
the VM Foundation. (Photo: Jamaica Library Service)

Miss Maureen Thompson, Director General of the JLS shared that the competition, now in its 36th year, has grown since its last staging, celebrating a 17% increase in registrants. The competition totaled 3133 participants islandwide (2,847 children and 286 adults). A reason for this, she believes is that “… public libraries continue to foster a nurturing environment where reading and learning are championed, valued, and celebrated.” 

Highlighting the value of reading and the work of the JLS, Samantha Charles, CEO for the VM Foundation stated:

“Reading is not just a form of leisure, but exposes those who indulge to information on critical life skills, which can be applied toward self, community and national development. It is this observation which initially led the VM team to pursue our partnership with the Jamaica Library Service.”

After several weeks of reading selections of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and financial literacy and completing various assessments, the winners, local librarians, teachers and family members celebrated the fruits of their hard work and dedication.

Highest scoring champion Ugochukwu Durueke shared in his acceptance speech:

“It has been a long journey of determination, doggedness, [and] resilience. I tried to achieve this aim for 10 years …I thank JLS for what they have done for me…they have made a great impact on my life and I plan to partner with them as a reading ambassador.” 

It can be well credited to the Jamaica Library Service another successful year of encouraging good reading habits in Jamaica.

National Champions Yendi Burke, Ugochukwu Durueke, and Athena Whyte with featured
authors from the 2024 National Reading Competition, (left to right) Elkanah Rhule, Earl Moxam and Marlene Stephenson-Dalley. (Photo: Jamaica Library Service)

Source: All hail Jamaica’s young Reading Champions! – Petchary’s Blog

Great Barrier Reef already been dealt its death blow – scientist | RNZ News

An Australian climate scientist has told a conference it’s likely Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has already been dealt its death blow.

Leading climate scientist Joëlle Gergis of the University of Melbourne told the Climate Change and Business Conference in Auckland that 80 per cent of the reef was bleached in April, the first time damage had extended so far along the reef.

“Scientists know… it’s likely that the extensive reef wide bleaching of this year has dealt the largest living structure on this planet its death blow,” she said.

“It’s just not possible for some ecosystems to adapt to climate change and its dangerous to pretend that they can.”

The world’s top climate science body has projected only one per cent of the world’s coral reefs would be left after 2 degrees Celsius of global heating. Over 1C has already occurred.

Gergis said solutions for up to 80 per cent of planet’s greenhouse emissions already existed, but there was not enough political will to act.

“We are failing to address the problem… in fact we are continuing to do harm.”

She said New Zealand would experience less pronounced warming than Australia but a central estimate would still see New Zealand experience double the warming it had already experienced so far, by 2100.

A best case scenario, where all countries met their full promises under the Paris Agreement, would still give the planet only only a 14 percent chance of keeping global warming to 1.5C, she said.

“This represents a catastrophic overshooting.”

Source: Great Barrier Reef already been dealt its death blow – scientist | RNZ News