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In Portugal, There Is Virtually No One Left to Vaccinate – The New York Times

“The first thing is to make this thing a war,” Admiral Gouveia e Melo said in an interview, recalling how he approached the job. “I use not only the language of war, but military language.”

While politicians around the world have invoked a similar martial rhetoric, he said it was critical to his success that he was widely seen as detached from politics.

He quickly assembled a team of some three dozen people, led by elite military personnel — including mathematicians, doctors, analysts and strategic experts from Portugal’s Army, Air Force and Navy.

Asked what other countries can do to bolster their own vaccination efforts, he did not hesitate to offer his best advice.

“They need to find people who are not politicians,” he said.

Before the pandemic, Portugal was fortunate to have a robust national vaccination program. It grew out of the country’s devastating experience battling polio, which was still affecting the country after Admiral Gouveia e Melo was born in 1960. He recalls when the daughter of a family friend fell ill from the disease and the suffering that followed.

Manuela Ivone da Cunha, a Portuguese anthropologist who has studied anti-vaccination movements, said that “vaccine doubters and anti-vaxxers are in the minority in Portugal, and they are also less vocal” than they are in many other countries.

Leonor Beleza, a former Portuguese health minister who is now the president of the Champalimaud medical foundation, said Portugal’s rollout clearly benefited from the discipline stemming from the nomination of a military officer.

Nearly 30% of Brazil’s gold exports are illegal, report says – Reuters —

Barbara Crane Navarro

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Nearly 30% of Brazil’s gold exports are illegal, report says – Reuters —

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Podcast com Ailton Krenak: A Terra está com febre! —

Barbara Crane Navarro

“A Terra está com febre!” A frase é dolíder indígena, escritor e ambientalista Ailton Krenak, convidado do 36º episódio do Política ao Quadrado. Além de trazer reflexões sobre o custo do atual modelo de consumo e de desenvolvimento para o planeta, o convidado falou sobre vida, morte e sonhos. Ao explicar as contradições do fenômeno[…]

Podcast com Ailton Krenak: A Terra está com febre! —

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Whistler woman handed $60,000 in fines for regularly feeding bears | Globalnews.ca (Me: I love bears but “feeding” them is dumb for bears and people)

Investigators determined she had been feeding bears throughout the summer, buying bulk produce — including “up to 10 cases of apples, 50 pounds of carrots and up to 15 dozen eggs” on a weekly basis, according to the B.C. COS. Source: Whistler woman handed $60,000 in fines for regularly feeding bears | Globalnews.ca

O lugar aonde me sinto bem

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Você já se perguntou qual é o lugar aonde se sente bem? Quando eu faço essa pergunta, a resposta não precisa ser um espaço geográfico. Não, ela pode ser o lugar aonde caiba todos os seus sentimentos e emoções.

Há pessoas que levam a vida inteira a procura de um lugar melhor para viver, um emprego onde possa ganhar mais, ter uma casa ampla. Gente eu estou falando de situações que talvez para muitas pessoas faça sentido. Mas o que estou tento chamar atenção é: hoje, digo ” no momento atual da sua vida” aonde você se encaixa? Que parte do universo ou da vida, você sente que está completo? Quando nós compreendemos que a felicidade não reside na possibilidade de fazer ” isso ou aquilo” no momento oportuno, a gente vive em paz como nós mesmos.

A grade sabedoria popular nos ensina que ‘do pouco se faz o muito…

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(45) Making Guitars On Taos Mesa – YouTube

Patch Rubin of Wide Sky Guitars has built a legendary following by hand-crafting acoustic and electric guitars in his studio on Taos Mesa in New Mexico. Following a varied career of performance, jewelry making, welding, carpentry, and custom furniture making, Rubin decided to build a guitar and hasn’t looked back since. Today, Gary Clark Junior, Thom Yorke, Billie Joe Armstrong, Jeff Tweedy, John Doei, Gregory Alan Isakov, and Marc Ford are among the musicians whom Rubin has built guitars for.

Newly discovered biomarker predicts COVID-19 death days in advance

Researchers from The Mount Sinai Hospital have found changes to electrical activity in the heart can help predict which hospitalized COVID-19 patients are more likely to decline and die. The biomarker is easily measurable and potentially predicts death several days in advance.

When hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients it can be challenging for doctors to work out where to best focus their limited attention and resources. A number of blood-based biomarkers have been found to help assess those patients most at risk of severe disease decline.

Source: Newly discovered biomarker predicts COVID-19 death days in advance

Enteros y fracciones en el amor

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El amor, el amor… es un entero que incluye la presencia de uno y de alguien más… El amor es el poema, la rima, el canto, la letra de una historia inolvidable y maravillosa, el delirio de una existencia y de otra. Es un entero dentro de las matemáticas y la trama de la vida. Es parece, el acto y el lenguaje de Dios, y viene de su esencia, de sus motivos, de sus detalles. No obstante, en la hora contemporánea, abundan hombres y mujeres, aquí y allá, en innumerables rincones del mundo, que, hechizados por el encanto de las superficialidades y su hondo vacío, han fraccionado y cuadriculado el amor. Ya segmentado, lo que llaman amor, en el mercado de ofertas, se desdeña o se remata, al grado de que algunos están con las personas por el dinero…

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