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Indian Olympic body calls Japan’s virus restrictions discriminatory

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The Indian Olympic Association sent a letter to the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee complaining stricter coronavirus restrictions against its athletes and those from other countries aimed at stemming the spread of highly contagious variants are “unfair and discriminatory,” according to local media.

The Indian Olympic body said that given Indian athletes will be fully vaccinated and take PCR tests every day for a week ahead of their departure for Tokyo, being barred from interacting with anyone from other countries for three days upon their arrival would be “highly unfair,” according to the Press Trust of India.

 

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Starting The Week With A Grrrrrrrrrrr

Filosofa's Word

I can tell already that it’s going to be a great week for snarky snippets and mini rants!  This afternoon’s post is one of each …


One man’s ignorance …

I have no idea what Joe Manchin’s game is, but he seems to be trying to be a one-man wrecking ball.  First, he refuses to so much as alter a single hair on the head of the filibuster, let alone kill that toxic animal.  Then he refuses to support the For the People Act that would protect our voting rights.  And now, he has set his sites on climate change … apparently hoping to help hasten the end of human and other lifeforms on Planet Earth.  Way to go, Joe!

You might never guess that Manchin is a member of the Democratic Party, nor that he is the Chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, given that much of the responsibility…

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If I Were A Hero (ABC Poem)

Shayan's Sphere

Above huge hills if ever I could rise,
Beyond the gravity as Iron Man flies.
Climbing and hanging if towers I could touch,
Dashing as the Spider-Man, if fingers were such.
Ever I would be happy and ever I would dance,
Falling and rising in heroic romance.

Grasping high hills if ever I could rise,
Huge, tough and rigid, if Hulk were my size.
If ever my sharpened nails were ever so tough,
Judging and fighting as Mr X-Man: rough,
Kiddy would be happy and kiddy would dance,
Loving and singing in heroic romance.

Mighty huge hills if I could win all heights,
Noting all evilness as Mr. Batman fights.
Owning all powers if this world I could guide,
Powers like a Power Man if Thor were my side.
Quickly I would be…

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Nurse POWs: Angels of Bataan and Corregidor | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

In July, the nurses were put into Santo Tomas Internment Camp (STIC) in Manila. Santo Tomas became a POW city of roughly 6,000 people. The nurses helped to establish Santa Catalina Hospital on the grounds of the camp. They helped to stem epidemics in the overcrowded camp, organizing a public health campaign in the most unsanitary conditions. The nurses treated patients with minimal supplies in spartan conditions for accidents, disease, and malnutrition. The weight loss due to starvation in the camps averaged around 32 percent of an individual’s body weight. The American nurse POWs were not just waiting to be liberated, they were fighting to survive and to ensure the survival of others. All 77 survived until liberation by American forces. The Army nurses were liberated from Santo Tomas in early February and the Navy Nurses, who had been moved to Los Banos Internment Camp, were liberated three weeks later.

The Army Nurse Corps leadership is largely credited with their group’s survival. Chief Nurse Capt. Maude C. Davison was 57 years old at capture with decades of service experience, including during World War I. Second in command was the 47-year-old LT. Josie Nesbit. Under Davison and Nesbit’s command, the nurses maintained a regular schedule of nursing duty while prisoners of war. They had routine daily four-hour shifts, giving them purpose and a reason to survive. In 2001, Maude Davison was posthumously granted the Distinguished Service Medal.

Source: Nurse POWs: Angels of Bataan and Corregidor | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

Newsom plan will shut rural California prison and lose jobs – Los Angeles Times

Nicole Porter, director of advocacy for the Sentencing Project, which supports reducing incarceration, said the state should help communities hurt by the closing of prisons.

“It’s the state’s responsibility to help guide a conversation around redevelopment. That community’s economic success should not be predicated on being a human warehouse that disappears people from their homes,” she said. “The state created this problem, and it’s the state’s responsibility to address it.”

Source: Newsom plan will shut rural California prison and lose jobs – Los Angeles Times

How to make a delicious Costa Rica Chilera – and your own Banana Vinegar –

How to Make Natural Banana Vinegar

For your recipe book, here are the steps to make this natural banana vinegar. By the way, you can make vinegar from any type of banana, but they are often too sweet for that sour vinegar taste we like. So, you will need a raceme of mature guineo negro bananas and a 2-3 gallon plastic bucket with a good lid.

Now look for a 11/2 inch nail, which can be carefully nailed into the outside of the container 1 inch from the bottom. Make sure that the nail is tight and doesn’t drip.  If it drips, look for a bigger nail that fits tightly.

Now peel the bananas and mash them very well in the bucket with your hands. You should not add water. Simply place the lid on the bucket and place it in a dark and cool place. After the first week, the pulp of the bananas will float to the top and the liquid remains in the bottom of the pail.

During the following week, the liquid begins to ferment and begins to change to vinegar. In the third week the vinegar is ready, although the longer you wait the more mature the flavor.

Now pull the nail and let the vinegar pour out into a container. The finishing step it is to filter the vinegar and to bottle it.

Source: How to make a delicious Costa Rica Chilera – and your own Banana Vinegar –

Roma nella lingua inglese

Vivaldi translation of excerpt: Rome in the English language… Overall, more than 65% of the English lexicon derives in some way from Latin and it is estimated that the “native” words, deriving from ancient English, are not more than 20-33% of the total lexicon, even if they represent the most used words in everyday life. However, most of the foreign terms are now obsolete so they are hardly ever used in practice.

le pagine dei nostri libri

La maggioranza del vocabolario inglese deriva dall’antica lingua dei Romani e, dopo l’italiano, l’inglese è la lingua maggiormente influenzata dallatino.

L’inglese è una lingua indoeuropea germanica che ha subito profondi mutamenti nei secoli e tra l’inglese antico, quello medievale e quello moderno si sono susseguiti grandi variazioni sia nella struttura che nel suono.

Già a partire dall’anno 43 l’invasione romana in Britannia, durata diversi secoli, lasciò tracce di latino riscontrabili soprattutto nei vari nomi di località geografiche e poi nel sesto secolo, con l’arrivo in Inghilterra dei primi monaci cristiani iniziò la latinizzazione dell’inglese, con l’introduzione di termini ecclesiastici e religiosi.

Nel 1066 i Normanni occuparono l’Inghilterra e vi fu una grande influenza del francese, una lingua molto latinizzata, che apporto’ nel lessico inglese circa 10 mila parole di cui circa il75% vengono utilizzate ancora oggi.

Nel periodo rinascimentale, con la riscoperta dei classici, il latino tornò in di moda…

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Bibliotecas

Vivaldi translation of introduction: Libraries
Publicado porCome with me!June 20, 2021Posted in Uncategorized
Considered as the compass of civilizations, I speak of (in terms of knowledge), libraries are a north of humanity.

Ah, there is nothing more poetic, classic and charming than libraries. They are beautiful and arrest us like a jail, where the biggest crime for which they respond is becoming less ignorant. It is a grammatical tour that you do among different languages, authors, themes, different times in history. Old fashioned, or current, with the smell of ‘old book’ can always be a good invitation for you to lengthen the walk between different shelves. You like books? Pleasure, won a friend!

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Consideradas como a bússola das civilizações, falo em ( em termos de conhecimento), as bibliotecas são um norte a humanidade.

Ah, não há nada de mais poético, clássico e encantador do as bibliotecas. Elas são lindas e nos prendem como um carcere, onde o crime maior pelo qual se responde é se tornar menos ignorante. É um passeio gramatical que você faz entre diversas línguas, autores, temas, épocas diferentes da história. À moda antiga, ou atual, com cheirinho de ‘livro antigo’ pode representar sempre um bom convite para você alongar o passeio entre prateleiras diversas. Você gosta de livros? Prazer, ganhou uma amiga!

Quanto mais sábia é uma pessoa, mais atraente ela se torna, você não acha? Gente culta, carrega grande beleza. Pena que a sabedoria instiga, mas também há séculos passados, levou muita gente para a fogueira. Só pra você ter uma ideia, às vezes, um sábio tinha que…

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