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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Väter und Kinder in Asien

Google translation of introduction: Fathers and children in Asia May 30, 2019
Fifty years ago it was rare to see fathers in public holding their children or playing with them. Fortunately, that has now changed, and you can often see that fathers care for their offspring just as caringly and lovingly as mothers.

Senioren um die Welt

Noch vor 50 Jahren war es eher selten, dass man in der Öffentlichkeit Väter sah, die ihre Kinder auf dem Arm hielten oder mit ihnen spielten. Inzwischen hat sich das glücklicherweise geändert, und man sieht häufig, dass sich Väter genauso fürsorglich und liebevoll um ihre Sprösslinge kümmern wie die Mütter.

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Pećine Agteleka i Slovačkog karsta, Slovačka i Mađarska – Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst, Slovakia and Hungary

Google translation of title: Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovakia Karst, Slovakia and Hungary –

Myrela

Speleolog Jožef Šartori je 1794. godine nacrtao mapu na kojoj je predstavio preko kilometar i po pećine Baradla, karstne formacije u sjeveroistočnoj Mađarskoj. Ovo je bila prva mapa neke pećine, uopšte, ali je tek poslije 30 godina Šartorijevo djelo završeno da bi predstavilo osam kilometara podzemnih odaja i hodnika. U međuvremenu, 1806. godine, poslije ugrađivanja stepenica i zaštitne ograde, neobični prirodni fenomen privukao je svoje prve turiste. Prošlo je više od jednog vijeka prije nego što je jedan drugi speleolog, Jan Majko, svojom istrajnošću otkrio da je pećina Baradla povezana sa obližnjim pećinama Čertova Djerom (“đavolji ponor”) i Liščija Djerom (“lisičja jazbina”). Ono što je više čudilo bila je činjenica da pećina Baradla s pećinom Domica na padinama Karpatskih planina, koje se danas nalaze u Slovačkoj, obrazuje jedinstven kompleks dugačak 21 kilometar.

Godine 1977. Slovačka je ustanovila Zaštićenu oblast slovačkog karsta, a dvije godine kasnije Mađarska je osnovala Nacionalni park…

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Amazon-dwellers lived sustainably for 5,000 years – BBC News

Now the community has turned things around.

These days, it’s not uncommon for there to be zero active cases and no hospitalisations or deaths.

The majority of adults are now vaccinated and the tribe has launched a special pop-up clinic at the Canadian border to offer their spare shots to their northern neighbours who are facing longer waits for inoculation.

Source: Amazon-dwellers lived sustainably for 5,000 years – BBC News

COVID devastated the Blackfeet nation in Montana, but now they’re vaccinating their neighbours with spare shots – ABC News

Now the community has turned things around.

These days, it’s not uncommon for there to be zero active cases and no hospitalisations or deaths.

The majority of adults are now vaccinated and the tribe has launched a special pop-up clinic at the Canadian border to offer their spare shots to their northern neighbours who are facing longer waits for inoculation.

Source: COVID devastated the Blackfeet nation in Montana, but now they’re vaccinating their neighbours with spare shots – ABC News

Corn Fritter Flapjacks

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? The Chow Down: Corn Fritter Flapjacks! Add variety to your meals now that hearty comfort soups are on the menu as we stroll leisurely into Autumn. Old-fashioned corn fritters can be as simple as baked or pan fried cornbread. For variety, add sweet corn niblets, dried herbs and spices, or even shredded cheese. You may even be bold and cover them in maple syrup. As always, the key to great taste is in using natural and organic ingredients. I pulled out the old reliable cast iron skillet for frying simply because it maintains a more even heat exchange. Since it is already seasoned, the results mean no sticking and less oil is needed. Get cooking. Try something new tonight!

CORN FRITTER FLAPJACKS

Ingredients:

3/4 cup cornmeal

1/2 cup flour

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 tablespoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

1/2 cup milk

1 teaspoon…

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Ernie Pyle, 18 April 1945

Pacific Paratrooper

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The only house he ever owned became, and remains, Albuquerque’s first branch library. A South Valley middle school bears his name, and his face once appeared on the cover of Time magazine.

But, today, many people would be stumped to tell you much, if anything, about Ernie Pyle, the famed newspaper columnist whose writings brought the realities of World War II home to millions of Americans.

Jerry Maschino, along with several of Pyle’s descendants, is out to change that.

“A lot of people, if you ask them, ‘Do you know Ernie Pyle?’ will answer yes,” Maschino said. “But if you ask about specifics, they usually don’t know any, other than he was a war correspondent. … But there’s a lot more to Ernie Pyle than that.”

Maschino and a trio of other board members with the 3-year-old Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation, based in Gallatin, Tenn., were in…

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Third E-Gift Ready!!

Soni's thoughts

Hey my amazing friends, how are you all today!! Hope you all are safe at your places.. Guys todays post is about my another E-Art as Gift/reward for one of winners Jeff from Develop . Inspire . Transform As he loves nature alot and many of his poems, haiku tankas are explained beautifully on nature hence this is a small piece of art showing forest nature beauty for him from my end!! I got inspired from a youtube video and drew this art piece🙏🏻🙏🏻 Hope he likes it!!

Wohoooo so my total 3 E-art gifts are done!! 4more to go!!! Wish me good luck guys so that i finish them nicely and sooner!!!💖💖☺️☺️

💖Loads of love from Soni💖

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Labor Unions and American Poverty – Tom VanHeuvelen, David Brady, 2021

Household union membership and state union density significantly negatively interact, augmenting the poverty-reducing effects of each. Higher state union density spills over to reduce poverty among non-union households, and there is no evidence that higher state union density worsens poverty for non-union households or undermines employment. Source: Labor Unions and American Poverty – Tom VanHeuvelen, David Brady, 2021

Nigeria Twitter ban: As Nigeria threatens to arrest people who tweet, people defy the ban – The Washington Post

Nigeria’s telecom companies had officially blocked Twitter, and the attorney general vowed to prosecute those who found a way to use it, but Editi Effiong kept posting.

“Silence is the enemy,” he tweeted Sunday to his 139,000 followers.

The marketing executive in the country’s commercial capital, Lagos, understood the risk. This was no anonymous protest, he said — the government had his home address.

Effiong, 37, had worked on President Muhammadu Buhari’s digital campaign strategy during Nigeria’s 2015 election. Now he was urging everyone to defy the administration’s social media decree, announced Friday.

“The very act of tweeting has become a crime in the eyes of the government, but it is actually what we should all be doing,” Effiong said. “We should all be tweeting.”

In the days since Nigeria suspended Twitter, asserting that the platform threatened stability, people across Africa’s most populous country have logged on in defiance, blasting what they call an attack on free speech. Demand for firewall-circumventing apps jumped by more than 1,400 percent over the weekend, according to TopTenVPN, a tracker in London.

Source: Nigeria Twitter ban: As Nigeria threatens to arrest people who tweet, people defy the ban – The Washington Post

US COVID-19 vaccination rates drop to under 1 million a day | CIDRAP

With only 3 weeks left to President Joe Biden’s July 4th goal of seeing 70% of all American adults with at least 1 dose of COVID-19 vaccine, national vaccination rates are dropping across the country to fewer than 1 million shots administered per day.

That’s a decline of more than 70% from the national peak of 3.4 million shots per day administered in April, according to a Washington Post analysis.

The slowdown is nationwide, but states in the South and Midwest report plummeting numbers. In Alabama, only 4 people per 10,000 residents got vaccinated last week.

According to the analysis, 13 states have met Biden’s goal, and another 15 states, and Washington D.C., have vaccinated well over 60% of their adult populations and are forecasted to meet the Fourth of July goal.

But in 15 states, about half of adults or fewer have received at least one dose, according to a New York Times analysis.

Source: US COVID-19 vaccination rates drop to under 1 million a day | CIDRAP