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

6 Ways To Lift A Friend’s Spirits – Invisibly Me

It’s hard when a friend, online or offline, is having a hard time. Maybe they’re struggling at the moment and feeling down, and you don’t know what to do to help. While things aren’t as easy during the pandemic, there are things you can do remotely unless you’re able to see that person safely in person. Here’s a look at 6 ways to lift a friend’s spirits & show them you care. Source: 6 Ways To Lift A Friend’s Spirits – Invisibly Me

COVID and Pregnancy

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

As I’ve written before, COVID is the gift that keeps on giving.

A multinational study compares the experiences of pregnant women who have contracted the virus with pregnant women at the same hospitals who did not have the virus. The results aren’t for the faint of heart:

Compared to their peers, pregnant women with COVID are:

  • 20 times more likely to die.
  • More likely to need ICU care and a ventilator.
  • More likely to have issues with blood pressure (preeclampsia).

In addition, 11.5% of babies born to these mothers tested positive for COVID at birth. The study doesn’t report on what happened to these infected newborns.

On the positive side, the report maintains that pregnant women aren’t more likely to catch COVID than other women. Just when they do, the risks are much higher.

The report also notes that obesity and high blood pressure are contributing factors to severe cases.

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Shwedagon Pagode – “goldenes Herz von Myanmar”

The people of Myanmar have become important to me since I first met them in 1998 on the grounds of the Shwedagon Pagoda. My husband and I have been involved in Myanmar Children’s Aid since 2009. At that time we got to know the founder of the aid organization in Yangon and were able to convince ourselves several times on site of the effectiveness of the organization, which was transferred to the Myanmar Children’s Aid Foundation in 2017. I reported on this in the following article: https://seniorenumdiewelt.wordpress.com/2019/04/12/waisenhaeuser-in-myanmar/

Senioren um die Welt

“Und dann erhob sich ein goldenes Mysterium am Horizont, ein leuchtendes, glänzendes Wunder, das in der Sonne erstrahlte”, so schrieb der englische Literaturnobelpreisträger Rudyard Kipling im Jahr 1898 in seinen “Letters from the East”, als er die Shwedagon Pagode das erste Mal erblickte. “Es hatte weder die Halbkugelform moslemischer noch die Turmform hinduistischer Tempelbauten. Es stand auf einem grünen Hügel. ´Das ist die alte Shway Dagon‘, sagte mein Gefährte, ‘dies ist Burma – und es wird wie kein anderes Land sein, das du kennst‘“.

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Mr. I know it all

Lyrical smile

You choose to be selfish you see.

You govern us every time but you never get satisfied with it.

You care about your own damn life for you never considered us a family.

“We have always been a headache of yours” this is what you like to put everytime when you say you care about us but not enough to give a damn about how we feel.

The ego in your veins has eaten everything inside you, once you set your mind to go you never turn back at us.

You are happy in your own world with the arrogance of ‘I know it all’ but know nothing about how ideal you could be to me.

I ponder if I weren’t to be related to you by blood then who would I refer to you as. I wouldn’t even hate you even then for I would have to manage a…

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Kiwis Over the Pacific

Pacific Paratrooper

Flight Officer, Geoff Fisken

During early World War II operations in the Pacific, Geoff Fisken would become one of the most outstanding pilots of the RNZAF—the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Fisken was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, in 1918, and during the 1930s he learned to fly a de Havilland Gypsy Moth biplane. In 1939, Fisken was working for a farmer in Masterton, and at the outbreak of war in Europe he volunteered for flying duty.  In October 1941, as the threat of war with Japan was increasing, No. 67 Squadron was moved to Mingaladon, Burma, but Fisken was posted instead to No. 243 Squadron RAF.

With the Japanese attacks across East Asia and the western Pacific on December 8, 1941, No. 243 Squadron was assigned to defend the Royal Navy’s Force Z––the battleship HMS Prince of Walesand battlecruiser HMS Repulse. Two days later the British warships…

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A Tad Of Snark … Well, Maybe More Than A Tad

Filosofa's Word

I have a bit of snarky in my fingertips tonight, it seems.  But, I shall start with what I consider the positive news …


The President is doing okay …

Overall, President Biden’s approval rating is quite good, all things considered.  Especially when compared to the last guy … Today, Biden’s approval rating stands at 53.8% per an aggregate of polls … a number never once reached by the former guy in four years, and in fact his highest at any point was 45.5%.  Check out two recent polls … NBC and CBS respectively …

And even Fox ‘News’ has Biden with a 54% approval rating!

What is it, exactly, that people approve of?  He gets the highest marks for things related to his handling of the pandemic, such as vaccine rollout and the pandemic relief package.  His lowest rankings are on immigration, as was to be expected, given the…

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