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

Apologies not Required

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You can advise people but you can’t make them change the course they have chosen. Oxygen is all around us and we breathe it in effortlessly, in the same way the people we love will find their rhythm in life. Exhort your energy on the one person that means the most to you and that’s unapologetically you.

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Jamaican leaders, citizens must “act firmly” on violence against women – enough talk

This is one deeply disconcerting case, since it involves a public servant. However, the global case against the epidemic of gender-based violence – a pandemic – is never closed. I hope our political leaders realize that this is much bigger than the evasive, elusive Member of Parliament and his political future (which frankly I could not care less about). There are also legal and constitutional issues. But I hope that the matter will not be just wished away. For a long time now (and in particular, in this early part of 2021) the issue of violence against women has been as topical and high profile as the COVID pandemic itself – especially after at least two highly publicized femicides (and several others, this year) have deepened the malaise. There are many examples from our not too distant past, also.

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Case closed.

The Jamaica Constabulary Force put out a statement on Friday (April 16th) that it cannot continue investigations into a violent episode that took place in a parking lot ten days earlier, because the two people involved (a man and a woman) are not willing to press complaints. Also, the JCF said, the quality of the video was poor – although all relevant parties seem to have identified the alleged perpetrator (seen in a video beating Ms. Tannisha Singh with a stool) as businessman and “embattled” Member of Parliament, George Wright. Mr. Wright has not been charged.

Mr. Wright has not been particularly cooperative at any stage, but eventually met with the Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party Horace Chang at party headquarters. Their disciplinary committee is now looking into it, and meanwhile Mr. Wright is on leave (I believe, sort of). Other party members (including several women elected…

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Tarachand And The Trembling Tracks

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

Tarachand turned over in his wobbly charpoy. The rickety bamboo bed meshed with handmade jute cord was just strong enough to support his enormous frame, however, it squeaked in protest with every twist and turn that the slumbering hulk made.

At seven-and-a-half feet of stature, the sleeping man’s arms and legs jutted well beyond the confines of the cot on which he lay. Deep in his sleep, he would occasionally place his palm flat on the floor to feel the ground rumble.

The giant had mastered the art of detecting an approaching train just by feeling the floor even in his sleep many miles before the locomotive passed by his ten-by-ten residential quarter cum office provided by the railways, the only dwelling in this wild and remote part of the Chapramari forest in the northeastern confines of India’s West Bengal state.

With the first faint vibration of the approaching locomotive…

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Nacionalni park Serengeti, Tanzanija – Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

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Prema jednoj staroj afričkoj legendi posljednja životinja koju je Bog stvorio bio je gnu – oblikovao ga je spajajući ostatke dijelova tijela drugih životinja. Istina je da gnu (Connochaetes taurinus) – sa svojom prevelikom glavom i prednjim dijelom tijela koji je viši i krupniji od zadnjeg – nije graciozna životinja, posebno u poređenju s ljupkim antilopama koje naseljavaju savanu, ali ipak predstavlja najznačajniju kariku u lancu koji čini ekosistem Serengetija. Sezonska migracija skoro dva miliona gnua – kojoj se može pridružiti 300.000 zebri i drugih antilopa – fenomen je koji fascinira i prirodnjake i laike. Tokom kišne sezone (između decembra i juna), gnui se okupljaju u krateru Ngorongoro gdje se razmnožavaju. A kada trava počne da se suši, oni na sjeveru prelaze veliku ravnicu Serengeti, gdje ih stalni riječni tokovi snabdjevaju hranom neophodnom za njihov opstanak. Kraj novembra je vrijeme za povratak. Seoba traje četiri ili pet dana tokom kojih…

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« In assenza del sacro, tutto è in vendita. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Foresta pluviale lungo il fiume Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro « L’ambiente non è qui. L’ambiente non c’è. Tu sei l’ambiente. » « Quelle che chiamate le vostre risorse naturali, la nostra gente chiama i nostri genitori. » – Oren Lyons, nazione Seneca Dobbiamo adorare di nuovo la foresta, fiumi, cielo – […]

« In assenza del sacro, tutto è in vendita. » — Barbara Crane Navarro

Luang Prabang, Laos – Luang Prabang, Laos

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U drugoj polovini XVI vijeka Lan Sjang, Kraljevstvo milion slonova, vodilo je ogorčenu bitku sa susjednim Sijamom. Ratna sreća okrenula se protiv njega, i kada je zaprijetila opasnost da Sijamci ugroze prijestonicu, kralj Saj Setatirat prebacio je svoje statue Bude u pećinu, nedaleko od grada. U to vrijeme, bilo je rasprostranjeno vjerovanje, da svakoga ko vidi premještanje statua, zadesi zla sudbina. Pak Ou je velika krečnjačka litica što se nadvija nad ušćem rijeke Nam Ou u Mekong (Majka voda). U dvije velike pećine u litici nalazi se preko 4.000 Budinih statuta koje je Saj Setatirat prebacio iz svoje palate. Sve te statue pokloni su vjernika posvećeni uspomeni na kralja i spas zemlje. Luang Prabang se može vidjeti i sa udaljenosti od nekoliko kilometara južno, s velike okuke na rijeci. Legenda kaže da je grad, prvobitno, nazivan Muang Sjua, po imenu njegovog prvog vladara iz VIII vijeka. Godine 1353. kralj Fa…

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11th Airborne graduates Camp MacKall — Pacific Paratrooper

1943 Camp MacKall, 11th Airborne yearbook Smitty had acquired additional postcards to show the people back home what Camp MacKall looked like.  They were in the scrapbook his mother put together and was saved for all these years…. This slideshow requires JavaScript. General Order No. 1 listed the original organic units of the 11th Airborne […]

11th Airborne graduates Camp MacKall — Pacific Paratrooper