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

Maču Pikču, Peru – Machu Picchu, Peru — Myrela

U ljeto 1988. godine, u šumama oko Maču Pikčua bijesnio je požar koji je uništio 4.050 hektara vegetacije i ugrozio mnoge lokalne životinjske vrste, a zahvatio je i rubove ruševina. Ta najveća ekološka katastrofa u istoriji Perua pogoršala je ionako osjetljiv ekološki sistem u veličanstvenoj dolini Urubamba, ugrožen razvojem turizma, nedostatkom sredstava i slabom kontrolom […]

Maču Pikču, Peru – Machu Picchu, Peru — Myrela

A Little Girl’s Dreams – #poetry #NaPoWriMo

Night Owl Poetry - Dorinda Duclos


In a dream, she sails

To faraway places

Hoping, at last

To find out what space is

A bag fully packed

She reaches for the sky

Balloons, shaped like planets

Will help her to fly

A billion stars fill the night

Oh! How they shine!

A little girl and her dreams

How I wish they were mine…

©2021 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
Image by Ajay kumar Singh from Pixabay

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A Rare Indulgence

New research suggests that a cup of cocoa each day can protect the cardiovascular system from the debilitating effects of stress.

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It’s rare that the medical research community finds an indulgence that might actually be good for you.

New research suggests that a cup of cocoa each day can protect the cardiovascular system from the debilitating effects of stress.

The body reacts physically to emotional stress as well as physical threats. Typical reactions include an increase in heart rate (number of heartbeats per minute), increase in blood pressure, and dilation of arteries to handle the increase in blood flow.

If there are any latent weaknesses in the cardiovascular system, stress events can trigger major problems, including heart attack and stroke. A break in an artery wall in the wrong place in the body can be fatal. Any major event while driving can have fatal results.

Endothelial cells line the walls of blood vessels. Breakdown in endothelial cell function is often a precursor of a variety of heart and vascular diseases.

Flavanols…

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Tasmanijska divljina, Australija – Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia — Myrela

Holandska Istočnoindijska kompanija 1642. godine opremila je ekspediciju na čelu sa Abelom Janzonom Tasmanom koja je trebalo da odredi veličinu i položaj Nove Gvineje, kako se vjerovalo, ogranka ogromne i mitske Ptolemejeve Južne zemlje (Terra Australis). Ekspedicija je napustila Javu u avgustu, otkrila ostrvo koje je Tasman nazvao Van Dimenova zemlja (po upravniku kompanije), a […]

Tasmanijska divljina, Australija – Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia — Myrela

Finally, some honesty about Afghanistan | The Weekly Sift

I feel the same about Afghanistan today, after nearly 20 years of war. Whatever our original intentions might have been, by now it’s clear that we’re not building a secular, democratic, pro-Western government that will someday be strong enough to stand on its own.

There’s a lesson here, and it’s the same lesson we should have learned from Vietnam: In order to install a new form of government in a country, people on the ground have to be buying what you’re selling. As The Boston Globe’s H. D. S. Greenway puts it: In both Vietnam and Afghanistan

our clients could never shake the impression that they were puppets fighting for foreigners, while the Viet Cong and the Taliban were able to present themselves as the true patriots fighting to rid their country of colonialism.

Source: Finally, some honesty about Afghanistan | The Weekly Sift

Daniel Ek Biography, Net Worth – PeoPlaid Profile – Spotify

Daniel Ek

In late 2006, Daniel partnered with Tradedoubler’s cofounder Martin Lorentzon to form Spotify AG. They intended the company to offer music online to subscribers for free provided that visual or audio advertisement is allowed. However, the subscriber can choose to pay $5 or $10 a month for the service without any advertisement.

Initially, the service was not enthusiastically welcome by music producers because the license fee was very cheap compared with other music service providers such as Apple’s itunes. However, Daniel and his men patiently worked with them instead of against them. He promised to eliminate music piracy due to the low-cost alternative.
The legal music streaming website was launched in 2008. Since then, millions of subscribers lined up to the service and investors opened their wallets to become part of the startup. It has accumulated over 18 million songs in its database and still growing.

Source: Daniel Ek Biography, Net Worth – PeoPlaid Profile

B.C. encouraging anyone 18+ to register for COVID-19 vaccine this week | Globalnews.ca

It will likely still be weeks or months before most younger adults get their COVID-19 vaccine, but the province is calling on them to register for their shot this week.

The province’s online booking portal already allows anyone to register, but the province had been urging people to wait their turn in order to reduce pressure on the system.

Source: B.C. encouraging anyone 18+ to register for COVID-19 vaccine this week | Globalnews.ca

🇺🇸Donna Summer — 音楽好き仲間

she’s a disco queen🎵 but , she left a lot in the dance scene, her song is a soulful and erotic voice, 🎵love to love you baby, this song is a exactly like that, Giorgio Moroder . his achievements as a music producer are great, Album- once upon a time,🎵I love you, she also expresses […]

🇺🇸Donna Summer — 音楽好き仲間

Fauci on mask usage: Vaccinated people can still ‘inadvertently infect’ others | TheHill

“[W]hat happens is that you might get infected and get absolutely no symptoms, not know you’re infected, and then inadvertently go into a situation with vulnerable people. And if you don’t have a mask, you might inadvertently infect them,” he said, adding that there was a “small risk” of such a situation occurring.

“[W]hen you get vaccinated you are clearly diminishing dramatically your risk of getting infected. That’s one of the things we’ve got to make sure everybody understands. You dramatically diminish it,” Fauci added.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines currently recommend that vaccinated Americans continue wearing masks in public, though the agency says that vaccinated people congregating exclusively with others who have received the vaccine can do so safely without a mask. Attending “medium or large gatherings” with or without a mask is also still not recommended.

Source: Fauci on mask usage: Vaccinated people can still ‘inadvertently infect’ others | TheHill