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

Covid-19 Live Updates: C.D.C. Urges Americans to Avoid Thanksgiving Travel – The New York Times

The agency’s overriding concern is that the holidays may accelerate the spread of the virus, C.D.C. officials said. Older family members are at great risk for complications and death should they contract the virus.

New concerns about the virus have been reflected in air travel plans. United Airlines said recently that it expected Thanksgiving week to be its busiest period since the pandemic’s onset, but on Thursday it reported that bookings had slowed and cancellations had risen in recent days. American Airlines has slashed December flights between the United States and Europe as cases rise sharply on both sides of the Atlantic.

El Paso is fighting the coronavirus and Texas officials | The Texas Tribune

New medical tents set up at University Medical Center of El Paso hospital due to the huge spike in active COVID-19 cases (11… After a plea for help from the Texas Army National Guard to help at the overflowing morgues, Gov. Greg Abbott, who serves as commander-in-chief of Texas military forces, said the guard was available but first directed El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego to use county resources. The governor has also spoken out against the county’s now-halted shutdown of nonessential businesses. Attorney General Ken Paxton slammed Samaniego for the order, calling the judge a tyrant trying to kill small businesses and holiday gatherings. Source: El Paso is fighting the coronavirus and Texas officials | The Texas Tribune

6 supermoćnih pečuraka

6 super powerful mushrooms

Myrela

  • REIŠI – Poznatija i kao hrastova sjajnica (Ganoderma lucidum) je gljiva koja ima sposobnost da stimuliše imuni sistem, ali i da ga fino podešava (imunomodulator). Reiši sadrži polisaharide i triterpene, enzime koji povećavaju broj crvenih krvnih zrnaca i tako pomažu tijelu da se izbori protiv bolesti. Reiši pomaže tijelu da se prilagodi na razne vrste stresa: temperatura, povrede, lišavanje sna, trovanje, zračenje, infekcije, pa i psihološki stres. Ova gljiva vrlo je bezbjedna za upotrebu i ne pokazuje neželjena dejstva.

  • Ćuranov rep – Povećava opšti imunitet organizma, djeluje antivirusno i poboljšava stanje kod lošeg apetita, zamora, slabosti i depresivnog stanja. Ćuranov rep koristi se u tradicionalnoj medicini Dalekog istoka kao zdrava hrana u obliku praška, čaja ili u kapsulama. S obzirom na tvrdu konzistenciju gljive, najčešća je upotreba u obliku čaja. Ćuranov rep je slatkastog ukusa, blago povećava energiju i ojačava dušu (popravlja raspoloženje). Njegovo djelovanje dokazano je i kod dijabetesa…

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Defining Your ‘COOL’

quotidian

“Being Cool is being your own self,not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.”

I read this quote in a magazine long back. Yes, the time when social media and meme culture did not exist and hence the magazines. I belong to the time where we loved Bryan Adam’s summers, Shakira’s hips never lied and Enrique was our ‘hero’. We listened to sad and broken women singing barely comprehensible words about flashlights and feeling their way around in the dark. Then there were these quintessential bad boys with jeans so low, their behinds would advertise their underwear brand. And of course, the accompanying finger show was cemented as a part of our cultural lexicon. All that because everyone wanted to be cool.

The most popular teens weren’t usually the ones with well adjusted personalities, kind natures, and sensible life goals. They were the ones partying too much…

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Big spike in new cases in OC — ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE (California)

NEW CASES of coronavirus in Orange County were up to 628 in Wednesday’s report (Shutterstock/Mongkolchan). The count of new coronavirus cases in Orange County spiked again in Wednesday’s report by the county health agency. The latest tally was 628, up from 352 on Tuesday. Wednesday’s death count was two, compared to zero the previous two days.…

Big spike in new cases in OC — ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE

‘Thanksgiving could be a massive superspreader event,’ RI doctor says

Dr. Laura Forman, chief of emergency medicine at Rhode Island’s Kent Hospital, said healthcare professionals are “really concerned” about Thanksgiving, and that it could be a “massive superspreader event” The positivity rate in Rhode Island is now at 5.9%, according to the state’s Department of Health. “Our cases are increasing so rapidly here, we literally today are making plans to put refrigerated trucks for morgue space outside of our hospitals and field hospitals,” said Dr. Forman. Emergency room doctors said they are worried about the toll the pandemic is taking on healthcare workers

Source: ‘Thanksgiving could be a massive superspreader event,’ RI doctor says

Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with white nationalists to commission that preserves Holocaust memorials

Jewish groups expressed dismay at news of Beattie’s appointment. “It’s appalling that someone who was considered too close to xenophobic white nationalists to continue working in the Trump White House would now be appointed to a U.S. government body focused largely on the preservation of sites dedicated to the memory of Holocaust victims,” said Logan Bayroff, communications director for J Street, a progressive Jewish lobbying organization.

“It should be obvious that those who traffic in hatred of immigrants and refugees are the last people on earth who should be entrusted with honoring the victims of Nazis,” Bayroff went on to say.

The Anti-Defamation League, which was founded to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred, called on Trump to “immediately rescind” the appointment. “It is absolutely outrageous that someone who has consorted with racists would even be considered for a position on a commission devoted to preserving Holocaust memorials in Europe,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in a statement.

Source: Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with white nationalists to commission that preserves Holocaust memorials

Republican mayor from Michigan: ‘President Trump is deliberately lying to Americans’ – mlive.com

STERLING HEIGHTS, MI — The Republican mayor of Michigan’s 4th largest city is speaking out against President Donald Trump and attempts by fellow Republicans to undermine the legitimacy of the election results. In a Facebook message posted Wednesday, Sterling Heights Mayor Michael Taylor said the president knows he has lost the election and that his “temper tantrums” should be condemned by all “patriotic Americans.”Source: Republican mayor from Michigan: ‘President Trump is deliberately lying to Americans’ – mlive.com

No, Trump did not win in Nevada. – The New York Times

There was no sign of “large-scale” voter discrepancies, said Lisa Mayo-DeRiso, campaign manager for Stavros Anthony, the Republican, who will now compete in the special election for the Clark County commission seat against Ross Miller, the Democrat, who led the first election by 10 votes.

“It’s not an accurate statement,” she said of the president’s claim that Clark County officials did not have confidence in the election’s security. “We have not had any problems or difficulties with the Clark County Election Department.”

GOP Maricopa County Board Chair Says ‘No Evidence’ of Election Fraud | Phoenix New Times

With the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors expected to soon certify the November election results, Republican Board Chair Clint Hickman says that there is “no evidence of fraud or misconduct or malfunction.”

Hickman is one of the handful of local Republicans who have forcefully pushed back on the false claims of fraud as President Donald Trump refuses to concede to Democratic president-elect Joe Biden, and many state GOP elected officials continue to peddle in baseless conspiracy theories about a rigged election. The letter also comes amidst calls by other local Republicans to investigate the election results in Maricopa County and a battery of flimsy lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign alleging shoddy election administration.

The letter, made public on November 17, was addressed to “Maricopa County voters.” Hickman wrote that while the Board “considered many theories” about the election results, “none of these theories have proven true or raised the possibility the outcome of the election would be different.”

Source: GOP Maricopa County Board Chair Says ‘No Evidence’ of Election Fraud | Phoenix New Times