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

5th Day of November – Fat Cow Co 2013 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe

2013 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe

The Mars Orbiter Mission, also called Mangalyaan is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5th November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

Source: 5th Day of November – Fat Cow Co

New Massachusetts Coronavirus Restrictions Start Friday – CBS Boston

The new state guidelines include everyone over the age of 5 must now wear a mask in public even when you’re six feet away from others; staying at home between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., unless you’re traveling for work or to the grocery store; and limiting gatherings to ten people inside and 25 people outside. Some businesses will be required to close by 9:30 p.m. including gyms, casinos, liquor stores, movie theaters, zoos and museums. Restaurants will be allowed to stay open past 9:30 p.m. but only for takeout. Indoor and outdoor events at homes must also end by 9:30 p.m. As of last week, 121 communities in Massachusetts are now considered high risk for coronavirus.

Source: New Massachusetts Coronavirus Restrictions Start Friday – CBS Boston

Florida’s daily COVID-19 cases trending up: A look behind the numbers

According to data from the Florida Department of Health, the Sunshine State’s percent positivity gradually rose from 3.91% on October 4 to 7.75% in November 4’s report.

In October, daily case totals were in the 1,000 – 2,000 range. The state reported 4,400 new cases Wednesday.

What’s driving it?

In the fall, there have been Stanley Cup celebrations, more students have gone back to school, and possibly general fatigue with COVID-19 precautions come into play.

Experts say a spike was bound to happen.

Source: Florida’s daily COVID-19 cases trending up: A look behind the numbers

Ca o duminică de Paști

In the Yucatan Peninsula, at Uxmal, I spent a few hours,

ore de drum

Uxmal, 2019

În peninsula Yucatan, la Uxmal, am petrecut câteva ore,

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într-o amiază caniculară,

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printre vestigiile mayașe încărcate de o energie neobișnuită.

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Între secolele 7-10, aici a fost o cetate înfloritoare,

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abandonată, apoi, în mod inexplicabil.

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La sfârșitul secolului 10, nu mai rămăsese nici țipenie.

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Jungla joasă și impenetrabilă a fost defrișată doar în incinta construcțiilor.

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Din marginea sitului, zărești doar liziera de unde te poți scufunda în hătișul vegetației.

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Orașul a fost edificat sub patronajul unui cuplu divin: Chaac, zeul apei și Venus, planeta ploii și a vântului.

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Pentru ploaie și prosperitate, era nevoie de ofrande din belșug.

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Stilul Puuc, caracterizat de fațade lungi împodobile liniar cu figurile geometrizate ale zeilor, îl văd reprodus pe toate obiectele comerciale din artizanatul maya,

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confecționate de actuala comunitate mayașă, care își păstrează tradițiile, dialectul și demnitatea.

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Numele Puuc se referă la acest ansamblu de coline și la stilul construcțiilor, mai cu seamă…

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Merchandise Love – The Value the white people give the Gold they covet so much

Barbara Crane Navarro

photo: Yanomami: shamanic transformation – Barbara Crane Navarro

As the Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa says in his book “The Falling Sky”:                     “Today there are not many great shamans left in our forest. The gold smoke of epidemics nearly completely emptied it.Our fathers and our grandfathers did not trust the white people and had always feared their epidemic fumes. They did not know that they had come to mark the edges of Brazil in the middle of our land. They never imagined that later these people’s children and grandchildren would come back in large numbers to dig gold from the rivers. 

They never thought that these outsiders would one day chase them from their homes to take their land! Then the xawara epidemics arrive in their footsteps and we immediately start dying one after another! We are the few inhabitants of…

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Justice Dept.: Armed Agents Are Allowed to Oversee Ballot-Counting Venues – The New York Times – Tin-pot, 2-bit dictator tactics!

The email created the specter of the federal government intimidating local election officials or otherwise intervening in vote tallying amid calls by President Trump to end the tabulating in states where he was trailing in the presidential race, former officials said.

law prohibits the stationing of armed federal officers at polls on Election Day. But a top official told prosecutors that the department interpreted the statute to mean that they could send armed federal officers to polling stations and locations where ballots were being counted anytime after that.

The statute “does not prevent armed federal law enforcement persons from responding to, investigate, or prevent federal crimes at closed polling places or at other locations where votes are being counted,” the official, Richard P. Donoghue, told prosecutors in an email that he sent around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

Department of Health Provides Update on COVID-19: 2,795 Additional Positives Bring Statewide Total to 217,666

The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., November 4, that there were 2,795 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 217,666. Daily increases are now the highest they have ever been since the start of the pandemic. Source: Department of Health Provides Update on COVID-19: 2,795 Additional Positives Bring Statewide Total to 217,666