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Reflection–Reflexo

Coisas da SIL

Eu vi pelo seu sorrisão
O quanto és feliz de montão.

És feliz pelo seu sim
Também pelo seu não.

És feliz pelo dia
Também pela escuridão.

És feliz pela chuva
Também pelo sol.

És feliz por sentir
Também por sorrir.

És apenas feliz
Es apenas assim.

By: Coisas da SiL

I saw by your smile
How happy you are.

are you happy for your yes
Also for your no.

are you happy for the day
Also by darkness.

are you happy for the rain
Also by the sun.

are you happy to feel
Also for smiling.

you are just happy
It’s just like that.

By: Things from SiL

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Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations continue steady rise in Ohio

Ohio added 26,610 cases of COVID-19 in the last week, making it the second straight week with more than 20,000 cases. In the past three weeks the state is averaging 23,304 cases a week, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

The state recorded 690 hospitalizations and 40 ICU admissions in the past week, up from 550 hospitalizations and 39 ICU admissions the previous week. Ohio’s averaging 550 hospitalizations and 36 ICU admissions a week over the last three weeks, according to ODH.

Source: Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations continue steady rise in Ohio

Social Media – the Prequel

Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, MeWe, Tictok and many more – are they new or just this century’s adaptation of human’s need to talk to people we know as well as anonymously?

Are the pictographs left on rock faces, hillsides and in the deserts of the world social media in slow motion? I think yes, along with many forms of graffiti.

I have a collection of social media examples from the turn of the 19th to 20th century – 1900s – they are penny postcards. In the US, in the early 1900s, the postage for sending a postcard was one cent and for most of the country, you could send one within 100 miles and know that it would arrive within a day, to the other side of the country 2-3 days. That meant, you could have a steady conversation with people you knew and “share” the contents with people in the post office as well – grin.

Greetings for holidays, memories of sights seen, local history, as well as photographs of yourself, friends, family, vacations, jokes, etc traveled first by trucks and bicycles and not much later by air.

People from all over sent cards and collected them as well. Here are some examples:

Grand Union Hotel Saranac Lake, New York 1905
Joe Gans (Right) first African-American World Boxing Association champion – lightweight – defending title in Goldfield, Nevada, 1906
View in Brandon, Vermont 1905
Lake Dunmore Hotel, Brandon, Vermont 1905
1905 Christmas postcard

January 6th Committee — Is It Enough?

The work is unfinished and I hope that additional sessions in August will seal the case for trial and reform.

Filosofa's Word

Tonight is the 8th and last of the scheduled televised hearings of the January 6th committee, although as the committee receives new information, they have noted they may schedule more hearings next month.  I applaud the work of this committee … they have left no stone unturned and despite opposition at many points, they have done an excellent job of tying the pieces together, of telling the story of the attempt to overthrow our government, not only on the day of January 6th, but in the days and weeks before and after.  But will it be enough?  Are enough people paying attention?  Do the people of this nation care?  Frank Bruni, writing for the New York Times, ponders the question in his latest newsletter …


We’re Asking The Jan. 6 Committee To Do The Impossible

By Frank Bruni

Contributing Opinion Writer

The Jan. 6 committee has…

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Exclusive: White House touts 1 million affordable broadband program sign-ups – KTVZ

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to announce Thursday that 1 million American households have signed up for broadband internet credits through the Affordable Connectivity Program — a provision of the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed last year — since the introduction of GetInternet.gov in May.

White House officials are calling it an important milestone and a concrete example of the administration’s efforts to lower costs for Americans amid high inflation. It will take some time for many of the other infrastructure projects funded by the bipartisan bill — new roads and bridges, for example — to come to full fruition due to planning and approval processes and getting shovels in the ground. But the connectivity program is a rare effort yielding nearly immediate and tangible benefits, a critical win the administration can tout ahead of midterm elections this November.

 

Source: Exclusive: White House touts 1 million affordable broadband program sign-ups – KTVZ

New York City COVID-19 cases surge as unvaccinated take the brunt – ABC News

COVID-19 cases are continuing to surge in New York City and unvaccinated residents are bearing the brunt.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that, as of Wednesday, the Big Apple has a seven-day case rate of 369.8 per 100,000, the second-highest rate in the United States, only behind California.

On July 17, New York City recorded a seven-day average of 4,380 cases, 14% higher than the average of 3,828 cases recorded two weeks ago, according to the city’s Department of Health & Mental Hygiene.

 

Source: New York City COVID-19 cases surge as unvaccinated take the brunt – ABC News

Maine seal deaths linked to avian flu prompt federal probe – Portland Press Herald

The deaths of dozens of seals off the coast of Maine has been deemed an “unusual mortality event,” sparking a federal investigation into strandings that appear linked to avian influenza. The seal strandings began in June and 150 have been reported through Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. Most of the seals were found dead. NOAA gave the strandings, which have affected harbor and gray seals, the “unusual” designation on Friday. That authorizes a federal investigation to try to determine the cause and minimize deaths. The U.S. Department of Agriculture already has confirmed that samples from four stranded seals tested positive for avian flu, which has been found in more than 40 states since it was detected in winter 2021. The risk to the public from the occurrence of avian flu in seals is low, but beachgoers should take precautions anyway, NOAA representatives said. “We continue to ask the public not to touch ill, stranded or floating dead seals, to keep pets far away from seals, and to call their local stranding network organization to report live or dead stranded seals,” the agency said in a statement.

Source: Maine seal deaths linked to avian flu prompt federal probe – Portland Press Herald