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Panna cotta alle fragole

Ingredienti: panna liquida 1 litro, fragole 500gr, zucchero a velo 150gr, fogli di gelatina 20gr, vaniglia, gelatina di fragole, frutta fresca per guarnire.

Esecuzione: mettere a bagno i fogli di gelatina in acqua fredda.

Portare a bollore la panna con zucchero e vaniglia, unire i fogli di gelatina strizzati, allontanare dal fuoco, mescolare finché saranno perfettamente sciolti e filtrare al colino, il composto ottenuto.

Incorporarvi le fragole frullate, mescolare con cura e versare la crema in uno stampo ad anello o in più stampini monodose.

Metterla a raffreddare in frigorifero per alcune ore finché si sarà rassodata.

Al momento di servire immergere lo stampo o gli stampini in acqua calda, sformare e guarnire con la gelatina di fragole e la frutta fresca tagliata a pezzetti.

Buon appetito

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NE MANQUEZ PAS ce film magique de 38 secondes – “L’ami surprise du garçon Yanomami dans la jungle” ! – S’il vous plaît, soyez un ami, vous aussi, …

Enfants Yanomami, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela Veuillez aider à protéger les forêts, les rivières, la faune et la vie des Yanomami et des autres…

NE MANQUEZ PAS ce film magique de 38 secondes – “L’ami surprise du garçon Yanomami dans la jungle” ! – S’il vous plaît, soyez un ami, vous aussi, …

CANTO SAGRADO DA MÃE TERRA – TRIBO FULNI-Ô, edição de imagens MOACIR SILVEIRA — Existe Guarani em São Paulo

CANTO SAGRADO DA MÃE TERRA – TRIBO FULNI-Ô, edição de imagens MOACIR SILVEIRA – Moacir Silveira “Canto Sagrado da Mãe Terra” pelos índios da tribo …

CANTO SAGRADO DA MÃE TERRA – TRIBO FULNI-Ô, edição de imagens MOACIR SILVEIRA — Existe Guarani em São Paulo

Deforestation-neutral mining? Madagascar study shows it can be done, but it’s complicated

  • he Ambatovy mine in Madagascar achieved no net forest loss by curbing deforestation in its biodiversity offsets, an analysis in the journal Nature Sustainability concluded.
  • Project developers create biodiversity offsets, sites where they undertake conservation work, to make up for environmental destruction caused by their extractive operations.
  • Ambatovy, which operates an open-pit nickel mine in Madagascar, carved out four biodiversity offsets to make up for biodiversity loss in its mining site, located in the species-rich eastern rainforest of the island nation.
  • By slowing deforestation in these four offsets, the mine made up for forest loss in its mining concession; however, there isn’t enough data to ascertain how the measures impacted biodiversity, and previous research indicates that the mine’s offsets reduced impoverished communities’ access to forest resources. 

Source: Deforestation-neutral mining? Madagascar study shows it can be done, but it’s complicated

Counting the global COVID-19 dead – The Lancet

Excess deaths are a proxy for the mortality effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The key assumption is that increases in all-cause mortality during peak weeks of COVID-19 compared to pre-pandemic periods are nearly all due to the infection, even if SARS-CoV-2 infection was not confirmed. The validity of this method is supported in part by documenting modest reductions (negative excess) in overall mortality in selected east Asian countries that effectively prevented the original wave from March to June, 2020.

The difference of 3 million deaths across the three models is far from trivial. However, given that WHO imprimatur carries substantial influence on countries, a more relevant question is whether WHO estimates are credible. About half of WHO’s estimate is derived from observed data, the other half from modelled data. IHME combines six different approaches and applies complex methods to create estimates for various countries. Yet IHME’s method yields implausibly narrow uncertainty intervals. The Economist applies machine learning, using many covariates, and has appropriately wider uncertainty intervals; like WHO, it makes its model fully open source. In high-income countries, much of the discrepancy between excess and reported COVID-19 deaths occurred during the first viral wave, from March to June, 2020, when SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 deaths swept through nursing homes. Italy, for example, has robust and rapid reporting of COVID-19 deaths, and WHO estimated 161 000 excess deaths, as did Italian researchers.

By contrast, IHME

and The Economist estimated 259 000 deaths and 192 000 deaths, respectively. That at least 9 million COVID-19 deaths were missed by official reports raises a few key issues.

Source: Counting the global COVID-19 dead – The Lancet

Shanghai’s life-saving efforts against the current omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic – The Lancet

As of May 4, 2022, among the 503 people who died with or from COVID-19, only 25 patients had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccination rate for the deceased patients was only 4·97%. If no strict public health measures were taken, such as large scale viral nucleic acid and antigen screening, quarantine of infected cases and close contacts in shelter hospitals and hotels, respectively, and lockdown of districts with severe outbreak, the number of severe to critical cases and the resultant death toll could be high among the older people without vaccination. The strict and comprehensive pandemic control strategies in Shanghai are therefore actually to reduce the number of people infected and to provide early diagnosis and appropriate treatment for severe COVID-19 so that the case fatality rate can be minimised, and to buy time for full vaccination coverage. Source: Shanghai’s life-saving efforts against the current omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic – The Lancet