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The Medical/Sports Circus

CRAIN'S COMMENTS

From this article, we learn that:

(1) Knowing how to handle a basketball isn’t proof of intelligence, financial expertise or morals, and

(2) Having a medical degree isn’t proof of having common sense.

Why would anyone throw away a career over a few bucks? Massive risk for paltry rewards. Really.

There are 19 people facing jail time over trying to skim an NBA healthcare fund out of roughly $5,000,000. Net of cost and if divided evenly, each participate would net a little over $200,000 from the scheme. That would feed a cocaine or gambling habit for how long?

One is a doctor, one is a dentist, and one is an assistant coach with the Utah Jazz and a former player, while the rest either play or are retired from playing basketball. Of course, by the time this is done, they will be out of work.

The root of this case…

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Die Welt ist Liebe … The world is love

Stella, oh, Stella

Foto: Vit Ducken (Pixabay)

So vielfälftig sind die Wunder der Schöpfung,
dass diese Schöhnheit niemals enden wird.
Die Schöpfung ist hier. Sie ist genau jetzt in dir,
ist es schon immer gewesen.
Die Welt ist ein Wunder. Die Welt ist Magie.
Die Welt ist Liebe. Und sie ist hier, jetzt.
(Cheyenne (?) Weisheit, Quelle: zitate-und-weisheiten.de)

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The wonders of creation are so varied
that this beauty will never end.
Creation is here. It is inside you right now,
always has been.
The world is a wonder. The world is magic.
The world is love. And it is here, now.
(Cheyenne (?) wisdom, source: zitate-und-weisheiten.de)

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Die Welt ist, was wir aus ihr machen …

… The world is the way we make it …

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Zelensky #atozchallenge #Ukraine #fiction

penned in moon dust

The Passage Hotel

“How did you know Zelensky?” I had asked Luda when I first met her at her home in Mariople.

“He grew up next door. When my nephews visit, they played. They became very good friends. Those boys have been together through many things and now war. Do you know his name means ‘famous leader?'”

No I didnt not know the meaning of his name, but it fit. These were the few things I knew about Volodymyr Zelensky who was elected President of Ukraine in 2019:

Volodymyr was born in 1978. Ukrainian was then part of the Soviet Union. After the fall of communism, Zelenskyy co-founded a successful comedy troupe and studied law.

Volodymyr Zelensky had been in the position of President of Ukraine for a few years when Russia attacked on Feb 24. Zelensky grew up under the iron fist of Mother Russia and had no desire…

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Cosacchi russi e cosacchi ucraini

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La regione ucraina della Zaporizhzhia, che vuol dire oltre le rapide in riferimento al fiume Dnepr, sede peraltro di una delle centrali nucleari, è di fatto, insieme alle rive del Don in Russia, la culla dei cosacchi. L’inno nazionale ucraino infatti dice: «Mostreremo, fratelli, che siamo la nazione cosacca». Mito russo per eccellenza e mito letterario per Gogol e Tolstoj, i cosacchi hanno in realtà un ruolo molto più importante nell’identità ucraina che in quella russa.

I cosacchi erano una popolazione seminomade di diversa provenienza che si muoveva a suo piacimento nelle immense pianure a Nord di Mar Nero e Mar Caspio e costituivano una comunità autonoma di guerrieri, a cui si univano avventurieri e servi della gleba in fuga, che eleggeva democraticamente il loro capo, l’atamano o etmano, dal tedesco Hauptmann. Tutte le cariche erano di norma elettive e le questioni più rilevanti erano affrontate dall’assemblea della comunità (

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Stardust

De malinha pronta

Reprise

Photo : Filipa Moreira da Cruz

Where do you go when you are feeling blue?
Does anyone care about you?
Who do you have when you need a hug?
Do you sometimes feel like a real slug?
What if tomorrow never comes?
And the days are all the same?
Close your eyes
No more sentences and lies
Take a deep breath
Your whole body needs a rest
And your soul too
Your friends are just a few
But they will always be there for you.

Filipa Moreira da Cruz

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Parashat Acharei Mot, Mourning, and Caring for Each Other

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     This week’s Torah portion,  Acharei Mot (After the Death of…),  is the 29th (29th/54 or 52, depending on the year: this year, it’s 54…) through the annual cycle, and the 6th parashah in the book of Vayikra/Leviticus.

   This portion deals with preventing tragedies like that of the two sons of Aaron last regular parashah ( Parashat Metzorah), and also lists prohibitions on certain things that now seem pretty obvious, and give us much of our Western Cultural ideas.  For example “the life of the flesh is in the blood,” and not sleeping with your daughter-in-law.  All of these prohibitions suggest a way of reasoning that leads to the idea that caring about others, and for others, is the basis of a functioning society.  From caring for the animals whose lives meat-eaters take in order to feel nourished, to caring for the feelings of those close to our…

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