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Marii Freire Pereira

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Celebremos a vida com felicidade e menos tristeza. Afinal, a audácia se faz presente no ato de sabermos comemorar. Se por acaso, não tiver tantos motivos para festejar, e a tristeza te convidar a chorar, diga-lhe ” Eu aceito, mas no momento conveniente. Agora, a vida me parece uma escola, não posso interromper o meu processo de aprendizado. Quanto mais confrontantes você for, menos tempo terá para as lágrimas.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Long Covid: New Information

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Trial and error is a painful way to learn. It’s expensive, time consuming, and sometimes really painful. That’s why the market research industry exists. It’s better to learn from someone else’s experience than to shoot yourself in the foot.

When there is no relevant experience, than trial and error is what you do. Covid-19 presented one of these “meeting engagements” with the unknown.

New research from Italy indicates that

  1. Long Covid symptoms vary by strain of the virus (original, Alpha, Delta, Omicron) and
  2. Certain treatments used for the disease can actually prolong Long Covid symptoms.

Neither finding should come as a complete surprise, but the second is a bit of a shock.

“The long COVID symptoms we are getting from BA.2 [the “stealth” variant of Omicron] are different from those we saw in Delta, but that is not surprising given that the disease itself is different with BA.2.”

Dr. David…

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Fixing the exodus of restaurant workers: fair pay

Darcy Hitchcock

Restaurants are struggling with an exodus of workers. According to Saru Jayaraman, it’s critical to fix the pay system that was built on racism and gender inequality after the Civil War. A tenth of employees in the US work for far less than the minimum wage.

“The top reason workers don’t want to work in restaurants is because the pay doesn’t work anymore. They can’t afford to work in restaurants anymore. That [Covid] has resulted in the silver lining, where workers are finally standing up for themselves for the first time in 150 years.” — @SaruJayaraman

https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/saru-jayaraman

Restaurants are finding that paying employees a fair wage actually improves their profitability. One Fair Wage provides spreadsheets to determine how to transition to a fair wage. And you can find restaurants who are paying people well at High Road Restaurants. https://www.highroadrestaurants.org/

One Fair Wage isn’t only focused on restaurant workers. There’s a…

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Mandarin Orange Cake

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? The Next Step: Mandarin Orange Cake! For all those gloomy days out there, a taste of sunshine comes to greet you in a naturally sweet cake. Did you realize mandarin oranges don’t only come in a can? Actually, you know them by other names in the produce department: “Halos” and “Cuties”. Sometimes people refer to mandarin oranges as clementines or tangerines. Small world, huh? Whatever you choose to call them, their pretty color and ease in peeling make them a popular choice. This cake recipe is versatile enough to be baked in a muffin tin, miniature bundt molds, or as a single-layer coffeecake. Something else to think about. The sugary glaze tops it all.

MANDARIN ORANGE CAKE

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cup flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

3/4 cup sugar

1/3 cup butter, melted

1 large egg

1/2 teaspoon orange extract

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

zest…

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Good People Doing Good Things — Ari & Marco

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Over the years I have written about many, many good people – some doing small things, others changing lives.  But my favourites are the stories about young people doing good things, for those stories give us hope for the future.  Today I have one such story that I hope you will enjoy … it is the story of a young man – well, two young men actually – with an idea that has led many others to become good people themselves!


I’d like to introduce you to this young man, Ari Schiffmann.  Ari, age 19, is in his second year at Harvard University.  He has taken this semester off and was in San Diego visiting family when one night in late February he attended a demonstration protesting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  Later that night sleep would not come, so he lay awake in bed thinking.

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BUT…Make It Positive

Kaushal Kishore

Last year on this day, father of one of my closest friends had expired due to covid. He was completely devastated. Due to covid outbreak, I couldn’t go personally, but I tried to console him on telephone.

He was inconsolable. All sorts of negative thoughts were coming to his mind. I still remember his words, “People say this too shall pass. Yes, it shall pass, but not for me.”

Anyway, time is the best healer. His bad time has passed. He is now fine. But what is of utmost importance is the negative thinking. It comes at times. Nobody is an exception. But it shouldn’t persist. It changes the way of life. Lord Buddha had said, “Mind is everything. Our life is shaped by our mind. What we think, we become.”

The Law of Attraction (LOA) states that positive thoughts bring positive results into a person’s life, while negative thoughts…

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Il Congresso del Brasile sta accelerando un disegno di legge sul genocidio sul «pacchetto di morte», PL191, per aprire le terre Indigene all’estrazione mineraria, un’attività vietata dalla Costituzione.Secondo i leader Indigeni, «Distruggerà la nostra foresta e contaminerà animali e pesci, così come il nostro suolo sacro e le nostre acque».I popoli indigeni hanno manifestato davanti all’STF (Corte Suprema Federale) a Brasilia chiedendo ai legislatori: «Non legalizzate il furto delle nostre terre e la morte dei nostri bambini!» — Barbara Crane Navarro

In un precedente attacco legale ai diritti dei popoli Indigeni lo scorso anno, il ministro della Corte Suprema del Brasile Edson Fachin ha votato per respingere il  «lasso di tempo» e favore dei diritti dei popoli Indigeni. Fachin ha affermato: «Non c’è certezza giuridica più grande del rispetto della Costituzione», confutando l’argomento ruralista secondo cui […]

Il Congresso del Brasile sta accelerando un disegno di legge sul genocidio sul «pacchetto di morte», PL191, per aprire le terre Indigene all’estrazione mineraria, un’attività vietata dalla Costituzione.Secondo i leader Indigeni, «Distruggerà la nostra foresta e contaminerà animali e pesci, così come il nostro suolo sacro e le nostre acque».I popoli indigeni hanno manifestato davanti all’STF (Corte Suprema Federale) a Brasilia chiedendo ai legislatori: «Non legalizzate il furto delle nostre terre e la morte dei nostri bambini!» — Barbara Crane Navarro

La minería de litio es una ‘amenaza mayor’ para el único refugio de flamencos en Chile — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina — Barbara Crane Navarro

Andrea Fischer 31/03/2022 minería de litio en Chile Flamingos chilenos en el Parque Nacional Torres del Paine. / Fotografía: Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images… 828 more words La minería de litio es una ‘amenaza mayor’ para el único refugio de flamencos en Chile — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

La minería de litio es una ‘amenaza mayor’ para el único refugio de flamencos en Chile — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina — Barbara Crane Navarro