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Malaria surges in the Amazon as wildcat mining devours Indigenous land | The Japan Times

Malaria cases among Yanomami Indigenous people living in the Brazilian Amazon have risen more than 700% over the past decade as illegal gold mining intensifies in the world’s largest rainforest, health researchers say.

Miners leave behind gaping craters in the ground as they clear huge tracts of forest, creating ideal conditions for the spread of malaria, a disease carried by mosquitoes that thrive in standing water, said Paulo Basta, an epidemiologist specializing in Indigenous health.

Gold mining also destroys other plants, scares off wildlife and contaminates the soil and rivers with mercury, which is used to separate gold from other minerals, said Basta, who is also a senior researcher at leading Brazilian biomedical research center Fiocruz.

“This process affects the balance of the local ecosystem, creating favorable conditions for the proliferation of mosquito-transmitted diseases,” he said.

Source: Malaria surges in the Amazon as wildcat mining devours Indigenous land | The Japan Times

Qual é o melhor lugar do mundo para se estar?

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Muita gente adora a ideia de ter alguém para estar junto, namorar, viajar, fazer algo de improviso, compartilhar momentos bons e até aqueles onde o mal- humor se faz presente. É importante ter tudo isso. Faz parte dos nossos processos conhecer e desfrutar da companhia das pessoas, assim como também da companhia de quem se ama.

Quando há um relacionamento verdadeiro, as pessoas vivem de forma segura, ou seja, elas têm inspirações cotidianas que são comuns na vida de um casal, situações como, viver dando gargalhadas, fazendo declarações. Na verdade, você mistura o seu silêncio ao mundo barulhento do outro, e a coisa ganha sentido nisso. Nada escapa aos olhos de quem ama: ciúmes, queixas, atitudes genuínas. Tudo é válido. O amor, simplesmente é uma espécie de emergência onde você não desperdiça tempo, e se desperdiça, faz isso de forma consciente, porque compreende que as pequenas alegrias, é o que…

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Der Mord der Demokratie

Lignes invisibiles

Dieser Text ist die Einführung in ein Thema, das mich wirklich interessiert. Es handelt sich unter anderem um ein soziolinguistisches Thema. Es bezieht sich auf die Relativität von Wörtern aufgrund ihrer Stellung innerhalb der verschiedenen Kulturen oder sozialen Gruppen. Daher wird auch ein Blick auf die Definition von das Wort „Interpretation“ geworfen, die direkt an das Thema anknüpft.

Ich liebe Worte. Ich liebe jedes einzelne Wort. Ich liebe es noch mehr wenn ich versuche die Essenz jedes Wortes zu (re-)konstruieren (den „[Haupt-] Kern“). Dabei handelt es sich um eine Sterilisierung jedes Wortes. Meine „Wort(e)-Rekonstruktion“ gelingt nach einem Prozess der absoluten Neutralität. Farbenblindheit fast. Für andere aber nicht für mich.

Es gibt jedoch Wörter, die nicht einfach nur Wörter sind. Diese Wörter kapseln andere Wörter ein, Begriffe und Ideen. Diese Wörter brauchen eine ganze Gruppe kleinerer Wörter, um in den Vordergrund zu treten und ihre tiefsten Bedeutungen erfolgreich zu vermitteln.

Der…

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Easter Stove Top Bird Nest Cookies — In Dianes Kitchen

Chow Mein Noodles, milk chocolate and peanut butter dropped into a bird’s nest shape and topped with candy eggs makes this the perfect cookie for Easter. The crunchy chow mein noodles with the sweetness of the chocolate and peanut butter flavor was SO GOOD! Adapted from: http://www.TheFrugalGirls.com Cut a large sheet of parchment paper for […]

Easter Stove Top Bird Nest Cookies — In Dianes Kitchen

Infamous Laydeez ~ You Go, Flo!

Troubador of Verse

(This poet has a personal field day with the “Infamous Laydeez” series during Women’s History Month of each year ~ celebrating it in her own typically, um… irreverent style)

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Recorded Poem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n3ims734kmcfmx6/infamous%20laydeez%20~%20you%20go%2C%20flo%21.wav?dl=0

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Infamous Laydeez ~ You Go, Flo!

Little Florence Nightingale
Found herself outside the pale
Of acceptability
At a very early age
Whom squirmy worms did not enrage
Not squealing satisfact’rally
Presented with a slimy snail
Things which never seemed to fail
Other little girls to pale
Most enjoyably

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Paint the City! An open call for concept designs from Kingston Creative

Petchary's Blog

Despite all the pain and sadness, I love my Kingston…Kingston Creative is building momentum again (when did they stop?) and has announced an Open Call for concept designs. The deadline is just two weeks away – Friday, April 15, 2022. Hurry!

There is always hope and resilience. Let it shine!

Charl Baker and her co-painter working on the mural “UBUNTU” (Photo: Dan Thompson)

Kingston Creative has launched an Open Call for visual artists to submit concept designs for the latest leg of “Paint the City.” With the sponsorship from the Tourism Enhancement Fund, a division of the Ministry of Tourism, this will see 10 new murals developed along Water Lane, between Duke Street and East Street.

The goal of Paint the City is to create an Art District in Downtown Kingston, the centrepiece of which is a pedestrianised public art walkway connecting Jamaica’s preeminent cultural anchor institutions: the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ)…

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