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Silent strike empties streets in Myanmar on anniversary of coup | Myanmar | The Guardian

Source: Silent strike empties streets in Myanmar on anniversary of coup | Myanmar | The Guardian

WHO warns of rising COVID-19 deaths | CIDRAP (Me: Politicians want it to be over or normal but it is not over and we have a new normal… caution-mask up until everyone is vaccinated!)

Circulation still intense, raising fatalities

At a briefing today, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said since Omicron was first detected 10 weeks ago, nearly 90 million more COVID-19 cases have been reported to the WHO, more than the total for 2020.

In the wake of the avalanche of cases, officials are now tracking a very worrying rise in deaths, he said. “We’re concerned that a narrative has taken hold in some countries that because of vaccines, and because of Omicron’s high transmissibility and lower severity, preventing transmission is no longer possible, and no longer necessary. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

After today’s briefing, Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD, the WHO’s technical lead for COVID-19, said on Twitter that last week more than 63,337 people died from COVID-19. And though some may be ready to move on from the pandemic, those who have died and the families they left behind cannot, she added.

“I know everyone wants to get back to ‘normal,’ but this level of intense circulation and death is not ‘normal.’ It’s not a global situation that should be accepted nor tolerated when we have the tools to change the course of this pandemic,” she said.

Source: WHO warns of rising COVID-19 deaths | CIDRAP

Jealousy is mental cancer

Saania's diary - reflections, learnings, sparkles

Jealousy. I have touched on this topic before but feel an unsettling urge to dwell on it a little deeper. Recently, I have been jealous of someone at school, for reasons we can talk about later, but the point is: it turned me into a green-eyed monster!

I despise this feeling. Every bit of it. But I can’t help but envy her. As I analyze this emotion, there is one thing that becomes clear…

We live in the age of envy. Human beings have always felt what Aristotle defined in the fourth century BC as pain at the sight of another’s good fortune, stirred by “those who have what we ought to have”. It is true, I feel innately uncomfortable about this girl’s great accomplishments even though I don’t want to feel this way one bit.

However, I recently came across the Growth Mindset. When we have a…

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Justice Department’s False Claims Act Settlements and Judgments Exceed $5.6 Billion in Fiscal Year 2021 | OPA | Department of Justice

The Justice Department obtained more than $5.6 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2021, Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton of the Justice Department’s Civil Division announced today. This is the second largest annual total in False Claims Act history, and the largest since 2014. Settlement and judgments since 1986, when Congress substantially strengthened the civil False Claims Act, now total more than $70 billion. Source: Justice Department’s False Claims Act Settlements and Judgments Exceed $5.6 Billion in Fiscal Year 2021 | OPA | Department of Justice

Day 65/67: Five Month GED, Parabolas, and Public Libraries

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Parabolas, always exponential, describe falling, thrown, (or ?) objects: symmetry is … symmetrical.

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–Clearly, a library at each campus of each Adult /Continuing Education site would be helpful, as well as quiet study cubicles, for those with no place to study at home.

Continuing to learn, and helping others continue to learn, helps our society, so I am posting these lesson plans in the hope of helping others to help themselves to learn, whether one has yet to finish High School, or merely wants a refresher.

But, the fun parabola question is: will this space tour transportation (rocket) travel in the form of a parabola on the way to and from the Space Station?  Babylon 5, we’re almost there! 

Axiom Space said three private individuals and a former NASA astronaut will fly aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule for an eight-day stay on the station.

 

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Things That Make Me Scratch My Head 🤷

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The U.S. has a LOT of problems right now:  our democratic principles were very nearly shredded on January 6th 2021;  racism and homophobia are on the rise as is violent behaviour; the gun culture is out of control with more than 2 million guns being sold in a single month; there is zero cooperation between the two sides of the congressional aisle, thus NOTHING is being accomplished for We the People; hatred is on the rise in our society with people attacking store clerks, airline personnel and each other for no good reason; a pandemic is killing around 2,000 people in this country per day; Putin is threatening to start a new World War with his troop buildup on Russia’s border with Ukraine; and the list goes on.  But guess what the hot topic today is among some?  Cartoon character Minnie Mouse’s new attire.  Yep, you heard me…

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Life by Vipul Vij

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Life

by Vipul Vij
site: https://medium.com/@vij_vipul

O’ life
let me hold you
in comfort of my arms
in warmth of my heart
in dreams in my eyes
in pleasurable & painful sighs
in boundless love ties
in all frames of mind
in each moment of time;

I know
one day, I will die
but hold on to me
and let me feel alive.

@Vipul Vij

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