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Nguyễn Thái Bình | YOU WON’T BE HOME FOR THE NEW YEAR (5) — SONGNGUTAITRAM

Nguyễn Thái Bình, a Vietnamese poet from Phan Thiet, Vietnam. — Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

Nguyễn Thái Bình | YOU WON’T BE HOME FOR THE NEW YEAR (5) — SONGNGUTAITRAM

Florida breaks another record for COVID-19 cases | TheHill

The state reported 31,758 cases to the Centers for Disease Control database on Thursday. The previous high was 27,669 in August when the delta variant swept the state.

The statewide positivity rate rose to 13.8 percent for the week, up from 5.3 percent the week prior.

Florida had its largest single-day spike in cases earlier this week, another illustration of how the new variant has hit the United States hard.

Source: Florida breaks another record for COVID-19 cases | TheHill

No meat please, we’re British: now a third of us approve of vegan diet | Veganism | The Guardian

Vegan lunch table top view. Baked vegetables, fresh salad, berries, bread on a white background. When the term “vegan” was first coined, even vegetarians believed it was a fringe lifestyle. But the image of vegans as eccentric ascetics is now itself a marginal view.

More than a third of people in the UK are interested in becoming vegan, according to a new poll which indicates that the number of people eating a plant-based diet has soared in the last two years. Thirty-six per cent of UK adults believe eating a vegan or plant-based diet is “an admirable thing to do”, the YouGov survey found.

Source: No meat please, we’re British: now a third of us approve of vegan diet | Veganism | The Guardian