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AMÉRICA LATINA: CONQUISTA y COLONIZACIÓN — Revista Umbrales Uruguay — mimismo

Barbara Crane Navarro

Una ocupación que mató a 60 millones de americanos en poco más de un siglo. El sacerdote español Fernando Bermudez Lopez ha estado 30 años misionero en Guatemala y México y es profesor universitario de Historia de la Iglesia en América Latina. Recientemente hubo un rechazo del rey de España para pedir perdón por los[…][…]

AMÉRICA LATINA: CONQUISTA y COLONIZACIÓN — Revista Umbrales Uruguay — mimismo

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Projekt Wöchentliche Fotochallenge #33 “Landschaft”

Vivaldi translation of first two paragraphs: This week Roland from “Royusch-Unterwegs” invited to show a photo on the topic of “landscape”. I chose the image of one of the unique natural wonders of the earth, which shows the landscape of the subtropical rainforest with the waterfalls of Iguazú. The falls lie in the middle of the twin national parks of Argentina and Brazil in a magnificent landscape that is nowhere else in this way. That is why the two national parks, the Argentine “Parque Nacional Iguazú” and the Brazilian “Parque Nacional do Iguaçu”, also belong together to the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The waterfalls are located on the border between the Brazilian state of Paraná and the Argentine province of Misiones. They arise from the fact that the Rio Iguazú in southern Brazil flows over a basalt plateau, which ends abruptly before the confluence with the Rio Paraná. In the language of the Tupi Guarani Indians, the name means “large water”, which is quite justified given the more than 250 individual waterfalls, which plunge down into two steps over a length of 2700 m and a height of sometimes over 80 meters is.

Senioren um die Welt

In dieser Woche hat Roland von „Royusch-Unterwegs“ dazu eingeladen, ein Foto zum Thema “Landschaft” zu zeigen. Ich habe dafür das Bild eines der einzigartigen Naturwunder der Erde gewählt, das die Landschaft des subtropischen Regenwalds mit den Wasserfällen von Iguazú zeigt. Die Fälle liegen inmitten der Zwillings-Nationalparks von Argentinien und Brasilien in einer grandiosen Landschaft, die es in dieser Art sonst nirgendwo gibt. Deshalb gehören die beiden Nationalparks, der argentinische “Parque Nacional Iguazú” und der brasiliansiche ,”Parque Nacional do Iguaçu”, auch gemeinsam zum UNESCO-Weltnaturerbe.


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Covid: Lateral flow tests more accurate than first thought, study finds – BBC News

When the researchers used a new formula for calculating the test’s accuracy, they found LFTs were more than 80% effective at detecting any level of Covid-19 infection and likely to be more than 90% effective at detecting who is most infectious when they use the test.

This is much higher than previously thought, they say, adding that rapid tests are “a very useful public health tool” for stopping the spread of the virus.

Prof Michael Mina, from Harvard School of Public Health, also part of the research team, said the LFTs could “catch nearly everyone who is currently a serious risk to public health” when viral loads are at their peak.

“It is most likely that if someone’s LFT is negative but their PCR is positive, then this is because they are not at peak transmissible stage,” he said.

Source: Covid: Lateral flow tests more accurate than first thought, study finds – BBC News

APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Democratic Republic of the Congo starts Ebola vaccination

Democratic Republic of Congo, October 13, 2021/APO Group/ —

Ebola vaccination began today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu Province where a case was confirmed on 8 October. People at high risk, including contacts of the confirmed case and first responders will receive the doses as the health authorities move to curb the spread of the virus.

The confirmed case was a two-year old boy who died on 6 October in a local health facility. He lived in the same community where three members of the same family died in September after experiencing Ebola-like symptoms.

Source: APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Democratic Republic of the Congo starts Ebola vaccination

Black Georgia Students Suspended After Planning Protest

Black students along with white and Hispanic students went to the front office, as requested, to talk to administrators about the protest plans and hand over any flyers promoting it. Students tell CBS46 that they began to argue with administrators about the lack of disciplinary action taken against students using racial slurs.

The Black students say they were suspended. Some white students tell CBS46 they were disruptive and argumentative with administrators but they were not suspended, only Black students, according to the student protestors. By Friday, they joined together to protest outside the school throughout the day, most of them were suspended. Others chose to skip, with the permission and support of their parents.

Students of various ethnicities participated in the demonstration on Friday. Parents and student organizers claim that only Black students were suspended for their involvement.

“All the African Americans they suspended them, and they didn’t suspend them,” Lilyan Huckaby said to CBS46 while pointing toward white and Hispanic students. “They didn’t suspend me and I was yelling and loud. It’s because I’m white,” she said.

A few Black parents told CBS 46 that sheriff’s deputies came to their homes to tell them their children had been suspended. One parent said an officer actually pulled her over while she was driving. Another parent claimed that she complained to the administration about prior racist incidents at the school and nothing has been done about it while all three of her children were suspended for the protest.

Source: Black Georgia Students Suspended After Planning Protest

Forests falling for cashew monocultures: A ‘repeated mistake’ in Côte d’Ivoire (commentary) (Me: monocultures kill the land and trigger pandemic response via increased bat populations)

  • Savannas and dry forests in vast parts of Côte d’Ivoire are being transformed into orchards of cashew trees, just as large areas of its rainforest have fallen for cocoa.
  • Grown in extensive monocultures, cashew has raised incomes but led to deforestation and incursions into protected forests, as major stakeholders overlook the loss of trees and agro-biodiversity.
  • Pollination and human diets are suffering, too: nature-based approaches like agroforestry are needed to create a diversified landscape that can make cashew sustainable in the long run. 

Source: Forests falling for cashew monocultures: A ‘repeated mistake’ in Côte d’Ivoire (commentary)

Courage-Coragem

Coisas da SIL

-DE MIM-
A coragem está dentro de você, permita-se ir além do que podes sonhar. A vida é curta pra chorar. A gente só precisa encontrar lealdade pra se permitir, lutar, cantar, viajar e sonhar. Não é só saber rimar bem as palavras, mas o importante é usar. A prática te garante segurança, conhecimento e enriquecimento. Hoje na vida tudo vale a pena mesmo quando não se tem certeza, por isso não se fruste, viva, a vida não é pra sempre…

-FOR YOU-

The courage is within you, allow yourself to go beyond what you can dream. Life is short to cry. We just need to find loyalty to allow ourselves, fight, sing, travel and dream. It’s not just knowing how to rhyme words well, but the important thing is to use them. The practice of guarantees security, knowledge and enrichment. Today in life everything is worth it even when…

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