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Useful news for all to advance knowledge of the world and how it works

Only 21% of Americans worried about contracting COVID-19 | CIDRAP   (Me: making room for Delta (Indian) Covid-19 variant to grow quickly – hope not but…)

Source: Only 21% of Americans worried about contracting COVID-19 | CIDRAP

(1) You got the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in B.C. What happens now? | Globalnews.ca

“The very real world evidence shows us we have good protection across the board with both vaccines in our community,” B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said

Henry says B.C. is informing people to make the choice right for them, adding that all vaccines in B.C. are “safe and highly effective, and so are all of the options.”

“We still know from the information that we are seeing here in B.C., but also primarily in the U.K., where a lot of AstraZeneca has been used, that vaccine effectiveness is very good for both AstraZeneca and the mRNA vaccines,” Henry said.

Source: (1) You got the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in B.C. What happens now? | Globalnews.ca

Exodos

Vivaldi translation of introduction: Exodus
Greece, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

The protective gods of foreigners, Athens Xenia and Zeus Xenios, sung by Homer, show me the signs for the most beautiful moments of summer, spent in pampering, laziness and numbness on a Greek beach, where I often stopped to watch, to cool off, to read, to fantasize. In Elada, the shore decor comforts me the most. From any beach, you see somewhere in the distance another enticing shore and not the endless vacuum of the ocean. Let’s go to them.

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Grecia, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Zeii protectori ai străinilor, Atena Xenia și Zeus Xenios, cântați de Homer, îmi arată indicatoarele spre cele mai frumoase clipe ale verii, petrecute în răsfăț, lene și toropeală pe o plajă grecească, unde m-am oprit adeseori să privesc, să mă răcoresc, să citesc, să fantazez. În Elada, cel mai mult mă reconfortează decorul țărmurilor. De pe orice plajă, vezi undeva în zare un alt mal ademenitor și nu nesfârșitul vid al oceanului. Să pornim spre ele.

Chios

Prefer continentul, deși îl înșel adesea cu insule, spunea o prietenă scriitoare.

20170617_152050Cu insule din Egeea răsăriteană, în ce mă privește, unde dominanta nuanțelor de alb-azuriu a naturii maritime elene este cea mai intensă și unde prind la radio posturi turcești care-mi permit să mă scald în sincretismul orientului.

Corfu

Capitala, al cărui centru vechi este listat în patrimoniul UNESCO pentru conservarea istorică impecabilă, oferă din loc în…

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Day 35/67 of GED in Five Months, FDR’s New Deal , and Pro-Bono Legal Aide

The US Code – https://uscode.house.gov

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

 Adulting is also about understanding how to find up-to-date information and help in finding that information and how to use it, like legal information.

End of week 9/18
Day 35 Lesson Plan, Week 9
Grammar: plural nouns ending in ‘f’
Math: Area of a circle
Day 35 Exit Tix
(Day 34  … Day 36)

Action Items:

1.) What do you think is the level of importance of legal aide?

2.) Where can you get Pro-Bono Legal Aide, in your area?

3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public library.

4.)  Feel free to answer the exit ticket questions in the comments, or pose any other questions you may have about the…

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Mumbaikars battle with water crisis, poor sanitisation along with COVID-19.

Water is a basic human right and need – so is public sanitation…

Beyond The Lines

Source – the guardian

Midst reinfections and vaccination Mumbai is also fighting a continuous battle for water. The slums are more affected than the non-slums.

NGO Praja Foundation released a report on the unsatisfactory work of the municipal corporation in Mumbai. While it appreciates the municipal corporation’s work in handling the pandemic it also addresses how Mumbaikars, specifically people in slums and sub-slums, are deprived of basic civic comforts.

‘Status of civic issues in Mumbai – 2021’ is a white paper compiled based on data obtained through the Right to Information Act, 2005 for all 24 wards.

The report, above all, states the unbalanced water supply in the city. While some areas struggle to fulfill even their basic needs due to lack of water, others are getting enough and even surplus amounts of it.

Source – Mumbai mirror

Look, Mumbai receives 188 lpcd (litres per capita per day) which is…

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Machu Picchu 1963

Vivaldi translation of introduction: For three days and three nights I drove an interurban bus from Lima via Arequipa, Lake Titicaca and through the high valleys of the Andes (see. previous report) to Cuzco, the old capital of the Inca Empire. I arrived early in the morning and tried unsuccessfully to get a room for a few nights. Cuzco was already overcrowded because of the next day celebrations for the Inti Raymi festival, and there were no free beds. The Inti Raymi Festival was a religious ceremony of the Inca in honor of the sun god (in the Quechua language “inti” means sun and “raymi” festival), which was held every year. The sun was very important to the Incas.

Senioren um die Welt

Drei Tage und drei Nächte fuhr ich mit einem Überlandbus von Lima über Arequipa, den Titicaca-See und durch die Hochtäler der Anden (s. vorigen Bericht) nach  Cuzco, der alten Hauptstadt des Inka-Reiches.  Ich kam frühmorgens an und bemühte mich vergeblich, ein Zimmer für einige Nächte zu bekommen. Cuzco war wegen der am nächsten Tag stattfindenden Feiern anlässlich des Inti Raymi-Festes bereits überfüllt, und es gab keine freien Betten mehr. Das Inti Raymi-Fest war eine religiöse Zeremonie der Inka zu Ehren des Sonnengottes (in der Quechua-Sprache bedeutet “inti” Sonne und “raymi” Fest), die jedes Jahr durchgeführt wurde. Die Sonne hatte eine große Bedeutung für die Inka.

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Whispering Enchantments of Nature-Poem

Anushka stories

Hello my lovely friends and readers. Nice to see you again guys!! Hope you and your family are in pink of health. My blessings and wishes of recovery and positivity will remain with you all. Anyways, I wrote another poem for a contest being held by Soni As you all might know. 😊😍😘 Hope you will love this poem with all your dear heart as I loved writing it.

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

Redolent chambers of flowers

With a drop of nectar which showers

A lost deep angelic feeling into these magic vines

Unlock a mood of contentment and cheerful cries

The whispering enchantments awake

As the nature makes its way

A soul combined with divine and power

Removing mistakes which purely are sour

The birds of dawn are perfectly poised

Like a beautiful art or maybe a drawing

The slowest voices can be heard from far

And connect…

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हम सच में इतने अलग हैं।

Google translation of title: We really are so different.

Shabd Jaal

कहने के लिए तुम-तुम हो

और मैं-मैं ।

पर क्या ..

हम सच में इतने अलग हैं ??

क्या हमारा दिल एक हीं बात पर नहीं रोता ,

या खुश होता है ?

क्या तुम्हें कुछ अच्छा सुन अच्छा नहीं लगता , जैसे मुझे लगता है ??

या बुरा सुन क्या तुम्हें दुख नहीं होता ??

क्या ख्याब तुम्हारा पीछा वैसे हीं नहीं करते,

जैसे मेरा करते हैं ?

क्या तितलियाँ, हवाएं , पहाड़ तुम्हें नहीं लुभाती,

जैसे मुझे लुभाती हैं ?

क्या तुम्हारी तृपता

मेरी संतुष्टि के अनुभव से अलग हो जाती हैं ?

और बेचैनी भरी रातें क्या

तुम्हें नहीं सताती हैं ?

क्या बच्चों की मुस्कान तुम्हें आनंदित नहीं करती जैसे मुझे करतीं हैं ?

जब हमारी खुशियाँ, दर्द, प्यास,

हर जज़्बात और अहसास

सब एक से हैं ,

तो हम अलग कैसे ?

तुम-तुम कैसे ?

और मैं-मैं कैसे ?

ये नफ़रत कैसे ?

ये अंतर-भेद…

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