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Third wave of Covid may be under way in UK, scientists say | Coronavirus | The Guardian (Me: Boris still more concerned with wrong choice – jobs vs health – than maintaining health so people can work)

Experts cautioned that any rise in coronavirus hospital admissions could leave the NHS struggling to cope as it battles to clear the huge backlog in non-Covid cases.

Downing Street insisted it was too soon for speculation about whether the plan to lift all lockdown rules in England on 21 June could go ahead, prompting calls from the hospitality industry for the government to ensure it provided “advance notice” for struggling businesses of any “lingering” measures.

The vaccines minister, Nadhim Zahawi, refused to deny that some restrictions such as mask wearing and working from home might remain in place to reduce the spread of the virus. Senior scientific advisers believe that, where possible, working from home makes sense beyond June because it would cut the number of people who come into contact with each other.

Source: Third wave of Covid may be under way in UK, scientists say | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Ron DeSantis Won’t Let Cruise Ships Require Vaccines – Mother Jones (Me: Doesn’t care if people die because he is dying to run for new nonsense right-wingnut President in 2024)

Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University, told the Post last week that the state’s argument was “amazing on so many levels,” given the federal government’s authority to regulate interstate commerce.
“The idea that the federal government in general doesn’t have the authority to set the conditions for cruise ships and that Florida somehow has more authority over who comes in and out of the ports, that’s really an odd one,” she said.

Source: Ron DeSantis Won’t Let Cruise Ships Require Vaccines – Mother Jones

Old corporate champions can’t save Japan | East Asia Forum

In Japan, 70 per cent of corporate giants still believe that they must do everything in-house. However, with 10 per cent of a car’s manufacturing cost involving software — and with that amount steadily increasing with time — automakers can no longer go it alone. Having repeatedly failed to develop a collision-avoidance system on its own, Honda finally bought technology from Bosch, only to face outrage from the company’s research and development veterans who insist that using homegrown parts was central to ‘Honda’s soul’.

Analogue era champions were so successful that they have an ingrained a mindset which companies find hard to change — even when they try hard. These firms do not hire or promote recruits who are eager to revamp business models. Around 82 per cent of senior managers in Japan’s leading corporations have never worked in another firm. In Germany, that share is 28 per cent and in the United States, just 19 per cent.

The difficulty of teaching an old dog new tricks is hardly unique to Japan, but what differentiates it is the difficulty new firms face in supplanting past corporate leaders. Not a single new manufacturer has entered the top ranks of electronics since 1946, when Sony and Casio were born. By contrast, 8 of the top 21 electronics hardware manufacturers in the United States did not exist in 1970. Among rich countries, Japan has the second-lowest rate of new firms entering and old firms exiting.

Source: Old corporate champions can’t save Japan | East Asia Forum

Facebook’s AI treats Palestinian activists like it treats American Black activists. It blocks them.

Just days after violent conflict erupted in Israel and the Palestinian territories, both Facebook and Twitter copped to major faux pas: The companies had wrongly blocked or restricted millions of mostly pro-Palestinian posts and accounts related to the crisis. Source: Facebook’s AI treats Palestinian activists like it treats American Black activists. It blocks them.

No singing here

Roadtirement

That is right. Downy Woodpeckers do not sing like most birds. They communicate by “pecking” or drumming on wood or even metal. Surprisingly these woodpeckers make very little or no sound when going after their insect prey. They are capable of feeding on insects that larger woodpeckers cannot catch, like fly larvae in weed stems.

Male Downy, the female does not have the red on her head

We see both male and female Downy Woodpeckers quite often in our backyard. They like the suet feeders, and we have spotted a male on our hummingbird feeder. Like the White-breasted Nuthatch, Downy Woodpeckers like to flit from branch to branch, lighting on the suet feeder, grabbing a bite or two and then off they go.

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High Technology and Environmental Protection Combined

Good but we just need to stop dumping plastic into rivers and on the beach!!!

FunWritings

Finally there is hope for the oceans, they might be healthy one day

If this new technology can take out all the plastic that is harming the marine animals in so many ways

A unique solution for plastic pollution in the oceans that seems to be better than all the rest

It would still be good if we could do more to pollute less

We would not have oceanic plastic pollution to clean up each day

If the environment was treated in a better way

We could make more bins and do more waste separation

More of us could decide to fix the bad situation

We didn’t have this high level of pollution on earth before plastic was made

I hope this yacht will fix this huge problem and the operators of it will be paid

If the operation of this yacht is…

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Ordnance Spitfire in the Pacific War

Pacific Paratrooper

Australia’s highest scoring fighter pilot of WWII, Clive ‘Killer’ Caldwell, helps push his Spitfire CR-C JL394 out of camouflage, Aug. 1943

The Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal Indian Air Force and the RAF also used Spitfires against Japanese forces in the Pacific theater. The first Spitfires in the Far East were two photo-reconnaissance (PR IV) aircraft which operated from airfields in India from October 1942.

Clive Caldwell

Japanese raids on Northern Australia hastened the formation in late 1942 of No. 1 Wing RAAF comprising No. 54 RAF Squadron No. 452 Squadron RAAF, and No. 457 Squadron RAAF under the command of  Clive Caldwell. The wing arrived at Darwin in February 1943, and saw constant action until September. The Mk Vc versions received by the RAAF proved unreliable and, initially at least, had a relatively high loss rate. This was due to several factors, including pilot inexperience, engine over-speed due…

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Orecchiette broccolo e piselli

InTheNameOfSeitan

Il broccolo romano… protagonista della stagione invernale! C’è chi storce il muso solo a sentirlo nominare…

Come trasformarlo in un delizioso primo piatto? Seguitemi…

Ingredienti (per 2 persone):

180 g di orecchiette (fresche o nel formato pasta secca)Avat_pag

1 broccolo di medio-piccole dimensioni

1 porro

1 spicchio d’aglio

3 cucchiai colmi di piselli (andranno bene anche quelli surgelati)

Passata di pomodoro

Vino bianco

Sale

Olio evo

Pepe

Iniziate col lavare il broccolo accuratamente e mettetelo in cottura al vapore per circa 10 minuti.

img_8823Vi renderete conto che avrà raggiunto la giusta cottura quando infilando la lama di un coltello non ci sarà resistenza e il suo colorito non sarà sbiadito (altrimenti l’avete cotto troppo e quando lo andrete a manipolare si ridurrà in poltiglia).

Affettate un porro e in una padella mettete a scaldare un bel giro d’olio EVO con uno spicchio d’aglio.

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Quando l’olio sarà ben caldo

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