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‘My red badge of courage’: when female big-wave surfers wipeout – and get back in | Surfing | The Guardian

In 2013, Gabeira nearly drowned at Nazaré in Portugal in one of the most devastating wipeouts ever witnessed. Attempting to claim the record for biggest wave surfed by a woman, she was eaten up at the bottom of an estimated 84ft beast, breaking her ankle on impact on the third massive bump while still on her board. Trapped under a set of waves, she lost consciousness.

“I lost her,” her Brazilian tow partner, big-wave rider Carlos Burlé said in an interview with Stab magazine. “She was gone for about five minutes. I finally saw her floating face-down in the shorebreak. I jumped off the Jet ski, grabbed her in an armlock, and we got to the beach that way. I don’t know how. They administered CPR immediately, and she started breathing.” CPR saved her life, but she had snapped her right fibula and herniated a disk in her lower back.

(Me: later she came back and got the record – “On February 11, 2020, Maya Gabeira set the Guinness World Record at the Nazaré Tow Surfing Challenge in Portugal for surfing the largest wave ever ridden by a woman.” https://www.shape.com/fitness/trends/maya-gabeira-world-record-largest-wave-surfed-woman#:~:text=On%20February%2011,%202020,%20Maya,ever%20ridden%20by%20a%20woman.)

Source: ‘My red badge of courage’: when female big-wave surfers wipeout – and get back in | Surfing | The Guardian

Brazilian wildcat miners attack police and burn indigenous homes in Amazon | Brazil | The Guardian

Houses burn in a Munduruku village after an attack by wildcat miners in the Brazilian state of Roraima.

Hundreds of wildcat miners have attacked police who were trying to halt illegal mining in the Brazilian Amazon before raiding an indigenous village and setting houses on fire, according to federal prosecutors in the northern state of Pará.

The clashes came days after a supreme court justice ordered the government to protect indigenous populations threatened by the miners who appear to have been emboldened by President Jair Bolsonaro.

The state prosecutor’s office said miners tried to block a federal police operation by closing off entries to the municipality of Jacareacanga on Wednesday and trying to raid a police base.

Hours later, miners raided a village of the Munduruku people and set several houses on fire, including one that belonged to a prominent mining critic and indigenous activist, Maria Leusa Munduruku.

Source: Brazilian wildcat miners attack police and burn indigenous homes in Amazon | Brazil | The Guardian

Ya no hay tiempo

Google translation of title and introduction: There is no time
There is no more time. People travel hurriedly, unstoppable, like the hands of clocks that are forbidden to spend a moment of rest, to give themselves a minute of sleep, because they must arrive without fail at their destination. The days are collections of repeated, monotonous and uncertain stories. The hours destined to illusions, dreams, imagination, games are over, perhaps because derision is an accomplice of other evils and destroys fantasies, what comes from within, what is so natural and from one, with the aim of leaving gaps and filling them with stridency and reflectors in a puppet theater.

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SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Ya no hay tiempo. La gente transita presurosa, imparable, como las manecillas de los relojes que tienen prohibido dedicarse un instante de reposo, regalarse un minuto de sueño, porque deben llegar sin faltantes a su destino. Los días son colecciones de historias repetidas, monótonas e inciertas. Se acabaron las horas destinadas a las ilusiones, a los sueños, a la imaginación, a los juegos, acaso porque el escarnio es cómplice de otros males y destruye las fantasías, lo que viene del interior, lo que es tan natural y de uno, con el objetivo de dejar huecos y rellenarlos con estridencia y reflectores en un teatro de marionetas. Se extinguen, gradualmente, los períodos para el amor, los recintos para la familia, los segundos para reír, las oportunidades para hacer el bien, quizá porque a los nuevos inquilinos -ambiciosos, egoistas, insensibles, perversos…

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What makes a Family?

Beyond The Lines

Maa! Papa! – We are not kids anymore!

I was studying, getting tense. I was switching between my notes and books. I was switching between national and international news. Suddenly, my brother marched into my room and took my phone. I was watching the news related to Lakshadweep (I should write about that).

  • I got puzzled and asked him – what happened?

  • He said – Wait!

  • He turned the volume to max of my headphone and played this song “Bumbro Bumbro Shyaam Rang Bumbro”

  • And told me – “Don’t forget to enjoy life for the sake of competition”

https://youtu.be/PquZBLuFmwA Please listen to the song.

In a moment my mind, from thinking “What is good for a country? Capitalism or Communism?” went back in time to when I first listened to this song, and I listened to it with him, my brother.

“It was like a film that rolled in front…

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Vacation series: episode #3 : Butterscotch custard cake:

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LITTLE CHEF’S APRON

Welcome to Little chef’s Apron! Today we will make something that is incredibly delicious. It is a very easy recipe that anyone can make and it is a must try.

I first thought of this recipe at the start of my vacation when I wanted to make a custard and I wanted to try caramel cake. So I combined both of them to make this yummy dish! It is a butterscotch custard cake.

Starting off with the recipe,

Ingredients for the cake:

1 cup all purpose flour

½ cup curd

½ cup oil

½ cup powdered sugar

1 tsp butterscotch essence

1 tsp baking powder and ½ tsp baking soda

Milk as required

Directions:

First, add oil, sugar and butterscotch essence to a bowl and whisk well. Then, add in the curd and make sure that the sugar is dissolved.

Place a sieve and add in the flour, baking…

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Social distancing

Google translation of introduction: Social distancing
“This is my space and this, on the other hand, is your space. I don’t go into yours and you don’t go into mine! ”

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“Questo è il mio spazio e questo, invece, è il tuo spazio. Io non entro nel tuo e tu non entri nel mio!”, diceva Johnny a Baby – e viceversa.

“Questo è il mio spazio“, ti sei detta dopo l’ennesimo capitombolo post-romantico, “devo pensare a me” – come se fosse cosa tanto difficile e innaturale, da aver bisogno di imporsela ogni volta con fermezza militare.

“Ho bisogno dei miei spazi!”, hai urlato a un certo punto, forse sedicenne, quando non ti andava più di vivere con la porta della cameretta aperta. “Ho bisogno dei miei spazi…”, hai ripetuto con rassegnazione diversi anni dopo, sempre nella stessa cameretta, ahimé, con la porta chiusa e qualche progetto che non ci sta più dentro.

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Mănăstirea Santa Creus

Google translation of introduction: Santa Creus Monastery
Very close to Tarragona, in the region of Catalonia, cross roads. I had spent a lot of time in a big, polluted city, and now I was looking for moments of peace and spiritual purity.

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2016

Foarte aproape de Tarragona, în regiunea Catalonia, străbat drumeaguri lăturalnice. Petrecusem mult timp într-un oraș mare și poluat iar acum căutam clipe de liniște și curățenie spirituală.

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Auzisem de mult de această veche mănăstire cisterciană.

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Aici, în acest spațiu călugăresc depărtat de zgomotele lumii, gândirea benedictină e concentrată într-o grandioasă operă de artă religioasă impecabil conservată. În tăcere, celebrează ideile de rigoare sufleatescă și integritate.

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Decorul natural este umbra binefăcătoare oferită de o mare varietate de arbori. Maslini, plopi, fagi.

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Mănăstirea a fost înființată în 1150 și ocupată câțiva ani mai tîrziu de comunitatea călugărilor cistercieni.

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Benedictin la bază, acest ordin monastic funcționează cu reguli stricte. Nu întâmplătoare, importanța politică și militară dobândită de mănăstire începând cu anii 1200, în vremurile cruciadelor. Regii, oamenii politici și marii conducători de oști veneau să-i consulte pe stareții de aici de câte ori ajungeau la strâmtoare, pentru că severitatea lor era o…

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Duct Tape and WWII

Pacific Paratrooper

During the WWII, U.S. troops in the heat of battle had a strangely impractical way of reloading their weapons.

Cartridges used for grenade launchers was one example. Boxed, sealed with wax and taped over to protect them from moisture, soldiers would need to pull on a tab to peel off the paper tape and break the seal. Sure, it worked… except when it didn’t, soldiers were left scrambling to pry the boxes open.

waterproof ammo boxes

Vesta Stoudt had been working at a factory packing and inspecting these cartridges when she got to thinking that there had to be a better way. She also happened to be a mother of two sons serving in the Navy and was particularly perturbed that their lives and countless others were left to such chance.

Concerned for the welfare of sons, she discussed with her supervisors an idea she had to fabricate a tape…

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Lasagne rosse vegane

Me: Red vegan lasagne – who could not love this?
Google translation of first sentence: A traditional dish, exquisite and appreciated both as a first course to be served hot on the table but also as a “packed” course on picnics and trips on the road. Obviously revisited in a very tasty vegan variant

InTheNameOfSeitan

Un piatto tradizionale, squisito e apprezzato sia come primo da servire caldo in tavola ma anche come portata “a sacco” in pic-nic e viaggi on the road. Ovviamente rivisitato in una gustosissima variante vegana

Ingredienti (per 4 persone):

350 g di lasagne di semola (non all’uovo)Avat_pag

1 carota

½ cipolla

Mezza mozzarisella affumicata

90 g di seitan al naturale

5 cucchiai di piselli

1 patata lessa

½ bicchiere di vino bianco

Olio evo

Sale

Pepe

Pangrattato / Lievito alimentare in scaglie

Tritate finemente la cipolla assieme alla carota e preparate un soffritto aggiungendo olio evo e una grattata di pepe fresco.

Sempre aiutandovi con un coltello da cucina effettuate un trito del panetto di seitan al naturale.

Aggiungetelo al soffritto e lasciate rosolare per 5/6 minuti. Salate e mescolate continuamente per evitare che si attacchi.

Sfumate con mezzo bicchiere di vino bianco.

Fatto questo aggiungete la salsa di pomodoro.

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