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The Lighthouse

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

Khurram Kha anxiously glimpsed at the trickling sand in the hourglass. Glanced up towards the night sky, and then gazed at the frothy ivory waves lit up by the moonlight, lashing on the ancient and rugged rocky cliff-shore, on which stood his lighthouse, and finally looked at his daughter standing on the edge of the cliff. She stared at the abyss with a lantern in her hand a few feet away from the wooden monolith.

More than looking out for ships that night, Kha was worried about his daughter perched on the cold stone-cliff in the face of a bone-chilling sea-breeze. The greybeard’s vision was not as sharp as it used to be. Many years of tending to the continuously burning woodfire of the lighthouse lamp had taken its toll on his eyesight. Quite often, he would stumble with faulty depth perception and hence avoided going out or climbing stairs…

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« Merchandise Love » The Rainforest Eviscerated by Gold Miners – Depriving Indigenous people’s lives of their essential core! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro: «?It is the white people who are greedy and accumulate their merchandise! Their thought is so attached to it that if they damage it while it is still shiny, they get so enraged that they cry! They are really in love with it! So they dream of their car,…

« Merchandise Love » The Rainforest Eviscerated by Gold Miners – Depriving Indigenous people’s lives of their essential core! — Barbara Crane Navarro

Safari

Safari, Tanzania

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Tanzania, 2018

Am străbătut, timp de zece zile, o parte a Tanzaniei, și am vizitat trei dintre rezervațiile sale naturale: Ngorongoro, Serengeti și Arucha National Park.

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De dimineața până seara în natură, mi-a fost ușor să mă integrez, să-i observ cursul, să o respect.

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Trăiam experiențe inedite, departe de lumea securizată, exactă și cunoscută a fiecărei zile.

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Cu Jackson, șoferul-ghid care ne fusese atribuit odată cu jeep-un închiriat prin agenția tanzaniană EasyTravel, parcă ne cunoșteam de când lumea.

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Pe nesimțite, decorul african a devenit banalitate și confort, dar fiecare zi era o sărbătoare.

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Înainte de plecarea în safari, e nevoie de pregătiri de călătorie mai speciale decât într-o excursie obisnuită, privind echipamentul, vaccinele și medicamentele.

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Și, nu în ultimul rând, ar fi indicat să te informezi despre comportamentul în prezența animalelor, preferabil cât mai discret, ca să eviți situații încordate ca în filmul Out of Africa !

1.Medicație

Pentru a…

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Pearl Harbor is remembered — Pacific Paratrooper

Crew of the USS Arizona When diplomacy failed and power and greed survived – the Pacific skies went dark…. Hickam Field Aerial view during the attack Battleship Row, as seen by Japanese pilot during the attack From the Smithsonian Museum…… USS Oklahoma stamp This relic marks the movements before the U.S. was launched into WWII….To […]

Pearl Harbor is remembered — Pacific Paratrooper

Prelivi za sladoled – Ice cream toppings — Myrela

SOS SA MARS ČOKOLADICOM – Najjednostavniji i najbogatiji sos, koji se lako pravi za samo nekoliko minuta. Isijecite veliku Mars čokoladicu na režnjeve, stavite ih u posudu i dodajte 150 ml mlijeka za tečniji sos, ili istu količinu ekstramasne pavlake za jak i gust sos. Stavite posudu na šerpu s vrućom vodom i miješajte dok […]

Prelivi za sladoled – Ice cream toppings — Myrela

The Puerto Rican Experience in the U.S. Military (Celebration of National Borinqueneers’ Day) — Repeating Islands

CENTRO, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, presents the webinar “The Puerto Rican Experience in the U.S. Military: A Century of Unheralded Service and Celebration of National Borinqueneers’ Day” on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 5:00 to 6:30pm (EST). In this event, Harry Franqui-Rivera explores the impact of military service for Puerto Rico, […]

The Puerto Rican Experience in the U.S. Military (Celebration of National Borinqueneers’ Day) — Repeating Islands

Thanks, Annie: WOULD YOU–WILL YOU–SUPPORT “THE DEMOCRACY PLEDGE”? — annieasksyou…

Amen

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

“Voters’ voices are loud, but for corporate America, consumers’ voices are louder. So, folks, let’s let them hear our voice.”
The speaker is Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor and cofounder of a new effort called “The Democracy Pledge.” He’s describing this campaign on a podcast.

WOULD YOU–WILL YOU–SUPPORT “THE DEMOCRACY PLEDGE”? — annieasksyou…

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Love is Too Short for You Not to Do What You Love

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Love is a subjective emotion. While others talked about love between two person, I want to address love in a different way. To me, it is suffering if you cannot find love (even a wee bit) in what you do on a daily basis. I’m not sure if it is even worth the pay check if you are trading your precious time with happiness.

Below is an article I have shared in a collaborative with Patty Wolters and I hope to shred some light in this little thing we called love.

This is the perfect way to end my March with you. See you in April!

Enjoy!


When it comes to career, the golden rule is to enjoy your work rather than just focusing only on your salary or rank. If you are not happy with what you are doing, you are more likely to end up getting depressed and…

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Las duras imágenes que muestran el colapso de hospitales y morgues en Brasil por covid-19

Los hospitales en Brasil han colapsado. Es fácil de decir, pero difícil de mostrar: CNN obtuvo imágenes que encarnan la gravedad de la situación. Entre ellas, una morgue abrumada con cadáveres porque no puede cremarlos lo suficientemente rápido; hospitales públicos con tan poco oxígeno que ponen tanques en el medio de una sala y pasan tubos de paciente a paciente y hasta de sala a sala a través de una ventana; un enfermero cuenta cómo retiró un respirador a un anciano y se lo dio a una persona más joven que tenía más posibilidades de sobrevivir Source: Las duras imágenes que muestran el colapso de hospitales y morgues en Brasil por covid-19

The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands – Scientific American

Now antiscience is causing mass deaths once again in this COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in the spring of 2020, the Trump White House launched a coordinated disinformation campaign that dismissed the severity of the epidemic in the United States, attributed COVID deaths to other causes, claimed hospital admissions were due to a catch-up in elective surgeries, and asserted that ultimately that the epidemic would spontaneously evaporate. It also promoted hydroxychloroquine as a spectacular cure, while downplaying the importance of masks. Other authoritarian or populist regimes in Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines and Tanzania adopted some or all of these elements.

I trace the adoption of antiscience as a major platform of the GOP to the year 2015 when the antivaccine movement pivoted to political extremism on the right. It first began in Southern California when a measles epidemic erupted following widespread vaccine exemptions. The California legislature shut down these exemptions to protect the public health, but this ignited a “health freedom” rallying cry. Health freedom then gained strength and accelerated in Texas where it formed a political action committee linked to the Tea Party. Protests against vaccines became a major platform of the Tea Party; this then generalized in 2020 to defy masks and social distancing. Further accelerating these trends were right wing think tanks such as the American Institute of Economic Research that sponsored the Great Barrington Declaration, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the home of physician Scott Atlas, who became a senior advisor to the Trump White House coronavirus task force.

Containing antiscience will require work and an interdisciplinary approach. For innovative and comprehensive solutions, we might look at interagency task forces in the U.S. government or among the agencies of the United Nations. Given the role of state actors such as Russia, and antivaccine organizations that monetize the internet, we should anticipate that any counteroffensive could be complex and multifaceted. The stakes are high given the high death toll that is already accelerating from the one-two punch of SARS CoV2 and antiscience. We must be prepared to implement a sophisticated infrastructure to counteract this, similar to what we have already done for more established global threats. Antiscience is now a large and formidable security issue.

Source: The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands – Scientific American