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Myanmar grieves after young anti-coup protester’s death

Mya Thwate Thwate Khaing was a teenage grocery store worker in #Myanmar’s sparse and isolated capital until less than two weeks ago, when a gunshot turned her into a national #symbol of . The death of the young anti-#coup protester has sent a ripple of grief through the country.

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Key Lime Pie

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This creamy and zesty pie, the official state pie of Florida, is simple, satisfying, and the perfect remedy for winter blues. It can be baked or unbaked, have a graham cracker or pastry crust, and topped with meringue or whipped cream but it consistently contains key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk, and egg yolks. We love our scaled-down version, which is on the lighter side.

STEP ONE – Preparations

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  2. Get out a glass measuring cup, a stand mixer, and a food processor.
  3. Get out a 9-inch glass pie pan.
  4. Set up a cooling rack.

STEP TWO – Make the Crust

Ingredients:

5 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 ¼ cups crushed graham crackers
¼ cup white sugar
¼ teaspoon fine sea salt

Instructions:

  1. In the glass measuring cup, microwave the butter for 45 seconds.
  2. In the food processor, blend the graham crackers, sugar, and salt until combined.

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Costa Rica to allow visa-free tourism from China –

Starting in March, tourists from Beijing and Shanghai will be allowed to enter the country without the need for a prior visa. Under the current requirements, Chinese nationals must apply for an entry permit at the Costa Rican consulate. Chinese nationals will have to demonstrate that they have a tourism package booked through an accredited Costa Rican company in order to receive the visa exemption. The relaxed requirements are meant to help Costa Rica tap into a growing tourism market. By 2027, the number of Chinese citizens with passports is expected to reach 300 million people, according to the Tourism Board. “In order to explore this market, the Tourism Board, the General Directorate of Migration and Foreigners, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed on the visa exception for the entry of tourists from Beijing and Shanghai,” the Tourism Board said in a statement.

Source: Costa Rica to allow visa-free tourism from China –

Rebel Riot: The punk soundtrack to Myanmar’s anti-coup protests | Arts and Culture News | Al Jazeera

Punks have been among the tens of thousands protesting against the coup in Myanmar [Stringer/Reuters] Inspired by protesters in Hong Kong and Thailand, Myanmar’s youth aim to grab the world’s attention.

In the background, mohawked and leather-jacketed punks wave red and black flags and raise three fingers, a symbol of resistance derived from popular film series, The Hunger Games, and adopted by Myanmar’s anti-coup protesters.

“We just wanted to create something that can inspire people,” Hnin told Al Jazeera about the clip. “This song is meant for this moment.”

Hnin met other members of Rebel Riot in 2015 during student strikes in Yangon. They started hanging out “and somehow I became a punk, I guess.”

Describing themselves as a community more than a band, the collective are known not only for their music but for street-level social initiatives, such as handing out food to Yangon’s homeless.

Source: Rebel Riot: The punk soundtrack to Myanmar’s anti-coup protests | Arts and Culture News | Al Jazeera

Storm Ravages Texas Food Supply Chain

As it is, farmers and ranchers are struggling to take care of cattle, chickens and other animals with frozen water sources and no heat, while coping with interruptions in feed supplies. Plants, meanwhile, have been hit by power outages.

Three dairy processing plants belonging to Select Milk Producers had to shut down for lack of electric power. As a result, the company’s CEO told the Wall Street Journal, the company is left every day with about 150 tanker trucks of milk that it can’t process. Farmers who can’t get their milk processed are dumping $1 million worth daily, the CEO said.

Source: Storm Ravages Texas Food Supply Chain

More about Happiness…

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We define mindfulness as the psychological process of bringing one’s attention to experiences occurring in the present .

Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied this state of being and coined the term Flow.

His research suggested that money and luxury doesn’t bring people happiness.

He found that humans are at their happiest when in flow.

Now, what is this flow? 

Being completely absorbed in an activity for its own sake, giving your heightened attention to just one thing.

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This is an example of a diagram that Mihaly illustrated in one of his books :

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.

What this shows is that based on the intensity of challenges and skills, If what we do has a high level of challenge and we use our skills at the maximum level, then we enter the state of flow. This is a state of deep happiness, where one 

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Coronavirus: L.A. County reported 2,873 new cases, 153 new deaths and 98 fewer hospitalizations as of Feb. 18 – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Los Angeles public health officials reported 2,873 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,174,340 as of Thursday, Feb. 18.

Source: Coronavirus: L.A. County reported 2,873 new cases, 153 new deaths and 98 fewer hospitalizations as of Feb. 18 – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Across The Valley Through The Air

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

Taibok hung dangerously from the edge of the forest a thousand feet above the raging mountain river that flowed at the bottom of the cliff, on whose edge stood his small and obscure village. The hamlet lay in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, in the interiors of the dense East Khasi Hills near the modern-day Cherrapunji town, the world’s wettest place.

He did not mind the continuously pouring rain, which lashed wildly on the steep slope of the forest. He was a Khasi, a strong and robust tribal people indigenous to the region, who were, used to the wet and wild, merciless terrain. For thousands of years, the Khasi tribe had lived in this mountainous jungle domain.

He secured his weight with his arms and legs wrapped around the hanging roots of the Ficus elastica or the rubber tree. With his machete, he relentlessly worked on releasing the long areal…

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Coronavirus Vaccine Nears Final Tests in Cuba. Tourists May Be Inoculated. – The New York Times

The vaccine heading for a final phase of trials is called Sovereign 2, in a nod to the pride the island takes in its autonomy, despite decades of hostility from its neighbor to the north. Already, Cuba is floating the idea of enticing tourists to its shores with the irresistible cocktail of sun, sand and a shot of Sovereign 2.

Vicente Vérez, one of the scientists leading the team that developed the vaccine, has said that the island could offer vaccinations to all foreigners who travel there.

The vaccine heading for a final phase of trials is called Sovereign 2, in a nod to the pride the island takes in its autonomy, despite decades of hostility from its neighbor to the north. Already, Cuba is floating the idea of enticing tourists to its shores with the irresistible cocktail of sun, sand and a shot of Sovereign 2. Vicente Vérez, one of the scientists leading the team that developed the vaccine, has said that the island could offer vaccinations to all foreigners who travel there.

“It’s not just medicine and humanitarianism; there’s a big economic payoff if they can get the virus under control,” said Richard Feinberg, a Cuba expert at the University of California San Diego. “It will be not only immediate income, but a boost to the reputation of the Cuban pharmaceutical biotech sector, which will enable them to market other medical products.”

Cuban scientists say the government will probably give away some doses to poor countries, in keeping with its longstanding practice of strengthening international relations by donating medicine and sending doctors to address public health crises abroad.