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How to Make Mashed Turnips for a Fantastic Holiday Side Dish

Buckle up everybody, for I am here to defend and exalt turnips. In fact, I’d go so far as to claim that turnips, when mashed, are better than their potato counterparts, and a far more interesting vehicle for gravy. Cooked turnips are firm yet velvety, slightly nutty, and bring a bit more oomph to your holiday spread. But, full disclosure, my not all of my turnip-eating Christmases have been merry.

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Orange County obliterates its COVID-19 records – Los Angeles Times

The 4,606 new coronavirus infections announced Sunday shattered the county’s previous one-day high of 3,445, according to data compiled by The Times. There have been 3,000-plus new daily cases logged countywide only five times throughout the entire pandemic — all since Dec. 13.

“The number of infections in our county, in our surrounding counties, has been rising every day,” Dr. Clayton Chau, Orange County’s health officer and Health Care Agency director, said last week. “Every day, we break the record, the number of people who have been infected. So I’m pleading with the community: Please, please do not gather. And make sure you follow the public health guidance because our hospitals are now bombarded.” Source: Orange County obliterates its COVID-19 records – Los Angeles Times

Perdoar e deixar ir

”Forgive, not because your enemies deserve forgiveness. But, because you are the one who needs peace ”.

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Perdoe, não porque seus inimigos merecem perdão. Mas, porque você é quem precisa de paz “.

Eu desconheço o autor dessa citação, mas quero dizer a você que ela corrobora com o seu bem-estar, a sua saúde mental e emocional ao mesmo tempo.

Você é do tipo de pessoa que tem dificuldades para perdoar? Perdão exige sacrifício. Para você perdoar alguém, uma pessoa que te feriu, você precisa organizar interiormente, muita coisa. Não é fácil você chegar e dizer ” eu te perdoo!”. Parece que falando assim, digo perdoando com ‘facilidade’, essa fala vai para o lado da incompreensão. Não, as coisas não funcionam assim dessa maneira. Primeiro, existe um sofrimento, uma ferida aberta e que precisa cicatrizar. Todavia, Quem melhor pode curar essa ferida é você. Não espere que o outro tenha uma atitude nobre de chegar até você, sentar frente a frente, e falar sobre as causas…

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Failure isn’t Fatal

Saania's diary - reflections, learnings, sparkles

Nothing good is ever given to us easily. When we are on the verge of something, there is always a chance for failure as there is for success. In fact, most of the times, things never go perfectly as planned!

I often look back at the times I wasn’t doing too well at school. I moved countries and was finding it exceedingly difficult to catch up on all of the work I had missed. This was simply devastating for me because I had never seen myself going through this before, ever. I was always regarded as a great student.

The more I let myself feel the overwhelming anxiety of failure, the worse things seemed to get. But over time, the more I pushed myself to bounce back again, the more I saw how the whole world began to help me. My teachers helped me, my friends helped me, my parents…

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Nikon Is Ending 70 Years of Camera Production in Japan – Slashdot – (no more loyalty to nation that supported its birth and success)

The Japanese website Asahi reports that Nikon is ending the production of cameras in Japan and moving all production to Thailand. This is simply Nikon’s attempt to cut costs as much as it gets. Don’t think this is enough to make them stay in the business. Source: Nikon Is Ending 70 Years of Camera Production in Japan – Slashdot

Hospitals in Costa Rica Running Out of Beds for Critical Patients – Costa Rica Star News

The Social Security Service (CCSS) in Costa Rica confirmed this Sunday they have only 5 available beds in ICU for critical COVID-19 patients. On Saturday hospitals had run out of beds for critical patients; CCSS had to relocate some patients to make some beds available, others became available after the passing of other critical patients.

“We have reached a maximum capacity, it is very painful to say it, but we have reached a maximum capacity, and we cannot increase it anymore”, commented Mario Ruiz, medical manager of the CCSS, he added: “this is the first time we have patients waiting to be transferred to a critical care bed.”

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