Ein Dienstagslächeln … A Tuesday smile

Heute gibt es mal wieder etwas mit Tieren. … Today you will see something with animals again. Ich wünsche euch allen eine gute nachosterliche Woche! …

Ein Dienstagslächeln … A Tuesday smile

200,000 Risk Losing Jobs in Moscow Over Sanctions – Mayor – The Moscow Times

Around 200,000 employees of foreign companies in Moscow could lose their jobs due to sanctions over Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, the city’s mayor said on Monday.

“According to our estimates, about 200,000 people are at risk of losing their jobs,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a blog post.

Source: 200,000 Risk Losing Jobs in Moscow Over Sanctions – Mayor – The Moscow Times

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penned in moon dust

I ran, hopped down the hall away from the men pursuing me. I couldn’t afford the time to look back.

“Please God help them stumble.”

I double timed it up the back stairs to my room on the fifth floor. I pulled the key that my husband always held onto out of my pocket and opened my door. I closed it quietly, locking both bolts. I slid the secret panel away knowing it would be tight but I could fit. I grabbed a large bottle of water and closed the panel behind me. I slowed my breathing and was grateful for the thick walls around me.

I didn’t know how many days I was curled up in that secret closet. Fortunately, I had packages of biscuits and almonds. I ate at night so I sounded like a mouse scratching about in the walls. Though I didn’t know if old hotel…

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Russian invaders abduct 16-year-old son of a Zaporizhzhia regional head

Oleh Buriak is the Head of the Zaporizhzhia Raion Administration (in the Zaporizhzhia oblast).  He explains that his son was abducted in the late morning of 8 April at a Russian checkpoint in Vasylivka.  Vlad was in a car with two women he knows and with three small children.  They were heading, together with other cars, towards Zaporizhzhia when all were stopped by the Russian soldiers who came up to each of them, checking who was there and where they were going.  Oleh Buriak has learned that the Russians saw Vlad’s telephone and dragged him out of the car.

The car Vlad was driving in was held at the checkpoint for three hours, after which all were released, except the 16-year-old. The Russians “had tablets with them, and they found out that I’m the boy’s father,” Oleh Buriak explains.

The family spent the following 10 days trying privately to secure Vlad’s release.  All efforts have been in vain and on 17 April, Oleh Buriak issued an impassioned appeal to the international community to help save his son, whose whereabouts remain unknown.  His call was seconded on 18 April by Oleksandr Starukh, Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration.

The Russian invaders have been abducting public officials; civic activists and journalists since 24 February 2022, with many still missing.  This, however, seems to be the first time that they have seized a child.

Source: Russian invaders abduct 16-year-old son of a Zaporizhzhia regional head

Katherine’s PFAS water treatment plant finally ready for action — but more will follow, experts warn – ABC News

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Erin Brockovich says PFAS is shaping up as the most pressing groundwater contamination and food supply chain issue ever seen.(Triple J: Timothy Swanston)

Issue unprecedented, Brockovich says

Erin Brockovich said filtration systems were being installed across the US, where PFAS had turned up in the water supplies of communities across the country.

“I’m currently working on this issue in Maine where we’re looking at all of the organic farming being destroyed,” she said.

“It’s in the cattle, it’s in the chicken eggs, it’s in the aquifer, it’s in people’s [bore] wells.

“It’s happening here in California, it’s already happened to Alabama — it’s happening everywhere in Michigan.

 

Source: Katherine’s PFAS water treatment plant finally ready for action — but more will follow, experts warn – ABC News

Bird flu spreads to bald eagles as outbreak sweeps across US | Bird flu | The Guardian

The US is enduring the worst bird flu outbreak since 2015 in terms of domestic poultry deaths, according to new data from the US Department of Agriculture, with the avian sickness responsible for millions of deaths in commercial farms.

But the flu is also affecting wild birds and since February, at least 36 bald eagles have died in 14 states as a result of contracting the virus and eagles in two other states are suspected of falling sick with the strain.

Georgia’s department of natural resources announced that three bald eagles that have died in the state tested positive with bird flu and that other eagle carcasses are being checked. Other wild birds affected in the state include the lesser scaup, gadwall and the American wigeon.

Source: Bird flu spreads to bald eagles as outbreak sweeps across US | Bird flu | The Guardian

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