Shanghai seals off street as city battles worst virus outbreak in two years | Euronews
Seventeen million people in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen began their first full day under lockdown Monday, as a key factory making iPhones closed and restrictions spread across Shanghai and other major cities in an effort to extinguish the biggest-ever threat to the nation’s zero-tolerance Covid strategy.
The southern city of Shenzhen took the measures on Sunday as authorities battled an Omicron flare-up in factories and neighbourhoods linked to nearby Hong Kong, which is recording scores of daily deaths as the virus runs rampant.
Source: Shanghai seals off street as city battles worst virus outbreak in two years | Euronews
What Will We Do?
In the past week, I have heard of at least two Republican members of Congress who basically said that what is happening in Ukraine is awful and that we should support Ukraine … with thoughts and prayers, but not anything that costs the U.S. money. At least one, Warren Davidson of Ohio, was complaining about the inclusion of the $13.6 billion in aid for Ukraine that was included in the larger — much larger — spending bill passed last week. No doubt the views of these two are largely representative of their party as a whole. In my opinion, this “America First” bullshit needs to end NOW! Today there was a newsletter from Robert Reich waiting in my inbox. It is short but describes ever so well the situation we’re in today …
Helplessness in the face of evil
An allegory
Robert Reich, 14 March 2022
It’s like watching a…
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Old Fashioned Baked Butter Potatoes

One of our favorite potato recipes is this simple Old Fashioned Baked Butter Potatoes. We usually add sliced onions too, but the grandkids were over,…
Old Fashioned Baked Butter Potatoes
Minbari Mondays, and Two Lessons in “Point of No Return” (B5:s3e9) About Consequences

This week we are still working to find ways to be happy about the fact that Ranger Mayann is prohibited from writing to us from Minbar. This …
Minbari Mondays, and Two Lessons in “Point of No Return” (B5:s3e9) About Consequences
Win or Lose

Is there somehow Putin can back off from this? I mean, in poker terms, he has gone all in. So he either wins or he loses. And I think, for us, Putin …
Win or Lose
Carlos Drummond de Andrade

” Carlos, sossegue, o amor É isso que você está vendo: hoje beija, amanhã não se beija depois da amanhã é domingo e segunda- feira ninguém sabe o que…
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Jerash, Jordan – Gerasa, Jordan — Myrela

Grad Gerasu, u helenističko doba poznat i kao Antiohija, osnovao je Antioh IV Epifan (175-164 godine p.n.e.) na obali rijeke Oront, 48 kilometara sjeverno od današnjeg Jordana. U I vijeku p.n.e. Aleksandar Janej pripojio je taj seleukidski grad Judeji, da bi malo poslije toga on postao dio Sirije, nove rimske provincije, kada je 63. godine […]
Jerash, Jordan – Gerasa, Jordan — Myrela
Great for leftover Pie dough! Nutella & Peanut Butter Mini Pie Pop – Tanooki Homemade Cafe
Der Konverter
Ein sehr seltsamer, quälend langer, wahrscheinlich verwirrender und abstrakter Text darüber, wie das menschliche Gehirn funktioniert und Informationen umwandelt. Eine moderne Metapher, die erstmal als Bild in meinem Gehirn entstand und später ich das Bedürfnis verspürte, alles mit Worten versuchen, zu beschreiben. Der Originaltext wurde auf Griechisch verfasst. Im Grunde ist der Text eine Metapher darüber, wie das menschliche Gehirn Reize und Informationen aufnimmt und beschließt und diese in etwas Anderes umwandelt. Ich denke, dass der vorliegende Text auch von der Kunst der Alchemie inspiriert wurde.
Was viele von uns nicht verstehen ist Folgendes: dass die sich bewegenden Gefäße, die sich hin und her bewegen, sehr wichtige Rezeptoren für die Herstellung von Ideen sind. Wir haben uns wahnsinnig der Umwandlung jeder Form von Energie gewidmet – natürlich mit dem ultimativen Ziel, sie zu nutzen, aber wir ignorieren das grundlegende Zentrum und den Kern, aus dem die Ideen geboren werden: der…
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Robert Reich, 14 March 2022
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