Ocean’s 11

Viana do Castelo, 2020

I have always looked at the Portuguese shore of the ocean with fear as if the world accessible and known to me would end there.

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Viana do Castelo, 2020

Am privit întotdeauna cu temerea înstrăinării țărmul portughez al oceanului,

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ca și cum lumea accesibilă și cunoscută mie s-ar termina acolo.

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Însă intima stațiune balneară de la Atlantic,

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cea mai șarmantă și mai reputată de pe Costa Verde,

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mi-a devenit lesne familiară într-un sfârșit de februarie aproape deloc turistic.

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Cuibărită între fluviu și ocean, m-a vrăjit prin delicii marine, amfitrioni atenți, un peisaj urban monumental.

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Vă invit să pornim, am ales 11 obiective care să vă încânte !

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1.Clădiri manueline și renascentiste pe străzi pietonale animate.

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Principala arteră comercială e plină de palate înzorzonate ale căror ferestre sunt adevărate opere de artă,

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cu blazoane medievale desemnând proprietarii, deloc provinciale comparativ cu Porto și placate cu faianță colorată artizanală.

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2.Plină de însuflețire, piața din secolul 16 este un ansamblu urban de stil Renaștere.

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Principalul palat este acum bancă.

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Fântâna arteziană datează de la 1550 și se compune…

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Silencios

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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Hay silencios en el amor y en el desamor, en las risas y en e llanto, en los negocios y en los asuntos cotidianos, en las profundidades y en las superficialidades, que dicen tanto, que alivian o lastiman, que liberan o atrapan. Exhiben u ocultan todo o nada. Lo que callan las palabras, el silencio lo expresa, lo delata, lo revela. Sí. El silencio es un lenguaje enigmático que no todos saben interpretar cuando musita. Es preciso saber escucharlo, entender sus sentidos y sus motivos, comprender sus significados. Callar significa, a veces, desamor, incomprensón, desinterés, y, en ocasiones, aceptación, tolerancia, resignación. No pronunciar palabras, es, quizá, síntoma de orgullo, soberbia, resentimiento, egoísmo, venganza, desprecio o miedo, o, probablemente, equivale a la prudencia, a la reflexión, al asombro, al espacio que se necesita dentro del bien y del mal. Ciertos…

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” Tudo quanto vive, vive porque muda; muda porque passa; e, porque passa, morre. Tudo quanto vive perpetuamente se torna outra coisa, constantemente se nega, se furta à vida.”

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Poem of the day: the new colossus

The New Colossus
BY EMMA LAZARUS

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

The grey clover

The New Colossus
BY EMMA LAZARUS


Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

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Noisy NYC Anti-Vaccine Protests Are Hiding a Simple Fact – Mother Jones

The mandates are working.

… the NYPD’s vaccination rate rose to 84% on Friday, up from 79% the day prior. FDNY’s rate increased to 77% from 69%. The Sanitation Department went from 67% to 77% .

Last night, the mayor announced that 91 percent of city workers now had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, after a Saturday surge saw an additional 2,300 shots. In all, according to Gothamist, 19,000 employees joined the ranks of the vaccinated since the city did away with weekly testing as an alternative.

Source: Noisy NYC Anti-Vaccine Protests Are Hiding a Simple Fact – Mother Jones

Commerce secretary says putting off vaccine mandate until after holidays would be a ‘mistake’ | TheHill

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Sunday stood by the timing of federal work vaccine mandates, asserting that waiting any longer to put them into effect would be a “mistake.”

CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan noted that many businesses have not necessarily spoken out against the vaccine mandates themselves but on their timing, claiming that the vaccine mandates would contribute to labor shortages as the U.S. heads into the holiday seasons.

Brennan noted that Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, has said there is flexibility in terms of when to administer the mandates and asked Raimondo if pushing it back until after Christmas was possible.

“No, I think that would be a big mistake. People want to work in a workplace where they feel safe,” Raimondo said. “You know, United Airlines, that was among the first to do the mandate. Their number of folks applying for jobs is through the roof. The best thing we can do to get people back to work is to make sure everybody’s vaccinated.”

Source: Commerce secretary says putting off vaccine mandate until after holidays would be a ‘mistake’ | TheHill

Why America is Experimenting With ‘Postal Banking’ – Slashdot

In 1947, more than 4 million Americans owned $3.4 billion in saving deposits held not by a bank or credit union, but by the United States Postal Service. It’s a largely forgotten part of American banking (and postal) history that the USPS ran the Postal Savings System for 56 years, from 1911 to 1967… [T]o this day postal services around the world provide small-scale financial services, from check cashing to savings accounts to e-commerce solutions, such as allowing refunds for returned goods to be deposited directly into a consumer’s postal account. In September, the U.S. Postal Service took the first steps toward restoring its place in Americans’ financial lives: At four East Coast post offices, customers can now get paychecks or business checks worth up to $500 cashed for a flat fee of $5.95…. Source: Why America is Experimenting With ‘Postal Banking’ – Slashdot

A message for the deciders at the G-20 and COP-26: « The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. »

Barbara Crane Navarro

«Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

This we know – the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.»

  • Chief Seattle, from a speech in 1854 during the governor of Washington’s visit to a council of local tribal chiefs

Global chiefs met this weekend at the G-20 summit in Rome. The 2021 summit’s motto is « people, planet, and prosperity»but these leaders represent the earth’s wealthiest industrialized countries, most powerful governments and multinational corporations who are responsible for the majority of the pollution and CO2 emissions that have brought…

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Imported deforestation: How Europe contributes to tree loss worldwide – Phys.org —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Imported deforestation: How Europe contributes to tree loss worldwide – Phys.org https://ift.tt/2ZwCa7F Imported deforestation: How Europe contributes to tree loss worldwidePhys.org Superforest via “deforestation” – Google Newshttps://ift.tt/2tI2HiE

Imported deforestation: How Europe contributes to tree loss worldwide – Phys.org —

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