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Derrick Anderson Borrows Friend’s Wife and Kids for Ad

Virginia Republican candidate Derrick Anderson

Image via National Republican Congressional Committee

So what do you do if you’re running for Congress with an R after your name but don’t have your own wife and kids?

If you’re Derrick Anderson, a candidate running in an open race for Virginia’s seventh congressional district, you borrow a wife and daughters from a friend.

Source: Derrick Anderson Borrows Friend’s Wife and Kids for Ad

Bill Nye Backs Kamala Harris: ‘Science Isn’t Partisan’

Climate is on the ballot this election season. The two presidential candidates offer vastly different scenarios for our planet’s future. Scientists have said another term led by Donald Trump, who has shopped his campaign to fossil fuel executives, would make America more reliant on energy sources that are heating up our planet at a catastrophic rate. Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, has supported legislation that will provide billions in fighting the climate crisis and — while not perfect — offers citizens a platform to champion for lifesaving environmental protections.

With the race to the White House poised to come down to the wire in key battleground states, America’s favorite science guy Bill Nye took to social media to urge Americans to vote for climate and clean energy champions…

Source: Bill Nye Backs Kamala Harris: ‘Science Isn’t Partisan’

“Give us vision lest we perish…” Where is Jamaica’s vision in 2024? – Petchary’s Blog

A vision is obviously a broad view, encompassing past, present, and future. As for Jamaica’s vision: Where have we reached? Where are we now? Where do we want to go?

We often quote this phrase: “Jamaica, the place of choice…”

Recently, Prime Minister Andrew Holness conceded that Jamaica will not be able to achieve its Vision 2030 goals, which were intended to lead us to “Developed Nation” status. Vision 2030 was established in 2009. Indeed, the goals were extremely ambitious; but then, so are the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to which Vision 2030 is closely linked. However, one must aim high, in order to create some sense of urgency, on social, economic, and environmental goals. Neither Vision 2030 nor the SDGs are watered-down, easy targets.

The Prime Minister, who has recently returned from the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, spoke to a Jamaican audience this week in the rural community of Spicy Grove, St. Mary. He made many pledges (yes, elections are in the air!) He informed the audience that “Jamaica is the leading country in the Caribbean for meeting the [SDG] goals, based upon our National Development Plan.” The livestream can be reviewed here.

The Plan he referred to is, in fact, Vision 2030, which you could describe as a Vision plus Mission Statement – that is, goals, and how we were to achieve them. “Jamaica is doing much better than the rest of the world,” the Prime Minister asserted, despite setbacks; of course, COVID struck (and COVID struck the rest of the world, too); however, aren’t we in the same boat with other countries? Are we really “much better”?

The Prime Minister’s comment on being the Caribbean leader on SDGs was not quite accurate. Actually, Jamaica is the leading country in the English-speaking Caribbean. If you look at the SDG rankings, it is actually fourth in the region – after Cuba and Dominican Republic, and Jamaica is just behind Suriname. A number of the smaller English-speaking islands are not included in the rankings, by the way.

The Prime Minister also said that Jamaica has achieved some sixty percent of the SDGs already (that is the Index score); however, according to a simple graph on the UN country profile on Jamaica (see below), 40 percent of these are making “limited progress,” 31.9 percent are “worsening,” and only 27.5 percent are achieved or on track. We are “stagnant” on eight of the goals, and declining on three: Zero Hunger; Quality Education (an issue that the UN describes as “of grave concern” globally; and Responsible Production and Consumption. The others are showing moderate improvement, and only “Partnerships for the Goals” is pointing up and on track. It’s a bit more complicated than it seems, and not very rosy.

Source: “Give us vision lest we perish…” Where is Jamaica’s vision in 2024? – Petchary’s Blog

#52 – Coisas da SIL

Ela queria ser amada
Mas foi rejeitada.
Queria ser consolo
Mais foi abandono
Ela mais amou,
E por isso ficou,
Sozinha, confusa e perdida.

Seguia sozinha
Sua sina
Pintando a vida
Com as cores que tinha.

Não desistiu de pintar
Pintava o que tinha
Amava as flores, os pássaros
As cores,  as estações
As festas e seus sabores.

Tinha apenas uma casinha
Umas poucas cores e tintas
Suas pinturas e uma mãozinha
Que desenvolvia sua vida
Como via e assim defendia
A simplicidade de sua arte.

Por coisas da SiL.
(Inspirada no filme e obra de Maud Lewis.)

Obra de MAUD LEWIS. (Extraída da internet)

 

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