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abqtommy's JournalFrom The BBC: Your pictures of Scotland: 17 - 24 September (2021)
I always enjoy having a look at this weekly photo feature. Today it's moos, coos and
an airborne Airedale that are my favorites but you're welcome to find your own.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-58623663
Reuters: Backers of Trump's false fraud claims seek to control next elections
'Summary:
Reuters examined all 15 Republican candidates for secretary of state in five battlegrounds. Ten still question whether Trump lost the 2020 election.
Democrats intensify fundraising as pro-Trump candidates aim to capture control of elections oversight in key states.
From article:
Sept 22 (Reuters) - One leading candidate seeking to become Georgia’s chief elections official, Republican Jody Hice, is a Congressman who voted to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's 2020 presidential win in the hours after the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. Hice had posted on social media earlier that day: “This is our 1776 moment,” referencing the American Revolution.
In Arizona, the contenders for the elections-chief office, secretary of state, include Republican state lawmaker Mark Finchem, who attended the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally before the deadly insurrection and spoke at a similar gathering the previous day. In Nevada, one strong Republican candidate for elections chief is Jim Marchant, who unsuccessfully sued to have his own defeat in a 2020 congressional race reversed based on unfounded voter-fraud claims.'
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/backers-trumps-false-fraud-claims-seek-control-next-us-elections-2021-09-22/
There's much more text and photos at the link. I can't say that this is new information but it's all here in one place. We have to defeat these reTHUG attempts
to further pollute our political/social process.
Tomorrow, September 22, 2021, is the first day of the fall season here in the
northern hemisphere. Today, September 21, 2021 our high temp is 80 degrees here in Albuquerqe, NM and that's very welcome after a hot summer.
'Next Season; Autumn/Fall 2021
Start (September Equinox)
Sep 22 1:21 pm (U.S. Mountain Daylight Saving Time)
Duration89 days, 20 hrs, 38 mins'
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons.html
Wikiepedia: List of food origins (throughout our world)
While reading this op https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215881060
I got to thinking about the importance of food items and where they originated.
There's a LOT of information available here at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_origins
so have a look and you may be pleasantly surprised. Or maybe not. Here's a
sample:
'Current importance of food origins:
In 2016, researchers linked the origins and primary regions of diversity ("areas typically including the locations of the initial domestication of crops, encompassing the primary geographical zones of crop variation generated since that time, and containing relatively high species richness in crop wild relatives" of food and agricultural crops with their current importance around the world in modern national food supplies and agricultural production.
The results indicated that national diets and farm production around the world were generally composed of a large set of crops from many diverse origins. Foreign crops (crops whose origins do not include the same region as the country) comprised 68.7% of national food supplies as a global mean, and their usage has increased in the last fifty years.'
I've edited the above into paragraphs to make it easier to read. Enjoy!
Does The Moon And Other Planets' Gravitational Force Impact Earth?
Short answer: The sun and the moon have the greatest tidal effects on the earth.
Long answer: see the link:
https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/universe/does-the-moons-and-other-planets-gravitational-force-impact-earth.html
And keep on howling; I know I will!
NOTE: I posted the above as a reply in another thread* but decided it needed to be
its own op.
* https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215875655
Are you ready for The Full Moon Fever? The full moon occurs on September 20,
2021 at 5:54 PM in Albuquerque, NM (U.S. Mountain Daylight Saving Time)
Have a howling good time!
https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/phases/
The Full Moon in the month of September in the Old Farmer's Almanac is called Harvest Moon, which corresponds with the Old English/Anglo-Saxon name, while other names are Corn Moon or Full Corn Moon or Barley Moon.
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/full-moon-names.html
From The Guardian: 'How is Pauli Murray not a household name?
The extraordinary life of the US’s most radical activist.'
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/17/how-is-pauli-murray-not-a-household-name-the-extraordinary-life-of-the-uss-most-radical-activist
'She explored her gender and sexuality in the 20s, defied segregation in the 40s and inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now, a film is bringing her trailblazing achievements to light.
It seems inconceivable that someone like Pauli Murray could have slipped through the cracks of US history. A lawyer, activist, scholar, poet and priest, Murray led a trailblazing life that altered the course of history. She was at the forefront of the battles for racial and gender equality, but often so far out in front that her contributions went unrecognised.
In 1940, 15 years before Rosa Parks, Murray was jailed for refusing to move to the back of a bus in the Jim Crow south. In 1943, she campaigned successfully to desegregate her local diner, 17 years before the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins of 1960. Her work paved the way for the landmark supreme court ruling Brown v Board of Education in 1954 – which de-segregated US schools – to the extent that Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer for the NAACP civil rights group, called Murray’s book States’ Laws on Race and Color “the bible for civil rights lawyers”.
Murray also co-founded the National Organization for Women (Now), in 1966, alongside Betty Friedan. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg won the Reed v Reed case in 1971, which ruled that discrimination “on the basis of sex” was unconstitutional, her arguments were built on Murray’s work. Ginsburg named Murray as co-author of the brief. “We knew when we wrote that brief that we were standing on her shoulders,” Ginsburg later said.'
There's much more text and photos at the link. I'm 72 years old and this is the
first time that I've read about Pauli. But now I'm aware and no longer ignorant.
From The BBC: Your pictures of Scotland: 10 - 17 September (2021)
It's finally Friday with the appearance of another pleasing collection of photos from
Scotland. Enjoy!
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-58516551
From Al Jazeera: 'Cuba begins vaccinating children as young as two against COVID-19.
Cuba, using its homegrown vaccines, is one of the first nations to begin vaccinating very young children.'
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/17/cuba-begins-vaccinating-children-as-young-as-two-against-covid-19
Sitting on her mother’s lap, two-year-old Lucia looked at the illustrations in her book while around her several children watched the doctors in white coats and nurses with thermometers in amazement.
In an adjoining room, Danielito, also two, sniffled while getting a shot as a clown tried to distract him.
On Thursday Cuba began a massive vaccination campaign for children between the ages of two and 10, becoming one of the first nations to do so. Health officials in the country say Cuba’s homegrown vaccines have been found safe for young children.
“Our country would not put [infants] even at a minimal risk if the vaccines were not proven save and highly effective when put into children,” Aurolis Otano, director of the Vedado Polyclinic University, told The Associated Press news agency in a vaccination room.
There's more text and photos at the above link. In the article it states that the
post-vaccine observation wait time is one hour.
From Al Jazeera: "Pakistan, Russia to 'coordinate' positions on Afghanistan;
Pakistani PM Imran Khan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin hold talks ‘focused on the need for peace and stability’ in Afghanistan."
When I first read this headline I thought that perhaps it was originally an article from
The Onion since I'm not aware of Russia or Pakistan ever being concerned about
'peace and stability' anywhere before. But it does appear to be a valid news article so here are a few paragraphs from it:
"The leaders of Pakistan and Russia have held telephone conversations to “coordinate” their position on the situation in Afghanistan, statements from both governments say, ahead of a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) later this week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke on Tuesday, the statements said.
snip
'While exchanging views on the situation in Afghanistan, both parties voiced their interest in coordinating both countries’ approaches for the sake of stabilising it,' read a brief Russian statement.
The Pakistani statement on the meeting also said 'close coordination and consultations between Pakistan and Russia on the evolving situation in Afghanistan were of crucial importance'."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/15/pakistan-russia-to-coordinate-positions-on-afghanistan
There's more text and photos at the link above. Again, it's a surprise to me that
Pakistan and Russia have any interest in "stabilizing" anything except their own
respective positions of power, but that's just me. Whaadya think?
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