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What CDC Says What You Should and Can do After Being Fully Vaccinated

When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated How to Protect Yourself and OthersUpdated Apr. 2, 2021LanguagesPrint COVID-19 vaccines are effective at protecting you from getting sick. Based on what we know about COVID-19 vaccines, people who have been fully vaccinated can start to do some things that they had stopped doing because of the pandemic. We’re still learningContinue reading “What CDC Says What You Should and Can do After Being Fully Vaccinated”

Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron”

“’Quite!’ said Longarine. “I’m sure that what you say is true. The fact is that every man who’s ever wanted to be my devoted servant has always started by declaring that my life, my welfare and my honour were all he truly desired. But in the end it’s only their own interests that count, onlyContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre “The Heptameron””

Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Stimulation

“Once you understand introversion and extroversion as preferences for certain levels of stimulation, you can begin consciously trying to situate yourself in environments favourable to your personality-neither overstimulating nor understimulating, neither boring or anxiety-making. You can organize your life in terms of what personality psychologists call “optimal levels of arousal” and what I call “sweetContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Stimulation”

“Mutantism on the March”: Chapter 34 “Zorollia Raises its Ugly Head”

Montenez heard the news of the slug people revolt and the role of Jiber Jr. in that fiasco while he was on his voyage back to Earth. Earth was having enough problems without a power obsessed spaceman running amok. Whatever Jiber Jr. had in mind for Earth would certainly lead to no good. It struckContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March”: Chapter 34 “Zorollia Raises its Ugly Head””

Cockburn’s Late Bottled Vintage Port 2015

Late Bottled Vintage Port (LBV) from the Douro is consistently excellent and attractively priced. Well it is not the Vintage Port at the top of the pyramid but dollar for dollar it gives Vintage Port a run for the money. The usual decadent lush blackberry, cherry, prune and chocolate aromas. On the palate ultra richContinue reading “Cockburn’s Late Bottled Vintage Port 2015”

Jon Kabat-Zinn “Full Catastrophe Living”; breathing

“When we are mindful of our breathing, it automatically helps us to establish greater calmness in both the body and the mind. Then we are better able to be aware of our thoughts and feelings with a greater degree of calm and with a more discerning eye. We are able to see things more clearlyContinue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn “Full Catastrophe Living”; breathing”

Entire Province of Ontario Places Emergency Break On For Entire Province as Case Counts remain High and ICU’s close to Peak Capacity

NEWS RELEASE Ontario Implements Provincewide Emergency Brake All 34 Public Health Unit Regions to Move into Shutdown April 1, 2021 Office of the Premier Table of Contents Content Quick Facts Additional Resources Related Topics TORONTO —The Ontario government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health and other health experts, is imposing a provincewide emergency brake asContinue reading “Entire Province of Ontario Places Emergency Break On For Entire Province as Case Counts remain High and ICU’s close to Peak Capacity”

Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: The impossibility of multitasking

“Indeed excessive stimulation seems to impede learning: a recent study found that people learn better after a quiet stroll through the woods than after a noisy walk down a city street. Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers toContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: The impossibility of multitasking”

Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) “The Heptameron”

“What I mean Hircan is this. If love is based on a woman’s, charm and favours, and if our aim is merely pleasure, ambition or profit, then such a love can never last. For if the whole foundation on which our love is based should collapse then love will fly from us and there willContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) “The Heptameron””

“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 33 “Does Frizzy the Smicket Boy Prevail? “

Frizzy the Smicket Boy head of the Zortixian Defence Academy was like a hound on the scent of an escaped convict as he intensified the search for Jiber Jr. mastermind of the doomed slug people uprising and possibly even the leader of the Triple Complex Towers attack. Frizzy assembled a crack team of detectives inContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 33 “Does Frizzy the Smicket Boy Prevail? “”