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happy birthday! hope you had a good day. if your requests are open... i've been thinking about your hades game niki art recently, so could i ask for a matching rinne doodle...?

(cw blood)

o goddess of victory, lend me your boons (let me find a way to repay you)

[waddingham]

it's midnight in paris and the weather won't stop shouting about you.

i don't mind thunderstorms usually (i like the reminder that even the sky gets agry) but the rain on the river sounds like your name and i don't like the way the clouds press so heavy.

i want clear skies and stars. i want soft winds and quiet. instead i have rage, and a bed that's too big because you are not in it.

e.h.

I'm sorry

don't apologize i love random poetry in my inbox

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Lily’s dim‚ out of nowhere.

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¡Hola, Jay!

Primero que nada, la razón por la que estamos acá es por tu cumpleaños, el tan esperado día por fin llego y puedo demostrarte todo mi amor, entonces toma asiento.

Bienvenido a un pequeño recorrido durante 9 maravillosos meses a-tu-lado y unas cosas extras, pero sobre todo las emociones que experimentaste en mí y mis eternos agradecimientos hacia tu persona. Creo que conociéndome sabes que a estas alturas ya estoy llorando porque no ha sido nada sencillo viajar al pasado y ver cuánto me ayudaste en el transcurso de este, pero al mismo tiempo me envuelve una nostalgia agri-dulce, pero ser agradecida es uno de mis lenguajes de amor que siempre salen a relucir. Me encontré con un alma amable por azares del destino y aunque al inicio fue muy difícil lograr que me dejara entrar, con algo de paciencia y más paciencia, cuando me pude percatar, ya tenía un pie dentro de su hogar. Entre aun sabiendo las posibles consecuencias que a la larga me podía traer dejar entrar (de igual manera) a alguien a mi vida, pero acepte tomar el riesgo y aventurarme a ella, sabiendo que soy un alma frágil tratando de no romperme. Los primeros tres meses fueron sencillos, nuestras charlas eran pequeñas, pero luego se transformaron en grandes-muy-grandes, cálidas, divertidas y añoradas. Y cuando me di cuenta, ya no había vuelta atrás, había creado un vínculo que me provocaba felicidad. Un vínculo que hace años no concretaba, entonces lo supe, el momento era ahí y estaba sucediendo. Comencé a tener una sensación de llegar a casa y ver que había un par de brazos que me sostenían apenas decía un "Hola, llegué del trabajo" y venía a mi mente: que suerte tengo de tenerle. Mis días se tornaban distintos a los días antes de crear nuestro vínculo, porque te juro que después de ello me mostraba más alegre. Mis fines de semanas eran lo mejor porque estábamos ahí.

Las semanas enteras donde me esperabas para jugar Genshin, eran las mejores. Los días donde me ausentaba y amaba encontrar mensajes tuyos en mi inbox a pesar de no estar, eso me hacía sentir tan querida. Siempre fue difícil para mí darle mi confianza a alguien, darle mi cariño y amistad, porque como pudiste notar en el camino, no soy alguien fácil de querer, aunque digas lo contrario, me conozco lo suficiente para decirlo (ahora ya lo sabes) Y así de la misma manera es difícil que yo quiera a alguien. Entonces cuando eso sucede, en serio quiero, adoro y amo como una imbécil sincera, pero también se activa mi lado frágil que odio tener exponiéndome a cambios, daños o situaciones que, si bien al principio me son difíciles de digerir, mi compañero el tiempo se hace cargo de curarme, pero todo a mi manera.

Absolutamente todos los recuerdos que se verán plasmados en este regalo agradezco infinitamente a ti y al universo por haberme permitido experimentarlos, porque durante todo ese tiempo fui una Maddy verdaderamente y sinceramente feliz. Esa Maddy que conociste al inicio es la que soy, la que no estaba pasando por malos momentos, la Maddy que siempre tenía algo que decir y se esforzaba por hacer todo ameno, porque sí, ese es mi lenguaje de amor. Te hacía pasar buenos ratos, intentando reparar con algo de ayuda un corazón que conocí triste y roto, espero haber aportado en ello. Te dejé ver en mí, facetas que nadie más ve. Me enseñaste a hablar un idioma secreto que no puedo hablar con nadie más.

Ame la primera vez que me dedicaste un escrito, sentía tan, no sé cómo explicar lo que sentía, porque jamás nadie me había escrito y recibir eso simplemente me hacía sentir bonito. Odiaba no poder escribir idol contigo por usar a Jennie, no tienes una idea. Aunque si soy franca, a veces sentía que no querías escribir conmigo, pero no importaba. Por eso a veces me gustaba tomar la iniciativa sin siquiera tener en mente recibir algo a cambio.

Estos 9 meses del año 2022 los disfrute como no tienes una idea. Fueron los más felices incluso llegué a sentir que mi enero horrendo se llenó de florecitas al llegar tú (definitivamente) en marzo. Y lo disfrute tanto, porque como en todo, las cosas siempre van a cambiar, algunas para bien, otras para mal, pero todo siempre está en constante cambio y no me iba a aferrar a algo que no podría controlar, entonces me permito abrazar esos meses y les agradezco a ellos, a ti y al universo por haberme hecho una persona muy-muy-pero-muy feliz durante todo este tiempo.

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[atlanticcanada]

PM unveils new COVID-19 aid for scientists, farmers

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rolling out new measures to mobilize the Canadian science sector and assist farmers as the push to combat the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

Monday morning Trudeau is announcing new support to help speed up Canadian research and life-science companies to “support large-scale efforts towards countermeasures to combat COVID-19, including potential vaccines and treatments.”

And, the prime minister is presenting new measures to support farmers and agri-food businesses that are facing financial impacts of the pandemic. This includes $5 billion in lending capacity for producers, agribusinesses and food processors.

The prime minister’s remarks from outside Rideau Cottage come as Canadians settle into another week of what experts say could be months of physical distancing measures. The Conference Board of Canada is forecasting that the global outbreak could result in the loss of over 330,000 jobs in Canada, should the public health measures remain in place for several months. 

Trudeau said that the physical distancing measures may be taking a toll but they cannot stop. 

Prior to addressing Canadians, Trudeau hosted a call with all premiers—many of whom have now declared provincial states of emergency—and spoke with the prime ministers of Ethiopia and Japan. He made similar calls to several other world leaders last week. 

Following the prime minister's remarks, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland will join other officials to provide an update on the COVID-19 efforts, after leading a meeting of the special cabinet committee focused on the federal response to the novel coronavirus.

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Over the weekend public health and government officials expressed increasing alarm at the crowds seen gathering in public places such as parks and beaches, prompting the following urging from Health Minister Patty Hajdu: “Our freedoms around the measures that we’re taking right now depend on people taking them seriously... So I would encourage Canadians to think about that and to think about their obligation to act collectively right now.”

Hajdu was referencing the federal government’s ability to drastically eliminate Canadians' ability to move freely, through powers they could enact under both the Emergencies Act and the Quarantine Act.

So far the federal government has not chosen to take such draconian measures, but if it becomes clear that provincial and municipal efforts to restrict movement are not effective, Trudeau has said it’s an option they could take.

Emergency sitting Tuesday

On Sunday Trudeau announced that the House of Commons will resume for a special hours-long sitting to pass the aspects of the $82 billion financial aid and economic stimulus package that require legislation, such as changes to employment benefits for Canadians who are out of work and enhancing the Canada Child Benefit.

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All parties have agreed to a plan to have 32 members in the House on Tuesday, when the bill will be fast-tracked through all stages and sent to the Senate by day’s end. There will be 14 Liberals, 11 Conservatives, three members apiece of the Bloc Quebecois and NDP, and one Green MP.

The government will be flying in some key opposition members from Western Canada to take part in the historic sitting.

The Senate will then reconvene on Wednesday with a similarly limited roster of senators and staff to scrutinize and pass the bill, and the final step—a royal assent ceremony—is expected that day.

“During the recall, steps will be taken to ensure the health and safety of senators and staff involved in Chamber operations,” said the Senate in a statement. 

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[neptunesailing]

hope you feel better! take as long a break you need. and thank you for all the art you've already shared, i'm very excited when i see them show up on my dash

aww thank you!! i mostly meant it as "i need to look away for a while and ill look at it in the morning" type of break JSDKFKJ but taking breaks are always good!

[karingudino]

Farmers, govt to hold 10th round of talks to end impasse over agri laws today

The federal government has additionally proposed that the 41-member farmers’ delegation type a “smaller group” with “individuals who have experience on legal guidelines”.

By hindustantimes.com | Written by Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Instances, New Delhi

PUBLISHED ON JAN 20, 2021 07:25 AM IST

Representatives of protesting farm unions and the central management will on Wednesday meet for the tenth time to beat the impasse over three contentious agricultural legal guidelines enacted through the monsoon session of Parliament in September.

The assembly, which was initially scheduled for Tuesday, comes because the ninth spherical of talks on January 15 remained inconclusive.

Within the earlier assembly, whereas farmers remained adamant on the demand to repeal legislations, Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar urged them to be flexible and asserted that the federal government has been accommodative and has already accepted a number of calls for.

The federal government additionally proposed that the 41-member farmers’ delegation type a “smaller group” with “individuals who have experience on legal guidelines”. The choice, nonetheless, was rejected by farmers’ representatives.

Kavitha Kuruganti, a farm chief who represents the unions on the talks, mentioned that the 2 sides mentioned Important Commodities Modification Act 2020, one of many legal guidelines farmers need scrapped. Union minister Piyush Goyal defended the brand new amendments within the act however signalled the federal government’s willingness to make modifications.

He informed the unions that “some modifications may be made within the Act too with out fairly saying that (what particular) amendments will probably be made,” in response to Kuruganti.

On Tuesday, a committee appointed by the Supreme Court to scrutinise three agricultural legal guidelines held its first and finalised its roadmap for broad consultations with farmers, farm collectives and unions in addition to state governments and state-run agricultural organisations, a member mentioned.

The committee will start its consultations with farm unions on January 21 over the legislations, which have been stayed by the apex courtroom in the meanwhile. “Invites have been despatched to unions that are each pro- and anti-farm legal guidelines,” Anil Ghanwat, a member of the committee informed HT.

Farmers have been protesting on the totally different borders of the nationwide capital since November final yr demanding a whole rollback of three farm legal guidelines—Farmers’ Produce Commerce and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Safety) Settlement on Worth Assurance and farm Providers Act 2020 and the Important Commodities (Modification) Act, 2020.

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Brazil and Japan plotted a farming revolution in Mozambique

SQUINT AT THE grasslands of northern Mozambique and they look a bit like the cerrado, a savannah in central Brazil. Could they be transformed by intensive farming, just as the thickets of the cerrado have given way to fields of soya that transformed Brazil from a food importer to one of the world’s great breadbaskets? That was the thought behind Prosavana, a programme bringing Brazilian and Japanese expertise to Mozambique. Initiated in 2009, it aimed to lift agricultural production across an area of 107,000 square kilometres, roughly the size of Bulgaria.

Politicians heralded Prosavana as a landmark example of “South-South” co-operation. Few farming projects in Africa could match its ambition. It painted a future of which many agronomists on the continent dream: productive and commercially astute smallholder farmers and large plantations exporting to the world. Yet it became a study in hubris, and an illustration of why top-down schemes so often fall short of expectations.

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Some 60% of people in sub-Saharan Africa earn a living from their fields. Most of them do not use improved seeds or fertiliser. A typical farm in Kenya or Uganda produces about one-third as much maize per hectare as one in China, and about one-sixth as much as an American one. Africa also has much of the world’s remaining uncultivated land. Stories of untapped potential are drawing commercial farming to the continent. Some agri-businesses cultivate vast holdings of their own. Others enter arrangements to buy cash crops from locals. They often run into opposition, not least over land. Many quietly retreat.

Prosavana encountered similar suspicion. A decade on there is nothing to show for it except a small research lab and a few model farms. In a field outside Ribaue, a northern town, farmers have been helped by technicians to check market prices and start a savings group. Onions grow in neat rows. But this is merely a scratch on an immense landscape. With the main phase of Prosavana not yet begun, the project has mostly had the effect of planting the seeds of a civil-society movement.

The first that many Mozambicans heard of Prosavana was an article in a Brazilian newspaper in 2011. “Mozambique offers land to Brazilian soya”, ran the headline. The story described Mozambique as “Brazil’s next agricultural frontier” and cited a claim by a Brazilian agronomist that half of northern Mozambique was “unpopulated”. In 2013 a Prosavana planning document was leaked. Although it stressed the importance of small farmers, it also envisaged linking them to corporate farming clusters. A private-equity fund hoped to raise $2bn for related agri-business projects.

Activists denounced the scheme as a “massive land grab”. They went on a study trip to the cerrado and joined forces with movements in Brazil and Japan, in a mirror of Prosavana’s trilateral structure. An open letter calling for the suspension of the project was signed by 23 organisations in Mozambique and 43 abroad. Each side of the argument saw the other as out of touch and vaguely foreign—shills of evil corporations or dupes of clueless NGOs.

A gulf opened between two irreconcilable world-views. Many farmers in northern Mozambique practise shifting cultivation, moving to new lands when the soil needs a rest. Agronomists say that rapid population growth is making this impossible. Antonio Limbau, the Mozambican civil servant who oversees Prosavana, argues that farmers must use hybrid seeds and synthetic fertilisers to farm more intensively, so that “the same piece of land feeds more people”.

Farmers call this argument patronising. “We are not children,” says Costa Estevao, who leads the peasant union in Nampula province. He says, accurately, that Prosavana aims to eliminate traditional ways of cultivation. He worries too about costly fertiliser and poisonous pesticides. Anabela Lemos, an environmental activist, says that governments and corporations want “to destroy the campesina”, or peasant class. “That’s a big mistake, because they’re the ones who feed the world,” she says.

This kind of rhetoric reflects a “persistent misunderstanding” of the project, sighs Hiroaki Endo, who heads the Japanese aid agency in Mozambique. Technocrats are still redrafting their master plan, which they say will benefit small farmers. But whatever emerges from endless consultations will fulfil neither the hopes nor the fears invested in it. Brazilian farmers lost interest in Mozambique when they discovered the land was less empty than they thought. And they have since opened a new agricultural frontier back home, where the government of Jair Bolsonaro is letting the forest burn.

An unintended outcome of Prosavana has been the strengthening of Mozambique’s civil society, which forged new bonds through its campaign. Meanwhile in the northern grasslands, farmers invoke the ghost of the project to explain all kinds of unrelated mischief. Beside a road in Nampula province villagers recount the visit of a strange man who gave no name but asked for 50 hectares of their land. The tracks of his bulldozer are still imprinted in the earth. Who is he? Will he come back? Locals have no idea, but the word on their lips is “Prosavana”. ■

This article appeared in the Middle East and Africa section of the print edition under the headline "Stony ground"

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'Grocery shopping is no longer fun': Poll reveals changing relationship with food

A majority of Canadians say their grocery-buying habits won't return to normal when the pandemic ends, according to a new poll.

About half of surveyed adults under 55 said they would cook at home more, as did 40 per cent of those older than 55. About 22 per cent of respondents under 35 said they’d visit restaurants more often than they did before the crisis, and smaller numbers of the more than 1,500 respondents said they would order meal kits or groceries online more often and use food delivery apps regularly.

The results point to the shifting attitudes that Canadians have towards grocery stores, said Sylvain Charlebois of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, which conducted the new survey in partnership with Angus Reid.

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About 64 per cent of respondents said they’re shopping in-store less frequently than before the pandemic.

“Canadians are realizing that grocery shopping is no longer fun, and they know it’s going to last a while,” he said on CTV News Channel on Tuesday. “For decades, grocers have tried to make you feel at home in a grocery store, but now you’re looking at a security guard, you have to line up, (follow) directions.”

Though many grocers have remained open as essential services during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not business as usual. The new normal of lineups and limited capacities, temperature checks at the door and grocery store clerks in personal protective gear is causing major shifts in the food retail industry and perhaps driving people away from stores and onto the internet. The researchers at Dalhousie say that food delivery apps could generate “well over $2.5 billion by the end of 2020” because of the pandemic. In 2019, the figure was close to $1.5 billion.

“Online shopping for food has tripled since the beginning of COVID,” said Charlebois. “More people will find it not only convenient to buy online, but also will find it safe as well.”

In stores, Canadians have shifted their habits as the coronavirus pandemic continues. More than 80 per cent of respondents said they use hand sanitizer when they shop. More than 40 per cent said they bring their own bags. About 30 per cent said they wear a cloth face mask and more than one-quarter wear gloves in grocery stores.

About 42 per cent of respondents said they wipe the groceries down with disinfectant when they return home, though experts say there is little evidence to suggest this practice is necessary. In an interview with CNN, a scientist who studied how long the novel coronavirus can survive of surfaces said that he doesn’t bother wiping down groceries or takeout.

“I treat my hands as potentially contaminated while I’m handling the groceries and unpacking them and I make sure that I wash them fully when I'm done with that process,” said Jamie Lloyd-Smith

METHODOLOGY

A total of 1,503 Canadians were surveyed in April 2020. The sample carries a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding.

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