the unbearable notice is; that you've to make up your mind to be the difference and not the other way round else people will misjudge you even though you're not that person.
During the fashion show, Angel, who was the host of the event, got tongues wagging with the lacy see-through mini dress she wore without underwear.
Her father, who is also her Instagram handler, as she earlier revealed, praised his daughter for her outfit, saying that Angel’s dress depicted body positivity.
“During the Truth or Dare game, Angel also kissed Boma and Saga passionately while her love interest, Sammie, looked on.”
INSDERNOTES
On Monday, Cross had revealed to the housemates that Angel had walked in on him having his bath and she stripped and had her bath in the same place.
On her first night of the show, she cuddled with Sammie, an act that got people talking and led to a potential ‘ship’ between them.
The horrific and heartbreaking scenes at Malaysian hospitals are akin to a disaster movie. An overwhelmed healthcare system and overworked medical staff have struggled to cope with the exponential growth in COVID-19 admissions.
Canvas beds have been put up in hospital car parks, several patients have had to share the same oxygen canister, and some life-saving procedures had to be performed on hospital floors. Doctors have reported that whole families have been admitted together to hospitals and some have died together.
“Now, I just have no emotions, it is what it is … death has become so frequent that you become numb,”
ALJAZEERA
To keep up with the rising death counts, bodies have had to be stacked up on trolleys and pushed to the morgues. Volunteer undertakers have been handling nearly 30 times more bodies than they did last year.
Malaysia’s biggest COVID-19 fear was becoming a mini-India and unfortunately, it has come true. Its daily infection and death counts per capita surpassed India’s peak. At the end of July, Malaysia’s daily cases per million people stood at 515.9 and its daily deaths per million were at 4.95; by contrast, at its peak, India reached 283.50 cases and 3.04 deaths. The country also has the highest per-million cases in Asia, and one of the highest per-million deaths in Southeast Asia.
“This is a dramatic reversal of fortunes for a country once deemed the role model in handling the pandemic”
ALJAZEERA
Malaysia celebrated as local transmissions reached zero for a few days, garnering praise from foreign experts, academics, and organisations such as the World Health Organization. The Malaysian government’s swift actions to implement a full-scale lockdown, invest in testing and medical facilities, and deploy proactive communication with the public resulted in fewer cases than in the rest of Southeast Asia.
Malaysia’s director-general of health, Dr Noor Hisham, was given the highest civilian honour and was named alongside the US’s Dr Anthony Fauci and New Zealand’s Ashley Bloomfield as the top health officials in the battle against COVID19.
Every night, Moussa Kamara works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves. But at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now starts a second back-breaking job – hoeing the earth and tending newly sown seeds in a specially designed circular garden.
Kamara, 47, believes the garden will prove even more important than the bakery in the future for feeding his extended family, including 25 children, and other residents of Boki Dawe, a Senegalese town near the border with Mauritania.
A newly built Tolou Keur garden in Boki Diawe, within the Great Green Wall area, in Matam region, Senegal.
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He is part of a project that aims to create hundreds of such gardens – known as “Tolou Keur” in Senegal’s Wolof language – that organisers hope will boost food security, reduce regional desertification and engage thousands of community workers.
“This project is incredibly important,” said Kamara, finally at home after a night spent at the bakery followed by 10 hours of cultivating edible and medicinal plants in the garden.
The project marks a new, more local approach to what is known as the Green Wall initiative, launched in 2007, that aims to slow desertification across Africa’s Sahel region, the arid belt south of the Sahara Desert, by planting an 8,000km (4,970 miles) line of trees from Senegal to Djibouti.
The wider initiative has only managed to plant 4 percent of the pledged 100 million hectares (247 million acres) of trees, and completing it by 2030, as planned, could cost up to $43bn, according to United Nations estimates.
ALJAZEERA
Self Sufficiency
By contrast, the Tolou Keur gardens have flourished in the seven months since the project began and now number about two dozen, said Senegal’s reforestation agency.
Three months after a garden is completed, its agents begin a series of monthly visits over two years to assess progress.
Project manager Karine Fakhoury said it was important that local people felt fully engaged: “This is not an external project, where somebody comes from outside and tells people what to do. It is something entirely indigenous.”
The gardens are partly a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
ALJAZEERA
Senegal shut its borders early last year to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus, cutting imports and exposing rural communities’ dependence on foreign food and medicines.
“The day people realise the full potential of the Great Green Wall, they will stop these dangerous migration routes where you can lose your life at sea,” he said. “It’s better to stay, work the soil, cultivate and see what you can earn.”
There are several ways to memorialise a milestone birthday. Chef Annuradha Toshniwal, a home chef from Mumbai, turned 70 last month and released a cookbook to celebrate her birthday. Titled 70 Unlocked, the scrapbook-style collection of recipes features dishes that she perfected through the multiple lockdowns. Along with options for mains and snacks, there is a selection of refreshing drinks, cold and warm soups, fresh breads and quick desserts.
There are 111 recipes and Toshniwal has paid attention to the one ingredient most crucial to urban kitchens: time. Most of the dishes—be it the roasted pumpkin with mango soup, Bihari-style eggplants or tamarind rice—will take no longer than 30 minutes to prepare.
“It is the magic ingredient that makes desserts in a jiffy and adds a wonderful creamy finish”
ELLA OLSSON
She devised a clever time-saving hack for making desserts by using tinned sweetened condensed milk. It thickens sweet treats within minutes, doesn’t call for addition of sugar and gives a nice creamy finish. With Lounge, she shares two easy dessert recipes from her book that contain the magic ingredient—condensed milk.
Baked yogurt
LIFESTYLE
Serves 4
Ingredients
1 cup yogurt
1 cup condensed milk
1 cup cream
For baking, pick a six-inch mould or four small ones, like ramekin bowls.
Method
1. Take all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
2. Pour the mixture into greased moulds.
3. Bake at 180 degree C for 15-18 minutes. Please keep checking. It should not be overbooked.
2. Cool and serve topped with any fruit.
Kalakand
LIVEMINT
Serves 4
Ingredients
8 tbsp milk powder
2 tbsp yogurt
400 ml condensed milk (1 tin)
1 tbsp lemon juice
100 gm crumbled paneer or ricotta cheese
Method
In a bowl, put the milk powder, yogurt and condensed milk. Mix well.
Microwave for 1 minute. Give it a gentle stir.
Add 1 tbsp lemon juice. Give it a gentle stir.
Microwave for 1 minute.
Mix in the crumbled paneer or ricotta cheese
Refrigerate for a few hours.
Serve chilled
Toshniwal has self published the book and it can be bought on the Instagram account @70Unlocked.
I know he was already confirmed as a genetic “strandcast”, but that didn’t necessarily confirm he had Palpatine’s DNA in him or was part of Palpatine’s cloning experiments with his own body.
One of the biggest problems overarching in the divisive films is the sheer existence of Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis). From the start, it appears that Snoke’s only real purpose is to function as a placeholder until Kylo Ren/Ben Solo (Adam Driver) can kill him and take up the mantle of “Supreme Leader” himself.
Although many Star Wars fans already presumed that Snoke was a failed Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) clone, Star Wars has just officially confirmed this information for the first time, in a new post on StarWars.com.
Another user going by KingAdamXVII noted that this gives more concrete information about how Snoke came to be than we previously had:
Surveillance start-up Paragon has reportedly found a way to break into a host of encrypted smartphone apps. The Israeli firm, which was established in 2019, claims to have discovered a way to break into encrypted messaging apps remotely. The applications reportedly at risk from the start-up’s encryption busting techniques include Gmail, WhatsApp, and Facebook as well as Signal and Facebook Messenger.
But while details on Paragon remain thin on the grounds, executives have spoken about the secretive firm’s offerings on condition of anonymity.
“As of yet, Paragon reportedly doesn’t have any customers.”
EXPRESS
But while details on Paragon remain thin on the grounds, executives have spoken about the secretive firm’s offerings on condition of anonymity.
One exec said Paragon only sells its spyware products to countries that respect fundamental rights, freedoms, and adhere to international norms.
Journalists, lawyers and human rights activists have reportedly been targeted by the Pegasus malware.
EXRESS
While an investigation discovered a leaked list of 50,000 targets – including world leaders such as French president Emmanuel Macron – that were targets for the Pegasus spyware. A CEO for the NSO Group has denied the accusations.
Speaking to Forbes about accusations NSO was involved in any attempts to hack French officials, Shalev Hulio, the CEO and co-founder of the NSO Group, said: “It’s definitely not related to NSO; it’s definitely not related to Pegasus. This is what I can confirm.”
The divorce between Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, cofounders of one of the world’s largest private charitable foundations, was finalised on Monday, a court document showed.
The couple filed for divorce on May 3, after 27 years of marriage, but pledged to continue their philanthropic work together. They said at the time they had reached an agreement on how to divide their marital assets.
No details of that agreement were disclosed in the final divorce order filed on Monday in King County Superior Court in Seattle, United States, Reuters news agency reported.
“The couple filed for divorce after 27 years of marriage, but pledged to continue their philanthropic work together.”
Aljazeera
The Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has become one of the most powerful and influential forces in global public health, spending more than $50bn over the past two decades to bring a business approach to combating poverty and disease.
Bill, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, and Melinda, an author and businesswoman, had announced their decision to separate in early May in an identical statement posted on their individual Twitter accounts.
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