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Jueves, 16/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Teleteatro - Actress Juana Guarderas will present "Confesiones de una damisela morlaca y virginal en cuarentena" (Confessions of a morlaca and virginal damsel in quarantine) on Zoom este sábado a...
By Jane C. Hu Nearly three months after the novel coronavirus arrived in the United States, the country is scrambling to manage COVID patients. There’s still a major shortage of tests. Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it would end...
Quick! Don’t think about it, just answer. If you're buying dried pasta, what is the very first line you should read on the Nutrition Facts label? If you said calories, you’re wrong. Fat grams? Nope. Carbohydrates? Wrong again. The most important piece of information...
Miércoles, 15/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - U. of Cuenca - The university is planning projects and bringing services during this pandemic. It has signed an agreement with the Ministerio de Inclusión y Económica y Social (MIES) for 17...
Martes, 14/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - New words - The WHO named the disease COVID-19, an acronym for "coronavirus disease," on 11/2. COVID, because it is an "enfermedad," is feminine - so la COVID. From English comes the word "test,"...
By Karla Freeman Chicken little: Is the sky falling? Chicken Little stood outside her house and said, “The sky is falling. Oh, my God, the sky is falling.“ Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, gloves, and masks fell on her from the sky. She looked up saw dark clouds above...
By Mark Mahoney As we transition out of National Nutrition Month in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of good nutrition, particularly when many of us are under orders to shelter-in-place, is very important. Healthy eating is especially important for...
Lunes, 13/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Sorry for going AWOL on you. My computer broke. Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Eduardo Vega - The documents of ceramic artist Eduardo Vega are being organized. There are some 5,000 articles including books, drawings, letters,...
Cuenca marked the 463rd anniversary of its Spanish founding on Sunday but there were no concerts, crafts fairs or parades. The celebrations and public gatherings associated with the holiday have been cancelled as a result of the coronavirus health emergency. “It is a...
A deluge of new test results has pushed Ecuador’s confirmed Covid-19 case count to more than 7,000. The Ministry of Health said that a 300 to 400 percent increase in tests pushed the one-day increase of cases to 2,196, the largest to date. Reporting the new numbers,...
Instead of delivering his traditional Good Friday blessing from the pulpit, Cuenca Monsignor Marcos Pérez flew over the city in a helicopter as he read from scripture and offered his commentary. During the 90-minute overflight, the monsignor circled the city’s two...
Taelor Leavins, a popular waitress at Cuenca's Sunrise Café for three years, passed away suddenly after a brief illness on March 4, 2020. She arrived in Cuenca with her family from Texas at the age of 15 and finished her high school education here. Her daughter...
By Giovanni Cambizaca Now that the coronavirus is no longer just a smudge of misery hidden by the curve of the earth’s surface, writing about food all the time seems a little trivial, so this week I’m going to consider the way we live now and try to place that in a...
Viernes, 3/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Writing contest - El Mercurio and the Centro de Estudios Sociales de América Latina digital publishing house is calling for authors to participate in the "Testimonios, vivencias o reflexiones sociales ante la pandemia del...
What if someone told you that with just a few drops of blood from a finger prick they could detect a range of illnesses, from diabetes to cancer? Would you be inclined to opt for this diagnostic tool rather than having to submit to having a phlebotomist extract blood...
Martes, 7/4/2020 Hola, Todos - About those fake news articles - remember I said de vez en cuando, no cada día. The acrylic box is real - like a plastic laboratory glove box only not totally enclosed. Actividades - De la pagina cultural - 100 years of indigenous...
By Kristen Fischer Experts continue to encourage people to eat well and exercise during the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, reports claiming that supplements can prevent or treat Covid-19 have emerged. Health experts warn that relying on supplements — and taking too...
He was headed past the cloisters of the Governor’s Building next to Parque Calderon when I encountered the tiny boy. Or, was he “headed” at all, I began to wonder, as those red shoe soles tapped hurriedly up and down on the dirty, rust-colored tiles. There certainly...
The education ministry announced Tuesday afternoon that classes will not resume in the current school year. “We will complete the term with online and television instruction and plan to finish on schedule June 30,” Ecucation Minister Monserrat Creamer said in a...
Researchers testing the head lice drug Ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19 have seen promising results in lab studies. But the research is in its early stages and the drug is yet to be tested on people with COVID-19. There’s so much we don’t know,...
