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By Giovanni Cambizaca This April we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Whether you think our future will be like Greta Thunberg’s nightmares or something more manageable, it is clear that the climate is changing. The closer you are to the planet’s...
Jueves, 23/3/2020 Hola, Todos - The spider wishes you a happy Un-April Fool's Day. Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Día del Libro - Book Day was celebrated by the Casa de la Cultura today with a reading of Camus' "La Peste" (The Plague) that started at 9:00 on...
Miércoles, 22/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Festival "La Cumbre de las Artes" (The Summit of the Arts) - This edition, "El rencuentro. ¡De casa adentro!" (Reunion. ¡From home inside!) was scheduled for 3-30/4 from Colombia and included...
By John Keeble Emergency supplies of food are being taken around to many of Cuenca's thousands of Venezuelan refugees as lockdown rules bite harder every day on those who have lost every means to earn money and buy food. They are part of the wider efforts to help...
Ángeles are a popular theme within the social structure of Ecuador. Catholicism reigns in this South American country. There are paintings and statuary, carvings, drawings and reliefs of ángeles everywhere. Most of these are depicted in traditional manners with...
Martes, 21/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Precio del petróleo por los suelos (Oil price down to the ground) - See Tuesday's CHL for the story. Health controls not working in Cuenca - In spite of the city wide quarantine, there is more...
By Stuart White and Pauline McKean “I’ve seen how in every person, every human being, a calling to care for the Earth occurs when, privately, their being tells them ‘this you must do’’, José Morquecho said in a matter-of-fact way. When he made his observation, José...
By Mesdfin Fedadu Elvis Francois, the orthopedic surgery resident who has gone viral with his top-notch live performances at hospitals, knew from adolescence he wanted to help heal the world through medicine. But through music? Not so much. Two years after becoming an...
Lunes, 20/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Museos Nacionales en línea - You can access the archeological, ethnographic, and artistic collections of 14 national museums in 11 cities at http://www.museos.culturaypatrimonio.gob.ec/redmuseos....
It's been one month since I published this column on the importance of obtaining sufficient vitamin D from food and from sunshine because vitamin D is essential for a healthy immune system. Since that time researchers have been working hard on identifying links...
By Sandra Gutierrez G. The Centers for Disease Control and Protection has encouraged people to wear cloth masks at all times while outside. Research shows that although they’re not great protection against airborne Covid-19 particles, they’re better than nothing. And...
Some call is the power of prayer, or the law of attraction, or visualization, or the power of intention, or even, for you skeptics, the placebo effect. Call it what you will, there is little argument that positive attitudes yield positive results. Expressing gratitude...
By Giovanni Cambizaca Last week my message was a little somber, so this week I want to lighten the mood and talk about the most engaging cook I can think of. Julia Child was always full of such joie de vie and enthusiasm, even when things went wrong, as they often...
Viernes, 17/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Short issue today. Actividades - De la pagina cultural - OSC - The second concert of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca will perform sábado a las 18:00 and will include the children's opera, "El Quinde, el Fuego y el Gigante" in kichwa,...
We welcomed a new member to our intentional community at the Oasis this week. Marilyn is a very bright light and we are delighted to have her join our family. Her donation to the community will support us in completing our current upgrade to our farming and animal...
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,"...
