Nov. 18, 2020 "Conscious Relationships": Today I found this article by Shelly Bullard on Facebook:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/06/27/when-your-friends-are-so-desperate-get-you-date-that-they-resort-powerpoint/?utm_term=.b11cb06c98a0
"Alicia Silverstone Tells Drew Barrymore She 'Got Banned' from the Same Dating App Twice"/ "Drew Barrymore on the challenges of finding love as a single mom"
"The Red Flags in your own behavior in dating and relationships"/ "The six relationship red flags you should never ignore"
Hundreds of blackbirds were seen on video falling from the sky in Mexico and hitting the pavement. Some died on impact.
The circumstances surrounding the event led some to question whether it was pollution or 5G on social media. However, an animal expert told The Guardian it was likely a predatory bird that led the flock of birds to the ground.
Security camera footage recorded the incident on Feb. 7, according to the local paper El Heraldo de Chihuahua. Residents in the community saw hundreds of blackbirds dead on the streets and sidewalks and called police.
Dr. Richard Broughton, an ecologist with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, told The Guardian he believed there was a raptor who chased the birds and drove them to the ground.
“This looks like a raptor like a peregrine or hawk has been chasing a flock, like they do with murmurating starlings, and they have crashed as the flock was forced low,” he said. “You can see that they act like a wave at the beginning, as if they are being flushed from above.”
Other possible causes for the bizarre fall include the birds inhaling toxic smoke from a nearby heater or they were standing on an overloaded power line.
In 2014, birds continued to fall from the sky in St. Louis, Mich., after they fed on insects and grubs from contaminated soil. Decades of pollution for a former nearby chemical plant led to a forensic study that found lethal levels of DDT in the birds collected.
Video shows hundreds of blackbirds falling from the sky and crashing into pavement (yahoo.com)
Feb. 19, 2022 Wal-mart: Fight Hunger Spark Change:
Food Banks Canada provides national leadership to relieve hunger today and prevent hunger tomorrow in collaboration with the food bank network from coast-to-coast-to-coast. Over 3,000 food banks and community agencies come together to serve our most vulnerable neighbours. Their vision is clear: create a Canada where no one goes hungry. Visit Food Banks Canada to learn more.
Purchase participating items online or in store.
Add a donation to your order on Walmart.ca.
Round up your in store purchase to the next dollar & donate the difference.
Drop off non-perishable food at your local Walmart store.
Our commitment
We’re committed to making a real difference in relieving hunger. Together with our suppliers and customers, we’re setting out to raise and donate enough funds to secure 10 million meals through the Fight Hunger, Spark Change program in 2022. To help deliver on this goal, Walmart Canada will also commit up to $820,000 to Food Banks Canada. Join the fight by contributing in one of four ways listed above.
Fight Hunger Spark Change | Walmart.ca
Feb. 22, 2022 Edmonton Become a Person of Influence: Last week I went to this online Meetup and we talked about how if you don't act on an idea to make money, someone else will do it. I told them that I tried to get my scripted produced for 7 yrs and there are other script ideas that were produced before I was able to get my script produced.
I was encouraged to keep trying and how Sylvester Stallone experienced a lot of rejection when trying to get Rocky produced:
Sylvester Stallone Made 'Rocky' Against All Odds (businessinsider.com)
Table Topics: Last week I attended 3 of these online meetings.
Feb. 23, 2022 "As food prices soar, communities find innovative ways to feed more people": Today I found this article by on CBC news. I like this article because it's about charity and helping people:
In downtown Kitchener, Ont., a church parking lot has been transformed into a takeout spot providing meals for people in need.
"I come here every day, like, I don't have a lot of money," said Paul Jones who lost his job and relies on the Tiny Home Takeout program. "It helps because I don't get enough, you know, for the month, counting groceries."
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church used to serve from its basement, but when the pandemic hit, it switched to takeout. Its team makes 300 meals five nights a week with the help of volunteers in a newly renovated kitchen, led by a professional chef. People can choose from a menu with items such as pizza, salad and soup.
"You get the dignity of, you know, to be treated like you're in a restaurant," said client Henry Haskins.
While some people pay what they can to help keep the program running, Father Toby Collins said he's seeing more in need of a free meal.
"There's this need for basic necessities that they used to be able to afford," he said.
"It's just as important to be innovative about our ideas as it is about accomplishing the task of feeding people who go without food."
High demand for P.E.I.'s first community fridge
In Charlottetown, P.E.I.'s first community fridge is packed with free groceries and some prepared food. It sits inside a newly built shed in the parking lot of a bingo hall. For Kayla Baldwin, a college student on a tight budget, it's a lifeline.
Fifteen-year-old Samel Sunil came up with the idea with his sister. He says with more people turning to the fridge for food, they've ensured it's stocked and open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so its users can help themselves whenever they need to.
"They can rely on the P.E.I. community fridge to take something, or the next day they can also contribute to it," Sunil said.
Local shops, farmers, restaurants and community groups doing food drives have also stepped up with donated supplies.
As food prices soar, communities find innovative ways to feed more people | CBC News
Feb. 24, 2022 "More shoppers feeling inflation pressure look to dollar stores for deals, retail experts say": Today I found this article by Madeline Cummings on CBC news:
According to Sylvain Charlebois, the director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University and a visiting professor at the University of South Florida, between 15 and 20 per cent of Canadians were going to dollar stores for groceries regularly before the pandemic.
"When food inflation becomes an issue, we do believe that dollar stores will get more traffic because people are looking for better deals," he said.
Bailey Parnell, who runs the non-profit #SafeSocial and researches social media's effects on mental health, said do-it-yourself tutorials featuring dollar store items have become trendy on TikTok and Instagram.
More than 27,000 Instagram posts include the hashtag "dollaramafinds" and some Canadian Facebook groups dedicated to dollar store hauls have more than 100,000 members.
Parnell said young people struggling with the high cost of living could be driving the trend, posting about doing more with less as a way to connect with others in the same situation.
"The bulk of the people that make up the active social media trends are largely Gen Z and maybe a bit of Gen Y right now — and this is a generation that has been working longer for less money than ever before," she said.
Lower prices, smaller packages
Tara Wilkins, a frequent dollar store shopper in west Edmonton, said she often stocks up on kitchen scrubbers and other household items so she can spend more on groceries like good-quality bread. She also turns to dollar stores for affordable art supplies and toys for her dayhome.
Though dollar stores have a lot of great deals, she said they do not offer the best price on everything.
"Some of the items you can just go somewhere else and get for the same price or less," she said.
A travel-sized container of dishwashing liquid might be convenient for camping, she said, but a larger size is likely to be of better value over time.
My opinion: There are a lot of comments like you can buy pasta, canned foods, and cookies there.
I like looking in the store, but I hardly ever buy anything. I bought dry erase markers last year because I needed them for my dry erase board. I have to write things down to do.
Leo opinion: Is the situation in Ukraine/ Russia adding stress to your life?
Yes: 53%
No: 34%
I'm indifferent: 13 %
My opinion: I said "I'm indifferent." If you add "no" and "I'm indifferent" together, it would be 50%. If you're reading the news and it's adding stress to your life, stop reading it.
Feb. 22, 2022 "‘Are you okay?’: Starbucks barista writes secret note to help teen girl": Today I found this article by Michelle Butterfield on Global news:
Texas Starbucks employees are being credited for their quick thinking after they helped a local teenager feel safe when she was being bothered by a man she didn’t know.
Brandy Roberson, the mother of an 18-year-old girl, shared a now-private post to her Facebook page Friday explaining how a barista’s handwritten note helped her daughter avoid a potentially dangerous situation.
Roberson wrote that her daughter was studying by herself at the coffee shop Friday night, when employees at the Corpus Christi store grew concerned for the girl’s safety after they saw a man, displaying some “strange” behaviour, approach the girl.
Roberson wrote that a barista handed her daughter “an extra hot chocolate someone forgot to pick up” after the stranger started talking to her.
On the cup was a handwritten note: “Are you okay? Do you want us to intervene? If you do, take the lid off the cup,” the message read.
Roberson told NBC’s Today that her daughter said the man was “quite animated” and talking “fairly loudly.”
“I believe this is what alerted the employees. He had also not come in with my daughter, so they knew she probably did not know him,” she explained.
Roberson told Today that her daughter didn’t feel the need to remove the lid from the cup, and that the man left when he realized she was communicating with the coffee shop’s staff.
“How grateful I am for people who look out for other people!” she wrote.
‘Are you okay?’: Starbucks barista writes secret note to help teen girl - National | Globalnews.ca
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