A new eBook from Richard Stanford for the Ovi eBookshelves.
“It was two o’clock in the morning and across the street Reuben saw through the picture window of a house. The home was dark, but a chandelier sparkled from the light of street lamps. In another house an upstairs light was on: either a shift worker or an insomniac.”
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday May 10th, 2023
U.N. Security Council Focus On World Hunger by Rene Wadlow
On 23 May, the United Nations Security Council will hold a special briefing to address the issue of food insecurity under the chairmanship of Mr Alain Berset, President of the Swiss Confederation. During May, the rotating chairmanship is held by Switzerland led by the Swiss Ambassador to the United Nations, New York Ms Pascale Baereswyl. The meeting will have as background a 3 May 2023 report of the Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO) concerning early warning on areas facing acute food insecurity. The report highlights that some 250 million persons are living in this situation of acute food insecurity with the Democratic Republic of Congo leading the list with some 27 million persons due to armed violence and the breakdown of governmental structures. The Congo is followed by Ethiopia, largely due to fighting in the Tigrey area. The war in Ukraine is also having a negative impact limiting production and export of food goods -a principal export of Ukraine. In addition to armed conflict, there is the growing impact of the consequences of climate change.
Today, cooperation on food insecurity is needed among the U.N. family of agencies, national governments, non-governmental organizations, and the millions of food producers to respond to this food crisis. These measures will have to be taken in a wholistic way with actions going from the local level of the individual farmer, the national level with new governmental policies, to measures at the multi-State regional level such as the European Union and the African Union, and at the world level with better coordinated action through the United Nations system.
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A Beating Heart #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“The winding streets,
Turning and threading
Through the concrete
And steel bowels of
The city like serpents,
The flashing lights and
The symphony of noise,
The madness and the
Neon lights flooding
This city with life,
Like blood flowing
Through the veins
Of a body.”
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Ovi Bookshelves: Walter’s Heart by Bohdan Yuri
Bohad Yuri’s eBook “Walter’s Heart” in Ovi Bookshleves for you to read online or FREE download in a variety of formats.
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Sceptic feathers #64 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday May 4th, 2023
Do not get depressed at your job by Stan Popovich
Some people can get depressed at their job and they do not know what to do about it. As a result, here is a list of techniques that a person can use to make their job more satisfying.
One of the ways to manage your depression at your job is to challenge your negative thinking with positive statements and realistic thinking. When encountering thoughts that make you fearful or depressed, challenge those thoughts by asking yourself questions that will maintain objectivity and common sense. For example, you are afraid that if you do not get that job promotion then you will be stuck at your job forever. This depresses you, however your thinking in this situation is unrealistic. The fact of the matter is that there all are kinds of jobs available and just because you don’t get this job promotion doesn’t mean that you will never get one. In addition, people change jobs all the time, and you always have that option of going elsewhere if you are unhappy at your present location.
Some people get depressed for a few minutes and do not know what to do. When this happens, a person should take a deep breath and try to find something to do to get their mind off of the problem. A person could take a walk, listen to some music, read the newspaper or do an activity that will give them a fresh perspective on things. Doing something will get your mind off of the problem and give you confidence to do other things.
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The World May #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“need poems again
it may need more
of them here with us
in times of survival
under the living room
floor, in our memories,
a root cellar of poems.”
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Ovi Bookshelves: Missing by Mark Hayton
One more eBook from our Ovi magazine eBookshelves with a short story; this time from Ovi’s friend and contributor, Mark Hayton.
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Always something; the family edition #61 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday February 28th, 2023
The Modi Phenomenon – at what price? by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Narendra Modi has become a phenomenon – that can’t be ignored.
As
the twice-elected prime minister of the most populous country in our
planet, since 2014, Modi is arguably the most popular political leader
in the world today. He is enormously popular in India, even in the
eastern state of West Bengal where the opposition Trinamool Congress has
been ruling for more than a decade.
According to a survey conducted in 2022 by LocalCircles, a Community Social Media platform in India, 2 in 3 Indians surveyed believed that Modi Government had met their expectations. If the survey results could be trusted for being unbiased, seemingly Modi government’s positive ratings have been above 60% since 2015 (with only two exceptions in 2018 and 2021). Few other incumbent leaders around the world have such consistently high polling numbers.
Modi’s support is not limited to within India only. He is very popularwithin the diaspora Indians living outside India. It is worth sharing here that most of my former Hindu and Jain classmates from Indiawho went to graduate schools with me in Canada and the USA are now unabashed supporters of the BJP politics and Modi’s brand of Hindutva. A few of them were not strict Hindus then. So, it has been a shocking experience for me to find out that they arenow great admirers of a mass murderer – the Butcher of Gujarat.
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Gemini #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“Is the kind of man
who feels as if he
will be apprehended
by the holy ghost
at any moment”
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Ovi Bookshelves: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe by The Ovi Team
Robinson Crusoe has been assumed to be based in part on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded in the Juan Fernández Islands.
June 2021
First published: 1719
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #034 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday February 17th, 2023
United Nations Appeal to Facilitate Aid to Syria by Removing Sanctions by Rene Wadlow
On 10 February 2023, Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council made an urgent Appeal to facilitate aid to Syria by removing the current sactions imposed by a certain number of countries on Syria due to the massive and long-lasting human rights violations linked to the armed conflict which began in March 2011. The Appeal was led by Professor Alena Douhan, Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights. Professor Douhan is professor of international law at the Belarusian State University in Minsk.
Special Rapporteurs of the U.N. Human Rights Council are independent experts. They are not members of the U.N. Secretariat although Secretariat staff participate in research and editing. The Special Rapporteurs are not paid but their expenses are covered when in Geneva or on missions in the field. The idea for the creation of the Special Rapporteurs was to free them, to the extent possible, of pressures from governments or from the U.N. Secretariat. They report to the Human Rights Council, usuallly at every session.
The earthquake which hit parts of Turkiya and Syria was particularly catastrophic. It is estimated that some 50,000 persons have been killed and many more uprooted. In the case of Syria, the quake hit parts of the country that were already devastated by the civil war.
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The Sunset Journey #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“I watch the sun go down
From my balcony and the
Sunset is glowing orange,
I consider it all swimming
In a a cool glass of Chablis,
And my soul is stretched taut,
Spread out against the sky
Like a sail catching the wind.”
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Ovi Bookshelves: Pins & Needles by Andrew Farley
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Sceptic feathers #58 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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