2023-07-01 03:54:15
This image shows a demonstration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars. (Photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech) LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2023 (Xinhua) — NASA announced Friday that NASA’s “Ingenuity” helicopter is on Mars. It regained contact with the Perseverance rover on Mars following two months of radio silence. The Ingenuity helicopter made its 52nd flight to Mars on April 26, but mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California lost contact with the helicopter during It descends to the surface for landing. The Ingenuity team expected a communications outage due to a hill standing between the helicopter landing site and the Perseverance rover site, impeding communication between the two. The probe acts as a radio relay unit between the helicopter and JPL’s mission controllers. Achieved Contact was restored on June 28 when Perseverance reached the hill and was able to see Ingenuity once more, according to NASA. If the rest of Ingenuity’s health checks are optimistic, NASA said, The helicopter may fly once more within the next two weeks. Ingenuity reached Jezero crater on Mars on February 18, 2021, and is attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover. This helicopter is a technological experimental unit to experience the first flight of a motorized vehicle on another planet.■
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2023-06-30 15:47:51
A recent survey revealed that eight out of ten (87%) Brazilians are concerned regarding the destruction of the environment and damage to fauna and flora. According to the Ecological Transformation Barometer, carried out in 2022 by Veolia in collaboration with Elabe, Brazil is among the ten countries in the world that feel most fragile with the environmental agenda, above the global average (71%).
The study also pointed out that, for most of the participants, an ecological change would generate a better world. As a result, 81% believe that it would be possible to live healthier and 76% said they would be happier.
According to Edilene Silva Leite Alves, partner at Tecelagem Brasil, environmental concern is also reflected in consumption habits: the public focused on interior decoration, specifically, is looking for ecologically correct products that do not harm the environment.
“Sustainability is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Increasingly, Brazilians value handcrafted products, such as rugs that are made by the hands of artisan weavers from the historic city of Campanha, the cradle of the south of Minas Gerais”, he mentions.
The businesswoman says that handmade rugs stand out in the Brazilian design market, and are increasingly desired in interior decoration. Alves also claims that the segment has been growing and winning the national and international markets, since the products are made up of natural raw materials such as cotton, jute, sisal, banana tree fiber and natural wool.
According to the partner of weaving Brazilthe manufacture and sale of handmade rugs have a direct impact on sustainability, the circular economy and local culture.
“All the making of the rugs is carried out manually on looms developed in our region. Thus, production generates services for local locksmiths,” he says. “In addition, today, we have a weaving school in the city with the support of the city hall, where young people have the opportunity to learn to weave and conquer a profession”, he explains.
For Alves, the natural raw materials used in the production of handmade rugs add value to the product, as they consist of ecologically correct materials.
“We also use colored cotton threads that our supplier reuses leftover fabrics from various knitting companies in southern Brazil and other regions”, he reports. According to her, all leftovers are transformed into new threads and used in handmade rugs.
In the businesswoman’s view, more and more, companies must know how to combine tradition, art and sustainability. “This whole process makes the circular economy spin, and nature thanks you, as well as future generations”, she concludes.
For more information, just go to: https://www.instagram.com/tecelagembrasil/
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Donald Trump’s Surprising Program for the Future: Flying Cars, Border Wall, Death Penalty, and More
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-07-01 03:18:19
Flying cars, the wall on the border with Mexico, the death penalty for drug traffickers: Donald Trump unveiled in a series of videos the surprising program he wants to apply if he were to be re-elected as head of the United States in 2024.
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Here are the main measures.
Immigration
It was never finished, but the wall between the United States and Mexico was one of the emblematic measures of his first term: if he is re-elected, Donald Trump wants to “fully secure” the border.
During its first mandate, the Trump administration had built regarding 700 km of the wall, for a border of more than 3,000 kilometers.
Donald Trump also raised the possibility of revoking the jus soli for the children of undocumented immigrants.
New towns
Ten new cities, for “a big leap forward in the American standard of living”.
The former president, candidate for a new term, wants to build a series of metropolises, roughly the size of the capital Washington, on federal lands.
Developed around “industrial bastions” full of state-of-the-art factories, these cities would create “a new future for America”, assures Donald Trump.
The Republican imagines a “big competition” to draw these cities “of freedom”.
Concerned that the United States, and “not China”, lead the revolution of “air mobility”, Donald Trump also proposes most seriously in the world that the country work hard on the design of flying vehicles.
“Culture Wars”
The septuagenarian spoke out on these “culture wars”, these questions of gender, racism or education which are tearing the country apart.
Candidate has pledged to crack down on doctors offering transitional care to transgender minors and ‘pink-haired communists’ who teach the history of racism in schools in ways he considers ‘inappropriate’ .
He also proposed the creation of a tax credit to compensate teachers who teach the use of firearms, at a time when the country is bereaved by a litany of school shootings.
A year of celebration!
America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. To mark the occasion, Donald Trump is proposing “a whole year of festivities across the country” from May 2025.
“I will work with the governors of the 50 states, Republicans and Democrats, to create the Great American Fair, a unique event,” promised the former leader. “It will be something,” he assured.
A new war on drugs
In order to combat the crisis of fentanyl in the United States, a dangerous synthetic opiate at the origin of a dramatic increase in fatal overdoses in the United States, the former tenant of the White House proposed to designate the cartels Mexicans as terrorist organizations.
According to the Republican, drug traffickers should be sentenced to death. “They are killing our citizens and poisoning our beautiful children,” he charged in one of his videos.
Donald Trump also defended the return of arbitrary stops and searches (“stop-and-frisk”), a controversial police practice which has resulted in the past in a disproportionate targeting of blacks and Latinos.
And pledged to deploy the National Guard to “restore law and order” – one of his favorite formulas – in cities run by left-wing politicians.
Graces for his supporters
Donald Trump has promised to pardon “a large part” of his supporters imprisoned following attacking the headquarters of the United States Congress on January 6, 2021.
On this cold winter day, thousands of demonstrators had sown chaos and violence in the temple of American democracy, when elected officials certified the victory of his rival Joe Biden in the presidential election.
The sprawling investigation that followed resulted in the arrest of more than 1,000 people. Nearly 300 received prison sentences, some of them for sedition.
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Unveiling the Personal Life of Deputy Érika Olivera: Exploring Her 16-Year Marriage to Leslie Encina and Their Explosive Romance
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-07-01 04:22:00
The deputy Érika Olivera was one of the guests of the recent chapter of Podemos Hablar in Chilevisión, where she told unpublished details of her relationship with Leslie Encinawith whom he has been married for almost 16 years.
The athlete revealed that everything started when they both participated in the Rio 2007 Pan American Games. “Leslie always caught my attention, I liked her and I was attracted to her. There we began our conversations and an explosive romance was born.“, he confessed.
So much was the intensity that Encina He asked her to marry him two months following he was pololeo. “I tell Leslie ‘no, not marriage, but if we get to celebrate a year together maybe we might talk.’ Also, I had three daughters.
“Then he tells me ‘if it’s not now, it’s never going to be’ and that he was willing to risk it,” said Olivera, who along with his partner began to visit different offices of the Civil Registry in the Metropolitan Region to set a date.
That was how he arrived at a compound in the commune of The Countswhere they informed him that there was an hour for Saturday of that same week. “I call my sister, who lived in the commune, and tell her ‘lend me your house, I’m going to get married’ (…) And we notified Leslie’s parents and my family,” he said.
“We got married on a Saturday and the following Monday I went to the doctor because I felt bad… I was pregnant (…) He played and I played at the time, but a very nice relationship that we are going to turn 16 and we have five wonderful children, “he concluded.
Check the moment here:
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