Some years back my wife and I got into the habit of asking each other ‘do you want comfort or solutions’ when the other was having a bad time. That one sentence can save us from an argument 9/10 times.
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This is key. My family says, “are we listening or problem solving?”
watching train to busan like…. su-an and seong-kyeong wouldn’t have made it if the train driver hadn’t kept the train moving forward on blind faith that he wasn’t the only survivor aboard! if sang-hwa, seok-woo, and yong-guk hadn’t fought past the zombies to rescue them when they were trapped! if the doors had been closed a second sooner! if so many characters, over and over, didn’t choose to risk themselves for someone else! and they would STILL have been shot at the end if su-an hadn’t started singing! or if the soldier hadn’t waited to fire even after being given an order! this movie grabs you by the shoulders and says: in horrible, apocalyptic times, you won’t need to reject your own humanity!! humanity is not irrational or stupid, it’s a source of strength!! you will survive by refusing to abandon your humanity and your emotions and your care for other people!
Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”
You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.
My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Cancer Research Institute
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
63 four star rated cancer charities on charity navigator
Some of Australia's most beautiful natural sites have been returned to Aboriginal ownership, including Queensland's Daintree rainforest.
(CNN) — Some of Australia's most beautiful natural sites have been returned to Aboriginal ownership, including Queensland's Daintree rainforest.
The area of more than 160,000 hectares will now be co-managed by the Queensland government and the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people with a hope of eventually transitioning into being run solely by the Indigenous owners.
An official acknowledgment ceremony was held on Wednesday, September 29 in the town of Bloomfield.
"Their culture is one of the oldest living cultures and this land handback recognizes their right to own and manage their Country," Meaghan Scanlon, Minister for the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef, wrote on Twitter.
Chrissy Grant has been a member of the Kuku Yalanji negotiating committee for the past four years.
"Our goal is to establish a foundation to provide confident and competent people with pathways and opportunities for mentoring, training, apprenticeships, work experience and employment for our Eastern Kuku Yalanji Bama (people) to fill positions from a wide range of skilled trades, land and sea management, hospitality, tourism and research so that we are in control of our own destinies," she said in a statement.
The Daintree, a lowland tropical rainforest believed to be the oldest in the world, is about 125 km (78 miles) north of the tourist hub of Cairns and borders the Great Barrier Reef. It is part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland UNESCO World Heritage site.
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