Jun 15, 2020
Beware of NUTRITION scams on the Social Media
It usually begins with a man and occasionally a woman, well dressed and well kempt, wearing surgical scrubs or a white coat with something like. DR…. embroidered on to it.…
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Jun 15, 2020
AMALIA RODRIGUES, LISBOA; CARLOS GARDEL, BUENOS AIRES; P. RAMLEE, KUALA LUMPUR; UMM AL KHALTHOUM EL KAHIRA
After writing a blog about Dame Vera Lynn who passed away on 18/6/2020, I thought of other icons of music from other countries that I could think of and also…
Jun 15, 2020
A SWEET STORY FROM VIETNAM, A SHORT FILM
The days have now established their own rhythm; each day is something new, unexpected words and messages arrive and mind and heart is always ready to help. This morning my…
Jun 15, 2020
WE WILL MEET AGAIN DAME VERA LYNN ECHOES IN MIAMI
We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day Keep smiling through Just like you always do 'Till the blue skies…
Jun 15, 2020
REDISCOVERING BRASILIAN MUSIC
BRASIL has always been in my mind’s horizon. I have been lucky to see a small part of this immensely diverse country, from the Argentina border at Foz do Iguassu…
Jun 15, 2020
IRAN IN MY HEART, ALWAYS AND IT SHOULD BE IN YOUR HEARTS TOO… LISTEN TO THIS VIDEO
My love for Iran is as old as myself, from stories transmitted to me as a child some of which I remember. While a teenager, on a exchange course of…
Jun 15, 2020
AFTER TEN WEEKS OF HOME ISOLATION, THE FIRST BREATH OF NATURE MIAMI
THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF DR. FAIRCHILD I had read two about and by him and had visited many of the places he had been and thought of the time he…
Jun 15, 2020
TEDMED TALK ON GENERIC MEDICATIONS.
This investigative reporting about Generic Drugs is deeply disturbing. It was on TedMed, a forum very highly respected and the lecture was given by an investigator who spent years trying…
Jun 15, 2020
WHY IS THAT CUBAN MEDICAL MAGNANIMITY NOT COVERED BY THE MEDIA ?
Cuba sends medical brigades to Kuwait and Guinea Conakry It makes the other countries feel SMALL that they are not WILLING to help poor countries and also countries in need…
May 15, 2020
OVER THE RAINBOW IN HAWAII. HAPPY BIRTHDAY IZ
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole The islands of Hawaii played an important part in my life at certain stage of intellectual growth. I was torn between the native people of USA and the…
May 15, 2020
THE PATIENT WOULD SEE YOU NOW
Ephraim Kishon was an Israeli satirist and humorist. He was Hungarian born and a survivor of concentration camps and when he arrived in Israel, the newly integrated nation of hundred…
May 15, 2020
LA VIDA ES UN SUENO GRACIAS POR LA VIDA. THANKS FOR THIS MAGIC, MY DEAR FRIENDS
Magic days amidst rain and thunder in Miami They had announced it earlier, a storm is forming out on the horizon and one could feel more than normal rain and…