What are y’all’s Shavuot plans? Are you going to something in your community? hosting? teaching? excited for a learning session? taking advantage of a cool online learning resource/shiur? watching a movie? listening to a podcast? straight-up reading through Sefaria? -- miriams-well-of-jewish-thoughts
Attending a Masorti synagogue in London for both days! 🙌
My partner used to go every single year when he lived there because he and his mom (the only other religious member of his immediate family) don’t find the ideas shared at their Orthodox shul in line with their beliefs. 🤷♀️
“Ecosocialism now reveals itself as a struggle for use-value – and through a realized use-value, for intrinsic value. This means it is a struggle for the qualitative side of things: not just the hours worked and the pay per hour and benefits, but the control over work and its product, and of what is beyond mere necessity – a
control that eventuates in the creation and integration of new ecosystems, and also incorporates subjectivity, beauty, pleasure, and the spiritual. These demands were part of the labor tradition, as workers asked for not just bread but roses, too. We would take it to the limit of its implications: the ecosocialist demand is not just for the material things (bread) on one side, and the aesthetic things (roses) on the other. It regards both bread and roses from the same perspective of enhanced and realized use-values – or, better yet, as post-economic intrinsic values: bread and the making of bread to become aspects of a singular ecosystemic process into which a universe of meaning is condensed – for what has more resonance than the ‘staff of life’? And roses are not external pretty things; they, too, have to be grown by labor. They, too, have a universe of meaning, closed to the eye dulled by exchange, a universe of terror and beauty to the eye opened.”
Why come to a community “for the culture” if your just gonna paint over it and make it indistinguishable from whatever cookie cutter suburb you came from?
“Socialism and ecology — or at least some of its currents — share objective goals that imply a questioning of economic automatism, of the reign of quantification, of production as a goal in itself, of the dictatorship of money, of the reduction of the social universe to the calculations of profitability and the needs of capital accumulation. Both socialism and ecology appeal to qualitative values — for the socialists, use-value, the satisfaction of needs, social equality; for the ecologists, protecting nature and ecological balance. Both conceive of the economy as ‘embedded’ in the environment — a social environment or a natural environment.”
Fala galera! Tomara que seus estudos de inglês estejam indo bem! Neste artigo vamos aprender como falar um verbo extremamente usado em português e que não tem uma tradução simples em inglês. Estes tipos de verbos sempre leva mais esforço para acertar! Nosso verbo em foco hoje é o verbo Demorar ou Levar. Este verbo não é um verbo tradicional que descreve uma ação físico porque se trata de tempo. Então, como falar demorar em inglês? Infelizmente para traduzir o sentido deste verbo, não existe uma palavra só em inglês. Mas não se preocupe! Vamos ver vários exemplos e explicações de como falar levar e demorar em inglês sendo o conjunto de palavras: To Take (a long) Time.
Já na dúvida? Fique tranquilo! Esta forma de expressar demorar se compõe de um verbo que é um complemento. To Take se traduz principalmente com o verbo levar em inglês e time é a tradução de tempo em inglês. Frequentemente, usamos outras medidas de tempo sendo horas, dias ou até meses e anos e, acrescentamos outras palavras como adjetivos para descrever a duração de tempo, normalmente a palavra long.
A palavra long em inglês age como adjetivo, mas pode ser advérbio e substantivo também. Esta palavra ajuda a lembrar a forma muito comum em inglês para perguntar sobre quanto tempo algo dura, sendo a pergunta How Long…? How much time… (quanto tempo…) é pouco falado em inglês. Vamos logo aos exemplos para ver tudo isso na prática!
A tradução de levar ou demorar em inglês não é sempre muito simples porque a construção da frase muda e temos que usar mais palavras, nem todos são verbos. A conjugação se aplica no verbo To Take e o complemento fica igual ou, varia baseado no contexto.
Lembre-se que Time pode ser a própria palavra Time ou qualquer outra medida de tempo. Here we go!
It took a long time for us to finally get to the beach, we were stuck in traffic for over an hour.* Demorou muito para finalmente chegarmos à praia, ficamos preso no trânsito por mais que uma hora.
*Lembrando que em inglês sempre precisamos de sujeito, e quando não tem um sujeito real, usamos sujeitos “falsos” como IT (em português pulamos frequentemente os sujeitos).
You should consider cycling to work instead of taking the bus, you’ll save money and it won’t take you much longer.* Você deveria considerar pedalar ao trabalho em vez de andar de ônibus, você vai poupar dinheiro e não vai demorar muito mais tempo.
*Aqui temos que usar a palavra de comparação (mais + adjetivo) sendo longer (palavras com uma sílaba usando sufixo -er). Lembre-se também que a contração won’t = will not.
How long did it take for you to drive to São Paulo last week?* Demorou quanto tempo para dirigir até São Paul na semana passada?
*Temos que seguir as regras e estruturas de perguntas em inglês como sempre, usando as palavras How Long para qualquer pergunta sobre uma duração de tempo além do verbo auxiliar apropriado no tempo certo, neste exemplo o verbo To Do no passado (did).
It took us over six months to buy our new apartment, there were so many problems with the bank and the mortgage. Levamos mais de seis meses para comprar nosso novo apartamento, havia tantos problemas com o banco e a hipoteca.
Make sure to arrive early for your meeting, you need to go through security at reception and it can take around fifteen minutes. Certifique-se de chegar cedo para sua reunião, você precisa passar pela segurança na recepção e pode levar uns quinze minutos.
And there you have it guys! Acabamos de ver como traduzir o verbo demorar em inglês. Gostou deste artigo? Ainda tem dúvidas? Quer elogiar as explicações? Ou talvez reclamar? Não tem problema! Agradecemos qualquer feedback! Deixe seu comentário abaixo e fale com a gente! Thanks so much!!
Hang on a second! Recomendamos um programa chamado Anki para seu estudos de inglês. Este programa trabalha com um sistema de repetição espaçada, onde você adiciona as suas frases e estuda no decorrer dos seus dias de acordo com as classificações que você mesmo quer. Espera aí! Você nunca ouviu falar dessa ferramenta? Não se preocupe então! Basta clicar aquipois criamos um artigo completo sobre o que é o Anki e como baixa-lo no seu computador ou celular.
So, when it rained a lot the other day the front pasture got pretty flooded and when I called the babes up for breakfast Houdini was walking around the “pond” and went to go stand on his board that he loves to stand on and it started to move and that’s the story of probably the first horse who ever surfed.
Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly, women were disproportionately given lobotomies during the psychiatric procedure’s heyday. From the 1940s through the mid-1950s, men slightly outnumbered women as patients in American state hospitals, yet female patients made up about 60 percent of those who underwent lobotomy. Many psychiatrists believed it was easier to return women after operation to a life of domestic duties at home than it was to post-operatively rehabilitate men for a career as a wage earner.
Referred Species: C. casuarius (Southern Cassowary), C. unappendiculatus (Northern Cassowary), C. bennetti (Dwarf Cassowary), C. lydekkeri (Pygmy Cassowary)
Status: Extinct - Extant, Least Concern
Time and Place: Since 5 million years ago, in the Zanclean of the Pliocene of the Neogene, through today
Today, the Cassowary is primarily known from New Guinea, some isolated nearby islands, and northern Australia. Fossil evidence indicates that the Cassowary had a much greater range in the past, however, which has been indicated below by the overlapping striped lines in Eastern Australia.
Physical Description: Cassowaries are a group of large, flightless birds, distinctive in appearance due to their long shaggy black feathers all over their bodies. They also have crests on their heads for display, called casques, and wattles hanging off of their necks - also for display. Today they range in size from 1 meter to 1.7 meters long; though the major extinct species, the Pygmy Cassowary, may have been as short as 75 centimeters in length, though not enough body fossils have been found of it to determine this exactly. They do have wings, but they are extremely small and essentially invisible among the body plumage. Their crests range from brown and beige to blue in color, and are crescent half-ovals on top of their heads. They have black beaks and tops of their heads, and blue lower heads and necks, with the wattles usually being red in color. Their legs are robust and beige in color, and end in large, sturdy feet with extremely sharp claws. Their bodies in general are very round in appearance.
Pygmy Cassowary by Scott Reid
The babies are distinctly different in color - they are brown and beige striped, to help them hide in the undergrowth from predators. They also do not have fully developed wattles or crests, since those are sexual display features. In fact, baby cassowary are almost indistinguishable from Emu chicks, which points to the close evolutionary relationship of these two birds. As for sexual differences, the species isn’t sexually dimorphic in terms of color appearance, but the females are significantly larger than the males in terms of size.
Diet: Cassowaries primarily feed upon fruit, especially fallen fruit, though they do also eat the occasional fungus, small animal, and egg, as well as leaves.
Dwarf Cassowary by Nick Hobgood, CC BY-SA 3.0
Behavior: Cassowaries are extremely shy birds, dwelling in deep forest habitats and disappearing the moment of human appearance. They primarily feed and live alone, except during the mating season, or when there is enough food in a location to attract a large number of them. They have territories, which do not overlap for males but females do overlap the territories of multiple males, which they move between throughout their life. The males can tolerate each other’s presence, but the females are fiercely territorial with respect to other females. Thus, though Cassowaries are not monogamous, they do mate with a limited number of partners throughout their life. These birds make grunts, hisses, and roaring sounds, as well as booming calls. Piping sounds are made by the smaller species. They do not migrate, but stay near their original range for most of their lives.
Southern Cassowary by Michael Schmid, CC BY 2.0
The Cassowary has a fairly elaborate mating ritual. The female will make loud vibrations, which will cause the male to approach. They’ll run their necks along the ground, showing off their neck wattles and moving their heads back and forth to show off the crest. The female will then make drumming sounds and approach the male slowly, while the male will crouch against the ground. The female then may step on the male’s back, before crouching next to him for mating - or she’ll attack. The latter happens more often than not, and the female will then chase the male around until they reach water. The male then dives into the water and submerges up to his neck, and the female will chase him in the water until they go back on land again, and then the female will crouch on the ground, allowing mating to occur. Males may compete over one female at this point.
Southern Cassowary by Arjan Haverkamp, CC BY 2.0
Breeding begins in May and extends until June. The females lay three to eight large green or teal eggs in a platform of twigs, sticks, leaves, grass, and debre concealed among vines and behind tree roots. The male then incubates the eggs exclusively, usually for a little less than two months. The male will then protect and guard the chicks, who stay associated with the nest for nine months. The fathers are extremely hyper-protective of the young and will defend them violently if necessary. Meanwhile, the female will go on to lay eggs for more males. After nine months, the young go off to form their own territories.
Cassowaries, thus, can be extremely aggressive towards people, especially during the breeding season where they can attack humans getting too close. Usually, though, cassowaries just attack people who offer them food. The bird will attack via kicking, and they are able to kick fairly high up. Still, cassowaries have been tamed in the past, and were partially domesticated by natives to New Guinea prior to the arrival of white people.
Northern Cassowary by Nick Hobgood, CC BY-SA 3.0
Ecosystem: Cassowaries primarily live in humid rainforests, though they do sometimes go out to palm scrub, grasslands, savanna, and swamps. They are important keystone species in the rainforest, distributing seeds across the jungle when they poop - and plants will also have higher germination rates if they have been pooped out by a cassowary. These birds are hunted by dogs, but they are not natural predators of the species. Most population limitation comes from animals feeding on their eggs and young - hence the extreme protectiveness of the fathers.
Other: Though all three species are considered to be of least concern in terms of environmental threats, they are affected by habitat loss, vehicle crashes, and introduced mammal predators. As such, many populations are on the decline.
Cassowary Chick by Robert J. Tidey, CC BY-SA 3.0
Species Differences: These species do have overlapping ranges, and thus mainly differ based on appearance. The Southern Cassowary has a huge crest, two wattles, and a more aqua-blue colored neck - and it is also the largest species, sometimes reaching as long as 2 meters in length in some females. The Northern Cassowary is only a little smaller, with one wattle, and it has a deeper blue head and a bright orange neck. Finally, the Dwarf Cassowary is significantly smaller than both of the other species, only reaching up to 1.5 meters long, and it has a deep blue head and no wattles on its neck.
