Larimer County limits gatherings in emergency COVID-19 health order

Larimer County’s order carries the same limits. Other restrictions include:

  • Recreational sports are limited to players who reside in Larimer County or Weld and Boulder counties.
  • Organized recreational and league sports are limited to two spectators per player with no more than 50% of capacity up to 100 spectators in indoor facilities and 175 in outdoor facilities.
  • All teams and facilities participating in recreational and league sports must submit complete rosters, schedules, location of games and practices as well as contact information of all team members or parents of youths who participate, prior to teams playing in any league events, including practices.
  • Personal indoor and outdoor gatherings are limited to no more than 10 people from no more than two separate households.
  • Restaurants and bars must cease alcohol beverage sales for on-premise consumption and for takeout at 11 p.m.
  • Noncritical office-based businesses are encouraged to increase remote work options and reduce in-person work as much as possible.

Source: Larimer County limits gatherings in emergency COVID-19 health order

She taught fourth graders about Black Lives Matter. Parents demanded her firing.

Statz thought this could be a teachable moment, so that week she used a children’s book, an educational video and a worksheet to lead a discussion on racism and why people were protesting. She considered the materials neutral. The worksheet posed questions like, “What is the Black Lives Matter Movement trying to do?” and “How Do We Stop Systemic Racism?” The students seemed engaged, and asked a lot of questions, she said.

“One of the Black girls in my class came up to me and said, ‘Thank you so much for teaching our class about racism,’” Statz, who is white, said. Another Black child — one of fewer than 50 Black students in a district of more than 3,000 — gave her a hug after the lesson, she said.

Later that night, a colleague told Statz to look at a private community Facebook group with more than 40,000 members called “Burlington, WI, buy sell & trade.” Her stomach dropped.

Source: She taught fourth graders about Black Lives Matter. Parents demanded her firing.

Chamán Yanomami, Amazonas, Venezuela

As Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa says in the chapter “metal smoke” of his book “Falling from the Sky”: “That is what our elders who are great shamans say. These are the words of the xapiri, which they transmit to us. These are the ones I want the whites to listen to… As soon as the miners arrive at our house… They smeared the rivers with yellowish mud and filled them with the smoke of the Xawara plague from their machines. I saw them raze the river springs with the greed of hungry dogs. All to find gold, so white people can use it to make teeth and ornaments or keep it locked up in their homes. … The thinking of these whites is obscured by their lust for gold. They are evil beings. “

Barbara Crane Navarro

Como dice el portavoz de Yanomami, Davi Kopenawa, en el capítulo “humo de metal” de su libro “La caída del cielo”: “Eso es lo que dicen nuestros mayores que son grandes chamanes. Estas son las palabras de los xapiri, que nos transmiten. Estos son los que quiero que escuchen los blancos… En cuanto llegan los mineros a nuestra casa… Untaron los ríos con lodo amarillento y los llenaron con el humo de la plaga xawara de sus máquinas. Los vi arrasar los manantiales del río con la codicia de perros hambrientos. Todo para encontrar oro, para que los blancos puedan usarlo para hacer dientes y adornos o mantenerlo encerrado en sus casas. … El pensamiento de estos blancos se ve oscurecido por su codicia por el oro. Son seres malvados.”

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How African Dust Storms Create the Caribbean’s Beautiful Beaches—and Protect Them from Hurricanes – Repeating Islands (global interconnections)

over the last decade, geologists have come up with an explanation for these ecological anomalies: They originated 5000 miles away in Africa. For more than a million years, dust from the Sahara Desert has hitched a rideon westward-traveling winds to the Caribbean. Bermuda and the Bahamas are, quite literally, an extension of the world’s largest desert.

But African dust storms aren’t just responsible for developing Bermuda’s clay-and-iron-abundant “terra rossa” and the coral reefs of the Bahamas; they also play an important role in protecting them from destructive hurricanes. Like atmospheric superheroes, the dust storms’ combination of dry air, strong winds, and cloud-suppressing particles appears to have the ability to stop hurricanes in their tracks.

Source: How African Dust Storms Create the Caribbean’s Beautiful Beaches—and Protect Them from Hurricanes – Repeating Islands

WSJ Newsroom Found No Joe Biden Role in Hunter Deals After Reviewing Bobulinski’s Records

“The venture never received proposed funds from the Chinese company or completed any deals,” the WSJ reports. “Corporate records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show no role for Joe Biden.”
— Read on www.newsweek.com/wsj-newsroom-found-no-joe-biden-role-hunter-deals-after-reviewing-bobulinskis-records-1541553

As Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds Resists Mask Mandate, Voters Sour on G.O.P. – The New York Times

Gov. Kim Reynolds has adopted President Trump’s defiant attitude toward public health guidance on the coronavirus. But while she isn’t on the ballot, her leadership may be dragging down Republicans who are.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/us/politics/iowa-kim-reynolds-face-masks.html