Day 35/67 of GED in Five Months, FDR’s New Deal , and Pro-Bono Legal Aide — The 4 Freedoms for ALL via Language & Adult Education, Writing, and PublicDomainInfrastructure

Adulting is also about understanding how to find up-to-date information and help in finding that information and how to use it, like legal information. End of week 9/18 Day 35 Lesson Plan, Week 9 Grammar: plural nouns ending in ‘f’ Math: Area of a circle Day 35 Exit Tix   Action Items: 1.) What do […]

Day 35/67 of GED in Five Months, FDR’s New Deal , and Pro-Bono Legal Aide — The 4 Freedoms for ALL via Language & Adult Education, Writing, and PublicDomainInfrastructure

« They were standing in our way. If we had not taken over their forest, we would have no gold. » 

Barbara Crane Navarro

Photo: Yanomami woman with Genipa body paint and a tobacco wad in her lower lip – Barbara Crane Navarro

As the Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa says in his book The Falling Sky:

« The entire land of Brazil used to be occupied by people like us. Today it is nearly empty, and it is the same thing everywhere. The first people of the forest have nearly all disappeared. Those who still exist here and there are only the remainder of the great number that the white people killed long ago to seize their land. Then … these same white people didn’t feel afraid to become enamored with the objects whose owners they devoured as enemies.

Since then, they have kept these goods locked up in the glass of their museums to show their children what is left of those whom their elders killed. But when they grow up, won’t these…

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What happened with Wolf spiders in the Alaska Arctic…

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Today’s Topic :- Environment + Climate change + Wolf spiders + Alaska Arctic + USA


| Article By Amit Kumar [ mydatawords.com ] | updating on June 15, 2020 |



Wolf spiders in a warming to the Alaska Arctic……

Wolf spiders are among the most important predators in the Alaska Arctic

The new research from Washington University in St. Louis and the study conducted in Alaska suggests that as female wolf spiders become larger and produce more offspring, competition among them increases triggering higher rates of cannibalism and reducing the number of young spiders that survive to adulthood.

According to Amanda koltz, biology researchers said in our experimental data suggest that when there are lots of spiders around they turn to cannibalism more frequently and in the new study its likely a reflection of increased competition among the spiders for resources.



In the areas…

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Police: Protesters outside Sen. Josh Hawley’s home were peaceful | Politics | stltoday.com

Protesters who gathered outside the Virginia home of Republican Sen. Josh Hawley on Monday evening were peaceful and they left when police explained they were violating local picketing laws, police said Tuesday. The Missouri senator on Twitter accused the protesters of vandalism and threatening his family. Hawley is among a dozen members of the U.S. Senate expected to object to certification of the Electoral College votes.

Source: Police: Protesters outside Sen. Josh Hawley’s home were peaceful | Politics | stltoday.com

China blocks entry to WHO team studying Covid’s origins | Coronavirus | The Guardian

China has blocked the arrival of a team from the World Health Organization investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that their visas had not yet been approved even as some members of the group were on their way.

The WHO’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed his dismay and said he had called on China to allow the team in. “I’m very disappointed with this news, given that two members have already begun their journeys, and others were not able to travel at the last minute,” he said.

“But I have been in contact with senior Chinese officials. And I have once again made made it clear that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team.”

Source: China blocks entry to WHO team studying Covid’s origins | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Texas gives Medicaid recipients using Planned Parenthood until Feb. 3 to find new health care provider

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The exterior of Planned Parenthood's Downtown Austin Health Center on Jan. 14, 2020. The location was being renovated at time of capture.

The exterior of Planned Parenthood’s Downtown Austin Health Center on Jan. 14, 2020. The location was being renovated at time of capture.

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Thousands of low-income Medicaid recipients who rely on Planned Parenthood for non-abortion services like cancer screenings and birth control will have until Feb. 3 to find new health care providers, according to a letter sent from the state’s Health and Human Services Commission to the women’s health provider Monday.

The extension comes after the conservative U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in November sided with Texas officials who have long tried to block Planned Parenthood from participating in Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor and disabled. To qualify, a single woman in Texas with two children must make less than $230 a month.

After the court’s ruling, Planned Parenthood asked state officials to delay booting the string of women’s health providers for at least six months to give the organization time to find medical coverage for its more than 8,000 Medicaid patients, many of whom are women of color. Texas has a shortage of Medicaid providers in part because of the low reimbursement rates, the organization said.

“The people who rely on Medicaid are the most vulnerable Texans and likely experiencing some of the worst economic effects of the pandemic,” Jeffrey Hons, president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood South Texas, said at the time. “Forcing people — many of whom are struggling to make ends meet and care for their families in a global pandemic — to scramble for basic health care is terrible policy, certainly uncharitable, indeed un-American.”

The health commission denied Planned Parenthood’s request to stay in the Medicaid program, citing the court’s decision. Instead, it granted a “30-day grace period … to ensure that current Medicaid clients receiving services at your clinics can be transitioned to new providers.” The organization cannot accept new Medicaid patients, the letter said.

The court case stemmed from a debunked video released in 2015 that suggested abortion providers at Planned Parenthood sold fetal tissue for profit. Investigations of the video, made by anti-abortion advocates, were unable to verify its claims, but its release sparked outrage from the state’s Republican leadership, including Gov. Greg Abbott. Planned Parenthood has donated fetal tissue for research, which is legal.

In November, after the 5th Circuit’s ruling, Attorney General Ken Paxton said the actions in the video amounted to “morally bankrupt and unlawful conduct” and that Planned Parenthood was not a “‘qualified’ provider.”

A lower court had blocked the state from removing Planned Parenthood from Medicaid in 2017.

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California’s new one-day record for COVID-19 cases: 74,000 – Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles County hit another disturbing milestone Tuesday, exceeding 11,000 COVID-19 deaths. Officials warned of grim weeks ahead amid a new post-Christmas surge that is expected to put pressure on already overwhelmed hospitals.

The county has reported more than 1,000 deaths since Dec. 30, according to health officials, including 224 on Tuesday.

L.A. County is a national epicenter of COVID, but the problem extends across many other parts of California. After a relative New Year’s lull, the state on Monday reported its highest number of new coronavirus cases in a single day, more than 74,000, according to a Times tally of local health jurisdictions.

Source: California’s new one-day record for COVID-19 cases: 74,000 – Los Angeles Times