Coronavirus: L.A. County reported 2,873 new cases, 153 new deaths and 98 fewer hospitalizations as of Feb. 18 – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Los Angeles public health officials reported 2,873 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,174,340 as of Thursday, Feb. 18.

Source: Coronavirus: L.A. County reported 2,873 new cases, 153 new deaths and 98 fewer hospitalizations as of Feb. 18 – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Across The Valley Through The Air

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

Taibok hung dangerously from the edge of the forest a thousand feet above the raging mountain river that flowed at the bottom of the cliff, on whose edge stood his small and obscure village. The hamlet lay in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, in the interiors of the dense East Khasi Hills near the modern-day Cherrapunji town, the world’s wettest place.

He did not mind the continuously pouring rain, which lashed wildly on the steep slope of the forest. He was a Khasi, a strong and robust tribal people indigenous to the region, who were, used to the wet and wild, merciless terrain. For thousands of years, the Khasi tribe had lived in this mountainous jungle domain.

He secured his weight with his arms and legs wrapped around the hanging roots of the Ficus elastica or the rubber tree. With his machete, he relentlessly worked on releasing the long areal…

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Coronavirus Vaccine Nears Final Tests in Cuba. Tourists May Be Inoculated. – The New York Times

The vaccine heading for a final phase of trials is called Sovereign 2, in a nod to the pride the island takes in its autonomy, despite decades of hostility from its neighbor to the north. Already, Cuba is floating the idea of enticing tourists to its shores with the irresistible cocktail of sun, sand and a shot of Sovereign 2.

Vicente Vérez, one of the scientists leading the team that developed the vaccine, has said that the island could offer vaccinations to all foreigners who travel there.

The vaccine heading for a final phase of trials is called Sovereign 2, in a nod to the pride the island takes in its autonomy, despite decades of hostility from its neighbor to the north. Already, Cuba is floating the idea of enticing tourists to its shores with the irresistible cocktail of sun, sand and a shot of Sovereign 2. Vicente Vérez, one of the scientists leading the team that developed the vaccine, has said that the island could offer vaccinations to all foreigners who travel there.

“It’s not just medicine and humanitarianism; there’s a big economic payoff if they can get the virus under control,” said Richard Feinberg, a Cuba expert at the University of California San Diego. “It will be not only immediate income, but a boost to the reputation of the Cuban pharmaceutical biotech sector, which will enable them to market other medical products.”

Cuban scientists say the government will probably give away some doses to poor countries, in keeping with its longstanding practice of strengthening international relations by donating medicine and sending doctors to address public health crises abroad.

Repetition

Lignes invisibiles

In the reality of repetition

you’ll see with the introduction of the manner,

how repetition transforms

from a repetitive monster into

a fragile flower that travels with the wind.

If you want to get rid of the repetition

there is no other way but only to invent

a different way.

A differente manner.

I have no other way to avoid

repetition

but only to let all my limbs free

and you will see now the fused, mashed muscles

heading towards the earth,

becoming one with the ethers

and making you enter your own form.

You will not find another way to escape

the the monster of repetition

but only the love for the manner

and the invention of another way,

which in the end won’t be not even a manner,

but just your own fluency.

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Espejito, espejito…

I consider something necessary to seek and maintain a healthy self-esteem, that a person looks in the mirror accepting himself as he is, motivated to feel and to be a better version of himself, I am not referring to the physical aspect only, but to a more integral version , physical, mental and spiritual well-being.

“It is not height, weight, muscles, or beauty that make you a great person … It is the heart and humility” … By Encarni Fernández

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Una cosa es la vanidad y otra es mantener una autoestima sana… ¿Cuántas veces en el día nos miramos al espejo? Todos sin excepción, nos preocupamos de alguna forma u otra, por nuestra apariencia física, sobre todo que en la actualidad, “para encajar” hay que lucir atractivos, según los estándares de belleza que marcan las tendencias en lo que a la moda se refiere. Pero dicen que de la moda lo que nos acomoda, cada persona tiene su propia personalidad, su esencia, ese sello que le caracteriza, por lo cual me parece que hay que buscar una combinación entre lo que nos gusta y lo que potencializa nuestros atributos, sin perder nuestra esencia.

Me parece que la belleza es algo muy subjetivo, siempre lo he pensado así, la belleza está en los ojos de quien así lo percibe. Lo que agrada a algunos, puede disgustar a otros, es totalmente válido…

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Litice Bandiagare, Mali

Every 60 years (the next opportunity will appear in 2030) Dogons play and sing during Sigui, a colorful holiday of purification that marks the end of one life cycle and the beginning of another. Sigui coincides with the passing of a tiny star called Po Tolo, by which they have always determined the time of the holiday. It is surprising that Western astronomers did not identify this star (Sirius B) until 1960. The fact that the Dogons knew about her remained unexplained. Many theories have been developed about this, both serious and some others, but, whatever the reason, the Dogons who live along the cliffs of Bandiagara have become the subject of research by numerous anthropologists.

Myrela

Svakih 60 godina (sljedeća prilika ukazaće se 2030. godine) Dogoni sviraju i pjevaju za vrijeme Siguija, živopisnog praznika pročišćenja koji obilježava kraj jednog životnog ciklusa i početak drugog. Sigui se podudara sa prolaskom sićušne zvijezde nazvane Po Tolo, po kojoj su oduvijek određivali vrijeme praznika. Iznenađuje to što su zapadni astronomi tu zvijezdu (Sirijus B) identifikovali tek 1960. godine. Činjenica da su Dogoni znali za nju ostala je bez objašnjenja. O tome su razvijene mnoge teorije, kako ozbiljne tako i neke druge, ali, šta god da je razlog, Dogoni koji žive duž litica Bandiagare postali su predmet istraživanja mnogobrojnih antropologa.

Oko 300.000 Dogona živi u skloništu od zadivljujućeg crvenkastog kamenog zida koji se proteže u dužini od 200 kilometara, kao granica između suvog Sahela i ravnice Nigera. Glavna naselja, Bandiagara i Sanga, s vrha litice, jedina su do kojih se može stići nečim što liči na put. Samim tim, to…

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Cute Pics Of Animals Who Had To Travel — Tfarhad

Have you ever seen an animal traveling with you? These adorable animals had to travel and some of them really enjoy it! 1. This Is Athena. It’s Her First Train Trip And She’s A Little Scared, But Being Brave As Heck mayaxs 2. My Wife Is A Flight Attendant And Uses Her Benefits To Help […]

Cute Pics Of Animals Who Had To Travel — Tfarhad

Day 12 of High School in Five Months, medieval pulmonary circulation, and modern health care

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Health care is a summation of both the knowledge of the human body, and the tools, like the place holder ‘Zero,’ that give us ways to describe that knowledge.  The cooperation which re-started Europe’s learning is the same cooperation that any democracy movement must teach:

(Have we had more than zero percent sufganiot?)

Day 12 Lesson Plan
Grammar online worksheet  
Math online worksheet
Day12ExitSlips
 

Action Items:

1.) Find three different sources describing the Islamic advances of health and mathematics during the medieval period (four, if you use the source cited in today’s lesson plan…),

2.) Share your  findings with us, and

3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those findings, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public library.

Dear Readers, ideas on

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A Remarkable Life — CRAIN’S COMMENTS (Leo Goodman-RIP)

The New York Times provides today a tribute to a remarkable professor who passed in December. Leo Goodman was a statistician and sociologist who revolutionized both field. Prior to him, statistical analysis of data about humans was largely limited to numerical data such as height, income and age. Goodman gave us the statistical tools to […]

A Remarkable Life — CRAIN’S COMMENTS